Life Copy Game

"Why ask this question?"

Si Enji looked back at He Ao.

"I saw the photo you put in the back room of the store," He Ao said calmly, "Are those people standing with you Snava's ruling team?"

Then he paused, "And I vaguely seem to have heard of your name. During the Snava administration, you were the deputy minister of the city's medical and health department, Si Enzi?"

"It sounds like you are familiar with that period of history."

Si Enji looked at the image of the park that was gradually disappearing on the TV, "Do you know 'K'? In fact, we did the same thing as 'K' back then, but he succeeded and we failed."

As he spoke, he smiled self-deprecatingly, "Of course, it's normal for you not to know. The Kjet Group has blocked all news about 'K' and forbids anyone from discussing him."

He paused for a moment, "And 'K' hasn't appeared in people's sight for several years. Maybe he has already given up on what he was doing back then..."

He Ao stood beside him, watching him calmly.

"Let's get back to the topic," Sienzi shook his head and smiled, speaking in a long tone, "When Snava found me, I was still teaching at the Veteran Medical University. He persuaded me to return to St. Jon City and join him. team, working together to reform healthcare.”

"Force large enterprises to purchase basic medical insurance for their employees, establish basic medical clinics on a large scale, and provide low-cost and simple medical services."

He Ao slowly answered, "These are the only two contents of the medical reform that I still remember. Those medical clinics established by the city government seem to have been sold to medical consortiums. It seems that the medical insurance law has not been repealed?"

"But in reality it exists in name only. The consortium will only purchase medical insurance for a few old and core employees."

Si Enji glanced at He Ao, walked to the iron stool near the window and sat down, "But this law has indeed allowed many people who did not have medical insurance to have medical insurance, and they still have it now,"

He turned to look at the city where lights and night intertwined, "And this was the reason why Snava had to commit suicide in the first place. Of course, he didn't tell any of us beforehand."

"I remember that when the incident happened, it was the last year of the Snava administration. In that year, there was no food available in the market, and the news was full of news against and accusing him,"

He Ao also looked at the city under the night outside the window and spoke calmly, "The parliament started the impeachment process against him. I remember that an officer of the city defense army was killed in the Liangdu Daily building, the largest media in St. John. The city defense army He also issued a declaration of no confidence in the city government.”

"Yes, it was the most turbulent year I have ever experienced in my life,"

Si Enji looked out the window,

"The real situation at that time was actually worse than what the outside world knew. Our reforms also offended all the big conglomerates in St. John City.

"In particular, the city's corporate income tax reform, the workers' working hours reform, the grain price restriction law, the free competition support policy for small grain consortiums, and the unfair competition investigation into the Kejet Group, etc., led by Snava, have thoroughly implemented a series of measures. Offended the Kjet Consortium.

"Initially, our reforms went smoothly. Municipal tax revenue has been greatly increased. The debt that has accumulated over the years has finally been suspended. The municipal government has enough fiscal surplus to support us in building some public facilities, such as city central parks and small clinics. .

"But things don't always go smoothly, especially after we offended the Kjet Group.

“At the beginning, the Kjet Group hoped to replace us in the next city government by supporting other candidates, but Snava’s reforms made his support rate continue to rise. After realizing that we cannot win us through elections, After that, Kjet Group used other options.”

Speaking of this, Si Enji laughed and said,

"To be honest, as a super consortium that has only emerged in the past decade or so, the Kjet Group itself is not favored by other old-school super consortiums. Among the consortiums, the Kjet Group is known as the 'gold-picking explosion' household'.

"But even this 'upstart' is a huge super consortium that we cannot resist. We were still young at that time, the average age of the team was not more than fifty years old, and Snava was only forty-five years old.

“In a federation where the average age of the mayor is more than 50 years old, we are indeed a very young team, so we thought at that time that we could change the city and change everything we saw.

"And it turns out we are really young."

Si Enji looked at He Ao who was standing, stood up slowly, picked up two chairs from the side, and walked towards He Ao and Jia Qian.

"Thank you uncle."

Jia Qian took the chair, thanked her sweetly, and then placed a chair behind He Ao.

He Ao reached out and touched his granddaughter's head and sat on the chair.

