Chapter 261: 262. Chapter 259: Big Fire and Driver

262. Chapter 259: Big Fire and Driver

After nine o'clock in the evening, the mayor was reading the "International News Report." He was also very interested in the things that had happened internationally recently.

The suddenly ringing phone didn't make him feel any displeasure. Anyone who calls him at this time definitely isn't a simple matter.

He put down the newspaper, took off his reading glasses, rubbed his eye sockets, and then answered the phone. "This is Xideni."

"It's me, Maike."

"What's wrong?" he asked.

"Just now... the senator called me. The liquor you seized today is the Keda family's liquor."

The mayor actually already heard about this matter; he had been waiting for this call. "So..."

"So this batch of liquor cannot be destroyed."

Even though the mayor already had psychological preparation, hearing this sentence still made his emotions surge. "What you said makes me feel uncomfortable, Maike."

"If because it is the Keda family's liquor, it cannot be touched, I might as well just resign!"

"This city is a mess. I thought the enemy came from the outside, but now it seems that the inside is also full of enemies."

"I am not their opponent. Is it too late for me to admit defeat now?"

Hearing the dissatisfaction and anger in the mayor's tone, Maike could only try his best to appease him. "You have worked in Jincheng for so many years; you should know how much money the Keda family transports to the Congress every year."

"I am unwilling to admit it, but I cannot deny this point, Xideni. Our political party is being corroded by capital faster and more."

"They actually already discussed it for a while and gave me a relatively... suitable choice."

"The liquor, you still destroy it, but not this batch!"

The mayor actually also had a guess, and this result was consistent with his guess. But even so, he was still very angry. "They want me to do something on one hand, and don't let me do it on the other hand. I really don't know what to do."

Maike could only continue to appease him. In fact, the situation is just so subtle!

The promotion of the Prohibition has encountered many troubles, and the difficulty is absolutely not something people can imagine, and some are even from the upper level.

This has actually always been a problem in the Federation. The people who formulated these rules didn't think about putting themselves into this rule framework when formulating them.

They are like God on the side of the sandbox thinking about problems, looking at those undulating grounds and small people like ants, to formulate "my rules," while ignoring that rules should actually include everyone.

No one should be excluded from the rules; only in this way is it true fairness.

But they can't do it, so from the beginning, the rules appeared loopholes and problems.

Now, as some accidental events have magnified the problems, it eventually led to the Prohibition being unable to be thoroughly implemented.

Some words are not easy to say on the phone, Maike could only try his best to appease. "I think this method is not bad. You got what you wanted, and the Keda family didn't suffer any losses."

"And, Xideni, I have another piece of news here. As an exchange, there will be higher-level figures supporting your nomination to serve as the Speaker of the State House of Representatives."

The mayor, who was still quite angry, actually wasn't that angry anymore.

A smile even appeared on his face!

With a senator supporting him, his success rate increased a lot.

However, he must show an attitude that he didn't give up the confrontation because of this. Even if he really ate shit, he had to wipe his mouth clean.

"I didn't agree to compromise because you said so, Maike, you have to be clear about this point."

"I just don't hope the situation continues to escalate!"

How could Maike not know what kind of person the mayor is? He didn't expose him either. "Of course, of course, I am very grateful that you can consider the overall situation. I will tell those figures about your performance."

The mayor got what he wanted and then said, "The Keda family might need to cooperate with us."

Maike hurriedly said, "No problem, I will communicate with them."

The mayor emphasized a few sentences. "Only a very few of us know about this matter. If they all knew we reached a compromise, they would become tougher."

"You should understand what I mean. When they discover there are other roads in the dead end, they don't care about everything we are doing now!"

The mayor nagged a few more sentences and hung up the phone.

He clasped his fingers together, pressed them on his legs, and looked at the dark night outside the window.

This result is clearly the best. They destroyed liquor worth hundreds of thousands, and the Keda family lost tens of thousands of bottles.

Everyone got the result they wanted. Although the process was a bit "bumpy," the result was round and full.

As long as the Keda family doesn't talk nonsense.

As for Director Dai Er?

The mayor feels that Director Dai Er understands the overall situation!

And what Director Dai Er wants is actually the same thing as what he wants!

Maike has Bandi's phone number. Everyone who can be on the stage in Likalai State has Bandi's phone number. In the eyes of many people, Bandi is a generous and kind person. He can give you a sum of money at any time and anywhere, and doesn't need any return.

So his relationship with various political parties and the Congress is not bad. Who can refuse a generous friend?

Bandi, who is easy to talk to, doesn't seem so easy to talk to this time.

"Maike, I'm not targeting you, I just want to say why does he take us to operate?"

Bandi's attitude is very tough; it seems he doesn't intend to compromise on this problem. "I can agree to your proposal on other problems, but not this time."

