Chapter 20: Confrontation
"In fact, both plants and animals are growing so fast now, and there must be food to be found outside." Li Qingshui looked outside and said: "It's just that the food has no expiration date, even if a large amount of food is found, it will not help if it is stored in no special environment." So, if you want to find food, you need to go out every day. β
"It's too dangerous." Liu Chang nodded, "Even if we have the help of the little girl, it is impossible to avoid every danger!" β
"This is also something that can't be helped, maybe vacuum packaging can keep food for a longer time, but it can't stop the reproduction of anaerobic microorganisms, and we don't have the conditions for vacuum packaging!" Li Qingshui rubbed his head.
"Maybe chemicals that suppress microbes will come in handy?" Zhu Lin, who had not spoken, spoke for the first time, but the content of her mouth shocked all the men, "Isn't that formalin that soaked in corpses a strong effect of inhibiting the growth of microorganisms and preventing rot and mildew?" β
"Eating formaldehyde?" The fat man exclaimed, "Are you crazy? That's going to poison people! β
"Actually, you can still eat it when it is diluted to a certain extent." Li Qingshui listened to Zhu Lin's words, and surprisingly did not object: "Although it is not good for the body, the diluted formalin, that is, formaldehyde, can still be tried." At the very least, it can keep food for a few days without spoiling, which is better than any preservative. β
"Let's talk about it." Liu Chang listened to their words and said: "Now that there is no food, I am thinking about how to store it, let's take one step at a time, and see what the army arranges for us first." β
After Liu Chang said this, several people fell into a short silence, everyone, you look at me, I look at you, and then stood quietly in place and waited.
It took about three hours or so for the military to notify all the citizens who had arrivedβand in a world where there was no radio or even electricity, it was a difficult task to notify more than 100,000 people of a message.
After everyone was notified and integrated, the influx of residents was divided into two teams and brought into the military compound.
There is no doubt that the two teams are the two teams that chose different destinations - one is willing to stay in the local area, and the other is willing to follow the team to Zhengzhou.
In this way, Liu Chang and his entourage followed the team that was willing to stay in the local area into the depths of the military compound.
The compound of the military region is very large, and although the troops are stationed separately in regiments, it is possible for the army group with a total of tens of thousands of people to accommodate more than 100,000 people, and all of them follow the footsteps of the people in front of them and walk around honestly, for fear of falling behind.
The soldiers on both sides of the team are all fully armed, and it may be that the military has been cleared of the mutant creatures here in the first place, making it seem safe.
After the group was brought here, it was a long wait, this time until it was dark, and all the outsiders were settled.
Liu Chang and the others were arranged in a soldier's barracks, with bunk beds, similar to a student dormitory, but it looked simpler and cleaner than the student dormitory.
This time, the military arrangement was not different from men and women, and it was based on family and organization, so Zhu Lin, the little girl and the three boys were arranged together. After all, in such an environment, everyone wants to be with their relatives and friends, and as for the difference between men and women, it seems a little insignificant in the face of life and survival.
The military dormitory is actually essentially similar to the student dormitory, which is an eight-person dormitory, and in the military, it is about the number of a class. A total of 12 people were arranged in this eight-person dormitory, in addition to Liu Chang and his party of five, there was a family of three and a family of four.
The family of three was composed of a twenty-year-old woman and two nearly sixty-year-old parents, and this combination looked particularly weak and deceitful.
The other family of four looked much stronger, with two fierce-looking brothers in their twenties, and parents who looked like they were only about 50 years old and still in their prime. The family looked very murderous, and the two brothers were shirtless in vests and shirtless, with a fierce horizontal meat.
As soon as they came, they grabbed the four best beds, unreasonable, which made Liu Chang a little unbearable.
"Hey, I said buddy, there are twelve of us in total, there are only eight beds, according to the reason, there are only two beds for every three people, even if there are four of you, according to the four of you divided into three, it has already been stained, no matter how you should give up another bed!" Liu Chang said and took a step forward, "We will have eight beds, and we will come separately, and no one will want to take advantage!" β
"Oh, I said buddy, you're pretty arrogant!" The two brothers who were making the bed heard Liu Chang's words, put down the things in their hands, and turned their heads to look here.
And Li Qingshui and the fat man saw the conflict here, and they also stood up.
There are three young and middle-aged men with the surname here, and the fathers of the brothers on the other side are also three, and neither of them is a fuel-efficient lamp, so needless to say, Liu Chang is here, since he killed someone, the eyes and temperament of the people with blood on their hands are also different.
And the fat man is usually the most hooligan when he is in the dormitory, and since his mother died, he has added a bit of decisive momentum to his body.
As for Li Qingshui, although he looks weak and weak, he has a capable temperament and has never been afraid of anyone.
So, the two sides seem to be evenly matched, and this is a confrontation that is destined to be a conflict - everyone is just fighting for their own interests, and more importantly, no one wants to be hurt in this battle.
So, after the two sides confronted each other for a while, the mother of the brothers, a woman who looked old and sophisticated, came over and greeted each other with a smile.
"Alas, I said, everyone came to flee, and it was fate to be assigned to a place, why did you get into a hurry when you met, little brother, I look at it like this......" The old woman spoke, glanced at the other family and said: "Look, there are four of us here, just take a step back and give up a bed, five of you over there, and four of you, and the rest of the one will be given to the last family, I think it's quite fair." β
After saying this, the old woman looked at the other side with a smile: "You're right?" β
No one in the family spoke.
"Look, they have no opinion, Xiao Gang, Xiao Yong, Lao Li, pull it down, let's forget it." As she spoke, the old woman pulled her man and her two sons back.
The confrontation ended with a show of force and negotiations. It's not a conflict, so there are no winners. In other words, both sides of the confrontation are victors, and the sacrifice is naturally the interests of the weaker group in the distance.
Where there are people, there is always the law of the jungle.
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