Chapter 144: Life

The conference room suddenly calmed down, and everyone's eyes looked at Lin Xiang. After all, he was the actual controller who truly possessed the highest power here.

Lin Xiang looked into Blanche's eyes and said calmly: "What else is there in addition to these?"

"About 10,000 refugees were stationed on the edge of the wilderness. These people were relatively far from our actual control circle, where they established new settlements and camped and cultivated. You, I must remind you that this is a disorderly behavior. They do not know how to use groundwater resources correctly. These people dig wells everywhere in the wilderness to get water, and the waste is extremely serious. They basically have no hygiene habits, and the feces are directly discharged into the water source area. If this continues, the pollution range will be further expanded, and even affect the urban drinking water and irrigation systems. We must change this situation as soon as possible, otherwise, the danger is imminent-" Blanche almost roared, ending the report with her unique cold tone.

Lin Xiang maintained the etiquette he deserved and smiled slightly: "Miss Blanche, what advice do you have on this?"

"Peaceful negotiations have no effect, and that will only give refugees more confidence and encourage their growing desires-"

Blanche closed the folder and sat upright with seriousness: "We must use force to interfere, control or imprison all refugee leaders. These people are the source of chaos, and even if they are quarantined and enter the city, it will still become a potential instability."

Lin Xiang sat quietly without continuing to ask. The deep eyes of black jade-like eyes released a deep and plain look.

"This will be a massacre." His voice was as magnetic as ever, melodious and melodious as ever.

"We have no choice—"

Blanche stretched out her hand and smoothed her hair in her ears, and her tone became heavier: "If these situations are allowed to continue, the whole city will fall into chaos and there will be no more law or order. I admit that it is indeed cruel to do this, but we must do so. Greed and desire have caused those people to lose their most basic reason, and they will never be satisfied with the existing preferential conditions. Refugees are their private property, and this so-called wilderness group is actually a miniature slave society in ancient times. They will do nothing except using slaves to bring themselves more benefits. I want to take back what I just said... Control and imprisonment can't actually solve any problem. The safest and most effective way... is to kill them all and not leave one-"

"No, you can't do that."

Cobert, who was sitting opposite, shook his head repeatedly: "Killing all the leaders of all refugees can indeed stabilize the situation. But what should we do in the future? What will the other groups who are wandering in the wilderness and waiting and watching? They will never join Yinyue City, and will quickly spread everything that happened here. At that time..."

"Captain Cobert, you are not a refugee, and you will never understand the true thoughts of refugee--"

Blanche's face was pale because of obvious anger, but he still maintained his restraint and deliberately slowed down his speech: "Everyone is afraid of death, and refugees are no exception. The wilderness is full of death traps. Radiation, mutant creatures, thirst, hunger... In order to get a little water that can survive, they will travel hundreds of kilometers long distances from one water point to another wellbore. When they are so hungry that they can't eat, the old and weak in the camp will be shared by everyone. They are more than

Everyone is eager to get rid of this bumpy and displaced life, longing for stability and happiness, and wants to live in a city protected by tall walls like normal residents. But the refugee leaders do not think so, especially those refugee leaders with a population of thousands, thousands, or even larger, who become extremely greedy and cruel. Using their power, they use their generous interests to win over a group of strong thugs as guards and implement rough and barbaric rule throughout the camp. They are free to do so

Kill innocent people indiscriminately and rob those property that does not belong to them. Apart from finding and establishing new suitable settlements, they will never join any city. The reason is simple - they cannot tolerate their own power being separated. Relying on power and high pressure, they can effectively control every refugee within the group and treat the other party as their own private property. Due to the high concentration of weapons and the existence of private guards, refugees cannot resist at all. Once they find someone

When they escape, the leader immediately sent people to chase and kill them, handed over the body to the whole camp to share the food, and the head was cut down on the spot as a threat. I have investigated that except for some smaller groups who expressed their willingness to accept the adaptation and joined the city under the premise of obeying the distribution. All other large groups who stayed around Yinyue City and were waiting and watched were strongly hostile to us. According to the intelligence analysis obtained from different channels, they were even planning a large-scale looting plan."

"Ranked?"

