Chapter 368 – [Mars SimCity Build It]

Ruri whispered as they looked around the construction site among themselves. It’s a little bit of a complaint about what happened earlier.

“Wouldn’t you rather have told me?”

“You can’t stop rumors. Even if you try to stop them with Horizon, you can’t stop rumors spreading from people to people. The fewer people you know, the better.”

“If I knew, I would definitely convince them and proceed with the construction faster.”

“Then you will feel impatience. As Mr. Moo-Hyuk Kang said, enough time and budget will create quality.”

There is a difference between knowing that someone is chasing you from behind and not knowing.

There were times when it was better not to know, as if a person could clearly feel the pain when he saw a small wound rather than not knowing that there was a small wound.

“Still, it’s going smoothly. I guess I picked the people well.”

“I’m the one I chose”

“Even if I stick out my chest and brag there, there’s nothing to see”

“……..”

“Aaaaa! Don’t shoot the beam! It’s dishonest to shoot a beam just because you said the effect!”

A heat ray passed by Ruri’s cheek in an instant. It felt like it would pierce through and melt even an iron plate.

“The body is meaningless to me. I just get drunk because this is the most comfortable and energy efficient.”

“I don’t think I meant to shoot a beam out of anger.”

“………”

“Evil?! It’s heavy?! It’s as heavy as Son Goku training at 20 times the gravity!!! Keuheh?!”

Controlling gravity is easy for Shion, Hanon who manipulates the laws of physics. In an instant, the gravity around Ruri increased several times, causing Ruri to crawl on the floor.

Anyway, city building was going well. The next thing left was to look around the mine.

Awesome!!!

Open the dimension gate again and go straight to the mining site. However, it was not terraformed separately, so it was an environment just like Mars, where humans could not live without space suits.

The functions of the suits Ruri and Reyes were wearing were automatically activated. Shion didn’t wear it because he didn’t need it in the first place, but the two needed oxygen to breathe.

Doo doo doo doo!!!!

The sound of an excavator resonates in the quarry. All over the place, work is in full swing to extract only the necessary materials by melting and disassembling the stones coming up from the mines or ores containing various types of metals.

If you take off your suit, you will feel the warm air. The highest temperature on Mars is only about 30 degrees Celsius, so the temperature around the mine is higher now.

But at night, it’s good to stay here. Because at night on Mars, the maximum temperature drops to minus 170 degrees.

“Oh, I heard you were coming.”

“Is your job okay, Mr. Kim Gap-won?”

“Yes, of course.”

A fairly old man, dressed in a mining suit who looked to be in his 60s, emerged from inside the mine.

It is not easy to challenge the big things that change the planet itself, such as migrating to Mars, because original people try to settle for a comfortable present when they get older. However, he passed the interview and was here now.

Since there was still no air, we actually communicated through the communicator on the suit.

“Unlike before, it’s very comfortable. The speed of work is incomparably faster and safer. Moreover, thanks to these clothes, it’s comfortable, so what more could you ask for here?”

“Sorry to keep you in the suit while you’re working. We’re on a tight schedule and can’t afford to terraform places like this.”

The residential area has no choice but to expand as much as possible because people need to live, but this is a place to mine resources and there is only one human.

It was a waste to use the insufficient terraforming equipment for the environment in which only one person would work. It would have been better to wear a work suit and have them work.

“No. Mining work is as good as heaven. Don’t worry too much.”

“Then do you have any discomfort?”

“I need more equipment… But that’s it, I said I would support you, so I don’t have it right now. If I need anything, I’ll tell you later.”

“All right”

Even if the body reaches old age and aging progresses, if you wear only one suit, you can do ten jobs by yourself. And with Horizon’s medical technology, aging was just a simple phenomenon.

During breaks, she often injects drugs and even performs anti-aging procedures, so after a while, she will be able to return to her prime.

“But I’m a bit surprised that my grandfather applied for something like this.”

“Heh heh, it seems that way. It’s natural for people to want to settle for comfortable things when they get old.”

