Spring City?

Ji Jue paused for a moment, instantly enlightened.

He recalled the message Lv Yingyue had sent him earlier.

[In a couple of days, someone should be heading to Spring City].

Spring City, not Xinquan, the hint was given from the very start.

It was just that he had assumed she was referring to the small town he had built and overlooked the real giant beside him.

Thoughts flashed through his mind like lightning, unraveling numerous mysteries.

When An Neng threw that piece of broken limb at him, the strange look he had, the words he said while looking towards Spring City...

In this sudden moment of realization, many questions found their answers.

Why would Pacquiao first try to borrow the road, and then so easily come knocking at his door under his pressure, with an extra teammate of a Transcend Rank he'd never heard of...

And now, the sudden appearance of Chen Haiqiu.

It means their goal wasn't...no, at least it should be said, not just Xinquan. What they truly care about is the already ruined Spring City?

What is there in Spring City?

Just ruins, even the remaining scraps have been thoroughly scavenged by junk dealers. It couldn't be that they're here to find remnants of Mutated Pollution, right?

Those have all been cleaned up by the Security Bureau.

Or something from even earlier...

In less than a second, Ji Jue's thoughts began to spread. The moment he realized, he sighed softly and looked at Chen Haiqiu.

Chen Haiqiu was also smiling, looking at him.

In the brief cross of their gazes, an indescribable understanding emerged.

Even if there's nothing planned to say to Ji Jue, the clues given are abundant. If he still doesn't understand, he deserves to be considered a fool.

Although it's unclear why so much was revealed to him, if he couldn't feel the goodwill, he might as well find a rope and hang himself in front of Coastal Industry's gate.

"Let's go."

Ji Jue exclaimed softly, picking up his coat: "The roads have been pretty bad lately; if we want to catch the airship, we'll need to hurry."

A few minutes later, Little Ox had already driven out of Xinquan.

The asphalt road now completed, at its end, turned into a dirt road covered with mud, and although it was the rainy season with drizzling rain from above, fully-loaded tricycles were still coming and going.

"All Coastal products." Chen Haiqiu looked out the window at the wind turbine slowly turning in the rain and sighed, "In just a few months, the development was so swift, truly impressive."

"It's just that no one else wanted it."

Ji Jue drove, self-mockingly sighed: "As long as it's sturdy and cheap, it'll sell. No matter how bad the user experience is, as long as it's usable, it's fine.

Unfortunately, the market is too small, no one cares."

Anyone with a bit of sense wouldn't set up a company in the wilderness.

What sells in a quarter in-town takes a year outside to sell. In some places, a single rotor has to be detailed, and when collecting payments, they even have to bring guns. As for profits...if doing business honestly, you'd probably lose your shirt.

The fortunate aspect is that without registering in the city, nor doing business there, there's no place to pay taxes, saving quite a bit of money. And with Coastal's current scale, it's not enough for Central City's taxation bureau to send troops over.

"Turn a bit right up ahead."

Chen Haiqiu advised.

Amidst the thin rain, under the dark sky, Spring City appeared increasingly desolate and dilapidated. As the wind howled past, crying sounds seemed to emerge from the broken walls and mud-covered buildings.

The streets bore signs of destruction, most left by the forcibly dismantling junk dealers, but also many from the fight that occurred more than half a year ago.

Destruction stretched endlessly.

Among several collapsed buildings, after Chen Haiqiu got out of the car, he opened up an umbrella and waved at Ji Jue, signaling him to move forward.

After passing a few fallen caution lines in the muddy water, they twisted and turned and entered an unknown area.

A place no one else had been.

Ji Jue hesitated a moment, bent down, tapped the wet ground, and the wave of the Dissociation Technique's spirit briefly expanded without causing any damage, just a flick.

He couldn't help but be amazed.

It was the illusion city drawn by the Mirror and enhanced by the Heart Core's imposed no-man's-land.

The two common Secret Rituals perfectly hidden beneath the surrounding ruined buildings and ground were running stably, even Ji Jue, who hadn't stepped inside, didn't detect anything abnormal.

The main reason was Spring City itself was too huge, within the endless ruins, unless someone uses high-level ether for a full search, who could traverse the entire city step by step and then deduce hidden spaces from footsteps?

And as they moved inward, the residual aura of former calamity gradually appeared.

On the open ground were several pieces of Mutated Spirit isolation equipment that Ji Jue had repaired and recovered before, clearly set up by the Security Bureau in Spring City to absorb residual pollution.

"There are eleven more places like this in Spring City."

Chen Haiqiu, departing from the previously secretive demeanor while leading the way, proactively introduced: "However, this place is different from others; below it, there is another layer of equipment..."

"Is it really okay to tell me these things?"

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