Chapter 1270 The True Face of the Great Wilderness
Chapter 1270 The True Face of the Great Wilderness
The hovercraft returned to the Building of Truth again, but this time Lin Yu was not alone.
Carrying his luggage bag, Lin Yu said goodbye to Team Leader Lent and took the elevator to the 60th floor of the Truth Building under the other's awe-filled gaze.
According to the identity information in the information bag, John H. Arthur, a B-1-level supervisor, does not have his own projects or laboratories for the time being, but he at least has an independent office.
Carrying his luggage bag and swiping his room card to open the wooden door of the office, Lin Yu pushed the door open and walked in.
The laboratory is neatly arranged, with an area of only about ten square meters. It is equipped with a desk, a filing cabinet filled with various books and materials, and a long sofa that can be used for naps.
After Lin Yu closed and locked the door, he pressed the button next to the window and changed the office's outer window glass from viewing mode to stealth mode. Then, after confirming that there was no surveillance in the room, he opened the suitcase and handbag, pulled the limp girl out and placed her on the sofa.
Then, Lin Yu kicked the other person's calf.
"It's safe, Nevernight Fire Apricot."
Although the girl in front of him was covered in Dahuang-style oil paint on her body and face, and her clothes were wrapped in a layer of tattered linen, it was almost impossible to tell that she was the Nevernight Fire Apricot...
But if you look carefully, you can still recognize that the girl in front of you is Buyetian Huoxing.
Of course, it was impossible for Lin Yu to really come up with such an almost unfeasible strategy as allowing Huo Xing to escape while he attracted attention.
Although it is indeed strange to bring someone out from the Turbine Gang, it is easy to arouse Lent's suspicion and curiosity.
But... if what you bring out is "goods", then it will naturally be different.
Fortunately, this is a city that never sleeps - although it is clearly a highly developed "civilized" world, the practice of treating "people" as commodities is more common than in primitive societies like Black Swamp.
People from the wilderness, lower class people, people from the outer city...
Everyone can be priced and sold at a certain price.
If you put a person into a luggage bag, then she is no longer a person and there is no value in finding out about her.
Huo Xing, who was lying on the sofa, opened her eyes, touched the oil paint on her face with her hand, then tore off the rags on her body, revealing her bright dress, and looked at Lin Yu again.
"To think that this is possible... I thought Luntbury was a serious and responsible guy - I heard rumors that he is ruthless and often dares to offend even nobles in order to deal with accidents!"
"I didn't expect that I would let you go because of President Paris's relationship."
Lin Yu picked up the clean towel beside the sofa and wiped away the lines he had just drawn on Buyetian Huoxing's arms and face. Then he said, "If he dared to offend any noble, he wouldn't be able to sit in this position... No, it should be said that he would never have sat in this position in the first place."
"A place like the head of the Security Department's special operations team does need a tough guy who looks iron-blooded and tough, but he can't really be a piece of iron from the inside out."
Nevernight Huo Xing sighed, "It's so complicated! I can't understand such complicated things... If only people were as easy to understand as mice and raccoons."
She looked at the remaining paint on her face and said, "I didn't expect you to be so good at painting. You really look like someone from the Great Wilderness..."
Lin Yu shrugged: "In fact, the real Dahuang people's tattoos and war makeup probably don't look like this."
After all, he painted it in the style of Hei Swamp, which was not exactly the same as the real people of the Great Wilderness.
However, in the eyes of the nobles and even the higher-ranking ordinary residents in the inner city of the City That Never Sleeps, the people of the Great Wilderness should be like those in the Black Swamp: barbaric, disorderly, rude, stupid, and violent.
After all, most of the people in the inner city and even the outer city who can come into contact with the Great Wilderness are active around the City That Never Sleeps or near the wild alchemy material collection area and field checkpoints. Those people are indeed a group of wild bandits who live on the edge of a knife. They rely on equipment eliminated from the city and picked up from the garbage dump, and fight with the pioneers and mining escort teams to fight for precious resources.
Although they are not as barbaric as the Black Swamp Realm, they are at least violent and dangerous.
These parts are naturally specialized and magnified in the impressions of the residents of the city that never sleeps.
In particular, the three major companies in the city that never sleeps are jointly fueling and promoting this impression.
In this cannibalistic city, there must be an external imaginary enemy to divert attention, right?
Coupled with the unchangeable social atmosphere of nobles discriminating against commoners and upper classes discriminating against lower classes, the lower-class residents, who are the largest in number, have been despised for a long time and also need some outlets for their emotions. And the people of Dahuang can make these lower-class people proudly hold their chests high and gain some consolation sense of superiority from their seventh, eighth, and ninth-class citizen ID cards.
As a result... in news propaganda and various literary and artistic works, the people of the Great Wilderness naturally became beings that were almost like beasts and primitive people - in the past decade or so, this tendency has even become more and more serious.
But Lin Yu knew...
The wilderness is actually not like that.
They may indeed be prone to violence due to the lack of resources, and many of them are a bit ignorant, but... the people of the Great Wilderness are not beasts who wander the wild every day and only think about killing and eating meat.
They have their own settlements, scattered in villages and towns, with the elderly, the weak, women and children.
Lin Yu had witnessed this in his third [copy] - although he had not had direct contact with ordinary people in the Great Wilderness, the simple hunters transformed by "Chat" were indeed the people of the Great Wilderness who really existed twenty years ago.
There were no protruding fangs, sharp nails, protruding bones, no hardened skin, no madness caused by an incomprehensible language, and even less the barbarity of everyone wearing war makeup and enjoying grinding human bones into trophies...
They are also human beings, but they grew up in a more backward environment.
Of course, despite such propaganda, there are still people who do not feel contempt or awe for the wilderness, but rather some yearning for it.
such as……
Nevernight Fire Apricot.
"Is that so? Although I've secretly visited the Great Wilderness a few times, leaving the city is too risky. If discovered, I'll definitely be grounded forever. So, I couldn't go very far each time, and I never really got to know the Great Wilderness!"
When she heard Lin Yu's words, she took the towel and wiped off the oil-painted battle makeup on her face. Suddenly she realized something and blinked.
"But... since 'Four Polo' has smuggled himself out of the city, you should also go out to investigate, right?"
"Arthur, my good friend, could you please..."
Looking at the heart-beating Nevernight Fire Apricot, Lin Yu immediately shook his head.
"Of course... no!"
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