Chapter 4379

Diana flew out quietly. To prevent startling the snake, she specifically took a detour and approached the road mentioned by the black youth from behind the factory area. However, she didn't see the fully armed police, just an old police car parked on the side of the road, and a fat sheriff leaning on the car, seeming to be waiting for someone.

Diana observed carefully again, finding that besides the police's service weapons, there were no other weapons, and it seemed there were no search warrants or the like, not looking like they were here to find trouble. So she appeared from behind a building.

That fat policeman saw her, then beckoned to her. Diana held the God Killer sword, not afraid of him playing any tricks, so she walked over. The fat policeman shook hands with her and said: "Hello, I am the sheriff of Bilteji. You should be Ms. Prince, right?"

Diana nodded, she looked at this policeman, finding that he was indeed wearing the sheriff's badge. The sheriff sighed and said: "Arthur told me about you, let me come to find you when I can't find him."

Diana only then remembered, they hadn't been here long when Arthur finished organizing things and left, Diana asked him what he was doing, Arthur only said he was going around the surroundings, didn't expect he actually contacted the sheriff of this area.

"I am very grateful for the contribution you made to the community." The sheriff patted the old police car behind him, then said, "My old guy finally has money to maintain the engine."

"I am very sorry," Diana said, "May I ask what you have to do?"

That sheriff opened his mouth, then sighed again, and said: "Actually, if I knew from the beginning that you were transporting the homeless in the city over, I would not have agreed to you doing this. Although our community has declined, there are basically no people, and I don't mind homeless people coming to live, but it can't be in this form, do you understand?"

Diana shook her head, she didn't understand. She specifically chose a place where homeless people originally lived, she thought, since the original homeless people were not driven away by the police, then bringing more over, the police should not care either. The fact is they stayed here for several days, and indeed no police came to manage it, how come they suddenly came now?

The sheriff shook his head and said: "If the homeless have the ability to walk here, no one can manage it. But it's different if you forcibly bring those in the city over. You are smashing other people's field. I came to find you just for this."

"What do you mean?" Diana narrowed her eyes.

"You should know that selling drugs to the homeless is a big business. Don't look at the fact that there are only tens of thousands of homeless people in the whole city now, but most of them are addicted to drugs. This is not a small number, not to mention, the heavy snow before already froze a batch to death, there were more people before, enough for a whole drug trafficking group to eat their fill."

"Are you saying drug dealers will come to find trouble with us?" Diana said, "Since you have already met Arthur, then you should know that we are all super-powered individuals, we are not afraid of them. If they have the ability, they can come to find us."

That sheriff sighed again and said: "I know the drug dealers in your impression might just be street people, then why don't you think about who they are distributing from? How were those bulk drugs transported in?"

Diana frowned deeply. The sheriff continued: "I have worked here for so many years, and I also have some connections. I also know that you are all good people. Precisely because of this, I advise you to stop. Anyway, it won't be done in the end, no need to get yourself involved."

Suddenly, Diana heard movement behind her, another younger policeman walked over, and the sheriff nodded to him. After a while, another one came back, both got into the car, and then the sheriff said to Diana: "Remember, we have already searched you and found no dangerous goods. You also didn't have any armed resistance. However, they will not give up finding trouble with you. If possible, handle it quickly."

After speaking, he got into the police car, and then drove away. Diana turned around in the vicinity, finding that those two policemen were just circling around nearby and didn't approach their shelter.

Diana actually already heard it, it should be someone who asked the sheriff to bring people over for a surprise search, but, because Arthur had already greeted them in advance, so the sheriff just came over to go through the motions and didn't want to make things difficult for them, and also gave them a reminder.

It seems like nothing happened, but Diana's heart hung up. Because listening to the sheriff's meaning, this matter was not simple at all, the impact they were about to face might be far more than the heavy snow that was about to come.

The first heavy snow after the shelter stabilized came very quickly. On this day, the whole world was covered in silver, and the abandoned factory area also looked pure and white. The temperature dropped to the lowest of the year, and even this group of super-powered individuals had to have a cotton-padded jacket per person.

Early this morning, Diana began to organize people to sweep the snow, first sweeping the courtyard, then sweeping outside the door, and then going to sweep the roof, avoiding the roof that had been in disrepair for years from being crushed by the snow.

Everyone who worked had no complaints, because they had just eaten a very rich breakfast. Hal didn't know where he got a pile of frozen steaks that had just expired, and they were of quite good quality. They set up a huge barbecue stove in the middle, the strong ones were responsible for roasting meat, and those with no strength went to mix vegetable salad or prepare sauces. Everyone ate their fill, steaming with heat, and went to sweep the snow.

