After an unknown amount of time, some faint red balls of light gradually emerged from the darkness not far in front of Lucas's sight. They jumped and rolled in front of Lucas, like a dancer groping for the world in the darkness.
The faint red ball of light swam around randomly and irregularly, and suddenly exploded near Lucas.
The spreading red sparks replicated and spread like a virus, slowly approaching his body and gradually binding him completely.
The bright red sparks seemed to deprive Lucas of all the air around him. He felt something inexplicable constantly pouring into his mouth and nose, making him feel suffocated.
After a while, he finally heard a vague word spoken by an old voice:
"underground!"
"Huh!" Lucas did not feel the familiar relief when he woke up from the dream. He looked at his old watch that he often used. The information that all three pointers were pointing upNolans indicated that it was already 12 noon the next day.
Looking at the still dim world outside the glass window, Lucas couldn't wait for the midday sun to come in and climbed up.
After changing into the standard work clothes of the escort team, Lucas remembered the bag of "daily necessities" that George gave him before leaving yesterday.
"It seems that Light should be the warrior that George has chosen. As the old saying goes, talent comes first in the wasteland, but since I inherited this body, I should not be much worse than Light, don't you think, Light?" After making fun of himself, Lucas unexpectedly skillfully opened the tightly wrapped package.
The food, a few pieces of unbranded brown bread wrapped in oiled paper, was just enough to fill my stomach.
Wright's physical recovery and yesterday's busy schedule left Lucas too busy to eat. Although the hunger was inexplicably not as intense as he had imagined, this little bit of food could just make up for his haggard body.
There are also some new coins. These are new coins, right?
From Light's remaining memory fragments, Lucas learned that this was the currency issued by the Rinie Empire after the crisis at the end of the New Yuan Dynasty.
It was jointly issued by the Imperial Bank of Japan and the Industrial Bank of Sogrea, with gold as its reserve asset.
Thirty-five new dollars could be exchanged for one ounce of gold. Supported by sufficient supplies and precious metals such as gold and silver, the currency value was maintained stable through two-way exchange, becoming the only hard currency in the entire western continent.
Although new currency needs to be continuously issued due to the circulation of goods, its issuance needs to be strictly controlled to maintain currency stability, which creates a contradiction under the fixed exchange system.
However, the production and consumption of human settlements in the wasteland can always reach a strange balance, which also causes the value of the new currency to remain stable for a long time.
The new currency is based on the yuan as the basic unit, and the cents are set as the subsidiary currency, with 100 cents being exchanged for one yuan. However, the new currency based on cents is mostly minted with copper or silver coins.
A piece of bread cost about 5-10 cents, and Mr. George gave a lot, a full 1,000 Singapore dollars.
Looking at the ten brand new banknotes with portraits of Scottish city heroes on the front and dark-toned Scottish city scenes on the back, Lucas suddenly felt that the world was so beautiful.
After all, he received a large sum of wealth when he first arrived.
In the old world, if you wanted to get this much purchasing power, in addition to working hard for a year, you also had to make sure you didn’t make mistakes and didn’t lose your job.
With one thousand Singapore dollars in assets, in addition to being able to buy the best weapons and equipment in the city of Sugra, even if you only buy food, you can fill several warehouses.
From Light's memory, Lucas learned that this guard member did not seem to care about money. No matter how much money he had, it was like dirt to him. After all, surviving in this wasteland era was the first priority.
After folding the new coins and simply putting them into your jacket pocket, there shouldn’t be much valuable left in the package.
After tidying up the messy items a little, Lucas discovered that in an inconspicuous corner of the package there was a dark yellow envelope without a stamp.
It was stuck in a corner between items and packages, and it was impossible to find it without pouring everything out.
"Envelope, does George have something inconvenient to say to Wright alone?" Lucas asked puzzledly.
After taking out a slightly rusty paper cutter from the drawer, Lucas slowly pried open the envelope along the glue.
"Yes, a test question? A test question?" Lucas looked at the paper printed neatly with a manual typewriter with some confusion.
The purpose and aim of this letter were marked in a minimalist style. The letters of the test question "日煉帝国" at the top were large and clear, and there was only a simple text description below besides a picture.
"A train is about to pass through the rails. Five people are tied to one end, and a person who strayed into the abandoned rails is sitting on the other side. Now you have the controller and can choose to guide the train to run over one person or five people. What will you choose?"
"Trolley problem? As expected, you will be tested on this kind of question when surviving in a wasteland. Most people would have two answers: save five people or save one person. But, this is my choice." Lucas's mouth curled up slightly.
He found the rarely used but finely trimmed "Xieyuan" pencil from the drawer and wrote down his answer.
"Do not activate the controller, and hand over the person who violated the rules and mistakenly entered the abandoned railway track to the Sugra Committee for trial. To survive in the wasteland, humans must accept their own destiny, and those who violate the order must pay the price for it."
He is not a saint, and if he encounters a similar real situation, he would not dare to take responsibility that does not belong to him.
This seemingly question of saving one person or saving five people is actually a trap.
This is a wasteland world, a wasteland world full of dangers where people die every day!
After finishing this question, Lucas stuffed the letter back into the envelope and began to greedily eat the bread.
The bread George gave him was dark, without the golden crust he had seen before.
