"Big Brother Peng, are you close to Jin Wanhao?"
Meng Chao remembered the fire in Golden Tooth Lair from his previous life.
That fire caused a lot of casualties among the lair citizens. Countless people lost their homes, and the gray industries and lost people who were originally gathered in the lair flowed to the outside world. They stirred up a bloodbath and severely depleted Dragon City's strength. The originally clear war situation became confusing again, and the humans' victory was delayed for a few years. In the end, both sides ended up with a pyrrhic victory.
If they could stop the super fire in Golden Tooth Lair …
They would have the chance to completely turn the situation around.
Once they completely killed the threat of the monsters, it would be much easier for them to solve the problem in the lair.
With this thought in mind, Meng Chao said, "We should remind Jin Wanhao that this matter might not be as simple as it seems. The robbery last night was just the beginning. Their real target might be Jin Wanhao, Golden Tooth, and Golden Tooth Lair!"
Shen Yupeng and Zhou Chong were a little stunned.
"Why do you say that?" Shen Yupeng asked.
"The more than one hundred robberies last night might have exhausted the secret police, but it's not a huge blow to Dragon City," Meng Chao explained.
"It has been half a year since the abnormal beasts launched a large-scale attack. If this is their new wave of attacks after the ambush on Noble Descent Hotel, it's a little too much of a bluster.
"I think that the robbery itself isn't the goal. It's just a method. It's to get more raw materials and create more Deification Capsules. It's also to make a large number of normal people who have nowhere else to go submit their loyalty so that they can completely turn into fierce robbers.
"Now, the mastermind already has a lot of the rare resources they stole. They can create ten times or even one hundred times more Deification Capsules. They've also gathered a lot of robbers whose hands are stained with blood and can no longer turn back. It's enough for them to carry out their real operation.
"And their target is most likely the lair!"
"Why?" Shen Yupeng asked.
"The reason is simple. Big Brother Peng, you just said that the lair is Dragon City's toilet. We definitely don't want to blow up the toilet and have the things inside spill everywhere."
"And the more we don't want to do something, the more our enemies want to do it. To the abnormal beasts, creating a shocking destruction in the lair and chasing hundreds of thousands of lair citizens outside so that Dragon City will return to the dark era where order was broken and lawless. Isn't that the strategy with the best cost-performance ratio?
"The other party doesn't even need to put in a lot of effort. They just need to light a fire in Golden Tooth Lair and burn it to ruins. Then, Dragon City will descend into chaos."
"It's not easy to set fire to the lair."
Shen Yupeng thought about it. "Right now, the lair is the largest slum in Dragon City, but decades ago, the lair was the final fortress for humans to fight against zombies and monsters.
"Many of the facilities in the lair are built according to the standards of shelters and war fortresses. Of course, they also have perfect fireproofing, disaster resistance, and survivability.
"If necessary, the entire lair can be sealed up and fortified like a normal residential area. We can turn it into an airtight, self-sufficient super fortress.
"Of course, it's better to be safe than sorry. You're right. We should remind the gangs in the lair to be on full alert," Meng Chao said.
"So, Big Brother Peng, you can talk to Jin Wanhao directly?"
"Impossible."
Shen Yupeng laughed. "Saber Jin Wanhao is a powerful fighter of the same level as Battle God Lei Zonglie and my grandfather. What right do I have to talk to him directly?
"Besides, Jin Wanhao has been living in seclusion over the past few years. He rarely comes out to manage the gangs and the matters in the lair. It might be as you said just now. He was injured too badly when he was young, and he has one foot in the grave.
"Right now, most of the matters in Golden Tooth and Golden Tooth Lair are handled by Jin Wanhao's assistant, Red Brows Su Lun.
"He graduated from Dragon City University's management school and is a classmate of a lot of the middle management and higher management of large corporations. He's even a politician in the Survival Committee. He's smart and capable, and he knows when to stop and when to stop.
"I believe that he will tell our intentions to Jin Wanhao, and we'll work together to solve this matter."
Without wasting any time, Shen Yupeng contacted Red Brows Su Lun.
Suddenly, a deafening explosion came from outside the window.
The three layers of soundproofing and explosion-proof glass rattled.
Everyone's expressions changed, including Meng Chao.
It was still daytime.
This was the central business area where mega corporations gathered.
Where was the explosion?
The group quickly ran to the window.
Not far away, there was a towering skyscraper with thick black smoke rising from the top few floors.
There were also more than ten black dots driving non-motorized gliders into the distance like swallows.
In an instant, they disappeared among the skyscrapers.
"It's Soaring Dragon Corporation's lab," Shen Yupeng said in disbelief.
Shen Yupeng said in disbelief, "The other party actually snatched the Soaring Dragon Group?"
