Chasing stars?
The people who come here can really be said to be chasing stars. The thirteen-year-old girl "pon-pon sauce" and the Zhenguan Revival Band are top stars in the underground idol and rock circles, although they are not as familiar as the dome projection stars who they see every day and every night, to the point where they are more familiar than their brothers and sisters.
Projection stars are not allowed to hold concerts or other miscellaneous things that hinder the positive melody. Besides, everyone is not in the mood to go to see a show. It is performed by stars who can be seen by pushing the door. Even if you don't like it, you have to watch it. Plate play.
So to a certain extent, gray stars like Thirteen Girls have much more appeal.
This place belongs to the Sachs Gang, a real emerging gang. The admission fee can match the salary of an ordinary worker for one or two years. Various acquaintances are required to lead the way for qualification verification. Even the security bureau agents came in and found a way to get invitations. Letter, let alone others? But even so, more than a thousand fans gathered just to watch the performance.
Of course, the black marketeers disguised as bands in the infield were regular customers, so it was only natural to organize performances to add to the fun.
But to say that someone of Chen Xiaoxiang’s level is star-chasing? It's really ridiculous and generous. As a middle-level cadre of the Security Bureau, regardless of anything else, she has the right to review this article just because she has a prosthetic body. Her real power is so great that even a bunch of senior executives of the Longjiang Group have to be polite, otherwise Chen Xiaoxiang is really capable of killing people. Catch him and experience what a modern prison is.
Perhaps because he felt that it was too much to make a mockery, Shao Minggu calmed down his expression slightly, sucked his fingers, and chirped:
"That woman, out of my personal respect for the Security Bureau, Team Leader Chen should take her away."
Shao Minggu turned around and summoned one of his men, pointed at the Guduo girl who had more air coming out and less air coming in, and asked: "This... what's the name of this?"
"Stage name Luo Beiqing, real name..., uh, boss, this person is a gangster."
Kuroto explained that Guduo girl Luo Beiqing was either born illegally or a stowaway on the surface. These two types of people are the main sources of underworld gangsters in underground cities.
Shao Minggu casually clapped the greasy donut box on his shoulder, applied a layer of cream on the black water-cooled armor, cursed again: "Go away." Then he continued to talk to Chen Xiaoxiang.
To fight with a talkative guy like Shao Minggu, he would at least have to hire a negotiator from the Security Bureau. Chen Xiaoxiang didn't want to be dragged down into the same mess pit as him, and there was no need to call in a really articulate agent.
Chen Xiaoxiang made a direct request: "Take all the people away and seize the goods."
Take it all.
The manpower and material resources are all provided by the security bureau, and the special security police came to Diandianmao. Persimmon picks a soft thing like mildly modified human beings. Do you want a piece of the pie?
Shao Minggu thought that he was asking for a high price and had to sit down to pay back the money, so he continued to work hard and suffer a lot. While saying that at least thirty or forty fans here are prominent figures in Zixia District, they are either the daughter and nephew of a senior official of the Longjiang Group, or simply people from the capital who have deep connections with the seven underground families.
As for the nature of the large amount of goods in the storage area, Shao Minggu did not hide it to save others' face, he made it very clear.
"How can you withhold this batch of goods and return them tomorrow?"
"Or are you telling me, team leader, that you want to sell the approval documents?"
Hearing this, Chen Xiaoxiang's face darkened. Even if the lights were bright and all the industrial headlights were on, it would not help. Having been in charge of the Fifth Branch of the Security Bureau for many years, Chen Xiaoxiang certainly knew that the warehouses of the Sachs Gang were full of smuggled goods.
If it is goods smuggled from the surface to the underground, such as pre-war handicrafts, weapons and ammunition, prosthetic tools, animal specimens, medicinal materials and specialties. Shao Minggu didn't even dare to let go of anything. The security bureau was set on fire on the spot, and the security system couldn't even pick up what was left in the ashes.
But the problem is that these are goods "smuggled" underground to the surface.
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Smuggling is an ancient business. After all, as the old saying goes, no one does the business of losing money, but there are many people in the business of beheading. The ways to get rich are all written in the criminal law, but this does not prevent there are always people who want to try whether they can be punished, especially if they find that a very punishable business can be really successful to a certain extent.
Bilateral smuggling between the surface and the underground has a long history. Ever since the Qinglong Special Zone on the surface was still a military-controlled industrial park, smuggling food and surface underground in exchange for pre-war handicrafts has been an extremely profitable business. When the underground pinched its nose and officially established the Qinglong Special Zone on the surface in 2068, marking that the surface was becoming more powerful and able to initially compete with the underground, bilateral smuggling that was not on the table suddenly surged and became an unwritten bilateral "trade."
This kind of "trade" is based on underground congestion, where everything is lacking and nothing is lacking.
