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Chapter 541 The Black-haired Rat’s Life is Also a Life

Wang Yunxiao felt that the explosive information he had dug up today would definitely give Ito Hideaki and Yan Yu'an a huge surprise.

However, when he saw the nervous policeman behind them, he realized that these two guys might be playing no less dangerous games than himself.

After being busy for a whole morning, the brothers were so hungry that they simply held the meeting in the cafeteria. Anyway, Ito Hideaki would pay the bill - the cafeteria in the seaside area actually had seafood, how decadent!

Braised hairtail and dried shrimps with tofu are both delicious dishes that go well with rice.

"Let me first report the information I have gathered. You can eat while I listen."

Ito Hideaki still smelled of smoke and fire. He drank a bellyful of tap water from the faucet at the cafeteria entrance and now couldn't eat a single bite of food.

"There is a huge profit chain hidden behind the black-haired rat tribe."

"On the surface, these black-haired rats appear to be a loose group of people who will do things for anyone who offers them benefits, but in fact, someone is deliberately raising them and providing them with incense and food to encourage them to reproduce."

"Caobang?"

Yan Yu'an asked casually.

Only the Cao Gang likes to offer these things.

In the past, Tianmen could be said to be a city that developed based on the Caobang wharf. However, with the changing times in recent decades, the Caobang, once a giant, has gradually disappeared from people's sight.

"Yes, it is the Cao Gang, and their purpose of worshipping the Rat Clan is not so simple..."

"With the existence of the rat tribe, they can blatantly embezzle food. When the higher-ups find out, they can just kill a bunch of rats to get away with it. This is not news. Last year, the black-haired ancestor was caught and shot because of this."

Yan Yu'an shrugged and didn't take it seriously.

“The corruption of the Cao Gang is only part of it.”

Ito Hideaki explained: "You probably haven't heard of the other part. They plan to officially register the rat tribe."

Yan Yu'an was stunned for a moment: "Those who haven't transformed also register for household registration?"

"Correct."

"That's impossible. There is no such rule."

Yan Yu'an shook his head and said, "The custom of humans and demons living together in China has been passed down for a long time, and there are records of this since the Yanhuang period. There is a very clear standard for demons to become human citizens, and that is to transform into human form and accept education."

“But the history of the Black Rat Clan is as old as Tianmen.”

"Tianmen's history is ridiculous! It's only been five hundred years since the founding of the previous dynasty and the time when it was named Tianmen. Of course, for foreigners, this may indeed be a very long time scale."

Yan Yu'an sneered: "What will happen after naturalization? Fight for legitimate rights and interests? It's not easy for people to live, and you're giving rats a place to settle down?"

"I know the answer to this question!" Wang Yunxiao interrupted, "The process of fighting for the legitimate rights and interests of rats is a business in itself. Ito just said that when the higher-ups investigate, they will bring a group of rats out and chop off their heads. If rats can be registered as human beings in the future, as a vulnerable group, should they receive some financial subsidies? Should factories that employ rats also get some tax cuts? As for whether it is in compliance with the rules, isn't the imperial seal in their hands now?"

Yan Yu'an was stunned for a moment.

Ito Hideaki coughed and continued, "Speaking of transforming into a human form, this is not particularly difficult. According to the results of my interrogation, in the past one or two years, there has been a Dark Goddess sect that has been spreading in secret, which is publicly known as the Black Goddess Temple."

"The leader of this sect is a fox demon who has achieved great success in cultivation. It is said that she comes from outside the Great Wall. Her teachings are to lead the demon tribe to escape the tragic fate of conservative oppression and exploitation and go to the promised land given to them by the Lord - the black land in the north."

Yan Yu'an looked at Wang Yunxiao.

Wang Yunxiao briefly recounted the news about the Ma family that he had received from Principal Zhou: "If what you said is true, then that demon fox should be the remnant of the demon clan that defected back then, and now has been pushed out to serve as... um, a life mentor? Or an opinion leader?"

Yan Yu'an nodded and said, "This is how it can be connected. It's like the Ma family came to Tianmen to clean up the mess. They had a fight with the fox demon before, but neither side gained anything. Then the fox demon drove the rats to attack the girl who was visiting the Ma family, trying to kidnap her and force the Ma family to fight again. But the plan failed, so they had to hand it over to the patriot warriors to pick a random person to make up the number... What's the matter with that witch?"

Ito Hideaki spread his hands and said, "I haven't finished what I said just now. In addition to the demon foxes, there is also a witch family in the Dark Goddess Sect. It is said that they are from the Honey School on the west coast of the Federation. The witches of this school are good at using fairy tales to cast witchcraft and make various magical potions. Among them, there is a potion that can make mice drink it and turn into human children."

"Cinderella?"

"Yes, just like the servant driving the pumpkin carriage in the story of Cinderella, although there is a time limit, it is not a big problem to transform into a human, so that you can register as a human. On the other hand, you can also turn a human into a mouse - now I finally know where those warriors who saved the country are hiding."

"Honey School? Interesting."

Yan Yu'an nodded and said, "It is indeed difficult to check if they sneaked in as rats... I think many of my questions have been answered. But let me first talk about my findings. You may not know about the Dwarf Shack, but to put it simply, it is a place specially prepared for foreign sailors to smoke, drink, whore and gamble."

“Is there still such a place now?”

"No way. No matter how strict the rules we enforce, we can't change the living habits of those Western sailors. And we have to respect objective facts. Those foreigners who don't have any moral bottom line will be exhausted after a long voyage. If you don't let them release their energy, they will do something else. So the final compromise is to draw a place for them to play by themselves."

Yan Yu'an explained: "We have been closely monitoring the movements of the dwarf huts. As long as the things inside don't leak out, we will let them entertain themselves. However, there is always a loophole, and we still missed one, which is the overseas immigrants who came with the fleet."

“Can’t overseas immigrants go through normal immigration channels?”

"There is no problem with the normal channels, but the personal qualities of overseas immigrants vary."

Yan Yu'an spread his hands and said, "Most of the foreigners who migrated from Europe and the Federation have at least received modern education and have the most basic listening, speaking, reading and writing skills. They can quickly find jobs and adapt to the environment. But there are also some foreigners who are uneducated and unskilled scoundrels. They can't make it in their hometowns, so they are forced to board the ship to find a way to make a living."

"Even if these people come here, they are still useless. They can't find a job, or they can't stay in a job for long. In the end, they have no choice but to live in a place like the dwarf shack to feel the warmth from their hometown."

"We didn't pay much attention to the movements of this type of people before, but during this investigation, we found that someone was recruiting these unemployed vagrants in the dwarf shacks at extremely low wages."

"You just said they couldn't find jobs."

"It's true that I can't find a job, but that doesn't mean I don't have surplus value. For example, if I take some suspicious pills, I can turn into a mouse and sneak out of the dwarf's hut..."

(End of this chapter)