Chapter 239 This place is full
Ten years ago, Riven was just a rookie.
"Riven, it's your turn," the commander said.
Riven carried the heavy armor on her thin body, and the giant sword in her hand was taller than her.
Faced with the orders from her superiors, her young face was filled with tension.
"I said, kill them," the officer emphasized.
"Sir, they have surrendered." Riven swallowed nervously, not daring to look up at her superior, let alone those who were kneeling on the ground begging: "They are just civilians."
"It's just right that it's a civilian." The commander smiled and said, "Little girl, not everyone has such a good opportunity to practice with a living person who can't fight back. It's time for you to see some blood, Riven."
"I..." Riven's voice was trembling.
Finally, the officer frowned in dissatisfaction: "Don't make me repeat the same order for the third time, recruit."
"You know, Noxus doesn't need cowards."
Riven gritted her teeth and raised her sword tremblingly.
The people around her, her fellow countrymen and comrades whom she regarded as family, also looked at her with support and encouragement.
She finally raised the sword above her head.
"Get started." The comrade reminded in a low voice.
"I..." Riven's pupils contracted, her breathing became rapid, and her still young face was soaked with sweat.
"Get started!" the officer shouted.
"Get started!" the comrade also said.
"Do you want to disobey the order? Do it!" A voice in her heart also said.
“Aaaaaaah——!”
…
“Aaaaaaah——!”
It was still dawn in the early morning, and in the makeshift refugee camp in the city, Riven was awakened by a scream coming from afar.
When she woke up, she looked just like herself in her dream. The white hair around her ears was soaked with sweat and stuck to her pale and bloodless face.
"Orianna, are you awake?" Fia appeared beside her with the same haggard look.
"I fell asleep?" Riven raised her head from the table where she was lying.
"Well, you stayed up too late." Feiya said.
"Is the list ready?" Riven didn't even bother to wipe the cold sweat from her forehead. As soon as she regained her consciousness, she started asking about business.
"It's sorted." Feiya also stared at the dark circles under her eyes: "We took in nearly 5,000 people yesterday, and we used up the quota given to us by General Lester in just one day."
Yesterday, Riven negotiated terms with Lester, who agreed to set aside an area in the city as a refugee camp managed by the Leader.
But Leicester has imposed strict restrictions on the number of people that can be accommodated in the refugee camp.
Although Riven tried her best to use the name of Goddess Janna as a deterrent, after some bargaining, Noxus only allowed the Leader to take in a maximum of 5,000 refugees.
In other words, in this city with a population of over 100,000, only 5,000 people may survive.
But now, just one day has passed, and the quota has been used up by the citizens who have flocked in to seek refuge.
"Today, the Noxians are still looting in the city. Although they haven't started large-scale killings yet, sporadic massacres have already begun."
Fia pricked up her sensitive cat ears and listened to the screams coming from afar.
The sounds of pain came one after another and almost never stopped.
"But our quota has been used up." Feiya lowered her head, her voice a little muffled.
Riven also knew what this meant.
She knew that the complete massacre of a city with a population of over 100,000 would take at least a few days, or at most more than ten days.
And now it's only the second day, and Leader has already used up all the places for refugees to be accommodated.
This means that from today on, she and Fia will need to close the gates of the refugee camp, and then personally lock out innocent citizens one by one, and watch them being dragged away and killed by the Noxians.
And this torturous process may continue for a full ten days.
"Orianna..." Fia looked at her haggardly and pitifully: "Is there really no way to save more people? You are the messenger of the goddess Janna, can you help us ask the goddess again..."
Riven was silent.
She is not a messenger of God. She can't do it.
"Sorry, this is the best result we can get." Riven hardened her heart and cut off Fia's last bit of fantasy.
She couldn't save any more people, she couldn't.
Feiya lowered her head in disappointment.
At this time, in the already crowded and noisy refugee camp, waves of deafening noise were heard again.
"It's at the entrance." Feiya said helplessly: "Most people just now know that we have a shelter here, so they flocked here early in the morning."
"But our quota is full, so..."
So the scene she least wanted to see happened.
The citizens blocked the gate of the refugee camp, and she and her subordinates who believed in the goddess Gana had to take up arms and guard the door to prevent these desperate refugees from attacking the shelter.
