Urgent

The changes at Coast affected more than just Luo Island.

In fact, Luo Island was the least affected. Given its scale, Coast had long since completely monopolized it. This was nothing more than an internal adjustment, incapable of stirring up any real waves.

But as employee benefits and pay rose across the board, business partners in Haizhou and Central Earth could no longer sit still... Even now, the wages had only barely reached the minimum wage mandated in the Federal Central City, yet that was already enough to crush their counterparts in the Wilderness and Central Earth on an entirely different level.

Not to mention insurance and bonuses, employee cafeterias and markets that operated internally without seeking any profit whatsoever, as well as discounts and benefits for employees buying company products... including Wilderness hard currency like Small Three-Wheelers, pickups, minivans, and tractors!

Bro, are you fucking raising a private army here...

Faced with the resignation of massive numbers of workers, their peers were beside themselves with rage!

In their extreme fury, everyone got angry several more times... After they had finished raging, they wiped away their tears, clenched the contract papers in their hands, and began painfully calculating just how much they could raise wages.

What else could they do?

Play dirty?

What a joke. In Haizhou's Wilderness, Coast was now a colossal giant that covered the sky with one hand. It had always been the Security Team going out to collect debts, kill, and burn things down—when had anyone else ever gotten the chance to play dirty?

Even if you reported them layer by layer, where could you report them to?

The Haizhou Garrison Command?

And in Central Earth, they openly had the Tower City Security Operations Bureau backing them, the Chongguang Church guaranteeing and strongly supporting them among