Chapter 17 Loot Extraction <TOC> Chapter 19 Ambush
Translator: SumTLMan
On the barren land, rows of plastic greenhouses are arranged neatly, like worms strewn on Earth.
The massive water purification system emits a piercing roar, purifying the river water.
Through the plastic film, one can see the lush crops inside. Most of them are grains such as wheat, rice, and corn.
Food crops require higher radiation concentrations, requiring greenhouse cultivation to isolate radiation dust from the atmosphere, and even irrigation water must be filtered through a large water purifier before use.
Ordinary farmers cannot afford the cost of these devices and can only grow some economically low-radiation crops like cotton and jute. They need to sell cotton before buying food from these large companies.
In this way, large companies can easily harvest the hard-earned harvest of farmers.
Tall watchtowers stand around the farm, surrounded by a ring of snake belly-shaped steel wire mesh, and security personnel are on guard 24 hours a day.
Food and water are hard currency on the wasteland, and the entire farm is like a constantly producing gold mine. There are often marauders who come to steal supplies or steal food.
Li Mu stood on a high ridge and looked down at the farm below. They have been away from Avonigarda for more than a week, entering the central part of Avonigarda Province.
This area is his jurisdiction after taking office, Orissa. Before he takes office in the capital of Avonigarda Province, he plans to investigate the local situation so as not to be overshadowed by local bosses after taking office.
To complete the task of governing, he must attain the real power law of an enforcement officer, who can quietly transport materials and technologies.
They both have muslin scarves covering their faces, covering the noticeable Xia face of Avonigarda Province. The big Brahman bull with a big head is grazing on the slope on the other side of the ridge.
At this moment, a conflict is taking place around the farm.
Nearby farmers have gathered together, burning tires, building roadblocks, and blocking the farm.
They have thousands of people who have surrounded the farm like an ant colony. Among the crowd, there are mothers with thin and emaciated children with mutated organs, and stealthy old people.
And the young and strong Xingdu people, wielding large hammers and iron shovels, jumped into the Mohanendi River, trying to destroy the dam.
They dive into the turbid river water, trying to dig a small hole underwater and insert self-made bombs.
The rainy season is coming to an end and in recent times, the rainfall has noticeably decreased, with the Stan company’s dam intercepting most of the water upstream from the Mohanendi River. This has left the downstream settlements without enough irrigation water.
At this time, cotton is blooming and thriving, and it requires a lot of water. If there is not enough water source for irrigation, there will be widespread crop failure.
This is fatal for farmers who have no savings and means that a family will either starve to death or carry heavy debt during the dry season and become slaves of the big company.
The sound of engines was heard in the farm and the security personnel inside wanted to drive out to stop these mobs from destroying the dam.
The farmers outside immediately swarmed forward, blocking the door like ants, shouting in fear and anger.
The security personnel on the watchtower immediately opened fire, with the whistling bullet rain creating a mist of blood among the crowd.
People in the crowd immediately counterattacked, and the sound of guns was like a barrage.
But the security personnel on the watchtower had bulletproof cover, and the crowd below could only resist with their own flesh and blood, and for a time, there was a cry of grief.
Li Mei was shocked by what she saw in front of her.
“Why do they dare to shoot! This is killing people recklessly!”
She grew up in East Xia and all she knew about the Xingdu Federation came from rumors. The scene in front of her left her stunned and gave her a new understanding of the Xingdu Federation.
“Kill the people on the watchtower.”
Li Mu said.
According to his understanding, Stan Company is one of the big enterprises in the Avonigarda Province and its tentacles reach into every corner of Avonigarda Province.
A mere security officer can’t shake this monopolistic company.
As a newcomer, he naturally hopes that the water in his jurisdiction will be muddier and muddier. With his iron-plated jurisdiction, he can only get some leftover cold food from the allocation.
The two were about five hundred meters away from the watchtower. Li Mei glanced briefly and pulled the trigger for a short shot.
The gunfire on the watchtower immediately quieted down.
The crowd outside the farm cheered, thinking they had killed the shooter on the watchtower.
Someone ran a few steps and threw the burning object into the farm.
“Boom!”
The armored anti-riot vehicle in the farm finally directly crashed into the door and rushed out, crushing a piece of Xingdu people in front.
“You dirty people, do you know who’s property you’re destroying now? Haji big man will send people to peel off your skin! And chop off your heads!”
The manager of the farm shouted through the loudspeaker on the anti-explosion vehicle towards the crowd. He was about to explode, and his assessment for the year was completely finished after such a big accident.
His words didn’t scare these Xingdu people, these Xingdu people were ignorant, and the Avonigarda Province has no obligation to educate, so most Xingdu people are illiterate.
Although they are ignorant, they know that fear can’t save the parched land and withered cotton, only destroying the dam will work.
Those who survive on this wasteland, there is no one who is a true sheep.
The machine gun on top of the armored car sweeps mercilessly, and people constantly duck, but more people directly raise their rifles and aim at the armored car. Some Xingdu people don’t have guns, they just pick up stones from the ground and throw them at the armored car.
Li Mei looked at the scene of flesh and blood flying, and directly shot and killed the machine gunner, and then shot and killed several gunmen who were shooting from the shooting hole. It was not until then that she had a real understanding of the world outside East Xia.
The security personnel in the riot control vehicle were a little numb, thinking how did these lowly people’s shooting suddenly become accurate.
The angry crowd overturned the riot control vehicle directly, and some more flexible Xingdu people rushed into the farm, cut open the greenhouse, and robbed the crops inside.
Suddenly, there was a loud explosion-like gunfire again, but this time it was not the weak machine gun, but the dull sound of a machine cannon.
The frenzied crowd was like being splashed with a bucket of cold water, and some Xingdu people with hot blood tried to organize a charge and counterattack, but they were directly shattered into flesh and blood in the rain of bullets.
A rough powered armor jumped down from the hovercraft, and the machine cannon was still smoking.
Along with the powered armor, there were about a dozen fully armed security officers.
“Lucia’s BTR-60 powered armor.”
Li Mu squinted his eyes, the Xingdu Federation purchased a large number of this powered armor before the disaster, and even now, it is still in large service.
Li Mei looked at the security officer symbol on the hovercraft and then at the scene of blood flowing into a river below, and was both shocked and doubtful.
“This is the routine operation of security officers to maintain the ‘security’ of their jurisdiction. He should be Kurana, the security officer in charge of the nearby jurisdiction, responsible for interim management until the new security officer takes office.”
When Li Mu talked about interim management, he emphasized his tone.
The powered armor stepped on a rolling hand that came rolling over.
“All militants, drop your weapons and raise your hands!”
The powered armor’s horn sounded a rough voice.
The machine cannon of the powered armor roared again, sweeping across the river surface, causing a bloody water surface in front of the dam, and several limbs floated on the water surface.
“You lowly people, thinking that the new security officer is coming and you can do whatever you want. I tell you, as long as I, Kurana, am still here, you have to be honest with me. And the new security officer is just a Western Xia person, I have means to make him leave!”