Killing Yaz has always been in He Ao's plan.
This copy seems to be a little more difficult than the previous copies He Ao has experienced, both in terms of the difficulty of the investigation and the difficulties encountered in the investigation.
Rock City is a brand new map. Most people here have never heard of k. Dawn City in the south seems like another world to them.
Mining Consortium and Municipal Government controlled by Mining Consortium are their entire world.
This city is very similar to Kaya City, but the difference is that in the copy of Kaya City, He Ao is the Uncrowned King of Kaya City, and in this copy of Rock City, he has to deal with the Uncrowned King of this city.
In fact, Mining Consortium of Rock City has much stronger control over the city than Nolanka Group. Black and white take all, and the real power controller of the consortium is himself the mayor of Rock City.
Therefore, He Ao must try its best to unite forces worthy of alliance, and only by giving can you gain.
However, the attack on Yaz was actually more dangerous than He Ao imagined.
D-Rank to C-Rank is a jump, and C-Rank to B-Rank seems to be a bigger jump.
After reaching C-Rank, the strength of the two adjacent levels does not seem to be as close as before C-Rank and below. He Ao can no longer guess what power other Talent Sequence in the next level will have through the current state. The gap between Talent Sequence in different paths is constantly widening.
He Ao's original preparation was to try to directly crush Yaz's consciousness from a long distance through Mental Interference.
With his current level of control over Hyper-memory and his powerful soul power, he can already "destroy" or even kill some of the weaker D-Rank through mental power.
But after He Ao opened Hyper-memory's vision, he suddenly discovered that Yaz's soul seemed to be protected by an invisible "fence".
This fence comes from Eber on the side, and seems to be an extension of Eber's power.
Eber is not only powerful in combat, but also has some soul-protecting skills.
None of the Transcendental ers He Ao met before had this kind of skill. Mental Interference uses it accurately.
He Ao briefly observed the existence of this fence. He could only penetrate a little with a full blow, causing a simple Mental Interference effect on Yaz, but could not cause more damage.
And his attack will inevitably be discovered by Eber, causing his existence to be exposed.
Although He Ao can run by then, it will be more difficult to kill Yaz next time.
So He Ao changed the plan and adopted a risky idea.
He discovered that although his large-scale attacks would be blocked by the soul fence, he could still use a small amount of force to bypass Eber's induction, penetrate into the fence, and interfere with Yaz's soul.
This kind of operation requires extremely fine control and a stable mentality. It may be difficult for ordinary mental Transcendental, but it is not difficult for He Ao who has already mastered Hyper-memory to the smallest detail.
However, he was not impatient. He first grabbed a handful of stones and waited for the conflict between Eber and Iliyan. When Eber focused all his attention on Iliyan, he deliberately guided Yaz to discover him.
Then he penetrated a small amount of spiritual power through the gaps between the soul fences. At the moment Yaz discovered him and subconsciously launched an attack, he interfered with Yaz's soul, causing Yaz's thoughts to be briefly silent and unable to make an action to call Eber.
Immediately afterwards, he jumped up and pretended to attack Eber. The moment Eber's attention was attracted, he shot and killed Yaz, and then left without stopping.
Because Eber itself had already conflicted with Iliyan, Iliyan was very close, and Iliyan temporarily hindered Eber as He Ao expected.
This brief obstacle was enough for He Ao to leave calmly. By the time Eber chased after him, He Ao had already turned into an alley.
It's a pity that Yaz's D-Rank Talent Sequence. If Yaz's body fell into the hands of Miners Mutual Aid Society, his Talent Sequence would probably be taken out, but only Eber and Iliyan were present at the time.
Eber seems to look down on Yaz, so he may not be willing to collect the body for Yaz, so the body is either collected by Iliyan, or it may be collected by the municipal cleanup.
According to general rules, there are commissioners or Federal Bureau of Investigation agents stationed outside the municipal cleaning department who specialize in identifying the bodies of Transcendental persons.
Therefore, falling into the hands of municipal cleaning is equivalent to falling into the hands of Municipal Government or Federal Bureau of Investigation.
"Huh——"
He Ao exhaled a breath of white air and looked up at the dark sky, with light snowflakes floating in front of him.
This Heavenly Qi became Heavenly Qi very quickly. It was still day Clear Day in the morning, but in the afternoon snowflakes began to fall, and the temperature seemed to have dropped a lot.
This is a market in North City District, with noisy crowds walking around in the market.
Rock City Although it is a resource-based city, the benefits brought by the huge resources are irrelevant to the vast majority of people in this city.
The mining consortium may be very wealthy, ranking among the top 50 in the federation, but most Roque citizens at the bottom earn only two to three hundred federal dollars a week.
Such an income cannot sustainably afford consumer goods imported from the south from regular sources.
Therefore, markets full of used goods and bargains are very popular in Rock City, and there are such markets everywhere.
Most of these markets are run by small vendors without Municipal Government business licenses. The reason for not having a business license is very simple, just to avoid paying taxes.
