Chapter 664: Witness (please vote for the big chapter)
"It seems that your situation is not good."
He Ao glanced at the man in the room. He did not answer the man's question, but commented directly.
He felt a somewhat crazy and twisted sense of oppression from this man. He should be the boss of the Scorpion Gang.
He held his cane and walked into the room step by step.
And Jia Qian followed closely behind him.
This house is very spacious. Except for some decorative partitions and load-bearing walls, the entire house is almost completely open.
The man in front of me completely opened up and transformed the entire top floor into his 'residence'.
Near the door of this residence is a smart wine cabinet stocked with various famous wines, surrounded by several leather sofas.
"Today, the handover ceremony of St. Jon Central Park was held in front of the park's ceremony stage."
Between the wine cabinet and the sofa, a transparent TV was hung on a very thin wire. A news program that had been broadcast during the day was being replayed on the TV.
"Mayor Crotter participated in this ceremony and delivered a speech during the ceremony. He said that the sale of the central park project has obtained a large amount of funds for the city of St. Jon, which will greatly reduce the debt pressure of the city of St. Jon.
The excess funds will be used for the distribution of welfare food to provide enough food to fight hunger for the large number of people who are still hungry.
“The St. Jon Center Park project is the last project in a series of government asset sales plans launched by Mayor Crotter after he took office, and the three-year government streamlining plan has come to an end.
"Mr. Vic Ward, a professor at Nolde Business School, spoke highly of the city of St. Jon's efforts to streamline government and return to the market. He believes that this move will greatly reduce the expenses of the city of St. Jon and activate corporate tax revenue.
Significantly increase the revenue of the City of St. Jon.
“He claimed that this would effectively alleviate the city of St. Jon’s current high debt situation and would greatly enhance the credibility of the St. Jon city government in the federal financial market.
"Currently, the city of St. Jon has owed hundreds of billions of federal dollars in foreign debt in the federal financial market, which exceeds the city's economic aggregate and is more than ten times the city's total annual tax revenue.
“For a long time, the financial market has generally believed that the St. Jon Municipal Government is already on the verge of bankruptcy, and the sale of government assets may effectively alleviate the current predicament of the municipal government.
“The other party to this transaction, QJTE Grain Group, which purchased Lower Central Park, also sent board members to participate in this ceremony.
"The visiting board member also gave a speech, emphasizing the importance of St. Jon to the entire group and saying that he would try his best to help St. Jon through the difficulties..."
"Every situation in life has its ups and downs,"
The man standing in front of the wine cabinet took out a decanter and poured red wine into the decanter. He responded to what He Ao had just said when he came in. Then he glanced at the transparent TV and smiled casually,
"When the St. John's City Center Park was originally built, it cost 200 million federal dollars. Now if it is put on the market, it can sell for at least 300 to 400 million. However, the Kjet Group only spent 170 million to buy this park today.
Federal dollars, if you throw this amount of money into the debt of the city government, it won’t even make a splash.”
He reached out and paused the TV, took out two goblets from the wine cabinet, held the goblet in one hand, and held the decanter in the other hand, and looked at He Ao, "Sit down and have a drink?"
With that said, he walked towards the sofa.
"Are there any drinks?"
He Ao looked calm, led his granddaughter to the sofa, and spoke smoothly.
"There is milk."
The man placed the decanter and wine glass on the table in front of the sofa and slowly raised his hand.
A robot walked over from the end of the dim light, holding a carton of milk in its hand and stopped behind the man.
When the robot came over, He and Ao had already walked to the sofa.
"Thanks,"
The man took the milk, put his fingers on the edge of the milk and gently tore off a corner of the milk carton. Then he sat on the sofa, smiled, put the opened milk in his hand on the table, and pushed it in the direction of Jia Qian
, "Minors are not allowed to drink alcohol. Children, just make do with a sip of milk."
He Ao glanced at the carton of milk.
That's fresh milk produced by the Kjet Group. It's different from the 'milk' that's made from synthetic milk powder that's usually sold on the market, and it's expensive.
"It seems like you don't quite approve of Mayor Crotter's behavior?"
He Ao sat down on the sofa calmly, and Jia Qian beside him also sat down with him.
"No, I like him very much,"
The man smiled and shook his head,
"He made my life much better than before. During the eight years he was in power, I lived pretty well.
"He has done a lot of things to increase revenue and reduce expenditure. For example, in order to increase government revenue, he increased taxes on basic consumer goods."
