Just like a steel fiber embedded in a stone and an iron hammer, it hits the hard skull in the middle with all its strength.

Unable to wait to lift off the skull covering it with force, the girl quickly lay down and buried her entire mouth in the middle of the snow-white and greasy brain with an extremely excited expression, and swallowed it in big mouth.

Lin Xiang moved his eyes away from the scope, looked at the blurry black dot in the distance and looked silently for a moment, shook his head, picked up the backpack placed beside him, and walked slowly towards the northwest from the back of the sand dune.

There are too many murders and cannibalism in the wilderness. This is not an empire, and he is not a good judge who must judge good and evil. Everything in this world has reasons for existence. Since you have seen it and understand that leaving should be your best choice.

Walking along the compacted earth road adjacent to the old highway, under the last dim light, Lin Xiang slowly walked into the settlement of O'O's Slogan.

Since the initial stage of Yinyue City, Lin Xiang dispatched a reconnaissance team composed of elite Wufeng officers and soldiers to be responsible for intelligence collection of the Red Republican Army. As the ruling area expanded, Sosbia and Ferdinand were annexed. This special team was also incorporated into the Imperial Intelligence Bureau and managed by Glifiz. According to Lin Xiang's requirements, the original team was expanded and the Northwest Intelligence Bureau was set up as the basis for the original team personnel.

Due to the special social system of the Red Republican Army, before contacting Li Jiajun and Li Zixiang, Glifiz sent six intelligence personnel to lurk in the Northwest Territory, all of which were failed. Except for the two who were killed on the spot because they refused to be arrested, the other four could only pretend to be refugees outside the actual ruling area of ​​the Republican Army and carefully infiltrated them for a long time. Unfortunately, the lurking progress from changing their identity has basically no effect, and the amount of intelligence sent back to the empire is also very small. There has not even been direct talks with defectors such as Li Jiajun to obtain more results. However, the efforts over the past few years have not been completely ineffective. At least Lin Xiang has fully known the coordinates, names, personnel and military equipment, hydrology and geography of various settlements that rule the surrounding areas of the surrounding area.

In terms of place names fabrication, the Red Republican Army seemed to change the names of the main core cities based on maps of the old era. As for civilian settlements of varying sizes under their jurisdiction, they were prefixed with the Republican era regional code and supplemented with actual number numbers. 0930 is the communication code of the Linxia area of ​​Gansu Province in the old era. As for "c17", it means that the settlement belongs to a small village with no more than 500 permanent residents and is not included in the direct administration and is completely composed of foreign refugees.

This place is more than 200 kilometers away from the Red Republican Army's main cities. If it is more detailed in the old county-level map, it is impossible to even be included in the Linxia enclosure circle. Just over 50 kilometers northwest of the village, the Red Republican Army has set up a cordon with tight protection. Without permission, residents of 0930c17 are not allowed to enter. If there are any requirements for living materials, they can exchange trade with the transport convoys that drive from the city every Saturday.

Regarding the control of the people, the Red Republican Army is particularly special among all wasteland forces.

Taking the actual jurisdiction as the standard for distinction, all settlements of all sizes of the Republican Army's sphere of influence can be divided into two types: built-in and external. Among them, the former is a livable area for citizens with identity identification cards, while the latter is a natural village composed of wilderness refugees. Under normal circumstances, the interval between the external village and the border cordon is about 30 to 60 kilometers. According to the lurkers and defectors such as Li Zixiang, the main reason for adopting this strange resettlement method is that in order to prevent domestic citizens from contacting the outside world, the political supervision committee members have dissatisfaction with the existing systems and other factors.

Most of the existing Red Republican Army, which moved westward from the old era, were synthetic life forms produced through artificial insemination. They had to receive forced brainwashing education when they perceived the consciousness of thinking and the outside world. Theories of loyalty to the great leaders, loyalty to the National Socialist Party, and anti-capital and anti-imperialism were deeply rooted in their minds and were difficult to be disturbed by simple external factors. Of course, it was precisely because of their fondness that Suth. Land Walker suggested that Lin Xiang formulate a similar replicant cultivation plan, and instill compulsory thinking in the second generation of replicants from the juvenile stage to gain true loyalty and guardians.

There is no definite evidence that the large-scale replicant plan for the Knights of the Skeleton on a global scale is related to the actions of the Red Republican Army to use sperm reserves to create their own members? It is also impossible to find out the differences in the specific action time between the two major groups. The difference in strength between the mutant and the Jintong people eventually became the common goal of interest to the Knights and the top leaders of the Republican Army. Perhaps it is to obtain a larger number of natural mutant individuals, or to go through long-term comparison experiments of internal and external environments, or to go through many factors such as commercial trade, information communication, and expansion of future dominance areas, etc. The Red Republican Army did not drive away those wild refugees who depended on the outer villages. Instead, the average daily food quota for citizens is used as the standard, halved, or 50 or even 70% of the existing quota, and distributed to the people of various external villages.

