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Chapter 1641 The Future Building (Long Chapter, Requesting Monthly Tickets)

"Explosions, explosions, explosions! There are factory explosions every day," the barbecue restaurant owner cursed as he changed the channel. "I woke up to find everyone in the city hallucinating, and these government officials are acting like nothing's wrong. Hallucinations, hallucinations, who knows if they'll poison people to death."

"Hey, what are you afraid of? All the food we eat these days has all sorts of additives and drugs in it," a diner next to him said, picking up a piece of grilled meat and taking a big bite. "So what if I get poisoned? It's no big deal."

"Hey, actually this was handled pretty quickly, it was resolved that very night. I bet it's only because the mayor's son is at the factory that we're so efficient," another diner laughed. "The hallucination drug wore off in a day, and we stopped hallucinating then."

"I heard that a child risked his life to enter the factory and shut off the valves, preventing the hallucinogenic drugs from leaking further," someone suddenly interjected.

"Really?" another diner said, taking a sip of his drink. "What kid? So awesome?"

"I don't know either. My third uncle, who works at the TV station, said it's an eighteen-year-old kid," the person said, taking a bite of grilled meat and speaking indistinctly. "Anyway, the news will be broadcast soon, and we'll find out then."

"Hey, this stupid city government has actually reached the point where they need kids to save the city." The first man to speak picked up his glass, took a sip of his drink, and said, "If you ask me, this city government should just go bankrupt."

"Brother, you can't say things like that," another person quickly stopped him.

"Not just the city government, but what the hell is this federal central government? And there's another presidential election coming up, they might as well all die!" the man shouted, taking a sip of his drink.

“You’re drunk,” someone in the crowd laughed. “You’re starting to talk nonsense.”

At that moment, Siwei, who was sitting on He Ao's shoulders, leaned her little head over and asked softly, "Big guy, were they talking about you just now?"

The meat vendor, who was grilling meat in front of He Ao, suddenly looked up, shook his head from side to side, and finally looked at He Ao and Siwei, "Who, who is speaking?"

“The latest model robot,” He Ao said casually. “Boss, give me two large roast meats, to go.”

After meeting with Reed, he retrieved the box containing the Spear of Vestara, loaded the spear into it, and carried it on his back. It was fine for moving around nearby, but the barbecue restaurant was a bit crowded, making it inconvenient to go inside.

Siwei sat on Heo's shoulder, unsure how to pretend to be a robot. After thinking for a moment, she began, "Abba—Abba—"

"Alright," the shopkeeper looked at Siwei with a puzzled expression, "the little gadgets these days are really exquisite."

"You're the little brat!" Siwei suddenly bristled, jumped up, and waved her hands, trying to grab the boss.

He Ao reached out and naturally grabbed her collar, lifting her up as she flailed around.

He looked at his boss and said slowly, "High-performance robot."

“Okay, okay, beautiful high-performance robot lady,” the boss said, looking at Siwei waving her arms and legs in the air. He then cut two portions of roast meat and handed them to He Ao. “You young people have so many choices these days.”

"Thank you." He Ao took the grilled meat, put Siwei on his shoulder, and continued walking along the street.

After walking a short distance, he handed a plate of grilled meat to Siwei. "Want some?"

Siwei crossed her arms and turned her face away. "I won't eat it. He called me a little trinket. I have principles."

He Ao held one portion with his ring finger, opened another, took out a plastic fork, stuck a piece of roast meat into it, and brought it to his mouth.

A rich aroma wafted out from the open bag, lingering in the slightly chilly air.

He Ao turned his head to look at Siwei, whose eyes were wide open.

Siwei immediately turned her head away again.

He Ao didn't say anything, but just put the roasted meat in his mouth and chewed it quietly.

Gollum—

I heard the sound of swallowing beside me.

He Ao didn't say anything, but forked another piece of hot roast meat and brought it to his mouth.

As he was skewering the third piece of grilled meat, he suddenly noticed a small head in his line of sight.

Siwei grabbed his collar with one hand, her little head peeking out, staring intently at the roasted meat on He'ao's fork.

His eyes were wide open.

"Want some?" He Ao asked, looking at him.

"Mmm-hmm." He nodded frantically.

"Don't you have principles?" He Ao laughed.

He raised his hand and handed the portion hanging from his finger to Siwei.

Siwei quickly reached out and removed the roasted meat from He Ao's fingers, holding it in her arms. "He has already corrected his form of address, so I will be magnanimous and forgive him!"

