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Chapter 182: The People Are the Nation (End of Copy/Big - , Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 182: Chapter 182: The People Are the Nation (End of Copy/Big Chapter, Please Subscribe, Favorite, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Jessie stared blankly at the screen flashing with dazzling advertisements, the people around her also fixed their gaze on this screen.

The speech by K wasn’t long, lasting only three or four minutes.

But after tonight, K would inevitably become the hottest topic in Dawn City, as well as throughout the entire Federation.

Regardless of whether people had actually listened to his speech, regardless of whether they agreed with his views.

Everyone would be discussing him, all would pay attention to him, and would argue about his actions and his speech; he would become the focus of the entire Federation.

Jessie activated her wristband, trying to search for news about this ’K’.

But as soon as she opened the browser, a pop-up advertisement appeared,

[Ino TV has obtained the authorization from Mr. K, and will broadcast live coverage about the case involving the Avis Machinery Factory that Mr. K announced. You can also visit our official website to watch the live broadcast, you can directly jump to our webpage by searching ’Ino Media’ in any search engine.]

[Click here to enter the Ino Media official website]

Clearly, this was an advertisement placed by Ino Media.

Jessie clicked on it without hesitation.

The live broadcast room was already packed, and more people were continuously entering.

A beautiful hostess was detailing ’Joey’s’ ordeal.

Orphaned, failed lawsuits, alone, threatened and extorted by gang members.

Many people who came in were typing ’Who is K’ at first, but after hearing about the young man’s plight, they gradually fell silent.

Jessie also fell silent; the storage chip Joey had given her had not mentioned his own experiences.

She exited the webpage, wanting to make a phone call to Joey.

But as she was about to dial, she slowly lowered her hand.

Since the incident with his parents, Joey had never again answered Jessie’s phone calls.

The wind, carrying a slight chill, brushed through the girl’s hair. Jessie remained silent for a moment, then took out the Ino Media business card that Essenwell had given her and dialed the number on it.

The phone showed it was busy, obviously, many people were calling at this time.

Jessie did not give up, leaning against the glass wall of the shop, quietly waiting.

After half an hour, the call was finally answered.

"Hello, may I ask who this is?"

A gentle male voice came through the phone.

"Um... Are you accepting interns? I’m Joey’s classmate... the Joey you mentioned in your report, I previously worked at the Dawn Daily," Jessie asked timidly, looking down.

"I want to join you in investigating the matters that K mentioned, and I don’t need a salary."

There was a moment of silence on the other end of the line.

After a while, a firm voice came from the phone, "Sorry, we currently don’t have any plans to take on student interns."

"Ah..."

Jessie was taken aback, then her expression dimmed, and her tone slowed down.

"However," the voice on the other end suddenly changed direction, "we welcome anyone with the same aspirations as us to join us. We have a student organization; their work might not be so complicated, but it’s also not so dangerous. Would you like to join?"

Jessie was momentarily stunned, then she nodded emphatically, "Yes, I would!"

—

November 5, Friday.

After the turmoil of the previous night, Avis Energy Group’s stock plummeted 10% at the opening and ultimately closed with a 15% drop, as a flood of short sellers entered the market.

Protest marches against Avis Group products started to appear in Dawn City.

K’s speech video spread throughout the Federation via the internet.

—

November 6, Saturday.

K’s speech was censored, and the Ino Media official website suffered multiple attacks.

Yet K’s speech video still spread through some underground networks.

The Dawn City police announced they would start an investigation into the ’case of an individual code-named K illegally invading public display equipment’.

Avis Group refused to admit wrongdoing and declared that what ’K’ and Ino Media had disclosed was ’nonsense’.

—

November 7, Sunday.

K’s speech continued to ferment, giving rise to massive waves of protest marches boycotting Avis Group products everywhere.

Mayor Wente of Dawn City was accused of accepting substantial political donations from Avis Group and of protecting Avis Group’s illegal actions.

On the same day, an investigation team organized by the Dawn City government entered Avis Machinery Factory for an inspection.

—

November 8, Monday.

Avis Group’s stock continued to fall, evaporating billions in market value.

The city council decided that a second impeachment vote against Mayor Wente would be held on November 11.

A boycott frenzy against Avis Group products surged across the Federation, and the Federal President announced a thorough investigation into Avis Group’s affair, with Avis Group’s factories halting production in many places.

—

November 9, Tuesday.

As the Avis Group affair spread, the past actions of Mayor Wente were brought up again, sparking massive anti-Mayor Wente protests throughout Dawn City.

—

November 10, Wednesday.

The Mayor of Dawn City, Wente, announced his resignation and withdrew from the next mayoral election.

Wente became the first mayor in the history of Dawn City to resign over a scandal.

Following Wente’s resignation, Deputy Mayor Evenson assumed the role of Mayor.

After several days of continuous decline, Avis Group declared a trading suspension.

The board of Avis Group released an apology statement regarding recent events.

—

November 11, Thursday.

Deputy Mayor Evenson took the oath and became the 133rd Mayor of Dawn City.

On the day of his inauguration, Evenson announced a pardon of all charges against the former mayor Wente and terminated the investigations into Wente’s ’treason,’ ’election rigging,’ ’harboring exotic beasts,’ and other charges.

—

November 15, Monday.

The investigation teams from various cities successively released their reports, and most of Avis’s factories were forcibly shut down due to safety non-compliance.

