I was expelled from school at the beginning, but luckily I am the king of endurance.

After seeing Xiaoya clearly, her eyes lit up.

Iroha could hardly hold on any longer. It seemed as if there was another personality in her mind urging her to take Ibuki back to Makoto. If it weren't for her strong will, she would probably have to hope that she would wake up next time.

Although no one from the Disciplinary Committee was found, Iroha remembered that Makoto seemed to have given her an order to win over Komei, and Makoto also revealed that the Disciplinary Committee was also trying to win her over.

Then, it should be safe to leave Ibuki to her, right?

"Meda-san...hurry!"

"quick?"

Xiaoya heard Iroha calling her, but she didn't hear clearly what he was calling her for. She was a little confused about what was going on.

[Could it be that Pandemonium wants to control me?]

When this thought popped up in her mind, Xiaoya became nervous.

After all, this possibility is not impossible, her hand is already on the gun.

"Quick! Take Ibuki away... and this too!"

Seeing that Iroha had no intention of attacking her, Xiaoya relaxed a little. Only after hearing Iroha's next words did she notice that there was another person on Iroha's back.

"President Ibuki? Iroha-senpai, what are you doing?"

Iroha stuffed a small medicine bottle into Xiaoya's hand, and she also wanted to give Ibuki, who was sleeping on her back, to her.

"Hurry up, there's no time. Keep the medicine bottle I gave you. And Ibuki... I'm leaving her in your care."

Iroha seemed to be in great pain, so Xiaoya gestured to Anna to carry Ibuki into the club building and wait for a while. She wanted to see what Iroha was up to.

Seeing Xiaoya put the medicine bottle into her pocket and the student next to her carried Ibuki into the building, Iroha breathed a sigh of relief, but then her eyes became sharp. She wanted to explain something while she was still conscious.

"Mei-san, please take good care of Ibuki and don't let Makoto find out. As for that medicine bottle... uh..." As Iroha was speaking, her head started to hurt again. She knew that her time of wakefulness was over. "Huh? Why am I here? Ah, you are Mei-san."

Xiaoya looked at Iroha in front of her with his brows furrowed and then relaxed, and then he spoke to her as if he had become a different person.

"Yes, why are you here?" Xiaoya asked.

"Oh, I see. Has it come to this?" Iroha looked as if she had suddenly realized something, and no one knew what was going on in her mind.

"Well, I won't waste any more time. Actually, I'm not the head of the club. I came to you today to discuss the matter of having the Spartacus Group join Wan Y."

Between Progress and Reaction: Chapter 21: I Am Super! Base!

What does that mean? The Spartacus Regiment joins Pandemonium?

Xiaoya really wanted to see if Iroha in front of her had a fever that had damaged his brain.

"No, I'm not considering joining Pandemonium with the Spartacus Regiment now." Xiaoya refused decisively.

This made Iroha stunned, as if Xiaoya's refusal was something incredible.

Maybe Xiaoya doesn't understand it, but from Iroha's perspective it is indeed incredible.

She came out to look for Xiaoya, so doesn't that mean Xiaoya has already thought about joining the Pandemonium? If not, then why did she come to look for Xiaoya?

No, she didn't remember Xiaoya expressing her desire to join Pandemonium. The last time she saw Xiaoya was when she was registering for the club.

"Then why did I come to see you?" After thinking about it, Iroha decided to ask directly.

Xiaoya looked at Iroha, who was behaving strangely, thoughtfully. She understood that it seemed that the technology of Pandemonium was not mature enough and there were still some loopholes.

However, I didn't expect that the Ten Thousand Demons Palace would be so cruel that they would even control their own people.

No, it's Makoto who is crazy.

As for Ibuki, Xiaoya is sure. She hates Pandemonium, but she doesn't hate Ibuki.

Besides, Ibuki is also the president of Gehenna's student council after all. Since Iroha gave her such a cute and obedient mascot and title, she naturally has to make good use of it.

[Why do I feel like the villain in the TV series?]

After complaining to herself in her heart, Xiaoya said, "You said you wanted to go out for a walk, and you happened to run into me. You wanted to discuss a better way out with me, but I didn't expect that the way out you said was to join the Pantheon."

The red-haired girl was silent. She, was out for a walk? How come she didn't even remember having this habit?

And now... Iroha looked at his phone. It was already 9:30 in the evening. Who would come out for a walk so late at night?

But it doesn't look like Xiaoya is lying... Forget it, there's no point in continuing to dwell on it. Since I've already revealed my identity, I might as well go back and report the mission failure to the great Speaker Makoto.

Iroha took one last look at Xiaomei, then lowered the brim of his hat and turned away.

Looking at the red-haired ball's back as it walked away, Xiaoya reached into her pocket.

[This little medicine bottle...]

......

"Um, where is this place?"

