"Why can't it be me?"

Shi Huaiya picked up the cap that had rolled to the side, struggled to get up from the ground, and patted the dust, not at all like the commanding eldest lady.

Zhou Jinru couldn't understand why she caught up with her, and how she caught up with her, so she had to say: "Miss Shi, this is not the place you should come, go back quickly, it's dangerous." ”

Shi Huaiya glanced at him: "You look down on me? ”

"No, but it's really dangerous here."

"Let's go, then."

Shi Huaiya didn't seem to hear what Zhou Jinru said, buttoned up her hat and walked out into the street, not minding the mud splashed on her boots from the damp brick road.

Zhou Jinru had no choice but to keep up, if Shi Huaiya picked up the eldest lady's temper, there was really no way to take her.

The boot lightly stepped on a broken brick, Shi Huaiya sniffed, and couldn't help but turn her head to Zhou Jinru and said, "Don't you think the air here is very fresh?" ”

On this road, the vendor shelves in the middle of the road are empty, there are no vendors doing business, and almost everyone is neck bent.

I'm afraid the air here is not fresh, but too cold.

Zhou Jinru shook his head: "Miss Shi, most of the people here are hungry." ”

If it had been business as usual, the street would have been crowded with people selling vegetables and buying food, but all this has been depressed by the struggle between the factions and the royal family, and the security problems caused by the shortage of food will soon become apparent, and if this continues, I am afraid that there will be a humanitarian catastrophe.

"I know."

Shi Huaiya lost interest, her friends were trying to get food from elsewhere, but the far water could not save the near fire, five days later, how many things were left in the Eastern Region, she estimated that the number should be very low.

"Zhou, you've always been like this?"

Zhou Jinru didn't understand what Shi Huaiya was talking about.

The eldest lady pondered the words: "That guy Chen said that you don't look like someone who came out of a noble family. ”

"Of course I'm not, I'm just a valet."

"Really?"

Zhou Jinru's face was not red or panting, and his expression was as usual: "Really." ”

Shi Huaiya snorted: "Hmph, Chen is a fool, it's okay for you to coax her, but you can't fool me." ”

"If Ajie knew that you were orchestrating her behind her back, she would definitely teach you a lesson."

"How is it possible," Shi Huaiya waved her hand, "We have been classmates for many years, and we have been at the same table, who she is, I am very familiar with her, a person who is stubborn to the bone, you can change her mind, this makes me feel incredible." ”

Shi Huaiya seemed to mean something else, Zhou Jinru couldn't figure it out for a while, so she had to say: "What should Ajie do, that's her freedom, I just don't want to lose her." ”

"Just don't want to lose her?"

Shi Huaiya walked beside Zhou Jinru, suddenly reached out, grabbed the man's wrist, and said, "Let me see if my heartbeat accelerated when you said these words." ”

However, Zhou Jinru's movements were faster, and the moment Shi Huaiya's fingers touched the skin, he withdrew his hand, looked ahead, and said solemnly: "Miss Shi, I only have Ajie in my heart, and I can't tolerate others anymore." ”

"Stupid."

Shi Huaiya's face flushed, she turned her head angrily and didn't look at it, and strode forward, as if she wanted to get rid of Zhou Jinru.

The two of them accelerated one after the other, and the sparse crowd gradually became denser, not only did there become more people, but on the piled up debris, there were also people holding simple horns made by hand to speak loudly, and the onlookers were stimulated by his words, and their emotions were aroused.

In Zhou Jinru's eyes, above the dense crowd, there was already a magnificent emotional current like a river, leading citizens driven by injustice and hunger to set off a tsunami that could flood the land.

"Miss Shi, what do you think?"

Shi Huaiya was listening to the speech, her emotions were quickly mobilized, and she was integrated into the wave of continuous impact on the peak, only Zhou Jinru was like an outsider, watching everything coldly, no matter what kind of emotional mobilization did not work for him.

