◎Happy 103rd Day: High Status◎

It is much easier to destroy a trap than to set one.

These traps were basically disposable. Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen broke off a branch and ran to trigger any trap mechanism they saw along the way. They got down the mountain in no time.

The plan for transporting supplies was determined early on.

Aside from the owners of the mutant dogs, all those involved in the cleanup were former professional soldiers with extensive combat experience. However, those transporting supplies were not subject to this restriction; small teams of ordinary survivors could be used.

A transport team of over a hundred people, led by Tang An and others, was stationed not far from the outermost part of the western suburbs mountains. As soon as the battle in the western suburbs was over, someone would go back and notify them to set out to transport supplies.

And the others wouldn't have to wait at the foot of the mountain.

Leave a few people here to inform Tang An and others who arrived later, and then take them up the mountain.

The others had to go up the mountain first to search for and integrate the supplies on Nanshan Mountain, check if there were any secret warehouses or the like, and check if there were any fish that had slipped through the net.

However, Nanshan is not a particularly large place, and it is a very representative scenic spot in Nanshi. From local residents of Nanshi to tourists from other places, everyone who has been to Nanshi has visited Nanshan.

Naturally, there are no areas on the fully developed Nanshan Mountain that are not open to the outside world. At most, there are two unknown small caves in the forest where there are no roads.

Even if the Western Suburbs Base wanted to find a hidden corner on the South Mountain to hide supplies, there were no conditions for them to discover a new location.

The only relatively hidden place may be the place chosen by the original South City garrison as an armory.

While those teams were searching the mountain, they did discover the gate to the Nanshan Army's arsenal.

The gate that was once well-hidden under the soil has now disappeared, leaving behind a smooth, high-tech door lying flat on the ground. There are also many traces of digging around it, and it is obvious that someone has tried to open it using special means.

The soldiers of the Nanyi Base were all transferred from Haishi with Captain Yu. They knew nothing about the situation of the army that was once stationed in Nanshan. They even heard about the existence of the Nanshan Army-Arsenal from others.

The people in the North District Base have been staying in the northern suburbs of Nanshi since the rainstorm. They only know that the garrison in Nanshan is the main force of Nanshi, and they don’t know the specific location of the military arsenal.

It's just that they are all quite familiar with this door. Even if they don't know what this place is used for before, they can guess it after seeing the door.

The arsenal of the main force of Nanshi, it would be a lie to say that I am not excited.

After discovering the existence of this door, someone immediately rushed to find Captain Yu and Meng San to report the situation.

Captain Yu and Meng San stayed in the fairy cave where everyone from the western suburbs base had stayed before.

It must be said that these people really don’t forget to enjoy themselves even in the end times.

People not only like to enjoy, but also know how to enjoy.

There is a sofa, carpet, refrigerator, air conditioner, and a projector that is playing a movie.

Captain Yu was amazed: "I thought we were well off just storing a little ice in winter, but I didn't expect there were people who could afford to turn on the air conditioner."

Jiang Muyun asked curiously, "Why didn't you try to get some saltpeter?"

Jiang Muyun and others also wanted to go to the city to get saltpeter, but they first settled in the suburbs. When they recovered and remembered this, it was too late.

At that time, they felt that the glass factory had probably been looted, and they did not want to search house by house among the survivors in the city, and they did not have the capital to exchange supplies with others, so they had to give up on this matter.

But Captain Yu does have a base there, and there might be survivors in the base who have saltpeter. With Captain Yu's wealth, buying some saltpeter should not be a problem.

Who knew that Captain Yu really didn't have it.

Not at all.

I posted a high-price purchase request at the base but received no response.

Meng San suddenly interjected, "By the time of the tsunami, only one glass factory in Nanshi still had saltpeter in stock, and we cleared it out. If you want to find it, you can only look for it in a Chinese medicine store."

After saying that, Meng San added: "But it's probably too late now."

Captain Yu hesitated to speak.

Jiang Muyun sincerely suggested: "Is the North District Base interested in doing saltpeter business?"

Meng San: "Of course not. We plan to sell ice directly, so we can make more money there."

Jiang Muyun and Company Commander Yu choked at the same time.

Then you are really honest.

It just so happened that the teams that had gone to search the mountain earlier had all returned one after another, so the topic came to a halt. The two were afraid that if they continued talking, they would have some not-so-decent thoughts.

Several people sat on the sofa with paper and pen, writing and drawing, and counting the material information reported by each team. After going around and not finding any fuel, Captain Yu looked at the list and was a little puzzled.

