Chapter 554 The sky has changed

  The military operations against the major gangs in the slums lasted 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 in Boulder City initially sent two thousand-man teams, and later increased to three.

  For the gangs hiding in the slums, such super-standard military power is undoubtedly the cannon to kill flies.

   There are not many survivors who hold similar views.

  However, according to the managers, the gang forces residing in the slums have become a breeding ground for predators and crimes.

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

   If you don't solve this problem completely, it won't matter how many marauder tribes you kill, they will spawn like wild monsters.

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

  The alliance not only wants to blast the fly to death with cannons, but also to listen to all the guys who are about to move, let them watch how the fly dies!

   Therefore, the major corps did not hold back, and all those who resisted with guns and had gang symbols tattooed on their bodies were all arrested.

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

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

  There was a dark crowd standing at the gate of Jushi City, ten people were tightly tied with a rope, and there was another area under the viaduct in the distance.

  Jeff, whose head was pinned, was stunned. The gang members he often came into contact with were actually the core ones.

  He didn't even know that there were so many miscellaneous people under his command.

   What made him shudder even more was that the alliance actually knew his family background better than himself.

  West is equally confused.

  Before, he thought that the Alliance was targeting them when they took over Boulder City. Now it seems that these guys may have wanted to do it a long time ago...

   Walking in front of Chu Guang, the wrench stood at attention and gave a military salute.

   "A total of 4,713 people were arrested, and 671 people were killed during the operation!"

  Standing beside Chu Guang, Joey couldn't help but feel slightly moved when he heard the number.

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

  Big Rock City has not counted the number of people in the slums, but it is estimated to be around 200,000.

  Wrench continued with a serious expression.

   "The situation here is probably more complicated than we imagined. We only caught core members near the stronghold and gang members who resisted, and there are also a large number of peripheral personnel hiding inside."

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

  But it’s hard to talk about being wronged.

  The coalition has warned slum survivors to stay home.

  Not in the construction team, not listening to advice, aged between 16 and 35, and carrying a weapon, and happened to be running around near the gang stronghold, it is no wonder that he was caught as a gang member.

  Afterwards, the alliance will interrogate the captured persons separately, release some innocent ones based on their confessions and collected physical evidence, and do whatever they want with the rest.

   Glancing 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 should mainly be reformed, and let the guards register for the record. If there is another crime, they will be severely punished. .”

  It is impossible for people to live in a vacuum. They live under the order dominated by gangs, and the young and middle-aged people in the slums are somewhat unclear.

  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.

  Use the new order to unite a part of the peripheral personnel, thereby minimizing the risk of explosion of bombs buried in the slums.

   Then send troops in to smash the pot of the evil forces.

   That's the whole plan.

  Wrench asked in a deep voice.

   "What to do with these people?"

   "Like the predators, the bandits are killed first and then tried, and 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 words.

   "Forget it, don't send them to a prisoner-of-war camp, let's set up a punishment camp, the tide is coming soon."

  It seems inhumane to lock criminals and prisoners of war together. It is better to separate the garbage.

"yes!"

  Wrench put his right fist on his chest as a military salute, then turned and walked towards the troops not far away, calling in his subordinates to arrange work.

   After handing over the punishment of these gangsters to the wrench, Chu Guang looked at the suitcase lying on the snow beside him.

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

   This is loot seized from the Dagger Gang stronghold.

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

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

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

  Following Chu Guang's eyes to look at the banknotes, Joey frowned, and continued in a low voice, "I heard a long time ago that there are people from the Free State among 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 gangsters and mercenaries, bounty hunters, etc., and finally government troops and police.

  They sell to the predators the weapons of the civilized man, and export the methods of the predator to the civilized man.

  However, compared to pure predators and survivors, companies in the Free State prefer to do business with the existence between the two.

  Because of doing business with such customers, they can export weapons and experts at the same time, and get more lucrative remuneration.

   Chu Guang nodded and spoke slowly.

"As I have heard, people from the Free State 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 them. With the cake in their hands, they don't pay much attention to those people, and occasionally make some deals with those people, letting those people do some dirty work that they are not convenient for themselves."

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

  Their acting style is very secretive, and they are used to establishing another set of hidden rules under the established order, and then squeeze additional benefits from marginalized groups and the weak.

  Because they will not touch the cake of vested interests, and will even cooperate with vested interests, most settlements or survivor forces do not really want to spend that effort to deal with them.

   "It's difficult..." Joey sighed, "If we don't solve the trouble 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, we have to do it."

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

"Even if there is no neighbor to the north, the wasteland will export chaos to us all the time. If we want to maintain the results, we must do a good job in the aftermath, establish a perfect mechanism, and block all possible loopholes. Then, bit by bit Minimize the living space of those cockroaches until our alliance has no soil for them to live in."

   It cannot be said that flies do not bite seamless eggs, but there are also places in this wasteland that the Buguera 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 needed."

