This is the case not only on city highways, but even on elevated expressways. The roads were clearly very wide, yet the cars in the middle lanes kept changing to the sides, and the speed of all vehicles on the expressway—which had a minimum speed limit of sixty—gradually dropped below fifty.
It looked as though they were deliberately clearing the way to show a certain respect to some important, high-ranking figure.
No, it didn't just look that way; it literally was... Because the entire journey had been like this almost the entire time. Once or twice might have been a coincidence, but this Maybach business van had already driven through several blocks, and it was the same all the way. Aside from waiting at traffic lights, the road ahead was completely, unobstructed. Forget about the bustling, crowded downtown of Tokyo; Uncle had never driven through streets this clear even back in that small coastal town in China.
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