Chapter 144 - 45: Getting the Machine Tool
"Taiping Continent, oh Taiping Continent, still the same Taiping Continent."
The Old Captain drove the car, mumbling something, the scene outside the car window was different from the bustling city center and industrial zone of Santo Domingo, this prosperity mixed with decay surprised Lin Miao in the passenger seat.
Clearly there are skyscrapers everywhere, it could be seen that the city government and investors once held great investment expectations for this place and actually poured a lot of money into it.
But now these buildings put up are all semi-finished, many buildings are just capped but not decorated, you can even see vagabonds living in the collapsed buildings.
Of course, what stands out most are the two landmark buildings, Peizhuo Petrochemical Stadium and Jewel Green Tower, sealed up within high walls, like an overturned bowl covering what should have been the most prosperous area of Taiping Continent.
The Old Captain noticed Lin Miao seemed very interested in this place, so he explained along the way
"This is Dogtown... remnants of the unified war, after the midnight storm, it became the den of Colonel Kurt Hansen and his Netherworld Dog Team, the biggest global black market in Night City and the whole North America."
"Are you going to take me in?"
"Can’t do that, the Old Captain doesn’t have that ability, the cost of free entry identity verification in this ghost place is ridiculously high, connections and relations, they even review your ancestors up to eighteen generations, otherwise you can only enter but not leave, not even the king of gods can help, no one wants to hide in Dogtown unless they’re in trouble and can’t escape."
Reyes seemed completely unfazed showing weakness to his partner, if it was swapped with that old woman Wagako, she would probably say