Zheng Ye didn't care if she answered.

Yun Mengying's heart was shocked, and Zheng Ye continued to speak, as if talking to himself.

"I've seen a lot of people like you, I've lived a long time, and I've seen a lot, girl, if you continue to hide like this, you can only be a burden to others."

Yun Mengying felt that Zheng Lao was like a roundworm in her stomach, knowing what she thought, and still having opinions.

"Born in troubled times, the lives of the homeless people are like mustard, no, it should be the end of the world, and it may be the end of the world in a few days."

Zheng Ye continued to talk to himself, Yun Mengying hid behind the door, gritted his teeth and didn't cry.

"Earlier, a girl who had been repairing the foundation of the castle wall for a few years came to me, and she committed suicide not long after. And the people who came out of the hunting grounds, who were not dead and crazy. Those who crawl out of hell have half their lives and half of their lives gone, and they are either muddy or would rather die than give in. What do you want to do so much, how can you live and not live, what's wrong with wanting to live, what if you don't want to live, this world, it's too difficult to live. ”

The old man muttered to himself for a long time, probably not getting a response from Yun Mengying, so he didn't say any more.

Suddenly, the courtyard was quiet again, except for the flying sand and rocks outside and the occasional sound of the homeless area.

……

Abandoned District 10, the City of Dreams.

The windows in the conference room are bright and clean, and the optical fiber is soft.

Yi Bailu stood in front of the clean floor-to-ceiling window and looked at the people who came and went to work outside.

There were a few people sitting at the long table in the conference room, all of them were nervous, and they didn't dare to speak casually, so they could only stare at his back.

Because behind them were the subordinates of a platoon of commanders, all subduing the army.

Looking outside for a while, Yi Bailu lost his mind, remembering the girl he had met at the dilapidated high wall in the ninth district before.

Short-sleeved shorts, at first glance, look like slave laborers in the dungeon, escaped.

Grizzled face, half-long hair, brown eyes, when looking at him, clear, clean, bright, questioning, shocked, but without fear.

He was curious how she managed to escape, and he wondered why she wasn't afraid.

Even if there was an earthquake in District 9, it would be at least forty or fifty kilometers from that place to where she was.

The ninth district was arresting laborers, and he knew very well that he only subconsciously blocked her and saw her shrink back.

Before, he might not have cared much about these things.

However, after one meeting, Yi Bailu began to think about a lot of things.

Including now.

"Guys, it's time to start reporting on the results of the search." Yi Bailu turned around and sat down simply.

He turned against the light, and the warm sunlight gilded him with a layer of gold, which blurred his countenance a little, so that his amber pupils looked much deeper.

The whole person softened in the sun, a little less cold.

But the few people sitting around knew that it was just a look, and the person in front of him had spent a few years in charge of the first district.

The subordinate next to him quickly changed him with a cup of hot tea and put it in his hand.

Yi Bailu leaned on the back of the chair, folded his legs, and swept around one by one.

"Sir, for the time being, all of them have not been arrested. There is no place in the homeless area that we have not controlled, so we can't be completely sure that there are no fish that have slipped through the net. One of them replied uneasily, his face very pale.

Seeing that Yi Bailu didn't speak, the others didn't dare to say anything.

The person sitting at the top of the left had no choice but to continue to report, "I reported to you the missing items before. Almost half of them were recovered, as well as a box of weapons, two boxes of wine, two hundred bags of grains, one hundred boxes of vegetables, twenty boxes of meat, less than a hundred spices, and dozens of bags of clothing. ”

The more the man spoke, the quieter he spoke, and the quieter he spoke......

Finally, after a pause, the person next to him answered, "The damage on the warehouse side will take about a month to be repaired, we have lost more than 30 people, and more than 50 have died on the side of the homeless, and the bodies have been burned." ”

"The participants are all in the nearest districts, and the people who have been arrested have already confessed, mainly in the 6789 districts, and there are also people in the first five districts, not many, mainly in the 7th district. You also know that Rongli and Rongxi over there have always been incompatible and quarrelsome. The people who reported were all cautious and respectful.

Yi Bailu listened silently for a while, looking at the last person to speak, "How many people have been arrested?" ”

"Seventy-four have been arrested, eighteen have died, a few have committed suicide, and a few have died because they can't stand the forced confession, and there are forty-two left, and they are still being arrested outside, and there are probably twenty or thirty more who will be shipped back in the next few days."

"What are you going to do?" Yi Bailu asked.

He actually knew, but he still asked.

The others glanced at each other, "Pull down and mend the eroded façade." ”

"Sir, someone from the ninth district came to arrest the laborers, saying that someone from their dungeon ran out." The person in charge of the arrest asked him for instructions.

The change in expression is fleeting.

Everyone in the conference room saw Yi Bailu's expression extremely unnatural for a moment.

Yi Bailu listened to the instructions of her subordinates, and quickly thought of Yun Mengying, the runaway worker whose name she didn't know, but she knew her identity.

