Chapter 169: Resistance
A little further ahead, a dozen guards scurried around the train cars.
"Get out of the way, get out of the way......"
Guards were constantly shouting loudly to drive the paups standing at key intersections to make way.
But the men seemed to have not heard, the sick and the sick walked slowly, and the old lady sat on the door tread with a cane, pouting toothlessly, and staring vacantly at the chaotic scene ahead.
Shang Hu's right arm just hit the old seat, leaving a bruise. Now, in order to avoid the besiegers, he cut his calf when he came out of the car window, but fortunately it was not serious, but a blood line was oozing.
He glanced back at the gloomy guards on the other side of the window, and continued to run ahead.
Jumping over the junction between the front and the car of a truck, rolling under a scrapped tank, drilling in the back, drilling out in the front, climbing the ladder of the dilapidated bus to the roof, stepping on the narrow plank to the other end of the slum.
In the process, he saw one of his companions being pressed down in the stinking ditch by two guards, his face and body were filthy, and he was constantly roaring and struggling to get up.
The roar quickly turned into a wail, and as the electric baton fell, the companion's body spasmed and writhed.
Shang Hu also saw a companion covered in blood running from the head of the train car to the rear of the train car, not wanting that there were already guards outside in ambush, as the companion showed his head and face, the long stick also came with a shout.
A muffled grunt was heard, and the bloodied companion fell backwards.
"I'm CAO your grandma......"
Shang Hu cursed loudly while speeding away.
What did they do wrong?
What are they doing wrong!
Didn't you just buy some canned sea fish from Maxim's Cannery and sell them in the city?
Why do those dealers get 50% of the profits, they just want to eat them themselves, but also help the frail elderly and children in the slums to taste the taste of meat products, and the 10% profit is just to compensate for the loss of energy and time in their work.
Is this excessive? This is not an exaggeration.
They are the hardest group of people in Gem City, unlike big people like Tang Yan and Comrade Jiao, who have enough capital to do charity, not to make money, but to realize their life ideals.
Wang Ming and Tang Yan have a conflict of interest, and they can use the power in their hands to do nothing, act indiscriminately, and desperately squeeze out the directly-operated stores.
To such a big man, they are like praying mantis to military vehicles, and mud to Tianyun.
As a cockroach, a lump of mud, they don't want to get involved in the struggle between the big guys, they just want to survive, and it is enough to have an inch of respite and shelter.
Most of the people in the slums are like him, they don't care who is in power, they don't care about whose call or golden sentence comes from the eyeball robot, they only care about what to do with tomorrow's livelihood after eating this meal, and where to go to raise protection money for next month.
However, such a standard of good citizens became victims of the conflict between Wang Ming and Tang Yan's ideas.
I remember the day after Luo Zuoming's downfall, Wang Ming said: "We will resist at all costs all forms of war and infiltration launched by hostile internal and external forces against Gem City. ”
We......
We?
Who is the "we" in Wang Ming's mouth.
Shang Hu felt that the "we" here must not include him and his partners.
They are not "us", they are "the price".
Compared with Wang Ming, Hui Liancai, and Luo Zuoming, who talk about "protection", "compassion", and "dedication" every day, his partners bullied him a lot when he was growing up, laughing at his name as "tiger", which is actually a bean sprout, but when his father died, his mother was seriously ill, and the people who shouted compassion and love for the people did not appear, and the protection fee should be paid a lot, but those who had bullied him sent a few nests, some herbs, boiled clean water, and shredded meat picked out from the leftovers of the restaurant......
Even the protection money he needed to stay in Gem City with his seriously ill mother was accumulated by donating a little from each family.
It is the poor who are also struggling at the bottom of society to support him and her mother to survive.
He could not repay the kindness of those people, and when an unnamed person told him that there was a way to bypass the guards and bring canned sea fish into the city, he did not hesitate to take over the job of helping with the retail.
Unable to get used to the tax authorities' approach, they did everything they could to change the status quo in the slums, taking great risks to deliver canned fish to those in need.
Last night, they were reminded to be careful, and it was better to work for a while and take a break, because the original Maxim's brand canned food dealers already knew that someone was stealing business from them and was trying to find a way to get them out.
Shang Hu and his companions did not follow the man's advice and delivered the goods to the door according to the plan of yesterday, and were finally caught by the dealer pretending to be a pauper, triggering a citywide manhunt.
