Dark Future Short Stories - Sixteen - The Fish'n'Chips take away
The Fish'n'Chips take away
All and everyone called him Jon even so his name was not Jon at all. He arrived in the worlds biggest mega city a few years ago getting a get a away ticket out of an underground war on the other part of the globe that got stuck in a constant mainly covered war.
This was the Lagos Bay that faced an incredible explotion of population. The old city and the slum in the water remained untoched, the rest turned a hyperstructore harbourung possibley 300 million humans in an all connected mountain like building that was created based on chaos theory. It had grown by decentraliced, but connected planning like an ant hill or termite kingdom in an unwreckable and also unrulable empire of freedom nobody would ever find him coming to look for him from far away.
On several decks differnt magnetic rails connected the bay area and roads where routing in tunnel like structures along with elevators and stair cases from halls to narrow side ways in a structure reaching the hight of Hong Kong and New York skyscrapers, but it created no spikes and instead a high plateu cut by some valleys like nothing else.
Lagos did not even had a Police force, and only a majors office overlooking the different voted cubic cell parlaments. It was actually anarchy by an uncontrolable complexity attracting only a certain kind of human.
In the Rhein Sprawl he owed the wrong gang and even after the gang was taken out his nightmares and fear continued to rule his live. so Striker made an offer.
Leave and never come back.
He was happy first time.
Sometimes others would come to his shop and he'd give em the same parcel he had given to from a chinese pottery shop a few miles away. An address and a key all prepered by their community.
The untouchables.
