Enforcer Manual
Chapter 693 - 692: Please Surrender Voluntarily_1

Chapter 693: Chapter 692: Please Surrender Voluntarily_1

"It’s a pity you didn’t become an intelligence agent."

Seeing Song Lan return to his side, Lu Xiang sincerely lamented that Military Intelligence Section Seven would probably wake up laughing from a dream if they could really hire someone like Song Lan.

After the conversation, Hog Foster seemed to have found a new purpose in life.

The betrayal from a former friend forced him to temporarily set aside his "concerned citizen" act and focus on the Fisher’s Club.

There was no coercion or even the use of Dominate Spiritual Energy; he simply fanned the flames with a few words in front of a Hog at his lowest, successfully turning the spotlight on the Fisher’s Club.

"You have all the qualities a good intelligence agent needs, except for one thing."

"Hmm?"

"You don’t like business trips and overtime."

"I don’t think this job suits me, no matter how much money is offered."

Song Lan never had any ambition when it came to his job; his work in The Seventeenth Region earned him enough for retirement, and he intended to buy a big house when he saved enough money. He originally planned to leave the smoggy city of The Seventeenth Region, but with the joint efforts of Lu Xiang and Mayor Aureliano, the city’s livability had greatly improved.

Within a few short months, the crime rate had fallen below average, all major gangs had met their downfall, and the special operations squad led by Captain Doug had become famous, putting an end to the endless gang fights.

The establishment of the Ragus Foundation and the revival of the border trade line also provided reemployment opportunities for the unemployed.

And those artificial intelligences they sheltered had established a farm in the suburbs, recently harvesting their first crop of food. From now on, they would eat only what their own farms and fisheries provided.

Now, The Seventeenth Region could be described as thriving.

All of this made Song Lan consider settling down in The Seventeenth Region for a long time.

But the only problem now was that someone was tirelessly trying to blow up their home.

First came the Spiritual Energy storm triggered by Langinus’s self-destruction, followed by the Morger Family’s arsenal, powerful enough to flatten The Seventeenth Region’s surface many times over.

Not to mention that the United Government had planned from the start to use The Seventeenth Region as the main battlefield against the Rebel Army.

Each event seemed coincidental, but they all mysteriously converged on the same outcome.

Destiny.

This made Song Lan think of a term he’d been hearing a lot lately.

This term, full of metaphysical connotations, was proven to exist in 2167, and even the high-ups in The First Region of the United Government became marionettes to it, turning themselves into devotees of "god" in order to know the future.

Now, Song Lan was slowly realizing that destiny didn’t seem to plan on letting him retire peacefully with his earnings.

Reluctantly, he had to personally visit The First Region to see what was really going on inside the United Government.

But he never expected that just by taking a look, even the Chairperson of the Council would be toppled.

This forced them to face a tricky problem—if the High-level Parliament was now composed of devotees from the Fisher’s Club, letting them be would surely continue to advance the destruction of The Seventeenth Region as their top agenda.

Thinking about this, Song Lan couldn’t help but feel that his life seemed to have taken on a tragic hue.

Or rather, since coming to The First Region, he had gradually realized that most people living in this world are caught in a vortex of tragedy.

He and Lu Xiang walked side by side down the street.

6:31.

This was the start of the day.

The Seventeenth Region always livened up at this time, with people waking up and flocking to the streets one after another, bringing the whole city to life. However, the streets of The First Region still had few people in sight.

Song Lan looked up at the towering steel forest formed by skyscrapers, their lights still on, even after so much had happened the day before. The lives of the corporate employees inside remained unchanged. Rather than worrying about the future of this precarious Empire, each of them faced an even more anxiety-inducing issue.

Work.

The never-ending work.

Worry and discussion were for those who could afford to slow down, while the corporate employees in these buildings were like gears in a massive machine, driven by pressure to keep moving forward.

From the moment they entered the company, their lives seemed predictable at a glance.

"But you still haven’t figured out what leverage Hog has over you; he seems very confident about it."

After walking a distance, Lu Xiang spoke up again.

Encouraging Hog to investigate the Fisher’s Club was just a fortunate accident; they were at the bar today because Dr. Bai Zhu, while investigating the United Government’s internal communications, accidentally stumbled upon the familiar name Hog-Foster. He aimed to take the vacant position of Secretary-General, and the bargaining chip he offered was information about the "concerned citizen."

She couldn’t help but marvel at the strangeness of destiny.

It seemed that even Hog himself hadn’t expected his longtime friend Jock to reject him.

And perhaps he would never know that his friend had inadvertently saved him once.

The reason they came to the bar was that Dr. Bai Zhu mentioned that whenever the two met, they would visit this bar to catch up. The bar had even provided them with a private booth, and their initial plan was never to persuade Hog.

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