"Could it be that what the old man didn't finish saying before was about fuel?" Captain Yu was still thinking about the second half of the sentence he didn't finish hearing. Jiang Muyun guessed that he really couldn't sleep tonight.

But what Captain Yu said is not without reason.

This cave is indeed well decorated. Apart from the rough and simple decoration style, the furniture and appliances inside are as complete as those in pre-apocalyptic residences.

With so many home appliances, electricity is always needed.

Generally speaking, there are two sources of electricity in the apocalypse.

Either a solar generator or a fuel-powered generator.

There may be wind power generation further west, but it is definitely not suitable for this area of ​​Nanshi and can be ruled out directly.

But when a few people checked the lists of supplies reported by each team, they found that the types and quantities of supplies on the lists were completely unable to support the electrical appliances in the entire room.

There were a few solar panels and outdoor power supplies, the same model as those taken away by Jiang Muyun and others, but there was no trace of fuel or fuel generators.

When Jiang Muyun and others were moving things, their transportation capacity was limited and they didn't take too many things. Even if Jiang Muyun went back later and stuffed a batch into the space, it was nothing compared to the supplies in the entire warehouse.

What was left was divided up among the survivors who had survived in the mountains of the western suburbs at the time.

Jiang Muyun took a look at the list of supplies. Many of the military supplies on it looked very familiar to her. She knew where these people from the Western Suburbs Base got them from.

Ninety-nine percent of the time, they were found by people from the Western Suburbs base from the survivors living in the Western Suburbs when they first arrived here and searched the mountains.

There weren't many solar panels and outdoor power supplies in the warehouse originally. Jiang Muyun and others took away a batch, and the remaining ones have been damaged a lot over the years. The amount collected by the various teams at present is barely enough to supply air conditioning alone.

You want to use the refrigerator, air conditioner and projector at the same time, unless it is sunny every day.

However, the outside world has been covered in yellow sand for several days, and now the air conditioners and refrigerators in the cave are still connected to the outdoor power supply and are operating normally.

Apart from the fuel generator, Captain Yu really couldn't think of any other means to supply so much electricity.

Jiang Muyun frowned at the inventory, and suddenly showed a hint of disgust. "Let's wait a little longer. When the people searching the mountain come back, maybe we'll have an answer."

At first, Captain Yu and others didn't know where Jiang Muyun's disgust came from.

Until a team reported that a group of survivors were found in a cellar at the foot of the mountain, being imprisoned and forced to do hard labor.

Along with these survivors, a batch of hand-cranked generators were also discovered.

In order to supply electricity, the group at the Western Suburbs Base made a batch of homemade hand-cranked generators, captured a group of survivors, locked them in a cellar with relatively low temperature, and forced them to generate electricity manually almost day and night.

According to these survivors, the people at the Western Suburbs Base would specifically capture survivors with families and force them to work by threatening their families' lives.

If they are tired, let their family take over.

A batch of batteries is produced every day and the battery cannot be stopped until it is fully charged.

This was not the first time Jiang Muyun had seen this kind of thing.

While hunting, she accidentally came across a private base that was processing abandoned survivors.

There were more than ten people in the group, including men, women, young and old.

Some may have died suddenly, their faces pale and motionless, but many still had their chests heaving, and they might even be begging for mercy.

Too bad no one cares whether they are dead or alive.

The people in charge of the base only care about whether these people can be used, while the people responsible for disposing of the bodies only care about whether they will be classified as "unusable".

If it's no longer usable, just dig a hole, throw the person in, fill it with soil, and then replace it with the next batch.

So, in the end times, human life is the most valuable and the least valuable.

Meng San suddenly asked, "You knew about this a long time ago?"

Jiang Muyun's disgust after seeing that there was no fuel here was so obvious that she seemed to know at that moment where the electricity for the Western Suburbs Base came from.

Jiang Muyun made a list of items on the supply list, listing everything she wanted. After hearing Meng San's question, Jiang Muyun looked up at him and said, "I told you before, we have our own sources of information."

"This kind of hand-cranked generator isn't difficult to make. There are plenty of small groups of survivors gathered outside. They might not have the luxury of the people at the Western Suburbs base, but with a few batteries and a few unlucky souls, they can easily generate electricity for lights and cell phones."

In particular, the power generation efficiency of this type of generator is extremely low, and it is not something related to livelihood like mushroom cultivation. The major bases have no intention of monopolizing the technology, so as long as the survivors are willing, it is not difficult to get the method of making a hand-crank generator.

Jiang Muyun said it lightly, but the meaning behind his words made people frown.

