Rebirth: Leading Families to Survive in the Apocalypse

Chapter 468: Chapter 468: Seeing Deputy Zhang Again

Chapter 468: Chapter 468: Seeing Deputy Zhang Again

Tensions were high, and resentment towards management was already rife within the base; people endured in silence mainly due to their own disunity and the fact that the other side had weapons and an army.

Now that an external grain supplier had arrived, and the base officials still behaved this way, many people couldn’t hold back and burst into anger on the spot, even calling for those surnamed Yuan and Zhang to step down and stop “occupying the toilet without shitting.”

“If you fucking mention Uncle Zhang again,”

Zhang Wu raised a pistol toward the crowd and cursed.

“What about him? That’s just the way it is, right, everyone?”

A tall, thin man shouted out.

“That’s right, Zhang should step down!”

“Yuan should step down!”

“Get out of D City Base!”

“We want a new Base Leader!”

Bang!

A gunshot suddenly rang out—Zhang Wu had actually fired at the thin man!

But his bullet missed the man.

To their horror, an ice wall suddenly materialized in front of the thin man, and they all breathed a sigh of relief, thankful he was unharmed.

But who had saved him?

Lin Xiuyuan, with a bamboo pick in his mouth, was squatting on a wall behind Zhang Wu, grinning as he said, “Hey, you can’t just kill someone in the street, right? Even if there’s no law now, doesn’t this base have any rules or regulations?”

“Who are you? Mind your own damn business!”

Zhang Wu looked up and cursed.

“I’m here to sell supplies. I saw someone blocking our business at the entrance, so can’t I do something about it?”

Lin Xiuyuan’s words left Zhang Wu dumbfounded—was he the one selling supplies?

“Zhang Wu, what the hell are you doing here?! Get back to your post!”

A grim-looking man walked over from behind the crowd and scolded him—Lin Xiuyuan barely suppressed a sigh at the coincidence; wasn’t this Deputy Zhang, who had previously intercepted them with Xing Taining?

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“Uncle, you’re here. I just heard someone speaking ill of you, and I just couldn’t control my anger,”

Zhang Wu tried to please with an explanation.

“I told you to get back. Do I need to say it a third time?”

Zhang Anguo said without looking back.

“Okay, okay, I’ll go guard the main gate right now,”

Zhang Wu even gave a salute that was far from standard, his small stature making the gesture comically similar to that of a slapstick actor.

Only then did Zhang Anguo approach Lin Xiuyuan, who remained squatting on the wall, and said, “Take me to your team leader.”

Knowing that Zhang Anguo would not recognize him, and besides, this face was just a mask, Lin Xiuyuan couldn’t help but tease a bit, “Yo, who might you be? We’ve just arrived at this esteemed place. Although we don’t recognize you yet, don’t you think there are basic manners for queuing? Don’t you see so many customers are waiting in line?”

“Don’t play dumb with me. This is our base’s Deputy Zhang!”

A man behind Zhang Anguo shouted—the audacity of this bumpkin to embarrass their Deputy Zhang in front of so many people.

“Oh? So you’re the famous Zhang Anguo who’s renowned for arranging unnecessary jobs for relatives at the base, huh? Tsk, I must say, your relative doesn’t seem all that impressive.”

Lin Xiuyuan’s words induced a wave of laughter from the crowd, and some felt that what he said was particularly satisfying. Although there were no curse words, every word seemed to hit where it hurt.

Zhang Anguo clenched his fists. If it weren’t for his purposeful visit today, he truly would have loved to butcher this man!

“I’m looking for your team leader because there’s a big deal I want to discuss,”

Zhang Anguo said, trying to keep his voice steady.

“Didn’t I already tell you? If you want to see our team leader, you can, but get in line,”

Lin Xiuyuan rolled his eyes, jumped off the wall, and headed towards their yard. He suddenly didn’t feel like wasting words with these people anymore—they were busy.

After informing his family of the situation outside, Lu Hao looked towards the courtyard door and said, “They probably want to buy all the supplies we have here.”

And indeed, they were about to arrive.

As expected, Zhang Anguo and his group directly ignored the long line of people and pushed past a few survivors at the door to enter.

“I am the second-in-command of this base, may I have a word with you?”

Zhang Anguo looked at Lu Hao, who seemed most likely to be the team leader, and said.

“Speak here,”

Lu Hao replied.

Zhang Anguo glanced at the courtyard filled with people, some drinking porridge, others counting Crystal Cores, but it seemed there was hatred mixed in their eyes as they looked at them.

However, as someone in a higher position, it was normal to be questioned by these ordinary people below.

Thinking this, Zhang Anguo ignored the gazes of those around him and directly said to Lu Hao, “How much supplies do you have? We from the officials would like to purchase them all at once.”

“How can you guys do this!”

“All the supplies are hoarded by you bastards, can we even survive!”

“Yeah, this is cutting off our lifeline!”

A wave of powerless despair spread among the crowd, even Li Xiuying, who was distributing porridge on the side, could feel it.

“We’re not selling,”

Lu Hao directly refused.

All eyes were now on Lu Hao, who had just announced they wouldn’t sell.

Could he really afford not to sell?

There were only eight of them.

“You are selling for 30 Crystal Cores a kilo; the base is willing to pay 40 Crystal Cores to buy it. What do you think?”

Zhang Anguo took a deep breath and still made concessions.

It wasn’t that he worried about the strength of these eight people. In fact, he didn’t consider them significant at all. It was clear that among them were Space Element Ability Users, and he hoped that the Space Element Ability User would willingly hand over the supplies; otherwise, he didn’t mind resorting to force to resolve this in the end.

After all, they were already inside their base.

“It doesn’t matter, we only sell to these customers,”

Lu Hao remained unwavering in his refusal.

It wasn’t because they didn’t want to profit, but rather they aimed to have long-term cooperation with the large group of zombie-killing survivors, not with this seemingly crumbling ruling class.

Moreover, they simply didn’t like dealing with these kinds of people.

“This base was created by Colonel Yuan. Are you doing business here without considering giving him some face?”

Zhang Anguo was truly angry, encountering such disrespectful people for the first time.

“We don’t know Colonel Yuan, but… we still won’t sell,”

No sooner had Lu Hao finished speaking than thunderous applause and cheers erupted from both inside and outside the courtyard.

What was that man’s name?

Impressive indeed!

“Fine, you’re very good,”

Zhang Anguo pointed at Lu Hao, then turned and walked out without looking back.

The queue to buy supplies continued to move, and each person who reached the front and bought something did not forget to say thanks to the group.

“Thank you, thank you all so much,”

Many said, their eyes brimming with tears.

“Young man, I can see you are honest folk, but be careful these days. Those people, they hold grudges!”

An old man pulled Lu Hao to one side and whispered in his ear.