「中英文」元宇宙之雪崩（1）(12)

The Deliverator is assigned to CosaNostra Pizza #3569 in the Valley. Southern California doesn"t know whether to bustle or just strangle itself on the spot. Not enough roads for the number of people. Fairlanes, Inc. is laying new ones all the time. Have to bulldoze lots of neighborhoods to do it, but those seventies and eighties developments exist to be bulldozed, right? No sidewalks, no schools, no nothing. Don"t have their own police force—no immigration control—undesirables can walk right in without being frisked or even harassed. Now a Burbclave, that"s the place to live. A city-state with its own constitution, a border, laws, cops, everything.
送货员被分配到山谷中的 CosaNostra Pizza #3569。南加州不知道是该热闹还是当场勒死自己。没有足够的道路供人使用。 Fairlanes, Inc. 一直在铺设新产品。必须要推平许多社区才能做到这一点，但那些七八十年代的发展是要推平的，对吗？没有人行道，没有学校，什么都没有。没有自己的警察部队——没有移民控制——不受欢迎的人可以走进来而不会被搜身甚至骚扰。现在是 Burbclave，这就是住的地方。一个有自己的宪法、边界、法律、警察、一切的城邦。
The Deliverator was a corporal in the Farms of Merryvale State Security Force for a while once. Got himself fired for pulling a sword on an acknowledged perp. Slid it right through the fabric of the perp"s shirt, gliding the flat of the blade along the base of his neck, and pinned him to a warped and bubbled expanse of vinyl siding on the wall of the house that the perp was trying to break into. Thought it was a pretty righteous bust. But they fired him anyway because the perp turned out to be the son of the vice-chancellor of the Farms of Merryvale. Oh, the weasels had an excuse: said that a thirty-six-inch samurai sword was not on their Weapons Protocol. Said that he had violated the SPAC, the Suspected Perpetrator Apprehension Code. Said that the perp had suffered psychological trauma. He was afraid of butter knives now; he had to spread his jelly with the back of a teaspoon. They said that he had exposed them to liability.