Trickster Hunter

Chapter 197 Jade Pillar

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Chunming City, Tianshu Tower.

Sun Hang had always thought that the so-called "Tianshu Tower" was just a tall tower, but until he really stood in front of this huge building, he found that this "tower" was really different from what he expected... a billion points.

Even if we look at the entire history of human civilization, Chunming City is still a unique level in terms of urban scale.

Even if the entire city is divided into 28 districts, the area of ​​each district is far larger than that of an ordinary prefecture-level city... and the building complex named "Tower" in front of us occupies more than 80% of the space in the entire Pleiades District.

After sitting on the suspended light rail for more than half an hour, Sun Hang and Yang Qi finally came to a building that looked like a giant chimney.

"This is the main elevator of Tianshu Tower, codenamed 'Yuzhu', which reaches 'Ziweiyuan' and 'Hou Tu'." Yang Qi explained to Sun Hang, "I'm really curious about what happened to you on the nameless island... Why did you receive an invitation from Mr. Pei..."

"You really want to know?" Sun Hang asked, looking at the tangled woman beside him.

"I really want to, but don't tell me." Yang Qi sighed, "You are the one who violated the confidentiality agreement, but I will also be punished."

"What are the punishments?" Sun Hang joked, "If it doesn't include shooting, maybe we can try it?"

"Are you a masochist?" Yang Qi rolled her eyes at him speechlessly, "As your direct supervisor, Tianshu Tower will sooner or later grant me the right to read this information, unless..."

"Unless what?"

"Unless your direct supervisor is replaced by someone else, or is simply incorporated into the sequence of Tianshu Tower... Then there is nothing between us." Yang Qi said.

"You are so ruthless."

"Can't you use a more civilized metaphor?"

"This word comes from a Nobel Prize winner in literature. If this is uncivilized, is there anything more civilized than this?" Sun Hang raised his eyebrows and retorted.

"...You'd better stop talking." Yang Qi rubbed his temples vigorously, "I'm afraid that you will give me high blood pressure at such a young age."

The two accompanying staff walked to a door marked "Yimao" and entered a password of more than 20 digits on the keyboard.

A red laser shot out from the top of the gate, scanning all four people, and a pleasant female voice sounded from the speaker next to it.

"Identity confirmation completed, pass allowed."

Unlike the electronic synthesized voice with a strong AI flavor, this female voice seemed to come from a real person - it didn't even seem to be pre-recorded, and there was a slight breath sound and a very natural tail sound in it.

Sun Hang looked up at the camera in the most conspicuous position. He could feel that there seemed to be many people staring at him through this lens.

He gave the camera a smile that he thought was very polite, and then followed the two accompanying personnel into the jade pillar.

The internal structure of the jade pillar is like a hollow bamboo, and the transfer platform on each layer is like a bamboo joint.

Hundreds of lifting tracks connect one transfer platform after another, and cabins of various specifications move on these tracks. Sun Hang even saw a strange skeleton that looked like a dinosaur skeleton fixed on a special iron frame, slowly descending along the track, passing through layers of "bamboo joints".

These transfer platforms are movable. When the skeleton descends, the platform will take the initiative to make way for the passage, and after the large cargo passes, it will immediately return to its original state.

Several people dressed as field agents were lying on the edge of a platform, shouting loudly at the skeleton that was gradually getting farther away. Sun Hang took a closer look and found that some of the "parts" of the skeleton had fallen off and fell on the platform they were on.

"Emergency! Transport No. 206357 is damaged! Please stop transport immediately! Repeat! Transport No. 206357 is damaged during transportation! Please stop transport immediately!"

After a few seconds, the broadcast sounded inside the jade pillar.

"Does this happen often?" Sun Hang pointed to the large iron frame that had stopped below. A group of people in orange work clothes approached the strange skeleton with a sling, seemingly preparing to conduct a detailed inspection of the transport device and the cargo itself.

"Well... it doesn't happen often..." The accompanying staff looked a little embarrassed, "After all, such a large volume of cargo is still rare..."

"If I'm not mistaken, this is the skeleton of Bing 16's 'Ancestor Snow Monster', right?" Yang Qi said, "Isn't this the treasure of the Baikal City Weird Research Institute? How did you convince those Russians to hand it over to the Tianshu Tower?"

"I'm not sure about that." The accompanying staff said, "This project has nothing to do with my work scope."

Just when Yang Qi wanted to ask something, a cabin with a maximum capacity of eight people rose from under the platform and stopped in front of them.

"Please." The accompanying staff opened the cabin door.

These mobile cabins are essentially a large elevator cabin, but compared to the common box elevator, this thing is really much more luxurious.

Fully transparent external cabin, leather sofa seats, exclusive holographic projection screen for each seat... Even under the sofa, there is a small refrigerator filled with various drinks and snacks.

Sun Hang couldn't help but think of the internal structure of a stretched luxury car - this cabin, could it be designed based on that thing?

Working in Tianshu Tower, this working environment is too good... No wonder the graduates from various prestigious schools are trying their best to get here.

"Please fasten your seat belts." The accompanying staff reminded, "The maximum speed of Yuzhu's mobile cabin can reach 75 kilometers per hour, and in an emergency, the rocket thruster can be activated to increase the speed to 140 kilometers per hour."

"So fast? Aren't you afraid of flying over your head?" Sun Hang asked while buckling his seat belt.

"These mobile cabins can be used as escape pods when necessary and launched from the top of the jade pillar." The accompanying staff said, "The supporting safety devices also include parachutes and cushions."

Sun Hang originally wanted to complain that if even the people inside the Tianshu Tower needed to rely on these cabins to escape, then there would probably be no safe place in the entire Chunming City - but then he thought about it, even the Tianfu City Weird Things Research Institute, which occupies less than one percent of the area of ​​the Tianshu Tower, has housed so many weird things. The number and strength of the weird things housed inside the Tianshu Tower must have reached a very exaggerated level...

From a certain perspective, the Tianshu Tower is both the safest place in Chunming City and the most dangerous place.