Cobert obviously did not take Blanche's explanation seriously. He turned his body and laughed sarcastically: "Just those refugees? At best, their weapons are old-fashioned muskets, and a few rusty machetes with notches. Can these things break through our building on the periphery of the city, equipped with heavy machine guns and dense firepower warning towers? Miss Blanche, IMHO, your nerves are so tense."

"You don't understand the power structure of the large group of refugees. They have a huge population. The only thing they need is food and water. Everyone knows that Yinyue City is distributing food rations, and the leaders will threaten them, stimulate them, and urge them to fight us with their fists and bodies. There are tens of thousands of refugees around the city. Although they are not evolved people or strengthened people, they have the number we have incomparable comparisons with. At this time, quantity represents strength, the source of confidence and madness. Our only way is to start in advance and kill those refugee leaders who are obsessed with greed-" Blanche was trembling all over, and his voice became a little strange because of his anger.

"Things may be a bit troublesome, but they are definitely not as serious as you said."

Cobert sneered and slowed down: "To develop Yinyue City, more refugees who join the city are needed. We have sufficient food reserves and there is no need to take too intense storage methods. Perhaps, when negotiating with those leaders, we should adopt a more gentle approach and give them more benefits and benefits. As long as they are included in the urban management order, they will quickly change their identities and become ordinary citizens. On the contrary, if they forcibly deprive their leadership of bloody and violent means, it will not only have a negative impact among the refugees, but also keep other groups who are ready to rely on us away. The final result will only be that the number of urban residents is getting smaller and smaller. Miss Blanche, your performance in management is indeed very outstanding. But in the judgment and handling of this matter, I must say that - you seem to have made a mistake."

A trace of pale flashed across Blanche's face, and her eyes contained a pressing anger. She bit her lips tightly, and her slender fingers twisted and twisted each other. Because of too much force, the cyan blood vessels quickly bulged and expanded from under the thin skin, like thick earthworms, winding around the white and tender backs and arms.

"I grew up in a refugee camp.... My father sold me to the camp leader for half a kilogram of black bread. That night, the sixty-four-year-old man raped me with his son. At that time... I had just turned eight."

Blanche's voice was very calm, as if telling other people's stories: "People often starved to death in the camp, and food was not found in the wilderness. Only when passing through big cities and water settlements can women and children be exchanged for some simple food. The rainy season can maintain our normal farming season. Due to the problem of land turning and water source, farming can only last for one year at most. You may not believe it. At that time, I had never eaten enough. According to the leader of the camp,

Rare food is only a necessity for life. Only those big men living in cities and wearing clothes without patches have the right to eat. The thing we usually eat the most is batter porridge. After becoming the leader, I tasted the taste of dry food for the first time in my life. I never knew there was such a delicious thing in the world. Although it was just a piece of baked cake made of mixed barley plants, the taste was completely different from the Qingwu Soup porridge... I still remember it freshly."

Lin Xiang listened quietly. The eyes of the others were also focused on Blanche, listening silently to the stories she told.

"I am the toy of the leader of the camp. He even treats me as a reward for loyalty to his opponents, allowing me to spend the night with them and let the men play with them. Outsiders can't imagine the privileges that the leader has. They wear clean and tidy cotton clothes. Even in winter, when people starve to death in the camp every day, they still enjoy all kinds of hearty food every day. Oil cakes wrapped in jagged candy, fragrant rice, and sweet biscuits dipped in wild honey... Only the leader and the people closest to them are qualified to enjoy these. Ordinary refugees die, and the wilderness is full of lonely wanderers. As long as they can join the camp to get a bowl of batter porridge, they can do anything."

Speaking of this, Blanche's face turned miserable. She raised her hand and wiped the tears from the corners of her eyes: "The leader has absolute power over the rule of life and death in the entire camp. According to the rules, all pregnant women must divide a certain amount of milk into cheese every day. Only the leader is qualified to eat this special food. In order to get more cheese, he even ordered the soup of the newly born baby to feed the woman after giving birth to get more milk... Hahahaha! Eat the meat of his own children and squeeze out more milk for other men to enjoy... Can you imagine that terrible scene? Because you squeeze too hard, there are blood in the milk, and the cheese made will turn pink. This food that even God will tremble and cry after seeing it, the old bastard who has the power to kill the whole camp still eats with relish every day-"

"Why don't you run away?"

