The arrogance started from Chinatown

Chapter 373: War? I'll be waiting for you in Chicago!

Nigger Street was originally a Chinese community, but now it is in ruins.

Almost all the houses were looted and all the shops were plundered.

Traces of the fire were visible everywhere on the streets, and some houses were reduced to ruins.

Several agents who had just arrived walked out of a yard, joined others, and hurried to the Investigation Bureau. However, when they reached the street corner, gunshots suddenly rang out around them.

Bright flames bloomed in the darkness.

Those houses that were already empty, or behind those burned walls.

"We've been ambushed!" The agents who had just arrived here were immediately terrified and wanted to retreat, but the people in the dark put them in the middle of the street and then attacked them.

In just a moment, the dozens of agents who had just arrived in Virginia were all killed.

A moment later, some people walked out of the darkness, came to the middle of the street where corpses were scattered, and pointed their guns at the corpses.

Boom!

Gunshots kept ringing out.

Rong Jiasheng looked at the empty houses around him, his eyes full of resentment.

After all, this is his territory and he has lived here for half a year.

Usually this place is very lively, with miners coming home from work, prostitutes from brothels...all gone at this moment.

After the others had shot all the bodies, Rong Jiasheng waved his hand and said, "Let's go!"

At the same time, Lin Zhengan stood in the concentration camp, surrounded by the bodies of gang members and several agents, and in front of him were the crowds of miners.

These miners were in better condition before, but after this week, they have become skinny and bony.

"You are finally here!" a young miner couldn't help but say.

"What's the point of pointing at us?" Lin Zhengan took a puff of cigarette and pointed at them and asked, "How many of you are there? How many of them are there?"

"You don't fight hard, but are trapped to death by less than a hundred people, waiting for others to rescue you? You might as well pray to Mazu. Maybe Mazu will kill them with a thunderbolt!"

Lin Zhengan cursed with some frustration.

"You can't stay here anymore. If you are caught by the Americans, we will send you back to the Qing Dynasty if you are lucky. If you are unlucky, you will die of thirst, starvation or disease just like here!"

"We'll go with you!" someone immediately stood up and said.

"Follow us? What can you do? Mining? Where are the mines for you to mine?" Lin Zhengan said with some sarcasm.

After the miners made a slight commotion, someone immediately stood up and said, "I can hold a gun, too!"

"I can do it too!"

One by one, the miners stood up.

After so many days of torture in the concentration camp, they finally understood one thing: in this world, you cannot survive just by being law-abiding.

You want to live, but many people won't let you live.

Even living like a dog is not acceptable.

"Don't say I didn't give you a chance!" Lin Zhengan pointed at the crowd.

"Is there any medicine? Many people are dying..." someone asked with a pleading look. Many people here were related to each other and were sold here from the country together.

"Search in the city during the day to see if they can survive!" Lin Zhengan said.

He is not a god, there is nothing he can do.

……

The battle in Virginia City lasted for an hour, mainly because the gang members were too scattered.

Rong Jiahong led his men to search one by one.

He was really suffocated these days in the mountains.

When the gunfire stopped, ordinary people in Virginia City looked out of the windows cautiously, and no one dared to go out.

All they saw were a large number of Chinese miners… although many of them, although dressed in miners’ clothes, didn’t look much like them.

It was not until daybreak that someone dared to go out cautiously to inquire for news.

After the Chinese miners returned to Nigger Street, they found that half of the entire Chinese community had been destroyed and the rest had been looted. Many of them became more determined to follow Lin Zhengan and his team.

Rong Jiahong and others were busy collecting supplies, then taking control of the train station, preparing to take a train to Sacramento.

It was much easier to get back to Chicago from there.

As for Xu Yan, he gathered all the reporters in the city.

"Don't worry, I won't hurt you! In fact, we are not bad people, just some people who are trying hard to get a better life with their own hands!" Xu Yan was surrounded not by those thugs, but by some skinny miners who could not even stand steadily.

"You can take a look at them!" Xu Yan stood up and pulled open the clothes of a miner. The miner had a wound more than 20 centimeters long on his body, and the wound had even become infected and festered.

"This is what happened to them in the concentration camp! This is still a relatively good situation. At least he can still stand up now."

“You can go to the concentration camps and see how many corpses there are!”

"If someone wants you to die, what will you do? Open your arms and let yourself be killed? Or fight to the death?" Xu Yan asked while looking at the many reporters in front of him.

"We had no food, only one meal a day and a glass of water. We had no blankets and no shelter from the wind and rain. We were exposed to the sun during the day and slept in the dew at night."

