Chapter 2 The oppressive world
"This world is simply terrible..."
After walking out of the house and breathing in the morning air that smelled slightly of cow dung, Tao Yu sighed again.
I thought that the social beasts in my previous life were already miserable, but when I think about the people in this world, I really feel like I am speechless. How did I survive in the past?
Feeding cows, cleaning cow dung, milking cows, trimming cow hooves, weeding and doing various farm work on the farm every day.
He spends all his free time practicing various survival and combat skills for the day of awakening. Until now, he can't even recognize the written language in this world and is semi-illiterate.
The hard-working farm, the harvest has nothing to do with the family, and everything is collected by the company on a regular basis, leaving some subsistence food as a 'gift'.
If my parents' jobs were not stable, they would have a total of 300 units a month to support the family.
Just relying on myself, my third brother, my sister-in-law, and my younger brother, it would be difficult to support our family even if we work day and night.
Not to mention accumulating some equipment and supplies for the day of awakening.
In addition, parents must find ways to continuously increase their cannon fodder weight and use various means to get them out of the company's cannon fodder recruitment.
After reaching the age of eighteen, he will also be included in this sequence, and he will also have to find ways to continuously increase this weight, unless something 'good' like the third brother happens...
Under the invisible threat related to life, the degree of involution has reached the sky.
Looking into the distance, a wall of gray fog completely blocked the surrounding area. The gray fog was extremely thick and rolling continuously. It seemed that various black shadows were vaguely flashing in the fog.
There is a faint layer of hazy blue light that blocks the gray mist.
Looking back, you can see the towering mottled walls of the inner city.
The city wall seems to be made of various materials. There are various metal and concrete structures. There are traces of filling and repairing everywhere. Various turrets and machine gun towers can also be seen on the city wall.
Some tall buildings in the inner city can be vaguely seen through the city wall, with exaggerated neon signs flashing, and the top floors of buildings that are also full of splicing.
It not only has the painting style and sense of technology of the 21st century architecture in my memory, but also has the contrast of a garbage dump.
Looking up again, you can see a giant city base floating in the sky. The cyan light that blocks the gray fog seems to be hanging down from this floating city, protecting the earth below.
Under the base of the majestic floating city, there are transportation pipelines filled with oil on the surface that connect the inner city and the outer city, transporting various materials for the enjoyment of the big shots in the city.
The floating city, inner city, outer city and outer gray fog are all distinct, representing several completely different living environments.
Looking back at his own home, he saw a dilapidated farm hut made mainly of asbestos boards, metal boards, and compression boards with a small amount of bricks. There were also surrounding farms that did not belong to him but needed to be taken care of by himself. Tao Yu also felt a sense of sadness. Depressed.
There was a rough machine gun turret with a slight rusty smell and the smell of engine oil on the roof, which creaked and turned from time to time.
This self-disciplined machine gun turret is the most valuable and expensive thing in the house. It can distinguish gray fog monsters at short distances and carry out automatic attacks. It is a kind of wish-strengthening item, but not every household has it.
Although the outer city is also protected by the fire of civilization in the floating city, there are still some monsters that occasionally attack in the gray fog.
Tao Yu remembered that he could hear the roar of the autonomous machine gun platform seven or eight times a year at night.
This is the frequency of monsters that come to the farm after passing by the outer night watch and all other guard towers that may cause interception.
Fortunately, usually only some miscellaneous fish will leave the gray fog and enter the sheltered area of the Fire of Civilization.
The Lamp of Will defends against some invisible dirty things, and the machine gun turret physically defends against some fish that slip through the net. This is one of the reasons why it has been able to survive safely over the years.
Just when Tao Yu was in a daze, there was another creaking sound in the room. A lean man with wrinkled face and gray hair, and an ordinary-looking woman with short hair also came out of the room one after another. come out.
They are Tao Yu's parents in this life.
His parents protected him from such a harsh environment until he was eighteen years old.
Although he was in a trance due to the memory of his previous life, he still had a smile on his face after seeing the two elders.
"Dad, Mom, didn't you come back just at noon?"
Tao Long saw his son, and the wrinkles on his face squeezed out a kind smile
"Why did Lao Qi wake up? Although the survival rate on the day of awakening has gone up, we still have to recharge our batteries. Go all out."
Both the eldest and the second child died on the day of awakening, which made Tao Long and his wife feel a little bit PTSD about this day that originally had a 60% survival rate.
