I was expelled from school at the beginning, but luckily I am the king of endurance.

"Then let's start voting."

As Koya said this, the remaining seven people, excluding Kanna and a leader who remained in the club building, and Futaba, who was participating in the meeting via video, voted.

On xx/xx/xx, a vote was held on base construction, which was passed unanimously.

Well, no matter what, the initial construction of the base has begun, and I believe the future must be full of hope.

Between Progress and Reaction: Chapter 23: The Reappearance of the Mysterious Black-Braised Egg

Ideals are beautiful, but reality is cruel. It is indeed very difficult to build an industry from scratch in this sand city where there is no industry at all.

Apart from anything else, just recruiting workers is a headache for Xiaoya and the others.

Most of the local residents have no experience in industrial work and almost all of them are engaged in the service industry.

They need to be trained to take up their posts, which is a problem that Xiaoya and her friends have never thought about.

In the end, we could only recruit workers from the union who were willing to come here to train the local workers.

That's right, it's still employment. The base area does not have the foundation for workers to run the factory now. Xiaoya and her friends decided to first create this foundation through the old production relations. After these local residents are truly familiar with the industrialized lifestyle and develop the class consciousness of the working class, they can talk about workers' democracy.

The loan from Hongdong went smoothly. The comrades at Hongdong generously approved an interest-free loan and a matching ammunition production line, which would be shipped by sea and would reach them in about a week.

Moreover, when Wu Hui heard that Gehena's comrades had established a base, she personally congratulated them.

Anna took two cadres to take over the tax collection work in the base. The original staff of the Ten Thousand Demons Hall were not at all concerned about this aspect, and the collected taxes were only paid when they were remembered, so there was actually a backlog of taxes here.

Of course, Xiaoya and the others would definitely not pay any more taxes, so these taxes would naturally benefit the Spartacus Group.

......

Ibuki goes missing, and Makoto is furious, imposing martial law in the central district of Gehenna.

Of course, it was the Pandemonium Guards who enforced the martial law order. Makoto didn't trust the Disciplinary Committee at all, and she even suspected that Ibuki had been captured by the Disciplinary Committee.

"Go, over there, block off the street."

Sitting in the commander's seat of the "Tiger Maru" tank, Iroha gave orders to several of the Pandemonium guards. She was working very efficiently now, and even she herself enjoyed this feeling.

Why did she like to slack off before? It was such a sin. Fortunately, she didn't drag down the great Speaker Makoto. Otherwise, even her death wouldn't be enough to atone for these sins.

And no one knew where her small medicine bottle had gone, but that wouldn't stop her from working. She could just go to the emergency medicine department and get a prescription when she had time.

No, medicine? Is she sick now?

Iroha scratched her head. She was feeling well now and her headache was gone. She probably had recovered from her illness.

Don’t think about these things, work is the most important thing. The orders of the great Speaker Makoto are everything.

......

"I told you, President Ibuki is not in the Disciplinary Committee." Hina coldly rejected Makoto's request to search the Disciplinary Committee headquarters.

"That's right, you Pandemonium can't even keep yourselves in check, so why are you blaming us, the Discipline Committee!" Iori stood behind Hina's left, sneering at Pandemonium. "If you ask me, Pandemonium is a bunch of losers. With so many people who can't even keep their own president in check, they should just step down sooner rather than later. Ibuki himself would be better than you."

Makoto looked grim, and the staff of the Pandemonium behind him also had flushed faces.

But Makoto's brain is still online. Her plan has not been completed yet. She doesn't have much chance of winning if she breaks up with Hina now.

"Ibuki better not be here with you guys, hmph, let's go!"

Seeing that he couldn't get any advantage, Makoto had no choice but to go back, but he couldn't lose in terms of momentum, so he had to make some harsh remarks.

The martial law did not last. The blockade of the entire central area had a great impact on the lives of the residents. Even Makoto could not have maintained the martial law.

After a day of searching without any results, the Pandemonium could only announce the lifting of martial law.

If you don't let them go, the tough Gehena students will start making trouble.

"Ibuki... Where could Ibuki have gone?" Makoto pondered in her luxurious office, her hands tapping on the table.

Suddenly, the office became dark, but Makoto did not panic. She was already used to the way that person appeared.

"Heifu, what are you doing here?"

Makoto's voice dropped in displeasure. She hated being interrupted when she was thinking, not even this strange person of unknown origin.

The office door was pushed open, and a black-braised egg head that Xiaoya was very familiar with walked in. However, the two Wanmo Palace guards Zayujiang who were guarding the door seemed not to see him and still stood straight.

"Hehehe, Chancellor Makoto, you seem to be...in some trouble?"

