Environmentalists claimed that using chemical means to break down pollution was merely another form of pollution. Zhalabang Industries' pollution-control measures were not environmentally friendly, and these raw materials had to be reviewed before they could be used within Natural Forest Land. Otherwise, it was illegal.
Zhalabang Industries had only just learned how to throw its weight around. How could it tolerate such an insult? It immediately sent out the GTO to surround the environmentalists as well.
But the environmentalists had not actually broken any laws. Protest was protest—they had not touched anything or caused any major damage. Aside from surrounding them, the GTO could do nothing.
Still, they had to surround them. Otherwise, that string of zeroes in their paychecks was simply too scorching to hold.
Besides, Gordon secretly felt fortunate. If their new employer had asked them to do something illegal, he would have been put in a difficult position. This sort of dragging their feet under the banner of maintaining public order was perfect: it made them look useful, involved no danger, and did not cross his moral bottom line.
If they could muddle through the next year like this, that would be ideal. Gordon could not help hoping so.
Batman, meanwhile, had run into a new problem.
Since he had failed to buy the GTO, the money he had prepared could be put toward another option: carrying out Schiller's previously devised plan to clean up pollution and benefit the residents.
And what a coincidence—the chemical raw materials needed for that plan to purify water and neutralize soil pollution had all been trapped inside Natural Forest Land by the environmentalists.
It was not as though Zhalabang was the only corporation that produced those materials. The problem was that those chemical agents were not used solely for pollution treatment;