Night’s Nomenclature - Chapter 107
[One hundred and six, wilderness]
City 18 is adjacent to City 10.
Two cities with non-adjacent serial numbers are geographically separated by only more than 200 kilometers, just because these cities are not ranked in order of importance, but in the order of their establishment.
If the federation is compared to a circle, then the city circle formed by the 18th and 10th cities is like the center of the circle.
Of course, the analogy is not accurate, the federation is not a regular circle.
Qingchen had asked Li Shutong for a map of the Federation. It can be said that the maps of the outer world and the inner world are similar, only the coastal areas are quite different.
If these two worlds are really parallel worlds.
Then the crust of the inner world must have experienced intense movement before it became what it is today.
City No. 18 corresponds to Los Angeles City, and City No. 10 corresponds to Zhengcheng City. No matter in the inner world or the outer world, they have always been the land of the Central Plains.
Without the strategic importance of coastal ports, such as the No. 7 city corresponding to Haicheng, it would be far less prosperous than the world-like Haicheng.
In the Commonwealth, the most prosperous cities are the 18th and 10th.
No. 18 is the economic center and No. 10 is the political center.
One west and one east, known as the Federal Gemini.
The line segment connecting them seems to directly separate the south and north of the federation.
Countdown to 96:00:00.
Another midnight.
More than 100 kilometers south of City No. 18, more than a dozen people were gathered around a bonfire to keep warm. In the flickering firelight, eight men and four women were talking and laughing.
There were twigs intertwined on the bonfire, and an iron pot hung from the branch, and the thick noodle soup was bubbling and bubbling.
Someone took out a piece of bacon from his arms, cut a few pieces with a knife and threw them into the pot.
This is a small temporary campsite.
In the open space near the camp, there are also nine dark green canvas tents.
The wind was strong at night, and two worn-out pickups were standing on top of the air vents, shielding the small temporary camp from the ferocious cold wind.
There seemed to be some cargo in the pickup’s bucket covered with canvas, and it was impossible to see what was inside.
There were windproof stones piled up beside the bonfire, and the orange-red flames were still swaying from side to side.
“This time, the things the employer wants to catch are not easy to find. We have been in this area for a month and haven’t seen one,” said an elderly man beside the bonfire. “Otherwise, let’s go to that place.” “You don’t have to go in if you have an opportunity at the edge, and the edge isn’t that dangerous. I’ve been there a few years ago.”
The old man’s name is Qin Cheng, and he is the leader of this team.
The people around the bonfire are basically related by blood.
They were wearing combat uniforms that had been cut out of nowhere, and some had patches on the elbows, knees, pant legs, buttocks, and some didn’t quite fit.
“Dad, is the buyer’s price worth the risk?” a young man asked.
“You know, the other party offered 200,000 yuan,” the old man Qin Cheng rolled the tobacco leaves with his somewhat mottled robotic palm, and the nano-coating on his fingers fell off piece by piece: “With this money, I can give it to you and Xiaoyi. Put on a better mechanical limb, and the energy is enough to support at least one action.”
“Dad, this is not what we need urgently, and we don’t have to sacrifice our lives,” the young man said.
“Well,” the old man squeezed a half-burned firewood from the bonfire, put it to his mouth and lit a cigarette: “The other party also promised a genetic medicine and a box of BVC antibiotics. Your brother is about to come of age, and our family has to There is a person who is not so dependent on mechanical limbs, I want to get him a genetic medicine, and the opportunity is rare.”
As soon as the voice fell, the young man looked at his younger brother beside him in amazement, opened his mouth and said nothing.
A middle-aged woman beside Qin Cheng said, “Xiaotong, don’t think your dad is biased,
He also wanted to get one for you back then, but was deceived.
”
The young Qin Tong thought for a while and said: “Mom, don’t think too much, I don’t mean that. I have a mechanical limb, but my brother doesn’t have it yet. It would be normal to give him a genetic medicine. Besides, if my brother has a genetic medicine, it will be even better. It’s easy to find a wife.”
While speaking, the sound of stepping on dead branches suddenly came from the woods outside the camp.
The old man Qin Cheng suddenly fell backwards and fell into a pile of fallen leaves. In an instant, he quickly took out a pistol from his arms and pointed to the source of the sound.
This vigorous skill does not look like an elderly person at all.
The others also quickly left the campfire and searched for tree trunks to hide their figures.
“Hello, no offense intended.”
Outside the camp, a voice came first.
In the woods in the dark night, two figures slowly walked out. Both of them were wearing black jackets. One was middle-aged and the other was a teenager. The teenager was carrying a high mountaineering bag behind him.
The two of them zipped up their clothes, and the raised collars covered most of their cheeks.
The middle-aged man in the jacket raised his hands and said with a smile: “Passing by, you have two cars here to keep out the wind, so borrow a place.”
Saying that, the middle-aged man glanced at the young man beside him.
But I saw the teenager took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and threw them next to the bonfire in the air: “It doesn’t matter if you don’t agree, the cigarettes will give you, we will leave.”
But seeing the crouching old man Qin Cheng hesitated for a moment, UU reading www.
sonicmtl.com then slowly stood up and pointed at the two people in front of him with a muzzle: “From the city?”
“Well, from City 10,” the middle-aged man laughed.
“Where are you going?” The old man was wary.
“I don’t know yet, I just came out for a walk,” the middle-aged man continued to answer.
The old man pointed to the open space more than 20 meters away: “You can camp there, but you can’t get close to us. If you want to borrow a place, a pack of cigarettes is not enough. Is there any medicine?”
“Yes,” the boy in the jacket responded, and he threw a small white bottle next to the bonfire, as if he had prepared it long ago.
This is hard currency in the wild.
After throwing it away, the two of them went to the open space beside them.
On the side of the bonfire, a young girl looked at the boy in the jacket and whispered to Qin Tong beside him, “Brother, that boy is very handsome.”
Qin Tong glanced at the boy’s back: “The jacket covers most of his face, do you think he looks good?”
The girl said: “Some people can judge that they are beautiful even without looking at the whole face.”
“Don’t think so much,” Qin Tong added two firewoods to the bonfire: “Have you seen the jackets on them, these two clothes can replace the two mechanical limbs on my body, such people come to the wilderness It’s called travel, we call it survival in the wilderness, and we are people in two worlds.”
The girl curled her lips: “I didn’t say anything.”
“I’m worried that you will be seduced by this rich kid,” the young man said earnestly: “None of those rich people living in the upper 3 districts are good things.”
“It’s alright, alright, I see,” the girl said impatiently.
When she spoke, she still looked at the boy from a distance.
[End of this Chapter]
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