“The setting sun paints the sky red,
Soldiers return to camp after target practice,
Red flowers on their chests reflect the rosy clouds,
Joyful songs fill the air!”
As the sun set, the distant red sun sank behind the horizon.
A large truck drove across the vast land, bathed in the warm glow of the setting sun.
This truck should have been full of greenhouse strawberries from the production base, supplying the bigwigs of City 22, but at this moment, it was crammed with more than thirty people.
The truck was crowded, but the people singing were very happy.
Someone leaned against the glass window between the truck and the cab and asked, “Old Luo, tell us the truth, are we going to City 22 because of the Leader's arrangement? Is the Leader in City 22?”
The Leader is the biggest secret within the Guardians' Union, and the person whom all Home Families most want to worship.Of course, this is also related to Luo Wanya. As the only Black Family Member of the Guardians' Union, he has never been arrogant. He attributes the credit for all correct decisions to the “Leader”.
Moreover, when the Guardians' Union helps each other and helps the poor out of poverty, it is also done in the name of the “Leader”.
Therefore, the Leader's status in the Guardians' Union is now transcendent.
It’s just that, until now, no one seems to have ever met him.
Now that information between the Outer World and the Inner World is rapidly exchanged, Luo Wanya’s identity as a member of Daybreak can no longer be hidden from the core members of the Guardians' Union. After all, the two big figures from Eternal Society, Hu Xiaoniu and Zhang Tianzhen, have also helped the Guardians' Union a lot.
Therefore, the Home Families all speculate that the Leader may be the mysterious Daybreak Boss.
In recent days, news about Daybreak destroying the A02 base and killing Shendai’s chosen one has been flying all over the place, and the Home Families are proud of it.
Every time the Golden Families think that the Leader might be the Daybreak Boss and that even someone like the Qing Chen Supervisor is a family member, they are thrilled!
The Guardians' Union has a bright future!
At this moment, when someone mentioned the Leader, everyone became excited: “Old Luo, is the Leader in City 22? Can we see him?”
“Of course not,” Luo Wanya explained. “He has more important things to do. Don’t ask about his identity. After all, you know he’s in danger now.”
“Yes, yes, yes, don’t ask!” The young people nodded. “What if one of us is caught by Shendai and can’t withstand the interrogation?”
Someone said with a laugh: “Can’t you be a little more promising? Withstand the interrogation!”
Luo Wanya, sitting in the co-pilot seat, chuckled and said, “The cruelty of interrogation is beyond your imagination. This time, we’ve come to City 22 to expand the territory of the Guardians’ Union. Once we’ve accomplished our mission, you can all be promoted to Golden Family members. Then you will be able to take charge in City 22.”
As soon as he finished speaking, the young people in the truck became even more cheerful.
These are all good seedlings that Luo Wanya has selected from the Guardians' Union. They are quick learners of the Cultivation Zhunti Method, decisive in their actions, have both strength and brains, have cohesion, and have a common faith, making them suitable for expanding their territory.
Luo Wanya instructed, “This time, I’m bringing you to the north, and I must emphasize one thing: discipline. Don’t just sing and chat. Later, each of you will recite the disciplinary rules to me, understand?”
The young people suddenly became listless: “Understood…”
Luo Wanya said earnestly, “You must understand the importance of discipline. We have all been persecuted by the Conglomerate. If we act recklessly, what’s the difference between us and those Conglomerates? Remember, follow orders in everything you do, and don’t hurt innocent people.”
“Understood!”
When the truck arrived at City 22, Luo Wanya drove the truck directly through the Conglomerate’s fast lane when they passed the immigration office.
Normally, this type of truck is not allowed to use the fast lane.
However, when the vehicle passed through the city gate, Luo Wanya exchanged glances with an immigration officer, and the officer waved them through.
“Was that a family member just now?” Someone asked curiously.
Luo Wanya nodded. “He also arrived in City 22 not long ago. He spent a lot of money for this transfer, which is a contribution to the Guardians’ Union.”
The young people showed admiring expressions.
Luo Wanya looked curiously at City 22. The city style here is different from other places.
On the road signs, it actually specifically states that if a vehicle encounters vehicles from the Shendai, Takahashi, or Takeda families, it must give way.
The no-smoking signs on the side of the road also state that non-High Caste people cannot smoke on the streets.
This is the caste system that Shendai is implementing in the north.
“I heard that in the north, High Caste and Low Caste people cannot marry each other. Is that true?” Someone asked curiously.
“Yes, it’s true. They say it’s to maintain the purity of the bloodline.”
Luo Wanya sneered, “The last time I heard the word bloodline, it was used for dogs. Okay, we’re almost there, get ready to work, remember, do a good job.”
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“Boss, you’ve been in a daze for two days. What are you thinking about?”
A young man with Cybernetic Limbs asked Zhang Qinghuan, who was staring blankly across from him. “Boss, if you’re bored, let’s go out and kill some people.”
Since they received the goods from the Steam Train, the boss of the gang has been lying in the office armchair, not knowing what he’s thinking about.
