Chapter 186: It’s Just for the Mouth

So, Lu Xingtang reorganized the team, with Su Cheng, Fox Assistant, and Loyal Dog Assistant helping to manage it. Each of them was responsible for 1,810 people. They divided the team into small teams, selecting team leaders, 18 team captains, and three squadron leaders. This made management easier, and only then could everyone remember exactly how many people they had under their command and who they were!

Everyone turned around and looked at the ruined base, sighing helplessly. Their home was gone after all.

Hangzhou was destroyed by this natural disaster. It was very difficult for them to walk. There were a lot of supplies and many obstacles on the road. The road was bumpy and full of cracks, making it difficult to walk at all.

They could only move forward a little bit at a time, and when they reached a slightly flatter place, they would turn back and transfer the supplies bit by bit. As a result, they had not walked more than five miles in the entire day. Whenever they climbed a slightly higher hill, they could see the dilapidated ruins of the base.

Seeing that it was getting dark, Lu Xingtang asked everyone to find a suitable place to rest and continue on their journey after dawn.

The groups dispersed one by one, everyone received food, took out the pots and pans they had found, and divided the work among the groups. Some found water, some found firewood, some started the fire, and some cooked. Everyone worked hard together for food.

Lu Xingtang, Ji Yanmo, Su Cheng, as well as the Fox Special Assistant and the Loyal Dog Special Assistant, and three squadron leaders formed a team. Lu Xingtang stayed behind to cook, while Ji Yanmo and the others went to find water and firewood.

But because everyone was injured in the natural disaster, the speed was not fast, and it was not comparable to the speed in the past. The meal was not ready before dark. The so-called meal was actually a pot of clear porridge, and each person could only drink one bowl.

Ji Yanmo looked at Lu Xingtang holding a broken bowl and drinking porridge with so much rice that you could count the grains. He moved closer and lowered his voice: "Find a chance to go to the space and eat!" They had stockpiled a lot of delicious food before, so they didn't have to eat in the space.

Lu Xingtang lowered his head and drank a mouthful of porridge, then lowered his voice and said, "You too!"

After eating and washing the dishes, everyone lay on the floor, staring at the stars in the night sky. In the middle of the night, Ji Yanmo gently got up and pushed Su Cheng. "My stomach feels uncomfortable. Please help me take care of Tangtang. I will be back after I am done!"

Su Cheng told Ji Yanmo to go without worry, he would definitely take good care of Lu Xingtang. Lu Xingtang held Ji Yanmo's hand and said, "Be careful!"

Is it really a stomachache? Not really! It would be a shame to lose the base's vehicles and the supplies that couldn't be taken away, so the two of them had already decided that when they evacuated the base, they had already agreed that Ji Yanmo would return to the base and take away the remaining supplies.

Ji Yanmo walked out of people's sight, took out his night vision goggles and put them on. With the night vision goggles, he could clearly see the obstacles, potholes and cracks on the road.

When encountering an obstacle, it is stored in the space. After passing the obstacle, it is released from the space.

Passing potholes and cracks, Ji Yanmo used his lightning powers as a stepping stone, releasing them to create a path. If someone else walked on the path paved with lightning, they would surely be electrocuted, but since his powers were his own, he could use lightning at will without harming himself, and it would change with his own whims.

Therefore, he led the team for nearly a day's journey and returned to the base in about an hour. He stored all the remaining supplies in the base into the space, and also stored the vehicles and other supplies that they had not been able to dig out before into the space.

After he put all the supplies into the space, he returned to Lu Xingtang. Su Cheng saw that he had been away for two hours before returning: "Why did you take so long? Are you feeling very uncomfortable?"

Su Cheng calmly took out a pheasant from his back. This was the one he had caught while hunting. Lu Xingtang asked him to keep it so that if they got separated, there would be food in the space. "After solving the problem, I encountered a pheasant and spent some time catching it!"

The moment they saw the pheasants, Su Cheng and the others' eyes lit up. There were actually pheasants in Hangzhou, which meant that they could go hunting and no longer had to drink watery porridge every day to fill their stomachs.

The next day, Lu Xingtang had his loyal assistant tell the survivors to collect any wild vegetables they encountered on the road and add them to their meals. If they found any small animals, they could put down their supplies and catch them immediately. They were indeed fleeing, but they could only continue to flee if they were alive.

The survivors gulped when they saw the pheasant in Lu Xingtang's hand: "Miss Lu, do you want to eat the pheasant in your hand? We haven't eaten meat for a long time. Otherwise, how about we roast the pheasant this morning and share it among us!"

Lu Xingtang's sinister eyes fell on the speaker: "9103 people are eating a pheasant. Do you think everyone can get a bite of meat?"

"But we can't let it go to waste!" The man shuddered. "It's very hot now, so it's easy to spoil. It's better to eat it."

"What a joke!" Lu Xingtang stared at the man murderously. "My husband hunted the pheasant, so it belongs to us! If you want to eat it, go hunt it yourself!" His dark eyes swept around. "I, Lu Xingtang, am taking you on this journey out of kindness, but I don't really want to go with you! To me, you're nothing but an encumbrance, a burden, and useless trash! If I hadn't thought that we'd probably be escaping along the same route, I wouldn't have taken you with me."

"Miss Lu, you don't have to be so harsh, do you? We are all refugees. If you have the ability, shouldn't you take us with you? I remember that you are the doctor at our base and the former head of the logistics department. Since you are the management of the base, you must take us with you!"

"Isn't it just a pheasant? Lu Xingtang, are you really going to pick on us for a pheasant? The food in our base is in our hands. If we don't give it to you, you will starve to death!"

"It's impossible for 9,103 people to have a bite, but they can still drink the soup!"

Lu Xingtang sneered: "I, Lu Xingtang, never accept threats! There is only one outcome for threatening me, death!" Immediately, he took out a gun from his backpack, pulled the trigger, and shot at the troublemaker.

When the gunshot rang out, everyone was stunned.

“You… murdered someone…”

"Isn't it just for a bite of meat? Is it that serious?"

Lu Xingtang walked towards the man: "Say that again?" As he spoke, he pointed the gun at the man's forehead: "Su Cheng, did you see that? This is the person you once opened your heart to! I was right, wasn't I? When people face difficult circumstances, their true nature will be revealed!"

Su Cheng looked at the man coldly: "Sister, kill them! If one dies, we will have more supplies and everyone can have enough to eat!"

Hearing Su Cheng's words, the survivors were dumbfounded, "Base Commander, why are you..."

"Stop, I'm no longer the base commander. I hope the base is gone! Your life or death has nothing to do with me! Now, I listen to my sister and do whatever she tells me to do!"

(End of this chapter)