Chapter 1931 Chocolate's Ambition

The First World War and the Second World War were only a few decades apart. After the Second World War, large-scale wars were controlled in a short period of time due to nuclear deterrence, but small-scale conflicts never disappeared. Many people will ask how long can the peace of nuclear deterrence last? One hundred years, or two hundred years?

At this time, the world where Duran lives has not had a large-scale war for three hundred years. Since the Calamity War that swept the solar system three hundred years ago, the earth has not had a world war for three hundred years. Although regional conflicts are still inevitable, three hundred years is enough for people to forget a lot.

This is a strange world. The heroes who ended the war, their descendants and their families became the seven major warlord families that are superior to the earth. At the same time, the class is solidified, the unemployment rate is extremely high, gangs are everywhere, and pirates are rampant.

Although humans have entered the era of space colonization, humans seem to have entered a dead end. The development of science and technology has stagnated for three hundred years. All technologies are similar to those three hundred years ago. Many spaceships flying around have a history of hundreds of years.

Human civilization seems to have entered its twilight years.

And this year Duran broke the leg of a bear child on Mars and treated him.

Earth, Mars, and many space stations and colony satellites in the universe form the social structure of today's human beings. Although in theory, the Earth's political system rules all people and regions, the universe is so big that it is natural for places to become larger, such as Mars.

Unfortunately, Mars is still being eaten alive by the Earth due to the lack of resources. The economy of Mars can be said to be a mess. Except for the big cities with space ports, other places are all rural areas where corn is grown. Although people will not starve to death, they have cut off their way to work and progress.

Because the cities on Mars cannot develop, they cannot expand employment. Without jobs, there will be many idle young people, and these people have become the source of unrest. Some people have become pirates, and some have become bodyguards, relying on force to make a living.

And force will naturally breed other industries, such as those fallen women who are not suitable for children, and fallen women will lead to other bad results, that is, orphans.

So a bad economy will affect many things and cause many bad consequences. On Mars, this bad influence has reached a certain extent. There are even a large number of young soldiers in armed organizations, and there are also human traffickers who specialize in buying and selling people. Slavery has once again revived in the cosmic era.

After Duran came to Mars, he met a naughty kid named Olga, who was determined to become a gangster. He was an orphan who grew up in a slum full of people. He was labeled as a thief, a bastard, and a jerk. But this time he was really miserable. He just wanted to steal something, but his leg was broken.

Duran's finger-snapping magic skill was very powerful.

But whoever broke it was responsible. Duran not only treated him, but also gave him a place to stay.

But as a condition, Olga must practice running and accept Duran's chicken soup for the soul.

"Run..." Duran would take Olga to run every morning and evening. Since his injury just got better, he has been practicing until now. Olga feels that she can already participate in running competitions.

During the month that Olga was recuperating in Duran's place, the two sentences that Duran said the most were "run, don't stop" and "life is like chocolate, no one knows what the next one will taste like." Although Olga had never eaten chocolate, he remembered these two sentences, although he didn't understand why he couldn't stop, and didn't understand how life was like chocolate.

But in his heart, Olga respected Duran very much. If it were someone else, he wouldn't give him treatment or a place to live. However, Olga was ambitious. He didn't want to be an orphan for life. He wanted to stand out and get involved in the underworld.

So on a dark and windy night, he left. He was going to perform a very dangerous Alaya consciousness operation.

This is a technology developed in the Calamity War three hundred years ago. Through surgery to implant chips in the spine and brain, even children can control huge mechas through chips and connect mechas with flesh and blood. Many underworlds will perform operations on children because children are very easy to control, and they don't need to pay wages, just give them food to fill their stomachs.

It is impossible to get ahead by staying in Duran, so Olga would rather take risks. The success rate of Alaya consciousness surgery is very low, especially in backward places like Mars. Gangs basically ask doctors to conduct experiments in extremely simple environments, and the mortality rate is even higher.

Moreover, people who have the Alaya consciousness implanted are like being branded as slaves and looked down upon. Generally speaking, as long as they can make a living, no one will risk doing this kind of surgery. Therefore, people who generally undergo Alaya consciousness implantation surgery are desperate orphans, children without dignity at the bottom of society.

During the operation, Olga met a child younger than him, and this child was a miracle. He had undergone two Alaya consciousness implantations, and this was the third time.

Olga heard from adults that this was a miracle, so she opened a bet on whether the boy could survive the third time, 10 to 1 if he survived, and 1 to 1 if he died.

Olga couldn't help but sympathize with the child, thinking that if he survived, she would definitely protect him.

Unfortunately, the facts proved that Olga thought too much. A person who did not die after three Alaya consciousness implantations was the protagonist with a dazzling halo.

Olga, on the other hand, had to rely on the power of Mikazuki to achieve success.

Although the miracle boy Mikazuki was young, he was a ruthless man. He survived three operations and hated his enemies. As long as he was ordered, Mikazuki would shoot and kill without hesitation.

After Olga and Mikazuki met, she kept instilling her lofty ideals of making a name for herself. Mikazuki was also looking forward to the day when the other party would succeed, and was willing to help this big brother who had always taken care of him.

So the two of them formed a team, with Olga in charge of thinking and Mikazuki in charge of doing things. The two of them worked very well together, and in two years they entered a civilian security company and became private bodyguards.

In other words, they could be considered mercenaries, of course, they were the lowest-level workers.

But this company was not small in scale, with a lot of military equipment, old-fashioned mechas, and even a three-hundred-year-old Gundam as the energy source for the base.

This company was called CGS, and it was already one of the largest companies on Mars, employing dozens of child laborers, including many orphans who had undergone surgery, and children who could not find jobs nearby to earn money to support their families.

The children's job is to die, driving mechas to the most dangerous places, and any mission that may result in death is completed by the children.

The adults in the company stay behind to take charge of some safe work, and do not need to participate in life-threatening work.

It seems unfair, but in fact every adult has survived this way. Those with bad luck die, and those with good luck stay.

Of course, most people still die on the battlefield and have no chance to grow up.

"Life is like chocolate, no one knows what the next one will taste like." Olga was also surprised, because suddenly one day this sentence came out of her mouth, and at this time he already knew the taste of chocolate. He bought chocolate for the first time he had extra money, just to know what chocolate tasted like.

It may be bitter or sweet.

Only when you eat it in your mouth can you know the real taste.

Influenced by Olga, even Mikazuki began to like chocolate. Unfortunately, chocolate is a luxury on Mars, and they can't eat it often.

Because Mars can't grow cocoa beans, imagine chocolate passing through a long space route in a spacecraft, passing through many checkpoints, paying for bodyguards, and paying tolls, and finally landing on Mars, it will naturally be very expensive.

In fact, all the items shipped from Earth are very expensive, and they are all Martian luxury goods. If Olga wants to eat chocolate every day in the future, then he must stand out and become a big shot.