Click!
A sound from under his feet interrupted Shang Hu's chagrin at him, and his body fell downward.
He was distracted just now, and he didn't notice that the wooden planks on the cover of the carriage behind him and the carriage in front of him had rotted, and he stepped on it directly, and the whole person fell from a height of nearly two meters.
Fortunately, the plank cushioned some of the force, and his fall was not serious, but his chest cavity was split, and his arm broke the skin.
Moaning twice and taking a few deep breaths in a row, Shang Hu reluctantly got up from the ground, but only then did he turn out of the shadow of the carriage, and before he could cross the street on the right and enter the civilian area where a large number of containers were distributed, several figures flashed on the side in a row, and one hand locked his neck and pressed him to the ground.
Poof.
Shang Hu fell to his knees, and the left side of his face was plastered with cold concrete.
"Aren't you very good at running? Why don't you run away? ”
As the voice came from behind him, Shang Hu's face showed a painful expression as someone kicked his body with his foot.
He struggled desperately, writhing hard.
It's a pity that his body is very thin and weak, and his strength is very small, and he is held down by the strong guards, let alone standing up, and he can't even turn over.
There was a crunch click, and the handcuffs closed.
The guards who had just kicked him in the back pulled him up from the ground in handcuffs.
"Ah......h
Shang Hu let out a wail of pain, and his two arms felt as if they were broken.
It's over, he's done......
This time I went to the security bureau, and God knows if I could get out.
What about his mother? Who brings her bowls and feeds, and who pours water and changes her dressings?
He hated, hated his own incompetence, hated Wang Ming's cruelty, and hated the vicious dogs behind him who were fed with blood steamed buns.
But this hatred can not turn into a big knife to cut off Wang Ming's head, and it can't turn into a bullet to give death to a vicious dog.
Shang Hu saw the blood on the face of the captured partner on the left falling on his old clothes full of patches.
Shang Hu saw the cracked lips and closed left eye of the captured partner on the right, and the whole person was dragged forward by the guards.
He doesn't regret what he did, he hates the lack of strength.
The expressions of Shang Hu and the others were not good-looking, and the guards who escorted them to the Public Security Bureau were also full of gloom.
Several of them were slightly injured while arresting the smugglers, and they were also subjected to all kinds of cold eyes and curses from the people in the slums, and of course they were not in a beautiful mood.
Some people secretly swear that they must make the smugglers pay the price of blood, and those who dare to challenge the authority, men and women, young and old, must be beaten so that they dare not resist.
Cracking sound......
The sound of an arc at the end of a baton hitting a human body is heard.
Shang Hu saw Liu Yang coming out of the alley on the right with his arms carried by the guards, followed by a fat-headed guy with big ears.
is Captain Wang of the Public Security Bureau, and he has another identity------ Wang Ming's cousin.
Even Liu Yang was arrested, and the group of dogs behind him could proudly say in front of the chief that they had wiped out all the smugglers.
Shang Hu grimaced and let the guards push him forward.
He walked forward a little further, and the hand that was pushing him behind him suddenly grabbed his shoulder.
Shang Hu quickly sensed that the situation ahead was different.
When he looked up and captured a scene on the street, the whole person was stunned.
There were a lot of people walking on the opposite side, some from the slums, some from the civilian areas, dressed differently and looking different, but their expressions were similar, and they all held iron pipes, clubs and other striking weapons in their hands.
The wind came from outside the city, blowing up the waste paper scattered in the middle of the street, and turning away.
The rusty tin box on the telephone pole kept opening and closing, making a clattering sound.
The whole world fell silent.
Shang Hu and the others saw the people on the street, and the people on the street also saw them, and then looked at the guards escorting them on foot, their eyes spewing angry flames.
"KILL THESE DOGS, NIANG."
"yes, kill the dogleg of the security bureau."
“……”
The crowd shouted a shout, followed by a thunderous response.
There was no lengthy confrontation, and the people on the street rushed over with a lot of rage.
Bang......
The sound of footsteps is continuous, and sticks and iron pipes are swaggering.
"What are they going to do? What are they going to do? ”
Captain Wang and his men were stunned to see the scene across the long street, they didn't expect this to happen, and those people were actually fighting against the Sheriff's Bureau at the risk of being expelled from Gem City.
