"The citizens who came out to participate in the Obon Festival at noon have worked hard."
Hippo Daliang bowed to the crowd coming and going, many people just stopped and looked at Hippo Daliang, Hippo Daliang spoke again.
"Gentlemen, I think everyone dares to come out to participate in the Obon Festival on such a hot day, presumably because they are very interested in the culture of our Saitama Prefecture?"
"I think the culture of our Saitama Prefecture still has a lot of potential to be tapped. If I wait until I take office, I will find a lot of students majoring in culture, let them dig out various cultural stories, and turn our Saitama County into a neon, oh no, the world's leading tourist attraction..."
Takeo Saeki walked up.
After staying in the motherland for a long time, Takeo Saeki has really never seen this kind of political activities in the streets.
It doesn’t matter if people in the motherland have something to watch, or it’s the first time in my life that I’m curious, Takeo Saeki walked up to Daryo Hippo and watched the city councilman perform in front of the crowd.
This city councilor may have been designed by a person who is close to the people. He walked up to the crowd and said to some young people.
"I used to go to the Diet for meetings and met many people. Some of them claimed to be from Chiyoda Ward, some claimed to be from Minato Ward, some claimed to be from Chuo Ward, and some were from Ginza. But people like us, who came from Saitama, Toshima Ward, and Ota Ward, did not dare to say that they were from that area, only that they were from Tokyo."
"Why?"
Hippo Daliang shook his head.
"Because those people in the central area look down on us..."
Takeo Saeki, who was in the crowd, laughed.
Well, don’t think that being in the Tokyo area is the top of the country. The Tokyo area is also divided into three, six, and nine grades. Among them, the highest chain of contempt is naturally the third core district of the Tokyo center, followed by the third sub-center district of the Tokyo metropolitan area.
The center and sub-center of Saitama Prefecture can't reach the place, which is the middle and lower level of the contempt chain in Tokyo.
As a local, Hippo Daliang ran to the central area of Tokyo. It is quite normal for the locals to despise him from the countryside.
Hippo Daryo heard Takeo Saeki's laughter, and walked towards Takeo Saeki, talking while walking.
"But I don't think we are inferior to the people in the central and sub-central areas of Tokyo! We want to prove to all the people of the Neon Kingdom that we have the best cultural heritage and the most beautiful historical relics in the Neon Kingdom!"
Hippo Dailiang walked up to Saeki Takeo.
Takeo Saeki looked curiously at the politician who spoke on the street.
This is a scene that cannot be seen in the motherland, so Saeki Takeo curiously reached out his hand.
Hippo Daryo held Takeo Saeki's hand with a righteous face, and said seriously.
"Young man, I feel your heart! You must be proud of being a native of Saitama too!?"
Takeo Saeki: ?_?
Mr. Congressman, you are overthinking.
Hippo Daliang's tone became more serious.
"Don't be shy, young man, shout out the blood in your heart! Tell everyone that the people in Saitama Prefecture are no worse than anywhere else..."
A man wearing a hat, mask, and sunglasses walked out beside Takeo Saeki.
This person's movements were not fast, so Hippo Daryo, who was holding Takeo Saeki's hand, also spotted this person coming up.
But the next moment, Hippo Daliang's face changed from excitement to fear.
The person who came up took out a homemade gun from his arms.
"Boom..."
Flames erupted from under the man in the mask.
The hippopotamus Daliang who was holding Takeo Saeki's hand loosened his hand, and took several steps back, his lower abdomen was quickly stained red with blood.
The man in the mask who fired the gun turned his hand, and pointed the muzzle at Takeo Saeki. Takeo Saeki was excited, and stepped forward, directly grabbed the man's gun in the mask, and raised the muzzle of the gun.尰
The masked man showed a bit of surprise in his eyes, then threw away the earthen gun, pulled out a dagger from his waist, and swung it at Takeo Saeki, who backed away quickly.
However, he only took a step back, and the man in the mask who was about to assassinate Takeo Saeki with a dagger suddenly lost his eyes, and then fell limply to the ground.
The things behind the masked man were also exposed in this way.
Takeo Saeki, who took a few steps back, saw Mimiko Mizunuma holding an electric shock device standing behind the masked man.
"Shoot! Shoot!"
"Run!"
It was only at this time that the surrounding onlookers came to their senses and ran towards each other in different directions. The originally bustling street became empty visible to the naked eye.
Mimiko Mizunuma, holding the electric shock device, did not follow the people around, but stood where she was, looking at Takeo Saeki jokingly, teasingly, and even playing cat and mouse.
With the attitude of an absolute hunter, he looked at this adult who was much taller than her.
Then speak.
"Mr. Saeki, are you not injured?"
Takeo Saeki shook his head silently holding the earthen gun. At this moment, adults are affected by the aura of Mimiko Mizunuma. In such a big world, the fleeing crowd and the hot environment around him seem to be stripped away, leaving only him and Mimiko Mizunuma looking at each other.
Takeo Saeki couldn't believe that the child in front of him with such a strong aura that distorted reality was just a ten-year-old girl.
Only then did Hippo Daliang's bodyguards come over. Several of them carried Hippo Daliang away, and one came over to take away the earthen gun that Saeki Takeo had snatched from the assailant.
Only Mimiko Mizunuma stared down at the attacker who fell on the ground, and walked to the side of the attacker, looking down.
