The next morning, Zheng Qi got up early. It was just dawn and the sun only showed a small head. However, according to the weather conditions, it was probably a good day today. Zheng Qi stood in the yard and stretched his body, and moved his body for a while. After a while, the door behind him opened and He Ximei walked out from inside.

"Why do you get up so early every time?" He Ximei rubbed her sleepy eyes and walked over slowly.

"I'm used to it, let's move!" Zheng Qi smiled. In fact, every time he is in a strange place, he will always be vigilant. As long as there is a slight movement, he can wake up immediately. This is also the result of long-term training.

After breakfast, Zheng Qi and He Ximei strolled around the surrounding villages. It was said that they were under the jurisdiction of Eastern Shan State, but in fact there were a large number of drug lords nearby, and no army could restrain them at all. Moreover, it was located in the middle of North and South Wa State, above the border of the Three Kingdoms, and the people coming and going were relatively complicated.

Although there is a high-profile ban on planting, there are still some cigarette vendors everywhere here. A group of people gathered around, everyone discussing prices or talking about new things. Zheng Qi had never seen a real opium deal. Curiously, he pulled He Ximei over.

In fact, opium is just a black piece, wrapped in a few pieces of kraft paper, and the size of a palm is like a pile of dried cow dung. Apart from this, Zheng Qi couldn't see anything special about it. But this cow dung-like thing can extract the most dangerous and tempting things in the world. The root of these things is that the few ragged farmers in front of him are even worse than those in some remote areas of China.

A few people who seemed to be foreign vendors took out a small stack of RMB. Zheng Qi was probably worth one or two thousand yuan. The vendor happily put a large ball of opium on the scale. The very old scale had a big weight hanging on it. He weighed it carefully. It was only about one thousand yuan that he bought almost all the opium. It was not much more expensive than scrap iron, which really puzzled Zheng Qi.

"That's how it is. These small vendors have to grow these things for their own lives. However, the things they sell are less than one-five percent of the price in other regions. It's so cheap that these ignorant farmers sell almost nearly 10 billion drug breeding and dealers in the world in order to get a super low price to support their families. Compared with other drug dealers, they have to be said that they are really pitiful!" He Ximei shook her head and explained to Zheng Qi.

Zheng Qi looked at the happy vendor for a few glances. Maybe the money was very important to him and might allow him to live a good life for a month. But what he didn't know was that after reselling and purifying these things, the price would probably increase by hundreds of times, and add to many addictive people around the world. Zheng Qi couldn't help but feel a little sad, not knowing whether it was their poor life or the things they created in ignorance.

"Let's go!" Zheng Qi left here. These inside stories made him feel a little sympathetic to these people, but he didn't want to stay here for too long. He probably still had the last piece of pure land in his heart.

"boom!"

A deafening explosion completely broke the tranquility here, and even the ground vibrated. Zheng Qi and He Ximei also turned their eyes to the direction where the sound came, followed by a few more explosions, as if the sound of mortar shells bombarded, and then there were a faint roar of machine guns. The entire air followed by the echo of the explosion, and a pungent smell of gunpowder blew over with the wind.

Several people around him cheered a few times and rushed out, as if to go to the show. Zheng Qi glanced at He Ximei, not knowing whether she would like it or not. She smiled and said, "If you want to see it, go, I will accompany you."

Zheng Qi pulled He Ximei and followed the group of people through several streets, then walked out of the village, came to a place very close to the sound of shelling inside, and then climbed up a hillside about two or three hundred meters high. At this moment, many people had gathered on the top of the mountain, and they were talking, and some even climbed onto the trees and were observing with telescopes.

Zheng Qi stood on the top of the mountain and looked forward. A black fog rose about three or four hundred meters away, followed by a few more explosions, and smoke came out from the bushes. At this time, a large number of troops carrying guns and rpg rocket launchers appeared around him and rushed out. There was a small village behind them. It seemed that they were people there.

With a "boom!", the shells exploded in the crowd, blood limbs splattered everywhere, and a person with a broken leg lying on the ground. He looked at his legs that disappeared from his lower body, his eyes stared tightly, and screamed in surprise. He struggled and crawled on the ground, and another shell roared and landed near him. When the smoke dissipated, there was only a ball of minced meat left on the ground. He could never see the person who had struggled just now, and even his scream disappeared. The only blood-stained shoe next to him proved that there was a person here just now.

The crowd watching the show on the top of the mountain exclaimed, and then started to discuss it with laughter. Zheng Qi looked at them a few times, and there was no sympathy on their faces. Instead, it was the indifference of the onlookers. They thought it was a wonderful thing for life and death that was in front of them, and cheered from time to time.

Numb people! This is Zheng Qi's first impression of them. In the area where "the gun comes out of power", national armed forces and rebellion exist at all times. War is not a new term for them. Whoever has money can form an anti-government army, and whoever can occupy more territory and plant more poppy, thus becoming richer, with more army and more territory... A very terrifying cycle truly reveals the situation in this area.

Zheng Qi continued to watch, and a group of troops ran towards the opposite direction, all carrying guns together. Finally, the people from both sides came into close contact, and the gunshots continued. From time to time, some people fell down, and from time to time, people were screaming and retreating. Several shells came, and a few more screams came from the bushes in the crowd, and the attacking army rushed over, without any sympathy for those who fell to the ground or surrendered by the injured, holding rifles or bayonets, poked them a few times. They only had time to cry out a few times of pain, twitched on the ground, and then their expressions were frozen and left forever.

Moreover, Zheng Qi saw that there were old and young people in the army, and the age gap was very large. An old man with gray hair rushed over with a machine gun, and was hit by a bullet and fell into a pool of blood. Several people were about fourteen or fifteen years old, holding a rifle that was almost as tall as them. They followed from behind and shot at the muzzle at those who had not died. The blood sprayed on their faces, which were still tender. However, there was no fear on their faces, but instead they looked excited. Some even used bayonets to break the enemy's belly, looking very happy.

Then there were a few "swish swish swish swish" sounds, and several mortars bombarded this position. The boys who were still cheering the previous second instantly turned into a ball of minced meat under the cover of smoke and fire. A large pit was still emitting blue smoke remaining on the ground. The smell of gunpowder and blood came from the air, which made Zheng Qi feel inexplicably throbbing in his heart.

After a while, the battle seemed to be over. However, on the road ahead, there was no trace of soil in color. All of them were blood red. Even the trees on the roadside turned red in blood, as if they were sprinkled with red paint in the air. The red hell looked shocking.

Then a group of military vehicles drove over and squeezed into the village ahead. Then a few gunshots came. The convoy began to return. Zheng Qi saw that the squatting in the rear carriage were all women crying, not a single man, and even many young women.

"The government army is not even a girl of such a young age!" He Ximei looked at the military vehicles and gritted her teeth and cursed.

Through the discussions of others, Zheng Qi knew that this was a military government's suppression of the Allied Army, and on the deeper side, it seemed to be warning the North and South Wa State. This time the government army won, and they killed all the men, leaving no one of the young and old, and only took the women away. Their future lives are unpredictable, and they may become playthings for some people, or they may be killed while trying to escape. Anyway, their future lives will be tragic.

Looking at He Ximei who was angry, Zheng Qi didn't know what to say. Thinking of those women who died men and father died, the girl's painful and helpless expression, he couldn't help but tighten his heart, grabbed the hand of the woman beside him, and grabbed it tightly, not knowing what he was thinking about...
Chapter completed!