The Sabbath Chapter 160: Berg is eight years old
"This is amazing! Their jumping ability is really good. It must be three meters from the floor to the ceiling, right? They jumped up so quickly!" Ronggui jumped a few times by himself, with his current height. Not to mention touching the ceiling for a long time, he couldn't even jump half of the positions. In contrast, he had a great sense of admiration for the ghost guest and his party.
"There should be someone behind to respond, and a rope should be used." Xiaomei said.
"Even so, that's pretty cool."
"The more you do something, the better you will be."
"That's right." Ronggui nodded thinking of the ghost customer who had been eluding Xiaomei every day to buy ground beans.
"However, who are they? They are not dwarves at first glance." When walking back, Ronggui suddenly thought of this question.
Having lived in a dwarf city for quite a while, and having many dwarf friends, Ronggui naturally recognized that the other party was not a dwarf at a glance.
As for what everyone in the comment area has been guessing yesterday, whether the other party is Xiaomei's fellow villager or something
Ronggui never thought about it.
Uh, firstly, he has never met Xiaomei's fellow villagers, and secondly, Xiaomei's mood was too calm yesterday, and she did not see any fluctuations at all.
Besides, if the other party is Xiaomei's hometown, Xiaomei should have discovered something when the ghost customer bought the ground beans before.
Not a dwarf, but so short, Ronggui was curious about the other party's identity.
"It's a child." Xiaomei gave the answer directly when she closed the door and re-entered the room.
"What?!" Rong Gui was stunned without thinking in this direction at all.
Then he quickly found the facts corresponding to this answer.
"That's right, his voice sounded weird and unnatural. Now that I think about it, he probably squeezed his throat deliberately to pretend that his voice was deep."
"Then you are very short. If you are a child, you are naturally very short."
"Oh my god! It's actually a group of kids who just came here to transfer Kerry?!" Realizing this, Ronggui didn't know what expression to make.
"However, how can there be children here? They are still such young children, and, where are they going to take Kerry?" Dazed, Ronggui naturally thought of the question that everyone would think of later.
With her lips tightly pressed together, Xiaomei didn't speak.
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In the eyes of most people, Star Prison is divided into two parts, the part on the ground, and the part under the ground. The upper part is called Star Prison, while the lower part is jokingly called Hell.
It didn't take long for Ronggui and Xiaomei to be called this name.
However, in fact, if they are senior prisoners, they will know another way to divide this prison: the Star Prison for ordinary prisoners, and the "Children's Paradise".
General star prisons should not have children, and there will be such young children.
If a slightly older child makes a mistake, he will be detained in a place similar to a juvenile reform institution. According to the law, that kind of place cannot be called a "prison".
However, there are children in this prison.
Probably because the prison that Pei Ze was in charge of at the beginning was only a women's prison?
Many of the prisoners were imprisoned while pregnant.
As many years ago, the criminal law will have extra care for pregnant women. Although the time of serving the sentence will not be postponed as before, pregnant prisoners will indeed live more comfortably in prison than others.
Or there are indeed prisoners who are imprisoned with pregnancy without knowing it, but more pregnant prisoners are intentional.
In this case, children are just a means for them to escape the hard labor in prison. After the child is born, they are too lazy to take care of it.
This kind of situation exists in every prison. The practice of most prisons is to send these children out to the relatives of the prisoners to raise them, or to put them in a children's relief center—a place similar to an orphanage. There they were raised with a basic and normalized upbringing.
However, according to scientific statistics, the chances of these children becoming criminals in the future are much higher than other children.
The topic is a bit far away, but I just want everyone to know that there will be children in prisons, especially when the scale of the prison is getting bigger and bigger and it has become a city, especially like Star City. When people can even come in and consume
There are men and women, and when they can meet, they will naturally reproduce children.
These children are born in prison.
No identity, they have a mother, but they don't know who their father is.
There are very few mothers who give them the precious emotion of "maternal love".
Either they died naturally without receiving care from birth, or they grew up casually under the pull of the indifferent attitude of "mothers".
Most of them are not tall and have small limbs.
When they are a little older and able to crawl, they often leave the cell where their mother is, and get into other people's cages. In short, whoever has more leftovers, they will instinctively crawl there.
Nobody cares about them.
They don't eat much, and they don't take up much space. To other people, it's as if they don't exist.
Like beasts, they rely on instinct to live in this unique city.
They are a part of this city, but they don't have their own status symbols, and they don't even have their own cells!
I don't know which child was the first to discover the upper ventilation duct and hide in it. It is a good place. Although some places are relatively spacious, most of the ducts are very narrow and only children can pass through. Here, they no longer have to worry about being beaten and scolded by adults, and they can also enjoy the food they have obtained in various ways with peace of mind.
With the first child, the second child will soon be born
They finally found their home in this "city".
Because of the special structure, only small children can live here. Most of the adults have never been to this place in their life, but they know that such a place exists for various reasons. Over time, this place is called "Children's Paradise".
They were born without parents, and they lived in this "Paradise" by themselves. Older children will even pick up and raise children who were abandoned at birth.
This natural "paradise" can protect them around 14 years old, and if their height is above 170, it will be difficult for them to move freely in the "paradise".
So when they are a little more sensible, they will be taught by the "predecessors" by precepts and deeds, and start to wander through the various prisons through the natural ventilation ducts in the "Paradise", in order to find food, and even more to find a prisoner in the prison. adults who can teach them.
