Chapter 773: The muddier the water, the more chaotic the fish (please vote for the super large chapter)
Chapter 774 The muddier the water, the more chaotic the fish (please vote for the super large chapter)
"Rockville Energy Group's control over Winter City is actually mainly in the energy mining industry. The most suppressed area is the energy mining industry. Therefore, Skone did not choose to develop from the energy mining industry at the beginning, but developed in another direction."
Old Jacko watched the content on the TV and explained slowly.
"City Hall?"
He Ao also looked at the man standing side by side with Scone on the TV and asked softly.
That man is the mayor of Winter City.
"Yes,"
Old Jacko looked away and nodded,
"Mayor Endil had no intention of entering politics at first. He is the heir to the second shareholder of Storm Sea Mining. When he was young, he had a fight with Skorn over a mine ship.
"Later he agreed with Skone's philosophy, and the two secretly formed the Storm Federation together, and I became one of the first members of the Federation."
The old man listened to the music on the TV and gently touched the tea cup with his fingers. The years left mottled traces on his hands.
"It was a really good time."
His voice contained some distant emotion,
"Endir is passionate and generous, while Skone is reserved and steady. There are more and more members in the Federation. We argue, analyze and demonstrate day and night for the same goal.
"The Endil family's Storm Sea Mining itself is a vassal of Rockville Energy Group, and he is also the best speaker among all of us.
“In the end, after everyone discussed it, they decided that Endir would participate in the election, and we were secretly helping him.
"Of course, this move is also very difficult, because although Rockville Energy Group's control over the city government is not as strict as that of the energy mining industry, almost every mayor of Winter City has been personally screened by Rockville Energy Group
.
"It was very difficult to break through the blockade of Rockwell Energy Group and send someone who was not a member of Rockwell Energy Group. We all felt at the time that this was an almost impossible task."
"Is there actually a chance?"
He Ao held the tea cup and looked at the TV show where Skone and Endil held up their hands.
According to what Old Jacko said before, Rockville Energy Group was expanding to Winter City at that time, and that period might just be a 'period of opportunity'.
"Yes,"
Old Jacko nodded. He glanced at the young face next to him and looked into the young man's deep eyes.
For a moment, he couldn't tell whether the young man in front of him was just asking questions casually after knowing the answer, or whether he was really seeing the underlying truth of the incident through those complicated appearances.
The former seems to be a question that anyone can ask, which is consistent with the immature age of a teenager.
The latter means that this young boy has far-sightedness and keen insight, which sounds a bit too shocking.
Finally, he suppressed the waves in his heart and continued,
"At that time, Skone believed that the semi-autonomous state of Winter City was still a threat to Rockville Energy Group. At the same time, Rockville Energy Group had cultivated a large number of 'vassals' in Winter City. These vassals
A lot of benefits were also 'eaten' in the middle.
"At the beginning, when Rockville Energy Group could not control Winter City, these vassals were the help of Rockville Energy Group in managing Winter City. Now, these vassals have become the next step of the growth of Rockville Energy Group.
obstacles.
"So he feels that Rockville Energy Group will definitely try to 'eat' Winter City and completely bring Winter City, the largest old energy production base in the federation, under its control.
"And the continuous expansion of power towards Winter City is a sign of this.
"During this process, Rockwell Energy Group's 'policy' towards Winter City is most likely to be 'stability', and it will try its best to condone and paralyze the vassals in order to maintain stability in the final stage.
"And allowing Endir to run for office in the name of 'vassals' such as Storm Sea Mining was in line with Rockville Energy Group's strategic thinking at the time, and even borrowed some of Rockville Energy Group's power to achieve the goal of 'borrowing chickens to lay eggs'
'the goal of."
Old Jieko once again glanced at Skone and Endil who were smiling at the camera on the TV.
"Facts have proven that Scone's judgment of the situation at that time was correct. Although we encountered a lot of obstacles in the process, Endil finally defeated his opponent by a narrow margin and became the mayor of Winter City.
“Of course, at the beginning, we did not directly fall out with Rockville Energy Group, but relied on the cover of the city government to continue to develop our own strength.
“At the end of Endir’s term, the ‘annexation’ of Rockville Energy Group finally came.
“They began to annex mining companies in Winter City on a large scale, causing a lot of panic in the entire mining industry in Winter City, including those companies that were originally affiliated with Rockville Energy Group.
"The 'time' that Skone has been waiting for has come."
The old man withdrew his gaze and tightened his grip on the tea cup.
"Powerful foreign enemies gave the city of Winter the first opportunity to unite. At that time, members of the Storm Federation had already covered a large number of mining companies, and we quickly formed a huge 'Winter City Energy Mining Alliance'.
Then start absorbing those small mining companies.
"The Rockville Energy Group, which relied on its power and arrogance, was caught off guard by us. Soon we brought together more than half of the mining companies and formed the prototype of an alliance.
