Chapter 658 - Entry (1/2)

Translator: Doggotranslation

There was only one entrance checkpoint every one kilometer with bright searchlights installed on top. Bunkers were constructed on both sides, and there were soldiers inside holding weapons, aiming at the crowd outside. There were even tanks parked not far behind the checkpoint with their guns raised up, pointing at the sky.

The weather was very cold. Even the searchlights also seemed to be frozen. It was just shone at a specific direction, not moving.

Checkpoint 17 was crowded with people. There were some that had just arrived, and some still had not given up after several tries. With the “a.s.sistance” of the staff at the entrance, a messy line was formed and congested on the cement road at the entrance.

“Let me go in! My father-in-law is inside, why don’t you let me in?”

“My name is Huang Ken, how many times have I told you that I was traveling on a business trip last month, and my unit is in the city. This is proof, so please take a look.”

“I am from the Jinhua Munic.i.p.al Government, and my cla.s.smate is Chief Zhang Sifeng from your Munic.i.p.al Government, I want to make a phone call! What, no phone call? Okay, young man, let me go in first, I will take you to see him, and let him prove it to you, I promise- ID? Didn’t I say it already that I have lost it?”

“I’m…”

“I, I…”

In front of a short table, people waved their fists excitedly and eagerly when it was finally their turns. All of them were trying to find a believable excuse as hard as they could.

Most of the people simply tried to flatter or bribe the staff, hoping that the staff would have mercy on them and let them or even just their family pa.s.s the checkpoint.

However, the young man sitting behind the desk simply said “Next!” coldly without even raising his head.

Have mercy on them? The young man couldn’t help but sneer. He was given a limit of 30 places a day, but he needed to reserve most of the places for those who he couldn’t afford to offend. So in the end, there were only one or two places that he could allow to give out.

When he was first transferred here, he was upset for a while. After all, this place was too far away from the center of the city, and it was very dangerous. If he was not lucky, he might lose his life here. But soon after his arrival, the city imposed temporary measures to limit the influx of people, and his power to control the fate of the refugees outside the city was suddenly in demand.

Every day there were so many people giving gifts secretly to his parents that they could form a company. All of them were hoping that he could help them to get some of their family members inside the city. But even so, most of those gifts were not something very valuable. But two days ago, there was a good-looking girl, who was even willing to sleep with him for a night in exchange for a permit for her parents…

Just because you said that you used to work for the government, without any pieces of evidence, you think I would let you in? You wis.h.!.+

He thought contemptuously and then left the registration information of the last person aside and never looked at it again. This process was merely a show that was required by the authorities. He didn’t need to treat it seriously. Then he took out a blank registration paper again. However, he was surprised that no one seemed to come forward.

He pushed his gla.s.ses, frowned, and raised his head. What he saw next was a red shadow appearing from the darkness and flying toward him. Within a second, it appeared before him.

“Monster! Shoot it, shoot it!”

The young man screamed, stood up from the chair in fear, stepped back in panic, nearly falling to the ground.

The soldiers responded quickly. Similar things have happened many times these days. When they saw the shadow, without the young man ordering them, they had already raised their guns and fired together.

However, when the bullets were about to hit the red shadow, strange light flashed a few times before the red shadow, and after several clanging noises, the red shadow pa.s.sed through the bullets and landed before the checkpoint 17.

“Oh, it is a person.”

“It seems like an awakener.”

“It’s amazing, he is not even afraid of bullets!”

“I seemed to have seen this person two days ago…”

There were whispers in the crowd, and as if people had realized something, they looked at the swordsman and stepped away instinctively.

“Who is the person in charge here?”

The person who appeared was Chu Yunsheng.

“I am, may I ask?…”

The young man with gla.s.ses crawled out from under the table tremblingly and replied with a sycophantic smile. Although there were not many awakeners, not every one was worthy of his envy. This man was different. What he did earlier clearly showed that he was not an ordinary awakener, so showing a good att.i.tude to him would definitely have more benefit than harm.

Chu Yunsheng turned to look at him and continued to ask: “Which unit are you from? What is your military position?”

The young man took a breath, smoothed the clothes corner, tried to calm down, and respectfully said: “I am not from the military, I am a government-”

Chu Yunsheng snorted, didn’t let him continue, “Why are you in charge if you are not from the military?” He then pointed at a soldier with the gun and said, “Who is the most senior officer here?”

“I am a platoon leader.” Since the person was here for the military, one of the tall and muscular soldiers walked out and said. One stripe and one star, the man who came out seemed to be a second lieutenant platoon leader.

Chu Yunsheng threw the doc.u.ment given to him by Fang Baixiao into the platoon leader’s hand and said, “My ident.i.ty is written in the doc.u.ment. Report to the military immediately and tell Fang Baixiao, the third division commander that I’m waiting for him in the city.”

The platoon leader took the file, glanced at it, then his face changed drastically as if he had seen a ghost. He s.h.i.+vered, and raised his head instantly, wanting to say something, but Chu Yunsheng had already disappeared.