"Xiacheng District, Dirty Street, Leprosy Lane, Building No. 247."

Chen Yan's heart sank when he heard this name.

There are a total of 8 streets in Xiacheng District, and Dirty Street is the most chaotic street among them.

Leprosy Lane, where No. 247 Dirty Street is located, is known as the most notorious neighborhood in Yanam City.

People say that Leprosy Alley is like cancer in Yanam City. It is lucky to be able to suppress it, but it is impossible to cure it.

Chen Yan recalled what he had learned about Dirty Street:

Due to the rapid development of the empire in recent decades, a large number of laborers have poured into the cities.

Farmers from the countryside and more remote areas lost their land and became workers.

However, there are not enough industries in the prosperous areas of the city center to accommodate these new, low-end labor forces.

These new workers have needs for survival and a place to stay.

In order to seek higher wages and a place to live, the new workers who had little skills and could only do hard work could only gather in industrial areas and try to live near the industrial areas.

As a result, on the edge of Yanan City, various buildings that did not comply with regulations were built.

Xiacheng District appeared.

In order to accommodate more people, a building is often raised to about 50 floors.

In fact, the empire did not have such advanced construction technology.

This has led to the fact that the buildings in Xiacheng District are almost all dangerous buildings with various data that do not meet the standards.

Ordinary high-rise buildings, such as major universities on high streets in the city center, often reach a height equivalent to about 20 floors of an ordinary building, which is already the limit.

What does a 50-story building look like?

Before Xiacheng District reached its scale, no one had imagined this problem.

No one cares about safety issues, only how many people can live in these buildings - because more people means higher taxes.

Higher taxes will definitely make Yannan City richer.

That's the result everyone wants to see.

The workers in Xiacheng District, and those who have lost the ability to work for various reasons and can only engage in the most miserable industries, are despised by most people and have become synonymous with dirt, low quality, and polluted city appearance.

In fact, Chen Yan didn't understand. Since workers contributed labor to the factory, increased tax revenue for the city, and the city became rich because of the workers, why do people think they are dirty?

Because they are illiterate, uneducated, foul-mouthed, and spit in the streets?

What kind of fucking bullshit is this.

What Chen Yan finds hard to accept is that this is the current situation in Yanan City.

High-rise buildings are rising from the ground. Xiacheng District, which was originally a small fishing village, has grown into a behemoth in just a few decades——

The entire lower city area is like a huge gray concrete mountain creeping above the ground.

Every morning, this huge gray concrete mountain will be bathed in the morning light. That is the end of night life for people in Xiacheng District, and it is also the quietest moment in Xiacheng District.

The situation in Leprosy Alley is even more special.

Even in the entire Yanan City, Leprosy Alley is the closest location outside the city.

At the end of Leprosy Alley is the Smokey Lake in the easternmost part of Yanan City.

The area of ​​Smokey Lake is larger than the entire city of Yharnam. It is not only home to scavengers living in broken ships, but also pirates——

Pirates on the lake.

When Chen Yan just learned the news, he was extremely surprised.

Why are there pirates on the lake?

Later someone explained to him:

One is because the empire does not have the term "lake pirates", and it is impossible for the government to create a new term specifically for those dirty guys.

The second reason is that Smokey Lake is big enough.

There are many small islands on Smokey Lake, and over time, some pirate-like guys have gathered.

They make a living by plundering the civilians around Smokey Lake, often raiding the east and southeast of Yanan City in groups——

It is the lower city area with the densest population in Yanan City and clusters of handicraft industries.

It is an industrial zone lined with factories and is the main source of tax revenue for Yanam City.

The infestation of pirates in Smokey Lake causes huge economic losses to Yanan City every year.

The government has organized troops to go to Smokey Lake many times in order to destroy the pirates.

However, the area of ​​Smokey Lake is too large, and pirates do not gather in groups, which makes the extermination activities very difficult in most cases.

Once the army is separated, it cannot maintain sufficient combat effectiveness.

As a result, the pirates of Smokey Lake became a stubborn and evil disease in Yanan City.

Leper Lane, next to the Smokey Lake, is infested by pirates from time to time.

Due to the rapid development in recent years, Yanan City has long faced the problem of insufficient police force. Safety cannot be guaranteed in the industrial zone, let alone the lawless zone on the edge of the city.

It is difficult for Yanan City to collect taxes on Leprosy Lane, and coupled with the low quality of residents here, all they contribute are the lowest-end labor force and illegal service industries.

The pirate intrusion that can come at any time further increases the difficulty of management.

As time went by, Yanan City simply abandoned Leprosy Alley and only stationed a small number of police officers, treating it as a "buffer zone" against pirates.

When the pirates come, the police withdraw and let them loot as they please.

Pirates would not take root in Leper Alley; they knew that once they landed, they would be dead.

After the pirates finished plundering and left, the police returned and continued to use this place as a frontline against pirates.

After a set of procedures, the only ones who suffered were the residents of Leprosy Lane.

Their lives were shattered and Leprosy Lane was in chaos.

Over the past few decades, a large number of crimes have occurred in Leprosy Alley, and people from all walks of life have gathered here.

Leprosy Alley not only contains various drug addicts, but also hides most of the criminals wanted by the Yanan City Police.

Casinos, poppy halls, corner buildings, barefoot medical clinics, illegal trappers' restaurants, most underground gangs, private science laboratories not allowed by imperial law...

Leprosy Alley contains everything that mortals can imagine, and everything that mortals cannot imagine.

Leprosy Alley is so notorious that every new Asian immigrant who has just arrived in the empire is told repeatedly by the older generation of immigrants:

You must not go to Leprosy Lane. It is an "enclave" that was completely abandoned by the Yanan City Municipal Government.

What makes Chen Yan most incredible is that the most numerous people in Leprosy Alley are actually the corner girls who are almost everywhere - those poor women, their number almost exceeds three-quarters of the total number of people in Leprosy Alley.

Their service targets are mostly workers living in industrial areas, gang members who have some spare money but don't know how to spend it, and anyone who can afford it.

They are engaged in the most miserable jobs, but they still can only make ends meet.

Even if he is suffering from illness, there is no extra money for treatment.
Chapter completed!