Chapter 122
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In a certain discarded room.
The interior of the room was burnt and blackened, the windows were broken. The concrete is bare. In the dimness of the room, with only the light from the streetlamp faintly illuminating, there was not just a breeze, but a chilly wind blowing through the room.
One woman, looking at such a chilly scene, blends into the shadows in the corner of the room and hides her presence.
She wore a plain black cap with her long, hair stuffed into it and wearing a pair of sunglasses. A thick turtleneck jacket. Jeans, sneakers, and light clothing with gloves to keep her warm.
Abigail took out a small information device from her pocket, took one look at the screen, confird that it was "out of range", and then quietly put it away.
This was a room in a residential complex in the slums of Fort 88. A few months ago, a drug addict had burned himself and his children to death there, and now it was undergoing renovation.
Fort dwellings are usually quickly re-purposed and replaced as soon as they beco vacant, but this room has been untouched for so ti due to its notorious reputation, and due to the special characteristics of the block.
Fort 88 is one of the largest citadels in all the forts, with as many people as a provincial city living in an area the size of a small island.
The population per unit area is comparable to that of an overcrowded city, but the actual living space is not so cramped. This is due to the vertical developnt of the city.
Because of the walled structure of the city, the land area of the fortress city is extrely limited. Since all kinds of urban as well as military facilities are cramd in there, it is natural for the city to expand vertically. Even in such a fort, the urban layout of Fort 88 was much larger than the surrounding fortress cities.
In spite of the fact that Fort 88 has a rule that there should be no difference in the level of living between low-rise and high-rise, and between the center of the city and the outskirts of the city, the popularity of the city is still concentrated in the center and the upper levels, while the outskirts and the low-rise areas tend to attract the people who are not qualified for such competition. As a result, there were so-called slums with poor security.
A slum is generally thought of as a nuisance in a city. Here in Fort 88, the slums have a bad reputation, and the local governnt could wipe them out at any ti if they wanted to, However, slums have continued to exist in the city of Fort since its spontaneous creation, and in recent years, they have even beco more and more active.
--In the slums, there is freedom.
This is a common consciousness that the residents of the Fort do not express outwardly.
The lives of the Fort's residents are centralized and simultaneously monitored by a dedicated information device, called .
Starting from fingerprints, retinas, biotric information, health status, personal information, financial information, purchases, use of the equipnt and its history, and even access to networks are all stored on these terminals. In a sense, it is a very efficient system, but on the other hand, even the location information can be tracked in real-ti, which makes even a person who grew up in the Fort feel uneasy and a little rebellious.
In such a situation, more and more owners in the slum avoided repairing or updating the important equipnt that supports the Fort's network for various reasons, including financial ones.
Such places were called
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