Chapter 925: Following the Trail and Exploring the Deep Cave

Somewhere in the downtown area, Speaker Quan finally slept soundly after living in the so-called safe zone for two days. With his young son taking care of him, he felt much more relaxed than with those outsiders watching over him.

And with his son here, others seem to feel more at ease with him.

On the third day, he felt his body functions gradually recovering, so he pushed the door open from the house with his cane, only to find that the situation here was very different from what he had imagined. The surroundings were glowing with light like daylight, and...

He looked at the snowflakes flying in the sky. Hmm? Snowing? He reached out his hand and caught a cool snowflake in his palm.

He was surprised. Why was it snowing here?
Moreover, the air he breathed was as cold and crisp as the air in winter, which made his mind clear. It was completely different from the dirty and stuffy feeling he had felt before. At that moment, he thought he was back on the ground.

But he soon noticed something unusual. The snow was too clean, as clean as if it had been filtered. The ground was like a layer of brocade, and there seemed to be a layer of snow fog around it, so he couldn't see too far.

In the fog, there was a squeaking sound of footsteps on the snow. Turning around, I saw the middle-aged man walking towards me, leaving a trail of footprints in the snow behind him.

The man walked up to him, smiled and said, "Speaker Quan, are you feeling better? How is it? The Lower City is not as dirty and filthy as the Upper City thinks. There are advanced technologies here too."

Chairman Quan narrowed his eyes and said, "A field creature?"

The middle-aged man said, "Yes, this is a product developed by the research institute here. It is not as realistic as the virtual field of the mother, but its advantages are that it consumes less energy and is easy to move. It has great application prospects."

Speaker Quan said, "Is there a research institute here? Would you mind showing me around?"

"Is Speaker Quan also interested in this?"

Chairman Quan said, "I hope you don't think I'm too conservative. The things here are very novel. I'm also bored staying in the house. Why don't you take me to see some of them?"

"it is good."

Speaker Quan, supported by his youngest son Quan Yu, followed the middle-aged man into a small rail car and arrived at the research institute more than ten minutes later.

The situation here is really surprising. Along the way, the roadside is planted with various flowers and trees, as well as insects and animals that have never been seen before. It seems that a small ecosystem has been built directly here.

Speaker Quan said, “Are these all true?”

The middle-aged man said, "What you are seeing now is real. The field creatures developed by the research institute can form a unique field information that can be accepted by living things. The original intention of the research and development was to regulate the emotions of people and living things. Now we can make them think that they are in a suitable environment, so they will reproduce happily and not think about other things."

His words, combined with the current environment and everything happening in the downtown area, really make people feel a little subtle.

Speaker Quan looked very natural, nodded and said in admiration: "It's not easy, the Lower City has such technology. Hmm, I have heard of it, the Plague Gang?"

The middle-aged man was not surprised that he guessed it. After all, he was the Speaker of the House and had access to much more information and channels to understand the situation than ordinary people.

He smiled and said, "They prefer to be called the Plague Cult. They are a group of idealistic bioengineers and technicians gathered together, not the evil people that people imagine."

Speaker Quan said with emotion: "They are all talented people."

“So if the municipal council can be re-established, the cult hopes that the council can help them legalize their products so that their research products can be put into practical use.”

Speaker Quan looked at him and said, "Your Excellency seems to be more confident than I am about this matter."

The middle-aged man said, "We know that the international investigation team will arrive soon. If you show up, the international community will definitely try to intervene. With your reputation, you can re-establish a new parliament with just one call and speak for the people. We certainly have confidence in you."

Speaker Quan seemed very pleased. He said: "Parliament has always been good at listening to the voices of the people. It is our duty to meet the needs of the people. I can promise you that if Parliament is reorganized, we can make the people understand and vote to legalize the institute."

"Then thank you for the support of Speaker Quan."

Chairman Quan asked again: "For such a good project, there should be many companies in the central city willing to invest, right?"

"Oh, it might be because of the lack of funds at the beginning of the research and development. The developer could only look for volunteers on the streets. Later, an accident happened and he was fired from the institute. The research results were also stolen by the institute, and later a gang was found to kill him.

However, they did not expect that the field creatures would recognize their masters, so they used remote information to make the field creatures trigger extreme emotional signals in the laboratory, killing everyone. Only then did he manage to preserve his results before the company's people arrived.

The middle-aged man said this with a sigh, "Alas, he was forced to do it."

At this time, Chairman Quan's son Quan Yu suddenly asked: "How big of an accident was that?"

