Nightmare Light

Chapter 280 The Deserters of Deer Mountain
A few minutes later, Lin Wang finished explaining the key points for monitoring the surveillance cameras to the security manager of Lushan.

This includes placing high-definition cameras in some strange corners, and turning some cameras to odd positions where people can't see them at all.

The latter didn't understand why he would make such a strange request, and was also somewhat indignant about the idea of ​​an "outsider directing an expert."

But after Ji Shuxun's request, and a phone call from Ji Xuanyun, the security supervisor still...

I still don't quite accept it.

The burly security chief frowned, suppressing his anger, and said to Ji Shuxun and the others, "Miss Shuxun, esteemed officers... I am the world's top security officer! I know exactly what I'm supposed to do! I'm the most professional at setting up a comprehensive surveillance system! If you..."

Have you seen the surveillance video of the tower collapse on the west side of Lushan Mountain?

Lin Wang suddenly spoke, interrupting the security supervisor.

"I've seen it, what's wrong?" The security supervisor frowned.

"Then you should recognize me."

The security supervisor looked at Lin Wang, as if he remembered something. He was silent for a few seconds, nodded to the crowd, and left without saying a word.

Lin Wang stood up and said to Ji Shuxun, "Miss Shuxun, I need to go through every room in the entire Deer Mountain and make sure I see every single person from Deer Mountain... anyone who will be staying overnight in Deer Mountain."

Ji Shuxun stood up: "I'll personally lead the way for you."

"Thank you." Lin Wang nodded and stood up, then asked, "By the way, where is your mother? I didn't see her this time."

“Mother has been very busy lately, often at Luoyun Palace.” Ji Shuxun walked out, with Lin Wang and two female sheriffs following closely behind. “Yes… war against the Northerners is imminent, Mother is very busy.”

Is the intention to secure more command positions and military influence for Lushan in the upcoming war...?

Politicians... even at a time like this, no one thinks about the living, breathing lives and families...

Lin Wang thought to himself.

Ji Shuxun seemed to guess what he was thinking. She turned to look at him and said softly, "Mother is not going to fight for a seat for Lushan. On the contrary... Mother has always wanted to stop this war."

"Hmm?" Lin Wang was somewhat surprised. "Lu Shan, you want to stop this war?"

"Yes." Ji Shuxun lowered her head slightly, looked at the low-voiced brick grid, and suddenly jumped a step into the grid in front of her. "There are many politicians among the people of Lushan, but the people of Lushan are very clear-headed. They know that launching a war against the people of the North is a meaningless thing for the Federation - the people of the North and the people of the Candle Clan have no conflict, and the North is also a security barrier for the North."

Lin Wang nodded; what Lu Shanren was thinking was basically the same as his.

Ji Shuxun added, "Moreover, my mother's opposition to this matter is even more vehement..."

"Why was your mother so agitated?" Jiang Shanjun asked.

"I'm sorry, this involves my mother's privacy, I can't say." Ji Shuxun said apologetically, shaking her head at the group, and then glancing at Lin Wang again.

While they were talking, they walked through the main hall of the Deer Mountain Villa and into a side hall—the people of Deer Mountain often received guests in the side hall, so starting from here was a good choice.

Just then, they suddenly heard a heated argument coming from the side hall.

"No one from Lushan deserts! Don't make false accusations!"

"People of Deer Mountain are willing to go to the battlefield and shed blood for the Federation! But we are unwilling to shed our blood on the battlefield of the civil war!"

Amidst this fierce and angry roar, there was also a calm and unhurried voice mixed in.

"Does it matter what you people of Deer Mountain think? The Federation has already issued a conscription order! You are first and foremost soldiers of the Federation. If you don't go to the battlefield... you are deserters!" Along with these arguments, several painful screams could be heard.

Upon hearing the scream, Ji Shuxun's expression changed: "Excuse me, I'll be there for a moment."

With that, she quickened her pace and ran towards the side hall.

Lin Wang and the two female sheriffs exchanged a glance, then followed closely behind and ran into the side hall.

Upon entering the side hall, Lin Wang saw four young men from Lushan (their slightly brown hair and eyes betrayed their lineage) standing on one side of the hall, glaring angrily at the people opposite them.

These young men were all wearing federal standard military uniforms.

Opposite them were seven or eight officers in federal uniforms, led by a young man dressed as an official of the Falling Cloud Palace, wearing a sharp suit, a conspicuous orange tie, and snow-white gloves.

He wore black-rimmed glasses with gold trim and held a riot baton used by the city guards in one hand, tapping it lightly in the palm of the other.

The official from Luoyun Palace slightly raised his head, his expression both proud and calm.

In the middle of the crowd, a young man from Lushan lay on the ground.

The young man from Lushan who had fallen to the ground was also in an officer's uniform, but it was now soaked with sweat. He looked pained, clutching his stomach with one hand and his shoulder with the other—these were likely the sources of the screams.

Ji Shuxun ran to the fallen youth, looked up angrily at the young official from Luoyun Palace, and gritted her teeth, saying, "Tang Hongzhan! Why did you hit my cousin!"

“Miss Shu Xun, hello.” Tang Hongzhan raised an eyebrow and smiled, his tone still calm. “Because they are deserters, and deserters… are not human.”

"Tang Hongzhan, you've gone too far!" Ji Shuxun tried to help her cousin up, but he was too weak to do so, so she couldn't manage it despite her efforts—which showed that Tang Hongzhan had been extremely ruthless and merciless just now.

Tang Hongzhan adjusted his glasses, looked at Ji Shuxun and smiled, "Am I being unreasonable? No... not unreasonable enough."

He turned his head and looked at the other Lushan people: "I hereby declare that you, you, all of you are deserters." He swung the baton in his hand, which crackled and sparked with electricity at the end. "Hands behind your head, squat down... lift one leg up, don't force me to do it."

He swung his baton forcefully at the group of Lushan people.

At the same time, behind him, seven or eight young officers, with ill intentions, surrounded the Lushan people.

The faces of the several young men from Lushan were extremely grim.

In the side hall, there were many security personnel from Lushan, but under such circumstances, no one dared to step forward to stop or protect their employer.

Even now, Tang Hongzhan's actions have come close to humiliating them, but these people from Lushan still dare not make a move.

Because if the officials of Luoyun Palace really label them as "deserters," then these young people's political future in the Federation will be completely over.

Not only that, they will also bring shame to their families, and even cause the entire Deer Mountain Clan to lose all its influence in the Federation.

These young people from Lushan, who received political education from a young age, are well aware of the cost.

Several young men from Lushan looked humiliated, but they slowly covered their heads and began to squat down little by little.

Ji Shuxun bit her lips until they bled.

Just then, a sound suddenly rang out from not far away.

"Hey, where did this show-off come from?"

(End of this chapter)