Dungeons designed before the war maximized self-sustainability and post-war recovery power. The relocation of huge heavy industries matches the progress of underground city construction. Zixia District is where the coal, steel and oil complex is located, Nabo District is where the vertical hydroponic farm is located, and Guanri and Zhinu Districts are light industrial areas. They are connected in series by the Long'an Underground River, and the energy is provided by the restricted area fusion unit.
Total war broke out in 1981, and the nuclear winter was confirmed to have weakened in 2054. For 70 years, the need for survival was absolutely overwhelming. It was not until the National Defense Forces won the third Alien Beast War in 2067 that the absolute war preparation atmosphere in the underground city gradually weakened. Before that, Under absolute order, let alone underground idols, the dome projections are all about preparing for war for the motherland. How can there be any other consumption?
The earliest surface special zones existed entirely for the logistics of the National Defense Forces. At its peak in 2062, there were more than half a million National Defense Forces personnel stationed in the special zones, as well as an equal number of military dependents, civilians, and military workers.
In order to ensure the normal supply and welfare subsidies for the millions of troops on the ground, Longjiang Group adopted different price plans for underground and surface, transporting huge amounts of materials to the surface and supplying and selling them at low prices. At that time, a pack of Baishan brand cigarettes underground cost three yuan, while above ground it only cost eight cents.
At that time, surface materials were smuggled underground, but due to the military control of the National Defense Forces, if caught, they would be seen in a military court. Naturally, smuggling rats crossing the street were beaten by everyone.
By 2064, the surface safety zone was established, the alien beast army that could compete with the human army was completely annihilated, and the surface reconstruction was moved from the schedule to the ground. Huge surface engineering construction and pre-war ruins cleanup, underground heavily polluting enterprises moved to the surface on a large scale, and underground and surface docking construction was established.
While this has brought about a skyrocketing population on the surface, it has also brought about a shortage of various materials. Underground enterprises with production and transportation capabilities can be imagined how popular they are. A trainload of food and building materials transported to the surface can bring back a trainload of food and building materials. of pre-war handicrafts and products from Thanh Long Industrial Park. A piece of approval paper is worth ten thousand taels of gold.
It was a crazy era of underground smuggling to the surface. The hundreds of meters thick Longshan Mountain had carved out smuggling tunnels that could not be counted so far. The underground surface transit hub: "Tianmen", there was no shortage of smugglers who were put on trial and executed every day.
But as the old saying goes, the beheading business is done by people.
After a bloody storm on the surface in 2068, the Qinglong Special Zone was established, and the era of Hailanjiang Group's dominance on the surface began. Underground, neither the Longjiang Group nor the seven major families that dominate the former can easily give up the complementary bilateral "trade". After all, the profit is enough, and the noose used to hang oneself can be sold.
When the blood from the underground fed the surface, the Hailanjiang Group, which owned the vast surface, slowly reversed its smuggling pattern and sold arms to the underground in exchange for the basic material that was always lacking in the cold surface - food.
Up to this point, the dual-track system on the underground and surface, and the scissors swinging back and forth, are still continuing. The difference is whether there is approval for this train to the underground/surface.
That piece of stamped white paper sometimes doesn't count, sometimes the price is sky-high.
No one cares whether the supplies will turn into cannonballs aimed at their compatriots after they reach the destination.
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In the Sachs Gang infield, the stowaways hiding in the storage area crouched down against the wall with their heads in their hands, the prosthetic SWAT officers wearing heavy water-cooled armor, and the pure-blood agents of the Security Bureau with exoskeletons hidden under their windbreakers. They were all distinct from each other.
The screening for aliens is still in progress. The agents of the Security Bureau found that a stowaway guest was suspected of having alien organs. The detector reported that he would shoot without waiting for double confirmation.
"Bang!" A headless corpse fell down, and the blood reached the soles of the second group's boots.
The sudden gunshot made several people in the second group frown. Seeing that an agent was about to execute someone without waiting for double confirmation, Zhang Kai coughed and walked over and said: "Wait for two more minutes, after all, it is a human life. "
The detectives saw that they were from the second group led by Chen Xiaoxiang himself. They must be trying to sell Zhang Kai's reputation. Why should he be in trouble with a powerful field agent?
In less than two minutes, the double confirmation of the alien body detector was completed. The agent glared at Zhang Kai with the confirmed results, and then shot the alien man in the back of the head. She was so frightened that a woman next to her who was waiting for her fate to be judged collapsed to the ground, crying and was immediately dragged away by the special police.
"It has been confirmed that 98% of them are alien hybrids. They have either received organ transplants or eaten the marrow blood of alien beasts. None of them are good products."
Zhang Kai wanted to say something, but Sun You called him away.
Gunshots rang out from behind.
