Chapter 2 Coming to Karur

In the afternoon, Zhang Tie followed the team of scavengers from the war zone to the actual control area of ​​Karur City.

It’s a bit ironic to say that when Zhang Tie came to the Karur theater for the first time, he was an imperial officer, but he left the theater without even seeing the city of Karur. For a long period of time, he became a shadowy figure.

What he saw along the road from the abandoned town of Fogg to the current actual control area of ​​Karur City gave Zhang Tie a more intuitive understanding of the war between the Sun God Dynasty and the Norman Empire. experience.

Along the way, the closer you get to the actual control area of ​​Karur City, the more serious the confrontation between the Sun God Dynasty and the Norman Empire will be. You only need to start from the strongholds and fortresses built around Karur by both sides. , and fortifications, we know that the legion battle between the Sun God Dynasty and the Norman Empire in the Karur area with hundreds of thousands of people is destined to be a protracted wrestling match. From the mouth of the reporter, combined with what he saw and heard in the army these days, Zhang Tie fully understood what the current situation in the Karur area is like.

In addition to the Sun God Dynasty and the Norman Empire, in the entire Karur region, the one who has a say in this war is Karur, the city of machines, the former manufacturing center of the Andaman Alliance, which also triggered this war. The piece of fat that was fought over by tigers and hungry wolves in the war.

In the eyes of the Sun God Dynasty and the Norman Empire, the reason why fat meat can become fat meat is because it has the qualifications and oily water to become fat meat. Compared with Heiyan City, an emerging city with a history of only a few decades, Karur, the City of Machines, has accumulated a solid heritage for the city with a history of more than two hundred years. Such heritage is reflected in Karur All aspects of the city-whether it is the city's population, prosperity, manufacturing strength, military equipment, and the city's actual radiation and control areas, Karur's indicators are among the best in the entire former Andaman League .

Until now, Karur still has a regular army of nearly 80,000 people. Karur's regular army, coupled with the tall walls of Karur City and the terrifying city defense weapons that have been carefully managed for more than two hundred years, Such a force still plays an important role in the entire theater now, and has the ability to affect the outcome of this war.

Zhang Tie, who came to the actual control area of ​​Karur City for the first time, was shocked by the prosperity of Karur City. Looking around, within a radius of more than ten kilometers, there was no city wall of Karur City. , Zhang Tie's eyes have been covered by huge forest-like chimneys. Those chimneys come from various factories in the area controlled by Karur. These factories have been connected into a large industrial area. Between many factories, There are also aerial traffic tracks and various large and small pipelines. Under the winter sun, the black smoke from those chimneys almost dyed the whole sky black. The factory, at this time, is still producing all kinds of things in full swing, and it doesn't look depressed at all.

Only compared with these factories in the controlled area outside Karur City, the few factories in Heiyan City, maybe the steelmaking factory is still a little bit bigger, and the others are as simple as the small workshops of the country rich.

And this is just a corner of what Zhang saw in the north of the area controlled by Karur City.

The smoke from a factory chimney makes people look like pollution, but the smoke from hundreds of tall chimneys makes people feel small.

Here, Zhang Tie felt the power brought by the development of human industry for the first time.

The factory is in full swing, but outside the factory, because of the influx of hundreds of thousands of refugees from around Karur brought about by the war,

It makes the whole area look a bit chaotic.

Walking on the street, everywhere you can see those refugees with ragged clothes and emaciated faces lined up outside the recruitment sites of factories. More men and women are holding signs on the side of the road. The signs are usually as follows Content:

—I'm a tailor, and I used to work for food.

In the slightly open places on the side of the road, refugee tents were set up everywhere, and the cries of children could be heard from many of the tents, while on some clean walls on the side of the road that were a little more eye-catching, There are notes and photos of missing loved ones plastered everywhere.

