Resurrection Empire-Chapter 875 - 337: The Stench of Decay

Time rewinded to fifteen minutes ago, two uninvited guests arrived at the Starfire Town government building.

One of them was the current patriarch of the Yangsheng Ma Family, who had long severed ties with Ma Dafu, and was Ma Shu's father, Ma Dafu's cousin, Ma Da'an.

The other person's origins were mysterious, also with the surname Ma, but he started from Shendu City in urgency this morning, driving an airship the size of an aircraft carrier all the way here, in full manual control mode.

Facing these two, Ma Dafu's feelings were somewhat complex.

As early as his father's generation, he had completely broken off connections with the Yangsheng Ma Family.

Later, when Ma Xiaoling showed combat talents, he almost returned to Yangsheng Ma Family.

But then, as Ma Xiaoling became more and more rebellious and was hard to integrate, the father and daughter were isolated again.

Ma Dafu didn't mind, he just lived his own life.

Following that, he struggled to move himself in Starfire Town, fully suppressed by Yang Bingzhong and unable to catch his breath. Facing the worsening environment every year in the town, he couldn't reverse the decline despite trying his best, and could only powerless watch the town gradually head towards demise, slipping into an abyss where even Pu Cha could not pass.

Until Ren Zhong appeared, the situation finally changed.

Ren Zhong once thought Ma Dafu's incompetence led to this result, but now after nearly eight months of getting along, Ren Zhong's perspective changed.

No matter how Ren Zhong expanded, Ma Dafu, who was in charge of administrative work and ensuring smooth operations, arranged everything flawlessly.

When Starfire Town's population surged from twenty thousand to thirty thousand, nothing went wrong, everything was stable.

The total population surged from thirty thousand to seventy, eighty thousand, and now close to two hundred thousand, yet the town's law and order management, employment status, living conditions were all orderly, and never got out of control.

Ren Zhong never had to worry about these matters, relying on Ma Dafu.

Old Ma's capability boundaries clearly exceeded a mayor's level.

But Yang Bingzhong, who lost miserably to Ren Zhong, only showed a businessman's mediocre level. Perhaps Yang Bingzhong indeed accepted some business field training, learned some pricey management courses, but was limited by innate deficiencies like capability, intelligence, talent, personality, etc., learning only a mishmash.

Now when Ren Zhong looked back, he knew Yangsheng Ma Family continued backstabbing and betrayal probably were the main reasons Ma Dafu lost to Yang Bingzhong.

This is evident as Ma Shu became the introducer for Yang Bingzhong selling Alien Ore.

Ma Dafu himself is aware of these matters and hence doesn't like dealing with Yangsheng Ma Family.

But his perception of Shenxun Ma Family is different.

No matter what, Shenxun Ma Family remains one of the nine peaks building the Source Star Society, never shaken.

As a distant branch within a distant branch, Ma Dafu holds both feelings of pilgrimage towards Shenxun Ma Family yet also dissatisfaction.

He admires these distant relatives' achievements and status, yet feels they should be directly responsible for many human tragedies caused by the irrational system on Source Star.

Of course, these are just Ma Dafu's idle thoughts during leisure, he didn't think he'd have any dealings with those distant relatives with whom he has no intersections, until now.

"According to the family tree and generation rank, I should address Mayor Ma as Uncle."

Ma Xiayun from Shendu City said so.

Ma Dafu did not offer social pleasantries, "I'm undeserving. If there's anything, just say it straightforwardly, I can't think of anything where you'd need me."

Ma Xiayun took no offense, smiled, "Uncle, we've already noticed your daughter Ma Xiaoling. She has astonishing combat talent, even on the whole Source Star, among citizens of the same age, she probably ranks within the top thousand."

Ma Dafu shook his head, "That's overpraised. Just within my Starfire Town, there's a mountain impossible to surmount."

"You're referring to Ren Zhong, right? We know that too. In fact, we came for him this time. Recently, he published a paper on intelligent algorithms. We think he is very talented and suitable for our field. We want to recruit him, but Shenxun Ma Family follows iron rules. He needs to be one of the Ma Family. Uncle, do you think he could become one of the Ma Family? Is there a possibility for further development between him and your daughter Ma Xiaoling?"

After hearing the other's words, Ma Dafu was not surprised, even within expectations.

He thought for a full three minutes, finally gave a reply against his true feelings.