To be precise, Gab-won Kim chose to move to Mars because of his distrust of the government.

Like the reason he works here, he once worked in a mine. However, he was angered by the harsh environment, hard labor, and low pay.

“At least, ask for a raise in salary… I just wanted to make more money and feed my children and wife more delicious food, but the company turned a blind eye and the union deceived us.”

The meeting that took place was like a lit bomb that eventually exploded.

Like the clashes between unions and riot police often seen in modern times, armed force was added to the assembly.

“Of course, we also made mistakes. Countless people gave themselves up to anger and even had a cause, so there was nothing to be afraid of. We, the victims, became the perpetrators and made petty victims. But after the negotiations with the company were over, the government arrested us.”

It is a natural right of workers to demand improvement of the working environment.

It is the union’s fault for ignoring their terms and cheating the miners and the company for not negotiating earlier.

And this happened less than 10 years after Jeon Tae-il passed away.

“Declaring martial law, setting up an investigative team or something, dragging all those who thought they had a little bit of a connection with the ringleader to be tortured and beaten… Just remembering that time is so scary that I often have nightmares.”

“…It was a dark history.”

“Do you know what’s funny? At that time, the head of the investigation was the former president. What is it?”

“I don’t think I’m talking about the previous president, and just looking at it, it’s a 290,000 won octopus head!”

Being interrogated and subject to criminal punishment for acts of violence that occurred during protests, it was a matter of course as it is a country based on the rule of law. Even though he had promised not to be punished during the negotiations, it was something he had to do.

But that shouldn’t be accompanied by torture. Now is the time to protect the human rights of heinous murderers, but at the time, the human rights of workers who arose to improve the working environment were trampled on.

“And a month later, a democratization movement took place in Gwangju”

“Aaaaa…”

Ruri let out a quiet voice mixed with various emotions. Even though he is a god terminal or a person who was born in Korea and studied Korean history, he knows how bloody the history he is talking about is.

Korea is a country that has gone through many adversities. It went through a war and eventually split into two, but now it was a country in the ranks of advanced countries.

However, we must not forget that there were many sacrifices. There is no future for a nation that has forgotten its past like Japan, which has now collapsed.

“You must have suffered a lot”

“Yes, seeing things like that made me lose trust in the government. I tried to move abroad, but at the time, everything I did was monitored, so after giving up, I heard the news that migrants from Mars were being selected, and I realized my dream, albeit belatedly. I wanted to make it happen”

“Families…”

“I already sent them first. No strangers, no children. During the Great Depression.”

Just as the worst was the loss of their parents during the Great Depression and growing up in an institution, there have been plenty of people who have lost everyone but themselves.

Zion likes the culture and history built up by humans, for better or for worse. Even the history he talked about feels compassion, but the present exists because there were such people.

“I don’t just hate the government. It may have been like that at first, but as time passed, my view gradually changed. I saw people of the same age as me protesting at Gwanghwamun Square with Taegeukgi.”

“How did you feel?”

“It’s ugly. The act of blindly believing what you believe is right without ever questioning what you believe.”

“Human beings are, by nature, creatures like that. It’s pitiful on the other hand to refuse to see even if we bring evidence and proof.”

Sometimes you have to accept it and know how to fix it. Humans have developed that way, but there are bound to be people who stop and get eliminated.

Zion had no intention of accepting even such people. I will throw it away if it happens.

Because the opposite of evolution is not degeneration but nonchange.

“Since you’re an alien, you’re actually older than me, but I’d like to presumptuously give you some advice. Please don’t let a victim like me come out.”

“The things you worry about won’t happen. At least there won’t be any innocent victims. I promise.”

“When you say so, I am relieved.”

Heh heh, he smiled.

However, a feeling of remorse could be seen on his smiling face.

*        *    *

The operation of the mining farm is proceeding normally, so everything to be done today has been completed. It was time for the three of them to come back to Horizon again and finish the day.

