Chapter 1416: Countdown to Collapse: The Farthest Distance (Part 2)

4:39 a.m.

A large area of ​​dust rose up on the originally peaceful land of the Barrier Zone. A convoy was approaching the northern guard station. Many members of Section 3 who were still near the temporary shed became alert. Many people in the Barrier Zone who were still having dinner looked over. Many people knew that it was Agatha who came.

Dozens of cars and motorcycles advanced towards this side, but the marching team stopped 1 kilometer away from the northern guard station.

The leading convoy had a flag fluttering in the breeze, with a red tide pattern surging on a white background. This armed force named Red Tide is currently the largest armed force in the Barrier Zone. The number of people has exceeded thousands. It manages many places in the north, and its base is near the Altan Ula Mountains.

"Get off the car and collect your supplies."

With Agatha's order, the people on the car and motorcycle got off, and a group of people walked up, talking and laughing. Agatha smiled and glanced at the city opposite, which was emitting a faint light. Her sight only stayed for a second, and she jumped down.

All the Red Tide people have a red armband on their arms. The Red Tide people usually don't cause trouble. Every time they receive food, they are very quiet. They are also nice to the people in the management area. They are more like a local public security management organization.

Most of the criminals living in the Barrier Area have basically accepted their fate. Agata walked in the crowd, and several trusted subordinates followed Agata. Everyone was talking and laughing, and few people would look up at the dimly lit city in front of them.

Soon Agata walked to a messy table and sat down. Many people nearby took the initiative to make way. Agata comfortably grabbed the remaining food scraps on a plate and stuffed them into his mouth. He didn't pass the plate to his subordinates until he finished eating the food scraps on the plate.

"Hurry up and get me some food and wine. You bastards are really wasting."

Agata said, looking at the people around him who were talking and laughing and eating and drinking. Most of them were talking about where to go in a few days, how to repair the broken houses, etc. Few people would pay attention to the Brilliant City next to them.

"If you take the initiative to admit your crimes, you can go back to the city!"

A team leader of Section 3 looked at the group of new people and shouted in the crowd again. Many people just smiled, some people lowered their heads habitually, and some people were still terrified. No one was willing to admit their crimes.

"We are just a pile of useless garbage in society. Even if we go back, we are still garbage. Brother, stop shouting and go to rest early."

Agata said, and many people around laughed. The team leader of Section 3 looked at the people around him with contempt.

"You ungrateful bastard criminals, this is an opportunity. If you don't know how to grasp it, you can only live in this dark frozen land for the rest of your life. We only give you food for free out of humanitarianism. You..."

"Okay, okay, there's no need to argue with these scumbags."

Several team leaders came over and persuaded, and Agata laughed.

"Yes, we are scum, scum who like to eat leftovers!"

Laughter rang out again all around. Agata took a look at the northern guard post standing on the edge of Montenegro. The main gate was only a few hundred meters away. It only took 1 kilometer to enter the city through the northern guard post. There was a busy street outside.

Agata looked at it absent-mindedly, but soon with the aroma of food, she extinguished the cigarette butt, turned around and picked up the wine handed over by her subordinates, took a big sip, and a hot feeling instantly burned from her throat to her stomach. This inferior wine provided by the Operations Department was made of alcohol and water. The degree was very high and the taste was very strong. You will definitely have a splitting headache the next day.

It's just that Agata has gotten used to it. Everything doesn't matter anymore. Most of the people living in the Fortress Area have made a choice. This choice is helpless and powerless, because everyone knows that they can never go back. That piece of land under the sun is another distant and untouchable world for the people in the Fortress Area.

With a rumbling engine sound, a large truck slowly drove towards this side. There were several small and dilapidated cars around. Soon, several officers from Section 3 went over to stop it. The truck stopped hundreds of meters away from the temporary camp.

