The upscale apartment was quite a distance from the poor apartment where Yin Zhu lived. During the day, Yin Zhu walked and stopped frequently, taking several hours to get to Mary's school.
Afterwards, when the parents came to pick up their children, Yin Zhu hitched a ride with Mary's father.
Now, if Yin Zhu wants to get back to the poor people's apartment, she estimates it will take four or five hours. It's already nine o'clock, and there are still three hours before the poor people's apartment closes. She probably can't walk back.
Fortunately, she had just earned more than sixty Vena coins, so Yin Zhu gritted her teeth and hailed a taxi.
The taxi was fast, and in less than ten minutes it slowly descended from the air and stopped in front of Yin Zhu.
The aircraft was surrounded by a ring of lights, so even in the foggy outer city, it was easy to spot that there was a flying car there.
"Someone from outside the city, just recently promoted?"
Seeing that Yin Zhu didn't know how to open the car door, the taxi driver grinned and raised his right hand, waving it: "Point the benevolent spirit at the scanner by the door, and the machine will automatically deduct the money from your card."
It's quite advanced.
Yin Zhu quickly figured it out: the car doors retracted to both sides, allowing customers to enter the aircraft, and then automatically closed after the person was fully inside.
Where are we going?
"Apartments for the poor".
"Hey, you live there and you still dare to take a taxi? You can't afford to pay, can you? I don't allow credit here."
The driver teased Yin Zhu, but actually stepped on the gas and took off into the sky, flying above the clouds, allowing Yin Zhu to see the night sky with only one star for the first time—it looked no different from what one could see on Earth, except that there were fewer stars.
After all, light pollution is severe in Vienna; the city is too bright, so there are fewer stars than in the countryside, which is the norm.
As the spaceship passed through the commercial district, Yin Zhu saw many buildings of different styles. Some were in the retro style of the Dragon Kingdom, some were in the style of the Kingdom of Gods, and others were in styles that Yin Zhu did not recognize. They were completely different, yet they were strangely placed in the same area.
"Are you going shopping?" The driver seemed to notice Yin Zhu looking around and asked casually.
"No, it's too expensive, and I need to go back to my apartment first."
Yin Zhu didn't want to waste the money she worked so hard to earn on the trap of consumerism. The goods in those places were very expensive just by looking at the buildings. If she had the chance, Yin Zhu really wanted to go there and take a look.
Commercial areas should also have their own rules, just as different companies have their own employee codes of conduct.
As the Chosen Ones travel to more and more worlds, they no longer feel any fear about where the rules will appear.
Conversely, a ghost story instance without rules is slightly frightening, while places with rules are more reassuring.
However, judging from the fact that some outstanding chosen ones have been targeted, it seems that the Unspeakable probably doesn't want the chosen ones to be too trusting.
In the city of Vina, security is not a problem. Although it is inevitable that crazy people will suddenly attack others, the thoughts of ordinary bad guys are generally suppressed.
After all, the biggest villains in Vina City are those who came down from the sky and are revered and oppress mortals. How could they tolerate ordinary villains doing bad things under their noses?
Although taking the aircraft back was much faster than walking, after chatting idly for a while, Yin Zhu ran out of things to say.
Since she wasn't an indigenous person, Yin Zhu always adhered to the principle that the more she said, the more mistakes she made, avoiding saying anything that, while insignificant from her own perspective, would be very strange to the indigenous people and arouse the attention of the indigenous police, causing the driver to call the police immediately.
With nothing much to say and time to kill, Yin Zhu's eyes darted around as she looked at everything she could see.
This tedious waiting felt a lot like going to the toilet. Before she got her own cell phone, Yin Zhu would look around at everything she could see while sitting on the toilet, and might even get so bored that she would look at the ingredient list of her skincare product three times.
Later, it was the cell phone that saved Yin Zhu.
But now, in this instance, Yin Zhu has become poor again, and even her mobile phone has been confiscated by the Unspeakable. So the waiting time during the journey will be very difficult to endure.
After examining the inanimate objects, Yin Zhu finally turned her gaze to the driver himself.
The aircraft is actually self-driving, and the human's main role is to supervise, so the driver is quite relaxed, playing with a smart tablet while driving, which makes Yin Zhu sweat for herself.
Looking further down, Yin Zhu noticed that the driver was not an ordinary human being.
On the contrary, he has a long, fluffy tail, which belongs to the primate class, making it difficult for Yin Zhu to determine whether it is just a case of atavism or some kind of animal becoming a spirit.
Yes, it is possible for animals to become sentient.
In a world where even gods exist, is it really such a big deal for animals to become spirits? Yin Zhu was very accepting of this.
To be precise, these people are a unique species of the Unique Star. Unlike ordinary animals, they are born with some animal traits and human intelligence. They are not reproductively isolated from humans and are closer to humans than animals.
The library books describe these people as "the kin of the gods," who were initially either B-class citizens or were banished from the city of Vina for betraying the gods.
However, the families also need to reproduce, and the pie is not that big. Not all of their descendants can hold high positions. Therefore, the families who do not obtain the right of inheritance will gradually have their citizenship status reduced.
Even now, there are still people with family bloodlines among D-class citizens.
If I ask, wouldn't that be alerting them? And if so, it would easily expose me.
Finally, Yin Zhu and the driver returned to the front of the poor people's apartment in a low-pressure atmosphere. There were still more than 20 minutes before closing time, so they had not violated the apartment's rules and were within a safe range.
Relieved, Yin Zhu returned to Hirano Shan's place. Just as she reached for the doorknob, the door opened by itself right before her eyes.
In an instant, the scene inside the house was laid bare: besides Hirano San, there were two other people in the house.
One was a strong woman with a buzz cut, and the other was a man who was somewhat thin but had sharp eyes.
After pulling Yin Zhu into the house and closing the door, Hirano Shan then offered a brief explanation:
"These two are also Chosen Ones. They have both established themselves in Vina City and have their own jobs. We'll discuss the details later. Simply put, of the five Chosen Ones in this world, we only have one left to find."
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