Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2031 Learning from Big Brother: No Choices, I Want It All!
"They really do look exactly alike!"

Li Zhengping looked at Dai Xinyan in front of him and saw that Dai Xinyan looked flustered and stared straight at her sister inside the one-way glass.

"My sister couldn't possibly have killed someone at the market, please let her go," Dai Xinyan pleaded with Li Zhengping.

Li Zhengping looked at Dai Xinyi inside the glass, then at Dai Xinyan in front of him. To be honest, he couldn't tell the difference between the two just by looking at them.

"cough!"

“Your sister has confessed to murder.” Li Zhengping continued, changing the subject:
"However, as long as it can be proven that she acted in self-defense and did not kill intentionally, there will be no problem. You can sit over there first."

Li Zhengping pointed to a row of benches next to him.

“But…” Dai Xinyan was about to speak, but after looking at Li Zhengping, she chose to swallow her words.

She wasn't good with words to begin with, and her unreasonable arguing only made people uncomfortable.

It's better to wait for the investigation results and then see what to do.

So she walked over to the stool, sat down, but her gaze remained fixed on Dai Xinyi inside the one-way glass room.

Li Zhengping glanced at her out of the corner of his eye and saw that Dai Xinyan was sitting upright, her hands gripping her pants, clearly extremely nervous.

Her delicate face had her lips stubbornly pursed, like a daisy blooming in the wind and rain.

Strong yet fragile.

Thump thump!
Li Zhengping's heart inexplicably raced. This younger sister...tsk.

"Captain."

"Captain."

Seeing Li Zhengping staring intently at Dai Xinyan, Qi Wei couldn't help but shout, "Captain Li!"

"What are you doing!" Li Zhengping turned his head and was startled to see Qi Wei leaning closer. He picked at his ear and cursed.

"Why is it so loud?!"

There was another person next to Qi Wei, who hadn't even noticed when they had entered.

Qi Wei noticed that Li Zhengping was staring at Dai Xinyan with a flickering gaze. He seemed to have figured something out, but he didn't dare to say anything.

"Hey, Captain, Xiao Ma from the technical department copied the video. Shall we take a look together?" Qi Wei said, pointing to the young man next to him.

Li Zhengping scratched his head and looked at Xiao Ma with some surprise: "So fast, what did you find in the surveillance footage?"

Xiao Ma quickly reported to Li Zhengping:

"Captain, we organized a team to check the surveillance footage for nearly half a month and found that Liu Fei followed Dai Xinyi every day, and even went to room 308 in the same building to spy on her in the middle of the night."

Upon hearing this, Li Zhengping raised an eyebrow. "Hmph!"
Qi Wei is really something; he actually guessed correctly.

"Go and have a look."

The group took the copied video upstairs, then turned on an office computer and plugged in the hard drive.

Play video.

After organizing the video, Xiao Ma gradually showed the footage to Li Zhengping and Qi Wei.

In the video footage, from Dai Xinyi's trip to the commercial district to buy cornbread after get off work, to getting water, and even while shopping, there is always a familiar figure in the crowd behind her.

The owner of this figure was none other than the deceased, Liu Fei.

If it happened once or twice, it could be considered a coincidence, but almost every day, Dai Xinyi was followed by this man.

Clearly, Liu Fei had been eyeing Dai Xinyi for a long time.

With a motive and indirect evidence of the crime established, the forensic examination of the marks on the two individuals' bodies further confirms that Dai Xinyi's statement is true.

Li Zhengping stood up, looked at Qi Wei, and asked:

"It's clear now, this case is settled!"

"Dai Xinyi was acquitted, and Liu Fei's body was dumped out of the buffer city."

"By the way, compile this case into a case study and post it on the bulletin board and broadcast it over the loudspeaker in a couple of days to inform all residents."

Qi Wei had no objection to this:

"Okay, Captain, shall we release Dai Xinyi now?"

Li Zhengping said speechlessly:

"Otherwise, what's the point? Now that we know what happened, why keep him locked up? Are we going to keep him until the New Year?"

Qi Wei nodded awkwardly and said:

"Okay, then I'll let her go right now."

"Wait a minute," Li Zhengping said after a few seconds of contemplation.
"Let me do it."

Qi Wei's lips twitched. He realized that the captain had really taken a liking to Dai Xinyan.

wrong
It's also possible that he's taken a liking to Dai Xinyi.

Following Captain Li's lead, Qi Wei and Xiao Ma went downstairs together.

Downstairs, Dai Xinyan stood outside the one-way glass room watching her sister, with two staff members standing next to her.

