Volume 1: The Escape of the Holy Maiden Chapter 8 The Cat in the Lower Town
Chu Yuesheng was still stunned at the door, but Gong Zimeng had already opened the flying wing door of the hovercar, and he sat on the cushion that had been lit several times, forcibly raising the driver's seat a lot. Seeing that Chu Yuesheng hadn't moved, she turned her head and patted the co-pilot seat beside her.
"Hurry up and get in the car, let's go. ”
"Uh...... Oh!" Chu Yuesheng woke up like a dream, and hurriedly walked over, sinking into the soft sofa seat like a slime.
The car door closed silently, and Chu Yuesheng felt that his body was fixed by the seat under his buttocks, and he was not afraid of being thrown off.
But the next scene made Chu Yuesheng's adrenaline soar again.
I saw that Gong Zimeng actually started the suspension engine of the hovering car in the community, so that the vehicle flew towards the sky.
Oh my God, it's a residential area, and the two streets separated are the official residence of the coalition government. With the exception of special vehicles that have been approved for special missions, any hovercraft that dares to take off without a license will be locked by space-based weapons.
To die, to die, to die, to die.
Chu Yuesheng felt that the death omen star above his head was flashing and shining, maybe in the next second, maybe in the next two seconds, there might be a pillar of crimson light that penetrated through the sky and evaporated him from the world with this car and his cheap sister.
However, what Chu Yuesheng was worried about didn't happen, and Gong Zimeng's hovering car smoothly rose to a seaworthy altitude of fifty meters above the ground and hovered. Gong Zimeng let go of the steering wheel in his hand, lowered his head and rummaged through the storage box next to the joystick, found a treasure bead, peeled off the sugar paper and put it in his mouth, and then turned his head and said to Chu Yuesheng, who was already nervous and sweaty...... Are you hot?"
There is no need to manually turn it on at all, as soon as Gong Zimeng's words fell, the air conditioner in the car started automatically, and a cold wind blew right in front of Chu Yuesheng's face, and the strong air supply volume directly swept Chu Yuesheng's hair into a big back.
"No, I just ...... A little worried. ”
It is not advisable to stay here for a long time, Chu Yuesheng didn't know why Gong Zimeng's hovering car could take off directly in a residential area, but the safest way now was to drive the car to the driveway quickly. Immediately, immediately!
Chu Yuesheng projected a map of the entire city from his personal terminal, then closed his eyes, and his fingers hung on the map and shook back and forth.
On Chu Yuesheng's eyelids, the red and green spots of light were constantly changing. With the activation of his ability and the fine-tuning of his fingers, the red patches in front of Chu Yuesheng's eyes gradually decreased, and more and more green patches appeared, which meant that Chu Yuesheng was getting closer and closer to the answer he needed.
Finally, Chu Yuesheng's eyes all turned green, and his finger stopped at a certain location on the map, which was his goal!
Chu Yuesheng opened his eyes and looked at the landing point of his fingers. It was a lower city, more than ten kilometers away from the central area where Chu Yuesheng lived. On weekdays, Chu Yuesheng is afraid that he will have to reverse the car several times, and there will be no time for half a day to go back and forth. But now that Gongzi Dream has a car, the speed must be much faster than before.
"Is that there?" Gong Zimeng asked, looking at the dots on the map that Chu Yuesheng pointed out.
Chu Yuesheng nodded, still thinking about the location of this Thunder Shadow Cat in his mind. According to the content of the commission, this Thunder Shadow Cat was lost in the central urban area of the west of the city, but now there is a lower city in the south of the city, which is nearly twenty kilometers away, a pet big cat with a little discharge ability, how did it cross such a long distance?
And...... There's Downtown.
No matter how developed a place is, where there is light, there will be shadows, even in a place like the headquarters of the United Government of Mankind. The apathetic Canterlot doesn't believe in tears, and the first problem that young people who come to Canterlot with dreams in their hearts want to put down roots here is the high cost of living here. It's not that the price of natural and organic greens is unimaginably expensive, but if you lower the bar to synthetic foods or even compressed pastes, you can buy a large box for just 100 credits, enough for an adult to eat for months – if you can tolerate the unchewy or overly hard taste, of course.
Even Chu Yuesheng, who didn't have much money to spare, the money spent on a meal was enough for the poor people in the lower city to live decently for half a month.
It's not expensive to eat, so what's really expensive? That's right, it's housing. Even transforming people needs rest, and rest needs space. However, in order to ensure the gold content of housing prices, the developers of Central City have no intention of building too many residential areas for this most important city of human society. If you don't want to pitch a tent on the outskirts of the city or go to the ruins to live with homeless people, you have to put up with the exploitation of real estate developers in Canterlot and the outrageously low cost of housing. In this case, the appearance of the lower town becomes a natural thing.
Downtown is for poor people who can't afford to buy a house in Central City on a low salary, but still don't recognize the reality and go to other habitable planets to make a living.
Even if they can't afford a down payment, developers are not going to let go of the credit in their pockets. If you can't afford to buy a house, can't you still afford to rent it? Can't you afford to rent a good house, can't you still afford to rent a tube building? There are hundreds of households in a building, and the living space of each household is only a dozen square meters, and each bedroom has a toilet, and cooking can only be done on the balcony, and some even do not have a balcony, so they can only cook in the toilet.
When such houses are brought together, they have a unified name - Downtown.
The lower town is the dark side of the central city, and despite the fact that the balance system is very developed, it is also where the sun can shine. The lower town is a breeding ground for evil, and the people here do not need any balance of justice, they have established a different set of order on their own. The police don't bother to care about the bullshit that happens in the lower city, anyway, it's all the trivial things of a group of lower-class people, as long as they don't make a lot of extremely vicious incidents, no one will care about what kind of misery these lower-class people live in.
But now the incident in front of Chu Yuesheng is that a pet in the central area has been exiled to Xiacheng District. Can this Thunder Shadow Cat really run that far on its own?