"Not much." The middle-aged man said casually, "We only used 70 or 80 homeless people, and they all volunteered to participate in the experiment."

Speaker Quan said, "If you are not a citizen of the central city, you should not have the right to be protected by the central city. It is unfair to treat it as an accident." The middle-aged man sighed and said, "That's why you need fair and just people like you to be in the top so that the people can have a voice."

Quan Yu looked at the middle-aged man, then looked at his father, but lowered his head.

The vehicle slowly moved forward along the track, surrounded by the sound of birdsong and the fragrance of flowers. Everything seemed so beautiful. However, if you look beyond the mist, you can see honeycomb walls built of biological materials.

Members of the Plague Gang, each holding a weapon and covered in protective clothing, patrolled back and forth in the corridor made of steel structures and special plates.

If you go further out, you can see a giant building shaped like a honeycomb. It is buried deep underground from the top, and all kinds of strange insects are coming in and out of it.

At this moment, in another part of the lower city, a number of armored vehicles were driving forward along the tunnel, followed by a logistics motorcycle team.

Xu Chan sat in the armored vehicle at the front of the convoy and arranged according to the previous plan. As for those who fled into the lower city, as long as enough pressure was applied, they would not stay where they were, but would move to the place they thought was the safest.

Although people from the Upper City do encounter certain resistance when entering the Lower City, especially those from the government, who face greater hostility and exclusion, those who escape in are also unlikely to be looked at differently by the people in the Lower City.

After all, they are all outsiders and must find a group in the downtown area that they can trust and rely on, but they certainly don't have many options.

Therefore, when these people travel through the lower city, they will leave traces along the way, and will not merge silently into the sea like water drops as they imagine.

Now they have the help of people from Lutong Logistics, plus the spies he had deployed here before, they have been following the traces of that group of people all the way down over the past few days, and have found that they are gradually going deeper into the deepest part of the lower city.

At this time, the motorcyclist from Lutong Logistics who was responsible for leading the way suddenly stopped, and the convoy slowly stopped.

A processing bureau employee stuck his head out from the back and asked, "Why don't you move forward?"

The motorcyclist said, "Because if we go further in there, we will be in the territory of the Plague Gang. We have never done business here and we don't know the way. You guys need to go on your own."

The window next to Xu Chan slowly rolled down, and he said, "Thank you for your assistance. We will go on our own from now on."

The motorcyclist said, "Then sir, we won't hold you back any longer."

Xu Chan nodded, "Go back."

The motorcyclist waved at him and greeted the people behind him, then the convoy turned around and went back. After these people left, the light suddenly dimmed a lot.

Xu Chan looked ahead at the seemingly endless tunnel and ordered, "Keep going."

Weiguang District, inside Villa No. 15 of Jinfengyuan. Chen Chuan sat cross-legged in the meditation room, his body slightly off the ground, sometimes suddenly rising and falling.

At this moment he was trying to subdue his breath.

He read the two methods carefully and gained some insights. However, no matter whether it is the method of Xuanjiao or Zen Buddhism, one needs to have "right faith" in the heart, that is, to agree with their concepts and implement them in practice, in order to achieve twice the result with twice the effort. Therefore, in the process, one needs to practice with visualization pictures and scriptures.

It can be seen that the two articles focus more on spiritual guidance. If the spirits are really in harmony and the requirements are met, it is indeed easy to pass this level.

But he didn't need to practice according to this, he just wanted to understand the ideas and principles behind it. As a fighter, as long as he could figure out the thread, theoretically he could even work out a method on his own.

However, after reading these, when I looked back, the set of methods purchased from the platform was actually summarized very well.

This does not mean that it was useless for him to look through it later. On the contrary, through other materials and methods, he was able to more deeply understand the commonalities and the key points that needed to be grasped, and he was also able to know the shortcomings and omissions in his own thinking.

With the right ideas, his practice was much easier.

At this moment, he felt as if he was fighting against some kind of wave. This was not something that could be forced, but needed to be guided and released, because this was his strength in itself, and if he forced it, it would not only easily hurt himself, but also fail to achieve the desired effect of practice.

Maybe it was because of his deep understanding, or maybe it was the experience gained from practicing the two major styles and the Heaven and Earth Furnace Breathing Method, he knew clearly how to deal with each step, enough to be called calm and at ease.

This made his progress very fast. He had previously estimated that this step would only take ten days or half a month to complete, but now it seemed that it might be even faster.

……

(End of this chapter)

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