Chapter 196: Public Opinion Exploded

Edge Building.

Su Mo received the video file from Ivan and read everything inside.

As expected, Lucio and Songzo Medical discussed things that hurt nature and reason.

In the original plot, Lucio is such a bad thing dressed in charity and only looking out for his own interests.

The so-called Foundation is just a tool he uses to make money.

The main routine of the Ribethon Foundation is to first publish a charity project, attract donations, and then work with the next family to invest the money in those areas with high operational accounts.

For example, if it costs 500 monthly coins, Lucio asked people to use 5,000 monthly coins to purchase it, and then make the accounts beautiful.

In this way, the 4,500 monthly coins became the net profit of the investment object, and then the two sides shared the account privately, and the public donation was transferred to their own pockets.

As one of the heroines of the "Dawn" game, the reason why Tareg is hated by so many players is not only her brain-dead Virgin thoughts, but also her attitude towards Lucio.

As Lucio's daughter, Tareg is well aware that her father is secretly collecting money in the name of charity, and even through her animal protection project.

But she didn't care.

She only cares about whether her father's funds are enough, whether her own set of Mary's morality is satisfied, and everything else doesn't matter.

Su Mo was already full of malice towards these two people, and he just happened to fight cattle across the mountain.

Now that the key evidence is in hand, it is impossible to say that they will not be killed.

Su Mo picked up his phone and called Schenkov: "Hey brother, didn't disturb your sleep, right?" ”

There was no tiredness in Schenkov's voice: "No, I'm working overtime to catch up with the report of tomorrow's work meeting, what's wrong?" ”

Sumo: "I remember you didn't have a good relationship with Lucio. ”

Schenkov: "Well, the consortium behind Lucio is the opposite of the person behind me, and he has been thinking about my position as a ruling councilor for a long time. ”

Su Mo sent the video that Ivan secretly took to Schenkov, and said with a smile: "Look at the mailbox, I sent you something funny." ”

There was silence on the other end of the line for a long time.

Suddenly, Schenkov's stunned voice came: "I'll go!" Dude, where did you get this video?! ”

Su Mo smiled evilly: "Don't ask more, just say surprise or not." ”

"You kid can always make something horrible for me." Schenkov hesitated for a moment, then asked tentatively, "You want me to use this video to get rid of Lucio?" ”

Sumo: "For me and for you, it's a win-win for us." ”

Schenkov: "But you should know that evidence obtained by such illegal means will not be admissible in court. ”

Su Mo chuckled, "Who went to court with him?" You just have to find an opportunity to publish this video, you don't have to go through the judicial process at all, and Lucio will have to take off a layer of skin if he doesn't die. ”

Schenkov refused without hesitation: "It will definitely not work for me to make it public, there are rules in the political circles, and even if you get someone else's handle, you have to negotiate and deal with it privately." ”

"If I don't follow the rules, others will deal with me unscrupulously in the future, and this will be a mess."

When he said this, his words changed: "But. . . If this was done by hackers, then it wouldn't be on my head, right? ”

Summer and Schenkov laughed evilly together, like two cunning foxes.

The next day, the monthly working meeting of the city council was held as normal.

Before the meeting began, Lucio sat in his position and called his son-in-law: "Chenyu, don't worry, I will help you deal with the surnamed Su at the meeting." Well, you take care of your mercenary group, and leave these to your father-in-law. ”

The people entered one after the other, and the meeting began.

These meetings are held every month, and the heads of departments report on their work to the Speaker of the City Council, Amir, and the members of the council and councillors send representatives to evaluate these matters and make proposals accordingly.

The reports of the heads of other departments were similar to last month.

Schenkov had a lot more to report, after all, he had just taken office and launched a purge of the crow's nest, which ended quickly, and there were many details that needed to be elaborated.

After Schenkov's report, it was the turn of the representatives of the ruling councilors and the deputies of the parliamentarians to speak.

Lucio was one of the representatives, and he symbolically said something official, and then began to attack Sumer.

"We all know that Su Mo handled the Xinghai Theater hostage incident well, which deserves to be commended, but he seems to be a little carried away because of it."

"The current situation of the Edge Building is very unreasonable in my opinion, the company Edge Technology currently has only more than 200 people, but it occupies a super building with a total of 100 floors, and each person enjoys one floor on average, which is a great waste of public resources!"

