indescribable cyberpunk.

Chapter 288 Gold Rush

"Next stop, Dawn City Train Station!"

Accompanied by the notification sound on the radio, the destination finally arrived, Zhu Jue turned off the phone, got up and prepared to wait at the door.

As soon as I looked up, I saw a "Western Cowboy" wearing a wild brown jacket and two guns hanging around his waist, leaning against the vertical pole in the subway, the brim of the cowboy hat was pressed very low, and only the right ear could be seen That half of the bluetooth headset leaked out.

This denim is pretty trendy.

The other party also seemed to have noticed Zhu Jue's gaze. The cowboy hat looked up and raised a little angle, looked back vaguely, glanced at Zhu Jue, and quickly put it back.

Beside him are a few people in western costumes, including a "cowgirl". These people are obviously a team, and the uniform costumes are not for cosplay, but a rather straightforward way to show their identity. Way.

Zhu Jue looked away, and soon found that there were not many ordinary citizens left on the train at this time, most of them were as tough as the cowboys in front of him, and they could be identified as combatants at a glance. A squad of armed soldiers and several individuals wearing Monster Countermeasures Bureau badges can also be seen in another compartment.

Judging from the way they started to dress up, these people should all get off at the Dawn City train station.

Sure enough, when the subway doors opened, these people left one after another.

Zhu Jue was an outlier in this group of people, because he had neither a backpack nor a suitcase, but only held the Mikazuki Tachi wrapped in a cloth bag in his hand, and the plasma gun was stuck in his waist and blocked by his clothes.

Stepping out of the car door, his eyes subconsciously began to search for the surrounding stairs, but in the end it was fixed on the woman who came out of the carriage on the right.

She was wearing a long black windbreaker, lined with a thin white shirt, slender legs, and a pair of leather boots with no external decorations on her feet. The armed soldiers I saw in the carriage before and the alien bureau The staff surrounded her and a few staff who were dressed somewhat similarly to her.

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 the person five years ago, even if the latter's appearance has changed a little compared to five years ago, or has become more mature.

Zhu Jue did not choose to go up to say hello. A large number of government personnel gathered around the other party, and he was now appearing as Ivanka in order to be able to get on the fortress train. He couldn't change his face in front of so many people around him to greet him.

What's more, he is considered a dead person now, and even his citizenship certificate has been revoked. From a certain point of view, he can be regarded as free from the attention of the federal government and some special forces.

Now that the Weird Studio is gone, there is no need for me to take the initiative to walk into their field of vision.
"Let's talk about it later when there is a better opportunity."

With this in mind, Zhu Jue decisively chose a different staircase to go up with the other party, and directly reached the bottom floor of the station.

The predecessor of Shuguang City Railway Station was the high-speed train station in this city five years ago. A considerable part of the internal facilities and equipment still retain their original state, but both the passenger flow and the resident businesses in the station have experienced a cliff-like decline.

The reason is very simple. With the emergence of large dangerous areas between cities, traveling abroad is already something that those whose living standards are in the upper middle of the society can enjoy to a certain extent. It is naturally impossible for ordinary people to go out and ask for trouble for their own safety.

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

However, just when Zhu Jue took it for granted that the train station was bleak and there were only two or three kittens on board through his previous observations, when he took the escalator into the waiting hall, he saw a bustling city scene in front of him. It still surprised him.

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

Some squatted nearby to check the status of the small auxiliary robot, and from time to time there were mechanics who emitted electric sparks.

More people get together to talk about it, and when they talk about it, they stand on those long-abandoned trash cans without a sense of public morality.

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

Zhu Jue glanced at the situation in front of him. Judging from the clothes of these people in front of him, it was the same as the situation in the subway train before. There were basically few ordinary people, and almost all of them were a new profession that emerged in the past two years-gold panning By.

Gold rush!
The original meaning of this term refers to the gold rush caused by the discovery of huge gold reserves during the westward movement of the United States. In this era, this term is mentioned again.

Due to the population migration in recent years, the population of a considerable number of second- and third-tier cities in Dongzhou has dropped sharply, even reaching a situation where there is no one in ten. This has caused 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 that the people can leave, but the city cannot!

The migration of the population took away some floating wealth at most, and it was impossible for some larger things to be transferred, especially those cities that were at the front line of the crisis that year, and the people could not even retreat in an orderly manner.

Therefore, these abandoned cities have become gold mines in another sense in the eyes of these gold diggers!
The disassembled parts of the abandoned intelligent robot, some high-tech product chips, circuit boards, etc., even regular stores in Dawn City are open to visitors, let alone the market in the black market.

If you are lucky, you will find a wealthy mansion that is too late to retreat. The "treasure" inside can even turn a low-level civilian in Dawn City into a middle-level figure overnight, and live an extremely happy life in the eyes of others.

Even in the first two years, as long as they were not so unlucky that they bumped into monsters and died on the spot, and wandered around outside, there were very few people who didn't make money. The difference was just how much they earned.

That's how the craze came about.

Never doubt the human pursuit of windfall.

Why worry?Only get rich!
From this point of view, the grand occasion that Zhu Jue is seeing is actually not so 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 rush will not last long, after all, the resources in those cities will always be emptied.

"I hope Yecheng has not been affected by the gold rush"

Zhu Jue looked at the information on his phone and pursed his lips. His belongings were all in his safe, and nothing else was left. Those bags of gems and the book of Dekian could not be taken away by others.

In fact, he doesn't have to worry about this for the time being. The A-level danger zone is not so easy to enter. The death rate of nearly 90% of gold diggers is no joke. Most of the remaining 10% are those who went to the place and saw that the situation was 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 him.

As the departure time of the train approached, there was a train crew from the station not far away. There were a lot of people, not only the normal train staff and the armed forces mentioned on the Internet, but also the train crew that I saw in the subway station before. Acquaintances are among them.

After these people entered the platform, the ticket checking machine started to operate after a while, and everyone started rushing towards the platform in a swarm.

Looking at those guys carrying all kinds of weapons and equipment, Zhu Jue was not in a hurry, and walked down the platform slowly through the ticket gate after everyone passed by.

Compared with any high-speed train that Zhu Jue has ever seen, the fortress train, which is two or three laps larger, has already stopped on the track. Rao Zhu Jue was also surprised when he saw this "steel behemoth" for the first time. Amazing.

The thick steel shell almost covered the whole train. The scratches and other strange traces on it proved that the journey might not be as easy as imagined. The tall mechanical rams at the head and tail of the train were stained with a lot of dark red. At this time, there are still several suspended cleaning robots doing the final cleaning before leaving.

There are several fully automatic machine gun platforms hanging on each section of the carriage. The dark and cold cluster-type barrels are rotating in all directions at this moment, seemingly adjusting the angle, but in fact they often sweep across the platform on purpose. The crowd waiting for the bus made the clicking sound of reloading, 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 it. You must know that almost all the passengers on the bus are fully armed. If there is not enough force to deter them, it is difficult to guarantee that there will be trouble.

What surprised Zhu Jue was that the interior of this extremely rough-looking fortress train was quite humane. The seats were all box-style. Although there were no doors, there were opaque glass barriers on the front and back to block them.

Zhu Jue, who was taking out snacks from the vending machine on the side of the car, looked at the car, which was gradually bustling with the seating of passengers.

He secretly thought that those partitions were probably specially designed to worry about the situation of "who are you looking at" and "what are you looking at" between these heavily armed guys.

After all, some of these people don't look like good stubble.

　The double update will resume today, and the next chapter will be in the afternoon
　　
　
(End of this chapter)