Chapter 320 The Warmth of Love

Prices on Sogo Island are much higher than on Xingfu Island. Because Sogo Island is not like Happy Island, the work rate is so high.

This means that from the very beginning, Sogo Island has been filled with elites of varying degrees and levels, with almost no lower-class civilians at all. All simple jobs that are repeatable and uncreative are replaced by artificial intelligence. This also means that it is difficult for ordinary people to find jobs and naturally cannot survive. Those who can escape to other sky islands and be accepted by other sky islands are considered lucky.

And similarly, as there are fewer living people in the market, it also means that prices will rise. Merchants need to make more money from a smaller number of people, and rich people don't care about the price difference.

Just buying clothes is difficult - although fabrics are produced locally, clothing designs are patented and copyrighted. The best and most fashionable clothes are always imported from Happy Island... That kind of clothes may only sell for more than 20 credits in Happy Island, which is roughly equivalent to two meals of fried chicken.

But on Sogo Island, it can be sold for more than 180 credits.

A meal of fried chicken on Sogo Island may cost thirty or forty credits.

So Alice would take apart cheap clothes and make new ones for Russell to save money.

Her main job on Sogo Island is as a black market doctor.

She specializes in going to black areas to treat injuries that cannot be found in the hospital, such as sharp weapon injuries, fractures or gunshot wounds of unknown origin... In addition, she also has another side job, which is to help people with injuries. Man removes microchip.

Although the credit points of the two Sky Islands have different values ​​and the work income is completely different... But even so, the difficulty of living well on Sogo Island is still much higher than that on Happy Island.

Even if Russell is just a truck driver in Happy Island, he can drink Coke as much as he wants every day.

But when he was on Sogo Island, the most common food Russell ate was tofu, followed by cheap synthetic meat. Even though the cost and production process of better-tasting simulated synthetic meat and cheap synthetic meat were almost the same, Sogo Island would go out of its way to A particularly cheap, very bad-tasting synthetic meat is produced. You can buy a can of cheap synthetic meat with just one credit point, and it is sold exclusively to the poor.

The meat is like a lunch meat that's extra starchy and therefore crumbly.

The "canned" part of this kind of canned meat can be sold for more than half the price just by selling scrap products, and it can almost achieve perpetual motion. From this we can see how low the technical cost of synthetic meat is. The cost of a meal of fried chicken may not be two credits, but the cost of selling it to a fried chicken restaurant alone is twelve to fourteen credits.

The factories that produce this kind of "poor man's can" can't get any profit, and it can even be said that they lose whatever they produce... but they still do it because Sogo Group will give them subsidies.

Because of the cold perception on Sogo Island, this is a "gentle" means of expulsion.

They are not like Happy Island, selling happiness as a commodity. Sogo Island is an absolutely strict and extremely cold elite society... They deliberately allow the poor to survive but not live a good life.

Only three types of people will be born from it - twisted lunatics and criminals, social animals who will climb up at all costs, and incompetent people who are useless.

The first type of people will be screened out by crime detection devices and arrested before they commit crimes; the second type of people will be able to give birth to real elites and embryos of elites; and the third type of people can be specially used to highlight the The elite's sense of superiority and happiness... can also be thrown to other empty islands to reduce useless "waste". The elites of other Sky Islands may also go to Sogo Island because the treatment is not good enough or it is too dangerous.

It is precisely because of this that Alice made a special trip to Sogo Island.

Because the residents of Sogo Island completely trust their detection system... Sogo Island is known as the "Island of Impossible Crime" and the "Artificial Intelligence Society." People don't even necessarily close their doors and windows when they sleep.

Because of this, as long as you don't commit crimes on Sogo Island, you will not be investigated at all, and even those who are uncoded will not be hunted down or traced at all. Because they are the samples left specifically to warn others about "what will happen if the elites are no longer elites."

Russell repaired more than a dozen guns during his internship alone, but he had never heard of, let alone seen, a shooting.

This can only be understood to mean that these crimes were forcibly terminated before they occurred. As for psykers committing crimes and demons losing control, I have never heard of them.

Coupled with the "idols" exported and sold by Happy Island, the best medical technology provided by Holy Blood Island, and the various food and entertainment facilities provided by Taoyuan Island... the rich people on Sogo Island live the most comfortable and safe life. You never have to worry about being kidnapped by criminal organizations in the Lower City at any time, just like Happy Island.

In a sense, Sogo Island is the true cyberpunk world. Far more cruel than Happy Island...it is a kind of cruel "safety".

Even for a member of the Tower of Babel like Alice, whose identity is on the verge of being leaked, she can still remain safe on Sogo Island.

But Sogo Island is not a comfortable and safe paradise everywhere...

Although not many people receive treatment at Alice's mobile black clinic, it proves that crime, malice and death still exist in the "black area" that cannot be monitored by artificial intelligence.

Although doctors are relatively respected in black areas, they are not absolutely safe.

Because of this, young Russell felt fear every time Alice went out. It was a panic of losing one's only relative...a fear of being alone.

He could only feel some warmth and contentment by curling up in the cardboard box that Alice had put on the blanket.

Until he was admitted to Sogo University and became a special admissions student... Russell's habit never changed.

To this day, Russell often curls up in a ball at home.

Because in this way, he can get warmth and peace of mind, just like he felt when he was hugged by Alice and huddled in the cardboard box back that night.

When Russell first went to Delphinium's house, he would subconsciously shrink up and squint to blow on the air conditioner. Although Russell himself quibbled, it was because the air conditioner in Delphinium's house was cooler - but the God Vessel knew that it was because Russell was subconsciously uneasy when he went to sleep in a strange place.

Whenever this happens, Delphinium will forcefully stick to him, saying that Russell's body is cold, and forcefully commandeer Russell, using him as a pillow and cushion.

Although Russell always yelled that it would be very hot, he would still obediently "spread" himself out to make himself softer.

Over and over again... As time went by, Russell no longer always curled up in a ball when sleeping.

The Vessel of God rejoices in this.

Russell, who curled up into a ball, filled the emptiness with the warmth of "love".

And Russell, who spread out again, did not lose that warmth... because there was new warmth in his arms.

My schedule has been partially adjusted back, from waking up at 3pm to 10am...

There is still chapter 3 today, I will go have lunch and then come back to continue writing!