Indescribable cyberpunk

"Next stop, Shuguang City Train Station!"

Following the announcement on the radio, the destination was finally arrived. Zhu Jue turned off his cell phone, stood up, and prepared to wait at the door.

As soon as I looked up, I saw a "Western Cowboy" wearing a wild brown jacket with two guns hanging on his waist. He was leaning against the vertical pole in the subway. The brim of his cowboy hat was pushed down so low that only his right ear could be seen. That half of the Bluetooth headset is leaking out.

This denim is quite trendy.

The other party seemed to have noticed Zhu Jue's gaze. He raised his cowboy hat at an angle, looked back vaguely, glanced at Zhu Jue, and quickly put it back.

There were several people dressed in Western costumes beside him, and there was even a "cowgirl" among them. These people were obviously a team, and the uniform costumes were naturally not for COSPLAY, but a rather straightforward way to highlight their identity. Way.

Zhu Jue looked away and soon discovered that there were not many ordinary citizens left on the train at this time. Most of them were guys with the same tough temperament as the cowboys in front of him. They could tell they were combatants at a glance. On the left A team of armed soldiers and several people wearing Monster Countermeasures Agency badges can also be seen in another compartment.

Judging from the way they started to tidy up their clothes, these people should all get off at Dawn City Train Station.

Sure enough, when the subway door opened, these people started setting off one after another.

Zhu Jue was an outlier among this group of people, because he had neither a backpack nor a suitcase on him. He only held the Mikazuki Taito wrapped in a cloth bag in his hand, and the plasma gun was inserted into his waist and blocked by his clothes.

Stepping out of the car door, his eyes subconsciously began to look for the surrounding stairs, and finally focused on the woman coming out of the car on the right.

She was wearing a long black windbreaker lined with a thin white shirt. She had slender legs and a pair of leather boots with no external decoration. The armed soldiers she had seen in the carriage before were also from the Alien Bureau. The staff were surrounding her and several people who were dressed somewhat similar to hers.

Even so, she is still the most outstanding one, not only because of her appearance, but also because of her cold temperament that has not changed much after five years.

"I didn't expect to meet you here."

Five years of ice may be a long time for people living a normal life, but for Zhu Jue, it is just a moment. The memory of the past has not faded with this passing time, so he can still easily Recognize people from five years ago, even if the latter's appearance has changed slightly compared to five years ago, or has become more mature.

Zhu Jue did not choose to go up to say hello. There were a large number of government personnel gathered around the other party. In order to be able to board the fortress train, he was now appearing as Ivanka. He could not change his face in front of so many people around him and greet him.

What's more, he is now considered a dead person, and even his citizenship certificate has been cancelled. From a certain perspective, he has escaped the attention of the federal government and some special forces.

Now that Weird Studio is gone, there is no need for me to step into their field of vision.

"Let's wait until we have a better opportunity later."

With this in mind, Zhu Jue decisively chose different stairs to go up to the bottom of the station.

The Shuguang City Railway Station was formerly the city's high-speed train station five years ago. A considerable part of the internal facilities and equipment still retain their original condition, but both the passenger flow and the number of permanent businesses in the station have dropped off a cliff.

The reason is very simple. With the emergence of large dangerous areas between cities, traveling to a certain extent has become something that can only be enjoyed by those whose living standards are above the average level of society. It is difficult to enter a first-tier city. For the sake of their own safety, ordinary people cannot run out and look for trouble.

In places like Dawn City, most people only pay to board fortress trains from various cities to seek shelter, and few people in the city go out.

However, just when Zhu Jue took it for granted based on his previous observations that the train station was probably bleak and the people on the train were only two or three kittens. When he took the escalator and entered the waiting hall, he saw a scene like a busy city in front of him. It still shocked him.

There were groups of three or five gathered together, discussing something in front of an electronic map. .

There were people minding their own business squatting nearby to check the status of small auxiliary robots, and from time to time there were mechanics who were sending sparks out.

Most of them gathered together to talk loudly. When they got up, they were very unethical and stopped at those long-abandoned trash cans. They opened their cheeks and blew loudly.

As for those station supermarkets and catering shops that Zhu Jue thought should be closed down, they have indeed disappeared. However, weapons stores, prosthetic parts stores and other special shops have taken their place. Looking at the flow of people in front of the door, it seems that Still quite popular.

