Walking aimlessly on the dilapidated street, Lu Xin realized that he had not looked at this street carefully for a long time.
The street was full of potholes and dust, and there was stagnant water left a few days ago.
There were dazzling neon lights everywhere, interweaving into a chaotic and brilliant color.
After the Red Moon incident, the surviving humans in the high city walls seemed to be divided into two completely different types.
One was very busy, walking in a hurry, and had no time to look at anything.
The other was very unbusy. If they sat listlessly on both sides of the street, they would spread a bundle in front of them, or set up a table, on which there might be some wild vegetables, some unknown meat, some roughly polished knives, or some hunters outside the city who went to explore the abandoned city and searched for some shabby ornaments and unknown technological items.
There were many more people who just gathered in groups of three or five, smoking and whistling at the women on the street.
There are still many crazy people outside. When the high-walled city was first built, there was a period of time when people could not even get enough food. But perhaps because there were fewer people in the world who needed to eat, the pressure on qualifications was reduced, or perhaps the speed of civilization reconstruction exceeded everyone's expectations. In just 30 years, there were very few famines or starvation deaths inside the high-walled city...
... In short, it is not difficult to get enough food inside the high-walled city.
... The difficulty is how to make your life better!
These people who wander the streets and do nothing are like this. They have not even obtained the official identity of the second satellite city, nor can they enter professional technical schools or schools to study, and they have no hope of living in the main city for their entire lives.
So they gave up all their pursuits, did not work, and did not think about tomorrow's life.
They just wandered the streets every day, looking at everything passing by in the street, with empty eyes, and they didn't know what they were thinking.
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...
Lu Xin just walked through the street, looking at all the people.
He was looking at these people to see if there was anyone as dangerous as the clerk in the coffee shop on the corner.
As long as he could catch one, he could make a lot of money and save many people.
The figure of his sister always appeared beside him inadvertently. Sometimes, his sister appeared on the tall building beside him, sometimes, she lazily climbed over the wires crossing his head, and sometimes, she appeared on the head of a bald uncle.
The brother and sister patrolled the streets so seriously.
Then nothing happened.
"This city is too big..."
Lu Xin, whose legs were sore after walking through seven or eight streets, squatted on the street, smoking and eating a box lunch.
He summed up his experience in his mind: "Although the population was small when the high-walled city was first built, the number of people born has increased over the past few decades, and it has exploded all of a sudden. In our satellite city No. 2 alone, there are more than one million people living there. The police complain every day that they are short of manpower. It is normal for me to not encounter anything just by touching things randomly..."
"Patrol a few more times, and you will definitely encounter it..."
"..."
After eating the box lunch, Lu Xin patrolled for a while, then went back to sleep and went to work the next day.
He kept doing this for the next few days.
However, this too normal city made Lu Xin a little disappointed. There was nothing strange.
"If this city is too safe and there is no place for me, will Colonel Chen and others take back my subsidy?"
Lu Xin couldn't help but worry.
However, he didn't expect that his other job would have problems first.
"Xiao Lu, you don't have to come to work tomorrow!"
The director, whose hair was half bald but still combed carefully, pushed a dismissal contract in front of Lu Xin.
"Why?"
Lu Xin was surprised by the director's words and couldn't understand it.
How could he accept that he was fired before he was officially hired as a regular employee?
Although it was normal to be fired because of economic instability in the world after the Red Moon incident, especially for a job like his that only required sitting in the office and using his brain, instead of running to the dock or factory to work day and night, with many people watching and fierce competition, Lu Xin still didn't think that this would happen to him.
He was very serious about his work and had never made any mistakes over the years.
He was even a model staff member, and the banner was still hanging in his partition.
Even if he wanted to quit, how could he fire himself?
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...
"You have to understand this matter, Xiao Lu!"
The director forced a smile on his face, took out a cigarette and handed it to Lu Xin, revealing his yellow teeth and smiled: "The company is in a recession now. The same job cannot afford too many people. You and Xiao Lu have similar business capabilities, but Xiao Lu's work attitude is much better than yours. Look at you, you leave early every day recently, and no one is around until the end of the day..."
"Lu Cheng?"
Lu Xin remembered the young man who always smiled and asked him to teach him how to handle work, and fell silent.
He also knew what the director meant by leaving early.
In fact, he did not leave early, but did not take the initiative to stay to work overtime.
"Director, can you give me another chance?"
Lu Xin had a lot to say in his heart, but in the end he just asked in a low voice.
The director showed an embarrassed expression on his face: "Alas, you are an old employee, I am reluctant to let you go, but you know that in our company, everyone has their own job, and we can't afford to keep idle people. When the abilities are the same, attitude is very important..."
Lu Xin didn't listen to the rest of the words because he knew it was false.
When he left the director's office, he saw that his belongings had been packed up and put in a box.
I don't know who is so kind.
"It was Lu Cheng who packed it for you. He had been thinking about moving to your place..."
Next to her partition, Auntie Sun, who had curly hair, whispered to Lu Xin: "Little Lu, I'm not saying anything to you. You're just too honest. I told you before not to teach others everything. Look, they've taken your job, right? I heard that this kid is amazing. He's dating the director's daughter. The director is so smart, how could he not give the job to his family?"
Lu Xin silently looked at the banner in his box, reached into his backpack, and touched the gun inside.
But in the end, he didn't pull it out. Instead, he went downstairs first, lit a cigarette, and then walked slowly.
He remembered what Chen Jing had told him before.
If you encounter trouble in life, give yourself three suggestions.
First, call the police.
Second, call her.
Third, use a gun.