Chapter 1329 The Final Decision
Tap, tap, tap——
Combat boots stepped on the muddy water, splashing a circle of dirty water.
Lao Yi led several combat team members to the door of the Water Dragon Club.
Standing at the door was a tall man with a beard, wearing a V-neck short-sleeved shirt, with his chest open and his chest hair exposed.
Seeing Lao Yi and his men coming over, the leading man had a solemn expression on his face.
"Leaders, I wonder why you come to our Water Dragon Club."
He bowed slightly and asked Lao Yi who was walking over in a humble and unyielding manner.
"Who are you?" Lao Yi glanced at him, walked under the eaves, and asked back.
"I am Zhou Feilong, the president of the Water Dragon Club. I wonder what your name is?"
"My last name is Yi. Where does your wine come from?"
As Lao Yi said this, he pushed the door open and walked in.
As soon as he entered, he saw several tables made of wood as a bar.
There were a dozen people sitting sparsely inside, drinking wine. The wine in their glasses was transparent and colorless.
Behind the bar, there were several white plastic barrels filled with liquids of unknown origin.
Above the plastic barrels, there were more than 20 bottles of white wine and two bottles of foreign wine.
The writing on the bottles was no longer clear, but from the bottles, it could be seen that there was a bottle of Niulanshan.
"Leader Yi, we got all this wine when we were collecting supplies outside before," Zhou Feilong followed behind Old Yi and explained hurriedly.
On the wooden table, a man just picked up the plastic barrel and poured one-fifth of the transparent liquid into the measuring cup.
He also scooped a spoonful of water from the back with a spoon and shook it.
Old Yi pointed to the plastic barrels and asked, "What's in the plastic barrels?"
"That"
"95% industrial alcohol, with a little water added. There's no other way now."
Industrial alcohol?
Generally speaking, industrial alcohol usually contains methanol and other impurities, which are harmful to the human body and cannot be used for human disinfection or drinking.
Moreover, industrial alcohol is widely used in printing, chemical synthesis and other industries as a cleaning agent, solvent and other purposes.
This stuff is not good for the body, and it may even cause formaldehyde poisoning.
The smell is particularly strong, and the taste is not so good, but the degree is high, and you can get drunk after drinking it.
For the survivors who want to temporarily forget their troubles in the end of the world, whether it tastes good or not, whether it will be poisoned or not is not such a critical consideration.
The wine here is also very expensive, and only grain is accepted for exchange.
And the Niulanshan and Red Star Erguotou wines placed above are not affordable for many survivors, but are placed here as a facade.
Plop!
A man sitting there drinking fainted on the ground.
I don’t know if he was poisoned or drunk.
Zhou Feilong saw this scene and quickly winked at his two subordinates, asking them to carry him to the next room.
“Leader, sometimes some people get drunk”
Lao Yi was not in the mood to listen to his explanation. After a rough look, he turned around and walked out the door.
Back in the SUV, he was in a very heavy and complicated mood.
"Drive, back to Oil City."
The vehicle started and drove towards Oil City.
Huizi in Tingfeng Tower came out at this time and ran to the bar opposite.
"Boss Long, do you think Oil City will have any objections to us opening these?"
Zhou Feilong frowned and said:
"We didn't violate the regulations, so it shouldn't be."
Oil City.
After returning from the trading market, Lao Yi immediately ran to the conference room.
"Where is the minister?" After scanning the conference room and not seeing his uncle, Lao Yi asked the operator in the conference room.
"The minister went to the oil well mining site. Captain Yi, you should be able to find him there."
"Okay."
He had to report to the minister in person about the situation he had just observed in the trading market.
Oil City is not large, and it is only two hundred meters from the conference room to the oil well mining site.
Lao Yi ran on foot and came to the oil well mining site.
The entire oil well mining site was enclosed by a wall, with only one entrance.
In the heavy rain, a guard was sitting in the sentry box.
"Is the Minister in there?"
"Yes, on the platform in the middle." The guard stood up immediately after seeing Lao Yi, pointing inside and said.
