Jiangshi, as a third-tier city.

The permanent population is only a few hundred thousand.

Xizhou City, as a second-tier city.

There are three to four million permanent residents.

Crane City, also as a second-tier city... Long-term population... Eight or nine million.

According to the latest census data, it is very likely to exceed the 10 million mark in the next decade.

This is the most intuitive gap between Crane City and Xizhou City!

It can be seen from this that Heshi, a second-tier city, is a prosperous and economically important city.

Everyone lives under the pile of prosperity.

Some people even joked on the Internet that a person who was casually pulled on the streets of Crane City was either a rich businessman or a rich nouveau riche, and celebrities could be seen everywhere, and millions of luxury cars were just ordinary street cars, and tens of millions of luxury cars were everywhere, and it was not an exaggeration to say that Crane City was a luxury car show and star show.

The economic status of Crane City in Tianxing Province has always been supported by the resources of the provincial capital and preferential policies.

Its geographical location is unique, sandwiched between a number of second-tier cities, so it has become an important hub and transit point for transportation.

In the old days, the coastal provinces have always been a paradise for the unbridled growth of alien beasts, and the alien beasts are all over the place, and they reproduce very quickly, and the federal government has to allocate a large amount of money every year to invest in the coastal front, encircle and suppress the alien beasts, capture the active areas of the alien beasts, expand the territory, and most importantly, Tianxing Province is near the coastal areas of the East China Sea in the old era of the "Hundred Years Plan".

But the federal government's capabilities are not panacea.

If the federal government invests alone, it will not be able to complete such a huge plan as the "100-year plan" and complete the occupation of coastal areas within 100 years.

Therefore, the federal government needs non-governmental organizations to participate in the "100-year plan", as long as it can create benefits for the people, so that the non-governmental organizations can see the immediate benefits, it will inevitably rush to the coastal areas, hunting and killing the number of foreign beasts.

All these factors are combined, and the federal government has specially supported a city like Crane City.

An economically important zone integrating the gathering of mercenaries and the trading market of exotic beast materials is actually to drive civil forces and individuals to help the federal government accelerate the process of the "Centennial Plan".

For this reason, the federal government does not mind ceding a part of the cake in the coastal areas to feed the civil society forces and individuals.

Knock, knock... Ji Xiaoning's fingertips tapped lightly on the armrest of the seat, and through the virtual touch screen, he flipped through the online information about Crane City.

This was his first visit to Crane City.

So do some pre-understanding.

Federal Government, Centennial Plan, Civil Society Organization......

This reminded him of his past life.

State, high-speed transportation network, civil society organizations.

When people always complain about why the national highway keeps charging for the difficulty of traveling, this is actually a helpless move by the state. In order to develop at the speed of light, but the country's finances are tight and cannot fully develop in all aspects, the cost of building a cross-city expressway is often hundreds of millions, billions, not to mention the vast territory of the country, so it has to be contracted by private enterprises to build highways, and then by private enterprises to implement 20 years of tolls, 30 years of tolls, otherwise how to open up the national network in a short period of time. Only then did the country have more money and energy to speed up economic development.

"Huh?"

Suddenly, Ji Xiaoning sighed slightly.

His expression was solemn, and he immediately stared at it carefully.

Just when he was searching for information about Crane City, he accidentally searched for another related information, which was the news report of the huge economic turmoil in Crane City and Xizhou City in the past month, as well as the outbreak of bloody force incidents from time to time.

Just as Ji Xiaoning frowned and looked at it, before he knew it, the military aircraft had landed smoothly.

Ji Xiaoning noticed that the aircraft under his feet had landed, so he stopped his movements.

The young man stood up and slowly got up from his seat, seemingly ordinary, plain movements, and an increasingly cold sharp edge in his eyes, brewing in it.

Perhaps, a huge hurricane is about to erupt in Tsuru City next.

Tsuru City.

An open area outside the city.

At this time, many wealthy people gathered, and all kinds of luxury cars worth tens of millions were parked around, and even private aircraft came down, parking a large number of private aircraft.

I saw that the people present were all successful people and rich people who had a face in the crane market, and had only appeared on TV news and could not be seen by ordinary people.

Even billionaires can't get tickets.

The minimum net worth is to start in the billions.

There are so many rich people, listed CEOs gathered, and even many underworld bigwigs were present, all indicating that this is an extraordinary party.

In particular, among them, there are also the ten largest predators in Crane City, the three major groups and the seven families behind the scenes, all of whom are also present.

At this moment, I saw that the CEOs and bigwigs who only appeared on the TV news were all around the three major groups and the seven major families, flattering and patting the sycophants like the stars holding the moon.

The posture is lowered one by one.

These people are all elites who have single-handedly created business empires, treacherous and cunning figures, and of course they do not want to cling to the three major groups and seven major families in order to cling to higher magnates.