In the morning, Ibuki sat up from the bed, bewildered. Who was she? Where was she? What was she going to do?

After a brief moment of confusion, Ibuki remembered that yesterday Iroha-senpai said he would take her to a place, but she fell asleep halfway and was here when she woke up.

"Oh, Ibuki-chan, are you awake?" Mei poked her head out from the balcony, a toothbrush still in her mouth. "Iroha-senpai said he'll leave you with us for the time being."

Xiaoya drank some water and spit out the foam in her mouth.

"Ahem, come and brush your teeth, Ibuki-chan."

Last night, Xiaoya avoided the cameras and brought Ibuki back to the dormitory. By the way, she also went to the Angel 24 convenience store in Gehenna to buy toiletries. Then she squeezed in with Ibuki and settled down.

But this is just a temporary measure. Ibuki can't stay in this dormitory forever. How can you keep her locked up in the room forever?

Besides, the Gehenna Red Army also needs a base, and the Spartacus Regiment also needs to produce as soon as possible to get rid of the situation of relying solely on the support of the Red Winter comrades.

What should I do then? Xiaoya pondered and spread out a map of Gehenna on the table.

Now we have to think carefully about the base area.

......

It is close to the Abydos Desert and is the southern border area of ​​Gehenna.

And Eri came here with forty Gehenna Red Army soldiers.

After much deliberation, Xiaoya and everyone came to a conclusion, which was to go to the southern part of Gehena.

This place is close to the desert, has almost no industry, and the population is relatively sparse. The Hall of Ten Thousand Demons doesn't even bother to take care of it.

The desert in the south is the self-governing area of ​​Abydos, but this place is deep in the desert. There are only five students including Hoshino in Abydos now, and they would not come here for no reason.

Compared to the Wild Hunt Academy of Arts border in the southwest, the Holy Trinity border in the west, and the Federal Student Union's direct jurisdiction in the north, this place is undoubtedly the most suitable place to establish a base.

As for the east? That was the ocean, and there was the important port of Gehenna. The Pandemonium had strict control, almost military-style management. It would be better to let Xiaoya and the others take over the Gehenna Mineral Water Factory directly instead of going there.

"Ahem, except for the excessive sand, everything else is fine. There's even water and electricity."

Xiaoya took Ibuki and followed Eri, and now they entered a small town.

It's a small town that takes a long time to find on the Gehenna map.

The population is less than two thousand, there are no students, and the residents are all citizens and robots. There is even only a small guard post of the Pandemonium here, with only one Pandemonium officer inside.

Isn’t this a good deal for Xiaoya and the others?

Under Eri's command, the Gehenna Red Army, which had just been able to march in an orderly formation after more than a day of training, surrounded the sentry box.

After Xiaoya knocked on the glass and woke up the dozing clerk inside, the clerk realized that he was surrounded.

"Okay, now, in the name of the president of the Gehenna Student Union, I declare... uh." Xiaoya paused, having somewhat forgotten what this place was called. "Anyway, this place is under the control of the Spartacus Group."

After thinking about it, I still couldn’t remember it. It doesn’t matter then. Anyway, this place will be renamed “Gehena Southern Base” in the future.

After hearing what Xiaoya said, Ibuki's face darkened and he said to the officer in a serious tone, "Yes, Xiaoya is right. From now on, the Spartacus Group will take over this place!"

This officer may not know about the Spartacus Group, but she knows Ibuki, and because it is too remote, Makoto seems not to have yet or has forgotten to control her.

She has been working alone in this small town for almost three years. During this period, apart from the salary that was paid on time, the Pantheon has never contacted her once.

Apart from the first year when she reported regularly to the Pandemonium headquarters out of a sense of responsibility, she later became too lazy to report after realizing that she seemed to have been exiled by the Pandemonium.

Now that the president had given the order and brought people to carry it out, the officer had no intention of resisting and quickly laid down his weapon and surrendered.

Then the red flag of the Spartacus Regiment with a star, a frame, a hammer and sickle was raised in this small sentry box.

Then, after occupying the radio tower of the small town, Xiaoya officially announced to the residents of the small town that this place was under the jurisdiction of the "Gehena Southern Base".

Between Progress and Reaction: Chapter 22: The Future is Bright (Appreciation)

Why was Ibuki so cooperative? In fact, Ibuki also had a vague feeling that something was wrong with Pandemonium.

The little girl is young and immature, but she is not a fool. On the contrary, Ibuki is very smart and has the keen intuition of a small animal about the changes around her.

Iroha has been in abnormal behavior many times in the past two months. Every time Ibuki goes to find Iroha, Iroha forgets his previous memories of being with Ibuki, and sometimes Iroha seems like two different people.

Go find Makoto? But Makoto told her that everything was normal, they were just sick.

