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Chapter 379 Tomorrow Will Always Come

old foreman.

He Ao stared at the figure in front, a little surprised, he glanced around, there was no figure behind the old foreman, Ivo and Watson were not there, the old man came alone.

"Have a chat?"

The old foreman waved his hand and asked with a smile.

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"People from the Miners' Mutual Aid Association nearby are helping those miners who were maliciously arrested. I heard from them that a 'passing knight' rescued people,"

The old foreman sat on the edge of the roof, looking at the brightly lit city not far away, "I guess that person should be you, so I chased you all the way."

"Should I have left no obvious marks?"

This is the rooftop of a relatively low building, He Ao sat beside the old foreman and said with a light smile.

"Talent Sequence 44: Thinker," the old foreman said softly, "When I stand in the crowd, I can naturally feel the divergent thinking of people. This is like some kind of wonderful group consciousness. Sometimes I don't need to do anything to deal with it. , can bless the mind to realize that something may happen.

"Of course, this kind of prediction is not omnipotent. It is inaccurate most of the time, but I can logically analyze the one that I think is the most likely from several possibilities. Of course, there is luck in meeting you ingredients."

"Sounds like a prophet."

"Actually, it's not as mysterious as a prophet. This ability can only vaguely sense the thoughts in most people's hearts. Only when there are many people with the same thoughts can I sense their thoughts.

"For example, if I stand among a group of hungry people, what I predict is that many people will eat immediately. In fact, it does not necessarily happen that many people will eat. There are many factors that affect this. If the surrounding Without food, the event of eating cannot happen.

"For another example, when I was looking for you, I relied on looking for your vague figure that people could vaguely 'see'. Although you hide well, there will always be someone who sees the 'mysterious figure', as long as there are enough people who see it If there are too many, I can probably sense the direction, but everyone’s standards are different, so the failure rate of this method is very high.”

The old foreman spoke very slowly, as if he was telling a long story, eloquently.

"So you came to me specially, did you 'foresee' something?"

He Ao looked at the lights in the distance and asked softly.

"You're eager to change the city," the old foreman looked ahead, "and so am I, but I'm running out of time."

In fact, I don't necessarily have more time than you...
He Ao shook his head, the old foreman must have something to do with him, and he wouldn't spend so much effort just to chat with him.

But just when he was about to go straight to the question, the old foreman slowly raised his head, looked at a dim light in the distance, and slowly narrated,

"I'm not actually a miner.

"My family was not well-off. I dropped out of school at the age of 15. I was malnourished for a long time, and my body was not strong enough. The mine didn't want me, so I had to do odd jobs on the factory assembly line.

"The work on the assembly line is extremely boring. Every day is a repetition of yesterday. After only one week of work, my mind is blank, only how to assemble the parts together.

"We have to work twelve hours a day, get off work every night, go back to the dormitory, take a shower, lay down on the bed, and when we open our eyes, we will go to work the next day.

"I felt like a machine at the time, but my foreman corrected me, 'I'm cheaper than a machine'

"During the depressing days, we always seize all the rest time, get together, and talk about things that have nothing to do with work, such as relationships, such as life.

"At that time, the woman I most wanted to marry was the clerk sitting in the office on the second floor.

"Of course she's not pretty, but the workers I'm with think she's very temperamental, she's a regular employee, and she's a higher class than those of us who do odd jobs on the assembly line.

"Working on the assembly line was very tiring. My favorite thing to do at that time was to squat in the corner of the assembly line and watch her wriggle her buttocks and walk into the office step by step.

"This is the greatest enjoyment in life."

"What happened later? You were with her?"

"Dead, the factory went on strike that year, the consortium sent security teams to suppress us, she died in a stray bullet.

"We never spoke, and she didn't know my name until she died."

The old foreman seemed to have not told anyone the story of the past for a long time. He stood up, patted the ashes on his trousers, and then took out a small mining pick from his waist and handed it to He Ao. It was the one he hung in the room. Bundle,

"If I die, would you like to be the next leader of the Miners' Mutual Aid?"

"why me?"

He Ao didn't answer directly, but asked softly.

"We are the same people," the old foreman looked at He Ao's immature cheeks, "I have a hunch that you will do better than me."

He Ao still didn't reach out to pick up the small mining pick.

"There is a sensor chip in this mining pick, which contains a list of all members of the miners' mutual aid association, including the miners' leaders who organize strikes and demonstrations in various mines,"

The old foreman looked at He Ao calmly with his cloudy eyes, "I think you will need their strength."

He Ao slowly stretched out his hand, but still seemed to be hesitant.

"There is also a phone number from Wright, the commander of the 108th Division, on that list. We have a good relationship. If you go to him with this pickaxe, he will be willing to see you,"

Seeing that He Ao was still holding the pick, the old foreman directly stuffed the pick into He Ao's arms, and scolded with a smile, "Little slicker, old guy, I only have so many things, and I won't have any more."

