Chapter Twenty-Six: We Are the Spare Tire (80,000 votes!) )
The zombies hid outside the city and never showed up again, and the survivors who appeared outside the city were all the survivors who came to defect, and these large or small teams were like a trickle, gradually converging into a big river in the Chengdu base, and the population of the base quickly exceeded 30,000.
Among them, there are nearly 2,000 soldiers, these soldiers did not come together, they originally belonged to different units, and later because of the fall of the troops, these soldiers became stragglers, I don't know where they learned that the Chengdu base was built, they came to return to the team, and became General Pi's right-hand men.
The increase in the number of soldiers is an absolute advantage for a base, after all, they are professional fighters, our team is a copycat guerrilla force in the final analysis, and the strong individual ability is always so few dozen or so people, with these soldiers in charge, we are happy to be our ordinary people, because we are some ordinary people, no ambition, no desire for power, just seek peace and stability.
Zhu Hong, Zhang Xiaomei, Thunderstorm, Sunshine and have never joined General Pi's army, in fact, their ability in my eyes far exceeds that of ordinary soldiers, if they are willing to put into General Pi's account, they will definitely be reused, but they have never confessed their identity to General Pi, let alone restore their true colors as soldiers.
I didn't quite understand their thoughts, so I asked them privately, and most of the answers were the same, only saying that I like my current life and our team like a big family, free and easy, and I don't want to go back to the old constraints, but I know that the reason is definitely not so simple.
Under my repeated forced confessions, Thunderstorm spat slightly, which also represented the common thoughts of several other people, they felt that although General Pi was not as ambitious as Colonel Changxingdao, this person was too scheming, very fickle, inscrutable, and belonged to a character who had become a fine person, but he did not feel the virtuous atmosphere in him, and the result of private discussions with several people was that they would rather be a small common man than become a pawn of General Pi, so as not to do something regretful for his use.
What they said was a bit profound, and I didn't understand it for a while, and the thunderstorm just said that I knew it, and not to make it public, after all, a few of them were too heavy in our family, and if they knew that they had such thoughts, others might be affected and become panicked.
Since the base of soldiers in the base has increased, the atmosphere in the entire city of Chengdu has changed subtly, and people are divided into two types: soldiers and ordinary people, soldiers are loaded with guns and ammunition, swaggering through the streets, and can be tribal to govern anyone, while ordinary people must obey unconditionally, if there is trouble, they will be arrested and disciplined in a small black house. All supplies were unified, locked in a large mall that served as a warehouse, guarded by soldiers, and ordinary civilians had to apply in advance for any household necessities they needed, and they had to go through many layers of instructions before they could be decentralized, or they could be rejected.
Various factories were opened, and the survivors were sent to work in large numbers, and there was no one to sit idle except for the old, the weak, the sick, the disabled, and children, including all the friends in our lily garden.
Chengdu First Hospital was officially opened, and all medical workers gathered there to work and volunteered to see patients for the survivors, such as Dr. Kerr, John, Wu Yao, and Angel, all of whom were assigned to work in the hospital, and only virus research elites like Dr. Ali stayed in the institute to continue to study zombie viruses with Director Li Jinzheng and Dr. Anqiao.
At first, we didn't feel anything wrong, General Pi's move was probably to restore the pre-apocalyptic order, which was normal, he seemed to be creating a kind of socialist world distributed according to demand, everyone worked together, took care of food and shelter, gave what was lacking, and did not spend money to see a doctor if he was sick, much better than the welfare before the end of the world, and there was no major problem on the surface.
But slowly we smacked the taste that was not quite right, once we saw with our own eyes that because the common people did not do the things arranged by the soldiers in time, they were smashed with the butt of a gun a few times, and a man was arrested and taken away as soon as he resisted, and was imprisoned in a police station that served as a detention center, yes, the police stations in the city became the offices of the soldiers, which would make them part-time policemen.
Of course, we weren't stupid enough to run to reason with those soldiers, if they were willing to be reasonable, they wouldn't have done this, what we thought was that the current base was mixed, and the quality of these soldiers was uneven, maybe General Pi didn't know what they were doing, so he secretly wrote it down, and then went directly to the city government to find General Pi's reaction.
General Pi has moved from the building of the research institute to the office of the city government, completely separated from the research institute, and there are four soldiers wearing riot jackets and standing guard with live ammunition on the duty posts on both sides of the city government gate, and there are a large number of soldiers in the courtyard, and the atmosphere is solemn and solemn.
After we called the sentry to report it, we were soon summoned into the city hall to meet General Pi.
