Chapter 63 Real Age
The passenger merely glanced at him indifferently and did not slap his hand away.
Soon it was time for Shan Qiu to arrange accommodations for them.
Because of the special circumstances, Shan Qiu found them a relatively good hotel, with a spacious double room.
"You'll have to stay here for the next few days. Due to the special circumstances, the base can't assign you any housing," Shan Qiu said apologetically.
The passenger nodded, understanding that they were, after all, outsiders, and their current identities were fake. It was definitely impossible for them to be allocated housing; having a place to live was already a good thing.
"And since you want to investigate this organization, can I go with you?" Shan Qiu asked them.
The attendant asked, "Does your boss also know about this?" The boss he was referring to was Bai Su, Shan Qiu's direct superior.
"Of course she knows." Shan Qiu scratched her head a little embarrassedly. She had told Bai Su when she returned from Yancheng.
No wonder she was able to bring them to the base so easily, and even arrange fake identities. It seems that Bai Su and her group were also willing to cooperate.
If possible, Sui Cheng really wanted to meet Bai Su and the others. He had only heard about them before and had never met them in person.
"By the way, here's a list for you." Shan Qiu took a slip of paper from his bag, placed it on the table, and said, "This list contains information about some of the plundering organizations that we've investigated at the Azure Dragon Base. If you want to know anything, you'd better ask them. Although they are just some of the outer-level personnel, it's not impossible to contact the higher-ups through them."
"Thank you." The passenger said thank you and then put the note into his bag.
"I don't need to prepare daily necessities for you, nor food." Shan Qiu suddenly remembered this before leaving.
Sui Cheng shook his head; none of this needed to be prepared for them.
After Shan Qiu left, Sui Cheng put the bag on the chair and then began searching around.
"Are you worried they've planted cameras or listening devices?" Lu Zhi sat on the other side, legs crossed, looking rather nonchalant.
The passenger calmly replied, "Don't trust others too much in everything, isn't that what you said?"
Lu Zhi tilted his head and gave a doting smile.
"Fine, whatever you say goes."
Rather than having someone search through the messenger's belongings like this, it would be better for the law enforcer to do it himself.
He simply released his mental energy, and even that small amount was enough to see the entire room clearly.
"Alright, there are no cameras or listening devices, you can rest assured now."
Lu Zhi lay on the ground to check the attendant under the bed, pulled him up, and then half-squatted down to brush the dust off his trouser legs.
The passenger took a step back, somewhat embarrassed.
"Don't move, it's not clean yet." Lu Zhi pulled her back, brushed the dust off her pants, and then stood up, saying, "Want to go for a walk?"
He nodded in agreement.
Before leaving, Lu Zhi was careful and put a piece of vine in his backpack so that he could sense if anything happened inside the house.
The Azure Dragon Base was originally a city, so it doesn't look small. The streets are bustling with people, and there are stalls selling all sorts of things, including crystal cores.
Compared to the Huaxia base, the sale of crystal cores is more unrestricted in these two bases.
"Boss, what do you think of this fire-element crystal core?"
"Boss, I have water-themed and wood-themed ones here. Take your pick, and the price will definitely be a bargain."
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The vendors on both sides kept shouting their wares.
Suicheng and Luzhi stopped in front of a stall that wasn't doing very well.
Lu Zhi casually picked up something from the stall and lazily asked the stall owner, "Do all these people have their own crystal cores?"
The stall owner immediately sensed that the two men were no ordinary people and quickly replied, "How could that be? We're all just ordinary people. They're just middlemen who buy things for others and make a profit from the price difference."
"With such intense competition, will you be able to sell it?" the lawyer asked again.
The stall owner said, "How could we not sell them? Although it's easier to hunt for crystal cores now and the price has dropped, it's still a market, and there are plenty of buyers."
"Then why don't you buy anything?" The passenger glanced at the food; it was all simple food, seemingly homemade.
"I don't have any connections." The stall owner glanced around cautiously and whispered, "Which of these stall owners selling crystal cores doesn't have someone backing them up? To get such a rare commodity as crystal cores, you definitely need connections and capital."
The lawyer understood; it was similar to a regular market.
"I'll take one of these." Lu Zhi took a box of things that looked delicious and looked at his attendant, as if waiting for him to pay.
(The three bases use the same currency in order to ensure the normal functioning of the market.)
"Spicy strips?" It seemed like the passenger hadn't seen these in a long time.
"Spicy strips?" Lu Zhi had heard of this snack before, but had never tried it.
The stall owner quickly replied, "These are all handmade, guaranteed to be clean and healthy."
Suicheng randomly picked out two boxes of cookies from the stall and paid for them together.
They wandered around the area for a long time and finally got a general idea of the current situation at the Azure Dragon Base.
The base leader, Bai Xuefeng, controls most of the superhuman teams, and his sister Bai Su's female army is not to be underestimated.
Because of the degree of freedom within the base, there are many organizations and teams, making it a mixed bag.
It has a bit of an underground gang feel to it.
The most famous of these were plunder and news agencies.
Both organizations appeared suddenly, without any explanation or knowledge of who was behind them. It just felt like their members were everywhere.
Sui Cheng opened the list that Shan Qiu had given him and wrote down the names of more than a dozen people on it.
While chatting with someone, I casually mentioned one of their names.
Coincidentally, someone happened to know him.
"Before the apocalypse, Amo was a dropout and a hoodlum. But I never expected that he would seize the opportunity, join the plundering, and now become a squad leader in the plundering organization. He's always showing off and has an endless supply of crystal cores. I'm so envious."
I only asked this one person in the car; asking too many questions might arouse suspicion, so I stopped in time.
He also learned that this Amo would come out to patrol the streets every afternoon around five or six o'clock.
They plunder and occupy the third largest block of the Azure Dragon Base, and they usually like to collect protection money.
Bai Su and the others had tried to control it before, but they couldn't control it at all, and it would always resurface in a few days.
The passenger planned to wait a while longer until Amo appeared, to see if there was a chance to make contact.
He led Lu Zhi to a relatively quiet place and found a bench to sit down.
A spicy aroma wafted out, and Sui Cheng glanced to the side and saw that Lu Zhi had already started eating.
He noticed the passenger watching him eat spicy snacks and winked at him in confusion.
"Want one?" Lu Zhi asked, his words mumbled indistinctly.
"You eat by yourself." The passenger rubbed his temples speechlessly, feeling like he was taking care of a child.
However, upon closer reflection, based on age, Lü Zhi seems to be a teenager.
The passenger glanced at him, and that glance was rather meaningful.
"Baby, just say what's wrong. Don't look at me like that, it scares me." Lu Zhi felt like the spicy snack in his mouth didn't taste good anymore because of his stare.
"How old are you in terms of human age?" The passenger hesitated for a moment before finally asking.
Lu Zhi thought for a moment and said, "The intelligence has been around for four or five years. Based on the ratio of human age to our plant age, it should be around eighteen or nineteen years old."
The passenger's expression cracked.
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