Si Enji sat back by the window. The weak light shone from the window and outlined a shallow outline of his backlit figure.

“The first thing affected is the city council. The city council in St. Jon is elected every two years. One mayor will go through two city councils.

“The year the mayor is elected, the city council will also be re-elected, and at the end of the mayor’s second year in office, which is in the middle of the administration, the city council will be re-elected.

“We didn’t have enough qualifications and deep partisanship, so we didn’t fully control the council from the beginning, but in the first two years, we controlled the city council through the governing coalition.

"Most of the laws during the entire administration were passed in those two years."

“Something went wrong with the midterm elections?”

He Ao asked softly.

The city council election in the middle of the mayor's term is called a midterm election.

"Yes,"

Si Enji's eyes were deep, as if he was lost in long memories.

"After the first two years, the Kjet Group has clearly sensed our threat, so they tried every means to interfere in the mid-term elections, bribed members of the assembly who were not completely compatible with us, or supported opposition members to replace our original members. .

“After this time, although we took control of the parliament again, we only obtained the support of a simple majority in the parliament, that is, just over half of the members of our ruling coalition.

"Of course, this can be regarded as a 'victory', but when we celebrated the victory, we did not expect that the Kejit Group had already planted a 'bomb' for us.

"And this bomb has also become an important hand in overthrowing us."

"speaker?"

He Ao asked softly.

He didn't know what kind of plan the Kjet Group had set up, but he knew that the current mayor Crott seemed to have been the speaker of the second parliament during the Snava administration.

"Yes,"

Si Enji raised his head and glanced at He Ao, seeming to be surprised by He Ao's keenness, and then he slowly spoke and continued,

"Unlike us, Crote is from a political family in the city of St. John. In addition to five senators, more than a dozen congressmen, and countless city councilors in his family, in the city council at that time, his faction included Many MPs.

“In the first parliament, he and his faction were not in our governing coalition and were part of the parliamentary neutral wing.

"During the mid-term elections, facing pressure from the Kjet group, Snava had to seek more support. At that time, Krot's faction became a key force.

“Finally, after lengthy negotiations, he expressed his willingness to support us, but only if the speakership of the new parliament was reserved for him, and Snava agreed to his terms.

"And this has become one of the things we regret the most."

Si Enji raised his head and glanced at Croat, who was chatting on the TV and has now become the mayor.

"Krote has no position, or his position depends on who gives him more benefits.

“When the Kjet Group decided not to use normal means to remove us from power, he became a sharp knife inserted into our internal affairs.

"Of course, in the beginning, he didn't show his true colors right away.

"The prelude to the 'war' started by the KJET Group was 'food'. At that time, the food price limit law we drafted had just come into effect. The law stipulated that the food price in St. John's City could not exceed 20% of the federal average food price.

"We hired someone to do actuarial calculations for this law. Because there are no transportation fees, normal grain producers will have a high profit in the city of St. John, even if the price of grain is lower than 20% of the federal average grain price." profit.

"What's more, the 'skill' that made KJET Group a success is that they have grain synthesis technology with a yield that is much higher than that of their peers, and the wages they are willing to pay their employees are lower than those of normal grain manufacturers."

"This method is a bit too hasty."

He Ao sighed lightly.

Sito was also one of the ordinary people who experienced the events of that year. At that time, more than 95% of the food in St. Jon City came from the Kjet Group, and the city government was not qualified to negotiate with the Kjet Group at all.

Of course, even if there is no such grain price law, the Kejit Group will still find other reasons to launch attacks.

"Yeah, we were all too young,"

Si Enji also let out a long sigh. During the long years of living alone in seclusion, he recalled the events of that year countless times.

"On the second week after the food price law came into effect, the CJET Group announced that because the food prices restricted by the municipal government were 'too low', they could not maintain normal business activities, so they were suspending most of the food supply in St. Jon. sell.

"The entire city's food supply suddenly went from normal supply to less than one-tenth of its original supply, but the KJET Group's factories did not stop."

Speaking of this, Si Enji smiled bitterly,

"The citizens of St. Jon work in grain factories and produce a lot of grain every day, but they can't buy any grain themselves."

"Because that's not St. Jon's factory."

