Chapter 678: Former Mayor (please vote for the big chapter)
“Welcome everyone to tonight’s St. Jon Light Talk,”
In the exquisite and gorgeous rooftop garden, the beautiful female host is sitting on a white outdoor sofa with her back to the bustling city lights. She is wearing a beautiful white long dress, with luxury brands embroidered on the waist.
Vivalor's double circle emblem.
She faced the camera with a smile and continued,
"I believe you have discovered that we are no longer in the studio today. The place I am sitting now is the roof garden of the St. John headquarters building of the QJET Group, and we have also invited two 'heavyweights' today.
Guest:"
She looked away from the camera, "Our respected mayor, Mr. Crotter, and the executive director of the Kjet Group, and now the general manager of the St. Jon branch, Mr. Valente."
The picture instantly cut into a distant view, and a energetic middle-aged man wearing a blue formal suit and an elegant-looking old man wearing a loose black formal suit appeared in the picture.
At the same time, there was warm applause in the background.
"Mr. Mayor, according to the information we have received, you and Mr. Valente have been discussing for a day. I wonder if there are any exciting results?"
"Yes, of course,"
The middle-aged mayor smiled. He put his hands on the table in front of him and glanced at the old man in loose clothes next to him.
"I had a great chat with Mr. Valente today. The Cageite Group has initially determined that it will build the city of Saint-Jean into the second headquarters of the Cageite Group. In the next ten years, it will continue to invest a lot of money in Saint-Jean.
City, build more factories and create a lot of jobs."
"Yes,"
Valente on the side also smiled and nodded,
"As we all know, the city of St. Jon is located in the middle of many industrial cities. Atmospheric flow will bring a large amount of carbon dioxide here. Moreover, it is also rich in sunshine resources. It is one of the most ideal food production areas in the Federation.
"Although in the past ten years, the city of St. Jon has been the largest grain producing area of the Kjet Group, supplying nearly 35% of the group's grain.
"But we believe that the huge potential of St. Jon has not yet been fully developed. We can still produce more and better food. This city has the potential to become the breadbasket of the entire eastern part of the federation.
"For a long time, the group has been in the process of rapid expansion and has not been able to deeply develop the resources of St. John City. However, with the change of the group's direction in the past two years, we finally have time to return to this city.
It’s a very important city to us.”
Valente smiled,
"In the next ten years, we will increase investment in St. Jon, build more factories, provide more jobs, and build this place into a food center in the eastern part of the federation. This will be a 'win-win'
Cooperation."
The audience burst into warm applause again.
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It rained heavily outside the window.
He Ao looked through the car window and stared at the well-dressed 'guests' chatting on the big screen outside the window.
Under this huge outdoor screen with an area of nearly 100 square meters embedded in the building, some ragged homeless people were huddled under dilapidated tents. They tried to get close to the wall or tent to avoid the sudden rain.
This place does not leave Dongcheng, but is at the junction of Dongcheng and Nancheng.
He Ao raised his head and glanced at the gray sky.
The rain wasn't heavy, just a few scattered drops.
In fact, it doesn't rain very much in St. John's City. Those towering factory buildings not only block the sunlight, but also block the raindrops.
Most of the rainwater will hit the edge of the factory building, and then flow directly into the underground reservoir of the factory along the rainwater collection system on the surface of the building.
The bus moved forward slowly along the rain curtain, and the beautifully dressed guests and hosts on the huge screen were still talking.
"Who is that Croat?"
Accompanied by the sound of hazy raindrops hitting the car window, an old man's confused inquiry came from in front of He Ao.
This old man looked much older than Sito. Her hair was all white and her face was covered with old wrinkles. She slowly raised her hand and pointed at the smiling middle-aged man on the big screen outside the window. Her voice
Very slowly, with some doubt.
Her memory seems to be somewhat blurry.
"That's the mayor, Mom."
Beside her, a middle-aged man carefully supported her.
"Isn't the mayor that...Snawa? I even voted for him."
The old man's voice was trembling.
"Snava is dead. Mom, this is the new mayor. He has been here for eight years."
The middle-aged man said carefully.
"He's dead?" The old man looked at the middle-aged man in confusion, "Why did he die? Why did he die so suddenly?"
Hearing this question, the middle-aged man paused. He slowly hugged his mother, leaned into her ear, and said slowly, "He has been dead for many years."
"Why did such a good person suddenly disappear?"
