Nothing happened the next day. Although the young men were reluctant, they still listened to the deputy manager's request and explained the situation to some of the girls.
Nothing happened until dinner time. The deputy manager and Neil were relieved. Just as the sky darkened and they were about to get something to eat, a young man in his mid-twenties stood in front of them.
He looked embarrassed, and there was a local girl standing behind him. Neil's scalp tingled slightly, and he knew that something had happened.
He stopped the deputy manager before he could speak and stood in front of the young man. He asked softly and gently, "What's wrong?"
He knew the guy in front of him. He was only four years older than Lynch, but he was already the father of a child and the husband of a wife.
The Federation's weird age regulations allowed people to get married before they graduated from high school. Some people did get married before they graduated from high school, probably because of love.
There were many such people. Getting married at the age of 21 or 22 was the rule of this era. It was a silent trend. If it were not for Lynch's disobedience, and if it were not for Catherine's mother's dissatisfaction with the two of them being together, they might have even had a child.
The guy in front of Neil was shouldering a heavy family burden. He had to support his wife and child, and his mother. He was the child of a single-parent family.
It was not easy for a woman to raise him. He did this not only for his family, but also to reduce his mother's burden.
But after only a month, this big boy who was a little shy soon got together with a girl.
"This is …" He first introduced the girl beside him to Neil, then scratched his head and said with some annoyance, "She's pregnant."
Without waiting for him to continue, Neil said firmly, "Abort the child!"
The young man looked up at Neil. He had thought of many possibilities, but he did not expect Neil to ask him to abort his child so decisively.
All the languages in the world originated from the same language, so there was the International Standard Lingua Franca. As foreigners came to this country, the International Standard Lingua Franca also became popular in Nagaril.
The same word could be spoken in different languages with different accents. The Federation's pronunciation was relatively standard, so the people of Nagaril could understand it.
On the contrary, the common language spoken by the people of Nagaril was mixed with too many local dialects, so outsiders could not understand it.
The girl understood Neil's words. She took several steps back in shock, as if Neil would hurt her and the child in her belly at any time.
The young man also reacted at this time. He stood between Neil and the girl, looked at Neil and said, "I'm a believer, Mr. Neil."
The largest Church in the Federation believed in God, which opposed abortion. In some major parishes, the Church had even pushed for local legislation to ban abortion. They had even listed the practice and the doctors in charge of such operations as criminal acts and criminals.
To them, abortion was tantamount to murder, a crime, and something that was unacceptable.
Nell frowned. "Do you want to take this woman and child back to the Federation?"
"Don't you think about how your wife in the Federation, your child in the Federation, and your mother will feel and react when they know about this and see these two people?"
"They thought that you would work hard to earn money for them and give them a stable life, but they didn't expect that not only did you bring the money back, but you also brought back a pair of extra people. Is this the good life you said you would give them before you came?"
"I think they will wish you had never come here at all!"
Neil's tone was serious. Lynch had just talked about this yesterday, and this happened today. If it had been a little later, the child would have been born, and by then, it would have been a bigger problem.
Fortunately, the problem was discovered early, and it could be solved. As long as the child was aborted and a sum of money was given, he believed that these girls who liked money would not have any more opinions.
Just as Neil and the young man were conversing in a quarrel, the girl hurriedly ran away. When the two of them found out, the girl was long gone.
"I will give you another day off tomorrow. You go and clear things up with the girl. I can give you a thousand dollars in private. This money is enough to heal the damage that the girl has suffered!"
Neil's expression was one that brooked no refusal. "I am thinking for you. I can actually ignore everything, but you came with me. I hope I can bring you back!"
The next morning, something happened.
A group of local youths with sickles and hoes surrounded the entrance of the camp.
Although it was called a camp, it was actually a simple fence with a gate. It was easy to make a fence with prefabricated boards. As for why steel wires and steel plates were not used, it was mainly for the sake of property safety.
In Nagalil, which lacked steel mills and steelmaking technology, things like steel were hard currency. Using steel plates and steel bars to set up a camp was as ridiculous as using money to build a house.
