Chapter 394

Ivan Zakli is an ordinary and calm office worker living in No. 67 Street, Uptown Nuojin.

Before moving here, he lived in the 23rd block.

His main job is to work in an ore processing plant affiliated to the Rolle Resources Development Company. When the sun just rises, he will get up and work, and he will not go home until the moon is completely suspended in the quiet night sky. .

Because of his poor family, Zachary has been living this kind of life since he graduated from the unified community education. Although it is a bit hard, he can still live.

This peaceful life was completely broken about a few months ago-a serious gas leak occurred in the 23rd block.

When he came home from get off work, he found that his home and the surrounding buildings on the entire street had been turned into ruins.

Ivan Zakry's home was razed to the ground. Although he had been alone for a long time, he also felt a deep sadness at that moment.

Fortunately, the bigwigs in the Central District announced that they would issue subsidies to allow him to continue to make ends meet.

It's just that life has become more difficult.

With the subsidy, he decided to move to the Dome Church in the north of Nuojin, because he was arranged by the company to work in another more remote factory. For the convenience of going to work, renting a house nearby is the best way...

Zachary didn't complain, that's all he could do after all.

It's just that going to work has become more difficult, and I can almost only see the moon every day.

After working hard for half his life, life is getting worse and worse... Zachary would occasionally have such thoughts in his mind, but the habitual satisfaction and drive made him never think of resisting.

What he has been instilled since he was a child is that there are only work and life in life.

But the sudden upheaval made him a little at a loss. In order to find some sustenance, he began to accept the preaching of the Dome Church and became a follower of the solid moon.

One day when he was praying at night, he even witnessed the legendary arrival of the apostles, but before he secretly told other believers the good news, the Dome Church was exposed as a cult the next day.

Another gas explosion occurred in a branch church of the Dome Church near his residence...

Not to mention his faith collapsed, his home... was gone again.

And no one will compensate him this time, because Zachary is also a member of the cult.

But fortunately, as long as he is willing to change his ways, the people from the Central Police Station said that nothing will happen. Zachary is full of hope and waited for the end of the "reform through labor".

He was dispatched to 67th Street, and once again he was doing his old job, but this time, he couldn't even see the moon, and he didn't have a home, only a dirty wooden bed.

Working around the clock took over his life, and with paying for the gambling and rat-fighting entertainment provided by the factory, and paying taxes to the Central District every month, he ended up with almost no balance left.

The wages have not been paid for a few days, and they are all handed over to the superiors. They are urged to get up and work every day. If they are careless, they will be scolded.

But such "good times" did not last long.

Just two days ago, when he was getting ready to work, an earthquake directly caused the factory building to collapse, and the huge steel factory, which looked like a monster that specialized in sucking human blood, was reduced to ashes in an instant.

But Ivan Zakri was lucky not to die, he crawled out of the ruins...

However, when he struggled to open his eyes, he saw the miserable death of his co-workers and his always superior boss, as well as the extremely terrifying scene——

He seemed to see the interlacing of the dream world and the real world. The pillars erected on the edge of the dream collapsed instantly, and then saw a majestic knight from a distance, which instantly turned into a bright flame. The flame burned to the extreme, as if Everything burned, and hit another mass of black matter like another sun falling from the sky.

Just seeing this scene, Zachary felt as if his body was going to explode, his stomach was boiling, and he had a splitting headache. Such pain, ordinary people couldn't hold on for a few seconds, so he fainted on the spot.

When he woke up, he was already lying with a pile of corpses.

He crawled out of this mass grave-like place, recalling what he saw and thought, and the last scene he saw before he passed out. He began to doubt the reality of this world.

"What periodic ground subsidence is completely deceiving..."

Ivan Zakry, who had been hungry for several days, crouched under the overpass and told those around him who were also displaced by the so-called subsidence of the 67th block.

The Central District's attitude towards this disaster was very indifferent, and it only adopted blockade measures, without even mentioning reconstruction. Of course, many survivors could only wander around.

Because of being homeless, Zachary and several other fellow refugees who had a good relationship with him returned to his hometown on the 23rd block.

"It doesn't matter if the periodic subsidence is real or not... what matters is, are they going to give us a subsidy this time?"

Jack, who has the best relationship with Zachary, said that his mind is on the grant.

But in fact, he already knew that the possibility was unlikely.

If it is a gas explosion, it can be said to be a man-made disaster, and the Central District will subsidize it, but this time the reason is that the ground subsides periodically, which means a natural disaster, and it can only be counted as your bad luck.

"This is not a periodic subsidence at all!"

Zachary recalled the last scene before he passed out. He didn't dare to share it with others, and he was really not sure whether what he saw was real. He squeezed his fists and said after deliberation:

"You...have you ever seen God?"

