CHAPTER 359: UNDERGROUND MILITARY BASE ( 4 )

The Captain entered the office, gave the commander a salute, and said, "Commander, I come to report the situation in the mill area."

Without even raising his head from the document, the commander asked, "What’s wrong?"

"Commander, the survivors demanded us to let their families visit them and asked for their salary."

Hearing this, the commander stopped writing and finally raised his head. He looked at the Captain and said, "If they refuse to work, use their family members to threaten them. If they riot again, just kill one of their family members as a warning."

The moment the Captain heard this, his eyes widened in shock. It took him a moment to find his voice and say, "Commander, they only want to meet with their family members. I don’t think there is a need to be this extreme."

Raising his eyebrows, the commander asked, "Are you teaching me how to manage the base now?"

Meeting the commander’s cold eyes filled with killing intent, the Captain lowered his head and replied, "I don’t dare."

"Since you don’t dare, then shut your mouth and just do as you are told. You can leave now," the commander said.

This time, the Captain didn’t dare to question his commander’s order, and after giving him a salute, he left the office.

When he finally stood outside the office, he realized that his back was drenched with cold sweat. Just now, the commander might really have killed him if he had dared to say another word.

Now that the commander has given his order, he has no other way but to follow it. But by doing this, sooner or later, the survivors would riot.

Even if they have the weapons and base, without the survivors working for them, they lack manpower and wouldn’t be able to keep the base operating for a long time.

With his thoughts in a mess, the Captain returned to the milling area in heavy footsteps.

Despite the commander’s order, the Captain didn’t use the workers’ families to threaten them and let them write letters to their families instead. With his help, their letters were sent to their families.

In the afternoon, Shen Jinyue was called away by the guards. When she arrived in the outside area, she saw that there were lots of people gathering there.

The Captain opened his backpack and said, "I brought a letter from your family member. I don’t know who your family is, so I will call the name written on the letter instead. You will come and take the letter."

After he finished his words, he called out the names written on the envelopes one after another. When the survivors heard their husband’s, father’s, or brother’s name, they were delighted and quickly went to get the letter. After they received their letters, they returned to their rooms.

Not long after, it was Shen Jinyue’s turn. When she heard her father’s name, she quickly walked forward and said, "That’s my father’s name."

The Captain handed the letter to her and said, "I will deliver the letters once every two weeks. You can come to get the letter in this place again in two weeks."

Hearing this, Shen Jinyue nodded and said, "Thank you, Comrade."

When he heard her thanks, the Captain avoided her gaze and said nothing. Not noticing the strange behavior of the Captain, Shen Jinyue put the letter into her pocket and ran back to her room.

As soon as she came back, her grandmother quickly asked, "Ah Yue, why did the guard look for you?"

Shen Jinyue held her grandmother’s hand and said, "Grandma, the guard is sending a letter from my father."

The moment they heard this, her mother said, "Jinyue, quick, read the letter."

Nodding at her mother’s words, Shen Jinyue opened the letter and read it for a while. When she finished reading the letter, her face turned pale and her hands trembled.

Seeing her like this, Mother Shen asked, "Jinyue, what did your father say?"

Shen Jinyue took a deep breath to calm down before she leaned closer to her mother and grandmother and said in a low voice, "Grandma, Mother, after you listen to me, you have to keep calm."

Grandma Shen frowned and asked, "Ah Yue, what’s exactly going on?"

"Grandma, my father said that the base is running out of food and the base commander plans to use us to threaten Father and Brother to keep working. They will find a way to escape from the milling area and ask us to prepare ourselves," Shen Jinyue explained in a hushed voice.

After hearing her daughter’s words, Mother Shen said, "But where can we go after we leave this base?"

Grandma Shen went silent for a moment before she held her daughter-in-law’s and granddaughter’s hands tightly. She looked at them and said, "Both of you pack up your supplies and keep the important belongings. When it’s time, go to Lin’an city and find Ah Zhe."

Noticing something was wrong with her words, Shen Jinyue asked, "Grandma, what about you?"

Grandma Shen smiled and replied, "I’m old now, and I have lived enough. Even if I go with you, I will become a burden. So, just go without me."

As soon as she heard this, Shen Jinyue shook her head and said, "Grandma, my brother is the most filial to you. If he knew that we abandoned you, he would get angry and hate us."

Before her grandma could say a word, she added, "Grandma, even if not for yourself, you have to do it for me. You have to come with us. Grandpa already sacrificed himself to let me survive. I can’t see you sacrifice yourself for me again."

When Grandma Shen saw her granddaughter was crying, she let out a long sigh. She wiped away her granddaughter’s tears and said, "Ah Yue, what happened to your Grandpa is not your fault. Your Grandpa did it willingly. If you feel guilty, you should live well so your Grandpa’s sacrifice was worth it."

Shen Jinyue held her grandma’s hand tightly. No matter what, she would make sure that her grandma would go with them. She didn’t want to watch her family being torn apart by the zombies just to buy time for her to escape anymore!