Zhong Heng, Peng Yue, and Bai Xunyang all raised many of their own doubts.
For example, how to secretly establish outposts, how to prevent others from connecting the outposts with the team, and where the supplies and personnel for the outposts would come from, how to develop in the uncontrolled zone, and so on.
In response to these doubts, Tang Li said, "I have a friend..."
"It's that all-purpose merchant in the black market, Boss Li. Our solar panels, and the appliances I asked Sister Guo to sell, were all sourced from him."
"He has a lot of supplies. We can cooperate with him and let him operate the outposts as shops. At the same time, we can buy supplies from him and sell him the scrap he needs."
"I'll go to the refuge to discuss the specific situation with him first. You all stay at the exchange office in this camp and talk to him when he arrives."
After the four of them discussed, they decided to let Peng Yue and Bai Xunyang stay at the exchange office for another day with their people.
Zhong Heng, along with Tang Li and Lin Xi, drove the criminals in the armored vehicles back to the Jiangcheng refuge overnight.
When they arrived at the parking lot of the county exchange office, Tang Li saw that Lin Xi had already brought sixty female team members, paired up, escorting the thirty women whose memories had been altered, into the two modified large passenger buses.
Entering a bus, Tang Li saw Lin Xi sitting next to Lu Wan.
Lu Wan had put on her own clothes and had re-entered hibernation. She was now with her eyes closed, leaning against another female team member, as if she were asleep.
"How is it? Did anything happen just now?" Tang Li asked with concern.
At Lin Xi's insistence, these women with altered memories were not treated as accomplices of the criminals and sent to build the underground city.
However, they could not remain in hibernation all the time, without eating or drinking.
So, Lin Xi had taken people to release them from hibernation one by one, allowing them to eat and drink to replenish their energy.
But because of their hostility towards the "United Team," many of them refused to eat, and even tried to break free from Lin Xi's control. It took a lot of effort to get them to eat and drink.
Therefore, Lin Xi decided to send them to Song Pinxuan's laboratory overnight to see if their original memories could be restored, or at least if the implanted false memories could be deleted.
Lin Xi looked at Lu Wan beside her and said, "If only everyone were as well-behaved as her."
Tang Li also stroked Lu Wan's hair, finding the texture pleasant.
She suggested, "Why don't we release her from hibernation first?"
Lin Xi shook her head, "It would be bad if something happened on the way. It's better to send her safely to Researcher Song first."
A moment later, Zhong Heng's team was also ready outside.
Tang Li got into her battle mecha and left the camp in F City with the convoy.
Along the way, Tang Li saw many vehicles coming towards this camp and many vehicles loaded with people and goods leaving.
It was currently the extreme heat season. Although the temperature at night was still above 40 degrees Celsius, it could be considered cool compared to the scorching sun during the day.
In this time of water scarcity, it was naturally at night that migration incurred the least loss.
The F City refuge, due to the drying up of the river, was busy migrating to Jiangcheng itself and would not send anyone to the "Tianwang Gang" camp to pick up people.
But after this night, it would be enough to transport the victimized civilians and captured criminals from the "Tianwang Gang" camp back to Jiangcheng.
Along the way, in addition to the vehicles traveling between Jiangcheng and the "Tianwang Gang" camp, Tang Li also saw many other large convoys.
These were convoys migrating from other cities to Jiangcheng.
Due to the great drought, not only F City, but many other cities in the eastern region would choose to abandon their original refuges and migrate to Jiangcheng.
Including the farther south G City, which was migrating to both Jiangcheng and Haicheng at the same time.
And at night, it was the busiest time for these migrating convoys. During the day, they would rest at service areas or refuges along the way.
The people in these convoys were all equipped with protective suits.
After all, under the organized migration by local governments, it was a phased migration, unlike the refugees whose refuges had collapsed and could only rely on themselves.
Tang Li and her group returned directly to the Jiangcheng refuge without stopping.
By then, it was already 3 AM on the second day, and the sky was about to brighten.
Tang Guo and Peng Yixuan, having learned in advance that Tang Li was returning, were already waiting at the entrance of Jiangcheng Refuge No. 7 on the south bank of the Great Jiang.
After Tang Li returned, she heard that Tang Guo and the others had been attacked, but fortunately, they had anticipated it and made preparations, so they escaped without danger, which relieved her.
However, they could no longer continue as itinerant vendors.
Tang Li told Tang Guo to rest at home for a while, and to open a shop in the black market when the shop there was ready.
But what she didn't know was that a change was also happening in the black market at this very moment...