Shi Huaiya nodded heavily: "His speech is very good, and those who have been oppressed and treated unfairly have the right to seek the benefits they deserve." ”

She can say these words, which shows that she thinks so in her heart, Zhou Jinru remembered what Shi Huaiya did, she must have been in contact with the members of the Jacobin faction, so she could help the faction in the best way she could.

The boundary between the east and the west is not artificially drawn, but the rushing Saiga River, the weather today is not good, the cold wind is bleak, the Saiga River surface rolls up white waves, and then merges into the river, no longer the calm of the past.

On the bridge between the two regions, heavily armed guards stood by citizens with banners and abusive words across from them.

In a department store building near the Sega River, a tense meeting is taking place, Adela, sitting at the end of the conference table, is boringly fiddling with her nails, and the parliamentarians who dominate the meeting are arguing about what to do next, and she can sit here because of Dr. Vasim's proposal, the right to speak, and there is no need to think about it.

Now, there is no room for the faction to retreat, what they can do is to force the current King to abdicate and let the nobles accept the new system, otherwise what awaits them will be hanging, and the king located in the hinterland of the Western Region will not let go of the faction no matter what.

In just five days, the main and factional factions in the faction disappeared, and the main battle faction was sitting in the front row of the conference table, but what people didn't expect was that there were still hawks and doves in the main battle faction.

The hawks advocated using the forces at their disposal to take the initiative to attack the Western Region, and the timid aristocracy would soon compromise and agree to the new system in order to protect their own interests, so as to achieve the goal of changing the whole country.

The doves see the opposite of the hawks, who believe that the factions should be in control of the power and that the purpose of attacking the Western Region is to make the king compromise, not to get the king out of the way.

"Comrades, your idea is ridiculous, if a country does not have a king, the country loses its legitimacy, and the king is expelled, should we hang a sign at the entrance of the palace with a sign of a famous attraction and hire a few staff members to sell tickets?"

A middle-aged man sitting on the right side of the conference table asked rhetorically, "Why not?" ”

He had short brown hair, some natural curls, and a pale complexion, but those eyes were very attentive, and his fingers tapped lightly on the tabletop: "Our work has just begun, and according to the information I have received, our King is mobilizing an army, which has a large number of steam mechs, and if we continue to quarrel here over the king's hat, we will soon be able to take our last breath on the gallows." ”

Someone exclaimed, "So fast? ”

The brown-haired man nodded: "Maybe a little faster than I said, the king has lost patience, and we are in a bad situation." ”

"Dr. Vasim, your foresight saved us all."

Adella looked at the brown-haired man, who was Dr. Vasim, and his daughter Yelena was so different that one wondered if they were their biological father and daughter.

Dr. Wasim has been in prison for the past seven years and was only recently rescued.

Adella couldn't help but close her eyes at the thought of this, and the companions who had died in the Prison Operation were constantly dangling back and forth in front of her, and all signs pointed to the fact that the operation was a stupid operation that was not even a bait, and that the person who proposed the plan had fallen to her death from the second floor because of the alcohol she had drunk on the night she escaped.

There was no point in continuing the bickering, and the members of the faction presiding over the meeting began to demand a vote.

"Let's vote now by a show of hands to decide what to do next, and now, if you want to continue negotiations with the king, please raise your hands......"

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……

When the long and boring meeting was finally over, Adele put away her notebook and prepared to get up and leave, her ticket sure to follow Dr. Vasim, but they could not stop the doves from continuing the negotiations.

"Adella."

Dr. Vasim, who is over half a hundred years old, does not have many wrinkles on his face, the years have not left a trace, and he still maintains the handsome appearance of his youth.

Adela looked up and saw that the doctor was watching her.

"Doctor."

Vasim tilted his head: "There's still time, let's take a walk?" ”

With no reason to refuse, Adella followed Vasim and the two of them left the conference room together.

The department store that had long since ceased business was demolished by the members of the faction that occupied it, leaving only the building frame, and everything that could be taken out as a blockage was taken out, leaving nothing of value behind.

