【Strike Lotus】Silent City

1. Robbery

Mornings in Abel City are usually quiet, and the silence usually lasts until the fog clears.However, it was different from every morning in the past, today until the sun was three poles, the whole city of Abel was still silent, so quiet that even the breathing of the old dog in Marcy's house could be clearly heard.

All the young and strong population of Abel City gathered in the square. Azak raised his young and dark face, stared at the stalwart man in front of the square with his back to the east sunshine, and waited for an order from him.

The man has a very special name, his name is Xi Mie Tianlai.

"This plan has been planned for a long time, today is the critical moment," Xi Mie Tianlai said, his voice was deep and clean, contrary to his handsome appearance. "Those who are afraid just stand up."

The audience was silent.

"It's not shameful to be afraid, what's shameful is that you're too scared to admit it." Xi Mie Tianlai spoke again, seemingly dissatisfied with the battle of no one retreating.After a while, seeing no response, he twitched his lips and said, "Then...the carnival begins."

As soon as this remark came out, there was thunderous cheers in front of the square, and all the young and strong mobilized, carried guns and shells on their backs, and transported crates of grenades to heavy trucks. They hummed light songs, and the hands carrying the weapon boxes It moved diligently and skillfully, as if it contained only eggs.Azak was the only serious young man. He silently arranged the soldiers under his banner, followed behind Xi Mie Tianlai who gave the orders, and headed for the military and political positions of the Elis Kingdom, which was a hundred miles away from Abel City.

After jumping into the heavy truck, Azak settled the other soldiers, sat alone in the corner of the car and looked at the map, and kept rehearsing the food robbery plan that he had previously arranged together with Xie Mie Tianlai in the base in his mind.

"You didn't sleep well last night, right?" Xi Mie Tianlai asked casually with his hands on his upturned left leg, his eyes fixed on the rolling yellow sand and waves.

"Can't sleep."

"You're just so nervous," sneered, Xi Mie Tianlai glanced at Azak and said, "Go to sleep first, I'll call you soon."

As promised, Azak put his head on the corner of the car and fell asleep.When Xi Mietian came to see him with his eyes closed, he ignored him, got up and stood on the raised platform, and looked at Abel City, which was getting farther and farther away from them.

A dilapidated city that was once prosperous but has been ravaged and bloodbathed.

Abel City is located on the southern border of the country of Elis. It is a very inconspicuous small town in the country of Elis. The residents are self-sufficient and have little contact with the government far in the north.Six years ago, Yapei, a neighboring powerful country of Elis, falsely accused that the brutal attack of Yapei merchants in Elis was proof that Elis intended to invade Yapei, and thus launched a war.However, in fact, the real reason for Yapei's military expansion lies in the abundant energy crystal ore in the country of Elis. It covets the rich mineral resources of Elis from the country of Yapei, which suffers from energy shortage, and has negotiated with the country of Elis several times to transfer the crystal mining rights to no avail. , so he casually woven a crime for the country of Elis, hoping to use the war to seize energy crystals.

As soon as the war broke out, the major commercial towns in Elis fell for several days. The Elis government retreated all the way to Mahai Town, the last military and political stronghold in the south, using the vast desert as a shield to prevent Yapei from going deep. The pressure and condemnation of the Yapei country gave the two sides a space to fight.

As soon as the foreign aggression stopped, civil strife broke out immediately. Some Elis officials colluded with Yapei officials to treason, and introduced a small number of Yapei soldiers into the southern key areas, instigating the conflict between the South Elis people and the North Elis people who moved south from the north. To prevent Elis from messing up, troops were sent to suppress it but favored the people of Northern Elis, which aroused strong dissatisfaction among the people of Southern Elis.

From the perspective of the entire territory of Elis, Abel City is inconspicuous, but after the devastation of the war and the decline of many prosperous towns one after another, Abel City has become a wealthy town in the south of Elis, and it has also become a city controlled by the government army. The object of redemption and plunder.I was very impressed. At that time, a government official led a six-member army to Abel City and announced that Abel City's tax revenue would increase by 70.00% from now on, and additional tax increases would be issued, including for farmers Their own farmland is also taxed.

His father is the mayor of Abel City. He negotiated in front of the square on behalf of citizens and government officials, surrounded by a group of supporters from Abel City. When the two sides were talking, his father accidentally soiled the shoes of government officials. Such a trivial incident ignited the fuse of the horrific massacre.When the official gave an order, the six soldiers with machine guns began to shoot indiscriminately. The surrounding area of ​​the square was extremely quiet, and the dead could not speak.

At the age of 15, he covered his ears and hid in the concrete pipe behind the square. He could only hear his own heartbeat, thumping, thumping.From the hole in the cement pipe, he saw his father was forced to kneel on the ground and lick off the dirt-stained leather shoes of the officials. The officials stomped their feet on their backs and bullied them recklessly. When his father licked slowly, the soldiers entered at random. The house arrested several women and children and shot them to death as punishment.

Although he was still young, he knew that his father could not escape death, and he did not want to escape.

The father stood up and resisted angrily, grabbed the officer's collar and squeezed it tightly, no matter how many bullets were embedded in his body.Seeing that the situation was not right, several soldiers stepped forward and tried to separate the father and the officials. During the struggle, two grenades fell from a soldier's armament bag and rolled slowly towards the cement pipe.

He stretched out his hand, held two grenades, pulled the fuses and threw the grenades out. The next second, his father, officials, and entangled soldiers were blown into flying flesh.Seeing this, the remaining two soldiers pointed their guns at him angrily, but they were surrounded by dozens of children who ran out of the house at unknown times. The branches cut their throats.

The faces of the two soldiers before they died were full of disbelief. They didn't know that Abel City had been looted several times by unknown mercenary groups and other militia organizations before they came to Abel City. It's just unlucky, forcing people to fight back cruelly when they are desperate.

From that moment on, only women and children remained in Abel City.The deaths and injuries in Abel City were regarded as an accident. The government sent some investigators to inquire about the cause of death of officials and soldiers. "Clashing with the residents of Abel City" is undoubtedly the best reason, and no one will suspect weakness women and children, but this does not mean that they are safe from persecution.

Destroyer Tianlai gathered all the children aged 15 to [-] in Abel City to form the Abel City Autonomous Militia, and then asked the only remaining military-trained old Moder in Abel City to teach them fighting skills.Old Maude fought several battles for the country of Elis when he was young, and made many meritorious deeds, but he was dismissed from the military and expelled from the army because of his drinking and bad behavior.Still, he was a top military talent.

Old Maude's hands were shaking from drinking, and he couldn't even hold the handle of the gun steadily, but that didn't prevent him from carrying out strict military training. Xi Mie Tianlai and the other children suffered a lot for this. On the night of De's death, Xi Mie Tianlai and Azak drank with him all night before his sick bed.His complexion was sallow, but his smile was bright, and he frequently said that they were the best talents he had ever seen.

It is a pity that the government will never know how to make good use of talents.After finishing speaking, old Maud closed his eyes and stretched his legs and walked away.

They are still in dire straits.

The heavy truck moved steadily across a short stretch of desert towards the Elis City Hall.The operation this time is "grain robbery", robbing a batch of arms that are scheduled to be smuggled out of the Yapei country by Elis, in exchange for bargaining chips with Elis, and by the way, clean up the internal cancer for the Elis government.

The hand holding the gun barrel was sweating unconsciously. Xi Mie Tianlai wiped off the sweat on his palm, and turned to look at Azak, who seemed to be really asleep.

Smiling lightly, he took out a residual cigarette from his coat pocket, lit it, and smoked leisurely.