Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

"It's okay, sir. I can postpone it for you, but I need you to produce relevant evidence. I'll know after just a quick look."

On a street located in District 103, a large number of Section 3 personnel were conducting identity verification door to door, all in order to send some of the people here to the eastern agricultural base for labor and punishment after the verification was completed.

Owen smiled and spoke to the owner of the household in front of him in a gentle manner. He did not participate in the last riot. Since the beginning of the riot, he had been hiding at home with his family of six, and would only go out to receive some relief supplies. Because the riot caused The surveillance system was almost completely destroyed, and there was no video as evidence, so the punishment this time was uniform.

The administrative department has repeatedly issued notices for people in the area to evacuate on their own. As long as they evacuate to the outside of the occupied area, they can receive assistance and be arranged to live in designated resettlement sites until the riots are over. However, there are still a large number of people. They chose to stay in the riot area until the riot was over.

Now Irving needs this family to provide some evidence, enough to prove that they did not appear in other areas during the riot. The most intuitive way is the mobile phone signal, which can be detected. Soon the family will He took out his mobile phone. After Irving took it, he directly put the mobile phone on a machine in the middle of the street that traced the mobile phone signal.

Nowadays, only through this method can we know whether these people have ever left their area. If they have left their area during the riots, they will be sent to the agricultural base to work first, while those who have not left will be A direct visit and investigation will be conducted to determine whether they will be forced to work in the eastern agricultural base.

The streets on the ground floor have become very depressed. Basically, you can see only a few open shops on the entire street at a glance. Only those food-related shops are allowed to open.

Some materials entering the problem area will be strictly controlled by Section 3. This matter has been fully handed over to Section 3. This area is handled by Tianhen's team.

Tianhen was sitting in the seating area outside a closed street drink shop, with his legs on the table and his face covered with a hat. He had not rested for more than ten hours and planned to take a nap. Xima, the deputy captain, is closely organizing and recording the information continuously sent by the team members, and then starting to check it with the corresponding citizen information.

This work is very large, and various re-examinations will be carried out in the future. This is the current work of their three departments. There are less than 2,000 people left at the four guard stations, and the remaining three departments have all been dispatched.

"Can't you sleep, Captain?"

Xima asked, and Tianhen laughed.

"It's not that I can't sleep, but I'm already awake."

Tianhen took off his hat, yawned, and did not get up immediately. Xima got up and poured a cup of coffee from the coffee machine next to him and handed it over. Tianhen took a small sip comfortably and glanced at a light and shadow screen. , there was an eye-catching number. Tianhen stood up and walked over. After clicking it, he saw a man named Robert, who voluntarily left Brilliant City.

This young man, who was only 23 years old, was a low-level mutant. He admitted that he had taken up arms and participated in the riots, and was voluntarily expelled. Tianhen stood up, thought for a moment, and drank a whole cup of coffee. .

"I'm going to go for a walk to sober up."

Tianhen said that Xima squinted at the information about the man named Robert.

Xima probably knew what Tianhen was going to do. She raised the corners of her mouth slightly and continued to work seriously.

Owen came running over a few minutes later.

"I'm so thirsty, Xima. I'll go to this man's house called Robert first and come over later."

Owen picked up a bottle of water, drank it in one gulp, and was about to leave, but was grabbed by Xima.

"Haven't you been there three times today?"

Owen laughed.

"There's still some time, maybe he'll think it through."

Hima shook her head.

"Don't waste your efforts. He may be determined to leave the city and live a free life in the barrier zone."

"It's better to go over there."

Owen still planned to go over, but was held tightly by Xima. Xima stood up and pressed Owen directly onto the chair.

"If you want to go there, please wait a while."

A hint of cunning flashed in Xima's eyes, and she immediately said with a smile.

"You have been busy all day, please take a rest first. According to regulations, Robert will not be sent out until tomorrow."

Owen sighed and sat down a little tiredly, with a smile on his face. He had been working almost non-stop these days. Owen said that it had been more than a week, but people in the area where the riots occurred before, Still living in fear, only by solving the problem as soon as possible can this layer of fear hanging over the 11 districts be dissipated.

Xima knows very well that Owen understands the essential problems of the bottom class better than anyone else. He is very sad and angry about this incident, because Owen has understood that the problem of the bottom class is not about resource allocation, but about letting the people at the bottom live. Quickly reaching the same pace as the middle and upper classes, this is the reason why problems at the bottom occur again and again.

Owen has said countless times that if we want to prevent the problems of the lower class from recurring, we can only divide society and put the lower class and the middle and upper classes in completely different social structures. Only in this way can the people at the bottom have a good time to adapt to the times. Only a city that develops slowly and gradually can be healthy.

Xima looked at Owen with a smile. He was still talking about some things, many, many things. He had been like this since he was a child. Owen always said those innocent and romantic things, and his body exuded natural kindness.

This is something Xima can't do. Xima doesn't remember her childhood, because Xima has been in that orphanage since she can remember, together with Owen, and Owen once talked about some remaining memories of the barrier area, He said that he had seen the most dazzling light in the world, and it was that light that kept him alive, so he wanted to continue this light and slowly illuminate others.

This is the way Irving always behaves. Many people in 3 Core call him a fool, but Irving never cares because he can always get along well with everyone who knows him.

Xima looked at the distance of the street, and Tianhen could no longer be seen. Tianhen would mention Owen from time to time. His character could not survive in such a cruel society. One day one will die from this.

Xima looked at Owen who was still smiling with some worry, but Xima had grown up watching Owen's back since she was a child, and she always believed everything Irving said.

