Chapter 341 The beginning of chaos
The setting sun was like blood, shining on the tall walls of the ancient city of Chongyi, stretching the shadows into a distorted and grotesque shape.
The gray outer wall tiles were covered with visible bloodstains, emitting a foul and rotten smell.
Only a few months after the end of the world, this commercial building complex, which was completed less than five years ago, has been stained with an unconcealable sense of decadence and loneliness...
It is like a dying beast crawling on the land of Chongyi, with a strong aura of twilight all over its body...
Not only outside the ancient city, but also inside the ancient city, it is so quiet that there is almost no sound.
The gaps between the ancient buildings with green tiles and flying eaves in the city are almost filled with simple shacks of all sizes, so crowded that even a foot can't be placed. Urine and feces are piled up everywhere, and the hot steam generated by fermentation evaporates and squeezes out of the gaps with difficulty, floating into the sky...
The earth was breathing hard under the crowded crowd of 30 people...
"We want food! We want to be full! We want human dignity!"
"We are not animals! The gathering place must provide us with basic living security!"
"We don't want the rise of the gathering places, we just want the lives of the common people!"
"We have the right to know! Are your top brass secretly escaping? Where is Zhou Yu? Where is the Crystal Core Warrior?"
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Hundreds of people suddenly showed up in front of the retro official residence in the north of the city, holding banners they got from somewhere, with large, bloody, and illegible characters writing accusations on them!
The strokes are crooked and look like ghostly talismans, just like a wronged ghost seeking revenge!
The sudden gathering of protests made the guards in front of the official residence feel like they were facing a powerful enemy. They subconsciously opened the safety of their pistols and confronted each other vigilantly!
The once stagnant ancient city of Chongyi is now boiling!
"Dear survivors, please remain restrained and do not make any noise!"
"The leaders are attending an important meeting and will come to see you after the meeting!"
With the increasing number of protests in recent days, the captain of the garrison team at the official residence in Chongyi gathering place has become more and more skilled in this.
Almost like a conditioned reflex, I tried to calm the survivors according to the procedure.
However, today this group of people seems to be unusually violent!
"Fuck you, let Zhang Shishun come out to see us! Don't do Tai Chi for me!"
"Hold a meeting! I'm holding a meeting for you! I'm starving to death every day, and they still have the nerve to hold a meeting! How can they starve us to death in a meeting?!"
"Yes, yes! Let Zhang Shishun come out to see us!"
"What the hell, a guard dog! I pay taxes!"
"Let Zhang Shishun come out to see us!"
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In the heat of the moment, the survivors started cursing and grabbed the feces they had prepared in their pockets, and threw them at the garrison like catapults!
The feces fell like raindrops, catching the garrison off guard. Almost everyone in the garrison was hit, and a foul smell quickly spread in front of the entire residence.
The captain of the garrison team, Tang Yu, was closest to the crowd and was attacked directly in the face. His entire face was covered with feces and he could hardly open his eyes. He looked extremely miserable!
Tangyu was extremely angry!
This group of people are simply crazy, psychotic, and mad dogs who bite anyone they see!
"Attack the garrison! Capture them all, no one shall escape! If there is any resistance, execute them on the spot!"
As Tangyu Tiexue's voice fell, the garrison members who were attacked by feces pounced on the protesting crowd like hungry tigers out of a cage.
boom! boom! boom!
A dozen burly garrison members in uniform drew their whistles and shouted, "Hold your heads and squat!" while rushing into the crowd and hitting anyone they saw!
All of a sudden, wailing began. The unequal energy intake between the two over the past few months had caused a huge generational gap in physical fitness!
The survivors neither dared nor had the ability to resist, and could only be beaten and run away!
But it’s okay. Although they are extremely angry, the garrison members still know how to restrain you as long as you hold your head and squat. They will stop restraining you!
Behind the crowd, many people turned around and ran away when they saw that the situation was not good.
Rub oil on the soles of your feet and get away!
The garrison members were too busy to care about what was happening. While Tang Yu was cleaning the feces off his face, he saw the survivor running away, but did not react.
The reason they said they arrested all of them was just to intimidate the protesting survivors. How many people were there in the garrison? How could they arrest all these hundreds of people without shooting?
In addition, superiors have also issued orders that when dealing with the survivors of the demonstrations, force should be used according to the actual situation on the scene, and in general, they can be dispersed.
