Burning, killing, looting, they call me a saint

Huang Huaiyu

Chapter 105: Seeking Survival (1st update, please subscribe first)

"The workers of the Sun are rebelling. They have taken control of a city tunnel exit and resumed production. While fighting the masters in the other half of the city, they have also improved everyone's treatment and are contacting the central government to seek recognition!"

The village chief spoke in a low voice but with an excited tone.

Lao Hong stared with his eyes wide open. He knew the sun, and he also knew that the workers in the sun were treated as non-human beings just like the farmers in Zhulan.

But he never thought that people like them could rebel and negotiate with the bigwigs above!

"Why is the sun like this? And how do you know this?"

"Someone brought the news here, but you know the people up there. They tried their best to cover up this kind of thing. As for why the sun became like this, they said it was because of a saint. If you want to know, then follow me tonight."

Old Hong was obviously moved, but after looking back at his wife and children, hesitation appeared on his face again.

"Are you bringing your whole family?"

In response, the village chief simply patted him on the shoulder and spoke earnestly.

"Think about it. Whether we succeed in escaping or fail and are killed, this year's tax revenue has already been fixed. Who will pay for the food and fruits that cannot be filled later? If those who stay can't pay, who do you think can survive here?"

Old Hong looked up in shock and met the village chief's eyes again.

He just knows little, but he is not stupid.

The village chief and his men’s plan is equivalent to kidnapping the entire village!

If you escape, you may survive, but if you stay, you will only die!

"We just want to live." Facing Lao Hong's gaze, the village chief's voice was calm, "So we do this just to stay alive."

Lao Hong clenched his fists.

"Done!"

"Pack your things and listen for the gong at night. Once the gong is struck, set off immediately!"

After the village chief left, Lao Hong returned to the simple and dilapidated shack.

Everyone in the family was looking at him. His wife stopped crying, the children stopped making noise, and the old father stopped sighing. They all looked at the pillar of the family with eager eyes.

Lao Hong didn't say much, he just stated silently in a dull voice.

"We all have to survive."

The night enveloped Zhulan.

Old Hong's family has packed up all their belongings. The child curled up anxiously in his mother's arms, and the old father sat in front of the closed door. They were all waiting quietly.

From time to time, there were chaotic footsteps outside the door, but none of them moved.

Until, the promised gong sound suddenly pierced the silence of the countryside!

"Boom!"

Old Hong suddenly stood up from his chair!

He walked in front and pushed the door open with force. Then everyone in the entire Hongzi Village also opened their doors!

A fire had been lit up in the open space of the village, and most of the young and strong men had gathered there. On the pillar in the middle of the open space, three police officers were tied up with their mouths gagged and struggling.

He is the sheriff in charge of three surrounding villages, including Hongzi!

They were obviously set up. The village chief of Hongzi Village, together with the village chiefs of the other two villages, lured them to a drinking table and then drugged them.

Without hurting anyone, he seized three guns and tied up the three men together!

"They oppressed us! They took away our livelihood! No wonder we have to fight for our own survival now!"

The chief of Hongzi Village shouted loudly and pointed the snatched gun at the forehead of the sheriff in the middle!

And around there, there were already dozens of young men holding torches scattered in front of the forest of fruit trees!

"Fellow villagers! If I kill these three people, there will be no turning back! If you burn my garden, there will be no turning back for you either! If you are afraid and regret it now, you can still run away. It's not too late to run to those villages that grow grain!"

As soon as he finished speaking, none of the hundreds of people in the village left.

The village chief looked at the tied-up sheriff in front of him. This man who usually acted superior and arrogant in front of them and never treated any of them as human beings was now crying bitterly, with pleading and fear on his face.

"My daughter cried like this when you raped her before! And you were laughing!"

The village chief's voice was cold, and the finger on the trigger pressed down without hesitation!

"boom!"

Guns went off and fires were started!

When this group of silent people in the dark night began to walk out of the land where they had shed countless sweat and left countless blood and tears.

All that was left on the ground was the blood of hatred and the fire of anger!

Only when Lao Hong was about to take his family and leave with others did he suddenly seem to remember something.

He told his family to leave first, then turned around and ran into the cemetery behind the village without hesitation.

When he caught up with the team again, he was holding the crazy child who was the only one left among the laborers.

Villages responsible for planting fruit trees began to merge halfway.

This survival plan was certainly not organized by just one or two villages. The newly appointed tax collector was in charge of seven or eight villages, with a total of thousands of people.

It is precisely because of his selfish desires that thousands of people have to struggle for their survival!

It took them four hours to walk from the village to the nearest train station, which was usually responsible for transporting agricultural products.

The station was guarded by a team of five police officers, all of whom were armed.

After arriving near the platform, several village chiefs did not give any orders at all. They did not know how to give orders, and they knew it was useless. The farmers were all a mob.

But before they set out, they had already killed the sheriff and set fire to thousands of acres of orchards!

A complete fight to the death!

Anyone who comes here will never have the chance to turn back!

These are a bunch of desperadoes!

The station was instantly flooded with thousands of people. Several village chiefs, led by gunmen, rushed to the guard office with their men with a clear goal and started shooting at the panicked police officers who had not yet reacted.

