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At the end of the Third Counterinsurgency War, the federal government and the Restoration Army launched a special agent war, and compared with the restraint of the federal government, the Restoration Army had no bottom line, and gradually showed signs of degenerating into a terrorist organization.

Pengcheng, as a megacity in the southern part of the federation second only to Chuting, has long been shrouded in the shadow of the Jinyiwei of the Restoration Army, until the Federal Security Department and the Military Intelligence Bureau jointly suppressed it, and the forces secretly cultivated by the Jinyiwei were completely driven out of Pengcheng.

However, Pengcheng was affected by this, the financial industry was greatly hit, investors lost confidence in Pengcheng's safety, and the Pengcheng Component Index fell again and again.

Under the sluggish economic situation, the local government of Pengcheng shouted the slogan of "rebuilding industry", attracting local funds from the financial industry to return to industry, and with the help of the scientific and technological advantages of the federation, it has created a new factory area one after another.

The development of industry has led to the development of countless related industries, and in just a few years, Pengcheng has regained its prosperity. And behind the prosperity, there are also countless evils and ugliness hidden.

An economist once said that the Federation does not have slums, and if it has to say that it does, it must be in the Triad.

Sanhe is the name of a low-end talent market in Pengcheng, and the neighborhood near this talent market is called Sanhe.

It is all dark alleys that have no street lights at night, and are full of all kinds of black intermediaries, small hotels, black factories and small Internet cafes.

It's a place where even the gangsters don't want to set foot in it, only a few thugs and landlords are willing to eat here.

Zhao Yi came here, and he changed into a set of clothes that didn't add up to more than 80 yuan on his body.

Because he knows that even if he wears a watch of dozens of yuan here, he must always be on guard against being shunted.

The reason why he wanted to come here was that this was a place where the police and the gangsters didn't care about it, and even if the Ministry of Security could track it down, it would take a long time to search these many small hotels.

There are very few small hotels here that are counted according to how much a bed is, and more than a dozen people are crammed into a room, ranging from 8 to 15 yuan per bed per day.

Zhao Yi walked through the bustling crowd of people looking for work in front of the Sanhe Talent Market and walked into a nearby alley.

Following the guidance of the mottled paint advertisement "This store is rented, there is surveillance" painted on the wall, he came to a small hotel that was obviously a few years old.

It is a small seven-story building, with a total of eight suites on the lower three floors and a hall on the first floor.

He originally wanted to rent a small single room, but the proprietress in her forties with a meaty face replied coldly that she didn't have it for the time being, charged Zhao Yi 30 yuan, and took him to the second floor to sleep in a bed.

No one would be so extravagant as to rent a bed here that they pay on a monthly basis, they are all paid for a few days, and Zhao Yi's 30 yuan is three days' rent.

The first floor costs 15 yuan a day, which is 5 yuan a day more expensive than the second floor, because there are only a few toilets on the first floor of the three-story hotel.

Zhao Yi's choice of the second floor was also considered, the first floor is not safe, once it is blocked by gangsters or police, there is no time to react. The third floor seems to be relatively high, which is not conducive to escaping by yourself, and only the second floor is the most suitable.

Entering a small two-room room on the second floor, Zhao Yi was surprised to find that even the place that was originally the living room was full of four or five iron frame beds, and the passage between the beds was so narrow that he had to turn sideways to pass through.

The proprietress is a mouthful, you see which bed no one lives in, the valuable things are put away by yourself, and I am not responsible for losing them.

Zhao Yi nodded to show that he understood, threw the broken backpack he was carrying into a bed by the window, and turned around to get down to business. The broken backpack was just a cover for Zhao Yi, and there was nothing else in it except a few torn clothes and a few pairs of socks.

Zhao Yi walked into the black Internet café next to the downstairs with his hands copied, which was also an important reason why Zhao Yi chose Sanhe.

In Pengcheng, if there is an Internet café that does not require swiping an ID card to access the Internet, it may only be in Sanhe.

The air circulation in the Internet café is not smooth, and when you enter the door, there is a hot current mixed with the smell of lunch boxes, smoke and stinky feet, which makes people nauseated.

The Internet café was overcrowded, and the thirty or forty computers were crowded with young and no longer young heads.

