Seeing that Lin Zhigang still didn't move, Hua Mi's expression grew increasingly cold.

"You know, the most difficult time for a woman is when she gives birth?"

"Back then, I could cause rivers of blood to flow. Now, it would be very easy for me to crush you with one blow."

She wasn't joking with Lin Zhigang, nor did she have that much time to keep arguing with Chen Lin Zhigang.

After all, she is currently in her postpartum period, and she needs to keep a good mood.

Lin Zhigang lowered his head, remaining silent and not leaving.

Then Hua Mi said:

"You're speaking of these noble and righteous things to me now, but have you asked your father?"

"Does your father truly care about the lives of the survivors in F City?"

"Perhaps that's not the case; sometimes, human nature cannot be explored."

When you gaze into the abyss of humanity, the abyss also gazes into you.

This is a very dark topic; Hua Mi is someone who has lived through a lifetime of apocalypse.

She knew perfectly well that things had progressed to this point, so were those so-called commanders really trying their best to find a way to save the city's survivors?

Let's talk about Qu Shiheng, not others.

He insisted on establishing an E-City base, mainly because he wanted to make a name for himself and build a career in the apocalypse.

To become a powerful figure in the region.

Hua Mi found it hard to understand the motives behind these people's actions, but that's just how men are—ambition.

The same applies to the commander-in-chief of F City.

If he valued the lives of the survivors enough, he would have already moved towards Xiangcheng.

Is it that Xiangcheng lacks sufficient resources? Is it that Xiangcheng's city walls are not sturdy enough?

Neither.

From the very beginning, Lin Zhigang's father, the commander of F City, only thought that if the snipe and the clam fought, the fisherman would benefit.

It's hard to say whether he would still care about the lives of the survivors in that city, given that he already had such thoughts.

At this point, Lin Zhigang sighed, and finally got up and walked out of Hua Mi's ward.

As soon as he closed the door to the ward, two guards stepped forward and asked him warily:

Why did you go into Sister Hua's hospital room?

"Dr. Xin didn't say that. We'll be seeing a different doctor today."

Lin Zhigang quickly took out his medical certificate and explained:

"I mean no harm. You can go in and see Miss Hua. She's fine."

However, Lin Zhigang was still taken away by the two guards stationed at the gate and interrogated for several hours.

Several hours later, they finally managed to get rid of the guards stationed in the emergency room.

Lin Zhigang immediately took out his phone and called his father, informing him of Hua Mi's attitude.

His father was furious on the other end of the phone.

"Why is it so difficult for them to get even a little bit of supplies from their Xiangcheng base?"

"It's not that we won't give them crystal cores, is this Hua Mi even a woman?"

"We've already begged her so humbly, why does she still insist on sealing off the Xiangcheng base?"

Lin Zhigang lowered his head and pinched the bridge of his nose.

“Dad, that’s not how it works. We really didn’t help her when she was going through such a difficult time.”

"There are zombies surrounding the Xiangcheng base now. Opening the Xiangcheng base at this time would indeed be risky for the base."

"My suggestion is that we send a group of people to help clear out some of the zombies outside the Xiangcheng base, to show our sincerity as F City."

"Let's talk to Miss Hua about the wholesale of supplies next."

The commander of F City pondered for a moment on the other end of the phone.

He asked, looking both ways ahead and behind:

"If we spend such a huge amount of money to clear out a ring of zombies around the Xiangcheng base."

"In the end, Miss Hua refused to open the Xiangcheng base and wouldn't let us wholesale supplies. What should we do?"

Lin Zhigang lowered his head, looking quite helpless, and wiped his face with his hand.

He tried to reason with his father.

“Dad, we are the ones who need Xiangcheng’s help now, not the other way around.”

"Even though Xiangcheng has been locked down, the people here are still living very well, extremely well."

"Now, people outside Xiangcheng are living in dire straits."

"We cannot take control of this dependency because we have no leverage."

"Xiangcheng needs nothing and lacks nothing, so we can only show our sincerity first in order to move Miss Hua, right?"

Lin Zhigang spoke from the bottom of his heart.

He believed that many other survivors of the live-streaming e-commerce industry had told his father the same thing.

Xiangcheng now has everything it needs; originally, when Xiangcheng sold goods, what it wanted was money.

But now Xiangcheng doesn't need money anymore; for a period of time, what they needed were crystal cores.

Now, there's no need to make money from crystal cores in Xiangcheng anymore.

Hua Mi seemed determined and surrounded Xiangcheng.

Those who leave cannot return, and no more supplies from Xiangcheng will flow out.

This has led to people in Xiangcheng becoming increasingly reluctant to go out.

Of course, Xiangcheng is now also calling on survivors to go out of the city to fight zombies.

However, everyone who leaves the city must go to the mission center to register for a mission.

After completing a series of complicated procedures, such as checking the number of people in their team, scanning their pupils, etc., the Xiangcheng base will release these people out of the city to fight zombies.

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