Chapter 103: Drawing Supplies from the Bottom of the Pot
The person in charge of the base office is Li Xiao, the younger brother of Li Ling, the current head of the Li family. Before the end of the world, he was only the office director of the Qingyuan Municipal Government. Coincidentally, due to the earthquake and zombies, both of his superiors were gone, leaving only Gu Tao, who had always been at odds with him. If the Gu family had not been inferior to the Li family now, I'm afraid the Gu family would have become the person in charge of this base.
Now that such a big thing happened in the base, Li Xiao and Gu Tao naturally would not miss it. When the supporters of both sides were arguing, someone from the Li family said that something was missing from one of their warehouses, and the entire warehouse was full of flour and rice.
Although the base seems safe now, due to the lack of drinking water, electricity and gas, only a few families can cook, and most of them are limited to eating fast food. In addition, those that were lost before were all fast food, so the guard of the Li family's warehouse was relatively lax, and who knew that everything would be lost.
Tens of thousands of kilograms of food are enough for a team to eat for a month. Li Xiao felt heartbroken when he heard this.
Most of the supplies in the base were lost, except for the Gu family. Naturally, Li Xiao took out all his anger on the Gu family, and wanted to put the blame directly on the Gu family and make them pay the price.
"Your chicken coop is not well maintained and the eggs are lost. You blame other people's chickens for hiding them well. Li Xiao, are you becoming shameless as you get older?" Gu Tao got angry when he heard what he meant. The supplies reported worth hundreds of thousands of yuan would be directly deducted from their Gu family, which would crush them to death.
"It's not to say that it was your Gu family who did it. After all, other people's things were lost, but yours was fine. Isn't this just a reasonable suspicion?" Li Xiao was thinking about getting a piece of meat from Gu Tao.
"I suspect that your family hid something and is now crying thief," Gu Tao retorted without giving in.
"Okay, have someone check to see who passed by all the warehouses last night. Bring everyone here for questioning." Li Mu, the commander of the Third Legion, looked down on the intrigues among government officials. With the iron-blooded nature of the soldiers, he slammed the table and immediately silenced all the noisy people for a moment.
All the people who were on patrol were brought here for interrogation as soon as possible, and anyone who spoke out was arrested as soon as possible by the military and police.
Wu Yue couldn't go forward and could only look at every person who was brought over with fear and trepidation, hoping that Lu Weiyi was not among them. Until the last one was brought over, he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
Today, the facilities are incomplete, there is no evidence, and there are too many people. Many patrol officers do not know who it is even if they see someone passing by. In the end, many people only say that someone passed by, but they don’t know who it was.
The people who were brought in started the second round of interrogation. Wu Yue, as the victim, also began to think about how to blame Li Ji. Just when he was worried that he could not find an excuse, a guard from a small family whose things were stolen mentioned the person who kept blaming Li Ji. In the end, he even named Zhang Jianxin, a psychic under Li Ji, and confirmed that he was with two other people at the time.
This person is the one who has been hanging out with Cheng Hai and Song Yu recently, and was once seen by Wu Yue going out together at night.
When Wu Yue first heard that the family had lost supplies, he suspected that Lu Weiyi had taken them away. Now it seems that they had probably gone out to steal supplies yesterday, but ended up running into Lu Weiyi and making a big mistake.
As soon as this was said, the military went to arrest people immediately. Zhang Jianxin tried to refute the allegations as soon as he was arrested. Who knew that the person who reported him was the lady under A Mei, and that he had been her customer? The lady also listed several of his characteristics.
Seeing that he was exposed, Zhang Jianxin stopped refutation. After thinking for a while, he said that he was drunk and went out to relax with the other two people.
The two people he was talking about happened to be Song Yu and Cheng Hai, which gave Wu Yue the opportunity to bite Li Ji. He stood up and said to Li Mu, "Captain Li, I report it."
"You said" Li Mu knew Wu Yue. When the military first established the base, Zhuang Mingxu donated the first batch of supplies to the military.
It just so happened that Li Mu was also a soldier under the command of Zhuang Mingxu's grandfather. Before Zhuang Mingxu left, he specially brought Wu Yue to meet Li Mu, hoping that he could take care of him a little. With this relationship, Wu Yue still has some confidence in taking back a few villas and driving out the rest.
"I have seen Zhang Jianxin, Song Yu and Cheng Hai go out at night more than once, and the next day their families said that their supplies were lost."
"Wu Yue, we are all on the same team, please stop slandering us." Zhang Jianxin panicked when he heard Wu Yue say this.
"You know whether you are slandering me or not. Besides, you were brought here by Li Ji, so who would be in the same team with you?" Wu Yue said, turning his head to continue looking at Li Mu, "Although I'm not sure, there is room for both Song Yu and Cheng Hai."
"Why didn't you say it before?" Li Mu asked.
Wu Yue sighed, "The supplies for our team were collected by Zhuang Mingxu and his men at the first time. Later, he had to go to Wutong City to pick up his lover, so he left. He took four people with him at that time, but two of them came back a few days later, with a dozen psychics. They told me that Mingxu was seriously injured and could not come back for the time being. I suspected that they had betrayed Mingxu at that time."
