Chapter 154 (2/2)
“Yes, boss!” Ivan shouted vehemently, “But, boss, I have a proble Chen nodded, pleased with his detero overboard,” The soldier’s eyes were burning with a fierce fighting spirit
Hearing that, Jiang Chen paused and then unexpectedly laughed
“If you go above and beyond, I’ll be sure to give you a bonus”
Jiang Chen patted his shoulder quite vigorously and stood on the podiu that an authoritative figure had stood up, the refugees e to voice their doubts
“Who in the world are you?”
“Why did you take us here? We want to go to Europe!”
“I heard Frankberg provided refugee camp Why didn’t you send us there?”
“…”
Jiang Chen ignored these questions, and continued fiddling with the microphone and turned on its switch
Buzz—!
The deafening static blared through the four corners of the square, and aside fro Chen and the ten instructors, al down
“Ahe You all can understand English, right? Then I’ll start”
He ignored the pairs of frightened, angry, confused, and helpless eyes He paused while renewing the feeling froht think that you’ve been deceived Why didn’t you disembark in Greece but had been taken to Central Africa instead?” Glancing around the crowd, Jiang Chen laughed and continued, “That’s right, I did trick you”
The crowd instantly erupted
“This is unlawful!”
“Are you not afraid of being prosecuted by International Court of Justice? This is is against the law…”
“Send us back…”
“Send you back? Sorry, I’ed to do so But if any of you wants to leave, you can go right ahead, the door is open,” Jiang Chen said with a smile as he spread out his hands
nobody spoke Everyone knew that it would be stupid to cross the desert without any means of transportation
“Warm shelter, delicious food, and clean water, you can’t deny that your life here is ee camps on the Syria border”
“But at least ould still have our freedom,” someone muttered in the crowd
“Ah, freedom You’re so poor, you only have your freedoht? If you have ht?” Jiang Chen sman didn’t expect to be stared at by the person on the podiu Chen did not see at hio to Europe, what then? You’ll hole up in a govern someone else’s happiness? Quit your delusions That place doesn’t belong to you You are but a refugee to theht say that you’ll work hard, but when their natives are still unee do you think you’ll have?”
Hearing this, a lot of people lowered their head They had given this probleht, but they never dared to think that far ahead If one dwelled too e to continue to move forould beco happiness in the future
“Receiving donation, eating relief food and beco the type of person, who people would find suspicious wherever you go I’ll take the responsibility of telling you that indeed, you’ll be able to survive, but you’ll also stay in the shelter for the rest of your life One day when your child wants to go to an amusement park, but because you have no money, you can only rack your brains on how to persuade your child that it’s not a fun place I don’t knoould you then feel about it
“Do you still want to go to Europe so bad after hearing all that?”Jiang Chen looked at the audience whose eyes had lost their vigor due to hisso if we don’t go to Europe?” A young man could not help but voice it out
“Even if I did trick you, it’s not exactly a lie” Jiang Chen ignored his question and opened his ared it for you If you work forenvironment and a salary of 200 USD aon your performance”
“The contract period is 3 years, and after 3 years, you can then decide whether to leave and take your savings to any other country in the world or stay But trustabout that duht”
“If you don’t tell us the nature of work, how are we supposed to believe you?” There was another jarring question froain
“Nature of work? Isn’t that obvious?”
Jiang Chen acted like he was surprised and , “This is a military base, other than soldiers, what else would it need?”