Shadow Empire

Chapter 1007 Collision and Argument

The atmosphere in the car was somewhat heavy. What the captain had said made Bonnie realize that Lance's goal was definitely not just their group, but also the Perez family behind them.

If Fran were to go and negotiate with Lance, it's unclear what price they would have to pay to resolve this matter.

Or perhaps Fran would choose not to negotiate with Lance and instead try to resolve the crisis through other means, but how much would that require?
He didn't know, but it certainly wasn't a small amount.

Bonnie felt somewhat angry. Each time he clashed with the Lance family, he had not gained the upper hand, but instead suffered considerable losses.

Whether it's interests, family members, or face, Lance and the Lance family are like a troublesome entity sent by God specifically to deal with them.

He suddenly had this idea, and at first he thought it was absurd, because they were the Perez family!
Over the years of development, there have been more than one challenger, but what was the result in the end?

He didn't know where those challengers had gone, but the Perez family still stood there.

But gradually he became less confident in this idea.

Just as he was pondering how his family should respond, and thus remained silent, creating a tense atmosphere in the carriage, a blinding beam of light shone directly through the window.

He subconsciously squinted toward the light source, and in that instant, he felt his scalp tingle and his whole body broke out in a cold sweat.

"Law..." He couldn't even finish the curse. His body instinctively braced itself for the impact, but the force of the impact was too great!

The intense force sent him flying almost into the air before he slammed into the lawyer on the side closest to him. At that moment, his mind went completely blank.

All he knew was that the car had been hit; nothing else.

Then came another heavy thud, accompanied by the sound of the car body being crushed and deformed. Everything erupted within seconds, and then quickly returned to calm.

His consciousness also sank deep into darkness.

All of this happened so fast that no one could react in time, and even words could not describe just one percent of the devastation!
For those who didn't witness it, they probably just heard two almost consecutive impacts, and then it was over.

Two seconds, or three seconds.

Everyone in the police station stood up in surprise and disbelief. They looked at each other, and it wasn't until more than ten seconds later that some officers left the lobby with their pistols and saw the collapsed courtyard wall.

There was also the deformed van stuck on a concrete pillar, and the large truck behind it.

The police chief, who had just fallen asleep in bed upstairs, hugging his pillow, was also awakened by the two loud noises.

He suddenly looked up, his heart pounding.

He feels uncomfortable whenever he is woken up after falling asleep or before he has had a good night's sleep.

The doctor said he had some minor issues with his heart and nerves, not life-threatening, but risky, and that he needed to rest.

But how could a police chief possibly have a stable work schedule?

He stood up, clutching his chest, his lips pressed tightly together, as if to fight off the uncomfortable tachycardia.

After a while, he slowly got up, walked to the window, and pulled back the curtains to look outside.

All he could see was a large truck with its headlights flashing, its headlights constantly pushing a small car against a collapsed pillar in front of the police station. Although he didn't see the impact, he could imagine how horrific it must have been.

The swaying truck driver jumped out of the cab, bent over and seemingly coughing violently; he even vomited something.

The officers had taken the driver under control and tried to rescue the people in the van, but the entire vehicle was deformed, and worst of all, the concrete pillar nearly broke the vehicle in half.

It was like a knife, deeply embedded, so much so that the car door and windows were all deformed.

The police chief was already sweating profusely; it was Bonnie's car.

His fists were clenched tightly together, whether from the unbearable pain of his rapid heartbeat or from Bonnie's ordeal, it was hard to tell.

The ambulance arrived quickly, along with the fire department. With their help, the people inside were rescued.

The lawyer died instantly. He was unlucky; on the first point of impact, Bonnie struck him like a cannonball under the immense force.

He helped Bonnie dissipate all the power by acting as a human cushion.

The doctor did a quick examination and said that almost all of his ribs were broken, and these broken ribs had pierced his lungs, and he also had severe brain damage.

Even if the person is alive and well, let alone already dead, there's a high probability they'll spend their entire life bedridden.

The driver, the front passenger, and the other two passengers were also in bad shape. Three of the four were already dead, and the one who was still alive had a broken thoracic vertebra and would be confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life, even if he survived.

Bonnie was seriously injured and fell into a coma. He had many broken bones and was in great danger. He was rushed to the hospital for emergency treatment immediately.

As for whether he can be saved, nobody knows.

