Chapter 554 The sky has changed

   The military operations against the major gangs in the slums continued until midnight.

  The First Corps dispatched two thousand-man troops, and invested a total of fifty-two wheeled armored vehicles, including twelve No. 1 tanks.

The militia of   Boulder City initially sent two thousand troops, and later increased to three.

   For the gangs hiding in the slums, such an out-of-spec military force is no doubt that the cannons are hitting the flies.

   There are not many survivors who hold similar views.

   But in the words of the administrators, the gangs that live in the slums have become a breeding ground for predators and evil.

  They maintain a limited order, but they are also the source of all chaos in Qingquan City.

  If you don't completely solve this trouble, it will be useless to kill how many raider tribes, those guys will be spawned like wild monsters.

  This chronic disease has existed for more than a century and must be treated with strong medicine.

  The alliance will not only use cannons to kill the fly, but also listen to all the guys who are just around the corner and let them watch how the fly dies!

   Therefore, all the major corps did not keep their hands, and all those who resisted with guns and had gang symbols tattooed on their bodies were caught.

   The number of people involved is also larger than everyone imagined.

   Just one gang from the Dagger Gang captured a team of a thousand people. The second largest gang, Dean Gang, had more than 800 members, and the Poison Gang had 600 members.

  The megalithic city gate stood in darkness, ten people tied with a rope firmly, and there was another piece under the viaduct in the distance.

   Jeff, who was pressed on his head, was stunned. The gang members he often came into contact with were actually the core ones.

   He didn't even know that he had so many miscellaneous people.

   What made him shudder even more was that the Alliance knew more about his family than himself.

  West is just as dumbfounded.

   Before he thought the Alliance was taking over Boulder City, he was eyeing them, but now it seems that these guys wanted to do it a long time ago...

   Walking to Chu Guang, Wrench stood at attention and gave a military salute.

   "A total of 4,713 people were arrested, and 671 people were killed in action!"

   Standing next to Chu Guang, Joey couldn't help but be moved slightly when he heard the number.

   "There are so many people ... almost two percent of the total population of the slum."

  Boulder City has not counted the number of people in the slum, but it is estimated that it is about 200,000.

  Wrench continued with a serious look.

   "The situation here is probably more complicated than we imagined. What we have caught are only the core members near the base and gang members who have resisted behaviors, and there are also a large number of outsiders hiding inside."

   After all, they are soldiers, not police officers handling cases. The execution process will definitely be much rougher, and those who are caught will inevitably be caught wrong.

   But it is impossible to say that he was wronged.

The    coalition has warned slum survivors to stay home.

   Not only was not in the construction team, nor did he obey the advice, he was just between 16 and 35 years old, and he was still armed.

   Afterwards, the Alliance will conduct separate interrogations of the captured individuals, and release some innocents based on their confessions and collected physical evidence, and do what the rest will do.

   glanced at those people in the distance, Chu Guang nodded.

"Catch the big and let go of the small, repeat it several times, focus on cleaning up those organized criminals, and don't let one go. The peripheral personnel who are not deeply involved in the case are mainly reformed, and the guards should register and record. If there is a repeat offense, he will be severely punished. ."

  It is impossible for people to live in a vacuum, under a gang-led order, and the young adults in the slums are more or less obscure.

   In fact, the construction team itself is a means of differentiation and transformation. As long as they work honestly, what happened today has nothing to do with them.

   Unite some of the outer circles with a new order that minimizes the risk of bombs buried in slums going off.

   And then send the army in to completely smash the pot of the underworld forces.

   This is the whole plan.

  Wrench asked in a deep voice.

   "What to do with these people?"

   "Like the looters, the bandits are killed first and then tried, the core members are tried first and then killed, and they are usually sent to prisoner of war camps..."

   After a pause, Chu Guang changed his tune.

   "Forget it, don't send it to the prisoner of war camp, let's get another disciplinary camp, the tide is coming."

   It seems inhumane to keep criminals and prisoners of war together. It is better to keep garbage sorted.

"Yes!"

