Chapter 2811: A Gamble, Disguised
If the places Xu Zimo had seen before represented high technology and cutting-edge innovations of the future,
then what Xu Zimo saw in this slum district was worse than many other places.
It was a cesspit where people lived like beasts.
It was difficult to describe the scene within.
It was disgusting enough to make one want to vomit the moment they entered.
Neither Lu Chen nor Lu Ling seemed to have expected it to be like this.
Though they knew the slum district was different,
and that life here could not compare to theirs,
when they truly came here and truly experienced it,
they realized that what they understood was still far too little.
It was like studying history.
The knowledge one saw in books
and truly arriving in that era to experience it firsthand were two completely different feelings.
That shock, that sense of reality—
these were things others found difficult to achieve.
"Interesting," Xu Zimo said with a smile.
"You said these people all survive on Green City's relief?
Why does it not look that way to me?"
Most absurd of all, Xu Zimo had only walked a few steps
when he saw a corpse.
The corpse lay by the roadside, already beginning to rot.
Yet no one had cleaned it up.
And many people lay near it just like that corpse, as though they could neither sense nor smell the stench it gave off.
Xu Zimo was greatly shocked by the sight.
Because he rarely saw such scenes.
In other worlds, such situations were exceedingly rare.
Unless it was the end of a dynasty, when people exchanged children to eat.
But Green City was not some apocalyptic wasteland.
It looked so advanced.
Yet the gap between rich and poor here seemed