The church was not in the mood to pay attention to these useless poor people.
This group of people who were struggling to survive did not have the ability to threaten the church's rule. They were just people who were struggling at death's door. If the church wanted to, they could kill them all at any time. However, they were too far away from Libya City, and they were very scattered. It was very troublesome to find them.
This group of poor people who posed no threat, had no benefits, and were very troublesome to deal with were ignored by the church. They became the abandoned people of Nisus.
However, in Nisus, other than these non-threatening civilians, there was another kind of existence that the church hated to the bone and wanted to eradicate.
They were not a resistance group because resistance groups mainly hid in the city and secretly carried out sabotage activities. Their purpose was to overthrow the church's cold rule. They only escaped the city to avoid being hunted down.
These groups that the church spent a lot of manpower to eliminate were actually small independent forces.
Some of them were abandoned people who originally lived outside the city, and some were Libyan citizens who escaped the city through various means to escape the church's cold rule. However, they were not like other abandoned people who lived far away from Libya City and hid at the edge of Nisus to survive. Instead, they contacted emotional criminals in the city through some secret channels and sold the books, art, and other prohibited items that were strictly prohibited in Libya to them at a high price.
Although the church's rule was strict, there were still many emotional criminals in each department. Therefore, the huge city wall was not as tight as a bucket. Under normal circumstances, ordinary people could not enter or leave the city through the gate, but there were always some secret ways and channels to quietly enter and leave.
These art dealers risked being exterminated by the church to do this kind of thing. Naturally, they were not good people.
In addition to searching in the ruins, their main "source of goods" was other survivors living outside the city, and even their peers.
Although they would also exchange food and other supplies from some of the abandoned people, that was only when the other party had a large number of people and guns in their hands. Most of the time, they played the role of bandits and robbers.
When ordinary abandoned people encountered them, they would only have all their food and valuable items stolen. They would even be killed if they encountered some ferocious ones.
Therefore, the life of the abandoned people outside the city was not only difficult, but also dangerous. Once they encountered these art dealers who were in groups and had weapons, those who had guns could fight with their lives on the line to prevent the other party from shooting at the rat for fear of breaking the vases. Those who did not have weapons could only choose to run away. Once they were caught, they could only be slaughtered.
Therefore, most of the ordinary abandoned people outside the city were terrified of these bandit-like art dealers and avoided them as far as possible.
Not only did the ordinary people outside the city hate them, but the Jehovah's Church also saw them as a thorn in their side and wanted nothing more than to wipe them out.
Their existence greatly aggravated the situation of emotional crimes in the city. Books, records, works of art, and other prohibited items that could arouse human emotions poured into the city in large numbers, causing emotional crimes to continue unabated in the city. This brought a great threat to their rule.
Therefore, the Church spent a lot of effort to eliminate these art dealers, and even put more effort into dealing with the emotional criminals and resistance groups in the city.
From the Church's point of view, the emotional criminals and resistance groups in the city were under their watch. Their scale was not large, and they would not be able to cause any trouble under their vigilance.
However, these art dealers who were scattered and hiding in the Nisus District outside the city were the real problem.
They incited and aroused the emotions of the people in the city, turning many law-abiding citizens into emotional criminals. Every contraband item that entered the city could create several emotional criminals, and these organizations sold more than a thousand contraband items into the city every year.
As long as these organizations that sold prohibited items were completely eradicated and the source of the illegal items was cleaned up, the situation of emotional crimes would be greatly improved without these items that could arouse human emotions.
After all, there were very few people who could break free from the control of "Bothian" and stop taking drugs without the contraband triggering of emotions. Most of the emotional criminals that were caught by the Church committed crimes under the influence of these prohibited items or other emotional criminals.
However, these contraband trafficking organizations naturally knew that the Church hated them to the core. With their strength, they could bully ordinary abandoned people, but when faced with the Church's troops and priests, they could only be crushed. Therefore, they were extremely cautious in their actions and would flee at the slightest sign of trouble.
Their hiding places were often very secretive, and they moved irregularly. It was not easy to catch them in the ruins of Nisus.
In addition to the huge temptation of selling prohibited items, there were more and more people who were not afraid of death. Although many of the contraband trafficking organizations were eliminated under the leadership of the priests, there were still many fish that escaped the net and hid in Nisus, continuing to trade prohibited items.
After Chen Mo blended in with the troops, he did not arouse any suspicion. He just blended in with the troops and followed two priests every day to catch emotional criminals in the city, or out of the city to eliminate contraband trafficking organizations.
When they were in the city, it was still fine. Those emotional criminals basically hid in their homes alone and didn't have any weapons. They were just there to help search the rooms for prohibited items and escort the criminals. There wasn't much danger.
However, it was different outside the city.
The contraband trafficking organizations had at least a dozen people and at most a hundred people. Every one of them had a gun in their hands. Although they were old rifles left behind from before the war, they were not much weaker than the weapons in their hands. They would still die if they were hit!
Although the members of these organizations were not as well-trained as the soldiers of the Libyan Army and were not afraid of death, they could still cause a lot of damage to them. In just over a month, nearly half of Chen Mo's team had died.
During this time, he had also seen the power of gun kata up close. It was indeed very powerful.
Although John Peston and Ello Patje's physiques were much stronger than ordinary people, they were only at the level of the top special forces. They were still far from reaching their physical limits, let alone reaching Chen Mo's physique which was eight times that of an ordinary person.
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