Bang, bang—

"vomit……"

"Hey, what are you looking at!"

"What does it have to do with you?"

"I know you're laughing at me, laughing at my height..."

"Do you want to have a fight, man."

"You think I'll be afraid of you!"

New York, subway.

As a subway facility built in the last century, it was perhaps one of the most advanced transportation facilities in the world at that time.

However, with the passage of time and management loss.

Today, the New York Metro has become one of the dirtiest and messy subways in the world. The subway stations are peeling and graffiti, the tracks are full of garbage and rats, the trains are filled with drunks and their vomit for 24 hours, as well as the irritable New Yorkers, and the signals that are sometimes not available. All of this has become the iconic daily life of the New York Metro.

Of course, even if the New York subway has many problems such as dirty and messy environments, frequent accidents, and never on time.

But it has at least its only advantage.

That is cheap enough, although it is not good, but at least it is cheap.

It is enough to support the necessary transportation needs of the poor, and it is uninterrupted for twenty-four hours.

Crowding beside the railing, Arthur's head was pressed against the blurred glass of the subway, looking at the dark shadow outside the window.

Behind him, a group of black people were lit up with the music played outside, ignoring the trouble caused by this practice.

The expressions on the faces of the people in the car were cold and disgusted.

The New York Times previously reported that the main reason for the delays and interruptions of the New York subway is the excessive passenger flow, which makes the subway unable to leave the station on time and leads to a slower speed.

Based on this report, the MTA, who is responsible for maintaining the New York Metro, made an amazing decision. In order to resolve the chaos in the New York Metro, they decided to remove some seats on the subway and free up more space to accommodate more passengers.

That’s right, in the face of the delay problem raised by the New York Times, MTA’s reaction was not to add trains and divert passengers, but to directly dismantle seats to make everyone squeeze together more densely.

It has to be said that MTA's decision is very consistent with the characteristics of capitalism.

...

"Sorry, sorry, sorry..."

Like canned sardines, he kept walking through the dense crowds of crowds. At this time, Arthur's thin body became his advantage in moving in the subway.

Through the dense crowd, Arthur got off the subway amidst amidst a swearing sound.

He held his thin thigh and took a breath for a moment, then reached out and touched the key in his pocket, confirming that it was not stolen by some guy who was holding him. Then he felt relieved and continued to walk towards the exit of the subway.

After coming out of the subway station, night has fallen.

Scattered street lights hit the road, not only did not illuminate, but instead made everything around him look dimmer.

Arthur walked on the dirty roads and the messy neighborhoods made it difficult for people to associate it with the bustling international metropolis of New York.

But there is no doubt that this is part of New York.

The New York City Bureau spends a certain amount of police force and expenses every year to renovate vicious crimes and neighborhoods in the city. The improvement in the past few years is indeed good, but with the gradual increase in the number of illegal immigrants and the economic downturn under the general environment, the unemployment rate remains high.

The originally lower crime rate is on the rise again.

The United States elected an unprecedented black president, but it does not mean that the quality of black people will be improved as a result.

By the darkness where the street lights could not be illuminated, Arthur noticed that several homeless men curled up inside were looking up at him, looking at them with expressionless faces. In a trance, Arthur seemed to have seen his figure in it.

If he loses his job in the bar, he may not be a long time before he will become one of them.

In a trance, Arthur did not notice the situation under his feet and accidentally tripped by something on the side of the road.

"Feel sorry."

Arthur turned his head and said sorry.

Only then did I notice that a homeless man was sitting there in the shadow of the roadside, wearing a patch and wrapping his body in a shabby cloak.

The items that tripped themselves were the old suitcases in the hand of the homeless man.

Because of his collision, the suitcase fell on the side of the road, and the lid opened and the things inside fell all over the floor.

"I didn't mean it, I didn't see it."

Looking at the items scattered from the suitcase, Arthur hurriedly stepped forward to pick them up and whispered apologies.

However, the weird thing is.

Looking at the objects scattered from his suitcase, the homeless man had no intention of stepping forward to clean up. He just stood in the shadow and watched Arthur's actions silently.

In this way, in the silent gaze of the homeless man.

Arthur picked up the things on the ground one by one, and he found that most of the things that fell from the suitcase were ordinary items, such as gloves, keychains, pens and other groceries.

Just as Arthur picked up the last item on the ground and planned to put it back into the suitcase, the homeless man who had been silent suddenly spoke.

"unnecessary……"

The homeless man's voice was hoarse, as if he hadn't spoken for a long time.

Under the cloak, he looked at the mask in Arthur's hand with his muddy eyes, inexplicably.

“It belongs to you now.”

Hearing the homeless man's words, Arthur's expression was slightly stunned.

He looked down at the mask in his hand, a shoddy red clown mask, grinning at him, making a cheerful expression.

With his eyes falling on the clown mask, Arthur felt that the originally melancholy emotions in his heart seemed to have become a little happier in an instant, and the corners of his mouth, which were pulled on his face, were unconsciously bent upward slightly.

Withdrawing his gaze, the sadness and sadness filled Arthur's heart again, as if the happiness at that moment just happened was just an illusion.

Looking at the homeless man in front of him, Arthur shook his head and said.

“I don’t have money.”

“In fact, you have paid.”

However, the homeless man smiled meaningfully and said hoarsely.

“…”

Hearing the homeless man's words, Arthur's expression was slightly stunned.

"But, I didn't give it to..."

“In this world, there are many ways to pay.”

With his mouth cracked and his uneven teeth exposed to Arthur, the tramp grabbed the handle of the suitcase, then turned around and disappeared into the shadow behind him.

On the roadside, when Arthur reacts and looks at it again.

The figure of the homeless man has long disappeared.
Chapter completed!