Night Hacker Chapter 90: Sin City

The Walled City District is located in the northwest of Liuguang City, to the north of Jianggu District and to the east of Lanni Pond.

It was still morning, and a convoy bearing the Seth logo was on its way to the Walled City.

Elizabeth was sitting in the back row of one of the off-road vehicles, looking through the window at the walled city that was getting closer and closer in the distance. Why have I never been to the Walled City Area in 2009?

The so-called upper class people almost never visit the Walled City, as if there is a huge wall separating it.

Sin City, this is another name for the Walled City District.

"Ayako, do you know the history of the Walled City District?" Elizabeth asked Ayako who was also in the car, wanting to chat with someone.

"I don't come here much..." Ayako sat in the front row, not quite understanding what she was referring to.

Although Ayako has already worked for her, every move of Ayako in a short period of time will still be guarded by the security personnel next to her.

Monk Wuzhen and Taoist Yucheng were in the other cars, and they also followed her into the city to investigate today.

Last year's Walled City fire case was the first major case that the Red Rain investigation team focused on.

Since the announcement to the city's TV last night, the investigation team has received countless reports involving various cases.

It is impossible for Elizabeth to see it alone, and it is difficult to tell the truth from the false. For the time being, she has to rely on the team members assigned by her family, as well as the cooperation with the Metropolitan Police Department and the Bureau of Mysteries.

Her strategy is to catch the big case first since she has no other skills, and the master guides her to the Walled City.

However, in the temporary reports, there are no valuable clues about the fire case.

"More than fifty years ago, the Walled City District was originally a housing project launched by the municipal government to benefit the people."

Looking out of the car window, Elizabeth told Ayako about the history of the Walled City.

"At that time, the municipal government planned to build a new district on this land. At that time, countless citizens gathered a lot of money, enthusiasm and hope... Almost halfway through the construction, the project stopped, and the municipal government said that there was no money to continue the construction. Yes, the economic crisis.

"The people who subscribed for the houses looked at the rough and unfinished buildings and launched a fierce protest, but they couldn't let the project continue...

"Now everyone agrees that it was not that the municipal government ran out of money, but that the project was stopped by the New World Bank, because the bank did not want to let the housing prices in the city drop. At that time, the bank expressed that it was willing to provide loans to continue the construction of the project, just like this , every home buyer will bear a heavy mortgage, and it will take the whole family a lifetime of hard work to pay it off, without the slightest 'benefit benefits' mentioned at the beginning."

Elizabeth talked about this history learned from books with a complicated expression, and she would not be born until more than thirty years later.

"This is a bureau, and Santo and Seth are both involved in designing a financial scam."

"And then?" Ayako asked without making any comments.

"Then some house buyers moved directly into unfinished buildings. Some of them spent their own money to buy materials for decoration, and some took a few pieces of cardboard to block the wind and lived.

"In the end, almost all the buyers moved in, built and built, expanded and expanded, and it became the current Walled City area.

"The streets have found a use for those unfinished buildings."

While Elizabeth was speaking, the convoy drove into the Walled City area.

The lane began to shrink, but the flow of cars and people on the road began to increase. There were many dilapidated high-rise buildings on both sides of the street, and they were closely attached to each other, with almost no gap of one meter.

In just one night more than 50 years ago, the unbuilt street was suddenly covered with various sheds and iron covers.

Homebuyers and wild dogs from all walks of life are multiplying like bacteria here, and there are all races in a mess.

Even now, traces of unfinished buildings can still be seen from these buildings. Some already dilapidated steel and concrete are exposed like that, and various additions and reconstructions are extended in strange structural ways.

In this dilapidated chaos, the iron frame on the wall of the building is covered with neon signs of shops, which cannot be seen at a glance:

"Renxin Clinic", "Meishii Life Photo Hall", "StripteaseClub", "Knife Shop", "Wanlong Rice Shop"

And in the sky above the driveway, between the high-rise buildings on both sides, there is a bridge passage that looks precarious, connecting the buildings on both sides.

Elizabeth could see people coming and going on the bridge, shuttling between the buildings on both sides, which was only more lively than the streets on the ground.

It is said that this is the case everywhere in the Walled City District. Here, a "square" street is a "walled city", and each walled city is connected to each other.

Different walled cities are different halls of the Walled City Gang. If one's territory is threatened, a war will start between the halls.

The Red Rain investigation team is going to the "Daxing Walled City" today, which is the site of the Walled City Council.

Elizabeth knew that the Walled City District was a place beyond the control of the municipal government and the Metropolitan Police Department. It grew wildly in its own way.

"The New World Bank has always wanted to demolish this area and take it away to build more high-end and more expensive commercial buildings. It has failed several times, and now Santo has launched a buyback and renovation plan for the Walled Area. ' she said again.

