Wasteland Border Inspector - Chapter 899

Chapter 899: Chapter 290: Legion Split, Independent Forces

As Happiness City’s core asset, the three major legions are not only the backbone to shield Shelter City from destruction by infection waves but also the deterrent power that makes any force eyeing Happiness City tremble with fear.

Yet, in Ding Yishan’s eyes, the legion has become a coveted prize?

Cheng Ye pondered deeply on the implications of this statement, combining it with the information he had just reviewed, and suddenly gained insight.

“Do you have any related info about the legion?” he asked, looking up.

“We do have it, but the amount of information is enormous, even a cursory glance could take three to five days,” Jiang Chuan hesitantly replied.

“I don’t need it all, just give me the data on the Heavy Machinery Faction where Qin Zhaoye is located.”

Cheng Ye added, “No need for excessive detail, just the basic information explaining the factions within the legion and the current status of the Heavy Machinery Faction will suffice.”

“Alright, I’ll go look for it right away.” Jiang Chuan turned and walked into the archive room.

Harlem, who had been bowing his head and studying the documents, suddenly looked up and pointed to a stack of sorted files beside him:

“It’s right here, take it.”

Jiang Chuan froze for a moment, lowered his head to see the words “Heavy Machinery Faction” on the cover, and instinctively spoke: “Station Chief Harlem…”

“If there are any questions after reading, let him come in and discuss with me anytime.” Harlem adjusted his glasses, his tone flat.

“Yes!” Jiang Chuan’s heart jolted, he quickly grabbed the documents and returned to the reading area.

Cheng Ye caught a glimpse of this scene from the corner of his eye, feeling a slight surprise, then quickly considering it justified.

Ding Yishan suddenly acted, stirring the situations in the Buffer Zone, an observant person could easily deduce there are profound implications behind this.

Not only Harlem, but the Heavy Machinery Faction led by Qin Zhaoye should also be taking action now.

Relating back to Garcia’s unexpected invitation earlier, the entire sequence of events has become clearly apparent.

“Cheng…”

“Hand me the documents, if there’s anything unclear, I’ll ask Station Chief Harlem directly.” Cheng Ye interrupted him, reached out to take the documents.

“Uh…” Jiang Chuan was momentarily speechless, that familiar feeling of being manipulated surged in his heart again.

Being around such meticulous individuals always makes him feel somewhat redundant.

Cheng Ye, however, lost interest in these matters, sat upright, and opened Harlem’s sorted file.

The document was about thirty pages long, each page containing over five hundred words, each word concise, with minimal waste and an exceptional amount of information.

Cheng Ye furrowed his brows, examining it word by word and line by line, spending over ten minutes before gradually understanding the complex power structure within the legion and the shifting and entanglement of factions over the years.

It is not surprising that within Happiness City exist different ideological factions and various development directions.

After all, in the process of constructing Shelter City, various problems are bound to arise; relying on a single ideology is not enough to face all challenges, and allowing multiple approaches is actually a reasonable choice.

But the total size of the Cross Legion and Blood Dragon Corps, including all reserve personnel and recruits, is only about one hundred thousand people.

Moreover, the core attribute of the legion is the most direct violent output, in theory, it should not give rise to so many divisions, and should unite under a single leadership against external threats.

However, though this is the rationale, the key to the problem is: what exactly is the legion’s enemy?

It is not a specific human force, but rather the enigmatic infection source, the unexpected infected bodies, and even those Extraordinary Mother Sources that can take lives from afar without meeting face to face.

Without a tangible, specific enemy, not even a unified standard protocol to deal with all sorts of infection sources can be formulated, making it extremely difficult to unite the legion internally.

After all, when squads below execute missions, different leaders have varying ideas for handling infection sources.

Since unification is hopeless, legion leadership simply released restrictions, no longer forcibly suppressing internal ideological differences.

Due to this, in the years after the era of open expansion ended, various factions gradually emerged within the legion.

The principles of these factions, in essence, are established targeting infection sources and infected bodies — appearing scattered yet sharing the same goals.

And the moment a large-scale operation requiring Shelter City-level engagement with a defined enemy arises, these factions can swiftly integrate instantly, forming a tight fist to jointly face the adversary.

However, under the normal state of ideological segmentation, each faction only receives basic support from Happiness City, and if they want to develop better and have adequate resources, they have to strive for it themselves.

To struggle means there are only two paths to take.

The first is to showcase outstanding performance during infection source sweep missions, consistently meeting set tasks with quality every winter.

This way, they can obtain dedicated funding allocations from Happiness City, with the funding amount varying based on each faction’s task ranking — the better the performance, the more resources they can attain.

The second is to spend their own money to subsidize the faction.

This sounds somewhat unbelievable, but Qin Zhaoye indeed does this, and many within the Heavy Machinery faction are privately securing funds outside and bringing the money back to invest in faction development, which indeed sounds bizarre.

However, based on intelligence analysis, these individuals share the same thought — to push the Heavy Machinery faction through the arduous initial phase by gritting their teeth, as long as in the future they can rank top in infection wave sweep missions, the costs invested now will not only be recovered multiple times but the entire faction’s standing will rise along, gaining more influence and resource favor.