Hunter of Mysterious Creature-Chapter 362 - 25: Forty-One Days
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After the meeting.
Sun Hang hadn’t gone to find Yang Qi yet; Yang Qi approached Sun Hang first.
"What exactly happened earlier? I need an explanation." Yang Qi looked directly at Sun Hang and asked.
Sun Hang took out the scented bottle from his pocket and handed it to Yang Qi, saying, "I don’t know if there are any residues inside, but I suggest you send this bottle to the lab for testing."
"What is this?" Yang Qi was taken aback, "... Is it a cursed object?"
"The contents of the bottle might have originated from a cursed object." Sun Hang paused and repeated the explanation he had given to Wang Xiyi earlier.
"You mean someone wants to harm you? They placed this thing in the car, you inhaled the volatile substances from the bottle, and that’s why this happened? I’ll have someone carefully examine the parking lot footage..."
"The footage has already been wiped clean." Sun Hang said, "But I already know who that person is, and he has been dealt with."
"Who?" Yang Qi was stunned and quickly asked.
"A former member of the Celestial City Management Committee, Lu Hongming." Sun Hang said, "As for the person who placed this thing in the car, it’s his son."
"Do you have reliable evidence?" Yang Qi asked again, "As long as we have evidence, we can..."
"No."
"Without evidence, it will be quite troublesome. Although Lu Hongming is no longer part of the Management Committee, his network of connections... wait, you just said you’ve dealt with it? How did you handle it? You didn’t act recklessly again, did you? Lu Hongming is not an ordinary person, after all, he is still in office..." Yang Qi realized belatedly.
"How else to handle it?" Sun Hang made a throat-cutting gesture, "I had Mr. Pei investigate Lu Hongming’s background, and his level of corruption and bribery has long been enough for several death penalties. I merely saved the Federation Government a few bullets." 𝚏𝕣𝐞𝗲𝐰𝕖𝐛𝐧𝕠𝕧𝚎𝚕.𝐜𝚘𝗺
"Mr... Mr. Pei knows about this too?" Yang Qi’s eyes widened, "You said you didn’t have evidence? How did you convince Mr. Pei?"
"Do you necessarily need evidence to convince someone?" Sun Hang responded with a question.
For those in power, so-called evidence and fairness are just jokes; it’s only interests and value that matter.
Lu Hongming’s value compared to Sun Hang’s value was far inferior, that’s all.
"Speaking of which, the operation plan you proposed earlier probably doesn’t have a high success rate, does it?" Sun Hang asked.
The so-called fifty percent probability of success or failure is merely rhetoric.
Those who speak know, and those who listen know as well.
Just as the Major General said—the success rate only needs not to be zero, and it’s worth trying.
"Two percent, more accurately, it’s 21.7%, calculated by the supercomputer in the Dubhe Tower’s core area." Yang Qi cautiously looked around, seeing that none of the big shots were paying attention to their conversation, and then lowered her voice to speak to Sun Hang.
Sun Hang took a deep look, then looked back at those "big shots" discussing things in small groups, and casually said, "The so-called population evacuation plan actually doesn’t exist, does it?"
Yang Qi’s expression stiffened, then she grabbed Sun Hang’s hand: "Follow me."
Amid the slightly puzzled looks of Wang Xiyi and Song Yarong, Yang Qi dragged Sun Hang to a small closet at the end of the hallway used for storing cleaning tools. After closing the door, she asked seriously: "Who told you? Was it Mr. Pei?"
"Does it need to be told by anyone? Isn’t it obvious from a guess?" Sun Hang raised his eyebrows.
"How did you guess it?"
"The Federation Government wants to preserve Shuzhou, so it’s impossible to massively relocate residents from the Shuzhou Region... Not to mention whether your ’pesticide plan’ will succeed or how long it will take to eliminate the radiation pollution after a nuclear explosion, let me ask you one thing—think about it from another perspective, if you were an ordinary person living in Celestial City, having finally left this land shrouded in perpetual night, unseen by sunlight, and then ordered to return, would you be willing to come back?"
"I..."
"Not excluding the possibility that some people with a strong attachment to their homeland might return, but I think most people’s thinking would be more practical—seeking benefits and avoiding harm is the instinct of humans, no, of all creatures." Sun Hang said, "A massive population loss in Shuzhou is tantamount to its downfall."
"Actually, there is an evacuation plan... but it’s not to evacuate outside Shuzhou." Yang Qi said in a low voice, "According to the Disaster Response Committee’s idea, it’s to establish a temporary ’city’ for relocating the residents of Shuzhou’s southern region, beyond the nuclear explosion impact area, but..."
"Time is insufficient." Sun Hang continued her train of thought, "Although I said just now that forty-one days is ample, that’s only for an individual. For the entire city and tens of millions of surrounding residents, forty-one days... is simply not enough."
Sun Hang remembered Maoyun Town.
During the large-scale evacuation in the Yundian Region, countless places like Maoyun Town were abandoned... despite months of evacuation, only less than half of Yundian Region’s population ultimately reached Shuzhou successfully.
Forty-one days...
Sun Hang didn’t know if forty-one days would be enough to build a temporary city accommodating tens of millions of people, merely communicating this news to the public and having them comply with the Federation Government’s arrangements for orderly evacuation from Celestial City seems like an almost impossible task.
