Let you be the wall-facer: you turn around and join the Three-Body Problem?

"Brother, there is something the Earth Union Council needs your opinion on."

When Lin Xuan saw Luo Congmin, she turned her chair around without even bothering to look back.

"Don't ask me. You are the president now. Don't always come to me when you encounter problems. If you really have no other choice, ask your father. I think as the former Sword Bearer, he must think more long-term than me."

Since Lin Xuan's return, Luo Congmin would ask Lin Xuan for her opinion on many important issues of the Dilian at the last minute.

At first, Lin Xuan was quite pleased, saying that this little girl knew to give power to her and was not greedy for her position as president at all, allowing her to experience the feeling of being an emperor.

But gradually he came to his senses.

That's not right. She is not giving power to herself. She is clearly looking for someone to take the blame for herself.

Many of the important opinions that Luo Congmin asked him to decide were difficult and complicated problems that had been accumulating in the Local Federation over the years. The parliament had discussed them for many years but had not come to a conclusion.

It’s not that the problems themselves are difficult, but the different choices attached to these problems will lead the Earth Union and even all of humanity onto a path of no return.

So it's not so much that Parliament is arguing, but rather that no one wants to bear the consequences of these choices.

But Lin Xuan is different. He has the ability to bear the consequences, so naturally he is targeted by Luo Congmin.

No matter how difficult the problem is, as long as Luo Congmin reports Lin Xuan's opinions, the parliament will instantly reach a consensus in a short time.

The mentality of the parliamentarians is: You propose. You are responsible.

As long as someone is willing to take the blame for this matter and this person has the ability to take the blame for this matter, what else is there to discuss?

Even if Lin Xuan asked them to grow coriander on the sun, as long as he was willing to bear the pressure of scientific research and public opinion, the Earth Union would not ask any questions about the significance of this matter.

So after being used as a gun by Luo Congmin several times, Lin Xuan had learned his lesson and would always push the advice to her father whenever Luo Congmin came to him for advice.

What are you doing? Isn't your father also a wall-facer? Why are you targeting only me?

But this time, Luo Congmin didn't even wait for Lin Xuan to refuse and sat directly opposite Lin Xuan's table.

"Brother, Los Angeles has collapsed."

Chapter 265: Fated to be an official, no need to turn the book

Let’s go back to half a year ago.

"Snapped!"

A crisp sound of a whip was heard, and a man staggered a few steps and fell to the ground. The various construction materials on his shoulders were scattered everywhere, making crisp sounds when they fell to the ground.

"They are so slow at doing some work. These androids are becoming more and more useless."

On the high platform, a foreman wearing a prosthetic mechanical skeleton looked ferocious as he looked at the group of bionic people below. His displeasure was almost written on his face.

The Earth Union has awarded a tender for the restoration project of Los Angeles. This underground city, which was built in the last era, has long lost its former glory. Apart from its use during wars, its only function now is to serve as an ornamental feature.

Someone in the Local Association Committee once proposed whether to demolish these obstructive underground city buildings, but was strongly opposed by historical preservation organizations.

The explanation given by others is also very reasonable. Although this thing is useless, it represents the pain of an era. Moreover, this thing was designed and built by Lin Xuan himself. Do you want to deny Lin Xuan’s decision back then by demolishing the underground city of Luocheng?

With such a big hat put on it, the Land Federation naturally dared not mention the demolition of the underground city again, so they just let it rot here. Every year, the Land Federation even has to spend a large sum of money to bid for the restoration of these antiques, which can be said to be a business that only loses money.

Ever since the Star Ring Group expanded its real estate business into the solar system, humans no longer have to worry about housing issues.

Even now, on average, every human being owns properties on at least several planets.

Coupled with the rapid development of science and technology and the fact that bionic humans have filled the gap in the labor force, the current total population of mankind is two-thirds lower than that in the planned economy era of the PDC.

Therefore, even homeless people begging on the streets would not be interested in living in this dark underground city.

At this point, many engineering teams discovered the business opportunities and offered quotes and took the initiative to undertake the restoration work of these underground cities.

Due to the abuse of bionic humans in recent years, the number of mass-produced bionic humans has increased, and Dilian has been worried about the placement of these bionic humans.

These engineering teams are almost the gathering places for mass-produced bionic people. According to the laws of the Earth Federation, bionic people do not enjoy civil rights, which means that these abandoned underground cities are the natural new homes for these bionic people.

The engineering team uses the bionic people to repair the underground city to make money for themselves, and at the same time arranges the bionic people to live in the underground city. It can be said to be a deal that kills two birds with one stone.

As long as the project continues, the bionic people can use this excuse to stay in the underground city. In this way, the problem of the bionic people's resettlement is properly solved. Therefore, even if the Ground Union knows about it, they will turn a blind eye to it.

This situation was friendly to all three parties until a new commissioner from the Land Union Engineering Department took office.

