In the harsh living conditions of City E, the city's workforce is increasingly no longer treated as human beings.
Chen Hu ordered the construction of city walls in City E, and the strong laborers who came from Xiangcheng to City E began working day and night in the dark.
The Qu family also sent overseers, who were divided into several groups and kept a close watch on the survivors 24 hours a day.
If any survivors slack off, the overseer will step forward and beat them.
Not only that, they also prevented the survivors from leaving City E.
Some survivors were willing to leave E City without taking a single penny or any food.
The result was that he was stripped naked, tied to a pillar, and made to stand in front of a crowd.
It is said that under Hu Yanxiang's leadership, they have collected all the [energy droplets] from the survivors.
Several people died as a result.
The vendor asked curiously:
"In our Xiangcheng, aren't [Energy Drops] readily available? Is it really worth losing your life for them?"
He couldn't quite understand how scarce resources were for the people of City E.
Because he had always stayed in Xiangcheng and had never gone out, he lacked a true understanding of the outside world.
The vendor only knows that currently, "Energy Drops" can be seen everywhere on the construction sites in the west of Xiangcheng.
Energy Drops are provided free of charge to anyone who participates in building the city wall.
Chi Chuan didn't know how to explain it either; E City was just ridiculously poor.
He could only continue speaking.
"Because those survivors from the past had no supplies to escape, and were closely watched by the E City base."
"So they managed to send us a message, hoping we could lend a helping hand to rescue them."
Upon hearing the news from Chi Chuan, Cao Feng, Qin Zhen, and Hua Mi all frowned.
Hua Mi, her belly protruding, asked in a cold voice.
"You left so resolutely back then, why are you coming back now?"
She had spoken to the survivors when Hu Yanxiang led them away.
No matter what happens in the future, Xiangcheng will no longer accept them, will no longer open its doors to these survivors, and will no longer welcome them with open arms.
That's very clear, it's not like it wasn't mentioned beforehand.
Qin Zhen nodded and said,
"Moreover, our Xiangcheng base is currently facing internal and external troubles and has many other matters to attend to. Where would we find the time and energy to rescue this group of departing laborers?"
The labor force left Xiangcheng in batches. The first batch, led by Hu Yanxiang, consisted of more than a thousand people.
One by one, when they arrived in City E, there were only about a thousand people left.
Later, due to the continuously deteriorating external environment of the Xiangcheng base, more and more people left the Xiangcheng base.
There are probably two or three thousand survivors in E City alone right now.
Rescuing these two or three thousand people from City E will require a huge amount of manpower and resources.
The Xiangcheng base is already short-staffed.
Hua Mi refused outright.
"No, let them find their own way to get outside the Xiangcheng base. Don't go to Xiangcheng South or Xiangcheng East, those areas have already been sealed off."
"Xiangcheng West will also be closed off soon."
"If they can reach Xiangcheng West before it is closed, then the Xiangcheng base can accept them."
"If they can't reach Xiangcheng West, then so be it. Their life or death is their own choice, and no one else is to blame."
After saying this, Hua Mi stood up, her pregnant belly protruding. She walked up to Cao Feng, raised her hand, and patted him heavily on the shoulder.
“I know that as garrison personnel, it would be against your professional ethics to stand by and watch someone die.”
"But you need to think about what the situation is like now. Your commander is fighting off a zombie horde in the north."
"He didn't take many people with him to the north in the first place. Almost all the elite troops stationed at the Xiangcheng base were taken to the north."
"As for you, staying in the Xiangcheng base, we need to send a group of people to the south and another group to the east. We need to focus more on the west, as the battle in the west will be very difficult."
"I estimate that the zombies from the south will sweep over to the west in less than two days. We don't have much time left. We shouldn't waste our energy helping people who don't even know what they want."
The survivors said they had done something wrong, and Hua Mi also felt they had done something wrong.
In the message sent to Xiangcheng, they deeply regretted their stubbornness in the past.
And it explains how they oversimplified the problem and viewed the world too naively.
But what good is recognizing your mistakes?
Not everyone is like Hua Mi, who has the chance to start over.
Life is only once; one wrong step can lead to utter ruin.
Given the outcome we have today, these survivors who went to City E should accept their initial unwavering decision.
Everyone is like this; they must pay the price for their actions.
Cao Feng nodded, stood in front of Hua Mi, and said in a low voice,
"I understand, Sister Hua. I won't act impulsively."
Garrisoning is humanity's last line of defense, that's for sure.
However, this also has primary and secondary bottom lines.
Cao Feng couldn't possibly leave such a large base in Xiangcheng unprotected and instead send people to E City to rescue people.
E City is so far from Xiangcheng Base. After they leave, Xiangcheng Base will immediately be in crisis of being left undefended.
No matter how thick the power grid is or how high the city walls are, there will always be risks for the Xiangcheng base.
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