This was indeed a really troublesome problem.
Based on Meng Chao's memories, it was only long after the Monster War that Dragon City slowly changed and solved the problem of the slums.
At that time, Dragon City had already launched a grand expedition. Through the colonization war, they continuously seized new territory and markets.
The entire industrial machine was activated with loud rumbles. Not only did it provide countless new jobs, the Red Dragon Army also continued expanding. It could take in a large number of young adults, and with the new territory, it could also build brand new homes. Naturally, the millions of citizens living in the slums were sent away.
But the current Dragon City lacked resources, space, and enough jobs. It was easy to destroy the lair, but it was impossible to resettle one million citizens.
"I told you just now that under the pressure from the Home Party, the Survival Committee has to pass a special budget. By the end of next year, we'll be going through a complete transformation of no less than three hundred old residential areas. This money alone is enough to crush Dragon City's financial system.
"Also, right now, all the major corporations and the Red Dragon Army are expanding around Dragon City. We have to build a large new city from Shattered Starlake to Raging Waves in the north. There are also countless forward operating bases and developing lands in the east, south, and west, and they're gradually connecting together. Hundreds of new projects are about to be launched, and we're trying to build around twenty new cities at the same time.
"If we can build all of these new cities, we'll naturally be able to change Dragon City's strategic situation. In fact, we'll be able to destroy the threat of the monsters without them even having to attack us. The internal conflicts in Dragon City will also be solved perfectly.
"The problem is, if we take too big of a step, we'll end up hurting ourselves. There are hundreds of projects in the east, south, west, and west, and more than ten new cities. Each of them will require an astronomical amount of resources. No matter how fast the turnover is, we'll need at least three to five years before we see results, and that's if the monsters don't launch any large-scale attacks and everything goes smoothly.
"These projects also take up a lot of resources. To put it bluntly, the nine great cultivation families, including Universe Corporation, might seem like they have a lot of assets, but in truth, they're just selling everything they have and betting their lives on these projects. They're having trouble with their daily operations, so they can't solve the problem of the slums.
"Also, the Home Party threatened the public and tasted the benefits. Recently, aside from the plan to upgrade the old residential areas, they're also thinking about launching a plan to provide three nutritious meals for children of the right age. They want to manage the three meals of all the children and teenagers between the ages of three to eighteen. The government will provide high-calorie nutritional fluid and standard food packs filled with spirit energy to ensure that all the children can develop their potential and endure high-intensity cultivation. In the end, they'll awaken to supernatural abilities.
"Yeah, this is, of course. This is a good thing. All the children will be treated the same, and everyone will have the right to cultivate! But the problem is, who will be paying for the three nutritious meals?
"In any case, Dragon City's financial situation is really bad right now. At this critical juncture, we don't have the money or resources to solve the lair's problems."
Meng Chao had heard Zhao Feixuan mention the Three Nutritious Meals before.
He agreed to it wholeheartedly.
After all, after the Monster War, it would be the Colonization War.
There were countless enemies who were even more terrifying than monsters lurking in the depths of the Other World.
The new generation of Dragon City had to do their best to grow, cultivate, surpass their seniors, and surpass their limits. They had to be at least ten times stronger than what he remembered from his previous life to have hope of standing at the top of the Other World races.
Aside from that, if they could unify the cultivation resources for all the teenagers in the city, it would help them break the fixed social strata and promote unity among the different classes.
But Shen Yupeng's question was very sharp. The policy was good, but who was going to pay for it?
Meng Chao could only scratch his head and say, "So, even though we know that there are a lot of gray industries in the lair, that it's a filthy, stinky place, and that there are a lot of wanted criminals hiding in the lair, we can't do anything about it?"
"In human history, there are some really ancient industries that have existed for thousands of years. There are plenty of talented and bold rulers who want to completely control or destroy them, but countless dynasties and emperors have been reduced to ashes. These ancient, ugly, and gray industries still exist," Shen Yupeng said.
Shen Yupeng said. "Dragon City is different from the normal countries on Earth. On one hand, we're constantly facing attacks from zombies and monsters. No one knows whether they'll live or die in the next second. Everyone faces really high mental pressure, and they need all sorts of channels to vent and comfort themselves.
"On the other hand, a lot of young adults can't find suitable jobs. To survive, they can only join the gray industries. Aside from turning a blind eye to it, what else can the Survival Committee do?
