Chapter 359 Return After the events in the Arctic were over, Levi did not return on the same train as Grand Duke Green. The Western Region has only one piece of rule fragment left to obtain, and that is in Zijin. But he had a faster way to get to the central city. Just as Grand Duke Grimm boarded the train, Levi slit his own throat with his own illusion. Afterwards, he was resurrected by the great blessing left by the Xinlan Mark, boarded the train here, and arrived in Zijin in less than five days. Before killing Grand Duke Zijin, the Grand Duke of the Roland family, Levi got the information about where the fragment of rules in Zijin was hidden from his mind. Now that there is no other chosen one in the Western Region except Grand Duke Green, it is obvious that no one and nothing can hinder Levi. He stole the rule fragment hidden by Zi Jin quietly. The two fragments of rules in the Western Region, like the two fragments obtained by the Sun and the Center, represent the basic rules that are now divided by humans into five natural science departments. The Sun's is for atmosphere, the Central's is for physics, the Arctic's is for geology, and Zijin's is for chemistry.
Only the part of the academy is special, representing the authority of living things to control the laws of nature. From the rule fragments he has obtained now, Levi can basically guess the two rule fragments that have not yet been obtained. One of them is biology, and the other is similar to the academy, also representing a special rule. After getting the two fragments from the Western District, Levi did not stay in Zijin. Although Sherlock has now arrived and is ready to start rectifying the chaotic situation, Levi has no intention of meeting him. The two had met once before in Shinran, and before he left, Levi had said everything he wanted to say to him, so naturally there was nothing else to say. After getting his own rule fragments, Levi did not continue to waste time on the train. He still used the fastest way of movement, which was to cut his neck. But as his new resurrection point, he did not choose the center where the sixth rule fragment was located, but the sun. It’s still the abandoned test site at the beginning. When Levi opened his eyes again, he suddenly discovered that the scene before his eyes was not the wilderness ruins in his memory! There was a lot of noise all around, with voices and the roar of large machines. The air was dusty, and there were many busy figures wearing helmets and covered in dust everywhere. Some people had obviously noticed Levi's sudden appearance. They all looked quite surprised, but no one was scared or anything else. Most of them were doing their own work while looking at him curiously. A few people stopped what they were doing, walked towards him and asked what he was doing. Levi did not answer directly, but used the rules to set a psychological hint for himself, so that everyone who saw him would ignore him as the most reasonable passerby, and then looked at the construction site with interest. It was obvious that some kind of factory was being built here, and most of those working in charge of the construction had rough skin and plain temperament, and were obviously the same laborers who had been working in the Sun's Afterglow Zone. But their mental state now is completely different from what Levi saw two years ago. There is no numbness in their eyes, nor do they look like a group of walking corpses without thoughts and souls. They seem to be very motivated in the work at hand. Even if they are doing physical labor, not to mention the smiles on their faces, you can tell that almost everyone is very energetic! In addition to these workers, there are some people in other places on the construction site. They look much younger and better maintained than those laborers, but their complexion and mental outlook are much worse. Levi even saw a young man who threw the tools in his hand directly to the ground and stopped working on the spot. "I won't do it anymore! I won't do it even if you beat me to death!" It seemed that the emotions that had been suppressed to the extreme for some time finally burst out, and he started shouting and yelling like a broken jar.
"You are a bunch of hypocrites! Bandits! Robbers! What equality are you talking about? My family has no real industrial assets in Yuguang and Bili. We just run a few newspapers passed down from our ancestors. Why do you take it away like this? And you let me work here! Just kill me! Kill me!" There were workers nearby who saw this scene. A small number of those people, who looked like they were once citizens of Yaoguang, showed anger and unwillingness on their faces. However, those laborers who were working hard did not stop their work. They continued to work while looking in the direction of the young man with amusement. Soon, a man who looked like a worker team leader heard the noise and came to the young man. He was wearing a neat but dusty uniform, and it was obvious that he was doing physical labor before coming over. "Since you were not sentenced to any punishment in the final trial, it means that you did not intentionally do anything bad, so no one will kill you or beat you, sir!" His voice was so loud that even in such a noisy construction site, everyone around him could still hear it clearly. The young man still had no intention of getting up. He just stared at the worker team leader fiercely. "You just don't kill me outright! I'm not suffering here, but you won't give me food to eat. You want to starve me to death! Instead of doing this, you might as well just kill me outright!" "Only those who work and contribute to the collective will be rewarded. Even if you are the president of the Sun General Labor Union or the chosen lady, they all have their own work to do in the Sun! No one is special, and no one should be special!" "You robbed my family of their property! You didn't even leave us a penny! Now you say you didn't force us to die! You told us that we would only be paid if we worked! In fact, you just want us to die of exhaustion here! You want to kill us all! You are just a bunch of robbers! A bunch of evil thieves!!" The young man's words inspired some of the citizens who were originally Yaoguang like him to stop their actions, but many people continued to do their work without even looking up. The captain was unmoved by his accusations, his expression remained firm, and his voice was still loud. "Before participating in the labor, you Yaoguang citizens should have undergone a three-month study. But now you are still saying such slanderous words to me on the construction site. I will report this to my superiors and check whether the work of the Workers' Committee School is really done well." "As for your accusation of being a robber and a villain, the union charter clearly states this! Everything in the Sun belongs to all the people of the Sun, not to a few high-ranking individuals! You said that your family's property