Chapter Twenty-Eight: The Glory of the Past
"I can't imagine it, Yan Chao, you really know how to enjoy it." Wang Qiang sat casually on the snow wool chair in the hall, and by the way, he put his feet on the table, as if he had arrived at his own home.
Brother Qiang is angry now, where will he give Yan Kuan a good face, and the anger is sprinkled on the table in the living room.
Compared with her own casualness, Li Qin seemed very cautious, she slowly sat on the chair, Brother Qiang bet in his heart that Li Qin, a little girl, only used half a small ass at most to sit on the chair, God knows why such a bold northern girl became so timid at this time, could it be that she heard of the prestige of the Yan family?
As for Mu Erkang, well, the nervous Mu Erkang didn't care about the Yan family's might at all, and simply used [Ge You Paralyzed Lying] to fall on the sofa, his eyes were hollow and his expression was hollowed out, it seems that the battle not long ago made Er Kang consume a lot of physical strength, and he was in the blank period of his brain after intense exercise at this time.
Yan Chao didn't care about Wang Qiang's presumptuousness and the rudeness of his subordinates, how a fierce man like Brother Qiang sat can understand it, this is the privilege of the strong.
Yan Chao sent someone to bring a pot of coffee, but Wang Qiang did not fill it with a cup: "The year before last, the settlement opened up a small coffee plantation in the nearby underground, using lights to simulate the South American climate, and this year there is finally a little harvest, except for the real high-level of the settlement, no one else can enjoy this kind of deliciousness." Come on, Brother Qiang has a try. This year, the weather is getting colder and colder, and plants like coffee beans have long been unable to grow outside. Yan Chao said, personally bringing a cup of black liquid to Wang Qiang.
Wang Qiang sneered in his heart, Lao Tzu had never seen anything in the Huaxia Alliance. In the past few years, during the heyday of the Chinese Alliance, Li Runzhi led the South China Sea Fleet to almost fight Pabria New Guinea, and Manila in the Philippines was completely killed by Li Butcher, piercing the human body and letting it rot The steel spear was inserted from Manila to Lusena. As for the products of the south, such as tea, coffee, coconuts and bananas, what brother Qiang has not seen?
But when he thought of Brother Qiang of the Huaxia Alliance, he choked up in his heart, and he was unwilling to say this to Yan Chao. Picking up the coffee, I was about to drink it, when there was a sound of a locomotive outside the villa.
"My old man is back!" Yan Chao looked out of the door and spoke.
Wang Qiang turned around, only to see two old men in Mao suits walking into the hall side by side, one of them had gray hair, broad shoulders and thick shoulders, and an old face, but his appearance was similar to Yan Chao's six or seven points, no need to ask, anyone with a discerning eye knew that this was Yan Kuan's father!
"Ah, Brother Qiang, come, let me introduce you, this is my father Yan Aiguo." Yan Chao said enthusiastically.
However, at this time, all Wang Qiang's attention was fixed on the other old man who walked into the hall with Yan Aiguo.
The old man who walked into the house with Yan Aiguo looked about the same age as Yan Aiguo, but he was thin and had some hunchbacks.
This old man's white hair is sparse, his eyes are extremely bright on a thin face, like an eagle and a wolf, showing domineering and domineering, obviously, this person is a big man who has been in a high position for a long time!
Wang Qiang focused all his attention on this thin old man, not because he cared about the old man's momentum, but because he looked like a person!
"Nian Maniac!" Wang Qiang couldn't help blurting out!
Yes, the person in front of him looks very similar to the old maniac, and he is so similar in size.
But Wang Qiang quickly denied that the old man in front of him was just like a young man. Although the madness is old, it is not a hunchback!
Moreover, what happened to him that day is still vivid, the rescue operation did not end until Watergate City was occupied by zombies, and no one has been able to find out where Nian Shuai is, maybe Nian Shuai has already died in that conspiracy.
I was able to come to the north because of Wang Liyao's phase moving device, according to Wang Liyao, this is unique, so the person in front of him is definitely not an old maniac.
This man just resembles a maniac.
