"I never thought this day would come so quickly." In front of a coffin, Xiao Lei fell to his knees and cried loudly.

In January of the 10th year of Honkai, Colonel Luo Wei of the Republic was stationed in the death row camp of Skull City.

In August of the same year, the supreme administrator of the Skull City death row camp in the Republic of the Republic, Major General Cass, passed away.

Major General Cass walked silently and quietly left one early morning in the summer, dying very peacefully, as if he was asleep, and according to eyewitness accounts, when Major General Cass died, the ground was full of cigarette butts and an empty bottle of Moutai liquor.

Some people think that Major General Cass is old and weak and dies, while others think that Major General Cass overdosed on cigarettes and alcohol in a short period of time and unfortunately passed away.

Looking at all parts of the country, the climate in August is still hot, but at this time the skeleton camp is crying, and the snow is flying in August, and the soldiers of the death row camp in black are kneeling all over the field, with fluffy snow falling on their shoulders, on a path covered with weeds and stones, sending Major General Cass on his last journey.

The burial method in death row camps has always been very simple, even for senior administrators, they are usually buried in a coffin, and then the death certificate is reported, there will be no life deeds, no eulogy poems, and no decent funeral.

It can be said that in the death row, after you die, no one will know about your existence except for your own relatives and companions who used to fight together, and when these people also slowly leave, the traces of your existence will disappear completely.

But for Major General Cass, it doesn't matter anymore, he defended the motherland with his blood, lived in obscurity, and was even spurned later, but he still persistently persevered, like a watchman outside the world, watching until the last moment.

Major General Cass has no living relatives, and the only one who is relatively close is Xiao Lei, who was alone in the early morning of Major General Cass's death, only Xiao Lei was secretly sobbing at the door of the room, sad alone.

However, on that sad morning, when Ray opened the window to welcome the last rays of sunlight before being put into the coffin by Major General Cass, he saw a scene he had never seen before in his life.

Outside the building was full of kneeling people, headed by Luo Wei, with Chufan Rabul as the wing, all the soldiers of the death row camp lined up behind them, dressed in black, kneeling on the muddy ground to form a vast black cloud, and everyone did not drink or eat, and kept vigil for Major General Kas for three days.

Three days later, on a hill on the outskirts of Skull City, the sky was a little gray and it was raining slightly, Rabul was carrying a heavy coffin, Luo Wei was holding a red umbrella and accompanying him, and behind him was a long line of death row funeral teams.

There was no one talking along the way, only the faint sound of a drizzle hitting the dirt.

The funeral procession went to the mountainside, and there was nothing else, no tall and ornate burial mounds, no beautiful and mournful inscriptions, even... There wasn't even a tomb, just a pit for a coffin.

Rabul carefully placed the coffin into the pit, and instead of taking the shovel from the bystanding, he slowly knelt down and dug through the damp earth with his hands, covering it over the coffin, which symbolized the last existence of Major General Cass.

Soon, Xiao Lei also knelt down, digging non-stop, tears flowing down his face, but there was no sound of sobbing.

Almost at the same time, Chu Fan, Rabul, and all the soldiers knelt on the ground, taking turns to step forward, one of them to help scatter a handful of soil, they may not have such a deep affection for Major General Cass, but this is the last respect for a deceased.

The rain is still falling, and the sky is still overcast...

Under the sky, there was no tomb, not even a tombstone, Luo Wei did not stand, and he did not dare to stand, he did not know how many enemies Major General Cass still had alive, so he did not want the old man's long sleep to be disturbed.

How many years later, there are countless people passing by this inconspicuous earthen bag, some people think that it is an old man from a poor family, and he cannot afford to buy a tomb, some people think that he is a homeless man with no relatives, and no one buys a tomb for him, and some people think that this is just a small earthen bag, and they forget it after a glance.

In this way, Major General Cass was buried in the earth along with all his stories.

...

After the death of Major General Cass, the Central Committee of Chang'an has not selected a successor for a long time, perhaps the news of Cass's death has been directly filtered by that side, after all, no high-ranking officer will care about the affairs of Skull City, whether it is life or death, survival or death, it has nothing to do with them, for them, the death row camp is just a penal colony for discarding waste.

Since the Central Committee of Chang'an has not sent people for a long time, Luo Wei has naturally become the supreme administrator.

After Luo Wei took over the death row camp in Skull City, he did a total of three things.

First, in the construction of Skull City, rewards are used instead of punishments.

Instead of bloody executions of those who did not want to devote themselves to construction, he gave extremely generous material rewards to those who worked diligently, and he received large sums of cash for completing the targets, and all the additional wealth created was retained by the individual, except for the necessary taxes.

This move has greatly stimulated the enthusiasm of the citizens of Skull City, and compared with the previous oppressive policy of "working more and getting less, not working or dying", now this policy of "working more and getting more, working less and getting less" is more humane, it extends its hand to those citizens of the lower class and gives everyone a chance to turn over.

Second, Locho opened up the immigrants of Skull City.

Skull City is officially open to the public, and after being reviewed by the Civil Affairs Officer, Foreigners can enter Skull City.

Skull City has never had a good reputation, it's dirty and messy, so why should it attract outsiders to settle in?

Quite simply, wealth.

Those who settle in Skull City can get a cash reward of 100,000 berry on the day of completion, and family immigrants can get more, and if it is a caravan with a good reputation, they can enjoy full tax exemption for 5 years, and even financial subsidies.

What's more, Luo Wei extended an invitation to the families of the soldiers in the death row camp under his command, promising that as long as they worked hard, they would have no worries about food and clothing, and they would also have the opportunity to reunite with their husbands.

In this way, more and more families gathered in Skull City, although they were separated by a tall death row camp wall, but when the soldiers looked at the high wall, their eyes could penetrate the heavy cement, and their families gazed at each other, they all knew that the people they cared about day and night were by their side, no longer far away from the end of the world, and the city had become their "home"...

Finally, there is the reform of the army in the death row camp.

If the war breaks out, those who stick to the front line and fight bravely without retreating can be reunited with their families in Skull City for a week after the war, and if they die in battle, the pension will be paid according to ten times the national standard, and all the living expenses of the family will be covered by the death row in the future.

Reform is always difficult and well planned, but there are often all kinds of problems.

But at least, Luo Wei took this step, it was not his first step in the glory of the Republic, but it was the most important step, and one step, one step into the distant future.