Life Dungeon Game

Unless, something is wrong with the evil god they worship.

While pondering, He Ao switched to the next document on the bracelet.

This document is quite simple; it's a list of whereabouts of people arrested near Moker Street a month ago, compiled by Eve.

This arrest operation was led by the highest-ranking person in charge of Evolution in Saint Jon, 'The Shadow Cutter'. Evolution arrested a total of twenty-five people near Moker Street, including men, women, and couples.

Unlike other 'feed', this group of people did not have names or detailed information. They were uniformly numbered one to twenty-five and locked up in the feed room.

However, Blood Wolf did not torture them, because on the third day after they were imprisoned, they were all taken to headquarters. After that, Evolution had no idea what happened from the branch.

After reading all of this, Heo closed the file, opened the chat window, and sent a message to Ishia, asking if she could find the detailed investigation data of the Pollution Cleanup Division on 'Nighthawk'.

Then he turned off the bracelet and reached into his pocket to take out the cloud-patterned jade ornament.

This is a gift from Sito to his son. The fact that this jade ornament appeared in the Evolutionary Branch proves that Sito's son was once captured and taken to the Evolutionary Branch.

Sito's son and daughter-in-law are most likely among the twenty-five people who were transferred to headquarters.

He Ao gripped the jade ornament in his hand, raised his head, and glanced once more at the hazy view outside the window.

A wrinkled, aged face was reflected in the foggy car window.

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The rain outside the window gradually stopped, and the once clean road surface became increasingly dilapidated.

When the intelligent station announcement system announced the third to last stop, He Ao gently shook his granddaughter awake.

An elderly person and a young person got off the bus carrying suitcases.

He Ao raised his wristband, glanced at the location sent to him by the mechanic Termok, turned into an empty alley along the path next to the platform, walked a few hundred meters further in, turned several corners, and a somewhat dilapidated and rusty iron gate came into view.

He Ao reached out, glanced at the camera above his head, and knocked on the door.

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The rusty iron gate slowly opened, revealing a dimly lit entryway with scattered mechanical parts and fragments in front of it.

Deeper inside the house, the sound of some kind of motor running intensely could be heard.

He Ao glanced inside, then led his granddaughter into the house.

After he entered, the iron gate closed automatically, and He Ao walked around the entrance and saw the scene inside the house.

This is a spacious room, like a hall, but with robotic arms hanging everywhere like beaded curtains, small mechanical desktops scattered throughout, and other items placed around the room...

A large intelligent machining lathe in the center of the room filled the entire spacious room to the brim.

At this moment, the massive Termok, wearing a mechanical goggles, stood in front of the car window, diligently operating the lathe, not daring to be distracted in the slightest.

"You old man, you're here?"

To He'ao's slight surprise, the underground doctor, Sienzi, was also there. He stood in front of the ultra-thin television hanging from the ceiling, glanced back at He'ao, and said, "Wait a moment, he'll be done soon."

"What are you doing?"

Heo, carrying his granddaughter, walked through the gaps between the robotic arms and reached Sienzi's side.

“The timeframe you gave me was too short,” Sinzi shrugged. “Temok knows I’m a doctor and have a steady hand, so he pulled me over to help him process parts. I just had some free time and you came here.”

With C-level strength, one can already make parts by hand to a certain extent, but the precision depends on the specific talent sequence.

After saying that, Sienji glanced at He Ao and said, "I'm basically working for you for free."

"I paid for the new canes."

He looked up at the television that Sienji was watching.

At that moment, the television seemed to be playing a replay of that interview program, in which Mayor Krott was discussing with the CEO of the Kejette Group named Willent, how to transform the park in the city center into a new Kejette mega-factory.

The director promptly switched the camera to an aerial view of downtown St. John's Park.

"That park is one of the few places in the city that is unrestricted and allows everyone to get some sunshine."

Sinji sighed.

"If I remember correctly,"

Looking at the park scenery in the picture, He Ao said, "This is a project built under the supervision of Mayor Snava. Most of the things he left behind have probably been sold off by now."

The news he saw in the Scorpion Gang leader's office was that the city government had sold Central Park to the Kejette Group.

"This is the last one."

Sinzi stared at the scene on the television, seemingly lost in some distant memory.

“So back then,” Heo lowered his head, looked at Sinzi beside him, and asked softly, “what was the reason for Mayor Snavaro’s suicide?”

Calvin, later,

Chapter 680 "Do you know 'K'?" (A super-large chapter combining two chapters, please add to your wishlist)

"Why ask this question?"

Sinji turned and glanced at Heo.

“I saw the photo you put in the back room of the shop,” Heo said calmly. “Are those people standing with you part of Snava’s ruling team?”

Then he paused, "And I vaguely seem to recognize your name. You were the deputy minister of the city's health department during Snava's administration, Sienzi?"

"It sounds like you're very familiar with that period of history."

As the park image faded from the television screen, Sienzi said, "Do you know 'K'? Actually, we did the same thing as 'K' back then, except he succeeded and we failed."

