"Yes, that day should be the new world!"
The Kamishiro Foundation's troops have arrived and arrested over 500 people, including Koroku!
The garrison troops escorted them through the streets of the Lower Three Districts. An officer looked at Xiao Liu and asked, "You're in charge of City 20 now, right, Xiao Liu?"
Xiao Liu narrowed his eyes slightly. The other party could even call out his name accurately. His family members in other cities were also in danger!
The officer sneered as he surveyed the brightly lit Lower Third District. He ordered, "Shut down all the Cloud Flow Towers in the Lower Third District. Do the dogs in the Lower Third District deserve electricity? What a waste of resources."
Xiao Liu was furious. He shouted, "The residents of the Lower Three Districts are innocent. Why are they considered inferior? Having electricity is a right granted to them by the Federal Constitution. By what right are you taking it away?"
But Xiao Liu didn't make a move, even though he was already a C-level.
Prisoners of war cannot resist; this is a principle of war.
This principle was not intended to force prisoners of war to obey, but rather to protect them. If any prisoner resisted, it meant that all prisoners would be executed.
We cannot make unnecessary sacrifices.
At this moment, the officer looked at the buildings that had been extinguished, and he sneered at Xiao Liu: "How about it? All the efforts of your parents' association will be in vain overnight. Powerless? Angry? Angry is a sign of incompetence, and all you can do is express anger."
Xiao Liu suddenly laughed: "A victory without bloodshed and sacrifice is a false victory. We knew that being captured by the conglomerate was only a matter of time. Those who escaped were lucky, and those who didn't have no regrets. If this cause required sacrifice from the beginning, then the sacrifice could be someone else's, or it could be ours. You're already feeling fear, aren't you? Because you didn't expect that someone could wreak havoc outside your Mindset Dojo. You also didn't expect that the world is quietly changing."
The officer's face was grim: "Drag him behind the SUV, I'm going to drag him to his death on the road."
As he spoke, the soldier tied Xiao Liu's hands with a rope, and the other end was tied to the tow hook of the off-road vehicle.
The family members around him became agitated, and Xiao Liu shouted loudly, "Don't fight for me! Spare your lives, your lives are still useful!"
As he spoke, he once again shouted to the buildings lining both sides of the road: "Fellow countrymen, this world has abandoned you, but it doesn't matter, it will always change. One day, our flag will be planted all over the northern lands!"
A soldier knocked Xiao Liu down with the butt of his rifle, causing him to bleed profusely from his head.
The SUV roared and dragged him away. In the darkness, Xiao Liu laughed and shouted, "Give me a glimpse of the new world!"
Residents of the three lower districts hid in their homes, silently watching this scene; some remained silent, while others wept uncontrollably.
Something seemed to be awakening within them.
My numb heart gradually started beating again.
The arrest operation is ongoing, and it has begun in other cities as well. The Shindai forces are heading towards cities 21 and 22.
Kajima, the Chen family, the Li family, and the Qing family also received a plug-in hard drive.
Kamishiro and Kashima jointly held a press conference: Kamishiro and Kashima defined the Parents' Association as a criminal organization and offered a high reward for 311 members of the Golden Family.
They want to make parent-teacher meetings have no place.
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In City 10, the Hope Media Building stands alone, completely empty.
Only Gao Wen was sitting in front of the computer.
He saw the news about the arrest of parents by the Kamishiro, Kashima, and Chen families, and knew that the time had come to write that article.
Gao Wen was wondering what to name this article.
Several tens of minutes later, he finally typed out the title on his computer: "The New World".
"I never imagined that one day I would see the most beautiful human heart in the world in a place that looks so shabby."
Gao Wen wrote down what he had seen and heard over the past 11 days, and then uploaded the photos he had taken to his computer one by one.
No, not just the '11 Days of Disaster,' but also everything he observed while living in the Lower Three Districts of City 10.
Those lovely people, those who brought light back to the lower three districts.
Gawain wrote: “I entered the Lower Three with a critical eye. As is often the case in history, we often see ambitious people pretending to be benevolent and claiming to change the world. But when they grow up, the dragon slayers shed their hypocritical disguises and become the new dragons. So when I first settled in the Lower Three of City 10, I was skeptical of the PTA.”
“I have been to the Lower Three Districts before. There, sewage was everywhere, flies and mosquitoes were everywhere, garbage was everywhere, and thieves and robbers were rampant. So when I went deep into the Lower Three Districts this time, I brought a pistol, a Weixing-11, with a total of 12 bullets. I imagined being broken into in the middle of the night and having my kidney cut open on the street, but I was wrong.”
“When I moved in, the Lower Three Districts were already different. I saw the lights come on, I saw truckloads of garbage being hauled away, I saw the streets starting to get cleaner, and I saw people standing up for justice.”
"If justice is the sunlight, then the Lower Three Districts have been in a dark abyss for hundreds of years. Now, the sunlight has finally shone in. Later, I slowly realized that this sunlight did not shine in on its own, but was brought into the abyss by an organization called the Parents' Association."
"But even now, I still believe that parents are using this most basic method to win people's hearts, and they must have new schemes. I've seen too many ambitious people, to the point that I see the world through tinted glasses."
"Until I personally experienced that 11-day disaster."
"They drove the residents to the wilderness for refuge with their fierce appearance, while they themselves stayed here."