"This is not a problem of money. Hundreds of thousands of dollars, gone is gone. What I care about is decency."

"If I agreed to your proposal, tomorrow everyone in Jincheng will know that we bowed our heads."

"Then what will they do next?"

"They will try to overthrow the order we formulated to challenge our status!"

"This is not a problem of money, Maike."

"I can give you one million; you let them put my liquor back. As long as they do as I say, this one million is yours!"

Maike can understand Bandi's meaning. Although from the surface, it seems... everyone doesn't suffer a loss, the face of the Keda family was actually thrown heavily on the ground!

Sometimes, the more powerful and higher-status organizations are, the more they cannot accept this kind of plan. What they care about is no longer actual benefits.

But the rules and majesty they established over many years, it is face, it is authority!

Without authority, they won't make people feel afraid.

Maike is also having a headache, but who let him take this job?

He lowered his voice slightly, although it was impossible for anyone to eavesdrop on their phone, he still habitually did so.

"Bandi, you have to understand, the Prohibition is an important decree promoted by the Congress. Your current thinking is very dangerous, because you are clearly opposing the Congress!"

"I am not threatening you, or scaring you with anything. You, as a gang force in Jincheng, oppose the entire Federation—isn't that a bit not very smart?"

"You are my friend; I don't hope you have an accident, but I also won't allow you to mess around like this."

"I won't be afraid to tell you the truth; actually... the state government has approved the dispatch of the militia to enter Jincheng when necessary."

"Although this is the final choice, you should know the particularity of this decision."

"I know you are not bad to me and those people above, but precisely because of this, we should better negotiate these problems."

"As long as there is state government and senator support for you, I believe that at least in Jincheng, there cannot exist an organization or individual capable of challenging your family."

"I will lobby them; in the next twenty years at least, Jincheng will not approve any more casino licenses!"

While they were discussing these things fiercely, several black shadows had approached the warehouse of the Hazardous Materials Administration.

This warehouse is not on the side of the office building of the Hazardous Materials Administration; there is some distance between them. The land in the city center is very precious; it is impossible to give it all to them.

And at the beginning, no one knew how far this new department could go, how much power it would have, and whether it would become a joke like the Federal Bureau of Investigation "helping the President find trouble for political enemies."

But with the Congress's attention to the Hazardous Materials Administration, and the cooperation between the mayor and Director Dai Er, the mayor also specially selected a building for them to serve as the warehouse of the Hazardous Materials Administration.

And, it is also in the city center.

Most of the houses in the Federation are wooden. Even if they are brick and stone houses, there will be many wooden structures.

At this time, several agents on duty were playing cards while guarding the gate.

The liquor was piled in the room behind, and the door on the other side was locked. If you want to come in, you can only come from their side.

"A bit of gasoline smell." Someone mentioned it. He looked around; there was no gasoline in the room.

But the attention of others was all on the card game, and they didn't notice what he was saying at all.

And he himself also quickly threw himself into the card game again, ignoring that faint smell of gasoline.

Several black shadows took advantage of the night to climb into the courtyard. They pried open the door behind the building lightly and drilled in.

The warehouse full of liquor emitted an increasingly strong smell of gasoline. The enclosed space was no longer ventilated, and gasoline, this substance that easily volatilizes, drifted out from some wine bottles that were not completely quiet, becoming increasingly strong.

Several people quickly used the steel pipes tied with cotton cloth in their hands to continuously strike the boxes containing wine bottles. Gasoline began to flow out.

After doing all this, others quickly climbed back onto the wall, and one person was left standing by the pried-open rolling shutter door.

He took a match out of his pocket, lit it, lit a cigarette, took a puff, and then indifferently threw the match into the rolling shutter door...

The match was extinguished before it landed; it didn't light. Another one came. This time it lit.

The fluidity of gasoline is very strong, and it belongs to flammable materials. Plus, the space in the warehouse was full of gasoline in vapor form. The moment the fire lit up on the ground, the warehouse exploded and burned!

He was pushed out for a distance by the explosion, climbed up from the ground while scolding, reached out and grabbed his companion's arm, climbed over the wall together, and disappeared into the dark night.

The news of the warehouse explosion and burning alarmed everyone for the first time, including the mayor who was talking to Director Dai Er on the phone about what to do next.

All the fire trucks in the city began to act quickly, but facing the violently burning warehouse and the constantly expanding fire field, it seemed there was no very good way.

High temperature and heat waves became a wall of death. Even if the firefighters worked very hard to sprinkle water, it actually didn't have any practical significance for the fire field that was burning more and more vigorously!

Once the fire field had enough temperature and space, it was not something that the water column sprayed by the fire truck could extinguish; it could only wait for the things inside to burn out.

