Volume 4: National Craftsmanship Chapter 39 Watch out or I’ll tell you! Don’t laugh!
"Liu Jin, come and feel it," Yang Ao shouted.
In Shen Jin's team, a seemingly ordinary member stood up. He was the person with special abilities who had been guarding the city gate before. Liu Jin's ability was to suppress the abilities of others, so that they could only exert a small amount of their abilities, or even not use them at all. He was invincible in civil wars and was helpless against zombies.
Because he is extremely sensitive to supernatural powers and can detect whether others are extraordinary people, he was appointed by Yang Ao as the captain of the West Gate Guard. He usually stays at the city gate. Today Shen Jin is going on a long journey, and Yang Ao thought that his ability might be useful, so he brought him here. Liu Jin walked forward a few steps and came to the middle of the industrial park. He slowly released his supernatural powers. With him as the center, wisps of yellow lines appeared in the space of 100 meters around him, seeming to be there and not there. After a moment, as his supernatural powers were released more and more, the coverage area became larger and larger. He felt the energy fluctuations around him, "Here, there is a supernatural person!" Liu Jin pointed to the flat house next to one of the granaries.
This place looks like the command center of the entire granary. There are many machines outside, measuring tools, operating robotic arms, dump trucks, etc.
"How many people are there?" Shen Jin asked.
"Just one!"
Yang Ao winked at Meng San, and Meng San led 30 extraordinary people to surround the long row of flat-bed houses. The other extraordinary people scattered and surrounded the entire warehouse industrial park. The 30 elemental extraordinary people in the sky had been refilled with biogas and were patrolling in the sky to ensure high-altitude vision.
One or two zombies appear from time to time around, but since this is an economic development zone, far away from the city, it is full of enterprises that Q City has attracted investment, with machine workshops, factories, warehouses, etc., but no residential areas, so the population density is very low, and the zombies are just the workers who go to work nearby. "There is little pressure from zombies here, it's a good place to settle down... Well, there are just fewer daily necessities!"
Being far away from urban areas and living areas means a lack of daily necessities.
Shen Jin watched Meng San take people away, so he was not in a hurry to go in. He just waited for Meng San to bring people out.
Shen Jin is now the boss of No. 1 Home, with 6 captains and more than 400 extraordinary people under him. He does not need to take the initiative to step forward in most matters. Soon, the people inside were brought out by Meng San and others. There were a total of 81 people, which was a bit small. Shen Jin was very surprised. Logically speaking, this is the granary of Q City. It has enough food to feed the entire city for more than a year. People of insight should come here to settle down, so that they don’t have to worry about food problems for at least a few years. Uh... they also have to worry about the food going moldy if they can’t finish eating it.
“Are there only so many people here?”
Shen Jin discovered that this group of people had another obvious characteristic, which was that they had no leader. In other settlements, whenever something big happened, everyone would focus their attention on the leader, but here... everyone looked at each other, and then no leader came back to answer Shen Jin's question, "Ahem!"
Meng San coughed and used his foot to cause cracks in the limestone floor beside him. Only then did these people realize that they were... forced to come here, and they couldn't choose not to talk if they wanted to...
"Are you... from the government?"
"You are extraordinary people, so you should be the officials of the Heaven and Earth Net, right?"
"Is it not?"
Several people asked at once, and Shen Jin nodded: "Yes, we are from Home No. 1, an organization under the command of Tianluodiwang. It is currently the only designated official settlement in Q City. Now we need your cooperation in answering questions!"
These 81 people were obviously relieved and their backs became much straighter. It seemed that the title of government had allowed them to regain their dignity.
One of them used his shoulder to shake off the extraordinary person who was controlling him, "Get up, don't move me, I am a law-abiding citizen, your team's discipline does not allow you to bully ordinary people, right?"
The extraordinary man was stunned and wanted to refute, but he couldn't say anything.
Several of the more active people started to talk more. "It's easy to talk to the government officials. We are all villagers from the nearby Sunjiazhai Village. The land from our village was requisitioned before the factory was built. So we own half of the factory!"
"We have been taking refuge here since the end of the world and have never left!"
"You are an official, right? What's the situation in Q City now? Have you almost cleared out the zombies? Before the apocalypse, you used our taxpayers' money to build military forces. You can't even kill these zombies, right?"
"Yeah, no way, no way?"
"Did you bring salt? I would say that the people in your government are unreliable. You have such a big granary, but you don't store some salt? We have to eat bland rice every day!"
"Do you have any salt? I'll trade some of our grain for some of yours, pound for pound..."
The villagers started talking at once, as lively as a duck farm at feeding time, "Quack, quack, quack!"
Shen Jin held his hand down in a fake gesture, "Everyone, be quiet for a moment! Let me ask you a question and you answer it. Are you all from Sunjiazhai? You all know each other, right?"
These people seem to be very familiar with each other, including men, women, young and old, and they also seem to be very close. It is different from other settlements and it looks more like a group.
"That's right! We are all from the same family!"
"All the living people in our village are here. This piece of land used to be the ancestral grave of our village. It's all thanks to our ancestors' blessing that they gave us this good place!"
"Gentlemen, are you just passing by or...?"
Shen Jin discovered that there were actually three key figures among these people, all of whom were middle-aged men who were slightly older. "You three are the leaders here?"
The oldest man said, "We were the captains of the former brigade. We were all there to do things for the villagers. We didn't have any leaders!"
The other two also nodded, "He is the captain of Team One, I am the captain of Team Two, and he is the captain of Team Three!"
