Chapter 90 Sin City
The city walled area is located in the northwest of Liuguang City, north of Jianggu District and east of Lannitang.
It was still morning, and a convoy with the Seth logo was on his way to the city wall.
Elizabeth sat in the back row of one of the off-road vehicles, looking through the window at the city wall getting closer and closer in the distance. It was strange that she had lived for so many years and lived in Jianggu District for nearly a year, so why hadn't she been to the city wall wall before?
The so-called upper-class people almost never visit the city, as if there was a huge wall that was isolated from it.
City of Sin, this is an nickname for the city area.
"Ayako, do you know the history of the castle area?" Elizabeth asked Ayako who was also in the car, wanting to chat with someone.
"I don't have much to come here..." Ayako sat in the front row, not quite understanding what she was pointing to.
Although Ayako has already served for her, Ayako's every move will still be on guard by the security personnel next to her in a short period of time.
Monk Wuzhen and Taoist Yucheng were in other cars, and today they also went to the city to investigate.
Last year's fire in the city was the first major case that the Red Rain Investigation Team was mainly attacked.
Since the announcement was made to the city-wide TV last night, the investigation team has received countless reports involving various cases.
Elizabeth could not see it alone, and it was difficult to tell the truth about it. For the time being, she had to rely on the team members who were assigned by her family and cooperate with the Metropolitan Police Department and the Secret Service.
Her strategy is that since her clones are too skilled, she will first arrest the big case, and the master guides her to the city area.
However, there are no valuable clues about this fire case in the temporary reports.
"More than fifty years ago, Chengzhai District was the first to be a city-produced housing project to benefit the people."
Elizabeth looked out the car window and talked about the history of the castle to Ayako.
"At that time, the municipal government planned to build a new district on this land. At that time, it gathered a lot of money, enthusiasm and hope from countless citizens... When the construction was almost halfway through, the project was stopped, and the municipal government said it would not have money to build it again, and the economic crisis was in progress.
"People who subscribed to the house looked at the unfinished buildings and launched protests, but failed to keep the project...
"Now everyone agrees that it was not that the municipal government had no money at that time, but that the project was stopped by the New World Bank because the bank did not want the city's housing prices to drop. At that time, the bank expressed its willingness to provide loans to the project. However, in this case, every home buyer would have to work hard for the whole family to pay off the money, without the 'benefits' mentioned at the beginning."
Elizabeth talked about this history learned from books, and her expression was a little complicated, and she would not be born more than thirty years later.
"This is a game, Santou and Saisi have designed financial scams."
"What then?" Ayako asked, without commenting.
"Then some home buyers moved directly into unfinished buildings. Some spent money to buy materials and decorate themselves, while others took a few pieces of cardboard to block the wind and stayed there.
"In the end, almost all home buyers moved in, built and expanded, and became the current city area.
“The streets have found useful things for those unfinished buildings.”
While Elizabeth was speaking, the convoy drove into the area of the city.
The lane began to become smaller, but the traffic and people on the road began to increase. There were dilapidated tall buildings on both sides of the street, closely sticking to each other, with almost no gap of one meter.
After only one night more than fifty years ago, the unbuilt streets were suddenly covered with various sheds and iron lids.
Home buyers and all street dogs and dogs breed like bacteria here, with all kinds of races, and they are in a mess.
Even now, the traces of unfinished buildings can be seen in these buildings. Some of the long-breaking steel and concrete are exposed, and various covers and reconstructions extend out in a unique structural manner.
In this kind of dilapidated chaos, the iron frames on the walls of the building are hung with neon signs of shops, which is hard to see at first sight:
"Renxin Clinic", "Mei しい Life Photo Library", "Striptease Club", "Knife Shop", "Bandung Mi Store"
Over the driveway, between the high-rise buildings on both sides, there is a seemingly crumbling overpass passage not far away, connecting the buildings on both sides.
Elizabeth could see people coming and going on the overpass, shuttled through the buildings on both sides, which was only more lively than the streets on the ground.
It is said that this is everywhere in the city walled area. The city walled area uses a moustache street as a "city walled area", and each city walled area is connected to each other.
Different cities are different halls of the city gang. If your territory is threatened, war will begin between the hall and the hall.
The Hongyu Investigation Team is going to today is "Daxing City Walled City", which is the territory of the City Walled City Board of Governors.
Elizabeth knew that the city was a place where the city was not controlled by the police and the police department, and it grew wildly in its own way.
"The New World Bank has always wanted to clear the place and take away the area to build a more upscale and more expensive commercial building. I tried it several times but failed. Now Santeng has launched a repurchase and renovation plan for the city walled area." She said again.
