Under the Military's Rule
Yuan Huawei made a calculation in his heart. He felt that it was better to have a more comprehensive understanding of this place, so he found an opportunity to continue asking the middle-aged man.
After a simple investigation, he found out that this man was called Li Mingwei. He was from Qiaobian Town and had been here for more than three days. He was the first batch of refugees to arrive.
Yuan Huawei asked,"Brother Li, you've been here for a few days. What do they do every day?" Why did it seem like everyone was afraid of them?
Brother Li: " Brother Yuan, you came late. There are many things that you haven't experienced. If I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn't have thought that our soldiers had such a ruthless side."
Yuan Huawei: " I feel like everyone here is very afraid of soldiers. How did you treat them…"
Brother Li: "You don't know, but our first batch only had dozens of people. Those soldiers treated us very well. The second batch had more than 1,000 people. They were from several villages. The people in the same village bullied the other outsiders. At first, the soldiers only tried to persuade them, but those people didn't take the soldiers seriously at all. They robbed us when they needed to. In the end, the people from the few villages almost fought with the people from that village. The soldiers came over to mediate." Unexpectedly, those people even injured a few soldiers. In the end, it seemed that a company commander fired two shots into the sky, but it did not scare them at all. Instead, some of them tried to snatch the guns because they had more people. The company commander held the gun with both hands and fired eight shots in a row, killing eight people in an instant. Moreover, his expression did not change. He calmly reloaded the magazine and prepared to continue.
After the company commander finished loading the clip and saw the crowd that had exploded in a split second, he became quiet again under the restraint of the soldiers. Not until then did the company commander start to speak.
Yuan Huawei's companion asked anxiously,"What did he say?"
Brother Li said,"The captain said this."
"I'm good to you, but you don't know what's good for you. Do you have to see blood before you behave? I've been observing these eight people for a long time. They deserve to die. If any of you want to continue making trouble, step forward and let me see!”
Everyone took a step back.
At this point, Brother Li chuckled and continued," He was so f * cking mighty and domineering. Initially, he wanted to continue to lecture the people, but in the end, the topic changed and he started to lecture his soldiers.
" What? What?" A few people around him asked curiously.
Brother Li imitated the captain's tone and said,"What are you all afraid of? Didn't he hear the leader speak to him when he was on a mission? Safety and stability are our top priority. With limited resources, the internal conflicts among the people are more terrible than floods. What we need to do is to suppress these conflicts and protect everyone's basic right to survive. If we encounter such a mass struggle and persuasion is ineffective, we can take down a few troublemakers. The higher-ups will not give you a demerit, but will instead remember your merits.”
"Did you hear me clearly?" The captain suddenly asked loudly,"
"I heard you clearly." the soldiers replied.
"What is our first mission?”The captain continued to ask loudly,"
"Maintain stability." The soldiers answered loudly.
"What should we do if we encounter someone who destroys the stability?”The captain continued to ask loudly.
"Destroy them resolutely!" The soldiers answered as loudly as they could.
Yuan Huawei and the others were stunned when they heard this. No wonder everyone was afraid of the soldiers. All of them were obedient. It was as if they could lose their lives at the slightest disagreement.
Yuan Huawei recalled the soldier's cold-blooded gaze when he distributed the food. He felt a chill run down his spine.
Thinking about the situation here, everyone was especially afraid of the consequences of creating chaos, so everyone was especially depressed. Although this was not a good thing, it was the best thing at this stage.
A young man beside Yuan Huawei could not help but ask him a question. Finally, he stopped stuttering and asked his own question, Brother Li, why haven't I seen a woman since the day before yesterday? Where were they?
Brother Li looked up at the young man and said, How many tunnels were there?
" Oh, oh." The young man suddenly understood. As a result, the people around him laughed.
Brother Li continued,"I advise you not to go there. It's very dangerous."”
"You're not letting your wife go to see her when she's about to give birth?”A man in his twenties asked jokingly.
Brother Li: " Not to mention that my wife is about to give birth, even if she's dead, I can't let a man in.”
Everyone sighed, but they soon started chatting and joking again.
Yuan Huawei softly called two of his companions to go out for a walk. He also left two people to look after the few pieces of clothes that were left behind.
The three of them followed the lane boundary in the middle of the tunnel to the exit. They passed by two new corpses that had been stripped to their underwear. They felt particularly pitiful, but none of them could do anything about it.
They were watched by everyone who was awake along the way. This atmosphere was particularly creepy, and this atmosphere made the dark tunnel seem particularly long. However, this tunnel had an end. Yuan Huawei and the others finally walked out of the tunnel under an inexplicable pressure.
The sun had already risen outside, and it was almost noon. The long-lost sunlight was especially bright, but the northern wind was whistling strongly, and the temperature felt a little colder than a few days ago.
There was a row of five tables next to the tunnel entrance. As it was almost noon, people were attracted to receive food. There were not many people staying here now.
Of the five tables, three were written with various convenience services. The other two were a shop and a medical consultation. This was something that he had not seen when he came over last night.
Yuan Huawei looked around at the tunnel entrance. The surroundings were still desolate, so he walked to the convenience service table. From the moment he walked over to the moment he sat down, the soldier did not even look at him. Since he knew that the soldiers here could not be offended, he carefully asked his question.
Yuan Huawei: " I still have more than 20 villagers in the mountains who need to be rescued.”
The soldier on the other side of the table looked up and glanced at him. He reached out and pulled off an earpiece hanging in his ear, looking at Yuan Huawei curiously.
Yuan Huawei could only repeat what he said."I still have more than 20 villagers in the mountains who need to be rescued.”
