“Everyone you know is talking about Chicha, but do you see it in the media?”
Jane was shouting to the people passing by on the street, and the old bicycle she regarded as a treasure was parked next to it.
At this time, she saw a familiar figure in sportswear walking towards her, waving her hand.
"The media is everywhere, but the media never tells us the truth. When the information we receive is controlled, we will be shaped into what they want..."
"Jian, good morning." Gu He waved and walked away.
Only then did Jane realize that the good-looking female passerby wearing a white mask should be in the same group as him and was also walking towards him.
"Let me introduce, this is Jane, the mainstay of the low-tech clan." Gu He introduced, looking at the strange man wearing a mask, "This is Shawshank, a friend of mine."
After walking for a while, he was still a little shocked by Sophia's amazing skills, so he suddenly reached the sixth level.
That was simply unprecedented, starting from the Big Bang. It was amazing.
Thanks to this, he is expected to have full Cowherd value for the second time today, and the data and source code should all belong to the contender.
Sophia is a strange person, but others don't know it.
Besides, there weren't any strange people on the streets, and wearing a mask really didn't attract any special attention.
When I met some acquaintances, I wondered if Shawshank was a doomsday clan?
During the recent period, he, Lorna and Pandora often walked around together, and Pandora was clearly a member of the Doomsday Clan. With such a well-covered girl, it was normal to be speculated to be a member of Pandora's tribe.
"Hello, Shawshank." Jane looked at the masked woman, "Are you interested in learning about low-tech concepts?"
No matter it's the Doomsday Clan, the Bosozoku Clan, or any other clan, Jian wants to poach them whenever he sees them.
"Jane is a person who has escaped from vulgar taste. She is infinitely higher than us." Gu He praised Sophia and said, "Listen to her talk when you have time. It's pretty good."
"Then I'm all ears." Sophia nodded and said, her voice was changed by the mask voice changer into another electronically synthesized female voice. It sounded very ordinary. Of course, she felt that it was not as good as her original voice.
The journey from Licai to now has been a bit dreamy, as if I had returned from hell to the human world.
Pan Shen knew quite a few people, and he would bump into acquaintances as he walked. When he introduced her, he would say Shawshank.
Shawshank. Sophia wants to laugh every time she hears it.
Her Pan is really good at playing. It would be boring to leave it without eating, right? But playing with her little by little like this can maintain his excitement and his low taste.
"High technology, low life; low technology, high life." Jane suddenly started talking non-stop.
But after a while, Sophia had no objection, and Gu He was a little bit confused after hearing, information theory, cybernetics...
"Jane, we still have something to do. We'll hear about it the next day. Let's go first." He called to Sophia and walked quickly forward.
"Low-level taste is still fun." Sophia followed up and said with a smile, "High-level, low-interest; low-level, high-interest."
"That's why I said, Jane's level is high." Gu He sighed to himself, as he couldn't live without electronic products.
"I don't like low-tech ideas. I want to enjoy the most cutting-edge and best things." Sophia made no secret.
"Good and bad cannot be easily judged." Gu He shrugged, "Jian's bicycle is more precious than many cars."
Sophia looked back and saw that the low-tech girl was shouting away again, that bicycle was too old.
God Pan is just talking about high-level nonsense, precious because of spiritual significance or something.
But precious also has a common meaning, which is the specific price of this thing. The car looks really bad.
When she was a child, Elizabeth and she rode bicycles everywhere all day long, but it had been a long time since she had done so.
Since she was a teenager, she has always taken the best cars in Gasboy when going out, whether driven by a chauffeur or driven by herself, luxury sports cars are just one of them.
She has a huge garage with almost all kinds of cars in it.
"Maybe it's because I'm low-level." Sophia said, "I just like the fastest sports cars."
There are many shops on both sides of Shouhui Street, including bars and clubs, as well as some chain stores belonging to consortiums.
Seth's electronics store, Santo's electronics store - not long ago, an unknown gang smashed the glass of the store door directly in the middle of the night and ransacked the store, and there was also Gasboy's car sales store.
On the advertising screen above the store door, pictures and images of various cars are changing.
The latest Gasboy "Phantom" series sports car is newly launched. Its streamlined body shape and high-end paint are so eye-catching that it looks like something in the clouds.
Gu He saw Sophia stop and look at her, and also looked at it, "Oh my God, a car worth tens of millions of yuan!"