"Captain."

"Captain."

When the two team members saw Li Zhengping come down, they quickly greeted him.

Li Zhengping nodded and looked at Dai Xinyan, who was also looking at him with expectant eyes.

"Captain Li, have you found out yet? My sister didn't commit murder intentionally, did she?"

Li Zhengping's heart started pounding again as she looked at him.

For some reason, he felt a little shy being stared at by Dai Xinyan.

He has been the patrol captain at the trading market for nearly two years, and the experience he has had in this position has made him appear more composed.

Given his important position, people in the trading market usually looked at him with awe and respect.

But at that moment, he actually felt shy being looked at by a twenty-year-old girl.

awkward
But he is actually only 23 years old, and he won't be officially 23 until a month later.

"Ahem, yeah."

Li Zhengping composed himself and regained the authority of the patrol team leader.

He said in a slightly gentle tone:
"Based on the marks on the clothing above, as well as footprints and surveillance video evidence, Liu Fei followed your sister and attempted to rape her. In the process of resisting, Dai Xinyi unintentionally killed Zhao Fei."

Dai Xinyi is released on the spot!

"That's great!" Dai Xinyan excitedly pumped her fist and said to Li Zhengping:
"Thank you, you're a good person!"

"???" Li Zhengping's lips twitched when he heard this. "Giving me a friend card?"

No, you're thinking the wrong thing.

He looked at the two teammates beside him and said, "What are you standing there for? Release them now!"

The two team members exchanged a glance and quickly ran to the interrogation room to release Dai Xinyi.

After Dai Xinyi came out, she immediately saw Dai Xinyan.

He immediately ran over and hugged his younger sister.

"How did you come?"

Dai Xinyan said excitedly:

"Captain Li and his team have investigated and confirmed that you did not commit murder unintentionally. Sister, you are now acquitted!"

"Ah!" Dai Xinyi was clearly surprised that the matter was investigated so quickly and that she was released immediately.

This was even better than the best outcome she had originally anticipated.

She turned to Li Zhengping and thanked him:

"Thank you, Captain Li, thank you all."

Li Zhengping looked at Dai Xinyi, and his heart started pounding again.

This one looks good too.

He hadn't been able to see clearly from behind the glass, and the dim lighting in the interrogation room had made it difficult. Now, face-to-face, less than two meters away, he was utterly captivated.

this.
Am I attracted to my younger sister or my older sister?
Li Zhengping couldn't help but start to doubt himself.

Then he thought of his older brother, Li Yu.

Li Yu transformed him from a good-for-nothing into an elite, and he took Li Yu as his role model from a young age.

It seems like my older brother has more than one woman, so does that mean I can like one more?
You can't go wrong by learning from your older brother.

Thinking of this, he felt relieved, raised his head to look at Dai Xinyi and Dai Xinyan, and smiled gently:

"Serving the residents is the guiding principle of our patrol team!"

"We will never wrong an innocent person, but we will never let a guilty person go unpunished!"

He wanted to project a superior image in front of the twin sisters.

The two staff members behind him looked at Li Zhengping with some surprise.

When did the captain ever say such a thing?

Is this still the captain?
Only Qi Wei stood not far away, quietly watching this scene.

His insightful eyes had already seen through everything.

He thought to himself: These twins are lucky. Let's see if they know what's good for them.

Within the powerful camphor tree community, the Li family was undoubtedly highly sought after.

Moreover, he is a direct male descendant of the Li family for three generations, holding considerable power.

The future is limitless.

If these twins could follow Li Zhengping, it would be like climbing a high branch and clinging to a powerful figure, and the most powerful one at that in the trading market!

Ah Qiu~
Camphor Tree Base.

Li Yu sneezed. In such hot weather, he was sneezing; someone must be nibbling at him.

Li Yu racked his brains but couldn't figure out who was cursing him.

"Where were we?" Li Yu asked, looking at Yu Tong sitting on the swing.

Yu Tong smiled and said, "You just mentioned the issue of electric vehicles."

"Oh, right." Li Yu walked over to Yu Tong and sat down next to her on the swing.

Said:

"Two days ago, Lao Luo, who was stationed in the Northwest, and Lü Cheng in the Northern Border were both urging the transport convoy to go to their area. The current capacity of the two transport convoys is completely insufficient!"

"Fortunately, the car factory is basically completed, and we can start producing vehicles in two days."

"I talked with my third uncle, second uncle, and eldest uncle, and we felt that it would be more appropriate to hand over the leadership of the third largest transport fleet to Guo Peng and the Imperial Concubine."

