Due to the historical legacy, for a long time, the Kowloon Walled City has been an "unregulated" area which has been neglected by both the Chinese and the British Governments. It has long been dominated by triad societies, and the prevalence of pornography, gambling and drug abuse has made this area of less than three hectares synonymous with poverty and criminality in a special era. wouldn't even come in.
In reality, the Kowloon Walled City was demolished to build a park in 1993, and Qiao Wen had not seen the famous slum with his own eyes. But the legends about it have endured in later generations, becoming a source of inspiration for many artists and even turning into a mecca for cyberpunk enthusiasts for a time.
At that moment, an airplane from Kai Tak Airport rumbled past the roof of the adjacent tenement building, casting a large shadow.
Jovan recalls how William Gibson, the father of cyberpunk, described it - "The Citadel stands at the end of a runway, waiting to be cleared. It had been home to butchers, unlicensed dentists and drug dealers ...... Those cluttered windows were like nests of dreams; they seemed to absorb all the mad vitality of the Kai Tak airport; they sucked up energy like black holes."
It's a city within a city that has given inspiration to countless creators, but there's a fundamental difference between literary creation and real life.
When being at this point, even an adventurer like Jovan felt an oppression and uneasiness that could not be dispersed.
After all, he was born under the red flag and grew up under the red flag, his family was well off, never suffered materially, and his adventures were all desert jungles and the like, and he never went deep into the real slums.
And now, not only is he deeper, he's part of it.
It can be very ...... exciting.
He calculated in his mind that it was 1972, the last two years before the Walled City was inhabited by the Patrol Police, which meant that it was still the darkest years of the Kowloon Walled City.
It was a good thing that he had inherited both the memories of his original body and knew a little bit about the plot of the original book, so he didn't panic just because he appeared in a place like this.
While his head was spinning, Howie on the side suddenly reminded him, "Right Ah Man, you're awake now, or else go back and report to Granny first, you've been in a coma for more than you've been waking up for less than you've been waking up for the past couple of days, Uncle Wah still concluded that you might not be able to do it, and my brother and I didn't dare to tell Granny, we just said that you're here for treatment and you can't be seen in the wind, and asked her to not come to see you for the time being. "
Qiao Wen just remembered, the original body is an orphan, grew up and grandmother dependent on each other. Grandmother opened a stall selling dry goods to make a living, the original body of this sick child to pull up, it is not easy, the original small Qiao Wen is also quite competitive, not like most of the children in the city cottage as do not learn, has been seriously study, in the school results are very good, this year exactly five graduation, but because of the economic reasons, did not go to the university, but intends to look for a serious job to support the family.
Which know that before going to submit a resume, the person fell ill, and then woke up, it became the current Qiao Wen.
Qiao Wen thought for a moment and said, "Howie, I want to go outside the city fortress to get some air first, go tell my granny that I'm fine, so that she can rest assured that it's almost time to close the gears, so you'll help her to do so by the way."
Howie said, "You're going out alone? Then how can I rest assured, what if you faint on the road and no one cares?"
Qiao Wen turned his head to look at him, curved his lips towards him and squeezed out a smile, patted his shoulder and said, "I'm fine, just don't worry, you've been taking care of me every day for the past two days and you're tired, help granny close up the stalls and go back to rest earlier."
Howie stared blankly at the person in front of him, Man was always a sad and bitter face, he could not remember how long he had not seen his smile, only to feel that with this smile, the originally cloudy sky had cleared up.
He felt that Arwen was really different, yet he still couldn't say why, he just felt very joyful in his heart for such a difference, so he subconsciously nodded and obeyed his words, "Then take care of yourself, and don't forget to go back to Uncle Hua's place to drink the medicine."
"Know."
Howie was about to turn around when Joe Man called out again, "Do you have any money on you?"
"Ten more."
"OK, give it all to me."
Witnessing the lean teenager trotting away, Jovian followed his memory in the other direction.
The city fortress was divided into two districts, the western district was where they, the good citizens, lived, while the eastern district was the gathering place of the Triad's rampant pornography, gambling and drugs, where ordinary people didn't dare to set foot in at all.
Nowadays, the society that holds this place is called the Wo Hing Society, claiming to be the orthodox of the Hong Kong Sect, and the current boss, Chiu Shan Hoi, nicknamed the Drill Mountain Leopard, or Master Leopard, is a ruthless and vicious character.
Looking at the entire Hong Kong City, less than a thousand people and Xing Society can only be regarded as a small society, but because it is not subject to police control, so the situation is very special, even if it is outside the murder and arson, as long as the escape back to the city fortress, you can get away with it, so no one dares to mess with, can be called the Hong Kong City's most arrogant society.