"Adella, what do you think of the current faction?"

Vasim's first sentence made Adella stunned, it stands to reason that she is just an inconspicuous small character, how can she be favored by a big guy like Vasim?

"Fortunately, the current faction is still very young, and there is still a lot of room for growth."

She said it quite tactfully, but when it fell into Vasim's ears, the doctor couldn't help but laugh: "Hahaha, even you speak so tactfully? ”

Adella didn't say anything, but Vasim had a serious expression: "You're right, the current faction is very different from before I was imprisoned, just like here, the second largest department store in Lentinium, they are like locusts, they are clean, nothing is left, they take away many things that do not belong to them, the faction I know should not be like this, they lose discipline, they lose everything." ”

"We seem to have control over the Eastern Region, but we don't really control the entire city, it's still in the hands of the various families and the gangs they control, and once the faction loses the initiative, it's also when those families abandon us."

Vasim walked in front of Adella, his back was thin, his body shape had changed due to years of prison life, and his voice had become hoarse, but his temperament as the helmsman of the faction had not diminished in the slightest, but the big ship was no longer in his control.

"Adele, have you seen this ring of thorns, all the high-level members of the faction have such a ring, which symbolizes our status, and it is such a ring that makes those faction members who are bewitched by money and interests have to bow their heads and listen patiently to every word we say, even if they disdain it in their hearts, they must be superficial."

It was a rather quaint ring, delicately polished, with a leaf standing upright at the top, and six other leaves symmetrically divided on either side, with tiny spikes between the leaves.

"Doctor, this ring must be very valuable, right?"

"No, it's just a few rings that we bought in street jewelry stores when we formed our faction, and if we say they're worth a few shillings."

"Huh?"

Adella opened her mouth, not knowing how to proceed.

She looked out the window, trying to break free from the awkwardness.

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……

As if sensing some gaze, Zhou Jinru tightened his clothes and walked a few steps to the side of the road uncomfortably, causing Shi Huaiya to roll her eyes for a while.

"What are you doing?"

"I feel like someone is staring at me."

Shi Huaiya glanced left and right a few times: "Where is it?" ”

Zhou Jinru almost lost his breath, if he could find out who it was, he still walked by sticking to the wall, and the other party intended to dodge, how could he find out so easily?

"It's okay, Miss Shi, don't be nervous, let's continue to introduce, you said this building is the second largest department store in Lentinium?"

"It used to be."

Shi Huaiya looked at the objects scattered all over the street, most of them were damaged, and there were many tables and chairs piled up to form a bunker, it seemed that the second largest department store was completely removed, and even if it could be restored, there was no way to return to its former state.

Directly in front of them was a bridge across the Saiga River, and there were several such bridges between the eastern and western regions of Lentinium.

Zhou Jinru stood on the edge of the bridge and looked at the opposite side, although there was tension between the factions and the nobles, but it was not so tense that it became a war zone, or it was only a matter of time before it became a war zone.

"If you block this bridge, you can cut off the route between the two sides."

Zhou Jinru's fingers pressed lightly on the guardrail, his eyes narrowed, and he calculated how much firepower it would take to blow up the bridge.

To his surprise, in reality, Lentinium did not have so many bridges, nor did it exist two large districts divided by a river.

"What do I need to do if I'm going to the other side?"

"You don't need to do anything, just find a place to hide, and after a month, you'll be able to get through."

Shi Huaiya means that after a month, this tense confrontation should be over, and the Eastern Region, which has lost most of its food sources, will not be able to hold on for too long, and the Western Region, which has lost the services of the Eastern Region, cannot continue like this forever, and they will not be able to isolate each other forever.

"That being said, a month later it will be too late."

Zhou Jinru stared at the rushing river, and felt a tremor in the palm of his hand holding the railing, not only that, but even the entire Saiga River began to splash irregularly.

He looked up, and on the other side of the bridge, countless steam mechs appeared.