Rule Strange: Urban Legends That Don't Exist

Chapter 823 Baal Darkrod
His name is Barr Darkrod, and he used to be the head of the Days Island Pioneering Group.

After the Adventist officials opened the logistics center with the handbook of the Grand Commander, Barr retreated to the second line, and now he is in charge of the almost non-existent security force of the mechanical hive and the police department that has almost never appeared in front of the public.

Barr was the only person Klein couldn't understand in the entire high-level logistics center.

Klein did get information about Barr's past in the empire, and those materials told the fact that "Baer Darkrod is an ordinary person" all the time.

And this fact is quite different from what he saw——

The man named Barr Darkrod in front of him, after receiving an order from the Northern Federation to come to the island chain, only led a 20-member musket squad to go deep into the savage era of Days Island and wipe out the people who were entrenched in Days Island. There are more than a dozen pirates of different forces on the island of Sri Lanka;
Kill all the black merchants who have occupied the dominant position of ocean currents all the year round;
Blow up the beast lair in the center of the island that is hundreds of meters deep into the ground;
Forcibly naturalize most of the native peoples of the island to the empire;
The cannibals who mastered the strange and mysterious power in the north of the island killed only a few dead species who fled to the sulfuric acid forest of the dead volcano.

It's hard to see the thrills of these events just from the paper, but fortunately, Klein's way of obtaining information is not just official paper documents.

So he knows how difficult it is to do these things, and even more so, how difficult it is to be able to sit safely in the Z area of ​​the mechanical hive after completing this series of events-the latter is probably more difficult than the former, because there is no cannot be achieved through effort.

Klein used himself as a model to make predictions. Even with the ability of [Executor], with the help of the North Bureau, and with the efforts of L. Besarius using his line to the imperial capital, Klein could Can't do everything Baal Darkrod did in a few years.

But Barr Darkrod is obviously a mortal.

Klein still remembered that Fernando complained to him at the time that Barr must not have been relying on a small musketeer team to take down the island. Fernando was sure that Barr must have recruited a lot of people, otherwise how could he be so fierce?

Everyone knows that Klein, Fernando D. Magellan and other officials who parachuted into the mechanical hive of Days Island originally came to usurp the fruits of the pioneering group's labor. compression--

Over the past few decades, Days Island has buried countless murderers, and most of the survivors are better than the dead. As far as Klein knows, those murderers have even reproduced.

Klein didn't think that time had come yet.

Klein didn't know what happened at that time. Just the day before he came to Days Island, the already heated conflict between the gangs in the mechanical hive came to an abrupt end, marked by the destruction of the leading gang [Gunpowder Store].

what

A system that can operate in society will always be "a system that can barely maintain the normal operation of society."

But no matter how he investigates, he still doesn't know what the problem is until today.

The origin of Barr's inclusion of those people is quite intriguing.

Fernando's hint was obvious. Klein also conducted many investigations later, but the reliability and amount of information of the investigation results were not optimistic.

Klein also thought that since Barr was able to use this group of thugs to open up wasteland for himself, he must have made a promise to them.

Gang melee is essentially a power struggle among gang controllers.

There is only so much power, and the cake is so big, if one more person divides it, everyone else will eat less.

In the era when the pioneer group led by Barr opened up Days Island, the gunpowder store was still a group of gangsters and part-time pirates without a name-there was no difference between the two-even after being incorporated by Barr, this group of people did not get The code name, which is similar to the number of the army, is just a self-proclaimed "benevolent man attached to the empire's pioneering group".

Although the land reclamation process on Days Island lasted only a few years, it has gone through all the stages it should go through.

As far as Klein knew, what was even more incredible was that during the riots last week, the only daughter of Baer Darkrod died at the banquet celebrating the establishment of the logistics center—at the gunpoint of outlaws from the gunpowder store. Down!
Bar Darkrod took advantage of the "foundation" he had earned through years of hard work and sacrificed his life, lost the powerful gang that he called his brothers, lost all the capital that could compete with the Adventist faction, and even his daughter got involved.

The most important thing is a huge hidden danger that cannot be solved and has the highest priority——

Judging from the current situation, Baer Darkrod obviously failed to fulfill his promise—it was impossible to fulfill it, it was just an illusory and deadly vision for the desperate.

As far as Klein knows, in the past two years—that is, the two years when the mechanical hive was erected, the number of people who were lured into Days Island by the empire was increasing. After entering the island, most of these people were attached to the machine because of their power. The chief executive of a section of the hive—in this regard, merchants and gangs that look like merchants do what the worst gangsters do.

With Klein's arrival and subsequent in-depth investigation of this matter, Klein was even more surprised, because before the destruction of the gunpowder store, this was attached to Baer Darkrod and had existed since the beginning of the pioneering era of Days Island. The super-large gang took root in the mechanical hive of Days Island and became a deep-rooted top-level cancer throughout the pioneering process. Its status has far surpassed other rising gangs.

From the past merchants who established supply points on the island one after another, to the empire's settlement policy to attract ethnic groups from all over the world to settle on Days Island.

From the pioneer group sweeping the wilderness, to the empire sending troops to sweep the surrounding seas.

However, the impossible happened.

The descendants of those thugs who bred on the dangerous island were much more vicious than their parents, and left an indelible impression on those who had been in contact with Days Island.

According to Klein’s private investigation, most of the gangs on the island “joined the construction of the Days Island logistics center” in this way—attached to some kind of power, joined the construction of Days Island by this power, and became this type of power The symbionts—except that they didn't all find Baal Darkrod when they joined the group.

Klein thought to himself that the Gunpowder Store never got a serial number, perhaps it was because Bar Darkrod knew what these thugs had done before, so no matter from the aspect of personal conscience or the aspect of explaining to their superiors It is impossible to apply for innocent status for these exiles who bear the guilt of eternal life with official documents.