Li Qiming, his father was one of the people who followed Lin Xuan to conquer the world in the early days. In the battle of Luocheng, his father led the charge and led his own company to pin down the PDC's front column.

After the beginning of the two major international eras, his father's achievements were not forgotten, and he was given a prominent official position and stationed in Los Angeles.

It can be said that Li Qiming was a second-generation official since childhood. After he grew up, he relied on his father's connections to successfully get a job at the Local Government Association.

Logically speaking, if such people enter the Local Federation, unless they are really capable, they can only get a sinecure at best and wait for death at home.

But Li Qiming was extremely lucky. When he was serving as an engineering specialist, his direct team leader suddenly died, and he temporarily took over the position of engineering team leader.

As a result, the team leader had only been in office for two days when their project team was imprisoned for corruption, and he was promoted to the position of team leader out of turn.

If he moves up further, he will become the general manager of the Los Angeles Engineering Department, but this position has basically not changed for decades, so Li Qiming never expected to move up further.

But what happened was that after Lin Xuan returned, he cleaned out all the followers of Cheng Xin's faction in the Earth Alliance. The drastic changes made at the top naturally affected the lower levels as well.

Many people eliminate their political enemies by labeling them as doves, and the head of the engineering department in Los Angeles happened to come from a family that was supported by the doves.

This is really bad luck. The second generation of officials enjoyed the glory brought by their ancestors, but naturally they have to bear the consequences of being implicated in the entire clan.

This iron rice bowl that had remained in the hands of the owner for almost decades was taken away by the butterfly effect brought about by Lin Xuan.

Afterwards, Li Qiming naturally became the temporary head of the Los Angeles Engineering Department.

It took him less than three months to reach this point, which was like a rocket's advancement. In the blink of an eye, his official position was higher than that of his father who helped him enter the engineering department through the back door.

If you are destined to be an official, you don’t need to read any books.

But such a rapid promotion is bound to be criticized by many people. On the third day after Li Qiming took office as the head of the Luocheng Engineering Department, all kinds of rumors about him had spread everywhere in Luocheng.

The most mainstream view is that he has some unspeakable relationship with the person in charge of the Central China region.

Rumors that are spread by word of mouth are the most deadly, especially when they reach the ears of the person in charge in the central China region.

The higher-ups were furious and ordered Li Qiming to deal with these remarks within a week and to take the initiative to cut ties with the Central China region. Even the project funds that were originally scheduled to be allocated to Los Angeles were delayed because of this incident.

The superiors don't give money, but the workers still need to eat, especially in this day and age, those foremen have dozens or even hundreds of bionic men under their command. If they come to cause trouble for Li Qiming, the bad impact caused will probably alarm even the Local Federation Committee.

In a week, Li Qiming had no idea how to stop the gossips.

At the moment, the only way seems to be to create a bigger news to cover up people’s dissatisfaction with him.

Therefore, Li Qiming came up with a ruthless plan. He planned to directly stop the renovation project of the Los Angeles underground city.

The superiors want to cut ties with me, and the people below also want to join in the fun, so I'll just overthrow them!

Just overturn the table and no one can play anymore.

The renovation project of the underground city is a national policy set by the Earth Federation itself, but the Earth Federation is also quite troubled by this matter. It is just that it has not found a better solution at present.

Then he, Li Qiming, will be the first person to stop the renovation project of the underground city. If this wave is successful, he, Li Qiming, will save a lot of unnecessary financial expenditure for the Ground Federation.

If I fail, the worst that can happen is that I will have to take off this official uniform, which is not much different from the current outcome of waiting to die.

When people are forced into a desperate situation, they will give it a try even if the option has little hope. As a seventh-rank official, what he has to do is to try to shake up the financial problems that have troubled the entire local federation for decades.

But Li Qiming didn't know that his choice would bring a heavy blow to the Ground Federation.

The day after the renovation project stopped funding, the army took over all the underground cities in Henan Province and expelled the 21 bionic people who were stranded there in the name of the project.

At this point, some officials have realized that something is not right. There are too many of these bionic people, and even they cannot use prosthetic machines. Once a riot breaks out, the entire city of Los Angeles will fall in an instant.

Therefore, soon a number of suggestion boxes were submitted to the Local Association Council in Central China.

However, the current local federation is in a state where the anti-dovish atmosphere has reached its peak. Any official who dares to propose a weak and tactful policy at this time will be labeled as a dove of Cheng Xin's faction and will eventually be sent to the world around him to do forced labor.

So after seeing the letter of opinion, the Central China Regional Council only gave a one-sentence response.

"Ready to fight at any time!"

This set a bad precedent, so much so that when the news spread from the Central China region to the Huaxia branch and even to the Earth branch, the response given by the Earth Union was the same.