In this place, there is nothing more important than learning a craft. Although they have no education, the pressure of survival makes them very clear about it.
Whether they help people spread the word, or help people run errands, there are not many things they can do, but there are some things that only they can do. Slowly, they grow up in this city in a unique way.
The three children who just met Ronggui Xiaomei are three of the countless children living in the "paradise".
Uh, no, it should be five.
Xiaomei was right. There were indeed two children who responded on the ceiling before. They used a special rope to quickly pull their companions up from below.
Their movements are very fast, often less than the blink of an eye to complete actions such as lowering the rope, retracting the rope, and closing the cover.
Of course, it is precisely because they can complete it within the time limit that they are qualified to follow.
After all, this job can be paid for.
"Berg, although this man is very thin, he is too tall, and there are many roads he can't walk." The first thing he did when he received Kerry was to measure his height and weight. A little girl who was responding above raised her head and said.
And Berg, the little boy who was in charge of negotiating with Xiaomei from the beginning to the end, thought for a moment: "Let's change the road and take the road with small stones, which leads to the 687th floor, and there are many empty rooms on that floor." , put him there and talk about it."
From birth, they have to work hard to survive. These children work very hard. They will memorize all the pipeline routes they often take in a short period of time. What's more, they even have a complete set of stars in their minds. Prison ventilation pipe diagram!
And this kind of child is often qualified to become an indispensable figure in a team. If he is a little smarter and more capable, he can also become the team leader.
And Berg just meets all the above requirements, so he is the captain of this team.
Living in the "paradise", they believe in the power of groups more than anyone else, so from the very beginning, they have to act collectively in groups or small teams.
Berg is eight years old this year, but he has been the team leader for two years.
Because he grew up in a pipe, he is much shorter than his peers outside, so he is naturally shorter than Ronggui and Xiaomei.
He consciously controls himself not to grow too fast, and tells his companions to do the same.
For an eight-year-old, he thought far and wide.
He is already seriously thinking about things after the age of 14.
And age is not the only condition. In case he grows fast and grows to over 170 centimeters ahead of time, he must leave his "home" early.
So he has now started to learn skills.
The object of study he found was Jiji.
I haven’t talked to Jiji yet, but he thinks it’s good to open a bar, he has a good relationship with the jailer, and the business is relatively easy, and the bar needs to hire people, so he can also transfer the work of other small partners in the team. Solved it together.
So for quite a long period of time, he spent a long time every day observing how Gigi was doing.
Just in case, he will also observe other vendors on the ninety-ninth basement floor.
If you can't open a bar, you can sell vegetables, Berg thought.
Compared to the kids outside who always say that their future dream is to be a city lord or a millionaire, Berg's dream is very realistic, and all of them are based on the premise of living and living as well as possible.
After "studying", he will also buy some food by the way.
Because of studying, he had less time to go out to work, and his income was naturally less. At first he couldn't afford anything, but then he found the kind called "Di Dou" at Xiaomei's stall. thing.
The fact that the light can emit light has attracted him very much-you know, unlike the cells in the prison, there is no light at all in the ventilation duct! Plants that glow are so precious!
What's more, this kind of thing can still be eaten!
Three can feed their five-person team. If the money is more, Berg will buy five, and he will bury the extra two in the soil for many years without cleaning. A thick layer of dust.
"It can illuminate us now, and it can illuminate other children in the future. If one day we have no food and are hungry, we can still eat." Berg said to his friends.
My friends think so, so Berg goes to buy ground beans every day. As long as he passes through the ventilation duct, a few ground beans are planted on the pipe wall.
Before I knew it, there were already many small green beans on the dark ventilation duct.
Of course, not all ground beans survived, some were eaten when they had no food to eat. And some were eaten by other kids who passed by.
While some children did eat it, many more put some other food in the same spot afterwards.
This is also the tacit understanding cultivated by everyone in the pipeline life.
"The place I went to today happened to be a man who sells ground beans. We can come to him to buy ground beans in the future." Berg first reported the situation to the friends who didn't come down.
Then he heard a series of small, suppressed cheers.
"I bought a total of ten." He said the purchase quantity.
There was another burst of cheers.
"Let's eat three, and plant the rest in the pipe, right? Plant one on the ceiling of the place where the man lived just now, and it will be more eye-catching when he comes over?" The little girl who had spoken before said quickly .
Other friends agreed, and Berg nodded seriously: "I think so too."
The chat didn't affect their speed. When they were talking, they were already far away from Ronggui Xiaomei's position.
Three little friends dragged Kerry one in front and two behind.
They walked the thickest pipe, and Kerry would not be able to pass through it no matter how fat he was. Only in front of him can he pass through the pipeline.
Passing through many forks along the way, Berg's sharp eyes identified each of the pipelines. Under his leadership, the team walked through the pipelines for about four hours. Finally, they arrived at their destination up.
It was a dark cell.
The prisoners held here are very vicious, so the prison authorities treat them very viciously. There is no electricity at all, and it takes a long time to give them daily necessities.
In this case, the prisoners here have to ask them to get some water and food from other places from time to time. It is for this reason that the team members have learned a lot of fighting skills from the prisoners. , I am also very familiar with this layer.
Their movements are really light. If they don't deliberately speak, the surrounding prisoners can't even notice that someone is passing by in front of them.
Find an empty cell in the corner, Berg and the others put Kerry in it.
Transport Kerry from the 999th floor underground and put it in another place where there is no security, and their agreement with Jiji will be completed.
After finishing all this, the children quietly left again.