Zhu Jue glanced at the situation in front of him. Judging from the clothes of the people in front of him, it was just like the situation in the subway train before. There were basically no ordinary people. Almost all of them were a new profession that had emerged in the past two years - gold mining. By.

Gold rush!

The original meaning of this term refers to the gold rush caused by the discovery of huge gold deposits during the westward expansion of the United States. In today's era, this term is mentioned again.

Due to population migration in recent years, the population of a considerable number of second- and third-tier cities in Dongzhou has dropped sharply, to the point where there is no one left in ten, which has created an unavoidable situation - urban degradation.

The migration of the people leads to the transfer of the local government. After all, even the people are gone, and the government naturally has no meaning of existence. But don't forget, the people can leave, but the city cannot!

At most, the migration of the population will take away some loose money, and some larger items cannot be moved at all. Especially in those cities that were on the front line of the crisis that year, the people could not even evacuate in an orderly manner.

Therefore, in the eyes of these gold diggers, these abandoned cities have become gold mines in another sense!

Parts disassembled from abandoned intelligent robots, chips, circuit boards and other items from certain high-tech products are all accepted by regular stores in Dawn City, let alone the market prices in the black market.

If you are lucky and find a wealthy mansion that is too late to retreat, the "treasure" inside can even make a commoner at the bottom of Dawn City become a middle-class person overnight, and live an extremely happy life in the eyes of others.

Even in the first two years, as long as you were not so unlucky that you bumped into a monster and died suddenly on the spot, there were very few people who didn't make money while walking around. The only difference was how much they made.

That’s how the craze started.

Never doubt the human pursuit of windfall.

How to relieve worries? Only get rich!

From this point of view, the grand scene Zhu Jue is seeing is not that difficult to understand. With the development of the gold rush, it is not surprising that the corresponding market rises.

Of course, this kind of gold mining days will not last long, after all, the resources in those cities will always be emptied out.

“I hope Yecheng has not been affected by the gold rush yet.”

Zhu Jue looked at the information on his phone and pursed his lips. All his things were in his safe, and forget about the others. Those bags of gems and the Book of Degian could not be taken away by others.

In fact, he doesn't have to worry about this yet. The A-level danger zone is not that easy to enter. The mortality rate of nearly 90% of gold diggers is no joke. Most of the remaining 10% are those who arrive and realize that something is wrong. , a person who turns around and runs away.

Because the crowd in the waiting hall was too dense, Zhu Jue chose to stay in the corridor next to it.

As the train departed, not far away, there was a team of station crews walking towards us. There were quite a few people, including not only the normal train staff and the armed forces mentioned on the Internet, but also the train crew that I had seen in the subway station before. Acquaintances were among them.

After these people entered the platform, the ticket checking machine started to operate soon, and everyone began to rush to the platform.

Looking at the guys carrying various weapons and equipment, Zhu Jue was not in a hurry. He waited for everyone to pass before slowly walking through the ticket gate and walking down the platform.

The fortress train, which was two or three times larger than any high-speed train Zhu Jue had ever seen, had already stopped on the track. Even Zhu Jue clicked his tongue when he saw this "steel behemoth" for the first time. Amazing.

The thick steel shell almost covers the entire train. The scratches and other strange marks on it prove that this journey may not be as easy as imagined. The tall mechanical rams at the head and tail of the train are even stained with a lot of dark red. At this time, there were several suspended cleaning robots doing the final cleaning before departure.

There are several fully automatic machine gun platforms hanging on each carriage. The dark and cold clustered gun barrels are rotating in all directions at this time. It seems to be adjusting the angle. In fact, many times they are deliberately sweeping across the platform. The crowd waiting for the bus also made a clicking sound when loading, causing many people to subconsciously retreat to the side, for fear of being torn to pieces by a sudden metal storm.

There is obviously a warning in this. You must know that almost all the passengers on the bus are fully armed. If there is not enough force to deter, there is no guarantee that trouble will not occur.

However, what surprised Zhu Jue was that the interior of this rugged-looking fortress train was quite user-friendly. The seats were all arranged in a box-like manner. Although there were no doors, there were opaque glass baffles at the front and rear to block the train.

Zhu Jue, who was taking out snacks from the vending machine on the side of the carriage, looked at the carriage that was gradually becoming busier as the passengers took their seats.

He secretly thought that those partitions were probably specially designed to worry about the situation where these heavily armed guys would say "who are you looking at" and "where are you looking at" among each other.

After all, some of these people don't look like bad guys.

Double updates will resume today, the next chapter will be in the afternoon