But not long after eating, Arthur brought back a very bad news. He wore a sky-blue down jacket, walked into the factory building, shook the snow off his body, beckoned to Diana and J'onn, and said: "People from the Bilteji community will come over later."

"What are they coming for?" Diana asked.

"Evaluating welfare behavior," Arthur said, "This actually I don't quite understand, Victor just checked it for me. Now we accommodate these homeless people, which belongs to welfare behavior, and welfare behavior must pass the community's review."

"Community review? Meaning they must agree, we can receive homeless people."

"That's right, just like those stalls that distribute relief meals, it's not that anyone can set them up. Not only does it need the community's consent, but it also needs the police record of the community, and also needs food safety review procedures. Of course, Victor helped us get them all. It's just that I'm still worried they are not here with good intentions."

"What can they do?" J'onn asked.

"If they think our welfare behavior does not conform to the collective interests of the community, they have the right to evict us."

"But they can't do it."

"Yes, but that way we won't have the advantage in law." Arthur said, "Once the community makes an eviction decision, and we don't leave, any legal issues involved in the future, once it is found that we have the experience of resisting the community, the jury will definitely not stand on our side."

Diana couldn't help closing her eyes, she rubbed her forehead hard, and then said: "Then what can we do to make them satisfied?"

"Whether they are satisfied with us does not depend on whether we do well." Arthur shook his head and said, "It only depends on whether anyone wants to drive us away."

Diana thought of the sheriff's warning again, she knew this level was afraid it would be difficult to pass again.

The sun hung high, and the snow at the door was basically swept away. Many people took brooms to sweep the snow at the back door, and at this time a car drove to the gate of the factory area.

Several people still staying at the door were very nervous, almost immediately putting on a defensive posture. Arthur and Hal hurriedly drove everyone into the house and told Barry to watch everyone, absolutely not letting them come out.

Despite this, most people were looking out from the window, even those sweeping snow stopped their work. They were too afraid of being driven away, in such a snowy day, leaving here, where else could they go?

A total of four people walked out of the car, two men and two women, three white and one black. The leader was a middle-aged man in a suit, he walked over and shook hands with Diana, introduced himself, and then said: "Sorry, ma'am. If we want to evaluate whether your welfare behavior is compliant and legal, I think we might need to go in and take a look..."

Diana just wanted to answer, when she saw the black woman behind him wink at her. Diana immediately changed the topic, she said: "I think we should first discuss whether this welfare behavior evaluation is necessary, after all, our various procedures have already passed the review. Should you first show us the impropriety you think exists?"

"This is just a very ordinary evaluation," the man said, "We just want to go in and take some photos, and then write a few reports to prove that we are doing things, it won't delay you for a very long time."

"No, if you can't explain the problem in the process, or you think there is any problem with our welfare behavior, then I'm afraid we can't let you in."

"Are you refusing to accept the evaluation?"

Diana really wanted to refuse, but the black woman winked at him again, so she had to endure her temper and said: "Of course not, I just want to know if this evaluation behavior is necessary."

"Of course. Considering community development..."

"To be honest, I'm afraid this community has no development." Arthur couldn't stand it anymore, directly inserted into their conversation, and then said, "This is almost not even a community, I think you were also transferred recently, right? Where did you come from? And who asked you to do this?"

The man's face became ugly. Arthur continued: "In the case where all procedures have no problems, suddenly launching an evaluation action can itself be called an illegal inspection. If you can't give a reasonable reason, we have the right to refuse, and we will leave this experience to the court to talk about in detail."

The man still wanted to say something, the white woman next to him pulled him, and the two went to the side to whisper. And the black woman seemed to stand in place without moving, but in fact, she pointed to the work card on her coat. Diana had sharp eyes and saw the name on the work card at a glance, Victor quickly found the contact information of this lady.

The man came back to pester for a while, but the Justice League didn't give an inch. Really couldn't help it, they could only drive away. However, Diana contacted the black woman, and they made an appointment to meet at a coffee shop on a street not far from here but more prosperous.

"I am a social worker in the Bilteji community, and also a local who grew up here." The female social worker said, she looked at the factory area with a somewhat nostalgic look, and then said, "Since the factory is now abandoned and most people have moved away, it's not bad to let the factory area to people who need it more."

"So what exactly is going on?"