Bandi, who was bargaining with Maike, also heard this news. He directly told Maike "no need to talk" and hung up the phone.

The expressions of the family members also became serious.

At the scene, Director Dai Er looked speechlessly at the fire field that had already given up and lit up the surroundings, and couldn't help but look at several agents on duty with angry eyes many times.

He really wanted to ask what they were doing!

A fire burned almost all night.

After the flames gradually extinguished naturally in the early morning, nothing was left in the fire field.

Only some brick and stone structures stood there black, and everything else burned to ashes.

They came to the place where the liquor was stored. Those glasses had already re-melted into glass water under high temperature. At this time, they were sticking to other ashes black, and the shape of the glass bottles could no longer be seen.

A large number of reporters rushed to the scene. The photos were full of the numb faces of firefighters and the helpless backs of some agents.

The city police station also sent many people, including Officer Hente. They had to evacuate the surrounding masses and help fight the fire when necessary.

At this time, Officer Hente, who was completely free, turned around the scene a few times and happened to run into Officer Lukaer. The two knew each other before, and the relationship was okay.

Hente shared a cigarette with Officer Lukaer, and the two chatted very naturally. "What do you think?"

Officer Lukaer took the cigarette, lit it, and took two steps back, seemingly still having lingering fears about the big fire last night. "Very hard to say. I feel this big fire is very suspicious."

"Burning too fast, too violently, the fire brigade came and it was useless. This is not normal."

Hente didn't express his position, but seemed to be singing the opposite of him. "There is strong liquor here. Once it burns, even sprinkling water is very difficult to extinguish."

Officer Lukaer didn't deny this possibility either. "But I still feel something is wrong. Just got it back and it burned, as if... someone is manipulating these things."

He glanced at Pang Da standing beside Director Dai Er. Hente also turned and looked toward that person. "You suspect him?"

Officer Lukaer nodded and said, "He provided the clue, then we moved the liquor back, and then it burned, burned all night."

"But I don't know what his purpose is for doing this, so I can't finally confirm whether it is him, but he has a great suspicion."

"This person didn't show any advantageous side before. He can't be considered a complete local; he can only be said to be a Federal citizen who moved here."

"Then he suddenly got such important clues. This is not normal."

"You can't get such important news in an environment you are not very familiar with; otherwise, everyone is a master detective!"

"In short, I feel he has great suspicion." Officer Lukaer said and stopped talking. He seemed not to want to continue discussing this problem, turning to look at Hente. "After Chali resigned, I heard he nominated you to take over his work?"

Officer Hente revealed some smiles. "I am more familiar with the various work of the police station. If you hadn't left at that time, maybe he would have nominated you."

"We all know he values you very much."

Values?

Officer Lukaer laughed. "I am very good now. This job can let me do what I really want to do."

"Police have the good of police, agents have the good of agents. It seems I will have to call you Director Hente soon?"

Hente also revealed a smile. This is indeed a happy thing. "Still call me Hente; I'm not used to those titles of yours."

The two chatted for a while and then separated.

In the morning, the news had already spread everywhere. Accompanied by reports in big and small newspapers, there were also some "insiders" passing news to the outside.

These people claimed that these liquors being burned was done by people of the Keda family.

They would rather destroy their own liquor with their own hands than have them publicly destroyed. These news were passed with nose and eyes, making people unable to distinguish true from false, but many people also believed this statement.

It is more reasonable!

The source of this news came from the mayor and Director Dai Er. They can only deal with it in this way at present.

Maike had already talked to the mayor again last night. The Keda family had a lot of opinions, telling him to be careful.

It could be heard that Maike's voice also revealed some anger. Although this matter was not led by him, he was almost involved in the whole process and played an important role.

Now both sides are not pleasing. He not only didn't get the result he wanted, but instead made everyone unhappy, naturally not being polite to the mayor.

After eight o'clock in the morning, Director Dai Er was driving out of the Hazardous Materials Administration when suddenly a truck rushed toward him.

At the critical moment, he hit the steering wheel and was hit out diagonally.

This made him break into a cold sweat, and then his scalp felt numb!

Undoubtedly, this truck was aimed at his life!

These bitches, local people!

He cursed and ran out of the car, quickly ran back into the Hazardous Materials Administration. In a short time, he wouldn't go anywhere!

The truck lost power after hitting a section of the wall of the Hazardous Materials Administration, and the driver fell into a coma.

The city police station also sent people over, and they took the driver away, but in the afternoon, a judgment of "this was just an ordinary traffic accident" was spread!

This kind of naked means not only made Director Dai Er feel terrified and angry, but even the mayor felt shocked and angry!

He directly called Bandi.

"What on earth do you want to do?"

"Are you unscrupulously murdering national government agency staff in broad daylight?"

"Bandi, your guts are too big!" ===== CHAPTER 262 =====