Although there are still some things about Hexi that He Ao is not clear about, He Ao is keenly aware that Hexi is relatively resolute in fighting against the Huilmei Medical Foundation.

What she did at the dinner was very risky, and as a qualified intermediary, he should not personally get involved in these things.

Haixi's actions proved that she had a reason to get involved.

And judging from the ambush in the underground parking lot, the Huiermei Medical Foundation has been trying to deal with her for a long time, which proves that there is a high probability of a deeper conflict between the two parties.

And this can be used as the basis for cooperation. The enemy of my enemy is my friend.

After He Ao tentatively expressed her needs, Hai Xi readily agreed, which proved that He Ao's plan was also in her interest.

So He Ao finally chose to believe her.

The series of events last night also proved that He Ao's judgment was correct.

Of course, if Hai Xi is unwilling to cooperate or has other plans, He Ao also has other backup plans, but the effect is not as good as this one.

While thinking, He Ao had quickly changed his clothes, put the pendant back into his clothes, and then found the alloy dagger in the bedside cabinet.

Haixi found him a simple dagger sheath that could hold the dagger, but maybe because time was tight, the dagger sheath didn't fit well and was a little too big.

He Ao pulled out the dagger from its sheath, and with a crisp sound, his eyes were projected onto the cold alloy blade of the dagger.

He stared at the slightly curled edge of the dagger and quickly looked away.

The dagger was damaged, and he had to find a way to get a new weapon.

He sheathed the dagger, put the sheathed dagger into the inner pocket of his coat, and opened the door.

At this moment, a wind with a fishy smell came towards me.

He Ao twitched the tip of his nose, his expression remained unchanged, he walked out of the room and closed the door.

"Have you changed your clothes?"

Haixi, who was standing in the corridor with her back to the door, turned around and looked at He Ao. Then she paused and said, "Why don't you wear that air purifying mask?"

"This does not affect the taste."

He Ao shook his head.

Although he doesn't rely much on his sense of smell in combat, in certain scenarios, his sense of smell is also an important source of information.

"As long as you can get used to the smell."

Haixi nodded, knowing that He Ao must have his own reasons for not wearing a mask, and then she walked along the corridor, "I will take you to see Thorne."

"Um,"

He Ao's eyes swept around.

He found that the location he was in was also a small building, but unlike the surrounding small buildings that were mainly used to store garbage, this small building had walls all around and the walls were painted, making it look more like a

A place to live, not like a garbage factory.

At this moment, Haixi was leading him down the corridor.

Between these small buildings, there are also some "air corridors" made of rusty steel.

These corridors connect the small buildings in series, allowing people in the small buildings to walk between the small buildings without going downstairs.

It's just that these sky corridors don't look safe. Only a few corridors have roofs to protect them from the rain. Most of them have only some rusty railings, and some corridors don't even have railings. The narrow walkways are like slender

The bridge usually connects two small buildings.

Some children were running on it, stepping on the rusty steel plates, making a thumping sound.

“What is the source of income for the scavengers here?”

He Ao withdrew his eyes from the small buildings and corridors, and asked casually while walking along the corridor.

"garbage disposal,"

Haixi took a look at the densely packed garbage and said softly, "Many of these transported garbage are recyclable. Scavengers sort out these recyclable garbage, and then use some simple machines and methods to

Processed into industrial raw materials.

"For example, recycled aluminum cans are re-melted and then cast into qualified aluminum ingots. People from the cleaning company will come to recycle these aluminum ingots, but their prices are very low, only one-third or even one-third of the price given by the factory.

One quarter.

"I have tried to go directly to factories to sell these aluminum ingots before, but basically no factory is willing to directly purchase materials from waste pickers. In the end, these aluminum ingots had to be sold to cleaning companies."

"So by changing hands of these aluminum ingots, the cleaning company can directly obtain profits that are two to three times the cost?"

He Ao glanced at the shabby clothes of the scavengers, "What about the useless garbage after disposal?"

"Most of the trash here goes somewhere."

Haixi shook his head, "Only a small part of the garbage cannot be processed at all. The cleaning company will come and take away the garbage and charge the scavengers a cleaning fee."

Hearing this sentence, He Ao paused and said, "This cleaning company... is very profitable."

After all, the cleaning company of Wetland has actually collected cleaning fees from the citizens of Wetland once.

And the cleaning fee is not low, at least not lower than the cleaning fee in Chenxi City.

However, the cleaning fee in Chenxi City includes the cost of the cleaning company's garbage disposal.

The cleaning company in Veteran only needs to transport the garbage to the Zarot neighborhood.

Compared with the cleaning company in Chenxi City, the cleaning company in Wetland saves the cost of maintaining the operation of garbage disposal machinery and the cost of building a garbage disposal plant.

They can even make another scrap from the raw materials processed by the scavengers.

The most outrageous thing is that there is a charge for transporting garbage out of the city that the scavengers cannot handle.

In other cities, this part of the cost is already included in the cleaning fees paid by citizens.

He Ao didn't know where to start complaining for a while.

"The largest cleaning company in Vetland is Huiermei Cleaning Company, a subsidiary of Huiermei Medical Group,"

Haixi, who was walking in front, took He Ao down the stairs on the outer wall of the small building. "They teamed up with other small cleaning companies in Wetterland to form a monopoly alliance and decided on all garbage cleaning matters in the entire city. They will do it every year."

Spend a lot of money lobbying city council members to push the city council to pass bills that benefit them."

Hearing this, He Ao probably understood why the aluminum ingots produced by the scavengers could not be sold directly to the factory. There was a huge interest group that cut off the contact between the scavengers and the outside world.

He also vaguely understood the contradiction between Haixi and Huiermei Medical Foundation.

"Here we are,"

Haixi stopped in front of a rather wide warehouse door and reached out to push open the door. The dark interior of the warehouse was revealed. In this chaotic darkness, the dim lights in the depths of the warehouse could be vaguely seen. "There is no light inside."

, maybe a little dark.”

"It's okay, it won't affect you."

He Ao stared at the dark warehouse. The dark scene fell into his eyes, but it was as clear as if it were illuminated by light.

He easily saw Thorne sitting at the end of the warehouse.

Strictly speaking, this was the first meeting between him and Thorne.
Chapter completed!