Because it was his first time here, in order not to show his flaws, Zhang Tie followed the team of scavengers in the war zone with his head depressed and his things on his back, in line with the principle of talking less and watching more. After the team came to the control area of ​​Karur City, Fred, the leader of the team, put away the blue-green flag he was holding as if he was relieved.

On the way along the way, Zhang Tie heard various legends. In the past few months, many teams of scavengers in the war zone have never returned since they entered the war zone. I made money, and found some belongings that others had no time to take away somewhere in those abandoned towns and villages, and even picked up some valuable loot in some places where there were traces of fighting between the two sides, such as sophisticated weapons or Some of the gold coins on the corpses and so on, but there are also some unlucky guys who put their lives in it.

It may be exciting to search for property in the deserted villages and towns around Karur City, but this excitement is also played with one's life. This business that came into being because of the war, for ordinary people, What they really did was licking blood with the knife head.

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"Did you see my daughter? My daughter's name is Selena. This is her picture. She said she was going to school this morning, but she hasn't come back yet..."

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"Did you see my daughter? My daughter's name is Selena. This is her picture. She said she was going to school this morning, but she hasn't come back yet..."

On the side of the road, a woman in her fifties was holding a photo of a woman. Every time she passed by, she would pull her to ask the same question, but although the woman was asking the same question, her eyes were not. It has become empty as if it has no soul.

Zhang Tie followed the people and walked past her silently.

"This woman is already crazy. She came from the south. The situation in the north is better. I heard that in some places in the south, the beasts of the Sun God Dynasty raped women when they saw women. From little girls to fifty or sixty The old ladies who were over 100 years old were not spared, and the men over there were beheaded for the slightest resistance, and many were arrested for labor, road repairs, and moving things..." Jerry, who was walking beside Zhang Tie, sighed Said in one breath. "Karur's refugee wave started from the south. When they heard the news from the south, people from the north also ran away. Everyone wanted to go to Karur to seek asylum. Who knew that Karur's refugees After more than one, everyone's life is lost..."

Zhang Tie was silent, and felt another kind of touch in his heart. This is the truly cruel side of war. A war hurts the ordinary people caught in the war the most. Now hundreds of thousands of people in two countries are fighting Such a disaster was caused by one battle. If a holy war breaks out in the future, what kind of tragedy will it be like at that time.

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Less than 20 minutes after entering Karur's control area, Zhang Tie followed the scavengers from the war zone to their camp. Their camp was located in the garbage dump behind a factory area. The area of ​​the site is very large, and the ground is completely dark. Although it is a garbage dump, the environment here is not absolutely unacceptable because the dumped waste here is coal gangue and the like.

Garbage such as coal gangue that has been in Karur for more than a hundred years is piled up here, so you can imagine what kind of scene it is here.

In this garbage dump piled with coal gangue, thousands of tents, large and small, are densely packed, at least 10,000 to 20,000 people live here, and even when Zhang Tie came here with the team, those who pulled the gangue Steam trucks are still dumping garbage here. As soon as those trucks came, a lot of children started running after the trucks, regardless of the possible dangers. When the coal gangue was dumped, the group of children rushed up, holding small buckets and baskets, and began digging up the few reusable coal mixed in the gangue in the garbage dump.

The entire refugee camp was full of dust, cars and people, men and women, old and young, all crowded together, making it a mess like a pot of porridge.

"Fred, what good things did you bring this time..." Not long after the group entered the tent area, an old man in his 60s greeted him.

"The harvest is mediocre. It's just that I came to Fogg Town today and got some things for the winter and some tableware. Give me a fair price..."

"Things for the winter, many people don't know how to survive this winter! These things came in time!" The old man in his 60s looked at the things that everyone was carrying and nodded. "Come with me..."

Zhang Tie also followed the others to the old man's tent. Zhang Tie was also carrying a few dusty quilts bundled up from Fogg Town. At this time, Zhang Tie, apart from the original In addition to the harvest, he also has a half-new and not very well-matched faux fur coat on his body. He also looks like a refugee. Seeing him following in the team, the old man just glanced at him and didn't care. Watching him.

