Sakura Cross Street Junction.

Right ahead is the famous Festival Avenue, the widest and straightest commercial street.

During major events or Raqi Group festivals, the entire street is filled with holographic displays and massive parade floats.

Festival Avenue is also the economic divide.

The city capital associated with Eastern People forms the backdrop of towering skyscrapers in the scene, every upward glance revealing only the flickering red top lights and gigantic commercial ads, the cool steel gloss oppressing the crisscrossing buildings below.

Below the towering structures are numerous attached three-dimensional factories and chemical industry parks emitting white smoke.

Commerce and production closely pack together in obvious clusters.

Similar layouts extend all the way to the riverbank, seamlessly connecting docks and ring roads, completing a commercial closed loop from production to export sales.

"Bismarck's coordinates are nearby."

Sisal Rope reported in real-time.

John didn't expect to find him at Sakura Cross Street.

As the technical director of Plato.

European enterprises have generally poor relations with Raqi; he has no reason to linger in the Eastern People's sphere of influence.

"Maybe he's just here for some fun. The Owl Town gang's clubs have lots of varieties, and their hallucinogens and games are more depraved. Hah, don't those corporate scumbags just love this stuff?"

Gino killed the topic with one sentence.

She glanced down at John and Sisal Rope with slightly mocking and disdainful eyes.

[Sakura Cross Street - Floating House Construction Site B4]

John and the other two left the supercar, standing at the construction site edge, waiting for the tracking signal to stabilize.

Buzzing.

Silver Rider 577 roared away into the distance.

The equipment center notification popped up at the edge of John's vision.

[Vehicle cruising and parking, target parking lot ID [Skyline B14-7UC2215], package service confirmed normal...]

Skyline Company is a joint venture directly managed by the Eden City Council, overseeing parking lot rentals and related commercial tenders.

They set up intelligent parking spaces all over the city, with robust security facilities, and full accident insurance included with package activation.

Vehicles can automatically find nearby parking points, ready for remote summoning when needed.

John followed the two hackers further into the building.

The construction site's unique acrid odor and dust blew towards them.

The roar of construction equipment echoed from above.

Underfoot were pale searchlights, crisscrossing temporary cables, and even deep trench passages with stagnant water.

"Is Bismarck here?"

"Of course not; Sisal Rope has locked onto his coordinates. Now we need to find the closest airspace signal relay station, hack the municipal network to modify information, and guide his hovercar to a more suitable spot for action."

Gino explained to John.

John nodded and followed the two hackers.

They all had advanced artificial eyes with night vision, so they didn't need portable glow sticks and instead navigated the graffiti-filled concrete stairway in the dark, moving along the moist sunken passage.

The sounds of advertisements on Sakura Cross Street penetrated the floor above.

Various noises were isolated outside, leaving only the dripping water and mechanical roars echoing, triggering immediate claustrophobia.

Soon after.

They were stopped by an electronic door.

Gino casually cut the power, not even letting the two see what tool she was holding.

She tilted her head to indicate a physical lock remained.

John didn't draw his gun; Igdrasir surged, and he broke the lock bolt with his bare hands.

"We need to get up there."

Gino pulled back a tarp, craning her neck to look at the vertical edge of the concrete building above.

This three-dimensional factory was an expansion on an existing building.

The signal relay station was at the highest point.

John and the others needed to pass through the construction site, the raw material-stored unfinished building, the yet-to-connect high-altitude stairs, avoiding electronic detectors deployed by the Municipality...

[Mission objective updated]

[Head to the signal relay station. (Not achieved)]

[Do not trigger alarms. (Optional)]

"The Eden City Local Area Network also has relay equipment, with similar receiving stations scattered everywhere, but only professionals know them, and hovercar transit info and control directives jump from here, too."

Sisal Rope gave John a layman's explanation.

Similar public infrastructure is protected by the City Council, with ECPD hunting for those who cause undue damage or illegal intrusion, potentially alarming Special Ops Units in severe cases.

"We need to insert this thing."

Sisal Rope indicated the mobile terminal in his hand, stuffing it into a backpack with a magnetic clasp.

"I thought you guys could handle everything in the network."

John casually remarked.

Gino shook her head.

"Even hackers need to prepare in advance, just like cheaters in casinos need tools for cooperation."

"Magic puppet configuration, program compilation, interface upgrade, hacking process selection... It's troublesome; legendary figures prepare in places you don't see."

When bar mercenaries brag, everything gets done in the blink of an eye.

John had survived several life-or-death tests and realized – those easy stories often conceal much more complexity.

Of course.

There is a difference between legend and ordinary people.

A renowned Lone Wolf could take on a gang of drunk mobsters with a fruit knife, while some street rookies, even picking up military-grade weapons from corpses, would have their arms broken by recoil, becoming a laughingstock.

This mission was tricky, not meaning Sisal Rope and Gino were rookies.

Modifying airspace information, in the hacking circle, is something you could boast about for a lifetime, as public airspace dynamic codes and firewall security levels are the highest in Eden City.

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