The old man lowered his head slowly, and then she seemed to remember something. She raised her head and looked at her son, "Then what he said counts, he said he would build a cheap hospital and a big park where the sun could be exposed..."
····I also said that I can take you to the big park when you get older."
"It's fixed, it's all fixed."
The middle-aged man hugged his mother and said, "Let's go for a walk in two days."
"This Snava is a good boy,"
A smile appeared on the old man's face, "I knew he was a good boy when I first saw him, so I asked you all to vote for him. He is a good boy who can do things."
"Uh-huh."
The middle-aged man hugged the old man.
He Ao raised his head and glanced out the window. The huge screen had been left far behind by the bus, and the rain was pouring outside the window.
The whole bus was suddenly silent.
People looked in different directions and seemed to have their own thoughts.
He Ao's palm rose and fell slowly, gently patting his sleeping granddaughter on the shoulder.
The old man with all white hair got off the bus at the next stop with his son.
As we got on and off the bus, the passengers on the bus changed several times, sometimes noisy, sometimes silent, sometimes crowded, sometimes sparse.
And He Ao lowered his head, looking at the information Eve summarized from the branch of evolution just now.
In fact, there is not much effective information stored in the branch host.
Evolution has two 'strongholds' in St. John City, one headquarters and one branch.
And this charitable foundation is a branch of Evolution. This branch's hierarchical authority is not high. Its main responsibility is to feed some monsters and develop some 'new members' through the black market, and the core information of the organization is not there.
this division.
Of course, there is still useful information for He Ao.
First of all, through this information, He Ao had a general understanding of the organization Evolution.
In the program recorded by the branch host, Evolution claims to be 'the organization chosen by God to lead mankind towards evolution', and those twisted and terrifying pollution monsters are called 'servants of God'.
What evolution has always wanted to do is to combine human beings with 'servants of God'.
Judging from the information in the branch host and He Ao's personal experience, Evolution has effectively mastered the method of merging with pollution monsters, and this method allows the fusion person to still maintain a certain level of sanity after the fusion.
They call this fusion approach the ‘Evolutionary Path’.
The name of the organization 'Servants of Evolution' is the abbreviation of 'Servants of God on the Path of Evolution'.
The branch host does not record the detailed operation method of this 'evolutionary path'. This method may be hidden in their 'headquarters'.
And when Ho Ao was checking the file, he discovered a piece of information. The headquarters of Evolution was not the headquarters of St. John City, but the real 'headquarters' of this extraordinary organization spread across more than a dozen cities.
Judging from the information obtained by Eve, at least three years ago, Evolution had only one branch of the Charity Foundation in St. John City. However, starting from three years ago, Evolution began to prepare to transform its own
'Headquarters' relocated to St. Jon.
At present, except for the 'leader' of the Evolution Clan who has not yet come to St. Jon City, the headquarters of the Evolution Clan has almost completely moved to St. Jon City.
This is also the reason why Evolution has two strongholds in St. John City.
The location of the headquarters is not directly recorded in the branch host.
But it is not difficult to obtain this position, because the branch and the headquarters actually have relatively close communication.
When the polluted monsters in the underground breeding farm are bred to a certain level, the blood wolf will take some members of the branch to deliver the polluted monsters to the headquarters.
When Eve controlled the core host, she also controlled the work computers and work bracelets used by internal members of Evolution.
He Ao asked Eve to find the corresponding 'delivery person' information through the 'delivery' information recorded in the computer for transporting pollution monsters.
Then, big data processing is performed on the delivery person's bracelet usage time on the day, photo location, and various file data stored in the bracelet.
In the end, Eve roughly estimated the location of the headquarters of Evolution—Xicheng Third Street.
There used to be many small grain companies there. After those companies closed down, many factories were abandoned and there was a lot of inconspicuous 'space' that could be used directly.
At the same time, it is also one of the most chaotic areas in West City, so it is very suitable for cover.
After determining the location of the headquarters of the Evolutionary Clan, He Ao also basically reviewed the information about the Evolutionary Clan.
From the perspective of its program and foundation, this organization looks like a cult organization with belief in gods, but its performance does not seem to have any interference from gods, and their members have not revealed that cultists are generally fanatical about a certain 'god'.
faith.
Judging from their behavior alone, they are more like some kind of secret organization that pursues power to the extreme, even to the point of leaving no one behind.
There's a twisted patchwork of the organization's claims and reality.
If they really believe in an evil god, this kind of 'disrespectful' behavior may lead to divine punishment.
