Yama Reborn-Chapter 581 - 578: If You Want to Survive, Fight for It Yourself

Chapter 581: Chapter 578: If You Want to Survive, Fight for It Yourself

Chapter 578 [To Survive, You Must Fight for Yourself]

Chen Nuo and Enke chatted for a while. After Enke smoked several cigarettes and drank two bottles of beer, he was already a bit unsteady on his feet when he left.

Chen Nuo called a night-watch mercenary to help Enke back to his room, sitting alone in the dining room to ponder.

... So, there’s a force that’s been behind this war-torn small African country, not allowing any force to attempt to annex the whole nation’s other forces.

Small conflicts are ignored.

But once showing intent to sweep the place clean, they get killed.

Heaven?

Nonsense heaven.

It’s just some backstage manipulator.

Chen Nuo certainly doesn’t believe in gods or ghosts.

As a top special ability user among humans, Chen Nuo is immune to any religion.

The so-called god created by religions always involves two things: creation and destruction.

But Chen Nuo is very clear that the so-called creation in this world is just a Seed, exploding the Mother.

Then Life Force Element spreads widely, causing a massive eruption of life.

God?

Compared to the gods in religious legends, Chen Nuo thinks Seed, this Prometheus, seems more god-like.

And the notion of gods is something that can’t convince people like Chen Nuo.

No matter how many religions or myths exist in the world.

Countless religions, with different doctrines, different deities worshiped, different beliefs.

Different rules.

But strangely, countless religions share one common point.

That is, the countless [gods] of those religions.

Are never seen by anyone.

As if gods of different beliefs, schools, and doctrines have one common point: they can’t be seen.

Why, are gods socially anxious too?

·

However, the manipulator behind this small country becomes increasingly interesting to Chen Nuo.

·

When Chen Nuo returned to the room, Lu Xixi was lying on the bed holding a novel.

It was still the unfinished French edition of "The Count of Monte Cristo."

Chen Nuo glanced at it and sighed.

Indeed, humans all love exciting stories.

The Count of Monte Cristo is truly the precursor to modern web novels.

Isn’t it?

The story of this world-famous novel is: a persecuted young man falls prey to enemy’s conspiracies, betrayed by his wife, imprisoned. In prison, he meets a troubled old man, with whose help he escapes and finds a mystical treasure.

Then, with enormous wealth and power, he returns to his hometown in glory with a new identity.

And starts a series of revenge against the enemies and villains who bullied him.

This is truly an exciting story!

·

Chen Nuo quickly took a shower, jumped into bed, and snuggled up next to Lu Xixi under the blanket.

The Empress’s body is soft, skin smooth but slightly cool.

In the heat of Africa, it’s very comfortable to cuddle and sleep at night.

Lu Xixi probably reached an exciting part in the book, and after Chen Nuo nudged her a few times, she seemed annoyed and forcefully twisted, slapping away Chen Nuo’s reaching hand.

Chen Nuo smiled cheekily and reached over again, Lu Xixi put down the book and glared at him.

"Seventeen lifetimes, and you’re not tired of me yet?"

Chen Nuo was momentarily stunned.

Where did this come from?

"You say, in these seventeen lifetimes, have we always had this kind of relationship?" Lu Xixi looked at Chen Nuo with blinking eyes.

"What kind of relationship?"

"The kind where we share the same bed?"

"Maybe... probably."

In the previous sixteen reincarnations, the memories are gone, so Chen Nuo isn’t sure.

But as they kept talking, Lu Xixi finally put down the exciting book, obediently letting Chen Nuo hold her in his arms.

"What did you talk about with that young black man until late into the night?"

"I discovered something interesting about this place."

Lu Xixi nudged Chen Nuo’s chin with her head: "What’s interesting about this place?"

Chen Nuo’s eyes widened in the darkness, staring at the ceiling.

After a moment of silence, Chen Nuo slowly said: "I’ve suddenly had a guess, perhaps... the two attacks on the search team might have another explanation."

·

Next afternoon, Enke, in the Mayor Mansion’s reception room, summoned a group of prominent figures from this city.

In a town with only a few thousand people, the so-called prominent figures seemed to Chen Nuo like small-time village bullies.

These matters Chen Nuo couldn’t be bothered with, nor would he show up.

Just ordered the Mercenary Army to assign an officer to accompany and support Enke.

Clearly, after Enke’s persuasion, coupled with the town’s people’s fears of the refugee camp long stationed nearby bringing instability factors.

With the Mercenary Army’s support.

And the gathering place being the Mayor Mansion.

Enke clearly informed everyone that after this matter is over, the mayor would still return here with his Guard Team to continue being the mayor.

Thus, the process of collecting grain went fairly smoothly.

To Chen Nuo’s surprise, Enke actually handled it more cleverly than Chen Nuo anticipated.

He not only convened the prominent figures in town to collect grain.

He spent three days additionally, sending people outside the town to the refugee camp to invite a few influential leaders.

Some were chiefs of a small tribe, some clan elders, others were priests.