"Don't even think about it. I won't allow you to use Gehenna's students for experiments."

"But Mr. Speaker, you are already helping me with the experiment, aren't you?"

Looking at Heifu's strange face, Makoto didn't say anything. The so-called hypnosis and brainwashing, or the drugs taken by the staff of Pandemonium, actually all came from this strange adult named Heifu and the [Sukumikai] behind him.

This mysterious organization approached Makoto more than two months ago and started cooperating with her.

Makoto doesn't know why Heifu is obsessed with research, but she agrees to cooperate. The purpose of Qiwo San ordering IV to research Qixuan IV is just to be able to completely control Gehenna and then realize her ambition to rule the entire Kivotos.

So Makoto said in a cold voice: "Heifu, don't forget that our cooperation is centered around me."

"Of course, the Speaker can terminate our cooperation at any time, but..."

"I'm saying this one last time. I won't allow you to experiment on Gehenna's students! Now, immediately, get out of here!"

Makoto slammed the table and yelled at Heifu angrily. She knew what Heifu wanted to do. He was just using Gehenna's students as experimental subjects to satisfy his so-called "curiosity for knowledge". If Makoto hadn't relied on his skills, she would have kicked him away long ago.

She wants to realize her own ambitions, not become the spokesperson for some mysterious mad scientist!

"I see. I've already smelled the scent of chaos in Gehenna. Chancellor Makoto, I hope you won't regret it."

There was no expression on the cracked face of the man in black. He adjusted his tie and disappeared in the office. Only the words "I will not regret it" lingered in Makoto's ears.

Makoto looked at the tightly closed office door again, then sighed and waved his hand to let the small fry of the Pandemonium guards hiding behind the secret door return to their respective posts.

This damn black-braised egg didn't even come in person to discuss cooperation with her. He is so cautious.

But she would find a way to counter it one day.

Between Progress and Reaction: Chapter 24: The City of Scorching Sand

Heifu naturally would not take risks personally. He already knew Makoto's personality before they started working together.

This time it came to Gehenna not just to discuss further cooperation with Makoto, but to pay close attention to the teacher and discovered that the mysterious person who had been following the teacher had returned to Gehenna.

And it's not a simple return. The ordinary mystery he once was has now become as powerful and mysterious as Hina Hoshino.

"Oh, that's really interesting. It adds another topic to the experiment."

......

"Ah!"

Xiaoya, who was eating sand far away in the Shacheng base, sneezed.

"Comrade Minister, are you alright?"

"Ahem, I'm fine. I just felt like someone was talking about me behind my back. Anyway, let's continue the meeting."

The abandoned house had been cleaned up and converted into the headquarters of the Spartacus Regiment, with the Spartacus flag flying on the roof.

While preparing to build an ammunition production plant, Xiaoya also had new ideas about how to reorganize the Spartacus Regiment, and now is the time for everyone to hold a meeting to discuss it.

"I propose that the Spartacus League no longer have public and secret sections. The reading club should be separated into an independent study organization led by the Spartacus League, and also a legal society of Gehenna. The original secret section of the Spartacus League should be the new Spartacus League." Xiaoya knocked on the table facing the twenty or thirty people in the room. The Spartacus League had developed rapidly in the past two days. Many conscious students and workers joined the Spartacus League, and students from the original reading club were also absorbed into it.

Of course, Huizi is still in the reading club. She is not very interested in Xiaoya and her friends' theory of communitarianism. Instead, she is more attracted to the millennial-style labor group system recorded by Xiaoya.

"As the number of our Spartacus League grows, it will be impossible for us to maintain a collective decision-making model with the participation of all members. Therefore, I propose that we elect a Central Executive Committee to be responsible for the organization's daily decision-making."

If we had to gather everyone for a meeting to decide everything, wouldn't that be a waste of time? So Xiaoya decided to separate the decision-making body, using the ordinary members of the Spartacus Group as the body and the decision-making body as the brain, with the brain directing the body.

Of course, this does not mean that ordinary members have no decision-making power. Ordinary members can elect or be elected as executive members and participate in daily decision-making. Some major issues concerning the life and death of the organization also require collective discussion. The election of the Central Executive Committee is also the implementation of democratic centralism.

Xiaoya remembers that in the "Selected Works of Ilyich", it was mentioned that in a country called "Germany", the communists there did not pay attention to democratic centralism in a timely manner and overemphasized democracy, which led to the failure of the revolution.

We must take these lessons left by our ancestors seriously.

"If there are no objections, let's start voting on the resolution now." Xiaoya said. She has now completely become the secretary of the organization.

On xx/xx/xx, the organization passed a resolution to establish the Spartacus League Central Executive Committee and elected Comrade Suzuki Mei as its chairman.

......