He Ao said calmly.

"That's not St. Jon's factory..."

Si Enji was stunned when he heard this.

He chewed on these words repeatedly, and after a while, he came back to his senses, raised his head, and stared at He Ao, as if he wanted to see the past that the old man had experienced from the face of this old man.

What was reflected in his eyes were just the wrinkles carved by history and time.

After a brief silence, Sienzi continued,

"Due to the operations of the Capjet Group, the city of Saint-Jean fell into an unprecedented food crisis. At first, we wanted to purchase food from other food consortiums, but those consortiums did not want to offend the Capjet Group.

"At the same time, the Kjet Group pulled its mercenary group to the business road in St. John City, euphemistically claiming to be protecting its own grain export caravan, but these mercenaries were actually used to interfere with what we sent out. , caravans buying food from other cities.

"In the underground market, a large amount of high-priced grain of unknown origin appeared, and the price of grain suddenly doubled or tripled. We have tried to crack down on these underground markets and try to control grain prices, but the effect is not good.

“Because in normal supermarkets and markets, people simply can’t buy food.

"The shortage of food caused chaos in the entire city. Immediately afterwards, the Cajet Group began to bribe the media. Almost at the same time, the media in the entire city of St. John began to attack the city government and the mayor. They used the food price law as a breakthrough and completely denied it. All our policies and laws.

“In this case, Crotter, as the speaker of the council, took the lead in attacking us and maneuvering the city council into impeachment proceedings for the mayor.

"Almost at the same time, a large number of cabinet members' personal ethics issues were exposed, and rumors spread.

"Although we all know that these accusations are false, when more people believe the messages, it becomes difficult to prove the truth."

"But at least,"

He Ao slowly stood up and walked to the window. As he approached, the homeless people hidden in the shadows of the city lights and buildings slowly appeared.

"The people of St. Jon have not lost trust in you, at least in my neighborhood. Even if people can no longer afford food, even if my neighbors and I can only afford one and a half meals a day, most of them All the time is spent working in hunger,

"But not a single person stood on the streets to oppose you."

Si Enji raised his head and looked at He Ao blankly.

This was the first time he heard comments from people who had experienced those things from the perspective of ordinary people.

He opened his mouth, wanting to say something, but something seemed to be choking his throat, rendering him speechless.

"Until then, the Kjet Group's tactics will not be enough to cause a devastating impact on you in a short period of time,"

He Ao turned to look at Si Enji and continued calmly, "The last straw that broke the camel's back was the city defense army?"

"Yes,"

Si Enji took a deep breath, and he stood up, standing next to He Ao, looking at the wanderers in the shadow of the night, "The incident that caused things to get completely out of control was a killer breaking into the Liangdu Daily." Building, tried to shoot the editor-in-chief of Liangdu Daily, but accidentally shot and killed a major of the city defense army who was at Liangdu Daily.

“And the killer was also killed in the counterattack of the city defense army.

"Liangdu Daily was the media that published the most 'black material' about us at the beginning. Almost overnight, this news was published in all newspapers and news, pointing the finger at us and instructing the killer to assassinate the editor-in-chief, 'trying to use abnormal methods to Extreme means are used to exclude dissidents'.

"The whole incident suddenly escalated into a vicious incident. A 'criminal' who instructs killers to kill people cannot become the mayor of St. John. Even the people who originally supported us were influenced by the bombardment of propaganda. Suspect.

“If that’s all, we can still persevere.

"But this incident resulted in the death of an officer of the city defense army. Almost the next day, the city defense army declared their distrust of us and sent us a letter of questioning. Only then did we know that the city defense army also It has long been infiltrated by the KJET Group.

“The announcement issued by the city defense army almost confirmed our ‘hired killers’ matter. At the same time, the city defense army also announced that it would lift the ‘protection’ of Mayor Snava and take back the mayor’s special bodyguard team.

“And with the Mayor’s Guard alone, we simply cannot resist the extraordinary killers that may appear.

"Of course, the Kjet Group did not send killers here, because after the city defense army expressed its stance, our ruling alliance collapsed, and a large number of MPs fell to Crotter.

“The impeachment vote that was originally rejected has been opened for the second time, and it is foreseeable that this time, it will succeed.