Yu Tong listened quietly to Li Yu's words and then asked:

Why is it another male-female pairing again?

Li Yu gently tiptoed and started swinging on the swing:
"The old saying 'Men and women working together makes the work easier' still holds true, as evidenced by the experience of the previous two transport teams."

The pressure and risks of transporting goods outside the region are immense; a single misstep can lead to a major problem.

Generally speaking, the men are bolder, and the women are more meticulous; the combination of the two is just right.

"Mmm." Yu Tong nodded and rested her head on Li Yu's shoulder.

Li Yu stroked her hair gently.

He murmured to himself, as if speaking to Yu Tong, yet also as if talking to himself:

"Now the influence of the camphor tree is growing, and the population is increasing. There are no natural disasters or powerful enemies at present, so it is a good time for development."

We don't know when natural disasters will strike, but at least they haven't happened yet. We must seize this opportunity to push forward quickly! Push forward some more!

Yu Tong said:

"Brother Yu, have you ever considered that a natural disaster might already be coming?"

"Huh? Why do you say that?" Li Yu asked, somewhat surprised.

Yu Tong said earnestly:
"The daytime high temperature has reached 45 degrees Celsius. In such hot weather, if the construction site had not taken corresponding cooling measures, there would probably be even more people fainting on the site."

And Yu-ge, think about it, how long has it been since it rained?

Upon hearing this, Li Yu frowned slightly.

It really is.

The basic conditions and facilities at the camphor tree base are excellent.

Almost all of them have air conditioning installed. Li Yu can find air conditioning wherever he goes, from the villa area to the outer city administrative building, or to the buffer city entertainment center.

So I didn't feel much.

If you do the math, it's been almost 80 days since it last rained, nearly three months.

Even a river outside the camphor tree base has dried up, and many of the weeds on both sides of the road have withered and died.

but!

Whether it's the camphor tree base, the oil city, or the northern border, there is no shortage of water now.

These bases all have water treatment plants built on them, which are connected to the largest reservoir in the vicinity.

Putting aside other things, the Nanwan Reservoir, located a dozen kilometers away from the oil city, is the fourth largest reservoir in Henan Province in terms of water capacity. No matter how the oil city uses it, the water in the Nanwan Reservoir will never run out.

The maximum amount of drinking water for 100 million people per year is 100 million cubic meters.

If a person drinks 2 liters of water a day, that's 0.002 cubic meters, and 0.73 cubic meters a year.

However, Nanwan Lake contains 16 billion cubic meters of water.

Even if an oil city has industrial water use, agricultural water use, and domestic water use such as bathing, it still wouldn't need that much water.

Although the reservoirs near Dazhangshu and the northern border are not as large as Nanwan Reservoir, the water in the reservoirs is enough for their use even if it doesn't rain for one or two years.

If it were during the first two years after the apocalypse, they would probably be frantically trying to dig wells to get water.

Or if it doesn't rain for a month, they will start digging reservoirs to store more water.

But now, thanks to the opening of a large reservoir outside the city and the construction of a waterworks, they have no pressure and can meet their needs for both industrial and construction water.

This is the benefit of vigorously developing infrastructure.

If the walls are high and sturdy enough, and equipped with intelligent mobile guillotines, they can keep out the zombies outside the city.

If greenhouses are sturdy enough and built in sufficient numbers, food production can be ensured.

With the waterworks in place, droughts will have little impact on them.

Unless it's a drought that lasts for many years, then it will probably be difficult to handle.

Li Yu couldn't help but think of the high temperatures and droughts of earlier years, when they also had a very difficult time.

They conserve water and try to use it sparingly because they don't know when the drought will end.

But now, when natural disasters strike, they don't feel much of a difference.

Even if Yu Tong hadn't reminded him, he wouldn't have realized that this was a natural disaster.

Li Yu shook his head with a wry smile and said:
"Yutong, what you said is really true. It's just that we have enough water and enough ways to deal with it now, so I didn't feel anything."

Yu Tong tucked her hair behind her ears.

"That's great. It means everything is getting better. If things continue to develop like this, even if other natural disasters occur, they won't have any impact on us."

Li Yu inexplicably recalled the words the old Taoist priest had once spoken, which suddenly made his heart sink.

But so what?
Man can conquer heaven!

He looked up at the night sky, which had been particularly beautiful lately.

The Milky Way stretches far and wide, and the stars shine brightly.

Li Yu and Yu Tong sat side by side on a swing chair in the inner city park, swaying gently.

The evening breeze carried away the daytime heat and brought a rare touch of nighttime coolness.

(End of this chapter)