Chapter 1293: Second Business

The cold water calmed Pipi down. He looked at the foreigner leader who walked over and should be the boss here, and said with all his strength, "Give me something to eat."

Javier, who was standing beside Lanse, smiled and said, "Letting him starve can reduce the trouble during the transportation process."

Animals will be hungry and will stimulate ferocity. For animals without much wisdom, the instinct of biology is to survive.

Hunger will instinctively make them feel terrified, so animals, especially carnivorous predators, will become irritable and full of aggression.

So when transporting these beasts, the best way is to let them fill their stomachs, and then lock them in a pitch-black cage, letting them passively think they are full, and it is dark.

For animals with low wisdom, their aggression will be reduced a lot.

But transporting people, you can't let them eat too full, because if they eat too full, they have the strength to move crooked thoughts. The best way is to let them starve, starve until they almost can't stand up to do anything, as long as they can maintain the most basic survival.

In those years, the slave-catching teams caught countless slaves and transported them to the Federation from far away. Maybe there were hundreds of slaves on a transport ship, or even thousands.

How did they manage these slaves?

Actually very simple, don't let them eat full. In order to survive, these slaves will only try their best to reduce their mobility to save their physical strength.

Pipi has been hungry for two days, and can only drink a little water during the period. He even vomited because he drank too much water to fill his stomach.

At this time, he looked like he had no strength at all, and his whole person was almost hungry and collapsed.

Lanse raised his chin slightly, and Javier's people got some bread for him, as well as some cheap candy.

This is the first time Pipi felt that this cheap bread, even mixed with some debris other than food, was so sweet and delicious.

He finished the bread and ate two pieces of candy. His whole person seemed to be better.

"You are the Pipi who works for Little Porter?", Lanse actually saw Pipi's photo, but at this time, he still needs to confirm it.

Pipi's eyes had some changes. He looked at Javier behind Lanse, lowered his head and said, "Yes, sir."

At this time, he knew that he was finally involved in the incident related to that Mr. Porter of the Federation.

Lanse asked people to take him away, then turned to look at Javier, "We can talk about the remaining business worth eight hundred thousand."

Javier's face revealed a surprised expression, "I am looking forward to it!"

Pipi didn't know his fate next, but even if he didn't know, he could only accept it now.

After waiting for more than twenty minutes, he saw the foreigner leader return to the motorcade, and then the whole motorcade left here quickly.

After a few hours, they entered the city's range, and the motorcade stopped at a place like a large warehouse on the outskirts of the city.

There was nothing piled up in the warehouse, only some tables and chairs. He was arranged to sit on a chair, and behind him was a white cloth set up, blocking everything else behind him.

In front of him were several cameras, and Lanse sat outside the lens.

Accompanied by the person debugging the machine making a "done" gesture, Lanse nodded slightly, "Your name is Pipi?"

Pipi was a bit nervous. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva. The bread he ate not long ago provided him with a lot of physical strength. He looked at those cameras uneasily, and then nodded, "Yes, I am Pipi."

Lanse saw that he understood his idea quickly, and a smile appeared on his face, "Don't be so worried, we are just chatting, just treat it as if we are chatting normally."

"I found you, you should know why."

Pipi nodded again, "Maybe it has something to do with some things that happened recently."

Lanse asked, "What are you talking about?"

Pipi was silent for a few seconds, "About—the breaking into the house and raping and killing they said."

Lanse said "um," "Do you have anything to say?"

"Also, who is the foreigner mentioned by that lady?"

Pipi became more nervous. If he felt that Mr. Porter was just a big figure before, then now he knows that this Mr. Porter is not just the big figure he imagined, but a higher-level big figure.

So much so that these foreigners can mobilize the First Detachment to kidnap him and send him here.

Two days of transportation made him very clear about where he is now. These people can use such great effort, which only shows that Mr. Porter is not an ordinary person.

The problem now is actually not as complicated as he imagined, it is the difference between "living" and "dying."

He didn't consider for too long, and began to reveal all this to Lanse, or more people.