Klein knew what Fernando was implying.

……

The current prosperity of Days Island was not created overnight with money, but the result of the joint efforts of a lot of money, manpower and violent armed forces.

Klein only knew later that many people died that night, not only a large number of high-level gang members, but also officials from the Days Island logistics center.

Fernando obviously still knows more secrets in the mechanical hive, but the information is equivalent. If Klein wants to know more, he must exchange his own information, and the exchange of information means the formation of a certain cooperative relationship.

That chaotic time lasted until a week ago.

He didn't even use all this as a bargaining chip to negotiate with Fernando D. Magellan, who represented the empire!
What the hell is Baal Darkrod doing?
What is his purpose?
When the banquet incident broke out, Bar Darkrod didn't even ask for leave, and he has been busy with government affairs until now.

At that time, the internal order of Days Island had not yet been established, and the society on the entire island was very chaotic. In addition, the chiefs in charge of various parts of the mechanical hive had real power, and sometimes it was inevitable that there would be conflicts of interest between power representatives. It is not uncommon for a fire to break out between them.

Unbelievable, incomprehensible, unacceptable.

etc.

Fighting is equivalent to completely opposing the original forces on the island.

Fernando also mentioned very vaguely that some pirates survived that era of chaos and now live in the mechanical hive. Even if they are just deserters, they are still ruthless characters that most people can't afford.

nothing

The formation of a cooperative relationship means the emergence of an implicit alliance, and things are bound to develop in an out of control direction.

Klein recalled the past—a week ago, when he, Fernando and other imperial officials parachuted to Days Island, only two armed squads were brought from the empire. Unable to compete with the island's armed forces—

get.

Not only can't beat it, but it can't beat it.

This is completely contrary to their purpose of coming to Days.

On the other hand, in the eyes of everyone, the gunpowder store has become the strongest means for the logistics center to control the dark forces of the mechanical hive.

One whale fell and all things were born, and the "huge legacy" left by the gunpowder shop made other gangs eat and fatten up. In just over a week, the dark side of the entire mechanical hive society took on a new look.

As for what kind of promise can make them work for it, you can know it with your ass - apart from being innocent, recognized by the imperial society, and clean citizenship, there is nothing that can make a group of guilty gangsters work for it up.

It was such a group of people who took their lives to fill it in for a few years, and thus made Bar Darkrod's "reputation".

In his opinion, there is one problem in the gunpowder store incident that cannot be explained in any way:
How can Bar Darkrod, who controls the official armed force Pioneering Regiment and the Gunpowder Store, the strongest civilian armed force on Days Island, let the main personnel of the Gunpowder Store be slaughtered, and the assets of the Gunpowder Store gang be forcibly seized by other gangs? What about inheritance?
Klein compared the official data given by the North Bureau and the logistics center, and knew what kind of wealth it was—whether it was from the money itself, the added value of the gang’s armed forces, or the convenience that the gang’s business channels could bring, Barr Darkrod has no reason, and it is impossible to have any motive, to allow the gunpowder shop to be wiped out.

There has never been a "perfect", "mature" or even "normal" system in this world.

From the nearby islands and the ethnic groups who could not reach the empire gathered on Days Island, to the gang culture formed in the mechanical hive due to complicated reasons.

Now the gunpowder store is gone, but the unremarkable business that the gunpowder store has been doing for decades is still there, and the relationship network that the gunpowder store spent a lot of money and countless energy to maintain is still there.

But he got nothing!

Gunpowder Store—Just a week later, this notorious name has been almost forgotten by everyone. Even Klein, whose brain is much more "smart" than before, can only think of it when he sees Baer Darkrod up the name.

Klein sensed a strong sense of crisis from this impossible event, and he felt that Baer Darkrod must have a big problem.

Fernando D. Magellan mentioned in very few chats with Klein that pirates on islands are different from pirates at sea. After all, humans are species that live on land. , the pirates who set foot on the island fully demonstrated all the ferocity and primitive animality of human beings.

The deformed social environment of the mechanical hive on Days Island is not the result of the subjective wishes of most people, and it is also different from the wishes of the designers of the island chain at the beginning of the empire. difference.

For Klein, the subsequent impact of the destruction of the gunpowder store is of secondary importance.

The name of Days Island comes from this-Deathland, who were exiled to this dangerous island, and the only thing waiting for the prisoners was the approaching death day after day.

What's more, there is not one extra cake divider now, but a group!
Under such pressure from the empire, the original power of the pioneering group on the island was in a precarious situation. As the head of the pioneering group, Bar Darkrod not only did not stand up to stand up to the officials who were parachuted by the empire, but instead broke his own arm and threw himself The most powerful forces in the shadows of society have been cut down.

Days Island has been used as the "exile place" of the empire for decades, and some gangsters who have been sentenced to life imprisonment or even more serious crimes on land have been exiled to this small island.

A mortal who has not grasped an iota of inspirational power.

Such a thing is incredible to anyone.

While this memory flashed through Klein's mind, the conversation on the round table in front of him was still going on.

When Barr Darkrod said "to support the capital of the island", Fernando D. Magellan's face was obviously ugly, and there was a disgust in his eyes:
"Barr, you should know that if it wasn't for your strong protection, I would have thrown all the gang bastards on the island into the sea to feed the fish. The evil deeds done by those lowly bastards are enough to hang them on the gallows 1000 million times!"

The exaggerated threat from the governor of Days Island did not change Bar Darkrod's tone, and the latter patiently explained as before:

"Gangs bear special historical responsibilities in a special era. Things like killing donkeys will cause very unstable changes. We have verified this matter and got a bad result."

(End of this chapter)