God is Coming
Chapter 23
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Although the apartment is old, but in this era, there are still basic network interfaces, just like wires and water pipes, they are indispensable.
Chu Jungui lay on the bed, closed his eyes, and seemed to be sleeping, but actually connected to the network, and began to search and collect information.
Laizhou was originally an industrial and mining city. In the past, it was famous for producing a large amount of basic metals such as iron and aluminum. At its peak, the population exceeded one million. If it was the home planet of the old era, Laizhou's mineral reserves would probably rank among the top in the world. However, in the 35th century, with the improvement of productivity, human demand for various mineral resources has also increased exponentially.
About a hundred years ago, the reserves of several major mines in Laizhou City were exhausted one after another, and the entire city inevitably declined.
Different from the parent star, in this era, people have too many choices, and traveling far away has a new meaning, and foreign places often refer to strange star fields hundreds of light-years away.
However, the population of Laizhou has not decreased too much. There are more people leaving and more people migrating in. Those who leave are young people, and those who come are mostly old people.
Laizhou is a big city with complete infrastructure and convenient transportation. Although the weather here is bad, the air can be breathed directly. The outflow of population has brought the city's prices down to a very low level. For example, the monthly rent of Chu Longtu's small apartment is less than two hundred. It doesn't cost much to buy it. This is also the reason why many elderly people migrate here, because it is cheap.
Within the territory of the prosperous Tang dynasty, the natural dynasty currency was hard currency. Although each vassal state has its own currency, the more developed and prosperous the region is, the more dynasty currency will be used.
As the No. 1 school in Xinzheng, Shenshang College has always been rich and powerful, and it always uses Dynasty coins to distribute subsidies. Therefore, the information that Chu Jungui consulted all defaulted to the dynasty currency as the unit of measurement.
I don't know how long I read the documents, but Chu Jungui heard the sound of the alarm clock. He looked at the time, it was just before six o'clock, but Chu Longtu had probably woken up.
As an experimental subject, Chu Jungui didn't need to sleep for a long time. He got up immediately and went out to look around, only to find that Chu Longtu was still sitting on the reclining chair, his posture was exactly the same as last night.
The alarm clock is still ringing, and the TV on the screen is still flashing silent pictures.
"Grandpa?" Chu Jungui called softly.
The old man seemed to have just woken up, so he turned his head and said, "It's you! I was thinking about some things back then, and I fell in love without knowing it. Now that you're up, go buy some breakfast. Go downstairs and turn right, pass by Two streets away is Lao Liu's shop. The taste of his shop has not changed for more than ten years."
"knew."
Chu Jungui went out, and found the breakfast shop that Grandpa mentioned without any trouble. It was a very small shop, so small that there could only be two tables in it. At this time, the sky was not yet bright, and the wind and chill pierced through the bones, but the small shop was already open, and it was full of people, and there were still a few people queuing at the door.
They are all old people.
Chu Jungui lined up, and it didn't take long before it was his turn. The breakfast in the store is very simple, with only three or five items, mostly steamed or fried food. Chu Jungui bought two breakfasts according to his appetite, and shared them for one yuan.
On the way back, Chu Jungui took out a hot bun and took a bite. It was unexpectedly delicious and full of ingredients.
When he got home, Chu Longtu had already got up from the couch and started tidying up the room. The apartment was actually very tidy, and there weren't many sundries. Except for Chu Yunfei's room, which had been locked for an unknown period of time, the other places were very clean, but old.
After breakfast, Chu Longtu asked about Chu Jungui's academic situation. Chu Jungui suddenly felt a little guilty. The abilities he could really use had a very low version number, and he couldn't use them at all. The version number of Tactical Deception is over 1, but it is only 1.02.
Fortunately, Chu Longtu didn't ask very detailed questions, even if he asked roughly, he passed a test for Mr. Chu.
"It's a good thing that you can enter the business school. This is a military school, and our family has no special relationship. After you finish your studies, you will probably go to the battlefield. Take advantage of the two years in the school to learn more. There is no luck on the battlefield. If you lose in the battle on the planet, you still have a chance, but if you fight in outer space, you will die if you lose."
Chu Jungui nodded.
"I still have some collectibles here, which I got when I was young. There is something that suits you very well, so you can use it for self-defense."
Chu Longtu got up, went to the cabinet next to the wall in the dining room, and opened the door. There were some dishes in the cupboard, and some wine bottles. The old man grabbed the cabinet panel and pushed it in. With a click, the cabinet panel retracted a bit, and then the entire cabinet structure sank, exposing a mezzanine at the back.
There are two long guns and three pistols of different models embedded in the interlayer, as well as corresponding ammunition.
The old man swiped his hand over the three pistols one by one, finally took the middle one, handed it to Chu Jungui, and said, "I will defend you."
Chu Jungui liked the pistol very much, and when he took it, he only felt that it was heavy. It was not usually comfortable to hold, and it was full of texture. He touched it habitually, but he didn't find any data interface, and it didn't look like there was a chip.
