Wasteland Development Diary.

Chapter 203 There is a mole

The sun is rising.

The Ultralisk air raid has come to an end.

Ding Ye and two colleagues were cleaning up the destroyed No. 2 blast furnace and searching for surviving workers from the ruins. Although the possibility was very small.

He opened a section of the iron trough and dug out two charred and broken bodies from the rubble.

Without the human sense of smell and taste, Ding Ye was relieved of a lot of burdens.

When he was a knight in the past, Ding Ye would feel an intense anger every time he saw innocent people being killed.

This kind of anger and impulse is an essential quality for a knight, and is also commonly known as "qi" by the older generation.

Without this breath to support you, you can't be a knight.

Now that he uses the sword as his main body and walks with the body of Tetsubei, Ding Ye can clearly feel the difference from the past.

He always thought that he was still Ding Ye, just existing in a different form.

But when facing the human corpse, Ding Ye no longer had that kind of anger. Instead, he only had a kind of indifference and coldness as if he saw a dead animal.

He asked other colleagues.

The answers obtained were basically the same.

"We are no longer human, and this is why."

"Electromechanical life forms do not empathize with or understand humans. They only observe and analyze humans. We are not that different from them now."

Veterans are used to this.

Ding Ye is still adapting.

He is still rescuing civilians and doing defense work, but these are based on mission, which is different from the past when he was motivated by morality, unwillingness and anger.

Thinking has never been Ding Ye’s strong point.

Whether in the past or now, he believes that one should do it and try it first.

There is no need to suffer from ignorance.

Ding Ye was busy when he suddenly received an order from his team leader.

"The refugees from Shell City have arrived at the port and are being resettled outside the mining area. Be careful, there may be spies among them."

“Another first batch of captured enemy troops are already being held in prison, also in the area.”

"You must immediately rush to the resettlement area and take good care of the prisoners and refugees."

Ding Ye hurried to the mining area in the northwest.

Due to the early preparations for the war, a large number of non-toxic giant mushrooms were planted in the area early on, and mushroom houses of all sizes stood in the mountains and forests.

When building the fortifications, Captain Zhao Xiao proposed a staggered and scattered layout.

The specific implementation is to plant giant mushrooms first, and then after the giant mushrooms grow to seven or eight meters high, plant new giant mushrooms on the ground covered by their caps.

As a result, the new mushrooms at the bottom cannot grow taller and can only maintain a height of 3 to 4 meters. This is because all the nutrients are absorbed by the large giant mushrooms covering them, which limits their growth.

This is not good for their growth, but is very useful in wartime.

The large giant mushroom becomes a protective umbrella, acting as a buffer zone in the event of an air raid, shielding and protecting the lower mushroom houses.

Facts have also proved the success of this arrangement.

Under the air raid of the Great Destruction Army, the residents of the mushroom house at the bottom suffered only minor damage and no one died in the bombing.

There are rope markings outside the mushroom houses where the refugees in Shell City live, with two people in one house, making it easy to tell at a glance.

While patrolling, Ding Ye observed the refugees who were moving things into the mushroom house.

Those who migrated here were children under the age of ten and women.

Although the refugees looked a little panicked and tired, they were still in a stable mood.

The soldiers from Fullmetal Alchemist brought daily necessities such as straw mats, pottery jars, hay, as well as a goblet of fire and a small bag of jade soup to each household.

The women and children were under the mushroom caps, using the flame cup as a small stove and began to boil jade soup in pots.

It was snowing outside, but the hot soup and heating tools made them feel a lot more relaxed.

That night.

Ding Ye caught a spy.

It was a child. He left the mushroom house to relieve himself, which was a normal thing. However, when squatting in the wild, the child attracted a red-eyed vulture. The vulture landed and took off quickly.

Ding Ye immediately called on a fellow shooter to shoot down the vulture.

After catching the injured bird, he found a piece of paper tied to the claws of the red-eyed vulture.

The number of refugees, the distribution of mushroom houses, and the details of the Beiyang Army's deployment were written on the paper with charcoal. Although it was not accurate, the general situation was correct.

This is undoubtedly surrender to the enemy.

The kid who had defecated was caught.

Ding Ye, who arrested him, participated in the entire interrogation.

"name."

"He Gao."

"How did you get in touch with Mr. Mieding?"

"A craftsman in Shell City found me. I can read, so he asked me to help him write and keep records. Before winter, he said that Shell City could not be stopped, and asked me to make plans early. He asked me to join the Lord of Mie Ding, and I would get a large sum of money after the success, and he would help me get rid of my slavery."

Although He Gao is young, he is very calm.

"You are a slave?"

"Yes, my father sold me to a shell merchant. He took me to the shell market and asked me to work as a male prostitute on a ship. I killed him with sharpened shells while he was sleeping and threw his body into the Dead Sea. I don't know how the craftsman found out about this."

"How do you communicate here?"