But we are not planning to sell them to Shouhui Street. What are sold here are off-road vehicles with hundreds of thousands or more than hundreds of thousands, pickup trucks and the like.
Even so, not many street dogs he knew would buy a car, and would rather go to a place like Classic Cars to buy a car.
"The business of this store is not very good." Gu He wanted to hear Sophia's thoughts.
"Gasboin doesn't expect to make much money in this area." Sophia responded. As a potential heir, she knew the family's core industry very well. "Its business is mainly in the Jianggu District, in the central area."
In her opinion, this store is too small and too shabby, and there are not even a few current cars on display in the store.
This is simply a store Gaspard set up because he needed to exist in Kabukicho, and it doesn't matter if it closes.
The store in the central area is bigger, with all kinds of cars on display, and there is a test track in the garden area, unlike here, where even the store staff is very few.
They were looking outside with alert and nervous eyes, as if they were afraid that Yakuza would suddenly break in and steal the car.
But if that were the case, if Gu Dasheng just walked in today and drove away the few cars on display, they wouldn't be able to do anything. The police wouldn't dare to arrest anyone when they came. Yakuza would say he'd pay the bill, and Gasboy would turn around.
They said the car was delivered.
Sophia couldn't help but smile when she met those eyes, but her smile was not seen by others.
She noticed that a TV screen in the store was showing a sports car race sponsored by Gasboy. During the Champions League last year, she was sitting on the track observation deck watching and applauding.
Now that she was suspected of having bad intentions to steal cars, she smiled even more happily, and there were still a few broken cars.
She deliberately tried to shout at the top of her lungs, I am Sophia Amick!
But Sophia found that she couldn't cry out, her muscles didn't move at all, and there was no sound even in her mind. The chain of genius turned it into an idea that could only disappear in the bottom of her heart.
"Let's go." Gu He didn't want to attract attention, especially in this place.
"Pan, I used to have a garage." Sophia followed, "Those cars should have been taken away now."
She could say this, and she could say it when chatting with Pan Shen alone, but if there were others around, she probably wouldn't be able to say it.
"It's nothing, you can think so, there is no exotic car anyway." Gu He had no intention of driving her away.
In a garage filled with cars valued at tens of millions, how can a person solve the problem when even a bicycle he bought was immediately stolen?
Sophia choked. Pan Shen had asked about the rare object car before. Gasboy owned the exotic object car, including complete vehicles and cars built using exotic object materials.
She has seen it before, but with her previous authority, she has not opened it yet.
"The exotic car is nothing, Pan Shen, you are the fastest thing I have ever experienced." Sofia told the truth, the feeling of speeding is even more exciting than driving a sports car.
"If you like going fast so much, please walk two steps faster." Gu He thought of the exotic car, the Daniel, and Lorna.
This section of the road is a section where Lorna is most likely to appear. After all, today is the first time that he takes Sophia out for fun. There are many situations that he still needs to get familiar with. He is a little worried that when he meets Lorna, she will cause trouble because of her teasing Sophia.
Moreover, this outing has a mission, not just a casual stroll.
The shelter of Kitano Kazuya's family is actually still on Juhui Street. Mr. Kitano has a wide circle of people and knows many old friends. The family now lives not far from Kitano's butcher shop, which makes it convenient for the old man to visit his grandson.
Gu He didn't go to Beiye's butcher shop. If the old man Beiye just pulled out the monomolecular wire and split it out, he would be gone.
But it is said that old man Kitano was also part of the group that kidnapped Sophia that day.
After walking around for a while, the two of them came to Mr. Seto's house. It was an old wooden house in an alleyway, but it had a small yard. In Kabukicho, where land is very expensive, this kind of old Yakuza only lived.
You deserve this kind of place.
Mr. Seto and the Kitano family lived together. Gu He had the business card given by Miss Ayin as a communication. Now he also had a name and greeted Mr. Seto at the door.
Mr. Seto didn't ask what kind of woman he was bringing or why he was a guest.
Sophia followed Pan into the house and then walked through a wooden corridor.
Kitano Kazuya's family has now moved out of the basement. Mr. Seto has a basement here, but they only live in it when they need to escape. They usually stay in this house and are still at home for the time being.
During peacetime, you can still play in the small courtyard of this house.