“At the same time, the municipal government of Endil also turned against Rockville Energy Group and began to inspect and restrict the entry and exit of goods from Rockville Energy Group and its allies.
"However, Skone was not dazzled by this short-lived victory. When the prototype of the alliance was first established, he immediately set off for Wetland and Dawn City.
"The Rockville Energy Group's counterattack came quickly. They reduced the purchase of energy ore, united with allies to reduce the supply of goods, paid the media to publicize Ndile's 'scandal', encouraged the city council to impeach Ndile, and at the same time supported
Major mining companies oppose the alliance.
"Almost within a day or two, the situation took a huge turn. The alliance suddenly changed from a prosperous one to a precarious one. Endir quickly appeased the people, solved the problem of the city council, and at the same time constantly contacted various mining companies to clarify the pros and cons.
Tried to stabilize the situation,
"But at that time, we all knew that the mining alliance was not stable. We could even see the major mining companies beginning to split due to a lack of orders, and the market began to be turbulent because there was not enough supply of goods."
Old Jack paused and said,
"But just before the mining alliance seemed about to collapse, Skone came back with orders from Dawn City and Wetland.
“He contacted First Energy Company and Avis Power Group, which are not affiliated with Rockwell Energy Group, and successfully signed short-term orders with them.
"At the same time, he managed to alienate Rockville Energy Group and his industrial consortium allies, and restored the supply of commodities to a certain extent.
"He has actually been in contact with these consortiums for a long time, but the progress has been very slow. They saw that we have no strength and are not willing to help us. That's why Skone went to negotiate in person when the alliance took shape.
"With goods and orders in hand, Skone used thunder to clean up some mining companies that made trouble during the turmoil and stabilized the alliance.
"But at this time, the battle has just begun. We and Rockville Energy Group fell into a tug of war after that.
"At that time, we traveled to almost every city in the federation, found every electric energy group, and signed orders with them. Scone visited one by one and convinced most of the bosses of mining companies that had not joined the alliance.
"That period was the most difficult and exciting period of my life. Almost every day, new problems broke out within the league.
"As if we are not careful, the mining alliance will collapse the next morning.
"At that time, Schoen would say to us every morning, 'We are one step closer to victory.'"
“Finally, after months of back and forth, we won.
"With the mediation of Pfister Energy and the Nord Financial Group, Rockville Energy Group, whose stock price has fallen for a long time due to this tug of war, has 'negotiated peace' with us.
“We finally regained the pricing power of energy ore and kept the interests of energy ore in the city of Winter.
“After voting by all the companies in the alliance, the alliance was completely merged into a ‘mega enterprise’, and the original shares of each mining company were converted into shares of the joint enterprise in proportion.
“The name we originally thought of was ‘United Mining’, but in the end, at Skone’s insistence, the name of the joint venture was decided to be ‘United Industries’.”
"It sounds like you succeeded."
He Ao looked at the TV and said softly.
"Yeah, that sounds like,"
The old man stared at the words 'Joint Industrial Founding Conference' that appeared on the TV, "We seem to have succeeded."
"It should be fine inside."
Old Jacko glanced at the time on his bracelet, then turned to look at He Ao, "Wait a moment."
Then he slowly stood up and opened a small door deep in the hall.
"Trouble."
He Ao nodded, and after watching old Jieco leave, he looked back at the TV scene again.
At this moment, the young and handsome Mayor Endil, wearing a neat formal suit, stood in the middle of the podium, looking at everyone in the venue. He put his hand on the podium, his face was radiant, and his voice was impassioned and impassioned.
"The fate of this world is a kind of reincarnation. Each generation has its own mission. Some generations can enjoy God's special favor, and some generations will eventually open up in the thorny road.
"And our generation has done the best we can!"
There was thunderous applause from the audience, and Scone stood next to Endil and kept applauding with a smile on his face.
The camera gradually zooms out, away from the well-dressed and well-dressed crowd in the center, and gradually zooms in on the simply dressed people outside.
They looked longingly at the center of the stage, their eyes covered by the shadows of the night seemed to sparkle with some kind of hope. They also applauded, but not so hard.
He Ao put down the milk tea cup in his hand, stood up slowly, and walked towards the glass door.
Next to the off-road vehicle outside the door, thick snowflakes have accumulated on the road.
There are no snowplows in Aka District, and the snow on the roads can only be cleared by nearby residents themselves.
The sky was still gray under the night, and a silent darkness enveloped the surroundings.
This neighborhood is a residential area and there are not many lights. In order to save electricity bills, people in Aka District usually turn off their lights very early. Even if they have extra things to do, they will only leave a small lamp for lighting.
In the deepest part of the night, there seemed to be a slight noise coming. The factories in the Novit District should still be rumbling at this moment, and the nightlife in the Cloud District had just begun.
To this day, Endil is still the mayor of Winter City. Although most people think that he can't do anything anymore, people still want him to sit in that position.