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

   "It has been an honor to serve you."

  …

   In the second half of the night, the weather was calm and nothing happened.

  The next morning, the sky is not yet fully bright.

  Twenty disgraced gang leaders were escorted by a centurion 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 merchants who often come to Boulder City to do business know those guys who are tied hands and feet, and some people even called out their names in surprise.

   "Jeff...and West?!"

   "The head and second head of the Dagger Gang!"

   "The third master is also there!"

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

   "Good guy, the three major gangs have gathered?!"

   "What is the alliance doing?"

  People were curiously looking at the entrance of the huge wall, watching the Union soldiers put plastic hoods on those people, and whispering about what the Union was planning to do.

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

   I saw twenty soldiers carrying rifles, walking in neat steps, walking not far behind the group of people, and then loaded the rifles without saying a word.

  Some wastelanders had a vague premonition of what was going to happen next, but they couldn't believe that the alliance really did this, and surprise was written on their faces.

   "Bang bang—!"

   There was a burst of gunshots, and a **** mist exploded from the backs of the heads and backs of the twenty culprits, who fell silently into the snow.

  They probably feel that they have 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 that they were not psychologically prepared at all.

   There was a fatal one alive, twitching on the blood-stained snow, the plastic covering his head rubbed off.

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

  The boss of the Dagger Gang!

   "Ka...ah..."

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

  The shape of the lips seemed to say—

  ‘Give me another chance. '

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

  Finding that there was still one leader of the looters left, the young man quickened his pace and walked up, picked up his rifle and shot him in the head again.

"boom-!"

   There was a deathly silence in the marketplace.

   Only the fading away echo remains.

  Jeff's pupils gradually dilated, and his outstretched arms fell into the snow, thus ending his life full of evil.

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

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

   These guys are serious!

  Even a big shot like Jeff was killed!

  The sky here seems to have really changed...

  Except for those spectators, some looters and gang members stranded in the market were even more terrified, their hands and feet trembling.

  The alliance has blocked the entire market, they have no place to run.

  If those who got caught confessed them...

  Many people unconsciously glanced at the window where they surrendered, thinking desperately whether they had a chance of surviving.

  Different from the wastelanders in the market with different thoughts, the gang members who were detained next to the execution ground were almost without exception pale, as if they had lost their souls.

  Some people were frozen, some people were frightened.

  Seeing the boss's corpse lying at the gate of the city, almost everyone's calves could not help but tremble.

   Some people didn't hold back their urine, and their pants were wet a lot. Some young or timid people just cried out loud.

  Most people are afraid of death.

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

  The soldier standing guard with his rifle in his hand glanced at these villains coldly, and the corner of his mouth twitched disdainfully.

   Now you know you are afraid?

  What did you do early?

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

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

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

  The gangsters in the market were the first to plead guilty, and those who were hiding by chance were also confessed by other businessmen.

  Since the alliance is for real, those businessmen who do business honestly don’t need to worry about retaliation afterwards.

Then there are the captives who were caught in the slums, some of them even confessed to the little things about stealing chickens and dogs, and some of them went mad and bit them, searching their guts and confessing all their accomplices they knew , to seek leniency.

   The list quickly became long.

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

  The scale of the punishment camp increased instead of decreasing, reaching more than 5,000 people.

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

  Among them, children aged 12 to 16 are the majority. According to statistics, there are more than 3,000 children.

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

  The news was soon published in the Survivor Daily.

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

  …

  Ideal city.

  In a towering building.

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

   "There are so many victims..."

   This newspaper was sent by the Alliance embassy.

   And it was brought by Shuyu himself as an ambassador.

  Although it may be a bit cold-blooded to say so, there are many more tragic tragedies in the wasteland than this one. He doesn't want to intervene other than giving the alliance a thumbs up.

  Looking at Wu Changnian who was lost in thought, Shuyu said sincerely.

"We need your help! To be honest... just helping the survivors in Boulder City is already beyond the upper limit of our capabilities. Now there are 200,000 more survivors who need to be rescued. It is difficult for us to help them alone. "

   Wu Changnian closed his eyes and sighed again.

   He knew that Boulder City was one of the survivor settlements under the War Construction Committee, and many factories there were helped by the production department of the company's predecessor.

  Things back then were too complicated. There were human factors and non-human factors.

   And those settlements forced to fend for themselves are just an episode among many problems.

  After the council learned that the weapon was in the hands of the Alliance, it didn't ask about the Boulder City anymore. Unexpectedly, after more than half a month, he would have a headache for the survivors 3,000 kilometers away.

  Lighting his index finger on his knee, Wu Changnian asked in a deep voice.

   "What do you need?"

  Based on his previous experience in dealing with the alliance, those people will never let go of any opportunity to get wool from them.

  However, Shuyu's answer was beyond his expectation.

   "Teacher!"

