Chapter 54 NO0036: Secrets and Phone Calls

Author: Sevenfold Body

Chapter 54 NO.0036: Secrets and Phone Calls

Along the way, both of them were like zombie bodyguards following them, saying nothing.

It wasn't until Jiang Zhou escorted the Pluto Deep Dive executive to the side of the flying car with the double-dented logo that Perse Fanny took the initiative to say:

"I checked your information before coming here. It's not easy to come from the lowest level of the street in the resettlement area... I'm glad to see that you finally chose the right stance on this matter. This is especially special for you.

rare."

In response to this compliment, Jiang Zhou shook his head.

"Let me tell you, you didn't give us the right to choose."

Although she played the carrot and stick game very well, it could not hide the fact that she was using force and hostages to coerce them.

"You mean, I'm forcing you not to choose self-destruction?"

The other party asked back.

"What a 'self-destruction'."

Hearing this, Jiang Zhou couldn't help but sneered:

"Presumably according to your logic, those innocent people who died under the company's suppression should also be blamed for their inability to dodge bullets, right?"

Fanny, who was about to get in the car, stopped. She turned around and looked at Liao Qi, her expression darkening slightly.

"I thought you...well, maybe I had too high expectations for you. But have you ever thought that compared to the company's anti-riot operations, poverty is the number one killer here? I count.

However, the number of people killed in corporate riots in the past few years is not even a fraction of the number of people killed in gang conflicts in a month.

"I came from the bottom of the notorious Avalon settlement, where people killed people in the street for a krill cake. I understand the dangers of poverty better than you do - it is a continuous, never-ending bloodletting gap. Even if the mental index is not

Being polluted and poor will slowly turn people into the most terrifying monsters. Compared with the pain caused by the company's settlement, it is not worth mentioning at all."

As she spoke, her eyes flashed amber with excitement.

Why are you so excited...

Jiang Zhou originally didn't want to discuss this topic any further, but after hearing what she said, he couldn't help but become interested.

"Then the question is, who is wholesale poverty?"

he asked softly.

According to the historical data Jiang Zhou checked in his spare time, the poverty at the bottom of the resettlement area, and even the establishment of the resettlement area, are all "attributable" to the fourteen super companies in the Olympus Order.

After the "Great Impact", they used the black technologies left over from super artificial intelligence to bombard each other, destroying 70% of the earth's land into "bad soil" that was uninhabitable. They forced the coalition government to build resettlement areas to house war victims.

However, they have enclosed those livable lands as so-called ecological reserves.

They were also the ones who bankrupted the coalition government after the war, dismantled it, and ultimately actually controlled major resettlement areas around the world and almost the entire human world.

Jiang Zhou even found it hard to understand why, a hundred years later, when humans have countless super-era black technologies, the living conditions of the people at the bottom are not even as good as those of his own era?

Obviously, they only need to leak a little something from their fingers, which is enough to make the people at the bottom live like human beings.

In any case, it is absolutely true that the suffering at the bottom of the resettlement areas is caused by the sins of those enterprises.

Even though Jiang Zhou feels that he is not a person with a strong sense of social responsibility, when he developed the "digital personality" technology, he never wanted such a gloomy future.

"You said that is just history. If you are immersed in history for a long time, you will never reach the future. And when the factory construction is completed, poverty will become the history here."

Fanny regained her previous calmness. She looked up at the scavengers not far away and continued:

"Forget it... there is no point in continuing to rubbish with you, no matter how deep the hatred you think there is between us. In the future, when the people here feel the actual changes, they will naturally appreciate us from the bottom of their hearts.

Arrival... This situation has been verified countless times."

"What about the people who died in the process?"

Jiang Zhou asked.

"They are the inevitable price in history. Perhaps rather than regretting and commemorating, we should be more grateful that those who died cannot speak."

Fanny shrugged, and then she turned around and opened the bulletproof door of the speeding car.

"Of course the poor will not hate the charity of the rich, just like the chickens in the farm will never hate the regular feed."

Jiang Zhou suddenly spoke.

"What's the meaning?"

Fanny turned her head again and looked at the young man whom she had admired not long ago.

"My father used to be a worker in a sewage treatment plant. After the sewage plant was outsourced to a company, he also experienced the actual benefits you mentioned. But it didn't take long for him to be swallowed up by the price behind those 'benefits'.

It’s over. But even today, after Icarus regained control of the sewage plant, many workers still miss the days of corporate outsourcing.”

At that time, Liao Qi's father kept updating his prosthetic body in order to be qualified for that high-quality job and not be eliminated. In the end, he was dragged down by the prosthetic body loan and passed away.

"Under my management, this kind of thing will not be allowed to happen."

Maybe she was looking up Liao Qi's files before and knew what happened to him, Fanny answered like this.

In response to this, Jiang Zhou chuckled:

"Then, your behavior will be accurately evaluated as inefficient. At that time, if you are unwilling to make changes, a more suitable person will be replaced to take your place. As you said before -

Neither you nor I matter, only the will of the company matters."

Maybe the person in front of him, who was also from the bottom of the resettlement area, could be trusted, but whether it was based on Jiang Zhou's experience or Liao Qi's experience, it was difficult for him to believe that the company would do personnel matters.

"Then since you don't believe that cooperation can be successful, why did you choose to agree?"

After a few seconds of silence, the other party asked.

"As I said before, you didn't give us the right to choose."

Jiang Zhou answered like this, then he thought for a while and then continued:

"And even if the final result doesn't change, we can get a lot of what we need in the process."

History is always an upward spiral.

He said so.

Before getting in the car, Perse Fanny took one last deep look at Jiang Zhou:

"No matter what, your prediction is wrong, and I will prove it."

"Although I don't have expectations, I also hope so."

Jiang Zhou replied.

…………

Red lines like blood vessels lit up at the bottom of the flying car, and the anti-gravity engine ran silently, lifting the flying car as it sped away, quickly disappearing at the end of the gray sky.

Jiang Zhou stood there and looked at the central navigation light strip in mid-air for a long time. It wasn't until someone tapped him on the shoulder that he came back to his senses.

Booker didn't know when he came up behind him.

"I'm sorry for embarrassing you earlier."

He was referring to the matter where Liao Qi was asked to express his position in public.

Booker looked apologetic.

"Is this why you believe her, because she also comes from the bottom of the resettlement area? Because you believe in her empathy?"

Jiang Zhou asked with no emotion in his tone.

"Let's consider it...one of the reasons."

Booker answered vaguely.

"So you've been hiding something from us."

Jiang Zhou was thoughtful.

"Some things I will tell you at a certain time. For now, I can only guarantee that everything I do is for Icarus."

He admitted frankly, his voice was very sincere.

And firm.

Jiang Zhou did not continue to ask questions.

Subjectively, it was good for something, but objectively it was doing a lot of harm to others... He could have questioned Booker like this.

But thinking about it, he might be the same as Booker now. Maybe even worse in nature - after all, what he needs to ensure most at the moment is that his body can leave Tartarus safely.

Accepting the cooperation with Pluto Deep Dive as "Liao Qi", if Liao Qi was still alive, would he really make this choice?

As for secrets... everyone has some secrets more or less.

And no one's secret should be bigger than yours.

"The next organizational meeting will decide your future direction."
To be continued...