Chapter 16: The Savior Supports Him!

In the Administrative Hall.

A group of men, women, and children were kneeling, holding fire starters, threatening to self-immolate.

Their faces were numb, allowing the staff to pull at them, but they wouldn’t rise.

They all spoke in unison: give us water, or we’ll commit suicide.

“Please, give us some water to drink, we’re dying of thirst!”

“You clearly have water, why won’t you give it to us? Do you want us to die?”

“You hypocrites, you have food and water, yet you make us drink nutrient solution, hoping to starve and dehydrate us to death!”

As they spoke, a young girl, about ten years old, stared blankly, pressing the fire starter in her hand.

Whoosh!

The scorching flames ignited, engulfing the girl!

The kneeling people were startled.

Immediately, others followed suit and pressed their fire starters.

Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh!

The Administrative Hall was immediately consumed by flames!

However, in the next second, everyone realized that the girl who had been engulfed in flames and the few women and children who had been ignited had disappeared, replaced by others in a different place.

“Who dares to cause trouble here?”

The head of the administration, Bai Shuang, a mature and charismatic woman, and an eighth-level A-grade wood-type ability user, appeared.

She used her ability to pull out the people from the fire.

As soon as she appeared, the scene improved significantly.

The girl who had narrowly escaped death, once she regained consciousness, crawled over like a dog and clung to Bai Shuang’s legs.

“Please give me some food and water, I beg you, or I will die! My dad and uncle will eat me! I will kowtow to you!”

The girl kowtowed, her forehead bleeding.

Her clothes were tattered, her ribs faintly visible, with many wounds all over her body, old and new scars layered upon each other.

Bai Shuang frowned.

“Get up.”

She knew very well that some people in the city had become more beast-like than human.

What the girl displayed was just the tip of the iceberg.

Some people struggled through this painful apocalypse, while others had degenerated to the point of being worse than animals.

But what could be done?

There weren’t enough remaining resources to support so many security personnel, and since the last batch of security personnel was stabbed to death, this position had been vacant.

The girl dared not rise.

“Listen, the old you has already died in the flames. Now, your life belongs to me!”

Bai Shuang’s voice was cold.

She scanned the others who had pressed their fire starters.

“You too!”

The girl stopped kowtowing and shakily stood up.

Bai Shuang handed her two tubes of nutrient solution.

“Drink this for now.”

The girl’s eyes lit up, snatching the nutrient solution and gulping it down.

The others swallowed in envy.

Those who had come here to light fires were the lowest level of people.

The “lowest level” meant that anyone could bully them, and anyone could trample on them.

The allotted nutrient solution and protein liquid were mostly taken from them by others, leaving them with no way out.

“Distribute the remaining nutrient solution and protein liquid to them!” Bai Shuang ordered.

“Shuang Jie!” Some staff members tried to stop her, reminding her that although everyone had received three tubes of nutrient solution and even a bottle of water last night, who knew if this would be their last supper.

“Do as I say!” Bai Shuang snapped.

“Yes!” The staff complied.

There wasn’t much nutrient solution left in the Administrative Hall, all of it squeezed out by everyone verbally.

Once the nutrient solution was distributed, the crowd’s emotions stabilized considerably.

They looked at Bai Shuang with hope in their eyes.

Bai Shuang scanned the room and spoke:

“I’ve heard your demands. I’m sure everyone is clear about who our City Lord is.”

“In this city, if there’s a grain of rice, a drop of water, the City Lord will never keep it all to himself as long as there are people in need.”

“You can all ask yourselves honestly, since the Song family took control of Xuanwu City, has the City Lord ever disappointed you?”

“Don’t let anyone manipulate you.”

The crowd fell silent.

Ashamed, they lowered their heads.

Among the crowd, a man with a sharp face cast a venomous glance at Bai Shuang, spat, and kicked a crippled person.

