Everyone was stunned by Jiao Chuang's words, and he quickly put his finger up to shush.
"Don't be so loud! Are you trying to attract the attention of the disciplinary team?"
At this moment, everyone quickly stopped their exclamations and looked at Jiao Chuang in the dim light.
A young man with a face full of pimples glanced at Jiao Chuang.
"Cousin, are you out of your mind?! What made you think of doing this? Don't you know who Gu Wenzhong is? This bastard wants to starve us to death! And Boss Lu said we absolutely cannot back down! If we really go to him, who knows how they'll bully us in the future!"
The people standing nearby nodded in agreement. These were the people Jiao Chuang had brought with him. Besides his cousin, there were also his friends from the same village who worked with him. The other two were from the same village. Before the apocalypse, their interactions were limited to weddings and funerals in the village. However, after the apocalypse, everyone in the village fled, so they spontaneously formed a small group.
However, the apocalypse was not so easy to survive. Originally, there were about a hundred people in the small village, but after several years of changes, some died and some fled, and now only five people remained. Jiao Chuang's cousin had always regarded Jiao Chuang as his father, after all, the eldest brother is like a father. After losing his parents, Jiao Chuang had been the one who raised him to survive. The other few people did not have any opinions of their own. They did whatever Jiao Chuang said along the way, and there were very few disagreements.
But today was different. Jiao Chuang suddenly came out and said he would help Lu Yuan plead with Gu Wenzhong, which made them even more worried, who were already afraid.
"Who is Boss Lu! He used to be a very capable person! Didn't you see that none of his family members went hungry?"
Seeing that no one believed him, Jiao Chuang quickly explained, "They've never suffered any hardship, so they simply can't bring themselves to bow down to others! But we're different! We brave the wind and rain, scraping food out of cracks in rocks. Face has no meaning for us! Are you really planning to starve like this forever?"
The group fell silent. Of course, they knew what hunger felt like. That terrible feeling had haunted them for several years after they survived the apocalypse. Whenever they faced hunger, they would do everything they could to get food. If there was anything they feared, it was death first, and then perhaps hunger.
"But we're just a bunch of migrant workers! Will Gu Wenzhong even care about us?" someone asked worriedly.
"I think as long as we're sincere enough in apologizing, Gu Wenzhong shouldn't do anything too bad! At worst, we'll just kowtow a few times! If you don't want to, I'll do it!"
Jiao Chuang pondered for a long time before speaking: "I don't want to see everyone go hungry anymore! Xiao Shun, are you planning to continue going hungry? And you, Lao Wang, do you want to go hungry?"
Jiao Chuang turned his head to look at the young man beside him and the middle-aged man opposite him.
Everyone fell silent again. They didn't want to go hungry, but they had a feeling that things weren't as simple as they thought. The most people they had ever met were at the village chief level. People like Gu Wenzhong made them tremble, let alone want to meet with him to discuss things.
"Cousin, we dare not go to that Gu Wenzhong! What would we say if we got there?"
"Yeah, Lao Jiao, don't think it's that simple. This isn't something we can handle!"
"That's right, large intestine. How about we think of another way? A living person can't be killed by holding in their pee!"
Several people expressed their opinions one after another. None of them wanted to go to Gu Wenzhong. They would rather endure hunger for a while and only go back to find a solution if there was really no other way.
Jiao Chuang, however, did not think so. After all, if he hadn't led these people to find food along the way and tried to find something to eat when the food was almost used up, they would probably have starved to death long ago.
Therefore, Jiao Chuang believed that Gu Wenzhong had to be contacted, while Lu Yuan didn't need to be informed. They should wait until Gu Wenzhong agreed to change their mission before telling Lu Yuan. Otherwise, if they told Lu Yuan in advance, he definitely wouldn't agree.
After thinking for a long time, Jiao Chuang gritted his teeth and said, "No, if you guys aren't going, I'll go! We can't keep starving!"
Seeing his persistence, everyone could only sigh silently in the end.
The pimple-faced youth next to him spoke up: "Cousin, I'll go with you! But... but you have to tell him yourself! I don't know how to say it!"
Old Wang nodded: "Yeah! I'll go with you! It'll be good to have another person for courage!"
"Count me in! Damn it! I'd die with you, I'm willing!"
"..."
Soon everyone voted and decided to go with Jiao Chuang to find Gu Wenzhong.
Seeing that everyone agreed, Jiao Chuang grinned, revealing his uneven, yellow teeth: "Damn it! None of you care about anything! Don't come to me for food again!"
The others joined in the rant and insults for a while, but it didn't affect their relationship at all.
The next morning, Lu Yuan still led his men to the square. There was no other way, mainly because the disciplinary team was not with Gu Wenzhong. They mainly checked whether there were contraband or theft in the camp. So, once everyone in the camp area was taken away, they stopped caring about other things.
Having already incurred Gu Wenzhong's wrath, Lu Yuan felt he had no other choice but to tough it out and see who could outlast whom! In short, there was only one month left before the headquarters had to report. If Lu Yuan's plot of land was not completed, Gu Wenzhong would be the first to be punished by his superiors. Right now, both sides were secretly competing with each other. Lu Yuan, relying on his dimensional space, wasn't too worried.
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