Only this group of survivors used shit. Although it was a bit insulting, the damage was not great. Otherwise, it would not be a whistle, but a bullet!
It seems that these survivors are not all fools.
Thinking of this, Tang Yu smiled with some contempt.
After Mayor Zhou Yu brought 10 crystal core warriors to the provincial capital for help, the defensive capabilities of the gathering place gradually became exhausted. Especially in recent times, the mutant beasts were fine, but the frequency of attacks on the gathering places by evolved zombies became higher and higher, making it hard not to wonder if they were testing the truth!
The attack is getting more and more fierce, and the defense is getting more and more exhausted, almost on the verge of collapse...
It is no exaggeration to say that the Chongyi gathering place has now become a sieve...
For zombie mutants, crossing it is just like crossing a main road in the early morning. The only thing they have to be careful of are the crystal warriors that look like dump trucks.
Today, defensive forces such as the Crystal Energy Warriors, which are truly capable of curbing zombies and mutant beasts, have changed from patrol mode to garrison mode.
This will help reduce the defensive pressure and workload of the Crystal Energy Warriors, so that they will no longer be exhausted and can preserve more strength.
This also means that the defense system of the Chongyi settlement has regressed again, from active defense to passive defense!
Each time, we only need to rush to the accident site after the alarm sounds, without having to go back and forth for patrol and search.
From pre-prevention to post-event treatment.
That is to say, after someone is killed or zombie mutants are exposed, they rush to the accident site to eliminate the invading mutants or mutant zombies.
The mutant beasts are fine, just kill the mutant beasts themselves, the survivors affected are only the victims..
And if it is a mutant zombie, because of its inherent infectiousness, any survivors who may be infected will be eliminated along with the evolved zombies...
This kind of security uncertainty is like adding insult to injury for the survivors who are already starving and struggling on the edge of survival!
As we all know, under long-term nutritional deficiencies, people's emotions are extremely fragile and unstable. Especially with the recent accidents, the survivors can't help but feel anxious about dying!
The elusive zombie mutants made them live in constant fear, and their fragile psychological defenses were almost broken!
The negative emotions of a group are like a clogged water pipe, with nowhere to vent, so they naturally flow to the officials of the gathering place.
Because whether it is food supply or personal safety, the government does have direct responsibility!
It is precisely under this trend of thought that protests and even attacks on official residences have become more and more frequent in recent days, but they have not gotten out of control!
Because Chongyi is an official gathering place, the mayor Zhang Zhishun is not a military cadre who does not understand human nature or herdsmen.
As a leader who rose from the grassroots level, Zhang Zhishun understands the evil in human nature very well! He also understands how to deal with the group!
His rich experience in governing enabled him to keenly sense the danger and respond immediately after the first vicious incident occurred!
disperse!
He ordered that any gatherings in the gathering area, no matter how big or small, must be dispersed!
It is required that the time from gathering to dispersing should not exceed five minutes to avoid group emotions!
All it does is interrupt the casting!
First appeal to their emotions, then explain the reason to them. If reasoning doesn’t work, approve the direct use of force!
There is no upper limit on the extent of the use of force and it depends on the judgment of the front-line commanders!
When using firearms, you need to ask for permission first. If the situation is urgent, you can kill first and ask for permission later!
Zhang Zhishun even said at the meeting: "Regardless of whether the on-site commander's handling method was excessive or not, as long as the result was to disperse the crowd, in principle he does not have to bear any responsibility!"
It was precisely because Zhang Zhishun completely loosened the hands of the front-line stability maintenance personnel that the overall situation remained under control even though the protests of the survivors in the gathering place had intensified in recent days.
Zhang Zhishun knows human nature too well
It is human nature to protect oneself. Without collective cover-up, it is difficult for a single person to cause any trouble.
It’s just like on the Internet, how many angry guys yelling to the sky, have to say thank you when someone steps on their feet offline?
Or some people sit in the audience and chatter endlessly, as if they have endless opinions and suggestions, but when they stand on the stage, they immediately turn off the microphone...
This courage doesn't belong to you at all!
But it belongs to the collective!
What Zhang Zhishun did was to strip off this collective outer layer, leaving all the survivors swimming naked in the sun!
If he dares to jump like this, he should be shot!
