Border Highway.

An unlicensed and unmarked black car temporarily detached from the main road and drove into a rest stop fifty kilometers away from the sixteen city-states.

"Mr. Zuo Dao, it's so lively here." Elsa sat in the passenger seat and probed her brain.

It's been four days since they left the gathering place.

There is nothing to say about the scenery along the way, if the scenery of Hekarim has not undergone special transformation, it is basically all loess gravel plain, the ecological environment is relatively poor, fortunately, the climate is not severe, the main problem is that water resources and forest resources are relatively small.

"Indeed." Zuo Dao replied without looking away, he was going around in circles in the rest station to find a vacant seat.

The closer you get to the sixteen city-states, the more cars there are along the way, and the wilderness race becomes the phantom of yesterday.

At special times, there can be a short traffic jam on the road.

And this rest stop is even more so, it is not even easy to find a parking space.

Small cars are not uncommon, but more often than not, convoys of large trucks.

Judging by the well-protected state and the appearance of the traces of the minerals, it is not difficult to imagine that a large company related to the Hecarim minerals is making deliveries to the city-state for final refining and refining.

After several twists and turns, when the left road is about to be dizzy, it can be regarded as finding a parking space.

Feeling a slight pause, Zuo Dao turned his head to look at Elsa:

"Elsa, go down and take a walk, let her breathe by the way?"

As he spoke, he looked to the back row.

In the back seat, a young girl is asleep.

It is the "daughter" introduced by Mai Qingchun before: Mai Yuexia.

Mai Qingchun's matter came to an end after Zuo Dao and they left.

However, it also left many unsolved mysteries in the hearts of the gathering place and the Boca army, as well as the historian surnamed Luo, but these have little to do with Zuodao.

At that time, the girl was guided to the side of the main road by the paper man on the left road to avoid danger, relying on the ventilation of the paper man, plus the role of the merchant and the comb, the other people who wanted to find the girl passed by several times.

After they set off, they officially rescued her, but she was greeted by a long slumber...

The slumber of all this comes down to the Sea of Dusk, God knows how a big killing weapon was turned into a flower shooting artifact by Zuo Dao?

But this is also a helpless move, the other party is just an outsider, and if you hear too much with them that you shouldn't hear, it will be more troublesome to deal with.

In Zuo Dao's friendly suggestion, she could choose to be tucked into the trunk or sleep unconscious in the back.

The other party did not hesitate to choose the latter -

Elsa heard Zuo Dao's inquiry, and she very much agreed:

"Moonlight sleeps most of the time, I agree."

Yuexia is naturally the girl in the back row.

Her name is indeed Yuexia, and Mai Qingchun did not cheat on this, but the other party is not surnamed Mai, but surnamed Li.

Mai Qingchun may be a little unscrupulous psychologically, so he simply changed the girl's surname.

It is also possible that he was afraid that the girl's response speed would be slower because of the name change along the way, which would arouse the suspicion of some people, so he created such a situation.

Mai Qingchun is indeed called Mai Qingchun, and this is not a lie, this is in Zuo Dao and Elsa handed the report to the third sequence, which is the intelligence reply of the Empress Dowager Wen Yue. ….

Interestingly, the follow-up old lady noted to them that there was no need to worry about the follow-up matters, and handed them over to her, and the girl's words were brought to the sixteen city-states together, and someone would solve them properly.

Seeing that Elsa had no objections, Zuo Dao snapped his fingers.

In the center of the girl's eyebrows, a spell circuit like a fiery glass imprint appeared, and it immediately collapsed under the control of the left path.

The surgical circuit dissipated, the girl's eyelashes trembled slightly, and she was gradually waking up.

This is an extended application of the Left Path's Technique: Sea of Dusk.

The Sea of Twilight is known to be normal

In this case, it has two effects, dusk sleep and physical ***, and in actual analysis, it is possible to choose to make people mentally or physically, and fall into a single "stiff state", but according to the level of proficiency, these two effects will also have different effects.

The ability to extend from dusk sleep has sub-functional hypnosis and imprint sleep, and Li Jia has been more in-depth in the application of the sea of dusk, and he can even use this technique to modify other people's cognition to a certain extent, and Zuo Dao has not yet fully mastered this aspect.

Zuo Dao can currently be proficient in imprinting sleep, which is to lay a certain amount of surgical power on the opponent's body, forming a surgical circuit, and the opponent will therefore enter a state of sleep, and this ability will continue to exist until the power dissipates or the practitioner dissipates in advance, or is broken by someone-

The first thing the girl did when she woke up was to subconsciously shrink back a little, obviously her previous experience and Zuo Dao's slightly indifferent attitude made her faintly afraid.

