The factory building was brightly lit, and there were several lights outside the door. You could see two forklifts, trucks, and various items parked outside.
There are four motor units visible to the naked eye in the factory building, but only one is currently operating. More than a dozen workers are either operating equipment, or inspecting and repairing engines.
"Is there only one unit operating all day now?" Hao Jian asked.
"How is it possible that the power of this unit is 15,000 kilowatts, and one hour is 15,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity. How many people do you think this huge Xinghua City is enough to live in? Four units are required to operate at the same time during the day, and at night because Everyone needs to rest, so three were shut down for maintenance and only one was running, which could only supply power to some areas.”
"Is only the hydropower station still generating electricity?" Hao Jian asked again.
Hu Dan shook his head: "I heard that there are still power plants in some areas that are not within the transmission range of Heshui Hydropower Station, but they are not like us, they generate electricity for free. The relevant power plant workers occupied the power plant and wanted to use Electricity has to pay for its benefits.”
Peng Mao had already finished eating the steamed buns, and was a little indignant: "Sooner or later, this kind of robbery will be cleaned up by God!"
"You can believe this kind of 'you have to accept it'." Hao Jian hit him mercilessly.
Hu Dan asked back, "Does Miss Hao mean that no one can take care of them?"
Hao Jian pondered for a moment: "Just as a problem that your escort team needs to solve urgently at present is the lack of manpower. The number of the escort team is too small, and many people have been damaged due to various reasons such as zombie virus, rebels, cult forces, etc. There are many places that you can't watch, let alone the current chaotic situation. So in this short term, your strength is limited. At least those who take advantage of the fire, can't wait for you to clean up. "
Although the official quickly issued an order to deploy rescue work, after all, their primary task is to maintain basic stability and rescue the population. For some illegal and criminal behaviors, their ability to combat is limited.
Many people and forces will take advantage of this period to come out to make trouble, such as the "No Blame" organization. Only after the internal stability of the violent institutions is stabilized, the official can formulate new countermeasures and concentrate on maintaining stability and seeking recovery and development at the same time.
So before that, all order in the world will be very chaotic, violent incidents, vicious incidents, etc., will be staged in turn.
Those workers who occupy the power plant and ask for benefits to use electricity may be killed by people or organizations more capable than them, because those are all naked interests, and it will attract more people to fight for it. You die and I live.
Especially when they find that the violent organs have not yet punished them, their desires and ambitions will expand to the point of disregarding and trampling on the law, turning this zombie apocalypse into a man-made apocalypse.
"Are you too pessimistic?" Peng Mao said.
"Optimism or pessimism depends on how you look at the world. If you look at the overall situation, every city has forces like escorts to protect us, there are good people who are kind-hearted and help each other, and even more spontaneously organize to seek survival. group. It is hopeful that it can be saved, and it is developing for the better as a whole."
"Like killing people for food, feeling that they can rape women at will without the constraints of the law, and controlling resources for profit or the desire to gain fame and fortune... These kinds of behaviors can happen in peaceful times, but the end times will only increase such incidents. already."
Hu Dan applauded: "Miss Hao really deserves to be a student of anthropology, she sees these things more thoroughly than most people."
The fact that Hao Jian studied "anthropology" was only mentioned by Lian Runing just now. Hu Dan said it so naturally that Hao Jian didn't know whether he was being careless or intentional. But think about it, it is more likely to be intentional.
"Many people understand, they also know that they have no ability to be the one who controls the fate of others, so they choose to give in. Are the asylum-seekers who were incited at the airport because of ignorance? Not necessarily, a considerable number of them leave the choice to someone else—official or evil. They’ll choose to submit to the victor and live humbly.”
"We can protect them, but those people will only see them as ants. But they chose to treat them as ants." Hu Dan grinned and looked slightly mocking.
"I think they probably didn't think at first that the line of security provided by the escort would collapse because of their riots, because the authorities quickly and forcefully organized their protection and they lost their exposure to the immediate danger. When they realize what they have done wrong, they do not have the courage to make up for it, and they will eventually submit to their enslavement.”
Hu Dan's expression became cold: "Such a person does not deserve our protection." Suddenly, he turned to Hao Jian and said with a smile, "Although I really want to say this, I can't be sorry for this uniform, and I can't break the oath I read under the flag and badge."
Peng Mao felt that he was gradually unable to keep up with their thinking and could not intervene, so he said, "I have finished my digestion, so I will go back to rest first."
Neither Hao Jian nor Hu Dan cares much about whether he leaves, because Peng Mao has nothing to suspect so far.
Moreover, the topic they talked about involved the official attitude towards "no blame" or even ordinary people who helped the tyrants.
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But as soon as he left, Hao Jianneng and Hu Dan had more topics to talk about.
"There shouldn't be just these guards here, right?" Hao Jian's eyes swept over the people within sight.
"If you ask that, you're not worried that I think you're here to spy on the situation?" Hu Dan asked rhetorically.
"If Chief Hu wants to think so, there's nothing I can do here. But I can't avoid asking you clearly because I'm afraid of your suspicion. After all, it's about my plan."
Hu Dan came to be interested: "I see that your statements are quite consistent, saying that you want to go to Nanfang City, the female student is looking for relatives, the fitness coach is looking for a way out with you because he has no relatives, and the other is That graduate also thinks you are reliable and is afraid that a person will be bullied in the last days... What about you? Is there any reason why you should take the risk to South City?"
