Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

Cha Cha

The area on the west side of the upper floor is very neatly planned, with rows of single-family houses. There are many petty bourgeoisie families here, and then there is a large area of ​​scattered crooked wooden houses, which is under construction over there.

At the beginning of the new year, there is still a lot of snow accumulated in the past few days on the streets on the west side. The sunshine is somewhat mild, but not hot. This has happened since the sun rose. Many shovels can be seen on the streets. Snow's children and some adults gathered in small groups, smoking and talking.

"That's right, look, it's very easy if you follow the method I told you. Come over soon."

A handsome little boy with an amiable face and a gentleman's hair was gesticulating. He looked at the three little boys about his own age shoveling snow in front of him. Instead, he let out bursts of laughter, and then even started to laugh. A joke.

"If the three of you lose a bet, you must be willing to admit defeat, right?"

As he said this, the boy kicked the three of them one by one, and the three of them fell directly into the snowdrift. At this time, bursts of the girl's clear laughter came from the side.

"Hey, Wu Qun, why did you do this to them?"

"This is the right that a winner should have. By the way, Xiaomei, I will let these three guys shovel the snow at your house later. How about going on a date with me tonight?"

Wu Qun approached him with an annoying face, and the three girls immediately sneered and pointed their middle fingers at him.

"Hurry up and go shovel the snow with them."

As Wu Qun said, the three red-faced boys who were still on the snowdrift had smiles on their faces, and their mouths were almost laughing from ear to ear.

"That kind of bet is basically a game set up by this insidious guy like him. You three are really stupid."

"No, Xiaomei, I'm willing to admit defeat. If you can't even do this, you don't deserve to be called a man at all."

The other two boys also nodded hurriedly. The three of them looked at Wu Qun with grateful eyes. After leaving with the three girls, the boy who just spoke made a victory gesture backward.

"It's really simple!"

Wu Qun sighed with emotion. At this moment, a somewhat angry woman stood behind Wu Qun. She grabbed him by the back of his collar and dragged him home.

"Qunqun, tell me honestly, what exactly did you do? Many of the products we had in stock were sold early this morning."

The woman kissed Wu Qun happily, and Wu Qun wiped his mouth.

"I just made bets with many people, and I won them all, so they were naturally willing to admit defeat and listen to me."

The woman laughed and hugged her son again.

"Mom, I'm 16 years old. Can you please stop drooling all over my face every time you kiss me?"

The woman took a breath and laughed. Wu Qun was the child with the best sociability in the area. Even some adults liked this child. Many children would even come to Wu Qun to discuss anything.

Half an hour later, the three little boys who had just left ran to a store owned by Wu Qun's family on the street, bought a lot of things, and then carried them to Wu Qun's home.

"Old Wu, thank you."

The leading boy said as he brought a bunch of things over.

"As long as you continue to do what I tell you, you will definitely be able to achieve success in the next few days, but remember to take defensive measures when you do it. After all, you are not even 20 years old."

The three boys blushed, with longing in their eyes, and put down their things as a thank you to Wu Qun.

"Old Wu, do you really not regret it? I think Xiaomei actually likes you quite a bit."

Wu Qun waved his hand.

"Too ordinary!"

After the three boys left, Wu Qun looked at a pile of snacks and sighed helplessly.

"Mom, remember to put the snacks back in the store later and continue selling them. There should be people buying them today. We will sell them after they are delivered."

The mother came out of the room, hugged Wu Qun and kissed him hard. Wu Qun opened the door and left with a smile. The school was on holiday now. Wu Qun walked on the street, talking to the people around him from time to time. Say hello, whether it is a child or an adult, Wu Qun will take the initiative to say hello when he sees someone.

"It's really boring. Is there any more fun and fresh game?"

As Wu Qun spoke, he looked at the mountain peaks in the distance. Over there is the top-secret base in the city. The sun is emitted from there, but it is currently under construction.

"If you go up, you should meet more interesting people."