"They only slept four hours a day, collecting clothes, medicine, and weapons. At first, they used guns to fight off the rat swarm, but when they ran out of ammunition, they could only use kitchen knives and benches, and finally their teeth."
"They keep dying."
Gao Wen sat at his workstation and looked up at the photos he had posted in front of him. The most eye-catching one was of his mistress.
The mistress, her face covered in filth, sat on the ruins, and Xiaoxia slipped a piece of orange gummy candy into her hand.
"Whenever I recall that disaster, it feels like I've experienced a miracle."
"I saw my family members rushing to the front line time and time again without regard for their own safety."
"I saw that so-called parent, Qingchen, return to the dangerous city time and time again to rescue groups of refugees, and only take a short rest when he was exhausted."
“I saw that the refugees were no longer numb. They returned to City 10 and fought alongside the parents’ association. I also put down my camera and rushed to the front line.”
Gao Wen wrote for six hours straight, producing a long article totaling 10,000 words.
He wrote at the end: "I wanted to interview Qingchen, but he wouldn't give an interview. So I went to interview 'Xiao San,' one of the leaders of the Parents' Association in City 10, and asked him, what exactly are the Parents' Association's ambitions?"
The mistress replied to me: Some people become strong in order to become superior to others, while parent-teacher conferences are held so that there are no inferior people in this world.
Gawain wrote: "Now, the PTA has suddenly been labeled a criminal organization and is facing arrests across the entire federation. Looking at this ravaged world, I only hope that the new world the PTA painted for me will arrive soon!"
Those who carry firewood for the masses should not be left to freeze to death in the wind and snow;
Those who work for the benefit of the masses should not be left to fight alone.
Those who pave the way for freedom should not be made to be trapped in thorns.
"Please don't allow various conglomerates to arbitrarily arrest parents. I beg you."
Long live the new world!
After reviewing the manuscript again and again, Gao Wen finally condensed the 14,000-word article to 10,000 words and then clicked to publish it on the Hope Media APP.
He sat at his workstation, fully aware of what publishing such a strongly worded article would mean.
But so what?
Gao Wen picked up his coat hanging on the back of the chair, turned around and walked out of the Hope Media Building.
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Hope Media is the most authoritative media outlet in the Federation, bar none, simply because they have always adhered to the principle of impartiality in reporting the facts, and all reports must undergo meticulous and rigorous investigation before they can be published.
When Gao Wen's article was published, the Federation was in an uproar.
He showed everyone a real parent-teacher meeting, not the one demonized by Kamishiro and Kashima.
Only the residents of the lower three districts can truly appreciate that every word in Gao Wen's article is true.
They are also experiencing the changes in the three lower districts of City 10.
In City 21, the residents of the Lower Three Districts watched as their Cloud Flow Tower was destroyed and as the Lower Three Districts fell into darkness once more.
Look downstairs again at those parents who are being escorted away.
Gao Wen's article seemed to have awakened something.
At that moment, someone opened the door and shouted in the corridor, "Everyone, let's go and stop the Kamishiro Group's troops! They won't dare to fire on the millions of people in the Lower Three Districts. As long as everyone goes, nothing will happen! Everyone, we can't just watch them shut down the Cloud Flow Tower, and we can't always rely on the parents' meeting!"
"The parents' association has done so much for the lower three districts and even averted a disaster. We can't just watch them get arrested! Quick, we have to do something!"
The next moment, residents from the buildings in the lower three districts rushed downstairs; at least one-fifth of them had taken action after reading Gao Wen's article.
Then, more onlookers, swayed by inexplicable emotions, rushed down as well.
They did this not entirely because of the parent-teacher conference, but the parent-teacher conference had once given them a bright world, and now they could no longer bear the darkness.
We must do something, for ourselves and for future generations!
The residents rushed downstairs, and the Kamishiro Foundation's troops tensed up, raising their weapons and roaring, "Back off! Back off!"
But they dared not fire, because no one dared to gamble that after they fired, these 'mobs' would swarm them and kill them in their anger, or scatter in all directions.
Amid the surging crowd, someone shouted, "Get out of the lower three districts!"
"Get out of the lower third district!"
"Get out of the lower third district!"
People repeated the call over and over again. More than 100,000 people stretched out of the city as far as the eye could see. On both sides of the street, residents who did not dare to rush downstairs opened their windows and shouted.
The whole city has awakened.
The garrison used tear gas, but someone had prepared a soaked blanket to cover the tear gas grenade!
There were also members of the parents' association hidden in the crowd, and they had already prepared a countermeasure!
The residents threw whatever they were holding at the garrison troops, who, suppressing their anger, requested permission to open fire, but were told that they could not escalate the conflict further, or all the industry in the north would have to come to a standstill.
Finally, the garrison troops roared, "Withdraw! Call for reinforcements to retake this place!"
No one expected that even the conglomerate had something it couldn't do in the Federation; in the face of hundreds of thousands of residents in the lower three districts, they could only hastily retreat.
They couldn't even take away the PTA members who had already been arrested.
This victory was won by the parents with their lives and blood; they have finally waited for the moment when the people awakened.
Chapter 714, Standing in the Sunlight
Return countdown: 6:00:00.
Gao Wen glanced at the time; it was time to leave work.
After the article in "The New World" was published, he, who was guarding the empty Hope Media building, became the most famous reporter in the Federation overnight.