Soaring Dragon Corporation was the same as Universe Corporation and Sky Pillar Corporation. They were one of the nine great mega corporations that created the Survival Committee in the past.
If even Soaring Dragon Corporation was robbed, it was the same as a slap to the face of the Survival Committee and all superhumans. Their prestige was greatly shaken.
Besides, the crimes that happened the night before kept spreading on the internet, which stirred up quite a lot of noise and rumors.
It should be said that Dragon Citizens were very patient and mentally prepared when it came to zombie and monster attacks.
Regardless of whether their homes were destroyed by monsters or they were infected by the zombie virus, they were just unlucky. They could not blame anyone.
Supervillains, however, were a different story.
Some people said that the Survival Committee had greatly concealed the number of crimes that had taken place last night. In fact, not a hundred crimes had taken place last night, but a thousand. Many innocent citizens had been murdered, and countless ferocious bandits and serial killers were roaming the streets and alleys of the city. Some of them were even lurking among the people in the disguise of ordinary people.
Some people also said that the superhumans had already given up on protecting the worthless normal people. They were even prepared to give up on the main city area of Dragon City. The proof was that most of the fighting-class superhumans had left Dragon City to explore the depths of the fog and build new cities.
If this continued, the superhumans would build all the new cities into a dazzling sight and turn them into superhumans' paradises.
The main city area of Dragon City, which had lost all its resources, would become dilapidated and chaotic. Gradually, it would turn into huge slums. The normal people could only stay in the slums and endure the robbers' robberies while they lived and died on their own.
The lair's current state would be Dragon City's future. This was the emptying out of the city.
Some people also said that a really amazing super gene medicine had appeared in the market. It was known as the Deification Capsule. As long as a person took one, they would not need to go through a lot of trouble and turn into a superhuman.
Even though the effect could not last for a long time, normal people did not need to activate their supernatural abilities twenty-four hours a day. When they needed it, they could just take another one.
It was said that the robbers had taken the Deification Capsule last night, which was why they were able to beat up the superhumans so badly.
In fact, during the day, the robbers relied on the Deification Capsule to attack Soaring Dragon Corporation.
Normal citizens obeyed the law. They could not and did not want to do anything wrong.
But since the robbers had such powerful drugs, law-abiding citizens also needed to stock up on some Deification Capsules to prevent trouble from happening!
The rumors online spread like the flu in autumn and winter.
Soon, they appeared on every forum and social media platform.
Countless citizens who did not know the truth started talking about it.
Even Bai Suxin called Meng Chao to ask him what was going on. She said that her mahjong group, grocery shopping group, and family chat group had already spread.
Last time, during his housewarming, he had invited his friends and family over to drink, so all of his relatives knew that Meng Chao had become successful now. He had a strong connection in the abnormal beast research department, so he could set up his house in the hospital for the family members of the abnormal beast research department.
Now, they all asked Bai Suxin whether they could get some of the powerful gene medicine to supplement his body.
Meng Chao did not know whether he should laugh or cry. He asked his mother to calm down and not believe in rumors. The rumors online were all nonsense.
First, Meng Chao had been with Shen Yupeng since last night, so he could get firsthand information about the secret police.
Last night might have been a night of crime, but there were not more than one thousand crimes that happened at the same time. At most, there were only around three hundred crimes.
Second, most of the fighting-class superhumans rarely stayed in Dragon City recently. Instead, they went to the wild to hunt monsters to build and protect the new cities, which was why the fighting power in the main city area was a little lacking, and the thieves and rascals took advantage of the loopholes.
But this was not because they were abandoning the normal citizens. On the contrary, they were doing it for the normal citizens!
The project to upgrade and modify old residential areas needed resources.
The project to provide three nutritious meals for children of the right age needed resources.
If they wanted to upgrade and modify all the middle and high schools in the city so that the poor children could enjoy the same educational environment as the children of the aristocratic families, they would need resources.
Resources would not fall from the sky, so they needed fighting-class superhumans to go out to develop the land and harvest the monsters!
Also, aside from the zombies and monsters, the biggest problem in Dragon City right now was that there were tens of millions of young adults who could not find jobs.
The main city area had long since reached the limits of its development, so it could not provide an additional ten million jobs.
It was only by building more than ten new cities in the east, west, south, and north that they could bring brand new opportunities and hope.
Besides, fighting opportunities were fleeting. Humans had to constantly be on the offense against the monsters to suppress the monsters' counterattacks.
The monsters had already formed a civilization. If they gave the monster civilization a chance to catch their breath, even if it was just for a few days, who knew what sort of trouble the monsters would cause.
At this critical juncture, a large number of fighting-class superhumans could not return to defend Dragon City's main city area.
Otherwise, the astronomical amount of resources they had spent outside the city and the plans they were about to launch in the city that were beneficial to the long-term development would all go to waste.
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