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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all the mess was now Stephen's and his team's responsibility. Even if they did not profit, at least they would not be drowning in

quickly said, "This time, we will complete the calculation of the total losses

town's mayor glared at him, urgency in his

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

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

there were eight deaths. His

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

death. Even more shocking was

he said

today, things would have ended much

together to assess the compensation. We must compensate

quickly. They needed

saw the numbers, his eyes nearly

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

looked at Adam,

Aqua City's economy relies heavily on fishing and tourism. Only compensating 600

revenue in the past. Now that their financial lifeline had been severed, 600 billion

with the compensation,"

that even though he would lose 600 billion

took off. Industrialization was much more profitable than

still discussing with Adam, news about Aqua City spread rapidly