Chapter 95 Leaving
The conference room was now packed with people. The atmosphere was very heavy and anxiety could be seen on everyone's face.
Jiang Rong and his group were not the last to arrive. More people came later until the entire conference room was full.
Jiang Rong, Zhao Caier and Xin Jue were standing in the corner to the left of the door. Jiang Miao, Chen Ru and Xie Lei saw them and squeezed over from the crowd.
Several people nodded to each other without saying anything.
About ten minutes later, Wu Hui, who was standing at the head of the meeting room, spoke up: "What do you think about the Xiaozheng Village incident?"
Wu Hui is the representative of the people with special abilities in the village. Sitting next to him is the old village chief, who now mainly represents the ordinary people in the village.
The old village chief seems to be in better condition now than he was a few months ago. He must have come out of the pain of losing his son in old age.
"Why don't we go to the county town to find a large group? They have many superpowers, and that group of people should also have concerns."
Otherwise, given their brutal style, how could they have left those people in the county alive and well?
"There are only about thirty people with special abilities in our village now. We are definitely no match for those people. It seems we can only run away."
"That makes sense, but I don't think we can go to the county town. What if they just want to keep us alive and then kill us all at once? If we have to leave the village anyway, we might as well go farther away, to a bigger place."
"In the city?"
"It's not impossible. We have to leave the village anyway."
"The city is too far away. There are so many people in our village that it's impossible to take them all away at once. So who goes first and who goes later?"
"If we want to go to the city, shouldn't we send a group of people there first to check out the situation and gather some information? Otherwise, where will we stay with so many people and luggage? And if the weather changes halfway through the journey and the mutant beasts hiding in the darkness come out, can the psychics in the village resist them?"
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Wu Hui knew that what everyone said had their own reasons, but after listening for a while, he still reached out and pressed in the air, signaling everyone to be quiet.
"Well, we need to decide where to go next. We can arrange the rest later."
Now that he has reached his destination, he can make targeted plans for the next step.
"There are two opinions now. One is to go to the county seat, and the other is to go to Shangqing City. Does anyone have any other ideas? If not, then get ready to raise your hands and vote."
Anyway, it is definitely not a good idea to stay in the village. Otherwise, if that group of people comes in the middle of the night one day, all the people in the village will die like the people in the neighboring village.
"Rongrong, where do you think we should go?" Zhao Caier asked in a low voice.
She herself might prefer to go to the city.
If that group of people were as powerful as the legend said, then she also felt that those people in the county might...
But what if that group of people killed all the people in Xinan County?
Wouldn't he have to go to the city to continue to harm other people afterwards?
So are they just going to run away forever?
Although it is not impossible to keep escaping, can they really escape every time?
Thinking of this, Zhao Caier suddenly felt that even the city was not safe. If they continued to let that group of people do whatever they wanted, even if they fled to the ends of the earth, they would always be worried.
Jiang Rong shook his head when he heard this and said nothing.
If she could help it, she didn't want to go anywhere.
"Xin Jue, what about you? Where do you want to go?" Seeing that Jiang Rong did not respond directly, Zhao Caier asked Xin Jue who was standing on the other side.
Xin Jue, like Jiang Rong, just shook his head and said nothing.
Zhao Caier...
What a joke these two people are, two grown men who can’t even put their mouths together to talk!
"Sister Cai'er, we want to go to the city. The county is too close. I feel like going to the county is no different from staying in the village. Both are dangerous."
Jiang Miao was shorter and stood in front of Zhao Caier. With her were Chen Ru, her brother Jiang Shanghe, and Xie Lei.
Jiang Rong was a little surprised to see Xie Lei and Jiang Shang standing together. She thought Xie Lei would stand with Wu Hui.
After all, in the eyes of others, except for Liu Zhao who died in the pile of snow locusts at the beginning, Wu Hui, Qinglan and Xie Lei were a small group.
"If you don't have any other ideas, then raise your hands and vote."
Wu Hui continued to wait for a while, and after making sure there were no other unnecessary voices, he continued: "Raise your hands if you want to go to the county town."
After he finished speaking, only a few hands were raised in the crowd, only a dozen or so scattered around, and most of them were ordinary people.
It seems that the psychics in the village prefer to go to the city.
Because there are only two options, and everyone has raised their hands before, there is no need to ask who wants to go to the city.
Those who didn't raise their hands implied that they wanted to go to the city.
In this way, the destination is decided.
"Then we need to send two people to the city to check out the situation, and the rest of you go home and pack your luggage as quickly as possible."
"Is there anyone who wants to go and find out what's going on? The reward is a bag of rice and five boxes of instant noodles per person."
"There are still twenty first-level advanced mutant beast brain pills."
Wu Hui currently holds considerable power in the village. Basically, on small matters, he has the final say and no one criticizes him.
As long as it is not a matter of abusing public power for personal gain.