"That gentleman is—Mr. Porter. He comes from the military region of the Federation and is an officer sent by the Federation to be stationed locally to maintain public order."

Perhaps it was saying this sentence, Pipi's originally tense nerves relaxed a lot. People are like this. After breaking through that layer of psychological defense, it is like a collapsed dam, and can no longer resist the pouring of the flood.

Lanse asked people to take out a few photos, put them on a small cart, and then pushed them over, "There are photos of several people on this, they all belong to different people, and they are all called Porter. Find the person you work for from them."

Looking at the photos on the small cart, one of the camera lenses also moved to aim at it. There are indeed seven photos, all of which are full-body portraits of different people.

Pipi chose Little Porter's photo almost without hesitation, pointing at him, "It's this person."

Lanse's face revealed some smiles, "Pick him up and show it to me." Pipi did as he was told, and then he said again, "Introduce to us the things you did for this Mr. Porter during this period of time, anything."

For a period of time, he began to tell Lanse about the absurd things Little Porter did in Luli.

Listening to the terrible things he said, Lanse believes that the audience in the Federation will definitely like this story very much!

After Lanse asked all the questions, he put forward the last question, "If you need to stand in court to testify against your former employer, are you willing to testify in court?"

Pipi didn't have the slightest hesitation, "I am willing."

In order to survive, he is willing.

Don't say let him testify against Little Porter in court, he is willing to do more excessive things, as long as he can live.

Lanse raised his hand, and all the cameras on the machine positions stopped. Lanse had a lot of smiles on his face, "You are very cooperative, and you have also gained the opportunity to survive. For a period of time, you can live in the place I arranged for you, without considering dangers and the like."

"But when I need you, you have to follow what we agreed."

"Your family will soon come here to meet you. As long as you follow my rules, I guarantee that you and your family will not have accidents!"

What else can Pipi say?

He squeezed out some smiles, "Thank you for your kindness, sir!"

On the other side, not long after Javier returned to Luli, he met with several other commanders and talked about the next business.

"That Mr. White asked us to make trouble for a while because of this matter."

"Make trouble for a while?", the one who spoke was a woman among the commanders, and also the only woman in the First Detachment who appeared in the image of a "superior."

This is a very ruthless woman. She is very beautiful, if you ignore the scars on her face.

When she was in her teens, she was a famous beautiful girl in the place where she lived, but in a place that was poor, backward, and full of power, beauty was not the key for her to open the door to the upper class, but the beginning of her miserable life.

She was kidnapped, raped, and sent around like a gift. In the end, she couldn't bear these, killed her last master, and escaped.

Later, because of some reasons, she met a regiment commander of the First Detachment and became this regiment commander's woman.

Not a wife, just a mistress, and thus opened her ten years that can be considered cold water let Pipi's whole person calm down. He looked at the foreigner leader who walked over and should be the boss here, and said with all his strength, "Give me something to eat."

Standing beside Lanse, Javier smiled and said, "Letting him starve can reduce the trouble during the transportation process."

Animals will be hungry and will stimulate ferocity. For animals without much wisdom, the instinct of biology is to survive.

Hunger will instinctively make them feel terrified, so animals, especially carnivorous predators, will become irritable and full of aggression.

So when transporting these beasts, the best way is to let them fill their stomachs, and then lock them in a pitch-black cage, letting them passively think they are full, and it is dark.

For animals with low wisdom, their aggression will be reduced a lot.

But transporting people, you can't let them eat too full, because if they eat too full, they have the strength to move crooked thoughts. The best way is to let them starve, starve until they almost can't stand up to do anything, as long as they can maintain the most basic survival.

In those years, the slave-catching teams caught countless slaves and transported them to the Federation from far away. Maybe there were hundreds of slaves on a transport ship, or even thousands.

How did they manage these slaves?

Actually very simple, don't let them eat full. In order to survive, these slaves will only try their best to reduce their mobility to save their physical strength.

Pipi has been hungry for two days, and can only drink a little water during the period. He even vomited because he drank too much water to fill his stomach.

At this time, he looked like he had no strength at all, and his whole person was almost hungry and collapsed.

