Chapter 630: The Great Tang Dynasty. Queuing.
Chu An's Hummer entered Anshi, but did not drive towards the city. Instead, he drove along the ring road to the east exit, left from the ramp, and followed Cui Liang directly to the Shengtang Base.
Cui Liang's car was still in the lead. The orange off-road vehicle tried to overtake several times but failed. They were keeping pace with it, occasionally falling behind by half a pace.
Zhou Ri and Wang followed behind not too far away, always keeping a certain distance from Chu An and the others, as if they were observing or monitoring them.
The road leading to Sheng Tang has been repaired. There is no gravel on the asphalt road and it is very clean. The damaged areas have been leveled with soil and covered with thick iron plates.
There are eight checkpoints along the way, one every 10 kilometers.
The car had to be stopped and inspected at every checkpoint, and Cui Liang’s car was no exception. Although it took some time, he saw the magnificent Sheng Tang base an hour later. It was built against the mountain and was majestic and magnificent.
At this time, they had just passed the last checkpoint and were less than a kilometer away from the base.
The walls of the base were very high, the noble red of China, extending to places that they could not see with their naked eyes. There was an observation tower at intervals, where telescopes and many high-tech reconnaissance equipment could be seen, and even drones flying low.
There was a wide moat dug outside the wall, which was definitely very wide from where they were standing. The bridge over the moat was not an ancient suspension bridge, but rather looked very high-tech, but it was too far to make out.
The entrance and exit is an ancient city tower building with a four-story glass house on top. You cannot see inside from the outside, but there are patrolling soldiers on the tower, with one guard every ten steps.
The entire outer defense building is definitely a perfect combination of ancient technology and modern technology.
The speed of the car in front gradually slowed down, and Gu Ye also stepped on the brakes and followed closely.
"This is what the city gate of the prosperous Tang Dynasty looked like!" Old Chu suddenly exclaimed in the back seat.
Chu An looked over suspiciously, and Gu Ye also glanced in the rearview mirror.
"Just focus on driving." Lao Chu pointed to the city and said, "Look at the tallest building, the one that looks like a bullet head, that's the government building."
From their angle, they could only see some taller buildings inside the city wall, lined up one after another.
But none of these are as eye-catching as the sculpture in the center, where a girl holds a bunch of orchids in her hands and looks up at the sky. The flower language of orchids: hope in adversity.
"Are there people living on the mountain?" Chu An asked.
The mountain here is not very high, but the trees are very lush, which is probably why the prosperous Tang Dynasty chose this place.
There are some faint reflections in the bushes, which should be human buildings, which are relatively low and blocked by trees. However, villas can be vaguely seen halfway up the mountain, and there are four buildings with Western castle structures on the top of the mountain. If they are not used exclusively by the government, they are luxurious homes for the rich.
"Of course, the location on the mountain is a wealthy area. The housing prices on this mountain are the highest in the entire Sheng Tang base." Lao Chu suddenly remembered a night when he fell down the mountain in a panic, and he changed the subject quickly, "Well, the back of the mountain is also being developed, and there may be more expensive houses in the future."
The car finally arrived at the moat, and was shocked again. This was not a conventional bridge at all, but a modified military river bridge boat. There were two iron claws on the bottom of the boat fixed to the bottom of the moat. If there is water in the future, the iron claws should be able to be retracted, Chu An thought.
The gate under the tower was not open. It was ten meters high and twenty meters wide, majestic and solemn. The entrance and exit was a small gate next to it, with only two driveways and a sidewalk, guarded by soldiers.
Chu An felt that he didn’t see any other vehicles or pedestrians on the road. Why were there so many people queuing here?
She didn't like queuing, and the feeling that something was wrong came up again, but she couldn't figure it out, so she could only lean on the car window and look out.
Zhou Xian got out of the car in front and walked to the Hummer, and Chu An immediately lowered the window.
"We can't take you through here. You have to rely on yourself. If this is your first time here, prepare your ID card or other base card. If you don't have either, tell them your ID number and someone will guide you."
"Thank you. I heard that access to An City will be open this afternoon. There will be a lot of people lining up here by then."
She glanced at the small door where only three soldiers were checking passes, and felt a little worried.
Zhou Xian smiled and said, "Have you forgotten the checkpoints you encountered on the way? They will screen you first. And don't think that you have entered the Sheng Tang base just by entering this door."
Chu An raised his eyebrows. What does that mean?
As he spoke, the convoy started moving. "I won't say much. You will find out once you get in."
Zhou Xian hurried back to the car.
"What did he mean?" Gu Ye asked.
“I don’t know.” Chu An had never been to Sheng Tang in her previous life, but she understood why something was wrong. There was no circle of slums surrounding Sheng Tang. Could it be because of the eight checkpoints?
"Ahem... He meant that Sheng Tang is divided into the inner city and the outer city, and we can only enter the outer city now." Lao Chu pretended to be deep and said, "This outer city is equivalent to a slum, but because it is based on Sheng Tang, it is much better than other places, like a larger town."
"Haven't you been imprisoned all this time?" Chu An wondered. Could it be that his shock at the city gate just now was fake?
"Ahem... that... Zhuo Yi told me." Old Chu quickly retreated. He couldn't tell anyone about his embarrassing escape. But he didn't know much. He entered the base unconscious, and failed to escape once. Then he came out unconscious again.
Alas, he was just in exile in the inner city and couldn’t even escape from the inner city!
Chu An hurriedly edited the message and sent it to Mou Ci. Although his contact with Mou Ci had been intermittent in the past few months, it had never been interrupted.
Mou Ci did not reply immediately. He was very busy and someone was watching him no matter what he did.
An hour later, the orange SUV finally came to his line, and the lane next to it was also vacant. Gu Ye turned and drove into a lane parallel to the orange SUV.
Gu Ye lowered the car window and saw that the soldier didn't see them handing over their passes, so he asked them if it was their first time here.
Gu Ye nodded and said yes.
The soldiers asked them to turn right after entering and follow the signs to find the newcomer reception desk to register. They then asked for their basic information and recorded it on a handheld device.
While Gu Ye was answering the question, Chu An looked at the orange off-road vehicle on the right, which was also covered with a thick film, so the details could not be seen clearly.
At this time, the man with long black hair in the orange off-road vehicle was also looking at them, and also couldn't see the situation in the Hummer clearly.
"How many people are there?" Hei Changzhi asked.
The young man hurriedly said, "Three people, two boys and one girl, like a family of three, except that it's a father with two children."
The big-boned woman said disdainfully, "I've never seen an adult protect two children. There must be some unspeakable secret."
The young man said, "Those two children look pretty impressive."
Snap——
A small stone flew over from the co-pilot seat and hit the young man's forehead, leaving a bruise and a little skin broken. "Don't boost others' ambitions and destroy your own prestige."
The young man didn't care about the wound on his forehead, and hurriedly rubbed his hands to apologize, "I'm sorry, Captain, I'm sorry, I won't do it again next time."
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