Dark Blood Age

Chapter 106: Chapter 106 Three Major Headquarters

“Chief!” Inspector Zhang instantly stood up with his hand in salute.

“Hello, soldier, did you see any dark warrior with a long sword come to check-in?” Qin Min jumped off the military SUV, adjusted his uniform, and asked.

“No Chief” Inspector Zhang responded quickly. Although he did not know the officer before him, the officer was wearing the high ranking epaulets. So he wouldn’t dare to ignore his questions at all.

“Let me have a look at the Dark Warrior Register.” Qin Min frowned. He went to the battlefield earlier. Other than soldiers and medics, he did not see other dark warriors.

“Huh? How come? There is only one checkpoint in this area.” Qin Min was puzzled. But he did not plan to ask other soldiers, since the division commander reminded him several times not to let Big Cannon Wang’s men know anything about this.

The register was very thick, there was no way that he would be able to go through the names on the register one by one in a short amount of time. “You did a good job soldier, thank you for the hard work!” Qin Min said after he gave back the register to Inspector Zhang.

“Sigh… Commander will be disappointed.” Qin Min let out a sigh, shook his head, and then got into the military SUV.

………..

“Brother Chu, where do you want to go? I can take you there.” Duan Danian stopped next to him and asked.

Chu Yunsheng looked at Duan Danian and was puzzled. He did not know where this man got a white van in such a short period of time.

Looking at the map in his hand, it was still quite far from his aunt’s house, and he was also not familiar with the roads of Jin Ling city. Although he knew what this guy was thinking, the desire of wanting to find his aunt as soon as possible made him get into the van.

After he got into the van, he noticed that Duan Danian was wearing something on his chest that he did not seem to have at the checkpoint.

It was a badge with the shape of Earth carved on it. Below the Earth, it was written “Dark Warrior” and “Rank Two”

“This was issued by the Dark Warrior Headquarters, come, brother Chu, sit here.” Duan Danian moved aside to make space for Chu Yunsheng and then explained, “you can go to the Dark Warrior Headquarters at city central to test your ability there. After you passed the test, they will formally issue you this badge and a card. Wearing this badge in the city area can save you a lot of troubles.”

“Dark Warrior Headquarters?” Chu Yunsheng also heard of this name when he was at the checkpoint.

“That’s right, nowadays, there are three major headquarters in Jin Ling city. The first one is the fucking General Command Headquarters, they control entire the military force, which has ten military divisions, and all the food, energy etc… all kinds of supplies.

The second one is the useless General Research Department, it was formed by a group of arrogant and opinionated scientists. They are mainly doing nothing but researching on the new weapons and some stupid theories on how to use dark energy and shit.

The third one is our Dark Warrior Management Headquarters. It is responsible for managing and testing all the dark warriors inside Jin Ling city.”

“Boss, Mr. Chu, where are we going?” Sun Qian was the person driving the van. He looked at the back mirror and interrupted Duan Danian.

“Brother Chu, let me drop you off at your place first, using the van is quick, it won’t take long.” Duan Danian said.

Chu Yunsheng did not decline the offer, he said straight away, “Guan Xi road, Xiang Shan village.”

It was just past 20:00, and there were not many cars on the road, so the van was fairly fast on the road.

When the van drove into the main city, the number of refugees living on the street started to increase. They were cuddling with each other under streetlights and constantly exhaling the white clouds. Chu Yunsheng could constantly hear the moaning sounds that people made because of hunger and cold.

“Jin Ling city still has electricity?” Chu Yunsheng asked in surprise. If they used fire to power the electricity, they should have already finished coal by now. Moreover, there was nowhere near Jin Ling city that could produce coal. How come they still have electricity?

“I’ve heard that the General Research Department managed to disassemble a nuclear power plant unit and moved it back to Jin Ling city. With the help of some kind of latest dark energy research results, they built a mini dark energy power plant underneath the ground. But fuck that stupid thing, it is not stable at all, we often have power outages. Apart from the major transportation links and some important areas, all other areas are limited to use electricity. Other than that, your fath… Oh… I… I don’t know as well.” Duan Danian almost said, ‘Your father I'(1). He immediately took out a pack of cigarettes and passed one to Chu Yunsheng to distract him.

