Green Plateau City was a famous magical equipment production base of the Federation. More than three hundred years ago, more than ten sects had produced dozens of shuttles of different brands in this place. It used to be the center of shuttles for the Federation.
However, the technologies of those sects were too outdated and soon lost out in the fierce market competition. To this day, many sects were struggling to survive by relying on their past achievements. Green Plateau City had become an old, lifeless, unemployed, and disorderly city.
As far as one's eyes could see, the sky of the city was covered in a bright green haze. The lackluster skyscrapers were partly visible in the haze, like vague giant beasts.
The haze was the sequela of the power rune arrays that had been produced with the outdated technologies. It had long been melted into the bones of Green Plateau City and could not be changed overnight.
Li Yao waddled into the haze.
Just now, at the reception desk of the train station, he had found the address of the nearest car rental company.
For the convenience of the tourists from other places, the car rental company was right next to the train station. It was only a five-minute walk away.
In the car rental company, Li Yao rented a 'Flying Pigeon' shuttle that was neither too old nor too new with the woman's ID card.
The shuttle of such a brand was a piece of local magical equipment produced in Green Plateau City. The biggest factory in the city was here. Therefore, it could be seen everywhere on the street. It was not eye-catching at all when it blended into the traffic.
Li Yao drove the 'Flying Pigeon' and wandered among the streets and alleys of Green Plateau City, his sharp eyes piercing into the depths of the haze.
Li Yao had been born in the magical equipment graveyard. Although he had not seen the bright side of the Federation, he had seen through all the darkness of the Federation. He knew that even in the most prosperous cities of the Federation, there was still a lot of debauchery going on. Other than the glamorous flowers, it was inevitable that some of them were leaking pus and smelly. They were clandestine corners.
It was needless to say that Green Plateau City, an old magical equipment production base with a high unemployment rate, was in decline.
Soon … He found the place that he was looking for.
It was a slum in the eastern suburb of Green Plateau City. Not far away was an abandoned factory that looked like a graveyard. Nearby were piles of scrap iron and garbage.
Perhaps a hundred years ago, when Green Plateau City was at its most prosperous, this place was once the largest refinement center of some large sect.
But now, there was only one name for this place, the Artifact Graveyard.
Li Yao was familiar with this kind of place and the people who lived here. It was like familiarizing himself with his toes.
The flying shuttles provided by the car rental company would install a locator in a more conspicuous place on the passenger seat to prevent the renter from driving away.
Without damaging the positioning god art, Li Yao removed the locator and stuffed it under the back seat.
He drove the 'Flying Pigeon' to one side of the magical equipment graveyard. Rolling down the window and opening half of the door, he dived into the smelly, messy magical equipment graveyard.
Ten minutes later, he stole the clothes of a scavenger from the magical equipment graveyard. He changed his appearance again and looked like a refiner that could be seen everywhere in Green Plateau City.
When he returned to his original spot, the Flying Pigeon was gone.
One was unlocked. Placing a shuttle that was sixty to seventy percent new next to the magical equipment graveyard was no different from placing a piece of meat that was still dripping blood next to the mouths of a school of piranhas.
God only knew where the 'Flying Pigeon' had been driven to.
Li Yao smiled and walked back to the downtown unhurriedly.
It was lunchtime. The few cheap and delicious chain restaurants in Green Plateau City were all crowded with customers.
To ease the anxiety of the customers who were waiting in line, in the lobby of some of the restaurants, there would be crystal processors. For the customers who were waiting in line, there would be free crystal processors.
However … Few people would use such crystal processors, because most of them were carrying a portable crystal processor with them. The crystal processors were more than enough to satisfy the basic functions of the customers during the short wait.
Li Yao found a crystal processor without any trouble. He browsed through the latest information for three minutes and left the restaurant.
Next, his target was the largest residential area in Green Plateau City.
In the new residential areas that had been built in recent decades, there were often well-equipped underground parking lots and garages to ease the parking shortage of the residents. There were also round-the-clock surveillance and responsible security guards.
However, in the residential areas that had a history of more than a hundred years, most of the shuttles were parked on the ground. There was not much space available. The security guards were just pretending, too. There were not many surveillance cameras, either.
With his hands in his pockets, Li Yao walked on the bumpy road of the residential area while glancing at the shuttles on both sides of the road.
He was not looking for the fastest shuttles, nor was he looking for the most popular shuttles that were least likely to be targeted.
It was not until he reached the third residential area that Li Yao found his target.
It was a shuttle that was parked in a corner of the garden. Judging from the thin layer of dust on the shell and the rust on the power rune arrays, it had not been driven for at least three months.
