"This... is amazing! Their jumping power is really good. They have to be three meters from the floor to the ceiling, right? They jumped up... so quickly!" Ronggui jumped a few times by himself, and jumped at his current height. For a long time, let alone touching the ceiling, he couldn't even jump halfway. In contrast, he had a great sense of admiration for the ghost guest and his party.
"There should be someone at the back, and a rope should be used." Xiaomei said.
"Even so, that's great."
"If you do a lot of things, you will naturally be great."
"Yes." Ronggui nodded when he thought of the ghost guest who had not been to Xiaomei to buy beans before.
"However, who are they? At first glance, they are not dwarves." When walking back, Ronggui suddenly thought of this question.
Having lived in the city of dwarves for quite a long time, and having many dwarf friends, Ronggui naturally saw at a glance that the other party was not a dwarf.
As for what everyone in the comment area had been speculating yesterday, whether the other party was Xiaomei's fellow villager or something...
Ronggui didn't think about it at all.
Uh... First, he hasn't seen Xiaomei's fellow villager, and secondly, Xiaomei's mood was so calm yesterday that she couldn't see any fluctuations at all.
Besides, if the other party is Xiaomei's fellow, Xiaomei should have found out when the ghost guest bought the beans.
Not a dwarf, but so short, Ronggui was curious about the identity of the other party.
"It's a young child." Xiaomei gave the answer directly when she closed the door and re-entered the room without selling anything.
"What?!" Without thinking in this direction at all, Ronggui was stunned.
Then he quickly found the facts corresponding to this answer.
"That's right, his voice sounds weird and unnatural. Now that I think about it, it should be deliberately squeezing his throat to speak, pretending to be very low."
"Then it is very short. If you are a child, you are naturally short~"
"Oh my God! It's actually a group of children who just came to transfer Kerry?!" Realizing this, Ronggui didn't know what to do with his expression.
"However, why are there children here? Still such small children, and, where are they going to take Kerry?" Dazed, Ronggui naturally thought of the questions that everyone would think of in the future.
Her lips were pursed tightly, and Xiaomei didn't speak.
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In the eyes of most people, the star prison is divided into two parts, the part above the ground, and the part below the ground, the upper part is called the star prison, and the lower part is jokingly called the hell.
Not long after they came in, Ronggui and Xiaomei were popularized by this name.
However, in fact, if they are senior prisoners, they will know another way of dividing the prison: the star prison for ordinary prisoners, and the "children's paradise".
Ordinary star prisons should not have children, and there will be no such small children.
Older children who make mistakes are put in places like juvenile reform institutions, which cannot be called "prisons" by law.
However, there are children in this prison.
Probably because the prison that Pezer was in charge of at the beginning was only a women's prison, right
Many of the prisoners were brought in while pregnant with children.
As in many years ago, the criminal law has extra care for pregnant women, and although there is no delay in serving time as before, pregnant inmates do feel more comfortable in prison than others.
Or maybe there are prisoners who bring their pregnancy to prison without knowing it, but many more pregnant prisoners do it on purpose.
In this case, children are just a means for them to escape the hard labor in prison. The children are born, but they are too lazy to care.
This situation can be found in any prison, and the practice of most prisons is to send these children out to be raised by the relatives of the inmates, or they can be placed in children's shelters - similar to orphanages, where they receive basic medical care. grow up with standardized parenting.
However, according to scientific statistics, these children are much more likely to become criminals in the future than other children.
The topic is a little farther, 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, where people outside can even When it comes to the level of consumption…
There are men and women, and if they meet, they will naturally produce children.
These children were born in prison.
No identity, they have a mother, but they don't know who their father is.
And very few mothers give them the precious emotion of "mother love".
Or they die naturally without being taken care of from birth, or they grow up casually under the indifferent attitude of "mothers".
Most of them are not tall and have small limbs.
When they are a little older and can crawl, they often leave their mother's cell and crawl 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, they don't take up space, and they're like non-existence to everyone else.
Like beasts, they rely on instinct to live in this unusual city.
They are part of the city, yet have no status symbol of their own, not even a cell of their own!
I don't know which child first discovered the ventilation duct above and hid in it. It was a good place. Although some places are relatively spacious, most of the ducts are very narrow and narrow, and only children can pass through. Here, they You don't have to worry about being beaten or scolded by adults anymore, you can also enjoy the food you get in various ways with peace of mind.
With first child, second child soon...
They finally found their home in this "city".
Because of the special structure, only very small children can live here. Adults have never been to this place for most of their lives. However, 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" on their own. Older children even picked up children who were abandoned outside the home and raised.
This natural "paradise" can shelter them around the age of 14, and if they are over 170 in height, it is difficult for them to move freely in the "paradise".
Therefore, when they are a little more sensible, they will be taught by their "seniors" by their words and deeds, and they will start to run through the natural ventilation pipes in the "paradise" and wander through the prisons at all levels, in order to find food, but also to find someone in the prison who can teach them 's adults.
