Chapter 77

Flame Yellow Sanctuary.

Felix, who was sitting behind the desk, gently twisted the fine white powder, with a faint anger on his face.

"Actually, I should have thought of it a long time ago...... It's me who gets carried away with anger. ”

The bags on the table contained refined flour, crystal clear rice, and plump and round corn kernels, no matter what, they were all natural foods that were quite rare now, and even Mayor Sun Dingze of Yanhuang Shelter couldn't eat such a luxurious thing every day.

Felix didn't expect that the free army, which was like rats crossing the street, would be able to get so much natural food.

This is still the anomaly he found in the data counted by the Shelter's Foreign Trade Window - in the past few days, a large number of natural foods have appeared in the market, and many civilians have exchanged those precious natural foods for synthetic food, because the amount is too large, which has affected the exchange ratio of natural foods and synthetic foods in the market.

Everyone is very at a loss for this situation – in general, there are now only two sources of natural food.

One is the emergency reserve granary built by the local government before the destruction day, and occasionally some teams will find an unopened granary from a certain city, and after opening it, they can often harvest a very considerable amount of food.

The second is clean land, that is, the land that has not been contaminated by nuclear bombs, after the destruction day, this kind of land is scarce and can not be counted, and occasionally found that a piece of land has already been occupied by a certain force, which is a very valuable resource.

But...... The Free Army could not have such resources.

At that time, Felix's mind suddenly recalled the flour that had been found on the scene when he was chasing the Free Army in the sewers......

His instincts connected two things, and then he came to an incredible conclusion - the Free Army had obtained a large amount of natural food, breaking through the food blockade imposed on them by the shelter!

Although this conclusion is very incredible and even absurd, after repeated investigations, Felix felt that this was the only truth, so he ordered his subordinates to release this information to the city garrison, which led to a good situation in the past few days.

"Boss, a day has passed today, and a total of two free troops who are secretly trading grain have been caught, have they already found out?"

Felix didn't raise his head, and said lightly: "If you find out, you will find out, now their channel for exchanging natural food for synthetic food is also stuck by us, and the channel for buying synthetic food is also blocked by the city garrison, the next step is that we only need to block the important import and export of the entire Free City and track the source and destination of the bulk food, they will not last long." ”

There aren't many entrances and exits where Hope City can actually transport goods, and as long as those passes are guarded, it's clear who is feeding the Free Army.

As he spoke, Felix smiled hideously: "How dare they snatch my assault armor and plasma cannon...... I'm going to slaughter all the damn rats that only hide in the sewers! ”

Assault armor and plasma cannon are very valuable strategic equipment, even if they are as powerful as the wolf of the wasteland, and each assault armor has already set management privileges after activation, and can locate and query the location of the assault armor, but now the strange thing is that every time Felix tries to locate the location of the assault armor and plasma cannon, the results obtained are unsearchable.

This is not normal.

If it weren't for the fact that the special encryptors of military weapons such as assault armor and plasma cannons had never been cracked, Felix wondered if the two possessions of his own had been cracked by the other party and then turned into their stuff.

……

"Boss!"

Lu Jinming, who received Song Ming's notice, hurried over with the others, and then they saw the raw materials stacked in a corner of the warehouse.

"This ......"

Lu Jinming looked sluggish, he obviously didn't go out from the factory all the time, and he didn't see any transport team coming in, how did the boss put so many materials in?

"The materials are already in place, you can start production as soon as possible, and when the products are ready, just put them in the warehouse."

Anyway, there is still a long time before the first desalination plant is completed and opened to water, and Song Ming is not in a hurry now, so he left the factory after a brief explanation.

As soon as he left the factory, he saw a man in a cloak hurrying towards him, and the moment the man saw him, Caroline's exclamation sounded in Song Ming's mind.

Is it Caroline?

[Come here!] 】

Sure enough, it's Caroline! She walked quickly into the small alley in the shadows, and after Song Ming hesitated for a moment, she immediately followed.

After walking a few steps down the alley, Caroline suddenly slipped into a low house on the side of the road.

It's certainly another hideout.

Song Ming followed, and then saw Caroline's bright eyes.

"Your business is settled?"

