Hua Mi hurriedly left the B City supply depot, without even calling Tang You and the other garrison members, and went alone onto the Xiang B Expressway.
On the Xiang B Expressway, there were many other survivors like her who trekked through the rainy night.
Because of the roadblocks ahead, the closer you go to City B, the more survivors you'll find.
Many stopped on the roadside, unable to move, and there were no supplies to get through the roadblocks.
None of them drove because the roads between their city and City B and Xiangcheng were not smooth, so even if the cars had gas, they couldn't move.
In this situation, walking to City B or Xiangcheng is actually the most reliable option.
The closer Hua Mi got to the roadblock, the more survivors she found. The people who set up the roadblock on this pitch-black road were quite professional.
They erected a wire fence on the wide Hunan-B Expressway and piled up sandbags on it.
Behind the sandbags, there was a row of cars parked behind them, with a row of people tied to the roofs of the cars.
A bright searchlight was erected high, illuminating the roadblock clearly inside and out.
Hua Mi cursed under her breath, calling them "idiots," and then, wearing goggles, counted all the thieves inside and outside the roadblock.
Upon closer inspection, the row of people tied to the roof of the car were actually her clearing team!
"Listen up, all of you! Anyone passing by, hand over half of all your supplies, and you can pass. Otherwise, you'll end up like them!"
A powerful voice blared from the loudspeaker next to the searchlight.
The direction pointed directly to Hua Mi's clearing team on the roof of the vehicle.
This means that if any survivors on this road cause trouble, they will be tied to the roof of the vehicle and tortured.
The survivors passing by were all exhausted and only wanted to get through the roadblock as quickly as possible to Xiangcheng or Bcheng to buy supplies.
Based on their location, going to City B might be closer.
As they approached the roadblock, the number of survivors increased, forming a dense, chaotic mass as they waited to cross it.
Hua Mi stood far away, behind a densely packed crowd.
She was thinking about how to start this fight.
Let's also see how this group robs people on the road, so we can gain some experience.
But there were too many people in front of her, and she didn't have wings, so she couldn't fly over.
There was a family by the roadside; the woman was holding a crying baby, and the man next to her took out a half-empty bottle of mineral water and used his own tarpaulin to cover the woman and child.
"Give her some water first. We don't have any formula or the means to prepare it."
Hua Mi stood at the back of the crowd and watched. Next to this family were two elderly people with canes in their hands.
The old man shakily took a mooncake out of his pocket, broke it in two, kept the smaller piece for himself, and gave the larger piece to his wife.
The group of people who were inching forward suddenly stopped, followed by a commotion, with someone shouting loudly.
"I have no money on me, no money at all. This money was meant to be saved for buying supplies in City B, I can't give it to you."
Since supplies can be purchased with money in both Xiangcheng and Bcheng, this roadblock not only requires passersby to hand over half of their supplies, but also nine-tenths of their money.
They're exploiting us too much.
A group of men rushed out of the roadblock and beat the man who was shouting that he had no money. They beat him half to death and left him by the roadside, preventing him from passing through the roadblock.
Hua Mi frowned, losing interest in pushing her way to the front amidst the crowds.
Once she crawls to the front of this group of people, when will she be able to reach the roadblock and start the fight?
So she broke away from the group, walked up to the parents holding their baby by the roadside, tilted her head, and asked,
How old is this child?
"do what?"
The man was wary, shielding the mother and child behind him, his eyes fixed on Hua Mi.
Hua Mi smiled.
"I'm not doing anything, just pure curiosity. This child is so young."
As she spoke, she took out two bright orange tangerines from inside her raincoat and asked the woman behind the man very seriously,
"Can such a young child drink orange juice?"
The woman shook her head, then nodded.
"Actually, it's not possible, but in this environment, I don't have breast milk, and I've fed my child rice water before."
They had one last can of milk powder, but according to the rules of the group that set up the roadblock, they had to give up half a can of milk powder.
This last can of milk powder was something her husband had gone through a lot of trouble to find.
Along the way, unless the child was starving, they did not make formula for the child. Most of the time, they would try to cook some porridge and give the child rice water.
Therefore, milk powder is very precious to them.
So the couple decided not to go through the roadblocks, at least to feed their child before handing over half a can of formula.
Hua Mi handed the two oranges in her hand to the man in front of her.
"Then you guys eat, and then feed the baby after you're done."
"this"
The man was somewhat surprised, holding two bright orange tangerines in his hand, unsure of what to say.
Hua Mi handed over another QR code.
"9.9 each, please scan the QR code for 19.8, thank you."
This costs money.
Both the man and woman were stunned. The man hurriedly pulled a wet wallet from his pocket.
"My phone has no signal, can I pay in cash?"
"Can."
Hua Mi agreed. Last time, Chi Chuan and his friends brought several large sacks of cash from City A. At first, Hua Mi thought her cash register system couldn't handle cash, but as soon as she deposited the cash into the warehouse, the amount in the cash register system increased.
The man gave Hua Mi a hundred-yuan bill.
"Here, that's all the face value I have left. Do you have anything else to sell?"
Hua Mi took out a set of newborn onesies.
"I see that the cloth you used to wrap your child is soaked. Please change the child's clothes."
"Okay, okay, thank you, thank you."
The man was extremely grateful. When he first took out the hundred-yuan bill, he hadn't really thought that Hua Mi could offer any other supplies.
As it turned out, this dry, space-age cotton newborn bodysuit was exactly what his child needed.
It's truly remarkable that such a young child could survive and make it this far with his parents.
Children born and raised in such an environment must have a vitality stronger than weeds to survive.
The woman holding the child also stepped forward and repeatedly thanked Hua Mi.
Hua Mi moved to the two elderly people holding mooncakes, gave each of them an orange, and accepted the 20 yuan in cash that the two elderly people tremblingly handed over.
Having no other option, she took out a box of Xiaochaihu granules, opened it, took out a small packet, and handed it to the two elderly people.
"I don't have cash, so here's a small packet of Xiaochaihu granules as change."
The surrounding survivors all turned around and stared at her expectantly.
While everyone else is hiding their supplies, does this little girl even know what she's doing right now?
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(End of this chapter)
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