Chapter 1922

NO. 542: After all, the audience seats are full of hidden talents.

To be honest, regarding security, not only did everyone's enthusiasm save Aomo a lot of trouble, but the racecourse's own security level was also higher than before, which should allow him to relax more.

After all, even if the Association hadn't entered combat readiness, the venue for the Chrysanthemum Prize itself was quite unique.

Hengchang City.

A place that doesn't need much introduction—just know that its folkways are as fierce and unyielding as Tianmen City's, yet it has several fewer points of otherworldly tags compared to Tianmen City. Its public security issues mainly focus on port trade risks and the difficulty of receiving and sheltering criminals from other districts.

What kind of problems would such a place easily encounter?

It's easy to round up criminals at concert venues.

Admittedly, horse racing isn't a concert, but in terms of drawing power, it's much the same, so Hengchang City Racecourse's preparations in this regard are also quite unique within the industry, excelling in areas like 'on-site disturbance response,' 'criminal apprehension operations,' and 'joint police cooperation,' to the point of being top-tier, and thus able to have excellent chemical reactions with Aomo Lindun's tactical preparations.

This is also a classic program of the Chrysanthemum Prize.

Because unlike the Dream Cup or the Arima Memorial, which allow venue changes and even regularly alternate between two venues, the Classic Triple Crown has always been held at a fixed venue, unchanged for nearly a thousand years. Thus, the Chrysanthemum Prize has been held in Hengchang City so many times that each edition sees law enforcement teams with different badges escorting a group of iron coffins mid-race, or before/after the race starts.

This scene has already made it onto the Chrysanthemum Prize's must-eat list, and it also makes the remark 'the race might encounter danger' seem like nonsense, after all, here, danger is inevitable!

Strictly speaking, this is not what the Association hopes for.

【Yuehuanshe: Hengchang City hosting the Chrysanthemum Prize is, strictly speaking, a historical legacy issue

Back then, Hengchang City was also a Dongyan port city, but it wasn't famous for its prison labor reform system, so it didn't start accepting criminals from various federal districts, and its crime rate was far lower than now.

On the contrary, as a port city, its value was top-tier—it not only dominated Dongyan's foreign trade but also became a preferred location for many cultural promotion outposts】

When there are many time travelers in the team, Aomo inevitably has to act as a tour guide for a round. And the tour guide industry has a common phenomenon: that guides and tourists will at least have one side pulling their blood pressure.

【Network Evolution, Brother: Did the horse racing industry back then even need promotion?】

Bi Ze, a person who isn't ashamed to ask questions but keeps asking them, to the point of exposing his ignorance without doubt.

But rather than saying his information processing speed is too low, it's more accurate to say that Aomo Lindun, Guiye Xiaomei, and Thus: Lipiya have speeds that are too high. Only those who truly deserve the metaphor of 'learning like a sponge soaking up water and expanding' are abnormal; by comparison, even the Galactic Empire's Crown Prince is still sitting at the same table as Bi Ze.

【Flash Hero: Why didn't it change afterward?】

【Bai Jun Duo Xing: Actually, the horse racing industry now is still mainly focused on promotion】

【This Rain Is Really Great: Without this precedent, the Classic Triple Crown's venue has always been fixed, and Hengchang City's security has never had major issues

Even if the Association wanted to change venues, it has never found a suitable opportunity】

【I Won't Ask for Everything: Hengchang City Racecourse's security system is even directly connected to the Teqiju and the Security Bureau—I've already seen several patrol teams

@Yuehuanshe, want to chat with the Security Bureau chief? He just came over and greeted me—clearly, he's coming for you】

【Yuehuanshe: That's really a big help】

【Continuous Rain: Conversely, that means this place often has out-district criminals, right?】

【Egg Yolk Sauce Iron Plate Macaroni: You're killing the vibe, Texas—do you two really get along like that in private?】

【Always Spilling Hot Water Kettle: Sounds like we've stumbled upon something special?】

【Jiahe Yingcang: The doctor's here too?】

【Learn to Make Exceptions: Not only that, when I entered, I even saw from afar the former chairman of Kazdai'er】

【Always Spilling Hot Water Kettle: He should also be here to cheer for Aomo, I'm here too—I was reminded by Zhong Yue that you even built a chat room, can I pull them in?

