Accompanied by the long sound of sirens, the police department car parked far outside the boundary of Piloti Manor.
But unlike the situation at the White Dove Opera House, this time the police department did not open their security fortress "cordon" directly to the door. Just a few old convertibles belching black smoke and making noise like tractors. Several experienced police officers gathered outside the barrier, constantly asking for support.
Two streets away, four "warning lines" completely blocked the Sifang intersection.
On one of the "cordons", a policewoman who looked to be in her early twenties asked the senior who was leading her in confusion: "Are we just waiting here? But In this position...we can't keep an eye on them at all?"
Just blocking the intersection from a distance may be useful for ordinary supernatural crimes, but for high-level supernatural beings, means absolutely nothing. Even if the street is completely blocked, it is not very difficult to climb over the wall or teleport...
"It doesn't matter."
Looks about fifty years old, with a beard The strong police officer said calmly and without any nervousness: "Obviously we can't handle this kind of thing - do you want to ask the seventh agency of the General Administration to dispatch?"
"Why not?"
< p>The young female police officer asked back: "They can solve it - even if they are fifth-level criminals, they should be able to successfully arrest and bring them to justice!"Hearing this, the middle-aged police officer and the policeman next to him asked The policemen all laughed.
They looked at the girl with some nostalgia, their eyes full of kindness, just like looking at their own past.
"Ha... Even so."
Her senior patted her heavily on the shoulder: "We still can't move. This is the Pilotti Manor, you know Right. He is the son of the red prime minister."
"Of course I know him!"
The young policewoman replied without hesitation. She said, her voice even a little urgent: "But because of this, shouldn't we find out something quickly and give Mr. Peng Bonazi an explanation!"
Obviously, among the younger generation, Among girls, Alphonse's popularity and reputation are quite high - even the young policewoman has a strong impression of Alphonse.
"It is precisely because this matter involves Hong Xiang that we cannot act rashly."
In the end, it was the senior police officer who gave the answer: "Dare to confront Hong Xiang directly." Those who took action were just those few. If we really wanted to fight to the end this time, we would of course stand on the side of the Count of Leipzig - after all, he was the one who paid us the salary of the police in Leipzig. Police salaries in other places are twice as high, second only to the capital... and most importantly, wages are never in arrears
"But the Count of Leipzig is also a high-ranking member of the society and close to the Red Chancellor. People, who knows which side the Earl will be on this time? uncleIf Lord Jue doesn't give you an order, how can we act on our own?
"——Taking a step back, if both sides have no intention of fighting to the end this time, if we take action... we will be thrown out as the culprits and take the blame in the end."
p>"...Where did all this come from?"
The newly graduated policewoman didn't have that sense of justice, so she understood it immediately, but she still had some brains. There was some confusion: "Why do you all seem to know...?"
"Because it has been like this since before."
Someone replied: "This is not the first time there has been a dispute - - This time it was the Hong Xiang and the Society. Last time it was the Association and the Society. The Society always likes to mess with others, but they do have the confidence... Going forward, there will always be other conflicts, even in the Ziggurat, and they will occasionally come out. Make some trouble."
"Whoever takes action will take the blame. Even if no one does anything and something happens, the final impact will not be too great - because it is not a big deal. We can solve it."
The middle-aged policeman patted the young policewoman who was younger than his daughter and concluded: "If you can't move, don't move."
"That is to say...it doesn't matter who the murderer is?" The young policewoman seemed to understand.
"It's also important...but work and money are more important, kid. If you leave Leipzig and go to other places...forget it, for your safety, it's better not to go."
The middle-aged policeman patted her shoulder and sighed: "In my hometown, people who have lost their jobs sit at the door of the almshouse to receive bread and salt. They can fill the whole street. Volunteers in the workhouse work from morning to night without even any room for rest... The workhouse even has to apply for security from the police station to prevent homeless people from robbing the kitchen. This 'kitchen defender' may even be the entire street. The only one with a salary."
"——It's all those damn goblins who canceled the order!"
A younger policeman shouted angrily.
The middle-aged policeman pointed at him and said: "Look, Jack - this is an example. Come on, Jack, tell our good girl."
"Hi, How many times have I told you..."
Jack shook his head a little irritably, but still told the story seriously: "My father used to open a brick factory. The business was not big but it was pretty good. Until those damn goblin merchants - they are a bunch of damn liars! They should be skinned and sent to the Ziggurat to be made into sandwiches!"
Star Antimony's high-strength bricks are a specialty. Through cooperation with the Wang Li Alchemy Association, the special alchemy potion obtained can increase the strength of the fired bricks to a higher level than concrete bricks, and the formula of this potion is kept confidential by the association.
The Wangli Alchemy Association is not like those weak alchemists who protect their formulas by registering patents. They use a more straightforward approach - they work directly with the killer organization as well as the police department, whoIf you dare to try to pirate or crack, you will be dealt with directly.
Police Jack continued: "Those scammers paid a high deposit and urged my father to speed up production, saying that they were paving roads and building houses in the southern continent and needed a large amount of high-strength bricks. Because they promised that there would be enough orders in the future... So my father took the deposit to expand the factory and hired a large number of employees with high wages - at that time, it was possible to recruit people with high wages, because everywhere was competing for people.
“In order to expand, we need more funds. So he took a loan from the bank run by those goblin merchants. My brother also stopped going to college because his family's business was booming. He dropped out of school and went back to help his father in business... The business was indeed booming for a few years, so I was able to study all the way to university, and then transferred here to Leipzig after graduation. Fortunately, I was not interested in doing business. After studying at university, I became He became an extraordinary being and held the power in his own hands!