For example, no one had any objection to the issue of paying people with special abilities.
It is difficult for ordinary people to complete the task of gathering information in the city, so compared to food, the brain pill that Wu Hui mentioned in his last sentence may be more attractive.
For low-level psychics, two first-level advanced mutant beast brain pills can fill up one energy grid, and twenty of them can almost fill up ten energy grids.
Although this is almost a drop in the bucket compared to the energy required for upgrading (filling 600 energy grids to upgrade one level), it is better than nothing.
For ordinary psychics in the village, it would take a lot of effort to make twenty first-level advanced mutant beast brain pills on their own.
The psychics in the conference room didn't react at first when they heard Wu Hui's first sentence, but after he said that he would use twenty first-level advanced mutant beast brain pills as a reward, their attitudes became positive.
Soon afterwards, Wu Hui selected two people from the crowd to be responsible for this investigation.
"You only have two days. Leave today. If nothing unexpected happens, I hope you can be back before dark tomorrow. Time is running out."
It's past nine in the morning.
Before the apocalypse, it took about two hours to drive from Qingshan Village to the city, but now it might take twice as long. Let's assume it's four hours, so starting from ten o'clock, it would be two o'clock in the afternoon there, and they still have three or four hours to find a place to stay and find out the specific situation in the city.
The next day, they only needed to reserve four hours for the return trip, and the rest of the time was enough for them, after all, they were just going to take a look at the situation.
"Sure, but the village needs to provide the car."
"Well, Qinglan, go and take them to find a car."
After Wu Hui finished speaking, Qinglan, who was standing next to him, stepped forward and led the two psychics out.
"Now we have confirmed that we are going to the city, but our cars are definitely not enough for so many people in the village, so priority will be given to the elderly and children. Is there any problem?" Wu Hui continued to ask.
Everyone present had elderly people and children at home. After looking at each other, no one spoke.
"If there is no objection, it's settled. The cars will give priority to picking up the elderly, children and pregnant women. Others can follow the convoy, or wait for the next trip, or find a way on their own." Wu Hui said helplessly.
Their small village had limited supplies, and even the only large truck was dug out from the ground outside...
"Finally, try to pack up everything before sunset tomorrow."
"We can adjourn now."
Wu Hui knew all the supplies and population in the village, so there was no need to count them specifically at this time. So after saying almost everything, Wu Hui announced the adjournment of the meeting.
The people in the conference room left very quickly. Jiang Rong and his friends followed the crowd and then separated from Jiang Miao and his friends.
In the vast snowy field, Jiang Rong, Zhao Caier and Xin Jue walked home side by side.
"Cai'er, Xin Jue, let's go back to my house first. I have something to discuss with you." Jiang Rong suddenly said when passing by the Xin family's door.
Zhao Caier heard this and gave a look that said, "I knew it."
She knew that once Rongrong stopped talking, he was going to do something big in silence.
And that guy Xin Jue must have an idea in his mind now.
Zhao Caier and Xin Jue walked on either side of Jiang Rong and followed her home.
Zhao Caier and Xin Jue sat at the table in the living room. Jiang Rong took three porcelain cups from the drawer and made a cup of steaming hot tea for each of them. Then he sat down and took a sip of the hot tea in his hand before saying, "I plan to go to that village today to take a look."
Xin Jue: "I'll go with you."
Hearing this, Jiang Rong looked up at him, then looked away and waited for a moment.
Zhao Caier felt a headache watching the two people playing dumb, and asked in confusion: "Why do you want to go to that village? Didn't everyone there die? Would it be dangerous for you to go now?"
Jiang Rong waited until Zhao Caier finished asking a series of questions before replying: "If possible, I don't want to leave here. Therefore, the most dangerous place is the safest place."
Zhao Caier still didn’t understand after hearing this???
"I'll go see if I can purify the pollution in Xiaozheng Village."
After Jiang Rong explained, he paused and continued.
"If we only purify the polluted energy inside Xiaozheng Village and leave the bloody miasma outside the village, then from a distance, those people have already 'visited' this village, so the probability of them coming again is probably not high. We can temporarily stay in Xiaozheng Village."
In comparison, it is much more convenient to stay temporarily in Xiaozheng Village than to go to a city which is farther away.
Might be a bit creepy though.
But in this world right now, people are dying every day everywhere.
Zhao Caier: "So you were in the conference room just now..."
Why don’t you say it?
"It's always good to be prepared. After all, I'm not sure if it will work."
As always, Jiang Rong doesn't want to attract too much attention. The one who sticks out gets shot at, and if she sticks out too much, all kinds of trouble will come to her.
Even if she doesn't want to care, there will be a group of people who will stand on the moral high ground and push her forward.
She didn't like this feeling.
Besides, she is not Wu Hui. She has no interest in openly managing and controlling the village. At most... she can occasionally do what she can to help the village.
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