Pollution throughout the territory

Xia Ren was woken up by a burst of crying.

She opened her eyes drowsily, followed her instincts with her arms and turned on the bedside table lamp, then sat up and looked around with dull eyes.

This is a somewhat crowded bedroom, filled with ancient decorative styles from a long time ago that can only be seen in movies now. A wooden wardrobe stands in the corner, and in the corner on the other side is a foot-operated sewing machine. There was also a shabby table and chairs, and the chairs were piled with clothes, belonging to both men and women.

The bedroom was very small, and after it was filled with all kinds of furniture, all that was left was a narrow area around the big bed that could only be used for people to move around.

Xia Ren looked at the clock on the bedside. The pointer on it marked the current time - 3:07 in the morning.

And the reason why I knew it was early morning was because it was still dark outside the glass window of the room.

The crying continued and became louder and louder.

Xia Ren followed the cry and turned to look beside him.

It was a girl. Because the desk lamp was too dim and the light was at an angle, the view was not very clear.

The girl, wearing a thin shirt, also sat up and was wiping tears with her hands. She was about seven or eight years old, with a thin figure. She had a thin blanket covering her legs, and the other half of the thin blanket was covering her body. The two slept on the same bed.

"What's wrong, Teresa?"

Xia Ren found that he naturally called out the girl's name.

The girl just kept crying, as if she didn't hear her words.

"You must have had another nightmare. Be good, be good, and stop crying."

She stretched out her arms, gently held Teresa in her arms, and patted her gently on the back.

Slowly, the crying stopped, and the sleepiness came again.

"I'm too sleepy. What's going on? I'll see you tomorrow... tomorrow..."

Xia Ren hugged her and lay on the bed, turned off the lamp, closed his eyes, and fell asleep.

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Not long after he slept, Xia Ren was woken up again, this time by a rapid knock on the door.

She got up from the bed angrily, picked up a man's coat from the chair, put it on, and ran downstairs angrily.

"Who!"

When she opened the door, it was still dark outside, and a group of people stood at the door. The light of the flashlight made her unable to open her eyes.

She covered her eyes with her hands, and through the gaps between her fingers, she could see about a dozen people on the opposite side. They were also carrying a stretcher, and there seemed to be a body on the stretcher, motionless.

The leader, a burly man with a sinister face, walked forward with a guilty expression on his face and said:

"Anna, I'm sorry, your husband was killed by the Voodoo Gang."

"ah?"

Xia Ren was stunned.

What husband?

What does it have to do with me?

what's the situation? What voodoo gang?

"Sorry, we still have trouble to deal with later. I'll come back to see you mother and daughter at dawn."

After the leading man finished speaking, the others carried the stretcher and placed the body in the house, and then left in a hurry.

Xia Ren stood there, watching their backs melt into the darkness, and found that most of them had injuries on their bodies.

The door was open, and Xia Ren was the only one standing at the door. The wind blew over her, and she wrapped her clothes around her, feeling a little cold.

She turned around and walked into the house, closed the door, and looked at the body on the floor, still in a daze.

Suddenly she heard the sound of going downstairs. She raised her head and saw Theresa running downstairs. She also saw the body and ran over crying.

"Dad! Dad, what's wrong with you, Dad!"

The little girl lay on the body, tears falling down.

Sad cries echoed in the house.

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In the early morning, the first ray of sunlight penetrated the darkness and shone on the earth, bringing a touch of warmth.

Xia Ren looked at the sunshine outside the door and sighed.

A few hours later, he finally figured out the situation.

At this moment, the time in the ancient dream is 581 years of the New Era, which is a full 526 years different from the real world.

This time gap is farther than the previous two ancient dreams.

The place he is located is located in the Shengtian Metropolis area of ​​Nanzhou in reality. However, Shengtian Metropolis does not exist at this time because the Supreme Alliance Government has not yet completed complete unification. The last independent country on Blue Star is still suffering. Hard support.

This country is Myricken.

After all, it is the last country to be integrated into the Supreme Alliance Government. Xia Ren has seen information about this country in textbooks. The books record that the names of people in this country love peace, but the country's ruling class is unwilling to give up their rights, so It violently suppresses the people and stigmatizes the Supreme Alliance government in the country, so it has not joined the alliance for a long time.

But Xia Ren compared the memory in this body and discovered that the history recorded in the book was wrong.

Merican is a country that pursues aggression. It was once powerful in history, covering almost half of Southern Continent. Before the establishment of the Supreme Alliance Government, it was one of the top countries in the world. From its birth, it has It provoked wars everywhere, occupied other countries' lands, and implemented colonial rule. All surrounding countries were affected by it, and the domestic chaos was so great that there was a proverb to describe the situation of the surrounding countries of Myrickan: "Too far from heaven, too far from heaven." Myricken is too close.”

To this day, Myrken's textbooks still record their glorified history of aggression and are proud of it.

However, with the establishment of the Supreme Alliance Government and a large number of countries joining it, the country of Myrican was gradually surrounded by the Supreme Alliance. This country was ruled by the highest-ranking sole monarch and the group of elders. They discovered their situation and knew that joining the Supreme Alliance Government was the right choice. The general trend is that people can live better, but then they will not be able to exercise their own privileges and dominance in the country.

Therefore, they dumb down their own people, spread false information, and provoke confrontation between the people and the Supreme Alliance Government in order to consolidate their superior status and protect their own interests.

But not everyone is a fool. As time goes by, forty-nine of the fifty states in the Myrican Country have declared independence and then joined the Supreme Alliance Government. Now, there is only one state left in the Myrican Country. .

And the situation in this state is also precarious.

The corruption of the ruling class has reached an extreme level. The government, together with large companies, deceives the people and seizes the interests of the bottom. Medical care, education, transportation, etc. are all privatized and controlled by large companies. Ordinary people do not dare to go to the hospital when they are sick. They just call once. The cost of an ambulance is more than a month's salary, not to mention subsequent medical treatment. It can be said that the people are living in dire straits and have no trust in the government at all.

Up to now, the lives of the people at the bottom have become chaotic. Major gangs have replaced the government and become the new controllers of order. Violence can be seen everywhere on the streets, and gunshots can often be heard.

The current owner of Xia Ren's body is named Anna, who was just 24 years old. Her husband was a member of one of the small gangs and died in a gang fight last night.

As early as some time ago, Anna had heard that the Voodoo Gang was expanding its territory aggressively. They had the background of a large company and their methods were extremely cruel. The gang members committed many crimes, including human trafficking, organ trafficking, anesthetics, and so on.

Anna's husband's gang was also within the annexation range of the Voodoo Gang, but he didn't expect the fight to start so soon.

After a brief analysis, Xia Ren knew that these small gangs were no match for the Voodoo Gang. They had only three choices, one was to be destroyed by the Voodoo Gang, the other was to escape to another city, and the other was to join the Voodoo Gang. help.

Obviously, Anna's husband chose the first option.

Now Xia Ren had to think about where he was going after dawn.

Otherwise, before meeting the Old Ones, he would probably be captured by the Voodoo Gang and forced to sell money.

He remembered that Anna's husband also had a younger brother named Charlie Upton Pickman, who had not joined any gangs. Maybe he could ask him for help.