From the time Zhang Lisheng and Michelle had a dispute to the time he got on the black people's jeep and left in a hurry, only three to four minutes had passed. The process was so fast that nobody could react to it. After calming down, as long as a rational person pondered about it, they would notice that there were many things that did not make sense. The young man's behavior of walking into the trap was very strange.
Shocked by Michelle's increasingly panicked and crumbling mood, Deborah persuaded her for a while and an ominous premonition rose in her heart.
The scorching sun that could only be found in the desert during the harsh winter season shone on the tall girl's body wrapped in a thick woolen cloak, but it gradually could no longer bring her warmth.
She could not help but recall the smile that the black-haired young man in front of her had been wearing all along. Deborah's heart became colder and colder. "Y-You brother can't be that kind of perverted killer like the cannibal doctor in The Silence of the Lambs, right, Michelle?
Even if he is, there are many people in the hotel … "
"We'll die! Everyone will die …" The psychological trauma caused by the horrifying experience a long time ago.
The grievances and despair accumulated from the drastic changes in life caused by the sudden war that happened more than a year ago.
An inexplicable sense of humiliation erupted in unison, causing Michelle to mutter the same sentence with tears gushing out of her eyes.
"Sh * t! What the hell is this?
Ashley, Annie, take care of Michelle. I'll go back to the hotel! " Deborah yelled at her two clueless companions who were at a loss. She shook off Michelle's tight grip on her wrist and ran towards the slums far away.
With the healthy physique of a professional athlete, she soon passed through the bustling streets and stepped into a completely different world of hardship, poverty, and evil.
Ignoring the sneaky gazes of the surrounding people hiding in cars and tattered cardboard houses, as well as the young men in ragged clothes wandering on both sides of the street that looked like a garbage dump with an indescribable sense of decadence and despair in their eyes, but when they saw the beautiful running girls, Deborah came to a three-story cement building while panting.
The outer walls of the low building were mottled and rough, and the windows were neither round nor square. Although colorful paint was used to cover them, they still looked rough, as if the construction had been hastily stopped in the middle of a construction.
Even so, it was still very eye-catching against the surrounding 'houses' that were made of scrapped cars and pasted with newspapers as walls.
"Angela, are you in there?" After catching her breath and calming her emotions, Deborah looked at the signboard of 'Paradise Hotel' above her head and tentatively pushed the wooden door open gently before shouting.
The only response she got was silence.
The tall woman hesitated for a moment before she walked into the room with light steps. She looked around carefully and saw a wooden counter on her right. Next to the counter was a fridge filled with expired drinks that were still being sold at a high price, but were powered by a solar generator on the roof.
The two long sofas against the wall on her left, the round sofa around the marble coffee table, and other furnishings were the same as usual. The only difference was that the sexy blonde beauty who should have been standing behind the counter waiting for the 'fish' to take the bait and collect the money, and the strong men who should have been sitting on the sofa, showing off their muscles while chatting, had disappeared.
The unusually quiet environment seemed normal, but the woman's unique intuition made the inexplicable uneasiness in Deborah's heart grow bigger and bigger. She staggered another two steps and no longer had the courage to continue to walk in.
"Thump, thump, thump …" The sound of her own heartbeat became louder and louder in the girl's ears. The heavy mental pressure caused her to suddenly explode and shout out all the names that she could think of in her almost blank mind at the top of her lungs, "Angela, Azania, Doron … Are you guys there? Oh God! Can anyone answer me?"
After roaring for a while, Deborah suddenly heard a gloomy voice coming from the staircase in the corner. "Miss Deborah, why are you back?"
"M-Mr. Lisheng." Turning her head to look at the black-haired young man who was walking down the stairs, the girl froze. Suppressing the fear in her heart, she lied, "I-I seem to have a little fever, so I wanted to go back to my room to rest for a while. In the end, I found out that there's actually no one in the 'hotel' at all …"
"Oh, when Mr. April and I brought me in, we realized that they were gone." Zhang Lisheng shrugged and said with a smile, "Then, he said that he went to look for them and left as well.
I've been waiting for you, but you're the only one who came back. I don't have time to wait any longer, so I'm about to leave. Speaking of which, it's really strange for a hotel with 34 strong security guards and waiters to suddenly become empty.
But in these strange times, anything can happen, can't it, Miss Deborah? "
He listened to the black-haired young man's suggestive words.
Looking at his smiling but cold eyes that did not have a trace of warmth, Deborah could only feel an invisible terrifying giant palm reaching into her chest and clutching her heart.
