From a distance, Songying City even looks a bit like a giant bonsai.

Yes, absolutely, bonsai – a small pot with a small number of tall plants, and then the soil surface is covered with a thick layer of moss. Other than that, there is no clutter.

There are only "plants" and "moss", and there is no "plant in between".

In the entire Songying City, there are five giant buildings with a height of more than 3,000 meters and an area of more than 100,000 square meters. Other than that, there are no buildings longer than ten meters in the city.

From a distance, it seems that there are only these five super buildings in Songying City. And what's above the ground is just a garbage heap.

Looking at the mountain from afar: "Oh, this is Songying City." ”

From the memories of those government eagle dogs, Xiang Shan also had a general understanding of the composition of these five buildings.

Of these five buildings, one belongs to the Grand Knight Captain of the Scientific Research Knights. Its titular owner is the paladin Morgan Ribeskind of the Galapagos Temple. Although the paladin had a glimpse of the future, there were many laboratories in his name that were located in those buildings.

The remaining four buildings were nominally the private property of the local lord, Amil Karre Zhao. More than 100 floors of these four buildings were for the private use of the lord. These buildings are home to vertical factories, giant fusion reactors, weapons depots, barracks, and plenty of personal living space.

Below the 100th floor, it is open to the public, which is also the generosity of the lord.

The ground floor of one of the four buildings is used as a "government affairs hall" to deal with various civil acts.

Basically, it's about "handing out welfare materials", "reporting someone for violating the Dyson principle", or "volunteering allegiance to the lord" and other things related to the grassroots.

There is no real law in this era anyway.

The lower floors of the remaining three buildings were reduced to slums.

The reason is very simple. Although the lord opened the ground floor of these buildings, he was not inherently obligated to lay electrical circuits, water pipes, or even elevators in these places.

Of course, on the premise of not damaging the load-bearing structure of the building, the low-rise personnel can lay it themselves.

But those people don't necessarily have the skills to do that.

And the higher the floor, the more troublesome it is to go up and down, and the more expensive it is to transport supplies.

It can be said that below the twentieth floor, there are still ordinary residents living there. And the twentieth floor up, the higher you go, the poorer you become.

Only people who are desperate outside will think of coming here to earn a living.

Unfortunately, in this era, such people often belong to the group of people with a "low transformation rate", or even "natural persons".

The people with a low rate of transformation have a fatal flaw compared to the people with a high rate of transformation - they will excrete a large amount of metabolic waste.

And the sewer pipes of the floors ...... Maybe it would have been useful a few decades ago.

In short, the higher you go, the more miserable it becomes.

All the way up to the ninetieth floor.

In Zhang Xianchong's memory, he mentioned in vague terms that between the 90th and 100th floors of the three buildings, there were many gangsters and civilian martial arts stars living there.

These people all have a high rate of transformation and require very few resources other than electricity.

And living in the closest place to the "asylum" makes them feel infinitely honored.

But these floors only maintain a superficial "order". Its interior is mixed and chaotic, even in the super slums of fifty or sixty floors.

"Gangster ......" shook his head to the mountain and cut off Zhang Xianchong's "emotions".

As a yearner of "order", Zhang Xianchong has a strong hatred for these people. Xiang Shan is even a little difficult to tell how much of his contempt for these low-level gangsters comes from the concepts of his old generation, and how much of it comes from Zhang Xianchong's "arrogance".

In Xiang Shan's view, Zhang Xianchong's "order" is just a kind of "Muqiang" psychology. The naked ape's brain instinctively expects a powerful hero to appear.

His view of the chaos and sin of the lower classes may be imbued with this prejudice that runs through primitive times to the present day.

Xiang Shan often reminds himself that this is a wrong thought. This is not the right idea. After all, morality can be defined by the strong. When "poverty" is considered a "virtue", the strong will even automatically take on the name of "poor" - after all, scientific knights are considered a symbol of "the virtue of keeping poverty".

"After all, the strong are now the physical ones who control them, and the mouths of the weak ......," Xiang Shan muttered in a low voice.

Cui Ji said: "What are you talking about, senior? Any commands? ”

Xiang Shan shook his head: "No." According to the original plan, you will go to the area around the Songying Building first...... I'll leave for a moment. ”

Xiang Shan said this, and separated from the others.

It's not that hard to "get into the city" at all. The city did not have any walls, nor did it have any sentry posts. There are only a small number of patrolling warriors. The real garrison, all placed on the "private area borders" of the lords and paladins.

