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Chapter 55 is of the same nature.

Jiang Yu and Zhao Mingyuan followed Zhang Wei to the underground parking garage.

He saw that Nagi Hikaru's automatic A8 was still parked in the parking space.

Zhang Wei drives a gray Haval.

The quality is significantly lower.

Zhang Wei was driving, Jiang Yu was in the passenger seat, and Zhao Mingyuan was in the back.

The car drove out of the underground parking garage, merged into the traffic, and headed towards the north of the city.

The three of them drove around the city for about half an hour before entering an old urban area.

This is the northern part of the coastal city.

Most of the houses in this area are buildings from the 1980s and 1990s, five or six-story red brick buildings, with some of the outer walls peeling off to reveal the gray cement underneath.

Some residents have opened up their balconies and converted them into storefronts.

Some people run jianbing (Chinese crepe) shops, some run barbershops, some run mahjong parlors...

The entire area is covered with the word "demolish".

But those "demolish" characters have been written for many years and they still haven't been demolished.

"This area in the north of the city is one of the oldest urban areas in the coastal area. It has been planned for demolition several times, but it has been shelved for various reasons."

"This area has now become a key focus of the patrol department."

"Because during the period when demolition was suspended, many people built illegal structures, making the number of illegal buildings increase."

Zhang Wei slowed down the car and scanned the buildings on both sides.

"Look at that..."

He pointed to the top of a residential building outside the window.

Jiang Yu looked in the direction he was pointing…

The building was originally six stories high, but an additional story was added on top.

The extra floor was made of corrugated steel sheets and weighed down with bricks on all sides, making it look very rudimentary.

It forms a stark contrast with the six proper concrete structures below.

"That must be a privately built structure, right?" Jiang Yu asked.

"Yes, but the bureau has already registered it and it's in the processing stage, so we don't need to worry about it."

"Okay, okay."

Jiang Yu nodded.

Zhang Wei then pointed to the other side.

"And that one over there, look at that yard."

That was a place that should have been a public green space.

It has now been converted into a courtyard.

A red brick wall was built around the yard, and the wall was covered with broken glass.

Various vegetables were planted inside, and an old man was squatting in the vegetable garden pulling weeds.

"That's also an irregular construction, and it's being processed through proper procedures. It involves civil disputes, so we don't need to get involved."

……

The entire morning's work consisted mainly of wandering around the northern part of the city.

Jiang Yu suddenly felt that the office atmosphere of the inspection department was not bad.

The relationships between colleagues are very simple.

There aren't that many social niceties, backstabbing, and infighting involved.

For example, sitting in the office and doing backstabbing or pretending to have a good relationship.

At noon, the three of them had lunch at a beef noodle shop by the roadside.

The shop isn't big, but business is booming.

The people who come to eat are mostly migrant workers from nearby construction sites and some salespeople in suits.

Or is it a middleman?

After Zhao Mingyuan came in, he kept staring at the people in suits, and it was unclear what he was thinking.

The owner of the noodle shop is a woman in her forties.

She wore a white apron stained with oil and moved very quickly.

Add noodles, ladle soup, add toppings...

"Three bowls of noodles, large bowls with thin noodles, extra chili!" Zhang Wei shouted, his voice booming like a command.

"Okay!"

The older sister responded, but didn't stop working.

Jiang Yu sat on the greasy plastic chair, looking at the bright red chili oil in the bowl, when he suddenly remembered something…

His appetite still hadn't returned.

When he smelled the aroma of fried eggs in the kitchen in the morning, it smelled good, but he wasn't hungry.

Now, seeing the chili oil and cilantro floating on top of the beef noodles...

It's just a stimulation of taste and smell.

My stomach showed no reaction at all.

He had no craving for food...

That state of "not being hungry at all" has continued from Monday until now.

This made Jiang Yu even want to test how long he could continue like this.

Soon, the food was served.

Jiang Yu picked up a piece of noodles with his chopsticks and stuffed it into his mouth…

The spiciness of the chili oil and the saltiness of the beef broth exploded on the tip of the tongue, sliding down the throat and warming the whole body.

