Night's Nomenclature Chapter 107

Published at 19th of July 2023 01:07:41 PM

City 18 is adjacent to city 10.

The geographical location of two cities with different serial numbers is only more than 200 kilometers apart, because these cities are not ranked by importance, but by the order of establishment.

If the Federation is compared to a circle, then the city circle composed of cities 18 and 10 is like the center of the circle.

Of course, this metaphor is not accurate. The Federation is not a regular circle.

Qingchen once asked Li Shutong for a map of the Federation. It can be said that there is not much difference between the map of the inner world and that of the outer world, except for the coastal zone.

If these two worlds are really parallel.

Then the crust of the inner world must have experienced violent movement before it became what it is now.

No. 18 city corresponds to Los Angeles, No. 10 city corresponds to Zheng city. No matter in the inner world or the outer world, they have always been the Central Plains.

Without the strategic importance of coastal ports, for example, the No. 7 city corresponding to Haicheng is far from the prosperity of Haicheng which represents the world.

The most prosperous cities in the Federation are the 18th and 10th.

18 is the economic center, 10 is the political center.

One west, one east, is called the federal Gemini.

The line segment connecting them seems to directly separate the South and north of the Federation.

The countdown is 96:00:00

Another midnight.

More than 100 kilometers south of No. 18 city, there are more than 10 people around the campfire for heating. In the flickering light, eight men and four women are talking and laughing.

On the campfire, there were branches crisscrossed, and there was an iron pot hanging on the branch, in which the thick noodle soup was bubbling.

Someone took out a piece of bacon from his arms, then cut a few pieces with a knife and threw them into the pot.

This is a small temporary camp.

In the open space near the camp, there are nine dark green canvas tents.

It was windy at night. There were two old pickup trucks on top of the tuyere to shelter the small temporary camp from the fierce cold wind.

There seems to be some goods covered by canvas in the trunk of the pickup truck. I can't see what's inside.

Campfire next to the pile of windproof stones, Rao is so, orange red flame is still swaying.

"It's not easy to find what employers want to catch this time. We've been around this area for a month, but we haven't seen one," said an old man by the campfire. "Otherwise, we'll go to the edge of the" place "to meet opportunities. We don't have to go in. The edge is not so dangerous. I went there earlier."

The old man's name is Qincheng and he is the leader of the team.

The people around the campfire are basically related by blood.

They were wearing battle suits that they had bought from nowhere. Some of them had patches on their elbows, knees, trouser legs and buttocks, and some of them didn't fit well.

"Dad, is the buyer's price worth the risk?" Asked a young man.

"You know, the other side offered 200000 yuan," Qin Cheng, an old man, rolled tobacco leaves with his mottled mechanical palm, and the nano coating on his fingers fell off one by one. "With this money, you and Xiao Yi can get better mechanical limbs, and the energy is enough to support at least one action."

"Dad, it's not something we need badly, and we don't have to trade our lives for it," the young man said.

"Well," the old man pinched a half burnt firewood from the campfire and lit a cigarette. "The other party also promised a genetic medicine, a box of BVC antibiotics. Your brother is coming of age. There must be someone in our family who is not so dependent on mechanical limbs. I want to get him a genetic medicine. It's a rare chance. "

As soon as the voice fell, the young man looked at his brother beside him in astonishment, opened his mouth and didn't speak any more.

A middle-aged woman beside Qincheng said, "Xiaotong, don't think your father is partial. He wanted to get one for you, but he was cheated."

The young man Qin Tong thought about it and said, "Mom, don't think about it. I don't mean that. I have mechanical limbs, but my younger brother hasn't. It's normal to give him genetic medicine. And with genetic medicine, it's easier to find a wife. "

As he spoke, the sound of trampling on the dead branches came from the woods outside the camp.

The old man Qin City suddenly fell back in a pile of fallen leaves. In an instant, he quickly took out a pistol from his arms and pointed to the sound.

This vigorous skill doesn't look like an old man at all.

And others, also quickly left the campfire, each looking for the trunk to hide the body.

"Hello, no offense."

Outside the camp, the sound comes first.

In the woods of the night, two figures came out slowly. They were both dressed in black assault suits, a middle-aged man and a young man. Behind him, the young man was carrying a high climbing bag.

The two of them zipped up their clothes, and their collars covered most of their cheeks.

The middle-aged man in the assault suit raised his hands and said with a smile, "passers-by, you have two cars that can keep out the wind, so I want to borrow a place."

Then the middle-aged man took a look at the boy beside him.

However, the boy took out a packet of cigarettes from his pocket and threw them next to the campfire: "it doesn't matter if you don't agree. We'll leave if we send you cigarettes."

However, Qin Cheng, an old man who was prostrate on the ground, hesitated for a moment, then stood up slowly, and the muzzle of the gun pointed to the two people in front of him: "from the city?"

"Well, from city 10," the middle-aged man said with a smile.

"Where are you going?" The old man was on guard.

"I don't know yet, just come out for a walk," the middle-aged man continued to answer.

The old man pointed to the open space more than 20 meters away: "you can camp there, but you can't get close to us. If you want to borrow a place, a pack of cigarettes is not enough. Do you have any medicine

"Yes," the young man in the uniform replied, and then threw a small white bottle beside the campfire, as if it had been ready for a long time.

It's hard currency in the wilderness.

After throwing, the two went to the open space.

On this side of the campfire, a young girl looked at the boy in the uniform and said to Qin Tong in a low voice: "brother, that boy is very beautiful."

Qin Tong glanced at the boy's back and said, "the uniform covers most of his face. Do you think he looks good?"

The girl said, "some people can judge a pretty face even if they don't look at the whole face."

"Don't think so much," Qin Tong added two firewood to the campfire. "Do you see their assault suits? These two clothes can be exchanged for my two mechanical limbs. This kind of people come to the wilderness to travel, and we live in the wilderness. They are people of two worlds."

The girl turned her lips: "I didn't say anything."

"I'm worried that you will be haunted by such rich children," the young man said with a long focus. "None of those rich people who live in the upper three districts are good things."

"All right, all right, I see," said the girl impatiently.

When she spoke, she still looked at the boy from afar.

Chapter end