Chapter 107: Closing the Net
Is life better than death? Of course it's scary. It has long been rumored that the police officers in charge of law and order in the central government of Elta are proficient in all kinds of torture, "not fatal, but extremely painful", and when it reaches the ears of the soldiers of the Double Moon Church, it naturally makes people hairy when they hear it.
As for death? These soldiers and magicians of the Church of the Two Moons were all "cowards" who escaped from the two barbed wires, and after that, they laid down their weapons and surrendered to Wu Ran and the Elta Army soldiers who raised their guns, and of course they trembled with fear of death.
After this, the untrustworthy will naturally try to find the loopholes of the others in the hope that they can win the trust of the few people in front of them, so that they can turn over at dinner; And the remnants of the Church of the Two Moons, who have not yet been launched, are doing their best to find details that do not match the facts to prove their honesty.
This is the prisoner's dilemma. If someone lied and everyone else could trust their comrades and keep it a secret instead of exposing it on the spot, then no one would be punished. But as long as one person breaks the contract, or is likely to break it, then the prisoners' dilemma arises - do you wait until someone betrays you and then expose the other person's lie, or do you expose it before the other person in exchange for a chance to survive? I'm afraid that all people in their right minds will categorically choose the latter.
This is naturally a nightmare for the captives, who must answer any question frankly - from the mastermind of the case, and all the information behind the scenes that provided them with food and drink, to the number of people in the family, how many mouthfuls of land per person, how many cows in the field, and other irrelevant trivial matters will be repeatedly raised, and the answers to all questions will not only be checked horizontally by the people of the other world, but also vertically compared with the "recorded history" of the interrogated, and if there is a discrepancy and the offense is repeated after a warning, the person will be immediately included in the ranks of the untrustworthy.
And what happened to the untrustworthy in the afternoon was tragic. As soon as one of them answered in conflict with the others, they were escorted out of the door to run in circles—and everyone watched silently as the captive struggled on the runway, whipped and verbally abused, and they soon understood that there was nothing more terrible than this humiliation, and nothing more relaxed than telling the truth.
"Director Wu," by the evening, all the interrogations were finally over. The police officers who were selected by Wu Ran for interrogation were also exhausted, "This is all eighteen records, no deletions have been made, and twelve of them belong to the untrustworthy ......"
In other words, the ratio of credible to untrustworthy is just one to two in the prediction, and this thing should be credible. Wu Ran waved his hand when he thought of this, and said gratefully:
"That's it for today, go to dinner and rest. Today's patrol of the urban area is selected by the comrades of the army, and you have a good rest tonight, and you have the right to take a holiday, and tomorrow this job will still be on your shoulders. ”
"Understood!"
He was the only one left in the office, and Wu Ran began to look through the eighteen records in front of him in detail.
"Dala Chamber of Commerce, Dala Chamber of Commerce, Dala Chamber of Commerce......" Wu Ran was not surprised by the result of where the mastermind was pointing, but Dora was one of the objects of suspicion.
The Dala Chamber of Commerce has lost almost all of its old power, and it is logical that there is a motive - nothing more than the overthrow of the central government of Elta, in order to be quick and temporary. Wu Ran, who had been silent for a while, immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and gave an order to the patrol officers who were waiting in the city, and now that he had the complete chain of evidence in his hand, no one could stop him anymore.
"This is Wu Ran, you act immediately, take control of all the shops, shops, and real estate of the Daula Chamber of Commerce separately, arrest all the people on the list after obtaining the roster, and control everyone in the real estate if there is no roster. You have the right to use force to deter arrest and disobey. I'm leading a team to the Daura General Assembly to start the action with the issuance of a strict martial law order and keep in touch. ”
"Dear law-abiding citizens of Kamra, from now on, the city will be under a state of strict arrest due to the need to arrest rioters, please return to your homes as soon as possible, and please accept the nearest citizens who are taking refuge. Citizens who cannot escape should not walk around the streets, and if they are found in half an hour, they will be severely punished, and the city gates will be closed from now on. Again, all law-abiding ......"
As soon as the martial law was issued, Army soldiers began to appear on the streets with loaded guns, pulling up folded snake-bellied barbed wire at major intersections to block pedestrian and vehicular movements. Their fingers are pressed against the trigger guard, ready to shoot with warning or direct fire.
