Clodesa is a small town located in the central and eastern part of the Moissan continent. It was originally a small town on the border of the Kingdom of Panier. However, after the Year of the Fog, it lost contact with the capital of the Kingdom of Panier due to the obstruction of mutant monsters.

, and then formed autonomy, and then became independent from the Kingdom of Panier. Ten years ago, it joined the Sakte City-State Autonomous Alliance.

Although the Saket City-State Autonomous Alliance claims to be a country, in fact, the countries in Mozambique have never recognized it. The city-states that make up the Saket City-State Autonomous Alliance are all small border towns of various countries, because they are all located in the central and eastern parts of the country.

The Sacket Plain happened to be cut off from the political center of the original country and was in a state of semi-autonomous or fully autonomous, so they simply broke away from the original country completely and united to form a new country.

Although the original countries of these towns objected to the establishment of the Sackett City-State Autonomous Alliance and did not recognize its existence, they did not take further steps to take back these towns.

This is mainly because during the period when mutated monsters were rampant, it was already very difficult for the armies of various countries to protect major urban areas. It was almost impossible to form armies to conquer cities. What's more, the autonomy of these border towns was a problem for the central governments of various countries.

This is a good thing, because if there is no autonomy and secession, they will still need to find ways to provide personnel and material assistance to these towns, and they will not be able to collect corresponding taxes, which means that these towns have become a burden to various countries at this time.

Now that these towns have chosen autonomy, the central governments of various countries have not only reduced their own burdens as a matter of course, but can also use force or other methods to take back these towns at any time on the grounds that these towns are illegally autonomous.

These town chiefs or mayors who choose autonomy and join the Saket City-State Autonomous Alliance know very well what will happen when the time improves in the future, but for them, immediate survival is the most important. If they do not join the Saket City-State Autonomous Alliance,

As for the City-State Autonomous Alliance, it would be difficult for a town alone to survive in a world where mutant monsters often appear.

Among the towns that joined the Sackett City-State Autonomous Alliance, Clodesa should be regarded as one of the last towns to join, because the mayor of Closard and the city councilors were thinking about joining the Sackett City-State Autonomous Alliance at that time.

, or should we join the Kingdom of America.

Most people think that it would be better to join the Kingdom of America, because the Kingdom of America is the largest country in the Mozambique continent and has a strong military theory. Joining the Kingdom of America can provide good protection, unlike the Kingdom of Panier.

It will be discarded casually.

But those who know the upper echelons of the country very well know that joining the Kingdom of America will definitely not be better than the Kingdom of Panier. They, the outsiders who have just joined, are likely to become America in a battle against mutant monsters.

Decoy or pawn for the kingdom's army.

Although many people are well aware of the disadvantages of joining the Kingdom of America, the more powerful Kingdom of America is the best protection for ordinary citizens, so the vast majority of the members of the city council follow public opinion and feel that they should join the Kingdom of America.

Faced with this situation, the mayor and the few sober people in the town could only try their best to suppress the idea of ​​joining the Kingdom of America. Until they felt that they could no longer suppress it, a rumor helped them get out of their current predicament.

This rumor is that the Seventh Legion of the Kingdom of America actually used people from a nearby village as bait during a annihilation battle against a group of mutant monsters to introduce the group of mutant monsters into an ambush circle. Although these mutant monster groups were eventually eliminated, there was no

It caused some damage to several nearby large towns, but the village and the villagers living in it were either killed by the attack of mutant monsters or accidentally killed by the army's attack. In the end, only a few people survived and escaped.

The Kingdom of America announced this matter.

This incident was a big deal at that time, and the Kingdom of America naturally refused to admit it. However, there were too many participants in the war to silence them, and the traces on the battlefield could not be covered up. In the end, they could only find an excuse to kill the seventh

Several generals of the legion were dismissed from their posts, but no further action was taken, and they were muddled through in an extremely perfunctory manner.

After this rumor was transmitted to Clodesa, everyone who heard the rumor instantly changed their minds about joining the Kingdom of America. After all, the Kingdom of America can use its own people as bait today and use them as pawns tomorrow.

Therefore, in the subsequent meeting to decide whether Clodesa should stay or not, the decision to join the Sackett City-State Autonomous Alliance was almost unanimously approved.

To this day, the councilors who participated in the meeting to decide the whereabouts of Clodesa are extremely grateful that they made a very correct decision. In fact, there is another place not far from Clodesa, only separated by a hill.

A small town was also deciding which side to turn to. As a result, they made a completely opposite decision to Clodesa and chose to join the Kingdom of America.

However, during a wave of monsters that almost affected the entire Salok Plain, the town asked for help from the Kingdom of America, but received no response and was swallowed up by the wave of monsters. Clodesa, on the other hand, received assistance from other autonomous alliance city-states, and finally

Withstood the tide of monsters and survived to this day.

In the years that followed, the city-states of the Autonomous Alliance also relied on this mutual assistance to successfully survive in this chaotic era. Life in the major cities in the center of the Autonomous Alliance has become as stable as in the foggy years.

The old days.

However, now another decision related to Clodesa's whereabouts once again appeared in front of Clodesa's senior management, and the difficulty of this decision was no less difficult than the previous one.

The main reason for this decision is the news from the Autonomous Alliance headquarters. It is said that the Autonomous Alliance headquarters is already discussing whether to change the current system of the Autonomous Alliance.

The current system of the Autonomous Alliance is actually very loose. Basically, each town and city operates independently. Each city is responsible for politics, military and taxation. Each month, each city only needs to pay a part of the alliance dues to the headquarters as an emergency.

the mobilization funds required.

It can be said that before joining the Autonomous Alliance, how much power the mayor, city councilors and government officials of Clodesa held in their hands will remain the same after joining, and nothing has changed.

