Chapter 227

At night, Room 703, No. 1 Store.

After Xie Chaori recovered from his injury, he was arranged to live in the staff dormitory on the 7th floor. He was the only one there for the time being. After Hongli arrived, he was arranged to live in the study in Room 703.

At this moment they had just returned from the communication room.

Today is the day for the movie screening, and almost all the residents came, including Hongli and the 60 guards she brought with her.

Hundreds of people were crowded in a living room, almost crowding into the aisle, but apart from a few complaints from the original residents, no one was willing to leave.

They were all fascinated by the movie.

Although they have seen it many times, they never get tired of it.

Hongli and Xie Chaori had watched a lot of footage from before the disaster when they were in the fortress, but as combatants, they rarely watched this kind of entertainment-oriented movies.

So she squeezed in with the other residents and watched the entire movie.

And yet everyone was crowded like this, far beyond the safe distance, but no one found it strange. Even in a fortress, it was difficult to give people such an absolute sense of security.

For the first time, Hongli truly felt the meaning of the phrase "happy and not thinking of returning to one's homeland".

To be honest, she didn't really want to go back to that shabby place, Jufeng Town - although the home in Huangcheng was not new, at least there were not so many bad things here.

"You traded 10,000 peace coins with Huangcheng Home. How do you plan to use them?" Xie Chaori asked.

"This kind of coin can keep warm." Hongli said, "A cold disaster is coming soon."

Originally, what she valued most were the garrison and the guards she trained personally. All resources were prioritized for the guards, and she didn't care much about the residents of Jufeng Town.

After all, anyone who comes from a well-ordered fortress to a place where people eat each other in the physical sense will find it difficult to identify with the people in this place.

But things are different now.

The grocery store system earns points and experience points by trading with others, and each person is limited to three valid transactions per day.

This means that the larger the population, the greater her advantage.

In this way, the importance of the residents of Jufeng Town is highlighted.

Thinking of this, she couldn't help but sigh and said, "It would be great if the rules of the Desolate City Home could also be applied to Jufeng Mountain."

No robbing, no stealing, and no harming each other.

Once these three rules are implemented, there will be no need for guards to maintain public security, and those vicious and unruly citizens will instantly become obedient little lambs.

Xie Chaori gave her a strange look and said, "Wait until Huangcheng Home paved the road to Jufeng Mountain, and then you can have people build a fence around the entire mountain, right?"

Hongli was slightly stunned.

"Is this possible?" She asked in disbelief.

Xie Chaori nodded affirmatively, "I've found out everything."

Although the wall had been almost completed when Xie Chaori arrived, the residents could clearly see Old Li enclosing the land.

He figured it out after just a few days at his home. Moreover, today when the construction crew was building the road fence, they were right next to him, and he had tested it himself.

"It seems that as long as we connect with the outermost wall and close it, the barrier called protection will expand."

Hongli frowned slightly. "Then if we destroy the wall, will the barrier shrink and recover?"

"Um, this..."

Xie Chaori thought about it and felt that this was the truth. "I'm not sure. I'll try it later."

When he said to give it a try, he certainly didn’t mean to destroy the walls of the deserted city homes, but that they would try again after the road fence was built to Jufeng Mountain.

Hongli nodded.

Judging from the speed of the construction team of Huangcheng Home, it is estimated that they will not be able to reach Jufeng Mountain so quickly. We can only wait and see about this matter later.

Xie Chaori talked about the Ping An Coin again.

"If it's to prepare for a cold disaster, I think it would be more appropriate to change to normal temperature cloth." He talked about another good thing in the deserted city home.

Hongli's eyes lit up slightly when he heard this, but he finally shook his head.

"My supplies weren't blown in by the wind, and if this normal temperature cloth falls into the hands of the weak, they may not be able to keep it."

Xie Chaori thought about the situation in Jufeng Mountain and nodded.

Each of these peace coins is as big as a palm, which is larger than an ordinary blue beard leaf. As long as you can put one close to your chest, you will still get cold, but at least you won't be frozen to death so easily because you have a source of warmth.

Speaking of this, he couldn't help but look at the yard.

"I don't know what relationship the Desolate City Homeland has with Lanhu Town, but how could they get a mutant Lanhu tree?"

Hongli nodded. She didn't know much about Lanhu Town, only heard of it.

What she didn't know was that Lan Yunqing had previously tried to seek help from Jufeng Town, but failed to get through due to unstable satellite signals.

Later, Tang Yu'an and others helped solve the problem and never contacted her again.

"There are so many good things in the deserted city home..." Until this moment, Hongli's heart was still shocked.

"What kind of organization is the Shangshen Cult?" she murmured.

"You should read all the forum posts first."

Xie Chaori said, "When you reach level 5, you can post on the message board. If you have any questions, just ask that noisy guy. He should be a senior member of the organization and seems to understand a lot."

