Chapter 437: 392 Holding a base is very, very difficult_3
“Our people can’t manage to take the supplies out of Xiang City Base.”
“I just want to ask what your terms are, and what you need us from F City to do, to reopen Xiang City Base.”
Hua Mi looked at Lin Zhigang with cold eyes.
“The reopening of Xiang City Base will never happen.”
Hua Mi said to Lin Zhigang with absolute certainty.
Her expression was too resolute, offering Lin Zhigang no hope whatsoever,
“You also know the current situation outside Xiang City Base.”
“It was just over twenty days ago, that both inside and outside of Xiang City Base, we experienced what we did.”
“Look at how many garrison and police academy kids are lying in the medical center, barely clinging to life, and you’ll understand how devastating this attack was for us.”
“Very soon, the entire world order is going to undergo another earth-shattering change.”
“There is no way around it; Xiang City Base will not reopen until we are absolutely certain of its safety.”
“If your supplies are running low, you can think of other ways; there’s always a method to survive—it’s not necessary to take goods only from Xiang City Base.”
In her past life, Hua Mi hadn’t awakened the “Apocalypse Supermarket” superpower, and there wasn’t a place called Xiang City Base during the entire apocalypse.
But survivors were still tough as weeds, living on.
They didn’t have a fixed, massive, wholesale place with endless supplies.
But they could penetrate the zombie encirclement and enter cities to find abundant supplies.
In every city, there were many, many supplies.
Before the apocalypse, the world was one of considerable abundance, even overproduction.
As long as you worked hard to search, you would definitely be able to find a large amount of supplies.
What Hua Mi meant was to tell Lin Zhigang not to place all of F City’s hopes on Xiang City Base.
Lin Zhigang frowned, apparently quite troubled.
He lowered his gaze and spoke politely, even with a hint of humility, to Hua Mi:
“I understand your dissatisfaction; when Xiang City Base was attacked by Qu Shiheng, none of us came to its aid.”
“But Miss Hua, you should also understand our position.”
“Xiang City Base is a behemoth; for a small power like us, or a little survivor enclave, we really can’t do much.”
He spoke earnestly, but it couldn’t help but elicit a cold laugh from Hua Mi on the hospital bed.
“What’s the use of saying these things now? The event is in the past.”
“Before we discuss what you could or could not do, isn’t the willingness to act the most important thing?”
“This is my first time establishing my own base; as for your father and other superiors, I understand their machinations, but not in depth.”
“I don’t want to be a very complicated person; you see, now I have sons and daughters, and I just want to make their place of survival a solid fortress.”
“I can’t take care of anything else. Once again, until the crisis outside is resolved, Xiang City Base will not reopen.”
“The goods market will also not reopen. For the laborers inside Xiang City Base, I will satisfy all their material needs, but no more—don’t come to me asking for anything extra.”
“Who is born owing anything to you survivors, anyway?”
Just because Hua Mi had an “Apocalypse Supermarket,” was she supposed to provide for all the survivors in the apocalypse?
She had no such obligation.
When she was in trouble, others ignored her difficulties for the sake of their own power.
So why would Hua Mi open Xiang City Base for the survivors?
Guarding a base is extremely difficult.
The many seriously and lightly injured garrison and police academy kids were proof—it’s difficult to maintain a city.
As hard as ascending to the heavens!
“Man forges his own destiny…”
Hua Mi looked at Lin Zhigang with sarcasm,
“I too am someone who will plot and scheme for the advancement of my own power.”
Lin Zhigang frowned, intending to persuade her further.
But Hua Mi signaled towards the door of her hospital room,
“Because you are a doctor left in the medical center by Ke Minghong, I know as a medic you’ve saved many people.”
“That’s why I don’t want to make things difficult for you, but I do ask you to be conscious of that and not force me to act and throw you out.”