death of hope

The car passed through the Yokohama neighborhood and was a little bumpy.
The road is full of potholes, waste pickers are rummaging through trash cans, and plastic bags are blown all over the street by the wind.
The shops along the street had rusty shutter doors tightly closed, and the few that were open seemed half-dead, as if they were going to close tomorrow.

Even in the economically depressed downtown area, this Yokohama Street seems too run-down.

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"That's what the mayor doesn't want me to see, the other side of New Sapporo." The senator said, looking out the window.

"The year the war started, the Yokohama neighborhood was a key recruiting area, and there were long queues outside every recruiting point."

"The treatment must be very good." Tetsuya said.

"As for treatment, different people have different opinions. Military pay doesn't matter. Food and clothing are enough to attract people.
Children from poor families will take up arms and fight aliens for the sake of hot meals in the Marine Corps canteen. "

The senator was chasing memories from 30 years ago when a sudden "snap" of a whip brought her thoughts back to reality;

"pull over."

"Do you want?"

"The sound came from the alley. Go down and have a look."

Toru also escorted the senator to the direction where the whip cracking sound came from. When he looked back, he saw a team of professional bodyguards following him 30 yards away.

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Deep in the alleys of the neighborhood, a strong man wearing sunglasses waved his whip and shouted:

"Come on! You lazy idiots!"

Even though the whip didn't fall on anyone, the sound it made was terrifying enough.

Like shepherds driving cattle, whip bearers drive a large group of ragged people,

There were men, women, and children in the crowd, walking with zombie-like steps, exhausted, and their eyes numb.

"Is this the territory of the Sannohui?" the senator asked.Tetsuya nodded: "This neighborhood is controlled by my father's old subordinate, 'Shaggy' Lawrence."

"Where's the local police officer?"

"Take advantage and turn a blind eye."

"No wonder the director only suggested that I stay in the uptown area." The senator nodded: "Young man, do you understand this business?"

"Um, not quite..." Tetsuya replied hesitantly: "I'm not sure..."

"Don't be nervous, young man, we are in the same boat. Let's go, follow the team and go over there to have a look~"

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Che was also a little nervous because he just lied.

He knew something about the 'business' of the Yokohama neighborhood;
The strong man wielding the whip is Ichiro Chida, a member of the Sannokai. Chida is the talk of the neighborhood and the younger brother of "Shaggy" Lawrence.
In his early years, Lawrence worked as a handyman under Uncle Deng. Uncle Deng was his father's boss, bodyguard and driver.
And dad, the hero of the mountain, is one of the big bosses of the Mountain King Association.

Further up, there is Mr. Shunsuke Takayanagi, the president of the Sanno Association.
The lost Senator Tsunesaki walking beside him was the protective umbrella behind the Sanno Club.

From federal congressmen to street gangsters, from heaven to earth, there are many levels.
To support this huge criminal empire, everyone has something to earn, and doing normal business is obviously not profitable enough.

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Those driven away by whips, they are stowaways,
Born in a remote colony with difficult conditions,
After working hard to save some money, I exchanged it for a so-called 'ticket to happiness' from the snakeheads of the Sannohui.

Their seats are not in first class, not in business class, not in economy class, not in checked class, or even in the flight.

Hundreds of people are crowded into containers on interstellar cargo ships. The journey is long, the air is polluted, and sometimes they even have to live with corpses.

But when I think of the pie painted by the snake head, the prosperous Garden of Eden is just ahead, and it seems that there is nothing wrong with suffering a little.

However, contrary to expectations, suffering always flows to those who can endure hardship.