He has been in this position for nearly forty years.
And Skone died in the assassination of the Eternal Secret Cult fourteen years ago.
The howling wind blew through the gaps between the cities, as if playing some ancient rhythm.
He Ao withdrew his gaze, raised his bracelet, and looked at several 'new email' reminders that popped up on the bracelet interface.
Iroh does not have his own private mailbox. These "emails" were sent to the public mailbox of "Novis Security Company".
He Ao originally did not have the password for this public mailbox, but he used Eve's program to control Yiluo's father's computer, cracked the local password database, and logged into the mailbox through verification on that computer.
This email address is not logged into He Ao's bracelet, but is logged into Eve's cloud server and is 'projected' onto He Ao's bracelet through Eve's local software.
He Ao clicked on the mailbox and looked at the emails in the mailbox.
There are five emails in total, three of which are advertising emails, and the remaining two, one is from the FBI, and the content is that the person in charge of the Novis Security Company should come to the FBI building in the Cloud District to cooperate with the investigation.
The last one came from an anonymous sender.
"Are you ready to leave?"
There were gentle footsteps behind him, and Old Jacko walked over with a suitcase in his hand and handed it to He Ao.
"Well, there might be something wrong."
He Ao nodded slightly, took the suitcase, opened it, and took a look at the exquisite urn inside, "How much does this cost in total?"
"free of charge,"
The old man shook his head. The news recording on the TV had stopped a long time ago, and the empty hall was as quiet as death. "It has been a long time since anyone has been willing to listen to me, an old man, say so many words. You have already paid enough compensation."
He Ao looked into the old man's eyes, stared at his thin figure, remained silent for a moment, slowly closed the suitcase, and nodded gently.
The old man stared at He Ao's pale cheeks. He thought for a moment and said, "Wait for me a little longer."
Then he quickly ran into the back room again.
He Ao raised his head and looked at his back blankly.
After a while, the old man came back with a delicate packaging box in his hand. He took out a brand new red knitted scarf from the packaging box.
"This is?"
He Ao looked at the scarf with some doubts.
"Meeting gift."
Old Jacko smiled, glanced at the suitcase in He Ao's hand, stretched out his hand, unfolded the scarf, and wrapped it around He Ao's neck.
He Ao hesitated for a moment, but still did not resist, and allowed the old man to wrap the scarf around his neck and arrange it so that it completely covered his neck.
"Well, handsome young man,"
After putting everything in order, Old Jieke gently patted He Ao on the shoulder, "Go and do your thing. Now, the world belongs to your generation."
Then he turned around and slowly walked towards the old bamboo chair.
He Ao watched the old man sitting on the chair, then slowly opened the glass door and walked out of the hall.
The cold wind outside the door blew across his cheeks and ruffled his hair.
He got on the off-road vehicle, glanced at the suitcase in his hand, and placed the suitcase on the passenger seat.
Then he raised his bracelet again and opened the anonymous email.
The content of this anonymous email is simple:
[We can provide the whereabouts of Mr. and Mrs. Novis.]
[Before Sunrise, No. 305, Dead Tree Bar.]
The signature is [Eternal Esoteric Enemy]
He Ao put down his bracelet and started the vehicle.
The fish are out.
This was another reason why he left the name 'Novis Security Company' behind.
No matter whether people who see this name believe that this incident was done by 'Novis Security Company', this name is equivalent to giving a card to the people hiding in the dark, 'You can contact me through this.
'
At the same time, he was actually trying to verify another thing, if the wooden sign with the 'Secret Viewer' that Novis obtained was not an accident.
So, does this mean that there is another extraordinary force hidden under the calm waters of Winter City?
And since this force has 'contacted' Novis, it must be more sensitive to the name Novis Security Company than others.
So Heao tried to see if he could fry the fish.
Of course, it is also possible that this anonymous email came from another person who was opposed to the Eternal Secret Cult, trying to win over the secret forces of the 'Novis Security Company', or even a trap set by the Eternal Secret Cult itself.
But no matter what, the appearance of this email means that He Ao's goal has probably been achieved.
The major forces in this city have always been in a stable 'balance'.
And a "security company" that had been almost completely destroyed reappeared, cleaning the stronghold of the Eternal Secret Cult, leading the FBI to snipe the support troops of the Eternal Secret Cult, and at the same time pushing the Security Federation to the opposite side of the Eternal Secret Cult.
This series of changes has actually completely broken the original balance and muddied the seemingly calm waters.
And the muddier the water, the messier the fish will be.
Some things hidden in the dark will slowly emerge.
He Ao set the self-driving destination on the street near the Dead Tree Bar.
Whether the opponent is a real secret force or a trap from the Eternal Secret Cult, it can provide him with more information.
He Ao didn't have that much time to lift the curtain covering the city one by one, so he chose the simplest and crudest method.
A storm was set off and all the curtains were rolled together.
