CHAPTER 689: 【683】QUEEN OF THE APOCALYPSE 19 (2 MORE UPDATES)

Of course, everyone in the entire base, the only ones not limited in food and clothing were the members of the first squad.

Not to mention every time they went out to hunt, they brought back the most items, but Zhu Li alone contributed a lot of food.

So whenever someone was envious and subsequently voiced their dissatisfaction, Zhu Li would have them audit the finances and check the base’s warehouses to see if there was any misuse of public funds.

Each time they returned from a hunt, the items stored in the space were recorded. Any team with a Space Superpower User had made a profit because no one knew how much you submitted or retained except your own team members. She didn’t care how much you submitted, but she distributed based on the amount submitted.

Ah, so you permit hoarding for yourselves but not for us?

As the saying goes, if one does not fend for oneself, the heavens and earth will perish; why should we give up everything we gather to feed others?

What belongs to our team, no one else should dream of seizing. This is why when allocating resources to each group, matching them with a Space Superpower User is essential. Without this attribute, how could you haul back the resources you accumulate?

Thus, every team kept records of what they brought back, and every time goods were delivered, Zhu Li had everyone in their team sign for it. If anyone felt it was insufficient, they could audit the accounts; this was Zhu Li’s usual principle.

"I’ve already provided you a place to live and given you free water and vegetables; that’s the most consideration I can offer. Now, you want us to use our own food to help you, sorry, but that’s impossible!"

Their team ate well because they worked hard for it; what did it have to do with others?

It was precisely because the First Squad was tough to get into that other female Superpower Users and ordinary women tried all sorts of methods to hook up with Rong Hua and his team of five. They didn’t realize how high Baozi and his team’s standards were.

Their greedy behavior was unsightly, and Rong Hua and his team were not blind. Choosing a partner from among these women would have been a real sight deficit.

Moreover, don’t assume they didn’t know how tainted those women were, having traded with many men for food, which could bring unnecessary trouble—they naturally looked up to no one.

Thus, although the base had been established, in reality, everyone was still for themselves; their team had two Space Superpower Users—in fact, it should be said as three. Although Zhu Li had to pay rent for her space, it wasn’t any less in capacity compared to theirs, especially since she stored the best discoveries in her own space, only revealing them when among her own people. Others should not even think about taking advantage of it.

Having more Space Superpower Users meant the team had more resources; having more resources meant quicker enhancement of their equipment and abilities as they no longer needed to worry about food.

They even considered getting a helicopter to fly abroad and hustle some firearms and ammunitions back. However, Zhu Li later felt it was unnecessary as it could create a dependency; using their superpowers to hunt on their own wasn’t a bad thing.

After the apocalypse, there weren’t as many surviving children as Zhu Li had imagined; generally, if a family awoke together like Zhao Yun, who had protected his children, it was rare. In many cases, the mother might have turned into a zombie. Then, what about an awakened child? It was still a likely death.

Therefore, the total number of children in the base barely reached about a dozen.

As for this child they picked up without parents, they would provide some extra assistance to the caretaker, which could be considered part of Zhu Li’s responsibility to help save them. She might not care about the adults, but she couldn’t ignore the children she brought back.

This prison could accommodate over five hundred people; now, barely a hundred were left, and the county had almost been scavenged clean by them. The next hunting expedition would likely head to even more dangerous territories.

Generally, whenever Zhu Li went out, Little White would follow her. When she didn’t go out, Little White sometimes accompanied the team, and sometimes he didn’t.

Before every departure, the Thunder Mage would use electricity to seal the base’s gates, firstly to ensure the safety of the people inside, and secondly to prevent outsiders from intruding. Of course, they always left a team behind for defense. Initially, there wasn’t this rule, but it was implemented after discovering that a Superpower User had tried to infiltrate. It was fortunate that Zhu Li was on duty at that time with Little White’s help. Otherwise, the base they had hardly built might have become someone else’s.

Since then, Zhu Li would stay in the base if she didn’t need to go out, for her abilities combined with Little White’s were equivalent to a Superpower User team of ten.

What she hadn’t expected was that the departing Superpower Users would find others to attack their base.

Including those who had left earlier, there were more than thirty in total. These Superpower Users were arrogant but inept. However, she hadn’t expected them to stoop so low as to return for an attack, thinking that there was no one left in their base?

After they opened the first defensive door, Zhu Li and Little White immediately shut the remaining four doors.

Their opponents numbered forty to fifty, while on their side, aside from her and Little White, there were ten people from the Eighth Squad holding the fort.

"Zhang Wei, you ungrateful scoundrel, we saved you back then. Now you leave, that’s fine, but what is this supposed to mean?"

Fortuitously, the people from the Eighth Squad recognized an imbecile from the opposing team and immediately reprimanded them.

"Pah, ungrateful? You think you were kind to me? When I was expelled, why didn’t I see any of you speak up for me? Anyone sensible should switch sides to our team now. Otherwise, don’t blame us for being merciless in a while, especially that Zhu Li—I must let her taste the fate of being trampled by thousands!"

No sooner had he finished speaking did Little White, who had been standing casually by Zhu Li’s side, suddenly change his expression. With a cold, murder-driven energy, he flashed like lightning to Zhang Wei, grabbed his neck, twisted it violently, killing him instantly. He lay motionless like a dead dog with a lolling neck, having breathed his last. Although Little White loathed the waste, he directly drained all the blood from his body after he died and turned him into a mummy, throwing him into a nearby filthy ditch.

Then, wearing sunglasses, he sharply looked at the fifty or sixty people around. Without speaking, he made the whole team shift, completely scorching the ground, and subconsciously pushed back a few steps. Those with weaker nerves simply collapsed to the ground.

Zhu Li scoffed coldly, "Have you seen what happened to Zhang Wei? Does anyone else want to try? Come at us if you dare!"