ebookslot Chapter 39: The Three Major Rules of the Main City
Chapter 39: The Three Major Rules of the Main City
The torrential rain poured down, the water flowing from the eaves and cracks in the walls, as if washing away the sins of this devastated Haikui District.
The sky became even more hazy due to the persistent black fog. Although it had thinned considerably, the pollution continued to accumulate. After several days of organized mass migration, the Haitang District was now filled with "familiar faces."
Two-thirds of the Joyful State was abandoned, leaving only the center and the south, encompassing core areas such as the Merlin commercial district, and its spiritual barrier has shrunk today.
It is estimated that Legalist Heavy Industries felt that the cost of reconstruction was too high, requiring a complete renovation, which would be a losing proposition.
New friction has arisen between the local residents of Haitang District and the influx of residents from Huanxizhou.
It is said that time layers have appeared in the northern part of Huanxi State, with space, monsters and races from other universes posing a menacing threat.
In the context of a multiverse invasion, when one universe begins to shatter, war inevitably breaks out as both seek a "new home."
As a result, the remaining corner of Joyful State, including its entire center and south, became the front line. The outstanding individuals who had just participated in the Ember Selection and were chosen joined this rewarding campaign.
According to Yan Baobao, as long as they can hold onto the remaining Huanxi State, they can be promoted directly.
Countless martial artists volunteered to go.
Warships from the Legalist Heavy Industry were also being deployed in droves, and a new war had begun.
With prices soaring today, the revolutionary baptism spread by Caesar, which aimed to shift the people to the opposite side of giant corporations, has utterly failed.
In the past two days, the voices condemning Fajia Heavy Industry and Huanghun Group have been buried without exception as the banner of protecting our homeland spreads.
Caesar stood too high, thinking everyone should be like him, worthy of abandoning everything to fight. But most people just wanted to live peacefully. Virtual kingdoms were already prevalent, and all it took was a brain-computer interface to forget their troubles.
True resistance should be about giving benefits to followers, even promising them something tangible, rather than education, let alone some nonsense about baptism and growth.
Based on what he's learned over the past few days, Qiao Yuan can conclude one thing: Caesar's hatred isn't just directed at Legalist heavy industry, but also at the apathetic masses.
In their eyes, these ordinary people struggling to make a living became cold-blooded bystanders, indifferently watching as they, the laborers, were abandoned and suppressed by Legalist Heavy Industry.
Over time, resentment built up in their hearts.
No problem. He will personally end all of this after he goes to the main city!
What this era needs are heroes, not madmen who intend to drag the world down with them.
In the car, Qiao Yuan took out a filter for removing impurities and handed it to Yan Baobao.
Yan Baobao's expression shifted slightly, but she still shook her head: "We're going to the main city tonight. I just used it the day before yesterday. You can use it yourself. My constitution is better than yours."
"I still have one left, drink it quickly."
"Okay." Yan Baobao finally took it, unscrewed the bottle, and drank it.
They drove directly back to the artificial shallow sea. It was 10 a.m. now, and they wouldn't be able to go to the main city until 7 p.m., as school starts tomorrow.
He has already raised the 300,000 yuan tuition fee.
At that moment in the hotel lobby, he saw Hu Tu and Qin Xue quietly reading. Both of them were rather shy, yet they cherished the memories they had shared after going through hardships, and their happiness was palpable.
Yan Baobao remained indifferent, as aloof as ever in public, until Qin Xue smiled at her, at which point her cold eyes softened slightly.
Everyone in Class 4 of Senior Three knew that Qin Xue was a big fan of Yan Baobao.
Hu Tu coughed and said, "Xue just said that once we get to the main city, we can stay together, okay?"
"Huh? Didn't you say that?" Qin Xue twitched her lips. "You also said you'd live in an apartment."
"Ahem, I was just giving feedback, okay? It's all because you're not at Galaxy University, sigh."
"Because my parents hope that I will enter the Federal Parliament in the future, saying that the environment in the main city is good, so I finally decided to go to Yaoguang University, which is related to my major," Qin Xue said helplessly, sticking out her tongue.