The crippled man limped out of the crowd and shouted loudly:

“You’re avoiding the important issues! So what if the City Lord is great! He clearly has water but refuses to give it to us!”

“All that water went to you high-ranking officials, not to us common people!”

“It’s because the base has run out of food, and you’re planning to abandon us! You want us to die!”

The crowd, which had calmed down, fell back into a standoff because of his incitement.

The crippled man’s words were highly provocative.

In a life-or-death situation, rationality was always the first to be discarded.

“We don’t want to die, we want food, we want water!”

“Give us food, give us water!”

“Death, death, death, we all die together!”

The kneeling people rushed toward Bai Shuang and the others.

The Administrative Hall descended into chaos.

At this moment, more and more people gathered, but most were numb from despair.

Hunger and thirst had made it impossible for them to make the right judgments.

Not participating in this riot was already their greatest restraint.

Life in the apocalypse was so hard!

Bai Shuang panicked.

She didn’t blame these people.

They had been stirred up.

But the situation was critical. If not handled properly, the entire administration would face massive scrutiny.

The sharp-faced man sneered and pressed the button on the fire starter he was holding.

This button could control all the fire starters in the hands of the people. Whether they wanted it or not, the fire starters would ignite.

He planned to use this tactic to force the city to give up food and water.

Hundreds of flames instantly ignited at full power, like small bombs.

The sound of a hundred small bombs exploding would be enough to overwhelm even an A-grade ability user.

Half of the people would die.

The sharp-faced man sneered, preparing to enjoy the joy of his success.

But in the next second, a white light swept across the scene, completely suppressing and extinguishing the flames produced by the explosions.

Except for a few who suffered minor scrapes, everyone else was spared.

The crowd, still in shock, stood frozen in place.

“The City Lord is here!”

Song Lüfeng strode in, his presence dominating the entire room. Because of his impressive battle record and the awe his recent action had inspired, no one dared to cause trouble.

Even the sharp-faced man lowered his head, not daring to be arrogant.

Wasn’t the City Lord unable to use his powers anymore?

If he used them again, his body would collapse.

How come he looked so relaxed, with no sign of collapse?

Song Lüfeng stopped, and his voice resonated through every corner of the hall.

“From today, every person in the base will receive three tubes of nutrient solution, protein solution, and one tube of water daily.”

“Every citizen must register to receive it.”

“Anyone who causes trouble will have their rations revoked.”

The crowd erupted in joy.

“Great! The City Lord says we’ll get nutrient solution and protein solution every day, plus water!”

“Has the situation at the base improved?”

“The City Lord never lies to us. We’re saved, and our children will survive!”

“Wow, three tubes of nutrient solution every day, I never dared to imagine that!”

“Are our lives going to get better?”

The sharp-faced man hid in the crowd, loudly saying:

“But I heard there’s food, meat, and clean water. The City Lord wouldn’t hide them from us, would he?”

He hid well.

But Song Lüfeng’s sharp gaze locked onto him like an eagle.

A wave of panic surged through him.

Xuanwu Base had survived these internal and external crises thanks to this powerful City Lord.

He had extraordinary strength and even more formidable methods.

Otherwise, the Guangming Group would never have dared to show their face.

If not for the rumor that he was too malnourished to use his powers, they wouldn’t have dared to make a scene so openly.

But what was going on now?

He seemed so energetic, not at all like someone whose body was about to collapse!

Just as Song Lüfeng was about to speak, his phone buzzed with a message from the Savior.

“City Lord, tell them you have water, and you have plenty of meat!”

“I’ve already ordered 600,000 pounds of pork, 800,000 pounds of beef, and 10,000 chickens. They’ll be delivered soon.”

“I’ve also called to buy water, 1 million bottles!”

“Please stand tall and tell your citizens that you can feed them, but anyone who causes trouble gets nothing to eat!”

After reading the message, Song Lüfeng’s chest swelled with joy and gratitude.

His Savior was supporting him!