Chapter 440: Thursday. Dauria-Mongolia Border.

EKKO SAID A BRIEF prayer to whatever god was listening that the United Nations team saw through the bullshit. No doubt whoever was escorting the team around the country would have chosen areas and people for this purpose, to make the citizens look as happy as possible. She wouldn't be surprised to learn if there'd been casting calls. Nothing shocked her when it came to Dauria anymore.

They had an agenda to push. If she believed the dreck on their national news, Dauria was one of the last bastions of morality in the world.

Yeah fucking right.

She tightened her hands into fists, eyes tracking the UN team she'd come to know personally over the last few days. Two were chatting with one of the guards while the others took pictures, likely a selfie and said goodbye to their last unfettered access to the outside world. From here on out they were on the Daurian networks, and those were all monitored and locked down.

The crowd seemed to breathe a collective breath as the UN people were load