To be honest, he thought the noodles tasted pretty good.

No wonder this unassuming little shop has so many people.

It tastes good, but that was just a thought that popped into my head to replenish my energy.

But he felt no satisfaction at all from being full.

……

In the afternoon, Zhang Wei drove them to the development zone in the east of the city.

The development zone has a completely different style from the northern part of the city.

The northern part of the city is old, crowded, and chaotic, with signs for demolition and illegal constructions everywhere.

The development zone is spacious, open, and brand new.

The road has eight lanes in both directions, and on both sides are large construction sites and office buildings that have not yet been put into use.

Zhang Wei brought them here, saying that they had recently dealt with a lot of foreign objects.

These strange objects are all the "merits" of others.

The development zone is located by the sea, and there are several freshwater lakes nearby.

The so-called foreign objects were pets that someone had released into the water that they no longer owned.

"Release them?" Jiang Yu couldn't help but ask.

"Yes, releasing animals. Some people believe in this, thinking that releasing animals can accumulate merit and change one's luck."

"Then they would buy some fish and turtles and throw them into the sea, calling it 'doing good deeds'."

Jiang Yu suddenly remembered seeing a video online of a group of elderly people releasing eels into the sea, and the eels writhing and thrashing in the water, trying to swim back to shore.

It moved like a cobra, snaking and weaving across the sea.

The elderly folks thought the eel had become sentient, and kept chanting "Amitabha, Amitabha."

Actually, the eel wanted to put them in red bean paste.

Releasing freshwater organisms into the sea...

Even Satan would think he's the Holy Mother after reading this.

Zhang Wei's tone carried a hint of helplessness: "Releasing local species is one thing, at most it will disrupt the ecological balance a little."

"The key issue is that some people are releasing animals that are not even native to the area."

"Alligator gar, red-eared sliders, plecos... these creatures have almost no natural predators in the area, and introducing them would be an ecological disaster."

"Alligator gar?"

Jiang Yu frowned: "Don't those fish grow to over two meters long?"

"Yes, and that guy isn't picky about food; he'll eat anything that's alive in the water."

"If someone puts an alligator gar in a reservoir, it will eat all the fish in the entire reservoir."

"Last week, someone released two fish into the landscape lake in the development zone. They were discovered by our patrol team, and after being reported, the special investigation team came and retrieved them."

"Techako is in charge of fishing too?" Jiang Yu asked in surprise.

"Yes, the handling of foreign objects is under the jurisdiction of Tchaco."

Zhang Wei explained, "Don't think that just because the Techako team is a cut above us, they have to do all this dirty and tiring work when it comes to dealing with difficult foreign objects."

Jiang Yu nodded, silently updating his understanding of "Techaco" in his mind.

He had previously thought that Tchaco was a very prestigious department.

You can tell from their salaries.

It turns out that Tchaco is also fishing.

But thinking about it, it makes sense.

The purpose of setting up the city planning bureau is ultimately to "maintain the normal operation of the city".

Catching an invasive species and demolishing an illegal building are essentially the same thing.

The only differences are in scale, difficulty, and handling methods.

In comparison, Jiang Yu admired the patrol officer who used a detector to probe the alligator gar more.

After all, the reporting process requires taking a photo of the foreign object and uploading it.

But perhaps it's unnecessary to make things so complicated for such an obviously invasive species as the alligator gar?

Just take a picture and report it.

While wandering around the development zone, Zhang Wei kept instilling the planning bureau's theoretical knowledge into Jiang Yu and Zhao Mingyuan.

"If a city wants to be well-planned, it must eliminate its hidden dangers."

"It's like developing a mountain that has never been altered by human hands."

"We definitely need to first investigate whether there are any things on the mountain that could harm people or livestock, whether the soil and water environment is intact, the load-bearing structure, and so on."

"Our city planning bureau seems to be a collection of relevant departments..."

"But I personally feel that they are more like the leaders of the relevant departments."