Unexpectedly, when Wang Qiang shouted "Nian Madness", the old man in front of him, who was very similar to Nian Madness, suddenly straightened up.
"Have you ever seen a maniac?" The old man looked at Wang Qiang with scrutinizing eyes, very much like a prison guard who was examining a prisoner.
At this time, Yan Chao saw that the atmosphere was different, and hurriedly snorted and said, "Come on, Brother Qiang, let me introduce you, this is the vice president of the management council of the Kyoto Settlement District, and the president of the year!" β
Wang Qiang was not afraid of Nian Heng's scrutiny at all, but looked at Nian Heng-for-tat, nodded and said, "That's right, your surname is really Nian." β
Nian Heng looked at Wang Qiang and asked again, "Do you know Nian Qiang?" β
Wang Qiang nodded: "Of course I know!" β
Nian Heng's body trembled a little: "My brother, he's really alive?" Where is he? Why didn't he return to Kyoto all these years? β
Wang Qiang was also stunned, and then suddenly realized: "I'll just say, how could you be carved out of the same mold as Nian Madness, it turns out that it is really his brother!" β
At this time, Yan Aiguo's father and son, who were standing on the side, whispered to each other, and Yan Chao whispered to his father that the fierce man he met some time ago was the bearded brother in front of him. This person's martial arts are world-famous, and he has surpassed the level of ordinary soldiers, and he has completely the role of strategic-level deterrence.
Yan Aiguo agreed, so he waved his hand and said: "Comrade Xiao Wang, since you are my son's friend and have an old friendship with the elderly brother, I asked the housekeeper to prepare a table of banquets, why don't we talk about it at the table?" β
Let's say it, Yan Aiguo arranged a dinner.
The dinner was held in the side hall of the Yan family's villa, and Wang Qiang and Nian Heng obviously became the protagonists.
"Where did you meet my brother?" Nian Heng held a piece of vole meat in his hand, eating it slowly, and when people got old, it was very difficult to deal with food.
Wang Qiang unceremoniously ate roast lamb shank, God knows where the Yan family got the mutton.
"South of the Yangtze River, Watergate." Wang Qiang replied.
"South!" Yan Aiguo muttered incredulously, guessing the deep meaning behind these two words.
"In this way, my brother led the army to break through to the south and succeeded! Thank God! Nian Heng said.
At that time, Nian Maniac was sent to the Northern Local Military District, and after the outbreak of the X virus, the North quickly fell into chaos, and with the collapse of communications, the news of Nian Maniac was no longer known to the Kyoto Nian family.
"I heard Nian Shuai say it once, when he led his troops, collected rebels and refugees from various cities, went all the way south, and finally crossed the Yangtze River, and settled on the south bank of the Yangtze River." Wang Qiang said.
Nian Heng was very excited: "I knew that my brother's life should not be extinguished, and the fortune teller said that he had the fate of a corner of the frontier, and I knew it." β
Subsequently, Nian Heng recalled the situation back then.
It is always a difficult thing for the old man to recall, but fortunately, the second elder's thinking is quite clear. With the memories of Nian Heng and Yan Aiguo, many fragments of past memories were pieced together, and Wang Qiang finally got a glimpse of the situation in Kyoto during that chaotic period 27 years ago.
After the outbreak of the X-virus, the world's communications broke down in a very short period of time, and even satellites in outer space lost their signal connections, and to this day, no one knows what happened.
At the time of the disaster, Nian was serving in the army guarding Gyeonggi, but after the outbreak of the X-virus, martial law quickly came under martial law in Kyoto, and the army, armed police, police force, and armed militia managed to take control of the city.
Senior military and government officials have tried to martial control cities and then isolate and eliminate infected people to protect the healthy...... But unexpectedly, the zombie virus broke out rapidly, the infection was menacing, and the desperate basic medical level of the Republic could hardly play the slightest role in resisting the catastrophe! A large number of civilians turned into zombies, and the zombies multiplied exponentially, and the army finally failed to stop the zombies from running rampant, and under the impact of a large number of people who turned into living corpses, the army finally collapsed.
