Chapter 207: Tengchong
Whether it was Hui Liancai, Qiao Qiao, and Nan Mu, who were injured and fell to the ground, or Xia Xin and Xia Qiming, who were unharmed, they didn't have time to take advantage of this time period to make counterattacks.
The ghoul stepped forward and pointed a gun at Hui Liancai's head.
"Twenty years ago, you colluded with the people of the Yunmeng Mercenary Regiment, ignored how much I had paid to Gem City, brutally murdered my wife, and forced me into a nuclear waste disposal site."
"It's a pity...... It's a pity that I didn't die in that place as you expected. Although the radiation turned me into this kind of human and ghostly appearance, I survived. ”
"As long as you live, there's hope for revenge, right?"
"I've done so much for Gem City, what happened to me? After the military capture of Toshima, the ship boss implemented the appeasement bill, and I told him at that time that the story of the farmer and the snake in this world happens every day, and you do this consciously and benevolently, but it is only to satisfy the inner pursuit, spiritual enrichment, to put it bluntly, it is self-congratulatory. ”
"One day, your snake will bite you or your offspring."
"He said he had to give it a try."
"Then I'll let him try it."
"Try it out and see what it turns out to be, I'm sure you all know it."
“……”
The ghoul said a lot, as if he wanted to pour out all the secrets that had been suppressed in his heart for more than ten years.
On the other hand, these words also made him relive the memories that belonged to Teng Chong and retrieve those lost things, such as revenge and anger.
Thirty years ago, the older generation of Gem City powerhouses withdrew from the stage one after another, and Teng Chong became the governor of Gem City at the age of less than 40.
In order to prove that he was worthy of the position of Governor of Gem City, Teng Chong led people to obtain soil improvement technology from Vault 1019------ which would bring low-pollution soil to Gem City to improve the planting environment.
Of course, this incident also brought a negative impact------ unveiling the prelude to the long-term hostility between Gem City and Kite City.
You must know that the era when Vault 1019 was established, whether it was Kite City or Qindao City, they were all part of the Huaxia Kingdom. Although Vault 1019 was built in Kite City, most of the people on the evacuation list were scientific researchers from Qindao City.
Time has come to the wasteland era after the nuclear war, and in a sense, the continent is in a state of separation, with different settlements either hostile to each other, or watching and helping each other, or fighting the tip of a knife to survive.
There are also some companies that have preserved pre-war resources relatively well, such as Xiamen Airlines Group, such as the Center for Disease Control and Prevention in Jiangyou, and the South China Institute of Bioengineering. They qualify for existence by cooperating with settlements or by engaging in commercial activities.
After Teng Chong obtained the soil improvement technology at the cost of offending the people of Yuancheng, he used it to attract relevant scientific researchers in the peninsula area to join the Academy of Sciences and carry out in-depth development on the basis of the soil improvement technology obtained from Vault 1019.
This is where the washing solution used by Maxim's Cannery to reduce the amount of radioactivity deposited in the bodies of marine fish comes from.
The soil improvement technology that captured Vault 1019 became a landmark event for Teng Chong to consolidate his position.
In the days that followed, Teng Chong led the residents of Gem City to the Prison Mountain area to find a suitable location, determined the location of the Starlight Farm and the Starlight Ranch, and started the corresponding construction procedures.
Then it relied on the powerful intelligence network of the Bounty Hunters Union to collect and repair the parts of the canned food production line, actively expand the production capacity of the Maxim's Canning Factory, abandon the high-quality and high-value mutated double-headed canned beef and canned radiated chicken, and establish a development strategy with canned marine fish as the main product of the Maxim's Canning Factory.
At the same time, the pre-war military facilities around the ruins of Kotoshima City are actively explored to improve the combat effectiveness of Gem City to deal with the threat from Kite City.
Establish more detailed and strict laws and regulations internally, protect the personal property of private owners, and improve the vitality of bazaars.
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Through these operations, Teng Chong won the unanimous approval of the people of Gem City during his tenure.
He is a down-to-earth person, a pragmatic and hard-working person, and a resolute person.
His achievements in the construction of his territory are commendable, but he is very deficient in his political literacy.
Teng Chong served as the governor for several years, and the people of Gem City only knew his name, and little was known about the management successors such as Wu Da, Huang Lei, Xia Qiming, Chai Xiaonong, and Hui Liancai.
In other words, Teng Chong's presence overshadowed the light of others.