Hongli nodded, opened the forum panel and started browsing.

Lao Mo also summarized the information about the Shangshen Cult and posted it in the communication area as a special post for training new members.

Hongli read the post carefully, and Xie Chaori left and went back to his room to sleep.

When he woke up the next day, he found that Hongli had woken up and was looking at the panel.

"You didn't stay up all night, did you?"

"I dozed off for a bit, but I was too excited to fall asleep."

Xie Chaori nodded. Hongli has been a cultivation fanatic since he was a child. He must study thoroughly anything he is interested in. He has become accustomed to it.

He opened the forum, first glanced at the message board, then opened the private chat with Chi Hao, and found that this kid actually left him a message.

Judging from the time he stayed, it should have been last night.

[Green as Blue: Old Xie, did you send the news that you are still alive back to the fortress? ]

After thinking about it for a moment, Xie Chaori understood why he asked that.

Li Feng must have had a satellite phone with him. He must have been the one who contacted Fortress and sent back the news that he was still alive.

【Xiang Tianshi: Did someone give you a hard time?】

After waiting for a while without any reply, he had breakfast with Hongli first, and then prepared to go downstairs to find Hongli's guards.

As soon as they left the room, they noticed something was wrong——

They looked towards the elevator at the same time, and after exchanging a glance, they walked over in perfect tacit understanding.

"I remember when we came back last night, this thing wasn't available yet?" Hongli pointed to the brand new elevator door and asked Xie Chaori.

Xie Chaori stared at the high-tech elevator carefully. He had never seen it in the fortress!

"I don't think so, right? I've lived here for so long and haven't seen anything like that..."

As Xie Chaori approached, a light screen lit up on the elevator door, followed by a mechanical electronic sound.

"Face recognition successful! Please tell me which floor you want to go to."

Xie Chaori tried to say, "Third floor?"

"Okay, please wait."

About two seconds later, the elevator door opened and Granny Guo and Kang Kang, who were standing in the elevator, appeared in front of them.

When Granny Guo saw them, she couldn't help but look reserved. Kang Kang also hid behind Granny Guo and stuck his head out to peek at Hongli and Xie Chaori.

Xie Chaori smiled at them: "Good morning, Granny Guo, and...Xiao Kangkang?"

Granny Guo nodded, and Kang Kang also said, "Good morning!"

Xie Chaori pulled Hongli and naturally entered the elevator, then asked Grandma Guo about the situation of the elevator.

"If you want to know something, you should go ask Old Li." Grandma Guo kept her mouth shut and didn't say anything careless.

In fact, she didn't know where the elevator came from. It was only when Old Li told her through the computer that she knew about it.

I just tried it out and ran into Xie Chaori and Hongli.

Xie Chaori didn't ask any more questions. Soon they reached the third floor and he and Hongli left first.

Grandma Guo watched the elevator door close and slowly exhaled. When they reached the first floor, she took Kang Kang's hand and walked out of the elevator, still feeling like she was dreaming.

Did she really take the elevator at the end of the world?

Granny Guo looked back at the elevator door that had closed again, and felt that she was becoming increasingly confused about the situation in the deserted city home.

However, she quickly looked away and walked towards the planting area with her grandson full of energy.

"Kankang, we need to make October grow faster."

"Okay~"

When the residents of the deserted city home began to get busy, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi were already driving their RV on the road to Jufeng Mountain.

They went to the alternate dimension again last night.

Red Carp requires 10,000 10-yuan Ping An coins, worth 100,000 points, and requires about 2,000 blue beard leaves.

It's still more than enough for their inventory.

However, in addition to these 10,000 pieces, Tang Yu'an also produced peace coins of other denominations, totaling 500,000 points.

These 500,000 peace coins are prepared for Lanhu Town.

When the Starlink Fruit harvest is ready, they will take the 500,000 peace coins to Lanhu Town for trading.

Although 500,000 points might not be enough for Lanhu Town, they felt that it would be better not to take too big a step at the beginning.

They stayed in the alien dimension for 10 days, and when they wanted to leave, the little red bird cried particularly sadly.

Tang Yu'an didn't want to abandon it either, but he had no pet slots left and couldn't contract it for the time being, so the little red bird couldn't use the teleportation array.

Fortunately, Wangcai and Yinbi were willing to stay with it.

Because there was already a dirt road between the deserted city and Jufeng Mountain, they paved it much faster than before going to the center of the deserted city.

Around noon, they had reached the end of the road where they encountered Bashi when they first went to Mount Jufeng.

At this moment, the sound of running came from behind.

Zhou Qi stopped the RV, and he and Tang Yu'an stuck their heads out to look, and saw Hong Li and several teams of guards.

"Sister Hongli seems to have left half of her people in the deserted city home." Tang Yu'an glanced at the map and said with a smile, "It seems that she really wants to cooperate with us."

