Chapter 597 Charging

"Charging. The power distribution company provides electricity for 20 minutes a day." Jinli scratched the counter with his fingers, as if he was about to scrape off something to eat.

"20 minutes!" Lu Jing was surprised.

"When it gets dark, you have to light candles. Human things don't work without electricity." Jinli's eyes glowed in the dark, as did the hundreds of fellow rats behind him.

"They didn't pay for it in the first place, so they just use the electricity." Linyin said.

"Electricity is provided to some small factories in the Northeast, they pay for it, and the nearby human stuff enjoys it too... But the power distribution company is bankrupt, and it has been doing this since a week ago... People pay and buy There is no electricity. A generator and 20 liters of fuel were sold at a high price the night before yesterday, and the buyer was killed while walking at night..." the Rat Man muttered.

It was getting darker and he couldn't see anything around, so Lu Jing couldn't help holding Linyin's hand.

She looked out in horror, and those people who had no idea looked like zombies. They were all old or young men, and there were also some women and cunning children inside, walking towards the power station in groups.

"You haven't given us enough information, you...you come with us. Take us to see their destination." Lu Jing waved at Jinli.

"They're going to the power station on the block outside to recharge ... 20 minutes a day, they're recharging their implants. You can go there by yourself," Kinley said.

When Lu Jing heard the news, he felt even more frightened. Footsteps coming from all directions were all heading towards the same place.

People resolutely move towards a destination, and the vicinity of the power station must be blocked.

"Who decides who can charge and who can't?" Lu Jing asked.

"Fists and bullets. Poor human beings love to kill each other. The poorer they are, the more they like to trample on others..." Jinli sneered, and then patted the black box in the corner of the counter. Recharge with it.

"Come with us, help us lead the way, and we will ensure your safety," Lu Jing said.

"That situation is not good." Linyin reminded.

A crowd of people desperate for electricity crammed into a power station must have been bloody.

"Is there no one to maintain order?" Lu Jing whispered.

"The only group that could maintain order was killed in the afternoon." Jinli unlocked the door and got out through the narrow door next to it.

With its hunched body, it is about the same size as Lu Jing, and if it stands upright, it may be taller than a human being.

"Cold Bay thugs?" Linyin came back to his senses.

"Yes, yes. Except for the Cold Bay thugs, who can control these restless human things. But I heard that they were wiped out, so there must be new bloodshed tonight, for the electricity..." Jinli's tongue It keeps licking its own beard, as if it wants to see humans suffer too.

They walked out of the narrow black market and walked up a ramp.

Lu Jing wrapped his Tsing Yi tightly, feeling very cold. The street outside the power supply station is indeed completely congested. Tens of thousands of eyes are staring at a small power supply station. There are a row of sockets of different styles on it, which are enough to meet the charging needs of various people, ranging from vehicles, batteries, implants, etc. to household appliances.

Lu Jing turned his head to look. They were wearing simple synthetic fiber woven clothes, holding batteries, guns and household appliances in their hands, and they all looked bewildered or nervous.

There are also many tall people with strange eyes and tall figures around, as well as those who look like secret agents and spies she has seen before, all ready to go, to power the station for 20 minutes.

It's like a relief valve packed with pressure, and as soon as the lights at the power station come on, they'll beat their heads for the energy. Many people have implants that die if they lose power.

"Electricity..." Lu Jing murmured, "Why has electricity become so scarce?"

"Every day, people go to the city to steal electricity, and I will also buy a lot of battery gadgets and sell them back, but humans can't afford them at all." Jinli looked into the distance.

Lu Jing followed its gaze, and the other side of Jialongpo looked like a resplendent paradise. The whole building was lit up, and the brilliance pierced the night sky, as if he wanted to carve his mark on the sky. The super-large implant Advertisements are projected high above, promoting a neural kit that can customize thinking patterns, making it easier for users to overcome enemies in different careers.

Densely packed security shuttles are flying in the sky, patrolling between the city core and the fringes, shining their bright searchlights downward, as if something is swaying there.

Lu Jing knew that it must be a group of ordinary people who wanted to cross the border to find electricity, people who were penniless and wanted to survive.

The next second, as soon as 7 o'clock arrived, the whole block was suddenly lit up.

Hundreds of street lamps on both sides of the street were all lit up, and there were also bright flashes in the power station. At this moment, this side of the city is no different from other high-rise buildings, and it is also illuminated by warm lights.

The pressure finally exploded, and people rushed towards the big power station in the middle of the block, pushing, squeezing, howling, and screaming.

Before she had time to look at the group of people, Lu Jing heard shouts behind her. She turned her head and saw an alley, and the voice sounded from the depths.

"What's that sound?" Lu Jing asked.

