Chapter 818, The Look of the Northwest

In the secret prison, the big lug yelled, “How come this doesn’t even give us dinner anymore? I say you Kong still talk about human rights, prisoners are also people okay!”

Only, the corridor prison quiet, no one answered the big lulu’s question, also no one out to let him keep his voice down.

“Strange,” muttered the big fool, “here even the prison guards have withdrawn?”

At that moment, two prison guards came out of the gate at the end of the corridor and walked straight through the corridor.

Big Kudos shouted, “Hey, if you won’t let us go out for dinner, at least bring in the food!”

As a result, the two prison guards didn’t even look at Big Snooze and left directly from the other side of the corridor.

“Do you guys think this group of people still have any humanity,” Big lulu sighed as he grasped the railing.

“Something’s not right,” Wang Yun, who had been silent all along, suddenly snapped, “These people’s pace is far more hasty than usual, and their strides are about a centimeter bigger, something must have happened that we don’t know about to make them like this.”

The big luminary froze for a moment, “I say you’re even more metaphysical than me now, you can even memorize the length of the steps they take on a normal day?”

“I can memorize the picture of their previous walks and then compare it with the current one in my mind, it’s like two films overlapped together, it’s the same as before or different, I can tell at once.”

“It’s a shame that you’re not going to the northwest of Daxing,” the big lug exclaimed, “Honestly, don’t you yourself think that it’s a bit condescending to be here in this tiny Kong Clan?”

“The Kong Clan is located in the Central Plains, with the Wang Clan and the Zhou Clan, what is so condescending?” Wang Yun said in a cold voice.

“Then do you know how big my Northwest is now?” The big lout proudly said, “The entire northwest is my 178 Fortress, and these years 178 Fortress has been defending against foreign enemies, and what has the Kong Clan done? But it is just calculating how to oppress the people every day. Let me ask you, why did the Central Plains build barriers in the first place, was it really because of the so-called wild beasts? I don’t think so, it was just a lie to fool the people.”

Wang Yun didn’t say anything, everyone was smart, so there was no need to refute this kind of thing.

The big luminary continued, “It’s true that there was an insect plague back then, and the wild beasts did hurt a lot of people, but were the various forces really incapable of exterminating the wild beasts back then? The construction of barriers wasn’t the result of various powers wanting to encircle the land and then establish natural class barriers so that the people outside the barriers could sell their lives from generation to generation. It’s like Zong raising bandits, the stragglers can only cling to the barriers because they fear the bandits.”

“It’s not all like that,” Wang Yun responded.

“At least most of it is,” sighed Dazhu.

The corridor was quiet again, and after a long interval, Ji Zi’ang, who was next door, suddenly asked, “When did you rescue my wife and children, and did they ever suffer any bullying at Zhou?”

“A year ago, I think you’d better not hear about it,” the big luminary lay back on the cold bed and crossed his legs, “Although we in the Northwest often encourage people to go and support the construction of the frontier, although we will occasionally use a little bit of tactics that are not on the table, but if your wife and child were not in danger, we would not be so bad as to bring them mother and child to a foreign land thousands of kilometers away, but don’t worry, all those things you worry about the most haven’t happened, your son is healthy, I even watched him participate in the school’s sports meeting last time I went back to Northwest.”

“You guys were ready to turn me a year ago?” Ji Zion asked.

“O, wanting to turn you was much earlier,” the big lug replied, “I started to prepare for it since the time you killed that businessman, but it turned out that you were pitched into a secret prison before you were ready.”

“Tell me what the Northwest is really like,” Ji Zi’ang said in a low voice, “If you want me to go, you have to let me know what it is like there.”

“Northwest ah,” the big luminary looked reminiscent, “In fact, when I first went to the Northwest, I thought that only a fool would stay there. I was desperate, and directly enlisted in the army after being chased over, thinking that even if the enemies were powerful, they couldn’t possibly mess with 178 Fortress that group of killing billets couldn’t they, well, it just so happened that I encountered the conscription, and I enlisted in the army.”

“Later on, my old company commander of that recruit company think I am not decent, I feel the need for more suffering to sharpen me a bit, out of the recruit company directly after I sent to the border post …… Now looking back I have the urge to scold my old company commander, thee is not a thing, that the post is a place for people to stay? ……”

Ji Zion said, “Continue to say Northwest.”

“Well,” recalled Big Huyao, “the outpost is probably the most bitter place in the Northwest, the furthest outpost has to travel 15 days by mountain road from the 178th fortress to reach it, and in the weather of more than thirty degrees below zero, with goose feather snow drifting in the sky, sometimes one foot will fall into the ice hole. At that time I set out every morning at 8:00 a.m., need to patrol over five mountains at 5,000 meters altitude, and then at 5:00 p.m. down the mountain to return to the post, the first day is like this, the second day is like this, the third day is also like this ……”

The big lulu was silent for a while before he added: “Day after day, boring days just like this, in the big mountain outpost, I had felt unprecedented loneliness, but now looking back on that loneliness, but also a kind of strength. You have heard of the saying that it is difficult to drink ice for ten years to cool hot blood, in fact, many people just know what it means, but do not know how bitter it is to drink ice for ten years. On the way to the patrol, you can’t bring a water bottle with you because the water bottle will be frozen into ice lumps. So if you want to drink water, you have to use your mouth to warm up the snow.”

“Only later did I hear that the sentry of Fort 178 would ask the girl of his choice for a photo before he went, and whether the girl liked him or not, he would give him the most beautiful photo of himself, so that sentry would be able to look at the photo in the sentry post and not be so lonely that he would go crazy. But I damn well wasn’t a Northwesterner at that time, ah, and didn’t know this at all, so when others looked at the photo, I could only pick my feet ……” Big lulu said and even said it with joy.

Ji Zion suddenly said: “Who would want to go to that kind of shitty place ah, since you felt bitter in the first place, why don’t you leave? You make the Northwest sound so bitter, aren’t you afraid that I’ll turn against you?”

As a result, at this time the big lug got serious: “Because you will get real happiness there, because you are guarding your compatriots behind you in that poor countryside, and when your commander goes to sympathize with you, he will also walk solidly through the mountain paths that you had walked through. You may not believe me when I tell you that the year I met Commander Zhang he hiked for 78 days and traveled to all 178 posts outside of Fortress 178 and gave each of us a meal of dumplings, which were hard to cook because of the high altitude, but it was one of the most memorable meals of my life for me, Zhang Husheng.”