Life Game In Other World
Chapter 1153: Wilderness Wanderer Group (Requesting Monthly Pass)

Chapter 1153: Chapter 1153: Wilderness Wanderer Group (Requesting Monthly Pass)

"Actually, I don’t have a clear understanding either,"

He Ao, looking at the neatly dressed woman with brownish short hair in front of him, said with a smile.

The woman who claimed to be ’Xiya’ was the same ’receptionist’ he had encountered in the Note Intelligence Building.

"But you still managed to find this place accurately,"

Xiya, looking at the man before her, said with a smile.

"Strictly speaking,"

He Ao said with a soft laugh, "I was ’invited’ to come here."

He looked at Xiya before him, "If you open your palm it’s five, wave your hand three times, head south, the only district related to five and three in the south is District 53, Minte City’s most chaotic district, a very simple word puzzle."

"You are quite impressive,"

Listining to He Ao’s words, Xiya paused slightly, then said softly with a smile, "I actually didn’t think you would pay attention to my gestures, I was just trying it out."

"I certainly can’t ignore a ’greeting’ from a beautiful lady I’ve met in the Note Intelligence Building,"

He Ao shook his head with a smile, he lifted his head and glanced at the sparse crowd on the street outside the glass, "Besides, District 53 is chaotic enough, close enough to West Steel’s factory, suitable for hiding and operating a base."

"It seems you already know our ’demands,’"

Xiya’s expression became serious as she looked earnestly at He Ao.

"Other aspects of the Federal Bureau of Investigation might not be great, but case investigation is still possible. Although I haven’t been in this city for long, fortunately, I have many good ’colleagues,’"

He Ao raised his wristband, and one by one, photos were projected onto the table, "These are photos taken by our Federal Bureau of Investigation colleagues in several factories in the south."

These were Borek’s ’investigation results’ from last night, although his investigation was interrupted by the sound of gunfire from rebels attempting to seize the gates of South City, he still ’obtained’ a lot of ’rich’ ’investigative materials’."

He returned to the Federal Bureau of Investigation Building and sent these materials to He Ao.

Of course, He Ao did not ask whether these investigative materials were indeed the results of last night.

And hearing He Ao’s words, Xiya also lowered her head, looking at the photos on the table.

Most areas in these photos are filled with huge machinery, and in the corners of these machines, emaciated figures, half-naked, are tidying up the corners and gaps of the machinery.

Almost all photos capture similar content: enormous machines burning with flames, and beside the flames, thin workers who look like they could collapse at any moment."

Most of them don’t even have uniforms, their skin is darkened, and they are covered in grease and scars.

In some of the photos, you can vaguely see robots ’Supervisors’ moving among the figures.

They are holding electric shock rods and whips, seemingly remotely controlled, and they coldly gaze over every working figure.

The insignificant humans are maintaining machines that seem to never stop, while indifferent robots are supervising their work.

These images are filled with ’technology,’ yet seem somewhat ’grotesque.’

"Your ’colleague’ is quite impressive."

Looking at these photos, Xiya’s expression sank completely, she said in a low voice, praising,

"It’s very difficult for our people to take such detailed photos of the factory interiors,

"You know, the living environment of the Wilderness Wanderers is different from that of the city folk, our skin is darker, we have more scars, and our facial features are more prominent. Although we’ve also recruited some ’companions’ from the city, we’re still too easily detected."

The ’figures’ working in those photos, the majority do indeed match the description she mentioned about the Wilderness Wanderers.

However, in fact, Wilderness Wanderers have some unique ’traits’ as well.

For instance, Xiya in front of him, although she deliberately covered up many facial characteristics through makeup and her skin was fair with a bit of baby fat on her face, completely different from the traditional appearance of Wilderness Wanderers, He Ao could still distinctly feel something different about her.

Strictly speaking, it’s a deeper level of ’difference.’

That kind of wildness and defiance that comes from living in the wilderness, wrestling with nature, exotic beasts, and other humans.

Of course, Xiya hid this very well, barely revealing it. If it weren’t for He Ao’s past experiences in the wilderness and Ronald’s memories, he wouldn’t have been so keenly aware of it.

And it’s precisely because he suspected that Xiya might be a Wilderness Wanderer that He Ao ’accepted the invitation’ to come here.

"He is indeed professional, just not that good at handling paperwork,"

He Ao glanced at a corner of the photos, where some still had watermarks from last week or last month.

He rubbed his temples gently, lifted his wristband to end the photo projection, and looked towards Xiya, "According to the information my colleague gave me, are the two large conglomerates intentionally ’seeking’ Wilderness Wanderers to ’work’ for them?"

