Chapter 69: In the Name of Survival

“…… As you can see, this is a group of refugees who are moving from the Balkans to Italy, most of whom have lost their homes in the Allied invasion and have to take refuge in Italy, and the ACA has provided a large amount of relief supplies to help these refugees, and in these boxes I have are the water and food that these refugees can receive...... In addition, the ACA has mobilized the state to create a large number of job opportunities for these refugees, so that they can work in the new city to survive and integrate into society......"

-- ACA National Television, live broadcast

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Han Fei got lost again.

Han Fei didn't know that he and Ling Yu's intelligence analysis of the ACA in the Italian Theater had helped a lot before, at that time, when he was just flipping through the information of the Eye of Unity, he accidentally discovered that the director of the Eye of Unity was not a TF, so he just made some inferences, and it was on this basis that Ling Yu completed a wonderful persuasion.

At this time, like any standard road idiot, he was entangled in the intricacies of Milan's streets.

On the 47th with clear roads, you can get lost with an electronic map with GPS tracking, let alone a paper map in an intricate city like Milan.

The man with glasses pushed his glasses, and even in winter, thin beads of sweat still oozed from the bridge of his nose because of nervousness and helplessness, which made the pair of gold-wire glasses continue to slide down his nose.

"I shouldn't have spent this money...... Finally, Han Fei sighed, stopped, and looked around at the street full of pedestrians, and a sense of aimlessness aimlessness arose.

However, I don't have any goals in the first place.

Han Fei thought like this, in fact, he didn't know what he was doing in the city, but when he took the bus all the way from the slum to the city center, he saw a completely different scenery from Ling Yu and them.

Poor refugees, emaciated children, helpless parents, these civilians living under the ACA's rationing system have been completely squeezed out of every ounce of labor, compared to the League of Allies, who enjoy the eight-hour workday and complain about the low salary, can criticize the government at will, and feel that speech is not free enough.

The rabble.

Shaking his head helplessly, Han Fei quickened his pace to a vending machine on the side of the street and pulled out a few coins - there were still a lot of unemployed people in the slums running around to find a job, and the city was full of automation equipment - this kind of behavior of preferring to hand over the job to a low-class poor person to get an extra subsidy was simply the factory trademark of the hierarchical ACA.

Before humans evolved, the stupid guys had already divided humans into three, six, nine, and so on.

Han Fei's musings were interrupted by drinks tumbling from the vending machine, and he leaned down and picked up a can made of plastic—aluminum was a wartime controlled material.

Han Fei pulled open the pull ring, brought the jar to his mouth, and drank the drink mixed with sugar and essence in one go, Han Fei, who subconsciously pinched the jar, was about to throw it into the recycling bin next to him, but he froze in the air halfway through the wave of his hand.

"Stinky boy! Stop me!! ”

A shout came from the direction of the street on Han Fei's right, and the young man with glasses reacted almost instantly, and as soon as he turned around, he hid himself in the shadow on the side of the vending machine, and a miniature smoke grenade slipped out of his right wrist.

Han Fei has no combat power, he can only be regarded as a strong young man, so there is no chance of winning if he fights hard, and if he is discovered, he can only wait for an opportunity to escape.

But obviously, things were the same as he judged, the target of the ACA gendarmes rushing in the crowd behind him was not himself, a group of figures crashed into passers-by and ran past him, Han Fei saw clearly that the four ACA gendarmes were chasing a small child.

There are a lot of children in Milan, and a lot of lockdowns for adults can't stop them, and it seems that the ACA doesn't want to be too harsh on these children - or too lazy to deal with them, so it's normal to see children in the slums in the city center.

However, if you are seen by the military police, you will still be arrested.

Han Fei hid in the shadow of the vending machine, lowered his head, and watched the group of people run away through the gap in his bangs, frowning.

Don't be nosy, don't be nosy, don't be nosy, Han Fei, you're not the second knight.

But just take a look, it shouldn't matter.

Well, just looking, definitely just looking, anyway, I don't have the power to stop it, and there's nothing to do.

Think of it as a scientific reality, Han Fei, and show your courage to study Ebola.

Then Han Fei quickly followed.

***

"Stinky boy! Call you to steal, call you to steal!! ”

It took Han Fei a little effort to catch up with the four gendarmeries without running, which was to be expected, but the poor boy still couldn't outrun the four strong gendarmes and was being blocked in an alley and beaten.

Han Fei poked his head out cautiously, trying to keep himself away from this pointless trouble, but he saw it anyway - the boy was obviously used to dealing with this kind of beating, and he arched his body, his head in his hands, and met the raining fists with his back and back.

However, Han Fei took a look at it and came to the judgment that these gendarmes would not kill this child, after all, it was too easy for four adults to kill a child, and a few kicks in the stomach could cause Yan Zòng's internal bleeding.

After about four or five minutes of beating, an ACA gendarme kicked the boy into a corner, then turned around and walked out of the alley.

Han Fei quickly hid in a bookstore on the side, and did not come out until the four gendarmes had walked away, he hesitated for a moment, and then walked into the alley.

"Hey, it's okay."

Han Fei's tone was really not friendly, he kept a distance of about four or five meters from the boy who was slowly getting up on the ground, and asked questions from a distance-this kind of child like a stray dog is often very fierce.

"Ha, I can't die."

As soon as the boy spoke, it was a mature aura that did not match his age, he raised his hand to wipe the blood from the corner of his mouth, and smiled at Han Fei against the bruised and swollen eyes that had been beaten, revealing a mouthful of teeth stained red with blood.