He chuckled self-deprecatingly, "Of course, it's normal that you don't know. The Kegete Group has blocked all news about 'K' and forbids anyone from discussing him."

He paused for a moment, then continued, "And 'K' hasn't appeared in the public eye for several years. Perhaps he has already given up on what he did back then..."

He stood beside him, calmly watching him.

“Let’s get back to the main topic,” Sinzi shook his head and smiled, his tone lingering. “When Snavaro found me, I was still teaching at the University of Witland. He persuaded me to return to St. John’s City and join his team to carry out medical reforms.”

"Force large enterprises to purchase basic medical insurance for their employees, establish basic medical clinics on a large scale, and provide low-cost and simple medical services."

He Ao slowly replied, "The only two things I can remember about healthcare reform are these: it seems that the medical clinics established by the municipal government have all been sold to healthcare conglomerates, and the health insurance law hasn't been repealed yet?"

"But in reality, it's practically defunct; the conglomerate only provides medical insurance for a small number of long-term and core employees."

Senezi glanced at Heo, then walked to the iron bench near the window and sat down. "However, this bill did give health insurance to many people who previously didn't, and they still do."

He turned to look at the city where lights and night intertwined, "and this is why Snavaro had to commit suicide. Of course, he didn't tell any of us beforehand."

“I remember it happened in the last year of Snawada’s term in office. That year, food was scarce everywhere, and the news was full of opposition and criticism against him,”

Heo gazed out the window at the city under the night sky, his tone calm. "The council has initiated impeachment proceedings against him. I also remember that a city garrison officer was killed in the building of the Food City Daily, the largest media outlet in St. John. The city garrison also issued a declaration of no confidence in the city government."

"Yes, that was the most turbulent year of my life,"

Sinzi looked out the window.

"The reality was actually worse than what the outside world knew; our reforms offended all the major corporations in St. John's."

"In particular, a series of measures spearheaded by Snava, including the city's corporate income tax reform, worker working hours reform, the grain price control bill, the policy of supporting free competition for small grain conglomerates, and the investigation into unfair competition against the Kegete Group, etc."

By doing so, Shi completely offended the Kejette Consortium.

"Initially, our reforms went smoothly. Municipal tax revenue increased significantly, and the debt that had been accumulating year after year finally came to a halt. The municipal government had enough fiscal surplus to support us in building some public facilities, such as city center parks and small clinics."

"But things don't always go smoothly, especially after we offended the Kegete Group."

“Initially, the Kejette Group hoped to replace us in the next municipal election by supporting other candidates, but Snawar’s reforms caused his approval rating to rise steadily. After realizing that they could not win us through elections, the Kejette Group used other strategies.”

At this point, Sienzi chuckled.

"To be honest, as a super conglomerate that has only emerged in the last ten years or so, the Kejet Group is not looked down upon by other old-school super conglomerates. Among conglomerates, the Kejet Group is known as a 'nouveau riche who found gold'."

"But even such a 'nouveau riche' was a huge super conglomerate that we couldn't resist. At that time, we were still young, and the average age of the team was no more than fifty years old. Snava was only forty-five years old."

"In a federal city where the average age of mayors is in their fifties, we were indeed a very young team, so we thought at the time that we could change the city and change everything we saw."

"And as it turns out, we are indeed very young."

Sienji looked at He Ao standing there, slowly got up, picked up two chairs from the side, and walked towards He Ao and Jiaxi.

"Thank you uncle."

Jiaxi took the chair, thanked him sweetly, and then placed a chair behind He Ao.

He Ao reached out and patted his granddaughter's head before sitting down in a chair.

Sinji sat back down by the window, the dim light streaming in from outside casting a faint silhouette against the light.

"The city council was the first to be affected. The city council of St. John is elected every two years, and a mayor serves two terms in the city council."

"The city council will also be re-elected in the year the mayor is elected. At the end of the second year of the mayor's term, which is the middle of the term, the city council will be elected again."

“We lacked the experience and deep party affiliation, so initially we couldn’t fully control the council. However, in the first two years, we managed to control the city council through the ruling coalition.”

"Most of the bills were passed during those two years of his administration."

"Did something go wrong with the midterm elections?"

He asked softly.

The city council election held midway through a mayor's term is called the midterm election.

"Yes,"

Sinzi's gaze was deep and unfocused, as if he were lost in a distant memory.

"After the initial two years, the Kejette Group clearly realized our threat, so they tried every means to interfere in the midterm elections, bribing members of parliament who were not entirely aligned with us, or supporting opposing members of parliament to replace our original members of parliament."

"After this, although we regained control of parliament, we only obtained a simple majority of support in parliament, that is, the members of our ruling coalition just exceeded half."

"Of course, this can also be considered a 'victory,' but..."

While we were celebrating our victory, we had no idea that the Kegete Group had already planted a 'bomb' for us.

"And this bomb became a major factor in bringing us down."

"speaker?"

He asked softly.