Chapter 925: Following the Trail to Explore the Deep Cave
Somewhere in the downtown area, Speaker Quan finally slept soundly after living in the so-called safe zone for two days. With his young son taking care of him, he felt much more relaxed than with outsiders watching over him.
And with his son here, others seem to feel more at ease with him.
On the third day, he felt his body gradually recovering, so he pushed the door open on crutches and walked out of the house. He found that the situation here was very different from what he had imagined. The surroundings were glowing like daylight, and...
He looked at the snowflakes drifting in the sky. Hmm? Snowing? He reached out his hand and caught a cool snowflake in his palm.
He was surprised. Why was it snowing here?
Moreover, the air he breathed was as cold and crisp as the air in winter, which made his mind clear. It was completely different from the dirty and stuffy feeling he had felt before. At that moment, he thought he was back on the ground.
But he soon noticed something unusual. The snow was too clean, as clean as if it had been filtered. The ground was like a layer of brocade, and there seemed to be a layer of snow fog around it, so he couldn't see too far.
In the fog, there was a squeaking sound of footsteps on the snow. Turning around, I saw the middle-aged man walking towards me, leaving a trail of footprints in the snow behind him.
The man walked closer, smiled at him, and said, "Speaker Quan, are you feeling better? How is it? The Lower City isn't as filthy as the Upper City makes you think. There's advanced technology here, too."
Chairman Quan narrowed his eyes and said, "A field creature?"
The middle-aged man said, "Yes, this is a product developed by the research institute here. It's not as realistic as the Simulated Field of the Mother, but it has the advantages of low energy consumption, easy mobility, and great application prospects."
Speaker Quan said, "Is there a research institute here? Would you mind showing me around?"
"Is Speaker Quan also interested in this?"
Chairman Quan said, "I hope you don't mind me, an old man, being too rigid and conservative. The things here are very novel, and I'm bored staying in the house. Why not take me to see some of the new things?"
"good."
Speaker Quan, supported by his youngest son Quan Yu, followed the middle-aged man into a small rail car and arrived at the research institute more than ten minutes later.
The situation here is really surprising. Along the way, the roadside is planted with various flowers and trees, as well as insects and animals that have never been seen before. It seems like a small ecosystem has been built directly here.
Speaker Quan said, “Are these all true?”
The middle-aged man said, "What you're seeing is real. The field creatures developed by the research institute can form a unique field information that is accepted by living things. The original intention of the research and development was to regulate the emotions of humans and living things. Now we can make them believe that they are in a suitable environment, so they will reproduce happily and not think about other things."
His words, combined with the current environment and the various things happening in the downtown area, really make people feel a little subtle.
Speaker Quan, however, looked quite at ease. He nodded in admiration and said, "It's not easy. The Lower Town has such technology. Hmm, I've heard of it. The Plague Gang?"
The middle-aged man was not surprised that he guessed it. After all, he was the Speaker of the House, and he had access to much more information and channels to understand the situation than ordinary people.
He smiled and said, "They prefer to be called the Plague Cult. They are a group of idealistic bioengineers and technicians gathered together, not the unforgivable people that people imagine."
Speaker Quan said with emotion: "They are all talented people."
"So if the municipal council can be re-established, the cult hopes that the council can help them legalize their research so that their research products can be put into practical use."
Speaker Quan looked at him and said, "Your Excellency seems to be more confident than I am about this matter."
The middle-aged man said, "We know the international investigation team is coming soon. If you step forward, the international community will surely intervene. With your reputation, you can re-establish a new parliament with just one call and speak for the people. We certainly have confidence in you."
Speaker Quan seemed pleased. He said, "Parliament has always been good at listening to the people's voices. It is our duty to meet their needs. I can promise you that if Parliament is reconstituted, we can make the people understand and vote to legalize the institute."
"Then thank you for the support of Speaker Quan."
Chairman Quan asked again, "With such a good project, there should have been many companies in Central City willing to invest, right?"
"Oh, it might be because of insufficient funds at the beginning of the research and development. Initially, the developer could only look for volunteers on the streets. Later, an accident happened and he was fired from the institute. The research results were also stolen by the institute, and later they found a gang to kill him.
However, they didn't expect that the field creatures would recognize their owners, so they used remote information to make the field creatures trigger extreme emotional signals in the laboratory, killing everyone. Only then did he manage to preserve his results before the company's people arrived.
The middle-aged man said this and sighed, "Alas, he was forced to do it."
At this moment, Quan Yu, the son of the chairman of the council, suddenly asked, "How big of an accident was that?"
