Finally, after discussion, the participants still maintained that the matter was highly suspicious and that there was a higher possibility that the person had betrayed them and lied about military intelligence.
Even if that's not the case, it's highly likely that it was just a successful famine riot, a rare occurrence in North America in recent years.
They just need to take back the granary quickly.
Although North America no longer has a military, military-like institutions have always existed, such as the National Guard and other similar organizations, and even the Internal Revenue Service has its own armed forces.
Although it can't be used for fighting, it's enough to be effective against a group of starving people who are unarmed and lack military skills.
The loss of the granary is not a major problem, as long as the grain inside has not been moved on a large scale.
Even if those starving people looted or cooked on the spot, how much food could they possibly consume?
More than 200,000 tons of grain cannot be stored or transported without specialized equipment!
As for the portion that was taken or eaten by starving people during the fall, consider it as food for the dogs.
Just as the National Guard received orders to set out to retake the grain depot and suppress the starving people, the depot fell completely, just as everyone had predicted.
Although the guards stationed inside the granary were of high military quality and knew how to cooperate and use tactics, there were simply too few of them.
Compared to tens of thousands of fearless starving people, their two or three hundred were barely enough to fill a gap in the stomach.
Less than two hours after the battle began, these guards abandoned the bodies of many of their comrades, and only about thirty people managed to escape the granary in vehicles.
Of course, the casualties suffered by the starving people were also considerable.
There were thousands of corpses lying on the ground, not counting those who had been shot and were still bleeding.
Even after such a bloody battle, the faces of the starving people remained numb, as if they had lost all emotion due to hunger.
Only when they heard the word "food" would a hint of emotion appear deep in their eyes.
Wang Lei brought some field medics to remove bullets and bandage the wounded, just like before, trying to treat the lightly wounded as much as possible.
Zhang Tianyuan also arrived here shortly after the battle ended.
He glanced around the scene and ordered the grain to be removed.
All the equipment operators from the warehouse were brought along.
Although we are currently in a period of extreme recession, the food storage industry is definitely not on the list of industries experiencing a downturn.
What Zhang Tianyuan was now facing was an extremely advanced grain warehouse with very modern equipment and design. It had computers and internet access, and he even found some old-fashioned action movies on the employees' computers.
The granary was one of the few places in this era with extremely high technological content. Without professional personnel to operate the equipment, it would be impossible to open the granary and release the grain.
This is why the starving people were willing to sit down and not choose to loot the food.
Immediately after occupying the granary, they attempted to destroy the large iron tanks storing the grain and extract it directly, with an obvious result.
With their rifles, they couldn't even penetrate those large metal cans, and the bullet ricochets even killed several of their own men.
So when Wang Lei came to stop them, they went along with it and handed over the opening of the warehouse to the professionals.
They still trusted Wang Lei.
After all, they had been given a meal before, and there was that magical Spacetime Tunnel.
Even if the starving people were in a daze, they knew that there was no human habitation for dozens of kilometers around the desert where they had been exiled, let alone a large granary.
However, their rationality only lasted until the very last second before the granary was successfully opened.
When the equipment operator opened the granary at Zhang Tianyuan's request, the still-fragrant grain gushed out of the large iron canisters, immediately enraging all the starving people, who began to scramble for it by any means necessary.
Zhang Tianyuan and his men stayed on the perimeter, letting the starving people fight over the loot.
Watching them scoop up grain with both hands, tirelessly stuffing it into bags, or even shoving it into their Barry and chewing until their teeth broke and their mouths bled, I felt a pang of sadness.
They also saw some people lying directly under the grain chute, like big turtles, constantly shoveling the surrounding grain under themselves until it formed a small pile. These people looked at the small pile under themselves and had silly smiles on their faces.
Zhang Tianyuan watched all of this with a cold eye, showing almost no emotional fluctuation.
By the time one storage tank was empty, the starving people had already looted all the grain.
He then ordered the next storage tank to be opened, and continued to watch as the starving people who hadn't had enough looted went to plunder.
This process was repeated round after round.
It wasn't until tens of thousands of tons of grain were distributed that the starving people went from excitement to numbness.
They finally realized that their actions were meaningless.
There was so much food on site that they couldn't possibly loot it all, nor could they take it all with them.
Ten thousand tons of grain, once fully released, are already as high as a mountain.
These tens of thousands of people have been looting until now, each person has taken at least several hundred kilograms, and some are simply grabbing grain; wherever grain is distributed, they run there, abandoning what they just grabbed. Xxs-2
It's meaningless.
Gradually, everyone collapsed onto the ground, exhausted.
They've stopped hoarding food.
But then they started crying again, each one crying harder than the last.
Zhang Tianyuan remained on the perimeter with his men, watching until the crying subsided. Only then did he say to Wang Lei, "We can talk to them about serious matters now."
Wang Lei nodded, then pointed to one of his men, a middle-aged white man named Barry, and asked him to stand up and speak as a representative.
"First of all, congratulations! You are no longer in the desert. You have successfully breached a granary. There are over 200,000 tons of grain, ample groundwater, and a large number of living facilities here."
"You have escaped the hell of hunger and successfully returned to the human world!"
Upon hearing these words, many starving people spontaneously stood up, raised their arms, and cheered with excitement, like a group of newly evolved apes.
Zhang Tianyuan calmly gestured for Barry to continue, telling him not to be affected.
"But!"
Barry took a deep breath and said into the Mike with a strong voice, "The seeds of crisis have already been sown!"
"The owners of this granary will not want you to occupy this place and waste this grain; they will definitely resort to various means."
Perhaps they will forcibly take it back, or perhaps they will negotiate with you and offer you a sufficiently tempting deal...
The starving people's minds were only now being awakened by the energy they had just replenished, and they remembered who owned the granary and what they themselves had done.
The room fell silent again.
Er.
A thin bamboo pole stood up, and a furious shout suddenly rang out:
"So what the hell!"