Schenkov pressed the speech button and said calmly: "Edge technology is in its infancy, and there are only more than 200 people now, which does not mean that there will only be more than 200 people in the future. ”

Lucio coughed lightly and deliberately said in a tone with deep meaning: "Mr. Schenkov, you and Su Mo have a good relationship in private, I know you are in a hurry, but don't worry about it yet." ”

Schenkov chuckled and responded: "What am I in a hurry? He's just a friend of mine. How? The governor is not allowed to have friends? ”

"It's you, Mr. Lucio, who chose Ou Chenyu, the leader of the Toothed Tiger, as his son-in-law, and your relationship with the mercenary world is much closer than mine."

Lucio immediately diverted the topic: "We are not talking about the group of mercenaries now, but about Sumo and his edge technology, please don't mix them up." ”

Schenkov was a little impatient: "The contract for the edge building was decided in court, and the Crescent City Council was instructed to contract all the necessary expenditures. If you have an opinion, then you go to court. ”

Lucio seemed to grasp some flaw, and immediately said: "This is the point of what I am going to talk about next, about a series of expenses about the edge building. ”

"It makes sense to ask the City Council to contract the necessary expenses for Edge Tech to move into the building. But the question is, are all the expenses reported by Su Mo necessary? ”

He pointed his finger at the document in front of him, and scolded righteously: "May I ask what is the expenditure of this pile of eating, drinking, and merrymaking?" Bars, saunas, gyms, and all sorts of luxury homes that are seriously over-standard even have to pay for game consoles from the city council??? ”

"That's how municipal funds are used? Su Mo used the kindness of going to court to occupy the public funds of the city council to facilitate his own enjoyment, is this behavior too much?! ”

Schenkov didn't speak, just stared at his phone.

Lucio thought that he was speechless, and continued to press: "Mr. Schenkov, don't you think that these expenditures should be recovered? We're sorry, are you listening to me? ”

Schenkov stared at his phone for a long time, then came back to his senses and said in a daze, "Oh, listening." ”

"Tuk-tuk."

Amir clasped his knuckles on the table and reminded unhappily, "It's a work meeting, put your phone away." ”

The parliamentarians of the different factions from Szchenkov scoffed.

It's too arrogant to play with your mobile phone in a meeting, does this director think this is an internal meeting of his own security bureau?

"I'm sorry, Mr. City Councillor." Schenkov put away his phone, his eyes were a little wandering, and he glanced at Lucio from time to time, "I just saw a very strange piece of news"

Amir asked, puzzled: "News? What's the news? ”

Schenkov looked embarrassed and coughed lightly: "Let's have a meeting first, I apologize for my distraction." ”

Lucio laughed and said, "Let's take it out and show it to everyone, what kind of wonderful news can make Mr. Director so distracted." ”

"Huh? Don't. Schenkov scratched his head and looked even more embarrassed, "It's better not to watch this news in this kind of public place"

One of the ruling councilors quipped, "Are you looking at entertainment lace? The kind with an adult element? ”

Half of the people in the room laughed, and the atmosphere of the serious meeting became lighter.

Schenkov cheekily said: "Ah, yes, yes, yes, you say yes, that is." ”

"Tuk-tuk."

"Silence!" Amir maintained discipline on the spot and frowned at Schenkov, "Give me your phone to check." ”

Schenkov looked embarrassed: "Mr. City Councillor, are you sure?" ”

Amir: "Yes, if you're really looking through non-work-related information, I need to punish you appropriately for your actions. ”

Schenkov didn't say anything more, just glanced at Lucio and passed the phone to Amir.

Lucio was completely in the mindset of watching the show, and he was very happy with his arms inserted.

But for some reason, he always felt that there was some strange deep meaning in Schenkov's eyes.

Amir took the phone, opened the first window in the background, and began to read the news.

As he watched, his expression became more and more strange, his brows were tightly locked, and a look of astonishment appeared in his eyes, and he looked at Lucio from time to time.

When everyone saw Amir's expression, they couldn't help but whisper and talk about it.

Lucio was also confused, thinking: What's going on? What do you want me to do?

