Hua Mi looked at Tang You silently. Both she and Tang You felt that it was unusual for these 2,000 survivors to come to the B City supply depot.
Sure enough, soon there were garrison troops, their heads bleeding, running back into the B City supply depot.
"Captain Tang, we went up to persuade them to change their route, but they wouldn't listen at all."
It is clear that this group of ordinary survivors were incited, otherwise they would not have attacked the garrison.
Two thousand survivors! One punch from each of them would be unbearable for even a mortal like the garrison, let alone one who couldn't fight back.
Hua Mi immediately called the medical garrison to come and bandage the garrison member who had been beaten and was bleeding from the head.
Before she could ask Tang You what to do next, she heard a commotion outside the B City supply depot.
Tang You immediately ran out to check, with Hua Mi following behind.
All that could be seen at the entrance of the supply depot was a human wall formed by the garrison, retreating continuously until they had nowhere left to go.
Before them lay a group of survivors with their children.
The survivors screamed at the top of their lungs.
"Get out of our way, we just want food, give us food."
"You can't hoard all these supplies; they all belong to us."
"Give us food, hurry up and give us food."
The sounds, rising and falling, felt familiar to Hua Mi.
In my past life, weren't there countless instances of survivors rioting because they couldn't get enough to eat?
The only difference is that in the previous life, the forces that were besieged and demanded supplies would directly shoot at the survivors.
Tang You won't fire a gun, and neither will any of the garrison troops here.
Therefore, they could only use their own bodies to form a defensive line, and were forced to retreat by the surrounding survivors.
One of the survivors pulled out a stone and threw it at the garrison ahead, cursing:
"You bunch of good-for-nothing bastards, hoarding supplies and refusing to feed us, watching us starve to death! You have no conscience at all!"
Among that group of survivors, children were crying, old people were coughing, women were screaming, and men were cursing.
The human wall of garrison stood silently guarding the entrance to the supply depot, some of them already bleeding from head wounds.
Tang You held a large megaphone and shouted to the survivors outside:
"These supplies aren't meant to deprive you of food, but rather to provide for the survivors in Xiangcheng and City A. If you walk a little further ahead, there are many mobile vendors selling supplies along this Xiang B Expressway."
There should be a set of rules for everything. The supplies in the B City supply depot are just a transit warehouse for Hua Mi.
She couldn't possibly set up a stall by herself, nor could she possibly deliver goods to various sales points every day.
This project is too large. Xiangcheng is relatively easy to manage, as there is only one RV supermarket sales point.
But now, that RV supermarket has become a wholesale supermarket. Many vendors from Xiangcheng will line up overnight to buy goods from the RV supermarket and then set up their stalls inside and outside Xiangcheng.
There was originally only one sales point in City B, located at the city gate, which was managed by Chi Chuan's small group of resellers.
But now, the city gate of B City has also become a wholesale point for supplies. Survivors will line up overnight to buy supplies and then set up stalls on the Xiang B Expressway.
The underground parking garage in Xiangcheng and the supply warehouse in City B were responsible for replenishing supplies to these two wholesale outlets.
Because these two transit warehouses are large enough, Hua Mi can store supplies once and keep them for several days.
The garrison only needs to focus on guarding these two transit warehouses. If there are more warehouses, the garrison will not have enough manpower, and Hua Mi will not be able to handle them all. There are also no teleportation points.
So as long as the survivors get on the Hunan-B Expressway, they can buy supplies with the money they have.
Why not walk a few more steps? We've already made it this far; if we just walk a little further, there will be mobile vendors.
The prices of goods sold by these mobile vendors are slightly higher than those at the RV supermarket and the wholesale points at the entrance of City B.
Moreover, the prices of goods sold by street vendors are not uniform; the further away from Xiangcheng and Bcheng, the more expensive the goods sold by mobile vendors become.
After all, they've been carrying the supplies so far like ants, so they deserve some extra compensation for their hard work.
Hua Mi stood behind Tang You and saw a man hiding behind an old man among the group of survivors opposite them, shouting loudly.
"Why should we travel such a long distance and spend money to buy supplies? You make it sound so nice, but the supplies in your warehouse are definitely reserved for those in power. We won't get a single penny."
His words were full of encouragement.
Amidst this encouragement, the already starving and freezing survivors were filled with raging anger.
The situation was spiraling out of control.
Hua Mi snatched the megaphone from Tang's right hand and shouted:
"Don't worry, we have plenty of supplies. But look, the elderly and children among you are almost at their limit. Now, elderly and children, come forward and we'll distribute the supplies to you."
Faced with public outrage, first divide and conquer!
A man immediately shouted from the other side.
"Why should supplies be given to the elderly and children first? We're all in this together, why should we be the ones to receive them?"
"Don't listen to her, it's all a conspiracy. These people who hold positions without doing their jobs are used to plotting and scheming."
"That's right, maybe the food she gave us was poisoned."
Several men were shouting loudly in the crowd, full of conspiracy theories.
Hua Mi took the megaphone down and asked Tang You beside her,
"Did you see clearly who the men who shouted were?"
"Several targets have been identified."
Tang You was wearing goggles, which gave him a clearer view than the other survivors.
Moreover, the garrison had received professional reconnaissance training, and they immediately found the man who had instigated the chaos.
The men who were encouraging the survivors were holding stones in their hands. They were sandwiched between the survivors and throwing stones at the garrison.
For what purpose did these men incite the survivors to besiege the B City supply depot and continuously attack the garrison with stones?
Hua Mi said in a low voice,
“You deal with the men who are inciting the survivors, I’ll handle the rest.”
Before Tang You could object, Hua Mi immediately raised the megaphone and shouted:
"An elderly person and a child come over here to line up. Come on, line up! Everyone who lines up gets oranges, apples, pomelos, and cherries."
"Don't listen to her, she's lying!"
A man was shouting behind the two children, swinging a stone in his hand, trying to hit Hua Mi.
If we don't deal with Hua Mi, things won't get chaotic here today.
However, the stone he threw was hit by a bullet, and with a "bang," the stone shattered into pieces in mid-air.
There were snipers stationed nearby, already in ambush.
Their scopes were aimed at the survivors, specifically at the men who were inciting trouble.
The printer is completely useless now, to the point that even the professional printer repairman advised me not to bother repairing it anymore and to just buy a new one.
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