Bizarre Detective Agency

   Chapter 1112 Fifty. Birthright

  There are many reasons for the depopulation of the Wiener Refuge Area.

   Or strife among the inhabitants; or raging plagues and diseases took their lives; or evil spirits roamed; or people fled the refuge;

   After all, for those weird ethnic groups, the Wiener Refuge is like an inexhaustible delicious "canning factory" - only the process of opening the can is a little laborious.

   But this is not the main reason for the depopulation of the refugee areas: maybe one-third of the nearly 1,000 people disappearing every day are because of them, but two-thirds because of others.

   "This is my office and my residence."

Mateus signaled the guests to visit at will, and continued: "The refuge area is shrinking every day, but there are still not enough people. The most terrible of them is the plague, which directly affects the speed of Wiener's broken body to send blood to the hands and feet... …”

   Prior to this, the Weiner Refuge Area dealt with monsters and corpses by: knowing the situation, rushing to the location, cleaning up the pollution plague curse, and returning to deal with the next task.

  Although there are not enough people in the refuge area to protect them, usually they can only collect their wreckage, but sometimes they can arrive in time——

   But since the emergence of the plague, the originally stable situation has fallen into a terrible vicious circle.

The    processing link becomes aware of the situation, rush to the location, clean up the curse of pollution plague, return with the curse of pollution plague, and go to the next task. Or know the situation, rush to the location, beware of the plague, clean up the curse of pollution plague, stay in place to clean up the plague, and return to the next task.

   These plagues caused by monsters or corpses delay the cleaning speed of the knights. The delayed cleaning makes the plague appear more frequently on the residents, and the outbreak of the plague makes the cleaning speed of the knights slower...

   "The way we count the population is the rate of shrinkage... Residents will move inwards when there is a spare room, which can barely reduce the frequency of plagues and deaths..."

   The only "good news" is that the death toll in the Wiener Refuge is declining...although it is still pessimistic: daily deaths as a percentage of the total population are increasing.

   These are all written in the letter sent by Mateus, but neither cruel nor despair is as detailed as what he talked and saw at the moment.

   Matthaus followed Lu Li who had left the sofa and stopped by the window, watching him lift the curtains.

  There is no view, and the icy rock wall blocks all views.

"Here."

   Mateus left his seat and went to the next window to draw the curtains.

  In the dark cave, there are exquisite houses like the old days, and the people living here still have leisure to wander the streets.

   After all, this is the inner ring of the inner ring, where the real nobles and politicians live.

   "Is the death rate of residents in the inner ring very low?" Lu Li asked.

   "Yes...unless the evil spirits broke into the inner ring. The most serious death was the plague brought back by a team of knights half a month ago, which caused an outbreak, and 63 residents died tragically."

   These Lu Li read in the newspaper that day.

  Lu Li watched the people wandering in the "street" and quietly listened to Matthaus' sigh behind him.

   "As long as the old order exists, they will always hold rights and interests..."

   "You are the mayor, why didn't you expel them?" asked the twisted figure.

   "Dignified lady, because they didn't choose the right, but the right chose them." Matteus leaned slightly and said.

   The twisted figure couldn't understand, so he turned his eyes to Lu Li.

   "Order is established by them and controlled by them. They enjoy the benefits of order, and they gain order because of the benefits, just like a vicious circle brought about by the plague." Lu Li explained.

   The distorted figure of Elena blinked.

  Lu Li put it more bluntly: "A person who has knowledge will have rights, and getting rights makes it easier for him to acquire knowledge, and knowledge continues to feed back rights, forming a virtuous circle."

  If this were a man-to-man war, maybe people could get power on their own, but it's not.

   Wiener Refuge is both lucky and sad.

  Sadly it's powerless to stop it getting weaker every day than the day before, luckily it hasn't been invaded by Ability God-level weirdness.

   If there are evil gods and their servants attacking the Wiener refuge area, it is almost impossible for them to resist. By the time the support from the Land of Light arrived, the refuge area had already become a weird paradise.

   Matthaus ended the pessimistic topic and assigned the guest room upstairs to Lu Li and them.

   Both Andrea and Hemgrew need time. Even if all the maintenance workers in the Wiener Refuge worked overnight, it would take at least three days.

During the    period, Lu Li and the others will stay at Matthaus' mansion, waiting for the repairs to be completed.

   But at this time, Matthaus invited Lu Li to watch a "play".

  …

  The parliament did not exist in name only because of the ice-free port of Wiener.

  It still holds a very important authority, even after the dissolution of the Privy Council, its importance has not decreased but increased.

   It’s just that the council can’t take away the power of Mayor Matthaus, who is second only to Lu Li in the eyes of local citizens.

At noon a few hours after Lu Li arrived in the Wiener Refuge, Matthaus, as mayor, called the House of Representatives to the Assembly Hall.

   Buck, with wet curly hair, put on a bathrobe and approached the seat lazily: "Mr. Mayor, what is the emergency that made you call everyone here?"

  Mateus said calmly: "It's still the last proposal. Your Excellency Lu Li will help us, and his allies, the worms, will soon arrive in the refuge area and open up the depth of the refuge area for us."

   "What? Didn't we put the bill on hold?"

   "Because I think it's time to reboot." Matthaus replied.

   Small conversations and discussions reverberated in the parliamentary hall. A few people kept quiet, and most of them were communicating with other MPs around them and expressing their objections to Matthaus.

   Then they looked at the other end of the round table opposite Matthaus.

  David Godoy.

   Elder of the Council, the entire Council or even the entire Refuge District could not find an old man older than him.

Davy Godoy, who was wearing a blanket, looked at him after returning to silence in the hall, and said slowly in an old tone suited to his age: "Mr. Mayor, we understand your dedication to this city and the sanctuary, but This city doesn't belong to you alone, and it doesn't belong to the 20 councillors here..."

   "That's why we have to do this. There are still 87,000 people left in Wiener Freeze Harbor, and it's still a month or two before the reduction in half—"

   bang bang——

  Davy Godoy slapped the tabletop impatiently, interrupting Matthaus rudely.

  The councilors were stunned by his anger, and the empty hall was silent.

   "We are the builders of order, and it is our duty to maintain order. Any motion made by anyone requires the consent of two-thirds of the parliament..."

  Davi Godoy stared at the figure opposite the round table with his drooping eyelids.

   "This is a necessary procedure, Matthaus."

   (end of this chapter)