When it came to efficiency in Chunming City, if the Mainframe claimed second place, probably no one would dare claim first. Less than twenty seconds after Sun Hang spoke, a brand-new driverless hovercar sped into the Heat Dissipation Pump Duct and stopped in front of him.
Sun Hang got into the car, then waved at Xue Yue, who was still standing there in a daze.
Xue Yue hesitated for a moment before climbing into the back seat.
Before Sun Hang's fingers even touched the hovercar's steering wheel, the vehicle started up again and sped toward the exit of the Heat Dissipation Pump Duct with the two of them inside.
"This is... my first time riding in a hovercar..." Xue Yue gripped the edge of the window tightly with all ten fingers, her expression both nervous and excited.
"You've never ridden in a hovercar?" Sun Hang froze for a moment—Chunming City was a "three-dimensional" city, so hovercars were an extremely important means of transportation. To make travel easier for residents, many automakers had introduced hovercars at different price points with strong support from the Federal Government. The cheapest hovercars had been priced as low as two hundred thousand apiece, about the same as a midrange automobile.
Even families who could not afford to buy a hovercar could rent public hovercars. Hovercar rental stations were practically everywhere in Chunming City. Though the rented hovercars were all unmanned and could only follow preset routes, making it impossible to enjoy driving oneself, the rental price was so low that it was no different from taking a taxi... For someone who had lived in Chunming City for years, Xue Yue saying this was her "first time riding in a hovercar" genuinely surprised Sun Hang.
Had she really been frugal to this extent...?
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