Soon, the people on the truck got off. These dilapidated vehicles and motorcycles were all disposed of and discarded in the barrier area under the past urban management system. Because most car dismantling and material recycling require costs, most car manufacturing companies will charge car owners a processing fee and throw the car directly into the barrier area as garbage.

Many cars used by people in the barrier area are modified and spliced ​​together, which look strange, especially the roofs of many cars have been removed, because it will not rain here, and there is no need for sunshade. The removed roofs are good windproof materials.

This small convoy also looks like a small armed force, with less than 30 people. Agata squinted at the group of guys who came over, and immediately Agata saw that these guys were mutants.

The leader was a burly man with a veil covering his face. He limped along, and many people around him were talking and laughing.

"Give me some food and some wine first."

The man's voice was deep, and his men quickly followed suit. At this time, the man took off his veil, and Agatha was a little surprised.

"Boss Potter, I didn't expect you to come to the Fortress District."

As soon as Agatha finished speaking, the two groups looked at each other. Potter looked at the one-armed woman who was drinking, and seemed to be reminiscing, because she did look familiar.

"Agatha!"

Porter looked at the woman in front of him with some surprise. The two were old acquaintances. When Potter was still at the bottom, this Agatha was famous for her vicious means. Potter limped over.

"What's wrong with you, Boss Potter."

Porter smiled and shook his head.

"It's hard to say."

Agatha took the initiative to hand over the wine in her hand. After Potter took it, he took a sip and looked helplessly at the Brilliant City opposite.

In the past, Agatha was wanted for a serious violent murder case, and it was Potter who provided her with shelter.

The two began to chat, and Porter also said frankly that he was sent to the secret research base under the Black Mountain from prison. When he was about to become a living test subject, a riot happened in the city. A guy saved them, so they escaped.

"Has it come to this point?"

Agata smiled and took out a cigarette and handed it to Porter. Soon Porter's men also brought food and drinks, and the two drank together.

"The city will never go back. I plan to go to the south. From your appearance, you should have built your own power."

Agata laughed.

"Do you want to come to our Red Tide, Boss Porter."

Porter shook his head.

"No, I have my own plan! If this place wants to live a stable life, it can only use force to establish order. It seems that you have done quite successfully."

Porter glanced at Agata's empty left arm, and Agata pressed his sleeve with one hand.

"One day I must get it back."

Agata said, and Porter asked with a serious expression.

"How do you ask for it?"

"You can come visit us when you have time. We can talk to Boss Porter about the details."

Agata said, and Porter nodded after thinking for a while.

"Let's do it today."

Agata's expression was sad, and she was still pinching her sleeves, as if she remembered something bad.

"Let's have a good drink today!"

Porter said and picked up the bottle. Agata came back to her senses, and the two bottles of wine touched each other. Several men brought some more wine. Looking at Agata in front of him, Porter turned his head and looked at the Brilliant City at this moment. Porter was very clear, although he still had a little fantasy, sneaking back to the city from the back.

Porter also had a top-secret small treasury in the city. He could survive by relying on the black gold he had obtained in the past, but the moment he saw Agata, the last glimmer of hope in Porter's heart was shattered.

In the past few months in the Fortress, Porter went from not adapting at first to completely adapting now. Even Porter was very surprised that he could eat other people's leftovers, and could go without a bath for half a year, and even eat, drink, defecate and urinate in the same room.

When escaping, Porter's leg was directly broken by Gene. In the absence of medical conditions in the Fortress, Porter endured for two months before finally setting out to the guard station to collect food and receive medical treatment. However, because of the late treatment, Porter will be disabled for life, unless he goes to the city for better corrective surgery, but Porter needs to admit all his crimes. Porter knows very well that he can't go back, and he will die if he goes back.

Those who escaped from the research base under the Black Mountain in the north were once prisoners in prison. They have learned the secrets of the Congress and have no future.

"It's very uncomfortable, Boss Porter, these months."

Agata said with a smile, and Porter nodded.

"Eating what others have left, using what others have left, and begging for things, I have never experienced such a life in my life."

