294 Liuyuan has matured (1/2)

Yan Liuyuan stood there quietly. They currently had six people who were wounded, so it would be an extremely terrifying amount of work if he had to complete it for the six of them all by himself.

When the reinforced troops assigned the tasks to everyone, they would definitely set it after accounting for the maximum workload a person could perform. That would mean it was already not going to be easy to complete one's own task, so how could they possibly complete the tasks for the others as well?

At this moment, Wang Fugui and Li Qingzheng came over to him and said, \”Don't worry, we'll share the burden with you. Let's work together to overcome this difficult situation.\”

The three other male students who were not injured also stood up. \”There's us as well.\”

Even the female students raised their hands. \”We can share some of the workload too.\”

The injured Wang Yuchi also stood up while struggling. \”I've almost recovered from my injuries, so I can start working as well.\”

Yan Liuyuan smiled. \”Sit down. I don't want you to end up becoming disabled. You don't have to make it sound so noble. It's only a bit of work, that's all.\”

Yan Liuyuan felt rather warm inside. The people around him had gone through the test of time and were comrades who would go through thick and thin for each other. They had built a foundation of trust.

Looking at the other escapees around them, they did not even have anyone they could mutually depend on.

In the past, Yan Liuyuan and Ren Xiaosu had always been on their own. But now, Yan Liuyuan felt a sense of unity.

Xiaoyu took a handful of mud and smeared it onto the faces of the female students and Jiang Wu. \”In this wilderness, we have to guard against others who might be eyeing us since Xiaosu isn't around. All of you have such beautiful and fair skin, so there will definitely be some people with dirty thoughts. Find an empty spot later to change clothes. Put on some loose-fitting clothes so that you won't have to show your figures.\”

The female students were caught in a dilemma. Wouldn't smearing mud on their faces make them look really ugly? But the female students who'd survived until now were not stupid either, so they let Xiaoyu apply the mud on them.

After being smeared with mud, they all looked at each other and giggled upon realizing that they looked equally ugly.

Then Xiaoyu said, \”Remember to carry a rock in your pockets. If someone is truly up to no good, you can hit them with it. Remember to hit them on the back of their head one inch below the eyebrows. If you use enough strength, you can even kill them. That's what Xiaosu taught me.\”

This was the philosophy of survival that Xiaoyu had learned from Ren Xiaosu. They would lay low and only kill if they could not keep a low profile anymore.

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Building a refugee camp was no small task. The process involved tamping the ground, excavating the earth, cutting down trees, and building the barracks. All of these processes required plenty of manpower to complete.

If a group of well-trained troops built the refugee camp, they could probably finish it in just a few days.

But it was clear that the reinforced troops were only planning on supervising the escapees and did not intend to build it themselves.

When they found someone slacking off, they would even mercilessly hit them with the butt of their rifles. An old man was hit in the waist by a soldier until he couldn't stand anymore.

Some of the Stronghold 108 residents who wanted to protest ended up getting beaten to the ground by the soldiers as soon as they tried.

All of the escapees were performing their tasks in a trance. They realized that when war broke out, their fates would change.

In a war, no one was unaffected.

In reality, the Yang Consortium had another purpose for building the refugee camp. They wanted the escapees to expend all of their energy in the process of building it so they would be too exhausted to cause any trouble.

This was their usual way of dealing with their veterans. When a batch of veterans were close to retiring, the officers would have them plant trees to prevent them from causing trouble.