Chapter 276 Welcome to the Great Wilderness
Chapter 276 Welcome to the Great Wilderness
After Fu Luo volunteered to enter a destination for several people, the aircraft named "Special Car" flew smoothly and quickly above the city that never sleeps.
This special car is indeed provided for VIPs. Not only is the interior spacious, it is even close to luxurious.
Seats, beds, wine cabinets... there's even a heated swimming pool!
Through the beautiful transparent porthole on the side of the aircraft, Lin Yu saw the entire track of the Despair Train - it was like the rings of Saturn, surrounding the city that never sleeps.
The light strips on the track are bright and gentle, and countless pipes extend from the buildings of the city that never sleeps and merge into the track, densely packed like the mouthparts of insects sucking nectar.
It seems that this "train" does indeed undertake a considerable part of the energy supply task for the entire city that never sleeps.
And then, Lin Yu also saw Baron Coleman's plan.
As he just said, it is a very clichéd form of self-sacrifice.
However, even if it is clichéd to the point of being cliché, it cannot conceal the greatness and...magnificence of this sacrifice.
The train speeding on the track suddenly exploded, swallowing up the soft light.
Fireworks-like flames exploded, and at the same time, the lights on the track began to go out one by one.
After the tracks, comes the light of the entire city that never sleeps.
The lights on large skyscrapers dimmed.
Almost at the same time, dots of aircraft lights lit up and rushed towards the place where the explosion and fire occurred.
At this moment, the entire city that never sleeps fell into darkness for the first time in perhaps decades.
Flying vehicles flew past the one that Lin Yu and his companions were on - but no one paid any attention to them.
"What a grand and magnificent fireworks display!"
Li Nian also stood by the porthole and said with emotion.
“It’s so romantic.”
Chen Zhuo was stunned for a moment: "Can this be described as romantic?"
Pan Yuqiang leaned against the window and said, "Why not?"
Wang Yuyang's assessment was more pragmatic: "So that's how it is. As long as you create a big enough, urgent enough problem, no one will care how many people slip away from this train."
"Not only that," Fu Luo reminded him, "If I'm not mistaken... 80% of the positioning and monitoring systems and facilities of the Truth Company should be shut down or switched to low-power operation."
"Even the positioning device installed on him may have been interfered with."
"In other words—they probably didn't even know this guy had gotten out."
Fu Luo pointed at Punkdo beside him.
He also watched the explosion in silence, the dancing flames reflected in his eyes.
The color of the flames was monotonous but passionate, better than the colorful mixture just now.
No one knows what he is thinking at this moment.
After a long while, when the aircraft had flown some distance, Punkto spoke: "In other words, as long as I find a blind spot where they can't locate me before the power system is restored and remove some of the devices in my body, it might be possible for Truth Company to never find me again, right?"
He asked, and Fu Luo was a little shocked.
"Yes...wait, are you listening? I thought you were simply reminiscing about an old friend!"
"He's still a new friend to me now," Punkto sighed. "Perhaps only after I regain my complete memories can I fully appreciate the sadness."
Li Nian looked at Pang Keduo: "Your plan should be feasible, but in this city that never sleeps, is there really any place that the Truth Company cannot cover?"
Punkto shook his head: "Based on my judgment, there shouldn't be any."
In the city that never sleeps, finding someone might be like looking for a needle in a haystack for ordinary people.
But for the three giant companies, finding any individual is as easy as taking a numbered drink from a beverage machine.
They jointly govern and even own this sea.
"So even though you promised Baron Coleman well, it's really not easy to settle this guy down!"
Li Nian said this and Lin Yu shrugged.
"That's fine. I have a professional I can ask—one with a more complete memory."
As he spoke, he pointed to the current leader of Team Delta who was following behind him.
"Do you know of a good place?"
"Of course, ma'am," the Delta Team leader said meekly and politely, "It's indeed difficult to find a place in the City That Never Sleeps, but... he can go outside of the City That Never Sleeps."
"Go to the Great Wilderness—find the towns and villages of the Great Wilderness people."
"There, the Truth Company's control is very weak—of the three giant companies, it has the strongest control over the inner city, but the weakest control over the Great Wilderness."
"The Divine Power Group, which has the strongest control over the Great Wilderness, has had an extremely poor relationship with the Truth Company in recent years."
"And those areas outside the Never-Sleeping City, where the Divine Power Group is active, and in the southern part of the Great Wilderness, are considered 'forbidden zones' for those of us at the Truth Company who specialize in handling Great Wilderness affairs."
The leader of Group δ shared all the information he had and gave his own suggestions.
"Great," Lin Yu looked at the others on the aircraft, "If I suggest taking a detour... everyone should have no objection, right?"
Others naturally agreed.
Lin Yu looked at Punkto.
"So, Mr. Ponkdo..."
"I have no objection," he replied immediately, "but... although Coleman asked you to help me retrieve my memory, I don't care that much. Memory is my own business, and I'm not impatient. You don't have to worry about it."
"I've also learned a lot about my great-uncle's whereabouts from you. I plan to slowly research the rest along with my own memories... But, ma'am, I still have something to ask of you."
Punkto said sincerely.
"Go ahead."
Lin Yu said calmly.
"Coleman mentioned that I have a wife and daughter. I implore you to find out their whereabouts. I hope you can help me take care of them until I find a way to return to the City That Never Sleeps from the Great Wilderness."
Punkto said seriously.
Lin Yu nodded slightly: "That's natural."
He agreed, then walked to the screen where Fu Luo had just entered the destination and gently touched the screen.
Although this was the first time that Lin Yu saw a bird's-eye view map of the City That Never Sleeps, he quickly found out from this concise map where the southern part of the Great Wilderness mentioned by the leader of the Delta Group was - the place where the Truth Company's control was weakest.
The navigation was randomly positioned at a place that looked like a settlement, and the aircraft turned in the air and headed towards the border of the city that never sleeps.
On the aircraft, Lin Yu saw that this modern city that looked like it was in the near future had some kind of "retro" design - tall city walls stood at the border of the city that never sleeps.
The aircraft flew over the city wall, and behind it was endless and barren land.
The city wall serves as the dividing line - outside of this wall, there are almost no man-made buildings.
The special car's announcement issued a reminder.
"Please note: You have entered the Great Wilderness."
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