Zuo Dao didn't have any idea about this, he said with a surging face:

"Miss Yuexia, now there is a little distance left from the sixteen city-states, we choose to take a break, you can get off the car and take a walk with Elsa next to you, please don't go too far, I'll go supply something, and then buy some food for you."

"Good... No... Thank you." Li Yuexia naturally did not dare to object.

In her opinion, when she was rescued by them, this young man named Zuo Dao showed her a certificate about a certain department in Huayu, but she had never heard of it.

With many doubts, she chose Hutu as a blessing for various reasons, so she fell into a four-day journey with a total of no more than four hours of awakening.

And why let her fall asleep, Zuo Dao's reply is not embellished, and the reply is concise: confidential protection.

Li Yuexia's heart was automatically translated into this: This girl, you don't want to be ...... by me because you see things you shouldn't see and hear things you shouldn't hear Right?

In this way, it seems that Li Yuexia is taking Elsa, but it is actually Elsa taking Li Yuexia to Xida nearby.

Zuo Dao went to the service area of the rest station alone, and walked around for nearly a quarter of an hour before he finally walked out of this steel jungle.

Looking ahead, the buildings in the service area are mainly low and spacious, and there are everything from restaurants and convenience stores to rest hotels.

Zuo Dao didn't hang out, he seemed to have a goal, and came to a restaurant called 'Merriam-Webster's Rice Noodles).

When you open the door, you can feel the noise of people inside, and it is clear that business is very good.

Zuo Dao looked around, and found one near the place where the meal was served, and sat down. ….

This shop is a self-service order, each table has an operation screen, just place an order and pay here can be solved, the operation software is intimate in multiple languages, effectively reduce the waiter also need to master the eight languages of the difficult conditions, and the store's major expenses.

Zuo Dao's finger swiped on the screen and looked at the menu, he seemed to be very skilled in ordering dishes on it, without exception, he chose to pack, and it didn't take much effort for him to complete the selection, but he left a strange note when confirming the payment - "It seems that the dishes are all spicy, see if you can not be spicy?"

After doing this, the left path closes the ordering screen and begins to look around.

The vast majority of people who eat at this restaurant are people with Chinese characteristics, followed by brown-skinned Mohadi people, although this border land does not border the Mohadi domain, but the Mohadi people are keen to do business and travel the world, and they can be found everywhere.

In addition to these two, it is a relatively rare person with the characteristics of the Aleman Domain, and in terms of the characteristics of the Aleman Domain, Zuo Dao directly benchmarks the concept to Elsa, and then to the Western race of the former world.

However, Zuo Dao knows that these are just skin color characteristics, and many of these people here are actually not people from a certain domain, they are just people wandering outside the country for various personal or historical reasons.

Among them, those who obviously have mixed-race characteristics are the most probable.

Just as Zuo Dao was looking around, a waiter came out of the food outlet with a packing bag

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Zuo Dao took advantage of the situation to look away, and the waiter showed a professional smile:

"Hello guest, we saw your remarks asking if you can not add spicy, here we have specially adjusted the production method for you, I hope you can like it."

The waiter said very politely and put the food on the table.

"Thanks, sorry for the trouble." Zuo Dao spoke, picked up the food and left directly.

After the waiter finished delivering the meal and entered the kitchen, he said hello to his colleagues, and one turned around and entered the bathroom, and the professional smile on the waiter's face disappeared instantly.

He took out the terminal and entered a piece of information:

"Sixteen city-states ████ Site Feedback—

"1: Sequenced activated.

"2: The Serial Person is in normal condition and does not need other assistance.

"3: Feedback has been given to the serial people to inquire about the status of the sixteen city-states.

『4: Our station has entered the expected high-risk period, and we will carry out pre-eucalyptus'7, processing.

"5: Our station has officially entered a state of independent operation, only responsible for the sequence of people, and remove the rest of the docking list."

......

On the border highway, the group on the left road set off again.

The girl Li Yuexia fell asleep again.

At this moment, Zuo Dao is communicating with Elsa in the consciousness space.

"Mr. Zuo Dao, why did we suddenly go to that site this time?" Elsa asked.

