Chapter 668

About twenty or thirty minutes after Mayor Williams left his office, the phone ring on his desk suddenly rang.

James, who was sitting on the sofa thinking about something, suddenly turned his head to look at that phone. He narrowed his eyes slightly, and after it rang twice, he got up and walked over to answer it.

It had rung seven or eight times in total. If it wasn't a phone call that had to be connected to the mayor, it might have already been put down by the person on the other end of the phone at the third or fourth ring.

He could keep the state of waiting for the call, which shows that this matter is really important.

"This is the mayor's office."

"Mr. Mayor?", perhaps the person on the opposite side was not very familiar with James's voice, he felt that this was not the mayor's voice.

"I am James. The mayor has left for some things temporarily. Tell me if there is anything."

The guy on the other side of the receiver only thought for a few seconds, then hurriedly said, "A large-scale conflict occurred in the old industrial area. Workers and demolition company people fought, and there were casualties!"

"Now I don't know what the situation outside is like. In short, it looks very bad. They are like crazy!"

His tone was very anxious. Through the somewhat blurry glass window, he could see the crowd constantly increasing on the construction site!

The most feared thing about group events is not being able to stop them at the beginning. Once they spread, they will become a disaster!

The person speaking was the manager in charge of the demolition company on site. He usually stayed in this simple house, and his daily work was to supervise the supervisors to supervise those refugee workers to work honestly.

If some unexpected situations occurred, he would take the opportunity to be responsible for solving them, and the most important job—calling the boss.

The biggest difference between a manager and an ordinary bottom-level cadre is this. He has Arthur's phone number, the phone number of Mayor Williams's office, and only he can notify these two people, while others can't do it.

Just by mastering two numbers, his status in the company is a big cut higher than others.

So sometimes whether you can "advance" has nothing to do with your ability, it all depends on whether the people above are willing to reach out.

He was talking about the situation here. He had never handled similar things, and for a moment he didn't know how to ease the situation.

Suddenly, more than a dozen refugee workers ran toward him. His face, which was still calm, was immediately filled with panic!

"Holy crab, Mr. James, they are coming toward me. I think I might be in some danger..."

Before he could finish his words, there was intense knocking on the door outside the room, and in a very short time, it turned into the sound of kicking the door.

Every loud noise made by kicking the door was like hitting his heart. He was so nervous that he grabbed the clothes on his chest tightly with his hands. He felt his heart was about to stop jumping!

His tone also became a bit weak. "Mr. James..."

Accompanied by a sound like an explosion when the door panel hit the wall, James's hands trembled slightly. Only begging and screams remained in the receiver.

After the screams didn't last long, they disappeared completely. Only the sound of the rag bag being kicked back and forth, and the sound of drawers being pulled open remained.

His breathing gradually became heavy. He didn't know what had happened there, but it must be a terrible thing.

He pursed his lips, hung up the phone, and immediately dialed the police station's phone number. Chief Bulu was not at the police station, and Deputy Chief Du Ke was on duty.

After hearing what James said, he attached great importance to it. The phone wasn't put down before he asked people to gather police forces from various branches to support the old industrial area, and then he asked a key question—

"Mr. James, after our police officers arrive at the scene, what should we do?"

James was originally full of anger. Now hearing this question like a retard, he became even more angry, and his face became visibly red!

"What should you do?"

"Of course, it's to stop these people from continuing to hurt others and catch them!"

"You are the deputy chief of the police station, you still have to ask me such a simple thing?"

"How did you become this deputy chief?!"

His tone was very impolite, because the continuous occurrence of things made him a bit unsure of how to deal with it!

Arthur was kidnapped and it was still unknown whether he had been saved. The construction site had problems again. If the demolition of the old industrial area was shelved, some undercurrents in the city would become strange again.

What's more troublesome is if a group conflict event occurs, and even many people die, will it affect his father's power?

You know, this is Golden Port City, the naval base has just been built, and what they need is a mayor who can guarantee the administrative stability of this city, not a mayor who will trigger riots at any time!

A series of various information that made him feel dissatisfied, and even fearful, constantly washed his barely resilient nerves. It was already not bad that he could hold on.

