Blackstone Code

After making this judgment, Austin left quickly. Before leaving, she looked back at the fish tank.

When she was hiding behind the fish tank just now, she saw Horn feeding these ferocious meat-eating fish with some fresh pieces of meat. She always felt... that the meat might not be normal.

Nature is amazing. It gives each species different characteristics. For example, cows have bright red meat and white fat, but the butter made from the white fat is slightly yellow, very light, and almost non-toxic. It's so obvious.

Another example is chicken. Chicken has relatively white meat and yellow fat tissue. After the fat is refined, it becomes tender yellow.

Talking about it again...human beings.

Human muscles are red and fat is yellow, much darker than pure bright yellow. If you see fat with a hint of red, it must be human.

Except for humans, no other species seems to have such yellow fat!

There seemed to be a small piece of dark yellow fat on the piece of meat just now.

She was already standing by the door, then stepped back and opened the cabinet under the fish tank. There was an iron bucket inside, about half a meter deep, with a wide mouth and full of blood.

The moment the bucket was pulled out, a fishy smell hit my face, and it was unusually fishy.

Note that it is either fishy or fishy, ​​with a hint of stench.

This was not beef, nor mutton, nor pork. Austin poked it with a steel fork, and there were some pieces of meat, and there were a lot of ice cubes at the bottom.

The blood and water in the bucket should not all be blood, but a lot of it should be water after the ice cubes slowly melted, mixed with blood, and became what it is now.

The pieces of meat that were picked up were all trimmed so clean that it was impossible to tell whether they were human body tissue.

These meats... were all cut very large, and just when she was hesitating, the fork she lifted happened to prick a finger.

Austin's pupils shrank suddenly. She was not afraid of dead people or corpses, but she still felt sick.

On the border, it is possible to face a sudden outbreak of fighting at any time every day, and it is normal for people to die.

Not only did she want to kill people, but she also stripped the bodies and threw them into the newly dug pits to avoid causing disease.

She had never found the dead to be disgusting, nor would she be afraid of them, but at this moment, her hair stood on end.

Not being afraid of corpses is the same as feeding corpses to fish.

This situation now makes her feel sick!

She silently put everything back far away and left quickly.

A few minutes later, Austin reappeared at Lynch's side.

"You look like you are sick." Lin Qi looked at her a few more times. Her face was a little pale, and there were some beads of sweat on her forehead and temples that she hadn't noticed. It might have reappeared after wiping them. .

Austin smiled reluctantly, "I'm fine, thank you."

Lin Qi did not ask any more questions. If she continued to ask, it would probably involve some secrets that she had found out.

To be honest, Lynch wasn't interested at all in what Austin just went to do or what he got.

At least he felt that Horn would not be richer than himself, and at the same time, he would not get what he wanted from Horn.

If he wanted to kill Horn, he might only need a few orders, and Horn would disappear from this world.

Even bombing Paradise Island was just a matter of asking for an "exercise approval letter" from the Ministry of Defense.

Not far away, Horn was talking to a very famous senator. This senator's name may not be anything special, but this person is very special.

He has announced to the federal society that he will consider running for the presidential election in the general election seven years from now, and will resign as a senator at that time.

If he succeeds, he will be Mr. President.

If that fails, he is Mr. Former Senator.

The media viewed him as a determined and courageous man who also belonged to the Progressive Party. People saw this as the Progressive Party's confidence in controlling the swing of presidential power.

How courageous is it to resign first and then run for election?

In fact, the information that people are exposed to is all written by the media after getting enough benefits.

Lynch knew about this. Although he was a relatively transparent person in the Progressive Party, he was very rich. This did not prevent some news that he did not care about from reaching his ears.

The senator gave up his status as a senator and recommended another member of the Progressive Party to take his place as a bargaining chip, gaining the support of the Progressive Party's top leaders and committees for his candidacy for the presidential election.

There is never any gratuitous gift in this world. Behind all gifts, there is a contribution that is not discovered by people!

He is very confident about running for president in seven years and has begun preparations now. Lynch is not very optimistic about him.

On the contrary, he believed that if Mr. Trueman could make the decision, he would have a better chance of victory than anyone else.

the reason is simple.

