Mechanical Doctor

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Mechanical Island, seaside.

The midday sun shines on the earth.

On the only "beach" on Mechanical Island, Manolin is lying comfortably on a recliner, fiddling with a mechanical crab.

More than three months have passed since the incident officially called the "Gran Massacre" by the Elliot Federation.

Manolin has to sigh at the speed of Gran City's recovery.

In that incident, Gran City was jointly slaughtered by the [Justice Church] and [Scarecrow], more than half of the city's senior officials and big businessmen.

Gran City, where so many "important figures" died at one time, naturally fell into chaos.

However, this chaos did not last too long. The power vacuum left by the dead senior officials and the large amount of capital left by the capitalists were soon taken over by the survivors and outsiders who came from other places after a "dragon fight".

Today, three months later, Gran City has almost returned to its former appearance.

The workers still go out early and come back late, and the rich still live a life of luxury.

What makes Manolin feel a little regretful is that after such a massacre, the treatment of workers in Gran City has not improved much.

What? You ask these new high-ranking officials and capitalists if they are not afraid of death? How dare they squeeze the workers desperately?

In fact, at the beginning, these guys were still afraid of death, so they relaxed their oppression of workers to some extent.

But I don’t know if it’s because these guys are too forgetful, or as the saying goes, "For money, capitalists will hang their own ropes." They want money but not life.

In just three months, these guys seem to have forgotten the threats of the two sects [Justice Church] and [Scarecrow]. What their predecessors did, these successors still did the same.

In this regard, Manolin was not disappointed, because he almost guessed this ending a long time ago.

Just like the officials in the early Ming Dynasty in the previous life, serving as officials under the emperor Zhu who hated corrupt officials, even at the risk of being skinned by Zhu, these officials still dared to embezzle and pervert the law.

As for why? Are these officials so stubborn? They would embezzle and pervert the law even if they didn't want to die?

The reason is very simple. One is that the "salary" that Zhu gave to officials was too low. This amount of money could not satisfy the officials' extravagant consumption.

As for asking officials to save a little, wouldn't it be better?

How is that possible?

These officials have gone through a lot of hardships to become officials, but in the end they want them to "save" and live by tightening their belts.

If they had to tighten their belts before becoming officials, and they have to tighten their belts after becoming officials, wouldn't it be a waste of time to be officials?

As for another reason why officials are so fearless of death and embezzle and pervert the law, it is the social environment and the "inertia" of history.

Due to the extensive management of the Yuan Dynasty, all the officials of the Yuan Dynasty were "free-range" and full of "wildness".

Some of these officials in the early Ming Dynasty had ancestors who were officials of the Yuan Dynasty or who had served as officials in the Yuan Dynasty.

These people had all enjoyed the good life of the Yuan Dynasty, so after they became officials of the Ming Dynasty, they still wanted to live that good life.

Just like a beast that has eaten human flesh, they will instinctively attack people again.

Whether it is the officials of the Ming Dynasty or the "high officials and dignitaries" in Gran City, they are all "beasts" who have eaten human flesh and tasted human blood.

Unless they are all killed at once and the entire social environment is cleaned up, otherwise, no matter how many "high officials and dignitaries" are killed in a short period of time, it will not have much effect.

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"Mr. Manolin, our raw material inventory is already in a critical situation."

Lying on the recliner, Manolin waved his hand weakly, indicating to Fordlo that he already knew.

In fact, the incident in Gran City had a great impact on Manolin himself.

The biggest impact was that the bigwigs in Gran City were full of hostility towards him.

This was normal, after all, anyone with a discerning eye could see that Manolin supported the actions of the two cults, Justice and Scarecrow.

Otherwise, with the strength of these two cults, it would be impossible to do such a big event.

Therefore, while these people hated the two cults, they also hated Manolin.

Although these guys did not dare to reveal any dissatisfaction and hatred towards Manolin on the surface, they still dared to do some small actions in private.

For example, the raw material purchaser, the person in charge of purchasing of the Pterosaur, felt, the recent procurement has been very unsuccessful.

It's not that this is out of stock, that is sold out, anyway, there has never been a normal one.

Although these little actions are disgusting, Manolin has no way to deal with it.

Because this group of people is equivalent to a bad confrontation. If Manolin investigates carefully, these guys are indeed out of stock "genuinely".

These guys just deliberately didn't replenish the supply in time. Manolin can't just say "I don't eat beef" and kill all these people, right? There is no reason.

Of course, Manolin has also disgusted these guys.

The real pockmarked (righteous believers and scarecrows) have been driven away, isn't there still a fake pockmarked here?

So recently, Manolin pretended to be "Zhang Mazi" and killed several guys who were dancing the most happily in the middle of the night.

Although many people speculated that the "Zhang Mazi" this time was Manolin, this is a slide that cannot be touched at all.

As long as this matter is not exposed, then Manolin is still a "gentleman" and has to abide by the rules, but if this matter is exposed, it will be a big deal.

Although this will damage Manolin's reputation, that's all.

The high-level officials of the Elliot Federation can still distinguish between a powerful legend and some incompetents.

Manolin is now concerned about his reputation and cannot kill people openly. If the matter is exposed, he will have no scruples.

So don't say that these people have no evidence to prove that "Zhang Mazi" is Manolin, even if they have evidence, they dare not take it out.

However, such actions will not make it easier for the [Pterosaur] to purchase raw materials.

Especially now that the [Pterosaur] is being modified, a large amount of metal raw materials are needed.

These people don't even need to delay deliberately, just follow the "normal" rules, which is enough to affect the construction progress of the [Pterosaur].

So, Manolin waved his hand and said that this time, the modification only needed to ensure that the [Pterosaur] had the ability to fly for a long time, and the rest could be done during the next trip.

In this way, the materials and time required to modify the [Pterosaur] were reduced accordingly.

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