After selling the equipment, Luke sent a message to inquire about the progress of Tel'abyssian. After receiving a positive reply, he logged off and went to sleep.
The next day was the weekend. Luke and his sister got up early in the morning, had a simple breakfast, and left home to look for a house.
From a sociological perspective, since the emergence of private ownership, human beings have inevitably become polarized. Even if technology becomes more advanced, this will not change and may even become more serious.
Today in the 23rd century, the gap between the rich and the poor has not only not been eliminated, but three types of areas have emerged: slums, civilian areas, and rich areas. Although there is no such division in official files, this is actually the case.
The slums are where the unemployed live, and they barely survive on government relief and have no right to education or medical care. The reason why the Lu brothers and sisters live such a hard life is because Luke gave his sister the opportunity to go to school, hoping that she would be able to find a good job one day and marry into a civilian area or even a wealthy area.
The civilian areas are the working class, or the low-income class. Most of them cannot pay much taxes, but because they can create social value, they have certain civil rights and their living conditions are much better than those in the slums.
Most of the early Dawn game players were rich people, or at least civilians. As for the poor, they could only apply to join the suicide squad and work as gold farmers.
As for the wealthy areas, the smallest group of people controls almost all the social wealth and naturally enjoys more power.
Luke now has more than 30,000 real currency in his account. He can forget about buying a house, even in a civilian area. But renting a house is definitely no problem.
They are now looking for a house in a civilian area with good public security, schools nearby, and preferably a lower cost...
"Brother, look, there are patrol police here in broad daylight," Gabrielle pointed to Luke in surprise.
The younger sister of the Lu family is a little beauty, born with natural beauty. She has always felt insecure since childhood. Fortunately, her brother is a good fighter, so she can grow up safely in an environment like that of a slum.
"Because this place is close to our slums, the control is stricter," Luke explained. This was really a hurtful answer. The patrolman who Gabrielle felt was very friendly was actually on guard against people like them in the slums.
"Brother, if we find a house to live in here, will we still be poor?" The little girl looked hopeful.
"Elle, the reason why we are poor is not because we live in a slum, but because we have no money. Once we have money, we will naturally no longer be poor," Luke swore secretly in his heart that he would never let his sister feel inferior because of her identity in this life.
"Yeah, brother, you are so awesome. You made money in just two days." The elder brother is always the best, and the eyes of a certain brother-con are full of little stars.
"Elle, we won't look for a house here anymore," a sister-con was so excited by the compliment that he instantly lost track of east, west, south, and north, and said in a heroic and confident tone, "Let's go to the rich area!"
"Brother, really?!" After a moment of happiness, Gabrielle began to hesitate again, "But brother, do we have enough money? And we have to plan for the future. What if... what if one day we can't make money, what should we do?"
The little girl's worries are normal and human.
But she didn't know that sister control is most afraid of being questioned by her sister. What? Her brother won't be able to make money in the future. This is totally impossible!
However, the more Luke thought about it, the more he felt that it would be nice to move to the rich area. The living conditions there were so good. The slums here looked like the kind of dilapidated places that were waiting to be demolished two hundred years ago, and the civilian areas were at the level of the suburbs. The rich area was truly worthy of the two hundred years of technological development.
After getting on the hovercraft, the Lu siblings headed directly to the wealthy area.
The rich area is very large, but the flow of people is not large. Except for some specific areas, there are no obvious high-rise buildings. The residential area is full of green trees, and there are even rare plants that became extinct two hundred years ago.
The animal and plant DNA that has been preserved for two hundred years has gradually been successfully restored by humans, and many suitable ones are raised in villas and estates in wealthy areas.
"You want to rent a house here?" Most of the receptionists came from civilian areas, and they didn't look down on others. They just said with some embarrassment: "According to the district government's regulations, if you want to settle here, you must have a security deposit of one million in your account."
"One million," Luke was immediately discouraged.
"Brother, forget it," Gabrielle pulled Luke's arm and said softly.
"Actually, you can go to the university town," the receptionist reminded.
"Yes," Luke suddenly realized that if one wanted a good living environment, he didn't necessarily have to live in a wealthy area.
There was a big disturbance when the site of the university town was being selected.
That was more than 170 years ago. The government invested a huge amount of money to build a university town, intending to plan all the universities in the city together.
The original plan was to choose a location in a wealthy area. After all, who doesn't want to have a school built right next to their home? The members of the parliament are all from wealthy areas.
No one had expected that the civilians and the poor, who had always endured humiliation, would react so strongly. Factories were deserted, schools were empty, water and electricity were cut off, transportation was cut off, and even the army fell into chaos. Several members of parliament were assassinated by their subordinates.
In desperation, someone proposed to build the university town at the junction of the civilian area and the wealthy area.
Although the controversy still exists, the chaos has finally subsided, and the university town has become a buffer between the civilian area and the wealthy area, providing both space for civilians to survive and very good living conditions.
It was already eleven o'clock in the morning when the Lu siblings arrived here. Luke planned to go directly to the villa area of the Caroline Guild to take a look. He had been there before and was familiar with the environment there.
This is a garden villa area with four office buildings in front and a residential area behind.
Luke pulled Gabrielle along, passed the real estate agency with a sign, and went straight through the office building into the residential area.
"Brother, I heard that the agency is the place that introduces houses, why don't we ask them for help," Gabrielle turned his head and tried to look back at the real estate agent.
"Silly girl, real estate agents are all liars. They will rent the worst house to you and rent out the remaining good ones at a better price next time. If you encounter a worse real estate agent, they may even collude with the landlord to cheat you. So, if you can avoid using an agent, don't do it," Luke acted like a parent, imparting life philosophy to his blank-slate sister.
Miss Gabrielle didn't have any doubts at all, and immediately looked at the real estate agents with a wary look in her eyes.
"Then how do we know which house here will be rented out?"
"There are two ways, look for it online, or look at the notice board in the community." In his previous life, Luke also moved out of the slums with his sister, but they lived in a civilian area, and their life was not very good, otherwise he would not have been unable to treat his sister's illness in time due to lack of money.
"Should we look for it online?"
"Most of the pictures on the Internet are fake. It's better to go and see them in person. Let's go to the bulletin board first." For hundreds of years, people's habits have not changed. There is an empty space next to the electronic bulletin board for people to post things.
There are people who buy second-hand computer virtual helmets, clinics that treat chronic diseases, and of course, there are also people who sublet houses and are looking for roommates.
The two siblings huddled together, discussing which of the posted messages was appropriate. Just as they were about to choose one and start making a phone call, they heard someone behind them say impatiently, "Have you seen enough? Can you please move aside so I can post something?"