CHAPTER XVI
Wait 5
Hundreds of ragged refugees gathered outside the dilapidated four-story building in downtown Hoop, who surrounded the gate of the Alliance headquarters and protested against the coalition officials inside. While shouting, "We want to live, we want to eat," he picked up the stone under his feet and threw it into the courtyard of the alliance headquarters. The spontaneous protest gathered more and more people, and the demands for the protest of coalition officials became diverse. Some were shouting for food, others for money, and some were asking the Coalition why they hadn't rebuilt their homes during the armistice.
In the leader's office on the third floor of the alliance headquarters, Shi Jie was holding an unlit pipe and looking out the window at the protesting refugees with a solemn expression. Behind him, George, the leader of the human race, walked around with a frown, while Anthony, Shijie's personal guard, stood in the doorway expressionlessly.
"Jay, what should we do, there are more and more people protesting!" George paused, as if determined to say to Anthony, "Anthony go and take your guards to arrest the leader, and drive the rest away!"
George's words didn't make Anthony move, and he still looked ahead with a blank face. "You don't listen to me?" said George, who was annoyed even more by Anthony's indifference.
"Hey, my friend, don't worry, let's take a breath first! You know, he's my personal guard, and he's just following my orders!" Shi Jie finally stopped looking at the protesting crowd, he turned his head and walked up to George with a smile, "Come on, come on, sit down first!"
"How can I not be in a hurry, the protesters downstairs are all refugees, all humans, not orcs without you. I'm the leader of the human race, what's my face when this happens?!" George shouted angrily.
"So you're just for your face, not for their lives?" Shi Jie's smile slowly disappeared, and he sat in his office chair and looked at George with a serious expression. "Don't you know why these people are protesting?"
"I know, because I'm hungry, I can't eat!, but there is no way, there are too many refugees, we have set up porridge shacks all over Fennos, but there is not enough food!" George waved his hand helplessly.
"Is it really not enough food?" George!" Shi Jie's face became more and more gloomy, "Don't you know why they can't eat enough?"
"Hey, what do you want to say? There are hundreds of millions of refugees in this small country, how can we use food?"
"Can't even one Hoop be satisfied?" Shi Jie asked, slamming his hand on the table, "George, the alliance has been buying high-priced food on the underground black market for the past few months, just to feed these refugees, but what about you?"
"Anthony, you go out first!" George looked at Shi Jie, who was angry, in surprise, and turned his head to Anthony and said.
"No, you don't have to go out!" Shi Jie pointed to Anthony, who had never moved, and then looked at George: "You are still afraid that others will know about these shady things? You take the deducted grain back to the black market and make a lot of money, and I have been buying my own grain! By this time, you are still doing this kind of! And your porridge shack, those grains are exploited by your people layer by layer, and finally there is only clear soup left in the porridge shack! That's why they are here!"
"Hey, Jay, I haven't done it!" George looked at Shi Jie with an innocent face.
"And... Shi Jie gasped angrily and continued, "What did you do with the money you earned? You actually fornicated with the south to show favor to that demon?!" said Shi Jie, who took out a stack of photos from the drawer and slapped them on the desk.
George looked at the photos on the table, his innocent expression became hideous, he sneered and looked at Shi Jie: "Hmph! You are investigating me!?Jie! Do you want to start a war with my human army?!" Shi Jie sat heavily in the office chair, looked at George expressionlessly, and sighed deeply: "If these photos are made public, can the human army still support you? Or can they let you go? Even if they let you go, my orc army will not!"
George looked at Shi Jie in the chair, then looked at the photo on the table, and was immediately deflated.
"What do you want?"
"I don't want anything! I just want the Alliance of Good Friends to hold on, at least for another month! George, our camp has lost too much land, don't you want to take them back?"
"Is it still possible? It's impossible! Look at this country, look at the headquarters of the Alliance, look at the refugees all over the city, where is there any hope of survival! Jie, let me go, I will stay with you until the Alliance of the Good Ones is ... ”
"I don't care what you say, it's up to you to appease the people below, go now! If you do these things again, I will definitely arrest you and send you to the south to mutate! Or let the evil orcs tear you apart!"
"Okay, I'll go!"
Downstairs at the Union headquarters, George walked out slowly, protected by several guards, and in the face of even more frantic protests on the street, he raised his arms in an attempt to quiet the crowd.
"Listen to me, everyone! I am the leader of the human race of the Alliance, everyone be calm, we will do our best to meet your request! Starting tomorrow, we will directly distribute food to everyone in the rescue porridge shed! I also hope that everyone can eat enough and live a good life, but the current situation of the alliance is very difficult, I hope that everyone can survive this time together, and we will definitely usher in world peace! Everyone will definitely be happy again!" George's impassioned speech did not calm the anger of the crowd, but in exchange for countless curses!
"Liar!" "Totally liar!"
Anthony was still standing at the door of Shi Jie's office, looking ahead with an expressionless face. "Anthony, do you think we can still have peace and happiness?" asked Shi Jie, looking at the scolded George.
"Yes, definitely!"
"I hope so! No one else knows about today's events!"
"Yes, Chief!"
"Did those people get out of town? Did you give them the picture? You blew up their house?"
"Yes, chief! it's all done! Only then can we drive them south!"
"Very well, let's go, boy, get off work! Go back and rest!"
"Yes, Chief!"
Anthony left work as usual with a blank face, walked out of the Union gates, and slowly walked past the besieged George. Everything was as usual, the streets were filled with refugees begging for him, and there were still eyes on his every move behind the crumbling walls.
Back at home, life goes on as usual, eating, washing, sleeping. When the lights in the bedroom room were turned off, everything was dark again, and a huge black cat scurried out of the bedroom window into the night sky with no fingers visible.
At night, Hupu was still in deep darkness, and there were a few street lamps that could be lit, like a few stars in the night sky, could not illuminate the bleak night. On the dilapidated buildings of the city, a large black cat walks through the rooftops, jumping quickly and nimbly from one building to the top, and one runs to the southern outskirts of the city.
In the southern suburbs, a young man is standing trembling outside a small abandoned farm. He kept looking far away to the north, walking anxiously to and fro. "Meow!" a cat meow caused the young man to immediately look around, only to see a black man already approaching him.
"Wait?" the black man asked with a blank face.
"No, no, sir, no hurry!" said the young man, bowing humbly, answering the black man's question.
"Say it!"
"There's news from the south, you have a month to be here, and you can be back to the south! Within a month, no matter what method you use, you must get rid of that old man and the human leader, and then return to the alliance to restore your life!" the young boy kept walking, shivering from the cold, but his speech was hideous.
"My lord, do you have any news for me to bring back? My mission here is over, and I'll go back to the south tonight. Hey, I've had enough of this place!" The young man looked disdainfully in the direction of Hoop City.
"It's okay! you can... The black man paused.
"What?
"You can die!" I saw that the man instantly turned into a big cat and bit the young boy's neck.