"At that time, the situation was very chaotic, the bustling commercial city of the Fourth Ring Road almost instantly became a Jedi for humans in the forbidden area for the living, and the zombies inside the Fourth Ring Road infected everyone and poured out of the city like crazy to attack the surrounding area. The leaders of the party and the state have been turned into zombies, government officials have fled to death, and the troops that have gone to the city to take charge of martial law have also been defeated. There was no command, only organization, and now that I think about it, that period was terrible! The living troops led the people to constantly transfer and bloody battles, and kept helping and killing, and almost all the news they could get was bad news. Yan Aiguo said.
"However, thanks to the war with the Americas decades ago, Kyoto has a large number of air defense bases and underground shelters, with the help of which we were able to save some of the troops and civilians, and quickly moved the living forces underground, and then blocked the entrance and exit to the ground." Nian Heng continued to reminisce.
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"The first few years of the retreat to the ground were very difficult. Food, supplies, casualties are all troubling for everyone. β
"A large number of refugees are fleeing to the sea and further north, the south is a dead end, our country has too many people, and the cities on the North China Plain are more like zombie nests, entrenched in a large number of zombies, and there is almost no way to live there.
The people who live on the ground know that there is no way to go south. Therefore, many people choose to flee to the sea, hoping to find the possibility of survival by the sea. In fact, we later learned that going to the beach is also a dead end. β
"But the refugees who have fled have given us a lot of room to survive. A large number of zombies in the Kyoto area were attracted by the survivors to other places, and the zombies in the city had not yet begun to evolve at that time, and the zombies that rushed out of the city to hunt around had not returned. We seized this opportunity to snatch a large amount of subsistence materials from the city and create an underground living environment. β
"In the early years of the disaster, the connections between the settlements were scattered, but as we all started to explore the sewer route in an organized way, we were able to find more survivors and settlements."
"Finally, it took us more than a decade to create a new underground settlement, and we even did two censuses and found that the population decline had finally eased."
"But at the same time, we also found that the evolution of zombies is becoming more and more alarming, and sometimes some peripheral settlements are found by zombies because they are not well hidden, and they are slaughtered. In order to survive, we also started a brutal competition with zombies underground. β
"Most of the current Kyoto settlements are built at depths of more than 10 meters underground, and a tight defense zone has been established between the settlements, so that if one settlement is lost, we will ensure the safety of the others."
"As we grow, we open up new settlements and create an environment to live in, and we are basically self-sufficient underground. We've even opened up underground pig farms and hospitals. β
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Wang Qiang slowly understood the situation in the district where Kyoto lived in these years.
It turns out that the development of Kyoto settlements is not easy.
Later, Nian Heng mentioned the relationship between the Kyoto settlement and the Sanhe and Hebei settlements, as well as the Jintang settlements beyond.
"The Mikawa Settlement used to be part of the Kyoto Settlement, but some of them rebelled for their own selfish desires and seized control of the settlement, and since then they have declared that they will no longer accept our rule. The terrorists from the Trois-RiviΓ¨res settlement found several of the army's original weapons depots in the city of Trois-RiviΓ¨res and succeeded in obtaining weapons and ammunition. From then on, we could no longer defeat them head-on. β
"But I heard that there was another large-scale infighting in the Sanhe Settlement later, led by Qiao Shiguan, and a group of more vicious guys came to power, so we have been in a hostile state with the Sanhe Settlement."
"Almost all the survivors of the Hebei settlement are near Hebei Province, they are too far away from the location of Kyoto, because the zombies are ruthless on the ground, and our forces can't reach there, but in order to grab living space and resources, we have fought a few times, compared to the Sanhe settlement, the Hebei settlement is not so aggressive."
"The real enemies are those in the Jintang settlement." Nian Heng said.
Wang Qiang, as an observer, listened to the two old men.
"The Jintang settlement is far stronger than the Sanhe settlement and the Hebei settlement in terms of combat effectiveness and aggression, and the Jintang settlement seems to be very rich, and they support the Hebei settlement while arming the Sanhe settlement, and frantically provoke wars. Over the years, we have been fighting with the Hebei settlement and the Sanhe settlement, but there is a shadow of manipulation of the Jintang settlement behind it...... We suspect that there is someone behind the Jintang settlement. β
"What do you mean by that?" Wang Qiang asked.