"I think the siegeman is more ruthless than the boxer in this regard." Ayako finally said something, "We boxer don't like the Victor Boxing Gym, but it still built it."
While the conversation was happening, the convoy stopped at a street entrance. No matter which city you were going to enter, it was impossible to drive in.
Elizabeth got out of the car and stepped on the streets of the city for the first time, looking at the dark and narrow entrance to the alley.
Daxing City Village, this mouth shape is just a little bit, crowded with hundreds of buildings, countless narrow alleys, nearly 100,000 people, and thousands of shops and small workshops, all in the dense buildings.
"Miss Stirling, please come with me." The middle-aged man in charge of leading the way was named Ding Mo, who was a native of the city wall.
When strangers enter the city area, they must have such a "tour guide" to lead the way.
Elizabeth quickly understood the reason.
A group of people followed the tour guide into the crowded alley in front. After walking for a while, they found that these small and narrow alleys were not straight, but crisscrossed. As they walked, they would turn around. If they didn't recognize the road, they would immediately lose their direction.
Since there are many passages between buildings, residents draw road signs on their own. If they follow the map or address to find the destination, it is impossible to reach it, and they will only make mistakes again and again.
Looking up, I couldn't see a trace of the sky between the buildings, but no matter it was sunny or rainy, water drips always drip from above.
Because the sun cannot penetrate, it is dark and gloomy everywhere, and there are no more street lights, and many neon signs have failed.
If you can find a ray of sunshine here, it is to find a location for a covered expansion.
Each city is a consortium; the entire city area is also a whole building.
Elizabeth noticed the reactions of people coming and going to be with her. They were alert and indifferent and did not want to see her.
She could only nod and signal to them and walk past.
After about half an hour of leaving, tour guide Ding Mo took them into a building, which was the building where the city council was located.
The stairwells inside the building are also cramped, dim, wet and dilapidated, crowded, messy and dirty.
The road was full of plastic bags and various garbage blocks, as well as clothes dried by residents, and there were a lot of graffiti on the walls where the paint was peeling.
And in those close-knit rooms, no one knew what illegal activities were hidden.
After walking a few floors in the building, Elizabeth and others took the old elevator to the rooftop. In the city area, the rooftop has different meanings.
The sound of the elevator brought them straight to the rooftop of the tall building. The elevator door opened and suddenly became noisy.
Elizabeth walked out of the elevator, with a completely open blue sky above her head, and the narrowness and depression before was greatly released.
I saw people coming and going on the rooftop, just like the most lively pedestrian street square, surrounded by various rooftop shops, covered with neon lights and entangled with messy wires and antennas.
Vendors were shouting, guests were visiting, and groups of children in old clothes ran past, and not far away were gathering around to cheer for a boxing, and gang members were counting.
No one even paid attention to the arrival of the Hongyu Investigation Group.
Elizabeth saw the "rooftop postman" again.
The police in the Police Department have no place to stand here, and the city wall area is governed by the city wall council and the city wall gate halls.
The rooftop postman is the power of the board of directors, responsible for transmitting information, liaison and mediation between the entrances of various cities and villages, and sometimes also responsible for public security.
The Hongyu Investigation Team came here to go to the board of directors' rooftop postman headquarters to ask for clues. The postmans are the most well-informed people in the city.
They wore a blue postman uniform, had body transformations that were beyond the reach of ordinary people, and were all extraordinary. They ran and jumped directly between the building and the rooftop, with a very fast speed and a flexible posture.
There are also some children and teenagers running after them, jumping and playing between the rooftops of the vast building.
The young runner looked very dangerous, but bursts of pure laughter were heard.
Elizabeth couldn't help but smile, looked up and saw that the sky was blue, and it seemed as if she could embrace the whole world on the rooftop.
"Ayako, this rooftop is a paradise for them."
"The Jianbao Dictionary was launched, 'Rooftop', page 9652, the meaning is explained as: a place where investment losers gather, the rooftop in the city area has the largest number of investment losers in the world." Jianbao said coldly.
"Sword treasure..." Elizabeth said helplessly.
The figure of the investigation team still attracted the attention of the people on the rooftop, but fortunately everyone didn't hear Jian Bao's words much.
"Miss Stirling, I'll go for a walk." Taoist Yucheng said softly, then walked away, as if he was going to conduct a separate investigation.
Elizabeth nodded to the people and said hello, then took Ayako, Goji and others to the board of directors' rooftop postman headquarters, which was a several-story building built on this rooftop.
Chapter completed!