Because the Wo Xing Society had reigned supreme and mighty in the city fortress for many years, almost everyone was proud to join the Wo Xing Society, and a well-behaved child like Qiao Wen was simply a rare animal.
As for Chen Canaan, he is naturally a member of the Wo Hing Society.
In Qiao Wen's memory, the original body of Chen Canaan mixed gangs this is very disgusting, at first for this, the two had a big fight. Or Chen Canaan vowed to join the association is only to better protect the neighborhood collar residence, will never be involved in gambling and drugs, the two only then make up for the first time.
However, if you always walk by the river, where can you not wet your shoes, let alone in this chaotic era.
Chen Canaan is now only the bottom four nines of the Hexing Society, but if he succeeds in the assassination tonight, he will be directly promoted by Zhaoshanhai to become a Red Stick, and when he is a Red Stick, there will only be more and more blood on his hands.
Qiao Wen searched for Chen Canaan's ferocious deeds in his head, in the original book that was a berserker, I'm afraid that the original body is not dead, it is also very difficult to stop him on this path of villainous big brother.
He let out a breath and continued down the dirty alleyway.
The fortress wasn't large, and within a few minutes of walking, he was outside.
Just a few hundred meters away, there is a world of difference. Inside is a dark slum, while outside is a thriving metropolis.
His eyes fell on a row of yellow cabs waiting for passengers at the side of the road.
It is now the early seventies, and although buses, trams, minibuses and cabs have become commonplace, this convenient and inexpensive rickshaw is still the means by which some of the lower classes are able to make a living.
Qiao Wen estimated the location he was going to, it wasn't far, it was estimated that it would only take more than twenty minutes on foot, except that with his current body, he had just walked for a few minutes and was already approaching his limit.
He squeezed the only ten dollars in his hand, walked slowly to a yellow cart, and said to the driver, "Yaumatei Hibiscus Tea Room."
In fact, today is not only the turning day of Chen Canaan, the evil villain, but also the turning point in the life of the male lead, Lin Zi Hui.
Lin Zi Hui's father, who is about to be killed by Chen Canaan, is a wealthy man in Hong Kong called Lin Shao Ming. However, the hero's fate is not destined to be so smooth, so Lin Zi Hui is not the son of the tycoon, but the illegitimate son of Lin Zhaoming and a tea room hostess (the old nickname for a waitress in a teahouse).
Like all the protagonists of novels with a difficult life, Lin Zi Hui's teeming real mother died of illness not long after giving birth to him. His own father, who made his fortune from his wife, and whose wife and children are not easy to deal with, would not take him home as a bastard even to protect him. So Lin Zi Hui had been raised by his uncle who ran a tea room.
Although not recognized back to the rich family, but Lin Zhaoming is very good to him, living a life as a young master from a young age, compared to the slums of Chen Canan and Qiao Wen, growing up in conditions can be said to be a world of difference. Unfortunately, in the original book, the father died, no ATM to fill the gap, gambling uncle quickly lost all the teahouse, and finally a serious illness was born, there is no money for treatment, and soon died, Lin Zihui completely become unsupported, but also by the father's wife and children everywhere to suppress, the days are very difficult.
Of course as the protagonist, he naturally rises to the occasion in the face of adversity, beating his face and abusing the scum along the way, going from penniless to a big shot in the city.
In fact, he and Chen Canaan's experience is similar, both because of the experience of change and embarked on the road of the big brother, only one walks the white road and one walks the black road, thus the sky is the difference, and because he is the male protagonist, it is always extraordinarily smooth. The biggest role of the villain's existence is to set off him as the protagonist, being abused by him over and over again.
When Qiao Wen read the book, he saw that Chen Canaan always lost to Lin Zi Hui, which was actually quite puzzling. Chen Canaan from a four nine boy jumped up to and Xing society double flower red stick only used two years, and then took advantage of the Hong Kong government to sweep the black, took out Zhao Shanhai smoothly on the throne, and became the new head of the society and Xing, since then will be originally only entrenched in the Kowloon Walled City and Xing society development to the whole of Hong Kong City, kill into the real estate and entertainment industry whitewashing, will be yellow gambling and drug to the underground, the age of the year is only more than twenty years old.
How does it feel out of character for such a bullish villain to repeatedly lose when fighting Lin Zi Hui, and even end up being shot randomly?
Of course, the hero is the biggest in cool writing, and all logic has to give way to the hero's aura.
The author has something to say:
Regarding the rank of the society, the Grouchy Boys told something about it.
A four-nine boy is a junior who has just been officially initiated into the society.
Red Stick, the equivalent of a gold medal fighter.
The Double Flower Red Stick, the most powerful of the Red Sticks.
Sitting in the pavilion ah dragon head or something is the boss.
Of course, this doesn't matter, this isn't a gang text, it's a text about how the protagonist fights against the forces of darkness.