Chapter 344: Borderlands (Part II)

Because Chu Tianjiang first faced the "Wild Rose", Zhang Xiaogang provided a detailed personal information.

"Wild Rose" is called Zhong Ruirui, a third-generation immigrant, born in Denver, but has always lived in the Chinese community, her grandfather and father are both well-known local Chinese medicine practitioners, so Zhong Ruirui is not like other Chinese, she has obvious Chinese imprints on her body, and can speak standard Mandarin.

Family background is the foundation for Zhong Ruirui to become the leader of the Asian American group.

Before the catastrophe, Zhong Ruirui's father enjoyed a high position in the Chinese community in Denver, not only because he was a Chinese medicine practitioner from near and far, but also because of his enthusiasm to help others. Every day, many people will come to the Zhong family clinic to ask for medicine, and Zhong Ruirui's father will always unconditionally help some less wealthy compatriots to diagnose diseases, and when he encounters particularly difficult patients, he will also give some medicines. In addition, when Zhong Ruirui's grandfather was alive, he was also a well-known old Chinese medicine doctor, not only with excellent medical skills, but also with the heart of a doctor who hangs pots to help the world.

The accumulation of two generations has made the Zhong family well-known in Denver and even in the Chinese community in the western United States.

Because she is a daughter and has an older brother and a younger brother, Zhong Ruirui did not inherit her father's business. It's just that, due to the family environment, Zhong Ruirui was admitted to the state nursing school, and after graduation, she became a nurse in a public hospital in Denver. When the catastrophe came, she was already the head nurse of the emergency department.

In the aftermath of the catastrophe, hospitals were severely damaged in the earthquake, and a nationwide evacuation was subsequently carried out in the United States.

After retreating to a temporary camp in the suburbs, Zhong Ruirui was still a nurse, helping many injured people and finding their lost relatives for many of the injured.

Before the invasion arrived, Ms. Zhong returned to Denver and worked at an emergency center run by the military.

Subsequently, the DNA virus spread throughout the United States, and more and more people were infected with the virus. With the help of a volunteer, Zhong Ruirui escaped from the emergency center and returned to the Chinese community. To her dismay, her father, brother, and brother were not spared, and the male members of her uncle, uncle, aunt, and aunt's family were all infected, mostly mutated before the invaders left.

After the invaders retreated, Zhong Ruirui took over her father's business and began to treat her compatriots in the community.

It was from this day that Zhong Ruirui became a core member of the Chinese community in Denver. Because she always helped others unconditionally, including Japanese immigrants and Korean immigrants who identified with traditional Chinese medicine, she was soon elected as the leader of the Asian American group.

Judging from this experience, Zhong Ruirui is not a leader, and she does not have much leadership skills.

However, on the contrary, she is not only the leader of an Asian American group, but also has excellent leadership skills, otherwise the Asian American group would have been doomed long ago.

According to the information provided by Zhang Xiaogang, Zhong Ruirui has no medical experience and has not systematically studied traditional Chinese medicine. Perhaps influenced by her family, Zhong Ruirui has some understanding of traditional Chinese medicine, but she is definitely not a famous doctor like her grandfather and father. The problem is that her leadership authority is based on medical skills, and those who support and support her and put her in the leadership position are all patients who have been cured by her. More importantly, Zhong Ruirui has treated many people, including terminally ill patients, in the case of severe lack of medicines.

Obviously, this Zhong Ruirui is by no means simple.

What made Chu Tianjiang feel incredible was that Zhong Ruirui was only twenty-five years old, less than twenty-five years old to be exact.

At such a young age, she was supported by tens of thousands of people and became the leader of the Asian American group, which proves that she is definitely not a simple woman.

Of course, there are many more places that are not simple.

Because of the sharp decline in the number of men, 90 percent of the members of the Asian American group are women, and almost all of the group's key positions are held by women.

This phenomenon can be said to be unique among the many separatist forces.

Even though men make up less than 10 percent of the U.S. population, less than 10 of the more than 100 separatist forces in the U.S. are held by women, and all of them are small separatist forces, and only Lakewood's Asian American group has women as the backbone. In all the great separatist forces, power is in the hands of men, and men are the absolute main force of the group's members.

Obviously, this is also one of the things that Zhong Ruirui is not simple.

In the United States, which pursues the law of the jungle, it is very rare to rely on a group of weak women to dominate one side, even if it is dependent on others.

What's more, Zhong Ruirui used such a women's army to loot seven caravans!

There are many things that surprise Chu Tianjiang.