After that, he immediately turned around and walked towards the corridor.

He Ao looked at the stumbling back of the old man, stretched out his hand and slowly grasped the mining pick in his hand.

"If one day I really die, remember to collect my body for me, and don't be picked up by the municipal garbage collector like Yazi."

The old man seemed to have noticed He Ao's gaze, he smiled and waved his hand, and walked into the deep corridor.

"By the way, this chip has a password,"

The old voice slowly sounded in the night,

"password is,

"Tomorrow will always come"

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The old foreman seemed to have anticipated something, and it seemed to be a secret that could not be revealed directly.

Events in the city are getting more and more complicated.

But being able to realize the complexity proves that He Ao may have gradually come into contact with the deeper secrets of this city.

He Ao put the small mining pick into the windbreaker and walked quietly on the street
Vehicles of the city defense army galloping past, noisy and chaotic crowds, crying children, and homeless people fleeing everywhere.

The white snow from the sky falls leaf by leaf.

This is Beicheng District, the place with the most miners in Rock City.

This is Beicheng District, the most desperate place in Rock City.

He Ao casually knocked down two members of the Ice Wolf Gang who were forcibly robbing people, and looked up at the big TV in the shopping mall that was broadcasting news not far away.

Since the mayor's speech in the morning, the violent machines of the entire Rock City and the mining consortium have been activated, and large-scale, unlimited arrests of miners have begun.

These miners will be sent to court quickly, and after a simple trial, they will be sent to the prison in Rock City immediately.

The vast majority of federal prisons are private prisons, and the municipal government or the federal government subsidizes prisons based on headcount.

Different cities have different subsidies. Chenxi City's finances will spend a lot of government subsidies for these prisons every year. These high prison subsidies can not only enable prisoners to live a better life, but also make the prison earn a fortune.

In order to obtain more subsidies, private prisons will try their best.

On the one hand, they bribed the judiciary and the courts, demanded more sentences, and sent more people to prison.

On the other hand, the media is hired to hype up human rights issues in prisons and the treatment of prisoners.

Because there are more prisoners, the proportion of prisoners' family members outside is more, and these family members have become an important factor affecting politicians' elections.

In order to attract these votes, some politicians have to promise to increase prison subsidies. Similarly, they will also accept political donations from private prisons, and they will increase prison subsidies as soon as they come to power.

Accumulated in this way, the subsidies for private prisons have become an important financial burden for most fortress cities, and a large amount of fiscal revenue has been eaten by the prison monopoly consortium.

But Rock City doesn't have this problem, because the Rock City government is clinking poor because it can't collect taxes.

With the erosion of the municipal government by mining groups, municipal revenue has been decreasing year by year. After the current mayor took office, he reduced taxes, let the market go wild, and abolished government agencies. The municipal government has not paid financial subsidies for private prisons for a year or two.

But private prisons also have to make money, not to mention that most of the private prisons in Rock City are subsidiaries of mining consortiums.

As a result, these private prisons began to enslave criminals into factories on a large scale, and even built factories themselves to generate profits for the prisons.

Criminals do not need to be paid wages, so all the money earned by criminals belongs to the prison, and the prison only provides food and lodging for criminals.

In this way, each criminal has a large profit margin.

After He Ao's interrogation, these members of the Ice Wolf Gang said that the private prison is "offering a reward" for these "violent miners" at a price of 2000 federal currency each.

Some young and strong miners' bounty' is even as high as 5000 federal coins.

That's why these ice wolf gang members are so reckless in arresting people.

Wealth moves people's hearts.

He Ao cleaned up the gangsters and the city defense forces who were arresting people on the street, and then turned into a small handicraft shop.

This small shop sells all kinds of little things.

Howard bought a pure white mask and a black waterproof marker.

K is not well known in Rock City.

Here, K's story was cut off consciously, He Ao searched on the Internet, but could only find a small part of the information about K.

At the beginning, Jon learned that K was in a closed chat group, but he didn't know much about it. That chat group was blocked shortly after, so Nell's knowledge of K was also very vague.

He Ao picked up the marker pen and slowly drew on the mask.

He doesn't know how to draw, but the Wei'an Society, who has been influenced by art since he was a child, has a painting teacher who is a well-known art master in the entire Federation.

He Ao calmed down slowly, immersed in Wei An's painting memory.

As the marker pen fluttered, the mask in his hand gradually changed its appearance, a little bit of darkness, like droplets condensed in the night, fell on the pure white mask, forming a fuzzy pattern.

A strange black-and-white transitional smiley mask appeared in He Ao's hands.

This is K's mask, which is even weirder than the original K's mask, and these grotesques are full of a strange beauty that combines evil and light.

Because the popularity is too low, there are no mask sellers on the road, so He Ao can draw one by himself.

He Ao is very satisfied with his painting skills.

He picked up the mask and slowly put it on his cheeks.

(End of this chapter)