Lin Xiang has a list of daily food rations for the Republican civilians provided by Li Zixiang.

200 grams of brown rice or corn flour, 300 grams of potato or sweet potato, 200 grams of vegetables, vegetable fat and japonica, and 20 grams of salt. If it coincides with the New Year's Day or the birthday of the great leader, an additional 90 to 200 grams of meat or canned food will be added. As for luxury goods such as cigarettes, wine, and candy, only soldiers and administrative staff are qualified to enjoy it.

The amount of food that was about 50% or 300 grams could not satisfy the hunger of the refugees. But they were unwilling to give up this, which was completely free to get food. Naturally, new reclamation zones gradually appeared around various external villages, and refugees barely got food and clothing by farming themselves and rationing.

For these foreign dependent groups, the top leaders of the Republican Army adopted a relatively relaxed management method, assigned political commissaries within villages with a good impression, and promised to provide armed protection. They even exchanged old weapons replaced by the army in exchange for food, intelligence, etc., and gave refugees an informal type of peripheral armed forces. In a sense, the A and B external villages with higher administrative levels are actually equivalent to the warning force surrounding the periphery of the Republican Army. The refugees have low combat effectiveness, but their level of vigilance is far greater than that of civilians. In order to protect their private property and the arable land harvest that can be obtained in the coming year, they began to gather more and more around the Republican Army, and exist in ways that assist and rely on each other, but do not fully agree with the other party's social system.

From this point of view alone, "the Red Republican Army is actually quite flexible in controlling the thinking and viewpoints of the people, and in distinguishing different classes and thus enhancing their own strength. However, the superficial phenomenon cannot be a criterion for judgment. Lin Xiang needs to know more information related to it. Especially in the subjective concept, he did not regard the Red Republican Army as an opponent, but did not obtain mutual understanding and did not know each other's existence.

0930c17 is actually just a barren land. On the sand dunes around the town, there are a drought-resistant shrub similar to the appearance of the old splendens. To the east, you can see wheat fields with an area of ​​about 700 acres. For a town with a permanent population of about 500, these arable land has reached the limit that human labor can bear. Next to the dirt road near the entrance of the town, a wooden warning tower with a height of more than 20 meters stands. On it are two leisurely sentries. The dark green camouflage military uniforms and the m5g43 assault rifle in their hands are obviously from the assistance of the Red Republican Army. However, there are no military rank seals on the military uniforms on the surface, and the weapons appear to be relatively dilapidated. Comprehensively, they should be temporary guards selected by refugees in the town, rather than soldiers in the true sense.

There are no fortifications, nor facilities like turrets or machine gun suppression points. The refugees in the town did not express any surprise to Lin Xiang, an outsider who suddenly appeared. They were all busy with their own affairs. They only raised their heads and took a look at them when they walked in front of them, and they were too lazy to say anything extra.

Lin Xiang, who walked into 0930c17, had already changed to another appearance.

It is close to the skin and covered with a layer of a slightly yellowish-colored gum mask with a relatively rough texture. The raised muscles of the lower jaw, slightly raised masses from below the cheekbones, make the entire face look completely like another ordinary and middle-aged man with a targeted bloodline. His hair is curled and dyed light brown, and there is a diaphragm with a light blue luster inside his eye sockets. If these layers of camouflage are not removed, no one can see Lin Xiang's true appearance.

This is not redundant.

In the textbooks and military exercises of the Red Republic Army, Lin Xiang was portrayed as a hero who sacrificed his life in the country. His appearance has long been known to everyone, and there are also a considerable number of replicant officers with the same appearance as his appearance. Before he figured out the many secrets he wanted, appearing in his original form would only bring greater trouble.

Men with handsome appearances are usually more likely to gain the favor of strangers than ugly and fierce men with scars on their faces. When they cannot see through the inner world, humans can only make preliminary judgments on things with their naked eyes. Ten minutes later, Lin Xiang had found a hotel in the town.

This is a two-story building with a mixture of aquamarine bricks and stones, with an overall appearance of grayish yellow. The store door made of old wooden boards is open, and on the walls on both sides of the left and right, there are eye-catching white paints written with "Long live the great red Republican army" and "Long live the great leader Jin Tianzheng [Chairman]".

A single room with an area of ​​about five square meters costs 15 red flags.

Such price standards are really cheap.