He raised the decanter, poured a glass of wine into his own glass, and then poured a glass into He Ao's glass. "But who buys the most basic consumer goods? No matter how big the rich man's butt is, he still poops."
Can I use more than twenty rolls of toilet paper when I'm in bed?
"So most of these taxes end up falling on the poor. These tax increases are fine for those who can barely survive, but make it more miserable. But for those who can't survive in the first place, it is the final piece that breaks the bridge."
Stone.
"In the end, they have to come to me, and when they come to me, these people have to give me a protection fee and provide me with value."
Having said this, the man sneered, "So I like him quite a bit."
He Ao raised his head and glanced at the man.
Sito, who has lived in St. Jon for decades, knows exactly what this mayor is.
In fact, while raising taxes on basic consumer goods, Crotter also did another thing, which was to implement preferential tax policies for large consortiums in St. Jon in the name of encouraging economic development.
Of course, few people noticed this, as there was almost no media publicity about this tax benefit.
If Sito hadn't had a strong ability to search for information, after realizing that something was wrong with Crote's tax increase on basic consumer goods, he specifically checked the website of the St. Jon City Government, and he still wouldn't have been able to find this tax benefit.
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"The old gentleman seems to be a man with a very sense of justice,"
The man smiled and looked at He Ao, "So, who are you here for today?"
"I think you should have an answer in your mind."
He Ao looked at him calmly.
"The Cleanup Division is cleaning up their civil war, and the FBI in St. John's is a clay god,"
The man picked up the goblet in his hand and took a sip of red wine, "Are you here to evolve? But those people are all bad guys like me, and there won't be anyone with a sense of justice like you, old gentleman.
"
Having said this, he paused for a moment and said, "It seems that I was 'betrayed'."
"Let's talk about evolution."
He Ao's crutches were on the ground, and he stared at the man with his face, "You should be happy to share their information with me."
In fact, the situation in front of her is very simple. When Yin Xiya was investigating the nighthawks, she obtained information about two missing people. One was the missing person on St. John 9th Street, and the other was the missing person in the Green Olive neighborhood.
There is an ambush at St. John's Ninth Street, and Werther has been determined to be a trap.
But isn’t Green Olive Street a ‘trap’?
It's just that those behind the scenes in St. John's Ninth Street did it themselves, while in the Green Olive neighborhood, they used a borrowed knife to kill people.
And the 'knife' borrowed by the person behind the scenes was the boss of the Poisonous Scorpion Gang in front of He Ao at this moment.
In fact, He Ao had thought of this possibility before coming to this neighborhood.
After all, the disappearance in Green Olive Street was too obvious, and it was too conspicuous and abnormal.
It can be seen from the flaws that Witte deliberately revealed that the person behind the scenes is fully capable of selectively exposing missing persons to guide the investigators' thinking to where they need to be.
And there is actually a doubtful point in the whole process of He Ao coming up.
That is, the entire Scorpion Gang did not make any preparations for his possible arrival, and was caught off guard by him.
Yin Xiya has actually suffered two waves of C-class attacks so far, but under these two waves of attacks, Yin Xiya still had nothing wrong with her.
At this point, the person behind the scenes must be able to easily tell that there is something wrong with Yin Xiya's strength.
Therefore, when the people behind the attack attacked Yin Xiya in the afternoon, they also sent armed drones to cooperate.
This kind of drone with an image transmission system can both launch attacks and serve as a 'sentinel'.
The person behind the scenes actually wanted to use this drone to see whether Yin Xiya's own abilities suddenly became stronger or if she found a helper when attacking Yin Xiya.
Of course, during the afternoon battle, He Ao deliberately avoided the drone's lens and was not exposed to the drone's view.
But through this drone attack, the people behind the scenes can at least confirm that Yin Xiya is still a D-class, and has not obtained the super power to kill C-class at will.
So the biggest possibility for Yin Xiya to counterattack is that Yin Xiya has found a powerful C-level 'companion' beside her.
Although the person behind the scenes may not know He Ao yet, he should be able to determine He Ao's existence.
When the judgment has reached this point and it is confirmed that Yin Xiya has a strong companion, if the Poisonous Scorpion Gang is behind the scenes, in order to prevent the loss of strength, the behind-the-scenes gang will definitely order the Poisonous Scorpion Gang to strengthen their vigilance.