Ten years after the First World War, various countries should have emerged from post-war reconstruction and recovery, and had made certain breakthroughs in science and technology. The cloud of war would once again envelope the world.

At such a tense moment, how can a presidential candidate who is purely a politician defeat a presidential candidate who is a soldier?

What people need is not a president who likes to be on the golf course with a coffee cup in one hand and a golf club in the other, and is always ready to go hunting in the hunting grounds.

What they need is a tough guy, a president who knows and understands war, and has a deep understanding of war and wartime society.

Mr. Trueman ticked all the boxes and had the best chance of winning.

But there is a small prerequisite here, that is, he is willing to run for election.

Lynch could sense Mr. Trueman's ambivalence, his reluctance to go too fast, and his youth.

If he had been president eight years later, Mr. Trueman would have been in his fifties by the time the president arrived.

A man who is about to retire in his fifties...

Politics is different from the work of ordinary people. The older a politician is, the more things he is exposed to, the more secrets he has, the more favors he has, and the deeper his understanding of the entire country and society.

Therefore, the older politicians are, the more power they can exert in politics.

It's not like workers, especially those with heavy physical work, who have no choice but to change jobs after they reach the age of forty, when their physical strength declines and their physical fitness declines.

A politician in his fifties is at his peak and has no choice but to retire. This is not a good thing!

Of course, logically speaking, Mr. Trueman can continue to run for president when he is in his sixties, but the problem is that this has not happened in the history of the federation.

If Mr. Trueman does it, it will mean that a group of thirty-somethings will run for president, which will destabilize federal politics.

So even if Mr. Trueman wanted to run, the Progressive Party would not support him.

Without the support of the party, he basically has no chance of winning the election!

Unless someone throws money at him regardless of the consequences.

But this is impossible, Lynch will not do this.

He can only retire, retire at the most mature stage of his life, how cruel this is!

It is impossible for a person who has been president to become a director or join the army, and Congress will not allow him to do so. He can only retire and watch others shine.

This is the most contradictory part of him. He wants to do something, but he doesn't dare to do it.

Unlike the guy in front of me, he risked everything just to be president.

There are many things that do not comply with the regulations on Paradise Island itself. Its existence is actually due to the joint efforts of many parties.

And there are people who openly bear all the responsibilities. Even if a problem does occur and one Horn is lost, others will have nothing to say. Paradise Island can still stay and become a paradise for everyone.

Even Lynch knew without guessing that the senator abstained from voting on some issues related to Paradise Island.

There are two situations in voting in Congress. One is the affirmative vote that counts the total number of votes. For example, if there are 150 people, two-thirds of the people need to vote to pass it. In other words, 100 people need to vote in favor. OK.

It doesn't matter whether others abstain or oppose.

Another method is to count the valid votes for and against. For example, there are 150 people, and 147 of them abstained. Two people agree and one person opposes, and the motion is passed.

Very funny, very absurd.

But the rules are like this. If abstentions are regarded as invalid votes, the number of votes of a certain party can be enlarged. Of course, everyone must be ventilated before the vote.

Even if some taxpayers have no energy due to work and still hear some rumors and stir up trouble, the congressmen have sufficient evidence that they are just rumors!

They abstained from voting, and they abstained from voting because they heard that there was something fishy about it!

"Have you ever considered that Horn might be a criminal?" Austin hesitated for a long time, but couldn't help but express his thoughts.

She felt that Lynch was reliable. At least during the time she had been in contact with Lynch, Lynch had never done anything that exceeded her moral bottom line.

As for the chaos in private life, come on, that’s what the private lives of young people in the Federation are like.

It is said that some universities are experimenting with mixed dormitories, which means boys and girls will live in the same dormitory.

Conservatives criticized the school's ugly attitude and believed that this approach was a humiliation to students and knowledge.

And those who are supportive...they think it's great!

Except for his somewhat chaotic private life, Lynch doesn't have any shortcomings. He doesn't look like a capitalist at all!

Lin Qi tilted his head and looked at her, half-smiling, "Look, is there anyone in this room who is not a criminal?"

Austin was stunned for a moment and couldn't recover for a long time.