   Wu Changnian froze for a moment, thinking he had heard wrong.

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

"Well," Shuyu nodded earnestly, "The alliance's full-time schools and evening 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 more people."

"I understand what you mean, this is indeed a problem," Wu Changnian breathed a sigh of relief, and continued after a moment of contemplation, "...we will collect donations for you on the endpoint cloud, and recruit some volunteers to help you, but you have to Keep them safe."

  This kind of matter is not worth discussing on the board of directors. It is more appropriate to solve the problem within the purview of the General Management Department.

   Obviously, the Alliance didn't want to owe too much favor to the company, so it didn't make such excessive demands as "send those people to Ideal City".

  It only mobilizes civil forces, and it doesn't take much budget.

   Having received the promise from the deputy minister, Shuyu also heaved a sigh of relief, with a sincere smile on his face.

   "Please rest assured! We will not only guarantee their personal safety, board and lodging, and health, but also pay them full salaries!"

  Wu Changnian said with a smile.

   "That's not necessary. Most of the residents here who are interested in helping survivors outside have good living conditions. You should be responsible for their board and lodging."

   Shuyu shook his head and said persistently.

   "This is two different things. As long as we work here, we must be paid, and how dare we let those kind-hearted people pay for it? Just take it as a little bit of our heart!"

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

   "Then I thank you for them."

"Where, we are the ones who should say thank you!" When it came to this, Shuyu smiled embarrassedly and continued, "By the way, in addition to teachers, we also need some medical staff, as well as medical, Biologists."

   Wu Changnian froze for a moment.

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

  Shuyu looked ashamed.

"The timing is too unfortunate! Every year in the early spring, there will be waves in Qingquan City, especially after the warm winter. Now that such a big event has happened, our manpower is very tight in various senses... not just educational resources, including medical treatment, 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 the predecessors. We can't leave those poor people alone."

  Although it could be heard that the upright young man was referring to the People's Federation earlier, Wu Changnian's eyebrows still twitched uncontrollably.

  Coughed lightly to cover up his embarrassment, he said with the majesty of an elder.

   "I will help you find a way."

  With a bright smile on his face, Shuyu nodded vigorously.

   "Yeah! Please!"

  Wu Changnian stared at the young man for a while, and always felt that this guy looked a bit like an acquaintance.

   Especially that sentence, it’s so similar!

   Is it an illusion?

  …

   Obtaining external support is only one part of many tasks.

  The aftermath work done by the alliance for this "military operation" 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 punishment camp were taken by the First Corps to Qingshi County in the north of Shuguang City.

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

  With the major gangs completely smashed, the slums and bazaars have been lifted one after another.

Some wastelanders went to the wilderness with complaints and chose to leave this dangerous place, but most of them, after seeing the alliance's resolute and iron fist, became more confident in the future of Boulder City, and therefore chose to stay .

  In addition, despite such a major event, the New Year's Eve activities have not been cancelled.

  In the words of the managers, the new order established by the alliance is to make it difficult for bad people, not for good people.

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

   Besides, this is not a problem.

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

   Boulder City City Hall.

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

  “…with so many people gathered in the street, and it was night, I worry that the ones who missed out on the previous operation might take this opportunity to take 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 the Boulder City was merged into the communication range of Dawn City, Xiao Qi has already taken over the camera of this giant wall, and every player waiting to explode the gold coins is his eyes.

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

  The captain of the guard hesitated for a while, then whispered.

   “…I’m actually more worried about them coming after you.”

   Mentioning this sentence, Chu Guang smiled faintly.

   "That's better, I wish for it."

   The players are becoming more and more capable. Although he has not neglected to exercise, it has been a long time since he took action himself.

  If there are really unsightly guys who want to make a fool of himself in front of him, he doesn't mind going through a couple of tricks with those guys.

   Otherwise, Heya would know how strong he is in the entire alliance, and the attribute panel of the pentagonal warrior would be a waste.

  The captain of the guard was stunned for a moment, obviously unable to be corrected by this sentence, he couldn't laugh or cry for a while, and didn't know what to say.

   It's okay to ask for it...

  Although he knew that there were many masters in the Guards Corps, and that the esteemed administrator always kept the power armor on his body in public, he felt that it would be better to be careful.

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

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

   "Come in."

  The door opened a crack, and Alisa glanced left and right to make sure that no one saw it, then quietly entered the door, and then closed the door lightly.

  Looking at her cautious look, Chu Guang couldn't help smiling, and put down the pen he had just picked up.

   "Is someone following you?"

  Hearing this ridicule, Alisa 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 have already come, I can't let you hold back your words," Chu Guang joked, and continued, "Tell me, what's the matter."

   "…is about Vault 101."

  For some reason, Alisa hesitated for a long time with a look of embarrassment, before continuing in a low voice, "Is it really as magical as Pai said?"

  (end of this chapter)