Apocalyptic Reincarnation: Start with a 30-million Bonus-Chapter 761 - 585: A Friendship Worth a Peck of Rice, An Enmity Over a Scoop of Rice_2
Even as Li Yu said so, it was still enough to excite them.
"Thank you, Director Li. Director Li is really too kind. To be willing to help us at such a time."
"Isn’t that the truth? That Bai Tao is really vile, wanting to gain something for nothing."
"Don’t worry, Director Li. As long as we can get out by then, we’ll definitely bring in equivalent materials to repay the debt."
"From now on, if anyone speaks ill of Director Li again, I, Old Wang, will be the first to be unhappy."
.......
Food, ah, this is the most precious hard currency in the post-apocalyptic world.
Then, he called over He Chao and based on the Contribution Value they had accumulated with Big Camphor Tree Base through previous cooperation, calculated the amount they could exchange.
He Chao had them line up for registration, one by one.
In the messy noise, Li Yu called Xiao Hu, Guo Peng, Zhu Xiao, Li Qi, Zuo Ruxue, and had them investigate whether the people who were just taken out were grouped together or not, and if not, whether they were acquainted with those people.
Following Li Yu’s orders, they naturally dispersed to gather information.
By the time Li Yu had finished explaining all this to them, He Chao and Old Luo were still registering.
A rough estimate suggests that about 2000 catties of grain might be loaned out this time.
Most people could only borrow one or two catties.
Not much, but also a lot.
As He Chao was registering, Li Yu had Dapao and two others head back to Inner City to get food from Li Yuan and the others.
After a while.
Li Yu heard Li Yuan’s inquiry through the walkie-talkie and gave a positive response.
He just watched there, the drizzling acid rain falling along the corner of the wall outside.
Lighting a cigarette, he slowly smoked.
The white smoke drifted away with the wind.
The chill of the wind made him feel a bit dazed.
He remembered, in his previous life, he hid in a deserted gas station to avoid zombies and the rain, huddling in a less than five-square-meter compartment for a full twenty days.
He almost starved to death that time.
That compartment was the storage room of the gas station’s convenience store, but with the apocalypse having erupted so long ago, naturally, there was no food left.
When he was close to fainting from hunger, he saw several cockroaches appear on the ground, and these few cockroaches saved his life.
Directly stuffing the cockroaches into his mouth, he could still remember their taste.
They were crunchy, somewhat like the taste of chicken.
Only the legs of the cockroaches were prickly on the tongue.
If it weren’t for these few cockroaches, he might have ended up eating the zombie he had killed in front of him.
Eating a zombie, huh.
Ha!
As far as he could recall, there were indeed people who had done so.
But in the end, they all died.
Zombies, as creatures, are more terrifying than arsenic.
.....
Suddenly, two people walked over from behind.
Li Yu felt the footsteps and tossed the exhausted cigarette butt into a puddle outside the room.
He turned his head to look at the newcomers.
It was Xiao Hu and Zuo Ruxue.
"How is it going?" Li Yu asked, looking at the two.
Xiao Hu and Zuo Ruxue exchanged glances, and Zuo Ruxue gestured with her hand, indicating that Xiao Hu should speak.
Understanding her gesture, Xiao Hu said solemnly:
"Apart from Bai Tao and his group, our investigation found that among those who stood out to echo him, thirteen are from one team. These thirteen people don’t interact much with others, so not many know where they come from.
Additionally, two are locals, these two are together, and they don’t have other teammates. People who know them said that they had a falling-out with their original teammates, and those teammates were not seen again.
....."
All these details seem as if part of a concerted action.
Contemplating the implications behind this is even more unsettling.
If one scrutinizes the earlier scene now.
It seems like a self-directed play.
Only, Bai Tao and his group certainly didn’t expect Li Yu to take such resolute, ruthless, and decisive action.
Li Yu listened intently to everything Xiao Hu had reported.
A cold smile crossed his lips, as expected.
All of this indeed was not a coincidence; it was premeditated.
If these dozen or so echoing participants were not from the same team, but scattered among various teams,
Then it could reflect a mentality among the Cooperative Personnel.
It also indicates a problem: these Cooperative Personnel want more and are attempting to gain more rights.
If this is the case, Li Yu would need to change his approach with the Cooperative Personnel.
He had always been wondering.
Living in a post-apocalyptic world for nearly two years, they couldn’t have experienced little.
Before the apocalypse, everyone knew there were no free lunches, and now, after the apocalypse, they want to carve up the hard-earned results of others just by talking.
This shouldn’t be the case.
If it were really so, then for Li Yu, it would cause him to doubt the current system he has implemented.
And his view towards human nature and the human heart would become even more disdainful.
People outside the base are not worth saving!
But now, hearing what Xiao Hu had said, he felt a sigh of relief.
He didn’t want to see such a consequence, the scenario of driving all these Cooperative Personnel out of the base.
In such a situation, driving them out would be tantamount to condemning them to death.
However, Li Yu would never allow them to threaten himself or the Big Camphor Tree Base.
Phew—
Li Yu’s mood relaxed a lot and said to the two, "Good, you’ve done well. Also, convey a message to the other Extra Staff: you’ve worked hard."
Zuo Ruxue quickly said, "Director Li, it’s not hard at all. This time, thank you."
