Chapter 207 End of July

Time flies by.

It has been a week since I came back from Jiefangcheng. It is the end of July. Tomorrow is August.

The sun is shining brightly, and the water in the mountain pond is getting less and less. Some time ago, in order to prevent the sun from evaporating the water vapor, a layer of black sunshade balls was laid on it.

This black sunshade ball can effectively alleviate the evaporation of the sun and save a lot of water.

Otherwise, most of the water will be wasted just by relying on direct sunlight.

In this way, the decline rate of the water source in the mountain pond has been greatly alleviated.

This black sunshade ball is not only used in the mountain pond, but also in the rice field, and the effect is pretty good.

The rice has entered the ear stage.

In the base, there are old farmers like my grandfather who have been farming for a lifetime. They are real farming experts.

The old man knows what to do at what stage.

At the base, except for the hot weather, everything else is normal.

There is no mess. Because of sufficient electricity, many people turn on the lights to watch movies and TV series at night.

The older generation also likes to watch some dramas and the like. Li Yu downloaded a lot of them at the beginning, including all kinds of types.

It can be regarded as a way for everyone to relax.

But in Jiefang City, it is not so easy.

Before accepting those refugees, Jiefang City faced various problems. Food was scarce and water was also a big problem. Even though there was a river not far away, the sun was too strong and it was about to dry up.

As for tap water, it was stopped two weeks after the outbreak of the apocalypse.

Now the water they drink is basically pumped back from the river.

I also thought about digging some wells, but in the high ground of Jiefang City, it is necessary to dig very deep to get water, so after digging a well, there is still no water source below 10 meters.

It was temporarily shelved for a while.

But now that water sources are becoming more and more problematic, the well digging has been started again.

There are no relevant instruments and equipment, so it can only be completely dependent on manual well digging.

Finally, after 7 days of digging, the depth of the well has reached 30 meters, and finally there is water.

The water problem has been temporarily alleviated, but there is still a huge problem in front of us, that is, food.

Jiefang City used to rely mainly on collecting supplies in the city and planting some crops in Jiefang City, but these crops have not yet reached maturity.

Some of the food that was hoarded in the past is now gradually decreasing.

Originally, they actually hoarded a lot of food. As the largest force in the city, they had a good life in the first half of the year without the oppression of the Salvation Army.

But now more and more people have joined, and Director Zhang is thinking of helping people. As long as you join, you will be lent 2 days of food. After 2 days, you need to follow the team to find food and then hand in part of it.

After more than half a year, various supplies are becoming less and less, and in the case of hot weather, many foods have become smelly and even inedible.

The food crisis is like a mountain, oppressing them and making them breathless.

These newly joined refugees also went out to find supplies, but what often happens is that they basically don’t hand in the collected supplies. They know very well how terrible it is to be hungry.

So various tricks appeared to hide the supplies.

In fact, the mechanism formulated by Jiefangcheng is like this: some people will go out to find supplies in a phased rotation, and they will hand in a part of it and keep the rest for themselves.

Some people need to be on duty and guard the base; some people need to do some things, such as digging wells, planting, etc.

These people are similar to getting a salary, and the collective allocates them some basic supplies for their lives.

Originally, these people who went out would also hide most of the supplies and give the collective very little things, but some team leaders would directly oppress the people below and hand in most of the supplies.

There are many teams, and there are many contradictions, but they have never erupted.

However, after these refugees joined, some people were unwilling to hand in most of the supplies, so some direct conflicts occurred.

This direct conflict, accompanied by less and less food that can be found, the conflict is getting bigger and bigger.

Suddenly one day, they searched outside for a day, but did not find any supplies, and the conflict broke out more intensely.

Everyone hid their food, and some team leaders used their power to allocate more supplies, so they could live normally.

But for some of the lowest-level personnel, once they have no continuous food, they will be out of food immediately.

In the face of hunger, this contradiction began to grow.

Internal fights began over food, and there were even bloodshed.

In the face of hunger, any system rules that were made of paper were torn off.

Chaos began.

Director Zhang and others also realized this problem, but he had no way to deal with it. The most fundamental problem now is food!

Without food, you can't survive.

Just now, another fight broke out. Many refugees went to rob the food of the original residents of Jiefang City, and the two gangs fought fiercely.

The last fight was stopped when Captain Lu and others intervened, fired a shot into the air, and then shocked everyone present.

However, after this struggle, people's minds have completely changed.

There are conflicts between the refugees and the local residents, between those who joined first and those who joined later, and between the team leaders and other managers and the people at the bottom.

In addition, the sun is shining brightly, and the zombies outside have not appeared during the day recently, so without external conflicts, the internal conflicts will be infinitely magnified.

"Old Zhang, the situation is very serious now." Captain Lu found Director Zhang and said.

Director Zhang sighed, and still said: "How come it's good, it has become like this. Also, is our part of the supplies okay?"

Captain Lu glanced at Director Zhang, sighed, and finally said: "Although there is no problem, there are not many."

"Why is this happening?" Director Zhang asked in surprise.

Captain Lu looked at Director Zhang in silence: "The supplies we have collected in recent times are pitifully few, and we are just eating up all the supplies."

The two were silent for a while, and Director Zhang suddenly said: "In fact, we still have supplies, but I think we can discuss it with them. Now everyone is arguing because of food. Although Jiefang City has always advocated fairness and justice, if it weren't for people like us, they wouldn't have such an environment."

Director Zhang continued: "Find those young captains and ask them to contribute some appropriately. In fact, I know that they have been greedy, but considering that they are all old people, I didn't pursue them. Now there is no way, we can't watch the polarization continue like this."