Lanse raised his chin slightly, and Javier's people got some bread for him, as well as some cheap candy.

This is the first time Pipi felt that this cheap bread, even mixed with some debris other than food, was so sweet and delicious.

He finished the bread and ate two pieces of candy. His whole person seemed to be better.

"You are the Pipi who works for Little Porter?", Lanse actually saw Pipi's photo, but at this time, he still needs to confirm it.

Pipi's eyes had some changes. He looked at Javier behind Lanse, lowered his head and said, "Yes, sir."

At this time, he knew that he was finally involved in the incident related to that Mr. Porter of the Federation.

Lanse asked people to take him away, then turned to look at Javier, "We can talk about the remaining business worth eight hundred thousand."

Javier's face revealed a surprised expression, "I am looking forward to it!"

Pipi didn't know his fate next, but even if he didn't know, he could only accept it now.

After waiting for more than twenty minutes, he saw the foreigner leader return to the motorcade, and then the whole motorcade left here quickly.

After a few hours, they entered the city's range, and the motorcade stopped at a place like a large warehouse on the outskirts of the city.

There was nothing piled up in the warehouse, only some tables and chairs. He was arranged to sit on a chair, and behind him was a white cloth set up, blocking everything else behind him.

In front of him were several cameras, and Lanse sat outside the lens.

Accompanied by the person debugging the machine making a "done" gesture, Lanse nodded slightly, "Your name is Pipi?"

Pipi was a bit nervous. He swallowed a mouthful of saliva. The bread he ate not long ago provided him with a lot of physical strength. He looked at those cameras uneasily, and then nodded, "Yes, I am Pipi."

Lanse saw that he understood his idea quickly, and a smile appeared on his face, "Don't be so worried, we are just chatting, just treat it as if we are chatting normally."

"I found you, you should know why."

Pipi nodded again, "Maybe it has something to do with some things that happened recently."

Lanse asked, "What are you talking about?"

Pipi was silent for a few seconds, "About—the breaking into the house and raping and killing they said."

Lanse said "um," "Do you have anything to say?"

"Also, who is the foreigner mentioned by that lady?"

Pipi became more nervous. If he felt that Mr. Porter was just a big figure before, then now he knows that this Mr. Porter is not just the big figure he imagined, but a higher-level big figure.

So much so that these foreigners can mobilize the First Detachment to kidnap him and send him here.

Two days of transportation made him very clear about where he is now. These people can use such great effort, which only shows that Mr. Porter is not an ordinary person.

The problem now is actually not as complicated as he imagined, it is the difference between "living" and "dying."

He didn't consider for too long, and began to reveal all this to Lanse, or more people.

"That gentleman is—Mr. Porter. He comes from the military region of the Federation and is an officer sent by the Federation to be stationed locally to maintain public order."

Perhaps it was saying this sentence, Pipi's originally tense nerves relaxed a lot. People are like this. After breaking through that layer of psychological defense, it is like a collapsed dam, and can no longer resist the pouring of the flood.

Lanse asked people to take out a few photos, put them on a small cart, and then pushed them over, "There are photos of several people on this, they all belong to different people, and they are all called Porter. Find the person you work for from them."

Looking at the photos on the small cart, one of the camera lenses also moved to aim at it. There are indeed seven photos, all of which are full-body portraits of different people.

Pipi chose Little Porter's photo almost without hesitation, pointing at him, "It's this person."

Lanse's face revealed some smiles, "Pick him up and show it to me." Pipi did as he was told, and then he said again, "Introduce to us the things you did for this Mr. Porter during this period of time, anything."

For a period of time, he began to tell Lanse about the absurd things Little Porter did in Luli.

Listening to the terrible things he said, Lanse believes that the audience in the Federation will definitely like this story very much!

After Lanse asked all the questions, he put forward the last question, "If you need to stand in court to testify against your former employer, are you willing to testify in court?"

Pipi didn't have the slightest hesitation, "I am willing."

In order to survive, he is willing.

Don't say let him testify against Little Porter in court, he is willing to do more excessive things, as long as he can live.

