The next morning, Samuel discovers that the former captain, who was supposed to continue cleaning the house, has not come. He waited until almost noon without seeing a figure. Considering that he had already paid a month's salary in advance, Samuel decided to go to Broken Anchor again to ask for an explanation.

Samuel soon noticed that there seemed to be a little more people on the streets today than there were yesterday, and from time to time pedestrians could be seen gathering in groups and twos to discuss something.

Samuel didn't take these anomalies to heart. But the further he went, the more pedestrians numbered, and he finally sensed something was wrong. After turning from an alley onto a main street, he saw dozens of people apparently in a group, one of whom was holding a sign that read in red ink:

"Save Shadowsteel!"

Samuel chuckled inwardly, knowing that the Greg government had finally failed to suppress the news of the fall of Shadowsteel and leaked it to the public. He immediately walked over to the group of people who were talking about something, intending to ask about the situation. As soon as I got closer, I heard the voices of several people discussing:

"It's said that Shadowsteel actually fell a few days ago?"

"Yes, the government suppressed the news and didn't release it"

"What are these bastards thinking?! How dare you block the news of this kind of thing?!"

"I heard from my friend that they had planned to announce the news after they had a solution in place, so as not to cause panic"

"So now that the plan is made?"

"No, I've heard that Degen Mining Group refused to participate in the rescue because it didn't think it was worth the cost. They chose to pay death compensation directly to the families of their employees in Yinggang Township. Without the help of the Degen Mining Group, the little force of the Defense Command would not have been able to make any rescue. ”

Samuel clearly felt that several people around him were angered by this sentence:

"Yinggang Town itself is the property of Degen Mining Group, and nearly half of its residents are their employees, and they actually refuse to carry out the rescue?!"

"It is said that they carefully assessed that the cost of the rescue was much higher than the cost of death compensation, and the risk of failure was extremely high, so they chose to lose money. ”

Before anyone else could respond, several people were caught by the commotion coming from behind.

A large crowd was coming from the end of the street, waving flags and shouting slogans, too far away to hear what the slogans were, but the banners and signs they held in their hands were faintly visible, and Samuel narrowed his eyes and saw a few of them:

"Rescue the survivors of Shadowsteel!"

"Severely punish Degen Mining!"

"Kalin Empire, fulfill the Notting Forest Treaty!"

The first two are easy to understand, but the content of the third banner may be confusing to the average person. But Samuel is well aware of what the Notting Forest Treaty is. This treaty was often referred to within the Carlin Army as the Colonial Garrison Treaty, and the main content was to limit the size of the standing army of each colony, so that the colonies' annual military expenditures were less than 0.4% of the colonies' gross domestic product. This small military expenditure was obviously not enough to sustain an army sufficient to keep Gureg safe, so in exchange, the Karlin army took on some of the defense tasks of the various colonies.

The Notting Forest Treaty also applies to magical corruption events in towns, so it is theoretically incumbent upon Carlin to save the trapped inhabitants of Shadowsteel, and even retake Shadowsteel.

"Who are they?", asked a stranger next to Samuel.

"It should be the families of the survivors trapped in Shadow Steel Town, if you go in this direction...... It should be preparing to go to Parliament Square. ”

It seems that this is a petition drive.

The population of Yinggang Town is at the level of tens of thousands, while the population of Nurenta has already exceeded one million. How many Nurentans have friends and relatives in Shadowsteel? maybe 5 percent or less, but even a few percent of the population can be enough to start a massive petition.

The scale of this petition is difficult to estimate for the time being, but it is certain that the authorities in Gureg will have a headache right now.

The Guleg government had intended to come up with a solution during the lockdown period, so it has been actively communicating with Degen Mining and Carlin 23 Fleet. But unfortunately, until the news leaked, the Greg government did not come up with a satisfactory result, whether it was the fact that Degen Mining Group did not plan to get involved in Shadow Steel Town, and the 23rd Fleet had not heard the relevant news so far, I am afraid that the situation is not good.

Relying on Guleg's mobile forces alone is certainly not enough to launch a military operation in Shadowsteel, and now that he has not enlisted outside assistance, will Guleg's ability to assemble enough troops?

Maybe it does. Thinking of this, the corners of Samuel's mouth couldn't help but turn up slightly, maybe the thing that gave him a lot of headaches would take a turn here. But given the current situation of the Archon Gureg, such a turnaround seemed unlikely.

In any case, let's take a closer look at how things play out. Samuel immediately decided to join in the crowd. As for the fact that he originally went to Broken Anchor to find someone to complain, Samuel has been left behind, and although the monthly salary is a lot, it is not so much that it makes Samuel's heart ache.

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As it turned out, Samuel wasn't the only one who came across the petition procession, and when Samuel arrived at Gureg's Parliament Square, there were already several teams waiting there. And one after another, petitioners are still gathering in the square. The council's guards were so frustrated that they could only do their best to maintain order, and the veteran guards constantly warned their younger colleagues to avoid clashes with the petitioners, otherwise their careers could end immediately, with even more serious consequences.

Samuel saw a young man emerge from the line of petitioners, waving a flag in his hand and shouting in the direction of the parliament building

"Those trapped in Shadow Steel Town are our relatives and friends, and they are also the citizens of Greg, and the Federation has the obligation to rescue its own citizens!"

"Degen Mining Group's actions have violated the Federal Enterprise Management Act, and the government is requested to freeze Degen Mining assets in accordance with Article 62 of the Emergency Management Act!"

The petitioners, who were in the group of young people, immediately shouted short, vector slogans in solidarity with their leaders.

.......

Hearing their shouts, Samuel couldn't help but laugh out loud. What they said was correct, but they didn't think about it, Degen Mining is Carlin's enterprise, and Gureg, as a colony, really dares to freeze the assets of the suzerain's enterprises? That's right, the Gureg government can indeed get away with it for a while, and Carlin, who is caught in a civil war, will really not have the energy to deal with Gureg for a while, but who can guarantee that the situation in Carlin will continue to stalemate? Once one of the parties frees up its hands, then the officials involved in punishing Degen Mining will end up very miserable.

Gureig's current consul, Delanor, is only a weak consul, and he was able to come to power because Gureig's major parties are so divided that they can only choose a centrist that everyone can grudgingly accept. At the end of the day, Delano is just a transitional candidate with no party support, as long as he settles around and waits for the results of the various parties' struggles to become clear. How can such an archon be expected to make any effective decisions decisively at such a time?

While the petitioning crowd was shouting slogans, more and more people were converging on the square, and the guards were already grossly understaffed, and an agitated crowd had already crossed the cordon drawn by the guards and tried to approach the parliament building and the consul's residence. The scene was on the verge of spiraling out of control.

Samuel watched coldly from the sidelines, and when he saw this situation, he estimated in his heart that the show was about to start.