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After a brief silence, someone stood up and objected: "No, absolutely not. How many people are there in Avalanche? How many people are there in the slums? Killing all the poor people in the entire seventh district to deal with Avalanche, Heidegger, you are simply a monster."
"In order to maintain Shinra's rule, what if I become a devil? Besides, we are just a bunch of lowly poor people. It doesn't matter how many of them die. The thing the world lacks most is poor people." Heidegger sneered, with a mouth full of shiny teeth. When he opened and closed his mouth to speak, it was like a guillotine colliding up and down.
Then he stood up and faced the silent Shinra president and said, "Mr. President, as long as you nod, I will take people to the seventh block of the slums tonight and kill them all."
President Shinra remained silent, and everyone looked at him with bated breath. Now, if he opened his mouth, it would decide the life and death of countless people in the seventh block of the slums.
After a while, just as the atmosphere in the conference room became increasingly solemn, President Shinra finally spoke.
"No, once the news of the massacre of the poor gets out, anti-Shinra organizations around the world will have even more reasons to oppose Shinra, and then more and more people will oppose Shinra." Shinra's president shook his head.
Hearing this, many people breathed a sigh of relief, and Heidegger also sat down with a wry smile.
"But..." Then President Shinra said, "The people from Avalanche have been too rampant recently. We have to teach them a lesson."
Heidegger was delighted and stood up again and asked, "So how does the president decide to teach them a lesson?"
"You just said that most of the people in Avalanche are hiding in the seventh block of the slums and cannot be identified in a short time, right?" President Shinra turned to ask Tseng.
Tseng nodded: "They live with the poor, it's hard to tell them apart."
"So let's just kill them all and put an end to it once and for all." Shinra's president glanced at Heidegger, "But instead of sending people to kill them, we'll remove the pillars of the seventh district of the disc, let the disc fall down, and bury the entire seventh district of the slums. Then we'll spread the word that it was an Avalanche that did it, in order to completely destroy the No. 7 Mako Reactor and the upper district."
As Barret said before, the upper area is like a sour and smelly pizza. Like the slums, it is divided into eight areas, connected by viaducts in the middle. Falling in one area will not affect other areas at all.
"But... if this happens, the losses will be huge, right?" The Shinra executives, who were shocked by the "big move" of the Shinra president, remained silent for a while, and then someone asked again.
"And repairing the disc and cleaning up the slums will also take a lot of time and resources. President, can we think of other ways?"
"Humph, why do we need to repair and clean up? Don't we in Shinra need that little bit of resources?" Shinra's president said disdainfully, "Even if Midgar is destroyed, we can still build ten cities that are exactly the same, no, even bigger. As long as we can maintain Shinra's rule, what's the big deal about sacrificing a little? It's settled, Heidegger. You decide how to proceed."
After saying that, President Shinra stood up, walked over to Heidegger, patted him on the shoulder, and then left the meeting room.
"Please rest assured, Mr. President, I will complete it beautifully." Heidegger bowed and said respectfully.
When the door of the conference room closed, Heidegger straightened up and glanced coldly at the Shinra executives present: "Please don't go back to rest tonight. Stay at your posts and wait for orders. I hope you can do your best for the long-term rule of Shinra."
After saying this, Heidegger also left, leaving the Shinra executives looking at each other in confusion, and then slowly left the meeting room.
Scarlet was the last one to leave. She had a gloomy face and hurried to her office.
As she pushed open the office door, she waved to Yuffie and Sonon who were chatting in the office, took out her phone and dialed a number.
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Seventh Street, Seventh Heaven Bar.
Tifa kept walking around the bar because she was worried about Shen Ye's safety, while Jessie sat in the corner, looking at her with lifeless eyes.
Although the two women managed to calm down for a while at first with Barret's comfort, it was almost evening and Shen Ye had not returned yet, so the two women became a little uneasy.
Suddenly, the phone in the bar rang. Tifa rushed over immediately, picked up the phone and was about to speak when Scarlet's voice came from the other end of the line.
"Tifa, please stop talking and wait for me to finish."
Hearing Scarlet's anxious tone, Tifa swallowed the words on her lips, and then she heard Scarlet say: "You immediately notify the people in your organization... and Shen, tell them that President Shinra is going to send people to dismantle the pillars of the seventh disk area, so that the disk will fall and bury the entire seventh slum."
"Shen is still alive." After hearing Scarlet's words, Tifa first noticed the news that Shen was still alive, and then screamed, "What did you just say?"
But Scarlet had already hung up the phone, and Tifa could only hold the phone and digest the news that frightened her.
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Shinra acted very quickly. While Shen Ye and Aerith were still on their way to the Seventh Heaven, a large number of Shinra soldiers appeared at various intersections in the Seventh Block in helicopters. Then, under the notification of Shinra's broadcasting media, no one was allowed to enter or leave under the pretext of vigilance and preventing Avalanche members from escaping.
At the same time, the Seventh Disk also began the evacuation operation. Although most of the people living on the Seventh Disk were ordinary Shinra employees, it was difficult to train them as technical resources. Even the powerful Shinra did not intend to consume them like garbage.
Looking at the helicopter flying in the sky, Shen Ye and Aerith felt nervous and sped up again. When they arrived at the Seventh Heaven Bar, there was only Tifa and Marin, who was brought by Barret to be looked after by Tifa.
"Shen, that's great, you're okay." Although Tifa had been restless after hearing Scarlet's notification, she calmed down instantly when she saw Shen Ye returning safely, and she stood up and threw herself into Shen Ye's arms.
"Where are the others?" Shen Ye patted Tifa on the back and asked.
"Jessie informed Barret and the others to go." Tifa raised her head from Shen Ye's arms and said, "Scarlet just answered the phone and said that the president of Shinra was going to send someone to dismantle the pillars of the seventh disk."
"I already know." Shen Ye sighed, then let go of Tifa and said, "You and Aerith take Marlene and leave here first."
"What about you?" Tifa and Aerith, who had already picked up Marlene, asked in unison.
"I'll go stop the disc from falling." Shen Ye took out a pistol and said coldly.