Seeing Zhang Kai arriving, Chen Xiaoxiang asked him to assist Lin Zexing in subjecting Luo Beiqing, the only girl with a bone among the thirteen girls to be captured alive, to torture through consciousness.
Originally, Shen Xu did this job, but he had already been sent to the Security Bureau building now.
On the other side of the storage area, Shao Minggu was opening the supply boxes one by one to confirm how many were underground contraband.
This is very important. Underground smuggled goods belong to the public security system, and surface smuggled goods belong to the Security Bureau.
The more the two sides refuse to deal with each other, the more they must abide by the unwritten rules. Otherwise, misunderstandings will occur and it will escalate to internal fighting. Neither Shao Minggu nor Chen Xiaoxiang can bear this responsibility.
As for the Gravity Cube, if the power is cut off, it won’t be able to ride any waves. It’s time to divide the spoils.
Shao Minggu's physics crowbar, Chen Xiaoxiang's iron sand palm, and the box lid made of linear low-density polyethylene can be opened at a glance.
"Dried fruits, they're fucking blueberries." Chen Xiaoxiang picked up a perfectly ripe dried blueberry, and Fake Gongji privately stuffed one into his mouth. It tasted sour and sweet.
"Team Leader Chen, I make the decision. This box is for you." Shao Minggu shouted, as if to show off, he picked up a long dress with intricate patterns and woven gold, satin and silver.
"Purely handmade horse-faced skirt, Team Leader Chen, I have the final say on this one and will give it to you."
The third-rate joke made a group of special police officers burst into laughter, and the brave ones interjected: "Boss, can I advance my salary to buy it?"
"What, you want to wear it?"
"Giving it to my sister, this handmade one is a specialty of our hometown and cannot be made on earth."
"Do you have someone with a high salary? Go away and count on your fingers."
I have finished singing to the people of the public security system whether I have a white face or a red face. The security bureau agent stood up straight with his arms akimbo, watching their performance as if watching a monkey show.
The more serious one side is, the more they want to make third-rate jokes and maintain face in their own ways. Anyone can control it, everyone wants to control it, and it will end up being neither fish nor fowl.
Chen Xiaoxiang handed over the task of unpacking the treasure to someone else. How about opening a blind box? Does this mean she was condescending?
At least the beginning and end left by the Action Bureau can't be found here.
Chen Xiaoxiang thought about the problems of today's operation. Wen Yue and the others tracked down here only two or three days after the Yanfen Street incident and prevented the Operation Bureau from exploding the gravity cube. They were already doing things quickly and with high efficiency.
Maybe Shao Minggu and other people from the public security system didn't think that the Action Bureau would really dare to blow up the gas pipeline, but Chen Xiaoxiang knew the Action Bureau, especially the behavior of his old rival Zhou Kenlong, and these generals would not be tolerated by foreign military orders. Madmen may not listen to the orders from the Surface Operations Bureau headquarters. Even if the Wehrmacht arsenal goes to heaven, I am afraid that in the end, a big gangster will be blamed for this matter. Is the Wehrmacht really willing to break up with the surface over this matter?
Chen Xiaoxiang asked himself this, and the answer was no.
It seems that there is endless glory, but in fact, it is like jumping around with shackles to do things. How can Shao Minggu and other insects understand this feeling?
"Team leader, the results are out." Zhang Kai sent a data chip, which came from the brain-computer interface of Guduo girl Luo Beiqing.
The lines are encrypted and consciousness is communicated in sentences.
Chen Xiaoxiang read Luo Beiqing's incomplete memory. Although the other party's memory was fragmented when he was near death, many memories were deliberately erased. However, through code mining and logic clarification by an intelligence analyst and a technical hacker, more valuable clues were still obtained.
"This band is quite famous. The Action Bureau contacted Thirteen Girls through an intermediary. For an underground idol of this level to commit a suicide attack, the Action Bureau would pay a very high price," Zhang Kai said.
The conscious scene shared by the two is a cyberspace with a defective memory framework and filled with transparent subconscious bodies. The leader of the thirteen dead girls was talking to a man whose figure he could barely identify. After a small conversation, the two shook hands and reached an agreement.
The face of the leader girl is clearly visible, but the face of the middle man is extremely blurry.
"This man has a built-in external lens jammer, and his face cannot be captured or scanned by anyone or any camera."
Chen Xiaoxiang pondered slightly and ordered: "Take her back and construct a Mewtwo retrospective for her. Be sure to find as much information as possible on the middleman."
Chen Xiaoxiang turned to look at the valuable contraband in this large warehouse, Liu Ye's eyes were full of unwillingness. The Security Bureau only takes care of these things. Before long, various relationships will extend to the Security Bureau. She can withstand the pressure, but why should her superiors hurt their feelings for these innocuous little contraband? noodle.
In the eyes of big men, the most rubbish is the sand.