Unless there is something wrong with the evil god they believe in.
While He Ao was thinking, he cut the document in his bracelet to the next one.
This document is very simple. It is the whereabouts of the people captured by Evolution near Mock Street more than a month ago that Eve collected.
This arrest operation was led by the "Shadow Man", the top person in charge of the Clan of Evolution in St. John. The Clan of Evolution arrested a total of twenty-five people near Mock Street, including men.
There are women and there are couples.
This group of people does not have names and detailed information like other 'feeds'. They are uniformly numbered from one to twenty-five and locked in the feed room.
However, the Blood Wolf did not torture them, because this group of people were uniformly pulled to the headquarters on the third day after being imprisoned, and what happened after that was completely unknown to the Evolution branch.
After reading all this, He Ao closed the file, opened the chat box, and sent a message to Yin Xiya, asking her if she could find the detailed investigation data of the "Nighthawk" by the Pollution Cleanup Department.
Then he closed the bracelet, reached out and took out the moire jade ornaments in his pocket.
This was a gift from Sito to his son. This jade ornament appeared in the Evolution branch, proving that Sito's son was once captured into the Evolution branch.
There is a high probability that Sito's son and daughter-in-law are among the twenty-five people who were transferred to the headquarters.
He Ao held the jade ornament in his hand, raised his head, and glanced out the hazy window again.
The foggy car window reflected an old face covered with wrinkles.
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The rain outside the window gradually stopped, and the neat roads became more and more shabby.
When the smart station announcement on the car announced the third station from the bottom, He Ao slowly shook his granddaughter awake.
An old man and a young man got off the bus with their suitcases.
He Ao raised his bracelet, glanced at the position given to him by the mechanic Temok, followed the path next to the platform and turned into an uninhabited alley, then walked a few hundred meters deeper and turned around.
After a few intersections, a somewhat dilapidated rusty iron gate appeared in his field of vision.
He Ao stretched out his hand, looked up at the camera above his head, and knocked on the door.
squeak——
The rusty iron door slowly opened, revealing a shimmering entrance hall. Some mechanical parts and debris were scattered randomly in front of the entrance hall.
Deeper in the house, there seemed to be the sound of some kind of motor running fiercely.
He Ao took a look inside and walked into the house with his granddaughter.
After he entered, the iron door closed automatically, and He Ao also bypassed the entrance and saw the scene inside the house.
This is a room as wide as a hall, but with robotic arms hanging down like bead curtains, small mechanical desktops everywhere, and a large intelligent processing lathe in the middle of the room, the entire room is crowded.
It's full of pressure.
At this moment, the huge Temok was wearing a mechanical blindfold, standing in front of the car window and operating the lathe seriously, not daring to be distracted at all.
"Old guy, are you here?"
What surprised He Ao a little was that the underground doctor Si Enji was also here. He stood in front of the ultra-thin TV hanging from the ceiling. He looked back at He Ao and said, "Wait a moment, he will do it right away."
alright."
"What are you doing?"
He Ao took his granddaughter through the gaps between the mechanical arms and walked to Si Enji.
"The construction period you gave was too short," Sienji shrugged. "Temok knew that I was a doctor and had a steady hand, so he pulled me over to help him process parts. You came as soon as I had some free time."
C-level strength can already be achieved by rubbing parts by hand to a certain extent, but the accuracy depends on the specific talent sequence.
After saying that, Si Enji glanced at He Ao and said, "I'm just working for you in vain."
"I paid for the new crutches."
He Ao raised his head and looked at the TV that Si Enji was watching.
The replay of the talk show seemed to be playing on the TV at the moment. Mayor Crotter was discussing with the executive director of the Kjet Group named Velente how to transform the park in the center of the city into a new Kjet giant.
factory.
The director promptly cut the scene to an aerial view of St. John's downtown park.
"That park is one of the few places in the city where everyone can get sunshine without restrictions."
Si Enji sighed.
"If i remember correctly,"
He Ao looked at the scenery of the park in the picture, "This is a project built under the leadership of Mayor Snava. Most of the things he left behind have been sold."
The news he saw in the Scorpion Gang boss's office was that the city government sold Central Park to the Kjet Group.
"This is the last one."
Si Enji stared at the scene on the TV, seeming to be caught up in some distant memory.
"So back then," He Ao lowered his head, looked at Si Enji beside him, and asked softly, "What was the reason why Mayor Snava committed suicide?"