In this place, there is nothing more important than learning a craft. Although they have no education, the pressure of survival makes them fully aware of it.
Or help people to spread the word, or help people to run errands, there are not many things they can do, but there are some things that only they can do. Slowly, they grew 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.
What Xiaomei said was right. There were indeed two children on the ceiling who were there to support them. They used a special rope that could quickly pull their companions up from below.
They move very quickly, often in less than a blink of an eye to lower the rope, retract the rope, put the lid on, and so on.
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 person is very thin, he is too tall. There are many ways for him to walk." The first thing I did when I received Kerry was to measure his height and weight. A little girl looked up.
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 take a different route, take the road of Xiaoshizi, there is a way to the 687th floor, there are many empty rooms on that floor, put him there. Say it there."
From birth, they have to work hard for survival. These children are very hardworking. They will recite all the pipes they often take in a short period of time. Even more powerful, they even have a complete set of ventilation pipes in their minds. picture!
And this kind of child is often qualified to be an indispensable character in a team. If he is a little smarter and more capable, he can also become a team leader.
And Berg just meets all of the above needs, so he is the captain of this squad.
Living in a "paradise", they believe in the power of groups more than anyone else, so from the beginning, they will act collectively in groups or teams.
Berg is eight years old this year, but has been captain for two years.
Since he grew up in a pipe, his height is much shorter than his peers outside, so he is naturally shorter than Ronggui and Xiaomei.
He consciously controlled himself not to grow too fast, and told his companions to do so.
As an eight-year-old, he thought very far.
He is already thinking seriously about things beyond the age of 14.
And age is not the only condition. If he grows fast and grows to more than 170 cm in advance, then he must leave "home" ahead of time.
So he has now started to learn skills.
The object of study he found was Gigi.
I haven't spoken to Gigi yet, but he thinks it's good to open a bar, he has a good relationship with the jailers, the business is easy to do, and the bar needs to hire people, so he can also take care of the rest of the team's work. .
So for a long period of time, he spent a long time every day watching how Gigi was doing.
Just in case, he would also observe other vendors on the ninety-ninth basement floor.
If you can't open a bar, it's fine to sell vegetables - Berger thought.
Compared with the outside children who constantly say that their future dream is to become a city lord or a millionaire, Berg's dream is very realistic, all based on the premise of living and living as well as possible.
After "studying", he will also buy some food by the way.
Due to his studies, he has less time to go out and work, and his income is naturally less. At first, he couldn't afford anything, but later he found something called "didou" at Xiaomei's booth.
The fact that light shines is already very attractive to him - you know, unlike the cells in the prison, there is absolutely no light in the ventilation ducts! Plants that glow are so precious!
What's more, it's edible!
Three can feed their five-person team. If the money is a little more, Berg will buy five, and he will bury the extra two in the soil. After years of uncleaning, there is a thick layer on the wall of the ventilation duct. thick 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.
The little friends agreed with it. In this way, Berg went to buy ground beans every day. As long as the ventilation ducts he passed through, a few ground beans were planted on the walls of the pipes.
Before I knew it, there were already many small green beans on the dark ventilation ducts.
Of course, not all ground beans survive, and some are eaten without food for them. Some were eaten by other kids who passed by.
While some kids did eat it right away, many more put other foods 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 over and buy ground beans from him in the future." Berg first reported the situation to the friends who didn't come down.
Then he heard a string of muted cheers.
"Bought ten in total." He said the number of purchases.
Another cheer.
"Let's eat three, and plant the rest in the pipe? Plant one on the ceiling of the place where the person lived just now. It will be more eye-catching when he comes here?" The little girl who had spoken before quickly said.
The other friends agreed, and Berg nodded solemnly: "I think so too."
Chatting didn't affect their speed. When they spoke, they were far away from Ronggui Xiaomei's position.
The three little friends dragged Kerry one in front and two behind, with Berg exploring the way at the front, and a little friend in charge of the rear.
They went through the thickest pipe, and no matter how fat Kerry was, he couldn't go through it. If he was awake and exerted himself, he couldn't go through it. Only when he was completely relaxed, and pulled and pulled by the children, could he pass through the pipeline.
There were many forks along the way, and Berg's sharp eyes identified each pipeline. Under his leadership, the team walked in the pipeline for about four hours. Finally, they arrived at their destination.
It was a dark cell.
The prisoners detained here are very vicious, so the attitude of the prison authorities towards them is also very vicious.
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. The first layer is also very familiar.
Their movements are really very light, and if they don't speak deliberately, the prisoners around them can't even detect someone passing by.
Find an empty cell in the far corner, Berg and the others put Kerry in it.
When Kerry was transported out of the 999th floor underground and placed in other places that were not well guarded, their agreement with Gigi was completed.
After doing all this, the children quietly left.