Chapter 629: Solving the Water Problem
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Ignoring what the survivor was thinking, Chen Yuan shouted directly behind him: "Shen Tuo, Lin Weihuang!" ”
"In!" The two scouts who were in charge of reconnoitring the area immediately came out of the ranks.
"Fruit...... Sure enough, it's you! The survivors who were trampled under Chen Yuan's feet shouted in surprise.
He knew it was completely bad this time, and they were completely kicked on a huge steel plate. The team in front of them is not only much better in weapons and equipment than them, but also extremely powerful in terms of combat effectiveness. The soldiers all have the strength of the upper echelons of their settlements, and the strength of the officer who is stepping on him is even more heavenly, just the movements that he can't see clearly and the move that just released the ice spike have made him completely lose the idea of resisting.
At this time, Chen Yuan continued to say viciously to the survivors who were trampled under his feet: "Okay! Plus yesterday, you are already the second time that you have attacked us! What kind of death do you want to choose? ”
"No, no, no!" The survivor who was trampled underneath tried to struggle, but his feet pressed against him like iron pincers, making it impossible for him to move at all. He screamed in fright: "This is a misunderstanding! This is a misunderstanding! This time we didn't attack your people! ”
"Misunderstanding, you brought so many guns to call it a misunderstanding?"
"We are self-defense! We're here to make a deal with you! ”
"Deal!" Chen Yuan asked coldly: "1 ton of water for 100 catties of grain, do you call this a transaction?" ”
The survivor hurriedly explained: "No, no, no, it's 1 ton of water for 10 catties of grain, which is our lowest price." It's the same with other large settlements. I said casually before, doing business is a bargain on the spot! ”
At this point, the leading survivor did not lie, and he did not dare to lie.
Ever since they occupied this water, there have been survivors of all sizes in the vicinity who want to come here to get water. At the beginning, there were similar conflicts, and many people even died because of them.
However, the strength of their Kanerqi settlement is very strong, and even in the face of a settlement with a population of four or five thousand people, it will not fall behind. In particular, the guns and ammunition are the most powerful among the survivors in this area, coupled with the advantage of geographical advantages, so they have never lost and have always been firmly here.
So then the parties reached an agreement before. Or use food, or use coal, iron, firewood, gasoline and other resources to exchange water with them. The price depends on the strength of the settlement, the highest is generally 1 ton of water for 50 catties of grain, and the lowest is 1 ton of water for 10 catties of grain.
But at this time, Chen Yuan said violently: "Do you think you are still qualified to negotiate a deal with us now?" ”
The survivors on the ground were almost scared out of on the spot, crying and saying, "Yes, yes, yes! You can take as much water as you like! Don't take anything, don't collect anything! ”
However, at this time, there still seems to be some survivors who do not give up.
He mingled in the crowd and shouted, "No way! You can't just take our water away! This is our food source! ”
Intended to provoke the survivors to revolt.
However, at this time, Jiang Wenli was also furious. She shook her hands, and two fireballs appeared in her hands! walked to Chen Yuan's side.
She asked contemptuously, "Who said that just now?" What a hero is hiding in the crowd! Isn't this reservoir occupied by you after you defeated the other survivors? In that case, let's also have a fight, and whoever can beat me, we will buy it with grain! ”
The survivors were shocked again. Many people took a sharp breath of cold air, what kind of people are these! It's an ice spike and a fireball! It's not something that humans can do at all!
At the same time, Chen Yuan also glanced up at the survivors around him, and these people immediately took a few steps back. Among the survivors, there was no sound again.
It wasn't until a few seconds later that another voice finally sounded again: "You can indeed use the water here as you please." ”
And as the sound sounded, the crowd of survivors automatically parted a path. An elderly man slowly walked out from behind the crowd.
He came to Chen Yuan and them, made a Uyghur salute to Chen Yuan, and then said in proficient Chinese: "My name is Ahman? Maimaiti is one of the founders of the Kanerqi settlement. I'm sorry, but we did go too far. But please understand that we do have a very limited source of food. Our cattle and sheep are still breeding and cannot be slaughtered, and there are not enough fish caught from the lake to feed so many people. So that's all we have to do. ”
Pretend to be pitiful, Bo sympathize!
Jiang Wenli didn't eat this, she snorted coldly and scolded: "Hmph, don't put garlic there!" There are 3,000 of you, and the weapons and equipment are relatively good nearby, so why don't you go and collect food yourself! But they have to use the water source that others here rely on for their survival as a bargaining chip! Don't you know that ordinary people can die of thirst if they don't drink water for three days! How many people have died of hunger and thirst because of your control over the water supply? Do you want to live, do you have to lie on someone else's body and drink their blood? ”
"No, no!" In response to Jiang Wenli's accusation, Maimaiti explained: "We don't really completely deny others to fetch water. For those survivors who really can't exchange food or goods, we can either turn a blind eye and let them in to steal water, or we will absorb them into our settlements. Only for those relatively wealthy survivor forces, we will force them to exchange things for things. ”
"Then why don't you go and collect your own food! Even relatively wealthy settlements are unlikely to allow you to exploit them like this without limits! For the sake of water and food for you, there will be people who will starve! And you, with so many guns and people, are unwilling to collect food yourself, what is the difference between you and moths! ”
Maimaiti smiled helplessly and replied, "Actually, we are helpless!" This reservoir is too big, and if we want to keep the water source, we must send most of our people out to inspect all parts of the reservoir, and then detain the old people and children in the settlement, and there is no extra manpower to go out and search for food. ”
"You ......" Maimaiti's answer obviously couldn't satisfy Jiang Wenli, what a ridiculous excuse to collect food in order to keep the water source of exploiting others.
But Chen Yuan motioned for her to stop talking. In what way others will survive in the last days, Chen Yuan doesn't care. All he wanted was to secure the water source for the saltpeter site. You must know that oil extraction also requires a lot of water. The issue of water had to be resolved before he left.
So he said, "So now our people are free to use the water here?" ”