Abandoned Land

It didn't take long for the gunfire inside the building to stop completely. After a while, Chen Mo, who had been standing still in the air, finally moved.

He slowly descended to the sixth floor, identified a room, and silently flew in through a broken window.

Inside the building, all the Emotion Crime have been eliminated. The next step is to search the entire building, find the contraband they hid, and destroy it all.

All the soldiers dispersed throughout the building and began a full search. However, there were only about thirty of them to begin with, and several more had been killed in the firefight with the enemy. They were scattered throughout the more than ten-story building, with only two or three people on each floor.

A tall soldier had just finished searching a room and, finding nothing, went out and turned directly into another room next door.

All the enemies had been eliminated, and all the places where people could hide had been searched as they advanced, and some of those who were hiding had been killed. So he wasn't worried about any remaining enemies and simply pushed open the door and entered the room.

After he entered, the door he had pushed open slowly closed by itself with a jarring creak.

Half an hour later, the entire building was searched, the hidden contraband was found, and it was all burned to ashes.

All the emotional criminals were eliminated, and all the contraband was burned and destroyed. Now that the mission was complete, the two priests took the lead and left by car. The remaining soldiers disposed of the bodies and quickly boarded the armored vehicle, turning around and driving back the way they came.

But no one knew that the tall figure sitting in one of the armored vehicles had been replaced by someone else!

In fact, those who were wiped out by the army and priests, although they were also considered Emotion Crime, were not members of the Resistance Organization.

These groups of people hiding outside the city, possessing large quantities of weapons and contraband such as oil paintings, books, and records, are actually a group of desperados who make a living by selling contraband!

They scavenged these contraband items from the ruins of Nithers and then sold them at high prices to the city's sex offenders.

Although the Church exercised a high-handed rule in the city and classified emotions as a crime, many people secretly stopped using "Bosean" and secretly developed feelings.

But under the Church's purge, everything in the city became like a program: cold, monotonous, and dull. There was no entertainment, no music, no books, no movies, no games, no art, no emotions, no beauty, and no love.

Those who are emotionless may not feel anything after being injected with "Bosean," but those who are emotional feel incredibly oppressed in this environment.

In this situation, although these people with emotions usually pretend to be as cold and numb as everyone else, when they return home, their hearts are incredibly empty. They yearn for these things that were originally very ordinary but are now strictly forbidden.

As the saying goes, the more unattainable something is, the more one desires it.

A book, a photograph, a small ornament are all priceless treasures to them. They can look at them over and over again countless times. These things can make them feel beauty, feel their heartbeat, feel joy, anger, sorrow and happiness, and feel that they are still alive!

They were willing to risk being burned at the stake if they were discovered, but the Libya City had already been thoroughly cleaned out by the Church, and even if someone had some hidden in their home, they would absolutely not dare to tell anyone.

Even if they were willing to pay a high price, no one would dare to sell to them.

However, where there is demand, there will naturally be supply; it's just that these people are not in the city.

Speaking of this, we have to mention the situation in the Nithers District.

The heart of Libya is the city within that massive wall, where everything is firmly controlled by the Church. All the residents are Libya citizens who must regularly receive "Bosean" and be injected on time, enduring the Church's oppressive and dictatorial rule. However, as long as they abide by the Church's laws, obediently abandon their emotions, and become mere zombies, they can live safely within the city without worrying about survival.

The situation is different outside the city.

The vast urban ruins outside the giant wall are called Nithers, an abandoned land of Libya. Although it is under their rule, it is more like an abandoned slum. Except for a few areas close to the city wall that are patrolled, the areas further away are completely deserted.

In fact, the area of Nithers is quite astonishing. This city, which suffered enormous damage during the war and was reduced to ruins, was originally a very developed and modern metropolis before the war. Its total area was much larger than that of the real capital city, and it was once filled with high-rise buildings, factories, and residences.

Although most of it was destroyed in the war, many relatively intact buildings were fortunate enough to survive, and it was not a complete ruin. Just like the factory where Chen Mo first took refuge and the building where the emotional criminals hid, although they were damaged, they were still relatively intact.

Right in the very center of this vast urban ruin, the core urban area of Libya, now protected by massive walls, actually occupies only a small portion of the entire ruins.

It is much smaller than any area in the 12 districts of Nithers. With Libya's current manpower, material resources, and limited resources, it has neither the ability nor the need to control, manage, and develop the entire Nithers.

Therefore, at the beginning of the founding of the nation, after plundering all kinds of resources, equipment and materials in the entire Nithers, the Church abandoned this huge ruin along with the survivors living on it.

Indeed, Nithers is not entirely desolate. Scattered throughout this vast urban ruin are some post-war survivors, though they are not considered Libya citizens, but rather abandoned impoverished people.

Their numbers are not large, and they are scattered across this vast area, making them even more difficult to encounter.

Some lived alone, some in small groups, and some with their families. They searched for a secluded spot in the ruins, surviving through planting, trapping, hunting, and searching the ruins, a difficult yet free way to live.

To avoid Libya patrols and troops that occasionally entered Nithers to carry out missions, they usually lived far from the walls, even on the outermost edge of the city ruins.

The abandoned factory where Chen Mo was staying was only a dozen kilometers away from the city wall and was within the patrol range of the patrol team, so there was no one around.