The police chief quickly dressed and came downstairs. He glanced at the driver, who reeked of alcohol. He certainly didn't think this was an isolated incident; the man was lurking behind it all.

Lance White.

This also made the police chief somewhat resentful; Lance and his Lance family were really too unruly.

He disliked these unruly gangs, arguing that they only disrupted social order and caused instability, which contradicted the federal government's policy of tolerating gangs.

He tried to get some information from the driver, but the driver had drunk too much and was completely intoxicated. He could only wait until the driver sobered up before trying to get anything out of him.

Based on the results of the on-site investigation, the truck driver floored the accelerator and crashed into the vehicle without even the slightest trace of braking. He would be the first to disbelieve that this was not intentional.

This may be the first time since the establishment of the New Gold City Police Department that a wall has been destroyed due to a gang fight, and it is also like a slap in the face to the police chief.

He was a little confused as to why Lance Bottle was so arrogant.

But soon, he became somewhat dejected, because Lance certainly had the right to be arrogant.

Senator Cleveland was still working at the time.
Calling it work isn't entirely accurate; it was just a small meeting following the main conference.

However, Senator Cleveland was furious. At a previous meeting, he got into an argument with another group of people, which was so intense that it was almost a shouting match.

Not everyone in Congress can agree on certain issues.

The worst thing in the world would be if the Senate and the House of Representatives were a single entity.

However, they are not a unified whole, and each has its own interests and demands, like an unstable entity that changes shape at times. A federation is the only truly good federation.

Members of Congress today have numerous labels, so many that each person may have a dozen or even dozens.

Overall, it can be divided into three major camps, two ideologies, and countless factions.

The three major camps naturally refer to the Liberal Party, the Socialist Party, the Federal Party, and the Workers Party, which has been established but has not won a single Senate seat. Therefore, only the three major camps are considered here.

Numerous factions refer to interest groups composed of several different individuals, such as Senator Cleveland's faction. When Senator Cleveland is with the Senate President and others, another faction is formed. The situation is complex, with each group having elements of the other.

Even the members of parliament themselves don't know exactly how many factions there are, or which of the dozen or so factions each person belongs to.

What they are arguing about here is their ideas.

Some people have more radical ideas and become radicals, such as relatively young senators like Senator Cleveland.

They are not very old, especially for top politicians, so their ideas are often very "cutting-edge".

This has always drawn criticism from some seasoned and conservative senators who believe that being cutting-edge and radical means that things can sometimes get messed up, so this group has formed the conservatives.

This ideology is not entirely stable; radical and conservative members can shift depending on the specific issues faced.

Ultimately, it all comes down to personal interests. When some people believe that radicalism is beneficial to them, they will side with radicalism.

But if conservatism benefits them, then they will become staunch conservative lawmakers.

Recently, the "anti-war" group has started marching and protesting again. They link war with human self-destruction, saying that the Federation's current actions are pushing all of humanity into the abyss.

As the war has progressed, several anti-war demonstrations have broken out every year. These people can always find reasons to oppose the war. For example, when the war first broke out, their reason for opposing the war was that "children should not be sent to the battlefield."

They believed that the federal government's act of sending young federal citizens to the battlefield to be killed by the enemy was a blatant crime.

However, with the economic upswing and increased income brought about by the war, people were no longer averse to this reason, because the majority of beneficiaries were ultimately the ones who benefited.

Then they raised the reason that "war is immoral and biblical," and attacked the act of taking other people's lives in war from a moral and religious perspective, saying that it would lead to hell.

The federal government defused these anti-war arguments by having the Pope and Cardinals publicly state that "soldiers who served their monarchs in ancient times went to heaven, and so do soldiers now."

Now they're proposing that "humanity will destroy itself because of war"—they always find a reason.

There are also a few members of Congress who support the anti-war movement. Do they really not understand the benefits that the war brought to the Union?
Of course not, they certainly knew that war could actually bring enormous benefits to all sectors of society.

If they can't even understand such simple principles, they are not qualified to hold important senator positions in Congress.

But why do they oppose it when they know it's a good thing?

To put it bluntly, they stand on the side of anti-war because opposing war brings them more benefits.

For example, it has been found that some international financial groups with ties to the Dantra financial group funded these senators to actively submit various anti-war proposals.

Even though the senators know the proposals won't pass, they will still submit them and then proactively make them public to spark public discussion, using them as leverage in the anti-war movement.