Lanse raised his hand, and all the cameras on the machine positions stopped. Lanse had a lot of smiles on his face, "You are very cooperative, and you have also gained the opportunity to survive. For a period of time, you can live in the place I arranged for you, without considering dangers and the like."

"But when I need you, you have to follow what we agreed."

"Your family will soon come here to meet you. As long as you follow my rules, I guarantee that you and your family will not have accidents!"

What else could Pipi say?

He squeezed out a smile, "Thank you for your mercy, sir!"

On the other side, not long after Javier returned to Luli territory, he met with several other commanders and talked about the business ahead.

"That Mr. White requires us to stir up some trouble because of this matter."

"Stir up some trouble?" The one who spoke was a woman among the commanders, and also the only woman in the First Mobile Unit who appeared with the image of a "superior."

She was a very ruthless woman, and she was beautiful, if one ignored the scars on her face.

When she was in her teens, she was a famous beauty in the place where she lived, but in a poor, backward place full of power, beauty was not the key to opening the door to high society, but rather the beginning of her miserable life.

She was kidnapped, raped, and passed around like a gift; eventually, she could not endure this, killed her last master, and escaped.

Later, for some reason, she got to know a regiment commander of the First Mobile Unit and became his woman.

Not a wife, just a mistress, which also kicked off her ten years of what could be considered a magnificent life.

Her man died, and she finished off the commander's other mistresses, including his original wife and children, successfully taking the top spot.

In order not to let others look down on her because of her beauty and figure, she slashed her own cheeks and cut off her breasts; relying on these methods, she intimidated the subordinates her man had at the time.

After quickly clearing out those who did not obey her, she began her rise to power.

In ten years, she went from a "toy" to the "Red Scorpion" of the First Mobile Unit, and she could be considered someone whose name could be called out among the armed forces in all of Luli.

No one looked down on her anymore because she was a woman, or because she had once been a beautiful woman.

"How are we going to stir up trouble?" she asked.

Javier smoked a cigarette, shrugged his shoulders, and said, "How else can we stir up trouble?"

"It's just that simplest method; in the Federal way of calling it, it's a protest, and then creating some riots. It would be best if we could make the domestic situation a bit chaotic."

Another guy who looked very quiet, wearing a white shirt and glasses, asked in a scholarly manner, "Is it the Dantrans?"

"Or is it the people of Jiede?"

If there is anyone in this world who harbors such great hatred for the Federals, then without a doubt, it is only the Dantrans, who were beaten black and blue by Federal intervention, and the Jiede people, whose dream of hegemony was shattered because of Federal intervention.

Especially the ruling class of the Jiede Republic; they might hate the Federals even more than the Dantrans. The Dantrans only lost this "competition" in the war; their country still exists, and their industrial foundation still exists.

They only need time now to get back on their feet, and they can even try to challenge the order of the world camp with the Federation as its core again.

But Jiede is different. The Asian Alliance of the Jiede Republic is now just a name that means nothing, and countries are constantly withdrawing from the Asian Alliance to join the Federation's rule.

When the final moment arrives, the Jiede Republic will have nothing left, and these ruling classes will even be purged by the Federation because of their resistance to the Federation over these years.

So if one were to say who cares so much about ruining the Federation's reputation, it would undoubtedly only come from these two countries.

Javier thought for a while and shook his head, "I'm not sure where he comes from, but he looks more like a Federal."

"A Federal?" The female commander was a bit stunned, "If he is a Federal, why would he want to ruin his own country's image?"

As she asked this question, she fell silent.

There is no doubt that if he really is a Federal, then there must be a deeper level of struggle behind this matter, a struggle they cannot understand.

Perhaps in the eyes of the local Luli people, the First Mobile Unit is one of the most powerful armed forces in the area, capable of confronting the government, or even the government army.

But they know very well themselves that they can only mess around with the local government.

If they were really made to deal with the Federals, they might not even last a week, which is also why they are transferring assets abroad.

In case the Federals start some kind of de-gangsterization locally, they will immediately transfer abroad.

