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Chapter 381: Old Foreman Attacked, Life in Danger (Double-Length - Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

Chapter 381: Chapter 381: Old Foreman Attacked, Life in Danger (Double-Length Chapter Please Subscribe, Bookmark, and Vote for Monthly Tickets)

"I need some information about the Mayor. I can’t find any data on the Mayor on the internet, but I thought Division Commander Wright might have some?"

He Ao smiled as he looked at Wright.

"I have it, but only video and document archives since the beginning of the Mayor’s campaign. I can share it with you via a private cloud later,"

Wright leaned back on the sofa. "Is that all you need?"

The information had once been public, but after the Mayor took office, they consciously erased most of it.

"Of course not."

He Ao took a sip of his coffee.

This question was also a probe into Wright’s attitude toward the Mayor. If Wright had not prepared anything beforehand, then this information about the Mayor would not be readily available, and Wright would have to instruct his subordinates to gather it.

If Wright produced the information immediately, it would mean that he was not entirely indifferent to the Mayor.

Changing someone’s perspective is difficult, but it’s easy to further influence them if they are already leaning in a certain direction.

He Ao put down his coffee cup and glanced at the quiet city outside, where a few homeless people huddled together, gathering for warmth around a firepit that was nearly extinct.

"According to the Federal City Defense Army Act, the City Defense Army of a Fortress City has the duty to protect the city from exotic beasts and high-intensity life forms outside the city."

He turned his head back to Wright, bringing the coffee cup back to his lips. "I heard Mr. Aber is not from Rock City; he’s from the south."

These high-intensity life forms referred to powerful Transcendents.

Dealing with Transcendents is prioritized. If the Transcendent is inside the city, it’s primarily the responsibility of the local police and the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Only if these two explicitly state they cannot handle the situation will the City Defense Army be called in.

This is also an extension of the usual practice of the City Defense Army not interfering with the internal operations of the city.

If a Transcendent comes from outside the city, both the City Defense Army and the Federal Bureau of Investigation have first priority in dealing with it.

However, more often than not, the City Defense Army prefers not to trouble themselves and not to intervene directly within the city, so the default response is by the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

Wright understood He Ao’s point. It was indeed not against the rules for him to intervene at the right time to stop Aber.

He smiled, deep in thought, while He Ao watched him calmly.

About two minutes later, Wright nodded with a smile. "Do you have any other plans?"

That was an agreement.

He Ao sighed with relief.

They talked a little while longer, then stood up and walked towards the exit of the café.

Passing the group of homeless people, He Ao bought some coal and handed it to them.

Wright watched his action without speaking, and they continued in silence, walking to the end of the street.

"By the way," as they were about to part, He Ao looked up at Wright, "West City’s West Prison..."

"West Prison is doing well now," Wright said, his gaze laden with meaning as he looked at He Ao,

"The Warden there is an old acquaintance of mine. He was originally the Police Chief of Rock City, but after offending too many people, he was sent to West Prison.

"The prisoners are also living well. Even though their government subsidy has long been cut, they have established an internal factory. They work eight hours a day, and all the money they earn is used for the prison’s internal construction. They live better than most people in this city. You don’t have to worry."

"Phew—"

He Ao sighed with relief and said with a smile, "Then I can rest easy."

West Prison was where Nell’s older brother was detained. It was the only public prison in Rock City and was the first to have its financial subsidies from the city cut.

The prison was built beyond the high walls and was more dangerous than the other prisons within the city. So when the Mining Consortium sent the older brother to West Prison, they did not have good intentions.

But now it seemed, precisely because it was outside the high walls, that Nell’s older brother was away from the center of controversy.

A blessing in disguise.

By asking about West Prison, not only was He Ao expressing concern for Nell’s brother, but he was also sending a signal to Wright that he was a person who valued relationships.

When he first called, He Ao didn’t hide his identity, and Wright would have surely investigated him, knowing that his older brother was detained at West Prison.

And from the current information, Wright himself values relationships as well.

