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Chapter 4: The Greedy World (7)

With people, then there is everything.The busy lives of tens of millions of people fill the streets of New York with life and money and information flow day and night.If Suo Zhongwu can take roots there, he can grow strong branches along the way and stretch his tentacles to the entire new continent against the strong wind.At that time, what else can't be done?

He imagined himself calling the wind and rain in the metropolis, the scene of a crowd of ghosts cheering piously below, he couldn't help but grinned.[Yankees, I'm here!While humming "Empire March", Suo Zhongwu turned on the engine switch and embarked on a long journey triumphantly.

For the first five minutes, he drove quite comfortably.But after the freshness passed, various problems immediately emerged.The mount arranged by the black hand behind the scenes has neither a jet engine nor an anti-gravity device. It is just an ordinary front-wheel drive electric car, and it is not a high-end product.

This is a Toyota-made "Hui Ye 2164", the status is equivalent to the Chery QQ in Suo Zhongwu's hometown, or even lower.It looks like a big waist, a wide chassis meets North American aesthetic standards, but the material is extremely economical, the interior is too simple, and the ergonomics can only be described as bad.The driver's seat is the most typical example. Excessively thin padding makes the seat cushion harder than armored steel. The longer you drive, the more upset you feel.

Suo Zhongwu's riding experience in the Eight Kingdoms of Henghai barely endured discomfort.He used voice commands to call up the car purchase records and found that when "Zhuge Zutian" bought a car, he actually chose the cheapest "Traveler" configuration, and his mood suddenly became worse.

Suo Zhongwu does not discriminate against low-end cars.In his hometown, he always drove his own BYD for personal affairs, and never used Lao Kui's luxury car to show off.But he didn't like the arrangement behind the scenes, very much.[Asian people have to care about it?Asians have to be fine?Can’t Asian characters be full of life’s interest and be the protagonist in the sun?

Suo Zhongwu decided that when he found that sneaky guy, he must correct him with his fists.But this is a very late plan, and now he must handle the car first, so as not to get involved in a traffic accident as soon as he leaves the school.

The biggest shortcoming of the Dongying car represented by Toyota is its thin body.For the old Huiye of "Zhuge Zoutian", because it took too long, the outer shell became more crispy than icing sugar, and the body of the car might be deformed by rubbing it.After Suo Zhongwu turned on the east-west Pion-Lincoln Avenue, he did not dare to switch to autopilot for a long time. He would look in the rearview mirror from time to time, for fear of seeing a semi-trailer like a land boat or a cow and a horse. Big heavy tanker.

However, these heavyweight fighters have never appeared.In fact, Mo said it was a big truck. He drove down this road and he didn't even see a few ordinary cars. Pickup trucks and SUVs were even rarer.Obviously it is a bright sunny day, but the highway is empty for drying the nets, and the green belt on the roadside has not been taken care of for a long time. The street trees and shrubs either grow wild or have long been withered.

The maintenance of the road surface is also not optimistic. Most of the white markings are blurred. The asphalt road can be cracked everywhere. Several sections of the road are simply covered with big pits. The car went up and down like a plane, and once even hit the chassis. , "Bang Dang" shocked Suo Zhongwu out of cold sweat.

According to the navigation display, he is now located in the core area of ​​the "rust belt" of the Great Lakes, east of Pittsburgh.It used to be a prosperous heavy industry gathering place, but it has declined since the middle of the 20th century and has fallen into a long-term economic depression.Suo Zhongwu stayed in this world, and the Rust Belt obviously did not rebirth from Nirvana, but continued to decline for more than two hundred years, until it turned the road into a remote countryside.

[No wonder someone builds a nostalgic theme park here.Suo Zhongwu looked at the dilapidated houses on the side of the road, especially those restaurants with faded signs and broken windows, with mixed feelings.[Looking at this posture, the state government is not willing to pay for the land for nothing.But the question is, when will the straw of tourism be saved?

He began to think about the problems in this world.And the reason for the destruction of Parallel World 9.The two worlds look more and more alike, and there must be a connection between them.This is not easy work. In order to make the brain work more efficiently, Suo Zhongwu turned the car into the automatic driving mode for the first time after turning into the Pennsylvania toll road. He lowered the driver's seat and turned into Comfortable semi-lying position.

The maintenance of the toll road is significantly better, and the car rarely bumps up.The roads here are also more spacious, and the traffic volume is much more than that on PL Avenue. Occasionally there are luxury sports cars whizzing by, leaving afterimages frantically on the retina.

Lao Huiye is naturally inferior to professional players.But its speed did exceed one hundred miles per hour for the first time.The guardrail retreated at high speed until it turned into a vague silver stream, the sky hung overhead, and the blue was dotted with white clouds.The smooth and fast journey made Suo Zhongwu feel good. He left a gap for the roof window, and kept fiddle with his fingers on the phone, listening to the humming Fengming, while continuing to browse the Internet world on the patchwork large screen. .

This time, he focused his main attention on the news.This world has not experienced a world war like the Earth-Moon War, but it is far from being called peace. Proxy wars have broken out on all continents, and there is no end in sight.The sphere of influence in North America has naturally shrunk compared to the 21st century. The former allies in the Middle East have all fallen into war. The backyards of Latin America are also on fire. Every day, "military contractors" are killed there, packed in coffins without Stars and Stripes and sent back to their hometowns. .

However, the domestic situation in North America is full of immediacy, and there is a sense of history repeating itself in a trance.Suo Zhongwu found that the mainstream media was actually more concerned about political correctness, and he kept playing the old tunes such as gender, race, and sexual orientation.Of course there are new things, such as more and more extreme vegetarians, wave after wave of "young environmental stars", but the most eye-catching topic with the most participation is the human body modification.

Talk shows such as "Daily Show" will invite celebrities to the stage and repeat this topic over and over again.Popular social media such as FB are frequently swiped by words such as artificial organs, implants, and smart prostheses.The people participating in the discussion cover all age groups. At first glance, there are indeed all kinds of opinions, but the weak voice of the minority can't shake the overall atmosphere.