Chapter 349: The Suffocating Dungeon Brotherhood

"This world is really distorted!" Richard looked at the central area of ​​the lower city. Although they were both in the lower city, the central area and the fringe area were completely two different worlds.

The environment in the central city is much better than that in the peripheral areas in terms of public security and light. The projected sky in the central city is more realistic and brighter, and the air purifiers here are much better than those in the peripheral areas.

The city has divided itself into classes. The highest class is the people living in the upper city, and the second class is the people outside the upper city, most of whom are people who serve chaebols and companies, including some managers and the military.

The third layer is the central area of ​​the Lower City. These people are the managers of the Lower City. The fourth layer is the law enforcers of the Lower City and the managers of the mines. Outside the fifth layer are the workers. The lowest layer is the illegal residents on the outskirts of the city.

By the way, there is another type of people called desert hunters. These people go to the ground world to collect various resources. Many of them have been injected with genetic drugs and their strength far exceeds that of ordinary people.

The world above ground is very dangerous. A century of radiation has caused many animals to mutate. To be more precise, it should be called distortion. These severely irradiated creatures have mutated and become extremely dangerous and powerful.

There are many precious materials in these aberrations, so they need desert hunters to hunt them. The weak level of wilderness hunters is just ordinary people who can't survive, and the strong ones can enter and exit the upper area.

The level of people in the city is theoretical. After all, the outskirts of the city is still the black market of the entire downtown area, and almost all the materials that can be produced in the city can be bought here.

After seeing this black market and looking at the technology of this era, Richard became very skeptical about the so-called lack of resources.

In this era, we have successfully produced large-scale nuclear fusion reactors, and there is almost no shortage of energy. I can’t say about other things, but how can basic food, electricity, water, and air not be enough?
The only reason is that those chaebols, no, they should not be called chaebols, they have already controlled the military, they should be called warlords, and they occupy too many resources.

Just like South Korea in the Marvel world, in this country, chaebols account for more than 70% of the national economy, but they only provide 12% of the jobs.

This social state is extremely unhealthy.

The same is true for the current New York Underground City No. 13. Less than 10% of the people in the upper city occupy more than 80% of the resources, while the lower city has a population of more than two million, but it is difficult to survive.

Richard simply made some money on the black market. The most popular items sold here were cigarettes, a kind of yellow pills, and cheap alcohol. Many people who took those pills were intoxicated by them with a look of comfort.

You don't need to guess, you know that those pills are probably drugs. Living in the dark downtown area, too many people give up on themselves and use drugs to seek temporary relaxation.

Richard noticed that the residents in the lower city were probably only in their 40s or 50s, and he didn't see a single elderly person here. This was very abnormal, and the only answer was that they basically didn't live to old age.

Many people were leaning against the wall, doing nothing. These people were in a trance, decadent, depressed, manic, living from day to day, and lifeless. They gave him the feeling that they were a group of walking corpses.

Richard left here and walked towards the central area.

Each city area here has access control, especially the central city area. The central city area is separated from the outside by a deep trench, and there is a barbed wire fence on the trench. It is obvious that there is electricity on it. The two cities are connected by several bridges. Everyone who wants to enter the central area needs to be strictly checked.

People in the upper class areas have pupil, fingerprint and DNA identification, and the magnetic card ID cards from the outer city areas are completely useless here.

These things are insurmountable barriers for others, but they have no effect on Richard. Richard used magic to easily come to the central city, and only when he got here did he realize that the environment in the central city was the environment for normal people to live in.

Richard wandered around here. The food here was no longer those nutritional supplements, roasted earthworms, protein powder and the like, but real food. Although the price was expensive, it was not a problem for people in the central city.

Just the lower city area gave Richard such a torn feeling, one side was a wasteland, the other side was a peaceful and prosperous place. In addition to food, Richard also saw a large number of custom shops, each of which had many women posing coquettishly.

These women are not from the central area, they are from the outer area. They have temporary passes that allow them to come here to work, but they can only move around in the work area. Once they leave the work area, they will be expelled.

They are just playthings for the people in the central area to entertain themselves. In fact, there are better ones in the upper area. Every year, beautiful girls in the lower area are picked up by the upper area. However, their parents and families will still stay in the lower city, but they will receive some rewards.

