Chapter 818 - : What the Northwest is like (1/2)
In the secret prison, the Great Hoodwinker yelled, “Are we not allowed to have dinner anymore? Hey, does your Kong Consortium still care about human rights? Prisoners are human too, alright?!”
However, it was completely quiet in the corridors of the prison. No one answered the Great Hoodwinker, nor did anyone come out to make him be quiet.
“That’s strange.” The Great Hoodwinker muttered, “Even the prison guards here have left as well?”
At this moment, two prison guards came from the gate at the end of the corridor and walked straight through it.
The Great Hoodwinker shouted, “Hey, if you don’t let us out for dinner, at least deliver our meals here!”
However, the two prison guards did not even look at the Great Hoodwinker and left through the other end of the corridor.
“I wonder if those people still have any humanity left in them?” the Great Hoodwinker lamented as he leaned against the cell’s bars.
“Something is wrong.” Wang Yun, who had been silent all this while, suddenly said, “Those people were walking much faster than usual, and their stride was about one centimeter wider too. Something must’ve happened that we’re unaware of.”
The Great Hoodwinker was stunned. “Y’know, you’re even more unbelievable than me right now, huh? You actually remember how wide their usual stride is?”
“I can remember how they used to walk and replay it in my mind to compare with how they’re walking now. It’s like overlaying two pieces of film and playing it at the same time. If it’s different from before, I can tell straight away at a glance.”
“It would be such a pity if you don’t join the Prosperous Northwest,” the Great Hoodwinker admired. “Honestly speaking, don’t you think it’s a waste of your talent working for a measly organization like the Kong Consortium?”
“Why’s it a waste of my talent when our Kong Consortium is part of the tripartite power in the Central Plains with the Wang Consortium and the Zhou Consortium?” Wang Yun said coldly.
“Then do you know how big our Northwest has become?” The Great Hoodwinker said arrogantly, “The entire Northwest belongs to our Fortress 178, and we have been fending off external enemies all these years. What has the Kong Consortium done? They only think about exploiting the people every day. Let me ask you this: Why did the Central Plains start building strongholds in the first place? Was it really because y’all wanted to keep out the so-called wild animals? I don’t think so. That’s nothing but a lie to fool the people.”
Wang Yun did not say anything more. They were all smart people, so there was no need to refute this.
The Great Hoodwinker continued, “Back then, there was indeed a bug epidemic, and the wild animals really did injure a lot of people. But did the various forces really not have the ability to eliminate those threats at that time? Weren’t they just trying to seize territory for themselves by building the strongholds? After building the strongholds that gave them a natural class superiority, the people outside the strongholds would have to keep working for them generation after generation. It’s just like how the Zong Consortium supported the bandits to induce fear in the refugees. They left them with no choice but to rely on the protection of the strongholds.”