915 Where Would the People Go If Theres No Country (1/2)

Chapter 915 – Where Would the People Go If There's No Country

Abadi's suggestion had placed the Somalia King on the spot.

Chasing his people away as bait was really vicious. As a player, Abadi did not care about the lives of the people. However, as the ruler, he had to consider the influence of their sentiment.

If he agreed to this, he could not be king anymore.

Abadi said, ”Your majesty, we have no other chance. Without a country, there will be no people. The country is more important than hundred thousand people.”

The Somalia King gave Abadi a deep look; he sighed, ”That seems like the only way.”

A look of irony appeared on Abadi's face. The king might look like he was in a pitiful state, but he did not even hesitate in his heart.

If a king really loved his people, he would not collude with pirates.

Abadi rose up rapidly when Farrah became a pirate, replacing him as the top adventure gamemode player.

Speaking of which, Abadi had to thank Ouyang Shuo. If it were not for that pirate operation that revealed Farrah's true colors, Abadi would not be so famous now.

The Somalia people and even the players hated the Somalia King; this idiot pushed the entire Somalia into the abyss.

Originally, Abadi thought he could live a free life in Somalia. However, just like that, he could be sent to the land of trials at any moment.

Just the name itself told them it was not a good place.

No one would be happy to go there.

In truth, Abadi and Aidid did not think about letting the king continue to rule Somalia. When the war ended, he would step out to reveal the king's actions and chase him down from the throne.

At that time, Somalia would be totally under the players.

”To make the civilians exit the city, we need to increase control of the food. Only when they are hungry will they take the risk to leave the city,” Abadi said.

The Somalia King nodded; he did not reply, as he understood such a theory.

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8th month, 1st day, Mogadishu.

For these past few days, the Somalia royal family had continuously told the army to send a signal to the soldiers to keep their strength and reduce the food provisions to the city.

Each person's rations were reduced by half, and the civilians could only feel a little full now. The more time passed, the fewer rations they had; they did not even get half.

The food even had sand mixed in with it.

Now, the royal family did not even give flour; they just gave bread to people by the head.

One person, one dry piece of bread every day.

If it were before, this bread could not even be fed to dogs. Now, it was really precious.

All of a sudden, the civilians grumbled, but the royal family did not care. They said that the soldiers were not full either, and they asked the people to bear with it.

Even the hundreds of thousands of camels were gathered by the royal family.

With that, hunger spread like a plague throughout the entire city. Hungry people walked the streets, robbing shops to find something to eat.

Riots and chaos was everywhere. As long as people were not killed, the royal family was okay with it.

This allowed things to escalate further and further.

Players who were hungry would naturally snatch the food of civilians. To the defenseless people, the combat strength of the combat occupation players was even greater than that of the guards, so how could they defend?

Civilians robbed one another; young men robbed the old, and men robbed women. The strong robbed the weak.

Hunger was slowly corroding their humanity and bringing them back to a primitive state.

As a result of the pillaging, their grain quantity grew more and more disproportionate. Some of the elderly could not even get a single piece of bread and could only go hungry.

As this continued, they would just die of hunger at home.

Death further escalated their fear, and more and more robberies happened.

As this concerned their life or death, more of these battles happened in the city.

To protect a piece of bread, people did not mind risking their lives.

They all split up into families as a unit to form small groups. Either they starved, or they robbed others to make them starve.

As more of these events happened, there were unavoidably casualties.

On this matter, the royal family was really adamant; the murderer would be executed.

They did that as a warning to prevent law and order from totally collapsing. Even the Guards could not control it, and the people's fear increased as planned.

”The imperial city can be in chaos, but it cannot go over what we can control.”

This was their bottom line. The guard soldiers patrolled day and night, and if they noticed a killer, no matter who it was, they would execute them.

Fear and hunger spread around the city, making the air really heavy.