"I can't make the decision. You can ask my superior or someone else."”
"Then what can you do here?"”
Soldier: " Register and check the status of the population.”
Yuan Huawei's eyes lit up. He wanted to see what kind of population he had now, so he asked the soldier how to check.
Soldier: " ID number or detailed household registration information and name.”
Yuan Huawei reported his ID number. The soldier typed on the keyboard and said,"Missing population status."
Then, the soldier heard Yuan Huawei mumbling to himself,""How could it be a missing person?"
The soldier looked at the photo on the computer and then at Yuan Huawei. He asked curiously,""What's your name? Come, press your fingerprint."
As he spoke, he stood up and gestured for Yuan Huawei to press the fingerprint recognition area on the computer.
Yuan Huawei said,"I am Yuan Huawei, Yuan as in Big Head Yuan, Hua as in gorgeous, and Wei as in great!"”He followed the soldier's instructions to confirm the fingerprints.
The soldier rolled his eyes at his unnecessary explanation and called him a lunatic. The soldier was unhappy.
Yuan Huawei could only smile apologetically and explain the operation of these things. After that, he checked a few good friends who went to school with him and the female friends he had a crush on. In the end, the results were that many of his good friends were still alive, and only one of them was lost. The female friend he had a crush on was also lost.
In the end, he wanted to record the survival and death of the people in his village. However, he was told that only their immediate family members could record the death. Those who were survivors could only record the information themselves.
Yuan Huawei's other two companions sat at two other tables and asked the medical workers and the shop respectively. The medical workers did not have any medicine at all. They could only provide some things that the sick and wounded needed to pay attention to. The shop had a limited number of items, but the price was extremely high. They only accepted precious metals or barter transactions.
When the other two started to register their personal information, Yuan Huawei went to find the higher management of the unit.
After a few minutes of questioning, Yuan Huawei found the company commander. He was in a military car, listening to information about the war between Zhen Country and Anhao Country.
The two soldiers outside the car were also listening attentively to the news of the war. When they saw Yuan Huawei approaching them step by step, they raised their guns and aimed at him. Yuan Huawei was so scared that he raised his hands.
"I have an emergency to report to the company commander," Yuan Huawei hurriedly said.”
"What's the matter?" a soldier asked.”
Yuan Huawei: " I have more than 20 fellow villagers trapped in the mountainous area in the northwest. Some of them are injured.”
"This is the emergency you were talking about?”
Yuan Huawei nodded.
The two soldiers shook their heads helplessly and smiled. However, they still knocked on the door and reported to the captain.
The captain was curious when he heard that there were still more than 20 survivors in the northwest. He continued to listen to the broadcast on the military channel and asked Yuan Huawei for his exact location.
Yuan Huawei told them the name of a village, but the company commander and the two soldiers didn't know. They had no choice but to take out a tablet computer and switch it to an electronic map for Yuan Huawei to indicate the location.
Yuan Huawei marked the location of his mother and fellow villagers on the electronic map, and then was told by the soldiers to go back and wait for news.
Yuan Huawei didn't expect the matter to end so mysteriously. The soldier and the company commander didn't give a definite answer. They only told him to go back and wait for news.
He returned to the tunnel entrance with a belly full of doubts. He waited from noon until dark. During this time, the helicopter took off and landed four times, transporting a lot of simple food. He wanted to approach the helicopter to tell the crew about the rescue, but before he could approach, he was pointed at by a gun and stopped obediently.
The sky slowly darkened. He was carried back by his two companions because they heard that it would be time to distribute food in half an hour. They had already missed the noon time. If they missed it at night, it would be extremely difficult to bear.
Yuan Huawei sighed and could only return to his " place " helplessly.
In the end, he finished the instant noodles without any taste (fine, this kind of instant noodles didn't have any special taste to begin with), and the day was basically over.
Yuan Huawei ate the instant noodles tastelessly and had no interest in chatting with the people around him. He slept in a daze, while the people around him continued to chat.
They talked about their personal achievements before the catastrophe, their infinite glory, and the allure of women. They no longer mentioned what happened after the big explosion because it was the pain in their hearts. It was as if they would not feel pain as long as they did not mention it. Therefore, slowly, no one was willing to mention it.
The night was even colder. The clothes of the old man who had died before were under Brother Li's body. It was unknown who had taken the money and items. However, the money and most of the valuable items were useless now. They could not be spent even if they were kept on them.
The people around them were still chatting in low voices, telling stories about men and women. From time to time, bursts of laughter could be heard.
Yuan Huawei lay down for a while and realized that he really couldn't fall asleep for a while. He sat up and prepared to go to the toilet first before going back to sleep.
He suddenly sat up, causing the person beside him to tremble in fear. When he realized that he was going to wake up at night, he joked,"Little Hua, are you tired of listening? Do you want to go to the toilet to calm your heart?”
Yuan Huawei ignored them. In this world, as long as men gathered together, it was easy for a situation to occur. Men would always have the habit of telling dirty jokes. However, Yuan Huawei was not in the mood to joke with them.
When he came back from the toilet, he saw that they were still talking about dirty jokes. The people around him were all craning their necks to listen. He could only smile helplessly. He did not know if they were idle or anxious.
After he lay down again, the people around him told a few new or old dirty jokes. They were still laughing and talking, so noisy that he could not calm down and think about things.
He looked at the watch on his companion's wrist. It was almost ten o'clock at night. Usually, he would play a few war games at this time, but now he could only lie here, either sleeping or listening to vulgar people tell vulgar jokes.
Right, war. I heard that Zhen Country was at war with Anhao Country at noon today.
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