Chapter Seventy-One: Assassination
When Mei Xiaohan arrived in Daimyo Town, he happened to encounter the five-year mayor election of Daimyo Town.
All residents of Daimyo Town are eligible to run for mayor of Daimyo Town.
Daimyo Town has a population of 60,000 people, and there are more than 10,000 people who are eligible to vote.
Daimyo Town, the aboriginal population is small, most of them are immigrants across time and space and merchants who have entered this place, and most of them are foreigners.
The election has entered the final stage, the top five have been selected, and the mayor will finally be selected in the top five.
Portraits of the top five finalists were posted on the streets, and the eventual winner would be the chief executive of Daimyo Town for the next five years.
In order to get more votes, the five finalists each made various pledges. In order to get votes, some even used silver to buy them.
A ballot ticket costs 20 to 100 yuan, and as the election heats up, the price of the ballot rises.
"It's not so easy to get elected mayor, and you need to do everything you can."
With competition, there is pressure, and people have no sense of crisis, or be eliminated or replaced.
It is not known how this forward-thinking electoral philosophy was implanted in the town.
Mei Xiaohan's father once participated in the election of the mayor of the town, but because of his poor popularity, he was out in the first round.
"This king wants to see how this mayor is elected!"
The five major families of Daimyo Town secretly started a contest for the five mayoral candidates they supported.
In the last seven days, the final election began.
The streets of Daimyo Town are lit up with lights, and portraits of electors are pasted on the streets.
All the votes will be recounted, and the final five electors will compete for the final election.
The Jade King said: "This king really wants to see this kind of novel election. It is really unheard of that officials can be elected by ordinary people! ”
Votes gave rise to scalpers, and vote-scalping began to run rampant.
"Princes, do you have any election votes in your hands?" A ticket seller stopped Mei Xiaohan.
"How... Can electoral votes still be sold for money? ”
The ticket seller said, "Not really! The candidate for mayor of Daimyo Town is entering the stage of fierce vote grabbing, and every vote is precious! ”
"How much does it cost?"
The ticket seller said: "Thirty dollars a piece!" Collect as much as you want! ”
Mei Xiaohan said: "What a pity! We don't have a single ballot for us! ”
"It's okay for your relatives and friends to have votes, and the price is negotiable!"
After grinding hard, seeing that there were indeed no election votes, the ticket seller reluctantly walked away.
Mei Xiaohan and his entourage, all they saw along the way were ticket sellers buying and selling election votes.
The Jade King clenched his fists tightly and shook his head again and again, which was incredible. Such an act is simply inconceivable in the eyes of the Jade King, which is tantamount to buying and selling official positions.
The gourd immortal saw that the Jade King's expression was wrong, and said: "There are too many unfairness in the affairs of the world, and not all these things are within the control of the Jade King. ”
Daimyo Town is not an ordinary town, with a large number of people and miscellaneous things, and countless floating populations every day. Most of these migrants are outsiders, and some people are similar to Mei Xiaohan and come from another time and space.
This extremely commercial town contains infinite vitality and is sprouting a new era of commerce.
The competition for electoral votes has entered a white-hot stage, and the number of votes for the top five has always been difficult to distinguish.
For mayoral candidates who make it to the top five, the difference in the number of votes between the top five is only a few hundred votes.
At this moment, the unexpected happened, and three of the top five people in the ballot were assassinated one after another, and the election had to be stopped.
The sudden death of the elector caused great panic in the town of Daimyo.
The "Daimyo Town Inspection Group" was established.
This investigation team, whose power is above the highest administrative authority in Daimyo Town, can travel freely in Daimyo Town.
Whenever a major incident occurs, the organization is awakened and immediately enters the investigation.
The "Daimyo Town Inspection Team" is composed of 50 people and is a spy organization.
The team leader's code name is "Feiyun", this person is usually silent and rarely shows up, and there are no more than three people who have actually seen him.
When it comes to "Feiyun", everyone in Daimyo Town knows about it, although this person rarely shows up, he is quite talented, and he has a lot of intelligence information in his hands, arrogant and mysterious.
In this mayoral election, three of the five candidates died, causing a huge panic throughout the town of Daimyo.
The two electors who narrowly escaped the assassination also withdrew from the mayoral election in the middle of the race, hoping to guarantee their lives.
Even so, they could not escape assassination and eventually died on the streets.
The entire town of Daimyo was in a state of extreme panic, and the streets were filled with members of the investigation team.
In the chaos, Mei Xiaohan and his party were scattered by the crowd. At this time, the gourd immortal suddenly disappeared, the Jade King also lost contact, and the whereabouts of "Ugojin" were unknown.
Soon, the members of the inspection team of Daiming Town found Mei Xiaohan. These people were polite, did not use any means, and their tone was quite civilized.
These people are all wearing masks, in groups of five or six, and they are advancing in a carpet style.
The population of Daimyo Town is very mobile, and there are many visitors from other places, most of whom are purely for business purposes.
Although assassinations have happened from time to time, it has never been as gruesome as now, and it is no coincidence that all the candidates who entered the top five in the election were assassinated.
"We're just looking for you to get a little bit of information." A member of the masked inspection team asked.
Mei Xiaohan said: "When I first came to your land, I didn't know anything. ”
"Who else came to Daimyo with you besides you?"
Mei Xiaohan said: "Do I have to say it?" What if this is my personal privacy? ”
"You can choose to be silent, it's your right! But... In order to get what we want, we will do whatever it takes to get it. ”
"Don't talk nonsense with this kid, take him back, and torture him!"
"No... No, this person is extraordinary, brute force alone does not work. ”
Mei Xiaohan said: "Have you finished asking?" Should you let me go! ”
The four gates of Daimyo Town were closed, and it was impossible to go out, and they could not be released without special approval.
"What the hell!" Mei Xiaohan scolded.
After the members of the inspection team asked again, they did not ask any more questions, ruling out the suspicion that Mei Xiaohan had committed the crime.
A foreigner, who had just come to Daimyo Town, had no motive to kill the five people who participated in the mayoral election.
Mei Xiaohan's questioning is just a routine.
What worried Mei Xiaohan was that the gourd immortal suddenly disappeared, and the Jade King went to Mei Xiaohan and didn't care very much.
The streets are full of arrests, and the atmosphere of the daiming town, which was originally full of lights and bustling, becomes depressing, and the people of the town are in fear.
No one knows when this assassination will end.
The deceased had many holes in his body, and these skeletal eyes were about the same size, as if they had been wounded by the same sharp weapon.
No one could say what such a weapon was, and how these skeletal eyes of comparable size were formed.