The office has stylish electric glass windows. Simulated drizzle is displayed on the glass, and the sound of pattering rain drifts into the ears, as if they are not in a high-rise building, but in a small wooden house in the suburbs, with drizzle pattering against the blue bricks outside.
Zhang Qinghuan wore ill-fitting suit and was twirling a string of beads in his hand.
He said impatiently, “I’m thinking about the future development of the organization, don’t disturb me. Killing, killing, killing all day long, it’s so tasteless!”
This small gang boss who has a foothold in City 22 and City 23 still has some ambition and cultural background.
Most of the gang members are from the slums of the lower three districts. The Federation doesn’t have nine years of compulsory education, and many people drop out of school early, even not knowing a few characters, and can’t understand newspapers.
However, Zhang Qinghuan is determined to be a cultured gang boss.
He taught himself to read and write, and he insists on watching Hope Media’s news reports online every day.
Other gangs’ team-building activities involve going to the red-light district in District 4 to find girls.
His team-building activities involve taking the gang members to do choral singing.
Even if some members are ashamed and quit the gang because of this, he doesn’t care much.
Of course, this also means that… his gang will not have any great success.
The reason why Zhang Qinghuan sells brand-new Cybernetic Limbs instead of snatching them from others’ bodies is because their gang’s combat effectiveness is too weak. In their poorest days, they even worked as Nursing home enforcers.
In fact, the business he does is not heinous at all, and there is no need to use the Steam Train.
The reason why Zhang Qinghuan’s gang uses the Steam Train is simply because using the Steam Train is cool…
At this moment.
The gang members may not know who is on the Steam Train, but Zhang Qinghuan does.
Those are the hottest Qing Family bigwigs in the Federation, and with these Qing Family and Li Clan intelligence personnel who escaped from the A02 Base.
Zhang Qinghuan remembered clearly that Qing Chen said that someone would come to find him, so could this be a good opportunity for the gang to rise to the top?
Compared with small-time figures like him, the young people on the Steam Train are like gods.
“Boss, it’s not good, someone’s attacking!” A young man rushed in.
Zhang Qinghuan immediately sat up straight, took his pistol from the drawer: “Who? Blackwater Gang, or Viper?”
“Neither, I’ve never seen them before!” The young man shouted: “It’s terrible, there are more than thirty of them, and they seem to be all Gene Soldiers! High-level ones at that. I feel like there are at least two C-Class ones among them!”
“What the hell are you talking about? Which gang can afford more than thirty Gene Soldiers?” Zhang Qinghuan cursed angrily.
Moreover, C-Class Gene Soldiers, unless they are a large gang like Eternal Society, are boss-level figures wherever they go!
Outside the office, there were cries of pain from the gang brothers, and the gasping sounds of brothers whose throats had been cut.
Zhang Qinghuan’s eyes were bloodshot.
However, at this moment, the glass of their office on the 89th floor was suddenly shattered, and someone jumped into the office along a rope.
Zhang Qinghuan was scared out of his wits. This is a gang? Does a gang have such professionalism? Dare to jump from a building over a hundred stories high to raid?!
Wait, on their chests, there is the snow mountain logo of the Shendai Consortium!
Why would a small gang like himself provoke such a behemoth as Shendai?
Before Zhang Qinghuan could react, he was knocked unconscious.
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After an unknown amount of time, Zhang Qinghuan slowly opened his eyes. It was dark in front of him.
Thinking of his dead brothers, this little gang boss shed tears.
In the darkness, someone sat opposite him and calmly asked, “What’s your relationship with Qing Chen?”
Zhang Qinghuan was stunned: “What Qing Chen? What are you talking about? I’m just a smuggler of Cybernetic Limbs. How can I have anything to do with the Qing Family?”
The person opposite him sneered, “If you have nothing to do with him, why would you provide him with supplies? Let me remind you, New Year’s goods.”
“I’ve been wronged! It must be the Blackwater Gang that slandered me,” Zhang Qinghuan cried, “My goods were confiscated, and I used New Year’s goods to get them back!”
Only then did Zhang Qinghuan understand why these people were here.
Yes, it makes sense to have more than thirty Gene Soldiers coming after getting involved with that Qing Chen Supervisor.
“Oh? Is that so?” The person opposite him sat in the dark. “I heard that you also want to join them, and that Qing Chen Supervisor also said he would send someone to find you. Is that true?”
Zhang Qinghuan remained silent.
The person opposite him sneered: “I’ll give you a chance to live. When his people come to find you, you will be our undercover…”
Zhang Qinghuan remained silent for a moment: “When I told Qing Chen Supervisor that I wanted to join, I was alone. So you are sent by him, right?”
Silence fell in the darkness. This Zhang Qinghuan, under extreme pressure, still maintained calm and rational thinking.
But then Zhang Qinghuan continued: “You probably want to test me, then use me to do things, use this gang as your shell, and plant your nails in the north. If it were before, I would have been very happy, but now my brothers are dead. This made me realize that you are no different from others. I won’t work for you, just kill me.”
Zhang Qinghuan became angrier and angrier.
Laughter came from the darkness of the confinement cell: “Interesting, don’t you think?”
Someone said with a chuckle: “It is interesting, he has guts, he’s stubborn, and he also has a brain.”