Carrying a weapon is not a big deal, as the Dyson principle does not prohibit anyone from possessing anything – as long as it is not stealing or robbing other people's property.

There is no inconvenience for these people to act in the city.

Xiang Shan is not a nanny, so he is not responsible for everything.

Cui Yu nodded and said, "Okay senior, Senior Brother Yuki and this little girl will be handed over to us for the time being." ”

He waved his hand to the mountain and asked them to leave, but he immediately remembered and said in a loud voice: "There is one more thing, if you can find a comparison...... The family that can foster this child is ...... Let's write it down. ”

Cui Ji was a little embarrassed: "But...... Seniors, none of us are locals, this hasty ...... It's hard to find. ”

"Just try to find it." He waved his hand to the mountain.

To be honest, he's quite conflicted.

The little one's brain defect may indeed need the help of rehabilitation therapy with the same source as internal strength. But Xiang Shan is not sure whether there is still a legal opportunity for this kind of rehabilitation therapy in this era.

Because it's hard to distinguish this therapy from "cultivating internal strength" – the difference between the two is the mental activity that the brain takes after the drug is injected.

And the cultivation of internal strength is almost synonymous with "becoming a chivalrous man" and "giving up shelter".

But Xiang Shan was reluctant to bring a child who didn't know anything to do the chivalry.

This is not only for the sake of the little girl, but also for the sake of herself. If you don't think deeply about your own situation and the world's situation, you will stay in the rivers and lakes like this, and if you encounter any mouthpieces, you will inevitably be shaken.

Zhang Xianchong's kind is an example.

This is indeed a big problem.

Fortunately, this problem has not yet reached the point where it must be solved.

"Ah, there is one more thing, if you find out that there is a large-scale transfer of government forces, or if you don't wait for me after three days, then don't wait." Waving to the mountain, walking alone in the city.

Xiang Shan is walking in the shadow of a super building at the moment. The building's shadow covers the entire neighborhood and extends beyond the city.

Xiang Shan, on the other hand, lowers the priority of vision and feels the ubiquitous signals in the city.

These signals can be civilian or, of course, lord military. The signal base stations all over the place are to let the army and warriors of the whole city form a huge military formation at the necessary moment to besiege and kill the knights. And if necessary, the Protectors can also paralyze the prosthetics of most civilians with a single command, ensuring that actions against powerful individuals will not be accidentally injured.

All civilians have the potential to become the eyes and ears of the government.

The will to the mountain is rushing. A large amount of data is written into the chip, the registry is reset, and the MAC address is forged.

His consciousness sank into a space he had imagined. In this virtual space, network information will emerge in the form of concreteness.

Cyber meditation room, open.

He meditated, changing his way of thinking, transforming a corner of his mind into the form of hypertext, incorporating it into a part of the network, and cramming the feeling of "abstraction" into the network supported by Boolean operations.

This is known as "World Wide Web Meditation" – a more advanced method of internal exercise than HTML meditation. In the information exchange with the world, the speed of the cultivator's consciousness change will be faster, and it will be closer to the form required by the "hacker".

The "Cyber Meditation Room" can be seen as an adjunct to the World Wide Web meditation that can play a protective role.

But Xiang Shan is worried that the version of the Internet chat room that he remembers in his consciousness belongs to something that has been "completely eliminated".

This exercise is definitely not "the older the stronger". The older the "cyber meditation room", the easier it is to lock its features and the easier it is to crack them.

Xiang Shan was even worried that if he would open an online meditation room on his side, the lord's side would directly grasp his accurate positioning.

So, he had to try it alone in a perfect state.

Xiang Shan felt his mind gradually become active. Saussure's Domain, which had been dormant for a long time, was reactivated.

More internal techniques poured out of the memories.

But in the next moment, an indescribable feeling arose in his consciousness.

It was as if there was an "invisible hand" that was hindering the transmission of his signals.

Immediately afterward, a cluster of messages was sent. The people around the mountain shook at the same time, and then ran away screaming.

Xiang Shan also blended into the crowd.

Because just now, everybody [funny] felt the same thing.

A thought came to their minds inexplicably.

"Why are you still using this ancient version of a cyber meditation room? Listen, if I wasn't here, you're finished! ”

This matter may soon be known to the government. Care has to be taken. Xiang Shan wanted to respond, but he didn't know if it was a "bait" - if he responded, would he be further locked?

Judging from what happened just now, the other party did not accurately send that information cluster to his prosthetic body.

But in the end, Xiang Shan still replied cautiously: "Who are you?" ”