If an airship wants to fly legally, it must obtain a general aviation permit issued by the Bureau of Order and be connected to the autonomous transportation network. Its pilot must be registered and undergo a social relationship review every other week.
The restrictions for ground vehicles are much smaller.
No matter what engine is used, electric, electromagnetic or anti-gravity, as long as the floating height is less than 25cm, you only need to register it once at the time of purchase. The review system is also very loose, and it is basically just a show.
Therefore, Li Liang understood very well that K would choose an electric car as a means of transportation.
But he couldn't understand that as an agent, K turned out to be a road fool.
At this moment, they were stuck in the evening rush hour in Xicheng District, crawling like snails.
It can be seen that reality is always funnier than movies.
Their original plan was to rush to the cooked food processing factory immediately, tie up the steamed bun seller Old Tang, and then find a place to torture out the psychic's contact information, but they didn't expect to be stuck in the evening rush hour.
It can be seen that no matter how important your task is, even if it is to save the earth, it will not work during the evening rush hour.
Li Liang looked at the endless car taillights ahead, sighed and wondered: "You drove very well when you went to the northwest corner square in the afternoon, why did you choose such a road now..."
K said awkwardly: "I used to go to Kabukicho often, so I am familiar with the road there."
"..."
Li Liang was speechless.
Hiccup hiccup~
Zhizhi was leaning against the car window, making faces at the child in the back seat of the car next to him, making the child giggle.
Traffic crawled slowly.
Li Liang lowered the window, the night breeze was warm, the sound of the engine, the sound of music, and the noise of people filled the car together.
There are many commercial districts in Xicheng, and both sides of the main road are filled with holograms.
Among the crowds of people, Li Liang saw a couple. The man was wearing a jacket and scarf, with a cigarette in his mouth. The woman had her arm around him and a drink in her hand. They were happily talking about something. Passing through one piece of light and shadow, and then into another, colors flowed on them, like sunlight reflected on water.
One pop-up advertisement after another jumps around in the crowd like elves, and pedestrians wave to drive them away, just like people drove away annoying mosquitoes a thousand years ago.
A man in a cheap suit stood on the side of the road, eating a burger in a hurry. His suit was pulled askew by his backpack, revealing his wrinkled tie.
He was probably an agent from a biological company who had just gotten off work.
Li Liang looked up along the street. Rows of skyscrapers blocked the sky. Almost every building had a giant display screen outside, playing different advertisements. Airships flowed past the display screen like slender and chaotic lines.
Higher up, a series of covered bridges are erected between the buildings on both sides of the street. You can also see colorful signboards and squirming crowds.
Where before cities expanded horizontally, now cities are growing upward.
Zhongjing at night is like a forest filled with light.
At this time, a giant holographic image slowly took shape in front of a building. It was a geisha wearing a kimono. In a fully formed moment, the geisha unfolds a Kyoto fan and dances.
The light and shadow dyed half of the street red, which was a bit dazzling.
Li Liang blinked, retracted into the car, and raised the window glass.
The noise was blocked outside and the car became quiet.
He thought for a while and asked: "K, do you have any special skills?"
"Huh?" K was looking at the woman in the passenger seat of the car next to him through the glass. He was stunned for a moment when he heard this question, "Well, I know a lot of people and have a lot of friends."
Li Liang suddenly realized, no wonder K could influence the route of a parade and contact him as quickly as possible. He was a social person.
"What are the specialties of the other twelve middlemen? How can we contact them?"
K lit a cigarette and blew out a cloud of smoke: "I only know one of them. That Ex Machina girl is a madam. One-third of the women in Kabukicho Ichiban Street are her spies. Now she can Found it, the other middlemen should have changed their identities, and the only way to contact them is through the Presbyterian Church."
"How can I contact the Elders?"
"Ha," K smiled, pointing out the window, "just go through that."
Following the direction pointed by K, Li Liang saw that a display screen in front of a building was playing today's lottery numbers in a loop. This kind of lottery was very special, with more than thirty digits.
Li Liang raised his eyebrows and said, "Is this thing done by the Presbyterian Church? Is it transmitting information to you through a combination of numbers?"
"Yes."
"..."
Li Liang was a little depressed. Not only had he bought this kind of lottery ticket, but he had also bought it for a long time.
More than 30 digits are the solution calculated from an equation involving many variables. Lottery players can try different procedures to calculate the solution for the new draw.