   Wrench pressed his right fist to his chest and gave a military salute, then turned around and walked towards the troops not far away, inviting his subordinates to arrange work.

   After handing over the punishment of these gang members to the wrench, Chu Guang looked at the suitcase lying on the snow.

   Inside lay bundles of light brown banknotes, each with a face value of one hundred thousand.

   This is the loot seized from the Dagger Gang stronghold.

   There were still some silver coins, dinars and Cr in it, and he had the guards take them to the court and put them together with other stolen goods.

  The rewards for players are calculated separately, and these stolen goods will be confiscated after the trial is over.

   "Bugra...I remember it was Free State money."

   Following Chu Guang's gaze towards the banknotes, Joey frowned and continued in a low voice, "I heard a long time ago that there are people from the Free State in the gangs in the slums outside the city."

  Black gang is one of the specialties of the Free State.

   There, the company's armed forces are the strongest, followed by a mix of gangsters and mercenaries, bounty hunters, etc., and finally the government army and the police.

   They sold the plunderers the weapons of the civilized man, and exported the methods of the plunderer to the civilized man.

   However, the corporations of the Free State prefer to do business with the existence in between, rather than pure predator and survivor forces.

  Because of doing business with such clients, they can export weapons and specialists at the same time, and get better pay.

  Chu Guang nodded and said slowly.

"As I have received, the people of the Free State have bought some nobles from the inner city. According to the statement of the commander named Wei Lun, they noticed the guests from the north a long time ago. But those people hardly touched The cakes in their hands, they don’t pay much attention to those people, and occasionally do some deals with those people, let those people do some dirty work that they are not convenient to do by themselves.”

The   Dagger Gang is a gang supported by the Bugra Free State.

   Their style of conduct is very secretive, accustomed to establishing another set of hidden rules under the established order, and then extracting additional benefits from the marginalized and the weak.

   Since it will not touch the cake of the vested interests, and even cooperate with the vested interests, most settlements or survivor forces do not want to spend that much effort against them.

   "It's hard to do..." Joey sighed, "If we don't solve the troubles in the north, even if we trample these cockroaches to death, a group of small bugs will emerge later."

   "No matter how difficult it is, it has to be done."

   Looking in the direction of the slum, Chu Guang narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Even if there is no neighbor to the north, the wasteland is exporting chaos to us all the time. If we want to maintain the results, we must take care of the aftermath, establish a perfect mechanism, and block all possible loopholes, and then little by little To reduce the living space of those cockroaches, until our alliance has no soil for them to survive."

   It cannot be said that flies do not bite seamless eggs, but there are places in this wasteland that the Bugra Free State cannot penetrate.

   Such as colleges, such as enterprises.

   "...I will communicate with Lovett and Luca about these tasks. Of course, the cooperation of your militia is also required."

   Feeling the determination in that sentence, Joey nodded slightly and put his right fist on his chest respectfully.

   "It is my pleasure to serve you."

  …

   The second half of the night was calm and nothing happened.

   In the early morning of the next day, the sky was not yet fully bright.

   Twenty disgraced gang leaders were escorted by a hundred people to the open space between the market and the main entrance.

  The movement at the entrance attracted the attention of countless people, and the wastelanders who were stranded in the market gathered at the entrance of the market to watch the excitement.

  Many businessmen who often come to Boulder City to do business know those guys whose hands and feet are tied, and some people even called out their names in surprise.

   "Jeff...and West?!"

   "The big boss and the second boss of the Dagger Gang!"

   "The third master is also here!"

   "And the Dean Gang and the Poison Gang..."

   "Good guy, the three big gangs got together?!"

   "What is the alliance doing?"

  People looked curiously at the entrance of the giant wall, watched the Union soldiers put plastic cloth hoods on those people, and whispered about what the Union was going to do.

   But they didn't wonder too long, because the answer was soon revealed.

   I saw twenty soldiers carrying rifles, walking in neat steps, walking not far behind the group, and then loading their rifles without a word of nonsense.

  Some wastelanders vaguely had a premonition of what was going to happen next, but they couldn't believe that the Alliance really did this, and their faces were filled with surprise.

