Chapter 34, a beam of light

Author: red heart cloth

Chapter 34, a beam of light

Oceana looked around and saw a large construction site.

The territory of the Governor, the 'land of redemption' claimed by the good man, seemed to be different from what she had imagined.

After the end of last winter, a large-scale wave of mutated monsters broke out in Oceana's hometown, a place called the 'Southern Provinces' by people in Fuxing City.

It was a huge disaster, and many gathering places were completely destroyed.

The wave of mutant monsters has finally passed, but that doesn't mean the disaster has subsided.

There was no time to plant seeds in the spring, and due to spending a winter and fighting against alien monsters... various factors caused people to lose a large amount of food stocks. Problems of hunger and material shortages flooded the southern provinces.

What will people who can't survive do?

Will turn into an evil spirit.

Oceana and her brother originally lived a very prosperous life. The land in the southern provinces is relatively fertile and has been relatively lightly eroded by the waste energy storm, so there are many gathering places here that can make a living through agriculture. In fact, the south

The provinces are originally very important food producing areas. Fuxing City, including the inner city and the outer city, has hundreds of thousands of people, mainly relying on food imported from the south.

Oceana's father was a plantation owner. Before everything collapsed, their family's plantation had a population of tens of thousands. When the harvest was good, it could not only feed everyone, but there was also a lot of wealth that could be sold in exchange for industrial products.

It is conceivable that Oceana's living standard is like that of a little princess, far exceeding that of most people in this wasteland.

But it all collapsed at the turn of spring and summer.

A large number of external raiders besieged the plantation; then internal riots broke out.

Under the protection of the guards, their family tried to break out at the last moment and escape from the plantation. Also trying to escape were many people who did not participate in the riot.

But in the chaos of war, she and her father were separated.

Incognito, plastering face, cutting hair...

She took her brother with her, followed the group of refugees, and arrived at Fuxing City in a daze.

In the meantime, she suffered too much.

In order to have a bite to eat, she is willing to do anything, even a little bit of trivial work, it is enough to get a little food. What's more, she will beg, bite and fight with people, steal things, and lie to people.

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Before everything collapsed, she was taught to be a lady. She never thought she would look like this.

But she persisted.

In the past few months, she had been so hungry that her brother, who was just in his early teens, was malnourished.

But at least, they are all still alive.

However, she often gets confused.

If she had never seen beauty, she might have been sinking in the darkness. But a few months ago, she was a little princess, the apple of her father's eye. What she worried about every day was the appraisal and restoration of the pre-war art purchased at a high price, and helping her father.

Manage the estate and calculate accounts.

Now she was hesitating about what to eat tomorrow.

What's more important is that this kind of life has no end in sight, no hope, no light.

She felt like she couldn't hold on any longer.

She had thought more than once, living in such a bad world, would it be easier to die?

But every time she saw her brother's eyes, she would push back the thought, grit her teeth and continue to suffer.

Strangely enough, in the past, she was not very close to her brother, who was seven years younger than her, and she often found this naughty kid really annoying.

However, during these few months, she would rather die to take her brother with her. Once when his brother was abducted, she bit him like crazy and did not let go even after being beaten to the point where his head was bruised and bloody.

She herself doesn't know why, she only knows that she will fight with anyone who dares to harm her only remaining family member.

But she still sadly understood that they were about to die.

The chaos in the southern provinces has had a huge impact. The shortage of food imports has caused food prices in Fuxing City to continue to rise. She relies on doing odd jobs, and it is increasingly difficult to feed herself and her brother.

Recently, even worse news came: it is said that the largest grain merchant in Fuxing City has disappeared. Immediately afterwards, the price of grain in the city became even more volatile.

At this time, a merchant opened a free porridge shop in a slum outside Fuxing City.

Anyone can receive a piece of hot porridge at the porridge shop, provided that they listen to the declaration made by Mr. Gu Hang, the governor of the planet, on his first day in the wasteland.

She got into a fight with someone and took her brother to get a seat.

The so-called Governor's declaration contained a long paragraph. At that time, she just wanted to read a few sentences and start eating quickly. She could no longer remember much of what the Governor's declaration said.

There was only one sentence that she remembered clearly: the Governor would let everyone who surrenders to him live a good life.

The next day, when the porridge shop was still open, she came again. But this time she was told that those who had eaten once were not allowed to eat again, unless they were willing to follow the caravan to the governor's camp and become the governor's

subjects.

Without much hesitation, she pressed her fingerprint on the paper.

After waiting for a few days, when the caravan set off, she came here with her brother.

Following the caravan to the governor's camp, it was true that life forced us to do so, but why didn't we have the idea of ​​changing the status quo and seeking some light and hope?

She thought she would see a well-developed city, but instead she saw large tracts of dust. There were many simple cement buildings that had been built, but more were still under construction.

However, looking at the massive construction projects throughout the camp, at least there should be no shortage of job opportunities.

But with my small body, can I be a construction worker?

Oceana, whose mind was in turmoil and didn't know what the future would be like, took her brother's hand and followed the team's arrangements to the registration place.

After it was her turn, the person who registered asked for some basic information.

Name, age, what you are good at, what you want to do...

She answered based on the actual situation.

"Huh?" The person registering on the opposite side suddenly said, "Are you literate?"

"Uh...yes."

"That's great!" The man was overjoyed, "Go to that table and fill out the form again. Congratulations, you will get good treatment."

Oceana was confused.

There was no one at that table.

She filled out a form and was then assigned two jobs: working as a clerk in a soon-to-be-established textile factory during the day, arranging and executing production plans, counting production results, and managing production processes...

The second job is to be a night school literacy class teacher.

The content of the work reassured her a lot. This was something she was really good at. When she was at the manor, she would assist her father in some management work. Although it was agricultural production management at that time, and now she is a clerk in a textile factory, but that

It's always better than doing physical work with your own hands.

Especially after hearing about the treatment, she was even more moved.

According to the calculation of work points, the material rations she can get every day are more than enough to support herself and her brother, and she can also save a lot.

Although everything was incomparable to when she was a little princess, it was the only light she saw during the months of wandering around.
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