Chapter 244: Situation

The President put down the file, walked to the window, and looked at the chaotic streets in the distance, making a decision in his heart.

“Notify the police department, grab all the homeless people in the park, pack them up, and send them to Dr. Higgins! Tell the public that the government is providing them with jobs.”

The assistant looked at the President in horror, not expecting him to give such an order.

“President, if this matter is discovered, it will cause opposition from the citizens and Congress, and then we’ll be finished!”

The President looked at the assistant dejectedly and said:

“I know everything you’re saying, but right now the base has been destroyed, and that mage is constantly expanding outward. Do you think if this continues, my position will be secure?

When I’m gone, you won’t be able to stay in this position either. As long as we solve the current problem, we can proceed to cover up the facts. By then, we will have cultivated an army of our own, and no one will dare to say anything.”

The assistant saw the raging fire in the President’s eyes. Yes, once such a highly combat-capable army was cultivated, who in the consortiums or Congress would dare to say anything?

By then, the President would no longer be someone else’s dog, but a wolf that eats meat. Without the constraints of the forces behind him, only then could his position be secure.

Both of them saw the ambition in each other’s eyes, as if they could already see the scene of them dominating the world in the future.

“By the way, do you have a target for the person who attacked the base?”

“I was just about to report that to you. The Investigation Bureau received intelligence that two suspicious individuals appeared at the pier in Florida. According to the description of an informant, we have determined that one of them should be the researcher Celine, and the other should be Ye Su, who stole the virus reagent.”

“It’s actually that person. I didn’t expect him to dare to come here. This time, we must keep him here. By the way, have you investigated the Celine he took?”

The President was a bit puzzled. This person went to such great lengths to come here, so the person he brought must not be simple. Could it be the researcher who mastered the evolution reagent? Thinking of the destroyed base, the President felt a twitch in his heart.

“I’ve already sent people to check. Celine is just an ordinary researcher engaged in ion shield research, and her performance is not outstanding.”

Both of them were a bit puzzled. Could this Celine really have some extraordinary qualities that hadn’t been discovered? The file was completely ordinary; apart from being beautiful, there was nothing else.

At this moment, the President suddenly remembered a piece of intelligence about Ye Su: that Ye Su was always surrounded by beauties. Thinking about the person the Investigation Bureau had dealt with who had been in contact with him last time, it seemed she was also a beauty.

The President secretly thought about whether he could use a honey trap to make him work for him after catching Ye Su.

“By the way, do you know what they went there for?”

The assistant hesitated: “It seems they are smuggling back from there.”

Seeing the President’s confusion, the assistant hurriedly explained: “Because Florida has people of all races and the management is chaotic, it has formed an underground industry chain based on smuggling.”

Hearing this, the President’s initially disdainful expression turned into anger.

“What are those police departments good for? Smuggling can even become an industry chain. Is the country’s border defense just a sieve? What if an enemy smuggles an army in later? These people should all be shot!”

After a while, the President said to the assistant: “Notify the Investigation Bureau that all people smuggled in from now on are to be sent to Dr. Higgins.”

Meanwhile, on the other side of the ocean in China, the Chairman picked up his phone and found he still couldn’t contact Ye Su. He looked up at the assistant in front of him and asked:

“Does the intelligence department still have no news of Ye Su?”

The assistant could see that the Chairman had become anxious, especially after the explosion at the U.S. base; he had even turned a few hairs white in the last two days.

“Reporting to the Chairman, the intelligence department has not received any news!”

“How are those people? Have they been up to any tricks these past few days?”

Speaking of this, the Chairman felt irritable. Originally, after sending Ye Su to the U.S., some people became restless, and the women at the research institute were attacked.

Now, those with ability knew that the self-destruction of the U.S. research base was caused by Ye Su, and of course, they also knew about Ye Su’s loss of contact. Now, the movements under their hands were also getting bigger.

Originally, the Chairman had intended to ferret these people out, but he hadn’t expected them to jump out themselves upon hearing the news of Ye Su’s loss of contact.

Especially the new research institute project he had approved; the site had only just been leveled before it was opposed by the councilors below and delayed again and again.

Just yesterday, they used the banner of wanting to take over Ye Su’s research institute, the reason being that special funds required special management, and they had to send people to control the research funds.

The Chairman refused on the grounds of national secrets and special handling, but they retreated to the next best thing and demanded to see the details of the fund flow, suspecting the Chairman of embezzling public funds.

They planned to set up an investigation team to investigate the research institute. If there was no information from Ye Su in the near future, the research institute might not be saved.

And these people were now also watching from the sidelines. Originally, they didn’t want to show their cards so early, but the Chairman’s investigation had ferreted them out...