Chapter 79 Conflict

Bai Zhi and Lin Shan exchanged pleasantries and updated each other on the latest situation. Then Lin Shan carefully introduced the latest situation of the A City Base to several people.

Because of the zombie drive purchased from Hope Supermarket and the zombie virus inhibitor announced by City C, the A City Base has now cleared half of the city.

There are plenty of houses. Those who are short of money live in buildings without water and electricity rented by the government at low prices, or in school dormitories provided free of charge. Those

with ample points rent villas and high-end communities with water and electricity like the one where Lin Shan's team lives.

Office buildings and shops are also taken over by the base officials, and all property certificates before the end of the world are no longer valid. If you need an office building for your team, or a shop to open for business, you need to pay rent to the official and sign a rental contract.

The official has opened two large supermarkets in the base. In addition to the fruits and vegetables produced by the wood-type psychics and the water stored by the water-type psychics, some of the other supplies come from the items produced before the end of the world collected by the rescue team when they cleaned up the city, and some are purchased by the official in the Hope Supermarket.

The official supermarket sets the price according to the base points. Because the points spent on purchases are exchanged for non-essential items, the price is not particularly high, and ordinary people will not be unable to afford even bread.

In addition to official purchases, some psychic teams have rented shops in the largest shopping center in the base to directly sell the prepared food sets, snacks and iced drinks that the space psychics have stockpiled in the Hope Supermarket. The price is usually doubled to three times the purchase price.

Shana never cares whether customers use the goods they buy in the store or sell them to others, or how much they sell them for.

Because the inventory of Hope Supermarket is unlimited, there is no such thing as hunger marketing, so resellers cannot monopolize the market and hoard goods.

If the price is too high, customers will naturally go to other resellers, or go to the official channels of the base to consume. Or they can buy in the Hope store themselves, without the middleman making a profit from the price difference.

If they don't want or dare to leave the base and go to Hope Supermarket because of their laziness or timidity, then she can only say that they are paying for the labor or wisdom of others. Isn't it the choice of these survivors to pay several times more?

Lin Shan said that the focus of City A now is not only to kill zombies and clear more space for human survival. The government is working on establishing a new social system, and various superpower teams and political factions are seizing the time to establish and expand their own power.

The past two years of the apocalypse are like a war that affects all mankind. Although the war has not yet ended completely, the survivors have begun to take the lead in the world situation and national system that have been disrupted by this war and are about to be reorganized.

So for most survivors in the A City base, the most terrifying thing now is not the zombies that are blocked outside the base boundary, but the peers who have superpowers and changed their world outlook and ideas because of the apocalypse.

It's like most bases not only have officials, but also superpower alliances.

Those ordinary people who were just ordinary people before the apocalypse, suddenly possessed powerful superpowers after the apocalypse, which gave them the capital to dominate those survivors who had some power before the apocalypse but were just ordinary people after the apocalypse.

This huge reversal of status and situation will cause a drastic change in the mentality of many people.

When the apocalypse is over, are they really willing to give up their current power and return to the previous social system, where they will be governed by ordinary government officials and military forces without superpowers? Are they

really willing to abide by the pre-apocalyptic legal system where everyone is equal?

​​Lin Shan is not optimistic. Isn't it the Superpower Alliance that is now able to compete with the military and political officials of the base in many decisions on base affairs?

Now there are still zombies that need to be eliminated by both sides, and peace and cooperation can be maintained. What about after the zombies are cleared? How long can such superficial stability be maintained?

What's more, the military and political sides of City A are not completely united. When it comes to the candidate for the successor to the base chief, they don't have a strong superpower candidate like Fu Jingchuan that both sides are satisfied with, as in the previous C City base.

Everyone has their own ideas and their own interests.

So City A is just a handful of sand in a water cup. It seems tight, but as long as the cup is broken by accident, it will still be a pile of scattered sand.

That night, Bai Zhi and his team stayed in the villa of Lin Shan's team. The next day, Lin Shan personally took a few people to visit the A City base.

Bai Zhi also saw with her own eyes the base supermarket opened by the official base in the storefront of the original large imported supermarket.

There is also a shopping mall located in the center of the base, which is crowded with people. Almost all of them are sideline stores opened by the superpower team, including restaurants, clothing stores, weapon stores, electrical appliance and furniture stores...

Although the rent is not cheap, the official water and electricity are provided, and there are dedicated people responsible for maintenance and cleaning.

Bai Zhi walked in the brightly lit shopping mall, passing by the base residents holding drinks and skewers, and even had the illusion of returning to the pre-apocalyptic world.

After finding a restaurant that does stir-fry, several people were sitting at the table chatting after ordering the dishes.

"Fu Jingchuan? You are Fu Jingchuan from City C, right?" A rough male voice suddenly rang loudly behind them.

Then a fat, fur-clad man, holding a cigarette in one hand and a bottle of beer in the other, walked to Bai Zhi's table with a sloppy step.

He put the beer bottle on the table in front of Fu Jingchuan without any hesitation, raised his head and took a puff of cigarette. While puffing, he looked up and down at Fu Jingchuan with a provocative and playful look, "Hey, I'm not mistaken. How come our famous and most powerful superpower in the end times, the deputy base commander of the C city base, has time to come to our A city base?"

After asking, he suddenly raised his hand and patted his forehead, smiling. He pretended to be annoyed and laughed, "Oh, look at my memory. What deputy base commander? What should I call you now? Zombie? Or monster?"

The man who was talking to himself turned around and looked at the other base residents in the restaurant who were attracted by his loud noise. "What's wrong with the A City base! How dare they let such a dangerous monster in! This is a zombie! What if he bites people everywhere like a mad dog! Is there no one to take care of it!"

"What? Zombies? They look like humans?"

"Fu Jingchuan! The former deputy base commander of City C! It is said that his identity as a zombie was exposed, so he was driven out!"

"Then why is he in our base? So dangerous!"

"Isn't that the boss of Hope Supermarket, Shana? Why is she here too?"

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The restaurant was immediately full of discussions, and the base residents who were having dinner around them also looked at Bai Zhi and the others nervously and vigilantly.