Caroline asked in a low voice, "If there is any trouble, you can tell me and we will help you together, don't forget, you are now the deputy leader of our free army." ”

Song Ming shook his head: "It's been solved, didn't I say that I already brought a batch of food and put it at the factory?" Why didn't you come and pick it up. ”

"That's not the problem, remember the plan we had in mind to deal with the undernourishment?"

Song Ming nodded: "Of course I remember, exchanging natural food for synthetic food can last for at least ten days, so this time I brought the next batch of food back." ”

"It's useless, there's no shortage of food." Caroline looked at Song Ming and slowly said a very bad news: "Soon after you left, this plan was forced to be terminated. ”

"What's going on?"

"I don't know, it seems that our plan has been discovered! I suspect there are traitors, but I don't believe that anyone will betray their partners, but in the past few days, more than a dozen members have been arrested, and the Wolf of the Wasteland has also been involved, they will not show mercy like the city guards, someone died in the resistance, damn Felix! ”

Caroline was very distressed, her mental state was very bad: "I don't know what happened, it shouldn't be like this, I hurt them!" I'm not a qualified leader! I, I, I really don't know what to do anymore......"

Song Ming was silent, when he first came to Hope City, he had already seen that she was not a qualified leader, but seeing that her reputation in the Free Army was so high, he was embarrassed to mention it.

And now, in the face of the means of shelter, the shortcomings that have been hidden under the surface of the water have finally been exposed - as a leader, she may have enough charisma, but she is not decisive enough, the means of contingency are very scarce, and more importantly, she lacks the decisive factors to stabilize the situation.

Song Ming thought for a moment, and then said, "Let's go back to Midnight Black Cat first, and then tell me the specific situation." ”

Caroline nodded, and the two left the hideout through the back door, and then made their way through the dark and dirty streets, soon returning to Midnight Black Cat.

Midnight Black Cat doesn't have any guests here as usual - if you think about it, who would go out to stay in a hotel in this situation?

Angres also operates a tavern at the same time, but now there is a shortage of resources, and there is no alcohol for him to sell - before Song Ming provided Erguotou, all that was sold here was a synthetic sparkling drink similar to beer, as well as a synthetic wine similar to liquor, the taste was not flattering, the price was not enough, and of course there would not be many customers.

Even now, the two pots provided by Song Ming and the cheap wine purchased from the market have been carefully put away by Angeles, and they have no intention of selling them to the outside world at all, all of them are used for internal digestion.

The atmosphere in the midnight black cat hall was very silent, and when Angres and the others who were sitting there saw Song Ming again, they just nodded, and the gloom on their faces could make Song Ming see their bad mood without speaking-they even opened a small bottle of Erguotou and drank stuffy wine there, which showed how bad the situation was.

"Let's talk about it," Song Ming sat down across from Angres, "I've been gone for so many days, how bad the situation can be." ”

Angres put down the wine glass, looked at the remaining half bottle of wine with a little distress, closed the lid, and then put it away closely, and then said to Song Ming: "The matter of exchanging natural food for synthetic food has been discovered, and now the wolf of the wasteland is vigorously promoting the food trade in the market by the city guards...... There are already many companions who have been caught by the Wolves of the Wasteland when they were exchanging food. ”

After Caroline locked the door, she sat down next to Song Ming: "Now that we have completely terminated the grain exchange, coupled with the food blockade on the side of the shelter, our people have no choice at all. ”

"How did they find out?" Song Ming frowned slightly: "There is not much of a total of ten tons of natural food scattered in everyone's hands, and they are all scattered to find people to trade, so it is theoretically impossible to find out." ”

"I suspect there are traitors inside."

Angles and Caroline came to the same conclusion, which, while very sad, seemed to be the only truth.

"Maybe it's something else...... But there is a high probability that there will be traitors, so before that, let's solve the food problem first. ”

"In the factory's warehouse, I have brought a total of about 50 tons of various foods, and if necessary, I can continue to provide more food in the future, and it will definitely be no problem to survive this food crisis," Song Ming said. ”

"How did you do that!?"

Not only Caroline, but everyone else present was also stunned, now that Hope City is locked down, how did he get the food in!?

"You don't have to worry about the method, all in all, to solve the food crisis, the next step, we have to find a way to find out who is the real culprit who assassinated Sun Dingze, wash away the stain on the free army, and then ......" Song Ming said meaningfully, "is the time for negotiation." ”