“That night, Croat visited us late at night and gave us a ‘decent’ plan.

“They demand that Snava and the deputy mayor resign immediately so that they can avoid the consequences of impeachment.

"If you agree, the Kjet Group can help us arrange a plane and send us to Chenxi City or Wetland so that we can all survive.

“And if we don’t agree, the Kjet Group cannot guarantee our security after being successfully impeached.

“In fact, when things have reached this point, we have almost no room for resistance.

“That night, several ministers of the city cabinet fled by plane overnight.

"It is foreseeable that after we are ousted, Croat can stigmatize us, negate all our laws and policies, and then overturn all our efforts and restore everything to what we never did. Looks like I've been here before.

“And this is what the Kaijit Group wants in such a big circle.

"If they don't do this and directly cooperate with the city defense army to assassinate Snava, a mayor who was assassinated will be sympathized with. At the same time, after Snava's death, our team will still take over the position of mayor and want to It will be very difficult to change the laws we have left behind.

“That night, the rest of us had our last meal,

"During that meal, Snava talked to us a lot about our journey. He encouraged me to run for mayor. I was only thirty-six years old at the time and the youngest member of the entire team. He Said the future is in my hands.”

Si Enji's tone became slower and slower,

“After eating that meal, Snava went back to the Mayor’s Palace to rest, and we stayed next to the Mayor’s Palace that night.

“I was woken up at five o’clock the next morning. The maid heard gunshots and found Snava lying in a pool of blood. They quickly sent someone to call me.

"When I arrived, he was sitting on the white sofa, with blood pouring out of his chest. He shot himself in the heart. He was already hopeless at that time. I stepped forward to extend his life. life, but he just held my hand.

"The people who were left behind came one by one and entered the room. We looked at him and he looked at us.

"Then he died."

Having said this, Si Enji took a long breath, "He left two handwritten suicide notes, one for the public and one for us.

“The statement given to the public stated the slander and blow he had suffered, and expressed his willingness to defend the constitution of the city of St. Jon and the federation with his life and to defend justice.

"We are given the hope that we will make appropriate concessions and retain as much of the results as possible."

"A mayor who commits suicide will also make people sympathize."

He Ao said slowly.

"yes,"

Si Enji looked out the window and looked at himself reflected in the window.

“Snava’s suicide completely reversed the trend of the entire public opinion and stopped the impeachment process that had started.

"The deputy mayor took over as mayor in accordance with the procedure. Snava's suicide suddenly became a hot topic throughout the federation. Even Irons sent a letter to inquire about what happened. The FBI even set up a special investigation team.

"Under the influence of such huge public opinion, the Kaijit Group had to suspend its original actions.

"Although in the end we still had to stop the unfair competition investigation into the Kejit Group, revised the grain price law, and changed most of the policies in the grain industry, but more of the laws and policies we implemented All stayed.

"Snava spent his life trying his best to preserve these things."

Sienzi sighed, "Although many of them were removed one by one by Croat during his eight years in power, there are also many that, like the health care law, exist in name only."

"But at least they're still there."

He Ao answered calmly.

"Yes, at least this city still has traces of Snava's visit,"

Si Enji turned to look at He Ao, "Old guy, you are a good listener. This is the first time I have told this story completely to others in so many years."

He took a deep breath, opened his mouth, and finally whispered, "Thank you."

"Need not,"

He Ao shook his head, "I also solved my own doubts."

Si Enji looked at He Ao. He wanted to say something, but in the end he just smiled. Then he looked behind him and said, "Your crutches seem to be healed."

The roar of the lathe stopped at some point. Standing in front of the lathe, Temok took out a new silver crutch from the lathe.

It was still a cranked cane, and the whole modification was seamless, as if it was cast in one piece of some kind of steel.

But He Ao still saw fine circular lines on the crank handle of the crutch.

Howo and Sienji walked towards Temok.

"Old sir, this cane was made in a hurry and it hasn't been painted yet."

Temok looked at He Ao coming and said apologetically.

"fine,"

He Ao shook his head, "It looks pretty good like this."