Didn't you just catch a few smugglers in the ghetto?
Aren't they just a few little kids with no background and no status?
Why did you let things be like this?
They have institutional restaurants that provide food, and they take the monthly money given by their bosses, where do they understand how hard life is for the people at the bottom.
First, the standard of protection fees was raised, then it was difficult to squeeze out the directly operated stores set up by Maxim's Cannery in the bazaar, then the officials and businessmen colluded to cut leeks, and finally poisoned a group of teenagers.
For the people of the Public Security Bureau, this is called doing things according to the rules and regulations, and it is compliant and legal.
For the people of Gem City, this is called competing with the people for profit, and it is brutal and unkind.
They have been pushed to the extreme, they can't bear it anymore, and if they don't stand up and do their part for the group of teenagers in Shanghu, who will speak for them in the future, and who will shout for them in the future.
The young man on Shang Hu's right, who had one eye closed, opened his eyes and looked at the other side in pain, and the figures of the people who entered his pupils were stained red by his blood.
The young man on Shang Hu's left struggled hard, enduring the stabbing blow of the electric baton and knocking down the guards next to him
Captain Wang was dumbfounded, looking at the excited crowd of people trembling on their legs.
How could he have experienced such a thing, who would have thought that the people would do it for a few teenagers.
The ...... The guy who should be grateful to Dade for taking them in in Gem City actually wants to use force against his benefactor!
That's what the eyeball robot tells people...... It was the fathers and grandparents of Wang Ming, Hui Liancai and others who established the Gem City, giving the people a place to live and sleep peacefully from being harmed by fierce beasts and living corpses.
"You ...... What are you going to do? Don't you want to live? Captain Wang pointed to the crowd on the opposite side and shouted inwardly, waving the baton in his hand.
However, he looked more like a wild dog barking in the face of a wild cow on the prairie.
The herd is about to drown a few wild dogs......
At this time, Shang Hu felt a loosening of his back, the hand that was holding him was gone, and when he looked back, he found that the two guards who escorted him had sold his back to him and were desperately fleeing backwards.
Captain Wang is a fat man, he has wasted a lot of strength before, and now he hasn't slowed down, he didn't pay attention to his feet when he ran for his life, and the young man standing behind Shang Hu stretched out his calf and tripped and fell to the ground with a bang.
He struggled to get up, but the young man next to him sat on his ass and pressed his newly lifted body back to the ground.
"You little bunny......"
His voice stopped abruptly as one foot stomped his head off, his face and mouth pressed against the concrete.
Then there were the figures and dense footsteps passing by.
Captain Wang had no idea, and even the people behind him kept kicking his buttocks, and they only made a snorting sound, like a pig.
After a short while, the footsteps suddenly stopped, and the people stopped chasing the guards of the security bureau.
Captain Wang tried to raise his head, looked through the cracks in the square-shaped shoes in front of him, and saw a group of guards wearing steel helmets and holding Type 95 assault rifles in their hands.
Reinforcements from the Public Security Bureau arrived in time to save their comrades who had fled.
Unlike before, they came with guns!
"I'm ......" Captain Wang stretched out his hand, wanting to call for help from the reinforcements that followed.
At that moment, a hard object was pressed against his head.
He knew, it was a gun.
The last time he was stopped by someone stomping on his head, this time he chose to keep his mouth shut and not anger the excited residents of Gem City.
The people who rushed to rescue Shang Hu confronted the guards of the Public Security Bureau from a distance of 100 meters.
The former has a large number of people but is very backward in weapons, while the latter has a small number of people and relatively advanced weapons.
The wind whipped the broken carriages, whining from time to time.
On both sides, you look at me, I look at you, and neither of them will take a step back.
………………
Inside the office of the Civil Affairs Department near the Governor's Palace.
The barracuda in the tank has interlaced teeth, constantly spitting bubbles, and from time to time sweeps the room with a fierce gaze.
Wang Ming took a piece of glasses cloth and gently wiped his beloved black-framed glasses, looking very peaceful.
Tang Yan wants to promote canned sea fish to the entire peninsula and even the inland, and then sell it at the reserve price, using this method to win the favor of the wastelanders, establish his own image, and lay a solid foundation for building his own team.
He thought beautifully and planned well, but the young man overlooked one thing------ it was much more difficult to convince people with virtue than to deter by force.