Yan Aiguo said: "Whether it is the Sanhe settlement or the Hebei settlement, they do not have the conditions to study alienated warriors and transformed warriors, but they just created this ability out of nothing, and we suspect that these technologies are secretly supported by the Jintang settlement." And their warriors in the Jintang settlement look healthier, more qualified, and better equipped with weapons than us, where does their technology come from? We are skeptical. β
Wang Qiang was thoughtful.
In the ensuing conversation, Nian Heng asked many times about the past of Nian Mania, and Wang Qiang naturally knew everything and said everything. When he heard what Wang Qiang said, Nian Heng crossed the Yangtze River and escaped, Nian Heng was overjoyed and happy; When he heard that Hong Guochou and Nian were in a dispute, Nian Heng gritted his teeth; When he heard that Nian frantically supported 100,000 soldiers and lived in a corner, Nian Heng lamented his brother's talent; In the end, I heard that Sun Zaichen was plotting a rebellion, and the year was about to split...... Only then did Wang Qiang know that the unity within the wealthy family of the Nian clan in Kyoto was extraordinary.
"You mean, you don't know if my brother is alive or dead?" Nian Heng finally heard about the fierce battle in Watergate City and asked.
Wang Qiang nodded: "In the end, the battle was affected by the zombies going south, so it could only end hastily, but as far as I know, it is extremely difficult to survive in Watergate City." And Nian Shuai was imprisoned, and the people who knew where he was were all dead, and if he wanted to survive, I am afraid it is unlikely. β
When Nian Heng heard this, he couldn't help but cry.
After that, Yan Aiguo and Nian Heng remembered the figures of the Chinese Alliance in the past.
Twenty-seven years ago, Hong Guochou was already the deputy commander of the Southeast Military Region, and he was ranked as a major official in the feudal territory.
Twenty-seven years ago, Long Xiaoyuan was at the peak of his career, and Long Xiaoyuan, who had been the secretary of the provincial party committee for one term, was in his second term, and he was in charge of his hometown province. According to Long Xiaoyuan's age and qualifications and the background of his family, after the expiration of this term, Long Xiaoyuan will enter the Kyoto court to serve as a standing committee member in accordance with the procedure, and become one of the most powerful elders of the republic.
Twenty-seven years ago, Long Xiaoyuan also had a younger brother, Long Xiaoqian, who also served as the secretary of the municipal party committee of an important city in a southeastern province, as a rising political star, appreciated by many elders in Kyoto, he should have a perfect career, but he didn't want to have a bad fate, and finally died early.
Twenty-seven years ago, the Zhao family in the barren provinces on the south bank of the Yangtze River had gradually faded out of the central center, but the two brothers, Zhao Futing and Zhao Fuzhi, also made outstanding achievements in the army. As a red family with old qualifications, the rise of the Zhao family seems to be unstoppable, and many Kyoto forces have thrown olive branches to the Zhao family.
Twenty-seven years ago, Sun Zaichen was only a major general and division commander of a military subdivision in a northern province, and he received very little attention, only knowing that this person was quick to think and had abilities that were different from ordinary people, and he was trusted and favored by a certain military bigwig.
Twenty-seven years ago, the young and strong Li Runzhi was just an ordinary colonel captain on a destroyer in the South China Sea Fleet, and the war with the countries in the South China Sea gave the navy the possibility of leapfrogging the ranks, but even so, Li Runzhi was not well known.
Twenty-seven years ago, the Chiang family had abandoned politics and business and faded out of the political arena for many years, but because of the glory of the family, they had a special status on the island, and after the war in order to maintain the stability of the island, the Republic began to support the Chiang family to enter the political circles around the island.
Twenty-seven years ago......
Twenty-seven years ago, the old republic experienced the struggle against corruption, experienced the baptism of war with the South American United Army, and after the reform and hard work, everything flourished in the spring of the old tree, and everything was so worth looking forward to.
Twenty-seven years ago, everything was so rosy.
If it weren't for that natural disaster......
Twenty-seven years ago, it was all the same.