Below District C4323's pipelines, Lin Rui and Xue Lingxue walked in a small alley where sewage flowed freely.
The draft fans and ventilators here, due to years of neglect, kept buzzing noisily; the entire underground passageway was damp and cold, the air murky, filled with the smell of rot and stench.
In reality, most parts of the lower district were tolerable, and Base City Number Nine allocated enough funds each year to maintain various facilities.
However, some areas were under such powerful gang control and had such severe collusion between officials and businessmen that some funds vanished without trace.
Moreover, these areas were inhabited by illegal immigrants without lawful residency rights, and very few in Base City Number Nine cared about their well-being.
Although the fourteen base cities of Tianji Star were built on its satellites, due to Earth Federation's priority investment, their living standards were better than most of the Earth Federation's colonies.
