Chapter 60 What great news is this?
As the largest prison in the country, Yue City No. 1 Prison holds more than a thousand prisoners.
After the apocalypse broke out, in order to provide more living space for the survivors, prisoners were no longer allowed to leave the prison area.
After accepting a large number of survivors, Lin Chengfeng began to deliberately reduce the prisoners' three meals a day to one meal a day.
Even so, the food reserves in the shelter were decreasing at a visible rate.
If this continues, there will be no food left in the shelter in less than three months.
Lin Chengfeng had to further squeeze the prisoners' food supply, providing only one bowl of porridge a day.
As long as I don’t starve to death.
He actually thought that since the situation outside was so serious, he might as well abandon the prisoners in the prison and cut off their food supply.
Or release them all from prison and let them fend for themselves.
But he didn't dare to do so.
This apocalypse has lasted for a long time, and he still has an explanation.
If it ends in a few months, not only will he not get any reward, he may also be punished.
The gain does not outweigh the loss.
Lin Chengfeng also guessed that the prisoners would definitely be dissatisfied and cause trouble.
He had long ago issued orders to strengthen the management of prisoners, and to simply cut off the food supply for those troublemakers who liked to stir up trouble.
He will be obedient after a few days of hunger.
But he didn't expect that the survivors in the shelter would also start making trouble.
Lin Chengfeng was so annoyed that he held several team meetings to discuss this issue.
As a result, no one else could come up with a good solution. No one dared to take responsibility and could only say nonsense like "let's wait and see the situation."
You can't really use the same methods you use on criminals on ordinary people, right?
Otherwise, there will be a riot in this shelter in a minute.
At this time, someone knocked on the door.
Lin Chengfeng looked up: "Come in."
The young police officer outside the door walked up to Lin Chengfeng and said, "Chief Lin, after hearing about Yan Chu's situation, Chen Zhiyong and Chen Zhiyuan also applied to turn on the air conditioner."
Lin Chengfeng: “…”
He sighed with a headache: "I know, let them open."
The police officer nodded and went out.
After a while, someone knocked on the door again.
Lin Chengfeng asked impatiently: "What else?"
This time it was a sweet female voice.
"It seems I came at the wrong time."
Lin Chengfeng was stunned before he realized that the person coming was Yan Chu.
He immediately stood up, his face wiped away the impatience just now, and showed a warm smile.
"How could that be? Just treat it as your own home and you can come anytime."
If the police officer was still there, he would probably be shocked by Lin Chengfeng's current appearance.
This is completely different from the attitude towards the Chen brothers.
This is not Lin Chengfeng’s fault.
After he called the Chen brothers to watch the surveillance video of Yan Chu fighting the zombies a few days ago, he understood it.
Although the Chen brothers are also people with special abilities, their abilities are definitely not as good as Yan Chu's.
He has worked in prison for so many years and is very familiar with the guilty expressions that appear on the faces of prisoners.
When he saw the guilty looks on the two brothers' faces that day, he knew that he could no longer rely on them.
But he is a person with special abilities after all, and is always better than ordinary people, so he is still treated as before with good food and drink.
However, he also became more and more aware of Yan Chu's importance, so he took extra care of Yan Chu during this period.
"Why are you here today?" Lin Chengfeng asked her.
"I heard that many people are making a fuss because they don't have enough to eat." Yan Chu asked.
Lin Chengfeng couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Even you know it."
Yan Chu nodded. "I wanted to ask this when I first arrived. The shelter is so generous in providing relief food to everyone. Is it because the supply reserves are particularly sufficient? Or do you think the apocalypse won't last too long?"
Lin Chengfeng was silent for a moment, then sighed, "It's probably both. Our prison is large, and we do store a large amount of rice, grain, and oil for emergencies."
I didn't expect that I would actually encounter an emergency.
Lin Chengfeng rubbed his brow as he spoke. "At first, I thought this situation wouldn't last long, so I distributed relief food to the survivors. But now, as you know, the situation outside is getting worse and worse. I don't think our food supply will last more than three months. It's giving me a headache."
Yan Chu seemed to be lost in thought.
Indeed, without knowing how long the apocalypse will last, most people can only make a compromise decision.
“Why not let those who are dissatisfied go out and find supplies themselves?” she asked.
Lin Chengfeng sighed: "Those people are just talking big. Who is really willing to risk their lives to go out?"
Yan Chu blinked: "I mean the prisoner."
Lin Chengfeng: “……?”
He reacted immediately and retorted, "Absolutely not! If we let them out, they'll definitely run away! How could they possibly come back?"
Yan Chu smiled and arched his eyebrows: "Just let them run."
She held up a finger. "Let the prisoners who are willing to go out search for supplies. If they want to come back, they can continue to stay in prison. It will also reduce the pressure if they run away."
Yan Chu said this simply, but Lin Chengfeng was frightened.
"We're holding serious criminals, including murderers. What if they gather together and become a criminal gang..."
Yan Chu laughed: "It's the end of the world. Zombies are much scarier than murderers. Survival of the fittest. Whether they can survive depends on their own abilities."
"What if the situation improves later and the apocalypse ends soon? I..."
Before Lin Chengfeng could finish his words, he was interrupted by Yan Chu.
"If you're so hesitant, why not let me take the top job?"
Lin Chengfeng was choked.
He knew very well that Yan Chu was not joking.
Early the next morning, the prison guards delivered the daily porridge to the doors of each cell in the prison as usual.
The prisoners in the prison area saw this and pounded on the cell door angrily:
“Protest! Protest!”
"Call Lin Chengfeng over here! If he dares to starve us to death, he'll forget about being the director!"
"I'm going to sue him when I get out of jail!"
The prison guard looked at them expressionlessly and said:
"The shelter is running low on food."
As soon as these words were spoken, the prison became even more indignant, and the shouts of discontent almost blew the roof off.
The prison guard continued, “Those who are dissatisfied with the distribution of supplies can leave the shelter and look for food on their own after submitting an application.”
As soon as these words were spoken, the prison area instantly became quiet.
The prisoners looked at each other.
Most of the people here are sentenced to more than ten years or even decades in prison, and some are even sentenced to life imprisonment.
When they heard the prison guard's words, they thought they had misheard for a moment.
"What did you say? Say it again?"
The prison guard glanced at the prisoners and said, "The leave application will be sent to you later. If you are willing to go out, please submit your application yourself."
The prisoners were stunned. What great news was this?
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