Chapter 555, Investigative Reporter

The patrol escorted Ren Xiaosu and Fang Zhi and the others all the way to the edge of the barrier, at this time, the redundant residential buildings had already been dismantled here, and new fortifications within the barrier were being constructed.

Originally, this place was a clean and tidy street, and by the side of the road there were small stores and five or six-story old residential buildings, but now, the residential buildings and stores have disappeared, and replaced by dust on the ground, and half-built bunkers, as well as some simple machine gun high points.

This kind of fortification was completely prepared for how to fight after the walls of the barriers were broken through.

Moreover, the gates were all sealed.

“How come the gates are sealed as well,” Fang Zhi marveled, “We came in through the east gate in the morning, and it wasn’t sealed there yet.”

Their location was the north side of the barrier, the barrier had a total of four gates, and this north gate had been completely closed by concrete and other materials, Ren Xiaosu took a look at it, that material had not yet dried out, and it looked like it was just sealed in the past two days.

Next to the patrol team no one answered them, and Ren Xiaosu thought, I’m afraid this is really going to be a war ah, otherwise there is nothing to seal the gate why?

I’m afraid that in the entire barricade, now only the east gate is left unsealed, it seems that the enemy is coming from the west? So Zhou’s 74th Barrier only left the east gate.

When they arrived at the construction site, what Ren Xiaosu and the others did was to move bricks and assist the professional engineering corps in building the fortifications.

While moving bricks, Ren Xiaosu observed what Zhou’s troops were doing.

The first thing was transporting supplies to centralize and watch over them, usually when this was done, they were preparing for a hard war.

Secondly, they were dropping inductive mines in the rivers that passed through the barriers, and it seemed like they had specially shipped them over from other barriers.

Zhou’s territory had many rivers and lakes, Wang’s had many plains, and Kong’s was connected to the sea, these were the three major consortiums’ geomorphological features, so Zhou had researched more about weapons in the water.

To be honest, Ren Xiaosu looked at it for half a day and didn’t understand, what exactly is this going to prevent ah, surprisingly, the defense work is done so tightly, unusual troops shouldn’t be able to enter the barriers through underwater, right?

During the work, Ren Xiaosu was not tired at all, the intensity of this work is nothing compared to his physical fitness.

On the contrary, it is Fang Zhi they are tired to death, at noon on the way to get the meal, Fang Zhi end Zhou issued a plastic dinner plate, hands are shaking ……

Fangzhi complained: “Ren Xiaosu you can do some personnel, ah? Not just sitting in the car and smiled, you to not? Not right ah, you also work, how do you not at all tired look.”

Ren Xiaosu glanced at him, “Usually do not do any work at all, really when danger comes, you people really can not run, let you exercise your body is for your own good.”

“Is this speaking human language?” Fang Zhi was speechless: “Now that the Central Plains is so safe, even the wild beasts have not been seen in the wilderness, where is the danger?”

Ren Xiaosu pointed at his feet, “Isn’t this 74th barrier facing danger?”

Fang Zhi glanced at the dense fortifications around him, it seemed to be true, he curiously said, “What’s going on here, is Qing going to fight over here?”

“I don’t know,” Ren Xiaosu shook his head, “There’s not enough information to tell.”

The next moment, a person in the crowd was suddenly pulled out by the site steward, then snatched away the small filming device the other person had hidden in his pocket, “What are you doing?”

That person who was pulled out said proudly, “I’m an investigative reporter, to record what you’re doing, you’re conscripting wall dwellers as civilian laborers like this, but you don’t have the slightest intention of settling the wages ……”

As a result of the words, the steward of that construction site stopped this reporter, and then invited him to one side of the pergola and gave him a better meal, but this reporter’s filming equipment was taken away.

Ren Xiaosu and Fang Zhi they watched from afar, only to see that the steward actually sent another person to fetch a letter of red envelopes handed to this reporter, that reporter directly took it, never mentioning the matter of investigation.

Fangzhi held up his glasses, “This is definitely not an investigative reporter from Hope Media, not hardcore at all.”

“A red envelope gave the solution?” Ren Xiaosu was curious.

“This reporter came over, I’m afraid that he originally harbored the purpose of extorting a sum of money, there are a lot of this kind of reporter in the Central Plains, they went to investigate some of he chaos, they just want to collect a red packet,” Fangzhi explained.

“I see, what about Hope Media? I heard you mean, Hope Media is not quite the same?” Ren Xiaosu asked.

“That Hope Media’s editor-in-chief used to be an investigative reporter,” Fang Zhi admired, “When he first hid in the Kong Consortium’s coal kiln to record the treatment of the coal miners, he was beaten up several times because of it, and when he escaped and came back to try to report what he had seen and heard, but it turned out that none of the newspapers dared to pick it up. Until this time, he went to find the Qinghe Group’s Xu Ke, then Xu Ke just took over the Qinghe Group, I heard that Xu Ke and the editor-in-chief of the editor at first sight, Xu Ke said, since no newspaper dares to report, then we will do a newspaper to report, which has the hope of the media.”

Ren Xiaosu listened with great interest, and Fangzhi on the side continued to exclaim: “Of course, this is just a story that has been circulated from nowhere, but Hope Media has always done things the hard way …… Hehe, I also have a press card ah!”

Fangzhi came back to his senses at this time, he had done a press card before, but of course he wasn’t to be a reporter, but to be an assistant to Li Ran, having an extra reporter’s identity on his body was good for doing things, and a lot of celebrities’ assistants had a whole lot of identities, all of which were bought.

Fangzhi rummaged around in his wallet for a while, he was going to flash his reporter’s license, he could also not work ah.

Other things aside, not having to work was the most important thing.

Fangzhi took out a card with his photo from his wallet, and then shouted to the person in charge of the construction site, “I’m also a …… journalist.”

As a result, before he finished speaking, his press card was taken away and broken by Ren Xiaosu: “No, you’re not.”

Fangzhi: “????”

Ren Xiaosu explained in a low voice: “Tonight I’m going to take you back to the barriers to find Li Ran them, you’re being taken away alone, by the time we leave you alone in the construction site, are you willing to?”

Fangzhi would be skeptical, “You’re going to take us to escape?”

“You think I’m willing to work here? Don’t worry, the barriers are so big, even if we run away, Zhou won’t have the energy to search for us all over the city,” Ren Xiaosu skimmed him, “But there are still things to do before we leave.”

As Ren Xiaosu remembered, the supplies that the touring team brought with them were enough for everyone to eat for two days at most, and it was obvious that there was going to be a war in this 74th Barrier, and all the food was gathered in the hands of the troops, so if they didn’t get some supplies, I’m afraid that after two days, the entire touring team would be starving.