"Uncle, if you don't want to report me, give me some money."

***

"Why did you come to the center of the city?" Han Fei pulled up the tab of the canned drink in his hand, and then handed it to the boy in front of him who looked like he was hungry for several meals, but still kept his pace of eating slowly.

Han Fei was certainly not stupid enough to take the boy to a restaurant, which was basically the equivalent of calling the gendarmes to arrest him, so he bought two simple fast foods, and the two of them hid in the alley where the boy was beaten, and feasted on behind a huge, rotting garbage can.

Han Fei didn't have any young master's illness, but such a meal scene brought back some of his dusty memories - when he and Ling Yu first wandered to Rimria, the two boys who had no fixed place also built a shed in such a small alley to shelter from the wind and rain.

Ling Yu has a very strong hands-on ability, and he is also very methodical, he is really much stronger than himself.

"My mother is sick, although she is not strict, but if she doesn't work, there is no ration, and the whole family is hungry, so she can only rely on me." The boy still eats at a uniform pace, which is clearly his rule of life, and he knows what happens if he eats too fast.

"Where's your dad?" Although Han Fei had already guessed, he still asked.

"Dead in battle, on the front line," the boy shook his head, and showed a smile that bordered on mockery, "I'm just a captain, and I haven't received much of a pension, but fortunately it's a third estate, and there's a house to live in without being kicked out to live in a shack, although it's not much worse." ”

"......" Han Fei didn't speak, just shook his head gently, although there is no clear rule, but the residents near Milan are classified as fourth-class, and the third-class is only equivalent to civilians, with no political rights, and no welfare, the only advantage over those fourth-class is probably that the police will take care of them, as for the fourth-class, you deserve to be robbed.

"Uncle, you look like an outsider," the boy bit his fork, put the empty lunch box aside, and picked up another box of lunch that Han Fei hadn't touched.

"How do you see that?" Han Fei was stunned for a moment, it stands to reason that he was praised by Anderson, and he was suitable for being an agent and spy, but he was seen through by a child.

"Because you have sympathy for me, in fact, in this Milan, I am already a very good person." The boy grinned again, and the blood on his teeth had been washed away quite a bit.

"In this city, as long as you can survive, you are already lucky," the boy continued to eat macaroni slowly, while explaining to Han Fei, "At least the gendarmes won't kill me when they beat me, last week they killed a fourth-class kid, and they dared to come here to fight and look for death without a life amulet." ”

The boy tried to make his tone look stern and dismissive, but there was a hint of sadness in his eyes.

"In that case, why hasn't anyone organized a revolt?" Han Fei closed his eyes and put the drink he had been holding on the ground in his hand, "Don't say anything, Milan is an important industrial base, if there is a shortage of labor, the ACA will definitely compromise." ”

"So you outsiders who grew up in honeypots really don't understand." The boy gave a sneering smile, and then suddenly changed to a stern expression, "ACA won't compromise." ”

"Could it be ......" Han Fei frowned slightly, in fact, he knew that there had been people who had organized a peaceful rebellion in the rear of the ACA and succeeded, could it be ......

"The ACA never compromised, they would kill everyone and then find a new batch of refugees and pretend that nothing had happened." The boy calmly gave the truth of Han Fei's suspicions, "If you resist, you can only die." ”

"So just put up with it?" Han Fei nodded slightly, fully understanding.

"As long as you live, there is hope, and the glorious resistance is certainly brilliant, but it takes more courage to live with humiliation, my mother said." The boy put down the fork in his hand, then buttoned the half-eaten macaroni, took a sip of the drink, "They probably can't see it, and we also hang it, but as long as they live, as long as they continue to have children, grandchildren, grandchildren's grandchildren, there will always be someone who can see the unlucky day of these black-skinned dogs." ”

"I should say it's optimistic...... Or is it naïve? Han Fei sighed and smiled helplessly, "In the final analysis, your own life and death are still in the hands of others." ”

"As long as you can live, you don't count in the hands of others." The boy shook his head and refuted Han Fei's point of view again, "So I must live, as long as I live...... It's not a failure. ”

"......" Han Fei opened his mouth, but in the end he chose to be silent, the young man raised his hand and pushed his glasses, then stood up and took out his wallet.

"Do you charge generic coins?"

"Receive." The boy also stood up, held the half-eaten lunch box in his arms, and grinned at Han Fei, "Although it is a little troublesome, and you have to be pulled by those guys, it is better than nothing." ”

Probably talking about those who are in charge of redeeming huàn, Han Fei opened his wallet, glanced at the cash that was not too much, and took it all out.

"Know what to do." Although it is not too much, it is also a huge amount of money for such a child, Han Fei wanted to remind the boy, but after thinking about it, it seemed that the other party already knew this.

"Of course, it's not that I look down on you, uncle, I once stole a major with the Eye of Unity, and it took me half a year to digest it slowly in cash alone." The boy took the money from Han Fei's hand without hesitation, and taunted the other party by the way.

"Let's go home." Han Fei smiled bitterly, then patted the boy's head.

"Uncle Shem!"

The boy carefully put the money into his clothes, then held the lunch box, shook his hand at Han Fei, and ran out of the alley.

It turns out that there are indeed some people in this world who take life as the whole of life.

But wasn't it the same for yourself?

At that time, he was protected by Ling Yu...... What about this child?

Han Fei took a deep breath, closed his eyes, and unconsciously, the blue figure appeared in front of him.