Outside the "Holy Moon" airport in Warsabak, cars and cars pass by on a road full of palm trees and the wind blows.
"The tropical desert climate is really amazing..." Yu Zhesen sighed as he wiped his sweat.
"Where is the person who picks you up?" Jane still felt strange. Logically speaking, a celebrity within the Security Bureau like Yu Zhesen should have someone to receive him. However, at this time, not to mention the grand welcome in front of them, there was not even a special car.
"Is there anyone to pick me up? I came here on my own, and I didn't notify them when I set off." Yu Zhesen didn't like that kind of ostentation, so he deliberately didn't inform the other party of his itinerary.
Jane still sighed: "Okay, let's take a taxi to the training base."
The two stopped a taxi. The driver with a big beard seemed a little surprised to see these two young people with oriental faces, but he soon began to speak fluent Chinese.
"How's it going? Is my language conversion module good? Even if I haven't learned your language at all, I can still communicate without any barriers." The bearded driver proudly pointed to his head, and the conspicuous seams on the side of his forehead showed that he was a
Cybermen who have undergone electronic brain modification surgery.
"Is prosthetic surgery also popular here?" Jane still asked.
"Half and half, I am more willing to accept new things." The bearded driver said with a smile, "But there are also more conservative people here. Do you know the Istar sect? There are two groups of people in the sect.
The conservative group is the red moon, and the radical and innovative group is the blue star."
Jane still opened her mouth. The word "sect" had a special meaning in her heart. It would always make her subconsciously think of her compatriots on the Ark. However, she also had feelings for the Istar Sect of Volshabak.
heard.
The Renaissance City of Warsabak adopts a management method that combines politics and religion. The Adventist sect has also made great efforts to study the political ecology here in the past, hoping to learn some valuable systems as a reference.
However, this task was stopped long before Fu Zhaohai was captured by the Security Bureau, because after long-term research and argumentation, the patriarchs reached a consensus-Worshabak's ruling model is not advanced, and is not even as good as the Ark model.
The power of the Starr sect is controlled by several families that have been passed down for generations. This alone is far inferior to the elected and rotating patriarchal system on the Ark.
But Jane still dare not say how confident she is about the superiority of Ark's system, because after losing Fu Zhaohai and Lu Hong, Ark's sect system has ceased to exist in name only, and Friedheim has actually formed a dictatorship. Although this
It goes against the purpose of the sect, but right now they have no conditions to elect a new patriarch.
Candidates for the patriarch must have made outstanding contributions or have extraordinary significance to the Ark, so they are usually experts in a certain field or warriors with outstanding achievements, or talents like "Yan" who have been entrusted with a special mission since their birth.
In addition to these prerequisites, one of the regulations for selecting a patriarch is that "it must be recognized by the majority of the patriarchs and high-ranking priests." This has become the biggest obstacle to the selection of a new patriarch.
As far as Jian Yiran knows, the current high-ranking priests on the Ark do not fully agree with Friedheim's route. Many people are still waiting and watching, so that everyone cannot reach an agreement. The existing high-ranking priests need both
The leadership of Friedheim, the only remaining patriarch, must prevent Friedheim from controlling the new patriarchate by electing "one of his own" to the throne, thus forming a more solid dictatorship.
Under this ambivalence, Ark has repeatedly postponed the plan to elect a new patriarch. Jian Yiran, who understands all this, believes that only rescuing Lu Hong can best break the situation, which will not only eliminate the need for Friedrich on Ark to
This will help the sect return to normal operations as quickly as possible.
However, she herself has also thought about the risks behind this approach - Lu Hong has been a leader who advocated violent confrontation with the Iron Dome Order in the past, and his radicalness is even more than that of Fu Zhaohai. Joining Lu Hong in returning to the Ark, she learned that Fried Hai
Will the "surrender line" taken by Mu during this period directly trigger a civil war in Ark?
The hearty chatter and laughter of Yu Zhesen and the bearded driver could be heard in her ears. Jane still withdrew her thoughts and listened carefully to the content of their conversation.