People with similar traits often have a natural bonus to trustworthiness.

And with Nell’s older brother in West Prison, outside West City, which was under Wright’s influence, he became a kind of hostage.

Although He Ao estimated that Wright most likely would not use Nell’s older brother as a hostage, Wright could definitely consider the hostage angle, equivalent to He Ao giving a vulnerability to Wright, which would increase trust.

In this way, Wright’s favor and trust would increase, allowing He Ao to make contact with the West Gate and the wilderness under Wright’s control.

At the end of this path, the two parted ways.

——

"Sister, why didn’t you ask for their contact information just now?"

The waitress’s cheeks were flushed as she asked in a whisper.

"Here."

The blonde cashier gestured with her chin and opened her wrist communicator, projecting a photo in front of the waitress.

It was a somewhat youthful-looking man with a bounty of two hundred thousand written below.

The waitress paused, unsure why the cashier showed her this photograph.

It took her a moment to recognize that the young man in the photo resembled the handsome guy she had just seen by seven or eight parts.

The only difference was their demeanor.

The handsome guy exuded a cold and slightly insane vibe that she found attractive, whereas the young man in the picture seemed like a very ordinary, naive youth with a shy smile.

"This is...?"

The waitress looked up, her question tentative.

"It should be!"

The cashier put away her wrist communicator, confirming her suspicion.

"Then why didn’t you just now..."

The waitress was conflicted and confused.

"My dear girl," the cashier lifted her head, looking at the blazing furnace the homeless were gathered around across the street,

"In this world, some money can be earned, and some money can’t be earned."

The waitress nodded, half understanding.

She didn’t grasp these concepts, but she decided not to report the handsome guy.

She thought he was a good person.

Bad people don’t say thank you, and he had said it twice.

——

After leaving the West Gate, He Ao followed the list given by the old foreman and got in touch with some of the Miners’ Mutual Aid Association members.

Some of them were being relentlessly hunted by the Ice Wolf Gang, some were hiding throughout the city, and some had completely lost contact.

The city was becoming increasingly chaotic, and it was very difficult for members of the Miners’ Mutual Aid Association to leave the city. Mayor Wente had issued an order strictly prohibiting any suspicious miners from departing.

He Ao gathered them together and rescued some of the aid group members who had already been captured.

Then he disguised them as a merchant caravan and, through Wright’s connections, helped them leave the city through the West Gate.

Now that the city was descending into greater chaos, the wilderness had become safer by comparison.

Most of the influential miners of the Miners’ Mutual Aid Association were still at the mines in the wilderness; after all, no matter what the mayor did, the Mining Consortium had to keep working.

These miners who left would get in touch with the members of the Miners’ Mutual Aid Association who were still at the mines.

After seeing off these miners, He Ao went to the Rock City Library and, floor by floor, searched through books from A to Z, and finally found some paper periodicals that recorded the mayor’s election campaign.

After the election of the Fortress City mayor or the Federal President, there would surely be many sycophants who would follow the trend and publish several biographies of the incumbent mayor or president, or books praising their sage and mighty deeds.

Mayor Wente of Dawn City had many such ’biographies’ written about him in the past.

There was no stopping these sycophants; even if the mayor forbade them, they would still produce a few books.

Therefore, although there was no information on the internet, He Ao still found a biography of the incumbent mayor in a corner of the library. This biography wasn’t even included in the materials Wright had provided, and it might now be the only copy in existence here.

It looked like this book had hardly been published before the mayor ordered it to be suppressed.

Given the current mayor’s ruthless actions, the flatterer who wrote this biography is probably already on his way to kindergarten by now.

The harder the mayor tries to hide something, the more it proves that there’s important information in what he’s concealing.

By the time He Ao found this biography, night had once again fallen.

He didn’t read the book in the library, but left it and went to a place that held many beautiful memories in Nell’s heart.

The church school.

Nell had originally received the black cross from a priest here, and because of that cross, ’bought’ an Ancient Sword contaminated by the War God in a craft store.