"We are also human beings. We don't want to die! We don't want to be killed like animals! So we can only resist!" Xu Yan said in a tone that was neither light nor heavy. In addition to suppressed anger, his words were also filled with waves of sadness. Snap!

A flash light nearby went on, and a reporter took a picture of the miner with a camera.

"I can take you to the concentration camp later. They didn't let you in to interview before because they didn't dare. Now you can see with your own eyes what they did!"

"I hope you will send out everything you see in full and in detail."

"Let the entire American people see and know what happened here!"

"What happened last night was because we couldn't survive any longer, so we had no choice but to resist!"

Later, when most reporters were taken to concentration camps and looked at the dead bodies in the concentration camps, conscientious reporters from San Francisco and Chicago had already sent back news releases.

And then... the telegraph broke down.

It will take two days for news releases from other reporters to be sent back.

Subsequently, a large number of miners were transported to Sacramento on trains.

The next day, newspapers across the United States read about the concentration camps and the experiences of the Chinese.

Once again, it aroused the sympathy of a large number of American people.

It was not until two days later, after Rong Jiasheng and others evacuated from Virginia, that the news of this "war" in Virginia finally spread.

After a report titled "Typewriters from Chicago ravage Virginia" was reprinted by newspapers, an uproar broke out across the United States.

In particular, the death of more than two hundred agents directly shocked the entire United States.

The newspapers were sold out in a short time.

Embassies of various countries began to pay close attention to this matter, and Yung Wing, the deputy minister of the Qing Dynasty, felt his scalp tingling after reading the newspaper.

With more than 200 agents, Chen Zhengwei is so bold!
At the Department of Justice, upon learning that almost all agents from the Virginia Bureau of Investigation had died, more than two hundred agents covered themselves with the national flag.

Assistant Attorney General John W. Griggs first flew into a rage in his office, then immediately stood up and spoke to reporters: "This is a massacre, this is a declaration of war, they want war, we will give them war!"

"The majesty of the Ministry of Justice will not tolerate any provocation!"

……

In the wilderness of the West, a man staggered and fell in the wilderness. He got up after a long time. When he saw a convoy of carriages in the distance, he staggered over in ecstasy.

However, as he ran, blood kept flowing out of the gauze wrapped around his leg.

His name is Chauncey Forward. In the previous battle in the Bureau of Investigation, he was lucky enough not to be killed by a grenade and escaped at night.

After running aimlessly in the wilderness for two days, I finally saw a convoy of carriages.

"Chicago..." Chauncey Forward's eyes were like a wounded beast.

He's going to Chicago!

……

"Yes, as far as I know, this is a desperate move by the Chinese workers in Virginia City to survive! I will continue to pay close attention to this matter!"

"I want to reiterate that Chinese lives are lives too! In order to survive, everyone will pick up a gun and fight for themselves!"

In the hotel, Chen Zhengwei sat in a chair and talked to reporters.

"The United States is a country with a spirit of freedom and a history of resistance! Each of us will fight for our own freedom and our own life!"

"Mr. Chen, what do you think about what Assistant Attorney General John W. Griggs said about the war?" the reporter asked.

"I have always been in Chicago! And I have no intention of leaving!" Chen Zhengwei said calmly with a hint of mockery on his face:
Since you mentioned war, then come on!
I'll be waiting for you in Chicago!

The reporters in front of Chen Zhengwei paused for a moment, then quickly wrote down what he had said.

"Brother Wei, Green is back and he's brought him back!" Aaron walked to Chen Zhengwei, leaned over and whispered in his ear.

Chen Zhengwei nodded slightly, then stood up and left, asking the reporter to go back and write the press release.

I went to a nearby tailor shop.

When he came to the basement, Chen Zhengwei saw two women huddled in the corner holding three children.

There was fear in these people's eyes and tears on their faces.

"So they don't have a dog at home?" Chen Zhengwei asked after looking around.

Green didn't expect that Chen Zhengwei was actually asking about the dog. He coughed and said, "Boss, you know, it's hard to bring a dog back! So I killed the dog!"

Chen Zhengwei nodded: "It seems that your return was smooth?"

"There were some twists and turns, but luckily someone helped, so overall it went smoothly!" said Green.

"Tell me in detail later!" Chen Zhengwei said, then looked at those people.

"It has nothing to do with us, please don't hurt us!" pleaded an older woman who looked to be in her thirties.

"You think it's irrelevant, but it's not really irrelevant!" Chen Zhengwei looked at them without comment.

"Your husband did a lot of things and killed a lot of innocent people, and then you lived a peaceful life in New York City enjoying the honor and money he brought you by killing people!"

"It's beautiful! So happy!"

"But I have an opinion!"

(End of this chapter)