Yin Xiya got out of the car and walked out of the alley.
The brief moment of sunshine was fleeting, and shadows once again enveloped the world.
Jia Qian lay on the backrest of the passenger seat, stared at Yin Xiya's back through the car window, and watched Yin Xiya go away.
When Yin Xiya's figure completely disappeared, Jia Qian took out a piece of tinfoil wrapped with chewing gum from her pocket, turned around, and took off the chewing gum above the rearview mirror, revealing the miniature camera below that was pointed at the car.
"Camera masking has been lifted,"
A dull mechanical female voice sounded in the taxi,
"Kuaixing Transportation Group reminds you that the camera in the taxi is one of the important accessories to protect the rights and interests of passengers. We will strictly protect the privacy information of our customers. All video data are strictly encrypted. Please do not try to cover the camera or destroy the camera, such as If there is damage, you may be held liable.”
"Grandpa, why do you need to glue this earphone on?"
Jia Qian ignored the sound coming from the taxi's main control computer. She took off the tiny Bluetooth headset stuck to her chewing gum and asked with some confusion.
"Headphones are used to play high-frequency sounds that interfere with the operation of the microphone."
He Ao took out a tissue, reached out to remove the chewing gum stuck to the microphone sound hole in the back seat, and explained slowly.
Eve has been using Bluetooth headsets just now, interfering with the microphone next to the camera and the sound collection system of the entire vehicle.
"Ouch!"
Jia Xi nodded.
At this time, the entire taxi shook and started slowly.
When the camera or microphone in the car is blocked, the driverless taxi will not start, but the fare will still be calculated.
In fact, this is a "loophole" deliberately left by the Kuaishou Transportation Group, allowing customers to cover the information collection device in the car for a short period of time, thereby turning the driverless taxi into a temporary "secret room".
The fare is actually the fee for using this 'secret room'.
Of course, this blocking time cannot be too long. After more than fifteen minutes, the express traffic group may remotely alarm.
The taxi slowly pulled out of the alley.
He Ao sat in the back seat and glanced outside the street. At this moment, there was a large truck parked in the alley where he killed the monster. This car should have stopped when he and Yin Xiya were chatting.
The rear of the truck drove into the alley, and the sound of a large mechanical wall could be vaguely heard. This was probably towing the pollution monster killed by He Ao.
Some workers from the Pollution Cleanup Department were dispersing the crowd outside.
When He Ao came out of the tunnel, the operation of the truck was nearing completion. The robotic arm completely dragged everything in the tunnel into the truck compartment. The whole process was very fast.
With a crisp sound of the door closing, the huge truck started to move forward and turned into the street, and Yin Xiya, who was standing next to it, also got into a black car.
Some staff from the Pollution Cleanup Department stayed here to deal with the aftermath, while most people entered the convoy and drove towards the east of the city.
He Ao asked the taxi to follow the convoy at a distance.
On the way, he changed several taxis and kept following the progress until he saw the entire convoy entering a tall building surrounded by glass.
This building does not bear the sign of a certain group or organization. It just stands quietly in the shadow of the tall building, just like an ordinary office building.
He Ao and Jia Qian got off the car not too close to the building. Standing where he got off the car, he could still vaguely see the building, but it was mostly obscured by other factory buildings.
That building should be the headquarters of the Pollution Cleanup Department.
In a short period of time, Yin Xiya should be safe.
He Ao glanced at the building, then found a nearby roadside shop with a lot of people, and walked over.
After all this trouble, the sky gradually darkened and the surrounding street lights lit up one by one.
"What to eat?"
He Ao stood at the door of the shop, turned to look at Jia Qian, and asked with a smile.
This is a small shop that mainly sells large cheese bread.
This is a special delicacy in the city of St. John. The baked bread is cut in the middle, then stuffed with cheese, and then baked in the oven until the cheese is completely melted.
You can choose to add your own ingredients to the baked cheese bread, some with vegetable juice, some with jam, and some with raw eggs.
Of course, the best-selling one is the one with meatballs.
Mix the synthetic meat mince with some spices and seasonings, shape it into half a fist-sized meatball, fry it in synthetic liquid vegetable oil until golden on all sides, then put it in the oven and bake for fifteen to twenty minutes, until a layer of skin appears After it is browned, take it out and make cheese bread as a side dish.
Because synthetic minced meat is the leftover material of synthetic meat and is cheap. Although the taste is not very good, it can form a certain chewiness after being grilled. In addition, it is cheap and large in quantity, so this kind of fried meatballs are popular in St. John City. very popular.
This is one of the few foods that ordinary people can consume a large amount of protein quickly.
Large pieces of meatballs, plus cheese bread as a staple food, can basically barely meet the energy consumption of high-intensity work.
Most of the people eating in this store are employees working at the nearby Kjet Group factory.
