Chapter 22 (1/2)

Mingjing City was made up of ten ringed sectors around the Mingjing Palace.

It was classically divided, with each ring surrounding the ring before it, which made Mingjing CIty look unlike a typical city.

However, Mingjing City now had a population of more than thirty million people and was among the top ten largest cities in the Eastern State.

The giant scale of the city and its thriving economy made Mingjing City full of life and bustling activity.

As for the style and unique features of the city, no one really cared.

The citizens of Mingjing City were more interested in talking about money. Having money meant having class, style, and a certain air.

Without money, a person had nothing.

The relentless pursuit of money was the most striking characteristic of this megacity.

People also called Mingjing City the “Capital of Money.”

Gao Xuan was standing at the top of a 120-story-tall building, surveying the surroundings. There were glaring neon signboards and holograms around him. The city looked exaggerated, noisy, and chaotic.

Not far away, many maglev cards were cruising orderly at a high speed on a sealed highway that went around the city. Robot police officers were dutifully directing the traffic on the highway and were dealing with various problems.

On a street under the highway, many people dressed in exotic costumes were walking about and howling something unintelligible.

The existence of smart machinery had eliminated most of the low-level, laborious work.

An ordinary person would have to give 120% effort if they wanted to find a job.

This was especially so for a megacity like Mingjing City. The competition was abnormally intense here. Everyone carried enormous pressure on their shoulders.

On the other hand, it was also because of this pressure that people really let themselves loose. Mingjing City at night was filled with a lavish and wanton air.

The shimmering lights around the city caused the entire city to shine. It turned the night sky a dark red.

Gao Xuan saw a variety of special flying vessels that were responsible for security gliding silently past the air, leaving behind a long trail of gray vapor.

When he looked up, he could even see the Space Castles set up in the atmosphere of the Pegasus Planet.

From his position, the Space Castles looked like abnormally bright stars shining with a mysterious yet brilliant dark blue light.

“This vantage point is rather decent…”

Gao Xuan was very satisfied with the 120-story-high fully-transparent balcony. Xu Yin sure was rich. Even an unused apartment she owned had such a rooftop viewing platform.

There was also a small swimming pool on the balcony. It was twenty meters long and nine meters wide. The fully transparent glass swimming pool gave the pool a more natural, comfortable look.

Yun Qingshang didn’t feel anything for these things. All she felt was that the city before her eyes was too large, too vast.

Yun Qingshang preferred the primitive, honest, and simple White Dragon Mountain Range.

“You don’t seem to like Mingjing City.”

Even though Yun Qingshang’s face was blank, Gao Xuan could still sense the minute changes in her emotions.

“Humans are ultimately social creatures,” Gao Xuan said. “We have to live with others of the same species. People like you who don’t like to get close to other people have a problem with their evolutionary path. It’s actually a disease…”

Yun Qingshang was silent for a while before she said, “I saw a piece of news a few days ago. It said that there was a magnitude 3.3 earthquake at the Beikun Icy Plains of the Beiyang State.”

“Hahahaha…” Gao Xuan laughed loudly. “That should be the nuclear bomb that I placed there. It got activated by them. What a bunch of unlucky kids.”

The Beikun Base was massive. To completely erase every trace of it, Gao Xuan had installed two low-powered nuclear bombs there.

Those were weapons that the Beikun Base smuggled. They were items Zhou Lang had had at the bottom of his box.

Gao Xuan had set them up in an ingenious way. A person would activate the bomb if they charged into the Beikun Base.

Since this was something that had happened a few days ago, it meant that the Blood Deity Association had already realized that there was a problem at the Beikun Base.

Gao Xuan knew the Blood Deity Association on the Pegasus Planet very well. Even though these people were sinister and scheming, they hadn’t been able to find him, even after destroying the base.