Don't pick up the wild people on the roadside (Thirteen)
A peaceful farce ended when Yun Qing came out with a wet head.
Yun Qing was still wearing the same clothes, his hair and clothes were wet, and the B33 made a sharp explosion. After Yun Qing suppressed the other party, he looked at Jiang Yuan with wet eyes and asked the other party if he had any extra new clothes that he could lend him.
Jiang Yuanshi went into the bedroom closet and rummaged through clothes, asking what was going on as he searched.
Yun Qing: "I wanted to test the water temperature first, and then I was soaked thoroughly."
Jiang Yuanshi found a clean towel and handed it to the other party first, then found a few clothes of suitable size and handed them to Yun Qing. Just as Yun Qing was about to enter the bathroom again, Z01's voice came out of nowhere and said, "Host, there is a quick-drying compartment in the corner of your bathroom."
Yun Qing and Jiang Yuanshi didn't answer, and the air was quiet.
Yun Qing: "Jiang Jiang, why don't you answer him?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Aren't you his host?"
The two looked at each other, and at Yun Qing's strong suggestion, Z01 was forced to add a prefix.
"..." Z01, "Cloud host, I suggest you use the quick-drying room in the bathroom first."
Yun Qing: "But I just want to change into clean clothes, why do I need to dry quickly?"
Z01: "I suggest you change it later because I have a new trip out today."
Yun Qing was shocked: "What time is it? It's late at night."
Z01: "There is no daylight in downtown. It is 7:30 in the evening."
Yun Qing showed a speechless expression, and Jiang Yuanshi explained the plan to him.
Jiang Yuanshi: "It's a temporary plan. I plan to go there later. Do you want to go?"
Yun Qing was not as decisive as before, and asked, "Can I go too?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "Why not?"
Yun Qing: "Because I can't do anything and can't help, I'll probably be a hindrance."
Jiang Yuanshi frowned: "Don't tell me B33 told you this."
Yun Qing shook his head: "No, I think so myself. After all, the previous mission was actually successful thanks to B33, and in previous operations like this, he was afraid that something might happen to me, so he asked me to find a safe place to stay."
Jiang Yuanshi: "That's unfortunate. It's not necessarily safe here now. Maybe Mu Changkong will appear due to the forced plot. And although you can't repair things, you can move things. Weren't you quite strong when you carried Mu Changkong before?"
Yun Qing's eyes lit up: "Are you serious?"
Jiang Yuanshi nodded: "It's necessary for me to lie to you, so what are you going to do now?"
"Then wait for me, I can help you move the goods!" Yun Qing returned Jiang Yuan's clothes to him, pulled the towel on his head, and happily went to the bathroom to start studying the quick-drying chamber.
Jiang Yuanshi was a little worried: "Is the quick-drying room easy to operate?"
Z01 replied: "Understood. I will go and help."
Z01 fell silent after he finished speaking. Yun Qing's conversation could be heard from the bathroom, and it sounded like he was discussing something with Z01.
Jiang Yuanshi changed his clothes, picked up the mechanical-related books on the table and started reading. The books were full of Jiang Yuan's notes, and it seemed that he had a lot of experience in mechanical modification.
While reading, some of Jiang Yuanshi’s doubts were also resolved.
For example, what powers the machines in this world?
The Upper Town was similar to the world he lived in, relying on natural and artificial energy such as wind, solar, motor oil, and batteries. The most special of these was pheromones, but only the pheromones of top Alphas and Omegas could drive them.
The lower city area seems barren or extreme. They usually rely on looting machinery thrown into the garbage dump in the upper city area to find some remaining energy.
Bioelectricity is most common among the modified humans in the Lower City. It generally relies on one's own human cells, but there are limits on its use. Exceeding the limit will consume one's life, a pure waste of life, but the people in the Lower City have a miserable life.
They are all abandoned people, bionic people and the most primitive and oldest robots.
After repairing the car, Jiang Yuanshi and Yun Qing pushed the car and followed the system's navigation to the garbage dump.
There is no daytime in the downtown area where it is always pitch black overhead. It is difficult to confirm the time without external force. Over time, people lose their concept of time and can easily fall into depression and gradually become desperate.
The only way to get the time is TV, a TV that can only receive one news program, which is broadcast on time at 8 o'clock every night. In order to get the time, some people would rather consume electricity and turn on the TV all day. After getting the time, some take out their own clocks to adjust the time, some write it down by hand, and then use the hourglass they developed to record it every hour until new news appears again.
