Resurrection Empire-Chapter 894 - 343: Upholding Justice, A Justified Cause (Part 2)
Up to now, a little over a month since the network outage, Zhan Sha County has visibly declined at a rapid pace with the mass withdrawal of Fifth Level and higher citizens.
Floating outside the county, Ren Zhong looked down from above and suddenly felt the visual effect was much more desolate.
Under the huge isolation dome, many of the original landmark buildings had disappeared.
In the past, the architectural style of Zhan Sha County leaned towards a technological theme, with most major buildings being spire towers and floating island platforms at the top.
Now, basically only the spires were left, all floating island platforms had vanished, causing the atmosphere of the entire city to drastically change.
After waiting about ten minutes, the Acting Governor of Zhan Sha County, responsible for welcoming Ren Zhong, arrived late.
This Fourth Level Citizen wiped the sweat from his forehead and said, "CEO Ren, my apologies, my apologies, my onboard flying device broke down halfway, so I ran here."
Ren Zhong frowned slightly, "The city's functions have deteriorated to this extent? Even basic transportation cannot be maintained?"
"Not really, not really, it's just my bad luck. Ahem."
Ren Zhong looked into the distance and pointed to the somewhat desolate and run-down county city, asking, "What's the situation here?"
The Acting Governor explained awkwardly, "Due to the impact of the autonomy decree, higher-level citizens have fully retracted for safety reasons, making the county city look somewhat empty. But there are still over 800,000 people here. Everyone is working hard to restore order, and it won't take long before the remaining citizens can adapt to this situation. Meanwhile, the temporarily halted mechanical processing and manufacturing industries are quickly recovering."
Upon hearing this, Ren Zhong smirked slightly, "These high-level citizens are quite interesting. They leave and that's fine, but they even uproot fixed assets, wow, strip it to the bones."
The Acting Governor's lips twitched as he thought, you're also a high-level citizen, yet you scold yourself too.
He defended, "Actually, it's within the rules, since those were their assets originally. Now, without Contribution Points, people feel more secure with tangible things they can hold."
Ren Zhong shrugged, indifferent.
About half an hour later, they entered the central high tower of Zhan Sha County Office.
Along the way, the Acting Governor had actually expressed his stance.
As a temporary stand-in Fourth Level Citizen, with no real power and no control over the County Guard, he was basically just a mascot working for others.
Thus, although he himself quite envies the rapid recovery of Liao Yuan County, and hopes Ren Zhong can use his personal connections to help Zhan Sha County negotiate with Purple Crystal Mining and Source Star Military Industry to quickly restore the economy, this time he can only remain neutral and play a mediating role.
Meanwhile, in the Alson Hotel, regarded as the strongest security force in the county, over ten corporate representatives from the other Seven Towns were gathered.
They were using the latest intelligence to analyze Ren Zhong's attitude.
After a long time, these individuals reached a consensus.
The army under Ren Zhong's Group, located in Yangsheng City, was not forming up, as he only brought several trusted subordinates and didn't integrate military forces from Chromium Carbon Town. These signs suggest Ren Zhong doesn't value Chromium Carbon Town too much. The town's rapid development purely benefited from the momentum of the other ten towns in Yangsheng City.
The deal is negotiable.
After waiting another half an hour, both sides finally met in the large conference room of the County Government Tower.
According to international conventions, the Acting Governor presided over the order of the venue and gave a brief mutual introduction of the parties.
Following this, the chief representative chosen by the Seven Towns spoke, "Thank you, CEO Ren, for managing to spare time to meet with us amid your busy schedule. We noticed that despite the network issues, your enterprises have almost been unaffected and are developing rapidly. We greatly admire CEO Ren and hope to establish a deeper cooperation with you."
Ren Zhong raised an eyebrow, "How do you propose to cooperate?" 𝙛𝓻𝒆𝓮𝒘𝙚𝙗𝒏𝙤𝙫𝓮𝒍.𝓬𝒐𝙢
"Chromium Carbon Town is quite far from your core influence circle, and there are two counties in between. Transporting your materials from Yangsheng City to here is not very economical under the current circumstances considering the transportation cost."
Ren Zhong smiled, "Makes sense, go on."
"After joint discussion by the Seven Towns Business Alliance, we believe we should proactively assist CEO Ren in solving this dilemma. We are willing to offer two hundred billion to purchase all assets in Chromium Carbon Town from you..."