Kanna, who was far away in the club building, also participated in the voting remotely. The Spartacus League was reorganized. Now she is the head of the central district branch of the Spartacus League and is also responsible for organizing the reading club.

He Xiang went to work at the base, and it was unknown whether she, who was from Hongdong, could tolerate the climate there.

The reorganization meeting of the base not only elected the executive committee, but also passed a resolution to establish branches of the organization in various places in Gehenna.

These Spartacus League branches can carry out activities on their own and elect their own executive committees. Of course, the branches need to obey the resolutions of the Central Committee, and the current central district branches do not have so many people supporting the executive committee.

Only five of them remain and they can still maintain direct democracy.

"Keiko-san, what do you want to say?"

"I said, the tank manufacturing department seems to be suspicious of me. I ran into the canteen chef today and he put a white pill in my food. I didn't eat it at all. I just ate in the canteen of the food department."

Keiko said this to Kanna. She no longer dared to go back to the tank manufacturing department.

"Come with me to complete the resignation procedures."

"Resign? No, please don't abandon me! If I can't fight Pandemonium with you for the rest of my life...Vadasi..."

"No, I want you to withdraw from the tank manufacturing department."

Kanna looked at Keiko who was kneeling on the ground and was speechless. She was a quiet person to begin with, and it felt like she had almost said everything she wanted to say in a week today.

However, doing organizational work inevitably requires contact with many people and talking a lot, and Kanna feels that she may become a chatterbox in the future.

"Oh, I'm so scared. I thought you guys didn't care about me anymore." When Huizi heard that the Spartacus Group was not going to abandon her, she stood up suddenly, as if she was not the embarrassing person just now.

Now she can be said to be bound to the Spartacus Group. Even if she does not agree with their theory, Huizi must stand with the Spartacus Group until the Pandemonium is overthrown.

Otherwise, you will become like your friends.

Huizi shuddered at the thought of her friend's empty eyes and mechanical movements.

Now that the martial law had ended, Kanna and the others arrived at the club management office smoothly. Kanna took a glance and found that Iroha was not there.

It seems that she appeared here to win them over in the beginning because of Makoto's order. Now that the mission has failed, Iroha naturally won't be here.

"Hello, I'm here to process my resignation."

Kanna was waiting in her seat, while Keiko went straight up to talk to the secretary. In less than half an hour, Kanna saw Keiko walking towards her with a smile.

"Is it done?" Kanna asked. In her impression, wouldn't it take at least two hours to get something done at Pandemonium, and then you'd have to pay some Union Coins to get it done? Why was it so fast now?

"Yes, I'm no longer in the tank manufacturing department. This person is really good and works very quickly..."

Listening to Huizi's chattering, Kanna thought about it. The usually slow Pandemonium suddenly became so efficient. It seemed to be just as Xiaoya said.

Makoto is already brainwashing his own members of Pandemonium.

Moreover, if this is the case, doesn't that mean that there is no way to get Gehenna's standard weapons from the black market? The Pandemonium officials who have been brainwashed and controlled by Makoto should not still be thinking about corruption.

I need to remind Xiaoya about this.

Thinking of this, Kanna opened her cell phone.

Between Progress and Reaction: Chapter 25: A Base Area Flourishing with Vitality

"Okay, I know."

After hanging up the call with Kanna, Xiaoya's thoughts began to wander again. She knew that the black market trade channels could not last long, but she did not expect them to be cut off so quickly. She also didn't know if the boss still had any goods.

No, everything had to be prepared for the worst. Perhaps the boss had already been brought to justice by Pandemonium? Anyway, if the base couldn't find a new source of weapons, the only way to expand the Gehenna Red Army would be to use "internationally made" weapons.

Perhaps they can continue to contact the Discipline Committee and obtain weapons directly from it?

"Sister Xiaoya, what are these workers doing?"

Ibuki's voice brought Xiaoya back to reality. For a child, this sand city was indeed a bit boring. Unlike the Pandemonium where there were toys and puddings, this place only had sand, and puddings were rare.

Whatever pudding was occasionally available in local stores was bought by Xiaoya to feed Ibuki.

But Ibuki is indeed a good child. She doesn't cry or make a fuss, and she even takes the initiative to understand the difficulties of others.

After seeing the Red Army soldiers and other older sisters eating cheap bento from convenience stores, Ibuki took the initiative to ask for not having her own luxurious bento and wanted to eat the cheap bento like everyone else.

After confirming again and again that Ibuki was serious, Xiaoya and the others shared Ibuki's meals with their own. However, Ibuki was young after all, so Xiaoya and the others had to take care of her. Ibuki's lunch box was always relatively better, and Ibuki also had Xiaoya to feed her pudding.