A Thorn in Their Side!

The Church had no interest in caring about these useless poor people.

This group of people, who are struggling to survive, have no ability to threaten the Church's rule. They are just clinging to life. The Church can wipe them all out at any time if it wants to. However, they are too far from the Libya City and are scattered in a very remote area, making them very difficult to find.

This group of poor people, who posed no threat, offered no benefit, and were troublesome to deal with, were completely ignored by the Church and became outcasts of the Nithers District.

However, in Nithers, besides these harmless civilians, there is another group that the Church hates to the core and is determined to eradicate.

They were not Resistance Organization, because Resistance Organization mainly hid in the city, carrying out sabotage in secret, with the aim of overthrowing the ruthless rule of the Church, and only fled the city to avoid being captured.

The groups that the Church spent a lot of manpower to eradicate were actually small, independent factions.

Some of them were abandoned people who originally lived outside the city, while others were Libya citizens who fled the city through various means to escape the ruthless rule of the Church. However, unlike other abandoned people, they did not leave the Libya City and hide on the edge of Nithers to live a hard life. Instead, they contacted the emotional prisoners in the city through some secret channels and sold them the books, artworks and other prohibited items that were strictly prohibited in Libya at high prices.

Although the Church's rule was strict, there were still many emotional criminals in various departments. Therefore, the huge city wall was not as impenetrable as a bucket. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people could not enter or leave through the city gate, but there were always some secret ways and channels to sneak in and out.

These art dealers, risking extermination by the Church to engage in this deadly business, are certainly not benevolent.

Besides searching the ruins themselves, their main source of supplies was other survivors living outside the city, and even their fellow survivors.

Although they would sometimes exchange food and other supplies with abandoned civilians, that was only when the other party was numerous and armed. More often than not, they played the role of bandits and robbers.

Ordinary abandoned people who encounter them will only have all their food and valuables robbed, and some even brutally killed.

Therefore, the lives of these abandoned people outside the city were not only difficult, but also fraught with danger. Once they encountered these groups of armed art dealers, those with guns could fight to the death to make the other side hesitate and have some reservations. Those without weapons could only choose to run away. Once caught, they could only be slaughtered at the mercy of others.

Therefore, the ordinary outcasts outside the city were mostly terrified of these bandit-like art dealers and would stay as far away as possible from them.

Not only did the ordinary people outside the city hate them, but the Jehovah Church inside the walls regarded them as a thorn in their side and wished they could wipe them all out.

Their presence greatly exacerbated the situation of emotional crimes in the city. The influx of prohibited items such as books, records, and artworks that could evoke human emotions made emotional crimes in the city difficult to eradicate, posing a great threat to their rule.

Therefore, the Church spent a great deal of effort in eradicating these art dealers, even more so than in dealing with prisoners of passion and Resistance Organization in the city.

From the Church's perspective, the Emotion Crime and Resistance Organization in the city were under their noses and not very large, so they couldn't cause any trouble under their watchful eyes.

But these art dealers scattered and hiding in the Nithers District outside the city are their real concern.

They incited and aroused the emotions of the city's residents, turning many law-abiding citizens into emotional criminals. Every contraband item that entered the city could create several Emotion Crime, and these organizations sold more than a thousand contraband items into the city every year.

Once these organizations that sell contraband are eradicated and the source of contraband is eliminated, the situation of crimes of emotion will inevitably improve significantly without these things that can evoke human emotions.

After all, it is extremely rare for someone to break free from the control of "Bosean" and stop taking the drugs without being triggered by contraband. The vast majority of the Emotion Crime they capture are those who committed crimes under the influence of these contraband items or other Emotion Crime.

These contraband trafficking organizations naturally knew that the Church hated them to the core. They could bully ordinary outcasts, but they would be crushed when facing the Church's troops and priests. Therefore, they acted with extreme caution and would flee at the slightest sign of trouble.

Their hiding places are often very secretive, and they move around frequently, making it difficult to catch them in the ruins of Nithers.

Furthermore, the lure of enormous profits from the sale of contraband has attracted countless fearless individuals. Although the priests have successively eliminated many forces involved in the sale of contraband, many still manage to slip through the net and continue their trade in Nithers.

After Chen Mo infiltrated the army, he did not arouse anyone's suspicion. He blended into the ranks and followed two priests every day to arrest emotional criminals in the city or to eliminate contraband trafficking organizations outside the city.

Inside the city, things were alright. Most of the offenders were hiding alone in their homes and didn't have any weapons. The guards were just there to help search for contraband in the rooms and escort the prisoners, so there wasn't much danger.

But the situation is different outside the city.

Those contraband trafficking organizations consist of anywhere from a dozen to nearly a hundred people, each armed with firearms. Although these are old rifles left over from before the war, their power is not much weaker than the weapons they possess, and being hit by one will still result in death!

Although the members of these organizations were not as well-trained and fearless as the soldiers of the Libya Army, they could still inflict considerable casualties from random gunfire. In just over a month, nearly half of Chen Mo's squad had died.

During this time, he also witnessed the power of Gun Fu up close, and it was indeed incredibly formidable.

While John Preston and Elo Partjae possessed physical abilities far superior to ordinary people, they were still only at the level of top-tier special forces soldiers, far from their physical limits, let alone reaching the level of Chen Mo, whose physical abilities were eight times that of an average person.

However, these two ordinary people, whose physical abilities were several times worse than Chen Mo's, were able to achieve a level of combat prowess in gunfights that was no less than Chen Mo's, thanks to this Gun Fu.