It turned out that it was Yu Zhesen who was asking about the scenic spots in Walshaback. Jane was still a little disappointed. She was not very interested in these things. Anyway, Yu Zhesen was probably asking these questions just to date his little girlfriend... boring.
"Speaking of the places you have to go, there must be Sky Mountain. Although it is a man-made wonder, it will definitely give you a shocking experience that lasts a lifetime!" The bearded driver talked excitedly, "It is no longer common for cars to fly in the sky these days.
It’s strange, but you’ve probably never seen a mountain flying in the sky, right?”
"A mountain? Flying in the sky? How to do it?" Jane still blinked in disbelief.
"Hahaha, I don't know how it flew up. People understand electromagnetic levitation but don't understand it!" The driver scratched his hair, "Anyway, I spent a lot of money on it. The young master of the Abraham family supervised it personally.
Project. You know, right? The Abraham family, it is said that the blood flowing on their bodies is made of gold."
"How can gold be made into human blood? That's ridiculous." Jane still disagreed.
"This is just a metaphor to show that they are rich." Yu Zhesen smiled.
He remembered that Chu Yuexi had mentioned a classmate of Abraham on the phone before. The other person's family seemed to be very powerful within the Istar sect, and now it seemed that he was the ruler of Worshabak.
The idea of using money and technology to lift a mountain into the sky is really crazy. It seems that the Abraham family should be the "Blue Star Sect" of the Istar religion...
Before coming, Yu Zhesen had a general understanding of the development of Walshaback in recent years through the Internet. Even if it is not an exaggeration to say that it is changing rapidly, it can be said that it is continuous and diligent, and various expansion and renovation projects are coming one after another without stopping for a moment.
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Thanks to the power of money, this renaissance city rooted in the desert oasis is expanding at a speed visible to the naked eye every year. The current size of the city is more than three times that of when Yuan Yinchuan first served.
Even the bearded driver said without humility that if this development rate continues in a few years, it would not be a dream for the local prosperity to equal that of Starzhou City, the birthplace of Iron Dome Civilization.
"Have there been more desert pirate attacks in recent years?" Yu Zhesen asked on a whim about desert pirates.
The bearded driver, who was originally in a good mood, was stunned for a moment after hearing this question, and his expression changed obviously.
"Where did you hear about desert pirates?" The bearded driver sounded surprised, and then said: "We haven't had such news reports here for many years."
"Oh, I read it online." Yu Zhesen made up a reason.
"You can't trust everything on the Internet..." The bearded driver smiled unnaturally, "Desert pirates must have ceased to exist a long time ago, and even if they did, they wouldn't break into the city."
"Why?" Jane still interjected.
"Because I have never encountered this in all my years of driving!" The driver adjusted the angle of the air conditioner's air outlet a little closer to him.
Jane still wanted to say something, but she felt Yu Zhesen pat the back of her hand.
She turned her gaze sideways and saw Yu Zhesen shaking his head at her.
It was obvious that the driver didn't want to talk more about the desert pirates with them. Although he didn't know the reason, Yu Zhesen thought it was definitely not because the desert pirates had disappeared over the years as he said.
It has only been half a year since Yuan Yinchuan was transferred to Qidao City. According to his service history, the time when the Fox Hunter Armored Rangers failed in the battle against desert pirates cannot be too long ago.
"I have investigated one thing. The energy companies controlled by the Abraham family have formed a monopoly in recent years. Previously, the energy market in Walsabak was controlled by several 'Red Moon Faction' families." Yu Zhesen used his mobile phone.
I edited the text and showed it to Jane Yiran.
Jane still thought for a moment with her eyes wide open, and edited on Yu Zhesen's mobile phone: "So, they reached some kind of agreement with the desert pirates, and used the power of the pirates to squeeze out other competitors. So, Team Leader Yuan stayed
The defense forces probably became victims of their deal with the pirates?”
Yu Zhesen gave her a thumbs up and praised her intelligence, but after he got the phone back, he edited another sentence: "These are just our guesses, please let them rot in your stomach first."
"It seems to be getting interesting." Jane still smiled and said to herself, and looked at Yu Zhesen sideways: "Senior, I was worried before that you came here to hang out with your girlfriend. I'm sorry, I underestimated you."