After finally resting for a long time, Jiang Zhou received Booker's voice message early in the morning.
[Shen Lan came back from the 'Tenth Floor' last night. You want to find her today to find out about the resettlement area government's attitude towards rebuilding geothermal power plants. In addition, if you have any matters related to Theseus's warehouse, please communicate with her clearly.】
Fortunately, I didn’t post a private channel...
Seeing the notification in the message, Jiang Zhou thought happily.
After all, Liao Qi's stand-in program is now being used by himself. At present, Liao Qi, who is in the base reality, cannot authenticate anything that requires the use of the Mandala Code.
However, what is the attitude of the resettlement area government?
After converting the voice file into text, Jiang Zhou looked through what Booker asked him to do again.
Restarting a geothermal power plant is a major project involving the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of people - even if they can use a multi-purpose printer to cheat and solve 90% of the problems, the remaining 10% of the , will also make the manpower of the Icarus Liberation Front stretched.
Not to mention anything else, just how to obtain hundreds or thousands of tons of printing materials and transport them safely to the seventh floor is already a great test of an organization's operational capabilities - they must find safe and reliable legal channels. , otherwise if they really find black market traders to smuggle hundreds of tons of pig iron, the other party will only think that there is something wrong with the minds of Icarus people.
To put it bluntly, even if there is someone on the black market who is really willing to take on such an outrageous order, I don’t know how long it will take in the end.
And Perse Fanny, or rather, the people from Pluto Deep Diving, were only willing to give them two months.
Therefore, as the stipulated time is getting closer, it has become crucial for them to get the full support of the government departments in the resettlement area.
It is foreseeable that they will definitely have to reach some compromises with the resettlement area government.
"Yeah...we have to squeeze into the elevator to go up to the first floor today."
Throwing the information into the trash can and destroying it, Jiang Zhou scratched his head and complained.
Elevators are the passageway between floors. Due to the huge flow of people, "elevator jams" often occur in elevator shafts.
In Liao Qi's memory, he had been stuck in traffic for four hours in the past, and because the air conditioner in the elevator was broken, he was almost roasted into "dried fish" due to excessive water loss - in the end, he still risked his life. , climbed more than fifty meters along the elevator cable before finally escaping.
Perhaps because of the memory of Liao Qi almost losing his life this time, Jiang Zhou was very resistant to taking the elevator.
While washing, I did some mental construction for myself. Finally, Jiang Zhou packed up, put on a bright yellow coat, and planned to go out to find Dark Blue on the first floor.
Then, when he opened the door, he saw her.
Dark Blue, who was standing at the door at the moment, was not dressed as flashy and flamboyant as before in the bar, but in a very casual and sporty dress.
Wearing a sky blue sweatshirt, a pleated sports skirt, and a plain white tennis cap without any decoration on her head. Her blue hair was gathered into a high ponytail behind her head, and her white wrists were wearing something similar to sports wristbands.
If there were still some beads of sweat on her forehead, she would look like the daughter of a rich family who just came home from playing tennis.
"ha?"
For a moment, Jiang Zhou was stunned.
Why did the other party come to the door instead? Also, how does she know where her home is?
"Dong dong dong."
Raising his hand and knocking in the air a few times, Deep Blue smiled and imitated the sound of knocking on the door, and then said:
"Good morning, Liao..."
"Snapped!"
Before she finished speaking, Jiang Zhou subconsciously closed the door.
It must be that I have been under too much mental stress recently, which is why I had this hallucination.
Close the door, he thought.
However, there was a rapid knock on the door.
"Hey, how can you be so rude!"
A deep blue voice came through the crack in the door.
After reopening the door, Jiang Zhou complained with an unhappy look:
"Why are you here?"
His tone was full of vigilance.
In response, the dark blue eyes gradually widened, looking at Liao Qi in disbelief and saying:
"Ah? Don't you know? I sent a private message in the encrypted channel before saying that I would come...didn't you see it?"