Unexpectedly, it turned out to be just a tool for planting mayflies to convey messages. He decided that the next time he saw Cain, he would ask her to pay the lottery money.
This kind of lottery draws prizes every three days, which means that the next contact with the Presbyterian Church can only wait three days.
The only person who has a chance to contact him right now is Ex Machina.
At this time, after turning an intersection, the traffic finally became smoother.
Li Liang stopped talking and silently took out the AK magazine and pressed the bullets in one by one. Zhizhi on the side looked serious and was also loading bullets into the magazine of his Magnum pistol.
K glanced at the rearview mirror and pressed the accelerator to the bottom.
Half an hour later.
The car slowly stopped on the side of the road, and K whispered: "The building in front is the 'Zhengfeng Food Company', and the factory is behind the building."
Li Liang leaned out from the middle of the front seat and looked at the building in the distance through the windshield.
Airships kept landing and disappearing behind the building. Those airships were like sailboats with two pointed ends. The hulls of the airships were colorfully painted, with a big word "Bao" very conspicuous.
It was the cargo boat where Old Tang sold steamed buns every day.
"This is it," Li Liang said hurriedly, "drive forward and see where the people coming out of the building are going."
After a while, the car passed by the building, and he saw many people coming out of the building, all heading in the same direction.
"Follow up."
K turned in the direction and drove for ten minutes following the flow of people after get off work. A parking lot appeared in front of him.
All vehicles exiting the parking lot also go in the same direction.
"Keep following."
Li Liang knows very well that unless a private company is registered, ordinary office workers do not have their own houses, but are provided with unified apartments by the company.
In a large company like Zhengfeng, all employees will basically live in the same apartment building.
Old Tang would appear on Fifth Avenue on time every day. It can be seen that his job in Zhengfeng is not a temporary status, but a formal job with a signed contract, so Zhengfeng will definitely give him an apartment.
Therefore, there is a high probability that Old Tang lives in the company's apartment.
Just follow the traffic after get off work and you can find the apartment building.
Following a shabby electromagnetic-powered car, turning left and right, ten minutes later, they finally arrived at an inconspicuous thirty-story apartment building.
After parking the car, K looked at the apartment building not far away and said, "This kind of place is more troublesome. It will take some time to find a relationship."
"What are you looking for?" Li Liang asked casually, inserting the Ingram dart gun and Magnum pistol on both sides of his waist.
"Find the man named Tang through connections."
"No, just go upstairs."
Li Liang buttoned up his hood, opened the door and got out of the car. Zhizhi jumped on his shoulder and bared his teeth at K.
K shrugged, put on his sunglasses and followed.
The management of this nameless building is very loose, and the glass front door allows free entry and exit. This shows that this place is not controlled by a gang. This proves from the side that the people who live here are poor people, and the gang has little to gain.
The reason why the PEACH Building has developed into a center for illegal transactions is because the people living there are people who work in the nearby water treatment plant, and the water treatment plant is a unit directly managed by the New Order Joint Conference, and the salary is extremely high.
Following two tired-looking workers, Li Liang and K walked into the elevator.
The elevator car is covered in graffiti and dimly lit.
One of the workers looked at the squeak on Li Liang's shoulder. He was probably surprised that the bionic monkey looked so real. He hesitated to ask, but was frightened back by K's eyes.
The elevator rose and Li Liang closed his eyes.
The metal elevator car and concrete walls disappeared, and countless beating hearts appeared, scattered on every floor of the apartment building.
As he rose, Li Liang examined the scenery on each floor.
Until the twenty-seventh floor.
Li Liang opened his eyes: "We're here."
Ding.
The elevator door opens.
Li Liang walked out and looked around.
The empty corridor is extremely long, with more than ten rooms on both sides.
He had clearly seen that Old Tang's Horcrux was in one of the rooms.
Li Liang threw the Magnum to Zhizhi, took out the Ingram dart gun, winked at K, and walked towards the room step by step.
However, after taking two steps, he suddenly stopped.
Because, he saw Old Tang's Horcrux moving quickly from the inside of the room to the door, and now it was pressed tightly against the door.
Did Old Tang notice it?
The corridor was silent, and the light tube on the top seemed to be broken. It was bright and dim, and an inexplicable aura lingered around it.
Li Liang slowly raised his gun.
