Chapter 756: Chatterbox Elliot (Part 1)
All of Folkestone's industries were based on the Anglo-French channel.
The cityscape here is far different from that of Night City:
Night City is a city without barriers. That is to say, as long as you have the courage to get on a "small boat", this city will not ask about your origin, identity, gender, race, or sexual orientation.
As long as you can get there, Night City can accommodate everyone from thieves to the new President of the United States and the CEO of the Arasaka Corporation, and there's something for everyone here.
Of course, another reality is that several percent of the people who go to Night City to pursue their dreams every year will be raped after landing.
But anyway, Europe is a completely different place——
The "European Barrier" is a super powerful social control system.
This system relies on powerful information network equipment to record all people who have contributed to society, match their names, biometric information, learned skills and other information one-to-one, issue a unified ID, and enter it into the network , become a citizen.
Those without this ID are illegal immigrants.
Although compared to Asia, where Arasaka rose to power and the Berry Kingdom split, Europe, especially the EU, is relatively stable and has always maintained its leadership position, but it has also experienced a lot of turmoil.
For example, Britain has experienced two political riots comparable to coups; plague has spread across Europe; ecological deterioration and rising sea levels have caused most of the land in some countries to be submerged in the ocean; and there have always been wars.
The EU is the most powerful organizational entity in the world, but Europe is not a paradise. People living in hell will always fantasize about the existence of paradise, so the EU is the best fantasy object.
Massive numbers of refugees are coming here from all directions, hoping to get the light of a prosperous world and step into heaven.
In this world, the European Union, faced with massive refugees and the uncertainty they bring, their response is: the European Union will never compromise!
They chose to respond to illegal refugees with steel and gunpowder, and the Killing Zones came into being.
The operation of the system ultimately depends on matter and affects the material world. Therefore, "European Barrier" is not only the name of a system, but also the name of a giant engineering project. It is a real entity.
Folkestone is located on the British-French border, on the coast, and is a very special EU border.
Here you can see the high walls of the Killing Zone from the inside.
It sounds like this thing is a kind of border wall, but it is actually far more powerful than the military technology border walls in Northern and Southern California:
Drones, military drones, and military helicopters are always on standby. Killings are legal and even paid in areas dozens of kilometers beyond the EU border.
In Night City, major companies hypocritically maintain harmony on the surface, and privately hire various mercenaries and gangs to engage in wars;
Here, Europeans choose to put the factor of violence on outsiders: those lowly, bad, and miserable refugees entering the EU will only become a scourge to society. In this case, it is better to give those violent elements in society some openings to pour out.
Beyond the border wall, the land is washed away by polluted seawater and no green plants can grow.
If the bad land of North America is a hell filled with yellow sand, this place is a hell of sea water and silt.
".Fortunately, I don't need to live in it."
Elliot sat on the elevator, enjoying the warm sunshine——
This elevator can see the outside world, just past the border wall, and see the horrors in the killing zone.
[Johnny: You’re really good at comforting yourself. I don’t think you’re any better inside the wall. 】
Inside the walls, on the Folkestone side, things really weren't much better.
Although Night City is close to the sea and bad soil, and sometimes there are sandstorms, the cityscape is still beautiful most of the time. After all, this is a developing big city.
There are also large ecological parks in the city. Although they are full of homeless people and animal gangs, they smell strange.
But at least there is an ecological park and you can see green plants.
Folkestone, this city has completely stopped supporting the growth of green plants, and the positioning of the city has determined that policymakers will not set up an ecological zone here:
There is a high probability that coastal cities will be affected by the continued deterioration of the environment and be swallowed up by the ocean. Rich people will not live here for a long time. There are only a large number of workers here.
The role of this city is to transport goods and information, so that people living in safe areas can enjoy high-quality communication and logistics services.
Therefore, the city's appearance: the roads are hard-paved, the street lights are complete, and the surfaces of high-rise buildings are repeatedly painted. If viewed from a high altitude, it looks like the urban toys bought by children are rusty.
There is no cityscape at all. When the sea breeze blows, the strange smell and the smell of industrial black smoke in the city crowd into the nose and are inhaled into the lungs.
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"At the very least, you don't have to live or die with a group of lunatics who massacre refugees for money."
[Johnny: Yo, are you still a refugee protectionist? So kind? 】
Elliot curled up his lips: "Refugees will only bring trouble! Accepting refugees will only increase the crime rate, decrease the employment rate, and hinder social progress.
I just think the massacre is horrific. "
[Johnny: How hypocritical. 】
"This is humanism!"
The two guys who were full of doctrines were quarreling with each other. Muramasa was indifferent to this and just tried to contact the Internet violently and cautiously to receive more information in Elliot's head.
Lille is not interested in commenting too much, he is more concerned about how to take the next step.
[Lille: Look at the sports news. 】
"Oh, yes, youngster Matt. Can you really catch up with him? This kid is amazing. It is said that he grew up in a war zone and lived in the same environment as a killing zone. If he doesn't play football, he has to kill people.
It is reported that he will arrive in Europe at the end of the month to play for Ligue 1 team Brest's youth team. However, given his calm and brutal style of play, the audience will be keen to see him join the first team immediately.
Some people want to see blood and gore, but I guess most people still want to see the fall of a highly praised genius.
Europeans are not friendly to the natives from Night City."
Racial discrimination is a phenomenon that exists in many parts of the world.
But in this world, the boundaries of race are not clear, and it is naturally difficult to have pure racial discrimination.
But the gap in economic power brought about by region has become even more extreme——
In such a safe society, Night City is a pure cesspool in the eyes of most European citizens.
After all, there are only a few people who are willing to risk their lives to "pursue dreams and freedom."
However, the causes of discrimination are more complex.
“I don’t discriminate against people in Night City, and I think many people in Night City have a very powerful vitality.
Young player Matt, I have actually been paying attention to him for a long time.
But it would be bad if an outsider were to put pressure on one of our own people.
If citizens can see that Night City can become an international star, it will definitely not be good in the long run. "
