King Of War: Starting with Arms Dealer-Chapter 1626 - 1325: Unexpected Changes

Ever since Joe Ga arrived, Rocinha has rapidly transformed...

In the past, every entrance to the Rocinha Slum was controlled by gang gunmen, but now they have all been replaced by cadets from the P·B Military Training Camp. Vehicles without an internal pass are not allowed to enter the slum.

Brazil's slums are a completely different world, where the execution power of gangs is activated to surpass that of the world's top 500 companies.

A large, abandoned factory near Rocinha was directly occupied, and the Ling Cat warehouse was moved over.

Vast amounts of grain, vegetables, and meat products are transported daily from other states...

People inside the Rocinha Slum only need to tap on their phones, and delivery workers wearing heavy masks will bring the items they need to their doorsteps.

The drug lords are in excruciating pain from the extortion but dare not resist because Joe Ga has set up a 120mm mortar position on the top of Rocinha, along with numerous micro-missiles...

With unmanned airships monitoring from above, there's no way to fight back!

Moreover, Joe Ga has provided a massive amount of medical and living supplies, putting on a show of wanting to save Rocinha. If the drug dealers resist, the locals will be the first to object.

They can only dutifully pay up and then apply for an exit pass. The delivery men must protect themselves to the standard of delivery workers. After returning, they can only live on the outermost areas and can only go home after confirming there are no issues.

In fact, what is called home isolation simply doesn't exist in Rocinha because not everyone has a phone, let alone does every household have a TV.

People here are inherently free-spirited. Being able to implement a curfew, not allowing people out after 8 PM, is already the limit.

The formalism arranged by Joe Ga is mainly for show to the outside world...

Of course, having the outbound workers fully armed and under long-term monitoring does effectively alleviate virus intrusion.

Plus, a designated area has been set aside for centrally managing patients with severe symptoms...

With sufficient medical strength, Rocinha's mortality rate will soon drop to normal levels or even below the outside average.

Formalism is a derogatory term, but for the people of Rocinha, even executing a part of the rules from formalism is good!

Rocinha is not just a community; it has 300,000 people, several football fields, eight hospitals, many handicraft workshops, and numerous small shops...

Since Joe Ga arrived, there are now hundreds of open-air cinemas and thousands of 'Biochemical Tents' scattered among the various small communities...

People with fever symptoms in the small communities voluntarily stay in the 'Biochemical Tents,' which are equipped with beds, TVs, ventilators, and someone to deliver meals...

Others should remain as inactive as possible during the day. If they want to leave their community to go elsewhere for fun, they must wear their masks tightly; if caught, they will be punished.

Gradually, the people of Rio de Janeiro noticed something amiss...

The wandering gang members on the beach disappeared, as did the idle poor kids.

Those once whizzing down the streets now don thick masks and goggles.

The prices on the delivery websites have increased; simultaneously, because of the virus, fewer people are dining out, and more are ordering takeout. Under these dual influences, Andrea Company's revenue continues to hit new highs.

With Rocinha under control, the entire Rio de Janeiro has become much quieter...

But the reduction in violent incidents has shifted everyone's attention to other issues, like the virus...

Once the source of chaos was quiet, the cries of anguish from the medical system began to be amplified!

With Rio de Janeiro's vast population, when the news of funeral companies needing to queue hit the TV, when hospital morgues started overfilling, and when healthcare workers continuously sought help through media, people naturally began to tense up.

To be honest, with such a big city, several hundred deaths a day are nothing.

But the sight of morgues packed with bodies, and having to transport corpses with refrigerated trucks for burial, is indeed very shocking for ordinary people.

People often say that a single grain of sand from the era on an individual is like a mountain.

Now, the 'grain of sand' is faced by healthcare workers lacking medical supplies...

With Rocinha quiet, without the noise interference, the cries of healthcare workers were magnified, amplifying the common people's eeriness!

When everyone turned their attention to Rocinha, they found that the situations there were entirely different from what they imagined.

Joe Ga especially spent money to hire media to report on the hospitals in Rocinha...

With enough medical supplies and salaries, there are motivated doctors and nurses and patients willing to receive treatment.

Along with the optimistic 'residents' in the 'Biochemical Tents' within each community, all these scenes stood in stark contrast to those in Rio's hospitals.

At this point, Rocinha seemed like the normal place, while Rio's urban areas seemed rather backward.