The assailant who was shocked and unable to move asked tremblingly.
"Why?"
In some ways, the attacker was actually a collaborator with Mimiko Mizunuma.
So... why backstab teammates?
Mimiko Mizunuma said indifferently.
"...you moved my prey."
Mimiko Mizunuma crushed the cyanide in the assailant's mouth with spiritual power.
Chapter 183
One o'clock in the afternoon, the police station.
Waiting for Takeo Saeki to take a sip of Ice Kuo and then the policeman sitting in front of Takeo Saeki lowered his head and said.
"Mr. Takeo Saeki, I'm sorry for wasting your time, but please tell me what happened to you."
Saeki Takeo recounted how he met Hippo Dalian, was attacked by an assassin, and was rescued by Mizunuma Mimiko.
The recorded policeman didn’t know whether he didn’t care about Takeo Saeki, or felt that Takeo Saeki had no reason to lie. Takeo Saeki said a lot, but the recorded policeman didn’t ask half a question.
After Takeo Saeki finished speaking, the police even packed up the recording pen and notebook and got up to leave, and said something when they left the interrogation room.
"Mr. Takeo Saeki, you can go, but please pay attention to your mobile phone, we will contact you again in the future if we have any questions."
Takeo Saeki nodded.
"knew."
The footsteps of the interrogating police gradually moved away.
Takeo Saeki got up holding the Bing Kuo Le, and walked out of the interrogation room. He only took one step, and a familiar female voice came from behind.
"Senior Gangxiong, do you want me to take you to the hospital?"
Takeo Saeki turned his head, and the smiling Megumi Mizukami walked over from behind Takeo Saeki.
Takeo Saeki shook his head.
"I'm not hurt."
Takeo Saeki knew very well that when he confronted the assailant, he didn't lose a single hair. Even the assailant gave Takeo Saeki a feeling that he was not as threatening as Mimiko Mizunuma.
Mizukami asked curiously.
"Really? That Hippo congressman is dead, Mr. Saeki, you really don't need to go to the hospital for a full body check?"
Takeo Saeki walked towards the exit of the police station.
"I didn't even get my clothes dirty."
Takeo Saeki shook his suit.
Megumin Minakami checked Takeo Saeki's clothes up and down, nodded and moved to Takeo Saeki's side, and asked again.
"Senior Gangxiong, you seem to have been assassinated just now, why do you look like you don't feel anything now?"
Takeo Saeki chuckled.
Not long ago, I was stabbed with a scalpel by an inexplicable guy wearing a priest mask. At that time, Takeo Saeki thought he was going to die.
Now there is no injury at all, and I can't get excited even if I want to.
"Oh, right."
Takeo Saeki glanced at Megumin Mizukami beside him.
"Huihui, do you know about that assassin?"
Since Megumi Mizukami dared to show up at the police station and meet her, Takeo Saeki felt that this woman might have learned a lot about the assassin.
Mizukami nodded.
"Yes, that guy's name is Arii Ryoma, and I met him when I was young."
Saiki Takeo was surprised.
"The assassin's family is not bad?"
Mizukami continued to nod.
"Yes, at that time, Arii's family ran a large chemical plant, and the family's conditions were quite good. However, because of deindustrialization and some congressmen in Saitama Prefecture wanted to develop the tourism industry in Saitama Prefecture, they began to attack some heavily polluting enterprises."
Megumi Mizukami clicked his tongue.
"At that time, the Arii family's chemical plant was found to have seriously exceeded the pollution standard. The Saitama prefectural government took the Arii family's chemical plant and banned the chemical plant."
Takeo Saeki understood.
"So this Arii Ryoma has changed from a young master to an ordinary person?"
Mizukami sighed.
"It's good to be an ordinary person, because the Youjing family's chemical plant was found to have exceeded the standard of pollutants. Many people nearby think that the old people in the family died and the children in the family got sick because of the Youjing family. So they sued, slandered, and bullied the Youjing family."
"Arii Ryoma's mother, Arii, committed suicide knowing that she couldn't bear the pressure, and her father also entered a mental hospital due to career and family misfortunes. He died of depression in less than two years."
Takeo Saeki joked.
"It can be regarded as karma."
Mizukami grinned.
"Senior Gangxiong, are you thinking that if the Youjing family didn't engage in chemical pollution, they wouldn't have ended up like this?"
Takeo Saeki wondered.
"Is there any other inside story?"
Mizukami said bitterly.
"Yes, there is a secret. The secret is that before the Saitama prefectural government proposed to de-industrialize, the sewage discharge of the Ariike chemical factory met the standards. When some city councilors proposed to establish a tourism industry, they began to revise the pollution standards. During the period, Arii Ryoma's father also asked the local officials what to do in the future."
"The local bureaucrats said that the current emission standards of the Arii family's chemical plant are no problem. Ryoma Arii's father really believed it, and then..."
Takeo Saeki understood.
"Is that hippo Daliang just a bureaucrat who ensures that the emission standards are okay?"
Ebi Minakami gave a thumbs up.
"Yes, Hippo Daliang is a member of Parliament who is determined to de-industrialize and develop tourism."
Takeo Saeki shook his head.
"It can only be said that it is karma."
Takeo Saeki walked to the entrance hall of the police station. There were many seats in the hall, and some people who came to call the police were sitting on the seats.
It seems that for the entertainment of the people who called the police, there is a TV hanging in the hall.