"How do you know? What if what they said is true?" Li Xiao asked without putting the blame on Gu Tao.
"Zhuang Mingxu is a man who puts feelings above everything else. You may not have heard of him, but Captain Li should have. He retired from the army because of his lover, and later he was kicked out of his family, so he left the capital and came to Qingyuan with that person to start a business from scratch." Wu Yue glanced around and turned his gaze to Li Xiao's brother Li Ling, "A few years ago, Zhuang Mingxu's lover was kidnapped by a business rival, and Zhuang Mingxu gave up the project worth tens of billions without saying a word. Mr. Li should still remember it."
Li Ling smiled and nodded in the gazes of others, "Mr. Zhuang is a sentimental person."
As soon as he said this, all the people who knew something about the apocalypse before the end of the world looked at Ji Heng. Ji Heng smiled awkwardly and pretended not to notice everyone's looks.
"That is his lifeblood. As long as he is still alive, he will definitely send them to pick up that person. He will never let them return the same way and not care about that person's life or death for so long," Wu Yue concluded. "Later, I found out that they were colluding with their subordinates openly or secretly, and most of the people who went on missions together and didn't come back were not with him."
"So I never asked my men to go out to look for supplies again. I didn't say it before because he said that Zhuang Mingxu was with them and I couldn't say more. Now it's been so long and Mingxu hasn't come back. I suspect what he said must be an excuse. Besides, almost all the supplies we stored have disappeared. I don't believe that it wasn't an internal thief. Almost all the supplies from the Ji family and the Jiang family have disappeared. Li Ji's girlfriend is Ji Lin, so it's not surprising that he knows where the supplies are stored."
As soon as these words came out, everyone immediately looked at Li Ji. Li Ji sneered at this time, "Brother Wu, after I brought people here, I asked my subordinates to do their best to collect supplies, but it became like this when you said it, you..."
"Yes, they tried their best to have people follow and monitor me at all times. Didn't the Li Mingli brothers tell you? I have been a soldier for eight years and came from the top combat unit in the country. Only those few useless guys under your command are trying to track me. Ha..." Wu Yue glanced at him sarcastically and looked at the others. "If you don't believe me, just interrogate them separately. I dare not guarantee it 100%, but it's 90% at least."
When Li Ji heard this, he knew that this was going to be a falling out, and he immediately looked in the direction of Li Ling and Li Xiao. Li Xiao immediately said, "Isn't it inappropriate to interrogate someone based on a single word?"
"That's not what Captain Li Ji said just now. Besides, with so many people being interrogated here, every one of them was called here because of a word. Could it be that he, Li Ji, promised you something that made Captain Li Ji so inconsistent?" Things had come to this point and Wu Yue had no way out. Besides, the supplies had been taken away. Even if no one supported him now, the worst that could happen was that he would leave here and look for Zhuang Mingxu.
"That's right. Captain Li Ji was just accusing people everywhere, as if he would not give up until the person was found. How come now that someone has reported him, you are covering up for him? Is there really some shameful deal?" Gu Tao was already furious with Li Xiao's previous words, and he immediately agreed.
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"Okay, the people have been brought here, you can interrogate them separately." While Li Mu was arguing here, he immediately asked his soldiers to bring Song Yu and Cheng Hai over, "We just need to wait, you should rest assured about the military's interrogation methods."
For a moment, the meeting room was silent. Li Ji looked at Wu Yue as if he wanted to skin him alive. Wu Yue met his gaze and smiled sarcastically. A moment later, a man in military uniform came in, saluted Li Mu and said, "Report to the commander, Cheng Hai has confessed. Zhang Jianxin and Song Yu bewitched him and took him with them to steal supplies."
As soon as these words were spoken, there was an uproar in the conference room.
Wu Yue breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Did he explain where the supplies were stored? After interrogating him, we can return them to everyone, right?"
"That is, where do they put the supplies?"
"Hand it over quickly. You are not planning to swallow all the stuff we have, are you?"
As soon as the topic of supplies was mentioned, everyone's eyes were immediately focused on Li Ji. Li Ji clenched his fists tightly. If all the top leaders of the base were not here, he would have wanted to kill this slow-moving person.
"I've already found out." The soldier who had just come in spoke up and gave an address, which turned out to be the place that Li Jilai rented later. There was no need for others to say anything more, the fact was already obvious.
Li Ji also knew about this situation, and without saying another word, the group went straight to the rental house.
A ten-story house was rented by Li Ji. All the supplies were placed on the top floor, filling up three floors. This obviously did not match the lost items, and they immediately started arguing again. With no result, the others could only interrogate Song Yu and Cheng Hai again.
It was also at this time that the two men realized that things from the Ji, Jiang and Li families had also been lost. As for their own property, they had always thought that it was kept by their own family members, but now no one would believe them even if they cried out for injustice.
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