While walking, Wu Qun jumped up happily on the street alone. Ever since the first time he used someone else to benefit both himself and the other party, Wu Qun felt very happy all over his body, because his father had always taught him since he was a child to do Business must be mutually beneficial and reciprocal, which is a long-term strategy.

At this time, some drunk administrators standing on the street appeared in front of them. Wu Qun approached them and bowed.

"Xiao Wu, you really hit the mark. How did you know that we can win money in that store?"

An administrator said as he took out a handful of banknotes from his pocket, including several hundred.

"Give you lucky money."

Wu Qun took it over, chatted with a few people, and told them not to go to that casino in the near future, but to change places. He also explained in detail which casino to go to and which gambling methods to choose. , several administrators took small notebooks and carefully recorded it.

"I'm not going to lie to you. If you don't believe it, come over tonight and take a look. If you take the initiative, Uncle Zhang will definitely not be able to control it."

A woman was smoking, dressed nicely, and she looked a little coy.

"Sister Xia, really, you believe me, if it succeeds, just go to my store and buy some wine."

"This is what you said, Xiao Wu."

As the woman spoke, she took out a half-price coupon from a nearby store from her purse and gave it to Wu Qun, which could buy something worth 1,000 yuan.

"Wow, Sister Xia, are you so willing?"

"Okay, Xiao Wu, don't tell others that I gave it to you."

Wu Qun walked all the way to the long slope going down to the lower level. He looked at the construction sites everywhere in the distance. Many people chose the dry climate in the west to build houses. However, many houses were not planned and were built by themselves. You can build whatever area you want as long as you have the materials.

"If this continues, this will be the first place in the city to die."

At this time, Wu Qun was already carrying a big bag, which contained food, money and drinks. He got them from many people along the way. He took out a small bottle of wine and a piece of sausage and took a bite. , then took a sip of wine, smiled slightly, and held up the bottle as if he was paying tribute to someone.

“We also returned home with a full load today!”

As a breeze blew by, Wu Qun let go of the plastic package in his hand, and the plastic with the sausage logo on it floated into the distance.

Noisy sounds rang out in the middle of a small town under construction. Hundreds of plasterers looked angrily at the businessman standing on a platform in the middle of the town with several bodyguards beside him.

"We won't start working if we don't pay wages!"

As one worker shouted, hundreds of people responded, and you could see houses being expanded everywhere.

The situation is a bit chaotic. The businessmen are still saying that they want the workers to go back to work and that wages will be paid this afternoon. Most people are owed wages for half a year or as little as two months.

At this time, a short but sturdy young man wearing light blue suspenders and sharp eyes walked through the crowd. He quickly came to the front row.

"Everyone, please stop arguing."

The businessman shouted again. At this time, the young man swallowed and fumbled for an IOU in his pocket. He had not received his salary for three months. If he did not receive the money, his sick father would be in danger.

"I'll give each of you one month's salary first."

But the voice of dissatisfaction started again, and the young man hurriedly took out the IOU. He had had enough. However, at this time, the young man noticed that the foreman who was leading the yelling was making eye contact with the businessman.

"Boss, we just want to take advantage of the New Year to get money to go home and buy something for our family."

Following the persuasion of the leader, people gradually started to line up. The boss asked a few bodyguards to bring over a cash box and began to pay each worker 150 yuan a month.

Finally it was the young man's turn and he took out the IOU.

"This is the IOU you wrote to my dad at that time."

Snapped

The IOU was slapped on the table, and the mustache who handed out the money laughed.

"You have to pick it up in person."

No matter how much the young man begged, Mustache refused him.

"Can't you hear me? I just agreed to pay you one month's salary."

"How can you not keep your words? My dad has just been ill recently and was injured at work."

With a sudden signal from Mustache, two bodyguards came directly over, drove him and threw him directly into the mud beside him, and then threw 150 yuan to him.

"Starting tomorrow, you don't have to come here to start work."

A leather shoe appeared in front of the young man's eyes. He raised his head and looked at the angry-looking businessman. Some of the workers lining up behind him put away the IOUs in their pockets.