The old man glanced at Chu Jungui and said, "This gun doesn't have a chip, and it doesn't have any auxiliary systems. It's just a gun. Here are the bullets. Take it."
Chu Jungui caught a box of bullets thrown by the old man, only to feel that his hand sank, a small box of bullets was surprisingly heavy. He opened the magazine, took out a bullet and looked at it. There was no display screen on the bullet, no programmable data interface, and no micro-engine that could adjust the flight attitude and change direction, and some were just primers.
Just the primer?
The color of Chu Jungui's pupils quietly changed a little, and he scanned the entire bullet. Sure enough, there were no tiny equipment on it, and some were primers.
It was a primitive bullet powered by gunpowder.
Chu Jungui did not reject primitive gunpowder weapons. For example, when he first got out of the rescue cabin, he relied on a printed gunpowder pistol to defend himself. But that was in the stage of survival on an uninhabited planet. Now as long as there are normal supplies, even the rookie students of the business school use programmable smart rifles and micro-powered ammunition.
Take the electric shock bomb as an example, not only can adjust the release energy of the electric shock, but also can rapidly disperse the kinetic energy when it touches a soft target, so as to reduce the penetration and avoid fatal damage.
What the old man gave him were completely antique pistols or ammunition. The bullet is heavy, and it may be very powerful, but no matter how powerful it is, it is limited. Today, when electromagnetic applications are very common, gunpowder weapons are at an overall disadvantage, and few people are researching new gunpowder formulas.
Chu Longtu looked at the side for a while, and then said: "Don't look for it, there is no intelligent system on the gun and bullets. Sometimes, the simplest is the most reliable. Any electromagnetic weapon is not as reliable as old-fashioned firearms." .”
"Understood."
Chu Jungui put the bullets and the gun in his backpack, then remembered something, and asked, "This gun doesn't seem to be a common caliber?"
The old man nodded, "It can only use the bullets I gave you. You probably have very little chance to use it, and I only have this little stock for the time being. To make new bullets, you need a few old-fashioned equipment, which are already available on the market. Not anymore, maybe a few old friends still have them. I have to ask them, and when you come back next time, you can get new bullets."
Chu Jungui nodded and packed his backpack. He probably has no chance to use this gun, and more bullets are naturally unnecessary. He took the gun and the bullets, just because he didn't want to make the old man sad.
The old man restored the dining cabinet, and Chu Jungui tried to order a batch of food, and bought a new refrigerator by the way to replace the old antique at home that I don't know how many years. However, after searching for a long time, he found that in such a big city, there was no delivery service, and he needed to pick up the goods by himself.
No online shopping? Don't know if it's a good thing or a bad thing.
Chu Jungui could only accept the reality, he finally hired a truck, moved the refrigerator back from the warehouse, and spent an afternoon traveling to several supermarkets and stores to fill the refrigerator.
The old man quietly watched him busy, with a faint smile on his face.
After dinner, Chu Jungui said, "Grandpa, I'm going to report to the college tomorrow, so please leave some money at home before you leave."
"I'm old, and I don't have anything to spend money on. As you saw today, you can't buy anything with money in this city. When you are free, just go home and have a look."
No matter how much Chu Jungui tried to persuade him, the old man refused to accept the money, so in the end he had to.
The short visit to the family soon came to an end. In the early morning of the next day, Chu Jungui left the apartment and rushed to the airport. When he went back, he still took the cheap flight, and once again experienced the crowding and staleness of the young Kun class. I don't know if other Kun-class spacecraft will be better.
The spaceship took off, and the city in the porthole gradually faded away.
Chu Jungui never thought that there would be a city like Laizhou. The city has long been old and old, and most of the various facilities have a history of more than a hundred years, but relying on their excellent reliability, they barely maintain the operation beyond their lifetime. There are not many young people in the whole city anymore, mostly old people going through the last stage of life.
The cost of living in this city is even lower than the cheapest nursing home in a prosperous city. Perhaps it is precisely because it is possible to live a life with the last bit of freedom and dignity at a small cost, which attracts more and more elderly people to come here.
Originally Chu Junhui thought that there were rich people in the city, but when he left, he realized that he was wrong. This city has almost run out of even the most basic services. How can the rich bear such an environment? Small shops such as breakfast shops still exist, and the shopkeepers are not so much making a living as finding someone to talk to.
When buying breakfast for two days, he heard the old people chatting in the store, and Chu Jungui knew that this was the only time in the day when those old people could chat with others.
The whole city is struggling on the edge of poverty.
In a city like this, how many stars are there in the entire Moon Wing? How many kingdoms are there?
While in a trance, Chu Jungui's identity chip suddenly popped up a prompt message, and the account balance jumped from 9600 to 11615. Chu Jungui was taken aback, and hurriedly checked the transferer's information, and then saw Chu Longtu.
Looking at the string of numbers with fractions, Chu Jungui's mood was suddenly complicated and indescribable.
He closed his eyes and sat in silence until the spaceship landed.
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