"Leave them alone for the time being, tell them to remember to give us if they come across someone who can steal resources." Yi Bailu commanded coldly.

"These guys, they go too far, they arrest people everywhere, just like the seventh district, it's just inhumane." Some people were extremely dissatisfied with the arrogance of the ninth district, and couldn't help but complain.

"What you said, we are not much different, but they are more ruthless." Someone then added.

"It's all a bunch of garbage, it doesn't have any value, and it's a bit of a good thing to let them repair the foundation."

……

Soon, someone followed up with a few words.

"Quiet." The leader of the line behind the conference table shouted.

The room full of people immediately quieted down, their hearts contracted, and they were suppressed.

Yi Bailu listened to their words, and had mixed feelings for a while.

Once upon a time, he thought the same thing, but then, at some point, he changed his mind.

The moment he saw Yun Mengying, he even violated his principles and changed his actions.

"Sir?" The people sitting on both sides saw that Yi Bailu was absent-minded, and they were very surprised, so they called him.

"Negotiate with the seventh district, I'll go there soon, and let them cooperate in catching the mastermind behind it, isn't it almost the same investigation?" Yi Bailu commanded in a deep voice.

"Yes."

"Sir, I'm afraid it's very difficult to recover the materials, although the loss is very small, but after all, it's ......"

The one who spoke was uneasy.

The City of Dreams is a doomsday paradise funded by the Upper Three Districts.

Although this loss is negligible for the Dream City, it is a matter of face and must be taken seriously.

The elite of the upper district was robbed, which is simply a big joke.

The old man in the upper third district wanted to give Yi Bailu a little bit of power, so he arranged this thankless job for him.

Who told him to take over the position of consul of the first district at a young age, and even more prestige than the other two districts.

Yi Bailu didn't pay much attention to this matter, but just investigated step by step.

Bring people to the first district to come over, search for criminals, recover materials, investigate the mastermind, and so on.

Listening to the current situation now, Yi Bailu couldn't help but sigh a little, are the people here desperate enough to rob them.

Robbing the Dream City was a suicidal operation, but they actually succeeded.

There must be internal and external collusion.

Yi Bailu's fingers fluctuated on his legs, and he looked at the person closest to him, "Internal inventory, all the people related to the warehouse." ”

"Sir, will it cause internal turmoil, the main people here are the elites of the upper city, in case the other two districts have opinions?"

"It's okay, I'll have the final say." Yi Bailu's tone was calm and indifferent, and the others obeyed.

"Those supplies ......," Yi Bailu thought for a moment, "and we will wait until the investigation is over." ”

Dispatch troops, arrange arrangements, light clouds, light winds, calm, and no mood fluctuations.

After arranging, Yi Bailu told them all to disperse.

When everyone walked out, the subordinates who had suppressed the meeting before, the army adjutant, Xia Wu, closed the door of the conference room again.

Yi Bailu stood up again, and continued to stand in front of the floor-to-ceiling window and look down.

Climb high and look into the distance, as if you can look down on all living beings.

Xia Wu took two steps forward and stood beside Yi Bailu, empty for a distance.

"Sir, aren't you in a hurry?"

Yi Bailu smiled slightly, anxious?

He wasn't in a hurry at all.

Since they wanted him to come out, he himself wanted to come out and take a good look at what this last day had become.

Outside, the sky was full of yellow sand, starvation was everywhere, and the walls were ruined.

It's still the lights here, and it's drunk.

"Sir, my subordinates have a problem." Xia Wu asked again.

"Ask."

Xia Wu saw that Yi Bailu didn't mind, so he spoke, and deliberately looked at his expression, "That day, why did you block that fugitive." ”

"She's not a fugitive." Yi Bailu's explanation is very definite.

She's just a homeless person in the 9th District who doesn't know where to grab the labor that fills the dungeon, and now she's just escaped from the cage.

"Sir, I didn't seem to see it that way before, can my subordinates ask what changed your mind?" Xia Wu still wanted to ask the reason.

"Freedom." Yi Bailu was sure that when she saw the person she didn't know the name, she was free.

Xia Wu quickly understood.

"Freedom or death." When Yi Bailu spoke, his tone was flat, "There are laborers like them in all districts, and there can be a few who run out, who wants to live a miserable life in the dark." Sometimes we think about it, we people live in a castle of resources, afraid of coming out and being polluted, afraid of getting sick and dying outside, looking at people outside like ants, but why don't we live in a cage, waiting for death. ”

Xia Wu was shocked by his remarks, and the people behind him were also a little shocked.

If these words are heard by others, the consequences are unimaginable.

"Don't be so afraid, just talk casually, after all, I haven't come out for a long time." Yi Bailu saw that his face was white and smiled.

Xia Wu listened to his words and reported something again, "The people under him said that the ninth district and the seventh district are searching for people in the seventh district, and that girl is afraid that she won't be able to escape." ”