It was fine once or twice, but after so many times, Ibuki couldn't help but become suspicious. Moreover, this time when Iroha was abnormal, he sent her out of Pandemonium. Compared to the cold Iroha, Ibuki was more willing to believe Iroha-senpai when something abnormal happened. At least the latter would not stop her from eating pudding.

Well, since Iroha-senpai entrusted her to this sister named Suzuki Mei, Ibuki felt that she needed to support them.

So there was the scene before, where Ibuki, as the president of Pandemonium, supported the Spartacus Group to take over the small town from Pandemonium.

"Sister Xiaoya, will Ibuki live here from now on?"

Seeing Ibuki tilting her head and asking, Xiaoya couldn't help but feel a little guilty. Such a cute and sensible child, and she actually thought of taking advantage of her identity...

However, Xiaoya quickly suppressed the guilt and took advantage of it. In order to ensure Ibuki's safety, she had to investigate the abnormalities in the Pandemonium thoroughly.

"Yes, it's very dangerous outside for Ibuki right now," Xiaoya squatted down so that her eye level was with Ibuki, "Ibuki, you should hide here for a while. I have so many older sisters who will be here with you."

As Xiaomei said this, she decided to move the secret part of the Spartacus Group to this base, with Kanna as the person in charge outside the base.

This will ensure maximum safety and enable the base to produce output as soon as possible and achieve self-sufficiency.

As for the residents of the small town? They didn't care who came. Anyway, the Spartacus Group didn't collect any extra taxes from them. On the contrary, the forty or fifty people from the Spartacus Group coming here could create income for them. After all, they still had to eat.

There is no industry in the local area. Except for a few who run local restaurants, the residents of the small town basically take the only train in the city to go to other areas of Gehenna to work.

It is morning now, and most of the residents of the small town have gone out to work, so there are few pedestrians on the streets.

Xiaoya was taking a group of cadres to inspect the situation in the small town.

Although the residents were a little scared at first when they saw the fully armed students knocking on their doors, they gradually let down their guard after realizing that these students were actually very kind.

At least this group of students is much better than the Pandemonium guards I met a long time ago.

"It's very serious. There's no industry, and the population is declining rapidly. If things continue like this, I estimate that in a few years, this small town will completely disappear."

Looking at the statistical data, Xiaoya thought that although this was the case, their conditions were much better than Wu Hui and the others' back then. At least this was not a barren land.

"We need to build industry here first," Xiaoya said to the other members after finding a dusty but still intact house as a temporary base. "Only by providing jobs for the local residents can we reverse the population loss."

"But what should we do? The industry of Gehenna will be interfered with by the Pandemonium. If the products we produce are to be sold in the Gehenna market, they will definitely be discovered by the Pandemonium." Xingna said. She felt like she had become a special opponent. She could always find fault with everyone's suggestions.

But Xiaoya needs this kind of person. Only with the voice of opposition in the organization can it move forward. Moreover, Anna's criticism is not without reason, it is all based on facts.

"Yes, so we can't enter the Gehena market." Xiaoya said so. If they don't enter the Gehena market, where will they sell their products?

Xiaoya continued, "We can sell our products to Abydos, and um, on the black market."

"black market?"

When Xiaoya mentioned the black market, everyone frowned. The impression of the black market among ordinary students cannot be said to be good, it can only be said to be notorious.

Hearing a cadre's question, Xiaoya explained, "Yes, on the black market, the most popular industry in Kivotos is the military industry. The amount of ammunition consumed every day is astronomical. Although we don't have the technology to produce weapons, we can start with ammunition.

"I know classmates in Abydos. They can help us digest some of the ammunition, and the rest can be sold on the black market, except for our own use.

"The supply of ammunition on the black market has long been monopolized by the Caesar Group. We only need to focus on pricing to gain a foothold in this market."

Xiaoya used to be a gangster, and she knew that the gangsters in the black market were all worried about the relatively expensive ammunition. Since ammunition was a necessity, everyone had no choice but to buy the expensive ammunition from the Caesar Group.

It’s not that there are no small workshops trying to enter this industry, but their quality cannot be guaranteed and their output is limited, so they cannot shake the Caesar Group at all. The Caesar Group is too lazy to care about them. After all, not everyone can get an ammunition production line.

But the Spartacus Group is different. They are not an ordinary society. Behind them are comrades from the Third International and Red Winter. They can definitely get the production line from Red Winter, but they just want the comrades from Red Winter to continue to support them free of charge. Xiaoya feels bad about it, so she can only take out a loan.

It turned out to be just ammunition production. The officers' tense nerves instantly relaxed, and they all breathed a sigh of relief. They had just thought Xiaoya was going to go off the deep end and get some truly shady contraband. But since it was ammunition, a "hard currency" necessary for daily training, self-defense, and even bad fights, the nature of the operation was completely different. While it involved black market channels, the goal was clear and relatively "legitimate."

Since ammunition is a daily necessity, there is nothing to object to.