Chapter 053 It seems that every protagonist must have a mess
However, Ming Qianhui's "plan to teach the scumbag a lesson" failed to be put into action in the end.
Because of the huge chaos that broke out outside the campus, it successfully attracted the attention of all the teachers and students in the school - the workers were on strike and marching!
Speaking of which, there are actually early signs of this happening.
Since the sudden disaster broke out more than half a month ago, and the economies of various countries have generally suffered heavy losses, news about the global economic recession has become a daily routine.
Coupled with the attacks by mutant monsters in the sea on cargo ships from various countries, cities like Lane City, which is close to the seaside and whose economy relies heavily on foreign trade exports, have suffered losses that cannot be described as heavy.
After all, under the threat of shipwrecks and casualties, not many cargo ships are currently willing to take the risk of being attacked for long-distance cross-border transportation, even if shipping costs continue to rise.
The goods could not be sold, or even if they were sold, the profit was not enough. Foreign trade companies and factories stopped working one after another, and workers naturally had no work to do and became unemployed.
It is said that nearly 100,000 workers have lost their jobs in Lane City alone.
After waiting for more than half a month, it felt like the resumption of work was still far away. These unemployed workers finally couldn't help but began to connect with each other and organize demonstrations.
And in addition to the unemployed workers themselves, they also coerced many workers who were already working, eventually leading to this super parade and strike that swept the city!
The main reason why workers who go to work participate is because the factories where they work have generally lowered their wages.
This is also something that can't be helped.
With the prices of various raw materials rising sharply, and commodity prices unlikely to double as quickly, these factories can only cut production costs if they want to maintain profitability.
One of the most important cuts was on the worker.
Now, the wages of these front-line workers, who mainly work in light industry, are less than 70% of what they used to be, and in some small workshops, they are even only half of what they used to be!
Now that prices are beginning to rise, this salary is barely enough to maintain food and clothing, so the workers are naturally very unhappy.
In fact, if it were in normal times, the government would definitely carry out macro-control after discovering these situations.
Even if they are not completely resolved, these contradictions will be slowly reconciled in various ways.
However...the bad thing is, the current situation is not normal.
The president and the entire government system were at their most overwhelmed when faced with overwhelming accusations about the disaster, and had no time to care about the relief of unemployed workers in individual areas.
Life was difficult, and the government didn't care. The workers' anger continued to accumulate, eventually leading to this massive action that had not been seen in decades!
A huge protest crowd of more than 130,000 people directly surrounded the local city hall, and tens of thousands of people began a sit-in demonstration in the city hall square.
It seems that this method of blocking the door is quite good, and it doesn't cost much money. In addition, with the instigation of people with good intentions and bad intentions, other marchers in the City Hall Square can't enter, and it's not too big a deal to watch the excitement.
The guys then began to further besiege various government agencies and police stations.
As soon as someone comes out from inside, the crowd will swarm him and tear him apart, leaving him to flee in embarrassment.
It has to be said that this move was really cruel, and the administrative system of Lane City was quickly blocked and paralyzed.
Immediately afterwards, the transportation network was completely disrupted.
Many special vehicles that were urgently transporting basic supplies ended up stranded in the outer ring of the city due to loss of dispatch.
In an instant, the chaotic situation in Lane City was even worse than when it suddenly changed!
After school in the evening, Ai Wen faced the dense crowd of people on the road, so he had no choice but to give up his bicycle and pull Xue Li back home on Route 11 with great difficulty.
Mu Feng also called worriedly, wanting to pick up Xue Li.
But Aiwen thought about it and finally refused.
After all, Mu Guanzhu couldn't drive in this situation, so he could only walk. It would be dark by the time he got to school, so he might as well escort Xue Li back directly.
In this way, Alvin and Xueli waved goodbye to Aurora and Ming Qianhui, who decided to continue waiting at school to be picked up by their families, and began the difficult journey home.
To be honest, except for the flower gardener at the train station during the Spring Festival travel season, Ivan has never seen so many people in any other situation!
There must be more than hundreds of thousands of people on this street, right?
He believed it when he said that everyone in the city was on the road!
When there are more people, there are also more problems.
Even though the police tried their best to escape from the demonstrators and tried their best to maintain law and order at various intersections, various incidents still occurred one after another.
It is said that there were several vicious robberies in the commercial street, and there was even a group of bank robbers!
"Everything is really in chaos..."
In the crowded crowd, Xue Li leaned closely against Ai Wen while flipping through various messages on her phone and couldn't help but sigh.
"My classmate said that there seems to be a fire in a supermarket in Dongcheng District. In this situation, it would be difficult for a firetruck to get in..."
Ai Wen, who was protecting Xue Li with his body, replied casually after hearing the words.
