Chapter 617 - Luo Guolong (1/2)
Chapter 617: Chapter 617 Luo Guolong
Translator: Doggotranslation Editor: Doggotranslation
Getting out of the city was not an easy task, the streets were full of “refugees” trying to squeeze into the city from outside, not to mention that there were military checkpoints everywhere.
Fortunately, the license plate number of the military vehicle helped Chu YunSheng a lot. After all, it was Fang Baixiao’s car. Many soldiers even saluted the car when they saw it, so basically, no one stopped him.
On the way, Chu Yunsheng found that the military and the government had already started to take action. The first thing he saw was that they had already sent many cars to drive along the roadside to broadcast the message using megaphones.
They were asking all the residents to stay calm, and do not panic or believe in any rumors. Residents needed to fully cooperate with the government’s arrangements in an orderly manner, and they should not give people, who had bad ideas, a chance to create troubles.
Moreover, they also required each household or family to register with the government or the military that were stationed in their neighborhood. Every family and household in the same neighborhood should do their best to help each other while waiting for further instructions from the government and the military.
And lastly, they urged everyone to have faith in the government and believe in the military. They already had scientific disaster prevention measures, and they had a modernized military. No matter what would happen, they had the ability and determination to lead people to go through difficult times.
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At the same time, many work teams were also sent to various communities. Nanjing was a provincial capital city and had a large population in city. Coupled with the people, who came from other places recently, although it hasn’t reached the peak number the city had in the dark age, the number was still very alarming. If the government and the military didn’t prepare properly, and if the evacuation and transfer work were not arranged in an orderly manner, once all the people came out of their houses, even the highway would be completely blocked by people, let alone regular streets. At that time, who knows how chaotic it would be and how many people would die.
Moreover, a disorderly retreat was extremely inefficient. It would cause the people in Shanghai also couldn’t carry out their plans in an orderly manner. At that time, the security problem alone would be enough troubles for the government to handle.
Chu Yunsheng thought to himself that if it weren’t for the citizens of Nanjing, who were staring at the military area command, making it impossible for the military area command and the government to take any secret actions, the scene of the chaos caused by the anger of the citizens during the retreat of Shanghai would definitely repeat itself.
Fortunately, there were still more than twenty days, and it was just enough to arrange the retreat. Compared with the retreat from Shanghai to Nanjing outside the Pseudo-Monolith, the people here were much luckier. After all, almost all the people who retreated from Shanghai outside the Pseudo-Monolith were dead.
However, other places were not so lucky, especially the places where there were no troops. Most of the local governments all chose to stay silent.
Because if they responded to the civilian’s questions, they would have to tell the truth that Shanghai could not take so many people. If they didn’t tell the truth, and if they lied about it, their lie would lead to the death of many lives. No one wanted to bear the responsibility of this. Therefore, some people chose to take the people on the list and left secretly, others chose to stay silent.
There were even places where communications and networks were deliberately cut off, just like the Yangtze River dam water discharge incident, if they were still insisting on going to Shanghai, those local governments would neither support nor discourage them, but whatever would happen to them, would not be their problems.
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Luo Guolong felt very gloomy today. They all said that it was the end of the world. But G.o.ddammit why couldn’t he still find a wife at the end of the world?
There were so many blind dates these two days, and many people rushed to get married(1). This morning he deliberately dressed up carefully. Wearing a suit and leather shoes, and gelling his hair, making it look so s.h.i.+ny, he partic.i.p.ated in the great doomsday blind date in his town with full of confidence.
However, who would have thought all he got from this trip was disappointment and sadness.
“Uncle, you are too old!”
“You are not my favorite type, I’m sorry, I value love at first sight highly.”
“I want to find someone taller.”
“Your skin is too dark, my standard is not high, but at least my boyfriend should look comfortable.”
“Money is useless now, are you related to anyone in the army?”
“Didn’t you say that you are a farmer? How could there be no food at your home! It is not about being materialistic or not. Now it’s the end of the world. Without food, Who would marry you?”
“My mother said that my future husband must have enough food at home. If you don’t have enough food, my family will definitely disagree with our marriage.”
