Otherworld Advance Team
Chapter 1152 - 1145: Please Enter the Urn

Chapter 1152: Chapter 1145: Please Enter the Urn

As the construction of Lipei progressed, the outline of the entire city had essentially taken shape. According to the plan, Lipei’s main urban area would be in the old city at the confluence of the two rivers, which would become the center for the administrative, economic, and military departments of Lipei.

The West Bank District was an endless plain of Odelanqi rolling hills, which was very convenient for transportation. Therefore, this area was the main development zone, and the headquarters planned to turn it into a trade center.

The East Bank District had the topography of the Masya mountainous region, where transportation was inconvenient, but it was compensated by a beautiful environment and sparse population. Hence, the headquarters planned to locate the educational research area here, setting up the Lipei Magic Academy to align with the deployment of the Mingming Plan. At the same time, institutions related to magic research would also be established here.

Ever since the Otherworld Gate was opened, Luo’er and Xia Yue, as well as Zhuyan Yu, had few opportunities to meet. Xia Yue had been concentrating on the Elf Planet Project, and since the day the Otherworld Gate was opened, she had been holding meetings and discussions with scientists from all over Earth.

As for Zhuyan Yu, since the Otherworld Gate was opened, Luo’er and the others had hardly ever seen her again. According to Wang Xu, she seemed to have gained some inspiration and was now hiding in her apartment room at Shenghua Academy for several days, not going out and even having food delivered by service robots.

Now that Lipei had taken shape, Wang Xu planned to arrange an event to formally announce the establishment of Lipei’s Special Administrative Region. For this, he ordered the hiring of armed forces and the Mobile Troop led by Luo’er to start inviting everyone from the various villages and estates within Lipei’s jurisdiction to attend the event.

Due to historical and climatic reasons, Lipei was mostly in a desolate stage for most of the time, and there were not many villages in the jurisdiction. It took half a day of effort to barely gather around ten thousand people.

However, Wang Xu’s main targets were not these civilians but the landlords and aristocrats who controlled most of the land in the jurisdiction. His intention was clear, to announce a Land Reform movement.

Therefore, he invited these landlords and aristocrats to Lipei for a banquet, and then when the moment was right, he detained all of them, confiscating their land for redistribution.

The southwest of Lipei was an endless fertile plain, making it very suitable for cultivation. Despite the small population, these landlords and aristocrats lived very comfortably. But clearly, their good days were over.

To demonstrate the headquarters’ resolve to all the residents of Lipei, the local civilians were also within the scope of the invitation. But clearly, these civilians mistook this for a Hongmen banquet, displaying considerable non-cooperation. Coupled with the rough methods of some mercenaries, it resulted in a chaotic situation, and anyone unaware might have thought it was a conscription.

In the Otherworld’s feudal times, there was no concept of free citizens, all farmers had to depend on landlords and aristocrats. The actions of the headquarters also raised alarms among some landlords, who then tried to band together to resist the law but were promptly stopped by the Mobile Troop.

The Mobile Troop invited these aristocrats to the banquet with an almost coercive attitude; it was a banquet in name, but in reality, it was their trial. Meanwhile, under Luo’er’s arrangements, a portion of the Mobile Troop’s Otherkin joined the mercenaries’ actions to restrain them, greatly ameliorating the chaotic situation.

On the plain, Luo’er and his companions on horseback stopped and looked at the long convoy. This was the scene of the aristocrats being escorted by mercenaries toward Lipei, hiding anxiously inside the carriages, trembling, with people peering out of the curtains from time to time, their eyes filled with fear.

"How pitiful..." Upon seeing the miserable look of a young aristocratic lady in a carriage, a mixed-blood Aud member of the Mobile Troop couldn’t help but comment.

"Pitiful?" Cheng Ziang turned his head and asked.

He had originally wanted to spend more time with Luoya, but Luo’er had dragged him over to act as his deputy.

"Is this really necessary? They have acquired such extensive lands through the struggles of several generations," said the mixed-blood Aud.

"You were sleeping through history class, weren’t you?" Cheng Ziang asked with a cold laugh.

"How did you know?" The mixed-blood Aud’s eyes widened in surprise.

"History is the mirror from which we can learn about the rise and fall of civilizations. Historical experience teaches us that there’s nothing new under the sun. If we do not carry out a thorough land revolution now, we will not be able to secure our foothold in Lipei in the future. This is what we did back then, and we must do it again now."

"You pity the aristocratic lords and ladies, I don’t know what you’re thinking. Compared to these nobles, don’t those oppressed and exploited commoner slaves also deserve sympathy?" Cheng Ziang asked sternly.

"I didn’t mean it that way..." the Aud half-blood said with a grievance.

"I know what you mean, you think she’s beautiful, so you can’t bear to take away something that was never hers, is that right? You’ve never seen how these nobles oppress the commoners and slaves, have you?" Cheng Ziang pressed.

The Aud half-blood stopped speaking, bowing his head in silence.

"We’re just taking away their land, not all their property," Luo’er began, "As long as they don’t oppose the Lipei government, everything can be discussed. Just surrender the land, and we won’t touch the wealth they’ve accumulated. But if they insist on resisting, then they can’t blame us for not being polite."

"Doesn’t this seem too violent?" someone asked, confused.

"Revolutionary work isn’t about hosting a dinner party; it’s a war to overturn the existing rotten class with violence. Our approach is quite mild, courtesy before force. If we let the peasant slaves revolt on their own, those landlords would truly have nowhere to be buried," Luo’er patiently explained.

While they were talking, suddenly, they saw two skinny slaves, supporting each other, seemingly unable to hold on any longer, collapse by the roadside. Their master seemed to have given up on them too, not stopping at all. Just like that, the two fell by the roadside where carriages came and went, ignored by everyone.

"Captain Luo’er, look quickly!" a team member exclaimed in surprise, pointing at the roadside.

"I see them, keep watching. A few more of you come with me and the deputy captain to check on them," said Luo’er, and he headed for the roadside at a gallop with Cheng Ziang and several team members.

They raced to the roadside and saw the two slaves who had fallen in the grass. They looked to be only about teenagers, obviously not yet adults. One male, one female, they seemed to be siblings.

Luo’er dismounted, then tossed the reins to Cheng Ziang and hurriedly ran to crouch down in front of the two slaves to check on them.

The two slaves were ragged and as thin as rakes, but their bellies were big, probably from eating too much indigestible food to fill themselves.

Luo’er helped the boy up, who looked very weak. Luo’er took out a water bottle, uncapped it, and slowly brought it to his mouth. As soon as the clear water wet his cracked lips, he couldn’t help but embrace the bottle and drink deeply.

"Drink slowly, drink slowly," Luo’er watched with compassion, softly comforting him.

"Sister, sister..." the boy weakly reached out, searching for his sister.

"I’m here, I’ve got her," a team member, shocked by the scene before him, jumped down from his horse and scurried over to Luo’er’s side, then carefully helped up the equally skeletal sister and mimicked Luo’er by giving her water.

"Who has food?" Luo’er asked, looking back.

"I do, I do!" the team members began searching the pockets of their clothes on horseback.

"Luo’er, we’ve only got dry rations, and it’s probably not suitable for them to eat this," said Cheng Ziang seriously.

"So what do we do?" asked Luo’er.

"Take them to the district clinic, give them some IV glucose to recover slowly," suggested Cheng Ziang.

"Okay, okay, let’s take them away immediately!" Luo’er said, and picked up the boy in a princess carry.

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