Chapter 175 Food Struggle
After the animals and plants mutated, people rarely went out at night.
Plants occupied power plants and water plants, stretched water pipes buried deep in the soil, climbed up power poles and signal towers... and covered all buildings with traces of human beings bit by bit, as if to wipe out all industrialized things.
Nowadays, most areas of Nanhai Island are worse than other places in the mainland. The power circuits are interrupted, water resources are scarce, and signals are sometimes available... Due to the lack of backup, the damaged facilities are difficult to restore, as if returning to the primitive world.
People started their life of going out during the day and hiding at night again, working at sunrise and resting at sunset. Usually, after the sun sets, the outside world will be more dangerous, so people generally do not stay outside the building after dark.
The beach after dark is a place full of unknown dangers. What kind of thing could cause a cautious person like Wei Jie to conflict with others in such a situation?
You Xi thought about it, and finally wiped off the [fake lipstick], walked out of the simulated apartment, and went downstairs to the beach.
Xiao Zhi didn't know how the two sides went from talking to fighting, and how one or two people fighting turned into a collective melee.
The end of the world is dangerous and survival is difficult. He can understand that in such a big environment, everyone's temper has become more irritable than before, and they are easily sad and angry. This is because everyone is afraid.
But fear cannot be used as an excuse to hurt each other.
Because of Youxi's previous donations, and the fact that Bian Yun was the first to exchange for supplies when the "Star House" appeared, other people in the team got the news early, and many people in the team exchanged items before Shao Liang drove them away from the "Star House".
As a result, the people in Weijie's team have had a good life in recent days. Every meal on their floor would smell the aroma of instant noodles and meat.
However, the good times did not last long. This evening, Shao Liang suddenly brought people from the team over and said that people in their team had stolen their supplies, and the evidence was the aroma of their cooking at this moment.
At that time, Sister Wei and other young men who led the team out had not returned yet. Only the old, weak
and sick people in the team were at home on this floor. Everyone was preparing dinner, thinking that they could have dinner when their relatives came back. Ye Bei was the same. Almost every room was filled with the smell of food. Shao Liang accused them of stealing things and ordered his team to search the house.
The remaining people in Sister Wei's team could not stand these young men, and they immediately searched through the house and found a lot of food, even canned meat and canned fruit, all good things. The other party was immediately angry and immediately said that he would take his things away.
In this world, food is life. Everyone finally got some decent food, so how could they let them arbitrarily accuse them of stealing and take it away. Ye Bei and his team were not
willing to be outdone. They immediately refuted that this was an exchange with the "Star House" that day, and asked the other party not to find fault. Sister Wei was just leading the team out, not that she would not come back. Ye Bei and his team did not know that a big thing happened to Shao Liang's team at that time. The capable people in the team followed the second-in-command, which weakened the team by half. He was already in a bad mood about this matter, and the other party's words sounded like a mockery of his incompetence. He immediately got angry, and the commanders rushed forward and forcibly took away everything they found. Ye Bei naturally refused, and even though she was outnumbered, she fought desperately. The two groups of people started fighting, and several people in the team were injured. The two children were also scared and cried loudly. Ye Bei's son Bian Jia also scratched his cheek. This hotel has five floors, housing three teams. Shao Liang's team has more people, so they occupy another floor of the hotel. Logically, since Ye Bei and his team are old, weak, sick and disabled and are being bullied, the people in the other two teams should come out to take a look, or give some advice, even if they don't participate in the dispute, after all, they are all living in the same shelter. But perhaps Shao Liang's team's status as the boss is too deeply rooted in people's hearts, and they don't want to provoke each other. After all, some people in their team have exchanged food in the "Star House", and they are afraid that they will anger the other side and have their things taken away as well. So, when Sister Wei brought the young man back, she saw only a mess, the child was frightened and crying, the table and chairs in the house that was carefully arranged and relatively clean and comfortable were overturned, the cooked noodle pot was overturned, and the food was spilled all over the floor. Someone was worried about the food, squatting there and picking it up carefully, trying to pick up all the edible food back into the pot. Someone was injured, and the people next to him were helping to clean up the wound, and the person was screaming in pain... Sister Wei almost thought that it was a mutant animal that climbed up the cliff and attacked their team. When she figured out what happened, she was angry. Others didn't know about Shao Liang's team, but she knew. Before, the child of their second-in-command was sick, and Shao Liang refused to go to the official base