“It’s a pretty complicated story. Our Delta Castle had almost no internal problems, but the human society…”

“It’s like that. Human history builds up gradually by repeating mistakes and mistakes. If you make a bad choice among them and continue to climb, you will eventually stumble and collapse, or you will be caught and killed by my husband.”

“No, where is the uncle?!”

“Anyway, I don’t feel bad because I met a living witness of modern history.”

On the way back, Ruri grumbled and clicked his tongue.

“By the way, the more I think about it, the more I get angry. Can’t I use the Horizon equipment to kill just a few people? Mister Kim Jae-gyu! A few more go up!”

“Stop it. The end of those guys is obvious anyway.”

“You’re alive. That’s what pisses me off.”

“Every human being alive commits a sin. And it is natural that those sins will be judged after death.”

Even if there is no hell on this earth, in order to reincarnate, return to the left of reincarnation where Aregish, one of the four dimensional species that swims in the sea of ​​​​the soul, stays.

And you get paid for the karma you did in your life. When Aregish deals with karma, good karma is easily dealt with, but bad karma feels terrible pain.

Of course, bad karma is offset by a certain amount of good karma, but the story is different for those who are resentful of many people there.

“Such people will fall into the abyss after death. Then you don’t have to worry about what happens after that, as it will be obvious.”

“It’s not like that, it’s just that it’s annoying that people like that are alive.”

“That’s the story when it is said that there is no afterlife. I don’t know if there is a hell here or not, but at least I don’t have to worry about not being punished after death.”

“Transcendentalists have different thoughts…!!!”

“Can I introduce you to the King of Kings you know? He’s so damn strong that even my husband can slash at him. I’m so glad my husband isn’t born there.”

“I think I know roughly who lives where. It’s okay, just pass it on.”

The human posthumous problem is quite complicated. But the important thing is that if you commit a crime, you will be punished accordingly.

Did you commit a sin in your life? Don’t worry about falling down your spine to pay back after death, human!

“……Ah, Mr. Kim Yeong-ho contacted me that the draft law was completed.”

“Already?”

“Looking at it, I think it’s because it was made based on the Constitution of the Republic of Korea. There are still a few things to adjust, but it’s a good enough law. It’s late today, so let’s deal with it tomorrow.”

“That would be better.”

Mars also has night. The temperature outside was below zero before I knew it, and it became a low temperature of over 100 degrees below zero, enough to freeze ice, making it a poor environment for survival.

That’s because there is no oxygen. To overcome that, terraforming had to go a little further.

“Let’s rest for today. It’s only natural to leave work on time.”

“I’m rolling quite a bit for that.”

“You don’t die from sleeping less, but you complain a lot.”

“I’ve chosen the wrong place to work!”

Humans from Delta Castle have different specifications from ordinary humans. This is because no matter how bad they are, they are born with talents and intelligence that are beyond ordinary human beings.

So even if you sleep 4 hours a day, you won’t die! There are people who don’t die even if they live like that!!!!

“For now, let’s talk early tomorrow morning. Both of you go back and rest.”

“Auntie?”

“I just need to work a little longer and go to sleep. I don’t really need sleep anyway.”

“Huhmmmm…”

For reference, Shion hates titles that look like a child, so he prefers titles that look older. It doesn’t matter if you call me a lady!!!

Her title, as Ruri called her, gradually changed and became her aunt. Honestly, it’s okay if the person in question likes it.

“See you tomorrow at 9 o’clock. It’s a good time to get up and go to work.”

“It’s just 9 o’clock, so you come at 8 o’clock and prepare in advance, don’t you?”

“Will I accept that?”

“Humter Resting!!!”

Early work and overtime are things that Zion hates. Everyone had the right to work and leave work according to a set time.

“Why am I sleeping so little…”

“It’s a different thing to do other work. But doesn’t Mr. Reyes pay extra?”

“It is, but it is.”

Besides here, Raise is working under Zion to save up for when he returns to Delta Castle. Being nice doesn’t mean you don’t need money. As much as he needed money to live, so did he.

The fear of capitalism…!!!

That was the driving force behind Raise.