This was one of the reasons why He Ao chose to teach Jia Qian's boxing at the entrance of the block for a period of time. He was taking advantage of this time to observe the vigilance of the Poisonous Scorpion Gang and wait for opportunities.
The final result was that the Scorpion Gang did not seem to be on any alert.
At that time, He Ao realized that the Scorpion Gang had not received the 'notification'.
He came here to find the Scorpion Gang, which was actually a 'part' of the plan of the people behind the scenes.
However, this does not actually affect He Ao's actions, because no matter whether the Poisonous Scorpion Gang belongs to the power of the people behind the scenes, or is just a borrowed 'knife', one thing cannot be denied, that is, the boss of the Poisonous Scorpion Gang has a high probability of being involved with the behind-the-scenes gang.
I have a deep relationship with the author and know a lot of relevant information.
When He Ao came here, he actually asked for some information. Since there is information, it actually doesn't matter whether the information comes from the people behind the scenes or from the 'enemies' of the people behind the scenes.
And He Ao also helped Jia Qian gain a lot of practical experience in the process.
However, now that the boss of the Scorpion Gang is not a subordinate of the person behind the scenes, and has been manipulated by the person behind the scenes, it will be less difficult for He Ao to obtain information.
Since they all resort to lending knives to kill people, the relationship between the person behind the scenes and the boss of the Scorpion Gang is probably not good.
The boss of the Poisonous Scorpion Gang naturally has a tendency to 'share' intelligence with He Ao to jointly deal with the enemy.
"Where should I start?"
The boss of the Poisonous Scorpion Gang thought for a moment, and he had no intention of hiding it. After all, the person behind the scenes was very successful in using the borrowed knife to kill people, but only his people died.
He smiled and said,
“Let’s start with when this organization first contacted me.
"About ten years ago, when my territory was not as big as it is now, a person with the account name "Shadowmaker" found me, and his words were very simple, "Do you long for power?"
"At that time, I didn't believe this arrogant guy, but later he assigned me several tasks, all of which were simple killing tasks."
The boss of the Poisonous Scorpion Gang took another sip of red wine and seemed to be caught in a brief memory. "After I killed enough people, he told me about the existence of pollution monsters. At the same time, he claimed to me that pollution
A monster is not just a monster, its power can be harnessed by humans, and that will be the next step in the evolution of humans."
"Is this where the name Evolution comes from?"
He Ao asked in a low voice.
The follower of evolution literally means the follower of evolution.
"Yes,"
The boss of the Poisonous Scorpion Gang nodded, with an unnatural and twisted smile on his face, "Later, under his guidance, I gradually found the pollution monsters and began to raise these monsters carefully.
"However, the one I raised at the beginning was discovered by the Pollution Cleanup Department not long after, and I almost found it by following the clues.
"Later, I learned to be smart and hid and raised them. As the raising process progressed, my understanding of these monsters became deeper and deeper..."
When he said this, he paused for a moment, just like a person who was addicted to a drunken dream and woke up a little from his dream. He looked at He Ao and continued,
"I should be the first person to be 'developed' by the 'Shadowmaker' in St. John City. Unfortunately, I did not end up joining their organization. I am different from their pursuit of so-called 'purification'. I just simply enjoy this."
The ultimate joy of gaining strength.”
"So you later had a conflict with that 'filmmaker'?"
He Ao asked calmly, "To compete for resources?"
The person behind the scenes brought He Ao, "Yin Xiya's helper", with the idea of using He Ao's help to weaken the Scorpion Gang's power.
"Old sir, your 'sense of smell' is very keen,"
The Scorpion Gang boss laughed and said, "After all, this city only has so many resources, and I occupy the best one. In this neighborhood, people die every moment, and no one cares how they died.
Has it become food for monsters?
“If you just look at feeding pollution monsters, there are few places that are more suitable than this area, and even the Pollution Cleanup Department has not done much in-depth investigation here.
"Those bad species from Evolution also like this place very much and are trying every possible means to take this area away from me."
There was a hint of pride in his calm tone, like a livestock herder who was proud of occupying the best 'breeding farm'.
He Ao raised his head and glanced at him, then at the silent corridor outside the door behind him.
"Those who died, there were actually people who cared about them."
The people hiding on the twentieth floor knew very well that the people who were taken into the middle room on the thirty-fifth floor never came out again.
They actually knew what was going on in the building, they just couldn't do anything.
You can only 'watch'.
Hiding in the cramped and dark house, watching all this.