The Federation is very strong; they all know it, and no one with a sound mind wants to confront the Federation. So when they realized that this matter might be related to the power struggle within the Federation, and even involved the Federal government and even the Federal military, they all fell silent.

These are existences they cannot afford to provoke.

The atmosphere was a bit solemn. Javier looked at these friends who were frowning and thinking, and said softly, "Besides promising to give us more fees, this Mr. White also promised to provide us with appropriate shelter when necessary."

Red Scorpion couldn't help but mock, "You believe the Federals are that trustworthy?"

"Also, he says he can provide shelter, so can he really provide shelter?"

"Don't you think this is a strategy, a strategy to persuade you to do things according to his ideas?"

"How do you know he can protect us?"

The series of questions left Javier not knowing where to start answering. He looked at Red Scorpion for a good while before continuing, "He had a Federal bank freeze my account, and then he unfroze my account. I believe he has enormous energy."

"At the very least, you can't make a phone call and have a bank freeze an account that has nothing to do with you, nor do you have the ability to have a bank unfreeze an account that has nothing to do with you."

A commander who had not spoken until now tapped the table, "We need to discuss this with more people, and it's best to let the Commander-in-Chief decide, rather than ourselves."

The others expressed their agreement one after another. Sometimes, such a huge problem is best left to the person who can solve it, rather than them.

This matter was very important. It only took three days for all the commanders to gather together, including their Commander-in-Chief.

An old man who looked to be about fifty years old, very kind, and wearing priest vestments.

A priest of the church.

Being a priest is his hobby and belief, and his job is the Commander-in-Chief of the First Mobile Unit; this does not conflict.

He gives orders to kill as a gang leader, and turns around to confess his sins to God; this also does not conflict.

"Did he say how to shelter us?"

"If we need it?" The Commander-in-Chief spoke very gently, and his speed of speech was not fast, just like an ordinary old man.

Javier did not dare to be negligent, but he also did not know how to answer, his face full of awkward expressions, "It seems————he didn't say."

"Then————," the Commander-in-Chief asked slowly and methodically, "did he say to what extent we need to do this, and how to arrange for us afterward?"

"After all, what we are doing can be said to not only confront the local government but also confront the Federals. Once things reach the point where even the Federation needs to pay attention, it will be difficult for us to return to our previous state."

Javier had already started sweating, "I didn't ask in detail."

The Commander-in-Chief laughed, "Then he must have left you a phone number?"

"Right?"

Javier remembered at this moment that after he chatted with Lanse for a while, Lanse did indeed give him a business card. He immediately started rummaging through his pockets, found the business card, and handed it over, "Yes, he gave me a business card."

Glancing at the business card in Javier's hand, the Commander-in-Chief sighed, "Put it on the table."

"You all stay quiet for these few days. After this matter has a result, I will talk to you again."

After saying this, he picked up the business card and casually tucked it into the Bible on the table in front of him, then stood up, "I still need to go pray. If you have nothing else to do, you can go too."

The commanders shook their heads one after another. Go to the church to pray?

Forget it!

That is not their style.

The Commander-in-Chief did not force them, picked up the Bible, and turned to leave under the protection of guards.

Perhaps in the eyes of ordinary people, he is just a priest, but for this country, for the First Mobile Unit, he is the soul, the legend, and the actual controller!

Of course, he is also a devout believer.

After finishing his prayer, he returned to his room, considered for a long time, and dialed the number on Lanse's business card.

He needed to talk to that Mr. White. Luli is experiencing a "great change," and he also does not know where the road ahead lies.

If at this time, someone could provide them with some shelter, or a lighthouse appeared to guide them to the right path, that would be for the best.

After all, in a place like Luli, even if they can go head-to-head with the local government, internationally, facing a power like the Federation, they might not even have the ability to speak loudly.

They need "guarantees"!

The crucifix on the wall behind him looked down at him with a face full of pain and compassion. He wiped his hands with a clean, beautiful handkerchief, then picked up the phone and dialed the number.

The phone did not wait too long before someone picked it up.

"This is Lanse Manor————"