Before she could finish speaking, she had already torn open the bag, grabbed a fork, stuck the roasted meat in it, and brought it to her mouth.

The sun shone in the sky, reflecting a faint light onto the remaining snow on the street.

Two figures, one tall and one short, strolled slowly along the empty street, their footsteps crunching on the broken ice shards, until they reached the end of the street.

hum-

He Ao's glasses flickered, and he looked up to see what was inside.

"What's wrong?" Siwei asked softly as she put the last bit of roasted meat into her mouth.

"The bounty from the bounty hunter organization has arrived," He Ao said slowly.

His gaze was fixed on the numbers in his field of vision.

Total Bounty: 1,765,920
It went from 16 to 176 million.

Those 'school workers' had no visible faces and didn't count money, but the leader of the Black Wolf Gang was a bounty hunter, and a Class C criminal at that.

As soon as He Ao came out, he uploaded the video of killing the Black Wolf Gang leader. However, the killing was done while Glasses was offline, and the bounty hunter organization seemed to need to review it, as the bounty was still showing as being calculated.

Once you reach the C-level criminal category, the bounty calculation doesn't seem to be as quick anymore.

Just now, the settlement was finally completed, and the 160 million bounty was directly deposited into my account.

It seems we still need to kill the stronger ones; the stronger ones are valuable.

hum-

At this moment, He Ao's bracelet vibrated. He raised the bracelet and looked at the contents on it.

"What's wrong?" Siwei leaned closer again and asked in a low voice.

“The message from Ryan,” Heo replied slowly, “says the plane is ready and we can go.”

Upon hearing this, Siwei paused for a moment, clutching the bag of barbecue, and lowered her head in silence.

She looked at He Ao and asked softly, "Big guy, are you leaving? Going to Willens?"

He Ao looked at her questioningly, "Aren't you coming with me?"

"Huh?" Siwei was clearly surprised. She looked at He Ao, hesitating to speak, "But, but—"

"Don't you want to know what exactly happened at the Future Building back then?" He Ao asked slowly.

Even though her personality hasn't changed much, Siwei has regained her 'memories'.

“Alright then,” Siwei looked at Heo, and after a brief pause, she nodded and waved her hand excitedly, “Let’s go to Willens!”

He Ao smiled, raised his hand, and hailed a truck large enough to fit the gun boxes to go to the airport.

-

Xiluo City Airport

After a simple security check, He Ao followed the directions of the airport staff and arrived at the VIP lounge, where he saw Ryan.

“You’ve arrived,” Ryan said, quickly walking over to He Ao and handing him a chip. “This is what the chairman asked me to give you; it’s information about the Future Tower collapse incident from back then.”

"Thank you." He Ao reached out and took the storage chip.

At that moment, his bracelet vibrated slightly, and the copy of the orphanage information that Reed had requested was sent over.

“The plane is about to take off,” Ryan said, glancing at Heo and nodding slightly. “You can take a break now. Have you had lunch? There’s a buffet in the lounge.”

"Where is the buffet?" Siwei, sitting on He's shoulders, suddenly widened her eyes.

“Over there,” Ryan pointed behind him, “go in, and the restaurant is just past there.”

“Okay.” He Ao nodded, looked at Ryan, and smiled. “Thank you.”

“It’s alright,” Ryan smiled and sat back down on the sofa. “If you get lost, you can ask the staff around here. This place isn’t very big.”

"Let's go, big guy, let's go!" Siwei said excitedly, sitting on He's shoulders.

He Ao rested the chip against his bracelet, said goodbye to Ryan Ke, and headed deeper into the lounge.

This VIP lounge is not small. The outer hall appears to be long and narrow, with solid wood partitions on the inside dividing it into narrow, semi-private spaces, while the outside features exquisitely arranged dining tables and a huge glass curtain wall.

Through the glass curtain wall, you can clearly see the huge mechanical airships docked in the airport.

Although the Federation's airships are slow, they have a large capacity, can carry many passengers, and can take off and land vertically, consuming little space and having low operating costs, which is why they are favored by most airline passengers.

These airlines also decorate their airships with various attractive liveries as a form of branding to attract attention.

He Ao turned his gaze away from the glass curtain wall and looked ahead.

A small but exquisite restaurant came into his view.

A row of large platters with cold dishes such as bread and cakes were placed on one side of the restaurant, while on the other side was a counter with staff on duty and a sign next to it offering hot dishes such as 'steak'.