"Human things are robbing." The rat man turned his head to distinguish the voice.

Lu Jing rushed over, looking for the sound, ran up to a crappy apartment, when he saw two men breaking into a room and breaking in.

She drove the Fuyao sword to stab through the door. When the two men threatened the residents, she shouted loudly to stop them, and then approached them step by step with the sword.

"Go away!" Lu Jing angrily scolded.

The expressions of the two robbers were very strange. They wore simple clothes, had ugly beards, and looked like some wild and untamed animals.

Awed by Lu Jing's weapon, they walked out step by step.

Linyin watched from a distance, beware of them hurting others. After driving the two away, Lu Jing saw a petrified woman standing in the rental house.

"It's okay." Lu Jing comforted, and then looked at the empty room of the family, "What are they here to rob?"

The woman tremblingly enters the house and opens an old refrigerator with no electricity. Her disproportionate son sits in the refrigerator, the charging port on the arm is connected to the wire, leading to a black battery compartment, which contains two batteries. , looking around with blank eyes at this time.

"I must have been seen when I bought batteries this afternoon." The woman whispered softly, trying to remain calm.

"The door is broken, and someone else will come to rob your electricity. It's time to go." Lu Jing looked at this small room. It was hard to imagine how many people lived here together, and there was no space to lie down completely. Lu Jing felt like he was stuffed into a small box.

"It's easier to die in the open air... There are four walls here." The woman muttered.

"Where are the men?"

"I went to a place far, far away." The woman whispered. The son in the refrigerator looked up, his eyes were as ignorant as a pig.

"Why is this child also charging?" Lu Jing asked.

"It's been remodeled... so you won't be hungry anymore." There was a trace of kindness in the woman's eyes.

In the distance, there were extremely tragic shouts from the direction of the power station, the sound of gunfire, and the sound of bullets hitting metal, as if someone was directly attacking the power station itself, holding some kind of Don't even think about it.

In this labyrinthine northeast corner, there are sounds of smashing, looting and shouting everywhere. Lu Jing feels that life is in chaos like some fluffy spores. He will never see them go extinct, and he will never see them. They grow into something decent.

Then it rained heavily.

The howling torrential rain brought more desperation, pouring over the entire city, and the icy cold drizzle poured on the heads of more than a hundred thousand emotional and hot people, but did not weaken their aggression.

Due to the extremely harsh natural environment, their attitude became even more extreme. Immediately there was a louder explosion, and the ground trembled slightly.

"Someone used a bomb..." the woman murmured.

"What about tomorrow? I'll tell you." Lu Jing was a little confused.

"Don't worry... good-hearted people, I can sell myself, this is also a job, I have a plan, and I have a plan... People here live like this." The woman comforted Lu Jing in turn.

"No, no..." Lu Jing instinctively resisted all of this, and a certain unknown sense of fear filled her heart.

She wrapped her Tsing Yi tightly and walked out, followed by Lin Yin and Jin Li. The woman silently thanked Lu Jing.

Lu Jing ran outside, and the rain poured down. The Ratman and Linyin first hid under a narrow rain shelter, which was a dish antenna built by a certain family, and there was a little dry place under the edge for them to stop.

"We should go back!" Linyin yelled, "Go back to the hotel and sleep! Don't stay here!"

"Then what should they do?" Lu Jing pointed at everything around him.

In the next second, the lights in the surrounding streets were all dimmed, as if the glimmer of light just now was just an illusion.

In this dark torrential rain, boundless fear came under the pressure. Lu Jing looked at the brightly lit city center in the distance, and reason told her that as long as she turned a blind eye, she would have no burden.

If there is a tangible monster destroying this place, Lu Jing will know how to fight it. But now Lu Jing couldn't find anyone to swing his sword at.

There was another series of gunshots, Lu Jing was in the dark, and saw that the outside of the power supply station had become a bloody battlefield, and the timid people had fled quickly, leaving some violent gangs to fight, and blood was splashed and flowed under the heavy rain.

Hundreds of corpses were left behind in just ten minutes, chaotic violence spread, and under the torrential rain, it seemed that everyone was on the verge of madness.

"...It's time to go, transform the girl and Tsingyi." The rat man worried that his life was in danger.

"That power station supplies electricity for the entire block?" Lu Jing glanced at the small station in the center of the street.

"Yes, yes," the Rat Man responded impatiently.

Lu Jing rushed through the rain curtain and ran over quickly. Lin Yin yelled and hurriedly followed from behind.

Running to those who were fighting and scrambling, Lu Jing took out the Fuyao Sword in his hand, with a look of determination on his face.

"Wow!

"Come to kill!"

"sword!"