Of course it's not just girls, it includes boys as well.

There are passages in the central area leading to the upper levels, but the passages in the upper areas are under stricter supervision.

Richard already had a general understanding of the structure of this city. They used various methods to absorb the outstanding people in the lower city and let them go to the upper area to work for them.

Then the remaining people were divided into two groups, one group of managers and one group of the managed. The people in the lower class had no ability to resist at all.

The upper district has high technology, the army, genetic warriors, and mechanically modified soldiers. It has a force far superior to that of the lower district, and this force cannot be compensated by human power. In this case, the lower district will never have a chance to rise.

They have no power, no other source of strength, and relying solely on themselves, they are almost powerless to resist.

Richard watched everything in front of him silently. If there was no external intervention, this city would be almost hopeless.

Just when Richard was about to go to the upper area, he suddenly heard an explosion in the distance. Richard's mind moved slightly, and he disappeared in an instant. The next second he appeared on a tall building.

On the street not far from the high-rise building, a heavy truck was overturned on its side, and a group of people were shooting at each other with weapons. Gunshots continued to ring out, and there were even explosions. The scene was very intense.

"Are these people going to steal things from the car?" Richard watched for a while.

Explosions continued to sound, and bursts of gunfire sounded like a war, heavy machine guns fired, and rocket launchers flew out. Soon, a man wearing an exoskeleton model power armor carried a six-barrel heavy machine gun and fired at the soldiers.

He actually managed to withstand all of the heavy recoil from the Gatling machine gun. Wherever the machine gun passed, the cars were torn to pieces, and some soldiers who were unable to dodge were torn into pieces by the powerful force of the bullets.

The 12.6 caliber bullet is almost invincible on the battlefield, and anything that stands in its way will be torn to pieces.

At this time, a mecha rushed over. As soon as it appeared, it directly suppressed the Gatling gun, and then the rocket blew it up to death. The appearance of the mecha directly reversed the situation of the battle. The attackers were suppressed by the mecha and had no power to fight back.

Heavy machine guns and rockets were fired continuously, and the attackers' weapons hit the mechas and bounced off with a clang, without causing any damage.

At this moment, a man suddenly ran out of a room on the street, holding a clearly different firearm in his hand.

Even though he was far away, Richard could see the triangular badge on him at a glance. Richard had just heard of this kind of badge on the black market. It was the badge of the Brotherhood.

They said that the purpose of this group of people was to liberate more people and resist the rule of warlords and chaebols. But Richard didn't know the truth. After all, this organization existed before the war began.

It is said that the Brotherhood is an extremely mysterious organization.

This organization had already existed before the war broke out, and had been active in America and Europe for a long time. So it seemed that they were definitely not originally there to liberate the underground city.

This organization has its own base, and they have also infiltrated its dungeons, many of which have their members.

At the same time, the Brotherhood also established a base on the ground, and they wanted to change the environment on the ground. In recent years, the Brotherhood has been very active and often fought with some chaebols and warlords.

After the brotherhood member appeared, he fired a shot at the mecha that was killing everyone. The powerful laser beam instantly hit the mecha, directly making a big hole in it.

After dealing with the mecha, the remaining people were quickly defeated. The Brotherhood quickly came to the carriage, entered the password, and immediately took away several refrigerated boxes. The whole process took no more than three minutes.

Soon peace was restored here. When the reinforcements arrived, only a few corpses and the wreckage of several cars were left on the street.

"Mechanical exoskeletons, mechas, mechanically modified prosthetic limbs, genetic warriors, laser weapons!"

The technological development of these dungeons is uneven. After all, how many people are there in one dungeon? How many scientific researchers are there?

Therefore, the technologies in these dungeons all have their own focus. For example, in New York Dungeon No. 13, the focus is on mechas and high-concentration batteries.

Others have some mechanically modified prosthetic limbs, while the Brotherhood on the other side is more adept at genetic warriors and laser weapons. The man who used the laser weapon just now was a genetic warrior.

His genes have been modified, which is why he can hit the mecha accurately.

The soldiers who came to support cleaned up the battlefield while the other side pursued. Richard was not optimistic about the result. It was obvious that the Brotherhood had planned for a long time, and there should be internal personnel to support them. At this time, they might have already escaped from the underground city.

(End of this chapter)