The privacy in the Lower Town area seemed to be not very good. Jiang Yuanshi was walking on the street and could see every move clearly through the windows of the houses after the lights were turned on.
It's 8pm and the news has just started.
The residential areas in the Lower Town are very sophisticated and almost every household has a television. Jiang Yuanshi watched some news along the way, which were mostly about the development of the Upper Town, future decisions of the Upper Town, major breakthroughs, high-tech advertisements, and food that had never been seen in the Lower Town.
Isn't this a kind of cruelty?
Jiang Yuanshi felt that this was done intentionally by the Upper City District. If the signal was not good, they could only receive one channel, and it happened to be the same one. The more beautiful the Upper City District looked, the more desolate the Lower City District seemed.
Let them see the beauty, but it is out of reach.
The more this happens, the more desperate it becomes, and the more likely it is to rebellion. Almost every few years there is an organized large-scale riot in the lower town, just to break the barrier between the upper and lower town, at the cost of countless blood, but in return there is only failure.
In the end, they were driven back to the lower town and were unable to leave.
They arrived at the garbage dump. After B33 checked the surroundings, he said there were no other life forms and scanned the available machinery. At the same time, Z01 at Yunqing's place was also done.
The two of them divided the work, Yun Qing was responsible for some scattered small parts, while Jiang Yuanshi went to dismantle the abandoned robots.
Jiang Yuanshi pressed the button of his belt and handed Yun Qing a pair of tool gloves.
Yun Qing: "Then what will you do?"
"I don't need it. It takes a sense of touch to dismantle things." After saying this, Jiang Yuanshi climbed up the garbage mountain not far away and started rummaging through the garbage.
Yun Qing held the slightly worn, frayed gloves and murmured, "I haven't had time to say thank you yet."
Z01: “You can show your gratitude by working.”
"That makes sense!" Yun Qing put on gloves, patted his chest, and started working. "I have to say that you are quite good at talking sometimes, but you always come up with something out of the blue. Isn't Jiang Jiang scared by you?"
Z01: "…Probably not."
Yun Qing: "As expected of him, he has a big heart."
Z01 didn't answer but said, "You missed a part. It's on the left."
Yun Qing: "Oh, thank you."
On the other side, Jiang Yuanshi was quickly dismantling the lower leg of a headless robot. After finishing, he quickly ran to the other side of the mountain to dig out the garbage and dug out a big hole. While he was working hard, B33 said, "Qingqing and the others seemed to be having a good chat."
Jiang Yuanshi lowered his head and dug a hole: "How did you know that?"
B33: "Qingqing looks very happy. I rarely see him like this during missions."
"He said you never took him with you before."
"Yes, because this environment is very dangerous. I don't want him to get into trouble. He should be in a safe place."
"Although you have good intentions, the system and the host are in a cooperative relationship. It's easy for you to take on all the work, but the premise is whether the other party wants you to do so. If you have done all the work, what else can you ask them to do? At least you have to find some work for them. He seems to have a strong sense of self-esteem, so maybe he hopes that I can help."
As Jiang Yuanshi was digging, he was blocked by a huge iron cover. It looked very much like the chest cover of a robot in a book. After confirming it, he picked up an iron rod that had been flipped out from the side, poked it in, and pried it open. The iron cover was opened, revealing a crystal blue-green liquid. "What is this?"
B33 finished the test and replied, "It's energy liquid. It can be used as a power source for robots. It's a rare energy source. It comes from Upper City, Jiang Jiang."
Jiang Yuanshi put down the lid to block the light source: "Thank you, please don't call me Jiang Jiang."
"But Qingqing calls you like that, can't I?"
Jiang Yuanshi: "No, it's fine if he calls you that, but you're just calling you that to please Yun Qing. There are so many names to call you, but you chose one that makes both of us uncomfortable."
B33 was curious: "How did you figure that out?"
"I heard it because you emphasized your tone when you called this name." Jiang Yuanshi picked and chose, and found a few cube-shaped candy tins that looked new. "Can this kind of tin be used to hold energy liquid?"
B33: "Yes, but it only lasts a short time. The energy liquid is corrosive, and special metal materials are needed to store it."
Jiang Yuanshi clicked his tongue, put the candy box aside, and started digging around the edge of the iron sheet containing the energy liquid. Fortunately, the iron thing containing the energy liquid was not too big, only half the size of a square-headed TV at home. Jiang Yuanshi cut off the surrounding connecting wires and tied them up with circles of electric wire.
