Chapter 148: Prelude to Darkness
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The gateway of the Hexi Corridor is bordered by Yinchuan, the capital of Ningxia Province in the east, Xining, the capital of Qinghai Province in the west, Lanzhou, the capital of the province in the south, and Dunhuang in the north. In ancient times, it was known as the important place of "connecting the first line in the vast desert and controlling the throat of the five counties", and it was once the military and political center of the northwest.
But even a city that was quite spectacular and beautiful in such a peaceful era has now become a dark city full of corpses and wild beasts.
It is not as good as the Huns who have not yet formed a threat like Uliyasu, but this is the base of the Xianbei and Qiang people, and there are imperial forces to compete with each other, even if life here is not good, but there is far from the tragic scene of death in the city.
But what about being alive? There are dangers everywhere, the three major industries of farming, fishing, and animal husbandry have all been cut off, and human beings have no productive capacity and can only live in fear on the food left over from the past. And this is when the problem is revealed, the excessive shortage of food cannot cover the entire population of the city, so the only way to choose is to pick out the distribution that contributes to the city.
For example, ten Xianbei heads can be exchanged for a bag of grains, a Qiang leader can be exchanged for the position of a military chief, and so on, and the more foreign races are killed, the more advanced the killing, the more food can be obtained, and those who do not help here can only receive a daily food subsidy. It's just that, as the saying goes, good steel is used on the blade. For these "moths", where will the imperial court take care of it, there is only one bun per capita per day, not to mention being full, at most it is just hanging on to avoid early death.
In this environment, three different classes were formed, namely the imperial court forces, the civil forces, and the refugee slums.
The imperial court forces are divided into two kinds: one is to absorb soldiers with strong physique, you know, the strong physique at this time is not an ordinary strong man, but has to go through real iron-blooded training. The amount of training is several times, dozens of times that of the past! And you have to fill in the life and death certificate when you sign up, because the mortality rate of this kind of high-intensity training is simply too high. Some died from intense training, some from fierce aliens, and even from knockouts against each other. However, with high pay and high return, once this kind of soldier is trained, he will definitely be able to become a trump card division of one enemy and five enemies.
But even if it's so harsh. There are still tens of thousands of people who apply, because once they are admitted and survive, they are equivalent to having an iron rice bowl, not only to eat every day, but also to hunt aliens to get extra rewards. It can even accumulate military merits to achieve promotion, so that the family can live a comfortable life.
And the other is even more impressive, there are martial artists who are highly skilled in martial arts, they are born with great strength, or they have learned skills from martial arts masters. Once in the army, like a tiger and wolf, it can make the enemy fearful, and some of them are extremely strong and even once they enter the army, they can achieve the rank of captain and obtain the food and power that envy others.
the second is civil society organizations; It refers to a group of new factions that yearn for freedom or occupy the form of kings. Some of them simply don't want to be bound by the imperial court but have some power, so they rely on their own ability and courage to manage their own forces to seize food and live a free life. Others, on the other hand, are relatively evil and extreme, conceited to occupy the mountain as kings, and collude with other races to do all the evil things of intercepting and killing their own people.
Among these forces, some are extremely terrifying. Under the pretext of protecting the people, they are sucked into power, and then they are actually made into meat for human consumption or sale.
It's an extreme irony.
The cannibalism of Yi Zi, for such a cruel scene that can only be seen in ancient books, is not a big deal here.
This sect is officially referred to as an underground workshop or a flesh cult.
Although the imperial court forces have strictly banned it and cracked down many times, it is nonsense to want to uproot it in such a chaotic city. The leaders would simply flee to a new place and change the name of the new sect, while the starving populace would surely join the church desperately. But it is not known how many of these ordinary people have access to food, or how much of it has been made into meat for human consumption.
For example, isn't the Yellow Turban Army slowly growing its own power in the same way?
The third type is the refugee slum, which must be the bottom group of people in it. When the aliens had not attacked the area, they might have been blacksmiths, carpenters, watchmen, or even servants. But at this time, they have a unified new name: refugees.
They live in the weakest frontiers of the alien defenses, and they are not well fed and clothed. Every day we face endless diseases and disasters, either starving, or being killed, or being taken away as slaves by aliens, today. All their previous auras have been removed, and some are just new terms imprinted in the eyes of aliens, dregs, garbage, and pitiful worms.
And in this environment, it has to be said that there are prostitutes composed of some women. Most of them are poor people who are beautiful but powerless. Unlike the Qianqian and small jasper in the past, today's reward for their hard work is even only one or two moldy buns.
Human nature is inherently fragile, if it is a time of peace. These people may have different lives, but here, not being taken away as slaves by foreign races is the greatest happiness, this place has deteriorated, especially in this cold and dark new world of fear, everyone is silent, except for idle words to say a few words, nothing can help. Because you don't know if the woman lying in an alley or a bed is doing the most despicable and miserable work for the sake of a stray child, a crippled parent, or a seriously ill husband.
The strong eat delicious food every day and sleep with beautiful women, while the weak eat hard and moldy buns every day, surrounded by terrible enemies and aliens.
This deformed class view to the extreme is not just the use of might, with the passage of time, after the outbreak of the Yellow Turban, the entire Han Dynasty is building and perfecting in this way. It can be said that the social level of the Han Dynasty in the past that regarded the people as the sky and the people as the sea has completely disappeared. It is not that some people who stand at the top of the pyramid destroy humanity and disregard the lives of the people, but that the rules of the new world are like this, the law of the jungle is the survival of the fittest.
The strong rely on strength and wisdom in exchange for food, while some weak survive at the feet of the strong by selling their bodies and souls. As for those who have no appearance, the old, the weak, the sick and the disabled, and the people who are at the bottom, they can only be reduced to flesh and blood fodder under the huge millstone of the times to nourish this new world full of blood and darkness!
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And just like that, the old city went to sleep. )