Federation's taxes are divided into two types, one is the Federation tax paid directly to Federation, and the other is the city tax paid to the city.
Taxation is an important source of funds for Municipal Government. Generally, large monopoly groups and related industries surrounding monopoly groups will contribute a large amount of tax revenue to Municipal Government.
For example, nearly 35% of Kaya City's tax revenue comes from Nolanka Group and its subsidiaries and industrial chain companies.
In Rock City, the tax paid by Mining Consortium for Municipal Government was less than 5% of the total tax. They lobbied the parliamentarians, changed the law, and transferred the group's registration place, trying their best to avoid paying an extra cent of tax.
They have taken away the most benefits from the city, but only bear the least responsibility.
Mining Consortium's main industries are in Rock City, but Mining Consortium registered in Rock City is just a "subsidiary", and its "parent company" is located in the small city Benok City in the west, which is the city with the lowest corporate income tax in Federation.
Municipal Government's expenses need to be maintained, and taxes cannot be collected from Mining Consortium. Rock City Municipal Government can only increase the taxes on ordinary people.
Municipal Government An important source of taxation is consumption tax.
The consumption tax of Federation is an extra-price tax. The selling price of the product and the tax amount are marked together, and the tax is paid together with the payment.
The consumption tax rates in different cities are different, but they are not too high. For example, Dawn City is 5%, Kaya City is 6%, and Rock City is 9%, which is the highest level in the entire Federation.
The high tax rate makes the same thing much more expensive to buy in Rock City than in other cities.
From this, a prosperous smuggling industry was born, as well as street stalls selling smuggled goods. These stalls were not registered with the government and naturally did not pay taxes.
Since it saves costs such as store rent and does not pay taxes, the same items sold at street stalls are 20 to 30% cheaper than in regular stores.
A large number of street stalls form a market, and the existence of a large number of markets makes it more difficult for Municipal Government to collect tax revenue.
The previous mayor, who was from the Iliyan party, violently closed these markets. As a result, his support rate plummeted. The current mayor took the opportunity to come out and was elected with slogans such as reducing taxes and liberalizing the markets.
After taking office, he also kept his promise and opened some markets and reduced taxes. These markets are all under the control of Ice Wolf Gang. Although the stalls in the market do not have to pay taxes, they have to pay "stall fees" to Ice Wolf Gang.
This part of the tax that should have been provided to Municipal Government was provided to Ice Wolf Gang, and then entered the pocket of Mining Consortium.
These were all found by He Ao on the Internet.
It's just that it's a little more difficult to find information about Ice Wolf Gang, but it's not impossible to find it.
Nothing goes deeper.
However, He Ao can basically guess what happened next. As Municipal Government's income dropped, a large number of government workers faced the risk of unemployment or salary cuts, and even City Defense Army's budget also faced cuts.
At this time, it will be easier and more convenient for the mayor to control Mining Consortium to infiltrate Municipal Government and City Defense Army.
He Ao looked through the information on the Internet and found no useful information. He originally wanted to search for the mayor's information, but found that there were only some election news about the mayor and obviously filtered praise manuscripts.
There is no more in-depth information about the mayor's past and detailed video information about the mayor.
He Ao put down Bracelet and took a look at the sky.
It was almost dark.
Mercenary Group people came and went in waves, but finding someone in the chaotic market was like looking for a needle in a haystack, let alone a powerful and agile Transcendental like He Ao
There were several markets nearby, and Eber was not sure whether He Ao was hiding in the market or which market he was hiding in. After several consecutive searches, the number of people searching gradually decreased.
He Ao mingled with the crowd leaving the market and slowly walked out of the market.
Surrounded by old buildings and dim street lights.
Generally, the urban areas where markets are located are relatively old, and there are no markets in the bustling city center, where the city's few middle class and small factory owners live.
He Ao left the crowd and turned into an alley. After walking a few steps forward, he heard a burst of chaotic footsteps and shouts.
"My husband is really not a criminal, and he did not incite the miners to strike. Please let us go..."
A crying female voice came from the other side of the alley, and He Ao slowly walked over and leaned against the shadows.
"I don't care if he does it or not. Either pay the money or follow us."
The speaker was a somewhat hoarse male voice.
He Ao looked up and saw several men wearing simple clothes and smoking cigarettes dragging a man wearing a dusty miner's uniform.
The man seemed to have just come back from the mine and hadn't even had time to change his clothes.
A woman was crying and holding a man's hand.
"I'll fight with you."
A childish voice came from behind the woman, and a boy of twelve or thirteen years old rushed out of the room, holding an iron rod in his hand.
"Get out of here." The man raised his foot and kicked the little boy away, hitting the wall. "You little bastard."
"Child, child..."
The woman quickly ran over to check the child's body.
"Brother"
"Eldest Brother"
"Brother"
Several smaller children ran out of the house.
