Lin Sanjiu quietly climbed to the edge of the parking lot and peeked her head out. She looked around.
Her whole body was hanging on the edge of the parking lot. From where she stood, she could only see the bellies of various aircrafts. Some of them looked like small hot air balloons, hovering a few inches above the ground. Some of them looked like boxes on steel spider legs. There was even a spaceship that was dancing. There were a few black cylinders protruding from its belly. They hit the ground up and down to the rhythm of the music that came from the back of the spaceship. Lin Sanjiu had no idea how long it had been dancing, but it seemed like it was going to keep dancing.
"He has a better sense of rhythm than I do," Lin Sanjiu muttered in her heart. She waited patiently until she was sure that there was no one around. Then, she quietly climbed onto the floor of the parking lot.
She did not buy a disguise mask. To be honest, a common mask that could be bought anywhere would not be able to escape the detection of a shark. However, Lin Sanjiu was very self-aware. She knew what her most distinctive feature was, and it just so happened that she had a way to change it.
As Lin Sanjiu walked to the office of the parking lot, she was like an ice cream that was gradually melting under the sun. She became shorter and shorter. When she paid the fee and walked back to the aircraft with the staff, she even had a lumbar disc protruding from her waist. It was as if her waist and hip were broken in the middle. When she reattached them, they were not aligned properly.
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Lin Sanjiu's manipulation of light and shadow was indeed amazing. She was like a chopstick placed in a bowl of water. After the light was refracted, she became a head shorter than the average person beside her.
However, the staff member was very calm. Perhaps he had seen too many strange posthumans. After he unlocked Lin Sanjiu's aircraft, he did not even look at her. He walked back lazily. On his way back, he counted the money again.
When Lin Sanjiu climbed into the triangular aircraft, the dimly lit aircraft buzzed and woke up. All kinds of indicator lights and screens lit up one by one, illuminating the narrow but familiar cabin.
"Welcome home," Shales said softly, as if he was on Exodus.
Lin Sanjiu fell into the pilot's seat. When she heard the door slowly close, she let out a long sigh of relief.
"It's been a long trip," she replied to Schales, and pulled up the flight chart she had taken to get here.
The transparent porthole in front of the pilot's seat was also a large screen. At this time, it was divided into several areas that glowed with a faint blue light: the flight log, the route map, the aircraft's data display, and the projection of the aircraft in three directions.
"Look at the spacecraft Yu Yuan found for you. It's obviously not cheap," Mrs. Manas, who was Lin Sanjiu's subconscious, said, "You even pushed him off the spacecraft."
"Aren't I going to look for them now?" Lin Sanjiu said guiltily. "Silas, do a pre-flight check. Then, we'll follow the route we came from and find the nearest human settlement."
Under Shale's leadership, everything went smoothly. Soon, the aircraft began to move backward and glide into the docking area. The runway in front stretched straight into the blue sky. On the large sign in the air behind them, the number of empty seats had increased by one.
Lin Sanjiu's gaze swept across the screen. She immediately noticed that the staff member had appeared at the end of the tunnel.
He was no longer as lazy as before. He was rushing toward Lin Sanjiu. Beside him was an unfamiliar man with a bird 's-nest head. He was gesturing to the staff member with his hands. Lin Sanjiu had no idea what he was talking to the staff member. Apparently, he was a posthuman. Then, the staff member raised his hand and pointed at Lin Sanjiu's aircraft.
"Silas," Lin Sanjiu laughed and shouted, "Let's go!"
When the aircraft glided into the gust of wind, the man from the chicken coop suddenly accelerated. His speed was indeed fast, but it was nothing compared to the aircraft. Lin Sanjiu only had time to glance at the screen before the man's face, which clearly said, "Oh no, oh no, she ran away", disappeared from the screen and was replaced by a blue sky.
"I finally got rid of those dogs!" Lin Sanjiu couldn't help shouting. She raised her hand and wanted to clap with someone, but there was no one beside her.
For the first few minutes, Lin Sanjiu had been flying at full speed. In just a few blinks of an eye, she had left the CBD far behind. The aircraft that Yu Yuan had given her had excellent performance. Even in a place like the Walkabout Clouds, which mainly relied on flying vehicles, it was hard to find anything that could compete with it.
After flying for nearly ten minutes, Lin Sanjiu was more or less relieved. Unless there was a spaceship of the same speed that could turn invisible and evade radar and the naked eye at the same time, no flying vehicle could catch up to her.
"After we land," Lin Sanjiu said to Mrs. Manas, "Remind me to check the aircraft in case someone installed a tracking device on it."
"Didn't that bird's nest head not make it in time?"
"I slept in the cabin of the Sky Hostel last night. Logically speaking, he should have enough time to send reinforcements. He should be waiting for me at both the message distribution system and the parking lot … It's not strange that he went to the parking lot. What's strange is that he came so late." As Lin Sanjiu spoke, the outline of another human settlement gradually appeared in front of her. It was a huge, lofty, and shadowy building with undulating edges. It stood alone in the light blue fog in the distance.
"There is one possibility that I have to guard against," Lin Sanjiu said as she craned her neck to look, "He came here last night. This place … is really different. "
The CBD was a cluster of commercial buildings connected by the sky. It was orderly, free, and bright. However, this place was like an ancient castle that had been magnified dozens of times and had been worn down by time. Even though it refused to bow down, it was getting more and more silent in the shadow of the approaching end.
"What is this place?" Lin Sanjiu didn't get an answer to her question. Yu Yuancun's map wasn't on this small aircraft, so Silas didn't know the name of this human settlement.
When Lin Sanjiu flew closer to take a look, even the solemn impression of the "ancient castle" had faded. The entire building was formed by rings and rings of high walls. They rose up in a spiral shape, not because of the planning, but because of the lack of planning. When the walkways on the ground floor were full, a new wall would be built on top of the outer wall, and the wall would continue to climb upward like a vine. The "floors" were crooked, sometimes wide, sometimes narrow, and sometimes wide. Some of the floors even looked very sturdy.
Between every two walls, there was a walkway made of sparse wooden planks. There were "hammocks" that were pulled up by large pieces of cloth, and there was a normal floor made of cement.
However, the floor of each floor was cut into sections, and there were dark gaps in the middle. It seemed that this was the only way that the corridor on the lower floor could get some sunlight. Many of the walls didn't even have proper windows. You could just knock off a brick and you would be able to get a window.
There were many old and worn advertising slogans and signboards sticking out from the rings of high walls. Most of them had already rotted, and they hung limply in the air. They were blown away by the wind. Lin Sanjiu was quite a distance away from them, so she could barely make out the largest one. It was "Residential/Property Mortgage".
"If I park my aircraft here, it will definitely be stolen," she muttered.
Just when Lin Sanjiu was hesitating whether she should park her aircraft here or not, the aircraft had already approached it. Among the old signboards, there was a brand new, clean, and large advertisement. It caught her attention — "Beacon Beacon Registry".
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