Occasionally, the media 'covertly filmed' doctors from other hospitals in Rio driving tens of kilometers, behaving as secretive as drug dealers, calling insiders at Rocinha Hospital to smuggle some medical supplies...

This situation is both comical and helpless!

And with it comes anger!

Everyone feels that if Rocinha can do it, why can't Rio's medical system?

There must be embezzlement involved if medical supplies are insufficient...

Then, when Rocinha's monthly achievements were compiled into data, the extremely low mortality rate greatly disturbed the people of Rio.

People wouldn't consider that most of the real old and weak in Rocinha have already died in the past 11 months.

People would only think this is a good method...

Then, when they voluntarily started wearing masks, they found that masks had become scarce...

The stock in offline stores had long been swept clean by those delivery guys shuttling through the streets and alleys, with nothing left to sell.

Then those who frequently used the delivery app found that the stopped operation of Lingmao had restarted.

The homepage of Lingmao had masks, disinfectant, hand sanitizer, cheap bread, and those once impressive cheap daily necessities...

But when people wanted to place an order, they were surprised to find that Lingmao only had services open for Rocinha.

Clicking on any product would pop up an apology letter, the general content being...

Due to the opposition from some politicians and extremist organizations within the Brazilian Government, Lingmao warehouses suffered devastating losses.

Now Lingmao's public business stops, currently only open to users in the Rocinha slum out of humanitarian need.

After this letter was exposed by the media, Rio exploded...

The devaluation of Brazilian currency and severe inflation, wage cuts and unemployment caused by the virus, pushed those without savings habits to the brink of bankruptcy collectively.

When some originally boycotted Lingmao, everyone was silent, thinking that losing a cheap shopping platform shouldn't have much impact...

But now it's different!

Essential masks, essential disinfectant...

0.99 real for a baguette, 1.99 real for three bars of soap, 2.99 real for a vegetable pack, 3.99 real for a chicken fillet, 4.99 real for fish, 5.99 real for steak...

And those once unbelievably cheap daily necessities are too important for most of the middle and lower classes...

As a result, they are not allowed to sell!!!

This is unbearable!!!

Demand can change many things...

Triggering essential demand can have a huge impact!

Joe Ga's medical supplies have the ability to supply the entire city of Rio, but are powerless for the whole of Brazil.

However, what he wanted was to ignite a fire...

When Jorge and Matias approached him, he regrettably expressed that he was unable to do more, and taking care of Rocinha was already the limit...

Then, Joe Ga turned around and took the media to visit Lingmao's temporary warehouse, and due to a staff mistake, a massive amount of masks, protective suits, and ventilators were exposed to the cameras...

Faced with reporters' questions, Joe Ga spread his hands and said, "These goods are all from Hua Country, some people don't allow these things to be brought in for sale, there's nothing I can do...

I talked to Mayor Matias, he said he could not convince parts of the Rio council to accept Lingmao's existence.

Even some people in Brasilia see Lingmao as a tumor, so there's nothing I can do..."

Just after Joe Ga finished speaking, protests erupted in Rio the next day, and then, under the momentum of Jorge Andres' faction, the protests began to spread within Brazil.

The fact proved that when pressure is adequate, politicians in South America are weaker than anyone imagined...

First, people in the Bosoro government softened, the proposal to kick Huawei out of the 5G bidding was shelved, then Jorge Andres' faction unexpectedly imported virus vaccines from Hua Country...

The latter is a symbolic taking of sides!

President Bolsonaro suffered a major political trauma in this matter, casting a deep shadow over his upcoming election next year.

"The right to survival outweighs all other rights"

Joe Ga utilized Rocinha's uniqueness to amplify the people's survival needs, making all conspiracies give way to this.

Of course, this can only happen in a place like Brazil with its exuberant and passionate people, during a period of intense battles between unions and capital politics.

Moreover, this time will be very short, at most half a year, economic pressure will once again lead Brazilians into a dilemma.

But this has nothing to do with Joe Ga. His main purpose was not to push Brazil toward the motherland, because that's only a matter of time.

What Joe Ga wants is to force his rivals to make wrong decisions...

Aaron sent intelligence about the Gvir Family, the boycott of Lingmao and the burning of warehouses were done by this family through a Brazilian far-right organization.

Joe Ga didn't touch this far-right organization, he just caught a few arsonists, waiting for the big fish to appear...

However, Joe Ga underestimated the power of these people, they weren't just making arrangements in Brazil...

The situation in northern Syria also changed at the same time...

When Joe Ga received the news, he realized how huge a problem his 'greed' had caused.