Enforcer Manual
Chapter 197: Insufficient Troops_1

Chapter 197: Chapter 197: Insufficient Troops_1

With the appearance of a few ice sculptures, the coup of the Twelfth Nation came to an end.

It was a foregone conclusion that all cities would be opened to the Rebel Army, and thanks to Lieyang, the maintenance of the border trade line was also going quite smoothly.

Without the Barrosa Group, the Twelfth Nation also harbored the idea of consolidating the trade line, which not only coincided with the future development direction of the Twelfth Nation but also was their main source of income. However, after withdrawing from the alliance, it was necessary to slightly adjust their trade relations.

This didn’t mean opposition to the United Government, as the ones engaging in trade were neutral merchants and mercenaries, not representatives of government agencies.

Even those large companies in the seventeenth district who fiercely opposed Aureliano’s election as mayor would not oppose the maintenance of the trade line. The new mayor’s assumption of office did shrink their profits, but without the border trade line, it would be like smashing their rice bowl. Therefore, despite their opposition, they still had to make the money they needed to earn.

The two sides discussed for a long time on how to maintain border trade and regularize mercenaries, bringing the establishment of a formal Mercenary Guild and system onto the schedule. The new mercenary system emulated the United Government’s rescuer system, giving mercenaries a clear grading system.

The mercenaries would be graded from one to six based on the number of tasks completed and the difficulty of those tasks. Not only that, but all the tasks they completed would be recorded in the mercenary organization’s system, which also included the employer’s evaluation of the mercenaries.

Proposing a theory was not difficult; the difficulty was that it required people to invest in its implementation.

Once again, Lu Xiang demonstrated her negotiation skills. She convinced the Twelfth Nation to invest start-up funds for a better future trading environment. Lieyang’s support also played a role. The job of the Law Enforcers was to collect information on tasks, supervise the local mercenary organizations, and deal with some large-scale criminal groups that mercenaries could not handle.

Another reason why they could discuss for so long was that Esinvig turned out to be an eccentric. He slept from being carried into the banquet until it ended. The alliance matters between the Rebel Army and the Twelfth Nation were finally negotiated by his subordinates.

A few days after the banquet, Lieyang, without the pressure of learning, returned to his most familiar post as the leader of the Imperial Guard. He took Lu Xiang and Song Lan on a tour around the Twelfth Nation, showing them the life of truly wealthy people.

A few days later, the two, having finished their travels, returned to the seventeenth district.

The next day, as soon as Song Lan walked in, he was warmly welcomed by his department members, "Preparing to verify biological information... Verification completed. Good morning, Chief Song, it’s 9:05 AM now. I am the navigation robot, Nami, wishing you and Director Lu a baby soon! (*^▽^*)"

Obviously, Valerian had not learned her lesson and was still tirelessly corrupting the navigation robot.

Song Lan immediately increased Valerian’s workload, hoping she could focus her mind on the right path.

The downfall of the Barrosa group’s division and the gene-drug CTEA-32 added new content to the third edition of the Law Enforcement Handbook. As soon as he returned to the office, he embarked on intense work.

As an office worker, he was acutely aware that vacations were a fleeting moment of pleasure, and after the pleasure was over, mountains of work awaited him.

The only things willing to wait for you in this world are Old Six and work.

Lu Xiang was already too busy to talk to him. Although no major events happened during their week away, small-scale crimes still occurred frequently. For local gangs, this seemed to be a final frenzy.

Once the new mayor took office and the situation in the seventeenth district stabilized, their careers as criminals would officially come to an end.

In addition to this, she still had to start promoting the establishment of the Mercenary Guild.

After the trip to the Twelfth Nation, Song Lan also got some inspiration and started to think about future development directions for the seventeenth district.

The three promotion channels for rescuers mentioned by Lu Xiang, from a macro perspective, could be regarded as three different directions for development.

Technology, genes, psychic abilities.

As a "concerned citizen" who wanted to retire as quickly as possible, this was also a question he had to think about.

As long as the law enforcement team has developed to the extent that it can F2A, the city will no longer need a "concerned citizen". However, the fight with Scarecrow made him unavoidably pessimistic - the exoskeleton armor and armored floating cars their department obtained recently seemed to have upgraded their combat power, but once they encountered a truly tough enemy, a careless move could result in them having to regroup their forces.

So, how can their colleagues become independently competent?

What he was most familiar with, psychic abilities, was the first to be ruled out. According to Song Lan’s observations, psychic abilities were a matter of gift, despite his opposition to Scarecrow, he hadn’t been wrong in his evaluation of psychic abilities- that it was a path of advancement that only 1% of people could possibly choose. And the more dismal reality was that of this 1%, over 90% eventually acquired abilities of little utility.

Psychics not only needed to be limited by rules but also ran the risk of practicing for many years only to be less effective than someone with a sniper rifle.

Climbing technology seemed to be the fastest way to raise the average level, but this required one precondition, money, and they were a poor department that needed support from Tesla Tech even for their equipment.

CTEA-32, on the other hand, demonstrated the significant instability of the genetic path. Even a large arms dealer like the Barrosa Group, with its scale and financial resources, could only research unstable drugs. As for the currently common enhancement drugs, in fact, many members of the special operations group have already been using them, but the effect is minimal.

In terms of physical enhancement alone, their department couldn’t even find one person who could compare to Barna (Chapter 8, Chai Ke’s henchman). And in a real war, Barna could probably only be considered an elite grunt.

Once Song Lan looked at the Law Enforcement Department from a strategic perspective, he realized the seriousness of the problem.

The fighting power of the Seventeenth District Law Enforcement Department in a war is equivalent to just having 12 machine gunners and five heavily-armored vehicles. Those who did not wear exoskeleton armor could basically only be classified as armed civilians.

If a war were to break out, wouldn’t their personnel be simply sent to their doom?

You should know that the Seventeenth District does not have a garrison.

After pondering for an afternoon, Song Lan didn’t come up with a solution. He gradually understood why Lieyang’s father and the Minister of Internal Affairs couldn’t convince each other, and in the end only could resolve it through violence.

This was the outcome of nearly a hundred years since the establishment of the United Government creating the three paths. Let alone their department and the Twelfth Nation, even the United Government had always been trying to find ways to enhance its military power.

However, just when he was getting ready to clock out, a piece of bad news arrived at the Psychological Counseling Department’s office.

Lu Xiang asked him to go to the office.

Given Song Lan’s experience, being summoned to Lu Xiang’s office during work hours was never good news.

He unwillingly went to the director’s office.

"You’re here."

When he walked in, the pile of files on Lu Xiang’s desk was shockingly high. She looked up at Song Lan while handling the files and said, "Tomorrow there’s a new task for you—there’s a drama crew coming from the core district to check out the conditions here. You go attend to them."

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