Gengchen secretly glanced at the painting, he seemed to recall everything of that night.fierce gangsters, blazing flames, screaming crowds.and saved his celebratory dust in times of crisis.after many...City 18 is adjacent to City 10.

two cities whose serial numbers are not adjacent to each other are only two hundred kilometers apart, just because these cities are not sorted in order of importance, but in the order in which they were established.

if the federation is compared to a circle, then the city circle of cities 18 and 10 is like the center of the circle.

of course, this metaphor is not accurate, and the federation is not a regular circle.

Qingchen once asked Li Shutong for a map of the federation. It can be said that there is little difference between the maps of the surface world and the inner world, except for the coastal areas.

if these two worlds are really parallel worlds.

then the crust of the world must have experienced violent movement to become what it is today.

City 18 corresponds to Los Angeles, and City 10 corresponds to Zhengcheng. No matter in the inner world or in 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 is far from the prosperity of Haicheng in the world.

the most prosperous cities in the Federation are the 18th and 10th.

the 18th is the economic center and the 10th is the political center.

one west and one east is called federal Gemini.

the connecting segments between them seem to directly separate the north and south of the federation.

countdown to 96:00:00.

another midnight.

more than a hundred kilometers south of City 18, there are more than a dozen people gathered around the bonfire to keep warm. In the flickering fire, eight men and four women are talking and laughing.

there are branches crisscrossing on the bonfire, an iron pot hanging from the branches, and the thick noodle soup in it is bubbling.

someone took a piece of bacon out of his arms, cut a few pieces with a knife and threw them into the pot.

this is a small makeshift camp.

Nine dark green canvas tents were pitched in the open space near the camp.

it was windy at night, and there were two old pick-up trucks on top of the tuyere to shield the small makeshift camp from the fierce cold wind.

there seems to be something covered by canvas in the trunk of the pick-up truck. I can't see what's inside.

Wind-proof stones were piled by the bonfire, and Rao was so, the orange-red flame was still swaying.

"the things caught by the employers are not easy to find this time. We haven't seen one in this area for a month," said an elderly man by the bonfire. "otherwise, we'll go to the edge of the place and have a chance. We don't have to go in. The edge is not so dangerous. I've been there in the early years."

the old man's name is Qincheng, and he is the leader of the team.

and the people around the bonfire are basically related by blood.

they wear war uniforms that they bought out of nowhere, and some of them have patches on their elbows, knees, trouser legs and buttocks, and some of them don't fit well.

"Dad, is the price offered by the buyer worth the risk" Asked a young man.

"you know, the offer is 200000." Old man Qin Cheng rolled tobacco leaves with his somewhat mottled robotic palm, and the nano-coating on his fingers fell off one by one. "with this money, you and Xiao Yi can be replaced with better mechanical parts, with enough energy to support at least one operation."

"Dad, this is not what we need, and we don't have to risk our lives for it," the young man said.

"well," the old man squeezed a half-burnt wood from the bonfire and lit a cigarette close to his mouth. "the other side also promised a genetic medicine and a box of antibiotics. Your brother is coming of age, and there has to be someone in our family who is less dependent on mechanical limbs. I think it's a rare opportunity to get him a genetic potion. "

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as soon as his voice fell, the young man looked at his younger brother in astonishment, opened his mouth and did not speak again.

A middle-aged woman next to Qincheng said, "Xiao Tong, don't think your father is biased. He also wanted to get you one, but he was cheated."

the young man Qin Tong thought about it and said, "Mom, don't think about it. I don't mean that. I have a mechanical body, but my brother doesn't have it yet. It's normal if I have a genetic medicine to give him." And when my brother has a genetic potion, it's easier to find a wife. "

while talking, there was a sudden sound of trampling on dead branches in the woods outside the camp.

Old man Qincheng suddenly fell back in a pile of fallen leaves. In an instant, he quickly pulled out a pistol from his arms and pointed to the source of the sound.

this vigorous skill doesn't look like an old man at all.

and the others quickly left the bonfire and looked for tree trunks to hide their bodies.

"Hello, no offense."

outside the camp, there is a sound coming first.

in the woods of the dark night, two figures came out slowly, both dressed in black suits, a middle-aged man and a teenager with tall hiking bags behind him.

the two of them zipped up their clothes and their collars covered most of their cheeks.

the middle-aged man in the suit raised his hands and smiled and said, "passers-by, you have two cars here to keep out the wind, so borrow a place."

as he spoke, the middle-aged man glanced at the teenager beside him.

however, he saw the teenager take out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket and throw them next to the bonfire: "it doesn't matter if you don't agree. We'll leave."

but saw the crawling old man Qincheng hesitated for a moment, then slowly stood up and pointed at the two people in front of him as if at gunpoint: "from the city"

"well, from city 10," the middle-aged man laughed.

"where to" The old man is on the alert.

"I don't know yet, just come out for a walk," the middle-aged man continued.

the old man pointed to the open space more than 20 meters away. "you can camp there, but you can't come near us." If you want to borrow a place, a pack of cigarettes is not enough. Do you have any medicine "

"Yes," replied the teenager in a stormsuit, throwing a small white bottle beside the bonfire as if it were ready.

this is the hard currency in the wilderness.

after throwing away, the two men went to one side of the open space.

on the side of the bonfire, a girl looked at the teenager in a stormsuit and whispered to Qin Tong beside her, "Brother, that teenager is very good-looking."

Qin Tong glanced at the teenager's back and said, "the stormsuit covers most of his face. Do you think he looks better"

the maiden said, "some people can tell that they look good without looking at the whole face."

"Don't think so much." Qin Tong added two pieces of firewood to the bonfire. "have you seen the rush clothes on them only these two clothes can change two mechanical parts of me. This kind of people come to the wilderness to travel, and we call it survival in the wilderness. We are people from two different worlds."

the maiden curled her lips. "I didn't say anything."

"I'm worried about you being fascinated by such rich kids," the young man said earnestly. "none of the rich people who live in the upper third district are good things."

"all right, got it," the girl said impatiently.

when she spoke, she still looked at the teenager from a distance.ployer is very dissatisfied!" And why didn't you give her a poem in the end "Qingchen went out to get on the floating car and said with a black face, "what are you not satisfied with" I'm not a wander...