As time passed, the contradictions between the two sides accumulated more and more, and resentment rose in the hearts of Huang Lei and others------ as younger people, they always thought that Teng Chong was too much and did not give them room to show their strength.
Of course, it is very difficult to bring down Teng Chong by normal means.
The turnaround came 20 years ago.
Because Kite City and Gem City hate each other, the former is located at an important node of the peninsula extending inland, and the economic development of Gem City will inevitably be seriously dragged down after domestic demand reaches a certain level.
If you want Gem City to have a better development, it is necessary to transition from a domestic economy to an external economy------- which is clearly reflected in the fact that Maxim's Cannery is the best foreign exchange manufacturing machine.
But...... The Kite side cut off the connection between Gem City and the interior, while the Jicheng side spent all its energy on dividing the countries of the Western Alliance, and was unable to deal with the situation on the peninsula.
In this case, Teng Chong adopted an aggressive strategy------ since the inland market could not be opened, then seek overseas markets.
With the help of headhunters in District 21, he contacted the people of the Rising Sun Islands and tried to establish a sea transportation route to open up overseas markets.
You must know that the Rising Sun Islands were an important military base of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region before the outbreak of the nuclear war, and after the start of the nuclear war, the Rising Sun Islands were baptized by nuclear/biological weapons of Huaxia and Rus, coupled with factors such as geographical disadvantages and rich radioactive materials in the seawater, the living environment of the Rising Sun Islands in the wasteland era is not as good as the peninsula where Gem City is located.
There is no doubt that canned marine fish with low radiation levels will be very popular with the inhabitants of the Rising Sun Islands.
If the benefits are good, this method can be extended to the Goryeo Peninsula and beyond.
The contact between the two sides was very successful, and the people over there gave Teng Chong a woman in order to express their sincerity.
He fell in love with her.
As the Governor of Gem City, he chose to divorce his original partner and live with a woman from the Rising Sun Islands.
It seemed to him to be love, but what was it to the people of Gem City? The Governor of Jewel City abandons his wife for the sake of a woman who is opposed to the old times, which is simply a shame, a violation of morality, and it hurts the feelings of the inhabitants of the city.
Teng Chong is very capable of working, but he seems to be very reckless in dealing with emotional issues.
He didn't care about the argument behind it, after all, in his opinion, who to fall in love with and who to marry was personal freedom. For the residents of Gem City, he has the responsibility to make the city have a brighter future and better development.
In a sense, such a person sits in that position a lot like a fool.
Soon after, the woman he cherished fell ill with a strange disease.
Her skin began to harden, green veins bloomed, dark spots spread throughout her body, and her limbs stiffened and ached.
Teng Chong thought that she was suffering from ordinary radiation sickness at first, and bought a lot of radiating and anti-radiating for her to use, but unfortunately it had no effect at all, and her physical condition deteriorated day by day.
Teng Chong was so anxious that he searched everywhere for a good doctor, hoping to find a cure for his lover.
The medical resources in the peninsula are very poor, no one has ever seen such a strange disease, and naturally no one can cure such a strange disease.
Soon after, he learned of information through the Bounty Hunters' Guild ------ Area 21 appeared to have received similar patients.
He is like a drowning man grasping at a life-saving straw and taking his lover south to seek medical treatment.
The people of the Yunmeng Mercenary Group took over the task of escorting him south, after all, they were active in the Jicheng-Langya settlement, and they were more reliable than the non-mainstream mercenary groups in Gem City.
Not long after embarking on the trip, something unexpected happened to Teng Chong.
Deng Ai, the leader of the Yunmeng Mercenary Regiment, sent men to kill two Jewel City Guard soldiers near Pengcheng, tying him up with his sick wife and throwing him into the nuclear waste disposal site.
In that place, he watched his wife turn into a monster, or a tree with a human face.
Deng Ai told him in a very regretful tone that Hui Liancai and the others had chosen the wrong test subject, and if the biological agent was used on him, it might be more effective than using it on his wife.
However, it is also expected, after all, it is an attempt to artificially induce evolution.
Deng Ai thought that he was dying, and that it was a virtue to solve the doubts in the hearts of those who were about to die, so he told him the truth.
Hui Liancai, Huang Lei, Wang Ming, Xia Qiming, Wu Da and others have wanted to pull him down from the position of governor for a long time, but they are only suffering from the lack of a suitable opportunity to do it, after all, Teng Chong has a high prestige in the hearts of the residents of Gem City.