The station in Elsa's mouth is one of the intelligence networks that Mrs. Wen Yue has set up in these places for many years, and the place where Zuo Dao went before is an intelligence station, responsible for security verification inside and outside the vicinity of the sixteen city-states.

This is not supposed to be used when traveling to the Sixteen City-States. ….

"We had different accidents along the way, especially the personnel of the Mohadi Domain, and the personnel outside the Qisheng Pharmaceutical, both of which are unstable factors, although Elder Wen told us that everything is normal, but it is better to be careful, after all, the news is already four days ago.

"Let this checkpoint help us confirm the safety of the sixteen city-states, so that we can get there, and after connecting with him, the source of information will not be limited to him, if there is any accident with that person, it will be very troublesome for us." Left Dao replied.

In fact, there are still some reasons why Zuo Dao did not tell Elsa.

For example... He discovered that these intelligence sites, once activated by the Serials, would enter a stage of independent operation.

The so-called independent operation means that these sites will abide by the rules and regulations and only serve the people of the sequence.

During this period, even if Mrs. Wen Yue came over, they would only do what they should do like ordinary people, and then run away when they had the opportunity.

This means that the 077 sequence of Zuo Dao and Elsa is reported, even if there are other relevant people with serial codes, they cannot directly take over and cannot be helped.

In short, what Zuo Dao is doing invisibly is to make all the resources from Hekarim to Bahamut become absolute assets that only belong to their 077 sequence.

It's the kind of Heavenly King Lao Tzu who has to take a lot of trouble to take over here.

He wants to toss the word and weight to the highest.

Considering that the current Elsa is too small, and it is easy to bring people bad if she transmits too many such thoughts, Zuo Dao can only tell her another euphemistic reason.

When he grows up, he will explain the reason.

Strive to "pinch" an absolute partner to come out——

While they were chatting through the exchange of consciousness, the car had arrived at the city-state toll booth.

Yes, there are toll booths on the Sixteen City-States.

Starting from the very edge of the entry, the leading power enterprises of the city-state will jointly send armed personnel to guard it, and carry out and basic registration of all entry and exit, and the stability in the city is naturally controlled by these people, but it is only stability, do not expect to get security from their side.

On the left, follow the guidance from the toll booth ahead and pull down the window.

There is one outside the car at this time

Four armed men came up, their chests and arms were pasted with a very eye-catching logo, called Heka Heavy Industries, a middle-aged armed man walked to the window at this time, he turned slightly to one side, saw Li Yuexia sleeping in the back row, and asked quietly:

"What's going on with the girl in the back?"

Zuo Dao put one hand on the car window and said in a calm tone:

"I'm not feeling well, so I'll rest first."

In this regard, the middle-aged armed man did not speak, just nodded, and it seemed that he was in charge of the registration and review, and then walked around the outside of the vehicle to look around, and finally returned to the window, took out a pen and paper from his breast pocket to write and draw, and then tore a sheet and handed it to Zuo Dao and said:

"Three people, 12,000 domain coins."

Domain currency refers to the mainstream currency between domains.

For example, the Huayu coin of Huayu, the human dollar of the Aleman domain, the Modi domain of Mohadi and so on.

In the Frontier Lands and the Land of Chaos, they prefer these domain coins, and they do not value the currency of their own place, preferring to barter in the primitive state of trading. ….

However, the local currency cannot be said to be completely useless, at least within the alliance and the headquarters of the company, the purchasing power will still be guaranteed, but no matter how much they toss, they can't resist the existence of the domains, so they have a very clear understanding and are only limited to a small internal range.

"Normal, not a thousand per person?" Zuo Dao asked the other party in a calm tone.

"Yes." The middle-aged man nodded, and he smiled a little:

"If you want to, little brother, you can do the same."

As he spoke, his eyes turned away from the back of the car.

The implication couldn't be more obvious.

They don't care about the security or disputes of outsiders, because it has nothing to do with them.

But you can also maintain law and order when necessary, such as when there is money to be made.

The atmosphere was a little depressing for a while, but Zuo Dao's next sentence made it break the ice instantly.

"The former." Zuo Dao nodded, and the middle-aged man showed a friendly gaze.

None of us seem to want to make things bigger.

In this way, the vehicles on the left road were allowed to pass and officially entered the sixteen city-states.

And after they entered this place on the left side, Li Yuexia, who was sitting in the back row, suddenly opened her eyes and sat up.

"Left... Mr. Zuo, is this okay?" She asked cautiously.

Hearing this, Zuo Dao gave a gentle reply:

"Very well done, thank you."

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