Furthermore, since they could not reap the same profits from the war as others, they firmly stood on the side of anti-war.

As the year draws to a close, not only the federal government gets busy, but Congress also becomes busy, holding a regular meeting in the afternoon.

At the meeting, the anti-war faction began submitting proposals on anti-war issues, arguing that the war should be ended as soon as possible through negotiations to avoid a host of problems.

Originally, everyone treated these things as a routine and didn't intend to delve into them, but as they talked, they brought up the matter of Ya Lan.

They believe the federal government is now transforming from a "police force for world peace" into an "ambitious world aggressor."

Due to the changes in the Federation's international image, the three northern kingdoms have closed their borders and deployed troops along the border.

If military friction occurs and escalates, it is highly likely that a war will break out on home soil, which is one of the reasons why they cited "war will bring destruction" as one of their reasons for opposing the war.

Since we've mentioned Alan, we must also mention Senator Cleveland, who has been supporting and pushing this matter behind the scenes. The two sides escalated their attitudes through some arguments in Congress, and then began to blame each other.

They accused Cleveland Senator and President of being warmongers who launched inhumane wars of aggression for their own selfish interests, violating the principles of equality, freedom, and equality enshrined in the federal constitution.

Senator Cleveland accused them of receiving illicit funds from abroad and acting as spokespeople for hostile forces within the Union, calling it blatant treason and demanding that the Senate President establish an investigation team to thoroughly investigate these individuals.

Whose past can withstand investigation?
Even the president won't do!
Although everyone knows that Senator Cleveland's statement is just a catchphrase, like "send a Q," its deterrent effect is real.

If everyone hadn't been decent people, and if the Senate Speaker hadn't been maintaining order, the two groups might have definitely gotten into a fight today!
The conflict between the members of parliament who support pushing for war and those who oppose war and advocate for peace has existed for more than two years, and it did not happen overnight, so it is not surprising that it continues to escalate.

The two groups argued until the end of the meeting and then left. In a subsequent small meeting, the senator was still criticizing these traitors for some of their stupid actions.

He was furious today; these people had never so openly targeted him before.

So he immediately launched a fierce counterattack, which, in the eyes of ordinary people, was somewhat...farce-like.

"Those sons of bitches are definitely plotting something damn good. Have someone investigate them!"

After arguing for a while, he finally "stopped being angry" after being comforted by his friends.

In fact, much of his behavior in Congress, including his later anger and loss of composure, was also an act.

Others naturally wouldn't object; the most important thing now is to calm him down.

As they prepared to get to work, his chief aide walked up to him and whispered a few words in his ear. He glanced back at his chief aide, then stood up. "I'll take this call. You guys continue your conversation."

He left to answer the phone independently, but his staff and secretary remained behind to prevent anything he didn't want to happen while he was away.

Actually, there's something quite interesting about this.

If politicians during this period developed cancer, it was often bladder cancer or colon cancer, because they frequently held their urine and feces for extended periods.

There aren't any good materials available yet that can make attractive, functional, and odorless adult diapers. Besides, most people are embarrassed to urinate or defecate in front of everyone, even though they're still wearing pants.

Holding in urine and feces for extended periods can increase the risk of bladder and bowel cancer. So why do people hold it in?
There's actually a little story behind this: the early structure of any government is often not mature enough, with some places having too many or too few people.

Later, in order to make these unreasonable situations more reasonable, these departments will be readjusted.

There were originally six supervisors, but now only five are needed. There's one left over. What should we do?
The federal government likes to hold elections, so they let the six people vote. The six people got along quite well with each other, and none of them were willing to vote for someone else, let alone for themselves, so they reached a stalemate.

At that moment, one of the supervisors suddenly needed to use the restroom, so he told the other five people that he was going to the restroom by himself.

He felt that the current stalemate wouldn't be resolved just because he went to the bathroom, so he didn't feel any psychological burden or sense of crisis.

He patted his butt and went to the toilet, but the remaining five supervisors looked at each other, and one of them suddenly said, "I think... (the guy who went to the toilet) isn't very proactive at work, I'll vote for him."

The others immediately realized that this was a good opportunity to reach a consensus without harming their own interests, and they followed suit immediately.

When this guy came back from the toilet, he found that he had been "optimized".

Therefore, most politicians will not easily leave a meeting that can determine the course of events.

But there are always things they can't avoid, so they'll leave some people behind to represent their interests.

(End of this chapter)