Chapter 18 Shataba City
There is no shortage of ruins in the wilderness.
How brilliant was civilization once.
How lost is the ruins now.
These once-constructed places have become nests for scavengers and wild beasts.
However, the ruins are not completely worthless. Some ruins can not only dig out the wisdom of the pre-civilization, but also directly dig out tools and even weapons from the mysterious ancient technology era.
People tend to prefer to call this kind of place a ruin.
The southern wilderness is vast and sparsely populated, and there are many crises, and some places are full of opportunities.
One of the areas called Shataba is full of various mountainous ruins. There are many inspirational stories of lucky people picking up legendary weapons and thus leaping into the sky. Many of these stories are processed and exaggerated during the circulating, and even interpreted into different versions, but for the scavengers living here, it is a beacon of life.
They believe it deeply.
This is a miracle place that can change destiny.
So thousands of scavengers gather here.
However, because of the gathering of nearly 10,000 scavengers, this area of already extremely complex environment has become a breeding ground for sin. Snatching and killing happens every day, and it is also a hunting ground for wild beasts to hunt. Every day, a large number of weak scavengers die without complete corpses.
But it's very dangerous, and there are always people who insist.
The young gray rabbit and his sister Xiaozhu are one of them.
Sometimes the wilderness names often represent abilities.
A 17 or 18-year-old boy would call it a strange name like the gray rabbit. It is mainly because the boy ran as fast as a rabbit and his skin looked gray and black, so people called him the gray rabbit, the escaped gray rabbit.
The gray rabbit has a younger sister, Xiao Chuang, who is about the same age as him. Xiao Chuang is born small, thin and weak. Although he is about the same age as the gray rabbit, he looks only in his early teens and is very timid, so he is called Xiao Chuang, a timid little insect.
The two of them are undoubtedly the lowest level scavengers in the wilderness. They dare not conflict with others, dare not fight with others, and dare not go to places with many people. But this world is so wonderful. Even if it is weak, even an ant in the crack of the stone, it can find its own way of survival.
The strong have the way of living for the strong, and the weak have the way of living for the weak.
Sometimes the strong may not necessarily live longer than the weak.
Neither the Gray Rabbit brother nor sister had the ability to hunt, and their main way to make a living was to dig ruins. This large area of open-air ruins was once a huge manufacturing base in the old era, which could produce all kinds of machinery. Even if thousands of years have passed, some things are still not damaged.
The gray rabbit can dig out some intact parts through the ruins, and they will secretly hide these parts. He is not only very capable of running, but also very smart, just like a cunning rabbit who always puts his property in different places.
Xiaochuan is different from her brother. Xiaochuan is very weak and cannot move heavy things, but she is another talent that no one can compare with. She has a high talent for machines. Although she has not received any training, she can use parts to assemble various relatively complete parts through observation and research of the antiques and drawings she excavated through observation and research.
The division of labor between the two is very simple.
The elder brother Gray Rabbit is specialized in finding useful parts and materials, while the younger sister Xiaochuang is responsible for assembling new parts and finally bringing these things to the camp to sell them, so that the value of the parts itself can increase several times.
They survived this way.
As long as you have a way to make a living, weakness is not fatal in itself.
The two of them dreamed of digging up a treasure of sufficient weight, so that they could change their destiny like those legendary predecessors in countless inspirational stories, and live in a safer city of Shataba from now on.
These scavengers know nothing about the farther world.
In their eyes, Shataba City is the center of the world.
Shataba City is the safest place in the world.
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Xiao Chong successfully completed another work.
This thing looks like an ugly insect.
Complex lines are wrapped around the insect's body. When the insect connects the lines to a homemade broken battery, several propellers will creak, and the ugly metal insect slowly flies into the air.
"That's great!" Gray Rabbit was very happy, "This thing can definitely be replaced with a piece of stinky rat meat!"
The little insect was relieved to wipe the sweat beads. Both of them hadn't tasted the meat for days. The small aircraft could get a piece of meat, so many days of hardship were worth it.
The two took out dirty cloth and wrapped the ugly iron insects.
They hope to find the wilderness merchants who come to acquire as soon as possible.
Whether you can eat meat depends on this transaction.
The camp is actually very small. It is better to say that it is a temporary base that is specially built to provide people with materials exchange, because there is no decent residence here, and the number of people gathered there is only 3 or 200 or so.
"stop!"
When Gray Rabbit and Xiao Chong walked into the place sneakily, a big man with a fat face came over and stopped them directly in front of them. Seeing this, the two of them changed their faces. The gray Rabbit hurriedly asked Xiao Chong to leave quickly, but Xiao Chong just turned around and there were two fierce men holding swords standing behind them.
