Sinmonger Chapter 20: Canned

At nine in the morning, the helicopter landed in Liuzhen, a small town south of Tangshan.

The reconnaissance team that Ji Cheng sent had already surveyed the area of ​​several hundred meters around the landing site in advance, and found no suspicious persons. In fact, there are very few people.

This Liu Town was hit by a disaster at the end of last year. After the seawall was washed away, almost the entire town was submerged by sea water, and nearly a thousand people died. The rescue and relief work lasted for nearly a month before gradually turning to post-disaster reconstruction. There are still many local people who are still homeless, living in makeshift prefab houses and relying on relief supplies sent elsewhere for food and clothing.

Speaking of this disaster, it is necessary to explain several problems facing the earth in this parallel universe.

From 2060 onwards, the four most pressing problems facing the people of the earth are population expansion, energy crisis, sea level rise, and global warming. The rankings are in order, from light to heavy, and from slow to urgent.

The first problem was alleviated after the unification of the empire in 2000, but nearly three decades later, this problem has once again become prominent, and it has been placed on the agenda of Tiandu high-level. After several years of imperial research, a high "second son tax" policy was formulated, tentatively, to control the population growth to a stable trend.

The last three questions can be put together. Since the Industrial Revolution, human beings have begun to rely on a large number of "burning things" to obtain the main energy. For a modern civilized society, oil is blood, natural gas is oxygen, and coal is cell tissue. This energy choice is bound to aggravate the greenhouse effect, so global warming, global warming will lead to the melting of the polar glaciers, and then the sea level will rise. These are the truths that middle school students know.

The Empire has indeed made a lot of efforts in energy transformation. Several pure, reliable and powerful energy sources have been successfully developed. However, the energy sources with the above three natural characteristics and the other three artificially imposed characteristics , expensive, technical secrecy, imperial monopoly.

These sources of energy are not used by the people, but are used exclusively by the military and the upper echelons of the empire. However, as long as someone uses it, even if the energy burden of the earth is shared, it is always a good thing. The energy crisis has been solved along with the rise in oil prices.

As for global warming and sea level rise, have you noticed that the sky is a floating island in the sky, and from their point of view, there is still a lot of room for sea level rise...

Of course, the court couldn't really ignore these two problems, so the solution was to raise the seawall. After decades of construction, in 2101, basically all coastal areas in the world, as long as there are towns, have seawalls that are several meters to tens of meters higher than the road surface.

The seawall in Liuzhen was built five years ago. As the water level continued to rise year after year, the original seawall was already embarrassing, so the upper management of Long County increased the funding. was washed away.

Li Wei got off the helicopter, and the short hair smeared with olive oil in the strong wind is really not messy. He was wearing a black shirt with an open neckline, a pair of sweatpants and a pair of sneakers that would cover a month's salary for a helicopter pilot. Over the shirt is a bulletproof vest with tracking and eavesdropping devices built into it.

Almost as soon as Li Wei and Ji Cheng and others got off the helicopter, they received another text message from Tianyi on their mobile phone: "Li Gongzi, from now on, you will act alone and go south. Chief Ji, please send you The people who are arranged around will be transferred back, you can wait here, or just close the team, but don't follow Li Wei.

Please complete the above requirements carefully. "

Li Wei and Ji Cheng read the text messages together. After reading, he asked, "What should I do?"

Ji Chengdao: "You can only do as he says." He paused, then added: "This person doesn't like to talk about hostages, he is tired of us asking about the safety of the hostages, so he is not like an ordinary kidnapper. He repeatedly threatened us with the safety of the hostages. He just added a sentence at the end of the text message, 'please complete it carefully'. These five words made us have to do what he said, otherwise we will be at our own risk. There is no way... we can't take risks with the hostages. "

Li Wei nodded. After thinking for a few seconds, he leaned into Ji Cheng's ear and said, "Mr. Ji, do you think he knows our situation too well? It's as if a pair of eyes are always looking at us. ..." He was hinting at Ji Cheng.

Ji Cheng replied calmly: "I have my own measure." He immediately raised his voice a little, as if he wanted to tell the people around him: "Don't worry, the bulletproof vest is just for safety, this kidnapper If it is against you, you can put an explosive device in that coffee machine, you can go in peace, we will monitor it through the tracking device, if there is a situation, we will arrive in two minutes.”

Li Wei responded and walked south alone.

The helicopter stopped in an open space in the suburbs, and the HL team quickly mobilized several monitoring vehicles, connected portable equipment to the vehicles, and continued to track Li Wei's movements.

Li Wei walked along the widest road. Obviously, this road was rebuilt after the disaster. The road is very smooth. It should be for the smooth entry of large vehicles for material transportation and reconstruction work.

After a while, there were more buildings around, but they were all destroyed by the flood. This neighborhood used to be a residential area, but now walking in it feels like passing through a ruin in the apocalypse.

The phone rang again, and Li Wei picked it up and said, "What do you want now?"

