Yang Bai had found a force to take the blame for the hacker attack.
That was Golden Lion City, next to Vicki City.
Golden Lion City was larger than Vicki City.
Vicki City governed an area of roughly 1.1 million square kilometers.
However, Vicki City was closer to the North Pole, so it had fewer resources and a smaller population than Golden Lion City.
The two cities had already erupted into two major armed conflicts this year.
They were mainly fighting over land.
In truth, land was not all that useful in a modern high-tech society.
But the Scarlet Federation's system was rather bizarre.
Some Scarlet Federation companies deliberately polluted external water sources and certain plants.
They forced the residents of their cities to buy water or food from their companies.
At times like this, science and technology did not benefit the residents. Instead, it became the most effective tool for exploiting them.
Many companies implanted tracking information into the Smart Wristwatches used by residents.
As long as a company wanted to know, it could learn exactly what every resident was doing.
Some cities even deliberately released Mutated Animals, allowing them to breed in the wilderness before having residents capture them to obtain Mutated Materials.
No one cared about the resulting environmental destruction or natural pollution.
After all, the high-level officials of those companies and the people in power in those cities received specially supplied food and necessities.
This also gave them an effective grip on the residents' lifelines.
You had to drink water every day and eat every day. Unless you were not afraid of dying and were willing to drink polluted water and eat contaminated food.
Otherwise, you could only continue creating value for the companies.
Yang Bai now regarded Kalaya Province as his base of operations.
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