The night breeze carried the fresh scent of grass and trees across his cheeks, slightly cool yet comfortable.
As Cheng Ye stepped once more into Firewood’s domain, his mind flicked through introductions about Firewood and New Province, unfolding like pages turned by the wind.
The Firewood Shelter City, rooted in the New Province, was already the largest province in the East Continent during the Old Era.
At the beginning of the New Era, amidst the global historical blockade and territorial redivision, due to Firewood’s presence, its territory expanded continuously like a sponge absorbing water, eventually settling at nearly two million square kiloters.
This exaggerated change wasn’t due to Firewood’s proactive expansion but because the two land blocks bordering New Province were both orange-red lockdown areas!
A significant number of Extraordinary Earth-bound Spirits were active within, bizarre and unpredictable.
The relatively safe areas of these two land blocks were all incorporated into the New Province, resulting in the current changes.
"Xu, I’ll take Inspector Cheng for a tour to the checkpoint, borrowing your Flying Wing Assault Unit for a bit."
Li Changfeng called out.
Xu responded imdiately, turning to unlock the flying wing device parked by the roadside.
With a snap, the black wings unfolded; although they didn’t seem remarkable in the sky, at this mont, the wingspan unexpectedly reached nearly four ters.
"Inspector Li, I don’t know how to use this?"
Although Cheng Ye was sowhat intrigued, he was still a bit apprehensive about riding this to the skies.
If it flew too high and he fell, he’d have to activate the Horned Starfish to save himself mid-air, which would be quite a waste.
"Don’t worry, this thing is also... well, it’s very easy to operate."
Li Changfeng patted the side wing of the flying wing, producing a dull tallic sound, "eting is fate. Maybe in the future, I’ll have to work in Happiness City too. If we always call each other Inspector, it feels too distant. Why don’t you call Changfeng, and I’ll call you Cheng Ye, how about that?"
"Sure!"
Cheng Ye nodded happily, but inside, he was quite pleased. Drawing their relationship closer, Li Changfeng’s cooperation value on the panel indeed ticked up a bit, stopping steadily at 31%, just crossing the threshold for item searching.
However, Cheng Ye wasn’t in a hurry to search.
Experience told him that without an Inspector in the mix, the success rate wasn’t high.
Moreover, searching for items isn’t like intelligence; it’s not a guaranteed hit.
Currently, each search requires 50% energy usage. Even if he was fully charged, he’d only have two chances.
It would be best to accumulate so cooperation value; it might increase the hidden success rate.
"Co on, get up here!"
Following Li Changfeng’s instructions, Cheng Ye stepped onto the Flying Wing Assault Unit. It really wasn’t much different from a balance scooter, just with an extra layer of safety protection.
The mont he stepped on it, a strong suction force imdiately ca from below.
Even if Cheng Ye intentionally lifted his foot, that suction force still held him firmly, its power ridiculously strong.
"A level 35 energy response, not bad."
Li Changfeng glanced at the display screen at the front of the assault unit, "This automatically detects based on the user’s strength, the greater the strength, the stronger the suction, ensuring you won’t fall from high altitudes."
"What’s yours?" Cheng Ye curiously asked.
"About the sa as you, 62."
Li Changfeng said nonchalantly.
Good gracious.
Cheng Ye’s mouth twitched; that’s almost double, and he calls it about the sa?
Li Changfeng noticed his confusion and waved with a smile: "I’m 31 this year. How old are you? When I was your age, I probably couldn’t even reach a 15 energy response."
"Uh..."
Cheng Ye smiled awkwardly, having montarily forgotten the age factor.
Since crossing over, his rivals had always been among the established and veteran, rarely peers.
As for soone like Wang Kang, having an energy response of 10 would already be impressive.
"Alright, it’s your first ti using it, better to have the control stick for stability."
Li Changfeng pressed a button on the front of the unit, and a silver-gray control stick clicked out, automatically extending to a height reachable by Cheng Ye’s arm, "Direction is easily controlled, tilt your body front, back, left, and right, it will follow."
He then guided Cheng Ye’s hand onto the control stick: "Adjust the altitude with this, push forward to descend, pull back to climb. Rest assured, it cos with automatic obstacle avoidance. Even if you close your eyes intending to hit a wall, it’ll turn itself away."
"Wanna give it a try?"
It sounded simple indeed, but when Cheng Ye actually got in, he was still a bit tense.
He gripped the control stick, gently pulling it back, and the flying wing suddenly emitted a gentle hum.
The energy rings at the bottom instantaneously glowed with a pale purple light, and the entire unit whooshed into the air.
"Don’t be afraid, it’s only two ters off the ground, pull back a bit more." Li Changfeng’s voice echoed from below, infused with amusent.
Looking down, Cheng Ye saw it was indeed not far from the ground, hovering steadily, without a single tremor.
Gaining courage, he pulled back with more force, prompting the chanical wings on either side to suddenly accelerate their flapping. A gust of wild wind surged, and the entire unit bood upwards, shooting up to over twenty ters in a blink!
"Whoa, this thing is fierce!"
Startled by the explosive power, Cheng Ye exclaid softly, as the fierce wind made his cheeks tingle.
He instinctively glanced around, but the scenery in his view made him forget his discomfort imdiately.
The street below shrank into a checkerboard, the crowd busy in front of the Fog Cave beca small moving dots, and the buildings that needed craning to view earlier now stood eye-level with him.
Further away, the entirety of Zone B4 of the Firewood Shelter City unfolded.
Low-rise houses clustered like building blocks around tall buildings, streetlights twinkled like stars winding with the streets into rivers.
The clean and tidy asphalt roads, even in the dead of night, showed a few streams of car lights, flowing gently in the night.
This wasn’t the kind of run-down scene marked with a millennium imprint found in the Happiness City’s Buffer Zone.
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