When wrapping it, he saw laser-engraved fonts on the edge of the iron box: M****6069. The font after the M was worn out and could not be seen clearly. It seemed to be a string code. Jiang Yuanshi took a look at it and smeared some dust on it, making the number completely invisible.
After putting the small items into his storage belt, he picked up the iron box that was tightly tangled in wires and slid down from the top of the garbage pile.
Yun Qing also found a lot of things. He placed the iron box at the bottom of the cart, and then put small parts in to cover the iron box, and then piled some broken limbs on top.
Jiang Yuanshi looked up at the sparse lights on the iron netting of the garbage dump. The sky above the garbage dump was still dark and there was nothing.
But can such a garbage dump really be piled up artificially?
Without time to think, he and Yun Qing quickly evacuated the garbage dump.
The lights in the garbage dump flickered and then returned to normal.
Walking at night is still scary, but luckily there is news coming from the residents' homes. Listening to the time, it is almost 9 o'clock.
The two of them hurried home, and were extremely safe along the way.
The two returned home breathless.
Yun Qing was dirty and tired, sitting on the ground: "I'm so tired, these things are much heavier than the scumbag. Hey, Jiang Jiang, what are you doing?"
Jiang Yuanshi put the shoe cabinet against the door and replied, "It comforts me."
Yun Qing understood: "Yes, the lower city doesn't look safe. Besides, we were safe all the way. It's too scary. According to the routine, we will be surrounded and arrested in the next second."
Jiang Yuanshi sighed: "It's too vivid. Maybe someone will climb in through the window soon... No, this is a high-tech era. Maybe the smart objects in my home will be controlled soon."
Yun Qing exclaimed, "That's the end."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Yes, it's over, but it will be over sooner or later if we do nothing."
Yun Qing nodded: "That makes sense. Now that I'm here."
It doesn't sound like there is a sense of crisis at all, but rather like a double act.
B33 and Z01 fell silent.
They sorted out their things and put them in the open space in the living room. As Jiang Yuanshi was walking around, he suddenly remembered something very important that he had forgotten. He asked, "Yun Qing, how did you get to the Lower City? Can people from the Upper City enter and exit the Lower City at will?"
"Huh? Of course not. I sneaked out and found a scalper." Yun Qing answered while busy putting the parts away.
"Scalpers?" Who would go to the downtown area for no reason? There were actually scalpers.
"Yes, scalpers, you didn't expect that, I was shocked. They said that the cost of living in the upper city is very high, and some ordinary people can't afford it, so they want to apply for a job in the company and come to the lower city to find designated items. The key is that you have to spend money to get a job quota. I don't know what good things there are in the lower city. Anyway, after finding it, you have to wait for a designated time to go to a designated place to exchange money. But you can only leave if the amount reaches the required amount, otherwise you have to stay in the lower city until the next mission starts."
As Yun Qing was talking, he suddenly thought of something and took a deep breath. He said quietly but quickly, "Oh no! If you hadn't mentioned it, I would have forgotten that I have to work, otherwise I won't be able to go back!"
Jiang Yuanshi was stunned. He subconsciously said, "Won't your position be automatically refreshed when it's your turn to appear?"
"Ah? Oh, right..." Yun Qing was also stunned, but then she realized, "No, they put a chip on me, which can locate and detect vital signs. If I'm not dead, then the scalper quietly told me that those who didn't go back have become idiots."
Jiang Yuanshi: "Z01 is not blocked?"
Fang's head suddenly lit up, and Z01 replied: "It has been blocked and the path is changed in real time."
"Ah!" Yun Qing screamed.
"Bang!" The robot head in Jiang Yuanshi's hand fell to the ground and rolled around.
Both of them were startled and looked towards Fang's head.
Z01: "…I'm sorry."
Jiang Yuanshi asked smoothly, "There are companies in Shangcheng District? What are they?"
Yun Qing: "Don't you know? That's the company that owns all the technology on Planet A, from bionic people to food, snacks and other daily necessities. It's a super capitalist and the only one that has the right to enter the Lower City."
"I see... then does it have a name?"
"Yes, yes, it's easy to remember because it's super disgusting." Yun Qing said with disdain, "Everyone who hears it will find it ironic, Mercy."
Mercy, kindness, mercy.
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