For the next few days, the four of them spent their time in the hotel.
Xu Qian woke up that night. After realizing her situation, her reaction was relatively calm, but the way she looked at E-Goat was a little complicated.
She initially chose to stay in the base because she did not want to implicate E-Goat, Zhang Heng, and the others. But now that she had been brought out, it made no sense for her to go back. However, Xu Qian still looked a little lost. She could no longer be a streamer. Although Shengtang Morgan Group had not issued a wanted order for her so far, they must have found out about Xu Qian's escape.
Xu Qian didn't know if someone was secretly tracking her whereabouts, so she didn't know what was waiting for her in the future. Although E-Goat assured her that something big would happen in New Shanghai 0297 soon, Xu Qian wasn't sure how much it would affect her life.
After all, for the residents living in New Shanghai 0297, Shengtang Morgan Group had always been like an unshakable behemoth. Especially after seeing what happened in that secret base, Xu Qian did not think that anyone could shake Shengtang Morgan Group's dominance here through resistance.
In fact, at this time, just like Xu Qian, most of the citizens knew nothing about what would happen in the future, especially on the upper floors. Everyone still went to work every day, rushing around to make a living, busy with their families and careers. Everything looked the same as before.
Until one day, people suddenly found out that Shengtang Morgan Group had issued a lockdown order on the first floor.
From that moment on, all central shuttle stations no longer sold tickets to the first floor to individuals. At the same time, the central shuttle on the first floor also stopped selling tickets to other floors.
The situation suddenly became grim. Most people did not know what was going on, but they noticed that the police on each floor had begun to gather and head to the first floor in teams.
It was not until the next night that the media received photos and videos from the first floor.
In a video that quickly spread on the Internet, a group of armed mobs ambushed two police squads to maintain law and order. The two sides exchanged fire, and the scene was very bloody. In the end, at least ten mobs were killed. There were also casualties on the police's side. A police officer was unlucky when he poked his head out from behind the explosion-proof shield, and a stray bullet hit him in the eye. Another police officer was dragged directly into a building by the mob.
Five minutes later, the police stormed the building, but the police officer was unfortunately killed.
— Riots.
This word was extremely unfamiliar to the residents of New Shanghai 0297. It was the first time they had encountered such a thing since the establishment of New Shanghai 0297. Although the public security situation on the first floor had always been quite bad because there were too many poor people living there, and there were violent incidents from time to time, the most serious ones were fights between gangs. It had never escalated to the level of riots.
Many people were shocked by the cruel scenes shown in the video. At the same time, the news media also condemned the rioters.
Qiu Ming turned off the TV.
During this period, his life was not very comfortable. In order to avoid Shengtang Morgan Group's investigation, Zhang Heng asked everyone not to leave the hotel unless there was an emergency. Three meals a day were delivered by drones. E-Goat, on the other hand, could stay in the same room as the girl he loved.
Although according to Qiu Ming's observation, the progress of the two of them over the past few days was mental and nothing had happened physically, no matter what, living with a beautiful woman was at least pleasant.
In contrast, his side was miserable. Zhang Heng did not do anything excessive to him. He just lived a normal life. He ate and slept when he needed to. He did not even restrict his activities. But the terrifying thing was that Qiu Ming found that no matter when or what he did, he could not hide it from Zhang Heng's eyes.
Even when he woke up in the middle of the night, Zhang Heng seemed to be sleeping soundly, and his movements were light enough. He observed Zhang Heng by the bed for a full ten minutes. After confirming that the latter would not wake up, he tiptoed to open the door and stood in the corridor to smoke a cigarette.
The next morning, when the two of them were having breakfast, Qiu Ming saw Zhang Heng place the ashtray in front of him without saying anything.
In the end, Qiu Ming couldn't help but say, "I don't smoke in the morning."
Zhang Heng nodded and took a sip of the tofu pudding with the fried dough sticks. "I know, but you have to smoke three cigarettes a day anyway. Why don't you finish smoking earlier? You can sleep better at night. I don't mind anyway."
Qiu Ming could not help but break out in a cold sweat when he heard this. His smoking habit was developed when he was twenty years old. Until now, he had not used the memory code to change it. However, he only smoked two cigarettes during the day, and the third one was smoked when he woke up in the middle of the night.
In other words, since Zhang Heng knew that he smoked three cigarettes a day, he also knew that he sneaked out in the middle of the night to smoke. However, at that time, Qiu Ming observed Zhang Heng and clearly remembered that the latter was still asleep. For this reason, Qiu Ming even searched the entire house, trying to find where Zhang Heng had hidden the surveillance camera. Unfortunately, he did not find anything in the end.
However, after this incident, Qiu Ming no longer dared to take any chances because he knew that no matter what he did, he could not hide it from Zhang Heng's eyes.
In addition, Qiu Ming also noticed that Zhang Heng's life was very self-disciplined. Even if he could not leave the room, he would exercise on time every day. Qiu Ming once suspected that Zhang Heng was also from an emergency response team, but he was a commercial spy sent to New Shanghai 0297 by other groups.
However, the close contact during this period of time had overturned Qiu Ming's conjecture. Zhang Heng obviously did not serve any organization or institution. Just as he said, he was only loyal to himself. Not only was he different from the role-playing residents of New Shanghai 0297, but he was also completely different from the management and even the board of directors of Shengtang Morgan.
Qiu Ming did not know how such a person could exist in such an era, and his unscientific skills. If it was not through memory coding, how did he obtain them? There were too many mysteries about this man. Qiu Ming found himself even a little fascinated by Zhang Heng's past.
"The photos and videos were spread online by Mr. G's people," Qiu Ming said. Qiu Ming said, "Since Shengtang Morgan chose to seal off the first level of space, it's to prevent this matter from expanding. I understand the thoughts of the management very well. They're not worried that this matter can't be controlled, but if the losses are too great, then their financial statements for this quarter will become very ugly."
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