Sorry, can't see it...
Jiang Zhou thought to himself, and then said:
"I just woke up not long ago, and I haven't had time to see... so what exactly is coming to me?"
"Don't worry about what it is. Do you plan to just stand at the door and finish talking about it?"
Shenlan's expression was a little speechless, and she slammed the door in front of her face, and blocked the door with her entire body, with no intention of letting her in - if this person hadn't saved her life before, according to her usual She should have turned around and left long ago.
Seeing this, Jiang Zhou shrugged and stepped aside from the door.
"Come in, there's nothing to entertain you at home...ah, no need to take off your shoes."
He turned around and walked back into the house.
Deep Blue leaned in carefully. While looking around at the small house with its walls covered with cheap wallpaper and the water pipes in the corners still leaking, she said:
"Actually, there is only one thing I really want to say this time - I was replaced by the 'Tenth Floor', and now a new person is responsible for the first floor. In your future battles, I probably won't be able to do it. What a big deal."
Jiang Zhou sat on the old sofa and let it make a dangerous "creep" sound. Then, he quietly hid the small pseudo-movie memory on the armrest of the sofa, and then said:
"Replaced? I remember that when you planned to go back to the 'Tenth Floor' to seek justice, you didn't say that."
Jiang Zhou still remembered that Shen Lan was confident that he would make those attackers pay the price.
Why did he collapse in just one day?
In the messy room, he finally found a relatively clean chair and sat down carefully. Shenlan said:
"Because the resettlement area government is essentially a labor dispatch company under the guise of the government. As a company, what they protect is efficiency, not fairness. Now that my price/performance ratio is gone, they naturally don't care. Whose fault is it?”
Deep Blue's voice was very calm.
But after hearing what she said, Jiang Zhou realized that she had another purpose for coming here in person this time.
"Actually, on the surface, the bar was smashed and there was no big loss, but what I actually lost the most was my reputation... After what happened before, the 'Dark Blue Zone' signboard that has been stabilized underground in the resettlement area in the past few years has been completely destroyed. Smashed...
"Of course, these can be redeemed, but the old men on the tenth floor do not intend to do so. They feel that instead of continuing to barely maintain the relationship, it is better to change to another sign and find one with less conflict of interest with the security center on the first floor. Pick someone up.”
Deep Blue, who was sitting dignifiedly on the chair, continued.
In response, Jiang Zhou frowned and said:
"Is it so simple to change agents? It's easy to change."
As the agent of the tenth-level government on the negative level, Deep Blue has been deeply involved in the intelligence market for so many years. How can it be replaced so easily? Over the years, apart from not having an armed force, how many connections and channels has she mastered?
Just throw it away? Isn't this too wasteful?
Regarding Jiang Zhou's question, Shenlan just snorted coldly:
"Waste? Only a dozen percent of a piece of toilet paper is actually used, and the remaining blank space is just to ensure that their hands don't get shit."
It must be admitted that Jiang Zhou was shocked by the other party's metaphor.
So, he quickly asked:
"So, what's going to happen next for you?"
Shen Lan sneered first, and then said:
"They sent me here to discuss cooperation with the person in charge of the Icarus Liberation Front. After this matter is over, they promised to arrange a casual position for me in the 'Lighthouse' on the tenth floor. I will probably They can retire at that idle job...that's what they want."
The "Lighthouse" is a ten-story landmark building in the resettlement area and the office building of the provisional government of the Nord Resettlement Area.
"but?"
Jiang Zhou could hear dissatisfaction in her tone.
Shen Lan glanced at Jiang Zhou with approval, and then said:
"But I don't want to give up my hard work over the years, and I can't accept that they throw it away like toilet paper... So, you Icarus wanted a new order before, right?"
Jiang Zhou nodded.
"If there is a place for me in the new order, then I plan to invest more in you and play big games together."
(End of chapter)