"It’s slavery, not work,"

Xiya took a deep breath and said with a bitter smile, "It’s not ’finding’ but ’capturing.’ In earlier years, they deceived some camp and tribe Wilderness Wanderers to come to the city to ’work’ for them under the pretext of ’entering city life’, in collusion with the Wilderness Hunters."

"Back then, they didn’t deceive too many people each year, and those who followed them did so voluntarily. We didn’t pay much attention to it.

"But in recent years, they’ve become more extreme. Often when they can’t deceive people, they even use violence to abduct entire Wilderness Wanderer Camps and tribes."

Xiya sighed and continued, "At first, we didn’t care much, thinking it was some weird event or a new and powerful exotic beast had appeared in the Wilderness.

"If you have been to the Wilderness, you should know that such things are common. For one or two tribes or camps to suddenly die off is nothing new."

He Ao nodded slightly, showing his understanding.

"But later, as more and more camps and tribes began to disappear, and with more and more people witnessing traces of the Slave Capture Teams from the two major corporations, we began to realize something was wrong,"

Xiya continued, "But even then, we didn’t want to provoke the two major corporations. Most of the Wilderness Wanderer Camps near Minte City gathered and held a meeting. We chose some representatives to go into the city to ’negotiate’ with the two major corporations.

"But we didn’t even get through the doors of the corporations’ buildings before we were driven away,

"They denied abducting people from the Wilderness and claimed that all their ’employees’ were recruited through legitimate ’employment’ channels."

She paused, "After several futile attempts, some Wilderness Wanderer Camps and families had no choice but to adopt ’self-preservation’ measures,

"When their ’capture squad’ attacked a certain Wilderness Wanderer Camp, several nearby families banded together and fought them off."

"It seems their end was not very good."

He Ao let out a light sigh.

The corporations would not allow such ’resistance.’

"Indeed,"

At this point, Xiya nodded and let out another bitter smile,

"The two major corporations considered that ’Counterattack’ to be an ’attack’ on their trading caravans, and they used this as a pretext to deploy a large number of security forces to ’raid’ the families brave enough to resist,

"You know, our weapons and equipment are no match for the corporations’ security forces.

"The two major corporations slaughtered all the Elderly of those families and took all the young adults and children back to the city, confining them in factories to ’work’ for them."

He Ao calmly gazed at the woman in front of him, this time, he did not respond, but quietly waited for her to continue.

"After that incident, most of the families from the Wilderness near Minte City came together and had a meeting. There was a lot of arguing, and in the end, the conclusion we reached was,"

Xiya fell silent for a moment, then continued, "to apologize to the two major corporations,"

She said hoarsely, "We pooled together quite a bit of money, bribing the executives of the two corporations in Minte City in hopes they would drop the ’attack’ issue and let it go.

"After taking our money, it seemed like everything had settled, and the Wilderness quieted down,

"But the peace lasted for only just under two months.

"One day, several families suddenly disappeared.

"When we approached the two corporations, they said ’these Wilderness Wanderers attacked our trade caravan,’ so they raided these Wanderer families, capturing them for their own factories.

"We tried to reconcile again, gathering money once more to bribe the executives of the two corporations.

"Those executives took the money, but the abductions continued.

"Even the ’emissaries’ we sent to find them were captured and put to ’work’ in the factories.

"We sent people to infiltrate the factories, and they used their lives to send out what this ’work’ looked like,"

Xiya glanced at the area on the table where the photos had just been projected and spoke in a low voice, "The abducted Wilderness Wanderers are put to work in the most dangerous jobs in the factories, with no income, just barely subsisting on three meals a day,

"And in their labor, they could fall into a furnace at any moment or be crushed into pieces by machinery, leaving no remains to be found.

"These Wilderness Wanderers have replaced the expensive precision machinery originally used for dangerous work, as well as many regular factory employees.

"As a result, the two major corporations laid off a vast number of employees and stopped maintaining a lot of precision machinery; compared to the costs saved this way, the money we gave to the executives of the two corporations is nothing.

"And as a consequence, many ’Wilderness Wanderer workers’ can’t survive for half a year."

"High ’personnel’ casualties, that’s why they are so eager to capture people in the Wilderness."

He Ao looked at the somewhat downcast woman in front of him and said softly.

According to the data collected by Eve, the two major corporations in Minte City have had pretty good ’profitability’ in recent years, promoting many people and providing satisfactory profit reports for the headquarters.

"Yes,"

Xiya looked at He Ao and nodded gently, "Knowing all this, we realized that unless all the Wilderness Wanderers near Minte City are completely captured or killed off, the two major corporations will never stop."

"The corporations say you’re attacking them,"

He Ao casually mentioned, "you better really be attacking them."