was passed down from your ancestors, but according to the union's investigation, among all the political families, commercial capital, and all walks of life in Yaoguang, there is not a single organization that did not engage in oppression and exploitation when it was first established!" He calmly looked at the young man who was sitting on the ground and looking at him angrily. "As I remember you, your last name is Du. Before Yaoguang, the three newspapers including the Daily Morning Post were all owned by your family. Just as you said, your family hardly interfered with the operation of these newspapers. You just controlled the majority of the shares of the newspapers and handed them over to others to run. Your family could enjoy a luxurious life every year just by relying on dividends. During this period, at least you personally maintained good morals and never committed a crime or did anything immoral." The young man stretched his neck and stared at him with bloodshot eyes. "So! You said I didn't commit any crime, but you raided my house! I had already separated from other family members, so how could their crimes still implicate me? I didn't do anything! My property is clean! What gives you the right to take it away!" The captain's expression remained unchanged. He did not seem annoyed by the young man's hostility. He just asked back. "Your money comes from those newspapers, which were passed down from your ancestors. But were they really clean when your ancestors founded these newspapers?" Without waiting for the young man to answer, he continued. "Before taking over Yaoguang's companies, the union had already investigated and sorted out everything. There aren't that many people in the Sun, so they can't hide much. Your great-grandfather was the director of Yaoguang's early human resources company. With the money he earned from working for the company, even if he didn't eat or drink for his whole life, he didn't have the connections and funds to start a newspaper, let alone three." "He relied on his position in that big company to send women to high-level politicians in Yaoguang. He found the channel by arranging the relationship, and then earned the initial capital by privately trafficking Yuguang's people to other cities. Then he separated from the human resources company and owned his own business. After that, it was passed down from generation to generation, and part of it was passed down to you, allowing you to live a life like this without having to do anything and just eat, drink and enjoy yourself without worries." "You got your fortune in this way. Do you still have the nerve to say that all the money you once had was clean and you deserved it? Now the union has not held you accountable because you were not exploiting them willfully. What else do you want to ask for?" The young man was not convinced, but became a little hysterical. "You are talking nonsense! How come I never knew this! My father and grandfather have told me that our family is the cleanest merchant in Yaoguang's family fortune! We have accumulated our current family business through our own efforts and wisdom! This is just your fabrication!!" "Is it fabricated? The union has the evidence. If you want to check everyone, you can check at any time. If you still think these are false, it can only mean that you only want to live in a world that you want to believe in." The captain seemed to have lost all patience with his sermon, and he finally spoke with a frown. "Besides, I explained so much to you because you are not a bad person and you really didn't know where your family's assets came from before. But after Yu Guang overthrew the old Sun system, even if your property was obtained legally according to the old laws, the new union government will never admit that the comfortable life of Yaoguang citizens was built on the blood and sweat of Yu Guang people. No matter whether you were good or evil in the past, it is a fact!" "And now, the union has successfully seized power in the entire city. We didn't punish you, nor did we step on you like you did to us before. We just let you work and live like all of us workers. Why can't you tolerate this?"
The captain shook his head and gave a final warning before leaving. "You don't have to work. The first article of the union constitution is that there is no gain without work, so you won't have food to eat. If you go hungry, it's your own business, but you can't affect other people who are working. If that happens, I will hand you over to the Workers' Police." The young man seemed to be speechless after his rebuttal, his face flushed, but he still looked unconvinced. He just lay on the dusty ground, staring, gasping for breath. But no one was paying attention to him anymore. After the captain revealed how his ancestors acquired the family fortune, the few people who came from Yaoguang like the young man and were paying attention to this side turned around and continued to work. They obviously knew better than the young man that their family background was even more filthy. After lying on the ground for half an hour without any attention or care, the young man finally gritted his teeth and stood up again, picked up the shovel he had thrown on the ground before, and continued the work assigned to him. Obviously, he didn't want to starve to death yet. Not far away, Levi, who was as ordinary as a speck of dust in the construction site, watched the whole scene. He was not surprised by the treatment of the young man or his words, but was very interested in the team leader of the workers. With the level of knowledge he has mastered now about the rules, there is no so-called secret for anyone standing in front of him, so he knew the captain's life story the first time he saw him. This seemingly inconspicuous team leader on the construction site was actually a special student of the college! It's just that he entered the school later than Levi did when he entered under the name Qian Wei, and at the same time as when he entered under the name Vic Forrest. Therefore, he didn't learn much in the academy, and the city was destroyed. After the liberation of rules and authority, his knowledge of natural sciences was not enough for him to awaken and become a scientist. But even so, after studying in college, he is considered a very high-level talent in the Sun. Now he is willing to come to the construction site to work as a worker, and voluntarily! From his memory, Levi discovered that there were many people like him in the Sun, and there was no exaggeration in what he said. Including the union president Li Ming, and Feng Zi, the god-like chosen one, they also need to work to have housing and food! If a group of workers alone seized power in a city, they would never be able to achieve what they have now. Levi was curious, even surprised. How could they develop such theories and models that any Chinese person would be extremely familiar with in such a short period of time? (End of this chapter)