Natural Disasters Strikes: I stockpiled like crazy!-Chapter 153: A Replacement

"Thank you for your help," Colonel Tang thanked the villager.

"No problem! Thank you for taking care of my mother too!"

After fulfilling the promised accommodations and supplies, Colonel Tang grew curious about the mushrooms and quickly followed Lin Weihao into the hospital, still carrying the bag.

As they passed by the mild ward, they saw a commotion—some medics were being harassed by the patients’ families.

"We’re civilians! It’s your duty to protect and provide for us! Without us, there would be no country, no taxes, no military, no public nurses! The government built this army with our money, so everything you have exists because of us! And now, when we need you the most, you turn your backs on us! Give us the medicine! How dare you say we need to wait before my son’s fever gets worse?!"

After discovering the stabilizer, Lin Weihao allowed one family member to visit their relative.

Lin Weihao glanced at Colonel Tang with a scrutinizing look before stepping inside the ward.

He stood behind the man, listening.

He knew that Zhi Zhi would not stay here after winter, and at this time, he was looking for a replacement for himself, as his grandfather was too old for the stress.

Colonel Tang was one of the people he was considering.

He was also considering Wang Chul, but he wasn’t ready to take on such a huge role yet.

Colonel Tang, well-built and honed from relentless training, carried the natural air of dominance and discipline only veterans who had survived near-death battles possessed. Coupled with the blood on his coat and boots, he intimidated those around him.

Those who had been shouting earlier immediately fell silent.

His gaze swept across the people who had been harassing the medics, his exhaustion turning into simmering frustration. "You have no idea how much manpower and medicine have been spent just to keep your families alive, and we did it without asking for anything in return. Yet here you are, acting like we owe you. No. We don’t owe you a thing. You should be grateful we’re even trying to save you."

A young woman in the crowd stepped forward, her voice trembling with a mix of anger and fear. "But we are taxpayers. The government pays you with our taxes! Isn’t it your duty to serve us?!"

Colonel Tang’s voice grew firmer, more cutting. He took a step forward, his gaze unwavering. "This base is not run by the government. The government you mentioned didn’t give you the medicine. It was the Base Leader. The medics and the soldiers who guard this base are also paid by the Base Leader!"

"The old world is long gone. Those boats that rescued you from the flood were also from the Base Leader. The ones who sat on government seats before and received all your taxes fled to the capital before winter came. If you want to demand something, go to the capital and find them…"

"Additionally, the doctors, the nurses, and the researchers you’re harassing haven’t slept properly while attending to your families. If it weren’t for them, how would this hospital even run?"

"For all we know, you’re just trying to save all the medicine for the soldiers and—"

It seems like Colonel Tang’s words didn’t reach them, there was still someone who wants to morally kidnapped.

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These people had grown too comfortable from eating free food in recent days and developed a certain shamelessness.

The last speaker was all too familiar to Lin Weihao. Wang Chul had shown him a video of a nurse and the man from one of the wards who had incited the incident in the hallway.

Wang Chul had told him that when he searched the nurse’s room, he found bags of rice, expensive cosmetics, and food.

Colonel Tang opened the large body bag in his hand and threw it toward the complainers.

The complainers gasped and screamed in utter fear when the bag spilled open, revealing the dead body of a giant yellow scaled snake.

"Ahh!"

In the past, Colonel Tang wouldn’t have been able to carry a 15-meter-long, 150-kilogram snake. But after drinking the Frostbane serum, he had gained some extra strength.

"You can talk about fairness when you can kill a beast like this. Until then, shut your mouths in front of those who risk their lives to kill these monsters to bring you medicine and let you sleep peacefully every night!"

The size of this snake was monstrous. In the face of such a creature, no one had the courage to say another word.

The man who had planned to get paid ended up pissing himself, leaving the ward in humiliation.

As he left the hospital and was about to go somewhere, he placed a note under a rock hidden in the snow. A black-gloved hand suddenly grabbed his neck.

"Look at that. I caught a rat," Wang Chul said.

The man’s breath hitched.

It didn’t take long for him to confess. Wang Chul quickly deduced the person behind him.

Pei Huangyi was not welcomed into the underground residence in Area No. 3. Instead, he was given a room in the free underground bunker.

Despite the crude conditions, he had all the space to himself. All the furniture in his room was antique and luxurious, filled with jade from bribes. Using his grandfather’s name and making false promises, he had gathered these items.

"That despicable Lin Weihao, I’ll tell my grandfather about his rudeness once I get to Jade City..."

Lin Weihao didn’t go home immediately. He passed by some offices and started shopping for jade, exchanging it for winter supplies.

"Boss Lin, who are you giving these jades to?"

"My girl likes jades," he replied simply, no longer hiding anything.

"Boss Lin, when did you get a girl?"

"Who is it, Boss Lin?"

"Is the girl inside the base?"

"Boss Lin, tell us! Tell us!"

Soon enough, rumors about Lin Weihao having a girl he liked spread throughout the base.