"Not much," the middle-aged man said casually, "only about 70 or 80 homeless people were used, and they all volunteered to participate in the experiment."
Speaker Quan said, "If you're not a citizen of Central City, you shouldn't have the right to be protected by Central City. It's unfair to treat this as an accident."
The middle-aged man sighed and said, "That's why it takes fair and just people like you to be in power so that the people can have their voices heard."
Quan Yu looked at the middle-aged man, then looked at his father, but lowered his head.
The vehicle moved slowly along the track, surrounded by the sounds of birdsong and the fragrance of flowers. Everything seemed so beautiful. However, if you look beyond the mist, you can see honeycomb walls built of biological materials.
Members of the Plague Gang, each holding a weapon and covered in protective clothing, patrolled back and forth in the corridor made of steel structures and special plates.
If you go further out, you can see a giant building shaped like a honeycomb. It is buried deep underground from the top, and all kinds of strange insects are coming in and out of it.
At this moment, in another part of the lower city, a number of armored vehicles were driving forward along the tunnel, followed by a team of Lutong logistics motorcycles.
Xu Chan sat in the armored vehicle at the front of the convoy. According to the previous plan, as long as enough pressure was applied to those who fled into the lower city, they would not stay where they were, but would move to the place they thought was safest.
Although people from the upper city will indeed encounter certain resistance when entering the lower city, especially those from the government, who will face greater hostility and exclusion, those who escape in will also not be treated differently by people from the lower city.
After all, they are all outsiders and must find a group they can trust and rely on in the downtown area, and there are definitely not many people they can choose from.
Therefore, when these people travel through the lower city, they will leave traces along the way, and will not merge silently into the sea like water drops as they imagine.
Now they have the help of people from Lutong Logistics, plus the spies he had deployed here before. They have been following the traces of that group of people all the way down over the past few days and have found that they are gradually going deeper into the deepest part of the lower city.
At this time, the motorcyclist from Lutong Logistics who was leading the way suddenly stopped, and the convoy slowly stopped.
A processing bureau employee stuck his head out from the back and asked, "Why aren't you moving forward?"
The motorcyclist said, "Because if we go any further, we'll be in Plague Gang territory. We've never done business here before, and we don't know the way. You'll have to go on your own, sir."
The window next to Xu Chan slowly rolled down, and he said, "Thank you for your assistance. We'll go on our own from now on."
The motorcyclist said, "Then sir, we won't hold you back any longer."
Xu Chan nodded, "Let's go back."
The motorcyclist waved at him and called out to the people behind him, then the convoy turned around and went back. After these people left, the light suddenly dimmed a lot.
Xu Chan looked ahead at the seemingly endless tunnel and ordered, "Keep going."
Inside Villa No. 15, Jinfengyuan, Weiguang District, Chen Chuan sat cross-legged in the meditation room, his body slightly off the ground, occasionally rising and falling suddenly.
At this moment he was trying to subdue his aura.
He read the two methods carefully and gained some insights. However, no matter whether it is the method of Xuanjiao or Zen Buddhism, one needs to have "right faith" in the heart, that is, to agree with their set of concepts and implement them in practice, so as to achieve twice the result with twice the effort. Therefore, in the process, one needs to practice with visualization pictures and scriptures.
It can be seen that the two articles focus more on spiritual guidance. If the spirit is really in line with each other and the requirements are met, it will be easy to pass this level.
But he didn't need to practice according to this, he just wanted to understand the ideas and principles. As a fighter, as long as he could understand the thread, theoretically he could even develop his own method.
However, after reading these, when I looked back, I found that the set of methods purchased from the platform was actually summarized very well.
This does not mean that it was useless for him to look through it later. On the contrary, through other materials and methods, he was able to more deeply understand the commonalities and the key points that needed to be grasped, and he was also able to know the shortcomings and omissions in his own thinking.
With the correct ideas, he could achieve twice the result with half the effort in his practice.
At this moment, he felt as if he was fighting against some kind of wave. This was not something that could be forced, but needed to be guided and released, because this was his own strength. Forcing it would not only easily hurt himself, but also fail to achieve the desired effect of practice.
Perhaps it was due to his deep understanding, or perhaps it was the experience gained from practicing the two major styles and the Heaven and Earth Furnace Breathing Method, but he knew clearly how to deal with each step, and could be described as calm and at ease.
This made his progress very fast. He had previously estimated that this step would only take ten days or half a month to complete, but now it seems that it might be even faster.
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(End of this chapter)
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