"Get used to it, Boss Potter."

It was almost 5 a.m., and people were still coming. Potter looked at the people coming out of the medical room. Many people looked very happy to take medicine out. Agata smiled.

"It's really cheap charity."

Porter glanced at the dishes on the table. There were only peanuts for drinking, a little mashed potatoes, and a bowl of vegetable soup. He nodded.

"Let's take it one step at a time."

Porter said, hitting Agata's men nearby from time to time. They looked very capable, which should be the result of long-term training, so Porter decided to go to Agata's territory after eating and drinking.

The reason why Agata wanted to invite Porter to his territory was that when he was in the bottom in the past, Porter was the most intelligent leader Agata knew. If the Operations Department had not suddenly conducted a large-scale crime investigation, Porter would not have been arrested. Before being arrested, Porter had already left a way out for himself, which Agata knew clearly.

Because some people who escaped to the Fortress Area also heard about some things in the prison, and they also heard about Potter's things.

"But I want to remind you, Agatha! The Operations Department is very powerful."

Agatha just took a sip, put down the bottle and nodded with a smile.

"Of course I know Boss Porter. I have seen him on this land, but one day, I will make them pay with blood!"

The morning light began to spread from the east of the city to other parts of the city, at 6 o'clock in the morning.

Drunk people can be seen in the streets and alleys, supporting each other in groups of three or two. Some people enter the small shops opened in the morning, preparing to eat something and then go home to sleep, and continue the party tomorrow night.

At the door of Luqi Orphanage in the early morning, Luqi was waiting anxiously. The children had eaten and drunk enough and played until 4 o'clock in the morning before going to bed. Luqi also added some sleeping ingredients to the children's food.

There is no way to do all this. Luqi doesn't want any of the children in the orphanage to get in touch with his current private business, but now he can feed nearly 100 children, and Luqi is very happy.

In order to hide his tracks, Luqi still begs everywhere every day, and no one cares about the current situation of this orphanage. More than six months ago, people from the Operations Department came to inspect and were a little surprised because the number of children in the orphanage has increased.

Some people from the Operations Department also donated a little money, and Lu Qi was very grateful to them. Finally, in the distant block, some men in black clothes appeared, carrying large and small bags of things.

Lu Qi immediately looked around alertly. There were more than ten people coming, and they quickly entered the orphanage.

Lu Qi hurriedly closed the door. The man in the lead, wearing a ghost mask, took out a stack of money from his pocket, as much as 30,000. After Lu Qi took it, he took the key from his neck, walked to the upstairs of the orphanage hall, picked up the carpet, inserted the key into the keyhole, and twisted it. With a creaking sound, the upper and lower sides of the stairs opened, revealing the entrance to the basement.

More than a dozen people silently moved the things they were carrying into the basement, and the lights in the spacious basement lit up. In just one or two years, there were 20 more machines here, all used to produce weapons.

"Starting from this month, we need you to help deliver goods."

Lu Qi was shocked, but he nodded his head with difficulty. The reason why the children here can eat and wear warm clothes is because of these weapons. When these people came before, some children saw them, and even the older children asked Lu Qi what they were doing.

Lu Qi always insisted that they were from the Operations Department, because the children who saw them could not see clearly, and the people who came were all wearing black clothes, so every time these people came to deliver goods, Lu Qi would add a little sleeping ingredient to the children's food to make them sleep soundly.

Lu Qi didn't want any child to see all this dirty and filthy, and Lu Qi felt more and more dangerous, because the weapons produced here have exceeded 10,000 pieces.

"It's okay, Mr. Lu Qi, you don't have to worry, just deliver some grenades to the people we designate."

Lu Qi swallowed. Although Lu Qi didn't know how powerful the grenades on the table next to him were, judging from the chemical ratio and the production of the grenades each time, the lethality should be great.

"You don't need to ask anything, Mr. Lu Qi."