Pengcheng in October is not very hot, but the Internet café is crowded with thermostatic animals, which has forced the indoor temperature to rise to two months ago, and it seems that the two floor fans are weak.

The network manager at the door only glanced at Zhao Yi when he saw him coming in, and he didn't see the customer's consciousness for half a minute.

Zhao Yi frowned and asked if there was any spare time, and the network administrator said impatiently to go in and wait, and then go on with you.

Zhao Yi squeezed into the Internet café from the crowd, patted a small man who was fighting in the game on the shoulder, stuffed 100 yuan and said, "Brother, I have something urgent, let me take a look." ”

The little man didn't say a word and took the money and left, just kidding, 100 yuan is enough to stay all night in this kind of black Internet café for 20 nights. The game can be played any day, and it is not every day that you can encounter the wrongdoer.

Zhao Yi achieved the original location of the little man, opened the web and searched for the map of Pengcheng. Most of the people in the Internet café are playing games, and each machine is crowded with idlers watching others play games and waiting for the machine.

Seeing that Zhao Yi spent money to buy a camera seat in order to check a map, the few people who were watching the game in the back couldn't help but scold "Hanju" and went to other machines.

Zhao Yi naturally didn't take these people to heart, he called up the map of Pengcheng to search carefully, found what he was looking for and left.

A young man with yellow hair standing behind Zhao Yi never expected that someone would be stupid enough to leave without using the money in the machine, so he happily sat in Zhao Yi's original position and skillfully opened the game interface.

In the federal horizontal storage center near the mouth of the Pearl River, 400,000 tons of various steel products imported by the Federal Kemen Shipbuilding Group are stored, including bearing steel, metal structural steel, spring steel and cold heading steel. Due to the fact that the capacity cannot keep up for a while, the steel should be stored in the storage center for at least half a month after unloading.

Located in the far suburbs of Pengcheng, it is sparsely populated, and only container trucks pulling goods go back and forth.

5 kilometers away from the horizontal storage center, there is a non-famous scenic spot in Pengcheng.

In the forties of the 21st century, the federal government launched a pilot project to achieve underground gasification of coal.

At that time, the idea was to divide the coal seams by using grouting curtains and underground water walls, ignite the underground coal seams one by one, and pour water vapor and air into the coal seam combustion field to fully react with the coal, and finally export the gasified coal through the borehole.

Once this technology matures, it will completely change the status quo of coal engineering, no longer need coal workers to dig coal, no longer need to occupy a lot of transportation resources to transport solid coal, all reactions are carried out underground, all transportation is realized through pipelines, what a perfect plan.

At this time, a small coal mine was discovered on the outskirts of Pengcheng, and the top management of the Federal Academy of Sciences enlisted the support of the local government of Pengcheng and designated it as a test site.

Procedures such as drilling, grouting, and sensor placement all went smoothly, but accidents did happen after the ignition.

The underground gasification reaction of the coal is much more intense than the computer simulation in advance, and the burning coal seam begins to become uncontrolled, even after the oxygen supply channel is blocked, the cracks that have been burned on the surface are enough to supply oxygen to the ground.

The high-pressure water injection adds fuel to the fire, and the high-temperature burning coal seam converts all the injected water into carbon monoxide and hydrogen, and the flames are even more than ten meters high.

In this way, the small coal mine that had just been discovered ignited a ground fire, and there was no need to extinguish it.

The coal mine is small and will not have an impact on the security of the surrounding area, and the cost of extinguishing it far exceeds the value of the mine itself, and the best way is to let it go.

Ground fires have existed since ancient times, partly due to the spontaneous combustion of coal seams, and more often due to the lack of attention to fire prevention in small coal kilns mined privately. The world's oldest ground fire is located in a coal seam 500 meters deep in the Rava Mountains in Central Yarava and has been burning for more than 3,000 years.

Based on the coal reserves of this small coal mine, it is estimated that the ground fire will burn for 50 years before it goes out.

This failed experiment resulted in a sinkhole about fifty meters in diameter, filled with dim red fire, like the mythical mountain of flames smashed into the ground.

There are good deeds to this place named the earth fire sinkhole, can be regarded as one of the ten views of Pengcheng, but the popularity is not high, usually do not see any tourists.

Zhao Yi stood outside the sinkhole, looking at the heat-distorted air above the sinkhole in front of him, and smiled thoughtfully.