After a seemingly endless night, there was a morning that was so bright that it was unreal. Xiang Nanxing's body shook significantly when he came out of the basement, he subconsciously raised his hand to cover his forehead, squinted his eyes and looked at the sunlight outside, feeling slightly dizzy.

If the picture in front of him was put in the movie, it would probably be saved until everything was perfectly resolved, but he knew that things were just beginning. The achievement that he had worked so hard to achieve without any death, in the things that would happen next, was at most a little wave in the sea. Compared with the many people who are likely to die at this time, and in the next place in Xifeng, what he saved was just a guy who had done a lot of evil and was sentenced to death according to his crime, and he kept that guy's life only to leave the opportunity to enforce justice to the law, not to be judged by someone in private.

He wasn't even sure if he was doing it right.

There is no doubt that Luo Lun, who hired a murderer to intercept Jiang Le and his party, is not a good person. Under the guise of a philanthropist, he secretly took the street children from all over the world into the basement and abused them for fun, and if he was really killed in the basement at that time, he deserved it. And most of the people who hired him were behind the coup d'état, and they would hire this kind of goods, and it was probably not a good thing for them to hire him.

However, Jiang Le, who was chosen as their target, and the royal family she represented, are they the good ones?

Xifeng's evil can be seen from its "game" system that treats living people as playthings, and Xiang Nanxing still remembers everything she has done before. If everything he did to stop the bloodshed at this time would eventually bring Xifeng back to the track of the past, it would not necessarily be a good thing for the people who lived here.

"It's just that if you have to compare, life under order is better than chaos after all." Xiang Nanxing said to himself, "Especially compared to this kind of aimless chaos. ”

When he said this, he was driving on the highway between the cities, going to the meeting place that he had agreed with Jiang Le in advance. The seven-seater car was rented before they left the city of Shaarawi, and because of the collapse of the credit system, they had to pay several times more than usual deposits, almost equivalent to buying the car at a second-hand discount. However, Liang's forward-thinking expenditure proved to be definitely worth it. If it weren't for this vehicle that could speed up and escape at any time, no matter how strong Nangong Qian's shooting deterrent was, in the face of wave after wave of roadblock robbery gangs, they would eventually face the dilemma of running out of ammunition and food.

In addition to the robbers, most of the people they saw along the way were people fleeing with their luggage. As Liang Jingmo said, those who take advantage of the fire to rob and those who flee their hometowns are two very meaningful indicators in major events. The former represents the extent to which the event has damaged the social order, while the latter visually shows how much damage it has done to the lives of the majority of people in society. As they drove inland from the port city of Shaalawy, the more they were encountered, the more often they encountered roadblocks and robberies, and at the same time they saw more and more people fleeing. The most common means of transportation among those people also slowly degenerated from cars to carts, and finally directly to trek on a pair of legs. This shows that the degree of chaos in the core area of Xifeng is not trivial.

"What's worse is that these people are still fleeing in the same direction." Liang Jingmo added.

"Is this a big problem?" Nangong Qian asked with wide eyes.

"Indeed."

Xiang Nanxing looked at the chaotic flow of people outside the car window, his face solemn.

In general, people fleeing will have a clear place to go. For example, if it is cold in the north, then the refugees will go south; Wherever there is a war, refugees will flee to distant places centered on the battlefield; If the country is politically unstable, people in the core areas will either seek escape near the border or seek refuge in remote areas with relatively low impact. In the final analysis, living beings have the instinct to seek advantages and avoid disadvantages, and human beings, as the most high-end existence in this evolutionary chain, are naturally no exception.

But the flow of refugees they saw was a chaotic scene, with different directions, and no one could say a safe place, as elusive as the irregular Brownian motion of molecules in physics. The message is that the country is in an unprecedented state of chaos, and that the only reliable source of information that used to cover the country, the official television station, is now almost completely paralyzed, barely able to broadcast any effective information, which makes the population even more helpless. Due to the lack of information, and perhaps some people have ulterior motives to guide them, each region eventually forms its own set of narratives, resulting in completely different perceptions of the "safe zone". They went their separate ways, and the routes they walked were naturally very different.

These refugees went back and forth in circles, and the cheapest ones were naturally the gangs who blocked the road and robbed. How many people still use cars to carry luggage when they first start on the road, and when they come down in a circle, they all become walking in rags with two legs.

A few days ago, they were still a small people who were more than good at the top, and after a few days, some of them have become beggars.

"It's a lot worse than I expected." Xiang Nanxing frowned, "When I first arrived in Shaarawy, I thought that most places should not be too far apart, even if they were not as good as there. ”

"It's a lot worse." Liang Jingmo sighed, "Shalawi is a special place after all. ”

Nangong Qian was curious: "What kind of special law?" ”

"Miss, you have come to Xifeng to perform a mission, and you should have done your basic homework." Liang Jingmo said, "It has been a very closed and self-sufficient country since ancient times, and it has only gradually opened up in modern times, but the pace is very slow. Until now, Xifeng has really had economic communication with the outside world in those port cities, and only there will be some potential foreign influences. Imagine that when an outside force infiltrates a city, it will more or less change that city. As one of the most border cities, Shaarawi City has difficulty with central jurisdiction, and the local clan forces are relatively strong, plus it is still the earliest port city with the highest degree of openness, and it is the only one in Xifeng that has external forces really involved in local management, and it is actually controlled by several different forces. ”

"The Maritime Chamber of Commerce, the local brotherhood, and the original Xifeng local government, and so on." He counted on his fingers, "After a long game, these forces have chosen a relatively balanced plan, and the local government, which should have been in a strong position, is actually at the end of the seat. Therefore, after the incident, its collapse did not directly cause the collapse of the local order, but only triggered an opportunity to redraw the territory, and at the same time gave the forces in front of it a chance to compete for power. Although the environment of Shaarawi is somewhat chaotic as a result, it does not hurt the fundamentals, and the order in which it operates is still there. ”

"Still, it's a bit weird." Xiang Nanxing said suddenly.