Shen Jin understood it now . In the past, the village was divided into production teams according to the plots of land, and the land was cultivated according to the village's planning. Later, after the village changed to a land contract system, there was no such thing. Now it is mainly village cadres. There is no official system, and they are all elected by the village themselves. They help solve some troubles for the villagers. They are usually respected because they understand many policies and know a lot about village affairs.
Everyone is used to listening to the captain when there is something to do. The captain represents the interests of his team. Now, although these three captains are also ordinary people, they are relatively speaking leaders. However, as long as it goes against the interests of someone, the people below can refute them at any time.
Therefore, it is not like other settlements where a few extraordinary people basically have the final say based on their martial arts skills and prestige.
After Shen Jin understood the personnel composition here, he asked, "How much food is stored here? What types are there?"
You should know that the central grain reserve does not store only one kind of grain, but a mixture of multiple grains. However, the storage ratio varies according to the main grain products in different places. Q City is rich in rice, so rice must be the bulk of grain storage.
One of the captains who looked honest said, "Sir, we have a lot of food... Most of it is rice, but we also have wheat, corn, soybeans, cooking oil, etc..."
Such a wide variety of food, that's great... Shen Jin asked again: "Are all these granaries full? Do you know how much food there is?"
"In these seventeen granaries..."
"Ahem!" Another captain interrupted the honest captain. "Sir, we still have plenty of food, enough to last for a while. Do you need military rations? No problem. I'll take care of it. When you leave, I'll fill your bags with our threshed and peeled rice... Oh, rice!"
The last captain, who was obviously the oldest, said, "Gentlemen, you haven't told me why you came to our Sunjia Village...what are you doing? There are always very few zombies here, and we can barely survive on our own. We don't really need any help for the time being..."
After these people finished speaking, Shen Jin frowned. He felt a little uncomfortable. These people... took themselves too seriously?
He looked at Shang Qian in confusion, "Don't you think something is wrong?"
Shang Qian said naturally: "I think so!"
"where?"
"You talked too much nonsense to them. Usually in this situation, I would just skip the questioning and go straight to the inventory of the granary!"
"That makes sense," Shen Jinshen agreed, and then asked the last question: "Why are there so few people here?"
The honest captain said: "People from our village have always been here. Many people from other places have come here, but we didn't let them in!"
Shen Jin wondered: "Why don't you let others in?"
The middle-aged captain said, "They are not from our village, why let them in? What if they steal our village's food?"
The elder captain added: "That's right, our village has its own rules, and it has always been peaceful. People from the outside village... and the people from the city don't follow the rules, and they will cause trouble when they come!"
"Oh? So the reason why there are so few people here is because... all the people who came here to seek refuge have been driven away?" Shen Jin asked again.
"Yes! They are not from our village, why should we let them come?"
"There's so much space here, where can't we live? Do you have to fight with us for our land? This is our village's land, we say who can come can come, and whoever we don't allow can't come in!"
"What if people outside steal our food? The end of the world is so chaotic..."
Everyone else spoke at the same time, and they were all very unanimous... unanimously xenophobic.
Shen Jin believed that if he had not brought more than 400 extraordinary people with him today, he would probably have been driven out by the people from Sunjiazhai.
"Okay, got it! Ten of you take them aside and control them. The rest of you, come with me to check the warehouse..."
Shen Jin had already gotten the information he wanted. Since the villagers didn't tell him about the grain reserves, he checked them himself. The elder captain said, "Sir, isn't it inappropriate for you to do this? It's said above that the End Times Law protects the rights of us ordinary people. In the end times, as long as we occupy the food, water, and resources first, they belong to us. This warehouse was originally built on the ancestral tomb of our Sunjiazhai. It originally belonged to our village. Moreover, we 6 months. The grain should belong to our village's property. You have no right to dispose of it!"
The middle-aged captain said: "What's the difference between what you did and robbery? We have satellite phones, so we will report to the higher-ups that you are breaking the law knowingly!"
The honest captain obviously didn't want to cause trouble. He smiled and said, "Don't be angry, don't be angry. How about we all take a step back? We won't report it. We will give more food and oil to ensure that the officials have enough to eat. The officials will take it and leave. Everyone can live their own lives. Okay?"
Shen Jin smiled. He ignored the three village leaders who were talking and singing to themselves, and asked his people, "Brother Meng, I want to laugh so much. How about you?"
Everyone: “Hahahaha——”
Yang Ao grinned, laughing and crying at the same time, "I'm covered in wounds, I really don't want to laugh, but... I can't help it! Hahaha... Hiss~! It hurts!"
Li Zhe laughed so hard that he couldn't catch his breath: "These people... are really talented. They want to sue us? Come on! Call, call now. I haven't heard such a 'terrible' threat in a long time. I'm scared to death, hahaha~!"
Tong Zhen scratched his head: "It seems that they...are not very smart!"
Shang Qian asked again with great interest: "I understand! This factory requisitioned the land from your village, right? This makes sense. You used this trick... on the government officials who requisitioned land before the end of the world, right? Make a phone call and report it. Next, I guess you should go to the plateau to petition the Tianluodiwang?"
Captain Honest: "Huh? How did you know?"
Everyone: “Hahahaha——”
The elder captain's beard stood up in anger: "Don't laugh!"
Everyone: (×゜ー゜×)
3 seconds later, ○(＾皿＾)っHiahiahia……
The laughter of more than 400 extraordinary people lasted for a long time. While they opened various warehouses to check the food, they were also enthusiastically discussing the people from the Peach Blossom Spring who wanted to sue them.
