Joy and peace in the last days

Chapter 55

Safe zones are completely different from cities. They are all built on the basis of the original wartime material storage points or combat readiness bases. Compared with metropolises, the basic settings and daily supplies are relatively simple.

Moreover, this limited resource must first ensure the supply of high-level officials and capable people, followed by mid- and low-level officials, then soldiers with combat capabilities, and finally civilians.

Therefore, although it is a safe zone, compared with before the disaster, only a very small number of high-ranking officials still maintain a consistent standard of living, but this has paid a huge price.

As for the rest of the people, except for a very small number of people with a certain status, the life of the low-level government staff and soldiers can only be fed and clothed, while the life of the vast majority of ordinary residents in the safe zone can be said to be It is very hard.

The staff of the interim government must maintain the operation of the safe zone, and the soldiers must maintain the safety of the safe zone, so civilians should take the responsibility of supplying daily necessities in the safe zone as a matter of course.

Therefore, almost all civilians in the safe zone have to work from morning to night every day, and their work and rest time is militarized.

Their work includes collecting supplies under the protection of the guards, resuming agricultural production in relatively safe areas inside and outside the safe zone, and being responsible for the cleaning and sanitation of the safe zone. Nanny, servants, special cleaners, etc. of middle and high-level leaders.

In a word, civilians are fully responsible for all the basic tasks of maintaining daily life in the safe zone.

It was an extraordinary period, and the people of Country C, one of the most tolerant people in the world, so everyone easily accepted this arrangement.

After all, as long as you can be safe at this time, a little hard work is worth it.

But in such a [-]/[-] situation, civilians can only eat two meals a day, and the supply of the elderly and children is reduced by half because of their weak labor ability.

But even these two meals are not available for nothing, they must complete the work assigned for the day to receive them. As for the disabled or residents who have lost the ability to work due to other reasons, they can almost only live on the relief of others.

Compared with ordinary civilians, disabled soldiers are even more miserable.

Before the disaster broke out, among the last batch of students led by Li Meng, there was a very talented student named Yang Guang who had never fallen out of the top two in various assessments from the military academy to the army.

However, after Li Meng was transferred from other places to South China Security, he accidentally found out that this former lover was also here. When he couldn't find him, he finally found him in a board room on the side of the civilian area. Fang Ke, who was newly married to him for less than a year, was still beautiful but had completely lost the bright smile of the past.

What made Li Meng heartbroken was that Yang Guang had only one arm and one leg left, and because of the lack of timely medical treatment, he almost completely lost the ability to work.

At first, Yang Guang was able to eke out a living with the support of his wife and the help of his former teammates.

But with the battle against the zombies, these wild troops without background were sent to the most dangerous battle, and the teammates who fought side by side passed away one by one.

Just when Yang Guang's family could barely survive on the supply of his wife alone, the wife who worked in the supply and demand department was harassed by her superiors. Fang Ke couldn't bear to fight back, and she lost her job.

On the same day, the two were kicked out of the staff dormitory and moved into a civilian area.

But even so, Fang Ke did not escape bad luck. Yang Guang watched his wife humiliated after being beaten. The physical and mental injuries made him ill. If Li Meng hadn't found him, he might not have a few days to live. .

When Li Meng pursued the responsibility of the person who hurt Fang Ke, he was blocked by the sentence "The overall situation is the most important. He is the nephew of the No. 9 head of the Central Committee. During this critical period, the most important thing is to maintain stability!"

But these are not the most unbearable to Li Meng, the most unbearable thing is: Yang Guang's disability is meaningless at all.

The team he was leading at the time fought against the zombies with great difficulty, and before they entered the safe zone to rest, they received another order to go to the thing at the designated location.

After they got that thing, they encountered the zombie army again. The team led by Yang Guang fought desperately. In the end, only four people survived, and Yang Guang was also bitten by the zombie. an arm and half of a leg.

But what they brought back was only a case of the national wine of country C, which is also the favorite drink of high-ranking officials.

That is, from that time on, Li Meng was completely disappointed with the government.

Not only food, but also housing. Except for some officials and officers and soldiers who live in solid concrete buildings, most of the rest are temporary board houses, which are cold in winter and hot in summer.

Moreover, drinking water, daily necessities, etc. are all strictly controlled and supplied regularly and quantitatively.

If you want more things, you can only find a way by yourself.

Of course, the mid-level and low-level officials in charge of these tasks still have some ideas. Someone can always get some extra things for trading, so the safe zone has not been established for a long time, but the underground market is already very prosperous.

However, there is a huge price to pay for getting something extra.

All this is strange and terrifying to the newcomers who have lived in City G for more than half a year, and the safe zone is not what they imagined.

It happened to be night when they arrived, and the dark safe area was only illuminated by a few street lights hanging on trees, and large areas of civilian residential areas had no electricity at all.

They were divided into multiple squads, but whichever squad, after carefully observing the so-called citizen quarters here, felt cheated.

The houses they live in now are basically the same as the iron houses in the slums they saw before, and a family of four can only be allocated an old board house of about ten square meters, without water or electricity.