He pondered, "Even if most places don't have foreign forces to help maintain order like Shaarawy, there should be more or less clan forces everywhere." In the past, when the world was chaotic, the clan would always spontaneously form a circle to protect those in its circle. But this time, the clan's protective power seems to have failed. ”

"That's why I said, it's 'aimless' chaos." Liang Jingmo replied, "If it is just a simple coup d'état, it will mainly change the upper ruling class, and the original grassroots order will have little direct impact on them. But the group of people I saw now seemed to be determined to create chaos, and they only thought about sabotage, completely ignoring what happened afterward. I suspect that the current situation of refugees is the result of the disinformation they are deliberately spreading, and the local clan forces are unable to play a role, and maybe someone is doing something in the shadows. Anyway, it's a mess everywhere now, and it's not a matter at all to die a few leaders or something. ”

He tapped the steering wheel impatiently: "If you want me to say anything, the most important thing at the moment is to go to the capital and find out what is going on, not to waste time on some other inconsequential thing!" ”

When he said that, he was suddenly excited, and he turned his head directly and yelled at Xiang Nanxing. The latter, however, seemed to turn a deaf ear to this, calmly handing out the supplies on the bus to the refugees he met and showing them the way to Shaarawi. The refugees who received the food were grateful, but the increasing number of people gathered around them also made it difficult for their cars to move forward. Some of the people who trekked hard could not even eat, and they were so hungry that they did not even have the strength to walk, and they could only drag their feet with difficulty when they saw the distribution of dry food from afar. In this case, Xiang Nanxing would even ask the car to lean over so that things could be delivered to them.

They stopped and went along the way, except for a few encounters with bandits, a large part of the reason was because Xiang Nanxing always liked to stop and do this kind of thing along the road. Before leaving Shaarawy, in addition to renting a car, Xiang Nanxing spent a sum of money to prepare a batch of dry food in advance, which directly filled the trunk of the car and those empty seats. Whenever he encountered a group of refugees along the way, he would distribute the supplies without stopping the car, while pointing out relatively safe routes for those who got lost. For this reason, the speed at which they travel is naturally greatly affected, but they also have their own calculations for this southern star.

"I don't think it's a waste of time." He handed the dry food from the car window to a pair of raised hands, and said lightly, "According to the plan, even if we get there first, we will have to wait for Jiang Le and the others to arrive before we can decide on the next move, and she will have her own plans." And the departure point over there is much farther than ours, and even if it were a long drive all the way, the converted time would not be much different from what we were traveling like this - rest assured, I have time, and if I feel like I have to delay, I will stop myself. ”

"I'm afraid that I will be immersed in this savior fantasy and will not be able to extricate myself." Liang Jingmo sneered.

"I've always been an ordinary person." Xiang Nanxing replied, "I know this very well. ”

Nangong Qian looked back and forth at the two of them a little nervously, but she couldn't think of anything to say.

She knew very well that something must have happened between the two of them in the villa, so it would only after that that there would be this completely undisguised sense of rift, which was completely different from the feeling when they worked together at the White Night Festival before. Although they can still speak calmly and well on general issues, when it comes to their different ways of doing things, they will not give in to each other, and no one will give in.

Sandwiched between them, Nangong Qian, who has always been not good at handling interpersonal relationships, feels even more at a loss.

She thought about it for a long time, and finally could only hold back a few words dryly.

"Actually, I think he has a point." She advised, "Only by finding the key to the problem can we help more people." After all, it's a rescue for the whole country, and you're only helping a limited number of people at most. ”

"Nations are not made of people." Xiang Nanxing smiled, "No matter how many people you help, you are helping the country." ”

Liang Jingmo sneered and pointed out the window.

"Look at these people, how many of them do you see at this moment, and how many of them do you not see? You want to save people, but even if our car is full and all of them are sent out, how many can we save? ”

I understand the reasoning, it's just ......

Xiang Nanxing unconsciously gritted his teeth and looked out the car window. By this time, those who had received the food had gradually walked away, but a little farther away, a hand was still stubbornly raised. It was a mother with disheveled sideburns, sitting on the ground, holding her child in the air with one hand held high and the other carefully holding her child, who had finally fallen asleep, while putting her face to the child's ear and humming softly. Probably it was not easy for the child to fall asleep, and although she also wanted a good meal, she did not want to risk waking him up, and rushed into the crowd to fight with the others.

She hummed a lullaby common in Xifeng folklore, and the long melody penetrated the noisy crowd into her ears for no reason. Xiang Nanxing was in a trance for a moment, as if a soft place in his heart had been touched, and when he came back to his senses, he found that his arm had unconsciously leaned out of the car window, as if he was trying his best to hand over a bag of bread to the other party, and as if he wanted to hold the other party's hand.

"This one"—he was blessed with a heart, and suddenly remembered such an answer.

At this moment, he felt as if a door had opened somewhere in his heart, and the light came in, and the confusion that had been haunting him was like a shadow receding in the sun, gradually disappearing.

"Yes, this one." He muttered.

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