About 60 people who had come to register had gathered in the main entrance hall on the first floor of the Municipal Office.
Meng Yi and Chen Li followed Qian Ru in.
"Why is there a woman here?"
"Please don't put me in the same team with her. If something happens, I'll be dragged down."
Seeing Qian Ru, a woman, come in, the other men in the hall all looked at her strangely.
Meng Yi and Chen Li found a corner and did not stand with those who were whispering.
"What are you two doing in this corner?"
Qian Ru had a loud voice, and as soon as he spoke, those who were talking turned their attention to Meng Yi and Chen Li.
"Could it be that these two men are with her?"
"It seems so. I saw them talking on the day of the assessment."
"Then let's stay away from them, so that they won't give us these three idiots when we are divided into groups later."
"Who do you think is the crooked one?"
Qian Ru put her hands on her hips, deliberately showing her strong arms, and said while staring at the men who had just talked about them.
"Just tell me what's wrong with you. Why is a woman like you coming here to join in the fun? You can't eat any meal."
"Say that again, damnit!"
Qian Ru just raised his hand and dislocated the man's arm.
“Ah…ah…”
"Why do you still hit people?"
A circle of men gathered around, surrounding Qian Ru, Meng Yi and Chen Li, and looked like they were going to engage in a group fight to outnumber the minority.
Chen Li held Meng Yi's legs so nervous that they were shaking. It was so early in the morning. Who had he offended? How could he be shot while lying down?
"We're not causing any trouble! Don't be afraid!" Meng Yi patted Chen Li's arm and said softly.
"All the prospective patrol officers who have passed the assessment, please line up in the middle of the hall when you hear the voice, and line up in groups of ten to the back."
When Meng Yi and Chen Li were in a tense situation in this corner, someone came out with a loudspeaker in the middle of the hall and shouted.
"Damn it! You guys are lucky today, wait and see how I deal with you next time!"
The man held his arm and said viciously.
The people who just gathered around and the person whose joint was dislocated by Qian Ru seemed to be a small group.
Chen Li looked towards the tweeter and saw Criminal Police Captain Fang Yong standing next to it. Could it be that all of them would be under Captain Fang's supervision from now on?
"Oh my god! What kind of luck do we have?"
Both Chen Li and Meng Yi were a little afraid of the criminal police captain. After all, the Shark Gang member died on the 20th floor, and they were indeed not free from responsibility.
Therefore, every time they met Fang Yong, they became nervous, fearing that he would find out something was wrong and come back to settle old scores with them on the 20th floor.
"Hey! Why are there only three of us on our team?"
Meng Yi and Chen Li finally realized that they had been wondering whether Fang Yong would bring up old issues, so they just found an empty seat and queued up.
"I think three people is a good idea!" Qian Ru, who was standing in front of them, said with a smile.
Qian Ru also disdained those who looked down on her.
"Didn't we agree on a group of ten? What's going on with the two teams on the far left? Don't you understand? The extra seven will automatically go to the group of three."
The tweeter shouted loudly towards Meng Yi and Chen Li again.
Following the shouting, Fang Yong also looked towards the group of three people at the innermost end. Aren’t these the two guys on the 20th floor of Changhong Community?
On the day of the assessment, the mayor personally decided to select the two of them. Fang Yong felt that the one named Meng Yi was just okay, but Chen Li's performance was obviously average. He didn't know what the mayor saw in him.
"Why are we so unlucky!"
"Yeah! Why should we team up with them when there are so many of them?"
The seven extra people in the other team grumbled and stood behind Chen Li reluctantly.
"What are you arguing about? If you don't obey my orders, go home right now!"
Fang Yong grabbed the tweeter from the man next to him and shouted.
The scene suddenly fell silent. Everyone came here for three meals a day, 30 kilograms of rice and 20 liters of water a month.
In the end times, when the living environment is so harsh, the only way to live a slightly better life is to cling to the big tree of the government.
"If you don't want to go home, then just listen to me quietly. Today is your first day to report to the Municipal Office. I believe many of you have never worked as patrol officers. Next, we will assign a team leader to each group."
After Fang Yong finished speaking, he asked the six original patrol team members in patrol uniforms to walk towards the six newly recruited groups.
After the six team leaders were in position, Fang Yong picked up the loudspeaker and said, "This morning, each of you will follow your team leader to get your patrol uniforms and self-defense weapons. In the afternoon, your team leader will also take you to your assigned routes to start trial patrols."
"Wow! There's a weapon! Do you think it's a gun? Just like the SWAT in the movies, bang bang bang! Just knock down a row of people."
"Would you shoot if you had a gun? I think it would be just a baton or something."
Hearing the word "weapon", the people below started discussing again and shook their heads at Fang Yong.
Before the natural disaster, he really would not have looked down on any of these people.
There are rampant bandits outside right now, and the municipal office and the police force are seriously short of staff. They have no choice but to select a few ordinary citizens with slightly better physical strength and combat power from these lawless citizens to expand the patrol team.
"You can go to the cafeteria to have breakfast now. You only have ten minutes."
"Ten minutes later, everyone will follow their respective team leaders to the armory to collect their equipment."
The tweeter was now back in the hands of the man he had just been with. Fang Yong glanced at Meng Yi and Chen Li's group and left.
"Where is the cafeteria?"
Everyone ran to ask their own team leader. Qian Ru from Meng Yi's team was standing behind the team leader, so naturally she was the first to ask.
"Just follow me! I have to go get breakfast too!"
The team leader said this and walked out of the hall.
"Okay! Okay!" The people behind hurriedly followed.
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60 people followed the team leaders of each group through the lobby corridor, bypassed two office buildings, and finally arrived at the backyard cafeteria of the municipal office.
It is now breakfast time and the cafeteria is already full of various staff members from the Municipal Office.
Before a natural disaster, no one would be so active as to come and have breakfast on time.
Nowadays, if you can get a breakfast at the municipal office, you have to be very lucky.
In order to save diesel, the kitchen stopped using electricity for cooking. After the flood receded, everyone helped build a few wood stoves in the back kitchen.
Now Chef Zhang is bringing two kitchen helpers to put out a big pot of vegetable buns.
Everyone’s breakfast today is a vegetable bun and a bowl of soy milk.
"Why do I feel like the municipal office eats buns every day! I remember that we were given buns for clearing silt and shoveling snow."
Chen Li looked at the freshly-baked vegetable buns thoughtfully.
This dish is delicious, but no matter how delicious something is, you will get tired of it if you eat it every day.
"Do you think this is before the natural disaster? It's good enough to have buns to eat. I can only eat compressed biscuits at home. If you don't like it, bring it back to Shi Huan in the evening."
"That won't work! How can I have the energy to patrol without breakfast?"
Meng Yi and Chen Li were bickering with each other while looking for a place to sit with their buns in hand.
The others also found their own seats and started eating their buns.
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