At this time, in a large conference hall in Pang Tong.
A group of people sat together.
"Mr. Xie, the groundwater level has dropped again."
"There are more and more outsiders, and the space is almost full of people who have paid the fee to come in. There are also those who want to sneak across the border. Today, they crashed into the railing on the west side."
"Those people outside are out of control and bring their own diseases with them. They are a source of unrest. The residents have long had a lot of complaints about these outsiders."
"Find a way to kill them."
"Those bodies need to be dealt with too."
“Kill them all? Those refugees outside have come a long way to escape. It would be fine if we don’t take them in, but if killing them is too cruel, can’t we just expel them
And with so many people here, if we really take action, it will inevitably provoke a counterattack from these refugees.”
“If the expulsion had worked, there wouldn’t be so many people and bodies gathered outside.
A large-scale strangulation is definitely not an option. We can use the excuse of preventing epidemics, and healthy people can enter Pangtong as long as they kill more than ten patients and destroy 20 corpses.
Then let those qualified and healthy people come in under false pretenses, and then disperse and kill them.”
“I think this approach is feasible.”
"I agree with this approach, too."
This plan was put forward and instantly gained the consent of most people.
"Also, we need to check inside Pangtong and gather all the sick people together and clear them out."
"Yes! We can't let the disease spread in Pangtong."
"Mr. Xie, what do you think?"
As soon as the voice fell, everyone looked at the octogenarian sitting in the middle. The old man nodded with a compassionate expression on his face, "For the sake of the overall situation, let's do this."
A dozen people in a room decided the life and death of thousands of people.
The meeting was adjourned immediately afterwards.
Then he was supported by the young man next to him, "Mr. Xie, how are you?"
Upon hearing this, everyone in the meeting stopped and looked at the old man.
"I'm just old and too tired."
The old man, who was respectfully called Mr. Xie, waved his hand and calmly covered the age spots on the back of his hand. "You guys should go and do your own things. Pang Tong is the most important thing."
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at this time
Fu Anan and the others have already arrived in the city.
Pangtong is no longer like those small deserts and oases that use mud and stone to build gray houses. Most of the houses here are painted with a layer of pure white paint, giving a very pure feeling. The largest building is built with stone, like a castle. The curved roof is also covered with gold foil, which is magnificent and glittering.
The house was beautiful, but their experience was not.
During the time they had entered the city, they had been asked to check their entry signs twice, and had witnessed an outsider without a sign being carried away by a group of people.
There are whistleblowers all over the city.
Once the locals see a strange face, they will report it directly, leaving no place for those who sneak in from other places to hide. They also don't like outsiders.
Whenever outsiders buy something, the price is at least 30% higher.
The place where I get water charges twice the price and I am pushed to the back of the line.
“Is this regional discrimination?”
Fu Anan looked at these locals. They were completely different from the warm, generous, civilized and polite Pangtong people described by the black-hearted boss.
“It is a malicious attempt to exclude competition.”
Lu Shen replied, "This is probably the only remaining oasis with water sources that haven't dried up. Although the people living here are affected, it's not a big problem. Suddenly, refugees came from all over the world. The refugees squeezed the living space of the indigenous people and consumed the fixed resources here. The prices of materials here have risen and resources are in short supply, which will be hated by the indigenous people."
(End of this chapter)