Seeing the pathetic look on Otis's face as he clutched his butt, Zhang Tianyuan took a few steps back in disgust.
He felt no sympathy.
It can only be said that karma is a cycle, and these people have received their just deserts.
Moreover, this retribution is insufficient to atone for their sins, because their incompetence and cowardice indirectly led to the apocalypse in the Americas and even the entire world, turning more than 6 billion lives to ashes.
To be so incompetent is the height of evil.
"Where are the bodyguards who were controlling them?" Zhang Tianyuan turned his head and looked around the scene, finding everyone crying.
Clearly, the bodyguards who had been acting as local tyrants for over a year were not here.
One soldier calmly stated, "They were separated and detained. When they saw us approaching, they tried to fire, but we easily subdued them."
Having spent a year in Antarctica without ever leaving the building, any bodyguard would be rendered useless. All that's left is the ability to control the elderly, weak, and disabled people at the research station.
Hearing this, Zhang Tianyuan lost interest in dealing with the group of insubordinate bodyguards. Even if what they did was gratifying in a certain sense, they were ultimately a bunch of perverts...
Zhang Tianyuan, who has only ever participated in the sweet vs. savory debate, still finds it hard to imagine how anyone could have such extreme tastes.
He felt that even a glance at these people would pollute his vision.
Zhang Tianyuan glanced at the people squatting there with disdain and said irritably, "You all come with me."
They were led to an open space, where everyone stood together, heads bowed, afraid to speak.
Those who were used to reading people's expressions had already noticed that although they hadn't been verbally or physically abused, Zhang Tianyuan and his group's attitude towards them was far from friendly.
In situations like this, it's best not to go looking for trouble.
Zhang Tianyuan casually took out the documents he had prepared on the way and placed them on the table in front of him.
"Everyone come up here, two copies each. Take them down, sign them yourselves, and then hand in one copy."
The on-site translator immediately conveyed the meaning.
Otis and the others dared not ask any more questions. They all lowered their heads and obediently lined up like prisoners to receive the documents in front of Zhang Tianyuan.
Then they discovered that the document was entirely in Chinese.
They couldn't understand a single word.
Otis held a pen from the research station in his hand, hesitating whether to sign it, when he saw the pen next to him...
Without a second thought, the person numbly and readily signed their name on it.
Without further hesitation, he quickly signed his name, then sniffed the pen in his hand with a strange expression, and tossed it aside with obvious disgust.
After all the documents were collected by the soldiers, Zhang Tianyuan counted them; there were a total of 103 documents.
As he had predicted, these high-ranking officials from the Americas who had fled early maintained a high degree of integrity.
These 103 documents are not applications for individual membership in the Mutual Aid Society.
For the Mutual Aid Society, letting such people in would only taint its Mutual Aid Society being.
Therefore, Zhang Tianyuan temporarily revised the " Parallel Spacetime Mutual Aid Society Emergency Humanitarian Rescue Authorization Letter".
To the system, this authorization letter is no different from an application; the result is the same: the signatory is registered as a resident.
However, the Mutual Aid Society only considers signatories as individuals in need of emergency rescue, granting them the right to use the Mutual Aid Society's special facilities, without actually recruiting them as Mutual Aid Society.
There will be an insurmountable gap in political identity between the members of the Mutual Aid Society and these people.
He handed all the documents to the soldier next to him for safekeeping.
Zhang Tianyuan said indifferently, "Let's talk about providing aid to your country next."
After hearing the translator's account, Otis finally understood that these people were actually there to help his country!
His eyes practically lit up, his face like a monkey staring at a banana; he couldn't even speak, only nodding incessantly.
Zhang Tianyuan gave him another disdainful look, then took out a new document:
"Since you've agreed, it's settled then. You grant us official authorization to operate within your country and cooperate with our related actions; in return, we will restructure your nation."
As he spoke, Zhang Tianyuan tossed the authorization letter in his hand onto the table:
"Sign it."
At this point, Otis realized that things weren't quite what he had imagined...
Why didn't these people negotiate with me? Instead, they just threw another document at me.
At this point, the translator translated Zhang Tianyuan's words.
As Otis listened, he was already terrified.
His political acumen, which had been abandoned for over a year, quickly awakened, and he soon discovered his true role.
He is now
They're only fit to be a white glove, a rubber stamp.
Moreover, for some reason, the young "officer" in front of him seemed to dislike, even hate, him...
He hadn't done anything wrong, yet he'd been abused by bad people in this awful place for a year. This young man not only showed no sympathy for him, an old man nearing 60, but actually seemed to despise him?
What's the logic behind this?
The situation is very unfavorable for me.
Otis looked at the armed soldiers around him, and finally slowly picked up the pen he had just discarded in disgust, walked to the table, opened the last page of the agreement, and signed his crooked name in front of everyone.
After receiving the authorization letter from the soldier, Zhang Tianyuan didn't say anything more to them, nodded, and prepared to leave.
Finally, Otis couldn't hold back any longer and tentatively asked, "Sir, could you explain to me the contents of the document we just signed?"
"If you want to know what's on that, then you'd better study Chinese properly." Zhang Tianyuan said bluntly and then left.
Walking down the corridor, he flipped through the authorization letter he had just signed.
The contents of this document are very simple.
This means that Otis, in its official capacity, authorized the Mutual Aid Society and its affiliated organizations to carry out all activities related to rescue and material storage within their country.
At the same time, as a nation in No. 2 Spacetime, they unconditionally agreed to No. 1 Spacetime's refugee relocation plan.
The Mutual Aid Society will also undertake the obligation to help them reorganize the country and rebuild their organizations.
Overall, this is a fair agreement, because according to its provisions, the Mutual Aid Society only has limited rights to use and store all high-value items obtained from within the Otis Kingdom.
In other words, all the supplies seized from their country, whether they are nuclear bombs or aircraft carriers, will have to be returned to them in the future.
Of course, it's unavoidable that these supplies will be touched a few times during storage, which can be considered an invisible benefit for the "2012" timeline and even for Tong Wenshi and his group.
Absolute fairness is impossible.
Even between "2012" and brother nations like Tong Wenshi, there is no absolute fairness. For an outsider like Otis to want fairness is simply wishful thinking.
Zhang Tianyuan didn't make them sign any treasonous clauses; the fact that they sold off all the land and resources already showed a great deal of decency!