Dreaming for 10,000 years

Chapter 322 Corpse
"It doesn't matter, let's look for them one by one!" Shi Fei said to him.

"But they..." Jack's voice was filled with hesitation and fear: "They are very powerful, they are very scary! Sir... forget it! Let me fight them alone!"

He was worried about Shi Fei's safety. Those gangs and insurance companies were not easy to deal with. They would not reason calmly, nor would they easily let go of anyone who stood in their way.

To be honest, Jack even felt it was strange that those people only took away his information but did not take his life, which was already considered "mercy".

"I just happen to know a little bit of strength!" Shi Fei said, patting Jack's shoulder again.

Jack felt a warm force coming from Shi Fei's palm, slowly flowing into his body. His body seemed to be injected with new vitality, full of strength, and even his vision and hearing became much sharper.

"Sir...are you an angel?" Jack's voice trembled and tears flashed in his eyes.

At this moment, he seemed to see the light of hope.

It turns out that there really are angels in the world!
"No, I'm not an angel." Shi Fei shook his head and said.

"Then..." Jack hesitated, with a hint of uneasiness in his voice: "Are you a devil?"

"Not really!" Shi Fei shook his head again: "Can't I just be a human being?"

"People?" Jack couldn't help laughing and said, "I have never seen anyone like you!"

"Let's go! Let's go find your information. You should be able to sense them now." Shi Fei did not continue to dwell on this topic.

He is just a passer-by in the dream, and wants to see the person in the dream live like a "human".

After listening to Shi Fei's words, Jack closed his eyes and felt it carefully. He seemed to feel a faint attraction, as if something was calling him.

That was his information, which recorded the stories of his brothers. Every name and every word represented his hard work and hope.

"I think I know where it is!" Jack said with a hint of excitement: "It's underground."

The underground area is controlled by the gangs, which is dangerous and complicated. But Jack did not hesitate. He followed the perception in the dark and took Shi Fei back to the abandoned subway entrance.

As soon as they got off the subway, they saw a man standing next to a dead body lying on the ground.

The person standing also looked like a homeless person, but he looked a little more energetic. Although his body was covered in dirt, he was holding a mobile phone in his hand.

When he saw Shi Fei and Jack, he immediately became alert and shouted at them, "I discovered this first!"

The "discovery" he mentioned was the body. When Shi Fei passed by before, he already knew it was a body.

If he still had a breath left, he might have helped, but now it was obviously too late.

"We're just passing by!" Jack explained quickly when he saw that the man was very alert.

The man stared at Jack and Shi Fei for a few seconds, and after confirming that they had no intention of seizing the "right of discovery", he relaxed his vigilance a little.

Shi Fei and Jack walked past the man and continued walking deeper into the subway station.

"What does he mean?" Shi Fei asked in a low voice, "What do you mean he discovered it first?"

Jack explained, "He said that he was the first to find the body and he had called someone to take it away."

"Then what?" Shi Fei frowned. "Then, the money from selling the body will be his." Jack said calmly, as if he was talking about something very ordinary.

"..." Shi Fei said in disbelief: "Can corpses be sold for money?"

"There are special companies that collect bodies like this." Jack said indifferently, "We all know that if we call them, they will give us money."

"Who are those companies?" Shi Fei asked, "Why do they want the bodies?"

"Pharmaceutical companies, pharmacology laboratories or universities need cadavers, and they usually buy cadavers from such companies for experiments," Jack said.
"I have helped them move corpses and do odd jobs before, so I know a little bit."

"...They are all human beings!" Shi Fei said with a sigh.

Each corpse was once a living person, but after they died, they were sold like commodities by strangers.

"Don't they have any family or social connections?" Shi Fei said again.

Every person is not just an individual, but a collection of social relations, with relatives and friends. How could they die in a corner where no one cares and be sold?

Now they are...

Shi Fei thought of this and heard Jack say, "But sir, they are just homeless people now."

Homeless people in Goff City do not pay taxes for Goff City and do not appear in the Goff City employee system.

In other words, in Goff City, homeless people are not considered human beings. Other people who are not considered human beings include illegal immigrants and “running people”.

These people died and no one cared. The police wouldn't care, society wouldn't care, only the homeless people who cared about them would pay attention.

Only when they die will they become a small fortune!

"No wonder I heard that a veteran with ten years of service became a homeless person, and was sliced and sold after his death." Shi Fei muttered to himself.

Jack glanced at Shi Fei and felt that he was too soft-hearted, so he comforted him: "Sir, instead of leaving their bodies exposed in the city, some people were sold to schools, which is a better ending. Because in the end, they will have a decent burial."

"...That's still the first prize!" Shi Fei couldn't help but sneered.

The Dark Knight and Fantasy Dungeon did not strike him as odd. After all, those were not outrageous.

Only the sale of corpses really shocked Shi Fei. Every time he thought that Gaofu City had exceeded the lower limit of his cognition, this city always brought him more shocking "surprises".

"Indeed!" Jack nodded: "Whether you can be buried after death depends on luck!"

Shi Fei did not speak again, but his thoughts flew further. When a normal person sees a corpse, the first thing they would think of is to retreat, be afraid, call the police, or even mourn for the deceased.

But in the lower classes of Goff City, their first reaction after seeing the corpse is to "sell it for money", and they even have to swear that "they found it first"!
The horror behind this behavior is far more horrifying than selling the corpses themselves.

In this city, death is no longer the end of life, but a "resource", a "commodity" that can be traded.

However, those who were once alive became "treasures" in the eyes of others after their death.

So, who instilled the concept that corpses = wealth into these lower-class people?

(End of this chapter)