After listening to our report, General Pi immediately summoned the captain in charge of the area and scolded us in front of us, and strictly ordered the soldiers who beat the common people to be confined as a sign of severe punishment, and if they committed another crime, they would be erased from their military positions.
We are very satisfied with this kind of treatment, I even think that the thunderstorm their view of General Pi is a little biased, maybe General Pi is a wise and virtuous people-oriented good leader, with him leading the Chengdu base will be able to form a stable and united new society!
When I got home, they laughed at my praise of General Pi, and I knew that although sometimes they called me Sister Sheng, they actually knew more than I did, and it was a little annoying to see them pretend to be mysterious, and I would not say what I thought.
"Seriously, you are obviously soldiers, and you don't go to General Pi to work, and it's quite blind to go to work in the factory every day." I persuaded again, "Ordinary people like me can only do what you can, but you are not ordinary people. ”
"I like factories," Zhang Xiaomei replied with a smile, "I never knew it was cool to be a worker, Da Xiong, what do you think?" ”
Luo Han scratched his chin, "I'm almost elongated, not like you who don't want to be motivated." ”
Thunderstorm smiled and said to me, "My old lady, you're not our mother, can you not worry about our work?" Why do we have to work hard for General Pi? Isn't all the work done for the base the same? ”
When I heard it, it was the same thing, "But ......"
"It's not that General Pi doesn't know our identity, Duoduo," Zhu Hong continued, "Since he didn't forcibly recruit us back into the army, he naturally has his ideas, and we can't be wishful thinking, right?" ”
I was stunned, I didn't expect this, "General Pi knows that you are soldiers?" I didn't mention it, who told him? ”
Zhang Xiaomei shook her head, "There is no need to mention this, General Pi can see that we are soldiers, and we can also see that he knows about this, and many things don't need to be said to understand." ”
"That is?"
"He's pretending not to know, and we're happy to pretend to be confused and not work under him." Thunderstorm stretched, "That's for the best." ”
I am more and more puzzled, General Pi always said that he has too few soldiers, and he is not willing to give up this or that, there are a few ready-made soldiers that he does not recruit, is it because?
"Actually, it's easy to explain," Zhang Xiaomei stared out the window and said, "When we first joined the Chengdu base, General Pi had already seen the existence of soldiers in this team, but he didn't ask explicitly, but repeatedly sent down tasks, which can not only reduce the losses of his direct subordinates, but also improve the efficiency of completing the task, which can be described as killing two birds with one stone, why wouldn't he do it?" ”
"Why didn't he say anything after the base stabilized?" My head just slowed down, Zhang Xiaomei continued helplessly, "The base is stable and unstable, we will not be his henchmen, it is more beneficial for him to exist as a spare tire soldier, if we are all under his command, what dangerous tasks will he send?" Wouldn't it be too unfair to take us out of his army as soon as there is a great job? It's better to let us lead our team, self-contained, do some chores when we have nothing to do, and push to the front line when we have something. ”
"Thunderstorm, what do you mean when you say that you are worried about becoming General Pi's soldier and will do something for General Pi that you will regret?" I remembered what Thunderstorm said earlier.
"I don't know!" Thunderstorm shrugged dryly, "Our instincts are just. ”
I sweat! But sometimes the intuition is quite reliable.
"Hey, General Pi doesn't refuse other soldiers...... Isn't that too unfair to a few of you? How many of you are so good, in his eyes can only be a spare tire? "I feel sorry for my friends, how strong they are, they can throw off those ordinary soldiers for several streets!
"You are a typical child of your own family, Duoduo," Zhu Hong couldn't help laughing, "We haven't shown it in front of General Pi, how does he know our specific strength?" In his eyes, we may be just a few ordinary soldiers, and being able to be a spare tire can also be regarded as giving us face. ”
"However, General Pi still attaches great importance to our opinions," I was heartened as soon as I thought of the results of today's disposition, "as soon as he heard my report, he severely dealt with a few guys who beat people, and scolded the person in charge quite harshly. This is enough to prove that he is a good leader who is the master of the people and the people, right? ”
"Would you believe me if I said that he did it just so that we would still be happy to listen to him in the future, and not for the sake of the people?" Zhang Xiaomei suddenly said softly.
I moved my lips and looked at him in amazement, wondering if their prejudice against General Pi was too deep.
"It's okay, Sister Duo," Zhang Xiaomei smiled when she saw my confused expression, "I know that you have always been optimistic and willing to think of people in the best way, we may have a little prejudice against him, let us continue to observe, maybe he is really a good leader." ”