Thereafter, each city announced investigations into the bribery cases involving municipal government personnel by Avis Group, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation announced the initiation of investigations into several inter-city cases involving the Avis Group.

——

November 22, Monday.

Several executives and board members of the Avis Group were arrested on suspicion of ’bribery,’ ’murder,’ ’forgery,’ and ’sexual assault.’

Subsequently, the Avis Group declared ’mismanagement and inability to pay or settle most of its payables and debts’ and applied to the Federal Bankruptcy Court for bankruptcy reorganization on this ground.

——

November 30, Tuesday.

The Nord Financial Insurance Group announced the acquisition of Avis Energy Group and its subsidiary companies.

A spokesperson for the Nord Consortium stated that after the acquisition, they would sell off some of Avis Group’s non-performing assets and would no longer use some of the Avis Group’s trademarks.

——

December 1, Wednesday.

Nord Tower·Boardroom

Men dressed in neat suits sat in this vast conference room.

Among them were elderly gentlemen with white hair, as well as robust middle-aged men.

The office was rather cramped, slightly crowded with so many people seated.

The original boardroom was not located here but in a spacious room with a great view on the penultimate floor of the Nord Tower, which had been completely destroyed during the last Evil God summoning incident and was now under reconstruction.

So the supreme governing body of the Nord Consortium had to temporarily squeeze into this room for their meeting.

At this moment, everyone’s gaze was fixed on an elderly man with white hair seated at the head of the conference table.

"Mr. Pierpont," a gaunt-faced middle-aged man sitting near the elderly man slowly began,

"The Dawn City mayoral election starts on the 20th, and since Mayor Wente stepped down, we no longer have anyone to suppress Christos."

The white-haired elderly man, who had been leaning back in his chair with his eyes closed as if resting, opened his eyes slightly upon hearing the man’s question. His gaze swept over everyone in the room and he spoke slowly,

"Originally you all were not afraid of this youngster and even supported him against Wente. Why the sudden fear now?"

Those seated were not all individual shareholders of the Nord Consortium; there were also representatives sent by other consortia holding shares in Nord.

The remark was an implicit reference to those who had secretly helped Christos.

Silence fell upon the group, no one spoke.

They had originally seen Christos as a dangerous yet controllable exotic beast tamed within a cage.

But the Avis Group’s incident had shown that this beast not only had the capability to break free from its cage but could also bite to death a certain trainer who stood by and watched.

"Do not rush," the voice of slow aging rose again, "You are not as old as I am, you have plenty of time. Before everything is settled, do not be hasty. You must understand, what is a country? What is a home?"

Mr. Pierpont’s eyes narrowed slightly,

"The consortium is the nation."

——

Ino Media Tower

"From the information we got from the police," a silver-haired man with a ponytail carried a cup of coffee to Christos’s side,

"The playing card on Kili was the Diamond K, and the one on the dead intelligence chief was the Heart K.

Spades, Diamonds, Hearts, Clubs, where Spades represent the sword of justice, Diamonds represent wealth, Hearts represent thought and emotions, and Clubs represent the scepter of authority.

Justice was given to you, wealth to Kili, emotions to the intelligence chief who killed his parents, so the authority must be with the legislator whose house was blown up.

The way he’s doing things makes me feel like he’s conducting some sort of Evil God ritual."

"It could also be that he threw a few random cards, leaving behind a ’K’ footprint."

Christos shook his head with a smile, then he looked out the window, lost in brief thought.

The reason this had spread so widely and with such explosive effect, toppling a multi-hundred-billion-dollar consortium in just a month

was not only that they had pre-designed a precise plan and channels for dissemination but also that Avis Group was standing on a lawn mined with landmines.

If there’s only one landmine buried in a lawn, then detonating it would only blast away that small patch of grass.

But if the lawn is densely packed with landmines, detonating any one of them would destroy the entire lawn.

Like falling dominoes, as the first one falls, all the rest would slowly topple.

Avis Group was not brought down by them, but rather by the consortium itself.

Each time the consortia acted against the tide, they buried a mine full of rage in people’s hearts. This mine was invisible at usual times, but it was not nonexistent; it hid deep inside people’s hearts until it reached a certain critical point and exploded, burning everything down.

Avis Group was just the first victim burnt by this angry flame.

"What are you thinking about?"

Serle looked at Christos, who was deep in thought.

"The content of the last election speech before the election."

Christos stretched lazily and spoke softly.

"Got any ideas yet?"

Serle took a sip of coffee.

"I’ve got a bit of an idea."

Christos sat in front of the computer, opening the document editor.

The silver-haired man walked over to his side, looked at the empty document interface and asked, "So, what theme are you planning for this speech?"

Christos looked at the blank document, lost in thought.

Countless thoughts flashed through his mind, but he couldn’t grasp the key point.

He stopped, shook his head to get some inspiration, but then noticed the ’Spade K’ placed next to his computer.

At the Nord Aerial Theater, the silent counter-question of that man echoed slowly in his mind,

’Who can represent the Federation?’

"Who can represent the Federation?"

He murmured softly.

"Hm?"

Serle, about to leave as he watched Christos think, stopped in his tracks, looked at him puzzled.

However, Christos did not respond to him but quickly sat back down in his seat and typed the first line on the computer.

The title of his final election speech:

[The People are the Nation]