Chapter 1: The Phenomenon of Troubled Times
The Carré Mountains are the natural north-south dividing line of the Blackson Terran Corridor, and the most majestic mountain range in the Blackson Terran Corridor, this east-west mountain range stretches for tens of thousands of kilometers, and its west side extends to the wild no-man's land that is inaccessible and is represented in black or gray on the map, no one knows where its end is, and its east side extends directly to the sea.
At this moment, in the northern part of the Carré Mountains, there are camps full of refugees, and in the place where the most refugees gather, the tents of the gray refugee camps stretch for hundreds of kilometers, and the refugees who have arrived before have not left, and new refugees have poured in......
Refugees are dying every day, some natural disasters, some man-made disasters, hunger, disease, cold, murder, robbery, rape are raging in the camps......
Two days ago, in the port of Kalle in the Engava Federation, the westernmost part of the Karré Mountains, the defenders of the port had just suppressed a popular riot that killed more than 50,000 people.
Driven by hunger and fear, two days ago, on August 27, a large number of refugees began to rush into the port of Kalle in spite of the order, snatching the opportunity to board the ship, no one knows when the bloodshed began, and when the basic order collapsed, when the refugees who boarded the ship began to hijack the ship violently, the tragedy happened.
There were policemen who maintained order and were inundated with the surging number of refugees. There have been stampedes, refugees vying for positions on board the ship being pushed into icy waters, and hijacked crew members killed by refugees' daggers. The chaos in the port of Kalle eventually spread to the entire city, and the bloody crackdown began when a two-thousand-ton passenger liner, the Golden Pearl, was operated by a bunch of refugees and rammed another ship in the harbor and capsized.
The ruler uses iron-blooded means to maintain his rule, and such a thing is nothing new anywhere, but it is even more sad that such a thing happens at this time. Under the threat of the demon army, the troops of the human race are suppressing the refugees of the human race, the implication of this. It is self-evident that this is the chaotic times, the real chaotic times, the order of the qiē, all give way to the instinct of survival. A qiē axiom. They all began to retreat behind their fists and swords.
The continuous heavy rain had not yet dried up the blood stains that had congealed in the port of Karle, and the bodies of the refugees who died in the suppression were thrown directly into the sea by the defenders, and no one cared about the lives of those people, and new refugees poured into the city of Karle......
More than 1,200 kilometres from the city of Kalle, in the Vedillac League, there is also a large number of refugees here, and there is a "Gusbe Trail" that crosses the Carré Mountains, and those who do not have the means to cross the Carré Mountains want to leave this trail.
"It's now the rainy season. The Gusby Trail has become impassable and many roads have been cut off. The flash floods of the past two days have killed many people, everyone should not go any further, you are completely sending you to death by going in like this, you can't get out of the ...... of the Karare Mountains" Near the entrance to the Gusby Trail, an officer of the Vedillac Alliance stood on a high platform, drenched, in the heavy rain, holding a tin horn, shouting with all his might, preventing the refugees from entering the Gusby Trail.
Some of the refugees hesitated and stopped, while many more continued to enter the Gusby Trail in numbness and silence, and no one even looked up at the young officer as they passed him.
A look of grief flashed in the young officer's eyes as he watched as the large number of refugees entered the Gusby Trail with a simple map in hand, and these people, probably less than a tenth of them could eventually cross the Carré Mountains during this season.
And in Upton, the capital of the Free Business Alliance, more than 3,000 kilometres away from Gusbey, there are even more refugees.
Ampton is the largest and most famous airport city and commercial city in the northern part of the Blackson Terran Corridor, and it is a city of the Free Commercial Alliance with Milbay, located south of the Carré Mountains, and the two cities connected by the Guò airway through the Carré Mountains support the prosperity of the entire Free Commercial Alliance.
At the moment, when Upton operated the largest and busiest air route across the Carré Mountains in the northern part of the Blackson Terran Corridor, the air traffic in Upton was ten times busier than it had been before the Holy War, and countless airships flew in from the south and landed in Upton to transport the refugees here......