to change the medicine, which led to a rift between the two. This second-in-command is smart and powerful. He was previously ranked below Shao Liang just for his connections in the official base. But this time his child was sick with a high fever, but the other party couldn't even get him some medicine because it was not the agreed date. What's the point of having such a boss? There are more than one person in the other team who are dissatisfied with Shao Liang. Shao Liang thought that it was a stupid act to drive away the "Star House", and the medicine incident became the fuse for the team's strength to be greatly reduced. The people in the team have been trying hard to survive, and their lives have been a little better recently. As a result, other teams in the same refuge area came to rob supplies openly, and they turned the tables and accused them of stealing! ? This matter is definitely not going to end like this. Sister Wei immediately led people to another building, but Shao Liang insisted that the supplies belonged to them. After all, with the strength of Sister Wei's team, how could they possibly get so many rich supplies, various vacuum-packed meats, and so many instant noodles? This was not like the big octopus seafood last time, where they could get a bargain if they were lucky. Where could they get these supplies now? Sister Wei got supplies from Youxi, so naturally she would not betray her at this time and tell the source of the supplies. One insisted that the other stole, and the other could not explain the source clearly. In the end, the two sides quarreled, and Sister Wei immediately proposed a one-on-one fight. This is a recognized rule in the Cliff Hotel. If several teams encounter something that cannot be explained, each team will send one person out to fight one-on-one on the beach below. Whoever wins will have the final say. In the past, this kind of situation was handled by the second-in-command of Shao Liang's team. Sister Wei had never had a conflict with anyone. The opponent did not understand Sister Wei's strength, and was in a bad mood because of the team's trouble, so she agreed to fight immediately. In the end, Shao Liang lost to Sister Wei, but Shao Liang did not intend to keep his promise to return the things to the opponent and apologize. Even if those people left his team, the number of people left was several times that of the opponent. Because of their disloyalty to Fang Yan, other teams kept their distance from them. There were even a few people who were good at changing their attitude according to the situation, who stood on Shao Liang's side to please him and helped him to criticize Wei Jie's team and wanted to drive them away.
Wei Jie originally did not show off because she cared about the old and young in the team. It was okay to live a hard life, but no one could tolerate such a thing that was robbed and then blamed. Everyone was the same. They didn't owe Shao Liang's team anything, so why should they suffer such a punishment?
After a disagreement, the two sides started fighting again. This time it was a melee. Some people fought and some ran. A small group of people extended the battlefield and finally came to the vicinity of the hotel where Youxi's family lived.
**
Xiaozhi couldn't beat the opponent, but he ran fast. He led people to "fly kites" on the beach and subconsciously came to Youxi while running.
He actually wanted to ask for help. He knew that the opponent must be very strong to be able to deal with such a mutated giant octopus, but he was afraid that Wei Jie would be angry with him for involving others in his dispute after knowing it.
So, he took the group for a walk on the beach, and "slipped" them back before Youxi walked out of the hotel.
So, when Youxi walked through the hotel garden and woods and stepped onto the beach, he only saw Xiaozhi's back running all the way and the three people chasing after him.
This is... three against one?
This is too shameless.
A moment later, a shout stopped everyone fighting on the beach.
Everyone turned around in shock, only to see a slender figure walking out of the darkness on the side.
The other party was a young woman with long hair tied up, fair skin, beautiful features, wearing a loose T-shirt and shorts, and a pair of beach slippers on her feet. She looked very cool, but she felt very insecure.
She put one hand leisurely in her shorts pocket and held a gun in the other hand. Her eyes swept over them. It was obviously a casual glance, but it made them feel cool: "More than fifty people, against a dozen people, it's really amazing."
"Who are you! We don't know you at all, don't meddle in other people's business!" There are also people with strong personalities in Shao Liang's team. It's not that they are not afraid of being robbed, but they subconsciously feel that the other side will not waste bullets on irrelevant people. "You also said, there are more than fifty of us, and you only have a gun--"
The man's words stopped abruptly after Youxi took out the gun from her trouser pocket with her other hand.
She held two magazines between her slender fingers: "This is an 18-round automatic pistol. Minus the one that was just fired, there are still 53 bullets. I feel that should be enough. Maybe one of you will be lucky enough to be the two lucky ones who survived."
The other party: ...
More than an hour later, everyone in Wei Jie's team packed up their things and walked out of the Cliff Hotel.
The conflict between the two teams had become so intense that they continued to live there. They did not dare to leave their families to go out and look for food during the day.
Wei Jie made a prompt decision and decided to move out that night.