The gray rabbit pulled out his dagger and shouted in a trembling voice: "What are you doing!"
"What are you doing?" The leader walked over with a grin, "I heard that you two wastes can always make some strange things. Let's take them out for us to see them today!"
The little bug hugged the cloth bag in her arms tightly, and the gray rabbit shouted angrily: "Don't think about it!"
"Do you think I'm discussing with you?"
The gray rabbit didn't see clearly.
As soon as his wrist hurt, the dagger was knocked away and broke into two pieces on the ground.
The gray rabbit wanted to turn his head and escape, but was kicked over and then picked up by the other party with one hand.
"Give it to you, give it to you!" Xiaozhu screamed in horror. She hurriedly handed over the cloth bag: "Let go of your brother!"
"Do you want him to live? No way!" The leader looked at Xiao Chong's thin body, "Although there is nothing wrong with it, he is a woman at least. If you serve us brothers every day and work for us honestly, we can spare him a life of a cheap life."
The gray rabbit shouted, "No! No!"
The leader was so angry that he slapped off several teeth of the gray rabbit.
The little insect lost all his thoughts and said, "I'll go, I'll go, I'll go with you!"
"This is just like this."
The leader smiled sinisterly and waved his hand to his subordinates. The two of them were going to catch the little insect, but at this moment, a voice came from behind.
"You are very brave, you dare to touch my Shahu's guest!"
The three wilderness thugs were stunned and then looked over with fear on their faces.
A young man dressed in a completely different style from a scavenger came out. The young man looked less than thirty years old, tall and strong, with a shaved head, and was covered with various metal ornaments and equipment from head to toe. He was wearing a spider-like machine armor, and a masked man was also surrounded by him.
It's indeed a sand tiger!
The faces of the three wilderness thugs changed!
Shahu is not an ordinary person, and no one knows its specific origin.
Shahu comes from Shataba City, and even in Shataba City, he still has a high status.
This guy often comes to the camp regularly and uses food or weapons to purchase various parts excavated by the scavengers. Therefore, he has a high prestige among the scavengers. He never bullies these scavengers, and he is quite fair in his actions, so the scavengers are willing to trade with him.
The gray rabbit bug has been trading with the sand tiger for more than a dozen times.
The leader was angry and embarrassed: "Mediating on other people's business!"
Sha Hu laughed and said, "They are my long-term trading partners. If you capture them, I will suffer losses. Things that are related to my own interests. How can I say that I am meddling in other people's business? I advise you to let go and I can spare your life."
"What do you think you are!" The leader clenched his fists and roared: "You dare to be arrogant to me here? Come on me and kill him!"
That's how the wilderness is.
If you have any disagreement, you will be killed.
Life is so cheap.
The background of Shahu is not simple? Humph, no matter what background he is, at most, you can kill and grab it all, then pat your butt and fly away. What can you do if you have a background?
"It's really a search for death!"
The masked big man behind Shahu suddenly took a step forward and blocked Shahu's face. The two thugs' swords slashed at it. Only two harsh and crisp sounds were heard, and the clothes were torn into pieces, leaving metal traces from it.
"What's this?!"
When the two were frightened.
This big guy made two punches like lightning. The two people's heads were shattered like watermelons. The broken skulls and brain tissue were splashed all over the ground. The leader's face changed drastically. He had already seen that the guy beside Shahu was not a living person at all, but a huge machine monster.
He screamed and was about to escape.
A deafening gunshot.
The leader looked in despair at the pierced chest.
This was obviously an ending that he never dreamed of.
"You dare to be arrogant even if you have such a little ability?" Sha Hu blew the muzzle of the super-large caliber revolver in his hand, and then walked to the two of them: "I have been observing you for a while. You both seem to have some ability, but they are just too weak. If you continue to stay in this place, you will be killed sooner or later. Why not follow me in the future and I will take you to Shataba City."
Both of them were shocked.
"But we are not qualified to enter Shataba."
Shataba City is the largest wilderness city here. It is not impossible for them to pick up scavengers like them to go in, but they have to pay an astonishing amount of fees first, and then they have to pay regular and quantitative taxes every month, which is something that the two cannot do under the current conditions.
"Haha, it was different before. Now in Shataba City, my dad Sha Viper is the city lord. Now I have the final say!" Shahu did not hide his identity at all, "As long as you two are with me, Shataba will reuse you!"
The son of the city lord?
When will Shataba change the city lord?
Chapter completed!