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The clattering rain pattered against the cheap umbrella.

Petite Liss raised her head and glanced at the sky beyond the transparent umbrella.

White Jasmine Flower petals drifted in the wind, mixing with the flowing rain.

Not far away, along the section of the White Jasmine Flower sea nearest the road, people in Mayor's Guard uniforms and Exoskeleton Mecha were rapidly setting up a simple giant electronic screen.

The shifting crowd seemed to be slowly changing direction, carrying her body along as it pressed toward the entrance of the Mayor's Residence.

The leader at the front waved a flag, guiding the marchers around the corner.

Liss withdrew her gaze, raised her wrist, and looked down.

All she saw was a ring of pale marks, left behind by wearing a Smart Bracelet for so long.

Her bracelet had been taken away. Not just hers—most of the people in their batch of part-time workers had had their bracelets confiscated.

Only the people standing around the outer edge of the crowd still wore normal bracelets, some of them even with extra Bluetooth earpieces.

But clearly, those people were not with the part-timers.

She raised her head and looked at the anti-mayor banner held above them.

Before coming here, she had not known this was an anti-mayor march.

She had guessed it was probably some kind of march, but she had not considered that possibility.

Many marches in Ilan City chose to gather outside the White Jasmine Palace, because the place was busy and close to the palace, making it easy to draw news media attention.

She did not mind earning some money from an ordinary march, but she absolutely did not want to take part in an anti-mayor march.

She was not opposed to that mayor, though she was not one of his supporters