"As long as you like it, we are very lucky. The overall material of this crutch has reached the limit of D grade. Ordinary D grade can't damage the cane body at all,"

Temok held the crutch and showed the bottom end to He Ao, "I made this bottom end into a tip form for you, which can be used for attack and can also be easily inserted into the ground to fix it.

"In addition, this crutch also has a small mechanism,"

He held the crank handle of the crutch and glanced at Jia Qian, who was standing by and peeping her head, "Little sister, let me give it to you."

"good!"

Jia Qian nodded obediently and turned around to get out of the way.

"You watch, just turn this crank,"

Temok held the crank handle of the crutch and slowly rotated it. The originally curved part slowly became straight under the rotation of his hand.

At the same time, as if some mechanism was triggered, several sleeves inside the crutch popped out one after another, and the entire crutch instantly turned into a long metal stick about two meters and a half long.

"This crutch will turn into a metal stick, and I will follow your needs,"

He put down the long stick and showed the depression with two small openings on the top of the long stick. "Here is a bayonet that can hold your butterfly knife, so that you can use this metal stick and the butterfly knife to form a A long gun."

He Ao walked to the top of the long stick, took out the butterfly knife in his arms, unfolded it, and inserted it into the depression at the muzzle. The entire blade of the butterfly knife fit perfectly into the depression.

Card--

The latch of the butterfly knife popped out and stuck right in the small opening in the depression.

Temok handed the combined silver gun to He Ao.

He Ao raised his gun and thrust it forward. The gun flew out like a dragon and cut through the air, making a rustling sound.

"What a gun!"

He Ao sighed, then twisted the base, and the muzzle retracted, turning it into a crutch again, but the butterfly knife could still be embedded in the top.

This means that this long gun can also be transformed into a short cane gun at any time.

Then he took back the butterfly knife, put the cane on the ground, and looked at Temok, "Thank you, I like this very much."

"It's okay," Temok said with a smile, "As long as you like it."

Holding the new crutch in his hand, He Ao looked at Si Enji beside him and said slowly, "I'm going out soon. Can you please help take care of Jia Qian?"

Jia Qian suddenly grabbed the corner of He Ao's clothes.

He Ao knelt down, looked at his granddaughter, and said gently, "Where grandpa goes this time, Jia Qian may be in danger."

Jia Qian couldn't resist contamination, and He Ao didn't know if there would be anything that couldn't be watched at the Evolution Headquarters.

Jia Qian stared at He Ao with wide eyes.

Finally, she bit her lip gently and slowly let go of her hand, "Then grandpa will bring ice cream to Jia Qian when he comes back."

She looked at He Ao, her eyes sparkling, "I want a vanilla and a strawberry."

"good."

He Ao reached out and touched her head. Then he reached into his pocket and took out the bracelet that was remotely controlled by Eve and logged into the black market account, and put it on Jia Qian's hand.

Then he stood up and looked at Si Enji.

Si Enji didn't know what He Ao was going to do. He just stared at He Ao and sighed softly, "Old guy, come back alive."

"Um."

He Ao nodded slightly, walked towards the door with his cane in hand.

The rusty iron door opened automatically, and Eve's remote-controlled off-road vehicle was parked in front of the small door.

At this time, He Ao suddenly turned around and looked at Si Enji who followed him to the door.

"What's wrong?"

Si Enji was a little confused.

"In two months, there will be a new mayoral election."

He Ao said slowly.

Hearing this, Si Enji was startled, and then shook his head, "We can't succeed. We can't run against Croat, who is supported by the Kjet Group. The mayoral election requires a lot of exposure. Eight years later, people may They already don’t remember us.”

He Ao turned his head and looked at the city under the night sky and the shadows of the homeless people under the city, "Why don't you go and ask in person."

Si Enji followed He Ao's gaze and looked slightly absent-minded, "However, even if we succeed, we are just following the path we have walked before. We alone cannot resist the Kjet Group."

He Ao turned around and glanced at him, "Do you know 'K'?"

Si Enji was stunned for a moment.

And just when he was stunned, He Ao's figure had already got on the off-road vehicle and disappeared into the night.

At this moment, Si Enji suddenly realized something. He stared at the direction where He Ao disappeared, and his hole suddenly shrank.