"It's quite lively," the man with his feet up said with a smile while holding a cigarette in his mouth. "Are there any older ones who are over fifteen years old and can work? The boss of the prison has set a price for us. Sending a strong laborer is a huge amount of income. You guys are too young and can't do the work even if they are sent in. Let's get someone a little older."
"Hahaha."
Several people around him laughed wildly.
"You beasts."
The woman stretched out her hand to protect the child and cursed.
"You bastard, I will fight with you."
The captured miner man flushed red and struggled hard.
But no matter what, he could not break free from the clutches of several strong men. Like a drowning man, he struggled wildly and chaotically, but to no avail.
"Hey, you're still pulling me up."
One of them saw how hard he was struggling and stretched out his hand to strangle his neck. The man's face suddenly turned purple.
"Brothers, please be gentle and don't kill them," the man smoking a cigarette said quickly, "We have to earn money from the living ones. We didn't get any money from those who were maimed or killed this afternoon."
"It's boring."
The man who had reached out to choke his neck let go and spat.
"You bastards!"
The woman on the side quickly protected the child behind her,
"Let's go, let's go to the next house quickly."
The man smoking the cigarette sneered and blew the still burning cigarette butt into the woman's cheek.
The cigarette butt was extremely fast, rolling in the air and about to land on the woman's face in an instant.
At this moment, two white fingers stretched out from the void and clamped the cigarette.
"Littering is against city regulations."
He Ao Holding the cigarette butt with his backhand, he stood up and looked at the man in front of him.
"Where did you come from and dare to teach me how to do things? Oh, you want to save them? Are you also an accomplice of absenteeism Mutual Aid Society?"
The man spat, took half a step back, and shouted, "Brothers, come on, this guy is worth a lot of money."
He looked at He Ao and said with a smile, "Boy, you are not the one who wants to be Hero. Once you, Miners Mutual Aid Society's accomplice, have a reputation, it's not up to you where you go."
The people behind him all smiled. They dropped the exhausted miner on the ground, rolled up their sleeves and strode over.
He Ao shrugged and said nothing.
He is really an accomplice of Miners Mutual Aid Society.
The first person to come was the man who had just choked him. He was tall and strong. He punched him, and there was a fierce wind.
Several people behind him followed suit.
Bang——
The man who punched first flew out suddenly and hit a high wall behind him. He vomited blood and took in more air than out.
The others barely reacted and flew out at the same time, hitting the wall and falling down.
He Ao retracted his foot and looked at the arrogant man in front of him. Not only did this guy not make a move, he also took a step back.
"My lord, my lord, I am blind. My eyes are in the middle of my butt..."
The man looked at He Ao, then at the brothers lying on the ground, swallowed, took two steps back, and said tremblingly.
"What did I just say?"
He Ao stared at him calmly.
"I..." The man was stunned for a moment, looked at the cigarette butt in He Ao's hand, and said quickly, "Don't litter."
"Open your mouth."
He Ao glanced at her.
The man opened his mouth.
The sparking cigarette butt was pressed into his mouth, a burst of smoke rose and a hissing sound was heard.
He Ao waved his hand, indicating that he could get out.
The man didn't even dare to cry out in pain, he nodded and bent down, pulled a few who could still get up, and rolled away.
He Ao looked at their backs, his eyes slightly focused. The movements of these people were not standardized. It was obvious that they had not received uniform military training. They also had tattoos on their bodies. They were not City Defense Army, but Ice Wolf Gang.
If City Defense Army's searchers for Miners Mutual Aid Society can show some restraint, Ice Wolf Gang is totally messing around.
After Vincent died, Ice Wolf Gang should also have entered the mayor's sphere of influence.
What do the mayor and Mining Consortium want to do?
"You are..."
While thinking, a soft inquiry came from behind He Ao.
He Ao turned around and looked at the mother and her children behind her.
Nell Mother's face appeared in his field of vision.
He thought for a while and took out some candies from his pocket. He had just caught them for him at the market when the merchant had no change.
He Ao didn't have much money in his electronic account, and he mostly had cash brought back from the wilderness.
He grabbed these candies and gave them to the children.
The children glanced at their mother and did not dare to reach out. Finally, the older boy who had just been kicked out stretched out his hand, took the candy from He Ao's hand, and gave it to his younger brothers and sisters.
At this time, the man who was caught staggered up and walked over. His wife quickly supported him.
The man seemed to be ready to thank He Ao, but He Ao shook his head slightly, "You should find a place to avoid first, they will definitely come back again."
After that, he turned and left.
The children watched him disappear.
"Brother, when will we grow up?"
"What's going on?"
"I want to grow up quickly so that I can protect Father and Mother."
——
He Ao passed through an alley and was about to take a taxi when he suddenly saw a figure waiting for him under the light in front of him.
He looked at He Ao and smiled.
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There are nearly 5,000 words, and the next update will only be tomorrow morning. I suddenly got stuck while writing, and my head was buzzing.
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