For example, except for a few cronies, no one has seen Zhong Ruirui's true face, and few people know what she looks like. No matter what time it is, Zhong Ruirui always wears a black veil, so there are two completely different rumors about her appearance, one is the beauty and weakness of the immortals, and the other is the ugliness of the Yasha. For another example, Zhong Ruirui is always alone, even when she participates in large gatherings, she never has more than two entourages around her, and no one can say clearly where she lives and who she socializes. For another example, when diagnosing people, she never took the pulse or asked about the condition, but just sat next to the patient, and then prescribed medicine or set a treatment plan.

All in all, Zhong Ruirui is a very mysterious woman.

For this reason, Zhang Xiaogang specifically mentioned that none of the agents he sent to contact the Asian American group saw Zhong Ruirui, to be precise, through a layer of gauze curtains, and Zhong Ruirui was wearing a black veil, so he didn't see her appearance clearly, and he couldn't even determine whether he saw Zhong Ruirui.

Based on this, Zhang Xiaogang put forward a speculation that Zhong Ruirui is not one person, maybe many people. In other words, it is very likely that the real Zhong Ruirui died before the invaders retreated, and the current "Zhong Ruirui" is nothing more than the person who once followed her.

Only one thing is certain, and that is that Zhong Ruirui has strong leadership skills.

In a sense, it is because of Zhong Ruirui that the Asian American group has the strength it has today, and it has been able to control Lakewood and maintain good relations with the Jewish group even as other small divisive groups of Jews have been wiped out one by one.

In addition, the "Rose Army" established by Zhong Ruirui is also the main pillar of the Asian American group.

In the United States, there are many female-dominated legions, especially mercenaries who specialize in providing security for caravans, most of which are female-dominated. It's just that only female members are recruited, and only the Rose Legion is recruited. In fact, Zhong Ruirui's nickname, "Wild Rose", comes from this legion. It is rumored that the original fifty-four members of the legion were all patients who Zhong Ruirui had cured, and all of them were women. After Zhong Ruirui was elected as the leader of the Asian American group, she formed the Rose Army with these 54 people as the core. In just a few months, the size of the Rose Legion has expanded from 54 to 5,000 men, making it one of the most effective legions in Denver.

It was with the help of the Rose Legion that the Asians managed to plunder seven caravans.

In addition to her leadership skills, she is also very business-minded.

While raiding the caravans, she also expanded her "business" by having the Rose Legion provide security for some of the smaller, less well-capitalized "Free Caravanserais" for a fee equivalent to two-thirds of the other legions. In the next three transactions, the Rose Legion delivered the caravan safely to its destination without causing any loss to the caravan, thus earning a good reputation.

Of course, Zhang Xiaogang clearly mentioned that the key to the Rose Legion's successful completion of the operation of escorting the caravan and looting the caravan is timely and accurate intelligence.

In other words, in Zhong Ruirui's hands, there must be a capable and efficient intelligence organization.

It's just that Zhang Xiaogang can't be sure of this judgment, because no one has ever heard of this intelligence organization, and no one knows the specific situation of Lu Dao.

According to Zhang Xiaogang's analysis, the scale of this intelligence organization is not very large, but its ability is not bad at all, and every member of the organization directly obeys Zhong Ruirui's orders. What's more, Zhong Ruirui must have maintained direct contact with every member of the organization through a special means. The reason is that no matter how powerful an intelligence network is, it will not be able to function without the appropriate means of transmitting information.

It's just that there is one point, even Zhang Xiaogang can't explain it clearly.

That is, Zhong Ruirui is a native of Denver, and she chose to set up camp in Lakewood. Although this is related to avoiding the Jewish group, with Zhong Ruirui's leadership skills, the powerful Rose Army, and the mysterious intelligence organization, even if she chooses to settle down in Denver, she can deal with the Jewish group. What's more, she has a better choice than being a separatist force.

To put it bluntly, since she is attached to the Jewish group, Zhong Ruirui has every reason to use the Asian group as her capital and become a part of the Jewish group. The Jewish community is not entirely Jewish, but a mix of New Englanders, Italians, Germans, and a few Latinos and blacks. That is, the Jewish bloc is actually a hodgepodge that does not exclude other ethnic groups except for a minority of Jews in power. If Zhong Ruirui is just trying to survive, even if it is to get a better living environment for her compatriots, she has 10,000 reasons to lead the Asian American group to integrate into the Jewish group, and there is no reason to go against the Jewish group.

Of course, Chu Tianjiang also felt very strange.

The only plausible explanation is that Zhong Ruirui has an unspeakable secret, and this secret prevents her from truly integrating into the Jewish community.

According to Zhang Xiaogang's analysis, this secret is likely to be related to the energy source.

It was precisely like this that Zhang Xiaogang did not tell Zhong Ruirui the real purpose of Chu Tianjiang and their trip to the United States, but used a grandiose reason.

It's just that whether this reason can fool Zhong Ruirui, even Zhang Xiaogang is not completely sure.

Obviously, this "wild rose" is very difficult to deal with.