"I've already told you the gist of the situation. Now, there are only two things that give me a headache. One is our attitude towards those forces. Should we continue to maintain our current neutrality, or should we seize the opportunity to wipe them out in one fell swoop? We don't need to mobilize too many people. We just need to block their retreat route and attack them from both sides with the Great Blackbird, and they will definitely die.
"Another thing is that we are not ready to accept more than a hundred thousand people. Once we accept them, we will need to feed more than a hundred thousand people. Although some of the things we did in the beginning will prevent us from being ostracized, people have eyes. If there are still people who starve to death under our management, then our prestige will drop, and all our previous efforts will be for nothing.
"Also, I'm worried that our involvement in this matter will affect the operation to seize the ship. After all, seizing the ship is our main goal, and it is also the only reason why we took the risk to leave the base and go through all the hardships to reach the colony.
Tell me, what should we do next? "
On both sides of Zhang Xiaoqiang were the main people in charge of the camp. Huang Quan, Lu Xiaobu, and Huang Tingwei were all present. Wang Le and Shen Xue were also present. Zhang Huai An's waist injury had not recovered, and he was still lying on the bed. Zhang Xiaoqiang was discussing the future with them.
Everyone in the room had different expressions on their faces. Shen Xue was participating in the first meeting because of her previous contributions, and she did not feel any excitement or pride. On the contrary, when Zhang Xiaoqiang brought up these problems, she appeared listless, yawning one after another, and her eyes kept glancing at the door. Her body was not facing Zhang Xiaoqiang, but slightly tilted, facing the door.
She didn't have any feelings for Zhang Xiao Qiang or the camp. She just wanted the meeting to end quickly so that she could take an afternoon nap. As for those seemingly serious problems, they had nothing to do with a little girl like her.
Lu Xiaobu was different from Shen Xue. He was fully immersed in Zhang Xiaoqiang's problems, and he was 100% in favor of Zhang Xiaoqiang's proposal to wipe out all the forces in one fell swoop. To him, he did not care so much about benevolence and morality. As long as his paratroopers could be put to good use, everything else was negligible. He only wanted to prove to others that his paratroopers were the real trump card.
Lu Xiaobu had lost his position as the search team leader due to his rashness and impatience. He had been taught a lesson, but it did not change his personality. As long as he thought it was beneficial to the camp, he would not go overboard. As for the lives and deaths of the 100,000 survivors, he did not care. That was not something he should be thinking about.
Huang Quan and Lu Xiaobu were both immersed in Zhang Xiaoqiang's suggestions, but he was not as excited as Lu Xiaobu. He only listened quietly, his eyes on Zhang Xiaoqiang's face, observing Zhang Xiaoqiang's expression and analyzing Zhang Xiaoqiang's tone.
To Huang Quan, he had no say in the general direction of the decision. Those were not for him to consider. He only needed to accept orders and complete them. For every suggestion from Zhang Xiaoqiang, as long as it was in line with his work, he would listen attentively, calculating the difficulty level in his heart, and make the necessary preparations in advance when he received similar orders.
Everyone's personality was different, their roles were different, and their way of thinking was also different. Compared to the rest, Wang Le was more indifferent, as he sat comfortably on the chair, his eyes half-closed, enjoying the cold air in the room, as though he was resting. If it wasn't for the pauses between his words, causing him to tilt his head slightly, one would have thought that he was taking a nap.
Wang Le had always been in charge of some of the logistics. When it came to some of the specific tasks that Zhang Xiaoqiang gave him, he could do it meticulously, but when it came to other matters, he was indifferent. Unless it came to him, he would usually sit on the side and watch.
There was only one person who really used his brain to help Zhang Xiaoqiang solve his problems, and that was Huang Tingwei. After Zhang Xiaoqiang brought up his problem, Huang Tingwei sat on the side and thought hard. He was very cautious about this matter. This concerned the future of the tens of thousands of people in the camp, or even the hundreds of thousands of people in the colony. One wrong move and they would lose all their lives for nothing.
"Zhang Xiaoqiang … you should have a rough idea in your mind, right?
Can you tell us? "
Huang Tingwei took the initiative to pass the conversation to Zhang Xiaoqiang. He wanted Zhang Xiaoqiang to speak more clearly. The more detailed he was, the more questions he could get, and the more thorough his analysis would be.
"In the beginning, I didn't intend to participate. The reason we went to the colony was to find talents in the field of ships. Once we found the talents, we directly rushed to Wuhan City to snatch the ships. Later, because of a series of problems, we had no choice but to stop. There were some accidents in the middle, which caused our population to exceed ten thousand.
Ten thousand people is an opportunity, but it is also a burden. You have to know that when we first set off, we only had fifty people … "
Shen Xue, who was absent-minded, suddenly became energetic. She heard Zhang Xiaoqiang say that when they first set off, they only had fifty people. Shen Xue had been a small leader before, so she knew that it was not easy to make a living in the outside world. For Zhang Xiaoqiang to rely on fifty people to develop to his current level, it was simply a miracle.
Zhang Xiaoqiang was looking at Huang Tingwei as he said this. He did not notice that he had successfully dispelled a little beauty's drowsiness.
"Out of these ten thousand people, 70% of them are children who can't be of any use. For them to fully grow up, it might take more than ten years. If it's just for use, they would need at least six to eight years. This is a huge burden.
However, this burden is worth carrying. There is a problem with the age of the apocalypse, and there is a gap in the middle. If we can maintain this, at least the quality of our population will be higher than other forces. I have thought about it before, the future might not only be a war between humans and zombies, but also between humans and humans. I believe that all kinds of strange political structures will appear. If we don't want to be destroyed by others, we need to have the confidence to destroy others. "
When Zhang Xiaoqiang said this, everyone, including Wang Le, opened their eyes and looked at Zhang Xiaoqiang. This was the first time he had talked about a distant goal in front of his subordinates, and he believed that they would be the first to know.
"To be honest, I am very envious of a hundred thousand people. They are an opportunity for us to develop. With a population, we will be able to get soldiers, workers, farmers, and professionals. They can help us obtain more resources, and can provide us with more food. Who knows, they might even be able to provide us with better weapons.
There must be a big prerequisite for all of this, and that is food. Food must be able to supply them with food for one to two years. With this food, we can slowly develop and accumulate enough food for us to move to an ideal paradise. The most fundamental thing is food. "
When he said this, the term utopia attracted the attention of the others. They wanted to understand what he meant, but Zhang Xiaoqiang did not want to talk about it anymore. He concluded that all the problems were related to food.