   "Boom!"

   There was a burst of gunshots, and the twenty culprits fell into the snow without a word.

   They probably felt that they still had some value, at least they should have a trial, and they probably didn’t expect the Alliance to kill them directly.

  When the gun went off, they could say they weren't mentally prepared at all.

   There was another one who survived, twitching on the blood-stained snow, and the plastic wrapping over his head was rubbed off.

   That man is Jeff, the underground emperor of the slums and even Boulder!

   The boss of the Dagger Gang!

   "Crack...ah..."

   He opened and closed his blood-drenched mouth, and the blood kept gushing out. He wanted to say something to beg for mercy, but he couldn't say a complete sentence. He could only pleadingly look at the soldier walking towards him and stretch out his trembling hand.

   That lip shape seems to say—

  ‘Give me another chance. ’

  The soldier didn't talk nonsense with him at all, and he didn't know this guy at all.

   found that there was still one looter leader left to send away, the young man stepped up, picked up the rifle and shot him in the head again.

"boom-!"

  The bazaar was dead silent.

   Only the reverberation that drifted away remained.

  Jeff's pupils gradually dilated, his arms fell into the snow, and he ended his life full of evil in such a scrawled way.

   Seeing the leader of the Dagger Gang die like a wild dog, the wastelanders swallowed involuntarily.

   Looking at the soldiers wearing exoskeletons, their eyes couldn't help but bring a trace of fear deep into the bone marrow.

   These guys are real!

   Even a big man like Jeff was killed!

   The sky here seems to have really changed...

   Apart from those who were watching the excitement, some looters and gang members stranded in the market were even more frightened, their hands and feet trembling.

The    Alliance has blocked the entire market, they have nowhere to run.

  If those caught accomplices confessed them…

  A lot of people unconsciously glanced at the window where they turned themselves in, thinking desperately whether they had a chance to survive.

   Unlike the wastelanders with different thoughts in the market, the gang members who were imprisoned next to the execution ground were almost all pale, as if they had lost their souls.

   Some people are frozen, some people are scared.

   Looking at the corpse of the boss at the gate of the city, almost everyone's calves couldn't help shaking.

   There were also some people who didn't hold back their urination, their pants got a lot wet, and some young or timid people simply cried out loud.

  Most people are afraid of death.

   Those who are not afraid of death have long since died in the firefight before dark yesterday.

  The soldier standing guard holding his rifle glanced coldly at the villains, and twitched the corner of his mouth in disdain.

   Now you know you are afraid?

  What did you do earlier?

  The shooting took three full rounds, and it was in front of everyone.

   In order to let every prisoner see the fate of these culprits, the wrench deliberately brought the prisoners to the giant wall in turn to watch.

   Perhaps seeing the miserable end of those leaders, the follow-up interrogation work went a lot smoother.

  The gang members in the market were the first to confess their guilt, and those who hid by luck were also offered up by other traders who did business.

  Since the alliance is genuine, those businessmen who do business with honest duties naturally don’t need to worry about retaliation afterwards.

And then there are the prisoners caught in the slums, some of them even confessed the trivial things about stealing chickens and dogs, and some people are biting like crazy, scouring their stomachs and confessing all the accomplices they know. , for leniency.

The    list quickly became a long list.

  Although some unlucky ghosts who were implicated were released, some people were brought out one after another from the slum.

The size of the    Punishment Battalion did not decrease but instead increased to more than 5,000 people.

   At the same time, as the dens of thieves hiding in the slums were destroyed one after another, some of the controlled survivors were also rescued.

   Most of them were children between the ages of 12 and 16. According to statistics, there were more than 3,000 children.

  Because of living in a dark and humid environment for a long time, some people not only suffered from lung disease, but also severely degraded their eyesight. Some people were forced to engage in physical transactions and contracted serious diseases at a young age.

   The news was soon published in the Daily Survivor.

   Not only the residents of the Boulder City, but the entire alliance was shocked by the evil under the shadow of the giant wall...

  …

  The ideal city.

  In a towering building.

