Cheng Zhen rushed back in a hurry, reminding her that she had to leave immediately again, she was in a real rush!
"Hey, wait a minute," Jiang Wan called out to him. "What happened?"
The bugle call was still sounding in the camp; something big must have happened.
"Someone is trying to break through the blockade at the North Gate! I'll only know the details when I get there; the comrades there have reported back that the situation is not optimistic!"
"Take the children and stay inside! No matter what happens, don't come out!"
After giving his instructions hastily, Cheng Zhen, pressed for time, left without looking back.
Jiang Wan found it strange that the displaced people in the city wanted to leave.
In the city, although most of the old reinforced concrete houses have been destroyed into ruins by mutated plants, at least there is a place to shelter from the wind and snow in this freezing weather.
Once you get outside the city, there's really nothing there!
She had a feeling that things weren't simple.
But she knew her place; she had no control over the matter, nor was it her concern. So she closed the door and went to sleep with the twins.
The mob near the north gate were mostly poorly clothed, starving, lazy vagrants. Almost all of them were infected with the plague, running a fever and delirious. They were desperately trying to get out of the city.
Because there is food and medicine outside the city!
"Let us out!"
"Let us out! We need our medicine! We need food! And we need our thick cotton-padded coats!"
"You city guards, are you going to starve, starve, and die of disease in the city without a care in the world!"
"Yes! There's still fresh oxygen outside the city! Look at us here, the oxygen is getting less and less! Everyone is finding it harder and harder to breathe, and everyone is getting sick from breathing in toxic air!"
They made accusations while trying to break through the checkpoints.
That's true. The oxygen supply in the city is too low, and there are too many people. Even if there is oxygen, it is mostly polluted oxygen. People who breathe it will experience some health problems.
As soon as Cheng Zhen arrived, before the car had even come to a complete stop, he jumped onto the roof of the SUV, fired a row of guns into the air, and shouted, "Get back, all of you! Anyone who dares to cause trouble again today will have to try my bullets!"
He exuded a menacing aura, looking fierce and menacing, and his powerful presence, coupled with the opening salvo of gunfire, truly intimidated these people!
But the crowd remained silent for only a few seconds before someone else started stirring things up: "Don't listen to him! We're going to die whether we go in or retreat, so let's die with our fill! Let's die comfortably!"
These words resonated with almost everyone involved in the disturbance!
So everyone rushed out together, breaking through the first line of defense at the city gate—the fence—and reaching the second line of defense, the electric grid. However, in this oxygen-deprived post-apocalyptic world, electricity has always been scarce, and the grid can only be maintained by solar power generators.
But by then it was night, and after dark, the efficiency of the solar power generator was much lower, the power generation was unstable, and the power on the grid was not only weaker than during the day, but also intermittent, which was quite unstable!
They must have figured out the pattern of the electric fence long ago, so someone carried out a large cotton quilt and covered the electric fence with it, and then someone else hit it with sticks, forcibly creating a gap in the electric fence that a person could pass through!
"Bang!"
Cheng Zhen fired directly, hitting the man at the front. In the darkness, he looked like a ruthless and bloodthirsty demon: "Don't push me to my limits. Look at what's under your feet!"
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a sudden loud rumble, and snowflakes on the ground suddenly flew up. Then it was as if something had been moved away from the ground.
Following his reminder, everyone looked down and saw clearly under the bright overhead lights.
The thick protective panels on the ground were removed, revealing a trench five meters wide and five meters deep. The bottom of the trench was full of upside-down spikes and sharp weapons; falling in would mean certain death!
The people in the front row were all startled and stopped abruptly.
But the people behind were still crowding, and they couldn't stop in time. They surged forward, and the domino effect pushed the people at the very front into the ditch!
Blood splattered everywhere; he died on the spot!
The farce at the North Gate ended in the blood of these few people.
Cheng Zhen pointed his gun at the others: "Everyone, back up!"
He was a wolf that no one dared to mess with; he could kill anyone who resisted. Everyone was terrified and unconsciously retreated inside.
But he was also a sharp-witted lion. After the riot was quelled, he asked Song Hui, who was guarding the city gate, "What exactly happened? Have these people lost their minds because of the plague? Instead of staying in the city to take medicine, get treatment, and spend the winter, what are they doing outside the city?"
The area outside the city is so tiny, how can it be as comfortable as inside the city?!
"They said there was no medicine or food in the city..."
"Impossible!" Cheng Zhen immediately retorted, "I led my men, risking our lives to collect supplies outside the city, and we transported them all into the city! That's enough for the entire Xiangcheng to eat as much as they want for three months! How could there be no food?!"
His voice was loud enough for the people on the other side of the trench to hear.
Sure enough, the chaotic crowd quieted down for a moment, then suddenly erupted into shouts, cries, and curses, but the sounds gradually faded away, heading towards the inner city.
The pressure at the city gate checkpoint was relieved, and everyone breathed a sigh of relief.
Cheng Zhen was just deliberately bluffing, but judging from everyone's reaction, it's clear that this matter is inextricably linked to those bastards in the inner city!
His brows were cold and hard, his expression menacing, and his dark eyes held a deep anger. He cursed under his breath and continued, "Go on."
In terms of status, Song Hui and Cheng Zhen are equals, but in terms of attitude, he is quite subservient to Cheng Zhen and doesn't feel that there is anything wrong with Cheng Zhen speaking to him like that, since they are both squad leaders.
Song Hui leaned closer to him and lowered his voice, saying, "They also said that because the botanists are outside our city, the oxygen in our outer city is more abundant and the air is better than in the inner city."
How could the air outside the city be better than inside? They come out to mine crystals every day, can't they feel it?
They're all a bunch of brainless idiots!
But this actually involves Jiang Wan...
Cheng Zhen suddenly clenched his fist and narrowed his eyes. Could it be that all these things were aimed at Jiang Wan?
The thought had barely crossed his mind when suddenly someone came running towards them, shouting as they ran: "It's terrible! A group of refugees have broken through the checkpoint and are heading towards our camp!"
"What?"
Song Hui was shocked. The riot on his side had just been quelled, and he hadn't heard of any pressure at other checkpoints. "Where did they break through from?"
"Hmm, it seems to be checkpoint number three..."
Song Hui's expression changed, and he whispered a reminder to Cheng Zhen: "Checkpoint No. 3 is under Fang Zhaodong's jurisdiction."
"Damn! They pulled a feint?!"
Before he could finish speaking, he saw a dark shadow flash in the corner of his eye, and Cheng Zhen had already run away like an arrow.
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