The ghost-faced man who led the group saw what Lu Qi was worried about and reminded him. Lu Qi nodded, and then these people began to put the raw materials in a mechanical order, while Lu Qi was comparing the types and quantities of materials on the light and shadow screen.

"Okay, Mr. Lu Qi, you have to work hard."

Lu Qi hummed.

"I can only work 8 hours a day at most."

"Don't you have an unemployed brother?"

The ghost-faced man said, and Lu Qi was shocked. They knew everything, even many things in his past. Lu Qi was very puzzled about who these people were, but Lu Qi didn't go into it.

"I know."

After sending these people away, Lu Qi just turned around and his back began to feel cold. He saw a child lying on the window of the corridor on the second floor, staring at everything blankly. Lu Qi immediately ran up, closed the entrance to the basement, and opened the iron door up with the key. As soon as he came to the corridor on the second floor, Lu Qi saw Yin Cai standing on a chair, looking at him a little woodenly.

"Yincai, come here!"

Yincai got down from the chair cautiously with some fear.

"I'm doing business with them, Yincai, can you understand!"

Yincai nodded. This thin 7-year-old girl is always taciturn and rarely plays with other children. She likes music the most. Looking at the broken music pendant hanging on Yincai's neck, which came here with her, Lu Qi said with a smile.

"Can you promise me one thing, Yincai? Don't tell other friends what you saw. I'll buy you a new one in a few days."

Yincai shook her head woodenly.

"Dean, will you chase me away?"

Yincai looked at Lu Qi cautiously, fear in her young eyes.

"What are you thinking about, Yincai, I'm sorry, I shouldn't say this, but if I don't do business with them, everyone will be hungry."

Yincai nodded in understanding and said with a smile.

"I know, Dean, I won't tell anyone else."

Lu Qi nodded in peace. After watching Yin Cai return to her room, Lu Qi subconsciously felt uneasy in his heart. Just now, for a moment, Lu Qi really wanted to send Yin Cai away, because this matter must not be exposed. Lu Qi didn't know what was wrong with him. The only thing he knew was that his mind was always filled with a lot of negative thoughts, and his mood was often irritable, not as gentle as before.

Some of the younger children in the orphanage were a little afraid of Lu Qi. Lu Qi had punished several naughty older children before and even beat them.

Lu Qi pressed his head in annoyance and sat on the ground. He was very tired, very tired every day. He couldn't tell anyone about this pain, couldn't tell the children, and couldn't tell his brother Luneng. Lu Qi felt that his heart was getting colder day by day, and he even had the idea of ​​leaving here in his mind.

Because of the incident in the city before, fewer and fewer people come to the orphanage to adopt children now, because many voices in the society are biased against those who want to adopt children, and the Operation Department has increased the qualification review of those who want to adopt children, all of which have led to no one willing to adopt orphans.

The merchants involved in that incident in the past have been broken up, and those merchants have never been able to get out of prison for the rest of their lives.

Soon another batch of orphans will be sent here. Lu Qi has agreed to the request of the director of the orphanage opposite. Orphanages in various places are overwhelmed by the previous Tianhen case.

Some orphans with a little strength will be sent by the orphanage to some private workshops to work day and night. The Operation Department does not care about such incidents because there is no way to control them. Once they are controlled, it will be disastrous for these orphans.

Lu Qi doesn't know what is wrong with this world. Many problems were originally the responsibility of the Congress, but in the end they were infinitely marginalized, and no one knew or cared about them.

What made Lu Qi even more angry was the behavior of Section 3. They would rather provide supplies and medical care to the scum in the fortress area than to provide a little food and water to the orphanages in various places in order to stabilize them.

"What happened!"

Lu Qi choked up in his throat and kept shaking his head. Then Lu Qi stood up. He planned to continue working and prepare breakfast for the children at 10 o'clock.

6:18 in the morning

The sun's rays were a little dazzling. Jewell staggered out of a hotel. There were still many red spots on his neck. He felt that he had no strength in his body, his stomach was very hungry, and his legs were soft.