Li Yao grinned. He did not know why, either. In many old neighborhoods, there were always such shuttles that had been parked for a year and a half without any reason, occupying a precious parking space, but nobody drove them away.
Naturally, the property owners of the residential areas were troubled by such shuttles. However, it was impossible for them to find the owner of the shuttles.
Nobody would care if such shuttles were driven away, nor would they report the case to the police.
Li Yao whistled softly and snapped his fingers. The door of the shuttle was opened in squeaking noises.
In the garden of the residential area, there were only a few grannies who were basking in the sun and a few girls who were jumping rope. Nobody paid any attention to him.
Naturally, the shuttle was in the worst condition. Its spiritual energy had been drained, too.
However, with Li Yao's help, it was not a problem at all.
Li Yao completed the maintenance of the shuttle in five minutes and drove it out of Green Plateau City in twenty.
When he left Green Plateau City, he intentionally passed by the train station.
Although he did not have any proof, he keenly sensed that the atmosphere in the train station was much more intense than a moment ago. Several vendors, cleaners, and policemen did not look right.
Narrowing his eyes, he looked to the north. At the north exit of Green Plateau City, especially at the air checkpoint leading to the capital city, there was a long queue. It was obvious that the inspection had been upgraded.
His third identity had been seen through. The Secret Sword Bureau had reached Green Plateau City.
"That's really fast."
Li Yao whistled and gave Guo Chunfeng ninety-nine points for his professionalism.
It was a pity that ninety-nine points were far from enough to catch Vulture Li Yao!
Li Yao drove the shuttle dutifully, neither too fast nor too slow. He changed lanes according to the instructions of the traffic lights, stopped when he should, and accelerated when he should.
Very soon, he left the south side of Green Plateau City. The inspection had not been upgraded yet. He rolled down the window, revealing his unshaven face. Then, he was waved down and left.
He went all the way south, in the opposite direction of the capital city. He was getting farther and farther away from the capital city.
Half an hour later, he stopped on a quiet road in the countryside. After confirming that there were no surveillance cameras nearby, he absorbed the ragged shuttle into his Cosmos Ring, leaving nothing behind.
The shuttle was gone from the world just like that. Nobody could find any trace of it anymore.
Li Yao walked for twenty minutes on the road in the countryside and came to Liuhe City, a small town near Green Plateau City.
The town had a crystal train station the size of a sparrow, too. Two pairs of crystal trains left for the capital city every day.
But Li Yao's target was not them but the train that only ran once a week to East Seagull Port, a coastal fishing port nine hundred kilometers away.
It was 7: 22 p.m. right now.
There were forty-four minutes to go before the 'Gao-338' train to East Seagull Port.
There were three and a half days to go before the much-anticipated hundred-day memorial ceremony.
Li Yao was three hundred and thirty kilometers away from the capital city.
…
In the command center of the Demon Execution Division of the Secret Sword Bureau in the capital city …
After a day of hard work, countless data analysts and field agents of the Secret Sword Bureau worked hard and finally retrieved the most valuable clues from the gargantuan data!
Vulture Li Yao indeed had a third identity!
Three days ago, in North Tranquility City, a female citizen bought a train ticket to Green Plateau City in the capital circle the next day with cash in the ticket office.
However, when the female citizen was contacted, she discovered that she was still in North Tranquility City and did not intend to go anywhere. She did not know that she had bought a train ticket, and the contact information that she left when she bought the ticket was not hers, either!
Also, three days ago, she went to a bank in North Tranquility City for business and accidentally lost her ID card. She even had a big fight with the bank staff!
In the end, it was the bank staff who found her ID card during the inspection after work and told her to pick it up the next day!
After the examination of the technicians in the branch of the Secret Sword Bureau in North Tranquility City, the ID card was real, but it did not belong to the female citizen. The spiritual stripes on the surface of the ID card had been tampered with delicately!
According to the technicians, there were no more than five refiners in the entire Federation who were capable of altering the spiritual stripes on the surface of an ID card to such a vivid level.
Then, everything was clear.
The first two fake identities were just a smokescreen. Vulture Li Yao did not pretend to be a middle-aged man, nor did he pretend to be a young man; he pretended to be a middle-aged woman!
It was a pity that it was already too late.
It took too much time to sift through the tremendous clues. By the time they locked onto the female citizen's identity and the information of the train, the crystal train to Green Plateau City had already arrived.
When the Secret Sword Agents arrived at the North Station of Green Plateau City, the female citizen that Li Yao pretended to be had already vanished into the hazy mist.
"Boss, I'm sorry."
Mosquito's eyes were red, and she was so sad that she could barely breathe.
"Alright. He hasn't run far yet. Also, all three of his fake identities have been exposed. We have grasped the methods of infiltration, too. Victory is very close to us!"
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