Chapter 25: A Place Outside the Law
After the War of Freedom, although all the warlords in various places submitted to the coalition government, they were intrigued with each other and had hidden strength.
The country is really ruled by a coalition government, and there are not many areas that can work up and down.
The country's large and small administrative forces are based on their own turf, and their influence is even less than that of some oligarchs.
In the case of the Jinma Group in Linjiang District, for example, their influence in the local area has even overshadowed the district government.
In this post-World War Cold War period, both politicians and capitalist corporations were prioritizing their own interests, especially in the developed upper class and the dilapidated lower class.
Among the thirteen wards of Kyoto, except for the five central wards, which have a complete public government service system, the rest of the wards are currently controlled by capital as pawns in a tug-of-war with the government.
Under the deliberate manipulation of capital, even in the capital of a country like Kyoto, there are many smoky miasma nine anti-places, and the general area located in the suburbs was born in this environment.
There are three walled villages in Kyoto, but only the shogun-wai wall was built passively rather than defending against outsiders.
The half-ring wall of the walled village was built by the coalition government to prevent criminals from entering the city and reduce the crime rate before the district was under official control.
The fierceness of the people here can be seen from this.
The wall is twenty meters high and extends on both sides to the two semi-controlled districts of the coalition government.
At first, the villagers of the walled village often blew up the walls, and the police exchanged gunfire with the people in the walled village many times, but this has not happened again in recent years.
According to folk rumors, it was because the police high-level and the Wolf King Society had reached a private agreement not to interfere in the affairs of the General Siege and hand over the place to them for self-government, and the Wolf King Society would also take care of the people in the General Siege and not allow them to disturb the law and order in Gyeonggi.
Interestingly, after the Wolf King took over, the murder rate dropped from a staggering 61.53 to 14.22, well below the Kyoto average of 29.68.
Wu Mian stood under the high wall, looked at the machine gun tower and a large number of probes on the wall, frowned and thought for a while: "If I'm not mistaken, this place in Kyoto is not allowed to install this kind of defensive weapon without permission, right?" ”
"It's true that I'm not mistaken, but the laws of the coalition government are just a piece of waste paper on the outside, except for being useful in their own control areas."
Nan Ci opened the backpack he was carrying and handed a blanket to Wu Mian: "This is a heat-proof imaging blanket, which can avoid those intelligent identification probes." ”
Wu Mian took the blanket and draped it over his body: "You just said that there is no legal system in this walled village, which means that no matter what happens to us inside, no one can save us, right?" ”
"That's right, the movement is too big, we may be surrounded and suppressed, we must be cautious."
As Nan Ci spoke, he loaded the rope throwing gun, aimed at the wall and pulled the trigger: "The location where they are holding the hostages is already there, our task is to sneak in secretly, and we must keep a low profile." ”
Wu Mian let Nan Ci wrap his arms around his waist, and was dragged high by the rope throwing spear: "Since you can even feel the location of the hostages, why don't you let the people lurking in the surrounding village do it?" ”
Nan Ci climbed the top of the wall and walked between the machine gun towers under the cover of a heat-proof imaging blanket: "We have no comrades in the city, and the messenger is just an informant, or a natural person, not an opponent of the Wolf King Society." ”
"Ordinary people?" Wu Mian was a little surprised: "I thought that there would always be a state of incompatibility between ordinary people and synths, but I ignored that there are righteous people among ordinary people, and I was narrow-minded." ”
Nan Ci shrugged: "I don't know if he is righteous or not, but we get news from him, 20,000 yuan each time, which is a huge expense." ”
Wu Mian: "......"
Nan Ci walked to the other side of the city wall and said in a low voice: "The general surrounds this kind of place, there is no distinction between good and evil, there is no morality, and everyone is a slave of interests. ”
Wu Mian stood on a high place, taking in the panoramic view of the walled village.
The wall at your foot not only separates the two areas, but also acts more like the dividing line between the two worlds.
Behind him is a bustling city, with hovering cars passing by in the sky from time to time, and holographic projection advertisements on the rooftops of buildings in the distance are colorful.
On the other side, the General Wai is dilapidated and impoverished, full of low shanties and old stacked buildings, like ruins excavated from the ground.
Jiangjunwei is known as the extralegal place of Kyoto, in addition to ruling the wolf king society here, there are also a large number of underworld forces stationed, which can be described as a mixture of fish and dragons, three religions and nine streams.
When some community members are evading pursuit, the preferred location is here, because this is a place where even the police will not easily set foot in it, let alone control it.
In the eyes of outsiders, it is a representative of evil, dirty, and filth.
Gangs, addicts, hackers, killers, prostitutes, ghost markets, gambling stalls, black workshops, underground factories......
As long as you can think of illegal business, there is everything here, and it is blatant, and no one cares about it at all.
There was no planning for the Shogun Wai, not even a regular street, only dark, garbage-ridden walkways, and under these arched aisles, there was liquid mixed with feces, and a disgusting smell of fish filled the air.
As far as the eye can see, they are all crowded together, like a beehive, and the buildings are badly corroded, and people with dense phobia will definitely feel numb in their scalps when they see it.
The buildings here are very densely built, there are small alleys everywhere, and many places do not see the sun, and it is dark all day long.
Wu Mian even wondered if these old buildings would have collapsed if they hadn't been crowded together.
In this dilapidated place, the passers-by are also numb, and some gang members will ride motorcycles, screaming and swaggering through the city in the roar, causing pedestrians to dodge one after another, and the arrogance is extreme.
Nanci used his electronic eyes to see the marks left by the informant with special materials along the way, and soon passed through the corridor between the stacked buildings and came to a shanty town.
This is the ruined area of Jiangjunwei, as far as the eye can see, there are iron sheds, broken bricks, and muddy roads, as if a gust of wind can turn this low shanty town into ruins.
The group soon walked into a dark alley, where the sheds were even more rudimentary, squatters made of wood, rags, and plastic bags.
A childish girl saw Wu Mian and the others coming, pinched the corners of her clothes with her hands, her voice was as low as a mosquito, and said to a few strangers wearing cloaks in front of her: "Come and play, it's very cheap." ”
Nan Ci glanced at the girl in front of her, took out a gold nucleus the size of a soybean in her pocket and handed it over: "Do you know where the funeral street is?" ”
Jiangjun Wai is a place of chaos, and many criminals do not use digital currencies in order to evade the government's online supervision.
When the girl saw the golden beans handed by Nanci, she knew that these people were unprovoked existences, and after thinking for a while, she still didn't dare to take Nanci's golden beans, but took the initiative to get out of the way, pointing in the direction behind her: "Go to the end and go in the alley between the two tenement buildings." ”