"Hit her!" The people panicked and yelled loudly, but their voices were also covered by the rain curtain, and they could not be heard at all.

"Be careful!" Lu Jing shouted.

She drove the Fuyao Sword straight up, and then inserted it into the charging station upside down. The sword body was inserted into one of the power ports that conformed to the agreement from top to bottom, and the reverse energy supply mode was activated, and the power was fully charged.

The entire sword instantly lit up with a strong light.

The vast force of fission gushes out immediately, boundless——

In an instant, the entire northeast corner area was instantly lit up! All the street lights turned on in the blink of an eye, dim lights flickered in thousands of households, and all the indicator lights of the power station also turned green again.

"There's a lot of electricity here! It's enough for you to charge for a hundred years!" Lu Jing shouted.

People who were attacking each other fiercely in the torrential rain noticed the change, stopped their arms waving weapons at each other, and turned their heads to stare blankly at everything in front of them.

"Electricity……"

"Call!"

"Wow!"

Then they stumbled toward the power station, yanked out wires, and powered what they needed. The rest of the people who couldn't make it to the line hesitated at first, and then stood in the heavy rain and started to line up, or waited for shelter from the rain. More than half of them ran back to their homes directly, wanting to see if their electricity was on.

The street is quiet.

People injured in the conflict are now saved, and they use this respite to get up desperately, looking for a chance to survive.

The light from the tall street lamps scattered in all directions, like pieces of invisible guard fields.

Many people couldn't help but open the door of their strictly guarded homes and look out quietly, wondering what kind of force restored the power supply. When they turned their eyes to the power supply station, they would immediately see the shining Fuyao sword.

The strong light pierces the rain curtain and illuminates the world.

Lu Jing was wrapped in Tsing Yi and stood beside him.

She hesitated for a while, then hurried through the crowd, took off her green clothes and put them on the Fuyao Sword, so that people would know that it was an asset of Tianshu Manufacture. The status of the maids in Tsing Yi is extraordinary enough to frighten Xiao Xiao. In order to avoid getting into trouble, the locals will also remind each other.

"Here... a temporary solution. Tomorrow... I will ask the company's salesman to talk to you... a wire from Xia La... It won't be very expensive." Lu Jing turned to look at them.

They looked at Lu Jing with surprise or admiration.

Although it was a good thing, Lu Jing still felt shy and quickly ran back to Linyin.

Losing the Tsing Yi to shelter from the rain, Lu Jing got wet immediately after walking through the heavy rain. Linyin quickly picked up Lu Jing and followed the Ratman back.

"It's too late, two pussies, sleeping in the rat pit, sleeping," Kinley said.

"Yes..." Lu Jing was also exhausted.

"You are too kind to them." Linyin ran quickly through the icy heavy rain with the landing mirror on his back, "Life can only be responsible for each of you, and death means that you didn't do it properly."

"You are too cold-blooded." Lu Jing murmured.

Linyin didn't reply, but listened to the other people's muttering.

"Look at that sword!"

"The gods are here..."

"There are such good people..."

"Wow..." In their eyes, Lu Jing was like a god coming down to earth!

Lin Yin suddenly laughed when he heard the awe-filled voices and discussions from all directions.

"They call you a fairy," Linyin said.

"I'm going to become a fairy." A light flashed in Lu Jing's mind. Being pursued and appreciated by so many people, the group's faith slightly changed Lu Jing's temperament.

"The gods just want to take care of the mortals all the time?" Lin Yin laughed, "Is that a fairy or a wage earner."

Lu Jing shook his head.

Some thoughts used to make Lu Jing's hairs stand on end, but now Lu Jing feels that they are extremely legitimate.

"There are no gods...I'm not a god...you're right, they have to rely on themselves if they want to survive...rely on their own unity instead of fighting among themselves...their anger should not be directed at each other, they should fight upwards, they Declare war on the power companies... no, declare war on all companies, join forces to find electricity and food, or find a way to produce it yourself, get your own land and generators from others. Otherwise...they can only die, just It can be a parasite or... something uglier." Lu Jing said with difficulty, she now understands more and more everything that the cyber demon ghost has said to her.

Lin Yin never thought that such words would come from the mouth of a high-status maid in Tsing Yi, and she was also Lu Jing who was known for being a little confused.

"Have a good rest, and then call more people over, you will become a fairy, and you will also become the most powerful anti-magic power, with longevity in hand, anti-magic power in hand...the future is boundless." Linyin comforted.

"Get your digital mind for you... we can go to meet the cyber demon together... and dive into the Sea of ​​Hillis..." Lu Jing said vaguely.

How wonderful that would be. Lin Yin thought to himself. She patted Lu Jing, carried her into a local rat pit, and went to sleep.