Xu Huo was going to the library, so he left the painted woman at the hotel. Before leaving, he specifically told her to stay in the room and not wander around.
The painted woman agreed readily enough, but the way her eyes darted about made it clear she felt guilty.
Xu Huo didn't say anything else. He took a flying vehicle to the library.
Libraries established by the game often held most of the information about a Sub-district. They even had information that couldn't be found on a Jixin Terminal.
After entering with his library card, Xu Huo found that this library was more like a large public library. There were no limits on the number of Players, and people could come and go freely.
He picked a terminal inside, switched it on, and began looking up information on all the cities along the tourist route.
His main focus, of course, was Cat Fruit Town and Cat Eye City.
With a terminal to compare the information across locations, there was no need for him to screen the records of so many towns himself first. He began by focusing on the big cities.
District 001's pharmaceutical industry was indeed flourishing. More than half of its twelve big cities were named after some kind of medicine, and Ren Zhi Pharmaceutical was among them. Its city was called Ren Zhi Pharmaceutical Industry City. By controlling medicinal herb-producing regions, these businesses had all become industry giants. Each had at least one drug that other companies couldn't replace.
Of course, these drugs were sold to other Sub-districts. As long as the companies could still produce medicine, they would practically never lack buyers.
There was plenty of infighting between these companies, but it was mostly trivial stuff: poaching talent, stealing each other's employees, and paying to