Chapter 21-21- Moving
Before leaving, Yvette didn't forget to place an order with Welding Gun for two new, clean ID cards. This required connections within the police department, and as one of the local bosses, Welding Gun had no problem doing it—essentially, the police department was selling the cards themselves, and he was just the pimp.
In fact, through her conversation with Welding Gun, Yvette had already begun to feel that it wasn't necessary for her to buy an ID card. Unless the three thugs' friends and family were giving the police generous red envelopes, the police wouldn't be able to handle the case seriously. They'd just perfunctorily handle the case, and wouldn't even notice that the police system had been hacked and residents' information had been altered.
Besides, there are countless unsolved cases in Heishui District every year. Except for the young and hot-blooded policemen who have just entered the industry and are sent here, normal policemen have already become veterans and would not mind one more case.
But Yvette had only just arrived on her second day, and lacked any understanding of the Blackwater District, Yishi City, or even the entire Origin Civilization. Merely talking about it wouldn't cut it. So, out of caution, she paid for two ID cards, totaling 16,000 yuan, and the balance on her account subsequently dropped to 69,800 yuan.
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After leaving the black market at the garbage dump, Yvette took Rosaline for a walk around the city center in the evening. They walked through the citizen park that had become a manor after the apocalypse, had a high-end dinner, and climbed up to the observation dome on the top floor of the Black Tower, taking in the neon night scene of Ish City, which was filled with endless streams of magical light.
At this moment, looking at this beautiful scenery, Rosaline has basically regarded it as a true portrayal of the kingdom of God on land, and placed all kinds of beautiful fantasies on it.
Although Yvette knew there was no utopia and that her original civilization was characterized by a vast disparity between the rich and the poor, the scenery still left her feeling lost. She recalled buying tickets with her family to the rooftop of the Shanghai Tower in a past life. Back then, she was young and full of ambition, never imagining that she would end up delivering food after graduation.
Fortunately, I got lucky and now I have become a witch. I don’t know whether it is lucky or unlucky.
Then, the next morning, with the help of an agency platform, Yvette gave up the hotel and rented an apartment of about 80 square meters in the "Wright Apartment Building" on "Acid Street".
This is an apartment building next to a relatively prosperous commercial district in Heishui District. The location is good and the public security is relatively reliable. It is not like Pixel Street, where she got up in the middle of her sleep to go to the bathroom and was so scared by the sound of gunfire that her urine flew out - of course, she didn't go to the bathroom or shake her urine out. This is a scientific assumption based on past experience.
Standing at the entrance of the apartment and looking up, the entire Wright Apartment is a huge bright yellow honeycomb structure. The upper part is much thicker, and there are magic motorcycles taking off and landing on the platform on the top floor, which is extremely busy. The lower part looks narrower and more conservative. The rooms don’t even have balconies, the windows are equipped with barbed wire, and there is only one driveway.
Soon, Yvette took Rosalyn into the elevator and pressed the button for the 18th floor. This was a VIP elevator reserved for tenants living above the 15th floor. The rent for this area was higher, and the service provided was naturally better.
"Hello, are you new here?"
When they arrived at the door of the rented room 1809 and just opened it, Yvette saw a middle-aged man in a white coat walking out of the next room. He looked like he was about to go out, and she greeted the two of them in surprise.
"Yes, I just came today." Yvette nodded slightly.
"My name is Reg Hoffman. We'll be neighbors from now on." Reg smiled and suddenly pulled out a piece of paper from his clothes and handed it to him. "This is my business card. Feel free to ask me for help if you need anything."
Yvette took the business card and glanced at it. "Hoffman General Practice... Are you a doctor?"
"Yes, but the fees are very cheap. Don't worry, many of the tenants on the fifteenth floor are my regular customers."
Regel looked down at his watch and waved, "Time is running out. I have something to do, so I'll leave first. Have a nice stay!"
When he was gone, Yvette entered the room and the door closed automatically.
At this time, Rosalyn had already entered the room and was fiddling with a holographic landscape disguised as a fish tank.
However, her enthusiasm faded just as quickly as it came. Before long, Yvette noticed that she gradually lost interest in exploring the apartment. Instead, she lay on the sofa in the living room and used the holographic projection function of the magic terminal to skillfully watch short videos, like a salted fish that had lost its fighting spirit.
“…”
Shaking her head, Yvette found a stool to sit down and started surfing the Internet, but not for entertainment, but to look up information about the Silent War.
There is a lot of information on the Internet about the Silent War, a war that once affected the whole world, and it is not difficult to find.
According to confirmed online encyclopedias, this war came quite suddenly, with no prior foreshadowing. The government launched the first strike, and by the time the companies noticed something was amiss, it was already too late. Therefore, from the outset, the companies were at a disadvantage.
But what Yvette noticed was that in the early stages of the war, there were only three companies involved, namely Lingman Company, Tianqiong Technology, and Black Tower Pharmaceuticals.
The attacking parties were the New Eden United States and the Future Federation. These were the two nations with the strongest overall capabilities in the Origin Civilization, and were also regional powers in Kuroshio Continent and Silver Mirror Continent, respectively.
First, policies were used to suppress it, and then regulators intervened, leading to minor armed frictions. Then other forces joined in, completely igniting the conflict, and finally it evolved into a large-scale hot war between the "corporate alliance" and the "global international"... This makes sense.
Furthermore, curbing the expansion of super companies wasn't a strange decision in itself. At most, the measures were a bit drastic, and the companies' resistance was also a bit fierce...
She thought silently.
As for the outcome of the war, just as Welding Gun said, both sides abruptly ended the war on the grounds of "not wanting to cause more casualties", and both remained silent, not revealing more information to the outside world - this is also the origin of the term "Silent War".
After a long day of poring over the sea of online discussions and speculation, Yvette sat on the living room sofa in the evening, rubbing her temples wearily. She had come up empty-handed. Even if there were a reliable clue, it would be impossible to discern amidst the sea of conspiracy theories.
So she thought about it and decided to change her approach. She gave up investigating the Silent War and instead looked for tags related to the doomsday.
The search scope was indeed much smaller. She searched various forums for a while, using various AI query engines. Finally, a post caught her attention.
——A person with the ID “Fire Bearer” declared that the end of the world is approaching, so he built a shelter. The purpose of posting was to hope that everyone could collect and contribute the important knowledge they knew, upload it to the server, and use it as a spark to restart human civilization.
If this were on Earth, this would definitely be fake, similar to those "empty-handed license plate number" posts. But in Origin Civilization, considering the abnormal intellectual property protection here, the original poster's words actually seem very sincere.
No one would risk going to jail to post nonsense...
Thinking of this, Yvette looked at the suspicious link attached to the post, clicked on it, and as expected, a risk warning appeared.
She skillfully clicked "Ignore risks and continue visiting". This time, what appeared in front of her was a small website with a dark background. In the center was a dynamic image of a burning candle, and below it was an upload module that could upload files of no more than a certain size to the server.
In the upper left corner of the website, there is a burning candle-shaped logo, and next to it is a title that should be the name of the organization:
Civilization will continue.
(End of this chapter)
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