Cobert frowned and couldn't help asking. As one of the indigenous people of Yinyue Town, it was hard for him to believe what Blanche said. In order to hide the secret of this sweet water land, except for Wang Biao and several other selected strong townsmen, they exchanged necessary materials with the outside world with the grain produced in the town. For a long time, Yinyue Town was almost completely isolated from the world. Cobert had also heard of some rumors about refugees and mobs, but he had never seen them with his own eyes.

"escape?"

Blanche, who looked sad, shook her head with a wry smile: "The camp implements a management model similar to the pyramid structure. The leader and the guards around him can be said to be the top of the highest power. They divide all refugees into squads, and the captain can get more food and clothes than ordinary people. It is under the control of this kind of power driven by interests, everyone in the camp will be monitored by eyes hidden in the dark. If there is any abnormal movement, they will be discovered by the guards immediately. For men who escape, they will usually draw lots to sell him to slave traders or kill them directly to get meat. If it is a woman, the fate will be even worse. They will be taken by all the men in the camp and locked in a cage and become eternal toys."

"Why don't you resist? Are you just waiting for death in vain?" Cobert really found it difficult to understand.

"Hahahaha! Resist? How to resist?"

Blanche suddenly burst into a nervous laugh: "In books in the old era, there was once mentioned a cowardly animal - sheep. It is said that whenever a wolf flock into the flock and kills randomly, the living sheep will stand by and watch. The refugees are just a group of sheep. They only fantasize that someone will come to save themselves, but they will never have the determination to resist. Of course, there may be a few brave special cases occasionally, but their endings are all miserable. Either they are skinned alive, or they are cleaned and steel bars are used to pass through their bodies, and roasted them on the fire.

The shrill scream before death made every listener tremble and shrunk. The threat of death has smoothed out their anger. In addition, all weapons are in the hands of the guards and relatives of the leader. Even if someone really stands up as the leader of the resistance, other refugees will only silently crouch next to you and watch... The refugees are such people. If they win, they will rush to force each due benefit. If they lose, they will push you high in front of you. Whether you die or live is borne by yourself. Resistance... is just an irrelevant empty word."

Cobert opened his mouth, hesitated for a while, and asked in a dry voice: "My question may be a bit rude, but I still want to know... Miss Blanche, how did you... escape?"

"I bribed a mercenary—"

Blanche took a deep breath, wiped away the tears on her face with her slender fingers, took out a pack of cigarettes from her pocket, took out a lit one, took a hard breath, and licked her dry lips while spewing out thick smoke: "In the wilderness, you can often encounter mercenaries who are seeking sleep at night, and you can often change some useful things from their hands. I slept with a mercenary and got a little potassium hydride from him. I put that white powder

, put it into the soup that the leader drank. While the old guy was poisoned and the guards were in chaos, I lit a fire in the camp and escaped overnight. In the wilderness, I walked for more than two months, and all the food and water were eaten up. Just when I was dying and felt that I was not far from death, I was very lucky to meet the armed patrol of Sosbia... How about it, Captain Cobert, are you still satisfied with my story?"

Cobert, with a gray face, did not speak. The flashing eyes in his eyes showed that his brain was thinking fiercely. After a long time, he slowly stood up and owed to Blanche who was sitting opposite him, saying in the most sincere tone: "Miss Blanche, I apologize to you for everything I just said. Please forgive my ignorance and rudeness, I'm sorry--"

Cobert's attitude was obviously beyond Blanche's expectations. She pursed her lips tightly, pressed the cigarette in her hand into the ashtray, twisted it out, and looked at the man standing opposite her, who had once made her look ugly and doubtful. As if she wanted to hide her thinking, she followed her hair hanging from her forehead. She turned her eyes to Lin Xiang, who was sitting on the top, and said in an extremely earnest tone: "Your Excellency, I still stick to my opinion just now--the best way is to kill all the leaders of the refugee camp. They are cancers that are parasitic in the wilderness, and they must be completely removed by the strictest and direct method--"

The goal has been agreed upon, and the discussion of the specific process and implementation methods will naturally not cause much difference. Half an hour later, when the meeting ended, the staff gradually left and the spacious room became empty again, only Lin Xiang and Cobert were left in front of the long conference table.

"I have to admit that you are really talented in acting." Lin Xiang smiled. His voice was not loud, but it was enough for the other party to hear clearly.
Chapter completed!