180. Sustainable warfare
It was late at night.
The three of them didn't want to rest so soon, so at Tokizaki's suggestion, they wandered around the trail in Tseung Kwan O.
The drenched cars crossed back and forth, and the yellow and wide fallen leaves of the street trees made the rain stick to the trunks of the trees, like flapping wings. Nance opened her coat and wrapped Sister Rena in to shield her from the cold night wind.
After the fire, Tseung Kwan O was in shambles.
In the direction of the port, a freighter with its empty cargo exposed to the waterline floats as if it had been abandoned.
The white paint of the freighter has become red and rusty, densely covered with shells, like the hard scars of a sick person's abscesses. Shi Qi looked at the freighter, sighed, and said, "I really hope to get through this difficult time soon......"
"Under the leadership of Adjutant Tokizaki Wise Shenwu, this day will come soon!" Nance complimented.
Miss Adjutant gave him a blank look.
Sister Rena hid in Nance's arms, covering her mouth and snickering.
For an ignorant nun who has fallen in love, all suffering is only a temporary test of God...... She is now living a very happy life, which can be seen from her stupid, demented eyes.
The rain is getting lighter.
The small talk of the three of them also became casual.
The air was moist all around, and there were droplets of water hanging under the eaves and on the leaves.
Passing by a bar that was still open late at night, the ceiling was low, the room was packed, and the walls were blackened by countless human contacts. Voices of invective and disturbance poured out from within.
When Shi Qi walked past the door, someone inside shouted: "Hey, Miss, come and play, you can ...... as much as you want."
Nance frowned and looked over.
The temperament of Miss Adjutant is particularly prominent in this kind of place where dirt and dirt are hidden, and it is not strange that people will be teased with words. He was not a soft-hearted person, he glanced inside and shouted, "If you want to die, shout again." β
"Hey. I'm going to see who's so big......"
The drunken man who spoke came out of the door of the bar, smelling of bad gin.
The people who live in Tseung Kwan O are all from the bottom of society, and there are many examples of drinking and making trouble in this area every night. As soon as Nance was about to make a move, the drunk man was kicked from behind and fell to the side of the road with a thud.
"Look for death!"
"You don't look at who it is!"
"Miss Tokizaki, can you offend......"
In the midst of a few menacing shouts, a group of people rushed out and punched and kicked the drunk. A strong man who looked at some status ran to the front, bowed and apologized to Shi Qi with respect on his face: "I'm sorry, I don't know where this thing is, I'll teach him a lesson for you." β
"Just don't hurt people." Tokizaki said magnanimously.
"Okay, I'll talk to them......" The strong man turned around, shouted a few words at the group of beaters, and turned around, squeezing out a well-behaved smile on his meaty face, "Miss Shizaki, just for all this you did for New Yokohama, I put the words here: whoever can't get along with you is not with me Hu Dabao!" β
That smile was really ugly.
But that's not a joke.
People living in Tseung Kwan O are always not enough to eat, their clothes are always torn, the heating in their rooms is always not warm, and nothing is cheap or abundant except for artificial gin. People who live in such a place may have almost all their humanity grinded...... But if you can meet a big person who really does things for them, they will also respect them with all their hearts.
After the episode, Nance shook his head and sighed with some amusement.
"What's upset?" Sister Rena asked intimately.
"Yes." Nance said distressedly.
Tokizaki looked sideways.
Nance also turned his head to look at her, and said fiercely: "That person was really too nosy just now, wasting my chance to save the beauty of a hero!" β
Shi Qi couldn't hold back, and laughed out loud.
Her face flushed slightly, and she glared at her boss angrily: "Section chief, please be serious!" β
Nance had a hippie smile.
It was one of his great pleasures to make the serious adjutant miss laugh in an indecent way.
In the darkness, Sister Rena tucked her finger between Nance's fingers, her big eyes quietly glancing at Xiao Qi...... Nance and I are happily happy, and Yuzaki can't be left behind, she thought.
Walking a little further, there is a self-service barbecue restaurant on the side of the road.
The environment was not very good, but there were not many people, so Nance took them in and found a corner by the window to sit down.
Eating barbecue on a cold rainy night, just listening, is a pleasure. After Tokizaki and Rena sat down, he went to fetch two large pots of vegetables and juice and made a fire for his own barbecue.
Sister Rena sat against him, a flickering flame in her eyes.
