The Dark Blue Zone Bar is located in the central block on the ground floor of the Nord Resettlement Area.
The underground level is a subtle realm. Upward, there is a livable area where you can feel the sunshine and require a formal registration certificate to live. There, the provisional government in the resettlement area maintains a considerable degree of security - parents can safely let their children go to and from school alone without putting bulletproof plates in their schoolbags.
Down below, there are underground neighborhoods with "simple folk customs", where gang violence replaces the lack of government and maintains poor order. People are like garbage that accumulates all year round, one layer on top of the other, piles on top of each other. And because of the gradually scarce resources and harsh environment, the further down the layer area is, the more the evil of human nature is fermented into a pungent and unpleasant smell. Everyone struggled to crawl out of the bottomless pit.
The negative floor serves as a buffer zone to communicate between the above-ground and underground areas, and is fortunate to be able to maintain a certain degree of order. The public service part of the settlement area is open to this floor, and the law enforcement agency here is not just a decoration.
However, on the other hand, these conveniences do not belong to all residents here - only government employees or corporate employees can enjoy the convenience of clean distilled water, stable power supply from the Fusion Bureau, or other infrastructure facilities.
Therefore, the mentality of the residents on the first floor is often more subtle. Most of them look down on those residents who were born on the ground floor of the resettlement area, thinking that those people are just parasites that lie on the entire resettlement area and suck blood. 90% of the government's budget is spent on But it has failed to cultivate a successful enterprise and create more jobs in decades.
But on the other hand, they also look down on those underground areas that pride themselves on building one floor below the other. They believe that the people there are morally bankrupt and degenerate superstitions and subcultures are rampant. Especially the lowest levels, they behave like beasts. Horrible urban legends about the bottom are everywhere. When most people mention the residents on the bottom, they will regard them as half-orcs.
From this perspective, the negative level is actually the area with the strongest identification with the concept of the provisional government in the entire Nord resettlement area.
But no matter what, when you come to this level area, your style of behavior cannot be too showy.
Jiang Zhou thought to himself after sorting out the information about the negative level.
In Liao Qi's memory, the law enforcement department on the first floor even had a special task force dedicated to stopping the crimes of adjusters. Even when the Icarus Liberation Front is at its most influential, it will try to avoid making any big noise on the basement level.
But I just don’t have the ability to make a big splash right now...
Smiling to himself, Jiang Zhou put the Scorpio pistol on the old snake's waist through his coat, signaling him to continue walking forward.
The appearance of the Dark Blue Zone Bar is the same as in Liao Qi's memory. It looks like a huge dark blue fish tank. Seaweed sways back and forth in the glass wall, and genetically modified marine fish emitting colorful fluorescence swim happily.
"Mr. Liao, we are already here...but if you walk in with a gun pointed at me like this, I'm afraid it might be a little bad, right?"
Old Snake looked at the fish tank-like bar and turned back to Liao Qi nervously.
"Open the call channel."
Jiang Zhou said briefly.
With a beep, Lao She's call channel came online in Liao Qi's visual panel.
"You go in first, and I will pay attention to you from the side. After you see the other person, you know what to talk about and how to talk about it, so I won't repeat it again."
"I understand, Mr. Liao, I won't..."
The old snake said quickly.
But Jiang Zhou raised his hand to interrupt:
"Listen to me. What I want to remind you is: if you turn off the communication channel, you will die; if you or Zhu Lin turn on the communication shield in the box, you will die; if I notice that you are trying to send a message to the other party, you will die. Die; if the conversation between you makes me feel unhappy, die...have I made it clear enough?"
When these words came out, Jiang Zhou himself was a little surprised at his coldness and arrogance.
It seems that when controlling Liao Qi's body, he will inevitably be affected by some of his personality. Liao Qi, who grew up in the underground neighborhood of the resettlement area, naturally has a lot of ruthlessness and cunning unique to the lower class in his behavior. Of course, there is also the kind of impulsiveness - otherwise he would not have done such a stupid thing as grabbing the gun when his head was pointed at him.
But now, after taking over Liao Qi's body, the cruelty and cunningness from his nature have not disappeared, but will naturally be revealed when he acts and speaks - in a sense, this In fact, it can be considered a good thing. If he meets an acquaintance of Liao Qi's past, he does not need to deliberately disguise himself. He only needs to show a natural reaction so that he will not be suspicious.
On the other hand, Liao Qi's character, combined with Jiang Zhou's own consistent rational way of thinking, also produced some kind of wonderful chemical reaction...
Jiang Zhou spit out the chewing gum he had been chewing, then took out two low-velocity soft warhead explosive bombs from his pocket and took out the plasticine-like charge inside. Then, he used chewed gum to wrap the explosive like a dumpling, and buried a fuse chip inside it that was about the size of a quarter of a fingernail.
"Turn around."
Jiangzhou Road.
Being pointed at by Scorpio, the other party turned around in cooperation. Jiang Zhou rolled the simple sticky explosive into a strip and stuffed it into the brain-computer interface of the opponent's occipital bone, and then used a piece of leather to completely seal the brain-computer interface.
After checking that there were no mistakes left and right, Jiang Zhou nodded with satisfaction and patted his shoulder to signal him to turn back.
The old snake turned around, his forehead covered with cold sweat. His pupils were almost trembling as he looked at Liao Qi, and his lips trembled as if he wanted to curse something, but he didn't dare to say it.
Jiang Zhou stopped the smile on his lips and said:
"After the matter is completed, you can find any top-notch prosthetic doctor to help you take this thing out. But before that, as long as I do this..."
As he spoke, he raised his thumb in a "press" motion, and then suddenly opened his clenched fist.
"Bang~"
"do you understand?"
The old snake swallowed with a pale face, then gritted his teeth and said:
"Understood."
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Looking at the other person's back as he walked in, Jiang Zhou was sure that neither he nor Liao Qi could come up with such a simple and easy-to-use threat method alone.
When he was on the street, Liao Qi, who once used a rock-breaking hammer to break the bones of a gang traitor's hand one by one, was capable of this level of cruelty. But with his straightforward approach and emotional personality that likes to act first and think later, he would never have thought of such a delicate plan.
Although Jiang Zhou himself has developed a thinking habit of using everything available around him to solve problems, as a promising young man who grew up in a society with a sound legal system, in the past nearly thirty years of his life, he has only been able to solve problems. It's just a potentially illegal thing like uploading your own digital personality to the Internet.
It would be a little too difficult for him to expect him to come up with such a cruel threat plan.
So the "controllable elements" put online through the "Janus Program" are not just a body that can be controlled by oneself, but also a complement to the way of thinking?
Jiang Zhou thought.
"Old Snake, here, I'll buy you anything to drink."
At this time, the voice of the target of this trip came from the communication channel.
Jiang Zhou, whose thoughts were interrupted, slightly lowered the brim of his hat and followed the bustling crowd around him to the Dark Blue Zone Bar.
