Psychics don't die from gunfire

Chapter 83: Trial of Power and Embers

The conference room suddenly became quiet.

"Uh"

Staring at the figure across the table.

Zhuniao hesitated for a moment, but couldn't help but said tactfully: "Nandou, in fact, simply killing is not the only way to solve the problem."

“But this is the most direct way.”

Hearing this, Song Shi suddenly laughed and pointed upwards: "Zhu Niao, you plan to obtain 'evidence' to pull the Science Ethics Committee and other companies into the game, and use their power to indirectly stop the 'Three-Phase Base Project'. This is your idea, right?"

"Yes."

Zhuniao did not deny it.

"Then why not just kill all the local Jade Pharmacy people?"

Song Shi said leisurely, "Don't you want to? It's just that you don't have enough strength. If your new leader, the 'rebel' Chakoro, came in person, would it be necessary to go through so much trouble? When the power that can crush everything is hanging overhead, the entire Palose is just a ball of mud in his palm, and he can knead it as he pleases."

"Your idea is very dangerous, Nandou."

Zhuniao frowned and said seriously: "The Enlightened Ones were born to avoid this kind of thing. We are not only rebelling against the 'Company', but also against every 'Existence' that attempts to put itself above the people."

"No, the Enlightened Ones are not trying to 'avoid the birth of such an existence'. What you really want to avoid is 'such an existence leading the world in a bad direction'."

Song Shi shook his head: "Even the high-ranking giant companies, not every one of them has a fifth-ring psychic in charge - and there are two Enlightened Ones in total. This is why the giant companies are unwilling to force you to death and just want to suppress you."

"If you really face a disaster of destruction, you are sure to drag down one or even two giant companies with you. They dare not gamble whether they will become the burial objects."

"Every year, in major cities of the Corporate Alliance, some 'rebels' and 'anti-corporate organizations' are born. Most of them will be easily crushed into scraps by the companies within one to three months. Even those that survive by chance are often not due to 'strength', but because the company temporarily needs them to exist."

"Psychic energy, technology, connections, capital. They are all part of 'power'. In this world, without 'power', everything is nothing. 'Power' is the foundation of everything. Denying 'power' itself is like believing that people don't need to breathe air. All you can do is control the direction of this 'power'."

"You know the Enlightened Ones well, Nandou."

After listening to the other party's words quietly, Zhuniao spoke.

However, this time, his tone was not as serious as before, but became quite gentle.

But from this gentleness, the man's tone became more determined: "You are right, and I admit it - but we still have to do it."

"What we need to do is not only to control the direction of 'power', but also to make 'power' no longer be so high above us. Maybe this is really impossible, maybe I won't even see hope in this life, but I still have to ask myself this."

"Is this what you really think?"

Song Shi turned his head and looked at him.

Zhuniao was silent for a moment, then he slowly straightened up and spoke softly.

"I am the fifth commander of the Enlightened Ones of Palose."

So, Song Shi nodded: "I understand."

he asked:
"——What is this thing you want to do first?"

The pearl bird uttered two words: "Judgment." "Oh?"

Hearing these two words and thinking about his experiences in his previous life, Song Shi understood something in an instant.

"I think in order to stop the 'Three-Phase Base Project', you will shrink your activities, go into hiding, and make preparations."

"But before that, the Enlightened One needs to establish a sufficient deterrent to suppress the various people and forces that are ready to make moves after noticing the disappearance of the Enlightened One in the future. Who are you going to use to establish your authority? Gang leaders, entrepreneurs, scholars, drug lords, or simply find someone from Emerald Pharmaceuticals?"

"Nandou."

Zhuniao gave the other person a strange look: "Isn't this the first time you've done this?"

——Because I have indeed done a lot of things with you, the Enlightened Ones.

Song Shi thought.

But at this moment, he just spread his hands and chuckled: "Holding a 'trial' live broadcast is a must for every anti-corporate organization."

".ha."

Pearl Bird nodded and laughed.

Then, he restrained his expression and said, "Clande Youer, do you know this person?"

To the man's surprise, 'Nan Dou' actually nodded.

"He is a big entrepreneur in Palose, with more than a dozen companies under his name, and the titles he has can be written in three rows on his business card."

"He was also one of the targets of criticism during the recent Gaoge District protest. At the time, flyers with his headshot were everywhere. I heard that the protesters even raised some money to buy the blessing service of [Dust Contract Generation], and put on a drone swarm support light show for him in the city center, with the themes of 'Disregarding Human Life' and 'Insatiable Greed'."

"But you want to 'judge' him?"

"Shortly after the parade—"

Song Shi leaned back slightly, raised his head, and repeated the words of the host in the news at that time: "Entrepreneurs headed by Cland quickly established a complete set of 'employee safety protection system', and at the same time established the Rota District Industrial Production Committee, invited the municipal government to move in for supervision, and strived to respond to the workers' demands. This 'Cland Yule' is an out-and-out conscientious entrepreneur. Even the mayor has taken a photo with him. He will definitely have a place in the top ten people who moved Palose next year."

"I don't believe you don't know the truth of the matter, Nandou."

Zhuniao shook his head and said seriously, "From the beginning, the parade was secretly funded and promoted by Cland and others to force the city government to further delegate power and implement preferential tax policies. He and other entrepreneurs took the lead in establishing the Rota District Industrial Production Safety Committee, which was only a further usurpation of the Rota District's 'official certification'."

"We have secretly investigated various factories under Cland's name. The so-called 'employee safety protection system' has been gradually cancelled except for the first two weeks. As for wages and working hours, it is even more nonsense. Only a very small number of people are temporarily enjoying it. But on the other hand, he is investigating and attacking competitors in his capacity as the current member of the Rota District Industrial Production Safety Committee to seek benefits for himself."

"What does Jade Pharmaceutical think?" Song Shi raised his eyebrows.

"They don't care. They just need the chemical raw materials, equipment assembly and product output in Rota to remain stable. As for who is in charge of Rota on their behalf, whether it is the 'Industrial Production Safety Committee' or 'Cland', or something else, it doesn't matter."

“But we care.”

After he finished speaking, Zhuniao suddenly smiled, and then he shook his head and sighed: "Let's talk about something more practical first."

"A zero-element crystal that seals the psychic art [Embers]."

"How about this reward?"

(End of this chapter)