An innocent and immaculate expression appeared on her sweet goose egg face, which made people feel beautiful just by looking at it.
Shi Qi looked at Rena's mother, who was much more naΓ―ve, a little funny, and a little tired. Someone next door took pictures of this side, and she didn't bother to pay attention to it, and looked at Nance intently: "The matter between you and Sister Marlene is known all over the city, I don't care, because Sister Marlene can face it alone." But Rena can't, she's so innocent, she can't face the rumors that are too turbulent. β
"Huh?"
Sister Rena didn't know why Yuzaki suddenly said this.
I wanted to speak, but Yuzaki winked at her and motioned for her not to speak yet.
Nance flipped through a few skewers of beef with one hand and poured her a few glasses of juice with the other: "Of course I know that." β
Shi Qi took a sip and looked at him with his eyes: "Then can I ask the section leader how to solve it?" β
"Actually, it's not that complicated." Nance spat the sauce on the beef and replied in a very flat tone, "If you hate it, you will beat it, and if you like it, you will love it, so that you can be happier." Thinking too much about it will only make it difficult for people to feel at ease. β
Shi Qi was silent for a moment, sighed and said, "I shouldn't have thought about it, but Rena's sister's identity is really a big problem. β
Nance laughed: "She has three identities, which one do you refer to?" β
Sister Rena, who was obediently listening to the two of them, opened her mouth and said, "Rena is now only a nun. β
"Don't interject yet!" Nance handed her a skewer of beef.
"Oh."
Sister Lena was as well-behaved as a little girl.
The aroma of roast beef was stuffed into her mouth, and her mouth and soul became extremely satisfied.
Nance also handed a string of beef to Shi Qi: "Nun, eldest lady, and quasi-princess, these three identities are not small. β
"That's right." Tokizaki took the beef and put it in his mouth.
"But so what? It's not small, should I back down? Nance took a bite, felt the aroma of meat, and sighed with satisfaction: "A woman so noble and so beautiful has shown her love to me, even if I fight for this life, I will not let her suffer the slightest grievance." No matter which one is picked out first, I will be ruthless, the kind that will not show mercy. Otherwise, I'll regret it for the rest of my life...... It's a bit of a hassle right now, but it's not impossible. Since I dare to say this, it means that I already have the security for Rena's future life. β
"Hmm~"
Sister Rena narrowed her eyes happily.
Such a bold show of love, still in front of Xiaozaki, she felt very shy. But unable to hold back the true feelings in her heart, her head gradually tilted uncontrollably, leaning affectionately against Nance's arm.
What a happy life it would be to live with him......
Shi Qi chewed on the barbecue, and said to his boss with some annoyance: "The section chief is inevitably too carried away." β
"It's not that I get carried away, it's just that I know what I want." Nance said, turning his head to look at the lights in the island area in the distance, "Miss Shizaki, you see, those buildings are really modern and full of technology. But no matter how I look at it, I think it's just a crumbling mansion. Across the sea, all I could see was tyranny, extortion, debt, mortgages, oppression, hunger and misery. β
Tokizaki also turned his head to look over.
The far end above the dilapidated houses of the slums was lit up in the dark.
"In California, people are enslaved by the island; In the empire, people were enslaved by the aristocracy, represented by the royal family. Nance put the second round of ingredients on the barbecue grill and said as he turned over the grill, "This heavy mountain must also be handed over to some people who are more qualified to overthrow, so that the citizens of the empire can gradually get rid of the pressure, and let the next generation of those who have been forced to endure it unbearable but cannot do without it suffer less." β
Tokizaki looked back at him, "Please forgive me for my curiosity, it's just that I really want to know what the section chief is for." β
"It's so that everybody can live, it's as simple as that." Nance nimbly used the clamp to turn all the ingredients over, "Capitalism is a system that is bound to destruction, and no one can change that." Shin-Yokohama, the most developed region in the entire empire, shows signs of ruin. When the internal contradictions of a political system are too great to be reconciled, foreign war is the only way to survive......"
When she said this, Miss Adjutant's face instantly became nervous.
She seemed to smell something.
What are you talking about...... Sister Lena looked at the two innocently.