"Then pay me the rest of the money."

The young man was completely furious. He stood up and planned to argue with the businessman. However, he was knocked to the ground by two bodyguards. After being beaten severely, he was carried to an alley and thrown into the garbage.

The young man laughed, with disappointment in his eyes. He knew in his heart that all this was planned by the foreman. He originally didn't want to be the first person. Holding the 150 yuan in his hand, the young man slowly climbed up and picked it up. picked up a stone on the ground.

"Ran Zhi, what do you want to do?"

At the entrance of the alley, a woman saw Ran Zhi clutching the stone with a scary look in her eyes, and hurriedly rushed over and grabbed him.

The woman's name was Ding Manman, and she worked in a nearby canteen. Ran Zhi had helped Ding Manman once before, and the two of them became familiar with each other over time.

"I'm going to kill him."

Ding Manman looked uncomfortable and kept shaking her head, hoping Ran Zhi would stop. She was almost raped by the boss before, but Ran Zhi rushed into the house and rescued her. The incident caused a big fuss that night, and it was settled in the end. However, Ran Zhi has clearly felt that many people are ostracizing him recently. Last month, his father was injured and urgently needed money for treatment. Ran Zhi went to see his boss, but the boss said it was an accident and it was none of his business.

"I'm begging you, you're going to die."

Suddenly Ding Manman hugged Ran Zhi, leaned on his shoulder and cried.

Ran Zhi squeezed the stone in his hand with a painful expression, and blood dripped from his fingers.

After a while, in a small room on the second floor rented by Ding Manman, she boiled some hot water and helped Ran Zhi clean the wound. Looking at Ran Zhi who looked dull, Ding Manman was still trying to persuade Ran Zhi not to act recklessly. .

Then Ding Manman took out some money from a small cabinet nearby, a pile of scattered and wrinkled money, totaling more than 30 yuan.

"No."

Ran Zhi felt painful in his heart at this moment. His father taught people to be honest since he was a child, but in this era, honest people will always suffer losses, but his father always said that it is better to suffer losses than to do bad things without conscience.

"How much does your father's treatment cost?"

Ding Manman looked hesitant, her eyes evasive, as if she was thinking about something extremely important. She asked, but Ran Zhi didn't say anything, just shook his head and planned to leave.

After leaving, Ran Zhi quickly rode his bicycle back to the town further down where they lived. He first went to the doctor's house in the town and gave 150 yuan to the doctor.

"This money is not enough."

"Can you help my dad take a look first?"

The doctor sighed and nodded, and asked Ran Zhi to carry his father here for the operation.

Soon Ran Zhi came to the clinic carrying his father, whose legs were swollen and suppurating. After looking at him for a while, the doctor became a little worried.

"It's better to be conservative and do amputation. It's already suppurative and inflamed."

Ran Zhi's eyes widened and he grabbed the doctor.

"I receive so many patients here every day, and I'm not a charity, so there's no point in blaming me."

Ran Zhi, who was usually silent, beat his head in pain and sat in the corridor. He once wanted to sell fake wine with a few friends, but his father stopped him. A few months later, several friends made money. After leaving here, Ran Zhi could only watch his well-dressed friends leave quietly.

Now there are only two people left in the family, myself and my father. Over the years, their family has worked in the mines, worked in the fortress, and finally came here to make a living. In the end, they didn’t even have a penny in their pockets. Even a while ago, His father was injured and needed 500 yuan for treatment, but Ran Zhi couldn't afford a penny.

"What are you going to do!"

There was a scream from a doctor in the operating room, and Ran Zhi rushed in. He stared wide-eyed at his father who had already had his legs amputated and stabbed his neck with a sharp scalpel.

The doctor hurriedly tried to stop the bleeding, but the value on the instrument slowly reached zero. His father closed his eyes peacefully. For a moment, Ran Zhi's head was filled with only hatred and powerlessness.

He knew very well why his father committed suicide. Without his legs, he was equivalent to a useless person. In such a world, it would inevitably drag him down.