That's not a development opportunity at all, it's just a sheep in the tiger's mouth, and you will take the initiative to send it to the door, and you will soon be eaten to the point that there is not even a single bone residue left.

They're just posturing.

A gesture that does not intend to challenge the status of the three major groups and the seven families.

In front of these Crane City bigwigs, it can be seen that there are ten rings set up temporarily.

Around the ten rings, there are protective formations arranged by the formation mages to prevent the energy in the ring from leaking out and impacting the surrounding onlookers.

Ten rings, almost every ring has a large amount of blood stains left on it, and these blood stains have long dried up and solidified into dark red lumps.

There are also traces of fresh blood that have not yet coagulated.

Just opposite the people of Crane City, on the other side of the ring, there was a group of people who fought in court.

This group of people is also either rich or expensive, each of them has an extraordinary bearing, they have been in the top position for a long time, and they have gradually cultivated a strong aura that controls the fate of people, and everyone's temperament is very different from ordinary people.

It is actually the big man of all parties in Xizhou City.

The two families of Fang and Xu were all present, and there were even Fang Jingshan and Xu Chengwen.

On that day, in the underground secret room, the part of the people who had secretly gathered was all present.

At this moment, the atmosphere on both sides was tense and the smell of gunpowder was strong.

These bigwigs in Xizhou City, who are usually well-nourished, all want to breathe fire or have gloomy and terrifying eyes at this moment, and they are angry and angry at the crowd of Heshi on the other side of the ring.

On the other hand, the people of Crane City are calm and relaxed, arrogant, chatting with the people around them, talking about business cooperation, and glancing at the opposite Xizhou City from time to time, unabashedly flashing contempt and contempt, as if they are on the top of the clouds overlooking the countryside soil buns.

Defiant.

Arrogant, arrogant and infuriating.

"Fang Yuanqing, what's the matter, a dignified Fang family in Xizhou City, can't afford to lose seven games, so frightened that he shrunk his head and became the eighth king of the shrunken head, don't you have the courage to continue to challenge?"

"Didn't you win two more games, hehe, you just lost fifty percent of your assets, and fifty lives of crystallization stage masters, for your family's big Fang family, it's just a drizzle, maybe you can win eight consecutive victories in a row if you are lucky in the next few challenges, hahaha." ”

The person who opened his mouth was the person in charge of Xingguanlong Group, Xiang Zhishan.

This is a middle-aged man with fair skin and pampered all the year round, but there is a vulture in his eyes from time to time.

He seems to be well-intentioned to persuade, but what he says is vicious, with undisguised contempt and ridicule.

And the person called Fang Yuanqing is an old man.

This is an old man with eyes like copper bells, sitting at the head of the Fang family's team, and all the people of the Fang family are headed by this old man, with a respectful demeanor, and they dare not go beyond half a step.

Presumably, this old man's status in the Fang family must be very transcendent.

It could be one of the people in the highest authority.

In the face of Xiang Zhishan's undisguised ridicule and ridicule, the arrogance that seemed to be integrated into his bones, and the arrogance in his eyes, made the old man of the Fang family so angry that his face turned pale.

"Xiang Zhishan, you ......"

Fang Yuanqing, as one of the most respected clan elders of the Fang family and who has long since retreated to the background, can be described as a superior who calls for wind and rain in Xizhou City, covers the sky with one hand, and everyone is in awe of him.

But Fang Yuanqing finally endured.

Not provoked.

Fang Yuanqing's eyes were gloomy as water, his face was extremely gloomy, green for a while, white for a while, and there were several corpses lying in front of him that looked extremely miserable.

Those are all strong people that the Fang family has spent a lot of manpower, material and financial resources, and it is not easy to cultivate.

Originally, as an important foundation of the Fang family, as an important pillar of the Fang family in the future, and even expected to achieve the qualification of the sea opening period, the various resources invested for this are huge, but now, they are all dead, all dead!

Go up to the ring and die!

Even if the two wins are all tragic, although both of them eventually retired from the ring alive, one was seriously injured and unconscious, and it is very likely that he will be disabled in the future.

The other person was also seriously injured, even to the root, and I am afraid that the future achievements have stopped there.

It is equivalent to seven challenges, and the Fang family abolished seven people.

This kind of tragic price, the Fang family can't afford it, and even... Under Fang Yuanqing's gloomy expression, there was a strong uneasiness and anxiety in his heart.

If this continues, the Fang family is bound to lose everything.

Now the morale of the Fang family is low, everyone is in danger, even if they are forced to play, they are suppressed by the opponent's momentum, and their innate momentum is already weakened by one point, and it is conceivable that the combat power is greatly reduced.

As for the situation of the Xu family, it is also very bad.

Lost five of the six games and won only one.

It was also a pyrrhic victory.