It wasn't until the Governor ruined his reputation for a woman, and after some deliberation, Hui Lian Cai and the others obtained a biological agent through the channels of the Yunmeng Mercenary Group.
It is said that this biological agent is a medical waste that has been passed down from the South Seas, and the Shinrikyo priests are actively collecting similar items and using them for pharmacological analysis in order to find a way to help relieve the physical pain of radiation patients, and even to create a more effective radiation elimination drug------ at that time Shinrikyo had not deteriorated.
This biologics was put into the imported food supplied to the Governor's Mansion by Wu Da.
They thought that Teng Chong loved that woman, and he must also like the snacks of the Rising Sun Islands, and they loved the house and Wuma.
They were wrong.
Teng Chong didn't eat the specialties from the Rising Sun Islands at all, and all the food went into the mouth of the governor's wife.
And then the next thing happened.
There are rumors in District 21 that Wu Da released similar patients, and the person who contacted the Yunmeng Mercenary Group was Chai Xiaonong.
Fundamentally speaking, this task is not an escort mission, but a murderous mission.
Kill Teng Chong and his woman close to Pengcheng, and then blame the mutants who are fighting the Allied forces...... This is the coup plan 2.0 negotiated by Hui Liancai, Wu Da, Xia Qiming and others.
After listening to Deng Ai's account, Teng Chong fled with his woman into an underground treatment facility where the nuclear waste was placed.
In the eyes of the people of the Yunmeng Mercenary Group, it was a path to suicide. The poor Governor of Gem City wants to enjoy the peace of death in the last moments with his foreign wife who has turned into a tree man...... Although taking into account the issue of radiation concentrations, there is little tranquility and a lot of suffering.
"Isn't there a saying that love can conquer all pain?" Teng Chong still remembers that someone used this sentence to ridicule his behavior.
The people of the Yunmeng mercenary group did not expect that the high-intensity radiation did not kill him, but only turned him into a ghoul.
His brain can still think, and he can still lead his body's actions.
He escaped back into the human world through a tunnel created by a collapse at the bottom of a nuclear waste disposal facility.
Since then, the name Teng Chong has become a dead wave in the tide of history. Because the person in charge of the nuclear waste disposal facility is called Tan Zhen, he used this name to describe the ghoul on the other side of the mirror.
He felt that this ugly face was the revelation of fate to him, making him remember how tragic his fate was, who killed the woman he loved, and who took away his career.
He wants revenge, and he wants to make those people pay.
It was at this time that the people of Shinrikyo discovered him. He was asked to assist scientists in medical experiments to develop a new drug or therapy to improve the quality of life for patients with radiation sickness.
Tan Zhen didn't refuse, because he wanted to know who gave this medicine to Wu Da and those people.
As it turned out, the Shinrikyo course quickly drifted away over time, and a new generation of priests who gradually came to power distorted the fundamentalist doctrine and began to raise the banner of evolution, and those medical experiments also deviated------ such as what happened to Xia Xin.
Tan Zhen and the other ghouls unite to form a small circle in order to avoid becoming guinea pigs themselves.
They spent almost ten years, during which Tan Zhen, with the help of other ghouls and the ship boss (fellow villagers), killed the people who had provided injections for Wu Da and Hui Liancai at the beginning of the ideological contradictions within the Shinrikyo religion, and then left the Central Plains with the ship boss and began the project of repairing the Type 56 corvette, intending to subdue Toshima by force.
During this period, Wu Da almost dragged down the economy of Gem City with the wrong financial policy, and Luo Zuoming took the opportunity to take the stage, forced Wu Da away, and became the new governor of Gem City.
Tan Zhen led people to ambush Wu Da halfway and killed his entire family, which can be regarded as avenging his lover.
He also took Wu Da's property, part of which was given to the ship boss to purchase parts for the repair of the Type 56 corvette, and part of it became a tribute to his deceased wife.
After the completion of the repair work on the Type 56 corvettes, they went to the peninsula.
At this time, more than ten years have passed, he has also changed his face, it is impossible for anyone to recognize him, even the name Teng Chong has been forgotten, and only some old people in Gem City have memories and nostalgia.
The captain of the ship wants him to let go of his hatred and accept his new life, after all, the events of the year can be seen as fate to give him a chance to resurrect.
Time wears away many things...... Love, affection, ambition, heroism.
In the days of Shinrikyo they were accustomed to life and death, sickness and suffering, pain and sorrow...... The hatred of a decade ago is not so real.
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