At nine o'clock in the morning, the helicopter landed in Liuzhen, a small town south of Tangshan.

The reconnaissance team sent by Ji Cheng had already surveyed the area around the landing site within a radius of several hundred meters in advance, and did not find any suspicious people. In fact, there are very few people.

The town of Liuzhen was hit by a disaster just at the end of last year, and after the seawall was washed down, almost the entire town was flooded by the sea, and nearly 1,000 people died. The rescue and relief work lasted for nearly a month before it gradually turned into post-disaster reconstruction. Many locals are still homeless, living in makeshift prefabricated huts and relying on relief supplies from elsewhere for food and clothing.

Speaking of this catastrophe, it is necessary to first explain several problems that the Earth in this parallel universe is facing.

From 2060 onwards, the four most pressing problems facing people on earth are population expansion, energy crisis, sea level rise, and global warming. The rankings are in order, from light to heavy, from slow to urgent.

The first problem was alleviated after the War of Imperial Unification in 2000, but nearly thirty years later, it came to the fore again and was placed on the agenda of the Tiandu leadership. After a few years of research, the empire instituted a high "second-child tax" policy, which could be regarded as controlling population growth on a steady trend.

And the last three questions can be put together. Since the Industrial Revolution, human beings have begun to rely on a large number of "burning things" to obtain the main energy, for modern civilized society, oil is blood, natural gas is oxygen, coal is cell tissue. This energy choice will inevitably exacerbate the greenhouse effect, so global warming, which in turn will lead to the melting of glaciers at the poles, and then the rise of sea levels, which is already known to middle school students.

The empire has indeed made a lot of efforts in energy reform, and several pure, reliable, and powerful energy sources have been successfully developed, but the energy sources that have both the above three natural characteristics and the other three artificially imposed characteristics are expensive, technically secretive, and exclusive to the empire.

These energy sources are not used by the people, but are used exclusively by the military and the upper echelons of the empire. However, as long as someone uses it, even if it shares the energy burden of the earth, it is still a good thing, and the energy crisis has been solved with the rise in oil prices.

As for global warming and sea level rise, have you noticed that Tiandu is a floating island in the sky, and from their point of view, there is still a lot of room for sea level to rise......

Of course, the imperial court can't really ignore these two problems, so the solution is to raise the seawall. After decades of construction, in 2101, almost all coastal areas in the world, as long as there are towns, have seawalls ranging from a few meters to dozens of meters higher than the road surface.

The seawall in Liuzhen was built five years ago, and as the water level continued to rise year after year, the original seawall was already embarrassed, so the upper level of Longjun allocated more funds, but who knew that it was washed away in just a few years.

Levi got out of the helicopter, and his short hair with olive oil in the strong wind was really not messy. He wears a black shirt with an open neckline, a pair of sweatpants, and a pair of sneakers on his feet to cover a month's salary as a helicopter pilot. The shirt is covered with a bulletproof vest with tracking and eavesdropping devices built into it.

Almost at the same time as Li Wei, Ji Cheng and the others stepped off the helicopter, they received a text message from Tianyi on their mobile phones: "Li Gongzi, from now on, you act alone and go south." Chief Ji, please transfer back the people you arranged around, you can wait here, or just close the team, but don't follow Levi.

Please complete the above requirements carefully. ”

Li Wei and Ji Cheng read the text message together, and after reading it, he asked, "What should I do?"

Ji Chengdao: "I can only do what he says." After a pause, he added: "This man doesn't like to talk about hostages, and he's tired of us asking about the safety of the hostages, so he doesn't repeatedly threaten us with the safety of the hostages like ordinary kidnappers." He just added a sentence at the end of the text message, 'Please do it carefully', these five words are for us to do what he says, or we will bear the consequences." No way...... You can't risk taking hostages. ”

Li Wei nodded, he thought for a few seconds, leaned into Ji Cheng's ear and said, "Chief Ji, do you think that he knows too much about our situation? It's as if there is a pair of eyes that always look at us......" He was hinting at Ji Cheng something.

Ji Cheng replied quietly: "I have my own measure. He then deliberately raised his voice, as if he wanted to say to the people around him: "Don't worry, body armor is just for the sake of insurance, if this kidnapper wants to be against you, you can put an explosive device in that coffee machine, you can go with peace of mind, we will listen through the tracking device, in case there is a situation, it will be there in two minutes." ”

Levi answered, and walked south alone.

The helicopter stayed in a suburban clearing, and the HL crew quickly brought in several surveillance vehicles, connected portable devices to the vehicles, and continued to track Levi's movements.

Levi walked along the widest stretch of road, apparently rebuilt after the disaster, and the road was very smooth, presumably to allow large vehicles to enter smoothly for supplies and reconstruction.

After a while, there were more buildings around, but they were all washed away by the flood. This neighborhood used to be a residential area, but now walking in it feels like walking through a ruin in the last days.