As a food group, Kjet Group does not provide cheap employee canteens, so employees can only eat at stores outside the factory or bring their own meals.
In contrast, the food prices in the surrounding stores were not cheap. This store was already the cheapest store around when He Ao glanced at it.
However, the price of the same type of food in this store is about 15% higher than in the northwest city where Sito lives.
He Ao raised his head and glanced at the nameplate of 'KJET Properties' posted on the wall of this store.
Apparently, the storefront is the property of the Kjet Group.
Sito, who has worked in the food industry for half his life, has a certain understanding of the upstream and downstream of the entire industry. In the catering industry, store rental costs are one of the most important costs.
The reason why shops here are more expensive than other places is probably largely due to the rent.
These small price changes, reflected in the selling price of goods, may only be a difference of one or two federal coins.
However, for grain factory employees whose hourly wages are generally less than five federal dollars and whose daily wages are only about forty federal dollars, the difference between these two dollars directly determines whether they eat a large portion or a small portion. Can't eat enough.
These factory employees, whose main job is to produce food, find it difficult to eat easily near the factory.
Most workers should bring their own food.
But in fact, in St. John City, even if you cook and bring lunch, the cost of food is not low.
Because of the high food prices, the per capita food consumption in the entire St. John City is even the same as that of Chenxi City, which has a far more developed economy than St. Jon City, and the average price is also much higher than that of St. Jon City.
The income of St. John City is much lower than that of Chenxi City.
"that,"
While He Ao was sorting out the impact of the KJET Group on St. John City, Jia Qian, who had been thinking for a while, finally made her decision. She raised her little hand high and pointed at the barbecue meatball set, "Grandpa, I Eat that."
"How many do you want?"
He Ao glanced at her and asked softly. If he remembered correctly, the little girl's digestion ability was also very good because she had exercised since she was a child.
Yes, he eats a lot.
However, in order to prevent the child from eating too much and damaging her body, Sito usually only allowed her to eat a little more.
"ah?"
Jia Qian's eyes widened and she was slightly confused.
Then she hesitated. After a brief thought, she looked at He Ao and asked tentatively, "Grandpa, can I have three portions of the one with five meatballs?"
"Can."
He Ao smiled and nodded.
Then he took Jia Qian to the door of the store and ordered five portions of meatballs and cheese bread.
Jia Qian had three portions and he had two portions.
Such a large meatball cheese bread set is not cheap. A single portion is priced at 16 federal dollars, and five portions cost Ho Ao 80 federal dollars.
In terms of energy alone, this portion is basically enough for an adult to eat for a day.
While waiting for the meal to be cooked, He Ao opened the small suitcase given to him by Yin Xiya and took out the bracelet bound to the black market account.
Instead of opening the black market software directly, he used short-range file transfer to transfer an Eve remote control terminal to the bracelet installation.
In this way, even if he is not wearing the bracelet, Eve can transmit the information on the bracelet to his own bracelet through remote control.
Through this terminal, some tasks that require retrieving information can also be run in the background by Eve, without him having to query it himself.
With the installation of the control terminal completed, He Aocai clicked on the software marked 'Black Market'.
This is also the only non-system software on this bracelet. The icon of the software is very interesting, it is a closed eye.
This reminded Ho Ao of the 'Wizard'.
Wizards are the collective name for a group of people who pursue truth and power during the Cataclysm. Their representative emblem is the 'Eye of Truth'. The commonly used pattern is a closed eye inlaid with an inverted triangle, which means 'pursuit of truth'.
Of course, this emblem was later 'stolen' by the God of Death. The open eyes inlaid with an inverted triangle meant that 'the truth has been revealed' and became the emblem of the God of Death.
However, the icon of the black market does not have an inverted triangle, and He Ao does not know whether the eye pattern they used is related to the wizard's 'Eye of Truth'.
In the field of occultism, slight deviations in the emblem may point to completely different contents.
After He Ao clicked on the software icon, his closed eyes flickered, and then a dark interface popped up.
Then the page changed from dark to light, showing what a city looked like at night.
A figure covered in pitch black and shrouded in nighttime combat uniforms appeared on the screen. He was currently lying on the top of a high platform, his eyes leaning on the scope of a heavy-looking sniper rifle.
Then, he held his breath, stared at the lackluster place in the night, and pulled the trigger.
boom--
Accompanied by a violent gunshot, the camera turned to the depths of the night, and then quickly zoomed in. The surrounding buildings passed by like phantoms, and then, a figure standing in the dim light appeared in the screen.
His entire left chest was penetrated, and his eyes widened as he fell forward.
Just when He Ao was wondering what the opening interface meant, the camera cut back to the sniper who fired.
A curly-haired, wavy beauty wearing black stockings on her left leg, a black leg ring on her right leg, a navel-baring camouflage tube top, and camouflage ultra-short hot pants walked out of the night.