At this moment, deep into the night, the church school was steeped in silence. All the students commuted, and after school, only an elderly security guard dozed off at the school gates.

He Ao contacted the new priest in charge of the church school, and under the pretext of making a donation and visiting, was led by the new priest into the school.

Everything here was so familiar.

The priest slowly introduced the history of the church school and how it had provided opportunities for so many children.

As He Ao listened, he headed straight to the large cathedral in the center of the school. Passing through this cathedral led to the school’s library.

The library didn’t have a large collection of books, but there were many children’s books.

Nell’s family couldn’t afford a smart bracelet, and the majority of students reading here didn’t have smart bracelets either.

These brightly colored children’s books were one of their few sources of happiness.

The time Nell spent reading at the church school was the happiest time of his life.

He Ao’s fingers trailed over the slightly rusted ’Z’ at the entrance to the library, scanning the somewhat aged children’s books on the shelves.

"This library was built by my predecessor, the previous priest. They had received a sizable donation and used it to build this library. It has brought so many beautiful memories to the children," explained the somewhat portly priest.

"Hmm."

He Ao nodded slightly.

This library was built during Nell’s first year of school, and he squatted beside it, watching the workers fill the shelves with book after book.

"May I stay here for a while?"

He Ao asked softly.

"Of course."

The priest smiled, "I will be in the church outside. If you need anything, just call me."

Then he left the library, closing the door behind him.

He Ao walked to the very back of the library, sat down under the A-shaped bookshelf, and began to flip through the biography of the current Mayor he had brought from the library.

The contents were quite simple, essentially singing the Mayor’s praises.

It mentioned how the Mayor had been a poor student who spoke crudely in his college years but had studied poetry and literature diligently before running for election and became a very learned man who could quote classics and speak eloquently by the time he campaigned.

It also claimed that there was something divine about the Mayor’s birth—a display of the aurora had been recorded over the wilderness in the far north on that day.

The flattery in the book was so glaringly obvious that He Ao struggled to keep a straight face through certain passages.

Ultimately, He Ao quickly finished the book.

The author seemed to have carefully investigated the Mayor’s life, but there was no mention of what the Mayor did during his time with the Mining Consortium; all such experiences were glossed over.

It only highlighted the positives, and even for the negatives, it found a way to spin them into positives.

He Ao could only say that the writer was somewhat skilled.

After going through it again, He Ao did not find any key information in the book. He put it down and opened the materials sent to him by Wright.

These materials included videos and documents.

They comprised many of the Mayor’s speeches, big and small, during the election campaign, as well as a series of videos and documents of the Mayor appearing in public.

When Wright shared the files with He Ao, he specifically mentioned that he had tried many methods but had not found anything unusual in these materials. The most he noticed was that the Mayor tended to boast a lot during the campaign.

But for these campaigning politicians, boasting was only a matter of more or lesser degrees, so it wasn’t considered a problem.

Wright himself had analyzed these materials, and to avoid influencing He Ao’s thinking, he divided all the files into two folders.

One contained the original files, and the other contained the files after his analysis.

He Ao opened the folder with the original files and quickly started reviewing them.

Perhaps influenced by Super Memory, his memory had improved to some degree, allowing him to record things quickly even without activating Super Memory.

He swiftly went through the videos and articles from the Mayor’s election campaign.

There was nothing particularly special about these videos.

The only notable aspect was that the Mayor’s erudition during the earliest campaign speeches was far richer than portrayed in his biography, which claimed he was ignorant and uneducated.

It seemed he really had studied hard before the campaign.

Other than that, the only other peculiar detail was that the Mayor would naturally level his shoulders and sit up straight in his chair during breaks in his initial campaign speeches, appearing both tense and yet not quite.

After pondering for a moment, He Ao continued to read the materials. Meanwhile, he had Eve analyze the Mayor’s behavioral habits and movements.

Just then, his wristband vibrated with a new message from Yvo,

"Old Foreman attacked, life in critical danger."