In just one night, there would be nothing left except people.
At this time, the entrance of the camp was blocked. Not even a drop of water could trickle through.
All kinds of incomprehensible local dialect mixed with the common language made people unable to understand. But if you said you did not understand at all, you seemed to understand a little.
But if you said you knew what these people meant, you just could not guess.
They seemed to be cursing something.
After Neil knew, he immediately rushed to the gate. Outside the iron gate, the group of agitated youths were shaking the iron gate hard. Some of them were even using farming tools like sickles and hoes to knock on the iron gate and the wall. The atmosphere was particularly tense.
"What happened?"
Nell asked as he tied his tie.
He used the tie to hide his nervousness. His palms were sweaty.
At this time, the girl who ran away first last night appeared outside the door. She was accompanied by two youths who looked similar to her.
At this time, she opened her mouth and spoke in the common language that Neil could understand. "Hand that man over to us. Hand him over to us and we will leave!"
The deputy manager also rushed over. He whispered something in Neil's ear. Neil looked back. In the camp not far away, the young man stood there at a loss.
Neil glared at the young man fiercely. He turned back and whispered to the deputy manager, "Call Lynch and the staff sergeant."
As he spoke, he walked towards the gate of the camp. He was a foreigner. He did not believe that these people would hurt him easily unless they wanted to spend the rest of their lives in a cave.
He raised his hands to show that he was harmless and slowly approached the crowd. "I am the manager here. Everyone, calm down. This is not the attitude to solve a problem if there is a problem between us!"
Perhaps his attitude or his words had an effect. The noisy crowd quieted down. He looked at the girl. "You can tell me when there is a problem. There is no need to complicate things."
The girl seemed to be a little timid. She held the hand of the person beside her. "I don't mean anything else. As long as you hand him over and let me take him away, everything else has nothing to do with you. We don't want to hurt anyone."
Neil had a headache. "Where are you taking him?"
"Back to get married with me."
The girl's attitude was very firm. The people around them also shouted for a while. Neil guessed that they probably meant "well said", "you're right" and so on.
At this time, Neil could only explain slowly. "He doesn't plan to stay here for a long time. After a while, he will go back to the Federation, and …"
He felt that he was extremely unlucky. It clearly wasn't his problem … Well, it had something to do with him, but it shouldn't be his turn to deal with other people's problems. "And he doesn't plan to marry you. Please forgive me for being blunt, but he's already married and has his own children."
The girl was stunned after hearing that. About a few seconds later, the others might have reacted at this time or just understood. The crowd suddenly boiled.
One by one, they shook the iron gate with red faces and swung the things in their hands. Neil was so scared that he took a few steps back.
The girl walked to the door and grabbed the door tightly with both hands. She asked loudly, "If he doesn't want to marry me, why did he have sex with me?"
This sentence made Neil, the deputy manager, and everyone else stunned. They did not know how to answer.
They could not tell her loudly and confidently that it was because women were cheap. Who wouldn't like something given for free?
But it was this sentence that made him speechless.
Neil's silence made the locals outside the iron gate even angrier, but no one knew how many of them were really angry and how many of them were faking it.
The anchors on both sides of the iron gate began to loosen, the prefabricated plates began to crack, and the iron gate shook more and more.
As the noise became louder and louder, more and more locals ran over to watch the show.
For the Nagalians, the purpose of their life was to eat and wait for death. Watching a show was one of the few pleasures they had.
Soon, a rumor spread among these people. A foreigner raped a girl and made her pregnant.
The girl was about to get married, and she had no choice but to tell the truth. That was why this happened.
Nagalil was a barbaric and backward society, but they attached great importance to the chastity of ordinary women. If a woman could not maintain her chastity to marry her husband, she would be beaten, scolded, and driven out. In the worst case, she might be secretly drowned to death to appease the anger of the man.
When the people heard that an ordinary girl was raped and became pregnant, they immediately joined the demonstration that was gradually getting out of control.