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1236、I have seen the light(1/2)

Martial law was already in place in barrier No. 144. Zhang Xiaoman led a full-scale infantry brigade to set up checkpoints in important streets in the barrier to ensure order during retreat.

His mission is to keep civilians from being harmed in case someone takes advantage of the chaos and commits evil.

Before this, everyone was discussing in the conference room what unexpected situations would happen during the evacuation process and what emergency plans would be needed.

When they said this, everyone turned their attention to Ren Xiaosu.

After all, looking at the entire Barrier Alliance, only Xiao Su can be called Barrier Destroyer.

If you count Ren Xiaosu’s experiences, he has experienced 90% of the barriers in this barrier alliance.

After the earthquake of barrier No. 113, it was attacked and destroyed by experimental subjects and human-faced insects.

The Li family barrier was attacked and destroyed by the Li Shentan and experimental subjects.

The Yang family barrier was attacked by Li's nano warriors and was almost destroyed.

The barrier of Zhou's No. 74 was besieged by the experimental subject, and was later detonated by the Qing's nuclear bomb.

Barrier No. 61 was destroyed by the disaster of the creeping walls.

Tin barrier, Kong's barrier...

Even the city in the Wizard Kingdom is no exception.

It seems that Ren Xiaosu is either destroying the barrier or on the road to the barrier.

Even the cause of all this destruction has nothing to do with him.

So when this series of data was summed up, everyone in the conference room hoped that Ren Xiaosu could start from his own experience and talk about what to pay attention to on the evacuation road.

Although barriers No. 145, 144, 146, and 143 have not yet been destroyed, their nature is the same. They are all destroyed to a certain extent in the face of force majeure.

Ren Xiaosu looked at everyone's expectant gaze and couldn't help but sigh in his heart. This was not a topic worthy of fun. He would rather have never experienced these things before.

"If the order collapses on the evacuation road, then all the sins you can imagine will happen," Ren Xiaosu said: "There is no longer trust between people, but this is not something they can decide on themselves. Everyone is like a drowning person. All they can do is to grasp every life-saving straw."

"Everyone began to rush into shops in barriers, or other people's homes, and plunder other people's property in a rude and savage way to serve as a bargaining chip for their own survival."

"Children and women, the elderly will become the most vulnerable group on the way to escape, and some men are beginning to try again to master the most primitive power, dominate the means of production, and dominate everyone's freedom."

"Food and medicine have become the scariest resources, and the value of money has been depreciated. If they are all hungry, then eating a bite is likely to cause death."

"People began to curse those in power because it was the consequence of those in power. However, they soon stopped cursing because they were all about escaping and had no intention of caring about other things."

In fact, Ren Xiaosu has never experienced the most painful thing in the world on his way to escape because he has the strength.

But most people are not as lucky as him. Sometimes the escaped team set off again after resting, and some corpses would be left in the original camp.

No one cares about how they died, they may have been robbed or violated, everything is possible.

Ren Xiaosu continued: "In the war, of course we cannot spend more energy to protect the civilians, but the necessary supplies must be provided. As long as everyone can still eat a bite, the situation will not be despairing, and fewer people will take risks."

Therefore, the top priority on the evacuation road is food.

The large pieces of potatoes, winter melons and pumpkin fields that Zhou Yingxue once planted casually became the key to this evacuation.

These crops planted by the maid are so high that they are incredibly productive.

In order to protect the economic ecology within the barriers, Wang Yuexi was unwilling to put this batch of crops into the market on a large scale. He even had a fight with Zhou Yingxue about this.

And now in the chaotic times, their role has been played out.

Although there are fewer varieties of these foods, it is almost enough not to starve to death at this time, and no one will pay attention to it.

A large number of supplies were transported to the gates to the west of the barrier, and some were transported to the northwest to establish relief stations in the wilderness.

The relief station is set up at about every 80 kilometers. The normal escape speed of refugees is calculated. Generally, they can walk 60 kilometers a day. This way, setting up a relief station is enough to ensure that refugees will not starve to death on the road.

When the radio sounded from every corner of the barrier, the infantry brigade led by Zhang Xiaoman immediately became vigilant.

But what surprised them was that when the residents in the barrier No. 144 learned that they were going to retreat, their first reaction was not panic, but silence and curiosity.

In silence, military trucks and material trucks were driving towards the West, and there was indeed an atmosphere of storm.

I don't know where the sound of glass breaking sounded.

Several young people stood on the street with a smaller traffic. After hearing the radio, they thought their chance had come, so they found a grocery store selling tobacco and alcohol, and wanted to rob the store in the chaos.

In their opinion, this brick is like a signal. As long as it is smashed out, the barriers will immediately become chaotic, and no one will have time to care about them.

More than a year ago, when the Zong family's barriers were shattered, something similar happened, and now they are familiar with it.

However, this time it was a little different. They had just thrown the bricks out, but found that the residents around them were watching them coldly.

No one followed, and a piece of glass that smashed the window, but the atmosphere became more and more strange and quiet as the sound of shattering.

Their momentum became weaker little by little, and then they were ready to run away like children who did something wrong.

An aunt shouted on the side of the road: "Who, aren't you the child of Lao Li's family at the intersection of the street? Get out of here, otherwise you'll see how your father dealt with you."

Before he finished speaking, the young men who smashed the glass ran away.

A farce ended in a hurry before it even began.