This is really unacceptable to people who are used to spacious residences and sufficient lighting in G City.

Originally, they heard what Chen Zhongping and the others said on the road. Although they didn't fully believe it, they still had high expectations. After all, this is the largest safe zone in South China.

But they were disappointed with the accommodation conditions that night when they came in. They thought it was only temporary, but they were told early the next morning that this was their future residence.

Of the 1 people who moved from City G, except for a very small number who were picked up by Chen Zhongping and the others on the road, and who were going to be placed in the barracks of low-ranking officers as witnesses for the government to slander City G in the future, the rest were all detained. Centrally arranged into the prefabricated houses that have been quickly repaired in the past few days, in order to separate them from other civilians and manage them centrally.

Houses and water and electricity are just the beginning of the gap between their reality and their ideals.

The things they brought from G City, except for some that were easy to carry with them, the rest were handed over to the guards who were responsible for their safety along the way for centralized storage.

But when they settled down, before they could get back their own belongings, they were required to leave a quilt for each person and a few sets of clothes for washing, and all other supplies had to be handed over for centralized distribution.

Only then did they understand what Chen Zhongping meant: In the safe zone, everyone will take out their things and help each other.

But it's too late to regret.

Even if they wanted to leave at this time, they couldn't do it, because like other civilians who stayed in the safe zone, they didn't have the courage to fight against the zombies.

In order to obtain the shelter of the safe zone and avoid exposing themselves directly to the hunting range of zombies, the civilians in the safe zone at least superficially gave in and compromised.

But the undercurrents and contradictions never disappear, and there will be some small disturbances from time to time.

However, the cannibalism incident that broke out in the South China Safety Zone recently formally triggered the conflict between the civilians and the government and the army.

This was actually the riot that broke out when Li Siwen and the others escaped from the safe zone.

It is said that one of the group of ability users who had just awakened recently was eating living people in his apartment in broad daylight. He happened to be seen by a group of cleaning civilians, and it was the son of one of them who was eaten!
This incident caused a large-scale protest by the civilians in the South China Safety Zone. Although it was quickly suppressed, Liang Lie also came forward to explain himself, saying that he would thoroughly investigate this incident, but before they could find a safe explanation, G The city's daily life broadcast turned out to have completely detonated the contradictions in the safe zone.

They don't know the situation in other countries for the time being, but civilian representatives from no less than ten small and medium-sized safe zones in country C have formally requested to freely enter and leave the safe zone. This is obviously paving the way for leaving the safe zone and defecting to City G.

But what makes Liang Lie a little more comfortable is that the South China Security Zone has not been directly provoked by civilians. This is because the cannibalism of capable people has not subsided. This is a matter that directly affects their lives, so a large part of them pay attention focus on this matter;
Second, the original residents in the South China Safety Zone think that if they can't stand the sharp contrast between life in G City and their current life, then there are a group of people who can't stand it even more, so it's better to wait for them to come out first. He, they said it naturally It was the little thousand people who moved over from G city.

Indeed, compared with the original residents of the safe zone, these people are more like being cheated, and their dissatisfaction is more serious.Normally, they are indeed more prone to outbreaks.However, what the aborigines didn't know was that these people didn't want to go back to City G, but they heard Song Xile make it clear when they came out that City G would never accept them again.

But on this issue, they themselves are embarrassed to say that Chen Zhongping and the others are even more incomprehensible, and the South China Safety Zone has been calmed down compared to other places.

But it's just a few, the underground activities are already in full swing, just waiting for someone to raise their arms.

The same is true elsewhere.

Song Xile's threatening broadcast against senior government officials of country C was the fuse that triggered this struggle.

After Song Xile released this report that all the senior officials of Country C were used as bargaining chips in exchange for the independence and sovereignty of City G, the government of Country C also realized that the seemingly absurd news reported by Liang Lie might be true!

It was a matter of their life and death, and this matter received the strongest attention from the top management of Country C. Less than half an hour after the broadcast, they got in touch with City G through satellite signals, hoping to communicate directly with Song Xile.

It's a pity that Song Xile doesn't want to enter, that is, he doesn't contact them directly. The only feedback is one sentence: "Everything will wait until you admit and announce to the world the independent sovereign status of G City. Let's talk about everything else."

This sentence killed the idea of ​​the government of country C intending to use special administrative region treatment to deal with city G in the bud.

Song Xile's words were like "the murderer dies" after Han Liu Bang entered the customs, there was no room for negotiation.

The high-level government of country C has never been so gloomy. They found that this opponent was not only decisive, but also completely untouchable.

Because they wanted to simultaneously prepare for a nuclear bomb attack while contacting City G, as a backup plan if negotiations failed. Although they had already found out that City G had a strange layer of protection, they were still very confident in a nuclear bomb attack.

If everyone in City G is dead, then this threat will no longer exist!
But they were horrified to find that any attack setting against G city would be automatically changed to self-destruct setting.

If a military expert hadn't found out in time to withdraw the order, before Song Xile could make a move, they would have sent themselves to hell with their own hands.

(End of this chapter)