As soon as she entered this area, Siwei stared at the steak counter without blinking.

So He Ao ordered two steaks and then found a table to sit down.

He picked up Siwei, placed her opposite him, unpacked the gun case, threw it on the ground, then turned on his bracelet and began looking at the information Ryan had given him.

Siwei looked around, walked to the edge of the table, slid down the table leg, and walked to the counter where cold food was displayed.

The staff around her saw her and were clearly puzzled, but they didn't panic, obviously because they had seen all sorts of strange things.

When they discovered that Siwei couldn't climb the counter even by jumping, a staff member went to get her a stool.

"Thank you." She thanked the staff, climbed onto a stool, then tiptoed up to the counter, took a small cake, and slid back down.

Then she walked to the table where He Ao was sitting, climbed onto the stool, placed the cake on the table, and then slid down to get the other cakes.

He Ao's gaze, however, was fixed on the information provided by Ryan.

Eve had already done some basic processing of the information and searched online for some content, thus summarizing the general situation of the entire event.

The Future Building is located in the heart of the entire Willens Industrial Zone, and its positioning is similar to that of the Hope Building in Dawn City, both being gathering places for the poor.

However, the Future Building is operated by a clearly defined owner, and unlike most commercial real estate controlled by conglomerates, the owner of the Future Building is an individual.

The property owner was formerly the owner of a well-known local factory in Willens, which had manufactured products for several conglomerates.

Later, when Yin Fu Intelligent acquired the factory in Weilens, he sold the entire factory to Yin Fu Intelligent, bought the Future Building, and converted it into rental apartments.

Although it is called rental apartment, the living conditions in Future Building are actually not good. It is simply divided into narrow cubicles by cheap plastic panel walls.

The cubicles do not have toilets or kitchens; typically, dozens of cubicles share one public toilet.

However, in contrast, the building has a low rent.

Its rent is one-third to one-fifth of that of nearby apartments.

The building owner rents these cubicles to out-of-towners seeking employment in Willens, providing them with proof of stable residence to facilitate their search for jobs in factories.

According to local media reports in Wellens, the building owner is a reclusive and eccentric old man who frequently verbally abuses tenants and threatens to evict them at the drop of a hat.

In addition, he was very impolite to reporters who came to interview him, and often instructed security guards to drive them away.

Human rights organizations have held a march and sit-in in front of the Future Tower, hoping that the building will be reinforced and maintained, and that better rental conditions will be provided for tenants.

Then the building owner and security guards drove these people away.

Five years before the Future Tower collapsed, the city government had already designated it as a dangerous building and ordered the building's owner to reinforce and maintain it, otherwise the government had the right to take the building away.

However, the building owner claimed that there was nothing wrong with his building and rallied hundreds of tenants to block the gates of the Willens City Hall and City Council, causing traffic paralysis in the city center.

Later, the building owner and the city government engaged in a five-year lawsuit. Six months before the building collapsed, the owner and his legal team successfully found a legal loophole in Willen's law, which allowed the city government to remove the building from the list of dangerous buildings.

According to media reports from Wellesley, the money spent on the lawsuit between the building's owners and the city government is enough to renovate a third of the building's floors and add at least two toilets to each floor.

The media outlet attempted to contact the building owner but was refused entry and even had mechanical dogs released to scare them away.

Because of these events, after the collapse of the Future Tower, many opinions held that the building's collapse was due to the arrogance and ignorance of its owner, who failed to reinforce the building as ordered by the city government.

However, no one could directly criticize the building owner anymore.

Because he was buried forever beneath the Future Tower, along with 1036 other victims who were also inside the tower at the time, during the collapse of the Future Tower.

This simple number of 1036 includes Loren's parents who worked in Willens, as well as Sivi's parents.

"Big guy, have some cake." The little doll climbed onto the table and handed a small pink cake to He Ao. "This, this looks delicious."

"Okay." He Ao took the cake, scooped out a small piece with his fork, brought it to his mouth, and stared at the contents behind the documents.

After the collapse of the Future Building, since the owner had no biological children, the court found several of his cousins ​​and other relatives, who then divided his estate equally.

Unable to afford the costs of clearing the ruins of the Future Building, the relatives agreed to auction off the building.

Finally, Yin Fu Intelligence acquired the ruins of the Future Building and the land at one-twentieth of the market price.