The two were still in the corridor when they heard the sounds of play coming from the yard. Soon, Gu He saw Kitano Kazuya teaching his son Shota baseball pitching skills in the yard, Shuzi accompanying him with a gentle smile.
Kitano Kazuya wore a glove on his left hand and held a baseball in his right hand, teaching with gestures:
"Shota, remember what dad said, when pitching, your body must first maintain balance."
"Balance..." Shouta listened carefully, without even noticing the arrival of the guests.
Such warm things have never happened to the Kitano family before, but they have to live here.
Gu He was about to walk over, but Sophia stopped and did not continue walking towards the courtyard.
This was the first time she saw Kitano Kazuya's family, and the second time she saw Kitano Kazuya.
At this moment, many scenes from the old days when she was building a brain slave flashed before her eyes. That was at the Wanfu Hotel in the central area.
That day, Sophia Amick was so high-spirited, but she committed the greatest stupidity.
But now, Sophia's mood is extremely complicated.
That was the Chicha beer she once drank, and now it was in front of her. If Kitano Kazuya continued to be a brain slave, there would naturally be no laughter and joy in front of him, and an even bigger nightmare would be waiting for this family.
She didn't know whether she felt guilty or not.
But again, she would not choose Kitano Kazuya to become a brain slave.
Sophia bowed deeply to the playing family of three, turned around and walked out of the house.
"Uh, Xiao..." Gu He called out, but Sophia didn't stop.
At this time, because of his shout, the Kitano family noticed someone coming in the corridor.
"Brother Gu He!" Shang Tai immediately shouted excitedly and ran over. He still remembered this brother in sportswear, but he hadn't seen him for a long time. For a child, a week was already a long time.
Kitano Kazuya and his wife were surprised at first when they saw Gu He's arrival, and then they said hello, Shuzi was more enthusiastic.
And Kitano Kazuya seemed to see a female figure passing by in a hurry, and asked doubtfully: "Gu Jun, is there anyone else?"
"She is a friend of Miss Caiyin, but she suddenly had something to do and left." Gu He could only say this, "Don't think too much, nothing happened to you. I came to see how you are doing according to Miss Caiyin's wishes, but now
You have to say goodbye first."
He had no choice but to caress Shota's head in a hurry, then turned around and walked away quickly.
Naturally, the Kitano family was very confused. After a while, the laughter of throwing and catching baseballs could be heard again in the courtyard.
Gu He quickly came outside, feeling nervous, but he saw Sophia standing in the old alley waiting.
"What's going on with you?" He stepped forward and asked, "You are indeed guilty of their family. Although an apology is useless and you are wearing a mask, the apology should at least be more formal."
"I don't think that would be sincere," Sophia said. "What's the point of an insincere apology?"
She walked out of the alley, walking slowly, "I'm sorry for their family, but when I looked at them just now, I had a lot of questions in my mind."
"Okay." Gu He followed helplessly. As Miss Caiyin herself said, forced integrity is not integrity.
"What's the problem?" he asked.
"I have met some people like Kitano Kazuya, the former Kitano Kazuya." Sophia said as she walked, "I didn't have a Yakuza background like him, and no one could protect him if something happened.
"Most of them are from Jianggu's middle-class families, and some come from the streets to join the company. They all work hard to squeeze into the upper echelons of the company."
She looked at Pan Shen and said, "These people are not just willing to work overtime in order to drink Chicha beer. It's just the path they can usually see and take. If there is any other path, it will be overcrowded."
If someone really gets pushed in, he will drink Chicha beer more ruthlessly than others."
Gu He fell silent, probably knowing what Sophia wanted to say.
"The question I'm thinking about is that Kitano Kazuya tried his best to get up, get away from the underworld, and take the bank road. Doesn't he want to drink Chicha beer? Then why does he want to go up? If he is allowed to go up, will he?
drink?
"If you don't drink, you won't be able to go up. If you go up and don't drink, you will come down. Will he drink or not?"
Sophia asked a series of questions, "You have to drink to be in certain positions. This is probably the mistake I made."
"God Pan." She looked at him, "Can you solve these problems for me? I can't figure it out."
"I don't know either." Gu He sighed, this is not a simple question, "But I know that people are complicated. There will be people like this and people like that, and the same person will have different thoughts at different times.