The lobby downstairs of the guest room can be eaten. Unlike all the wilderness villages that Lin Xiang knows, there is no such thing as à la carte food here. Only one serving per Hongqi Yuan is served. As for the contents of half a bowl of brown rice, a cooked potato that is the size of a fist and a dried salted radish that is the size of a fingernail.

The rice was chewed hard in the mouth, probably because it was not watery and could not be washed. The rice grains were mixed with thick and hard sand from the mouth from time to time. The potatoes looked dirty on the surface, with a lot of adhering black dirt and soil. Lin Xiang did not complain about this. He carefully tore off the dirty skin, "he used chopsticks to pick out the sand from the bowl, and ate it very slowly, but he had enough time to think about the various problems that had just been discovered in his mind.

The hotel owner only received a glass of about 300 milliliters of clear water. When Lin Xiang asked if there were any alcoholic beverages for sale, the short-sized boss laughed. The land near the settlement was very barren, and with water shortage and drought, the average yield of crops was only about 200 kilograms per mu. The grain produced was only enough to maintain daily consumption, and there was no excess amount for brewing. As for occasionally getting a few bottles of old-time wine from the ruins, they were all used to exchange clothes, medicines, batteries and other daily necessities with the Red Republican Army. Even gerbils, giant marmots, big earthworms and other animals obtained from hunting would be dried and marinated into jerky meat for exchange. In addition to the more important festivals, there were basically no animal fat or meat on the tables of residents in the town.

It was already night, and on the old wooden table in the center of the restaurant, a kerosene lamp was lit with the stem of the seddened grass as the core twist. Lin Xiang turned around and saw that there were no extra customers in the restaurant except himself. Obviously, the hotel owner was not stingy. Even if there was only one customer, he had to finish the meal in a light environment.

Lin Xiang smiled, took out a pack of cigarettes from his shirt pocket, tore open the seal, pulled out one and handed it over.

Seeing the exquisitely packaged "manebono", the hotel owner's eyes immediately widened. He licked his lips and wiped his unclean hands hard on his equally dirty waist. He took the cigarette, leaned closer to his nostrils and sniffed it hard. After several minutes, he lit the cigarette on the oil lamp with a stinging deep breath, and with an extremely intoxicated and satisfied expression, he felt the joy brought by the nicotine's lungs for a long time.

A cigarette quickly shortens the distance between two men.

"Why not leave here? Looking for another new place?"

Chewing the last few rice grains left in the mouth, Lin Xiang lit a cigarette," asked casually.

"I don't want to take risks."

The dim lights illuminate a shadow stacked with wrinkles on the wide forehead of the hotel owner: "It is a very dangerous thing to wander in the wilderness. Without direction and a fixed destination, it is impossible to go too far by personal strength alone. If all the food and water are eaten up, but you have not found a suitable settlement. Instead of starving to death and thirst, it is better to just commit suicide. Look at your appearance, you should be a mercenary of a high level. Those city lords will hire you to work hard for it with money and food, but will not waste any resources on the refugees. Instead of being unsure of going out to take risks, you might as well stay here and farm with honesty. Although there is a shortage of water, there is a red Republican army, at least they will not watch us starve to death."

Lin Xiang nodded gently and asked, "It sounds like you have a good review of them?"

"Not counting, at most it's just a sloppy."

The hotel owner sprayed two faint smoke from his nostrils and said with a wry smile: "These guys are very smart. The food they allocate every day cannot make you full, but they will not starve to death. At the same time, farm tools and seeds are distributed for free. However, if you want to get salt and sugar, you must exchange them with the harvested food. Then again, those soldiers are not actually harsh, and they even provide protection to us.

In addition, the income from going out to hunt is not enough to be rich, and it is not a big problem to eat enough."

Lin Xiang seemed to be interested in the conversation: "It is said that further northwest is the city they built?"

The hotel owner raised his head and looked out the dark window, and said leisurely: "It is a very prosperous place. There are thousands of people, and there are tall buildings like ruins. The most important thing is that people there can eat and live better than us."

The standard for refugees to judge things is actually very simple. Eating enough or hunger is often enough to represent good or bad.

"Then why don't you move there?" Lin Xiang asked knowingly.

"It's not easy."

The hotel owner shook his head: "The Red Republic rarely accepts foreign populations. Even if you swear allegiance, you will not be recognized at all. The only thing they need is food, and plant plants in designated areas of the dunes according to the requirements. If done well, the amount and variety of food rations will increase accordingly. Especially those who perform well will occasionally get the opportunity to enter the city to receive the regional chief. Haha! These things are actually irrelevant. The key is that all those who receive the interview can get five boxes of canned braised pork with good taste." Lin Xiang was stunned for a moment, shook his head and smiled with his anus.
Chapter completed!