CHAPTER 303: CHAPTER 189: ENTERING THE GORGE - 190: HIGH TECHNOLOGY (TWO-IN-ONE)

He first pushed Xiao Moshan to a closed booth at the entrance, where a middle-aged woman sat inside.

He spoke up, "The Identity Card was damaged in the battle, exchange Energy Block Silver Notes for a Universal Card."

The woman glanced at him, then at Xiao Moshan in the wheelchair, nodding slightly, "How much to exchange?"

In the Gorge, personal identity and wealth cards are bound together, and almost no one uses cash.

Many transaction venues are so advanced that cash cannot be used, and large cash transactions are strictly prohibited.

However, Universal Cards do exist, which are equivalent to Nameless Cards on Blue Star.

After all, if the Identity Card is lost, getting a replacement takes some time, and you can’t just have people starve in an inconvenient place.

By right, exchanging for a Universal Card, if not using silver coins or Gorge Coin, still requires some procedures.

But the middle-aged woman understood, being connected to Central City, and seeing the other party with a disability.

These two clearly have experienced battles, and Energy Block Silver Notes are a stable hard currency in the Gorge.

What she did was simply save the procedure and directly exchange—it would be done the same way with anyone else.

Qu Jianlei took out ten Energy Block Silver Notes worth a thousand each and handed them over.

The woman took the Silver Notes, looking at him in surprise, "Why so much?"

Even in the Gorge, these Silver Notes are exchanged at one hundred per Energy Block.

Ten thousand Silver Notes can exchange for one hundred Energy Blocks, which isn’t small in the Gorge.

In Blue Star terms, such a large cash flow already has suspicions of money laundering.

Qu Jianlei pointed to the public taxi in the distance, "I can’t keep pushing my comrade around; renting a car requires a deposit."

Renting with an Identity Card naturally doesn’t require a deposit, but a Universal Card really does.

The woman nodded, agreeing to his explanation, and took out ten one-thousand Universal Cards.

Qu Jianlei also took out some small denomination Energy Block Silver Notes and exchanged them for some small-value Universal Cards and Gorge Coin.

The middle-aged woman couldn’t help but exclaim, "You two really... made a good haul this time."

Sitting in the wheelchair, Xiao Moshan replied expressionlessly, "Still far from the cost of limb regeneration!"

All you see is my gains, didn’t you notice I’m disabled?

The woman awkwardly laughed and didn’t say anything more.

Under Xiao Moshan’s guidance, Qu Jianlei chose a car and inserted four thousand cards; only then did the car automatically unlock.

Even though it’s a public taxi, with such a high deposit, the level is not low, and the intelligence is high.

Noticing the wheelchair, the car body directly lowered, and a board extended—although at a slight angle, it was considered barrier-free.

The car seats and other items inside were also very intelligent, automatically sliding open to make room for the wheelchair.

Xiao Moshan rolled the wheelchair himself into the car, then ordered, "Autopilot, please."

Qu Jianlei glared at him, "Without an Identity Card, I wish it weren’t autopilot."

He voiced a place name, and a touch screen automatically popped up in the driver’s seat to verify if the location was correct.

"Confirm correct," Qu Jianlei muttered, unable to hold back a soft sigh.

Now he really started to believe that the Gorge had inherited pre-apocalyptic technology, feeling stronger than Blue Star.

Even the shared car levels were this high; the cars at Central City couldn’t compare here at all.

The buildings in the Gorge were generally not low, usually around ten stories, but the tallest were only about thirty or forty stories.

The shared car’s speed wasn’t low, reaching seventy to eighty kilometers per hour, weaving through traffic.

It took about thirty minutes to reach the destination, covering nearly forty kilometers.

After getting off, Qu Jianlei deposited coins, took the deposit, and then said, "Return the car."

The shared car automatically drove away, and Xiao Moshan softly sighed, "The price has gone up."

Qu Jianlei’s mouth twitched, unable to resist asking, "How many people are here?"

"Just two or three million," Xiao Moshan casually replied, "Try not to talk about those things in public."

Qu Jianlei pushed Xiao Moshan to a sports equipment store, buying a highly intelligent automatic wheelchair.

The wheelchair’s price was very affordable, surprisingly less than eight hundred.

It’s a self-propelled wheelchair, responding to various commands, and it can even pop up a foldable rain cover during rain.

Qu Jianlei asked if the store recycled old wheelchairs, and the owner gave him ten silver coin discounts.

However, as he was about to leave, the store owner called after him, "Take your trash with you!"

He pointed at the old wheelchair, full of disdain.

Qu Jianlei was a bit surprised hearing this, "Isn’t this offset by ten coins?"

"Consider it your garbage disposal fee," the owner impatiently waved a hand, "Walk on, walk on."

Garbage disposal fee? Qu Jianlei found it a bit absurd; even as a B-level Warrior, he couldn’t escape hauling trash?

Suppressing his confusion, he pushed the broken wheelchair away.

In Central City, the cost of that wheelchair wouldn’t be less than one hundred silver coins, with material costs not less than forty.

But in the Gorge, it was actually considered trash.

Soon, Qu Jianlei found the owner was right—dumping trash isn’t allowed on the streets.

And such a large wheelchair, wanting to throw it somewhere casually... it’s impossible since cameras are everywhere.

Cameras in Central City were already quite dense, yet there were still many blind spots; but the Gorge... Xiao Moshan said there were none.

Of course, none is relative, as places like public restrooms... there absolutely couldn’t be.