Gene from the 13th Department of Bright City

At 2:13 in the afternoon, near Apartment Building No. 134 in District 1, Gene was sitting on a bench, smoking silently, staring at a room with floor-to-ceiling windows on the east side of the sixth floor. At this point, most people were already there. I went to work, and there were almost no people in the nearby residential areas.

There is only Jean on the deserted streets. In a city with such a strict citizen hierarchy, only work can make you live a comfortable life. Jean has paid attention to these black craftsmen in the upper class a long time ago.

They are all technical talents, and many of them work in some large technology companies, but occasionally they find ways to make some extra money. This group of people not only use homemade small machinery to process some jewelry, but also sell some homemade equipment through Some unscrupulous traders sell to the bottom.

To have the qualification of a craftsman in the city requires a lot of complicated procedures. The most important thing is the high technical tax, as well as the standardization and regulation. Because they earn more, they need to pay more taxes. Manufacturing To produce a practical mechanical product, the price of a small one ranges from tens to hundreds of thousands, while a large one can easily cost millions, and the starting tax is 30%.

Most of these machines are engineering material crushing and reduction machines, wall formwork machines, liquid compressors, grinding and recycling machines, etc., as well as some core circuit board components for daily necessities, core computing graphics processors for mobile phones and computers, and household appliances. Many core units, multi-purpose optical mass transformers, aerodynamic mass transformers and so on.

All technological products in daily life, most schools have such courses. This is a bill passed 30 years ago, which opened up the core technical courses of urban life. Although the tuition is expensive, as long as you can successfully graduate, it will be monthly. The salary is no less than 10,000, and there are various benefits and year-end bonuses.

This approach has advantages and disadvantages. It is conducive to the faster construction and development of cities. It will not cause technology to be monopolized by big businessmen. Congress can effectively supervise through taxation. The disadvantage is that many people can master these technologies, and if they use these If we use technology to develop weapons, it will be more harmful to the city.

This is also the first time Gene thought of these black craftsmen at the upper level. They may work in some big company during the day, and when they go home at night or during the holidays, they use their spare time to make machinery using raw materials obtained from the black market. Develop and assemble them, then sell them yourself for huge profits.

The money received was rolled in a circle of white funds with names in the various shop areas on the ground floor. It is legal income. There are various legal shops on the upper, middle and lower floors. Most of these craftsmen are The small investors in these legal shops can completely launder the money through various operations and give it to these craftsmen in a legal name. They only need to pay a fee that is far lower than the tax.

In the past few years, as far as Jean knew, the most rampant things in the black market were biological batteries and the light-kill weapons owned by the insurgents. This made Jean have to wonder who most of the black craftsmen at the top were. Such technology has been provided and perfected, and where did the technological funding for the rioters come from.

These are the things that Jean urgently needs to investigate at the moment. Instead of being led by the rioters, he plans to jump out and go straight to the source, capital, technology and materials. As long as he finds any one of these three points, the rest of the shop will be destroyed. The trap set is just a cover-up, and it needs to make the rioters really think that the acting department is sparing no effort to capture them.

And this morning, Gene went to Morse's shop, and with just a slight threat, Morse found the exact black craftsmen at noon, and most of these black craftsmen have additional tasks for the company, and these products are produced within the company. , all of them are qualified, but there are more than the total number of so-called defective products. Most of these defective products are collected in the name of recycling, but in fact the company sells these defective products at low prices. It is given to other people who need it. In fact, there is no defective product at all. It is just to avoid the high technology tax and the patent fee that needs to be paid to the technology inventor. Most of the patent fee will go into the pocket of Section 10. Because the 3,000 people there are scientists, they invented most of the things.

These problems have existed for many years, because the urban population is expanding, the city needs to develop, the corresponding supply of technical talents, and the supply of urban technical facilities must also keep up, so that the city can move forward rapidly.

Many of the remaining problems are now gradually surfacing, contributing to the collapse of the order. When this order cannot bear the huge volume of problems, it will definitely collapse.

Gene exhaled a puff of smoke, and sure enough he saw a shirtless man on the balcony, yawning and basking in the sun on the rocking chair on the balcony. He seemed to have just gotten up. He walked over slowly with a smile and came to After reaching the bottom of the sixth floor, he suddenly jumped up.

The man sitting on the balcony looked tired and yawned. He looked to be in his sixties or seventies, with fluffy hair and dull eyes. This man's name is Yu Youzhen. He has worked at Hongyun Technology Co., Ltd. for almost 20 years. I am a level 3 technical specialist with a monthly salary of 18,000. I live a comfortable life. I stayed up late last night to make some things. I have so many orders and work from other places that I will not be able to finish them until the end of next year.

"Good afternoon, Mr. Yu Youzhen!"

Whoosh

Yu Youzhen's eyes widened as he saw a man in uniform appearing in front of him. He was startled and just about to get up, he found that he had been restrained by telekinesis.

Gene held up a finger and walked over slowly. Yu Youzhen's eyes widened in horror, and she couldn't make a sound in her throat. In an instant, a chill continued to rise from her back, and her whole body felt... Goosebumps.

It's over, now you're dead!

"Sorry, Mr. Yu Youzhen, this is an informal investigation. Please cooperate. I am Gene, the chief of Section 13!"

"The following is the fourth motion, proposed by Councilor Ada from District 29. The motion to re-employ women in District 29 of Bright City and move out of District 29. Please take 10 minutes to review it carefully!"

Locke said and bowed and sat down. Le Xiao hurriedly looked at the content on the light and shadow panel. It was the same as what Ada had told her this morning, that she wanted to open a vocational training center in District 29 to help women in District 29. He was able to work in some jobs in other districts, but when he saw many council members whispering to each other and smiling evilly, Le Xiao became angry, and most of his disdainful eyes were focused on Ada.