"Well, thankfully Ma Bin is still holding on, otherwise it would have been really bad."

Lu Yuan sighed, took some food, and found Ma Bin. Ma Bin was squatting on the ground, dozing off, until Lu Yuan gently patted his shoulder, and he slowly woke up.

"How's it going? Do we still need to wait in line?"

Lu Yuan nodded with a wry smile, then handed the food to the other person.

"What? You've already found someone and it's still not resolved? Really? People in the black market are so unreliable."

"Hehe, this time it's not the black market people. The black market people helped us a lot back then. It's the people in the underground fortress. They are the really unreliable people. I now realize that you black market people are much kinder than them. These people are simply a bunch of old foxes."

Upon hearing Lu Yuan's words, Ma Bin's eyes flashed with a hint of annoyance.

"Damn, we've been queuing for three days already, and there are only a little over a hundred people ahead of us in the screening process. Most of them who have received the screening order still have to wait to see if they can get their ID cards. I think this is pretty uncertain."

Lu Yuan nodded: "It seems we have to think of another way. It looks like the blizzard is really coming."

After chatting with Ma Bin for a while, Lu Yuan returned to his place and lay on the bed, lost in thought.

Now, to pass the review, one has to queue up, and the queue can be very long. Tens of thousands of people enter the underground fortress every day, and the remaining slots are constantly decreasing. There are now less than 100,000 slots left. At this moment, Lu Yuan's heart was clenched with anxiety.

Lu Yuan, who was half asleep, suddenly felt a commotion outside. Then Xiao Shan rushed into the tent and shook Lu Yuan awake.

"Hmm, what's going on?"

Xiao Shan, with a hint of tension on her face, pointed outside and said, "It's all in chaos. There are still less than 50,000 places left. Those who are still waiting for the review and those who have not passed the review are starting to panic. They plan to launch a riot and then storm into the underground fortress."

Lu Yuan's eyes widened instantly.

"What? They're planning to storm in? Just with so many people, they're going to charge straight in?"

"Yes, there are too many of them. The guards of the underground fortress are no match for them. It is said that several thousand people have already died, but the crowd continues to charge."

Lu Yuan's heart skipped a beat. He hadn't expected the riot to still happen. He looked around at the people. The tents were all empty. Most of the people had gathered together and started rushing towards the checkpoint. At the checkpoint, gunfire was already raging, and people were scattering and fleeing everywhere.

Lu Yuan's lips curled up slightly. It seemed that the underground fortress would have to make the same compromise as them. But he wondered how the people outside had organized themselves. This riot was practically impossible in such a strictly managed place. Clearly, it was premeditated.

Lu Yuan crawled out of the tent and stared blankly at the rioting crowd in the distance, just like everyone else. Ma Bin's eyes held a hint of doubt.

"I think I saw a few familiar faces."

"Huh? I saw someone I know, really?"

Ma Bin nodded firmly: "I just saw some former colleagues with guns leading a group of people rushing in."

Lu Yuan was suddenly startled: "Could the person who organized this riot be from the black market?"

"But why would they instigate a riot among these people? Is it because the underground fortress didn't give them the promised spots, which triggered the riot?"

Lu Yuan was in a state of confusion. He tried to guess the cause of the matter, but he had too little information in his mind to analyze it.

"Mom and Dad, take Grandpa and Grandma and go to the back to hide for a while. I'll go to the front and see what's going on."

"No, it's too dangerous. Come back quickly and see if there's any chance of things turning around after the riots are over."

Zhou Tong gently patted Lu Yuan on the shoulder: "Brother, leave this to me. Keep an eye on Xiao Chen for me."

After Zhou Tong finished speaking, he tightened his clothes and ran forward. Lu Yuan sighed and could only let Xi Wen go with him to see what was going on.

Lu Yuan glanced at Ma Bin again: "Was the riot instigated by people from the black market?"

The other person shook their head: "I don't know. I've been away from Black for too long. There have been a lot of personnel changes there. I don't know who is in charge of this area now."

The riots were quite loud at the time, with gunshots and the sounds of machinery everywhere. Then, a loud explosion occurred in the distance, followed by a towering flame that illuminated the surrounding area.

Countless people, engulfed in flames, fled in all directions, but even more people pushed and shoved forward desperately, like tireless zombies, trying to break through this underground fortress.

Lu Yuan stood at a distance, his eyes fixed on the distance. He felt both resentment and confusion, because he didn't know why people from the black market were mixed in with them.

Soon the rioting crowd seemed to be suppressed by the paper. A helicopter rose from the entrance, its bright lights shining down, while a man in a suit, braving the cold wind, held a megaphone and shouted desperately down at the crowd.

"Don't push, don't push, the spots are all taken..."

With a "buzz," Lu Yuan's ears rang, and he collapsed to the ground, especially after hearing those words.

"What? The quota is full? No way, how could this be?" Lu Yuan muttered to himself. He simply couldn't believe that in just a moment, the quota of 50,000 people had been filled. They must have deliberately closed the door.

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