Civilization Paradise

Chapter 147 Protest (First Update)
At this moment, a man wearing a black suit with a cigarette in his mouth suddenly walked up to Long Ming and the others and spoke.

"You must be Xiao Qi, Long Ming, and the others."

Long Ming and the others were slightly taken aback and turned to look at the man in front of them.

"you are?"

"Let me introduce myself. I am Captain Gao Feng from the Stars Guild."

Gao Feng introduced with a smile.

"Hello, what's the matter?"

Xiaoqi, seeing that the man in front of her was from the Stars Guild, asked politely.

"I am here on Young Master Qianwei's orders to reward you."

Gao Feng picked up five envelopes and handed them to Long Ming and the others.

"A commendation?"

Long Ming and his group were also completely baffled.

"That's right, you've taken over the Star God Guild's mission, and Young Master Qianwei is very pleased. This is your reward; I hope you'll accept it."

Gao Feng gave a brief explanation.

"Then please thank Lord Qianwei for us."

Long Ming and his companions were quite surprised, but they still accepted it.

"By the way, this is my business card. I see that you are all exceptional talents. If you are interested in joining the Star Guild, you can come and find me."

Gao Feng then handed his business card to Long Ming and the others.

Yunyu and the others were also taken aback. Wasn't this poaching? For a moment, they didn't know whether to accept the business card or not.

At this moment, Xiaoqi smiled, reached out, and took the business card, saying...

"Thank you for your kind offer, Lord Qianwei. We will consider it."

"Okay, I'll leave first."

Gao Feng then turned and left.

At this moment, Long Ming and the others all looked at Xiao Qi and asked.

"Xiao Qi, are we still going to open this reward? It seems like they're trying to poach us?"

"It won't affect anything, just demolish it if necessary."

Xiao Qi said to Yun Yu and the others.

"okay."

Yunyu and the others exchanged glances and excitedly replied while opening the envelopes.

Long Ming curiously opened the envelope and found a check inside. He took it out and glanced at it; it said 10.

"Wow, 10 mountain coins."

"Haha, I'm rich!"

Xiaoqi and the others were overjoyed.

This is almost equivalent to Yunyu and others' annual salary.

"Okay, I'll be going now."

Long Ming put the check away, feeling a bit tired, and said goodbye to Xiao Qi and the others.

"Okay, drive carefully."

Xiao Qi and the others said goodbye to Long Ming.

After a while.

Long Ming arrived at the subway entrance near Guangwei Street and took the escalator into the subway.

But when he arrived at the subway waiting area, he saw thousands of passengers gathered there.

Many passengers looked at the electronic display screen and whispered anxiously.

"what's the situation?"

"I do not know!"

Long Ming then looked up at the electronic display screen.

The display showed that lines 1, 2, and 13 were experiencing delays, with an estimated delay of 1 hour and 21 minutes.

Then the broadcast started again.

"We apologize, dear passengers, but due to unforeseen circumstances, subway services are currently experiencing delays."

Long Ming's face immediately showed a look of great surprise. Since he could remember, the subway in this mountain city had never had any problems, let alone delayed its operation.

Has something happened?
Thinking about this, Long Ming felt a little uneasy, but he still waited patiently.

Soon, more than an hour passed, and when the timer for the service suspension reached zero, the subway station's announcement system sounded again.

"Dear passengers, we apologize for the inconvenience caused by the subway delay. The subway line has now returned to normal. Please board the train in an orderly manner." Long Ming breathed a sigh of relief upon hearing this; thankfully, it was just an isolated incident.

He then followed the crowd toward the Line 1 subway train.

Shancheng Mountain, Xiacheng District.

Long Ming walked out of the subway station onto the street and was met with a huge crowd of people holding up protest banners. They walked past him with great anger.

"Protest! Protest!"

Long Ming looked on in astonishment at the scene.

He walked back along the street in a daze.

At this moment, Long Ming noticed that more than half of the shops on both sides of the street were closed, and there was garbage everywhere on the ground.

"what's the situation?"

Long Ming muttered to himself.

He only played games for a few days, but it feels like the world has changed.

At this moment, Long Ming saw that the Happiness Shop was still open, so he went in to order a bowl of noodles. He had to fill his stomach first, no matter what.

He then saw Boss Zhao standing in front of the small blackboard hanging on the wall, changing prices with chalk.

The noodles that originally cost 5 mountain coins a bowl were directly changed to 8 mountain coins by Zhao Ku, causing the price to jump by more than half.

"Boss, what are you doing?"

Long Ming asked, his face full of disbelief.

"Long Ming, it's you! I'm changing the prices. What would you like to eat?"

Zhao Ku turned to look at Long Ming and asked.

"A bowl of noodles, please."

"Okay, wait a moment."

"Ah."

Long Ming sat quietly in his chair, turning his head to look around the restaurant. Usually at this time, Happiness Shop would have some customers, but now there were no customers except for himself.

A few minutes later.

Zhao Ku brought a steaming bowl of noodles to Long Ming and gave him some instructions.

"Eat it while it's hot."

"Boss, can I ask you something?"

Long Ming picked up his chopsticks and looked at Zhao Ku.

"Sure, I'm free anyway since there's no business right now."

Zhao Ku then sat down in front of Long Ming.

"What happened today? Why are there so many protesters outside?"

Long Ming looked at Zhao Ku with great confusion.

Zhao Ku looked at Long Ming with some surprise upon hearing his words.

"You do not know?"

"I really don't know?"

"Didn't you see the announcement that the Lower District issued this morning?"

"No, I'm just taking care of some things in Shangcheng District these past few days."

"I see. Here's what happened: Shancheng Mountain issued a new announcement. From the moment the announcement was made, all grain quotas in the Xiacheng District were reduced by 30%, and prices increased by 30%. Water resources were also subject to a water restriction policy, with water completely shut off from 9 PM to 6 AM the next day, and water prices increased by 30%! In addition, there were power restrictions for all industrial use in the Xiacheng District, while residential electricity, although not restricted, saw a 30% price increase!"

"Has Shanchengshan gone mad?"

Long Ming almost stood up when he heard Zhao Ku's words.

The situation in the lower city was already a mess. Normally, it would be difficult to raise prices by one or two percent, but this time it's increased by thirty percent across the board, and they've also cut food rations and restricted water and electricity!

No wonder so many people are protesting today.

"Who knew that things would get harder and harder? Business was already bad, and now with this, we have to raise prices too, and I guess there will be even fewer customers."

As Mr. Zhao Ku spoke, his face was filled with worry.

"Too."

Long Ming didn't know what to say, so he could only silently lower his head and eat his noodles.

"Okay, I'm not talking to you anymore. You should finish your food and go home. It's too noisy outside."

Boss Zhao reminded Long Ming.

"I see."

Long Ming nodded.

(End of this chapter)