In the end of the world, I want to be the queen of zombies

The number of tons is neither too much nor too little.

If only the few people in Phoenix City ate tons of frozen food, they would not be able to finish them in ten or even a hundred lifetimes.

But if it is the survivor base in City C, which has nearly 200 million survivors, these frozen foods will only last for two months at most before they are completely eaten up.

In today's environment, resuming production is almost out of reach, and any materials are consumables that are difficult to regenerate.

If the survivor bases across Blue Star want to survive, they only have two choices.

The first is to find a way to get out of the base, establish a larger safe zone, and resume production as soon as possible, at least to resume the production of staple food.

The second is to reduce the number of survivors. As long as the number of survivors is reduced, the same survival supplies can naturally allow them to survive longer.

No matter which path you choose, it will be paved with countless blood and tears.

For Su Li, taking away this batch of supplies means that he needs to bear corresponding responsibilities, because these supplies belong to the four southeastern districts of the entire third province.

Even if Su Li didn't take these supplies, they would go bad after a while.

After leaving the freezer, Su Li went to sweep the grain and oil section of the farmers’ market.

Probably because the grain and oil area was the first place the coalition government rushed to transport goods, most of the stalls here were emptied, leaving only a large number of zombies wandering back and forth.

Su Li found a few stalls deep in the grain and oil area whose doors were closed but the locks were intact, and teleported directly in.

Whether it was seasonings such as salt, MSG, soy sauce, or staple foods such as rice, noodles, and flour, Su Li stuffed them all into the space.

There were also dried chili peppers, pepper, Sichuan pepper, star anise, cinnamon, fennel, cumin and the like, and Su Li took as many as she could.

Although Su Li eats raw meat, her little pet has a strong taste. He kept saying that he missed chili peppers very much and could only use spicy strips to relieve his homesickness.

After moving the grain and oil store, Su Li once again harvested about 1500 tons of staple foods such as rice and countless condiments of various kinds.

Based on the storage capacity of goods in each stall, Su Li roughly calculated that the amount of staple food that was rushed out by the United Government should be around 35 tons.

This amount is roughly the monthly food ration for 6 million people in the six surrounding cities.

Including the supplies that were rushed from the frozen food area, there were about 20 tons of supplies. In a short period of time, the joint government rushed 55 tons of supplies from the urban area.

“How cruel…”

Su Li tapped the calculated data on the paper with her fingers and a bitter smile appeared on her face.

A 13.5-meter semi-trailer has a load capacity of approximately 32 tons. If overloaded, it can pull 50 tons.

Even if all 55 tons of materials are transported by semi-trailers, it will still take several trains to transport them all.

However, the joint government transported such a large amount of supplies from the city in a short period of time, but did not send any vehicles to evacuate the survivors.

Not only that, they also issued a notice strictly ordering everyone to wait for rescue to avoid everyone scrambling to travel and causing traffic jams.

For all the citizens of Blue Star, more than three hundred years of peaceful rule have made them accustomed to obeying the orders of the United Government, because they always believe that the United Government will never abandon any citizen of Blue Star.

This is true for all residents of City C, including Su Li.

But the truth is often so cruel. From the very beginning, the coalition government gave up rescuing survivors and instead chose to transport supplies from all over the place.

Because of their trust in the coalition government, 1600 million residents of City C lost the best window for escape.

Countless people died while waiting with hope.

Today, there are still millions of people living in this devastated city, suffering from hunger and despair every day.

Every day, every hour, every minute, every second, survivors are dying.

Su Li crumpled the paper in her hand into a ball, and couldn't help feeling angry at being deceived.

But can she blame the Coalition?

The answer is no.

Because the coalition government only took the overall situation into consideration and adopted the best solution after careful calculation.

Where to build the survivor base, what size it should be, how many people it can accommodate, and how much supplies need to be stored, all of these require trade-offs.

The survivor base in City C can only accommodate 230 million people. There are a total of 3 survivor bases in the four southeastern districts of the third province, but the total population within the jurisdiction is close to 5 million.

It’s not that the coalition government doesn’t want to build more bases, but it lacks the ability to do so.

After the virus broke out, most areas, including garrison camps everywhere, fell into chaos.

The deployment of personnel and materials alone is a very difficult problem.

When the C City Survivor Base was being built, long-distance ground transportation had been completely paralyzed, and all major airports were completely occupied at the first moment, so most of the construction equipment was rushed and transported by helicopter.

This mode of transportation is not very efficient and the amount of materials it can carry is very limited.

This means that it is difficult to complete the construction of the survivor base, and a good balance must be struck in both quantity and scale.

And even if more bases could be built, the coalition government lacked sufficient garrison forces.

If a survivor base does not have enough military force to defend against the zombies' attacks, then this base will undoubtedly be a huge buffet party for the zombies.

Even if they managed to successfully defend against the zombies' attack, there was still a huge gap in survival supplies that needed to be addressed.

Just like the survivor base in City C, they transported back 55 tons of food. This number sounds like a lot, but what is the reality?

This amount of supplies can only sustain more than 20,000 survivors at the survivor base in City C for one year at most.

But what if the number of survivors was not two million, but twenty million.

How long can these supplies last?

A month? Or two months?

Let alone one or two months, even in a year, can humans find a new way out of the apocalypse? Can they restore production and complete the internal circulation of food in the context of the zombies?

If not, where will human civilization go after the supplies are exhausted?

There are many problems facing the coalition government, and all of them require the coalition government to make quick decisions in a short period of time.

Even if this choice is both tragic and cruel.

Therefore, in order to ensure the continuation of civilization and race, abandoning the vast majority of the population and trying to extend the preservation time of the human fire is the only choice the coalition government must make.

Intellectually speaking, Su Li can understand the decision made by the coalition government.

But emotionally, she found it difficult to accept such an outcome.

Although she is a zombie now and doesn't need to empathize with humans, she was once a human after all.