Deceitful Game

Chapter 233 Even when beating a dog, you have to consider its owner.

Although the intention was to broaden Ai Shiping's horizons, it was still too dangerous to take him directly into the gang's territory.

Unlike Mingpo, Ai Shiping hadn't received a combat prosthetic implant. As an ordinary HR professional with little combat experience, he was a true "office worker."

That's why Mingpo deliberately stopped on the roof of the building.

One reason was to prevent people from touching the car. Another reason was to keep Ai Shiping temporarily trapped here.

Mingpo increased Ai Shiping's passenger privileges and then set his hovercar to automatic defense mode. This way, even if someone tried to attack Ai Shiping, the vehicle could automatically defend itself.

Seeing Ai Shiping trapped on the roof with a helpless expression, Mingpo smiled.

He turned and walked into the main street, the neon lights gradually swallowing his figure, and Mingpo naturally blended into this river of neon lights. The walls on either side of him were covered with GG stickers.

Layer upon layer, like a garment covered in patches. The bottom ones are already white and cracked... that's the effect of radioactive dust in the air, which makes these things age faster.

Strangely enough, you can even see GG from Central Enterprises here.

Even if the people of Nest City might never be able to climb into Central or breathe clean air in their entire lives, it won't affect the delivery of products from Central to Nest City, allowing them to earn an extra penny from them. Even if they might not be able to afford anything expensive, this game still has to be fought. "Skyrail Heavy Industry...belongs to Tailing? Oh, and Millennium Technology and Horizon Logistics too..."

Mingpo strolled leisurely down the street, watching the guys with great interest.

He didn't even know who designed these pictures, who made them, or who actually put them up.

Besides these graffiti-style graffiti, you can also see graffiti from black markets and underground clinics, as well as some unintelligible drawings, symbols, curses, and shouts. Mingpo doesn't even recognize the fonts.

The people of Chaodu like to use simplified characters with homophones to write a sentence. For example, they would write "breakfast" as "早步" and "egg" as "鸡旦".

This could be due to a cultural break caused by war, or it could be because the people of Chagatai had difficulty accessing education. Maintaining this level of literacy is already considered a good foundation.

But that doesn't matter.

Because their collars can instantly translate all texts and languages, the old-fashioned scripts have lost their communicative significance. In this situation, various languages ​​are mixed together, and no one can even clearly know the grammatical rules of the language they are using... because everything can be automatically corrected.

This was reportedly orchestrated by the corporate alliance to make them more controllable.

However, Mingpo didn't care... or rather, since they had always been under control, it didn't matter if they did this or that.

People of Mingpo's generation used to be able to stand firmly on the ground. Children a decade or so younger than him might have been born in Central.

If it weren't for the extremely low birth rate in Central, perhaps in a few generations no one would know that they once lived on this land, and that their compatriots still live on this land today.

Thinking about this, Mingpo couldn't help but feel a little sad.

As Mingper entered the block, the people around him parted to the sides as if parting into the sea.

Mingpo saw a middle-aged woman sitting on the ground.

In front of her was a semi-transparent plastic sheet with four rows of bottled water on it.

The bottle is made of a cloudy, semi-transparent material, which appears to be some kind of plastic. However, it is not transparent; instead, it has a yellowish tint.

Against the backdrop of the yellow bottle, the water inside also appears yellow. Or perhaps it's the other way around... because the water is a murky yellow, making the bottle appear a dirty yellow.

Each bottle of water is slightly different in color. But generally speaking, the colors in each row are similar.

From a nearly transparent yellowish-gray to a muddy yellowish-brown.

Four plastic signs were covered with tape, and the words "Clean Water," "Rainwater," "For Cleaning," and "Do Not Drink" were written on them in black pen. The water vendor saw Mingpo's collar, and his eyes revealed fear and envy.

She didn't dare look directly at Mingpo, didn't greet him, and didn't try to sell him anything. She simply pulled her plastic sheet further in, making room for him to pass.

Mingpo took a photo using his prosthetic eye and sent it to Ai Shiping.

When Mingpo entered the neon street, even the sounds of street conversations were lowered... or people simply shut their mouths.

Because they could clearly see the color of the amber necklace.

The saying goes, "Even when beating a dog, you have to consider its owner..." The people of Chaodu have long since learned the skill of judging the "registered residence" of people from Zhonghuan by the color of their collars.

The sector above their heads is controlled by the beings of the High Heavens and the creatures of the River of Oblivion. The children who attend school in the controlled area wear collars that are dark green and black, respectively.

The former excels in biotechnology, nanomedicine, genetic engineering, and memory backup. The latter, on the other hand, is equally adept at memory backup and also researches paradoxical technologies related to the consciousness level, such as androids, neural interfaces, and consciousness storage.

Wangchuan Bio was originally a spin-off from Gaotian Life. While it was indeed a subsidiary in the past, it's now a giant of equal stature. The two Gao brothers have always been at odds, and during the company war, they didn't even bother with pretense, their relationship collapsing completely, even to the point of sending assassins to kill each other's leadership. Even now, with the eight giants forming an alliance, they still sabotage each other. The work Mingpo just handled was related to Wangchuan Bio.

But in Mingpo's view, no matter how fiercely they fight... they are all still surnamed Gao, and to put it bluntly, they are still family.

Within the Changsheng sector, these two companies are the ones you absolutely cannot mess with. Elsewhere, the authorities are too far away, and you also have to consider the influence of Gaotian Life and Wangchuan Bio. Even if their people get into trouble in their own backyard, they can't send their executive departments to retaliate. But these two are right above them; it's less than a twenty-minute drive down. If someone dares to cause trouble in the morning, their head will be hanging by noon.

Although for the sake of the base's stability, the central ring still regularly sends some basic supplies to the nest below it... such as clean food, medicine and drinking water, some outdated prosthetic bodies, engineering machinery and scrapped old-model robots. Those old-model intelligent androids that combine AI and robotics, but cannot yet be called "non-human intelligent beings", have all been deployed to the nest.

Ironically, the order itself was issued by their successor versions—the "non-human intellectual entities" who had actually acquired limited human rights.