Now Deputy Chief Du Ke asked such a stupid question again. The flame of anger ignited the defense line of reason. He was inexplicably filled with a desire for destruction!

If Deputy Chief Du Ke was in front of him, he might go up and kick him hard!

James's tone was very bad, and his attitude was too, but Deputy Chief Du Ke was not nervous at all. He knew very well that the only two people who could decide whether he was still in this position were Mayor Williams and Lan Si.

More deeply, there was only one person, and that was Lan Si!

So he didn't fear James that much, and could still maintain his "politeness."

"Councilor James, you might have misunderstood what I meant."

"It's easy for us to go to the scene, but once a riot occurs, our mere arrival at the scene cannot make it stabilize again. We need to do something to make the riot subside."

"Are we dispersing the crowd, or arresting those perpetrators, or just not letting the situation escalate and not letting the scale continue to grow?"

"There are many problems here. If we disperse them and they don't cooperate, should we fight back?"

"If we arrest them and they resist arrest, should we continue to arrest them, or shoot them directly?"

"How do we define the standard of not letting the situation escalate, or what range should we control this matter within?"

"These are all things I don't know at the moment."

Listening to Deputy Chief Du Ke say such a big pile of words, James's anger was extinguished in an instant. His eyes even appeared momentarily dull.

So... complicated?

He had never thought about these things, because Mayor Williams seemed to handle similar things easily, just a few simple sentences could solve the problem.

Why, when it came to him, did it become so complicated?

He didn't think this was Deputy Chief Du Ke making things difficult for him, because these problems raised by Deputy Chief Du Ke were indeed objectively existing.

And they must be decided by the mayor, or the current him, on how to do it.

Every choice means many changes. If you shoot, will it make the situation continue to escalate?

If you don't shoot, will you be unable to control the situation?

Arresting those who are committing violence, will it trigger a larger-scale riot and riot?

Not arresting those people, will it let more construction sites have similar things happen?

He closed his eyes painfully, and the other hand was pulling his hair!

"Councilor James, are you still there?", Deputy Chief Du Ke glanced at the police officers who had already gathered outside the window. "We will set off soon. After arriving at the scene, it will be difficult to maintain continuous contact with you for a short time, so what should we do?"

James forced himself to calm down. He kept asking himself in his mind, if Mayor Williams encountered this matter, what would he do?

He even provided himself with another line of thought. If Lan Si encountered this matter, what choice would he make?

Countless thoughts churned in his mind. When he wanted to make such a choice, another thought would stop him.

He was completely lost!

But soon he cheered up again. Now Mayor Williams was not here, he must take this responsibility.

He also realized the purpose of his father being led away, it was here!

Such a big thing happened. If it couldn't be controlled, it would soon trigger riots in the whole city. What they wanted wasn't to compromise with the Williams family, what they wanted was to destroy the entire Williams family!

At this moment in his heart, there was only one voice.

That was to take the responsibility of the eldest son of the Williams family and handle this matter!

He took a deep breath. The choices and results of his father and Lan Si in the past quickly had an outline in his mind.

This is actually one of the key factors why ordinary families can never compare to those wealthy families!

For people from ordinary family backgrounds, all the troubles you encounter are a brand-new challenge without any reference!

But for James, for people from wealthy family backgrounds, they have a high probability of finding similar cases.

He clenched the receiver. "Control the situation, detain those attackers. If they resist arrest, fight back..."

He closed his eyes and took a deep breath. "Then shoot!"

Deputy Chief Du Ke's voice was as stable as before. "I know what to do. I will notify you at the first time when there is further news."

After the communication ended, James took out a cigarette and lit it with trembling hands, taking a deep breath.

He didn't know what this decision would bring, but he knew he had to do it!

Mayor Williams didn't know that his eldest son finally took that step of his own at a critical moment, instead of always following behind him, watching him make those seemingly simple decisions.

But even if he knew, he didn't have that mind.

There was indeed some traffic jam on the road. He arrived at the designated location a little bit ahead of the agreed time.

There was still a phone booth on the side of the road. He glanced at Lan Si on the side of the road in the distance. At the first moment the phone rang, he walked into the phone booth and picked up the phone...