The refugee camp, once without boundaries, was now encircled by two rings of "walls" made of wooden stakes and ropes.
Approximately six meters separated the two walls, and soldiers clad in armor patrolled the space in between.
Any refugee who dared to enter the open space between the walls would be whipped as punishment, and if they reoffended, they would be hanged—these were the rules personally established by Bard.
"No escaping! No shouting! Don't snatch food during porridge distribution!" These were the three rules Bard set for the refugees, and the punishments were monotonous, only two: whipping for first-time offenders and hanging for repeat offenders.
The corpses hanging from the stakes in the open space served as the most straightforward warning.
Even Andre and Tang Juan felt that Bard was going too far, not to mention Winters, Moritz, and Mason.
But Bard was determined to carry on this way.