The phone rang again, and Levi picked it up and said, "What do you want now?"

Tianyi: "The piece in the lower left corner of the phone comes with Bluetooth, break it off and wear it." ”

Levi put the phone in front of his eyes, removed a block-sized piece from the bottom left corner, put it on his ear, and put it in his shirt pocket inside a bulletproof vest.

"Alright. ”

Tianyi said, "Does this place remind you of anything?"

Levi glanced around, "I've never been here. ”

"I know, but everyone here knows you. ”

"Hmph...... There are many people in Longjun who know me, but I don't know them. ”

"Hey...... It seems that you are very forgetful, do you really need me to remind you to remember?"

Tianyi's words made Li Wei confused, and he replied: "I don't know what tricks you are playing, what is your purpose?

"Six years ago, you, the genius young entrepreneur Li Gongzi, received a project payment from the top management of Longjun. Tianyi didn't answer the question, but began to narrate on his own: "This amount is theoretically divided into five installments, but the governor of Tangshan, who handled this matter at that time, gave you the full amount directly in order to convince you, a noble son of the real power, and in order to show his full 'trust' and 'support' for you."

You spent a month without doing anything, not moving a brick by brick, first laundering 30% of the money, and financing the newly opened leather bag company under your name.

Then he threw the rest to a contractor who had interests with him and became the shopkeeper. And after receiving this transaction, the other party gave you a huge rebate according to the custom.

More than a year later, when the project was completed, you declined the Governor's request to cut the ribbon on the grounds that you were unwell, when in fact you were just fooling around with some actress in a luxury villa in Canton that day. ”

The more Li Wei listened, the more frightened he became, and his expression changed sharply: "How can you ......" He really couldn't think of how Tianyi could know these things. There is no other person in the world who knows that he touched the money, who knows the dealings he made with the contractors, who knows the content of his conversations with the governor, who knows what he was doing at the moment, except for him Levi himself.

"Hahahaha......" Tianyi laughed maniacally on the other end of the phone: "Are you still worried about personal privacy? ”

Levi suddenly realized something, and at this moment, his neck froze.

Tianyi continued: "It seems that you have already thought of it, that's right, that project is to raise the seawall here. He said in a relaxed tone: "Obviously, due to the cost compression, this project was finally made into tofu scum, but because it was handled by your Li Gongzi, the governor here is very knowledgeable to help you cover up the past." His idea is that even if the embankment collapses one day in more than ten years, he may not still be in his position, and what responsibility can he be held accountable.

It's a pity...... The embankment collapsed in five years, and of course, the Governor did not receive any severe punishment, except that he was transferred to a more remote and impoverished area to become a lieutenant governor.

The empire wants to keep a low profile to cover up this matter, what does it mean...... That is, the embankment will collapse, and the waves are too surging, and it is just a natural disaster, so you think you are unlucky. ”

"Haha......" Speaking of this, Tianyi couldn't help laughing again: "But...... The governor here made good use of the local media to do some propaganda work in order to appease you, and if you came to cut the ribbon, you would be able to see it. Huge slogans, large photos, newspapers, roadside walls, and even billboards, you can be seen everywhere, you are the great benefactor of the people of Liuzhen. ”

Levi's face became very ugly, and he now knew why "everyone here knows you". An instinct told Levi that he had to leave, that it wasn't safe here.

turned around, but saw that the road behind him, a distance of dozens of meters, was already full of people.

Most of them were old and weak, women and children, and most of them had left the place. But it was these old people, children, and middle-aged women who showed their eyes at this moment that made Levi's legs tremble involuntarily.

Tianyi's voice came from the other end of Bluetooth again: "Finally, the part I want to say is the funniest, the leather bag company under your name, after helping you make a fortune, still left some remaining assets, and you arbitrarily merged them into your own food chain brand, and that company has since been responsible for the development and production of canned food."

Those cans were so unpalatable that they were rated as the worst-tasting junk product in the whole of Dragon County on the Internet, and in fact, because of their bad reputation, I couldn't help but wonder how bad it was to buy one and try it......

In short, the company was defined as a loss-making cancer by your group headquarters at the end of last year, and suffered layoffs and dissolution. However, the last batch of canned food on the verge of expiration was hoarded in the factory warehouse, so your think tank had an idea, and in order to do some face engineering for the company and improve the corporate image, they donated all the canned canned food that could not be sold for free to a hard-hit area that had just suffered a disaster, and also hyped it up.

And that disaster area is Liuzhen. ”

With a "ping", Levi's head was hit by something.

In the crowd, I don't know whose bear child it was, threw a can and hit Levi's head accurately.

Levi grinned in pain, and the blood on his forehead was dripping, but he was basically stupid, just squatted down in a daze, picked up the can, and saw that the packaging of the can was still unbearably printed with the boss's photo, that is, himself......