"Because it was only those few years - business was good, so we continued to expand year after year. But five years later, when the first phase of the contract expired, those cunning goblins said, because Their demand has decreased, and the technology on the market has improved, so they have to reduce the purchase amount. But damn, ours is obviously the best brick factory in the area, but we are the only ones selling the most conscientious solid bricks! ” p>
"...Is there a possibility," the young policewoman couldn't help but ask, "What those money-grubbing goblins originally wanted were hollow bricks? After all, the hollow bricks are enough after they have been strengthened..."
"Who knows - but in short, my father was able to keep 80% of the order volume by begging hard. But the price was a 10% reduction in the purchase price. This fatal 10% caused a significant drop in profits, and we More bricks must be produced to maintain the loan, and at this time, those damn goblins sent us a batch of new machines... These new machines are regarded as interest-free loans, and we can use them to be more efficient. Producing high-strength bricks.
“But it only took two years. Starting from the end of last year, we found that others also had this new machine. As a result, damn it - at the beginning of this year, those goblins directly paid liquidated damages and forcibly terminated the second phase of the cooperation!
“——But with these liquidated damages, I can’t even repay the loan I borrowed from them! My father wants to get rid of all those bricks quickly... After all, they are worthless if they are piled up. , and warehouses also need money, and workers also need money. The loans for machines, and the shares of the alchemists...
"But there are too many bricks on the market, and there are no people at all. receive. The price of the few that can be sold has dropped to less than one-tenth - even ordinary bricks are more expensive than this! Everyone is constantly lowering the price, but no one is taking it.
"Until the end, we couldn't pay wages, the family factory went bankrupt, my father was killed, and my brother committed suicide... At this time, no one was still dealing with the mountains of bricks. They can be given to the workers to pay off debts, but the bricks can be carried away.How much? The manager of the warehouse even had to pay for someone to dispose of these bricks... because they were too strong, neither machines nor low-level transcendent beings could dispose of them. "
Jack sighed: "You know what? There are only more than 2,000 people in our town, and its population is not even as large as a street in Leipzig. And these unwanted bricks are piled up on the roadside and in the streets. They cannot be broken or stepped on. Some people also pick them up and build houses, but houses have no meaning... When reinforced bricks are rampant, houses are worthless at all.
"And those damn goblins, what they bought from Star Antimony was far more than bricks. What they withdrew was the order, and what they wanted was our lives!"
"Do you understand?"
The middle-aged police officer patted the female police officer on the shoulder with a serious expression: "Listen to me... If you still want to stay in the 'cordon', and If you don't go to the White Dove Opera House, it's better not to worry about anything. If you can live in Leipzig, you are already happy. At least our economy here does not depend on supplying goods to the goblins... although prices have also increased within a year. Twice, but at least the salary has also increased along with it.”
“…I’m lucky to be able to get into the White Dove Opera House, but the Ziggurat and the Institute are always out of stock.” In this era, living people are the best hard currency."
Someone added quietly: "After all, the Count of Leipzig has given me enough money - the Count is a truly good person."
Everyone nodded in agreement, obviously deeply agreeing.
A hellish joke is, why is the Alchemy Association the poorest? Why has the Alchemist become the weakest party among the several forces in Star Antimony?
A very simple truth... is that their alchemical materials must be obtained from botanists, and the development of alchemy and the promotion of alchemists require a large amount of alchemical materials.
But the other companies are much simpler - they only need to get "people".
In this era, the price of "people" will inevitably become lower and lower. Although supply currently exceeds demand, it will be hard to say in a while.
"...The Earl is a good person? Why?"
The policewoman obviously hated the White Dove Opera House, so she frowned and asked: "Others are also buying their lives, and so is he. Is there any difference between buying life and buying life? Isn’t it the same as buying life?”
“Because you are from a better background. Liz, so you don’t know... When people are really desperate, no matter how much money they give, they will eventually sell what they have to sell. The only difference is whether it is one person in the family or the whole family who is sold.
"Even if the Earl gives less money, those poor people will still have no choice - they can still only choose between going to the opera house or a worse future, but he is willing to give those people Pay off debt...when he can buy these hardships with less moneyWhen the person was killed, he actively chose to give more money. This was a completely unnecessary 'loss-making' transaction. "
"...I think this is actually a kind of hypocrisy. "
The policewoman known as Liz still frowned: "Because he is just selling fame. Although his purchase price was high, his profit was also high, and in the end he actually made no loss. And there are more people who defect to him for this reason... I don't think there is any need to be worse than bad. If it's really that bad, then I might as well go to Iris. ”
“Irises are not that good, everyone is about the same. Moreover, hypocrisy is at least better than pure evil..."
The middle-aged policeman sighed: "I would rather there are more big shots in Xingzhi who are willing to be hypocritical. ”
In a place where everyone is unabashed about their sins, people will even fanatically worship the hypocrites they know well.
——Because in this case, Maybe more people would be willing to do this for the sake of profit.
But at this moment, another young policeman raised a question: "I have been listening for a long time... But, to get to the bottom of it, Shouldn't this be the fault of the goblins?
"Why doesn't anyone liquidate those goblins? Is it because we can't defeat them?"
"Those banks are run by goblins, right? Let's take the banks over, these people Don’t you have money? ”
When he said this, everyone fell into silence.
It was not that he said something wrong, but that others really didn’t understand why they didn’t do this.
“Maybe the people above have their own ideas. ”
Finally, the middle-aged police officer ended the topic with these words.
However, today’s conversation still planted a seed in the hearts of everyone present.
——Is there no one in the entire Star Antimony who can stand up to lead them?
Isn’t there a better choice than the Count of Leipzig?
“I am? I think..."
The oldest police officer present said slowly: "Anyway, in the end, the church will not ignore us. They can't just watch Xing Antimony collapse like this, right?
“Don’t forget... His Majesty the Pope today is a human being.
”——Pope Mercy. "
He said slowly.
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