We are ready to fight the Battle of Los Angeles again, but this time, the offense and defense will be reversed.

But the foremen are not stupid. They are not planning to follow Lin Xuan's example and launch another coup in Los Angeles to overthrow the rule of the Ground Union. All they want is for the Ground Union to restart the renovation project of the underground city and pay out the unfinished project funds as soon as possible.

Therefore, the protests they organized were mostly in the form of marches. After all, once a violent incident occurred, the Los Angeles garrison would only need a few thousand people to suppress the more than 200,000 bionic people without prosthetics.

This is why, even though the human population has shrunk so obviously, we still dare to mass-produce bionic humans.

As long as prosthetic devices are not installed on them, these bionic people are no different from cats and dogs to humans.

But here’s the funny part: androids have no human rights, and they are not even protected by the laws of the Earth Federation.

The only way these taskmasters hoped to get the androids to protest was to awaken some sympathy in the humans for these humanoid creatures.

After all, some saints in the past even came up with such a stupid idea as listing cats as protected animals. So is there anything wrong with me creating some bionic people as protected animals?

But the foremen don’t know that no one in the current local federation, from top to bottom, dares to be a saint.

The last person who was a saint is still imprisoned in the luxurious prison of the Star Ring Group.

Then, things gradually began to develop in an uncontrollable direction.

The local federation officials don't care about these bionic people at all, and the foremen are still inciting marches, but the people don't know why they don't care. When they get up early every morning, they can see the huge marching teams.

After a while, some saints couldn't stand it anymore.

They sympathized with the plight of these bionic people, but could not understand the difficulties the Ground Union was now facing, so some people began to spontaneously organize donations of supplies to assist these foremen in inciting marches.

When the foremen saw this situation, they were also dumbfounded.

No, brother, we want money. What does it mean for you to donate supplies to us? If you really feel sorry for us, you can donate some money. As long as the money is in place, we will not make trouble.

But how could everyone not know what the foremen were thinking? They just refused to donate money. The ones who everyone felt sorry for were just these bionic people, not these foremen. In the end, the donated money all went into the pockets of these foremen.

Then the situation began to become increasingly outrageous. In the beginning, only some water and food were donated, but later on, some people started donating weapons.

When the foremen saw this situation, they panicked.

My goodness, we are just here to ask for our wages, you want us to die!

Once you have a weapon in your hand, it will be regarded as rebellion even if you cannot use prosthetic devices.

The people who came to suppress the rebellion and to pacify the march were two completely different groups of people.

Before the foremen could react, strategic-level weapons such as thought-stamp bombs had even appeared among the donated materials.

When this thing appeared, everyone broke out in a cold sweat.

If the guns and other things donated before might be spontaneous actions of the people, but once this ideological bomb came out, everyone knew that there must be other people behind the scenes fanning the flames.

Which civilian home would hide genetic weapons?

The foremen from the entire city of Los Angeles held a meeting that night and decided to stop this crazy action immediately to avoid getting into trouble.

However, they soon understood the difficulties Ye Wenjie faced when she founded ETO.

A thought stamp bomb exploded above the heads of a group of foremen who were in a meeting, and the thought stamp radio waves swept across all terrain within a one-kilometer radius at an extremely fast speed.

Then the riot began.

Explosions occurred simultaneously in all key areas of Los Angeles. Someone had planned this in advance and buried a large number of thought stamp bombs at the locations of the garrison troops.

Purple radio waves illuminated the entire night of Los Angeles, and a large number of military soldiers were transformed.

A small number of soldiers carrying anti-dry prosthetics were also hunted down by the assault teams that appeared out of nowhere.

It only took one hour to control most of the city of Los Angeles.

Afterwards, the space forces stationed on Reach received an order to land immediately. The three space stations were dispatched almost at the same time, directly attacking Los Angeles from low-Earth orbit.

A large number of landing capsules were projected into the interior of the earth. Before everyone could figure out the situation, another batch of thought-stamp bombs exploded among the crowd.

The number of controlled troops is still increasing, and every step is calculated extremely carefully.

The driving force behind this obviously has a far-reaching plan and had planned everything long ago. He was just waiting for an opportunity.

When the news of the emergency in Los Angeles reached Lin Xuan's ears, it was already noon the second day after the violent incident in Los Angeles.

"So, because you guys owed some wages, Los Angeles was captured now?"

While rushing towards the star port, Lin Xuan asked Luo Congmin about the cause and effect of the whole incident.

"Yes."

"Don't they use their brains? Haven't you heard the saying, if the program can run, don't change it? The repair work of the underground city may seem like a useless financial expenditure, but it is to prevent this group of bionic people. They stopped the repair work of the underground city. Isn't this courting death? If it were me, I would also start a rebellion."

Lin Xuan stretched out her hand, wanting to support her forehead, but halfway through raising her hand, she waved it to the side and spoke through the air with the communicator.