"These days, when collecting information about grain merchants, I have found some very interesting points." Nance said, his hand movements inadvertently stopped, "Nearly one-third of the grain hoarded by the big grain merchants in California was transported by Shuichi Akasaka, and its whereabouts are unknown. Some of the grains and oils that are resistant to storage are more than sixty percent in his hands. β
Tokizaki tacitly stretched out his hand and took the clip from the section leader's hand.
She began to barbecue, and Nance's hands were free, so she folded them on the table, sorted out her thoughts, and said: "In addition to hoarding a large amount of food, I have also hacked into the systems of major banks and checked the capital flow of many Tokyo enterprises. You know what? Half of the annual net profit of these companies has in some form entered the name of the company controlled by Shuichi Akasaka. β
"So he's been hoarding food and possessions for ......a while," Mr. Tokizaki said, coating the barbecue with sauce.
Nance took a sip of juice before continuing, "Also, he's also frantically hoarding energy. β
"How do you know that?"
"I have a deep friendship with the Eveles Group."
"Hiss~"
Tokizaki was shocked.
Eveles Group is the world's largest energy giant, when did the section manager get on the line with the other party? She stared at her boss with an eager "tell me" look, but he ignored her and told her to focus on his share of meat.
Joke.
How do you tell you this?
Do you want me to tell you that your most beloved section chief is the little lover raised by the female president of the Eveles Group?
When she finished grilling the meat, Nance couldn't wait to stuff it into her mouth.
The hot grease blooms in the mouth.
"Hmm, hot, hot, delicious......"
Seeing that he looked so hot that he wanted to vomit but was reluctant to give it up because of the deliciousness, Shi Qi lifted his chin lightly and showed a slight smug smile.
Sister Rena also ate a piece and asked, "What is Akasaka doing with so many things?" β
"What else can you do here, of course it's a war!" Nance swallowed his food and sighed with satisfaction, "The internal contradictions have reached the point where they cannot be reconciled, and if he doesn't pick an external contradiction, he will be killed first." In ten years, no, in five years, he will inevitably start looking for something. Just in time, I can get stuck in the time he hasn't prepared enough to deal with him and make him uncomfortable......"
Shi Qi was a little incredulous: "He's crazy, right?" β
"He's crazy if he doesn't fight." "I've never been out of California, but now that the Internet is so developed, it's enough to learn about the situation in the country." Natural disasters are raging, food harvests have been lacking for many years, and the current situation in the entire empire is not stable. Shuichi Akasaka took the lead in provoking the war, and the remaining autonomous prefectures, even if they did not respond, were unlikely to support the empire. The empire itself is a mess, and in the face of such a contradiction sent to the door, it will not think about quelling the rebellion overnight...... Although they don't have the strength to do so. β
"What do you mean, is it ......" Tokizaki frowned, "Is the empire acquiescing in Shuichi Akasaka's treason?" β
"It's hard to say if you don't acquiesce, but because of this matter, the high-level officials are pulling each other and have ambiguous attitudes." Nance sneered, "If you think about it, directly hacking into the military system and bombing the cabinet with plasma cannons is undoubtedly a shit slap in the face of the Empire." What about the Empire's reaction? The old man of the emperor, the twelve ministers of the cabinet, the speaker of the parliament, the ...... of the grand court From top to bottom, apart from condemnation, which department has actually acted? β
"They, they ......" Shi Qi swallowed hard, his hands trembling slightly, "Why did the empire ...... like this"
"Didn't I say that the empire itself is already full of contradictions." Nance stretched out his hand and gently pressed the back of her trembling hand, "The easiest way to resolve internal contradictions is to provoke an external contradiction that shares the same hatred. There has been no politician since ancient times who is not good at this trick. The people are very happy with this, and their emotions seem to come from the heart and are completely controlled by themselves, but in fact they are all secretly controlled by the state's propaganda strategy......"
Shi Qi was stunned for a long time, and muttered: "As soon as the fight starts, the whole world will be in chaos." β
"No, no, Miss Tokizaki, you're still too naΓ―ve." Nance smiled, picked up the cup, took a sip of juice, and closed her eyes for a long thought. In the darkness, there was a soft sigh, he opened his eyes, and said: "The basic act of war is destruction, but what is destroyed is not necessarily life, but more importantly, it is the destruction of the surplus labor products of mankind, and the enthusiasm of the laborers for production is reactivated...... Both sides have a tacit understanding to confront each other locally and consume each other, but they will not rush to conquer each other, which is called sustainable warfare......"
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