Chapter 98 - meet up

These days, many soldiers and troops came to the base one after another, but they all lived in a newly built barracks outside the base, and they did not interfere with the people in the base. If it is said that they came to support this base, it doesn’t look like it.

But if it is said that these people came to fight into the city together, but they did not see any ammunition they brought over. As a result, the members of these bases gossip, chat, and analyze the situation every day, in order to spend this depressing end-time life with no entertainment programs.

A group of idlers were squatting on the side of the street gossiping, but because the weather was too cold, they could only turn around and sneak into some nearby buildings to keep warm for fun.

There is indeed no leisure in the last days, but if you are willing to use your brain, you can still find a lot of fun and relaxing things to do.

The first floor of many nearby buildings was originally a Datong shop for people to live in, but at this time they were forcibly occupied by some strong, supernatural, and grouped people. At this time, there were several stoves in the room, in which various furniture, firewood, and even some coal were burning. But because a lot of wood inside is pre-apocalyptic composite wood, the roof of the room has already been blackened by thick smoke.

Now most of these rooms will have a bunch of large round tables, groups of men, women and children sitting around the tables – playing cards.

Poker and mahjong, these two kinds of cards are basically the only ones on the big round table at this time, let alone the mahjong players. There are different types of poker tables, big and small, such as fighting landlords, upgrades, Texas Hold’em, and many other local unique games.

The jackpots on these gaming tables are also different from those before the end of the world. There is no smoking or money to gamble here, and all the bets are all kinds of materials. Instant noodles, biscuits, potato chips, ham sausage, and even coats and clothes, there are small baskets next to each table, filled with all kinds of weird gambling money.

And the second floor of these buildings is not so quiet. It is also the room of Datongpu. Although it is daytime, there are singing and dancing… Yes, it is singing and dancing, similar to the small bar before the end of the world, although there is no one here. You can get electrical equipment to play music, but some people can still hold the guitar to recharge the number, in addition, there are many people who can only go up and howl.

Most of these people won’t earn a penny all day long, and some lucky people might get some food from some lucky people downstairs. More people regard this place as a place to entertain themselves and vent their resentment.

Most of these places are just places of entertainment for the middle and lower class residents of the base. Although it is a bit of a waste of time, it is better than having nothing to play, and even if they gamble, they will only sacrifice two or three days of rations at most. .

It is said that there are more fun places in the depths of the base, where some big forces are entrenched. The people there have access and resources. I heard that some of the bosses behind the shops have the ability to get solar panels. Those shops can not only turn on the lights at night, but also play music to invite girls to dance on stage. These people who just live outside the base are naturally not qualified to enter those places.

The sound of playing cards on the first floor of the room continued. Not long after, a man who won a few small hands held a few packs of instant noodles he had won, stuffed sausages in his pocket, and sneaked around when no one in the room was paying attention to him. He slipped out of the room and quickly walked towards the house along the bottom of the wall.

It’s not that he has something urgent or is in a hurry to go home, or that he stole things from others to avoid being discovered, but—from time to time, you can hear that some people who made money from the casino were knocked unconscious with a stick on the way out, When those people wake up, not to mention the things they won, even their clothes will be stripped off!

If it’s fine in the summer, even if someone knocks him out and robs him, it doesn’t matter if he walks the bird back in a rage. But now it is winter! Don’t talk about being stripped naked these days, even if you are still wearing clothes, it is still a matter of whether you can wake up after sleeping on the side of the road!

The man was walking in a hurry, and just turned a corner when he was in the dark.

The man’s reaction was also considered clever. He quickly jumped back and was about to turn his head and run away, but at some point behind him, a man with a big waist and round waist appeared, and he hit his head with a stick with a thick arm. come over!

With a “plop”, the unlucky man fell to the ground, the instant noodles in his arms scattered all over the floor, and a few sausages rolled out of his pocket.

“This, so much blood, won’t you die?!” A person asked with a trembling voice.

“Bah! If you die, you die! How many people die in this base every day?”

“Pick it up quickly, be careful of being stained with blood!” One person hurriedly squatted down to grab instant noodles and sausages.

“There are sausages! Good luck today! Oh, if only I could eat meat every day.”

Hearing the emotion of his companion, the big man who took the man’s turn suddenly stared at the man lying on the ground, with an unknown but frightening look in his eyes.

“Brother Zhu, Brother Zhu?” The look in his eyes was so frightening that the people who usually hang out with him felt terrified and took a step back.

