For the Seimo people living in the Harlet Wastelands, it was getting harder and harder to understand this world.
The thunderstorms that always loomed over their heads were getting fewer and fewer year after year. The tradition of hunting for half a year indoors had completely died out.
If the change in living habits was reasonable, then the various new things were too much for the eyes to take in.
The day before yesterday, they were still marveling at the convenience of the train network. Yesterday, they were looking at their homes from the platform on the airship. Today, they were enjoying the scenery on the internet.
Many people felt that they couldn't keep up with the times anymore. Yesterday's knowledge and understanding were outdated today. The worst thing was that their life goals and worldview were constantly being reconstructed … To put it bluntly, they were living in a daze. They didn't even know what kind of life they wanted anymore.
Hahler Diane, who was in the prime of his life, was a classic example. He didn't even know what to do next.
Before the outsiders came, when he was still a teenager, his dream was to become an outstanding hunter in the Wastelands. Before he was two hundred years old, he was able to hunt down a beast on the level of a "King Fang" by himself. He wanted to become the hero of the tribe's youths, find a girl with a big butt, and give birth to a bunch of fat kids.
Not long after the Aishi People arrived, when Vila Nova Dônia was just built, he became an assembly line worker in an Aishi People's beverage factory.
Back then, what he loved the most was how many hours he worked and how many pieces of work he did every day. Roughly how many days he worked was equivalent to the fur, claws, and fangs of a "King Fang" magical beast. When he was promoted to a team leader and his salary increased to one King Fang every five days, he was no longer in the mood to practice martial arts.
At that time, according to the standards of the Seimo people, he was still a "teenager". However, when he returned to his hometown to visit his family, he was shocked to find that he had become the richest person in the entire area with just a box of household items. During the few days he stayed at home, there were people coming to his house every day for a blind date, including Ah Hua, who used to ignore him.
The hero of the tribe and his childhood idol, the number one hunter, Ah Kui, got into an accident in Vila Nova Dônia. He injured someone and became a wanted criminal … Ah Kui threw away the Thunder Spear and Inky Wood Shield that he had planned to use for the rest of his life. He no longer had any interest in hunting.
When he returned to the city with A 'Hua, he no longer counted how much he earned from Kibaou. Instead, like the Aishi People, he counted how much Novodonia he earned in a month and how far he was from buying a house.
At this time, his dream was probably to be promoted from a team leader to a workshop supervisor. That way, he would be able to keep an eye on everyone and earn twice the salary of a team leader. He would also have the freedom to decide when to take a vacation.
When people longed for a peaceful life, fate always surprised or frightened them.
There was a series of fluctuations in the new city. The people of Seymour, who had yet to understand the meaning of the economy, first knew of an economic term — financial crisis.
There was no need to explain the reason. Halle only knew that his dream had been shattered.
"The factory is gone, and the boss ran away with his sister-in-law. How am I going to be promoted to workshop supervisor?"
Like most of the people of New Seymour, he did not have the habit of saving money. Instead, he was saddled with a lot of debt.
Back then, the shops said nice things like, "Money will become less and less valuable. Thirty year installments will be free." "You are a team leader? Okay, the interest rate will be low for a hundred thousand. " "Buy early and enjoy early …" "Money will not leave you. It will only accompany you in a different way."
All kinds of advertisements made it sound like benefits and free gifts … No, it was not "made it sound like". All kinds of salespeople even directly entered the shop. The boss would promote the loans and products as benefits to the workers and officers.
How could the inexperienced newcomers resist these sales tactics? They really thought that the boss was giving them benefits. They basically bought a lot of things and were already in debt for thirty years. (To the people of Seymour, thirty years was not a long time). Now, more than half of their monthly salary had been paid to various installments.
Now that their salary was gone and they had encountered a harsh winter, they did not even have enough money to pay for food, rent, utilities, and so on. How could they pay the monthly tribute?
At this time, the merchants who were originally kind like family members changed their attitude … They were about to go bankrupt!
Not only did they use all kinds of methods to force the loan, they even took out the original monthly payment contract. "If the payment is not made on time, or if the payment is not made before the payment is completed, the goods will be returned to you. The payment will not be returned."
What did that mean? Even if you took a loan to buy a house, if you did not have enough money to pay the monthly payment, the house would become something else. The previous monthly payment would not be returned. If the house was sold or damaged … Sorry, you have worked for nothing for decades and now you still owe someone a house.
Such a clause was not a patent of Vila Nova Dônia. It was not even a patent of Aishi. Even the installments of loans on Earth had such a clause. However, the people of Seymour did not think that there would be such a clause. They had long been blinded by the so-called high salary and did not even consider that there would be a day when they could not afford it.
"What, is there a problem with this clause? Don't worry, it is just a procedure. It has never been carried out. Yep, it is just a procedure. "
As for the salesman back then, he had put it nicely … Actually, even the salesman didn't expect that not only would this clause be fulfilled, it would be fulfilled on a large scale. In fact, even the salesman himself was a victim of early consumption and super loans.
Fortunately, the entire economic market did not collapse. That was why Hahler did not become a member of the queue on the rooftop.
But he was also lucky enough to find a new job … or rather, a new job found him. The unemployed people on the streets back then had now become soldiers of the First Legion of the Hatley Confederation.
And now, he was already a veteran of seven years.
His dream of becoming a workshop supervisor had turned into his dream of becoming a major. 8)
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