Therefore, the next few children are well prepared. They would rather live a simple life on weekdays, but they must also accumulate enough things for the children to use on the day of awakening.
At least since the second child's accident, there has been no such tragedy on the day of awakening. "Can't sleep."
Tao Yu responded bluntly. Sometimes the more you force yourself to sleep, the harder it is to fall asleep. There is no way around it.
"Then you come with us."
When Tao's father heard this, he no longer forced it, but made arrangements casually.
"We found your Uncle Tiger at the station before. He is now an instructor. He can take care of your group just by saying hello. Let's go and visit together."
The company has its own gathering place in the Abyss Rift, where many production and combat occupations are located.
Although Tao Yu's parents had just returned from their room, in fact they had just returned from another world, a world where time was completely synchronized with this one.
In addition to the mandatory half-month survival adaptation period on the day of awakening, everyone who has passed the day of awakening can travel back and forth between the two places after meditating for about a quarter of an hour.
At that time, in addition to the need to go to the Abyss Rift regularly to avoid going crazy, the minimum return interval will also be reduced to five days.
If we can reach the gathering place, apart from the cannon fodder tasks assigned by the company, the pressure of survival will actually be reduced.
"Uncle Tiger has become an instructor? I remember that his hand seemed to be broken and he quit the battle sequence, right?"
Tao Yu was a little surprised. Although Tao Hu sounded like two brothers to Tao Long, they were just cousins. Under the pressure of such a miserable life in the outer city, names were usually very random, and duplicate names were also common.
"He was lucky enough to meet a noble person, completed the mechanization transformation, and his strength increased instead of decreasing."
There was a trace of envy in Tao Long's eyes. His third child was also very talented, but unfortunately he didn't have such a life, otherwise it would be no harm to work for a noble person.
"Okay, let's go there, he should have just returned."
Hong Xia took out a large piece of bacon from the kitchen, cleaned a few dark areas with a brush, and then walked out.
Looking at the piece of bacon, Tao Yu, who was so skinny, also swallowed his saliva. What a sin, there are really people in this world who can't afford meat.
Recalling the delicacies of the previous life, even though the family conditions in the previous life were average, as an only child, at least he had complete freedom of meat. As a result, in this world, he had to improve his food before he could eat meat.
This is even considered a decent living condition in the outer city!
Tao Yu didn't have any objections to visiting rich relatives, and he didn't have the inexplicable arrogance of a time traveler. After living in this world for eighteen years, any anger had to be smoothed away.
My parents are veterans who have lived in this kind of world for decades, so at least now it’s not wrong to listen to their advice.
Moreover, Tao Yu also has a good impression of Uncle Tao Hu. He has the talent of [Prejudgment Eye] (C) and has a strong ability to predict.
This ability is much stronger than [Dynamic Vision] of the same level. The strength value of C-level is comparable to that of B-level [Dynamic Vision].
He used to be the best among his relatives, but he quit fighting due to injury. He has also moved around a bit in recent years, so the relationship is pretty good.
Before the other party was injured, he had taught his third brother, and after he was injured, he had also helped his family, so they had helped each other.
This relationship is closer than that of several other direct uncles and aunts.
Tao Yu's own shooting practice was all done through his relationship, which saved a lot of bullet consumption.
For Tao Yu, who lived in a peaceful time in her last life, the survival rate for this day of awakening is only 60%, so naturally the more prepared she is, the better!
The survival rate of 60% does not mean that everyone has a 60% chance of surviving, but that it will be averaged out by those who are well prepared and have a high survival rate. Tao Yu does not want to be among the average numbers...
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"Haha, Brother Long, look why you are so polite. Ayu is so thin. He needs to eat more meat to replenish his strength."
Uncle Hu was a dark-skinned, stocky and lean man. When Tao Yu saw him again, his original broken arm had been replaced by a punk-style robotic arm, which even damaged half of his left shoulder. Completely mechanized.
However, although the mechanical arm was filled with the smell of engine oil and was shiny with oil, some traces of wear could still be seen. Judging from the time of replacement, it should be considered second-hand or above, but the body shape was more suitable for Tao Hu.
Putting away the bacon, Uncle Hu pinched Tao Yu's shoulder with his mechanical arm full of the smell of engine oil, and then said, "Someone wakes up every day. I just said hello and it's not a big problem until today."
Having said this, Uncle Hu paused for a moment, and then continued:
"But I heard that the children of two big figures are also attending today, so I still have to say something in advance..."
(End of chapter)