“Brother Zhu? What’s the matter? Is there something wrong with this kid?” A man standing next to the man didn’t notice the light in the man’s eyes and asked a little puzzled.

“Meat.”

“Um?”

“Isn’t this just meat?” The big man pointed at the man who didn’t know whether he was dead or alive on the ground, his voice was so cold that icicles could ooze out.

“Hiss…but, but he…”

“Hmph, I heard that there were such things in the famine years, and—” the man looked around the people coldly, “How much food do we have? I’m afraid this winter will be difficult…”

His words made everyone’s hearts tremble, and at the same time, they couldn’t help thinking the same thing—in fact, as long as you don’t think about it…it doesn’t make any difference what kind of meat you eat?

Moreover, many of them are good enough to eat one or two meals a day. After the end of the day, who else can eat their fill in one sitting? Meat, how many people have not tasted it?

This kind of thought was growing in everyone’s hearts, and suddenly, the bodies of the people on the ground twitched.

“He, he’s still alive!”

After everyone was stunned for a moment, one of them gritted his teeth and whispered: “Kill!”

Before he stepped forward, suddenly, the man on the ground grabbed the ankle of the person closest to him and let out a “heh-“…

“Zombies!”

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“Crack, creak…” A sound resounded on the vast snow.

Every time Wei Xuan took a step, he shook like a huge and cumbersome bear. In fact, before he walked out of the gate of his own community, he had already faintly regretted it. When he walked out of the block where he lived, this feeling of regret was like a torrent of water, almost rushing him back home.

Of course, if he could really rush him back without having to walk back step by step, he would be very happy about it. Regrettably, the reality is cruel. Whether it is going to the place he wants to go, or returning to his and Du Hang’s nest, he needs to go there personally, step by step.

So, since he had already come out, he naturally wouldn’t turn around and go home immediately.

Because he knew that the two lunatics were both lunatics and fools, so he had no choice but to try his best to fulfill his promise and agreement and be a fool.

Therefore, he can only brave the cold wind, step by step towards the destination in the ruined city full of ice and snow, and wear strangely modified shoes that are extremely difficult to walk on.

The shoes on his and Wei Xuan’s feet are all improved, and each sole has a large piece of sole that has been removed from some basin, a large round piece. This thing is used to increase the area under the feet, so that people will not sink into the snow every time they step on the snow.

It’s not that he finds it difficult to walk on snowy roads. Of course, the difficulty of walking is also one of the reasons. In addition, he also needs to minimize the traces left by him and Du Hang when they walked—the traces of walking in the heavy snow are too obvious. Also, be careful not to step on zombies.

Zombies sleep when night falls.

The previous three episodes of snow had fallen for at least a full day.

When it snows enough, it will pile up thick enough.

Although the light is transparent in the snow, it is not too strong.

To sum up, it means that when Wei Xuan goes out on a snowy day, he may accidentally step on a zombie who uses the heavy snow as a quilt and sleeps in the snow…

It’s fine if you step on stones, bricks, etc., but those zombies won’t die! If you step on it and get a paw from them, do you still want your own legs? !

Wei Xuan and Du Hang spent two whole nights on the road, step by step, like a sumo wrestler straddling their way forward, although at least they didn’t step on any strange things, let alone were killed by zombies. Things like this suddenly attacked, but I was so tired that my whole body ached all the way. When they finally arrived near the destination and found a random room to rest, Wei Xuan fell asleep holding the hand warmer in Du Hang’s arms not long after.

Although Du Hang’s body temperature would be very low on this kind of day, but at this time he was wearing a thick layer of clothes, and Wei Xuan was not afraid of being frozen if he was wrapped in a thick blanket.

After a night, Wei Xuan woke up at noon the next day. After going out, he rubbed his face and washed with the clean snow on the wall in the howling wind, and decided to go to the meeting place to see the situation before having breakfast.

When he and Du Hang walked to the shop and climbed to the second floor, they couldn’t help but froze on the stairs when they saw two humanoid creatures dressed in brightly colored clothes that looked like two walking cotton balls.

“Potatoes!” One of them suddenly pointed to the direction of the stairs and shouted, the voice was full of excitement.

“Roar…” A deep cry came faintly from the snowdrifts on the street outside the window. It should be that the sleeping zombies were “woke up” by hearing human voices.

— So how did these two guys get here? Didn’t even alert the nearby zombies? !