The wasteland of eternal night, the city of night.
An energy tower that stretches through the sky is located in the center of the Night City. This behemoth is running day and night, constantly radiating heat energy to the surroundings to resist the eternal night and cold, and has movable levers and gears that are not encapsulated outside. Various mechanical mechanisms continue to move with bursts of noise. The heat dissipation vents on the top of the tower flash with a blazing red light, and a large amount of steam smoke is continuously discharged towards the sky.
This energy tower is the lifeblood of the entire city. It provides limited power to the factories in the city, makes mass production and mechanical operation of various factories possible, provides precious heat to the city, and allows residents and greenhouses living here to The plants in it will not be frozen to death in this cold place with tens of degrees below zero.
Most of the people trapped in the Evernight Wasteland, including all the human cities living in the night hemisphere, rely on the heat and power provided by such behemoths to survive until today.
Unlike the resource-rich day hemisphere.
The night hemisphere is extremely scarce in terms of environment and food resources.
The extremely cold and harsh environment turned the Evernight Hemisphere into a tundra. Large numbers of plants adapted to the warm environment were frozen to death. Then the herbivores that fed on these plants died in batches, and then the entire ecological chain level collapse on.
In the end, after decades, only a few mosses and plants adapted to the extremely cold environment and small rodents living in the warm underground survived.
It is naturally extremely difficult for people to take root in such an environment.
The mechanical clock tower powered by the energy tower emitted twenty bells. The melodious and long tolling vibrated the air, reminding residents throughout the city of the current time.
After the bells rang, the roars from various factories located on the edge of the pit gradually stopped, and the weak lights in the factories were extinguished before the next time the time was struck on time.
Agou finished today's work, changed his clothes exhausted physically and mentally, and walked on the road home dejectedly.
Fourteen hours of high-intensity work left him physically and mentally exhausted, but when he thought about seeing his sister's innocent smile when he got home, he felt that his physical fatigue was healed a lot, and even the steps back home They have become much lighter.
I can only wait until I get through this week's shift work, and then consider applying for tools to go hunting and exploring next week.
Agou was thinking secretly in his mind. To be honest, if it hadn't been for the fact that his eyes were not yet healed and his application for permission to join the exploration team to hunt and explore was rejected, he would not have been willing to stay in the factory in Night City and work hard every day. Work intensively for more than ten hours, and sometimes even face the requirement of the foreman to work overtime for free for 24 hours a day
But what can we do otherwise?
How can you have money to spend if you don’t go to work?
The company that controls Night City is not a welfare society and will not provide any convenience to the residents of the city unconditionally. All the needs in the city are obtained through purchase. It costs money to eat, water, and even if you stay at home, you will get nothing. Yes, it costs a lot of money just to keep the heating on. As long as your payment is cut off, the company will immediately stop your water, electricity and heating.
Of course, some desperate people will choose to live near the energy tower, relying on the heat radiated by the energy tower to survive. Agou feels that there may be no problem if he lives there, but he also has a sister, and he cannot let her live there. It was a chaotic, dangerous and dirty environment, so he had to work hard.
Yes, in Night City, just working hard is not enough, because others will work harder than you. The same high-intensity work for fourteen hours, if the factory director is willing to pay one penny an hour If wages hire workers, then there will definitely be people who choose to sell their lives for half a penny or a quarter of a penny an hour in order to compete for this position.
But not Agou.
He also has a sister to support.
So he could only work hard to show his value to the foreman and factory director, work overtime for free, and work harder so that he would not be eliminated by others. However, even so, the weekly salary Agou could get in a week was very small. meager.
He can only eat two synthetic energy bars a day to maintain the body's basic energy needs, and all the rest of the money is used for his sister's education and daily expenses.
After this, the salary he received from working more than ten hours a day was barely enough to save any money. Junqu Pavilion
What's more, recently, two strangers came to the house to use the heater.
Exploring in the wild is different. Of course, there are many dangers when traveling on the tundra, but how much you can gain depends entirely on how much supplies you can bring back. And after decades of exploration, there are now many things that can be done on the tundra. Stable resource points to obtain resources. If you are more diligent, the reward will be much higher than now. If you can kill some small animals, in addition to the part of the meat that you turned in, you can also secretly keep part of the remaining meat for yourself. bring home.
This can be regarded as a reward given by the company to those who take the initiative to take risks and go out to explore.
To study engineering technology and become a Bachelor of Engineering
Agou has received several years of general education, which is an education implemented by companies in order to mass-train people who can operate various machines. Judging from the amount and breadth of knowledge granted, it is completely different from the compulsory education and general education in the old world. There is no comparison, but this does not prevent him from having such yearning and thoughts.
Although his education was short, he would always remember the mechanical bachelor who taught them in class. He remembered the gray double-breasted windbreaker that the mechanical bachelor wore with many metal chains hanging on it. It was ironed and made very smooth when worn inside. The white shirt and purple tie, the small cloak draped over the body, and the pair of shiny leather boots.
I will also never forget the mechanical bachelor's meticulously slicked back hair and his funny and confident conversation.
Unfortunately, because he could not pay enough tuition, he only completed those few years of compulsory general education and was kicked out of the school. To this day, he is still struggling at the bottom.
But it is undeniable that the mechanical bachelor did plant a seed in his heart, a seed to climb up and witness the scenery at a higher place.
Go back and read more books, stay up until midnight, and then get up and go to work in the early hours
As his thoughts wandered, Agou had already returned to the shack where he lived.
This is a shack quite far from the center. The heat radiated by the energy tower cannot cover here, and there is no way to heat it reasonably and legally, so they can only bear the heating bill themselves.
Looking at the shack in front of him, which was patched up with various iron plates, Agou took a deep breath, steeled himself to dispel the depression and fatigue from work, took out the key, opened the door and walked in.
Lina, I'm back
Oh, boy, are you finally back? However, what responded to him was not his sister's childish voice, but a man's frivolous voice. "You came back so late. Liz and your sister have been shouting that they are hungry for a long time!"