Tian Yiyi: "The lower left corner of the phone has its own Bluetooth, take it off and put it on."

Li Wei put the phone in front of him, removed a block-sized part in the lower left corner, put it on his ear, and put the phone into the shirt pocket of the bulletproof vest.

"Okay."

Tian Yi said, "Does this place remind you of anything?"

Li Wei glanced around: "I've never been here before."

"I know, but everyone here knows you."

"Hmph... Long County has many people who know me, but I just don't know them."

"Hey... it seems that you are very forgetful, do you really need me to remind you to remember?"

Tianyi's words left Li Wei at a loss. He replied, "I don't know what tricks you are playing. What is your purpose? Where is Jiang Yun?"

"Six years ago, you, the talented young entrepreneur Li Gongzi, received a project fund allocated by the senior officials of Long County." Tian Yi did not answer the question, but began to narrate on his own: " This amount is theoretically allocated in five installments, but in order to curry favor with you, an aristocratic son of the real power faction, the Governor of Tangshan, who was in charge of this matter at that time, in order to show his full 'trust' and 'support' for you, he directly transferred the entire amount to you. to you.

You spent a month, without doing anything, without doing anything, you first laundered 30% of the money, and raised financing with the newly opened leather bag company under your own name.

Then he threw the rest to a contractor with whom he had an interest, and became a hands-off shopkeeper. And after receiving this transaction, the other party, as usual, gave you a huge rebate.

More than a year later, when the project was completed, you declined the Governor's invitation to cut the ribbon on the grounds of physical discomfort. In fact, you were just hanging out with a certain actress in a luxury villa in Guangzhou that day. "

The more Li Wei listened, the more frightened he became, and his expression suddenly changed: "How could you..." He really couldn't imagine how Tianyi would know these things. Anyone who knew the money he moved, who knew about his dealings with contractors, who knew the content of his conversations with the Governor, who knew where he was at that moment, except for Li Wei himself, can't be found in this world. the second.

"Hahahaha..." Tianyi laughed wildly on the other end of the phone: "Are you still worried about your personal privacy? What you should be worried about is your own personal safety."

Li Wei suddenly realized something, and at this moment, his neck froze.

Tian Yi continued: "It seems that you have already thought of it, yes, that project is to raise the seawall here." He said in a relaxed tone: "Obviously, due to cost reduction, this project was finally completed. It's rubbish, but because it's you, Young Master Li, the governor here is very knowledgeable to help you cover up the past. His idea is that even if the embankment collapses one day after more than ten years, he may not still be able to survive. In his position, what responsibility can he be held accountable for?

It's a pity...the embankment collapsed in five years. Of course, the governor did not receive any serious punishment, but was transferred to a more remote and impoverished area to be the deputy governor.

The Empire hopes to cover up this matter in a low-key manner. The core meaning is...that the **** will collapse. It's because the waves are too surging, it's just a natural disaster. Everyone, consider yourself unlucky. "

"Haha..." Having said this, Tian Yi couldn't help laughing again: "But... the governor here used the local media to do some propaganda work in order to curry favor with you. , if you come to cut the ribbon, you can see it. Huge slogans, big photos, newspapers, roadside walls, and even billboards can be seen everywhere. You are the great benefactor of the people of Liuzhen. "

Li Wei's face became very ugly. He now knows why "everyone here knows you". An instinct told Li Wei that he had to leave, it was not safe here.

Turning around, he saw that the road behind him was full of people standing at a distance of tens of meters ~IndoMTL.com~.

Most of them are old and weak, women and children, and most of the young and middle-aged people have left this place. But it was the eyes of these old people, children, and middle-aged women that made Li Wei's legs tremble involuntarily.

Tianyi's voice came from the bluetooth side again: "Finally, the part I want to say is the funniest, the leather bag company under your name, after collecting money for you, still kept some money. With the rest of the assets, you merge them at will into your own grocery chain, and that company has since been responsible for developing and producing canned food.

Those cans are so unpalatable that they were rated as the worst junk products in the entire Long County on the Internet. In fact, due to their bad reputation, even I couldn't help but buy one out of curiosity. , want to taste how bad it is...

In a word, the twists and turns have taken a turn for the better. The company was defined as a loss-making cancer by your group headquarters at the end of last year, and suffered layoffs and dissolution. However, the last batch of canned food that is on the verge of expiry is still hoarded in its factory warehouse. Therefore, your think tanks have an idea. In order to do some face projects for the company and improve the corporate image, they donate all the cans that cannot be sold for free. It was given to a hard-hit area that had just suffered a disaster, and it was hyped up.

And that disaster area is Liuzhen. "

With a "pong" sound, something hit Li Wei's forehead.

In the crowd, I don't know whose bear child, threw a can and hit Li Wei's head accurately.

Li Wei grimaced in pain, blood dripped from his forehead, but he was basically stupid, he just squatted down and picked up the can, only to see that the packaging of the can was not vulgar. The photo of the boss is printed with patience, that is, himself...