"Of course there are many people who desperately want to drink Chicha beer; but there are also many people who desperately want Chicha beer to not exist. Come on, I'll take you somewhere."
Sophia responded with a smile and continued walking with him.
Walking around the streets like this, especially such noisy and lively real streets, is really not much for her.
So even if she walked a long way back and forth, even if she hadn't been locked up for a few months, Sophia didn't feel bored. The difference was that she used to be disdainful, but now she has gained a lot of experience by looking at this and that.
After walking for a long time, they gradually left the main street and came to a slightly remote warehouse.
Sophia saw the security personnel of Seth Group appearing at the intersection, and she immediately understood.
She had also seen groups of street children on the road. Most of these children had childish laughter and were wearing brand new cotton winter coats and a new pair of shoes.
There were also children who must have run from other streets. They were wearing quite tattered clothes and were shivering in the cold winter. They were led away by the staff here, talking excitedly:
"Do you still have a collar? That's great!"
"Of course there is. Sister Liz said that everyone who comes over will have one." A child who was already wearing new clothes said proudly, "Sister Liz also said that there will be extra food today!"
Suddenly the children cheered again.
Sophia's heart moved slightly, and a more complicated feeling arose, Elizabeth.
"She is here?" Sophia asked Pan Shen, "Is this the charity organization she runs?"
It's just a short journey from here to Licai. I really didn't expect that it has always been so close.
"Yes, Red Rain Home." Gu He led the way, and together with Sophia came to the open space in front of the relief warehouses of Red Rain Home, looking at the lively crowd there from a distance.
Children lined up to receive winter clothes in front of the main warehouse.
Moreover, Red Rain House has also cooperated with Yakuza in the past two days. There are locations on Juhui Street and Renqing Street to distribute winter clothes to homeless people. We strive to prevent a few people from freezing to death on the streets of Kabukicho today, preferably none.
Originally, some street dogs would go out to make trouble, or pretend to be homeless to collect winter clothes for profit, but because of Yakuza's involvement, they would not dare to mess around. Hongyu may not retaliate, but Yakuza will.
While watching, Gu He introduced some situations to Sophia.
"Elizabeth has liked helping street dogs since she was a child." Sophia looked at the warm scene, "I am not."
"She is a kind-hearted person, but I am not; she is a hero, but I am not." She said softly.
Suddenly, Gu He saw a red-haired figure over there. It was Elizabeth walking out of the main warehouse. She was wearing a windbreaker and bell-bottom pants. She was walking towards the children queuing up. She had not noticed the situation here yet.
Sophia also saw that figure, she stopped talking, her eyes were fixed, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Sterling.
Her mood was only more mixed than when she saw Kitano Kazuya just now.
When she was in the dungeon, in those most difficult days, she missed Elizabeth so much that she even dreamed about Elizabeth suddenly appearing to save her, thinking about her childhood, and the past.
But now, Sophia doesn't really want to see Elizabeth, nor does she want to be seen by Elizabeth.
This is not over yet, I have not lost, nothing...I will take everything back...
She had a firm idea, but she couldn't think clearly about many questions, and she didn't want Elizabeth to tell her the answers.
"That's the red-haired Liz." Gu He said to Sophia, bringing her over to prepare for what might happen.
If Sofia's outings become a regular activity, there will always be this one.
Speaking of which, he was willing to help Sophia in this way for the sake of Elizabeth; Elizabeth was a psychological problem that Sophia could not avoid, and Sophia was also a fetter that Elizabeth was concerned about.
"Red-haired Liz." Sophia muttered over and over again, mocking herself: "I'm not, I'm the blonde Shawshank."
At this time, Elizabeth over there seemed to feel something, and turned her head to look here. Naturally, she could see him and the masked girl next to him. She stopped and her blue eyes were fixed.
Gu He exhaled, wondering if the goose felt anything...
Sophia also stood there, motionless, looking over there.
The last time they faced each other like this was the 30 million boxing match in the boxing area.
Gu He saw Elizabeth turning around and walking this way. The cold winter wind was blowing her red hair. There was no expression on her beautiful face, but the hand holding the sword was tightly held, and the back of her hand was slightly exposed.
Blue veins.
Because of the sword, he suddenly became a little more nervous. This sword would not be buzzing around at this moment.
"Brother Angel." Elizabeth came over and called out, but her eyes kept looking at the masked girl, "Who is this?"
