67 Chapter 6 : Jacon City

Jacon City....22h47

After crossing the desert, James arrived at the town of Jacon in barely an hour, he entered the town, which was relatively quiet.

It was a city of about 30000 inhabitants, it had a rather particular history since it is one of the first thirty Martian cities, it was used as a base for the space traveler at the beginning of the great space colonization about ten years ago.

But because of the big baby boom of the 90s, Mars quickly became inhabited, thanks to the population explosion new cities quickly emerged, the tax advantages made that extraterrestrial investors flocked to Mars like flies to a jar of honey.

Some statitians claimed that in this city more than 43% of the illicit goods from Mars would circulate, wanting to warn the general public of their findings they wanted to publish the results of their work but no journalists or magazines wanted to publish their findings, some of them disappeared mysteriously and even their corpses were never found.

The large multinatiplanets have made massive investments, encouraged by the government, quickly making Mars the fourth economic axis of the U.S.S. in barely two decades.

This led to the abandonment of cities like the Jacon City, which little by little became quite bad-looking cities, the crime rate in this city was higher than any other Martian city, the strangest thing was that the authorities turned a blind eye to the existence of Jacon City, rumors even claimed that the city was actually owned by a powerful politician.

James walked the streets of the city without any problem, he had hidden his face by wearing a cap, sunglasses and a hooded sweater, despite the bad reputation of the city, the streets, although quite busy, were orderly, the passers-by were all serene and going about their business, one could even think it was an ordinary city, but an observant person would immediately notice the strange behavior of the passers-by who were all trying to be as discreet as possible, no stores had windows, they just had a sign in front giving no information about what they were selling on top of that 90% of the passers-by were carrying weapons although they were all trying to conceal them James noticed this at a glance.

They didn't have a camera in the city either, there were no police or security guards and transport spaceships were constantly crossing the city's skies, which was suspicious for a small town.

James walked for about ten minutes through the dark alleys before finding a seedy motel he entered.

At the front desk, sitting behind a counter, there was a chubby bald man wearing a white tank top covered in sweat.

The man looked at James lazily yawned and then said in a hoarse voice.

"Welcome to the Combia Motel, the room is 10 USM a night, please pay in advance."

James looked at the shabby motel that even cockroaches won't want to stay in and was speechless, finally he sighed.

"What's your payment code?"

"163023H." Said the receptionist.

He opened his bag and turned on the tablet without the receptionist noticing and then did some manipulation.

The receptionist immediately received a notification of deposit 1000USM.

He got up from his chair and smiled a big smile and gave James a metal card on which was marked 17.

"This is your room sir, good stay in no hotel."

James took the map and went up to his room which consisted of only a bed, a table and two chairs without even a bathroom.

"What a scam, at least I didn't pay for anything."

James hadn't really paid the receptionist, he had just sent a fictitious notification to his Smart Gear, anyway was currently poorer than a homeless person because of the loss of his Smart-Gear.

He threw himself on the bed, put his bag next to him, took off his cap and glasses before yawning.

"I've done well so far, but I need to find out who's chasing me, who has enough power to chase me like this? And especially for what reasons? I never tell anyone about my secret, I have no enemies, there are only two possibilities: either someone has discovered my secrets thanks to a divinatory ability, memory reading or some other supernatural ability out of the ordinary, or it is because of my parents".

"Their accidents were already strange, a civilian spaceship accident in a government area is quite rare, the administration AI also informed me that my parents simply didn't exist in its given base which is impossible, the USE AI never makes a mistake."

"The two bastards who chased me first wanted to read my memory which proves that he's looking for something, the easiest thing would have been to let me do it there they would have seen that I didn't know anything about the information they wanted but that would have been tantamount to revealing my secret."

"I'm the only person in this world who knows the "worlds" of Survival World, this knowledge could start an intergalactic war."

"I must not allow anyone to read my thoughts, even at the cost of my life."

Lost in his thoughts he slowly fell asleep.