She took the sniper rifle from the sniper's hand and looked at the camera,
"M93b1, with ultra-long-distance low-light night vision, precise and controllable ballistics, intelligent auxiliary aiming system, and ultra-high-definition simulation algorithm, is your best helper in carrying out missions and killing people. It is produced by Yinweisi Space Systems Company. You can trust it."
At this time, a line of small words appeared at the bottom of the screen,
[Click to buy now, confidential and traceless delivery]
Obviously, this is an open-screen advertisement.
He Ao:······
Yes, accurate delivery.
He Ao stretched out his hand and clicked the 'x' in the upper right corner of the screen.
Those with black market accounts and more or less violent backgrounds are exactly the target group for gun sales.
This advertising should accurately target target users.
If He Ao guessed correctly, there should be a mall where you can buy firearms online in the black market software.
As the open-screen advertisement was closed, the homepage of the software appeared in He Ao's field of vision. At first glance, he discovered the three eye-catching first-level options at the bottom of the software.
[Forum][Mall][My]
He Ao glanced at the 'mall'.
Sure enough, people in the black market also need to eat.
Even though the operator may be some large consortium, the consortium will not spend money for no reason to invest in projects that only make losses but no profits.
He Ao glanced at the forum interface on the homepage.
This interface is very simple, using a card structure, and the design is also quite aesthetic.
At the bottom of the homepage, occupying most of the screen, are posts that are constantly refreshed. There will be a blue label in front of the post to mark the content of the post, such as [Reward Mission], [Intelligence Help], [Transportation Mission], [Item Purchase]·· ····
At the top of the home page, there are two secondary menu options to choose from, namely [Task Directory] and [Information Exchange].
A little above these two secondary menus, there is also a message icon in the upper right corner of the entire interface.
He Ao clicked on the message icon. There was no chat box in it, only a line of small prompt text.
[Message records that are not on task for more than three days and are more than seven days after the end of the task will be burned. ]
It seems that it is not that there is no chat, but that all the records have been deleted by this software.
"The software package is being parsed and the data flow is being analyzed,"
At the same time, Eve's voice came to He Ao's ears, "The firewall was found and is being analyzed. The difficulty of cracking is: extremely high. Do you want to crack it?"
The extremely high difficulty of cracking means that it is very likely that the crack will fail, and it may even be reversely located during the cracking process.
"Need not."
He Ao shook his head and entered a negative command on his bracelet.
The extremely high difficulty of cracking speaks for itself.
Eve can use the computing power of the Nolanka Group at will, and in many cases it can work wonders. To build a firewall system that is difficult for Eve to crack and locate, it requires a lot of computing power, software and personnel support.
The establishment of such a team and supporting facilities requires a very large initial investment. Basically, only large consortiums can play it, and it cannot be a large consortium that is too weak.
He Ao exited the chat interface and clicked 'My' on the bottom menu.
The account's profile appeared in front of him.
The account name is 'Ting Ye Ren', the level is level 2, the points are 117, the account age is 4 years,
Then below are the customer service and feedback options.
He Ao tried to click the level 2 button, and a pop-up window appeared in his field of vision.
[Your current level is lv2. You can read forum information that can be read by lv0, lv1, and lv2, purchase mall items that can be purchased by lv0, lv1, and lv2, and enjoy a 5% discount exclusive to lv2. *Accept more tasks, get more points, and quickly upgrade your level to get more permissions and benefits. ]
This black market has a level of lv0, which should correspond to newly registered users.
Information is displayed according to level, which means that newly registered users cannot see anything at all. They must accept tasks to gain points, and only after completing the upgrade can they see more things.
And points.
He Ao returned to the forum interface and clicked on the task list option.
Just click on a lv0 task to open it.
The content of this mission is to assassinate the bodyguard of a certain bodyguard company. The reward is 2,000 federal coins and the mission points are 10.
This task is specially marked. After completing the task, you can quickly advance to lv1.
Sure enough, if you want to enter the black market, you have to hand in an "investment certificate."
Fortunately, Yin Xiya's account came from a solo traveler. It was a lv2 account and directly skipped the stage of applying for a certificate.
He Ao retreated and glanced at the tasks. These tasks were randomly arranged. Most of them were killing or transportation tasks, and they were mixed together from all cities.
He found the filter option on the side and filtered out all the tasks in St. Jon City. Then he put down his bracelet and entered instructions on his bracelet, asking Eve to retrieve and classify all the task information in St. Jon City in the background. .
He Ao didn't know if the 'client' who asked Witte to set the fire was still active in the black market, but he tried to collect some information and might be able to get some clues.
After putting away the bracelet, He Ao looked at Jia Qian beside him.