Jack: "..."

The four or five refugees who had a good relationship with him all looked at him, as if they were looking at a fool, with some sympathy: "I heard that you were tricked into believing in the Dome Church. We know that many people have been brainwashed. Isn't that true?" Blame you."

"It's not... well."

Zachary clenched his fists tighter, trying to retort but finally gave up.

He knew that no one would believe what he saw, but the more he described the scene, the deeper his memory was, and the more he believed that he was right.

"It's always been true that we're going to starve to death at this rate."

It's hard not to admit the reality of the crowing sound coming from the belly of the companion.

"That's all." Zachary suddenly stood up from the ground and patted the ashes on his buttocks: "Sitting here, waiting for a subsidy that will never come will starve to death, and being a bad person will eventually be shot to death..."

"I'm going to die anyway." His hungry eyes showed long-standing unwillingness, like a ball of fire, and he gritted his teeth: "It's all about death, I'd rather be a dead ghost."

Zachary looked at the others: "Honest work will only be destroyed again and again...the harder you work, the more you will discover the limits of us ordinary people."

"Ivan..." Jack was stunned: "What are you talking about?"

"I'm not being good! Jack!"

Zachary's eyes were firm, as if he had never been so decisive: "Give up, the subsidy will not come again, and the Central District doesn't care about our lives at all! Anyway, everyone is in danger now, saying that NUO may completely collapse, and there are people everywhere. Refugees commit crimes, no one will care about one or two extra cases, we can only rely on ourselves..."

His eyes fell on a bookstore on the opposite street, and he took a deep breath——

"Let's rob this bookstore."

...

The weather has been very bad these days, but at least it didn't rain today.

But the weather is not good, I always feel like something bad is going to happen...

Lin Jie rested his chin, sat idly in the store, looked at the book in his hand, and thought endlessly.

For Lin Jie, he doesn't care whether his bookstore is full of people, as long as there are many customers like Ji Zhixu who casually give away a set of villas in the Central District, he will have nothing to worry about.

What we want is high-quality customers with feedback. Once we have this kind of customers, we will "not open for three years, and eat for three years after opening."

However, normal customers also have to be received, such as...

The four or five guests in front of them looked very poor.

Lin Jie raised his eyes and saw a few customers in shabby clothes who suddenly walked into the bookstore.

"Hello, I want to..."

"Robbery."

Zachary took out a sharpened knife from his pocket, pointed the sharp blade at the young boss sitting on the counter.

"what?"

Lin Jie's smile froze on his face, he really didn't understand the situation in front of him.

In addition to the refugee pointing at himself with a knife, there were two other people who climbed over the counter fence and surrounded Mo En who was pouring tea, the hunger and ferocity in their eyes were obvious.

Moen raised his eyes expressionlessly, and didn't even stop working.

In this tense and confrontational atmosphere, the sound of the teapot in her hand was particularly ear-piercing.

"D-Didn't you hear? Hand over all the valuables!"

Zach tapped the counter lightly with a knife and said in a vicious tone.

This was his first time being a bad guy, so he was inevitably a little nervous, but he had already decided to be a bad guy instead of being a diligent and honest guy, so he had to work hard to do his best.

Lin Jie twitched the corners of his mouth, looked at the robber in front of him who seemed a little more nervous than himself, and sighed.

His little dilapidated bookstore really attracts bad guys.

Those brats led by Hood came to steal books, but they were robbed again this time...

But these refugees in front of them are obviously not Hood's kind of petty stealing books. There is real hunger in the eyes of these people.

Although Nuo Jin has a slum, it will never be so hungry that it will be robbed.

Lin Jie crossed his hands and propped his chin, and asked calmly, "Where are you refugees from?"

"Shut up……"

"Answer Boss Lin's question."

A low voice suddenly sounded, and the refugees turned their heads when they felt a pain in their necks, their eyes went dark, and they lost consciousness instantly.

Lin Jie was taken aback, and looked sideways, and saw Joseph came out of the basement at some point, holding a refugee in one hand, and easily threw it aside, snorting coldly, his tall body was full of momentum.

After making tea, Mo En brought it over to Lin Jie.

Lin Jie took it subconsciously, and then began to wonder - how did Joseph recover from such a serious injury so quickly?

Jack swallowed and raised his hands: "I'm sorry, I'm very sorry...we, we are..."

He kicked Zachary next to him, signaling him to run, but Zachary seemed to see a devil.

"You, you, you..." Ivan's dagger fell to the ground with a thud, and he fell to the ground, stretching out his fingers tremblingly, pointing at Joseph.

His widened pupils obviously recalled the last scene before he passed out.