Chapter 1 The Dragon City Police Department

署長 Lin You, along with Deputy Director Guo and seven or eight leading figures, hurried to the motorcade in the backyard.

Lin You reached for the car door, paused slightly, turned back, and said to Lao Guo, "Come on, you go!"

Lao Guo stepped forward and asked in a low voice, "What's wrong?"

"Do you know what Riel wants to talk to us about when he calls us over?" Lin You asked.

Lao Guo hesitated for a moment. "I know what he wants to say."

"Right, so I can't go." Lin You turned his head and glanced around. "You go. We can take the Supervisory Committee's position, but we can't directly touch anything too extreme. Do you understand what I mean?"

Hearing this, Lao Guo cursed inwardly, "Son of a bitch, you can't go, so the deputy has to go?"

"Uh, what do you mean?"

"Once the livestream thing blew up, Bao Long Mining and the Supervisory Committee were screwed." Lin You whispered in Lao Guo's ear, "The decline can't be reversed, that's for sure, but the upper echelons of the Supervisory Committee will definitely not back down! Especially after the military supply business went out of control, so… do you understand what I mean?"

Lao Guo gritted his teeth. "I understand."

"If I go, it will be hard for me to refuse Riel's requests, but you can." Lin You continued, "Just say I received news that there was an anomaly in the Terror Response Team and that I need to remain here at the police department."

"Okay." Lao Guo really had no choice, because he and Lin You were already in the same boat. There was no turning back, and he couldn't refuse.

"I'll wait for your call!" Lin You patted Lao Guo on the shoulder.

…

Two minutes later, the motorcade was already driving down the street.

Lao Guo frowned, his hands clasped together, his heart pounding. He knew very well that both the Supervisory Committee and Bao Long Group were probably in a desperate, cornered state. The impact of the livestream event was impossible to erase, so their next step would likely involve extreme actions, and Lin You was unwilling to show his face at this time to leave himself a little wiggle room.

But did Lao Guo have any wiggle room? Sadly, he was the deputy. He didn't. Backed by Lin You and the Supervisory Committee, he had previously enjoyed power and influence, so now, naturally, he had to do something.

Lao Guo sat nervously in the car, still thinking about how to respond, wondering how he would talk to Riel later.

"Down with the Supervisory Committee!! Punish Bao Long Group severely!"

"Abolish the Supervisory Committee!!"

"…!"

At some point, protest slogans suddenly rang out on many streets and main roads in the Longkou district. Lao Guo looked out the window with lingering fear, seeing that many people had begun to gather.

In the driver's seat, the driver deliberately took a detour, cursing fiercely, "It must be the union leading the incitement. This is a coordinated attack!"

"Drive faster!" Lao Guo urged.

…

Longkou District Labor Union.

Gu Bai Shun pulled back the curtains and glanced at the street below, frowning as he questioned, "Are these our people? Didn't we say we would wait until Zhan Nan and Shengli made a move before we did?"

"No, no, it's not!" A middle-aged man at the door hung up the phone, turned around, and shouted, "Our people haven't gone out yet."

"Whose people are they then?" Gu Bai Shun asked.

"I asked. They're workers and students from the Chaoyang Technical College. They organized it spontaneously." The middle-aged man said with a solemn expression, "It seems that some teachers also took the lead in the march."

Gu Bai Shun was silent for a long time, standing at the window, looking at the scene below. "This livestream has awakened a lot of people. The effect might be even better than I thought."

"Then we…!"

"Since the momentum has already started, we must seize the opportunity." Gu Bai Shun immediately turned around and said, "Let our people take to the streets too. Now that Zhan Nan is shouting, we don't need to be violent, just make it lively."

"Okay." The middle-aged man nodded.

At the same time.

At the Labor Union headquarters, Zhang Ming hung up the landline phone, his forehead covered in sweat, and asked, "How is it on your end?"

"The Shengli branch called, their idea is… to follow Longkou's example and march as well." A member of the Elder Council frowned, saying, "If the union doesn't speak up for the workers at this time, then the image of our Labor Union…!"

He trailed off, and everyone looked at Zhang Ming.

Zhang Ming was also struggling. On the one hand, he was on the Supervisory Committee's side, but on the other hand, he was the current chairman of the Labor Union. He was caught in the middle of the conflict and felt very uncomfortable.

Who should he help? Who shouldn't he help?

What should he choose?!

If he stood with the Supervisory Committee, he would definitely lose the support of the people. The livestream event had such a big impact, could the general union pretend not to see it? If the union didn't speak out for the workers, what was the point of having them? Were they just relying on the upper echelons to be in cahoots with the authorities, constantly exploiting the workers?

Protecting the interests of workers were the words the General Union shouted every day, a weapon to brainwash the workers, an indelible "corporate culture." You could be greedy, corrupt, and even run many borderline businesses, but you must not violate the core principles of the union.

This was why Gu Bai Shun was willing to offend the Supervisory Committee and get involved from the very beginning!

Zhang Ming paced back and forth in the room several times, then immediately said, "We really can't remain silent, nor can we wait for the public and the media to criticize us! As the largest union organization in Dragon City, we must express our position! Like this, notify the media to issue a press release, saying that the Labor Union is closely monitoring the mine disaster and the livestream event, and is willing to donate some money to the families of the deceased workers, and also believes that the higher-level units can handle this incident well! Don't mention which unit it is, just say the higher-level government! Do you understand what I mean?"

"What about the march?"

"Participate too, but it will be spontaneously organized by the foremen under the union, and has nothing to do with the management." Zhang Ming continued, "Go now!"

"What if the Supervisory Committee asks about it later!"

"Damn it, are you stupid? We have sixty or seventy thousand members, can I control everyone?" Zhang Ming raised his eyebrows in response.

"Understood!"

…

That night, various associations were forced to get involved in the protest activities due to their respective stances, and most of the ordinary people, especially those at the bottom, also spontaneously began to speak out, because the Jiu Shu family's experience was a true reflection of their lives, especially those laborers who had retired from the Sinaloa and Casar provinces. Their lives were already difficult, and now that they had an opportunity to make some noise, to shout, to vent their dissatisfaction, they were naturally willing.

The scale of this event far exceeded the Shengli District police chief incident, but truthfully speaking, there were also many people taking advantage of the situation, venting their personal emotions through the riots. Malicious incidents such as smashing and looting were also unfolding in various regions and could not be stopped.

On the other end.

Su Tian Yu, holding his phone, sat in the car and shouted, "I'm going to Wen Zhan Bo's place now, notify the leader, let him immediately transfer troops from outside the district into the city!! Tonight, we must achieve a result, a result of life or death!"