Someone began to find soldiers from the infantry brigade and asked: "Isn't this broadcast a prank? Who is the enemy? Is our Northwest Army so powerful and still has an enemy that cannot be defeated? Do we need to do anything?"

Many soldiers were stunned by this. They already knew what kind of enemy was coming, and they also knew very well that it would be difficult for the Northwest Army to compete with it.

But the civilians didn't think so, communication was interrupted, and even newspapers didn't know what happened in the Central Plains. The people only felt that at the home court of the Northwest, the young coach and the Sixth Field Division had even destroyed the wizard kingdom. These days, the storytellers in the tavern talked about how powerful the Northwest Army was.

So everyone thinks that the Northwest Army is the most powerful, so why are they forced to retreat?

The soldiers of the Infantry Brigade said: The enemy is very powerful.

The old man next to him said with a smile: Be confident, everyone believes that you can win.

Infantry Brigade soldiers explained: We can't really beat this plain terrain.

The old man said: Is it true? I don’t believe it.

The soldiers of the Infantry Brigade said: We are strategic retreat, and this place will soon become the main battlefield. If you stay here, you will be affected by war.

It was not until this time that the old man said: Ao, strategic retreat, I understand strategy, so let’s retreat now!

The soldiers of the infantry brigade took a lot of effort to get around the civilians waiting for explanation before they went home to pack up their things.

The barrier administrators led by Wang Yuexi were relatively anxious. They began to urge everyone to evacuate through the radio and inform everyone of some explainable questions on the radio.

For example, you should travel lightly, such as how to follow the large army, such as how to find supply and rescue points, such as setting off as soon as possible, such as women with children, the elderly can go to the military controlled area of ​​the Sixth Field Division in the barrier and accept unified arrangements for evacuation.

A large open space has been vacant in the refugee town of the west gate of the barrier. All residents who have passed by and evacuated westward will be able to receive a portion of cooked potatoes.

When Zhang Xiaoman came to inspect the place, he originally thought that it would be very messy and that refugees might even rob food.

But in fact, this did not happen. The evacuated civilians lined up in an orderly manner to receive relief food, and then followed the evacuated large troops toward the northwest.

At first, Zhang Xiaoman felt that he had made good arrangements and controlled the situation so quickly that he could go to the young coach to seek credit at night.

Facing the infantry brigade with live ammunition, who dares to cause trouble for the Northwest Army at this time?

However, gradually he discovered something strange. Some people who tried to go to the lineup were scolded by other civilians before the soldiers of the infantry brigade were caught. They could only line up honestly in the back.

Some people who received the goods and hid behind the team once and wanted to cheat another piece of relief food were also identified by other civilians and driven out of the team.

Some refugees didn't even get food.

Zhang Xiaoman stopped an aunt who had not received food in confusion, and then asked, "Auntie, why don't you go to receive food? Is my soldiers not having a good attitude or not giving you food?"

The aunt was happy: "Didn't it mean that there is another supply point outside of 80 kilometers? My family still has a lot of food, so it won't be able to hold on to the 80 kilometers. The young man from my neighbor said, "You still have to stay and fight the enemy, and the food may not be enough. I thought I won't cause trouble for you."

As he said that, the aunt opened the cloth bag she was carrying, and there were fried oil pancakes inside: "Do you eat it?"

Before Zhang Xiaoman could refuse, the aunt stuffed a piece of oil cake into Zhang Xiaoman's hand.

Zhang Xiaoman wondered why this was different from what the young coach said.

...

Not only Zhang Xiaoman was puzzled, but Ren Xiaosu was also puzzled.

He walked on the street with Yang Xiaojin, and the scenes he could see during his escape had not yet occurred at Barricade No. 144.

However, Ren Xiaosu quickly figured out: "The war did not really affect here, so the residents of Barrier No. 144 did not have the panic I had seen before. With the relief station and information appropriately transparent, they did not really feel hunger and fear. Therefore, there is still some rationality here."

Yang Xiaojin said: "It is also everyone who can trust the Northwest Army."

Ren Xiaosu shook his head: "In an extreme situation, what is trust worth? When I was not an extraordinary person, I also felt that kind of fear. Even if I need someone to watch the night when I sleep, how can I talk about trust with strangers? I hope the northwest will not become like that. Before the real disaster comes, we can only try our best to maintain the status quo."

Yang Xiaojin smiled and said, "You don't have to be so humble. You, Wang Yuexi, Fugui and others are also the credit of you."

Ren Xiaosu shook his head again, but did not continue to argue.

He rarely believes in human nature because he has seen too many things that are inhumane.

So Ren Xiaosu felt that the refugees have not made the most violent moves now, and probably have not figured out what situation everyone is facing.

At this time, Ren Xiaosu saw an old man sitting on a small stool at his doorstep, looking calmly at the barriers and retreating.

Ren Xiaosu walked over and said curiously: "Uncle, have you not heard the radio? People over 55 need to quickly go to the military control area of ​​Anning East Road to gather, and you will be arranged to retreat uniformly there."

The old man glanced at Ren Xiaosu and smiled and said, "I won't go, you young people leave quickly, don't worry about me."

The old man seemed to have no idea of ​​Ren Xiaosu's identity. Ren Xiaosu asked in confusion: "Don't you leave? Why? Is it because I have lived here for a long time and I don't want to leave? Don't you know that the enemy is coming? If the Northwest Army cannot defeat them, they can only wait for death to stay here, or face a situation that is more unacceptable than death."
To be continued...
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