"There is definitely no way to get in. It is estimated that some people will deliberately obstruct the fire fighting. After all, it is clear that there are people behind this situation, and many people will also hope to make the noise as big as possible in order to attract the attention of the higher-ups."
This is really not alarmist.
In fact, according to the intelligence snooped from the government by No. 002, the police station and the intelligence department have discovered that several groups of people are clearly premeditated to cause chaos, disrupt order, interfere with police operations, and even destroy various public facilities.
Almost setting fires everywhere.
Moreover, in addition to these guys who specialize in causing chaos, those gangsters and gangsters who are not good things in the first place also become active like flies that have smelled the smell.
During this period, stealing things has become commonplace, and there are even all kinds of blatant robberies!
Now the phone number of the police station has been completely flooded, and the city government has held an emergency meeting to discuss whether to ask the local garrison for help through superiors.
Although it was not convenient to tell Xue Li about the following content, Ivan still briefly analyzed with her how far the situation at hand would worsen.
Not to mention obstructing fire fighting, it is not surprising that large-scale conflicts broke out between the public and the police!
"how so…"
Sydney really finds it hard to accept this.
But looking at the chaos around her, she opened her mouth, and in the end she could only sigh.
In fact, the two of them were not very happy along the way.
Alvin has beaten up several groups of gangsters who wanted to take advantage of the chaos to do something after seeing the beautiful girl.
He even knocked down a guy who was about to use the knife, trampled on one of his arms and legs, and secretly disabled his third leg.
However, it may still be that the attack is not harsh enough and the deterrent effect is not enough.
After a while, he was surrounded by a group of gangsters again!
Glancing around, he was surrounded by about twenty knife-wielding gangsters covered in tattoos.
His eyes lingered on one of the guys with a bruised nose and face, and Ivan couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
"Did you bring someone to take revenge? You're really arrogant...
If you openly take controlled knives to the streets like this, when the demonstrations subside, I guess the arrogant government will be the first to stab you for dancing happily."
Of course, if these long-term delinquents really thought about this much, they probably wouldn't become street gangsters.
Isn’t it nice to be in the underworld with suits and leather shoes and luxury cars?
So essentially, this is pure garbage that even gangs would not hesitate to get!
Of course, even if it is garbage, it is still very destructive at this time.
The already chaotic streets suddenly turned upside down because of the sudden action of these people taking out knives.
This unprecedented feeling undoubtedly makes these gangsters, who are mostly delinquents who have advanced from bad boys, feel very majestic and very happy.
Under Alvin's gaze, a guy whose hair was dyed like a rainbow and who was probably in his early twenties couldn't help but laugh twice as he looked at the fearful crowd. Then he pointed a knife at him arrogantly and shouted:
:
"Boy, you are the one who dares to hit me! You...ah!"
There was a scream, and before the leading gangster could finish his harsh words, he felt his eyes blurred.
Then, there was a sharp pain in his hand, and he subconsciously let go of the knife. Then a hand like an iron clamp suddenly grabbed his neck and lifted him up in the air!
"You...are looking for trouble?"
Carrying the leader of the gangsters struggling in mid-air, Ivan looked around at the gangsters who subconsciously wanted to come forward with knives, and a flash of black suddenly flashed in his eyes.
【View of Fear】!
Under the blessing of extraordinary power, all the gangsters instinctively panicked, as if they were not a high school student in front of them, but a sea of crimson blood, with endless ferocious ghosts roaring up to the sky!
"Everyone get out of here!"
The leading gangster was suddenly thrown away by him, and he smashed directly into the crowd.
And this hit seemed to have completely broken through the critical point of the gangsters' weak will, making them scream and turn around and run away.
As for the poor gangster leader, it seemed that he had been forgotten by his family, and could only curl up in a ball on the ground alone and gasp for breath.
Ivan stepped forward unceremoniously, stepped on his stomach, then bent down, pulled his hair and pulled him in front of his eyes.
"You... want to cause trouble for me?"
The gangster leader, whose neck was already covered in bruises, looked into someone's dark eyes, rolled his eyes, and walked right past him.
"Tch, what a waste. No wonder the serious gangsters don't like him."
After confirming that the guy in front of him was really fainted, Ivan, who originally wanted to play some fun games, suddenly lost interest, snorted and threw him to the ground, and then greeted:
"Sydney, let's go."
"Well, good!"
Xiaolu glanced at the gangster who fell on the ground, responded and hurriedly followed Alvin's footsteps.
It's not that she was scared.
After all, Xue Li is also a martial arts queen who has chopped down monsters with her own hands, and is an orthodox successor of the martial arts school. She carries a fruit knife with her, and she was even planning in her mind just now, how to fight out from the gangsters with Ivan.
But this situation of active social groups running around made her even more worried.
Will Lane City really become an extremely chaotic and disorderly place like the Western countries on the mainland that have been at war for many years?