Captain Yu and Meng San usually need to stay in the base to handle various affairs. They haven't left the base to search for supplies for a long time. The teams searching for supplies in the base usually don't report every detail to their superiors.

This leads to them being very familiar with some big picture situations, but being completely clueless about the little things.

Jiang Muyun said half-jokingly and half-seriously, "That's why a formal base like yours, with its former official background, is so popular with survivors. Otherwise, why would everyone move thousands of miles to a base with their families?"

Isn't it just that there is still order in a base like this, and people can still live like human beings?

For a moment, Captain Yu and Meng San were silent.

Captain Yu established the base partly to feed his soldiers and partly to gather manpower to better protect Professor Chen and his grandson.

He might have had thoughts about providing shelter for survivors and protecting the lives and property of ordinary people in the apocalypse, but they were definitely only a small part of his life.

The reason why Meng San established the base was even simpler.

There are many survivors in the northern suburbs, and he has many soldiers under his command. Anyway, everyone is gathered together, and he can't just drive them away or quit his job. He might as well just set up a base and make do with it.

Therefore, these two people have never had the burden of being a base commander who needs to have dignity and face, nor do they think that their identities are special.

Their identities before the apocalypse meant that even after the apocalypse, they would not be ordinary survivors like those in the cellar.

Therefore, it is difficult for them to think about the problem from the perspective of ordinary survivors, and they have never thought about what the makeshift base in their own eyes would look like in the eyes of ordinary survivors.

Seeing that the two remained silent, Jiang Muyun couldn't help but tease, "Why? Now you know how high your status is?"

Captain Yu said frankly, "It's not that lofty, but I do regret agreeing to give you a share of the profits at the Western Suburbs Transfer Station."

He had unconsciously been walking on the right path before, but now Jiang Muyun suddenly pointed this out from another angle, and Captain Yu immediately understood where they were and what the future status of the Western Suburbs Transfer Station would be.

To put it in an exaggerated way, if they continue to develop in this way, it would be equivalent to demarcating the land in Nanshi and becoming the new government of this area.

The West Suburb Transfer Station, a place destined to become the economic center of the entire region, was given to Jiang Muyun by them.

If this behavior happened in ancient times, it would probably mean that the emperor gave the capital to King Jiang as a fiefdom.

Today, their clearance of the western suburbs base suddenly changed from an ordinary act of beating bosses and dividing equipment to a territorial plan with political purposes.

Captain Yu felt like an e-sports player who heard that e-sports had become an official Olympic event. He was nervous and surprised, but also a little proud and expectant.

If this is the case, then wasn’t their previous plan for the Western Suburbs Transfer Station a bit rough?

Meng San, on the other hand, wasn't worried about that at all, so he responded smoothly: "I never regret a promise I've made. I just felt a little sorry. Our base's management methods have always been simple and crude, just to save trouble. All the rules are very sloppy. I'll change them when I get back."

Captain Yu was just thinking about holding another three-party meeting to carefully plan the development of the Western Suburbs Transfer Station when he heard Meng San say this and his face turned green instantly.

He said stiffly, "I was just joking. I don't really want to regret it."

Meng San nodded casually. It was too late to regret anyway; they had already made the decision, so Meng San didn't care whether Captain Yu was serious or not.

Jiang Muyun even felt a little sympathy for the company commander.

This is so unlucky.

She had brought up the topic, and Jiang Muyun, with rare kindness, came to Captain Yu's rescue: "There's no point in regretting it. Count the people and help me move the things."

Captain Yu nodded hurriedly and asked someone to move whatever Jiang Muyun wanted without saying a word.

After all, Jiang Muyun still had to make a living in Nanshi, and it was impossible for her to do anything that would offend both bases, so she was quite tactful when asking for supplies.

Captain Yu and others had no shortage of furniture and appliances on Nanshan Mountain, so Jiang Muyun picked out a few sets to take back.

She herself lives in a floating house, which she has renovated to the same level as before the apocalypse, but several of her companions still live in rough caves.

You can also bring a few hand-crank generators with you, as it is always good to have them in case of emergency.

Although they have spare solar panels, they will eventually wear out.

Nothing in the apocalypse will feel safe if it's used up, whether it's solar panels with a finite lifespan or nearly non-renewable fuel.

In comparison, although the hand-cranked generator has shortcomings in many ways, it is at least human-powered, can be used as long as the person is alive, and is easy to install.

If Jiang Muyun didn't have a space in her hands, and the fuel stored in the space was enough for her to use for three lifetimes, she would definitely get a few hand-cranked generators at home.

Jiang Muyun picked out some other miscellaneous supplies depending on the situation.

