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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Stephen's and his team's responsibility. Even if they did not profit, at least they would

will complete the calculation of the total losses within three days and provide the necessary compensation. Please

mayor glared at him, urgency in his voice. "Don't

his head repeatedly. "Nothing like this will happen again. We've

hanging by a thread. Every

His days in office were

town's mayor led the crowd to leave, but before leaving, everyone shot Stephen a glare. Stephen kept his head down, too ashamed to

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

he said to

Adam did not step in today, things would

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

report came back quickly. They needed to compensate a

numbers, his eyes nearly popped out

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

too much." Stephen looked at Adam,

fishing and tourism. Only compensating 600 billion dollars

how Aqua City used to generate revenue in the past. Now that their financial lifeline

the compensation," Stephen finally

thought that even though he would lose 600 billion dollars now, he could

industrial sector took off. Industrialization

with Adam, news about Aqua City spread rapidly