Going around the railing at the entrance, Lao Yi walked straight to the oil well platform inside.
From a distance, I saw Uncle San talking to Ling Feng.
Approaching.
"Very good, keep up this production strength."
"Yes, Minister, don't worry, we are all professionals."
Uncle San saw Lao Yi standing by and waiting, so he said to Ling Feng: "Okay, then you go and get busy first."
Ling Feng also saw that Lao Yi seemed to have something to do with the Minister, so he left tactfully.
"What's the matter?" Uncle San turned his head and looked at Lao Yi, with some confusion in his eyes.
He had just heard the alarm from the trading market.
"Minister, the situation in the trading market is a bit serious."
Old Yi approached and continued:
"There are dead people. I didn't count them carefully, but there must be a lot of dead people."
After hearing this, Uncle San waved his hand and walked towards the oil warehouse.
"Don't get wet in the rain here, let's go inside and talk."
Old Yi stopped talking and followed Uncle San inside.
"What happened? Another fight?" Uncle San asked.
While taking out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket, he threw one to Lao Yi and lit it for himself.
Lao Yi took it and held it like this.
"I just went to the residences of more than a dozen survivors in the trading market and found that many survivors inside had no food, and some even starved to death."
"In a building in the South District, most of the survivors inside are too hungry to move."
"Moreover, there is a red light district in the trading market, which is controlled by a force from Tingfeng Tower. They have not violated the regulations, but more and more survivors have no way out, so we do this."
"The gap between the rich and the poor is huge. Some medium and large forces have hoarded food and various supplies, and even opened bars. Being able to afford alcohol shows that some forces still have a lot of supplies."
Lao Yi told his third uncle truthfully what he had just seen.
The third uncle did not interrupt him throughout the whole process, but just listened quietly.
The cigarette in his hand was also finished.
The third uncle wanted to take another one, but hesitated for a moment and decided not to do so.
"So after your research just now, what do you think?"
Lao Yi sighed and said:
"I'm wondering if we can help them, but we can't give them food directly."
"I wonder if we can strike at those forces with abundant supplies to balance things out."
The third uncle shook his head.
"no."
After coughing, the third uncle continued:
"They didn't violate the regulations, but if we just plundered their supplies, wouldn't that be a slap in the face? If we don't abide by the regulations ourselves, we'll lose credibility."
"this matter."
The third uncle frowned deeply and involuntarily took out another cigarette and lit it.
This incident reminded him of a plan that Li Yu had discussed with him before.
Before the natural disaster came, Li Yu had predicted it.
Too many people in the trading bazaar and oil city will inevitably attract a terrifying number of zombies.
It is foreseeable that many survivors do not store enough food, so they can go to the trading market to resist zombies in exchange for a certain amount of food.
This can not only protect the safety of your own people, but also give full play to the power of these survivors.
now.
The tide of zombies has not decreased at all, and the oil array consumes huge amounts of oil.
Even the current daily production of oil cannot withstand consumption.
Supply is less than demand.
Although they have been hoarding oil for a long time, they can only hold on for less than a month at most.
More importantly, oil is a scarce and non-renewable resource. The more it is used, the fewer reserves there are in the oil fields.
There are so many cars in Oil City and the headquarters base that need oil. What if they run out?
They didn't just find this one oil well, they also found two other wells, but the damage was extremely serious.
Continuous natural disasters caused the entire pipelines of these two oil wells to collapse.
Restoration takes a lot of time and is even more difficult than reconstruction. It requires countless resources and energy and is not worth it.
Petroleum is consumed in large quantities every moment, and it burns to the point of distress.
Without oil, all the tanks, helicopters, and armored vehicles they have now will become a pile of scrap metal.
Think of this.
The third uncle regained his divergent thinking and handed the diesel lighter to Lao Yi.
"Okay, I understand. Now you go and notify Ju Tianrui, Lao Xie, and Dongtai to come to the conference room for a meeting. I first need to find out how much food we still have."
Lao Yi lit up the cigarette he had been holding for more than ten minutes, took a deep breath, then nodded and said, "Okay."
Ten minutes later.