The blood on her face that was originally flushed from being too excited instantly vanished. She nodded unconsciously as her body trembled to cater to Zhang Lisheng. "Y-Yes, Mr. Lisheng. Y-Yes …"
"Very well, Miss Deborah. Smart people can live safer in any era. I believe you don't want to see me again, so I won't bid farewell to you." Zhang Lisheng nodded with a smile and left the cement room with light footsteps.
The moment his back disappeared, Deborah collapsed to the ground powerlessly. She did not even dare to cry. After sobbing for a long time, she finally had the strength to struggle to get up. At this time, the young man had already walked back to the center of Feren City and brought Michelle away.
According to his previous plan, Zhang Lisheng wanted to get in touch with the LS Group under his name after entering the Noah World. Then, through the group's connections, he would get in touch with the US Federal Councilors who had prepared for a rainy day financial support. However, now that he had Michelle, this burden, he had no choice but to change his plan.
Fortunately, even though the LS Group had encountered a financial problem, in order to show its strength, it still had a symbolic branch in Feren City, which was regarded as the political hub of the western hemisphere of the Earth. For this reason, the young man did not spend much effort to settle Michelle down. The next morning, he took a free public bus across the desert and successfully entered the Noah World.
Most of the passengers in the bus were US citizens who were lucky enough to get the migration opportunity through the lottery. When the bus arrived at the station on the outskirts of the oasis city, New Washington A, which was the closest to the spatial gate, Zhang Lisheng and a group of refugees in ragged clothes who had a dazed expression on their faces after the pleasant surprise had just subsided.
After standing under the hazy rain clouds for a while, he looked around and walked to a gray minibus parked on the side of the road outside the station.
When he opened the door and saw the Earth industry agent whom he had not seen for a long time sitting in the car, the young man smiled and said, "Hi, Charlie. Good afternoon." Then, he entered the car.
"Oh boss, we haven't seen each other for such a long time. I thought you'd give me a warm hug." Charlie, who was frowning slightly, also smiled when he saw his boss whom he had not seen for a long time. In a slightly excited manner, he said.
"There will be a hug, Charlie, but we have to solve the company's problem first." Zhang Lisheng shrugged.
"Your appearance has already solved half of the trouble encountered by the LS Group." Charlie frowned unconsciously again but said in a relaxed tone, "The oasis city that Noah started to build a year and a half ago has now been filled with immigrants.
A new round of development has been put on the agenda of the Senate. With you around, our company can undertake the construction of the slaughterhouses in those new oasis cities and obtain financing opportunities … "
"Charlie, Charlie, Charlie!" Zhang Lisheng interrupted the agent's vision and pointed at the crowded traffic outside. "Humans have already been reduced to millions of people hiding in a small oasis of less than 1,000 square kilometers, struggling at death's door. How can they still have the energy to care about some ecological slaughter?
I'm afraid that beef and mutton have already walked out of the supermarket and entered the boutique stores to stay together with luxury goods such as Louis Vuitton.
Humans can turn skyscrapers into terraced fields, but they can't transform them into pastures. How much financing can several dozens of slaughterhouses that are destined to have poor business bring us? Besides, there's also the obstruction from Tina's father. "
"Boss, it's all my fault for being too ambitious. I didn't expect the situation to become so bad all of a sudden …" Charlie became silent for a while before whispering weakly and dejectedly.
"No, it's not your fault, Charlie. After all, nobody can predict the future." Zhang Lisheng shook his head and suddenly asked, "How's the order in the Noah World now? The government doesn't have centralized control like the cities on Earth, right?"
"Of course not, boss. The federation is the freest and most democratic country in the world."
"Oh, you wouldn't think so if you were still in New York now." The young man shrugged and said, "But this is not important. What's important is that since Noah is an orderly society, then our problem is very easy to solve.
Tell our creditors that LS is willing to use gold to pay off the debt. Even though it's crazy to send a plane to New York to transport gold now, if each ounce of gold is only used to pay off the debt of 500, no, 300 dollars, I think the profit should be enough for those bankers and investors to withstand the pressure from the old rich families and go crazy this time. "
"Boss, you mean to use your gold river in the Shrimp World No. 2 to pay off the debt?" Charlie asked in shock.
"Yes, Charlie. I'll write a document for them and bring that document to the Shrimp World No. 2 to meet any aborigine. They'll be able to harvest tons of gold sand right away."
"B-But is this alright? This kind of thing will definitely alert the federal government …"
"It's alright, Charlie. My biggest purpose in coming to the Noah World this time is to contact the federal government.
This trick is called 'throwing stones to ask for directions' in my hometown. Didn't you say that the Noah World is a place of freedom and nationality? In fact, it doesn't need to be so beautiful. It's enough as long as it's like this on the surface so that those politicians and generals won't dare to do whatever they want, "A faint smile appeared on the corner of the young man's mouth as he said confidently.
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