Ran Zhi covered his head. At the door of the operating room, his mother and sister were also infected in the Aikala incident that ravaged the entire region more than 20 years ago. In the end, they were isolated, but Ran Zhi never saw him again. After passing them, all he could remember was the smoke and dust floating in the quarantine area all day long, and the burning smell that he could never forget.

The administrators passed by Ran Zhi one after another, and after checking the surveillance video provided by the doctor, they closed the case. Ran Zhi was squatting in the corridor with a solemn expression. The doctor squatted beside Ran Zhi with painful eyes. He returned the 150 yuan that Ran Zhi had just given him in his pocket and patted his back. The money was stained with traces of blood.

"Don't blame me, I'm sorry, this is the way the world is."

Ran Zhi grinned slightly, the corners of his mouth moved up and down, and his cheeks twitched slightly.

"Ran Zhi!"

A familiar voice sounded. Ran Zhi looked blankly at Ding Manman, who was wrapped tightly and walked a little strangely. She walked over with a blushing face.

"The money should be enough, here it is."

Ding Manman sucked her nose and put a wad of money in Ran Zhi's hand.

Ran Zhi shook his head, with sobs in his throat, and pressed the money back into Ding Manman's hand.

"What happened?"

Ran Zhi was still shaking his head. Ding Manman slowly looked towards the operating room, seeming to realize something. She walked in. After a while, Ding Manman wiped her tears and sobbed sadly. She couldn't hold back the money in her hand. Trembling, she collapsed beside Ran Zhi and began to cry heartbreakingly.

Ran Zhi came back to his senses and looked at Ding Manman's skirt, exposed calf, a trace of bright red blood flowing out.

"What's wrong?"

Ran Zhi trembled and lifted up Ding Manman's skirt. He trembled slightly and looked at the money in Ding Manman's hand. There were a total of 1,000 yuan. How could she have the ability to get so much money.

Ran Zhi pressed Ding Manman's shoulders and kept shaking, but she said nothing except silent tears. Finally, Ding Manman hugged Ran Zhi and lay in his arms sobbing.

"Take me! Let's get out of here."

Scarlet bloodshot eyes were covered with Ran Zhi's eyes. The corners of his mouth were raised little by little, and there was a strangeness about his whole person.

"I'm going to kill him."

On the golden ears of wheat, drops of dew looked crystal clear in the sunshine. In the morning, under the temperature of the sun, the melted snow water became an extremely important source of moisture for the greenhouses in the eastern grain base.

A man of about 30 years old, wearing a light blue overalls, was discussing with a group of similarly dressed people.

"No, the mortality rate of the seedlings is a bit high. We will conduct another genetically modified synthesis experiment tomorrow. There is also a problem of soil quality. I hope that you will lead your men as soon as possible to complete it as soon as possible."

"Manager Ye, the Hillman family has sent people here. We hope that we can give them some of the grain produced this month. They will pay 1.5 times."

Immediately, the steward named Ye frowned.

"No matter who they are, they must strictly abide by the food delivery quota. This principle must not be violated."

The steward's name is Ye Chunwang, and he has been farming here since he was more than 10 years old. Later, he was appointed by the gods as the steward of this eastern grain base. He has the final say on who the food here is wholesaled to, and he can obviously make a lot of money. , but Ye Chunwang set a fixed quota for each businessman with a food wholesale license without discrimination.

Many people were dissatisfied with Ye Chunwang's actions, but no one dared to get involved here. The city's laws clearly stipulated that anyone who gets involved in the food base will be executed on the spot.

In the past few years, there have always been people in the food base having affairs with outsiders, but the gods went directly to execute these people without hesitation, without any mercy or hesitation.

At this time, accompanied by a burst of footsteps and a crisp sound of biting, everyone looked towards a large shed, a cucumber cultivation shed, where a man with white hair in a suit was gnawing on a cucumber.

"It tastes good, Xiaoye."

Gene smiled, Ye Chunwang helplessly shook his head and leaned over.