The Guardian's Return by Old Pumpkin

Chapter 198

Adam was terrified. Why was Stephen still hesitating at a time like that? Was it so difficult to admit his mistake?

He quickly grabbed the loudspeaker, determined not to let Stephen continue speaking.

"We will! We will compensate you! We'll buy all dead fish at half the market price and live fish at full price! For those who took out loans to lease fish farms in the past year, we will pay half the amount..."

Adam was pulling out all the stops he had learned in his career, thinking on his feet. He was prepared to compensate half the losses of the villagers, fishermen, and hotel owners.

Faced with that explanation, the people were relatively satisfied.

Adam continued, "As for the eight individuals we lost, we deeply regret this tragedy. We will all attend their funeral today."

After finishing his statement, Adam was drenched in sweat.

The town's mayor looked at him for a while before taking the loudspeaker and asking, Everyone, what do you think of this solution?"

"Sounds good!"

"It's not bad."

"Let's get it done with!"

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mess was now Stephen's and his team's responsibility. Even if they

total losses within three days and provide the necessary compensation. Please give us some

mayor glared at him, urgency in his voice.

won't. We won't." Adam shook his head repeatedly. "Nothing

knew his position was hanging by a thread. Every death would bring him scorn,

eight deaths. His days in office

mayor led the crowd to leave, but before leaving, everyone shot Stephen a glare. Stephen kept his

to death. Even more shocking was how everyone seemed willing to risk their lives to

he

today, things

bitterly. "It's nothing. We need to get a team together to assess the compensation. We

assessment report came back quickly. They needed to compensate a staggering 600 billion

the numbers, his eyes nearly popped out of his head.

trillion dollars, and giving out 600 billion at once would leave just 1.6 trillion dollars! It was not just a hit to Aqua

looked at Adam,

economy relies heavily on fishing and tourism. Only compensating 600 billion

Adam's reminder, he finally remembered how Aqua City used to generate revenue in the past. Now that their financial lifeline

with the compensation,"

lose 600 billion dollars now,

took off. Industrialization was much more

discussing with Adam, news