The refugees gathered here also came from various forces of different tribes disrupted by Octopus Monster’s military actions.

Fleeing outside the town, even in the refugee camp, they lived distinctly, each grouping together.

If the refugees were to be sent back without cooperation from different force leaders, chaos might be inevitable.

Enke negotiated the overall plan of grain distribution and repatriation after meeting several tribe village leaders among the refugees.

Admittedly, this guy has some capabilities.

Through Enke’s multiple meetings, negotiations, and actions of collecting and distributing grain.

The refugee repatriation action finally started its countdown.

Enke even used Chen Nuo’s name, requesting the mercenary army to send dozens of soldiers to maintain order during grain distribution.

It seems his ability is more than that of a useless little brother-in-law.

Everything in the plan seemed very smoothly, proceeding methodically, the repatriation of refugees appears to be all in order.

...If no unexpected events occur!

·

Three days later, just as Enke confidently gathered enough grain and also negotiated with the Mercenary Army to draw military forces to maintain order.

Even the dozen personnel he brought from the government already roughly counted the refugee numbers and tribal influences...

And just waiting for one more day to go to the refugee camp to announce the distribution repatriation grain notice...

In the Mayor Mansion, in the confidential communications room where mercenaries were stationed, a message was received.

Then, the message was delivered to Chen Nuo’s hand while he was eating iced watermelon on the terrace.

Chen Nuo glanced at the message delivered to him, stood up from the chair.

"Where’s Enke?"

"He has already received the news, now..."

·

Chen Nuo met this originally confident young black man in Enke’s room.

When he saw Enke, he was already sitting in the corner of the room with his head in his hands, curled up into a ball.

It was clear that Enke was engulfed in immense panic, his whole body trembling.

Chen Nuo gave a look, and when the two mercenary soldiers pulled him up from the ground, his legs were weak, barely able to stand.

His eyes were vacant, and he was muttering a phrase repeatedly in a low voice.

"It’s over, it’s over, everything’s over... We’re going to die, we’re all going to die..."

·

That day, the news received was an urgent message sent from the Capital City of this country!

After five years in power, the current President of the government, whose name was too long for Chen Nuo to bother remembering – the head of the faction where Enke and his brother-in-law Mayor belonged –

Suddenly died!

Mysteriously died!

The body was chopped into more than ten pieces!

·

This man known as the President was actually just the head chief of a major warlord faction and suddenly died, meeting the same fate as those ambitious predecessors who unexpectedly died, something Chen Nuo had heard from Enke previously.

While Enke looked as if his world had collapsed.

This is easily understood.

The warlord’s organization was originally crude and loose. With the boss above dead...

No doubt, this force would crumble.

Following the usual procedure: the military heads below would fall into mutual fighting and conflict.

Going through one round of purges after another, in each round of internal strife, all original marginally advantageous power will be completely consumed.

Then, the remaining scraps of power would be unable to control the overall situation, facing the ravenous wolves of the country clawing at them!

Eventually, completely devoured.

Compared to Chen Nuo, the news Enke received was more detailed.

After all, Enke was someone on the inside.

The news from Enke was that, besides the President unexpectedly dying and being chopped into more than ten pieces...

There was another piece of news that utterly shattered him.

His brother-in-law, the Mayor of the town, on the afternoon of the President’s sudden death, was gunned down in the first round of internal conflict among warlords, at the hotel entrance in the Capital City where he was staying.

He was about to take a jeep, accompanied by his guards, to the President’s Mansion to attend the first negotiation meeting among the warlords after the boss’s death.

But before he even stepped out of the door, he was shot dead.

Which side took the first move is unknown.

But it’s unimportant, because once someone has moved, others certainly will too.

The Capital City of the country must surely be embroiled in carnage by now.

The President is dead, and the Mayor is dead too.

With the Mayor’s death, those few wives beside him surely have become meat on someone else’s chopping block.

Who slices the meat doesn’t matter, as amidst gunfire and bloodshed, how could a few women protect themselves?

They’ve likely already been killed or kidnapped.

"If kidnapped, that’s good... at least lives can be spared. But according to our tradition, when taking out an enemy, it’s customary to kill all of the opponent’s wives and children."

Enke spoke cautiously after sipping some water.

The government staff Enke brought with him had already collapsed upon receiving the news at the first moment.

Within less than half a day, most had fled.

Including the so-called government army, which in fact was just the Mayor’s Guard Team.

Those who remained were not due to loyalty.

But because in panic, they didn’t know what to do, nor where to run.

Chen Nuo had someone investigate, discovering that some were originally from the Mayor’s guard, and even locals.

After receiving the news, he simply took off his military uniform, kicked the gun into the ground, and then slipped into the alleyways of the town, maybe just ran home to hide.

Looking at the already collapsed and uneasy Enke, Chen Nuo actually found this young black man quite agreeable.

After thinking for a while, he made a phone call to Nolan.

"You know the president of this country is dead, right?" Chen Nuo didn’t bother with small talk: "I know the presidents of these countries must be under your control, at least during this military operation, they are under your control. So help me find someone in the capital. The mayor of this city is dead, his wife’s family is in the capital, among them a wife and a brother named Enke, find this woman, if alive, bring her back."