Lao Hong followed the village chief of Hongzi Village, carrying a table as a shield. They had almost no shooting skills and were just fighting randomly.

But because there were enough people and they were not afraid of death, the five police officers were eventually drowned by the crowd!

None of them were shot to death. Instead, they were smashed to death by the angry and venting farmers using tables, chairs, benches, hoes and sickles!

After the police officer died, there was no one at the station who could stop these farmers who were desperate to survive.

Several village heads and their men tried desperately to stop the farmers, who were already overwhelmed by anger, from continuing to smash the train driver and maintenance worker to death.

Instead, they pointed guns at their heads and forced them to get on the train!

Chapter 106: Letter (2nd update, please subscribe first)

Even after getting on the train, Lao Hong still felt like it was all a dream!

The carriage was noisy, but no one was crying or making a fuss. The most common sound was that of people expressing their relief at having survived the disaster.

Lao Hong looked out of the train window. Under coercion, the driver had already started the train, and the wheels began to turn slowly, moving forward.

The surrounding scenery slowly receded in the darkness, but Lao Hong's eyes were always fixed on the big wanted poster posted under the street light!

There was no photo on the wanted poster, only a description of the person's clothing and appearance, as described by other people, and a name.

Zhao Wei.

He might be the first person in the city who had actually seen with his own eyes what a person who called himself that name looked like.

Ever since the news that Zhao Wei had killed the tax collector spread to his followers, his heart was filled with gratitude and respect for this name.

The man who promised in front of a mass grave that he would seek justice for these workers and farmers was not just talking empty words.

He really did it, and made this city, those masters who sat high up in chairs and looked down on everyone, pay the price in blood!

It was because he burned the archive room and all the farmers' indentures that they had a way to survive this time!

Old Hong lowered his head and touched the crazy child's hair, he murmured softly.

"I will remember it. We will all remember it."

The fire that had spread completely across the orchard had already attracted the attention of the sheriff from a village farther away!

They watched in horror as the fire continued to spread, and the angry flames continued to engulf the property belonging to Master Lanting!

"Quick! Quick! Report it immediately!!"

When the fire illuminated half of Zhulan's sky, the train carrying the hope of survival also blew its whistle and drove into the cross-city tunnel, moving forward!

Levi is having breakfast.

It was a very simple breakfast, steamed buns, pickles, and a bowl of porridge. While eating, he was also reading this morning's Zhulan Morning Post.

Unfortunately, he did not continue to dominate the front page of the morning newspaper today.

After the archives were set on fire yesterday, all the newspapers printed an extra batch at the same time, and Levi's latest deeds were spread to the streets and alleys on the same day.

The front page this morning was, of course, the explosive news that an orchard was on fire and farmers from seven villages collectively grabbed cars and fled!

That's definitely enough to explode.

Nothing like this has ever happened in this city since Zhulan was founded.

It is extremely rare for farmers to leave their villages, let alone flee. These people have been completely tied to the land and live in an extremely numb state.

This also led to the fact that the lords' control over the villages below was always indirect management through tax collectors and sheriffs. The police force deployed was very weak, and they never thought that such a group of people could do anything bold.

And what happened last night, and the orchard that has not yet been completely extinguished and most of which has been burned to the ground, was like a loud slap in the face of the big landlords in Lanting!

They were extremely angry!

Faced with Levi's brutal killing methods, they were afraid, but faced with the farmers' resistance, they could only feel rage!

This is like raising chickens and ducks at home. You need them to lay eggs before you feed them. They have a way to survive. Whenever you want to eat meat, you can kill them at any time.

But suddenly one day, a few of these chickens and ducks set the yard on fire at night, pecked the guard dog to death, and finally escaped!

Of course the owner would not feel scared or horrified, he would just be furious!

But the train had already left Zhulan and entered the intercity tunnel.

Once you get there, it's an underground area that's inaccessible to humans, and there's no way to track it down.

The only thing the landlords of Lanting can do is to spread the wanted notice for that train to other underground cities as soon as possible, hoping that they can assist. If the train stops in these cities, all the people on the train must be controlled!

Then, this anger also spread to the tax collector who had just taken office.

He paid a huge price for the position, but before he even saw a penny in return, he was stripped of his power and thrown into jail for malfeasance.

Even Levi was the target of the anger.

Everyone knows why these farmers fled last night.

If the archives had not been burned down and the indentures had not been burned to ashes, these farmers would not have had the confidence and courage to do so!

Pang Ming was forced to sign a military order in Lanting, allowing him to deploy scientists from the Meteorological Bureau and the Botanical Bureau. The only requirement was that there must be significant progress within a week. Even if he could not catch the murderer who called himself "Zhao Wei", no other tragedies would be allowed to occur!

But of course, this had nothing to do with Levi, who was eating breakfast and watching the news.

He tapped the newspaper, finished the porridge in the bowl, and spoke to Bai Li.

"Even rabbits will bite when they are cornered. When the world doesn't allow these people to survive, they will find ways to survive themselves."

Bai Li was also reading the news in the newspaper, her face full of excitement.

"Where do you think they'll run to? They won't be caught again, right?"

Levi just said calmly.

"That depends on whether they have enough fuel in their car. It will take a long time to get to their destination from here."