At present, Jiang Muyun and others have basically no shortage of daily necessities. They picked these things just to cover up their tracks.

After Jiang Muyun made a list of the supplies she needed, Captain Yu asked someone to move all the things she wanted back first, and then they would slowly move the remaining supplies.

Jiang Muyun did not agree, but asked him for a small team to help with the transportation. It would be best if it could be transported all at once, but if not, they could make several more trips.

Her apparent reason was that the longer it was delayed, the more dangerous it would be, and she couldn't waste everyone's time because of herself, so everyone should just do what they were supposed to do, and this team would be considered as people she hired to help, and she would be responsible for paying them later.

In fact, she needed to make many trips back and forth so that she could find time to smuggle supplies with Chu Buwen. With the Xijiao base as a good excuse, she could bring back scarce materials such as saltpeter and use them openly.

After the team finished transporting supplies for the last time today, Chu Buwen sneaked up the mountain and took Dabai out, then avoided the team members and returned to the mountains in the western suburbs.

The two of them didn't have a cart, so it wasn't a big deal.

Saltpeter can be used repeatedly, so there is no need to bring back too much at one time, and you can bring it back without a car.

The problem is that Jiang Muyun still wants to get some fuel back.

They still have a perfectly good go-kart there.

There just wasn't enough fuel, so the kart was stuck in the corner like a mascot.

It's useless, but I can't bear to let it get bumped or scratched.

But now that he finally had the opportunity to take things out at will, Jiang Muyun couldn't let it go.

When Jiang Muyun said that he had prepared a large amount of fuel and generators, Chu Buwen was a little surprised.

He wasn't surprised that Jiang Muyun had a generator, but fuel?

Even he couldn't get much of this stuff.

Jiang Muyun took the initiative to explain, "I can't tell you where it came from, but it's not very decent anyway. It was an accident that I was able to get it. It's quite a lot, so it's no problem to distribute some."

Chu Buwen nodded and didn't ask any more questions. Instead, he started discussing transportation with Jiang Muyun.

Chu Buwen could find some things that could be used to make a cart. Jiang Muyun separated from Chu Buwen as usual, pretending to go to his secret warehouse, and then took out a barrel of diesel that could be used for a go-kart from the space.

A standard-sized oil drum has a capacity of 200L, and it is impossible for a normal person to carry it down the mountain.

Jiang Muyun wrapped the oil barrel with a net bag made of thick nylon rope as a protective layer. She found a place with gentle terrain and rolled the oil barrel down the mountain along the gentle slope. She waited at the foot of the mountain for Chu Buwen to go back to get the tires and other miscellaneous items, and then bring Dabai to find her.

It was already dark at this time, and with the increasing wind and sand, visibility on the road was frighteningly low.

The two men squatted at the foot of the mountain with spotlights on, knocking on the cart on the spot, and Dabai was responsible for guarding the periphery. Even if someone heard the noise, they were sure to hide before the person found them.

By the time the cart was knocked down, it was completely dark.

At this time, if it weren't for Dabai leading the way, they would definitely not be able to return home in the dark.

However, on the other hand, if other people want to go out at this time, they will also need mutant dogs to lead the way and high-intensity flashlights for lighting, so the noise will definitely be quite loud.

Jiang Muyun and Chu Buwen were absolutely sure that they could avoid each other before the two sides met.

At this time, as long as the other party does not want to cause trouble, he will definitely not come close to you after the other party has actively avoided you.

If Jiang Muyun really encountered someone who took the initiative to approach him and had no idea what he was up to, he felt that there was no need to be lenient and he could just kill him directly.

She had a certain degree of trust in the company commander and Meng San, but that didn't mean everyone in their base would receive the same treatment from her.

In this way, the two men carried a barrel of diesel that countless people were willing to draw their guns for, and a bag of saltpeter that looked inconspicuous but could actually be sold at a sky-high price, and they transported it all the way back home from the western suburbs mountains in a fair and honest manner.

Jiang Muyun calculated in his mind that based on the progress they were making in transporting supplies, they should be able to bring back another barrel of oil and a generator tomorrow.

No matter whether it is useful or not, it is always good to have it in hand.

By storing these two large barrels of diesel at home, traveling to and from the West Suburb Transfer Station won’t be a hassle anymore.

Jiang Muyun had no control over or understanding of Meng San's amazing train of thought, but today, Captain Yu truly realized the future status of the West Suburb Transfer Station.

As long as the West Suburb Transfer Station can successfully play its due role, Jiang Muyun feels that these two barrels of oil will definitely not be their "only ones in this life".