I saw that in the Xu family's team, Xu Chengwen was supported by others, his chest clothes were stained with a large patch of blood, his face was pale and bloodless, and his forehead couldn't help secreting a large amount of cold sweat the size of soybeans, but he was gritting his teeth and holding on, unwilling to leave for treatment.

I saw Xu Chengwen's right arm twisted at an unnatural angle, and it was obvious that the arm was broken and fractured.

The ribs on his chest are also a few centimeters in size, shaped like a fist print, which has already hurt his lungs, and every breath Xu Chengwen takes now affects the broken rib injury, making his forehead sweat dripping with pain. If it weren't for the fact that he reluctantly used his true qi and suppressed the wound, he would have been bleeding profusely inside an ordinary person, and the shock would have passed, and he wouldn't have been able to support it for even a few minutes.

The Fang family and the Xu family are in such a miserable situation, not to mention other forces in Xizhou City.

It is even more bloody and disgusting.

The corpses, each more miserable than the other, even had their bodies broken in two, or headless corpses, coupled with the strong smell of blood, all of which stimulated the five senses and spirits of the entourage of the team all the time, and the eyes showed fear and retreat.

As long as it is a human being, it is a life-saving thing.

In the face of real life and death, how many people can talk about life and death and be able to stand up.

These people desperately hid behind the crowd, just begging the high-level not to lose their eyes and pull themselves to the field to die.

Everyone has no intention of fighting, and their hearts have long been filled with fear.

In particular, some forces have lost seven or eight in a row, their faces are even paler and more desperate, there is no blood on their faces, only endless gray color, and their pupils have lost their vitality and brilliance, leaving only despair and desolation.

The volume of Crane City is not comparable to Xizhou City at all.

Although both are second-tier cities, one is an economic metropolis, an important city supported by the federal government, and decades of accumulation, whether it is economic, cultural, or the number of strong cities, are far more than other second-tier cities.

So there was a scene in front of me.

On top of the ten rings, there were strong men from the three major groups and seven families in Crane City, but none of them dared to challenge on the stage.

"Do they all automatically abstain from voting? If you want to fight, hurry up, don't waste everyone's time. If you don't want to fight, just abstain and save too much time on you waste. ”

An impatient voice came, with a thick, thick, nasal voice that was rough and dull like thunder.

It is the person in charge of the Kaishan Group, Yang Tianhe.

In that early years, with strong and bloody means overnight, he merged almost all the mercenary organizations in Crane City, and single-handedly founded the Kaishan Group, almost monopolizing most of the mercenary market in Crane City.

"Hmph, I advise you that if you don't want to die as miserable as those in front of you, you may be able to leave a life and steal your life if you abstain as soon as possible, lest one of our people accidentally kill you. ”

Yang Tianhe looks like a rough, muscular and simple-minded person, in fact, all the people who think this way have already been swallowed by his Kaishan group to the point that there are no bones left, and there is a yin aura when he speaks, threatening and coercing the people of Xizhou City, pressing step by step, exerting psychological pressure, and further suppressing the morale of Xizhou City.

Here in Xizhou City, he dared to be angry but did not dare to speak.

Morale was indeed even more sluggish and depressed.

"Hehe, it's actually very easy to win... It's better for you to let that mysterious powerhouse come forward and challenge each of your forces ten times, presumably with the means of this mysterious powerhouse, you can win over these powerhouses in our Crane City, and it is not as easy as a light breeze and a sea of clouds with your palm, hehe. ”

"Or, it's inconvenient for you to invite that mysterious powerhouse, why don't you tell Master Qiu and us who the identity of that mysterious powerhouse is, and let Master Qiu and us take the initiative to visit, hehe. ”

This time, the one who spoke was another person from the three major groups, the person in charge of the Xinxi Group, Gu Renhuan.

This person is an old man in his fifties, but he is very well maintained, his face is full of red light, full of energy, and his black hair is as black as bright.

This old man seems to have a gentle attitude, and his eyes are not as gloomy as Xiang Zhishan's, but what he says is heartfelt.

Xiang Zhishan's words obviously made some people in Xizhou City, who were in a desperate situation, feel like they had grabbed the last straw.

I saw that a few people's eyes lit up, and they immediately said anxiously: "Still can't be contacted, let's contact Ji ...... again"

"Shut up!" interrupted the man with a cold snort.

It also interrupted the last three words of the name.

It's Fangjingshan.

The man was not convinced, he was already a little hysterical like a gambler losing a red eye.

"It's all at this time, I really don't know what your Fang family and Xu family are still hesitating about, why did he kill Qiu Lifei, but let us all be unlucky collectively, and we have to lose all our family funds. ”

"Master Qiu, I said, I said, I tell you who the mysterious powerhouse is, I know who killed Master Qiu and your brother, that person is ......"