Feiya was sighing when a servant came over with a nervous look and reported, "Miss Feiya, something bad has happened. There's a commotion at the entrance!"
"..." Feiya was confused and speechless.
Finally, Riven steeled her heart and ordered, "Didn't we tell you before? This place is full. If anyone else comes, explain the situation to them and ask them to go home and take shelter first."
"If they don't listen, then... use force! If that doesn't work, then ask the Noxians to maintain order!" Riven said gritting her teeth.
"No, it's not that they are unaware of the situation." Unexpectedly, the servant reported like this.
"Those citizens knew that this place was full, but what they meant was... was..." The servant paused with a complicated tone: "They wanted to say that they saw that many untouchables like me entered this refugee camp before them."
"So what?" Riven frowned.
“Everyone is saying that the untouchables should be driven out and the quotas should be given to them.”
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Entrance to the refugee camp.
All the servants and sailors under Fia were forced to take up the role of camp guards.
And it was not the Noxians they faced, but their Ionian compatriots.
"Get out of the way and let us in!"
In the distance, there could still be heard the noise of Noxian soldiers committing brutal acts. The citizens had no choice but to crowd into the entrance of the refugee camp like sardines, shouting anxiously.
"Go back." The guard said helplessly, "We are really full here."
The citizens knew it. But no one was willing to back down at this time.
They first fixed their crazy eyes on the guards dressed as servants: "The place is full, so what are you doing here? You should be pariahs, right?"
"If you are a pariah, you should give up your place!"
This statement did not cause much disgust at the scene, and even gained the support of the majority of people.
Even the guards who were untouchables just lowered their heads silently and did not show any dissatisfaction or anger.
As if it were the way it should be.
"Get out of the way! Give up your spot!" The screams echoing in the city seemed to be getting closer and closer, and the citizens became more and more crazy.
The guards were speechless, and their line began to waver.
"Why don't you curse back?"
Suddenly, a voice sounded behind me.
"Lady Orianna!" The guards looked over respectfully.
"Don't call me Sir." Riven unconsciously imitated the imaginary Levi's behavior: " Tell me, they scolded you so much and asked you to die, why didn't you scold them back?"
"We..." The guards hesitated and were speechless.
"We are redundant in the first place. It is only right to give up our place to everyone else."
"..." Riven wanted to curse.
But when she saw these untouchables’ attitude of not fighting back when beaten or retaliating when scolded, as docile and honest as old oxen, she suddenly had nothing to say.
She didn't know how to change these people's minds , but at this moment she was very curious about a question: "Do you really think that you should not exist?"
"Yes." The guards nodded.
"Then why ? What are you fighting against Noxus for, for Ionia? Ionia doesn't even treat you as human beings."
Riven was completely confused about the train of thought of these lowly people.
But the guards gave her an answer that she couldn't refute:
"Noxians are a group of locusts. They destroy not only Ionia, but also the balance of all things in Ionia."
In order to maintain balance, Ionians are very careful when cutting down a tree.
But the Noxians killed anyone they saw, burned any village they saw, and threw incendiary bombs and poison gas bombs everywhere, leaving lives devastated wherever they passed.
They have only been here for a few years, but Ionia has produced more "spirits", including human spirits, animal spirits, flower and tree spirits, than in the past few decades.
"If this continues, the balance between the material and spiritual realms will be completely broken. At that time, order will collapse, evil spirits will spread, and a terrible disaster will sweep across Ionia."
"If we don't stop these Noxians, we won't be able to live peacefully even if we go to the spiritual realm after death..."
Noxus not only destroyed their homes on earth, but also wanted to destroy their "paradise" after death.
So even the untouchables of Ionia have the responsibility to resist the invasion of Noxus.
"What's more, I heard from my friends who escaped from the slave camp that... the way Noxus treats war slaves is much more cruel than us being pariahs in Ionia."
"This." Riven was speechless.
At this moment, all the words she had prepared about class, oppression, and "Do you love Ionia, does Ionia love you?" seemed to be of no use.
Faced with the big villain Noxus, the interests of the Untouchables and Ionia actually reached a consensus.
However, the ideas of the goddess Janna seem to be completely inapplicable in Ionia.
The untouchables identify strongly with Ionia's balanced order.
Even the citizens, their so-called Ionian compatriots, are now shouting:
"Get those untouchables out! Let us in!"