Hu Tu laughed and said, "That's great, haha, from now on I'll be the man of a federal congressman."
Qiao Yuan chuckled. This fat guy was very reserved with Qin Xue when they were sitting alone, but he subconsciously relaxed when he saw him.
Qin Xue's cheeks were flushed red with embarrassment.
Qiao Yuan didn't intend to disturb them any further. The pollution outside, combined with the humid rain, made him feel unwell after his trip to the cemetery. He was experiencing a bit of an allergic reaction. He wanted to go back to his room immediately to take a shower and then drink the last of the impurity filtering medicine.
Due to the end of the festival, most of the factories supplying fresh air were rendered unusable, making stockpiled filter chemicals the only hot commodity.
Just yesterday, Hu Tu spent more than ten times the price he used to pay, and only managed to get two through his father's connections.
Fortunately, we're leaving soon.
This may be the last time he uses the filtering agent in his life, because there is no longer any pollution in that vast and boundless main city.
As evening approached, they had dinner at the Mila Hotel, and the four of them boarded a private car as Hu Tu's father and Qin Xue's parents saw them off.
A floating vehicle made of embers.
This is Yan Baobao's private car, and the destination is set at an Ember Police Station near Galaxy University.
The first thing they did upon arriving in the main city was to report to their superiors; the three of them were essentially hitching a ride.
Otherwise, under normal circumstances, one would have to squeeze onto the floating bus to the main city with other students.
Besides the four of them, the only other person on the vehicle was a holographic projection of the blonde female captain of the third squad. The floating vehicle would then intelligently drive back later.
As the vehicle took off vertically, Qin Xue said goodbye to her parents, feeling quite melancholy and lost.
She can go, but her parents can't; they can't even take her to the university gate.
Hu Tu also felt a bit nostalgic, but being a boy, he adapted relatively quickly.
However, none of this mattered to Qiao Yuan, because he and his baby had always lived a nomadic life, and now, the main city was their home.
New home!
Right now, he and Yan Baobao are standing at the car door, opening the window and slowly scattering Grandma Xu's ashes into the artificial shallow sea below.
As the evening breeze blew, across the sea, illuminated by the countless colorful neon lights of the magnificent city, the old woman gradually sank into the sea, merging into it, like a kind mother watching them part.
Silvermoon City is getting closer and closer.
For the past seventeen years, Qiao Yuan had only watched from afar, but only tonight did he truly realize the vastness of the main city.
Like a world floating high in the sky, with no end in sight, the main city's area is equivalent to half the size of the ancient Jiangnan province.
But things are different now. The main city of Silvermoon is not only a vast territory on a plane, but also a completely three-dimensional interstellar metropolis. From four thousand meters to more than ten thousand meters, there are densely packed floating megastructures, giving him the illusion of endlessness. The closer he got, the more excited he felt and how awe-inspiring it was.
It truly is like a mayfly gazing at the blue sky!
As we approached the main city, even the air became much fresher and cleaner. In front of the car, huge silver rings, each over twenty meters in diameter, appeared floating in the air.
Outside the ring, layers of dense, hexagonal, honeycomb-shaped, silver-white energy barriers emanated, creating a rather dazzling effect.
Qiao Yuan had a deep impression of this. Back then, the black lightning from that mechanical head, after gathering all its energy and striking the barrier, was completely unharmed, as if it were just a tickle.
The Ember Floating Vehicle slowly drove into the silver ring, where it was scanned back and forth by red light.
The information that the four of them had been admitted to Galaxy University gradually appeared on the red light.
In addition, all other items inside the hovercraft were scanned one by one, a very rigorous process.
Hu Tu muttered to himself, "I heard that these rings are antimatter weapons from Legalist Heavy Industry, ridiculously powerful, and the scanning program is just an add-on."
As Qiao Yuan listened, after seeing the red light eventually turn into green light, a new light blue holographic projection suddenly popped up from the conference table of their hovercar.
It was a young woman with black hair and a high nose, a distinctively Eastern face. She was introducing them, saying, "Welcome to Silvermoon City, the capital of the city. It has everything, and it is the destination of all dreams. But before that, you need to be aware of the three major rules of the capital city."