Seeing this, Lu Yuan had no choice but to steel himself and forcefully push the child in front of him to the ground, blocking the doorway.
"Don't fucking push me, or you'll all have to step over my body today!"
Lu Yuan knew he had to show his ruthlessness right now, otherwise these people might take advantage of him again if they thought he was easy to bully.
Taking advantage of this opening, the tattooed man in the lead suddenly pulled out a steel pipe from his waist and hurled it at Lu Yuan. Lu Yuan frowned, easily dodging the blow, and kicked the man to the ground. The others rushed forward desperately, their target being not Lu Yuan, but the pot of fragrant rice in the room behind him.
The moment the man fell to the ground, a child rushed in. The tattooed man grabbed the child, who lost his balance and fell backward down the stairs. The five- or six-meter-high stairs had no railings, and the child fell directly to the ground with a thud before falling still.
After a moment of silence, with no expression on their faces, Lu Yuan was genuinely worried; he knew he was doomed this time.
Sure enough, a group of people rushed into the room, lifted the lid of the rice cooker, and grabbed the rice with their hands and stuffed it into their mouths, not caring that it was scalding hot.
Lu Yuan turned around, grabbed half a bag of rice from beside the door, and jumped to the side. Seeing the group of people, like wolves, still dividing up the rice, he felt a surge of anger.
Just as everyone was sharing the rice, a woman's shrill scream came from downstairs.
Taking advantage of the moment, Lu Yuan quickly went down the stairs and saw a woman holding a child, crying bitterly. The little boy was the same boy who had just reached out to Lu Yuan for food, but now he was covered in blood and the back of his head had collapsed.
The woman held her child and cried desperately, but no one paid any attention as people rushed upstairs.
Lu Yuan was silent for a few seconds, then threw the rice in his hand to the woman: "They'll be down soon, you'd better hide the grain, consider it some compensation for the child!"
Upon seeing the bag of rice, the woman's tears vanished instantly. Wiping away her tears, she knelt on the ground and repeatedly thanked Lu Yuan, saying, "Thank you, thank you! With the food, the two remaining children won't die!"
Lu Yuan sighed, then turned and disappeared into the vast darkness.
After spending three days on the outskirts of this survivor base in Anhui Province, Lu Yuan finally understood that this place was called the fifth survivor base in Anhui Province, and only useful people were recruited into the base.
The others lived on the outskirts of the survivor base, where they endured a very difficult life. Corpses were everywhere, and large numbers of people died outside every day, while the people inside the survivor base did nothing to care.
In addition, there is an entire army guarding the outer perimeter. It is said that crops adapted to the dark have been developed in this survivor base, but they need to be exchanged for something or work in the survivor base.
Lu Yuan used half a chicken to get a job in the garrison through people in the black market. This was the highest official position he could get, and it was practically impossible to get promoted further.
However, at least he was away from the outskirts, so Lu Yuan planned to live here for a while and then find an opportunity to leave.
At the garrison registration hall of the survivor base, which is the new recruit reporting building in the third district, Lu Yuan stood in front of the door, smiled at a middle-aged man, and asked, "Can I go in now?"
The middle-aged man, after clutching the red envelope in his hand, squinted and looked inside, then nodded in satisfaction: "Hmm, come in!"
Lu Yuan quickly straightened his clothes and followed the middle-aged man into the office building.
The office wasn't very big; it had probably been converted from a bedroom, and was only about ten square meters in size. Inside, a middle-aged man, around forty years old, with a short beard and a fleshy face, sat in an old-fashioned office chair.
The middle-aged man who brought Lu Yuan in walked to the desk, placed a stack of documents in front of the short-bearded man, and whispered, "Minister Chen, this is the final list of people!"
The short-bearded man picked up the documents, flipped through them casually, and then became somewhat suspicious when he saw the name of the young man at the top.
"Lu Yuan? That name sounds so familiar!"
"Oh, there are probably quite a few people with that name!"
"The review and everything else have been approved, right?"
"Yes, everything passed without any problems!"
"Okay, then you can go out now!"
The middle-aged man nodded, then turned and left, patting Lu Yuan's shoulder lightly before closing the door behind him.
Standing in the office, Lu Yuan took two steps forward and stood in front of the desk without saying a word, just watching the short-bearded man in front of him examine his documents.
"Lu Yuan, 25 years old, from Qingshui City, later moved to Jin Province... Huh? Your family background and such were not mentioned!"
"Oh, my family isn't of much use, so I didn't include them. My personal information is enough!"
"You should at least write down two things, otherwise this big blank space doesn't look very good. If I submit it, people might say something!" The short-bearded man frowned as he looked at the resume.
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