Chapter 352: Chapter 337: They Really Thought She Couldn’t Wield Her Blade Anymore

"Miss Gu, Farm 0101 is just ahead," Tang You said, turning back to Gu Xi from the passenger seat.

Gu Xi looked out the window and gave a slight nod.

"We’ll have to trouble you in a moment, Mr. Tang." It was Wei Heng, sitting beside her, who looked up at Tang You. "Gu Xi prefers to keep a low profile."

"I understand," Tang You replied with a smile.

Although he didn’t know why she had suddenly proposed a visit to Farm 0101, Tang You was already mentally prepared. ’I’m afraid things are about to really change in City A.’

In the back row, Yang Chi and Qi Xiang were studying combat footage of mutated people. They both keenly sensed a change in Mr. Tang’s attitude toward them today.

They exchanged a quiet glance.

A short while later, the car stopped before a large, black metal gate.

A large crowd was already standing before the half-open metal gate. More people were jogging over from behind it, looking hurried. Some were even still in white protective suits, having apparently rushed over the moment they got the news without any time to change.

’That’s a lot of people.’

Gu Xi exchanged a look with Wei Heng beside her.

By now, Tang You and his assistant-driver were the first to get out. He was speaking in a low, warm voice to the staff who had come to greet them.

Many in the crowd kept glancing toward the car, but Gu Xi paid them no mind. Her eyes scanned the massive complex of buildings ahead, and her brow furrowed slightly.

Soon, Tang You and his assistant-driver returned to the car.

"Miss Gu, I’ve cleared it with them. We can drive directly to Building One inside," Tang You said in a low voice. His expression held a hint of apprehension and nervousness.

Gu Xi raised an eyebrow at him but didn’t speak.

The dense crowd that had been packed before the metal gate began to part.

The car started up again, driving slowly through the gate. Gu Xi glanced out the window. People stood on both sides in small groups, murmuring to each other. Listening closely, she could tell they were discussing her identity.

Wei Heng heard the chatter too. He looked up at Tang You in the passenger seat. "Looks like you did a great job keeping things under wraps, Mr. Tang."

Tang You turned around, wiping cold sweat from his forehead. "Miss Gu, I swear, I didn’t say a thing..."

’Heaven knows, ever since I figured a few things out, I’ve been walking on eggshells every single day. How would I dare pull any stunts?’

’As for why the news leaked this time, drawing all these staff members out to gawk, I honestly have no idea.’

Tang You felt deeply wronged and falsely accused as he glanced cautiously at Gu Xi.

Gu Xi said nothing, her eyes fixed on the vast, verdant fields ahead.

’I have to admit, Farm 0101 really is on another level as an official farm. In terms of both size and infrastructure, my little farm in South City couldn’t even compare.’

Drawing on her limited farming experience, Gu Xi quickly made a mental estimate of the farm’s potential crop yield...

Meanwhile, Qi Xiang was looking around curiously when she suddenly thought of something. She asked Tang You, "Are the crop seeds here also distributed by the Military Department from the Central Base?"

"They used to be." Tang You had clearly done his homework on this topic. "But ever since the new seeds became available, they’ve mostly been cultivating them independently here."

The so-called new seeds were the plant seeds that had successfully undergone reverse evolution.

Farm 0101 was the largest official farm under the jurisdiction of A City Base, so Qi Xiang wasn’t surprised at all that it would be among the first to use the new seeds.

However...

"Independently cultivated?" Qi Xiang rested her chin in her hands, her elbows on the back of the front seat. She spoke with a hint of deeper meaning, "Does that mean the farm’s entire output is also managed solely by you here at A City Base?"

’If they’re cultivating the seeds themselves, then of course they wouldn’t share the harvest with anyone else.’

Tang You froze for a second, then nodded. He looked at Qi Xiang, confused, not understanding the implication of her question.

"But from what I know," Yang Chi interjected from the side. He closed his personal terminal and, with a bashful, harmless-looking smile, said, "when the military first rolled out this program, didn’t they reach some sort of agreement with all the major bases?"

"Well..." Tang You suddenly seemed to recall something, and his eyes darted nervously. The moment Gu Xi saw his reaction, she knew something was wrong.

She raised her hand and tapped on the car window.

Qi Xiang tilted her head and explained, "I don’t know the exact terms of the agreement, but I’m sure it has to do with how the output from the farms at each major base is distributed."

Otherwise, why would the military hand over the safe, high-quality grain seeds they worked so hard to develop?

In the apocalypse, food is the foundation of everything.

So what did it mean that Farm 0101 could cultivate these seeds independently?

’Does it mean they didn’t go through the proper channels of the Military Department, but instead privately obtained the successfully reverse-evolved grain seeds?’

’Who gave it to them?!’

Of course, no interest group is a monolith, and the military is no exception.

But this particular matter was directly tied to Gu Xi’s own interests.

After all, when Gu Xi had agreed to cooperate with the military, she had her own conditions.

To put it bluntly, Gu Xi was entitled to a share of that output.

But now, someone was brazenly taking a piece of Gu Xi’s pie.

Qi Xiang’s eyes narrowed. "Looks like someone has a lot of nerve."

At her words, cold sweat popped out on Tang You’s forehead, beading and trickling down in endless streams...

"Miss Gu, I honestly knew nothing about this..."

Wei Heng turned to Gu Xi. "How do you want to handle this?"

Gu Xi was silent for a moment. "...When will Shen Yue be free?"

Since entering City A yesterday, Shen Yue had been so busy he’d been practically invisible. He even called the Qin sisters away in the middle of the night.

Yang Chi looked up. "My cousin will probably need a few more days."

The Liu Family is extremely cunning. They claimed they were handing over command of City A’s military defenses to Shen Yue, but then they dumped the entire disaster relief effort on him as well.

Although his uncle sent some men to help my cousin, they’re still on someone else’s turf, which makes everything inconvenient. Since my cousin Shen Yue just took over military affairs here, he’s been understandably swamped.

The most infuriating part is that the Liu Family dumped all this responsibility on my cousin but refused to provide any disaster relief supplies!

What’s the most critical thing for disaster relief?

Supplies, of course.

Without supplies, it’s a classic case of trying to make bricks without straw.

Shen Yue was at his wit’s end over it.

When Gu Xi took over the city’s management authority yesterday, she had briefly glanced at City A’s supply reserves. Relative to the city’s survivor population, the amount of various resources was indeed stretched dangerously thin.

Especially food and medicine...

"When was the last time the Liu Family requisitioned supplies from City A?" Wei Heng suddenly asked Tang You.

"Yesterday morning," Tang You’s voice was barely a whisper. "And it was a substantial amount."

’Just as they’d suspected.’

Gu Xi and Wei Heng exchanged a look. Just after they had announced their takeover of City A yesterday morning, the Liu Family had rushed to move a huge amount of supplies out before they even arrived.

But this shipment of supplies wasn’t recorded in any of the ledgers.

At least, when Gu Xi had previously reviewed City A’s supply ledgers, she hadn’t seen any record of this outflow.

In other words, right before Gu Xi took control of City A, a massive amount of supplies had... mysteriously vanished.