Lu Bai sat back in his office chair. He glanced up and noticed the uniformed old man was still standing there, then casually asked, "Anything else?"
The old man's mouth opened slightly, as if he were trying to figure out how to put it.
After a couple of seconds, he carefully chose his words. "Shouldn't we take precautions against the City Council?"
Lu Bai answered without giving it much thought. "No."
From the fact that the refuge elevator was still transporting civilians, he could tell that the City Council had probably decided that since things had come to this, they might as well let events run their course.
In fact, when the City Council learned what had happened on the surface, it caused an uproar within its ranks, and they immediately convened an emergency meeting.
But the meeting's final conclusion was much the same as Lu Bai's assessment.
For one thing, it would be difficult for the City Council to reach the Forward Base, and the cost would outweigh the benefits.
For another, Lu Bai's rise to power had not affected their interests.
That might sound absurd, but thinking it over, it really was the case.
After all, in the City Council's eyes, these civilians were all burdens.
The shelters couldn't support so many people. To put it nicely, they were sending the civilians back to the surface. To put it bluntly, they were simply finding somewhere to abandon them.
Since they had been abandoned, what happened to them afterward didn't matter to the City Council.
As for the armed forces and the two City Direct Military squads dispatched to the surface, so what if they were lost? The losses were nowhere near the limit the City Council could bear.
Besides, those combat units had been sent to the surface