"I was fed a drug that said our people could find us through it. I didn't expect it would be vultures that came."

Ding Ye watched coldly.

The interrogators asked a doctor to examine He Gao, and indeed found some traces of drugs in his body.

"How many insiders like you are there?"

"I don't know. I only know the craftsman. He stayed in Shell City. He asked me to go to the city before, but I didn't go."

The interrogation did lead to the discovery of another person, a child who lived with him named Beta.

Beita and He Gao were interrogated separately.

Ding Ye was more interested in Beita because this kid was normal. He was flustered and uneasy, confused and didn't know what to do. In comparison, He Gao seemed to be well prepared.

"I don't know...what happened to him?"

Beita seemed a little confused: "He Gao and I have known each other for two years. He usually runs errands in the city and works as a scavenger outside, just like me. But he can read, so it is easier for him to find a job than me."

The interrogator asked, "Are you a member of the Church of Night?"

"No."

"What kind of idol is this?"

The interrogator pointed to a gray statue on the table. It was a lizard standing upright with a broad ridge down its back.

"I found it on the shore. It was blown here by a typhoon. It's a statue of a monster."

Beta explained: "...I want to learn from He Gao and keep it as a family heirloom."

Ding Ye suddenly had an idea: "He Gao's heirloom is a soft hammer?"

"Correct."

"Where is the thing?"

"I don't know...it should be on him."

But when He Gao was arrested, he did not have such a thing on him, and it was not found in the two children's mushroom house.

Ding Ye immediately led the team to the place where He Gao had defecated, searched everywhere, and finally found the buried hammer under a tree.

His steel fingers gently tore open the rubber, and many strange dry seeds slipped out, and a copper button was hidden among these seeds.

Ding Ye took the button to inspect it and finally confirmed that it was a special signal transceiver.

This is the device used by the inner spies to communicate.

At the same time, the doctors' examination of He Gao also yielded shocking news.

"His bone age is not nine, but fourteen. He has indeed been taking medication for a long time. Those drugs are growth inhibitors that inhibit development and growth. He has been taking them for at least four years."

In other words, He Gao’s name and even his experience are basically fake.

When Ding Ye saw He Gao again, he was dead.

It was only after the autopsy that it was discovered that He Gao had already taken poison when he was arrested, and had spent the rest of the time simply delaying and waiting for the drug to take effect.

I don’t know how many enemy soldiers like this there are.

Ding Ye looked at the refugees in the resettlement area, those women and children, each of them looked suspicious.

Captain Zhao Xiao exchanged views with Gang Liangong.

The final response plan was to transfer this group of refugees and prisoners again and send them to the Shagang area.

The Wasteland Development Company and the Sand Sea Public Company have some special technologies that can identify the traitors among these refugees. Transferring the refugees to the rear can also avoid consuming the food and material reserves on the front line.

Ding Ye was once again ordered to escort this group of people.

On the boat to Shagang, the kid named Beta found him and asked, "Brother Ding, how do you tell if someone is a spy? Who should I trust and who shouldn't I trust?"

Ding Ye looked towards the distant land: "Many times, people's troubles are that they think too much and do too little."

"There are only two things you need to do: one is to survive, and the other is to try to live a better life."

The dialogue between the two sides ended at that point.

Ding Ye walked to another cabin next to him. All the prisoners were held here.

Both Shell City and Fullmetal Alchemy City suffered brutal bombings. The enemy secretly landed a group of advance teams from the Dead Sea, but they were all blocked and wiped out by the Beiyang Corps, and three of them were captured as survivors.

One of the troublemakers is more troublesome.

When Ding Ye opened the cabin door, he heard someone inside saying things like "keep confidence", "wait for rescue", "act behind enemy lines", and "victory will definitely belong to us".

Needless to say.

It's that guy again.

Ding Ye looked inside and saw that the one in the middle of the three people was a young man with heroic features, probably sixteen or seventeen years old.

He waved his hands passionately, encouraging his two comrades.

"Liu Zhaoshan."

"arrive."

The young man stood up immediately.

"Shut up."

"Yes."

"sit down."

Liu Zhaoshan sat down quietly.

Ding Ye didn't know whether it was a good thing or a bad thing to bring this person to the Shagang area. He even suspected that these people had surrendered and been captured on purpose in order to sneak into the rear.

If He Gao and the others are the hidden line, then they are the visible line.

But there is no time to think so much now.

The Wasteland Development Corporation will take care of them.

Liu Zhaoshan suddenly raised his hand.

"explain."

"Excuse me, are we going to be transferred to the Sand Harbor area...to the Wasteland Development Corporation?"

The ship was in a port far away from Fullmetal Alchemist City.

The direction is easy to confirm.

Ding Ye said: "What do you want to say?"

"I want to apply to meet with the chairman of the Wasteland Development Company! I have important matters to discuss with the chairman!"

Ding Ye was amused.

"If you have a good reason and something to show for it, you will have a chance to meet Mr. Zhou."