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 actually stood in front of this huge building, he discovered that this "tower" was very different from what he had expected... a lot.

Even if we look at the entire history of human civilization, Chunming City is still unique 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 riding the suspended light rail for more than half an hour, Sun Hang and Yang Qi finally arrived at a building that looked like a giant chimney.

"This is the main elevator of the Tianshu Tower, codenamed 'Jade Pillar'. It reaches 'Purple Palace' above and 'Hou Tu' below." Yang Qi explained to Sun Hang, "I'm really curious about what happened to you on the Nameless Island... and why you were invited to meet with Master Pei..."

"Do you really want to know?" Sun Hang asked, looking at the woman beside him with a conflicted look on her face.

"I really want to, but please 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 execution, maybe we can give it a try?"

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

"Unless what?"

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

"You are so ruthless."

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

"This word comes from the winner of the Nobel Prize 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 her temples vigorously. "I'm afraid you'll give me high blood pressure at such a young age."

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

A red laser shot out from above the gate and scanned all four people. Then, a pleasant female voice came from the speaker nearby.

"Identity confirmation completed, pass allowed."

Unlike those electronic synthesized voices with a strong AI flavor, this female voice seems to come from a real person - it doesn't even sound like it was pre-recorded, and there is a slight breathing sound and a very natural ending sound in it.

Sun Hang raised his head and glanced at the camera in the most conspicuous position. He could feel that there seemed to be quite a few people staring at him through this lens.

He gave the camera a smile that he thought was very polite, and then followed the two entourage members into the jade pillar. The internal structure of the jade pillar was like a hollow bamboo, and the transfer platforms on each floor were like bamboo joints.

Hundreds of lift tracks connected one transfer platform after another, and cabins of various specifications moved on these tracks. Sun Hang even saw a strange skeleton shaped like a dinosaur skeleton fixed on a special iron frame, slowly descending along the track, passing through layer after layer of "bamboo joints".

These transfer platforms are movable. When the skeleton is lowered, the platform will actively make way for the passage. After the large cargo passes, it will immediately return to its original state.

Several people dressed as field operators were lying on the edge guardrail 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 landed on the platform they were on.

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

After a few seconds, the broadcast began to sound inside the jade pillar.

"Does this kind of thing 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 the help of slings, and seemed to be 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 '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 entourage said. “This project has nothing to do with my job scope.”

Just when Yang Qi was about to ask something, a cabin that could accommodate up to eight people rose from under the platform and stopped in front of them.

"Please." The entourage opened the cabin door.

These mobile cabins are essentially a large elevator car, but compared to the common box elevators, they are much more luxurious.

A fully transparent exterior cabin, leather sofa seats, an exclusive holographic projection screen for each seat...there is even a small refrigerator under the sofa, filled with various drinks and snacks.

Sun Hang couldn't help but think of the internal structure of a stretched luxury car - could this cabin be designed based on that thing?
Working in Tianshu Tower is such a great working environment... No wonder all the recent graduates from prestigious universities are trying their best to get in here.

"Please fasten your seat belts," the attendant reminded. "The top speed of the Yuzhu's mobile cabin can reach 75 kilometers per hour. In an emergency, the rocket thrusters can be activated to increase the speed to 140 kilometers per hour."

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

"These mobile cabins can be used as escape pods when necessary and launched from the top of the jade pillar," said the accompanying staff. "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 again, even the Tianfu City Weird Thing 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, Tianshu Tower is both the safest place and the most dangerous place in Chunming City.

(End of this chapter)