When the others went upstairs to pack up their things and bring their families down, You Xi had already learned about the supplies from Xiao Zhi. Therefore, no matter whether it was the supplies they exchanged with the "Star House" or the supplies she had given back to Sister Wei before, they were all her supplies.
Youxi decided to take back her supplies.
So, when Sister Wei and her group of 21 gathered downstairs in the hotel, Youxi brought Xiaozhi and another young boy who packed up quickly to "visit" Shao Liang's team again.
This time, in addition to showing off her Hundred Steps Through the Yang robbery method, Youxi also stretched her muscles a little, and kicked the person who wanted to sneak attack her with a golf club directly out.
It was really flying, and the opponent was kicked out of the window of the second-floor room by her foot.
Xiaozhi and the other boy were also shocked. They all knew that she was strong, but they didn't know that she was so strong. No wonder the other family dared to walk alone in this doomsday.
When Youxi and the other two returned with the team's supplies, Shao Liang, who was annoyed, angry, and scared, led his men downstairs, but did not dare to approach them. He only asked Sister Wei if
she really wanted to break up with them. Several elderly people in Sister Wei's team were still injured, and four-year-old Bian Jia's face was still stained with blood. The other party actually asked her if she really wanted to break up with them?
She laughed, "Shao Liang, maybe it would be useful if you asked this before you started to rob our team's supplies."
"What are you robbing? Our team's supplies are indeed missing! But you suddenly started to eat meat all the time. Who else could it be but you?"
"Did you really not think of it?" Sister Wei looked at the other party, "You, the second-in-command, took so many people away. You wouldn't be so stupid as to leave empty-handed, right?"
She didn't think Shao Liang couldn't think of something that even she could think of. He was just deceiving himself and was angry. He relied on his connections with the official base and thought he was righteous and treated everyone else as fools.
But if he really had the ability and connections, why did he stay in the Cliff Hotel like those who had no connection?
If he really had the ability, he should be living in the base now, eating the official meals and taking the official supplies.
Instead of struggling to survive like them in this dangerous doomsday.
Just as Sister Wei expected, Shao Liang's team did not catch up with them after they left.
He was concerned about Youxi's robbery and did not have the courage.
At night, they did not dare to venture into the woods. After going down the cliff, they walked along the beach towards the hotel where Youxi was.
Sister Wei planned to temporarily stay in the hotel where Youxi's family lived. The giant octopus in the garden swimming pool there had been eliminated, and they had been living there safely without any danger.
Of course, she was not relying on Youxi, she also had her own plans, but now the team was injured and shocked, so she had to let everyone rest for two days before making plans.
Youxi's family lived on the left side of the fifth floor of the hotel. Sister Wei didn't want to disturb them too much, so she finally settled down on the right side of the fourth floor of the hotel.
Everyone cleaned the room, tidied up, bandaged the wounds, and was busy in a quiet and orderly manner. Suddenly leaving the place where they used to live and coming to a completely unfamiliar hotel, everyone felt a little uneasy, but no one in the team complained, and they were all quietly busy with what they could do
.
Even four-year-old Bian Jia took the broom that Ye Bei found in the tool room and vigorously cleaned the dust in the room.
**
At the same time, at the official base on the other side of the city.
Zhou Ningyuan frowned after listening to the team members' report, wondering if there was something wrong with his ears: "Disappeared? Are you sure the source of this news is true?"
"It's true! In fact, the matter of this 'Star House' is no secret on the Seaside Boulevard. It has appeared in several shelters and everyone knows about it. It's just that it has never been here before, and it hasn't officially opened for business today, so we didn't know...
and the person who provided this information had personally traded with the 'Star House'. At that time, his child had a high fever and urgently needed medicine, and it was all thanks to the 'Star House' that he was able to exchange medicine to save his child."
Zhou Ningyuan snorted coldly: "So, from that person's point of view, 'Star House' once helped him, and now he is selling all the information about 'Star House' to us in order to enter the base... People like this should not be allowed to show up in the base. The situation is already chaotic enough, don't let unnecessary people cause trouble."
"Captain, I understand." The man paused and said, "But today, the 'Star House' has left after Sister Xuefei came back, and I don't know when and where it will appear next time... Alas, this little shop is really capricious. It only opens for a few hours each time, and changes things depending on its mood. So, it seems that the other party has a good impression of Sister Xuefei. Today, not only did they provide her with delicious food for free, but they also let her into the RV..."
The man's voice gradually weakened in Zhou Ningyuan's sight.
Ah, it seems that I said something that I shouldn't have said...
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