Great Power Technology.

Chapter 216 Fear in the Darkness

Ye Zhou didn't know where he was, because he was not sitting in the back seat of the car. After leaving the bustling urban area, he was immediately hidden in the trunk by the man.

The surroundings were pitch black, and he almost fainted under the high temperature of nearly 50 degrees in the trunk, but fortunately, the car stopped after driving for less than half an hour.

The man opened the trunk and pulled out Ye Zhou, who was already drenched in water. It wasn't until this time that Ye Zhou had a chance to observe the surrounding situation.

crowded.

This was his first feeling.

All the shacks were densely packed together, and their car was parked in an alley, and as long as the doors were opened a little, the entire alley could be completely blocked.

"Where are we going now?"

Ye Zhou asked.

"right here."

The man pointed to the ground under his feet, and replied calmly.

"I don't feel like it's a safe place."

Ye Zhou looked around vigilantly. Although he couldn't see anyone, he knew that in this slum controlled by gangsters, there were thugs with automatic weapons everywhere. command of the enemy.

The fake self in the hotel can't last long. Soon, these people will find that they have escaped, and then they will find the man's car and then find themselves.

At that point, it doesn't make sense for him to do anything else.

Even if a person ran to the most dangerous slum in Baxi, even if he shot himself in the street, CODEMGE would not regard it as force majeure, because it was Ye Zhou's own death.

Seeing Ye Zhou's distrustful expression, the man smiled and said:
"Don't worry, as long as you enter my territory, no one will be able to find you."

"Your territory? You mean this block?"

"No, I said underground."

"I know you're talking about the underground, but I don't think you have much strength in the underground world—I'm still very self-aware about this. The price I offered is simply not enough to buy someone from the underground world. ruler."

Hearing Ye Zhou's question, the man shook his head, pointed to the ground under his feet and said:

"Sir, you misunderstood. When I said underground, I meant literally underground."

While talking, he directed the woman beside him to lift a manhole cover not far away, then made a gesture of invitation, and continued:

"Now, welcome to the real bottom of Rio."

Ye Zhou stared dumbfounded at the head emerging from the manhole cover, and asked in disbelief:

"So, what you said will hide me, that is, in the sewer?"

"Yes. But this is not just a sewer, this is a whole underground world."

"Now, don't hesitate anymore, we don't have much time to waste. Change your clothes, go down, and follow me to your goal."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou finally fully understood what the man meant.

In this besieged city, he has no more choices.

As long as he remains on the ground and in the area controlled by many forces in this city, he will not be able to reach the bidding location reserved by CODEMGE as planned. This is a well-planned necessity.

But even in such a situation, there are still some places that those people can't set foot in, or don't bother to set foot in.

For example, the underground sewer system in front of him.

The cobweb-like sewer connects the entire city, and only through this way can he bypass the numerous obstacles set by the enemy and complete his goal.

Ye Zhou didn't hesitate, but directly took off his clothes and put the materials together into the waterproof bag the man had prepared earlier, then turned over and entered the underground world that the man said along the mouth of the well.

It was pitch black, this was Ye Zhou's first feeling.

He couldn't imagine that there could be people living in such a place, but when the man who followed him into the sewer turned on his flashlight, he clearly saw those people curled up on the dry ground with extremely small and simple bedding. people.

These people may no longer be called real people.

Their eyes are dull and numb, like aliens in the dark.

"Have these people been living in the sewer?"

Ye Zhou asked in a low voice.

"From birth."

The man's answer was extremely short, but from these few words, Ye Zhou felt a deep sense of despair.

In the end what created such a situation?What is it that makes the bottom of this country actually want to be reduced to living in the sewers that are filthy and full of snakes and rats?

The answer is actually pretty obvious.

A trace of pity flashed across Ye Zhou's heart instinctively, but then, he suppressed this pity in his heart again, and replaced it with an extreme sense of crisis.

In fact, the most fundamental reason for the decline of the country he lives in is energy.

Or to put it more clearly, oil.

During the golden ten years of the "Baxi Miracle", Baxi exported billions of barrels of oil based on the import substitution strategy and earned countless dollars. However, due to the lack of core oil refining industry technology, their economy is actually completely complete. It can be said that they rely on the sky and the face of international oil giants to eat. Once these resource giants think that their development threatens their status, they only need a small capital operation to lower the international oil price by a few dollars, and they can give this The country brings disaster.

This is the hegemony of resources, or in other words, the forced allocation of resources determined by technological hegemony.

For a long time in the past, the country has tried its best to resist this kind of suppression, and has achieved basic results. However, at this time, the situation is about to undergo new changes.

The competition for international resources will gradually shift from the original fossil energy to new energy based on electricity, and the core of the new energy is the battery.

Whoever can stand on top of this will be the resource overlord in the future.

And once it fails, it will be beyond redemption.

Baxi's current situation is not impossible to appear in his own country.

However, this is something he absolutely cannot allow.

Ye Zhou looked away from those curled up figures, and said calmly to the man:
"Lead the way."

The man turned around silently, followed by Ye Zhou, and began his difficult trek.

Corrupted stagnant water with green light, rats even bigger than cats scurrying past from time to time, cockroaches crawling all over the sewer, and those who appear from time to time, using a rough iron frame to raise a bonfire and cooking unknown sources food, people.

The skin of these people is snow-white. As the man said, many people have lived in the sewers since birth, and have never left a single step.

Their eyes have produced a strange alienation, even in the dark, they still shone with a cold light like cats.

When the light of the flashlight swept across, the figures of these people looked like evil spirits.

Ye Zhou had never felt such a shock before. Even during his trek in the snowy field before, he knew that if he took a wrong step, he would be frozen to death on the snowy field. Here, he really felt a kind of pessimism.

Or fear.

He was scared.

If one day we really fail, will many people also be forced to move into the sewer?
Could that person be me?

Does what I'm doing really make sense?If I can't succeed in the end, why should I struggle?
The harsh and claustrophobic environment further exacerbated his fear, and the deep and dark tunnel in the distance seemed to be the throat of a giant beast, about to swallow him.

Several times, Ye Zhou wanted to stop and tell the man, or else try to start from the ground in another way, maybe it is not impossible?
What's more, I still have a lot of energy points, even if I can't do it once, I will still have a chance if I try a few more times.

He knew the withdrawal was wrong, but he couldn't let it go.

Ye Zhou forcibly suppressed his thoughts, which made him almost in a trance.

However, just when he felt that he was about to give up because of such fear, a flash of lightning suddenly flashed in his mind, and the fear was instantly wiped away, which even made Ye Zhou stunned in place in surprise.

This was the first time he felt such an effect.

The two innate abilities of "Resistor" and "Principle" took effect at the same time.

The shocks from claustrophobia, pity, and pessimism were all offset, and the bottom line he had set long ago abruptly but firmly dispelled all distracting thoughts:
"Bottom line one: The interests of China and the Chinese nation are higher than the interests of any other ethnic group."

(End of this chapter)