"Shawshank." Gu He said. Goose must have already guessed it, but Jianbao luckily didn't move...
Would someone who is familiar with Sophia recognize her so easily? However, the information Goose got was different. He had said before that the master was helping Sophia, and he was also involved, and Goose also had a sense of shared oath.
In this case, it would be easy to make a connection when looking at a masked blonde girl with a similar body shape.
Moreover, they were too familiar. He had heard both of them say that they grew up together and were the most familiar and intimate people to each other for a long time, until they gradually drifted apart.
But looking back, is it really better for Sophia to dye her blond hair?
"Hello, Shawshank." Elizabeth looked at the masked girl, not knowing what she was thinking.
"...Hello." Sophia responded, her voice seemed smooth due to the voice changer.
"It would be a bit presumptuous to say that." Elizabeth added, "I feel like I have known you for a long time."
Sophia was speechless. The chain of nature prevented her from answering the other party's words. There was really nothing she wanted to say.
A faint smile appeared on Elizabeth's face, she turned her head, raised her head again, and still looked at the other person, "The weather has been really cold these days. It seems like summer was only yesterday, but winter is here, can spring be far behind?"
Liz recognized me, Sophia took a deep breath, her heart tightened uncontrollably and became heavy...
She wanted to turn her head away from looking at this old friend.
Even though Liz was encouraging and comforting her, this was... the reason why she didn't want to stay here.
If instead of saying this, you would have ridiculed and teased her, she would have felt better, but she didn't care at all.
"Let's go to the hot springs together some other time." Elizabeth said warmly, "Even in winter, we can keep warm."
"I'm wearing long johns." Sophia finally said, "I'm not cold."
Long johns? Sophia Amick never wears that kind of tacky stuff. Even in winter, she wears all kinds of skirts and evening dresses. Long johns are not included.
But now she is wearing something, otherwise she would be cold.
"It's good if it's not cold..." Elizabeth's smile was also complicated, and she stopped talking, "It's good if it's not cold..."
At this time, Gu He suddenly opened his eyes and saw another figure walking out of the main warehouse. He had messy medium-short black hair, a graceful figure, and was wearing black leather pants...
Isn't that Lorna? Oh my God, what is Lorna doing here?
"Elizabeth, why is Lorna here?" he asked hurriedly.
"Oh Lorna?" Elizabeth looked at him, "She said she was idle, so she came over to work as a volunteer to repay my gift."
"Let's go, let's go." Gu He hurriedly wanted to leave. It would be difficult to deal with the situation when Lorna came over. "Shawshank, let's go. See you later, Elizabeth. My friend is doing well, so I can't be cold to her."
"
Hearing this, Sophia also noticed Lorna, Pan Shen and that woman... They felt different when they were in the big house area... But now she has no advantage...
She had already wanted to leave here, so she left with her.
Gu He chose another direction to walk, heading towards the wrestling gang's warehouse. There were more people and it would be harder to be spotted. However, not far away, he saw a black heavily equipped off-road vehicle parked in a pile of cars on the roadside.
Cow cow.
As soon as they saw him, the headlights of the off-road vehicle flashed, illuminating him and Sophia.
The body of the off-road vehicle vibrated and made a thick, threatening sound: "Bang, bang, I'll kill you bastard!"
"Damn it, if it weren't for me..." Gu He was really angry, not because he was activated into a strange object, "Can you speak?"
"Bang bang bang." The off-road vehicle made the sound of engine ignition, as if it was about to drive over on its own.
Sophia was stunned for a moment, why did that car seem to be able to talk...a strange object car? It was just a stereo...
It just seemed like Pan was clearly talking to the car.
A rare object car? But it was different from what she had seen before...
"Damn, let's go, let's go." Gu He quickened his pace and didn't care about Daniu Niu's rough car. It seemed that he would still have to bring a big cup with him in the future. At least he had a strange object in his hand, which was not so empty.
At the same time, here at the Red Rain House warehouse.
Lorna crossed her arms across her chest and watched the two figures go away, then she went over and asked Elizabeth: "I know that man, who is that woman?"
"Shawshank." Elizabeth was still looking at her in a daze, "That woman's name is Shawshank."
"Oh, Silly Mountain." Lorna sneered, "That looks like a silly one. Birds of a feather flock together."