Ye Zhou didn't know where he was because he was not sitting in the back seat of the car. After leaving the bustling city, he was immediately hidden in the trunk by a man.

It was pitch black around him, and he almost fainted under the high temperature of the trunk near 50 degrees, but fortunately the car stopped after driving for less than half an hour.

The man opened the trunk and pulled out Ye Zhou, who was already wet and was soaked in water. It was not until this time that Ye Zhou had the opportunity to observe the situation around him.

Crowded.

This is his first feeling.

All the sheds were densely packed together, and their cars were parked in an alley. As long as the car door was opened slightly, the entire alley could be completely blocked.

“Where are we going now?”

Ye Zhou asked.

“It’s right here.”

The man pointed to the ground under his feet and replied indifferently.

“I don’t think this is a safe place.”

Ye Zhou looked around vigilantly. Although he could not see anyone, he knew that in this slum controlled by the gang, there were thugs holding automatic weapons everywhere, and most of these thugs had received orders to be enemies with him.

The fake self in the hotel cannot last long. Soon, these people will find that they have escaped, and then follow the melon to find the man's car and then find themselves.

At that time, it would make no sense for him to do anything else.

If you run to the most dangerous slum in Baxi alone, even if you shoot yourself directly in the street, Codemge will not treat it as force majeure, because it is completely Ye Zhou who is doing his own death.

Looking at Ye Zhou's distrustful expression, the man smiled and said:

"Don't worry, as long as you enter my territory, no one will find you."

"Your territory? Are you talking about this neighborhood?"

"No, I'm talking about underground."

"I know you're talking about underground, but I don't think you have the strength in the underground world - I'm still very self-aware of this. The price I offer is not enough to buy a ruler of the underground world."

Hearing Ye Zhou’s doubts, the man shook his head and pointed to the ground under his feet and said:

"Sir, you're wrong. The underground I mean the literal underground."

While speaking, he directed the woman beside him to lift a manhole cover not far away, then made a gesture of inviting him and continued:

"Now, welcome to the true bottom of Rio."

Ye Zhou looked at the head that emerged from the manhole cover in a daze, and asked in disbelief:

"So, what you said would hide me, just hide it in the sewer?"

"Yes. But, it's not just a sewer, it's a complete underground world."

"Now, don't hesitate anymore. We don't have much time to waste. Change your clothes, go down, and follow me and move towards your goal."

Hearing this, Ye Zhou finally fully understood what a man meant.

In this embattled city, he no longer has more choices.

As long as you remain on the ground and in an area controlled by many forces in the city, you will not be able to reach the bidding location booked by Codemge as planned. This is a carefully planned necessity.

But even in such a situation, there are still some places that those people cannot or are disdainful to enter.

For example, the underground sewer system in front of him.

Sewers like spider webs connect the entire city. Only through this way can he bypass the numerous obstacles set by the enemy and complete his goals.

Ye Zhou did not hesitate, but took off his clothes and connected the information to put them in the waterproof bag that the man had prepared early. Then he turned over and entered the underground world along the wellhead.

It was pitch black, which was Ye Zhou’s first feeling.

He could not imagine that there would be people living in such a place, but when the man who entered the sewer immediately turned on the flashlight, he clearly saw those people curled up on the dry ground with extremely narrow and simple bedding.

These people may no longer be called real people.

Their eyes were dull and numb, like alien species in the dark.

"Does these people...they live in the sewers all the time?"

Ye Zhou asked in a low voice.

“From birth.”

The man's answer was extremely short, but from these words, Ye Zhou felt a deep despair.

What exactly caused this situation? What made the bottom of this country fall into the dirty sewers living in the ground with snakes and rats?

The answer is actually very obvious.

A trace of pity flashed in Ye Zhou's heart instinctively, but then, this pity was extinguished by him, and replaced by an extreme sense of crisis.

The most fundamental reason for the decline of the country where he lives is energy.

Or to put it more clearly, it is oil.

In the golden decade of the "Eighth Miracle", Eighth exported billions of barrels of oil based on the import substitution strategy and made countless Daole. However, due to the lack of core refining industry technology, their economy can actually be said to rely on the weather and the faces of international oil giants. Once these resource giants believe that their development threatens their status, they only need a small capital operation and lower the international oil prices by a few dollars, which can bring a catastrophe to this country.

This is the hegemony of resources, or the forced allocation of resources determined by technological hegemony.

For a long time, the country has been trying its best to fight this suppression and has achieved basic results. However, at this time, new changes are about to occur.

The competition for international resources will gradually shift from the original fossil energy to new energy mainly powered by electricity, and the core of the new energy is batteries.

Whoever can take the lead above this will be the future resource overlord.

And once you fail, you will be doomed.

The current situation of Baxi is not impossible for it to appear in its own country.

However, this is something he absolutely cannot allow.

Ye Zhou took his gaze from the curled figures and said calmly to the man:

"Lead the way."

The man turned around silently, and Ye Zhou followed closely behind and began his difficult journey.

The rotten water was shining with green light, the mice that were even bigger than cats, the cockroaches that crawled throughout the sewer, and those who appeared from time to time, raised a bonfire with rough iron racks and cooking food that was unknown.

These people have white skin all over their bodies. As the man said, many people have lived in sewers since they were born and have never left even a single step.

Their eyes had strange alienation, and even in the dark, they still shone coldly like cats.

When the light of the flashlight swept past, the figures of these people were like evil ghosts.

Ye Zhou had never felt such an impact. Even during the previous trek in the snowfield, he knew that he would be frozen to death on the snowfield if he took a little wrong step. He had never had any emotional fluctuations, but here, he really felt a kind of pessimism.

Or fear.

He was very scared.

If one day we really fail, will there be many people who will be forced to move into the sewer?

Could that person be me?

Is what I am doing really meaningful? If I can't succeed in the end, why should I struggle?

The harsh and claustrophobic environment further aggravated his fear. The deep and dark cave in the distance was like the throat of a giant beast, about to swallow him.

There were several times when Ye Zhou wanted to stop and told the man that, otherwise he would try to start from the ground in another way, maybe it would be impossible to do it?

What's more, I still have a lot of energy values. Even if I can't do it at once, I will still have a chance if I try it a few more times.

He knew that this retreat was wrong, but he couldn't leave it aside.

Ye Zhou forced his thoughts to suppress his thoughts, which almost made his mind feel a little dazed.

However, just when he felt that he was about to give up because of such fear, a cluster of lightning flashed in his mind, and fear was washed away in an instant, which even made Ye Zhou stunned in surprise.

This was the first time he felt this effect.

The two talented abilities of "resister" and "principles" have taken effect at the same time.

The impacts from claustrophobia, compassion, and pessimism were all offset. The bottom line he had already set abruptly but firmly dispelled all distractions:
Chapter completed!