Chapter 1840: Fuse
San Antonio, Northwest of Herlots.
A year ago, several large factories were built on this piece of land on the outskirts of the city, mainly to ensure the supporting security projects needed for the lives of a large number of citizens in the city. Among them, the Heroz food factory for grain processing is the most important.
The factory is guarded by police, but the security level is very low. There are only twenty or thirty guards here and there in such a huge factory. There are hundreds of workers, and they come to work from nearby blocks early in the morning.
This food factory consists of walls, open space, large factory buildings and other facilities. On the roof of an ordinary building outside the factory, 'Dog Meat' poked his head out to monitor the surrounding situation. In the house, Papa Ruiwen is directing his men to complete a top-secret plan.
After several days of transportation, a convoy of containers from Mexico City arrived at the factory, passing through many inspection posts along the way. Especially the SS directly under Dr. Osborne, this armed force is quite loyal to the Baath Party.
It's just that the bottom of the Baath Party is full of people who want to make a fortune, and smuggling some goods from the Aurora Legion is not a problem at all.
No matter who came to check, they would only find that the truck convoy was carrying very common food additives. Many kinds of food additives are needed in the production and processing of wheat, such as sodium starch phosphate for thickening, or aluminum potassium sulfate as fluffy and stabilizer.
These things are not used much, and the value is not high. For the wasteland chemical industry that has not yet fully recovered, it is completely unprofitable and not necessary. When the Aurora Legion sells it at a low price, no force will reject this common commodity.
After Dad Ruiwen commanded the convoy to arrive at the Heroz food factory, he didn't show up himself, and just let one of his subordinates and the manager of the food factory deliver the goods. All the procedures seemed to be in compliance with the rules. After the money and goods were cleared, the special team members who delivered the goods could evacuate.
It's just that when this batch of additives was put into the warehouse for inspection, the inspectors of the food factory reported a problem-the taste of this batch was a bit strange, with a slight medicinal smell, but it didn't seem to affect the consumption.
When the manager of the food factory raised this question, the special team in charge of the delivery nonchalantly put a sample of the additive with a strange smell into his mouth and tasted it, "Ah, yes, it smells a bit weird. But it doesn't matter, it should be the product of production. It’s just that some impurities seep into it, and it doesn’t affect your health.”
The manager of the food factory nodded first, then shook his head and said: "Our factory has strict acceptance standards, and products with impurities are not acceptable."
"Oh, come on." The delivery special team shrugged like a veteran salesman, "It's not a big problem, you can do a test, it just has a faint smell, who cares? I drove thousands of It’s shipped over a kilometer, don’t you want to lower the price?”
The manager of the food factory laughed, and the two had an argument and finally sold the batch at half price.
No one knows if the account is really half price. However, when the special delivery team member left the food factory, he spat at the slowly closing factory door and cursed in a low voice: "Idiots, wait for your death!"
Northern Texas and New Mexico are both wheat-producing areas in the United States. The recovery of agriculture in recent years is the root of the stability of various forces in North America. Ordinary people often don't have much ambition, and only long for a stable life. As long as they can eat enough and wear warmth, everyone can barely bear it.
The Heralds Food Factory is responsible for supplying all kinds of food, including wheat flour, to the whole of San Antonio. A large amount of flour is produced here to supply the city every day, and various food additives are also consumed in large quantities. A steady food supply is a very important thing.
Just as Papa Ruiwen arranged for people to send the added food additives to the Herlots Food Factory, sisters Ellie and Erin were doing another thing.
The two of them have been lurking in San Antonio for a long time, and because of the various on-site reports, they are very famous, and most of the citizens know them. The SS and police in the city were also trying their best to arrest them, but they either couldn't catch them, or they ran into them and suffered heavy casualties.
And this time the sisters are no longer journalists,
They used their popularity to spread news in the streets and alleys, "Dr. Osborne tried to control the citizens of the entire city by doping tap water with drugs, but we had to stop after we found out and reported it.
We thought we had saved San Antonio, but Dr. Osborne did not give up on this plan. This time he was going to mix the nerve control drugs in the flour supplied to the city. Everyone must be careful, if you find that the flour you buy has a slight medicinal smell, don't eat it. "
There is almost no cost to spreading rumors. It only needs to be vague enough to be scary and able to challenge the limits of human psychology. It doesn't matter if it's even a little unreasonable, anyway, ordinary people basically don't have the ability to distinguish.
And there is a very convenient place to spread rumors in the United States. Ordinary people in the United States have a lot of distrust of the government. It is not an exaggeration to say that they have persecution paranoia. The sci-fi concepts of "controlling the brain" and "controlling the mind" have always been very popular.
Especially at present, the Aurora Legion has used various means to repeatedly propagate, and has discredited the Baath Party throughout North America like a crow-it is difficult to establish trust, but it is too easy to destroy. All it takes is a little trivia.
The trust between the Aurora Legion and the population under its rule is maintained by Victor Hugo's huge material supply and social security capabilities, and is maintained by power and violence. But now, for the Ba'ath Party, material supplies and social security are far from enough, and power and violence are enough.
It seems that the previous incident of pouring medicine with tap water did not happen, but there are not a few people who are frightened and frightened. But this time the twin sisters no longer announced the news through TV, but used clumsy street rumors to create troubles, which slowed the Baath Party's response by more than a beat or two.
The spread of word-of-mouth rumors was not fast at first, but it was not slow at all in the later stage, and various versions could even evolve. Especially when the flour and related products with a little medicinal taste were actually on the market, the anger of the bottom population broke out directly.
"Damn it, the flour sold in the market is really adulterated with drugs. I can smell that faint smell."
"If I hadn't been reminded, I wouldn't have imagined that this would happen. It's really disgusting. What does Osborn want? Does he really want to enslave us?"
"My God, I'm only now learning about this. My child had a fever that night after eating the medicated flour bread. The doctor told me not to worry, but I was afraid it was a sign of being controlled."
"Doctor? The government's doctors are all from the Osborne Biochemical Plant. Of course they said it's all right. God bless your child and hope he's all right."
"But what should we do now? It's becoming increasingly difficult to buy unadulterated flour and food in the market. Without safe food, are we going to starve to death like this?"
The rumors, true and false, erupted suddenly after a day of fermenting, and some excited people directly shot and ran to the government's franchised food store for revenge. Needless to say the ending, someone was shot dead on the spot, and someone was arrested and taken to the police station.
With no Aurora Legion news broadcast, the Ba'ath Party appears to be cavalier in its response to 'medicated flour'. Zhou Qingfeng's tight and loose rumor campaign behind the scenes had extremely terrifying effects. In terms of conspiracy and tricks, he is already considered a master.
By the time the Baath Party's violent apparatus found out that something was wrong, all of San Antonio was on the verge of a dynamite keg being ignited. Numerous citizens took to the streets to protest, and began to confront the military and police, both sides were extremely emotional.
No matter what the citizens say, the military police will force them to disband and go home immediately; and no matter what the military police say, the citizens feel that they are deceiving and oppressing themselves. The conflict between the two sides instantly became extremely sharp and irreconcilable.
Building barricades, destroying public facilities, burning cars, shooting patrolling police, demanding that Osborne step down, and asking the Ba'ath Party to provide an antidote. When tens of thousands of people poured into the streets to start a violent confrontation, the news station of the Aurora Legion began to report this "terrible incident of adulterated flour".
This shit is adding fuel to the fire.
A storm is formed, and no one can stop it from ravaging the land!