I swallowed and killed gods in a strange world

Chapter 224 Understanding
"Is it hard to make money here?" Makino asked in surprise.

Staying in a hotel in Nanjiang City for one night costs 200 yuan less.

Not to mention some additional services, the price is even more expensive.

"There is no place to make money here." Jing Xiran sighed: "Dongxing City is different from other cities. It was originally closed. Without economic exchanges with the outside world, wealth will be polarized rapidly."

"The rich get richer, and the poor die poor."

"Even those in wealthy areas have money and no place to spend it."

"Look." Jing Xiran stopped suddenly, pointed to a slightly dark alley, pointed at a shadowy figure in the alley, and said: "The unemployment rate is so high that in Dongxing City, the body has also become a kind of The means of production are legally disclosed.”

Makino listened to Jing Xiran's statement while looking in the direction she pointed.

Dodging in the shadows, a group of women wearing tight narrow skirts and cheap stockings are looking around, probably waiting for business to come.

Makino was not surprised by this phenomenon, and it was often seen in Nanjiang City.

Although Nanjiang City expressly prohibits this kind of thing, everyone turns a blind eye to the existence of such gray products.

"They all pay taxes. It's different from what you think, uncle." Jing Xiran added.

"Have they paid taxes?" Makino was stunned.

"That's right, everyone in Dongxing City has to pay taxes if they have income." Jing Xiran smiled: "In this city, you can hide from weirdness and alien species, but even if you go to heaven and earth, the people from the tax supervision bureau can take care of you." You got caught."

Makino feels that this situation is a bit familiar, as if there was a similar situation in a country before.

After nodding, Makino silently did not express his opinion.

Treat your own body as a means of production, and it is legal.

This kind of situation will definitely not appear on the surface in the cities under the federal rule, and only Dongxing City, which is far from the emperor, can do this.

He just arrived in Dongxing City yesterday, and the city gave him a sense of isolation on the surface.

The buildings in the city are tall and majestic, while the poor huts outside the city are damp and ugly.

It seems that technology is advanced, but it seems to have regressed a lot in terms of system and culture.

Jing Xiran noticed that Makino's eyes were condensed under the hood, and he explained casually: "The Tax Supervision Bureau is the department responsible for supervising taxation."

"Aren't there any other cities?" Jing Xiran asked suspiciously.

As if thinking of something, Jing Xiran asked cautiously, "Which city did you come from, uncle?"

"Nanjiang City." Makino said bluntly.

"Nanjiang." Jing Xiran's eyes widened suddenly when he heard the words Nanjiang City: "I heard that this city disappeared a few days ago?"

"Well, the strange fog has fallen twice in a row." Makino said calmly, "Followed the large army and escaped."

"That's a city with millions of people." Jing Xiran sighed. In the past two days, the news of Nanjiang City had already spread to Dongxing City. She also saw some news about it in the newspapers.

Stopping, Jing Xiran looked into Makino's eyes: "What about your family, uncle?"

"I have no family." Makino said lightly, without any intention of stopping.

The two paced back and forth on the deserted streets in broad daylight.

Jing Xiran was like a tour guide, constantly introducing the situation of Dongxing City to Muye along the way.

From Jing Xiran's side, Makino also roughly understood the structure of Dongxing City.

This is a city about the same size as Nanjiang City, but its population is nearly half that of Nanjiang City.

The reason is probably that Dongxing City has fallen into a low-desire society. Many people would not choose to have children, or even get married.

Compared with other cities in the Federation that have a system for assigning spouses, Dongxing City doesn't care about this aspect at all.

The low-end repetitive work in the large factories here has long been replaced by robots, and there is no shortage of productivity at all.

And this year's manager of the city is the chairman of the council of a company called Dongliang Group.

Dongxing City will rotate managers every year.

But the power to manage the city is always rotated in the hands of those big forces, and no outsiders have ever intervened.

Dongliang Group, as its name suggests, is a company that controls the food lifeline of this city.

Most of the rest of the companies related to energy and various people's daily necessities are giants, and they are also in these rotating forces.

It is worth mentioning that not only these big companies are eligible for election rotation, other large and small individual forces in the city, and even underground forces engaged in illegal industries have also held power at times.

And the creators of these systems were originally formulated by the founders of this city.

"This iconic sculpture is the original founder of this city." At the intersection in the middle of Wutong Avenue, Jing Xiran stopped and reverently bowed to the huge sculpture in the middle of the intersection.

"Is the founder alone?" Makino asked curiously.

"No, he is the first person to come to this place." Jing Xiran turned to look at Muye suspiciously and said, "You seem to have very little news about Dongxing City."

"Uncle, didn't you learn a text called "The Man Through the Fog" when you were in school?"

"The person who traveled through the fog?" Makino frowned, recalling that he had never studied this text by memory.

"It seems that the teaching materials for going to school are different." Jing Xiran looked at the huge statue and pursed his lips and said, "After the fall of the strange fog, most of the area was covered by the fog."

"This fog is the kind of fog beyond the border."

Makino nodded. Regarding the situation outside the border, it seemed that the fog was often mentioned.

"The fog in the current territory of the Federation will dissipate with the passage of time, but this area of ​​Dongxing City is not included."

"I heard that there are strange things in the fog, and people who go in will probably not be able to get out."

"But he, Qi Minghao, the founder of this city, led a group of courageous humans to pierce through the fog-shrouded border, allowing Dongxing City to be established, so that humans would not be trapped in the land surrounded by fog."

"You should have heard of his other identity. He is the first minister of the Federal Investigation Department, responsible for investigation and expansion outside the border."

"Qi Minghao?" Makino repeated the name in a low voice.

It seems that in Dongxing City, ordinary people like Jing Xiran know more things than he, an awakened person.

"Then where is he now?" Makino asked aloud. It should be no problem for such a powerful person to live for hundreds of years like Melina.

Hearing Makino's question, Jing Xiran's expression darkened, and he said sadly, "Lost in the mist and never came back."

"You mean dead?" Makino was a little surprised.

"After all, he is not the real Liming." Jing Xiran said confidently.

dawn?

"By the way, I remember you said I was Liming, what's going on?"

(End of this chapter)