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Under the streetlights of the town, Lu Guolong felt hungry. While eating peanuts and drinking alcohol, he gazed at a granary far away and cursed angrily at it, “Baldy Li, why can you marry a girl? You are just a temporary worker at the granary. What is there to be proud of? Besides, you are able to work there only because you are related to the Granary Master w.a.n.g? But that grain belongs to the country, not your old Li’s family! You are nothing but a thief! I hope you all die miserably!”
“Big Lu, watch your dog’s mouth, who are you cursing at?” A relative of Baldy Li just happened to walk past the place where he was crouching. Hearing he was cursing at his relative, she shouted angrily.
“Who am I cursing at?” seeing that the person was Baldy Li’s younger brother’s wife, Lu Guolong didn’t want to create troubles, but his mouth was very stubborn, “it is none of your business! I wasn’t cursing at you anyway.”
“Bulls.h.i.+t! I heard you were cursing at our big brother just now, you shameless liar!” Baldy Li’s female relative said angrily.
“Who said I was cursing at him?” As the saying goes, alcohol will give people courage. As the alcohol started to react in his body, Lu Guolong raised his voice and said, “I am cursing at our country’s parasite! That b.a.s.t.a.r.d is stealing our country’s food! I am cursing at that shameless person! Don’t a.s.sume that I’m talking about some people!”
The woman was extremely furious, “you! Who is a parasite! Who stole our country’s food? Let me tell you, if you dare spread rumors again, I’ll break your tongue!”
“I wasn’t talking about you, why are you so angry? Ah, I see! You are scared because I was telling the truth!” All the resentments that had been built up since the past made Lu Guolong say it even louder.
“You, you really have some gut! Don’t you dare run away!” The woman was so angry that she started to shout someone’s name, “Biaozi! Biaozi!”
Lu Guolong raised the bottle of alcohol in his hand, and said bravely, “what? Calling people to help you? Do you think I’ll be scared? Come at me! Whoever runs away is a b.a.s.t.a.r.d!”
As soon as Lu Guolong finished speaking, he saw a brawny young man come out of the group that had also attended the blind date in the town, and ran towards him, “what’s the matter?”
Looking at the hill-like young man, the alcohol was instantly cleared from his mind. There was no way he would be able to beat this guy. He had to run away.
Seeing that he wanted to slip away, the woman immediately rushed up, grabbed the collar of Lu Guolong, and quickly sat on the ground while dragging him downward, so that Lu Guolong, the b.a.s.t.a.r.d, would not run away, “don’t you dare run away! You b.a.s.t.a.r.d!”
Seeing this, the brawny young man mistook that Lu Guolong was beating the woman, so he immediately jumped up and shouted angrily, “How dare you beat my mom!”
Lu Guolong panicked, but he still didn’t want to lose his face, so he quickly said, “You, let go of me, let go of me, I didn’t touch you!”
Before he finished talking, Biaozi rushed up, threw a heavy punch at his face, making him suddenly feel as if the world around him was spinning.
It was really painful. It was even more painful than carrying a cement bag on the construction site. He even spat out blood after the punch. Unable to endure the pain, he stumbled back and fell over.
Biaozi’s mother stood up with her face full of satisfaction. She spat on the ground, looked at Lu Guolong in disgust, and scolded, “you got what you deserved, b.a.s.t.a.r.d. A useless person like you should deserve to be single for a lifetime, quickly get out of my sight. You are making my eyes dirty.”
Lu Guolong felt extremely offended. There was a fire burning fiercely inside him. He had never been hit this hard by anyone before. It was so painful that he even broke into tears. And then the sharp remark of Bao Zi’s mother, it was like adding fuel to the fire. The alcohol effect in his mind had completely disappeared, and his blood instantly rushed into his head. Quickly getting up from the ground, he held his bleeding face with one hand and pointed at Baozi and his mother with an alcohol bottle, and said, “Do you dare say one more time! Do you dare!”
Bao Zi’s mom was not scared at all. With her muscular son standing next to her, she said sarcastically, “Was I wrong? Just take a look at yourself! Yes, my big brother is remarried, so what? He is still better than you, who never has a woman in your life! Is that wrong too?”