Chen Yiyang called over the tour guide and mentioned the location shown in the intelligence, saying he wanted to visit there as a tourist.

"That's a black neighborhood, and the security might be quite poor," the tour guide said hesitantly.

"Oh, I see."

Chen Yiyang instantly lost interest in going.

A few tens of thousands of dollars' worth of items are nowhere near as valuable as my own life.

"But boss, what are you planning to do over there?" the tour guide asked curiously.

"I'm just interested and want to take a stroll around there," Chen Yiyang replied.

"Our company has a bulletproof extended Lincoln. Boss, you can rent it and take a drive around there.

If any danger arises, we'll just drive away. Moreover, the bodyguards you hired all have gun permits, and they have guns to protect you."

"Then let's rent one."

In the United States, as long as you're willing to spend money, there's no question about the quality of service.

That afternoon, Chen Yiyang sat in the extended bulletproof Lincoln sent by the security company.

But once in the car, Chen Yiyang remembered something and curiously asked the guide.

"As far as I remember, isn't California a very wealthy and technologically advanced state in the United States? How come security has worsened now?"

"Boss, that's an outdated impression," the tour guide said frankly,

"California now has high prices, poor security, and high taxes. It indeed houses some remarkable tech companies and has San Francisco as a famous landmark.

But in actuality, California currently has a fiscal deficit of seventy billion, while notorious places like Texas and Florida have less than half of that."

The tour guide, seeing that Chen Yiyang is from Huaxia, didn't worry about any comments getting online and openly commented,

"Moreover, our governor is an idiot who has always encouraged illegal immigrants to come to California. Any illegal immigrant can get legal documents after staying in California for a few years.

But even with the governor being so welcoming to immigrants, California's population continues to decline. Do you know why?"

Chen Yiyang didn't even need to guess.

It's because the original residents of California have been leaving.

There aren't walls between US states.

Anyone with some capability would choose to go to cities with better security and lower taxes.

Each US state's rights are vast, but there's a significant disparity between states.

In Huaxia, population movement between provinces is due to economic issues.

But in the United States, the reasons are far more complex. Once the population begins to decline, it's unstoppable.

"In short, the current governor of California is like a pile of crap." The tour guide felt like cursing by the end of his rant,

"We barely managed to pass a law with seventy percent approval to cancel the zero-dollar purchases.

The governor expressed shock and sadness, questioning why the voters would support this cancellation. The reason is that the prisons in California are overcrowded and can't accept more inmates.

If you ask me, we should strongly support the construction of private prisons so that we'll never run out of prison facilities to use."

Alright.

What the tour guide said was quite overwhelming.

Chen Yiyang could only be left speechless.

After all, the US private prisons have had scandals where judges took bribes to send teenagers to prison as laborers due to a lack of inmate labor.

Oh, and that judge, after serving a few years in prison, was even pardoned by the president.

The great United States operates under its own unique conditions.

Nevertheless, the foundation of the United States is still substantial.

Chen Yiyang sat in the car, admiring the scenery of the black neighborhood from the window. Though the streets were disorderly, the infrastructure was well-built.

In comparison, it would at least be on par with a mid-tier city domestically.

There were some homeless people, but perhaps due to the good welfare in California, there weren't many homeless without places to go on the streets.

Of course, the occasional sound of gunshots in the distance reminded Chen Yiyang not to get off the car easily.

The car quickly arrived at a street.

"Wait, stop here," Chen Yiyang instructed the driver.

He saw from a distance that there were more than a dozen black people setting up stalls on the street.

These black individuals placed a piece of cloth on the ground, laying a bunch of luxury bags on top.

Each bag was tied with a string. One end tied to the bags, and the other was wrapped around the wrist of a young black man.

"Oh, these black people are selling the goods they've acquired from their zero-dollar purchases again," the tour guide said nonchalantly.

"Why do they have strings tied to their wrists and the bags? Are they worried about someone else taking them?" Chen Yiyang asked curiously.

"No," the guide replied. They are worried about the police coming over for questioning.

If the police come, they can just grab the bags and drive away."

Chen Yiyang looked at his current location.

He noticed that the place mentioned in the intelligence for buying commemorative gold coins was also here.

Chen Yiyang leaned on the car window, observing closely. He discovered the commemorative gold coin mentioned in the intelligence was hung as a decoration on a bag sold by a young black man.

So Chen Yiyang pretended to be very interested in the black street vending.

He pointed at the bag and said to the tour guide, "I want to buy that bag. Can someone help me do it?"

"I'll do it, boss," a white bodyguard volunteered.

"Here," Chen Yiyang pulled out over a thousand USD from his bag and handed it over.

After getting out of the car, the white bodyguard quickly attracted the nearby black people's attention.

But after realizing this white guy was just buying something for his employer, the other black guys seemed quite intrigued and showed their products to Chen Yiyang, who was sitting in the car.

However, they did not have any thoughts of robbing.

After all, they aren't foolish.

If caught for zero-dollar shopping, they won't be held in the police station for more than a few hours before being released.

If they dared to rob a wealthy individual,

those people could genuinely sponsor the police department to mobilize all their forces to capture them.

After some negotiation, the white bodyguard returned with the bag Chen Yiyang wanted.

"It cost a total of four hundred dollars, boss," the white bodyguard handed both the money and the bag to Chen Yiyang.

Chen Yiyang only accepted the bag.

"You guys can split the remaining money among yourselves."

"Thanks, boss," the bodyguards expressed their gratitude to Chen Yiyang one after another.

In the evening, back at the hotel,

Chen Yiyang carefully removed the gold coin from the bag.

He had to admit, the gold coin was quite beautiful.

However, Chen Yiyang had no intention of taking the gold coin back as a collector's item.

Selling it off in the United States was the best option.

This windfall could exactly cover all his expenses for this trip to the United States.

Rounding it up, it equaled pulling a fast one on the US.

So, Chen Yiyang called the owner of the pawnshop where he had previously bought an Eastern Zhou carving and asked him to come to the hotel.

As one of Chen Yiyang's valuable clients, the owner didn't mind working overtime.

So he immediately took a cab and rushed over.

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