The conference room was full of people.
The third uncle looked at everyone and motioned for Chang Sheng at the door to close the door.
Then he looked at Lao Yi: "Lao Yi, tell everyone what you saw in the trading market just now."
Lao Yi put down his drinking glass, touched his nose and stood up.
"The alarm bell rang in the trading market just now. I took people there and found out"
Lao Yi spent a few minutes and told everyone the general situation.
After Lao Yi finished speaking, the third uncle knocked on the table and looked at Dongtai:
"Dongtai, please report on the food supplies in the Oil City warehouse."
The grain warehouse and other supplies in Oil City have always been mainly managed by Dongtai, and he knows this best.
Dongtai stood up, put down his notebook and said:
"In the warehouse, there are 8 tons of rice and 3 tons of corn,"
"Coupled with the individual combat rations from Wu City, it is enough for all of us in Oil City to last for 6 to 8 months."
There are now two to three thousand people gathered in Oil City.
There are not only Ju Tianrui and others who have been stationed here, but also additional support personnel sent from the headquarters, Sanshu, Lao Xie and others who have retreated from the north.
After listening to this, the third uncle said to everyone:
"Everyone heard what Lao Yi said just now."
"Many survivors in the trading market are now facing the crisis of starvation. Although oil extraction has resumed, we also have certain reserves of oil."
"However, the current oil consumption is too great. According to the current consumption of the oil array, we will not be able to last even one month."
“So, I think we can follow the plan we made before: recruiting survivors to go up the wall to stop zombies in exchange for a certain share of food.
In this way, we can not only save oil, increase the time of resisting zombies, but also provide some help to the survivors in the trading bazaar, so as not to let them starve to death. "
"If you have any ideas, tell them now!"
Everyone looked at me and I looked at you, but no one spoke for a while.
Seeing that everyone was silent, Ju Tianrui was the first to stand up and support Third Uncle's decision:
"I agree with the minister's suggestion, but what is the approximate ration of food to be given to those survivors?"
The third uncle thought for a while, looked at Ju Tianrui and said:
"When we were building the construction site, didn't we also recruit some survivors to build the wall? Just give them according to that quota."
There is actually very little food that survivors can get, but even so, many survivors still join.
According to this quota, they don't need to spend much food to recruit these low-level survivors to fight for them.
It also saves valuable oil.
In short, now it is about exchanging food for oil and at the same time helping those survivors at the bottom, killing two birds with one stone.
When Ju Tianrui heard what his third uncle said, he nodded and sat down.
Lao Xie raised his hand beside him.
"explain."
Lao Xie said:
"Um. I just heard that there is a bar in the trading market?"
"Let me think about it, we have provided them with a business place after all, so we have to pay some venue fees anyway."
"I suggest they hand over a portion of their profits to us."
The words just fell.
Lao Yi, who was sitting next to Lao Xie, also echoed:
"I think this proposal is a good one"
"I agree too."
The third uncle heard that most of the people present agreed, so he said:
"Okay, then it's settled."
"Two things."
"1. Xiao Jun, take people to the trading market to recruit survivors. Those who are willing to go up the wall should be registered. Give them some food first, otherwise they will not have the strength to fight."
"In addition, Xie Changshan quickly used the previous building materials to make spear points made of steel pipes several meters long and round steel, and then distributed them to the survivors who climbed up the wall as their weapons.
As for the zombies that cannot be killed by stabbing them, they are left to the guards to deal with; in addition, the guards are also asked to watch from behind to prevent the zombies from rushing towards them. "
"The second thing."
"Lao Yi, take some people to find those powerful people in the business and ask them to hand over a certain percentage of their profits as food as venue fees."
"yes."
"yes."
"yes."
Everyone whose name was called stood up one after another.
"By the way, Dongtai, you will also dispatch some food from the granary. When the time comes, it will be transported to the trading market and distributed to those survivors who are willing to go up the wall to resist the zombies."
"No problem." Dongtai nodded quickly.
"Um."
The third uncle stood up and said, "Let's do it quickly. The meeting is over!"
(Ask for monthly ticket)
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