The Pregnant Mommy Survive on Unlimited Supplies-Chapter 311 - 310 Why not go into city D to kill zombies?

Zhong Zimo and Mi Guoyuan had been waiting at the gates of D City for three days.

During this time, other than the Clearing Team of Eighth Uncle coming down from Xiang D Highway to clear the snow at the gates of D City every day,

not a single garrison member or Superpower User had come out from D City.

What was worse, Hua Mi and Shi Caixia hadn’t come out of D City again either.

Day by day, Zhong Zimo’s expression grew uglier.

And Mi Guoyuan’s temper became increasingly irritable.

He truly couldn’t stand the harsh freezing weather any longer and proactively approached Zhong Zimo,

"I think those people might just decide to live inside D City, we need to think of other methods."

He gestured towards the Clearing Team working in the distance,

"Or shall we let the women, go fetch those guests?"

These words filled Zhong Zimo’s eyes with flickering anger,

"Mi Guoyuan, we are administrators, not pimps."

"By saying this, don’t tell me you actually consider us as pimps?"

He always remembered his identity as a proud son of heaven.

Without any status or background, it was through his own efforts that he became the first secretary by Ma Yongchun’s side in C City.

That was his capability.

Zhong Zimo was a man about to achieve great things, and before the day he would rise above others, he told himself that he could always bend or stand tall.

So using women to curry favor with Gong Yi and to win over Superpower Users was fundamentally different from pimping.

Zhong Zimo kept this distinction in mind.

Mi Guoyuan’s eyes carried a faint hint of mockery,

"Fine, if you insist on keeping these women, then I have nothing to say."

"How much money do you have left? The price of goods has gone up."

The real stash of supplies in D City, housed in the administration building, had already ended up in Hua Mi’s pockets.

Even if they wanted to investigate the ownership of these supplies, it was impossible.

Because D City was filled with wandering zombies, they couldn’t even enter D City.

With the emergence of Crystal Cores, those Superpower Users started using Crystal Cores to exchange for money from Hua Mi.

This had an impact on the value of supplies.

At least on Xiang D Highway, the prices of goods began to rise.

Zhong Zimo had no other income, and although he controlled the reserve funds account for C City, the rise in the price of goods meant that the supplies he could buy with his money were dwindling day by day.

Zhong Zimo lowered his head and rubbed his temples,

"Let’s hold out a little longer."

For now, he still had enough money.

As long as the garrison and Superpower Users could come out every day, he was confident that he could get those women into the beds of the garrison and Superpower Users.

At least the willpower of Superpower Users like Li Haifu wouldn’t be as strong as that of the garrison.

Yet, after several more days of waiting, other than the daily arrival of the Clearing Team, no garrison or Superpower User had come out from inside D City.

The prices continued to soar.

A bottle of cola that originally cost 100 had risen to 250 a bottle.

This was by no means a good sign.

Especially since Zhong Zimo also had to hire people to shovel snow, for if nobody cleared it away, their vehicles would be trapped in it.

But now labor was very expensive.

A day’s rations were not enough to hire someone to shovel snow.

To employ a day’s labor now, one had to provide three meals with snacks and pay 10,000 a day in wages.

To negotiate further, the wages might even reach 15,000 a day.

Then, only a few days later, Zhong Zimo’s complexion grew even darker, and he pointed at the workers in front of him who demanded a price hike,

"Two days ago it was 10,000 a day, yesterday 15,000 a day, and today you want to hike the price to 20,000, where’s the justification in your price increases?"

"Even if I had mountains of gold and silver, I couldn’t cope with being wrung dry like this."

This completely baffled Zhong Zimo and Mi Guoyuan.

Wasn’t it said that labor should be cheap during the apocalypse?

After all, in an extreme environment, survivors were plentiful, but job opportunities were scarce.

The worker looked disdainful,

"Are you going to pay or not? If not, I’m out of here."

They all received three meals a day and an additional two snacks, so why did they have to trudge to the gates of Xiang City to shovel snow for Zhong Zimo and his crew?

Thanks to the garrison’s relentless publicity, who didn’t know how dangerous Xiang City was?

This place was bustling with zombies.

So, without a high reward, no one would be willing to stay here to shovel snow for Zhong Zimo’s people.

Zhong Zimo, black-eyed with rage, pointed in the direction of the highway,

"Go on, get out of here, 20,000 a day, why don’t you just rob people?"

Prior to the apocalypse, hiring labor for grueling work at 600 a day was considered a good wage.

Now the cost of labor had skyrocketed several-fold, and these workers did nothing but shovel snow.

Standing beside him, Mi Guoyuan opened his mouth, watching helplessly as the labor he had finally managed to find was chased off by Zhong Zimo.

He sighed, shook his head, and got on the bus.

These days he was living off Zhong Zimo’s resources, and had said all that he felt should be said to persuade him.

If Zhong Zimo wouldn’t listen, there was nothing else Mi Guoyuan could do.

But the problem still needed a solution.

Without anyone to shovel the snow, it would only be half a day before the buses were buried in it.

Zhong Zimo personally went to find Eighth Uncle, hoping that Eighth Uncle’s Clearing Team could help clear the snow around the buses.

Eighth Uncle eyed up the position of the buses, his head shaking like a rattle-drum,

"Your bunch of vehicles are too far away from the gates of Xiang City, we’d have to spend a lot of labor to clean up this accumulated snow."

"It’s hard to find labor these days, there’s no way around it."

Zhong Zimo became anxious immediately,

"How can there be no solution? There are so many survivors now..."

Before he could finish his sentence, Eighth Uncle grinned, showing his teeth,

"Secretary Zhong, have you been out of touch with the outside world for too long? There are factories being constructed everywhere inside and outside of Xiang City, everyone is incredibly busy."

"Our Xiang City Base is about to start its program, and labor is expensive."

Because all the survivors were moving towards Xiang City, the city wall planning allowed the original area of Xiang City to expand several times over.

The construction of the city walls alone required endless manpower.

As long as one was willing to work hard, having three meals a day with two snacks posed no issue at all.

"20,000 a day for labor is a bit extravagant, but don’t you see where we are?"

Eighth Uncle continued to enlighten Zhong Zimo, pointing to his subordinates who were diligently clearing the obstacles,

"Unless you’re paying them with Crystal Cores, they’ll accept it; otherwise, you’ll just have to obediently let them set their own prices."

Crystal Cores came from zombie brains, and it was said that one hundred Crystal Cores could be exchanged for 100,000 yuan.

Therefore, some of the able-bodied men under Eighth Uncle had been secretly striving to learn the garrison’s internal information these days.

Some audacious strong men wanted to enter Xiang City to kill zombies.

The internal information said that these zombies moved slowly and reacted clumsily, like idiots, not even knowing to avoid danger when they encountered it.

As long as one was well-protected, the Crystal Cores in their brains were as good as found.

One could easily kill dozens of zombies in a day.

So, if they had the time to shovel snow and the guts to loiter around the gates of Xiang City for a 20,000 daily wage,

Why wouldn’t they venture into Xiang City to kill zombies?