Enforcer Manual
Chapter 983 - 893: The Child Has Grown Up

Chapter 983: Chapter 893: The Child Has Grown Up

The Capital City of Oasis was much safer than the border cities—at least you didn’t have to worry about walking in the Capital and suddenly having your head covered with a sack, only to wake up and find that you had been taken to a trafficker’s den.

Although the Covenant Nation did not have the concept of a core urban area, most of its troops were stationed here, and it was also the gathering place for the upper echelons of Oasis society.

When the hovercar entered this beautiful city called Lira, day had already broken.

The staggered layout of the skyscrapers, along with the widespread greening, gave the place an even more modern social vibe.

Song Lan adored this city.

Lira had adopted a climate control system that kept the city’s temperature steady all year round. The hovercar’s climate control showed the outdoor temperature was 20 degrees, perfect for travel and excursions.

Compared to the endless desert, he preferred highly urbanized areas.

William and the Dead Man’s Lottery crew had a good sleep for a change—their first since arriving in Oasis where they could actually rest easy.

Upon waking, the crew immediately set up their equipment and began filming the streetscapes of Lira through the windows of the hovercar.

They couldn’t help but marvel at how different it was from Lute City, as if it were a different world.

The elites of Oasis had concentrated their wealth and technology here, leaving nothing but poverty and drought for the peripheral regions.

During the shoot, William was organizing the strange tales he’d heard from the locals in Lute City.

Poverty tormented the people of Lute City, and where the law was scarcely regarded in these border cities, a mere 100 watts was enough to set many on the path of murder and abduction.

This was the modus operandi of the Skull Gang and the Brotherhood.

In William’s view, this might well have been why Oasis’s first crackdown on the Brotherhood was a failure. They had witnessed the crime rate rise steadily, with the influence of the Brotherhood spreading across the nation, yet they couldn’t address the real problem of the country—poverty.

"But looking at it now, they don’t seem that poor."

William surveyed the city from above.

The urban development of Lira was even superior to that of District 17. It seemed the United Government had indeed provided substantial technological support to the nation, allowing the upper crust of Oasis society to live in wealth.

Everything in the city was as usual; the conglomerate of the Brotherhood and the Rebel Army didn’t seem to bring any significant change to the lives of the locals.

"The disparity between the rich and the poor, internally..."

Before he could finish his thought, William felt a hand on his shoulder.

Song Lan said nothing, only pointing at the text on his phone’s memo.

"Do not discuss politics."

Brief yet forceful.

Bad habits needed correcting, and William was a news worker he had high hopes for. Perhaps the Bug Swarm needed such talent, so after the trip to Oasis was over, he planned to refer William and his group to work at the Garbage Disposal Plant.

The Dead Man’s Lottery crew had years of media experience and were somewhat renowned in District 17. But more importantly, they knew too much.

Usually, you couldn’t expect someone with so many secrets to live to see another day’s Sun, but Song Lan, after all, was not a Devil. He had always preferred to settle matters in a peaceful manner.

"Understood, understood," William nodded repeatedly. He had seen Song Lan’s methods, and they had personally witnessed the fate of those in charge.

The self-proclaimed artist and lunatic—one of the rulers of Lute City’s crime syndicate—had turned into ash without a sound, leaving not a trace behind.

Before they left the "Garbage Disposal Plant," Song Lan had destroyed all the surveillance recordings. The vast plant bore no signs of battle, and the entire criminal group vanished into silence, leaving future generations clueless about what had transpired.

William, however, had no intention of delving deeper. The more you knew these days, the quicker you died.

This principle applied to every corner of the world.

They only needed to establish one belief—by following Song Lan and his friends, their journey would be smooth sailing.

However, as the hovercar smoothly descended, William felt they might still have underestimated Song Lan.

The landing zone was the back alley of the company, and even a cursory glance revealed fully armed guards, whose military hardware was not inferior to the dispatched units of the United Government. There was also a "Rattlesnake III Type full-automatic combat mech" standing at the entrance of the alley.

That was the name he’d heard during his interview with the United Government’s dispatched forces.

The combat mech, widely used in the local wars at the end of the gold rush period, was the linchpin of the United Government’s frontal battlefields, armed with enough firepower to annihilate a gang of fully equipped mercenaries.

William never expected that years later, the equipment of militants would have advanced to this extent.

Due to professional habits, he couldn’t help but have doubts.

But as Song Lan had shown him with the four-word warning earlier in the car, some things shouldn’t be pondered over too deeply.

How did the standard military equipment of the United Government’s dispatched units end up in the hands of the Brotherhood?

This was not a secret a program host should know.

Common sense told him he should be considering more pragmatic issues, such as where they should hide if a gunfight were to break out, given they were ordinary people utterly defenseless.

This location was divulged to them by the person in charge of the "Garbage Disposal Plant" on his deathbed, but William had not anticipated that Song Lan would forego disguises and infiltration or wait until the dead of night when defenses were weakest to act. Instead, he just drove the hovercar into their midst, right in front of the Brotherhood’s members.

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