9 a.m.

Tianhen stood quietly under a rental building. The investigation had been completed here. Many people had been sent to the eastern agricultural base to work. Only a young man named Robert who lived on the second floor did not go there. He chose to leave the city voluntarily. Today he will be sent to the barrier area and pass through the southern guard station.

Tianhen walked up slowly and heard the noise from an open room. He pressed the brim of his hat and walked over step by step. The sun shone in front of the door.

"What a wonderful sunshine, isn't it!"

Tianhen muttered, and at this time the man in the room glanced at Tianhen indifferently.

"I'll leave soon."

Tianhen leaned against the guardrail and looked at the stubborn young man.

"Owen has advised you, right?"

There was a trace of hesitation on Robert's face, and then he nodded.

"I don't want to be here anymore."

Tianhen didn't know what happened to the man named Robert that caused him to hate this city so much.

"If you want to ask me why I hate this city so much, there is no need. Even if I die on that land, I will not continue to stay in the city."

Tianhen laughed.

"What happened to you has nothing to do with me, and I don't need any special explanation. I don't want to know. I just come here to tell you some facts. I come from the barrier zone."

Robert looked at Tianhen with some surprise. Tianhen rolled up his sleeves, which were covered with many scars.

"This is not from training or fighting, but a brand unique to the barrier area."

There are a lot of black marks on Tianhen's skin. Some places look like black lines. The skin also looks different from the color of normal people's skin.

"In the barrier area, the only thing you need to endure every day is hunger. As long as you save water, it will be enough."

Robert put down what he was holding.

"If you want to experience this kind of life, maybe you won't be able to last for a week."

Robert laughed and shook his head.

"Whatever happens is my business and I don't need anyone else."

"Yes, it's your business to do what you want. That's it for now. The only thing I want to tell you is the only rule of survival in the barrier area. Before others kill you, you have to kill others first. In this way, you To survive.”

Tianhen said and jumped directly to the guardrail, then jumped up and jumped directly to the roof. He no longer planned to say anything more. No matter how much the young man persuaded him, he would still leave. From the first moment he saw him As soon as he opened his eyes, Tianhen saw the deep disappointment in his eyes.

Tianhen had done this in the past. They were expelled because of the huge riots that occurred in the city in the past. Tianhen clearly remembered the process of running for his life with his sister on the day he left the city.

Looking back now, Tianhen still feels extremely angry. The reason why he came back is just because of Jean's bastard, because Jean once said that the city is not the object he should hate.

Over the years, Tianhen has been tortured by the nightmares of the past, but now he probably understands what Jean said. Hatring a completely insignificant thing is the greatest tragedy in one's life.

You can enjoy the warm sunshine by raising your head. Tianhen knows very well what such sunshine means to people in the dark.

There was a noise, and the man named Robert below still carried a big bag and left with his things. He started walking without looking back, and soon he got on a Section 3 lift.

"That idiot."

Tianhen jumped down, and in less than a moment he came to the lift on the street. Owen dragged Robert.

"Believe me, if you continue to live in the sunshine, good things will definitely happen to you. If you reject everything, there will be no future. Don't leave. What you have committed is not a serious crime. You just need to be here."

"You are very annoying, Mr. Owen. What I want to do is my own business. Does it have anything to do with you? We met on the first day, right?"

Owen shook his head.

"It's true that we met on the first day, but I saw a man who wanted to die. I couldn't ignore it. This is something we as humans must stop."

Owen still held on to Robert tightly. Many colleagues around him advised Owen to leave it alone, but Owen still refused to let go.

"I won't watch you die."

Whoosh

Suddenly Tianhen jumped over, held down Robert who was about to take action, and pressed him directly to the ground. It was too easy to subdue a low-level mutant like him.

"Who are you to decide where I should be and what I should do? Why can't I decide for myself? Why."

Robert began to cry. Owen breathed a sigh of relief and smiled at Tianhen. He squatted next to Robert.

"No one will decide where you should be or what you should do. It is you who really makes the decision. But going forward even though you know it is hell is not something you should decide now. It will even happen in the next few decades. Over the past hundred years, you have had countless opportunities to make decisions, but once you step into hell, you will never have any chance to make decisions in the future. Believe me, it will be fine."

Owen was still persuading, when Xima also came over.

"Let go, let me go, let me go, I don't want to stay here, this city is full of stench!"

Xima grabbed Owen from behind, but at this time Owen still refused to back down.

"Give up the idea of ​​dying. If you don't give up, I will wait until you give up."

Tianhen pressed the brim of his hat. He couldn't stand this guy anymore. Suddenly Tianhen stood up and punched Owen in the abdomen. Owen's eyes widened and he fell into Xima's arms.

"Idiot, what do you care about this guy?"

Tianhen said, letting go of Robert. He looked at Owen who fell, hesitated for a few seconds and then walked into the landing gear. Soon the landing gear took off and left.

"No need to be so rough, right?"

Xima muttered, Tianhen shook his head.

"The best way to calm down this idiot with a congested head is to talk to him when he wakes up. I'm going back to work."

Xima hummed and carried Owen on her back to the door of a store not far away. She didn't know what to say to Owen, but she was sure that Owen would feel uncomfortable when he woke up.

Looking at the lift that could no longer be seen in the distance, Xima smiled helplessly.

"That's just the way this city is. Kindness is not a good fit for this kind of thing."

I hope that although I agree with Owen's approach, I also understand that Tianhen's idea is correct.