@Yuehuanshe】

【Yuehuanshe:?

I'm just the manager—you should ask the chat room admin @Monster Is Necessary】

【Monster Is Necessary: What what? Why did I just get a message pop up?】

【Always Spilling Hot Water Kettle: So a few of you weren't together?】

【Monster Is Necessary: La la la, this new chat room was originally made for Hengchang City tourism—welcome, new friends!

Also, Xiao She is with Suzi and them

During the preparation phase before the jockeys officially go on track, trainers can accompany them】

【Learn to Make Exceptions: I feel this will become a habit—will the Dream Cup do this too? @This Rain Is Really Great】

【This Rain Is Really Great: Ah… probably?】

【Show You the Symbolist's Darkness: Of course we have to drag him up!】

Now even the execution notice has appeared……that random thought from ten or so minutes ago just came true—Aomo, who's been peeking at the screen, is even more speechless, having resolved to continue playing dead while peeking at the screen, focusing his attention on other chat windows, and incidentally glancing toward his companions waiting in the dim corridor.

18 horse girls, 14 trainers.

After all, this is the final race of the Classic Triple Crown—even if it's just to boost morale a bit, it's good, since the trainers who didn't appear the first two times are all here this time, achieving the first full attendance.

Each one guards the door of their partnered horse girl's changing room, which also makes Aomo Lindun's position seem especially out of place.

After all, he is the shared trainer of the four riders.

Although using puppet techniques and certain monster cards in hand that have duplication abilities could achieve a similar effect, doing so would only result in attracting more attention.

And it might even trigger the venue's security system alarm.

——Originally, he wasn't too sure. Thinking that Hengchang City Racecourse's security system might be more advanced, or stricter, with more sensitive judgment criteria, but there was still no evidence yet, after all, although Hengchang Racecourse is one of the five major racecourses, if one truly wanted to say it has higher technology and stronger armaments than Fuzhong Racecourse during its previous emergency preparations… Aomo thought this was still somewhat difficult.

That might just be cracking down hard at the management level.

More strict, more sensitive……the entry security check was indeed particularly thorough, according to complaints in the chat logs, people like Anqi, Heerheiya, Texas, and Lapland were all stopped and rechecked.

So, the automatic detection phase, especially things like energy fluctuations, should also be stricter?

He hasn't seen the evidence yet.

But right after agreeing with Bixieteks, that security bureau chief who contacted him by real name greeted him with: 【The defense system is insufficient—any force reaching the detection threshold will interfere with supervision, please pay attention】, and even sent it over.

Not rushing to boost Gilbalilis's multiple shadow identities' online power was indeed the right move.

But this does cause some trouble.

After all, other abilities are fine, but the Ultimate Arbiter's supercomputing power and multithreading are what he previously relied on to oversee the big picture and issue fine commands—those who truly deserve the 'learning like a sponge soaking up water and expanding' metaphor are abnormal; by comparison, even the Galactic Empire's Crown Prince is still sitting at the same table as Bi Ze.

【If it's for assisting security, go register mercenary abilities—we've already set up over ten thousand temporary registration points on-site, searchable via electronic map, or you can ask the venue's AI guide】

「……」

Really thoughtful preparation… Although I wanted to say that, this might be better called thorough preparation, after all, this set of words made Aomo feel less like hand-typed and more like copy-pasted, in other words, that security bureau chief is probably mass-sending.

After all, buying tickets originally requires real-name verification, these civil servants likely have organized a list of attendees who can be of help on site.

【…There are some minor matters, my assistant will temporarily handle communication with you】

Even this sentence looks hard to tell true from false.

【Hitoe：Mr. Lindon, your response?】

The name suddenly shifted from three-character Dongyan language to something resembling Romanized spelling, although it began naming names, Aomo also wasn't sure if this was switched to manual, just glanced again at these colleagues similarly holding phones, tapping terminals, yet occasionally stealing glances at him, so he also tapped the screen.

【Yuehuanshe: Understood, thank you for the reminder, I will register later】