A group of people followed the old man to a tent. The tent was very big and there were many things piled up around it. There were also a few strong men who looked like thugs patrolling here. It seemed that this was a tent in the tent area. small center.

In front of a billboard-like thing on the road next to the tent, there were many people gathered there. When passing by the billboard, Zhang Tie saw the portraits of him and Major Franka, which were two wanted documents. Under these two arrest warrants, although there are other arrest warrants, but because the bonuses on these two arrest warrants are the highest, the arrest warrants of Zhang Tie and Major Franka were placed on the At the top, the bonus for both of them is 3000 gold coins.

With just one glance, the contents of the two arrest warrants were all reflected in Zhang Tie's mind.

Zhang Tie was shocked. It didn't make Zhang Tie feel too strange to see the arrest warrants from the Norman Empire in the refugee camp in Karul's side of the control area near the Norman Empire. In addition, it is a gathering place of the three religions and nine streams. It is not surprising to see the wanted warrant of the Norman Empire. What makes Zhang Tie really strange is that Major Franka is also wanted? Major Franka was wanted by the Northern Frontier Military Region of the Empire, and he was wanted by the Order Review Committee of the Empire. The two arrest warrants were all charged with murder, which gave Zhang Tie a little something special. For the sake of himself and Major Franka, the big shots above seem to have done something about it.

This is good news for Zhang Tie. At least, Zhang Tie's heart for the Heiyancheng family members fell into his stomach all of a sudden. Covered by the Northern Xinjiang Military Region, if something happens to your home and you are caught by those secret police, isn't that a blatant slap in the face of the Northern Xinjiang Military Region and the Iron Horn Legion?

Because the age and appearance were far from the image on the wanted notice, no one doubted that the man who looked like a scavenger at the moment was actually the guy worth 3000 gold coins on the wanted notice.

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Some things Zhang Tie brought finally brought him four silver coins and 37 copper coins.

Everyone in the team has a harvest. According to the rules, everyone has to pay Fred 30% of his own harvest as a protection fee. After handing in 30% of his income today, this team of scavengers The boss - Fred looked at Zhang Tie more softly.

"Well, I think you are brave enough, join us, and we will work together in the future!" Fred invited Zhang Tie to join the group with the enthusiasm and tone of "creating a great cause together"...

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Of course, Zhang Tie would not do such a "promising career" here. After declining Fred's "invitation" with the excuse of wanting to find a stable job in the factory, Zhang Tie touched the only thing in his pocket. Those few silver coins and a pile of jingling copper coins left the refugee camp.

Although the power of the secret police of the Norman Empire does not extend to the area under the control of Karur City, it does not mean that he is safe at the moment. The temptation of the 3000 gold coins is enough to make many people He took the risk, and the arrest warrant in the refugee camp is the best illustration. There must be a brave man under the reward. If he is caught, those people will definitely send himself out of the Karur war zone. This is just over a hundred At a distance of one kilometer, an airship as big as the Sun God Chao can come over, let alone one person, how difficult is it?

Zhang Tie was thinking while walking on the street. Similarly, even if he did not appear on the military's arrest warrant, the army would definitely not be able to go back, because if he went back, he would not be able to explain the cause and effect of the conflict with the secret police. Explain clearly that such a big matter cannot be fooled by thunder. So, how can I go back to Heiyan City and find a way to get in touch with my parents?

Zhang Tie was thinking as he walked. He didn't know how long he had walked. When a building on the street appeared in Zhang Tie's sight, Zhang Tie was shocked suddenly.

On the main entrance of that building, there is a mighty relief of a huge four-winged Jinpeng...

By the way, Jinpeng Bank!

Thinking of the all-encompassing services he saw at Jinpeng Bank in Heiyan City last time, Zhang Tie's eyes lit up...

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