Nolan didn’t even ask anything, just simply said: "Okay."

After hanging up the phone, Chen Nuo didn’t bother with anything else.

He’s not a saint, he can’t manage much more. And making this call was purely out of a bit of appreciation for this guy Enke. Moreover, it doesn’t cost him any effort, it’s just a call made on a whim.

·

The refugee repatriation plan was completely aborted.

The collected food was quickly demanded back by the local prominent figures.

Enke had less than ten soldiers left at his disposal. Though they had guns, they obviously didn’t dare to be tough—knowing their leader was finished, their group was scattered, who would dare make any radical moves at this time?

Thus, after a plunder, the collected food was snatched back by the people brought by the local prominent figures.

During the plundering, a bloody event even occurred—losing order in the plundering process, those plunderers wouldn’t obediently take only their share from the initially submitted food.

After all, it’s all piled up here, without order, isn’t it just a scramble of how much one can snatch?

The result was conflict, and two people died on the spot.

If not for the mercenaries sensing something amiss and sending a squad of soldiers to intervene and control the situation, more people would have died.

Enke couldn’t be bothered with this anymore. He just hid in the Mayor Mansion, in his room, hugging a bottle of wine, getting drunk.

"We’re finished, our group is finished. Even if I escape the internal purge, I can’t escape the bite of other forces.

Our tradition here is certainly to utterly destroy the enemy."

When Chen Nuo came to see Enke the second time, the guy’s pale appearance made Chen Nuo shake his head and say: "Then you might find a way to leave this place."

Enke’s eyes seemed to light up, then he shook his head: "Can’t leave. Without a gun in hand, if I try to leave here, I’d die halfway. This country doesn’t even have basic traffic infrastructure. Passing through the territory of other tribes, many places directly kill outsiders of a different tribe.

The only airport is in the capital. And going to the capital now is courting death.

More importantly, I don’t have enough money, can’t survive escaping this country." 𝑓𝑟ℯ𝘦𝓌𝘦𝘣𝑛𝑜𝓋𝑒𝓁.𝑐ℴ𝓂

Chen Nuo looked at this guy: "Your brother-in-law was at least a small military head under a big warlord here, being a local emperor for several years, there must be some wealth, right? Perhaps transferred abroad?"

"But I don’t know where he hid it! Foreign bank account, he usually doesn’t give it to me, where would I get this money?"

Chen Nuo chuckled: "Then just wait for death here?"

"Waiting for death, so what? This country, like the people here, has no hope. Death isn’t difficult to accept..."

Chen Nuo sneered: "If you’re really not afraid of death, you wouldn’t be trembling with weak knees like now. Since you’re afraid of death and don’t wish to die, then think of a way, even if it’s desperate, it’s better than sitting and waiting for death."

After a pause, Chen Nuo slowly said: "I found you agreeable, that’s why I lent a small hand, but that’s all the help you’ll get from me. I won’t go out of my way to shelter you. So if you want to live, you have to fight desperately yourself."

After saying this, Chen Nuo slowly said: "I made a call to your capital, your sister has been found."

Upon hearing this, Enke suddenly lifted his head.

Chen Nuo said lightly: "Your mayor was at the hotel entrance, and military forces from one side suddenly attacked the mayor’s guard team and took over the hotel.

During the battle, your sister got injured but not fatally. She has been saved. I’ve already arranged for a plane, by the latest tomorrow afternoon, they will use a helicopter to send her here.

As for the rest, whether you and your sister can survive depends on whether you want to fight desperately."

Enke’s eyes became increasingly filled with light. He bit his teeth hard, tossed away the bottle in his hand, stood up against the wall: "Sir, I’m willing to fight desperately...but how do I fight desperately?"

Chen Nuo looked at this guy: "You’re local here. You still have a dozen people with you, you have guns! And in this local town, after the mayor’s death, there’s a power vacuum! If you can completely rally your dozen people, win their loyalty, and they willingly work for you...

Though in the short term, your dozen guns can’t defeat other forces... but in this town, it is overwhelming power!

Especially now there’s a best time window for you—while we have occupied this town, there are mercenaries here, other forces cannot stretch their hands over.

And mercenaries won’t occupy here for long, they will leave when the time comes.

During the period before the mercenaries leave, it’s up to you whether you can take this town with a dozen guns."

Enke’s eyes brightened!

"Sir, how much help can you provide me? I mean... if I’m successful, I’m willing to give you any returns you desire!! Anything! As long as I have it, I’m willing to give it to you!"

Seeing Enke almost grovel in front of him, Chen Nuo shook his head: "I’m not interested in supporting you, funding or arming you... forget it, I don’t do such business.

But I permit you, before the mercenaries withdraw from here, to do some things in our name, as long as they’re not too excessive, I’ll turn a blind eye."

Enke sat there holding his head in deep thought, then when he lifted his head, the panic in his eyes gradually faded, replaced little by little with fierceness!