But now the Autonomous Alliance headquarters has decided to change this state of complete autonomy, unify all city-states into subordinate towns of one country, and divide the land under the jurisdiction of the Autonomous Alliance into four counties to control different numbers of autonomous city-states.

The reason for this is that it can improve the work efficiency of the Autonomous Alliance, unify resources, avoid unnecessary waste, strengthen cohesion, etc. More importantly, it can make the Autonomous Alliance a real country, a real country recognized by other countries.

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The Sackett City-State Autonomous Alliance has not been recognized as an independent country by neighboring countries. There are many reasons. The most mentioned is this loose system. This is also something that the senior officials of the Autonomous Alliance headquarters have been worried about for many years. They feel that

After changing the system, it will give neighboring countries one less reason to refuse to recognize it, and it will also be more justifiable when resisting invasion by other countries in the future.

This restructuring policy that is being discussed and will become a reality has now been agreed by several large cities in the center of the Autonomous Alliance and the first cities to join the Autonomous Alliance.

The towns on the edge have expressed strong opposition to the restructuring, because this restructuring not only weakens the power held by the top leaders of each town and city, but also makes these towns worry about whether their towns and cities will be affected by the restructuring.

Like the border cities of those countries, they became bait and pawns in a certain incident.

"I don't agree with the restructuring," a young member of the city council said loudly. "We should unite with other towns that oppose the restructuring to put pressure on the headquarters instead of discussing it here.

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Clodesa has a population of only 20,000, and a total of 20 city council members were elected out of these 20,000. These members also hold some secondary positions in the city government. For example, this young councilor who strongly resists the restructuring of the Autonomous Alliance also holds a part-time job.

The position of guard captain of the city defense army.

This young councilor was not from Clodesa. He was a refugee like one-third of the town's population. The village where he originally lived was used as a pawn by the Kuishan Alliance. In the end, his family only consisted of himself and his younger brother.

After escaping to Clodesa, he joined the city defense army, gained a lot of fame through his military exploits, and finally became a member of the city council in last year's city council election.

It is precisely because of his experience that he has shown strong opposition to all centralized systems, and because he has extremely high prestige among young people, he soon became the leading initiative against restructuring in parliament.

When others only expressed dissatisfaction with the restructuring, he had already begun to propose a tough attitude in the parliament to fight against the headquarters' decision to restructure. If it were not for other parliamentarian organizations, he would even ask the parliament to form a special group for this matter.

Support the resistance forces for emergencies.

After seeing that the proposal to establish an emergency resistance army was not brought to the meeting, the young councilor immediately proposed a proposal to unite other towns that opposed the restructuring.

None of the councilors who were working on this proposal expressed any objection, because it was exactly in line with their ideas. They knew very well that it was impossible for the people in the town of Clodesa alone to resist the headquarters' decision to restructure.

After years of integration, the forces from the headquarters have penetrated into all aspects of Clodesa, not only food, clothing, housing and transportation, but also military supplies. Once the headquarters cuts off the supply from Clodesa, then what will happen?

How long will it take for Clodesa to fall into civil strife?

As for leaving the Autonomous Alliance like they did with the Kingdom of Panier, these congressmen did not even think about it, because they had to leave the Kingdom of Panier in the first place, and the Kingdom of Panier did not have any influence on Clodesa.

, completely different from the situation they face now.

As a result, all the members of the Clodesa Parliament quickly passed the proposal to unite other towns to resist the headquarters' restructuring. However, when they further discussed how to unite other towns and how to deal with the headquarters' counterattack, the door of the parliament was blocked.

People were bumping away from the outside, and then a heavily armed middle-aged soldier rushed in.

Before the people in the council could accuse each other of disturbing the order of the council, the man gasped and said first: "No! The mutant monster group is taking shape in Tebas Mountain outside the city, and is moving here.

We’ll be back here tomorrow morning at the latest.”

"What!" All the council members were stunned by the news, and some of them even blamed why the patrol team did not discover such a large group of mutant monsters in advance.

In order to avoid sudden attacks by mutant monster swarms, the Autonomous Alliance established patrol points in the border areas long ago like other countries. These patrol points can help the alliance's border city-states detect mutant monster swarms three to five days in advance. The Autonomous Alliance

The headquarters can also mobilize manpower from other towns during this time to support the town that first encountered the mutant monster group.

Clodesa has also encountered several battle experiences in the past that happened to be blocking the path of a group of mutant monsters, and confronted the group of mutant monsters head-on. Those times, without exception, the group of mutant monsters was discovered four or five days in advance.

They gathered together and prepared for battle in advance. Although there were many casualties, they finally managed to survive without any danger.

However, this is the first time that we only know about the mutant monster group one day in advance. Everyone who heard the news is very sure that in such a short time, there is no time to ask for help from the headquarters, even to nearby cities.

It is also very difficult to ask for reinforcements, and it will take time to form reinforcements from neighboring cities. It will take at least three days before they are likely to arrive.

As for pre-war preparations in the city, it is also very difficult, because the armaments in the city are not sufficient, only enough to equip one or two city defense troops of 1,000 people. If you want additional equipment, you need to ask the person in charge of this

Apply for the alliance equipment depot in this area.

The reason why this situation occurs is entirely because the equipment of the Autonomous Alliance is provided free of charge. Since it is free, each town will naturally not be willing to spend a lot of money to stockpile weapons.

Just as everyone was expressing their opinions and asking for help as soon as possible, someone suddenly said: "I remember that the patrol team from the headquarters conducted a routine patrol in Tebas Mountain two days ago.

If there is really a gathering of mutated monsters, they can't possibly not discover it, unless..."
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