"Damn, people from another world react so quickly?" In the room on the second floor of the Daula Chamber of Commerce, a middle-aged fat businessman was gritting his teeth and pinching the pen in his hand. "They're over, they must know that we're secretly helping the remnants of the Two Moons Church. Aldrich, hurry up and find out if there is a way out of the city now...... If we continue like this, we'll be finished soon, and we can talk about anything when we get out of town......"
"President Fangdero," Aldrich, the first accountant of the Chamber of Commerce in gorgeous costumes, was also saddened, "go out now?" Aren't you looking for death and ramming the muzzle of a soldier's gun? The soldiers outside are fierce and vicious, and they are holding guns and pulling nets, where can they get out? I tell you, earlier this day, when you were trying to get Borifezno out of the city, I advised you to follow him and run away with the other hidden church army, but you didn't listen......"
"No more nonsense, I'd better go hide in the basement." Fang Deluo should be glad that his uncle was cunning and had dug a basement and a matching secret passage in the stables on the first floor of the association, which was probably only known to a few "upper-level figures" of the Chamber of Commerce, and many of them had already been buried in the ground. In other words, Fandro believed that it was completely safe - of course, not as high as the sky flying out of the city.
"I'll go down too?" The accountant pointed to the ledger on the table and smiled eerily.
"Damn it......" Fang Deluo scolded as he protected his forehead, "you can hide with me, and remember to bring the ledger with you." I said, Aldrich, this is your clear account, and remember to bring the dark account and the roster of our Chamber of Commerce! ”
"There's no secret account, my boss." Aldrich smiled like a flower, grabbed the ledger and humbly followed Fendro. It would be nonsense to say that there are no dark accounts, but Aldrich used marks and different brushstrokes to index them in the open accounts, and then recorded the details in his brain. In fact, not to mention the secret accounts, even if it is a personnel roster, Aldrich can write it down word for word.
"You just need to know that once this thing is found by people from other worlds, you won't be able to fly out of this Kamla City even if you put on your wings!" Fang Deluo, who was in a hurry to go down the stairs, was really anxious, and he never mentioned even a word about the dark accounts of the first accountant on weekdays.
"How can they find something that they don't have?" Aldrich smiled brighter, "This only ledger is here, in the hands of your faithful accountant, my boss." ”
Fang Deluo picked a staircase that was not usually walked by many people, and carefully descended to the first floor. After a few turns, he and Aldrich slipped into the stables and carefully pried up one of the tiles with a crowbar wrapped in cloth in the corner.
With a crowbar, he and Aldrich blew out the lights in the stables and put their bodies into the secret passage, and finally Aldrich, with a little bit of strength, laboriously pushed the tiles back into place.
Fangdero lit his wand in the darkness, and Aldrich struck a match. Aldrich was surprised to find that the tunnel was not what he had imagined, but it was very exquisitely excavated, with stone walls and stone floors, floor tiles, and ceilings.
"Magic lamps, magically sealed jugs, dry bread and salt, there's all here." Fandro walked ahead, lighting the magic lanterns along the way, and proudly introducing his final shelter, "My uncle and father also wanted to dig this shelter all the way out of the city, but unfortunately the project was too large and was not carried out in the end. ”
You know, it's a full two kilometers away from the nearest city gate! Aldridge simulated the location and size of Kamla City in his mind for a moment, and he couldn't help but be surprised—surprised by the financial power of the Doura Chamber of Commerce since the previous generation.
"You have to think that after three days, the damned commander Borifezno can cause a big enough disturbance on the harbor side, and we will be able to break free from here, regardless of the outcome. Now in this huge general meeting, no one knows where we have gone, and even if the people of the other world chew their bones, they will not be able to judge even a word. Unless they did tear down the house, from the roof to the floor, stone by plank, they would never know that we were hiding here. ”
"President Fendreau, why do I think that the people of the other world will really tear down the guild hall......" The news of Perrier's death had already reached here, and Aldrich was much more nervous about it than Fendreo: the impression given to him by the people of the other world was that he never suffered a loss, and once he suffered, he would pay it back a hundred times. And this time they almost or have already suffered a big loss, this hundred times I don't know that the package does not include digging three feet into the ground?
"Aldridge the crow-beak, shut your foul mouth." Fandro turned his head and glared at Aldrich, and said angrily. "Once the people of the other world of the central government really find out about this, the first thing I will do is to burn you and your ledger to ashes."
As he spoke, all the pink lamps in the basement had been lit up. Aldrich had a hint of fear in his mind for no reason—it wasn't like a so-called shelter, the basement with a large bed was more like a tomb for them.