  Wu Changnian sitting on the sofa finished reading the "old" newspaper in his hand, sighed softly, and put it on the table.

   "There are so many victims..."

  This newspaper was sent by the embassy of the alliance.

   And it was brought by Shuyu, the ambassador.

   Although it may be cold-blooded to say this, there are more tragic tragedies in the wasteland than this, and he doesn't want to worry about it other than giving the Alliance a compliment.

   Looking at Wu Changnian who was in deep thought, Shu Yu said sincerely.

"We need your help! To be honest... just rescuing the survivors in the boulder city has exceeded the upper limit of our ability, and now there are 200,000 survivors who need assistance, and it is difficult for us to help them alone. "

   Wu Changnian closed his eyes and sighed again.

He knew about    Boulder City. It was one of the survivors' settlements under the War Construction Committee. Many factories there were helped by the production department of the company's predecessor.

   Things were too complicated back then. There were both human factors and non-human factors. No matter how you calculated it, it was all a mess.

   And those settlements that are forced to fend for themselves are just an interlude in many problems.

After the    Council learned that the weapon was in the hands of the Alliance, they did not ask about the Boulder City again. Unexpectedly, after more than half a month, he would have to worry about the survivors 3,000 kilometers away.

   Lightly tapped his index finger on his knees, Wu Changnian asked in a deep voice.

   "What do you need?"

  With his previous experience in dealing with the Alliance, those people will never let go of any opportunity to pluck wool from them.

   However, Shuyu's answer was beyond his expectations.

   "Teacher!"

   Wu Changnian was stunned, thinking he had heard it wrong.

   "...Teacher?" He thought the Alliance would take the opportunity to ask for a sum of money.

"Well," Shu Yu nodded earnestly, "the alliance's full-time schools and night schools are already overloaded, and the infrastructure of Boulder City in this area is blank. We have allocated a large amount of educational resources to Boulder City, but now there are more than 3,000 people."

"I understand what you mean, this is indeed a problem," Wu Changnian breathed a sigh of relief, and continued after a moment of thought, "...We will raise funds for you on Endpoint Cloud and recruit some volunteers to assist you in the past, but you have to keep them safe."

   This kind of thing is not worth discussing at the board of directors, and it is more appropriate to solve the problem within the purview of the General Management Department.

   Obviously, the alliance does not want to owe the company too much favor, so there is no excessive request such as "send those people to the ideal city".

   Just mobilize civil forces, and it doesn’t cost much budget.

   got the promise of the deputy minister, Shu Yu was also relieved, with a sincere smile on his face.

   "Don't worry about this! We will not only guarantee their personal safety, accommodation, and health, but also pay them a full salary!"

   Wu Changnian said with a smile.

   "That's not necessary. Most of the residents here who are interested in rescuing the survivors outside are living in good conditions. You should be responsible for their accommodation."

   Shuyu shook his head and insisted.

   "It's two different things. In our place, as long as it's a job, it has to be paid, and how can we be so embarrassed to let those kind people pay for themselves? Let's take it as our heart!"

   Seeing that the ambassador had said so, Wu Changnian no longer refused and nodded.

   "Then I thank you for them."

"Where, it's us who should say thank you!" When he said this, Shu Yu smiled embarrassedly and continued, "By the way, in addition to teachers, we also need some medical staff, as well as medical, An expert in biology."

   Wu Changnian was stunned.

   "I can understand the medical staff, we can even sponsor some of your medicines... But who are the experts in biology and medicine?"

   Shuyu looked ashamed.

"It's such an unfortunate time! Every early spring, there will be a wave in Qingquan City, especially after the warm winter. Now that such a big thing has happened, our manpower is very tight in every sense... Not only educational resources, including medical care, All aspects of production—”

   Wu Changnian coughed quickly and stopped him.

   "It's really not easy for you."

   Shuyu sighed.

   "No way... It's all to clean up the mess left by our predecessors, we can't just leave those poor people alone."

   Although it could be heard that the upright young man was referring to the Renlian earlier, Wu Changnian's eyebrows couldn't help twitching.