Looking at lights glimmering outside the van, Chu Yunsheng started to wonder, ‘this city does not simply just rely on food, and the military forces outside the city, it also relies on electricity to bring light and power.’

“Are the General Research Department and Dark Warrior Headquarters not supposed to be controlled by the General Command Headquarters?” Chu Yunsheng was curious. Normally, a party that controlled the military forces and food supplies should have control over everything.

“Sigh, who knows what kind of dirty deal they had. I am just a simple man, I do not know why they are doing this either. Just take the thing that happened to you as an example, originally, the General Command Headquarters did not agree on that stupid” Earth Species Protection Plan”. So many people are dying in the city, how do they even have the resources and time to take care of those animals. But those stupid scientists were not giving it up, they spent several days to argue about the importance of the protection plan. The argument was gradually getting more and more acute and even the people inside the General Command Headquarters also started to have different opinions. But soon after that, the plan was strangely passed, however, rumours said that it had something to do with the new weapons designed by the research department.”

Lao Duan took a drag on the cigarette and carried on, “our dark warrior headquarter was formed by the awakened humans ourselves. But the general command headquarters is always trying to get their hands on it. You just came to Jin Ling city, so you don’t know about it. Since the insects appeared, the conflict between dark warriors and the troops never stopped.

You did not see the troops trying to recruit dark warriors at the checkpoint, right? But they used to be there. At that time, the troops would force dark warriors to join them, but those warriors were just regular civilians, they had never received proper training. Many people did not like the military’s attitude and started to have conflicts with the troops. From the small disputes until the big conflicts later. Many people died at that time, even the people from the top. The insects also took the opportunity to push the defence line at that time.

After that incident, and under the pressure from the dark warrior headquarters’ protest. The general command headquarters had a meeting for several days. Eventually, they prohibited the military from recruiting dark warriors using force. But often those troops would still find a way to recruit people. Since the meeting finished, the dark warrior headquarters started to grow bigger and bigger, until it became what it looks like today.”

Chu Yunsheng finally understood what happened after Duan Danian explained everything. Amongst the three headquarters, the General Command Headquarters had the biggest power, then the second one was the General Research Department, and the Dark Warrior Headquarters at last. They were working together, but also they were restricting each other from having too much power.

But this was just the problem of the high-levels, there were also many groups in the lower level as well. Jin Ling city was not a big city, but when it suddenly became a place that all the survivors from Eastern China wanted to stay, the city instantly became crowded just overnight. That was why all kinds of conflicts constantly happened, it was either because of the territory, weapons, food or other things…

Chu Yunsheng used his time on the van to ask Duan Danian all kinds of information about the city, he even got some information about Duan Danian’s background. He finally understood why Duan Danian was trying to help him so much, but Chu Yunsheng did not plan to get involved. He was not interested in this kind of conflict, at the most, he would pay them some food in return, and that was all.

What he wanted to do now was to find his aunt’s family first, and then find a safe place to study the book. He hoped that he would be able to understand the entire book soon.

On the way, Chu Yunsheng also noticed that there were not many cars inside the city. But later on, Duan Danian told him that the three major headquarters had prohibited ordinary people from using cars. Because of the shortage of petrol, it was already listed as military goods. Dark Warriors could use cars, but they needed to find petrol outside the city themselves.

When the van took a turn and drove into the Guan Xi road where Chu Yunsheng was familiar with. Chu Yunsheng’s heart started to jump rapidly.

When he was young, he used to visit his aunt’s house every year, and when he joined the workforce, he also came to visit his aunt once a year, that was why he was familiar with every building on the street his aunt lived in.

The housing estate did not have any security guards. The van took several turns under Chu Yunsheng instructions, and eventually arrived at the building number 12.

Through the windows, Chu Yunsheng was surprised to find that the flat on the fifth floor that belonged to his aunt still had a light on.

At that moment, he suddenly felt that he had finally found the home.

1. “your father I” is a term used to insult other people, the easiest way to understand this is: I am your father.