"I think the Walled City guys are tougher than the boxers in this respect." Ayako finally said something, "We boxers don't like the Shengshou Boxing Gym, but it was built anyway."

During the conversation, the convoy stopped at a street entrance, no matter which walled city they wanted to enter, it was impossible to drive in.

Elizabeth got out of the car and set foot on the streets of the Walled City for the first time, looking at the entrance of a dark and narrow alley ahead.

Daxing Walled City, this mouth-shaped street only encloses a small area. There are hundreds of buildings, countless narrow alleys, nearly 100,000 people crowded, and thousands of shops and small workshops. Inside the dense building.

"Miss Sterling, please come with me." The middle-aged man in charge of leading the way is called Ding Mo, a native of Walled City.

Strangers must have this kind of "tour guide" to lead the way when they enter the Walled City Area.

Elizabeth soon understood exactly why.

A group of them followed the guide into the crowded alleys in front of them. After walking for a while, they found that these narrow alleys were not straight, but criss-crossed. If you do, you will lose your way.

Since there are many passages between the buildings, and the residents draw road signs on their own, if you look for the destination according to the map or the address, it is impossible to reach it, and you will only make mistakes again and again.

Looking up, you can't see a trace of the sky between the buildings, but whether it's sunny or raining, there are always drops of water dripping from above.

Because the sunlight can't get in, it's dark and gloomy everywhere, the street lights are intermittent, and many neon signs are out of order.

If you can find a ray of sunshine here, you have found a place that can be added and expanded.

Each Walled City is a complex; the entire Walled City area is also a whole building.

Elizabeth noticed the reaction of people passing by to her. They were wary and indifferent, and did not want to see her.

She could only nod to them and walk past.

After walking for about half an hour, the tour guide Ding Mo brought them into a building, which is the building where the Walled City Council is located.

The aisles and stairwells in the building are equally cramped, dark, damp and dilapidated, crowded, messy and dirty.

The road is blocked by plastic bags and all kinds of **** everywhere, as well as residents' clothes hanging, and there are many graffiti on the peeling paint walls.

And in those rooms with tight iron doors, no one knows what illegal activities are hidden.

After walking a few floors in the building, Elizabeth and the others took the old and dilapidated elevator to the rooftop. In the Walled City area, rooftops have a different meaning.

The clicking sound of the elevator brought them straight to the roof of the high-rise building. The elevator door opened, and there was a sudden commotion.

When Elizabeth stepped out of the elevator, the blue sky was completely open above her head, and her previous narrow depression was greatly released.

I saw people coming and going on the rooftop, like the busiest pedestrian street square, surrounded by various simple shops and stalls, covered with neon lights, intertwined with messy wires and antennas.

Vendors are shouting, customers are patronizing, groups of children in old clothes are running past, not far away there are crowds cheering and shouting for a rooftop boxing, and there are gangsters collecting numbers nearby.

None of them even paid attention to the arrival of the Red Rain Investigation Team.

Elizabeth saw the "Rooftop Postman" again.

The Metropolitan Police Department has no place here ~IndoMTL.com~ The Walled City District is governed by the Walled City Council and the various branches of the Walled City Gang.

The rooftop postman is the strength of the council, responsible for delivering information between the gates of the Walled City, conducting liaison and mediation, and sometimes responsible for law and order.

The Red Rain investigation team came here to ask for clues at the headquarters of postmen on the roof of the Council. Postmen are the most well-informed people in the Walled City.

They were dressed in blue postman uniforms, and they had body modifications beyond what ordinary people could bear. They were obviously superhumans. They ran and jumped directly between the building and the roof of the building, very fast and flexible.

There are also some children and teenagers running after them, and jumping and playing between the rooftops of the small buildings.

It looked very dangerous, but the young runner let out bursts of pure laughter.

Elizabeth couldn't help smiling, and looked up. The sky was very blue, and she seemed to be able to embrace the whole world on the rooftop.

"Ayako, this rooftop is a paradise for them."

"Jianbao Dictionary is launched, 'Tiantai', page 9652, the meaning of the word is explained as: a place where investment losers gather, and Chengzhai District Tiantai has the most investment losers in the world." Jianbao said suddenly talk.

"Sword treasure..." Elizabeth said helplessly.

The figure of the investigation team still attracted the attention of people on the rooftop, but fortunately, everyone didn't hear Jian Bao's words very much.

"Miss Sterling, I'm going to go shopping." Taoist Yu Cheng said softly, and then walked away, as if to conduct a separate investigation.

And Elizabeth nodded to the people and greeted them, then took Ayako, Wuzhen and others to the postman headquarters on the rooftop of the Council, which was a several-storey building built on the rooftop.