The black supercar sped through the bizarre streets.

Gino sat in the passenger seat, her pupils constricting, with fine data flickering faintly, while the skyscrapers in her vision were segmented into data grids, and a glowing path continuously extended forward.

John gripped the steering wheel, his prosthetic eye synchronizing navigation data, as colorful advertisements slid across his face through the glass.

[Eden City - Chengxin Square Commercial District]

The most powerful companies in the city have settled here.

The parliament building stood proudly among a cluster of stars, with a fountain garden directly in front.

Surrounding it were hundreds of concealed projection devices, playing the city's most effective and largest holographic advertisements non-stop, 24 hours a day, visible even in bright daylight.

There were several other similar devices.

For example, the gang's floating emblem before the Bolago Club was blown up, and the New Year's parade dragon at Sakura Cross Street.

Chengxin Square has no specific ownership rights.

Whenever a company needs to promote a product, they rent it for a period.

At this moment, the holographic projection showed two ninjas dressed in leather coats.

They wore the Raqi Group's latest laser glasses, with two models of eyeballs and compatible lens modules floating beside them, wielding customized samurai swords with three precision calibration options available based on package selection.

The two models, dozens of meters tall, stood back to back, constantly striking various poses around the central garden.

Silver Rider 577 roared past beneath their feet.

John drifted around a small fountain, switched gears, revved the engine, and climbed a gently sloping wide staircase, cutting through an internal path to reach the entrance of the commercial street.

This is the most prosperous area of Eden City.

Corporate elites and social celebrities all congregate here, as evidenced by the surrounding traffic:

Luxury business cars and top-tier supercars have noticeably increased.

The hovercar flight paths above were densely interwoven, and the compact drone loading platforms appeared as if moss proliferated from skyscrapers.

The intercity rails and public subway were perpetually at full capacity as well.

"Stop here, look over there; there's something worth watching."

Gino gestured to John to look at the large screen in the center.

It was an enormous curved screen suspended at the crossroads, live broadcasting tonight's "Cyber Night Language" debate program.

The provocative host.

The complex background of the capital.

The guests arguing with flushed faces.

The audience eager to tear the screen apart.

...

The theme of this episode was public opinion on the Raqi Group.

As one of the strongest forces in the gang wars, the Eastern People had caused multiple public hazards in Eden City, and the capital behind the scenes, the Raqi Group, couldn't be disentangled from the Bolago Club explosion incident.

John listened but felt something was off.

The on-site guests had a particularly high tolerance for the Eastern People.

No one mentioned the previously exposed illegal trades and even attributed the AI malfunction case at the Sex Doll Club to the negligence of Internet Surveillance...

"Is there even a controversy about this?"

John frowned deeply as he listened.

Among the guests was a brown-haired, red-lipped journalist from the American Insights World Broadcasting Company, even praising Raqi Haruhiko's contributions to urban construction.

John had personally experienced that intercity train derailment incident, and now it finally had a follow-up.

Upon arriving in Eden City, Raqi Haruhiko immediately invested in restarting urban construction.

They didn't deny the train derailment caused by the AI malfunction, directly funding the reconstruction of the damaged sections and public facilities.

Not only that…

The Raqi Group also bid on the abandoned sections, building secondary factories, and even promised to provide full equipment upgrades and two years of maintenance for all city road damages during the gang wars to regain the lost parliamentary seats!

This was a massive funding of tens of billions of Euros.

Raqi Haruhiko, with his immense financial power, profoundly influenced the political and economic standing of the Eastern People in Eden City.

Behind these projects were vast job opportunities.

The Raqi Group rejected municipal department's bidding proposals, giving all these opportunities to ordinary citizens, allowing many people left without direction in the gang wars to find a means of making a living.

This was also a key factor in the political tide reversal.

John inexplicably linked this to Damascus Camp — the projects Wanderers took on in Eden City were squeezed out by the Eastern People; it's unclear whether this had direct connections with Raqi Haruhiko's agenda.

But what is foreseeable is:

Aside from the West District, each plot in Eden City will see a large number of construction barriers, painted all over with Raqi Group's black and white logos,

and reportedly there have been changes in parliamentary seats.

The aristocrats of Eden City were very averse to the aggressive invasion by the Eastern People, but having schemed against each other for years, they hadn't come up with a unified stance yet.

John didn't understand politics and never cared about the upper classes, so the discussion of city rights left him baffled.

He turned to look at Gino.

"We came all this way just to hear them talk shit?"

"Pay attention to that female guest."

Gino indicated the news reporter called Sura Berg.

At this point, a guest mentioned that Raqi Haruhiko executed an assassination plan at the Bolago Club, posing a significant threat to the safety of many public figures.

And the terrorists on site could cause mass casualties because they used weapons and experimental prosthetic bodies produced by Raqi Military Industry.

The journalist named Sura stood up.

"I have evidence to prove you're talking nonsense."

She walked out of her seat and clapped her hands, and the screen immediately switched to a first-person perspective recording of the field enforcement scene.

Special task force members were slicing open Long Chuan Ze's body amidst the burning ruins, providing a real-time report — no core technology from the Raqi Group was found, modifications were extremely exaggerated, the surgical techniques were superb, but the materials were stuff that could be bought on the black market.

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