owlsbooks Chapter 995 - 992: Don’t do meaningless things
Chapter 995 - 992: Don’t do meaningless things
Chapter 995: Chapter 992: Don’t do meaningless thingsAs numerous Jiuge soldiers surrendered, the Peace Party humanely announced a promise of no killing for those who surrendered, which directly crushed those Jiuge soldiers who originally intended to fight desperately until the last second. Within a few days, a large number of Jiuge soldiers disarmed, and the officials brought by the Peace Party quickly became very busy.
With that, the war was considered over. The residents who once lived under Jiuge breathed a sigh of relief. They actually didn’t care who the ruler was; they just wanted to live their lives well. They thought that life under the Peace Party’s rule would be the same as before, but a week later, a drug ban caught everyone off guard.
In just one week, Ah Fu had observed for a long time that indeed, the addiction to these drugs could make people willing to risk their lives going to the wasteland to find resources and kill the evolved zombies. Seemingly, this was beneficial, as it could rapidly inflate Jiuge’s economy, but Ah Fu soon realized that compared to the profits of drugs, the drawbacks far outweighed the benefits!
The drugs extracted from the evolved plants in the Apocalypse were far more powerful than those before the Apocalypse, having extremely strong addictive properties. The motivation that drugs gave to the users was solely for satisfaction. Once their cravings were fulfilled, these drug users became more numb than the survivors from the former Qinshan Base; they could completely erode a person’s will, leaving behind nothing but an empty shell.
Even an ordinary person, just to take a hit, would be willing to be bitten by a zombie. Is this motivation? It’s not!
So after consulting with Tang Ye, and receiving the opinion of the true ruler, Ah Fu absolutely chose to enforce the drug ban, following the boss’s mindset.
This action immediately caused widespread dissatisfaction among the Jiuge citizens, who protested en masse at the Jiuge City Hall. But what are the Peace Party Army soldiers? They’re the product of authoritarian politics! They don’t care about what the people think. Anything that is detrimental to them, or seen as wrong by the dictator, all your crying and fussing would be useless.
Thus, in the face of the protests of the Jiuge people, the Peace Party’s response was nothing but a cold blade!
Before the Apocalypse, Funan was impoverished. The nation couldn’t provide what the people wanted, but drug traffickers could. Trafficking drugs, growing cannabis, and joining drug-trafficking groups were the only choices for the people of Funan nation to survive, and these national circumstances had not just emerged over a year or two but had persisted for over a decade!
Under such a lengthy period, it was enough to completely turn people’s thoughts around. In the eyes of the people from other countries, drugs are something that should not exist in the world, but to the people of Funan nation, drugs are as normal as rice – indispensable. Any proclamation of a drug ban was cutting off the livelihood of the common people.
Therefore, in Funan nation, any official who claimed to strike against drugs would be beaten to death by the local people even before the drug traffickers needed to take action!
In the Apocalypse, the citizens of Jiuge could rely on drugs to forget the cruelty of the end days, sinking into an endless yet wonderful dream without zombies, new humans, or slaughter. This was something they relied on for survival, but now, the Peace Party was about to destroy it!
How could people accept this?
They wanted to resist, but the base nature of humans made the use of violence to suppress violence very effective. Faced with the merciless Peace Party soldiers, what met the protesters was nothing but the weapons in their hands.
They knew, all of this had been affirmed by Li Henian. In the Apocalypse, they might have been able to swarm and kill people in their dwellings, but in the Apocalypse, with Li Henian being a Level 7 New Human, no amount of numbers mattered!
In the time after the drug ban was announced, a large number of drugs were confiscated, and the drug raw material farms were eradicated one by one. People were angry but dared not speak out, and could only allow the Peace Party to do as they wished.
That day, the black smoke from burning drugs filled the entire sky, and who knows how many resisters died under the Peace Party’s knives. They gradually came to recognize a fact – Jiuge was now in the hands of the Peace Party!
He was no longer the king of ZRZ Group, and the former second-largest group, the Shenluo Group, had also fallen silent, with no stance taken.
However, on the fifth day after the drug prohibition order was issued, an incident occurred—the bodies of a pair of Peace Party soldiers who had been