Danger

When Japan occupied the International Settlement, they did kill some people, but there were no large-scale attacks on civilians. All that could be said of those who died was that they had bad luck...

Of course, that made no sense. Why wasn't it you who died instead? But there was nothing to be done.

This time, Japan's occupation of the International Settlement was already far better than the various things it had done before. Mainly because, by this point, the Japanese people's brutality needed no further explanation. The impoverished masses were as docile as lambs. The once-prosperous International Settlement immediately seemed far less lively, no longer as bustling with traffic as before.

In contrast, the French Concession became much livelier. For three consecutive nights, the Central Police Station's jurisdiction saw more than a hundred deaths each night, and the other police stations were much the same, with death tolls noticeably higher than usual. Altogether, over a thousand people died in the French Concession in just three short days. There were old people, children, men, and women.

This was a struggle for survival between the large number of destitute drifters who had suddenly flooded into the French Concession without any assets there, and the drifters who had already gathered in the French Concession. After all, the French Concession was only so large, and its resources were limited. Previously, all the various forces and trades had maintained a relatively stable balance. Now, all sorts of people flooding in from the International Settlement had to fight them for survival.

Besides that, the unstable situation during this period, the secret contests between various factions, and the covert clashes among intelligence operatives all claimed lives as well.

But as one of the upper-class beneficiaries, it had no impact whatsoever on Wang Yan. Even if three