"For my beloved girl, didn't Mr. Hu hear everything?"
"..." Rao was as scheming as Hu Dan, and was choked by her shamelessness.
Also "beloved girl", do you think you are singing love songs
"Tsk, you can know that there are surveillance and eavesdropping devices in the room without checking it, and no one will believe that you are not a scout."
"It's actually very simple to know this. After the average person is told to remove the suspicion, their vigilance will be greatly reduced. Coupled with the other party's random arrangement of the room, the average person will subconsciously feel that there is no problem with this room. Up, although the room was freely chosen by us, it was guided."
When Hao Jian first passed the corridor on the second floor, he found that there were some sundries or clothes hanging at the door of some rooms. After seeing these things, everyone will subconsciously think that there are people living there, and thus avoid choosing these rooms.
In addition, the room they lived in was empty. Apart from a bed, there was only a table and a chair. Anyone would feel that no one lived there, so they chose this place.
"Since there are only two adults left, how can there be so many rooms? So since you led us to those rooms, there must be some equipment inside."
Hu Dan couldn't help but applaud again: "Ordinary people don't count how many rooms are occupied. How wary are you to even notice these details?"
"I played a lot of decryption games, and I subconsciously substituted it into it." Hao Jian said.
"Games?" Hu Dan grinned, "But this is not a game place. We have already suffered a loss, and we can no longer think that this place can be easily broken."
Hao Jian pondered for a moment: "Have those security guards at the airport retreated here to join you?"
"How much do you know?"
"What I know is what other people told me. After all, we only came to Xinghua City today."
"Your companions have been frank about this. Then you can tell me why you thought of coming to the hydropower station?"
Hao Jian and Hu Dan had already left the factory building and were standing on the aisle separated by a wall from the flood discharge section. Behind them were the figures of busy people, and in front of them was a mottled wall.
The lights in the distance elongated their figures, and they leaned against the railing, watching the water gurgling through the ground.
"Because I want to check some things... Originally, the issue of the escort team has nothing to do with me, and I don't want to intervene, but since I already know the harm of 'no blame', in order to avoid these troubles in the next journey, I will You have to understand the dangers around you.”
"Unfortunately, we were only here when they were targeted. My abilities are limited, and the only way I can think of to escape may be you, so I took the risk to find out the news."
Of course, there is another reason why she can't reveal it. She wants to come here to see if any hidden missions will be triggered.
Hu Dan asked: "Then why do you think I'll let you get this information? You know, the more you know, the more dangerous it will be when you meet Wugui."
Hao Jian thought for a while, and asked the question she really wanted to know when she came here: "Is there a traitor in your higher-ups?"
Hu Dan was silent, he took out the cigarette again, this time he really lit one.
After vaping for a while, he said, "I was never allowed to smoke when I was in the camp, and I finally gave up. Recently, these things made me have to smoke again."
Glancing at Hao Jian, "You should know that under normal circumstances, I can't let someone like you leave easily, because once you are exposed, you will not only bring danger to yourself, but also threaten our escort team."
Hu Dan's words confirmed that there were indeed traitors at their high level. At the same time, he also made an exception to explain to Hao Jian the current problems with the government, the escort team, and even various institutions.
Their escort team suspected that someone had eavesdropped on their action plans after the food delivery team lost contact, but they didn't think about it at first. Going up, they realized something was wrong.
Originally, there was an order asking them to go to the airport for rescue, but after thinking about it, he contacted the commander of the airport escort team without telling his superiors, and made a plan to quickly evacuate to the hydropower station.
After the airport fell, they were sure that there were indeed traitors in the superiors, and there had already been an influx of power. The fall of the airport may be the result of their mutual conflict.
Hao Jian also suddenly understood why "Wugui" could develop and grow rapidly in a short period of time, presumably someone used it as a tool to seize power to clear the obstacles that hindered them.
"I actually brought the 'U.S. secretly supporting terrorists for hegemony' here, thinking about power like crazy, these people." Hao Jian shook his head, "Did you find out who they are?"
"It's not our grassroots' turn to manage such a complicated matter, but we have changed the communication password and encrypted the frequency band. It is not so easy to eavesdrop."
How they communicated specifically, and how to ensure that the information would not be passed on by the traitor again, this is beyond the scope of Hao Jian's knowledge.
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"So apart from you and me, no third person can know about this matter, otherwise, once we appear in the official field of vision, we will easily be exposed to 'no blame'. For us who act alone, there is no Better self-defense ability, only danger awaits us... Is that what you mean?"
After Lian Runing heard the information from Hao Jian, she calmly analyzed it.
"That's right."
Lian Runing asked again, "Then why did you tell me?"
They met halfway through, so why did Hao Jian trust her so much? She didn't think it was because Hao Jian liked her that she trusted her for the simple reason. Besides, she wasn't sure that Hao Jian liked her.
"I hope you know these things, and I hope you don't. You are the safest only if you don't know anything. However, we have stepped into this quagmire together. If the information is not shared, then it is for you. most dangerous."
Lian Runing sighed. Sure enough, this was the answer that best suited Hao Jian's thinking mode. What was she expecting? !
"Of course, there is another reason. I trust the little sister and think that the little sister has enough brains to find a way to avoid danger."
Lian Runing pursed her lips, looked at Hao Jian with a smile, and asked, "What about you? What price will you pay for knowing these things?"