Chapter 538 California
Los Angeles is a special city, at least for Zhong Yi.
Hollywood is located here, and it is an important city in the world's entertainment industry, so their entertainment operation company is located here...
But it’s not that the company cannot open somewhere else. Of course, there are more important reasons for choosing this place.
California, where Los Angeles is located, is often well-known in China because it once had a governor called the Terminator, but for Zhong Yi, the biggest special feature of this place is its geographical location.
The state borders the sea to the west, deserts to the north and south, and the Cordillera Mountains to the east that runs through America. Surrounding it are Mount Whitney, which is more than 4,400 meters above sea level, the Coast Mountains, and the Sierra Nevada Mountains. Further away is the famous Rocky Mountains.
This is an entire huge mountain range. Its breadth and breadth are no joke. It is difficult to create such a huge mountain range in a book. Probably only the Ten Thousand Mountains can be compared to it.
Among the countless mountains, there are of course volcanoes, and many of them are active volcanoes.
In addition to mountains and deserts, there is also the bizarre Death Valley, with its rugged terrain, scorching heat and dryness, and rampant mudslides. All the harsh conditions are as horrifying as its name, and it is considered one of the least suitable areas for human habitation in the world.
Sea, mountains, desert, Death Valley, volcanoes...with habitable plains and basins in between, all kinds of environments in the world can be seen almost everywhere in this state.
If someone is looking for Suzaku, would this kind of place be one of the key points?
In fact, part of the Vermillion Bird's fire is indeed here. The flames throughout the sky are basically part of the Vermillion Bird's body. It is just because of its connection with the Buddha that it places its core in the Pura Temple. The flames scattered in other places are not too important.
By the same token, if the skeleton of a white tiger were found in such a place, isn't it also very likely?
The more inhospitable the surrounding area is, the more likely it is to contain various mysteries.
Chu Jiangliu had sent people to search here secretly a few years ago, but it was a pity that such a place was too huge, and a detailed survey would not be completed in ten or eight years. There were many other suspected special places, and Chu Jiangliu did not focus on this one at the beginning.
It was after Tang Jinyan gave a broken tooth to Chu Ge and learned that he had obtained it unexpectedly when he came to Los Angeles to discuss business that Chu Jiangliu completely locked on this place. It was also around this time that Zhong Yi came to North America and began to cooperate.
In a short period of time, there was still no result. Chu Ge and his wife went to Indonesia and settled the matter of Suzaku, but there was still no news about Baihu. Zhong Yi stayed in Los Angeles for a long time, watching the city's decadence and extravagance. He almost felt as if he was here to promote Chu Ge's works in the entertainment industry. He was so bored that he even went to the square to listen to people playing the flute during work hours...
Just at this time, an "old friend" came to contact me.
From Chu Tiange's mission to the outer heaven to his being named Emperor Ziwei and receiving congratulations from all directions, the book seems to have a lot of plots, but in fact the time is very tight, only two days in total.
When Chu Ge entered the book and held a meeting with the ascenders from the human world, Zhong Yi was also contacting the so-called "old friend", the so-called Bill Carter.
The meeting place was in a bar. It was a quiet bar with only the melodious sound of the saxophone. There were scattered guests at the bar and the tables, all talking in low voices and in a very elegant manner.
Zhong Yi came to the table where they had arranged to meet. A chubby foreigner was sitting on a chair, sipping wine leisurely. When he saw him arrive, he didn't even raise his eyelids. "We arranged to meet at 8 o'clock, but you arrived at 7:55. You deliberately waited outside for five minutes before coming in, and said that this was punctual... My God, I was very curious about this and thought that all Chinese people were so weird. Later, I went to China and found that this was not the case at all. You were the only one like this."
Zhong Yi sat down with a straight face. "I read some swindle books in the 1980s and 1990s. They were about German sewers, Japanese toilet water and summer camps, and your Washington axe. Including this so-called punctuality."
The fat man laughed: "You knew it was a fraudulent book, so why did you believe it? You even tried to do it and even made it a habit..."
"Because many of them are written in textbooks and extracurricular readings for children. I thought they were true. What a rip-off." Zhong Yi took the fat man's wine and drank a sip. "As for why I still want to do it... Because it sounds very high-end, so some people make it up like this. Since it sounds very high-end, why can't I do it? Although ordinary people would look like a lunatic if they do this, I am not ordinary."
The fat man spread his hands, not knowing whether to laugh or cry: "That's my fucking wine."
Zhong Yi said: "I never complained about you drinking, why don't you just order another one? You are still so stingy."
The fat man laughed and said, "I think you are afraid of being poisoned..."
"Of course I am. I won't die, but I will feel pain. The poison will rot my intestines. Have you ever experienced that feeling?"
"..." The fat man called the waiter helplessly: "Add another glass of whiskey."
Zhong Yi leaned back in his chair, looked the fat man up and down for a long time, and then slowly said: "Why did you change your name? What Bill Carter? I was wondering why I had never heard of this old friend. It turns out to be Carl... I haven't seen you for more than 20 years. How are you?"
Fatty Carl smiled and said, "Maybe he's better than you. Los Angeles is a good place, and being a star is fun. As for you, you probably live like an ascetic..."
Zhong Yi ignored this and asked again: "Did you change your name because you are wanted?"
"No." Karl smiled and said, "It's just that don't you think that never changing your appearance is incredible in the eyes of others and that you can't live? So you change your identity and city to live, and many novels also write about this. But why can you always look like a young man?"
Zhong Yi said calmly: "It's enough for the country to know. I won't stay in one place for long, so what can I exchange for? I think you shouldn't care about this..."
"I have a lot of criminal records. Once one identity is dead, it will be over."
"So, are you planning to live a good life with this identity, or are you going to keep creating new criminal records?" Zhong Yi said with a smile, "I think it's hard to change your nature. You have more criminal records with this identity than before, right? Or are you being watched by the police? At least I can't imagine how you can survive without sucking blood."
I don’t know whether vampires existed in the past or whether they had groups, but Zhong Yi only knew one vampire, and he was a fat one.
It is also possible that it is not a vampire at all, but just a special ability that causes vampire-like behavior.
Carl grinned and said, "There are no police watching me."
"So has the American police fallen to this level? They only target black people?"
Karl took a sip of wine and said, "It's just because my current organization is more useful, and generally they can't get hold of me."
The air seemed to be quiet in an instant, with only the saxophone still tirelessly playing the music that Zhong Yi didn't like.
He slowly raised his glass and took another sip: "Is this why you came to see me?"
"Recently, many people have died inexplicably, and many are missing." Carl sighed, "It looks like people from other gangs are targeting us and assassinating us... The organization initially thought it was the mafia, and we had several fights."
Zhong Yi asked knowingly, "Isn't the Mafia already in decline these days?"
"It declined in the past few years, but a lean camel is bigger than a horse. There are still many potential forces in secret, many of which are in the entertainment industry, and many of them are concentrated in California. And in the past few years, as you know, strange magical powers have begun to penetrate the land, and many people have special abilities, so these people have risen again."
This is a major manifestation of Chu Jiangliu's so-called "the more chaotic other countries are, the better", which is already very obvious in Japan, South Korea and Indonesia, and now there are obvious changes in North America. Zhong Yi certainly wouldn't talk about this, but just said: "So you belong to another organization and are fighting with the mafia?"
"Um……"
"Then what do you want from me?"
"Because I think that the previous deaths or disappearances of our people were not necessarily caused by the mafia."
"Why?"
"Because I saw you."
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PS: Wow, I was wrong, I should stick my butt out...
(End of this chapter)
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