After the tragedy in the port of Kalla, the garrison that maintained order in Ampton has increased to 300,000 people, and outside several airship bases in Ampton, Ladu pulled up three layers of barbed wire, and in the heavy rain, dense refugees crowded outside the airship bases one by one, looking forward to the airships that appeared in the sky, every time an airship landed, it would cause a commotion among the refugees outside the airship base, and countless people would squeeze towards the entrance of the airship base.
"Those with an invalids certificate are given priority to leave...... Those with invalids have a ...... pass first" The garrison outside the airship base pulled up a human wall waving the wooden sticks in their hands in the heavy rain, unceremoniously beating the refugees who wanted to rush into the airship base in the chaos, and those refugees holding the red invalids card in their hands were picked out from the crowd by the garrison, allowing them to enter the airship base first, and leave first when the next batch of airships arrived.
"Ah, my invalids, my invalids, someone snatched the invalids card that my husband left me......" A woman wearing a poncho and holding a little girl of five or six years old cried out loudly at the entrance of the airship base, just in the confusion, when the woman took out her invalidity card and held it up, a hand reached out from the side, and before the woman could react, she snatched her invalidity card.
A crossbow arrow shot down from the arrow tower above the entrance of the airship base, shooting a man with an invalids card who wanted to infiltrate the base at the entrance of the base, and the crowd was suddenly startled and took two steps back.
A lieutenant officer quickly walked down from the tower, picked up the red notebook from the hand of the man who had fallen to the ground and had been pierced by an arrow, then pulled the tearful woman out of the crowd, put the invalidity card in the woman's hand, and whispered a few words to a soldier beside him, asking the soldier to personally send the woman with the child in his arms to the base.
"Those who dare to snatch the invalids certificate will ...... die," the lieutenant officer looked at the refugees with a murderous face.
If in the previous Free Business Alliance, a soldier killed a citizen at will, it would definitely cause an uproar, but at this time, no one seems to care about such a thing.
Soon after the woman with the child in her arms entered the airship base, a medium-sized airship flew in from the north and landed at the base to resupply in the heavy rain.
A few minutes later, the woman got the news that a medium-sized airship was about to leave, and there was just a vacant place for the woman and the child she was holding to board the boat, and the woman was grateful to hold her child, and followed a fighter from the airship base to the medium-sized airship.
When the woman boarded the airship, a person on the airship was about to get down, and several people, including the captain of the airship, were very reluctant to send the person off the airship.
"Mr. Peter, don't you need to think about it again, if you are willing to protect us from leaving, our family has discussed it, and after arriving at the destination, we can pay you 2,000 gold coins!" A well-dressed and slightly chubby man looked helplessly at the person who was about to leave the airship, that person's name was Peter, a young man of twenty-seven or eighteen years old, with an ordinary long sword hanging from his waist, and he looked very ordinary, and belonged to the kind of person who would not impress you too deeply when he stood in front of you.
Hearing this, the woman holding the child tightened her heart, she finally knew how she and her child came to that position, it was someone who wanted to leave the airship here, and the officer of the airship base negotiated with the people on the airship before letting her go up, at this moment, although the idea was very selfish, she was very afraid that the person named Peter would change his mind again.
"When you get here, you're almost safe, the strength of the Demon Legion can't reach this now, it won't take you two days to cross the Karley Mountains on the airship, and there's not much need for me to stay on the airship!" Peter's hand waved and rejected the man's offer.
Everyone tried to keep the man named Peter, but Peter was unmoved and politely refused everyone's request.
"Peter, we ...... Will we ever see you again? A seventeen or eighteen-year-old blonde girl appeared at the hatch of the airship, looking at the man who was about to leave the airship with a kind of admiration and reluctance.
Everyone who sent Peter away did not speak, but watched quietly from the side, including the girl's father, who did not speak at this time, and in the past two days on the airship, everyone, including the girl's father and mother, understood the girl's mind - women will worship heroes and strong people, especially the kind of man who has saved her life and can give her a great sense of security in the crisis.
…… (To be continued......)