And the taste in your mouth is like chewing plastic, without any additional flavor to stimulate appetite.
But now this piece of bread is more delicious than any delicacies in the world, and his body belonging to Wright is now in an unprecedented state of hunger.
If he does not get food, his body will fall into a sleepy state and die. Or he will be blinded by the desire for food and be led by a mysterious virus, becoming an unintentional person who destroys the world.
After simply eating some food that didn't really look like food, Lucas subconsciously began to tidy up his clothes and put on his equipment.
Whether it was the remaining fragments of Light's memory or Lucas's innate sixth sense, he realized that there would be a combat mission today.
"Wright, the chief of the guard is here."
Just as he put the revolver he saw at the beginning and the "Mad Bear" pistol issued by the Scottish Committee to the guard team on his waist, the shrill voice of the fat landlady Lena came into Lucas's ears.
The sound was almost the same as the hum of the steam machinery outside, perhaps the only difference was that the landlady's sound came from a human mouth.
Humans have human voices, beasts have beast voices, and when one voice comes from another body, things become weird.
Thinking of the fragments he had read in some book, Hai Bo chuckled, but immediately replied:
"Here I come, come down right away!"
Without thinking too much, Lucas rushed straight down the dilapidated wooden stairs.
The person who came was a young man in his twenties. He had a clean face under his brown hair, and it seemed that he had deliberately washed it before coming here.
He was wearing a silver-based guard uniform similar to Lucas's. If there was any difference, it was the "sword and hammer" badge on his chest representing the Sugra Guard.
The badges of ordinary guards are black, those with lower positions are silver, and those with higher ranks classified as generals are golden.
The badge of the person in front of me is pure silver!
"De?" Lucas blurted out. In Wright's memory, the man in front of him was named Wyatt De, a squad leader of Team Z of the Sogra Guard.
Although they are capable of managing things, they are nothing compared to many people of status.
"Well, thank you, ma'am. I have something to say to Wright, do you understand?" De did not pay direct attention to Lucas, but turned around and sent away the bloated landlord.
The landlady was also very honest. Although she looked down on Lucas who came from another district, the captain of the guard in front of her was a native Scottish man whom she could not afford to offend.
"Wright, I know you just came back from the outer district. It's really not right to assign you any tasks at this time.
However, the meaning of the guards is also very clear. As a human born in the outer area, if you want to gain a foothold in the capital of the Sune Empire, Sugra, you must know how to play your own value. So you have to go on today's mission."
Value? Residual value?
De's tone made Lucas a little crazy. He originally wanted to continue wandering around the city of Sugra to piece together Wright's memory. He had just woken up and recovered some strength when he came for the mission. De really timed it perfectly.
Although he was unwilling in his heart, Lucas still showed an unusual expression of interest on his face.
In Wright's memory fragments, he was an outsider who was curious about everything in Sogra and he had to learn as much as possible.
I must not let anyone know that I am a time traveler. Lucas secretly set a bottom line for himself.
"I'll go. Am I going now?" Lucas answered neatly. His attitude might determine his future position and development in Sogra.
Seeing Lucas agreed so quickly, De could hardly hide his joy.
After pulling Lucas onto the escort team's unique mechanical vehicle, he began to introduce the details of the mission to him with great interest.
"Wright, you know, our city of Sugra is a great whole. But those Careless Ones and the Lost Ones always keep their eyes on us. Our unique city defense system has been fulfilling its tasks diligently, but those evolved Lost Ones have been looking for loopholes in our city."
"Loophole?" Lucas became interested.
Everything that is huge has details that are hard to notice, and Lucas is happy to hear this.
"That's right. Every forty years, when the power of the Lord of Darkness and the Goddess of Light converge in this city, the dome disappears and those mysterious powers emerge from the waterways.
The power of Sugra City is never maintained by machines that can only fight, but by magic power and a series of mysterious forces. However, these forces will arouse the awareness of the Lost and Careless.
In addition, every time the dome is opened, something will try to sneak in. So, Wright, this time our mission is to check the waterway under Sogra. But don't worry, these are routine inspections.
During the past five hundred years, the dome has been opened more than forty times, but nothing has ever been able to sneak into the city center of Sogra.
Of course, this mission is also a test for you. You must carefully check all the waterways for the higher-ups to see, otherwise you may return to the outer area and leave here at any time. "De explained.
This should be a simple task, and this situation is more of an unavoidable design problem than a bug.
I think there shouldn't be any danger!
The mechanical tank, shaped like a turtle's back, drove around the KZ part of the Sugra residential area for a long time until there were no more civilian buildings around.
At De's signal, the escort member who was traveling with them parked the car near a dim building.
It seemed that this place was not far from the edge of the city where the dark dome-shaped high walls stood.
Lucas observed that compared with the urban area which was somewhat dim but did not affect life, areas like these near the edge of the city of Sogra could probably only be seen clearly with the help of lights.
After following De forNolan a few steps, Lucas and the other two stopped at a huge man-made cave that resembled a tunnel entrance.
Apart from a few abandoned large military buildings, there are only traces of black mud with a foul smell.
Although it is within the city limits of Sogra, it seems so out of place with the residential and commercial areas.
"This is the only passage leading to the underground of Sugra."
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