"Oh, Jewell, you are really good. Three in one night, can you handle it!"

The owner of the hotel smiled and yawned. Jewell came over. The owner handed him a cigarette. Jewell paid the room fee directly and gave the owner some money to let him deliver food to the three women in the room above later.

"You are really something. You can make women pay for you. You still pay for them. I really don't know you."

Jewell took the boss's tea, took a big sip, poured it on his hair, and then casually combed his long golden hair and tied it up.

"Don't joke, I asked them out. I'm not a gigolo."

Jewell said and walked away. He smiled and looked at the light and shadow screen. His friend contact list was full of women. Jewell started to reply. Many women looked for Jewell all night last night. He could only turn off his phone temporarily.

Now Jewell is very successful in the modeling industry. He is invited to dinner every day and invited to banquets every night. However, Jewell does not attend banquets most of the time, but dates with different women.

Jewell saw a woman across the street in a trance. Is it Wu Qian? But soon Jewell shook his head, pressed his chest, and laughed. Although Nia had dragged him to find Wu Qian before, Wu Qian had moved away and left without looking back. Jewell had received Wu Qian's wedding invitation a while ago. Jewell directly sent Wu Qian a red envelope of 8888, and then he never contacted Wu Qian again.

Now Jewell just wants to have fun every day. He just needs someone to hug him to sleep every night. He doesn't care who the other person is, how old he is, what kind of birth he was, what he does, as long as he likes him.

Didi

A horn sounded, and a car slowly drove to Jewell's side. After the car was lowered, Jewell saw Wu Qian who looked like she had just woken up. He looked at Wu Qian in shock.

"What?"

Wu Qian smiled and shook her head.

"You'll get sick if you keep going like this, Jewell. I'm sorry, I..."

"It has nothing to do with you!"

Jewell's chest ached as he spoke, and he turned around and walked away quickly. Wu Qian was about to open the car door and chase him, but she finally held back. She had been here all night. A friend told her that Jewell often stayed in the hotel on this street.

Wu Qian was not married either, and she had been very happy to get along with Jewell for a long time, but Wu Qian also knew that she was almost 50 years older than Jewell, and she was more concerned about Jewell's future, so Wu Qian finally chose to let go. Wu Qian knew that if she continued, she would get old one day, while Jewell would still be young.

"That's good!"

"That's good!"

Jewell ran quickly with a smile. At this moment, across the street, several men suddenly flew out of a store, smashing the glass window.

Jewell was startled. As soon as he looked inside, he saw a beautiful woman in a black skirt, staring at the outside with an angry face, but Jewell felt familiar.

"Isn't this Qin Xiaoxuan?"

Soon Jewell saw another beautiful woman, Ling Hong, sitting at the table in a red jacket.

Six men fell on the street and fainted. At this time, the people from the Operations Department arrived quickly. A team leader recognized Qin Xiaoxuan and Ling Hong as soon as he entered the store.

"My lords, are they them?"

"They insulted the dead Secretary Jill and arrested them for defamation."

Qin Xiaoxuan said, and the people from Section 5 hurriedly followed her orders. Alpha still withdrew the order and allowed the 11 directors who resigned from Section 5 to take an indefinite leave, but their salary was only welfare security funds.

Qin Xiaoxuan looked at the men on the ground angrily, and Ling Hong dragged her away.

"How many times has this happened? If you keep going like this, you're going to kill someone."

Qin Xiaoxuan shook her head and jumped onto the rooftop, looking down at the sun in the distance. She sat on the rooftop with a sad expression, and Ling Hong stood beside her.

"It doesn't matter where you look, you're still alive after all!"

Qin Xiaoxuan laughed.

At this time, Jewell, who was standing in the crowd, swallowed. In an instant, Jewell saw the same expression on Qin Xiaoxuan's face that had appeared on her mother's face before, which was very painful, as if there was a sense of distance that could never be made up.