The next day.
District 1, the headquarters of the United Government.
An emergency meeting was approaching, but the huge venue was filled with an atmosphere of schadenfreude.
Just one day before the emergency meeting, a big news happened in District 17 controlled by the Foster family that shocked everyone.
It was local mayor Leon Serbot who publicly criticized the Foster family.
From the expression of the current leader of the Foster family at this moment, one can tell that this sudden big news caught them off guard. This level of public opinion storm cannot be suppressed easily.
In normal times, the Foster family would have had time to think about countermeasures, but now it happened to be during an emergency meeting that they had to leave the city where their respective forces were located and come to the first district where the coalition government headquarters was located to attend the meeting.
What's even more coincidental is that for quite some time in the future, the line starting from the 17th district will become the focus of the coalition government. If the Foster family makes such a big noise at this juncture, I'm afraid the Council will not Just sit back and ignore it.
Hogg-Foster ignored the joking looks of other senators. He sat on the seat with his seat card and waited for the meeting to begin.
At 8:00, the emergency meeting started on time.
The huge venue fell silent for an instant, and there was only one person's footsteps left in the room.
Wearing a retro white robe and a white goatee, the bald old man, dressed like an ancient judge, slowly climbed onto the rostrum of the venue under the watch of people.
"Before the meeting officially begins, there is one thing that you must have heard. Yesterday, the mayor of the 17th District, Leon Serbot, made some remarks to the media that were unfavorable to the Foster family."
For a moment, everyone's eyes fell on Hogg-Foster.
Those who are qualified to enter this room, the business they control is not clean, but everyone present knows an unspoken rule - don't be caught.
It is even more unbelievable that after being caught, it once caused such a sensational public opinion storm.
The Foster family must have been pampered for too long and neglected to manage the border cities they controlled, which led to this farce.
No one could sympathize with Hogg-Foster, though.
They hoped that the Foster family would be completely destroyed because of this, so that there would be one less person to share the cake with them.
"President of the Review, we are already dealing with the aftermath."
There is no way to avoid the accusations that are coming.
When it came to the aftermath, Hogg-Foster's face darkened. As soon as he realized that something was wrong in the news, he gave orders to Dorago Saffron.
Get rid of Leon Serbot at all costs.
Although this will promote public condemnation of them, as long as the key figures are dead and the evidence pointing to them is destroyed, time will erase everything sooner or later.
However, he waited anxiously all morning, but only received a reply of "(･ω･)ﾉ".
This seemingly friendly expression made him furious on the spot.
Got fooled.
Only then did Hogg belatedly realize that the current situation in District 17 was completely beyond their control.
Leon Serbot was not the key to the problem. What he didn't expect was that the family's spy in District 17 was eliminated.
Lyon obviously does not have this ability. What really makes them passive is the widely discussed "enthusiastic citizen". He still doesn't even know whether the other party is a person or an organization.
In order to restore the situation, he could only send his confidants to District 17 to deal with the aftermath.
"The aftermath committee has dealt with it properly. After all, this is also a heavy blow to the reputation of the coalition government."
The chairman of the review looked at Hogg with stern eyes, "But, this comes at a price."
Hogg, he has already guessed what the chairman of the jury will say next.
That majestic voice did not allow for any rejection, "More than ten years have passed since the gold rush, and now it is time for you to return District 17 to the people there."
Hearing this, Hogg instinctively wanted to say something, but in the end he suppressed all the words in his heart.
The chairman of the Senate chose such an occasion to talk about this matter in front of all the senators, which means that this is the final decision of the Senate and there is no room for negotiation.
As for returning District 17 to the locals?
That's just high-sounding rhetoric. As the junction point between the coalition government and the "outside world", all border cities are the favorites of the big families. I'm afraid the council has already decided which family should take over District 17. Bar.
But if this matter ends here, it can be considered an acceptable ending for the Foster family.
"I have no objection."
In the end, Hogg swallowed the breath hard.
"Then let's start today's agenda."
After the chairman of the review said, a huge holographic image appeared from behind him.
There is only one person in the image.
Or more accurately, a reward warrant.
The woman on the reward order was so breathtakingly beautiful that many senators subconsciously looked away after looking at the holographic projection.
"Reward order:"
"Resistance, Snow Witch, Ashe"
"Twenty-seven million six hundred thousand watts"
"Life or death"
After the senators saw the woman's name, they all gasped.
Apart from the high bounty and the title of Snow Witch, what really frightened them was the character behind the name.
Tyrant, Eschenvig.
One of the leaders of seven countries that are not recognized by the coalition government in the "outside world", he controls more than ten small towns in the "outside world", and his actions can no longer be measured by ordinary criminals.
Once you make enemies with the other party, it is no longer an operation to suppress bandits, but a war in the true sense.
The chairman of the review said without changing his expression, "The felon Ai Xi has been captured by our secretly dispatched rescuer operation team. In a few days, he will be escorted to District 17, and then transferred to District 6 via the above line for trial. At that time, The justice of the coalition will be served."
At this point, the senators finally understood the weight of the emergency meeting.
The councilors summoned them to the headquarters not to deliver good news to them, but to inform them to prepare for war. Maybe when the team escorting Ai Xi passed through a certain city, the team rescuing her would start a war with the local family. .
No one rejoices that justice is about to be heard.
This advance force has clearly brought back an unparalleled big trouble from the "outside world", and the consequences of angering the tyrant Eschenweg may have to be borne by one of them unlucky ones on behalf of the Council.
Is this something humans do?
For a moment, several family leaders who appeared on the escort route had such thoughts in their minds.