After reading the news, Amir slowly put down his phone, he frowned and thought for a long time, and then said gloomily: "I suggest you all turn on your mobile phones and browse the latest news headlines." We're in big trouble here. ”

Everyone realized that something was wrong and quickly took out their mobile phones, and the atmosphere became solemn.

Lucio also took out his phone to check.

At this time, the hot search list on the Internet has exploded, and the popularity of one piece of news is rocketing.

When Lucio saw the headline of the news, he felt his head buzz and his eyes blackened.

"The Ribeton Foundation and Songzo Medical conspire to develop addictive drugs to harm asthma patients! 》

The news is accompanied by a video taken from a window, and the picture and audio are very clear.

There is also a summary of the text version below, so that readers can quickly access the information.

The news was published half an hour earlier, and the newspaper's editor claimed that the video had been posted by an unknown hacker.

As soon as the video was exposed, it immediately caused a violent sensation in the society.

As a long-established charity, the Ribethon Foundation can be said to be one of the faces of Crescent City.

Who would have thought that Lucio, a "philanthropist", was actually a hungry wolf in sheep's clothing, working with capital to collect wealth for himself, and even pit those innocent patients!

The video spread all over the Internet in a very short time, and netizens were condemning and cursing everywhere.

Although the public relations departments of the Ribetong Foundation and Songzuo Medical issued an announcement at the first time, saying that it was a video maliciously synthesized by man, and used a lawyer's letter to say that the publisher would be held legally responsible.

But this video is so coherent and clear that anyone who knows a little about video technology can see that it can't be artificially synthesized, it's true.

For a moment, everyone in the conference room looked at Lucio with stunned eyes.

The meaning in those eyes is - man, it's okay to do this kind of thing, we understand. But were you too careless to be recorded with such clear evidence?

Lucio was surrounded by all kinds of eyes, only to feel a cold and a heat all over his body, and before he knew it, sweat had soaked through his clothes.

"Fake! It's all fake! Something, I don't know any of the people at Songsa Medical!." Lucio tried to defend himself, but he was so weak that he didn't believe it, and he was completely incoherent.

Schenkov made up the knife in time: "Ah yes, yesterday I saw you go back to the municipal building with Katsumura Division, and today I don't know you." ”

Lucio's face was red, and he was too anxious to speak.

At this time, a soldier of the Municipal Garrison ran into the scene from the background and whispered in Amir's ear: "There are many protesters gathered outside Rue Royale, and the number is increasing, all demanding that Councillor Lucio be brought to justice." What are we going to do? ”

Amir pondered for a moment with a dark face, and quickly saw the situation clearly.

He said in a deep voice: "The meeting is temporarily suspended, Congressman Lucio, you should first go with the people from the Ministry of the Interior and cooperate with the investigation." ”

Su Mo sat in his office, holding a gamepad of the latest model in his hand, watching the news on TV while farming.

The camera was full of people, and the reporter stood in the middle and said loudly: "Audience friends, a video exposed by hackers has plunged the Ribethon Foundation and Songzo Medical into a huge scandal, and we are now at the scene of the protest." ”

I saw protesters holding signs everywhere, and they were shouting like a tsunami:

"We demand that Councillor Lucio be suspended from all his duties and that a full investigation be launched against him!"

"We ask the authorities to send an investigation team to the Ribetong Building, we suspect that the Foundation has also used public funds in violation of regulations in other projects!"

"This Stopper-2 is an anti-human drug, and both the Ribeton Foundation and Songzuo Medical should be severely punished!"

"In the past, were there more illegal drugs that were approved in exchange for benefits? We ask the authorities to give an explanation! ”

The reporter looked at the camera with a serious face: "As you can see, the protesters are very emotional. Asthma patients are already unfortunate due to congenital genes, and there are still people who want to squeeze hard-earned money from them, which is simply a huge impact on human values! ”

"According to reliable sources, Tsukasa Katsumura, the head of Matsuzo's medical care, has been controlled by the sheriff, what will happen to Congressman Lucio who is in the whirlpool? Let's wait and see! ”

Su Mo saved the game, put down the handheld and looked at the news with a smile.

"Okay, Ou Chenyu, your father-in-law is in big trouble, what are you going to do next? It's impossible to see death without saving it~"

(End of chapter)