“…… Over the centuries, you have brought our ancestors from the jungle tribes to this kingdom. You have trampled and ravaged my people with arrogance and guns, wanton killing, countless scruples of beating, whips and sticks are the dogma of their growth, ropes and chains have become the rule of their lives......"

In a dimly lit basement, a white couple bound in chains were looking at a thin figure standing in front of them with horror on their faces.

It was a weak-looking old black woman, with cloudy eyes and orange peels, and a cane made of unknown wood, standing in front of a lantern hanging from the wall, babbling in a strange Federal, almost dreamlike.

"But...... I don't think you'd have thought that the dark-skinned slaves who were trampled on by you, and who were inferior to livestock, would have gods that they held onto.

The toppled temples will be re-established in the new continent, the burned totems will sprout, and the dead will return to this world......"

The crutches slammed heavily on the stone slab on the ground, and a peculiar black smoke suddenly floated out of the crutches in the old woman's hand in an instant, and floated like living creatures in front of the white couple who were bound in chains.

"Medea...... You can't do this! ”

The husband of the white couple saw that the black smoke was about to fall on his body and immediately shouted, "Our family has never treated you and your family badly!" Have you forgotten? It was my grandfather who rescued you from the traffickers and gave you food, drink, and clothing......"

"Giggles......

A strange laugh like a night crow sounded from the woman's mouth, and the black smoke seemed to be quietly suspended in the air with the woman's laughter.

The woman slowly moved her steps to the white man, and with a trembling stretch out her thin fingers, slowly sliding them across the other's cheeks, "What a filthy soul...... Do you know where my son, who grew up with you, has gone? You know how my husband died......"

"Nope! That's not my fault! It's not my fault! The white man turned his head desperately and shouted as he watched the approaching old woman.

"This is your iniquity!" The old woman flicked her fingers slightly, and the black nails cut a bloody mark on the man's cheek like a sharp blade.

Just as she was about to say something more, the old woman suddenly turned her head and looked behind her, as if she had sensed something.

A crisp click sounded, and on a wooden table behind her, among the many wooden puppet sculptures, one of them silently shattered and turned into a cloud of powder.

"Kadir is dead!"

A coiled black smoke suddenly rose from the old woman's body, and her dim eyes were glowing with a dark red blood.

"Umeji ......"

Behind the old woman, the frightened white couple wanted to say something more.

Suddenly, the black smoke hovering in front of the two of them turned into a strange and hideous beast head, and instantly rushed into the bodies of the two of them.

"Ahh

A terrible cry of pain rang out.

The bodies of the white couple instantly dried up visibly to the naked eye, and all the flesh and blood seemed to be swallowed by the black smoke, leaving only two skeletons in a short moment.

The old woman was completely indifferent to the changes in the white couple behind her, except that the hoarse voice like a night crow became extremely high-pitched, echoing throughout the basement.

"Who is it? Who killed my Kadir? ”

……

"It's too hard for us to live as laborers, but we should be able to unite and organize into a big group, well, a trade union. There are unions on the federal side, and they organize themselves to negotiate with the companies they employ, and we summer workers are scattered here. ”

"Yes, not only on the side of the Federation, but also in the Empire, everyone's life is too hard."

"Achu, you really surprised me, you know a lot of things!"

In the room of the wooden house, there were generally snoring sounds one after another, but Pei Chu and Lu Xiping were communicating in a whisper.

Lu Xiping, who had been tossing for a day, should be very sleepy at this time, but now he was sitting cross-legged on the wooden bed, his expression slightly excited.

In the chat with Pei Chu, he gradually discovered the difference between this young man.

This seemed to be a laborer from the bottom of the empire, and many views were refreshing to him, especially some of the establishment of "trade unions", "the laborers of Jinshan Port will be organized to negotiate with major companies", and some remarks about having their own armed forces, which really made him a little hard to believe that it was actually said by this young man who looked less than twenty years old in front of him.

"Mr. Lu, I'm just casually talking, don't take it too seriously."

Pei Chu saw that in the darkness, he seemed to have sat up, and Lu Xiping, who looked at him with a pair of eyes like light, was suddenly a little helpless.

After Lu Xiping calmed down, he chatted with Lu Xiping and found that Lu Xiping was definitely not as simple as he said to be Mr. Teaching, and the focus of the discussion had always been on the life and treatment of the chemical industry, as well as the corruption of the empire, the federal system, and so on.

Pei Chu followed the other party's words, casually talked about some posts he had read on the Internet, as well as some points of view in the literature and history textbooks, and after throwing them out, he immediately attracted Lu Xiping's great appreciation.

"No, Achu, I think a lot of what you said is very right." Lu Xiping waved his hand in the dark, and said in a somewhat excited voice, "Only by going to the bottom, understanding the public, and knowing the urgent needs of the people, this is the real truth." Go deep among the masses and mobilize the masses, this is a good saying! There were many people in the upper echelons of the empire who saw the ills, but they stood too tall to see what kind of life the people below lived. ”

"Thousands of miles away from home!" Lu Xiping continued to sigh, "Just to struggle for survival, for a bite to eat, such a country will fall apart sooner or later if it is not defeated by outsiders!" Achu, tell me about organizing a party. ”

"Uh......" Pei Chu was a little speechless when he lay on the wooden bed, and said helplessly, "Mr. Lu, where do I understand this, what I just said is all nonsense." ”

"Well thought!" Lu Xiping slapped his palm gently, although he only heard something from Pei Chu's words, but for him, a person who has been thinking about these things all day long, it has the effect of enlightenment.

"Achu, are you really illiterate?" As the chat deepened, Lu Xiping remembered Fang Yunhu's statement that Pei Chu followed him to become literate, and he was a little puzzled.

After all, you can't deceive people by talking.

With some of the points that Pei Chu just threw out, even if it was just a few words, it was by no means like a low-level working boy could understand.

Fang Yunhu may not understand, but he is a high-level intellectual in this era, who has traveled to many countries, has a broad vision, and can still clearly hear the ills of the country.

"I used to recognize a few words with my husband in my hometown's private school."

This is not Pei Chu's nonsense, Pei Chu remembers that when he was in his hometown, he did enter a private school in the village community.

It's just that it was less than three days, and I dropped out of school because my family needed help.

When he got along with Fang Yunhu and Liu Sixi, they basically didn't talk about these things, and everyone didn't feel anything abnormal about his performance.

But the exchange with this Lu Xiping, although it was only the first time they met, the compassion and feelings on the other party almost seemed to overflow.

Even though he was young, he had never seen such a person, either in reality or in dreams.

Hearing Pei Chu say that he had gone to a private school when he was in the empire, Lu Xiping smiled even more, and nodded again and again, "Be modest, Achu, it's a pity that you continue to do hard work!" ”