At this moment, Jia Qian was sitting on a small bench in front of the store, staring blankly at the big meatballs on other people's tables.
She quickly noticed that He Ao was watching her. She quickly turned around and looked at He Ao, "Grandpa, are you done?"
"hungry?"
He Ao looked at her and asked with a smile.
"No······"
Jia Qian shook her head, and at this time, there was a gurgling sound in her stomach.
He Ao rubbed her little head and put his hand on the table, "Would you like to arm-wrestle with Grandpa?"
Arm wrestling was a small game that Sito liked to play with his granddaughter in the past. The two of them have been working out and their physical fitness is not bad.
"OK."
Jia Qian stretched out her little hand and held He Ao's hand. She tightened her strength a little at first, but He Ao's hand didn't move at all.
She started to exert force, her face became redder and redder, and she even stood up, but she didn't move He Ao's arm at all.
After almost a minute, Jia Qian finally gave up and let go. She took a breath and said, "I can't beat Grandpa."
"Jia Qian is making rapid progress and is about to surpass Grandpa."
He Ao smiled and reached out to touch her little head.
"Those two over there, your meal is ready."
Then there was a shout from behind the counter.
"Go get it."
He Ao smiled and looked at Jia Qian.
"Uh-huh."
Distracted by the food, Jia Qian nodded, instantly became happy and rushed out.
A man who was standing nearby watching the old and young arm wrestling with interest turned his body sideways and was about to make way for Jia Qian when he felt a strong wind blowing past his side.
He spun around in a circle and looked around blankly.
He was just thinking about how strong and fast such a little girl and old man could go, and then something suddenly jumped over.
After seeing that he was not injured, He Ao looked away, put the arm-wrestling hand under the table, and rubbed the muscles on his elbow.
He just wanted to test Jia Qian's current physical fitness.
Now his physical fitness is close to 10, and his strength can reach close to 20 in an explosive situation. Coupled with the use of physical strength, his one-arm strength can easily exceed 20.
But even so, he was almost defeated by Jia Qian.
This proves that Jia Qian's current physical fitness is probably around 20.
This girl's own talent is not bad, and after He Ao washed the marrow and cut the bones, her terrifying power was enhanced.
She has followed Situ to exercise since she was a child, and she has actually trained her body. In other words, she may have had a period of rapid growth in the early stages of her practice.
The combination of the two caused Jia Qian to show a terrifying growth rate.
Next, we will teach further practice and some practical things.
While He Ao was thinking, Jia Qian quickly retrieved the meal, and her small stature ran over quickly holding the lunch boxes stacked higher than her head.
During this process, the little girl became unstable, one foot slipped and fell forward, and the lunch box she was holding was thrown out.
She quickly stretched out her hand to hold down the lunch box, hugging the lunch box up and down with both hands, tightening her legs and exerting force instantly.
The little man did a beautiful front flip in the air and landed in front of He Ao.
A little bit of soup spilled down the air, and some of it fell on the little guy's cheek.
"hey-hey."
She looked at He Ao and giggled, "Grandpa, I must be awesome."
She had never learned a front flip, and the action just now was just based on the scene on TV, and she used it when she was under stress.
"sharp."
He Ao glanced at the four packing boxes in her arms, smiled and shook his head. He raised his crutches and swung them like willow branches in the spring breeze, swinging parallel to the air.
boom--
The thrown packing box flew down in the air and landed on the tip of He Ao's crutch.
The small crutch steadily supported the large and heavy packing box, and the soup splashed in the air flew back into the box as He Ao moved the crutch.
The lid of the opened packing box slowly closed following the movement of the crutch.
"Fuck, that's awesome."
The man who had just stood aside to watch the excitement and circled around watched this scene and couldn't help but blurt out.
He was originally attracted by the little girl's front flip, but he didn't expect that the gentle-looking old man next to him was even more awesome.
At this time, the eyes of the people around were also attracted by the movement just now.
He Ao took back his crutches, used the crutches to support the packing boxes, handed them to Jia Qian, and stacked them on top of the four packing boxes.
Then he reached into his pocket and took out a clean silk scarf and handed it to Jia Qian, and took all the packing boxes from Jia Qian's hand.
"Let's eat somewhere else."
He held the stack of packing boxes in one hand, glanced at the crowd around him, and stood up slowly.
"good!"
Jia Qian wiped her face with a silk scarf, picked up her suitcase and followed He Ao's footsteps.
The crowd around them naturally made way for the two of them.
The figures of the old and the young gradually disappeared into the night,
Buzz——
And just as He Ao was gradually moving away from the crowd, his bracelet vibrated.
"Grandpa, has the message from sister Yin Xiya been sent?"
Jia Qian walked next to him and asked with her head in the air.
He Ao raised his bracelet and took a look. It was Yin Xiya who was uploading data through the private cloud terminal he gave her.
