"Then how do you 400,000 people eat? I'm afraid that the official won't raise idlers anymore, right? Jiang Penglong continued to ask, Guo Qian said helplessly: "Now there is no porridge a day, if you want to eat, you have to solve it yourself, the brave people can go out of the city to find useful materials and exchange food with the official after they come back, most of the women are selling their bodies, and some people have something to do with the official, the official will give some work, such as cultivating fields, planting some potatoes, sweet potatoes and other crops with relatively high yield and easy to grow, as well as the work you see now such as building city walls and digging moats, you can get official food stamps." ”

"That's not enough, is it? How much land can be cultivated in such a small area within the city walls? How many people can be fed by growing potatoes and sweet potatoes? It shouldn't be able to feed 400,000 people, right? Are there any other means of survival? Jiang Penglong roughly calculated and continued to ask.

Guo Qian nodded: "These measures will raise a maximum of 100,000 people, and the rest of the people will figure out their own way, otherwise how can there be rumors of cannibalism?" ”

Jiang Penglong and the others heard Guo Qian mention that there were people eating human flesh in the outer city again, he knew the bottom line of Meng Soul, human flesh is definitely taboo, as long as he has not eaten human flesh, everything he has committed can be solved through negotiation, but once it is touched by human flesh, he will definitely be killed, and the leader will be directly fed to the zombies.

Sent Guo Qian, Meng Soul and others out of the station painted to them, planning to go around, the city wall area of XA City is not small, the previous data shows that there are 13 square kilometers here, there are several buildings in the station assigned to them, it is the former party school and other teaching buildings and dormitory buildings, there is a not too big building not far from the building, it is the former canteen. There are also many small buildings and bungalows around the canteen, behind the bungalows is the wall that separates the inner city and the outer city, the outside of the wall is full of colorful tents with various patches, simple houses made of asbestos tiles and some pieces of wood, houses made of scrapped cars with seats removed, and all kinds of strange-shaped buildings, which make the whole outer city gathering place look extremely chaotic.

From time to time, women walked around in those chaotic buildings, and a man took out a small rice bag, and the two of them were doing things that could only be done in broad daylight, and they didn't care if others could see it, and the chaos here made Meng Soul frown.

The chaotic gathering place gave Meng Soul no idea of continuing to turn: "Let's rest here today first, and then think about other things when we are ready." ”

Meng Soul looked at the slum not far away and gave the order to rest, the ground in the party school was all cement, some of it had been blown up in the previous battle, weeds had grown out of the cracks, part of the wall had collapsed, all kinds of garbage were scattered everywhere under the breeze, and some of the black blood that had dried up made this place look even more desolate and messy.

"Chief, why don't we go out and get acquainted with the environment?" Jiang Penglong asked.

Meng Soul first ordered: "Check all the buildings, don't go directly into the building first, mainly the basement inspection, beware of the people here installing explosives on those buildings, once we all go in, put us directly to the pot." Then Meng Soul groaned and said to Jiang Penglong, "You also saw it on the way in just now, right?" The supplies here have been scarce to the limit, those poor people are like walking corpses, their eyes have no hope at all, they are all despair to the end, not so much that those people are alive, but rather to survive, compared to the last time I came, now there is nothing, the market, the shops, the restaurant, the hotel, nothing, you see those women are constantly showing themselves in the absence of anyone at all, hoping to exchange for a little food. ”

"Except for the people who work on the city wall can get some food, the rest of the poor people are simply waiting for death, you can see for yourself, the slum on the other side of the wall, since just now there will be three or four corpses carried out in ten minutes, no matter how you look at it, those people are starving to death, if we don't hurry up and take defensive measures, once someone in the base spreads the situation that we have a lot of food here, if it is directly impacted by so many people, how many things can you be sure you can protect?"

Jiang Penglong nodded thoughtfully, he didn't expect these things just now, but as soon as Meng Soul said this, Jiang Penglong suddenly found that this was indeed a very serious problem, once they were not prepared for defense at all, they would be impacted by a large number of people, not only food, but also estimated weapons and ammunition, and even personnel.

Turning his head, Jiang Penglong ordered: "First set up camp with tents a little farther away from the building, and then a few people will repair the wall, and the rest of the people will immediately build fortifications, set up all the machine guns, and then come a team with me and Instructor Ling to check the situation of several buildings." ”

The order was given, and everyone began to get busy, Jiang Penglong, Instructor Ling and others began to inspect several buildings, Meng Soul led the team to start building fortifications, the women began to prepare food except for Lin Chen, and Kang Hui took a few people to drive out to find bricks and cement.

Everyone began to get busy, and Li Gu also took a few people to continue repairing the JP113 anti-aircraft gun, which was only assembled in front, and there were still some small problems that needed to be solved.

Not long after, Kang Hui drove back, found Meng Soul, who was busy, whispered a few words in his ear, Meng Soul threw away the sandbag in his hand and asked, "Really?" Find Jiang Penglong, let's go to the tent and say. ”

Only the three of Meng Soul sat at the table in the tent, Meng Soul motioned for Kang Hui to speak, Kang Hui nodded: "We went out to search for bricks and cement and other materials just now, and after walking a short distance, many people stopped our truck and wanted to join us, there are quite a few of them, and most of them are young and middle-aged laborers, but I don't dare to make a decision and come back to report." ”

Meng Soul nodded: "How many people want to join?" Is there any certainty about where these people came from? Is it a spy sent by another force? ”

Kang Hui shook his head: "Those people don't look like spies, they can't pretend to be malnourished, the people of those forces can basically be fed, these people look like they have been starving for a long time, seeing that our convoy was personally led into the inner city by Wang Sen, and they saw that there were many women in our team, and even those women had no trace of hunger, they felt that they should also have the opportunity to join our team and eat together, Having food means having hope to live. ”