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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objections. After all, all the mess was now Stephen's and his team's responsibility. Even if they did not profit, at least

will complete the calculation of the total

glared at him, urgency in his voice. "Don't drag it until another

won't. We won't." Adam shook his head repeatedly. "Nothing like this will happen again. We've learned our

knew his position was hanging by

there were eight deaths. His days in office were

leave, but before leaving, everyone shot Stephen a glare. Stephen kept his head down, too ashamed to meet their

death. Even more shocking was

he said

in today, things would have ended

get a team together to assess the compensation.

report came back quickly. They needed to compensate a staggering

eyes nearly popped

giving out 600 billion at once would leave just 1.6 trillion dollars! It was not just a hit to Aqua City's economy; it was

much." Stephen looked at Adam, hoping to reduce

heavily on fishing and tourism. Only compensating 600 billion dollars isn't actually that much in the grand scheme of

to generate revenue in the past. Now that their financial lifeline had been

with the

would lose 600 billion dollars now,

sector took off. Industrialization was much more profitable than

was still discussing with Adam, news about