Chapter 616: Beiling Consortium
"Allegiants? What do you mean? Qi Lin asked pretending to be confused.
"Although the city defense army is nominally under the command of the city lord of New Xi'an City, except for the officers who are directly transferred from the consortium alliance, all the soldiers are recruited and trained from the players in the city, and those officers originally belong to different factions within the consortium alliance, and when the city defense army recruits, these factions will naturally find ways to stuff their own people into their own officers' ranks, and after a long time, there is naturally a clear factional division within the city defense army."
"You mean, these city defenders are on your side?"
"No, it's not, it's just that the people above them took the money, so they have to help us, and the next time we see us, maybe they'll shoot us directly." Chen Qi shook his head and said.
ββ¦β¦ Is it just a temporary partnership? β
"It's just a temporary partnership."
"The Pure Consortium won't go to their trouble."
"Yes, but that's not what we need to care about, and if they're clean enough, the Prey consortium won't be able to find their heads."
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The truck drove for more than ten minutes, almost across the entire city of New Xi'an, before coming to a stop deep in the industrial zone in the west of the city. "I can't answer all of your questions, but you'll soon be able to meet our leader, and if he doesn't have any opinions, you can ask him then." Chen Qi said to Qi Lin and jumped out of the car first.
Chen Qi took Qi Lin into a spacious workshop, only to see that seamless steel pipes were constantly undergoing one process after another on the production line, first cutting, then polishing, and after cleaning with an oily liquid, the steel pipes would be sent to the bottom of another large machine, and a tool similar to an electric drill bit would be used to process the rifling inside the steel pipes.
Qi Lin could see at a glance that this was the standard barrel used by a batch of ten-millimeter large-caliber assault rifles, and on the Herrens front line against the Kuroshio, hundreds of barrels like this were consumed every day.
The workshop is filled with loud noises generated by mechanical work, and people must speak to each other as loud as possible to be able to hear each other.
Some of the people who jumped out of the car loaded the big box onto a trolley and pushed it deeper into the factory, while others simply walked to the production line and got to work.
These people ...... It was really the workers of the Pava military industry, who had fought against the Consortium half an hour ago in the name of the Resistance, and now stood in front of all sorts of equipment, skillfully producing barrels for the Consortium......
This kind of scene is really too discordant!
If Qi Lin hadn't seen it with his own eyes, he wouldn't have believed that those rebels who gave the alliance a headache were hiding in the factories under the consortium alliance as workers.
"What about your leaders? Is he here too? Qi Lin asked Chen Qi.
"Yes, I'll take you to him, come with me." Chen Qi nodded and walked up the stairs on the second floor of the workshop, Qi Lin immediately followed, and at this moment, the door of a room on the second floor of the workshop was suddenly pushed open from the inside, and a thin figure walked out from inside.
As soon as Chen Qi saw that figure, he immediately stood up straight respectfully and said in a low voice, "Leader! This time we acted, and we brought back a manβ"
Before he finished his words, Qi Lin had already walked up quickly, grabbed the leader's shoulder, and asked in a deep voice, "Why are you here?" You shouldn't be here! β
"What are you doing! Let go of the boss! Otherwise, I'll shoot! When Chen Qi saw that Qi Lin dared to grab the leader's shoulder, he immediately pulled out a pistol from his waist and aimed it at Qi Lin's head.
However, the leader only waved his hand and said to him, "Put down your gun, and get out of here, and tell everyone that no one is allowed to approach my office without my orders." β
"Chief, ...... you?"
"Do as I say."
"Yes."
When Chen Qi left, he glanced at Qi Lin with a somewhat complicated look, and then said, "Qi ...... Let's go inside. β
"Okay, go in and say, if you don't explain it to me, you're going to die." Qi Lin gave him a vicious look and followed him into the office.
The leader in Chen Qi's mouth is none other than Qi Lin's roommate before, the little Lei who said he was going to look for his parents and had been missing for several months!
Xiao Lei closed the office door and was about to pour Qi Lin a glass of water, but Qi Lin strangled his neck, threw him the ground, and then grabbed his collar and threw him on the sofa opposite the work.
Qi Lin sat down on the desk, stared at Xiao Lei's eyes, and said word by word: "Tell me, what happened after you left Vault 187, and for what reason would make you the 'leader' of this group of people outside?" If your answer doesn't satisfy me, then I'll beat you up. β
After a few months, Xiao Lei's appearance has changed a lot, and the whole person looks much more mature, not at all like a child who is not yet twenty years old, but what Qi Lin noticed is that Xiao Lei has a huge gap in his left ear, and there is also a huge scar on the collarbone, which almost separates his head from his body.
"I knew you were going to beat me up......" Xiao Lei coughed several times and said slowly.
Qi Lin...... Brother, I'm sorry......"
"Don't say sorry to me, answer my questions first!" Qi Lin jumped off the desk and ripped off the work card on Xiao Lei's chest.
"The person in charge of the new Xi'an City of Pawa Military Industry, tsk, tell me, what happened?"
"I ...... I left Vault 187 and went to the place where my parents had an accident, and I did find them, and they weren't dead......"
"And then?"
"Although they are still alive, their physical condition has deteriorated seriously due to being buried under the mine for a long time, not only is they weak and malnourished, but my mother also has a severe radiation sickness." Xiao Lei lowered his head and said like a child who had done something wrong.
"I don't have any money, and the mining company only compensates us for a small amount of money, not to mention cure, even eating is a problem."
"And then you joined the rebels? Can the rebels feed your whole family? Can the rebels help your mom with her illness? Qi Lin asked with a sneer.
"No...... It wasn't a rebel who found me, but a rich man in a suit and leather shoes, who told me that he was from the 'Beiling Foundation'...... He said they needed a pawn that was faithful enough...... And in exchange, he was willing to provide my mom with the best medical conditions......"