Chapter 327 Gilded City
"It's really weird. You don't know what questions he asked at that time. He actually asked me about infinite energy. Is it possible? Today's mechanic apprentices are really..."
"What's even more ridiculous is that I answered him later. I said that the barefoot doctors in the barefoot area might be able to make this thing. It's really weird."
Let's not talk about how the bald store manager complained to the middle-aged mechanic in work clothes about his confusion at that time after he woke up.
Xu Yi did not launch any special magic. He just used all his strength to operate several kinds of energy in the semi-god incarnation, which was enough to shock ordinary people.
This kind of shock is of course far from the special magic of mind reading or interrogation, but it is more than enough to get some conventional intelligence.
From the bald store owner, I learned that the Chechang Town where he is now is not even the outer city of Liujin City, but only the suburbs. The farm town on the other side of Liujin City is also a suburb.
It's just that for some reasons, the prosperity of Chechang Town even exceeds some outer city areas.
This is closely related to another place name that Xu Yi found out, which is the Yongwang Desert outside Chechang Town. In the words of the shop owner, it is a place where a group of people who can't see hope stay.
What they do is to rob some private chambers of commerce in the first-line area of the inner city to make a living. If there is looting, there must be fighting. In the Wawu District of the outer city, which is closest to the Yongwang Desert, there are scavengers who pick up mechanical wreckage left by these guys fighting.
And after these scavengers pick up good mechanical parts, they mostly have no good way to sell them. That is, the explosion modification shops opened by a group of wild mechanics in Chechang Town will collect these garbage.
So the scavengers in the Wawu District will come to Chechang Town to exchange for living supplies when they pick up good things. Over time, it has created the abnormal prosperity of Chechang Town.
Those companies in the inner city will naturally not miss the business opportunities brought by such prosperity. Those smart phone, TV and refrigerator companies will soon move in.
These large electronic consumer product companies also saw the rigid needs of the people living in Chechang Town and opened many stores selling soundproof headphones...
With poor scavengers, mechanical parts acquisition transactions, capital inflow, and the force provided by the modification shop, Chechang Town has also spawned gangs of all sizes.
Xu Yi saw that those with colorful hair and various tattoos under their vests were actually gang members.
These guys collect protection fees from scavengers and ordinary individual business owners, and in turn supply the modification shops. After they have enough force to grow bigger, some of them will get funding from corporate groups to carry out some shameful infighting activities between companies...
However, the existence of these guys is not always negative. At least with the deterrence of their force, the robbers in Yongwang Desert will not attack Chechang Town.
After all, Liujin City will not care about the life and death of the poor. They only protect the life and death of those who have cash flowing in their personal bank accounts all the time.
And, just don't let those dangerous radiators get close to the city for a long time.
As for the inner city, those guys don't even think about it!
On the way back, Xu Yi kept thinking about the barefoot doctor.
After removing the deterrent effect on the bald shop owner, Xu Yi quietly lurked in the hardware store, releasing a weak shadow power.
With the help of the large items placed in the store, Xu Yi easily entered the stealth state and heard the shop owner's subsequent words clearly.
This also gave him a preliminary understanding of the gilded city where he is currently located, the extreme gap between the rich and the poor, the chaos, the order of interests, and the impressive force.
In just one so-called explosive modification store, Xu Yi saw pistols and rifles. The popularity of firearms here is extremely high. Once the competition starts, I am afraid that I will inevitably face heavy firepower.
And the low-level artifact that was predicted to appear has two possibilities in Xu Yi's view, and these two possibilities represent two routes.
The first one is that it appeared in the barefoot area mentioned by the bald shop owner. In a state of shock, he subconsciously said what he thought was the biggest possibility at the first time. The answer under this situation is still very credible.
The second one is that it came from the R\u0026D department of a company in the upper echelons of Liujin City, so the difficulty of this competition is high.
First of all, he didn't know the exact time when infinite energy appeared. If a company developed infinite energy, it is very likely that it would be kept secret for a period of time.
When there is really reliable news, with the level of technological development in this world, a complete interest chain must have been formed around infinite energy.
At this time, if you force it to fight, you may face large-scale heavy firepower. With more than 160 flesh and blood thugs alone, Xu Yi is not very confident in defeating such a capital machine that needs people and equipment.
At that time, the gods who enter the competition are likely to form an alliance, and the artifact will most likely be divided equally in the end.
They are all high-level demigods from various universities, and they are also gods of the Holy City. The probability of beating out dog brains in a melee is not high. Gods have reached the point where they are just one step away from becoming true gods, so they should start to cherish their lives.
However, all of this is based on accurate sources of information.
To operate such a news network, entering the city is the first priority. Only by entering the inner city can he touch the so-called barefoot area.
However, a pass is required to enter the city, and the easiest way to get a pass is to buy it with money!
Xu Yi, who turned the problem he wanted to solve into a way to make money, took away half of the cash in the owner's cabinet.
Electronic payment has become popular in Liujin City, but in remote suburbs like Chechang Town, cash payment and electronic payment are still half and half.
A kind of banknote called Krona is used here, but it is generally used for transactions with scavengers in Wawu District.
On the way back, he also used these cash to sit in a bar on the corner of the street for a while, mainly to solve the dinner. As for the food of more than a hundred flesh and blood butchers, Xu Yi has not figured out how to solve it. Let them starve for this meal...
By the way, he also found out about the other two districts around Chechang Town, the flea market adjacent to Chechang Town and also connected to the huge Wawu District, and the Doushi District further in and close to the inner city.
The former trades mutant human organs, rare minerals, mechanical parts drawings, prosthetic limbs and prostheses, etc. The transaction items are more diverse. Basically, the scavengers will trade in the flea market for what Chechang Town buys and sells.
The latter sounds like an area that gathers underground boxing rings and casinos, and may also have the function of human trafficking.
After digesting the information he got, Xu Yi returned to the abandoned factory. He always felt that he had missed some key information, but he still couldn't get to the point.
He shook his head and decided to send a few flesh and blood butchers out to investigate tomorrow. In the explosive renovation street in Chechang Town, which can be said to be the main road, he can still see a lot of burly people. Even more flesh and blood butchers will not be too conspicuous.
Today, he arranged the flesh and blood butchers to clean up the abandoned factory. Most of these guys now have technical expertise between level six and seven, and a few have even reached level eight. It should be no problem for them to act as mechanics and explosive renovation masters.
It was like this until the evening, and a large area of the abandoned factory was cleared.
With the violent roar of "boom~boom~boom~", Xu Yi realized what he had missed.
He focused too much on where the artifact was, ignoring what kind of mechanical wreckage the scavengers picked up, and what kind of machinery the modified shops modified...
And he finally understood why there were so many brand headphone stores on the street.
The night in Chechang Town is the main venue for gang activities!