   Gently coughed to cover up his embarrassment, he said with the dignity of an elder.

   "I'll help you think of a way."

   Shuyu nodded vigorously with a bright smile on his face.

   "Hmm! Please!"

   Wu Changnian stared at this young man for a while, always feeling that this guy was a bit like an acquaintance.

  Especially that sentence, it’s so similar!

Is    an illusion?

  …

   Getting support from the outside is just one part of a lot of work.

  The aftermath of this "military operation" by the alliance is far more than that, and I am afraid it cannot be done in a day or two.

  After preliminary screening, the more than 5,000 prisoners who were incorporated into the correctional battalion were pulled by the First Corps to Qingshi County, north of Dawn City.

   They will undergo two months of military training there, and then the Alliance will send them where they are supposed to go.

  As the major gangs were completely destroyed, the slums and bazaars were lifted one after another.

Some wastelanders walked into the wilderness amid complaints and chose to leave this dangerous place, but most of them became more confident in the future of Boulder City after seeing the strong and resolute measures of the Alliance, and therefore chose to stay. .

   In addition, although such a major event occurred, the New Year's Eve event was not cancelled because of it.

   In the words of the managers, the new order established by the alliance is to keep the bad guys from passing the year, not the good guys.

   The joy of the festival cannot be affected by a few flies.

   Besides, it's not much of a hassle.

   On New Year's Eve last year, they just put down their wine bottles and went to the battlefield with their rifles.

   Megalithic City Hall.

  In the manager's office set aside by the new authorities for Chu Guang, the newly appointed captain of the guard team reported to Chu Guang the patrol plan for New Year's Eve, and then hesitantly expressed his concerns.

   "...with so many people gathering in the street, and it's still night, I'm worried that the slippery fish we missed in the last operation might take this opportunity to get revenge on us."

  Chu Guang said calmly.

   "Then let them come. Since it's a matter of time, it's better to come earlier."

   He wasn't worried that those people would make any big news.

   Not to mention that after Boulder City was merged into the communication range of Dawn City, Xiao Qi has taken over the camera of this giant wall, and every player waiting for gold coins is his eyes.

   Afterwards, he will issue an announcement to remind players participating in the event to keep their eyes open and keep an eye on the guys who are trying to do things.

   The captain of the guard hesitated and whispered.

   "...I'm actually more worried about them coming at you."

   mentioned this sentence, Chu Guang smiled lightly.

   "That's better, you can't ask for it."

  The players are getting more and more capable. Although he has not neglected his training, he has not taken action himself for a long time.

   If there are really ugly guys who want to come to him and make a fool of themselves, he doesn't mind playing two tricks with those guys.

   Otherwise, Heya knows how strong he is in the whole alliance, and the attribute panel of the pentagon warrior is simply a waste.

   The captain of the guard was stunned for a moment, obviously he couldn't get it right because of this sentence.

   I can't get it back...

  Although he knows that there are many masters in the Guards, and the respected administrator always keeps the power armor around in public, he thinks it is better to be careful.

   But seeing how confident this lord is in his subordinates, he didn't say much, nodded slightly and turned to leave.

   Not long after the door of the office closed, Chu Guang picked up the pen and prepared to review the documents in his hand. After a while, there was a soft knock on the door.

   "Please come in."

  The door opened a crack, and Aliza glanced left and right to confirm that no one saw it, quietly entered the door, and gently closed the door again.

   Seeing her cautious look, Chu Guang couldn't help but smile and put down the pen he just picked up.

   "Is someone following you?"

   Hearing this ridicule, Alyssa blushed and shook her head.

   "No...that, are you free now?"

   She doesn't really want to disturb the manager's work, especially for her own personal affairs, but after all, it is a major event in her future life, and she still wants to make a choice after careful consideration.

   "You've already come, I can't let you hold back your words," Chu Guang joked and continued, "Tell me, what's the matter."

   "...about Vault 101."

   For some reason, with an unspeakable look on her face, Alyssa hesitated for a long time before continuing in a low voice, "Is it really as magical as Pai said?"

   (end of this chapter)