"The only thing we can do is gather up all the gray industries and control them in the lair. That way, we won't have to pollute the other places in Dragon City. On the other hand, we can also use people like Saber Jin Wanhao to implement the lowest level of control.
"To put it bluntly, if we think of Dragon City as a house, then the lair is the toilet in the house. Of course, the toilet is a place that hides filth. Sometimes, the sewers get clogged and stink. There are even pests crawling out.
"But before we have the ability to completely renovate the house, the only way to solve the problem is to hold our noses and clear the sewers instead of blowing up the toilets.
"It's easy to blow up the toilets, but how are we supposed to deal with the things hidden under the toilets?"
This analogy was very crude.
It might not suit an idealist's taste, but Meng Chao could understand it.
But Meng Chao could understand it.
He thought about it and asked, "If the mastermind is really hiding in the depths of Golden Tooth Lair, what should we do?"
"I'll first contact Saber Jin Wanhao. This Underground Emperor won't just watch so many robbers turn his kingdom into a mess," Shen Yupeng said.
"If the mastermind is really an abnormal beast and the abnormal beast and its biochemical lab are hiding in the depths of Golden Tooth Lair, Jin Wanhao should be even angrier and more anxious than we are. Perhaps we won't even need to do anything. He'll just get rid of all the robbers and abnormal beast."
Meng Chao remembered how he and Lu Siya had caused quite a lot of trouble the last time they went into Golden Tooth Lair.
In the end, Shen Yupeng had to greet Saber Jin Wanhao, which was how he managed to escape.
It seemed like Shen Yupeng and Jin Wanhao had a good relationship.
Or rather, Universe Corporation had a pretty good relationship with Golden Tooth.
But Meng Chao was still skeptical about whether Saber Jin Wanhao could kill the Vortex.
"Don't underestimate Golden Tooth's leader. He's been lurking in the lair for decades, and he might be the most unfathomable among all the older generation fighters in Dragon City. He might not have shown his strength for years, but one thing is enough to let you know just how terrifying he is."
Shen Yupeng could tell that Meng Chao was suspicious. "You should know that many of the infamous lost people are hiding in the lair, right?"
Mengchao nodded.
Of course he knew this.
Many of the lost people would hide in the lair, which was a place where good and bad people lived together. The lair was densely populated, and the buildings were as complicated as a maze. They relied on hundreds of thousands or even millions of lair citizens as their hostages to fight against the secret police and bounty hunters.
The secret police were troubled by these lost people, but they could not risk tearing down the entire lair and causing hundreds of thousands of people to lose their homes by waging an all-out war against the lost people. Hence, they could only let them do as they pleased.
"Over the years, many of the lost people have fled into the lair, and the secret police can't do anything about them. It's really embarrassing to talk about it."
Shen Yupeng changed the topic. "But did you notice something? Once the lost people flee into the lair, they usually disappear without a trace and rarely come out to commit crimes? If a lost person uses the lair as their base and comes out to commit crimes every few days, they will soon be captured or killed by us."
Meng Chao was a little stunned.
It seemed like that was really the case.
After the infamous lost people completed the classic crimes that made them famous and fled into the lair, they seemed to have changed their names and completely disappeared.
If anyone refused to give up and attacked repeatedly, they would be mercilessly suppressed by the adjudicator court.
A thought appeared in Meng Chao's head, and he said, "Did Saber Jin Wanhao subdue the superhuman criminals who fled into the lair?"
"I don't know, and I don't want to know. In any case, Saber Jin Wanhao is a very charismatic and capable person. He won't allow anyone to destroy the order in Golden Tooth Lair. We can't, the lost people can't, and of course, the abnormal beasts can't either," Shen Yupeng said.
"No matter what his goal is, what methods he uses to maintain order, and no matter how abnormal the order in Golden Tooth Lair has become after it has operated for decades, it's still better than the order completely collapsing and returning to the lawless, bloody jungle.
"This can be considered a tacit agreement between the older generation of powerful fighters in Dragon City and Saber Jin Wanhao.
"I believe that Jin Wanhao won't break this tacit agreement so easily.
"So, he will definitely give us an explanation regarding this large-scale robbery, the origins of the Deification Capsules, and the truth behind the mastermind!"
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