Tang Yu'an felt happy thinking that they didn't have to become enemies.

"She's a smart person," Zhou Qi said. "We've shown her so many good things. There's no reason for her not to be tempted."

They didn't hide anything. With Hongli's observation skills, he should be able to see a lot in these two days.

While they were talking, Hongli had already arrived in front of them with his guards.

However, when they were 10 meters away from the RV, they were blocked by the protective barrier and forced to stop.

Hongli didn't understand why, but since the cement road ended here, she could see some clues.

Perhaps within this invisible barrier lies the secret of how to quickly lay concrete roads in deserted cities?

She guessed so, and then took her men to take a detour.

Without the cement road, Hongli and the guards' progress slowed down significantly. Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi paved the way behind them and could even catch up with them.

So they stopped paving the road and drove the RV back.

I have to say that driving on a cement road is smooth and fast, but——

They soon encountered the construction crew.

With the addition of five construction robots today, the construction team's speed in building the fence has increased significantly.

Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi didn't dare to delay any longer and turned the car around to continue paving the road.

Only when they reached the stone road section that had triggered the road-building task did they slow down their road-paving speed - of course, thanks to the panel list function, they were still very efficient in clearing roadblocks.

Speaking of which, although their purpose was to pave the road, Tang Yu'an also picked up a lot of crystals along the way.

There are all kinds of them, about twenty or thirty in total.

Because Zhou Qi had picked up so many crystals in the other dimension, he was no longer surprised.

After all, the flood in the deserted city came from another dimension, and these crystals were probably brought here by the flood and left behind.

By nightfall, they had successfully paved the road to the chain bridge and had to stop.

Hongli and the others have arrived at Jufeng Mountain and are heading towards the first stronghold.

She set out in the morning and arrived at the foot of the mountain in the evening, which was much faster than before. If the road behind was repaired, she would probably be able to save a lot of time.

Just looking at the iron chain bridge in front of them, Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi felt a little troubled.

They first expanded the protective barrier to a range of 20 meters, covering the entire river surface, preventing the man-piranha flying fish in the river from approaching.

Zhou Qi stood by the river and looked around, then said, "We can only send the construction robots."

The construction robots have bridge blueprints in their database, and as long as they are provided with enough materials, they can build them.

As for equipment, the robot itself can be transformed.

"That's all we can do."

Tang Yu'an transferred all five construction robots over, input his requirements into the intelligent system, and a suitable solution was quickly generated.

After he makes his choice, he just needs to let the construction robots work together in a networked mode to complete the task.

This bridge, which is less than 20 meters long, will be built as a dual-lane bridge and has certain load-bearing capacity requirements.

After Tang Yu'an and Zhou Qi transferred the materials over, the construction robots immediately started building in full swing.

They retained the original chain bridge and built a new bridge more than 20 meters away from it.

The construction robot is expected to complete the pouring in three days. As for the time to wait for the concrete to reach its strength, it can absorb moisture as it has a week to do so, so it is estimated that it will take less than two days.

"So we have to wait five days?"

During the bridge construction, they couldn't drive the RV away, otherwise the piranhas in the river would jump out and cause trouble.

"Well, just be patient and wait."

The time for paving the road has been shortened a lot compared to before, so they don't need to be so anxious.

"Okay then, I'll give Sister Hongli the task."

Tang Yu'an returned to the carriage, took out a pen and paper, and started discussing with Zhou Qi.

They have a lot of ideas about Jufeng Town. Now that they have brought Hongli into their camp, they can let go and do something.

Jufeng Mountain, the first stronghold.

Hongli had just settled down with her guards. Instead of rushing to wash up, she opened the message board and forum posts.

Today she finally reached level 5 and can leave messages and post.

The message board was discussing the curriculum topics for the twelve years of compulsory education. Hongli glanced at it for a few seconds and then switched to the communication area without much interest.

There were new replies to the private chat between Xie Chaori and Chi Hao.

Hongli chose to pay 500 points to unlock the post - these were the points she earned by selling gas cylinders in the trading area after upgrading today.

She first took a quick look at the previous chat records between Xie Chaori and Chi Hao.

Because they were speaking in a forum, they were quite restrained at first and tried not to mention real information, but later on they became more and more uncontrollable.

Soon, she saw the latest message.

[Green as Blue: Someone from the Xie family came to me and asked me about you. I was completely stunned.]

【Xiang Tianshi: What did you ask?】

[Green Like Blue: Did you build some kind of power in the deserted city? And is it very powerful?]

[Xiang Tianshi: Li Feng and his men will probably target you. Be careful and try not to run around.]

After Chi Hao returned to the fortress, he reported the situation to the headquarters and was then given a very long vacation.

Although he was unhappy, he had no choice but to accept it and try to find ways to gain experience points and credits every day.

When he was on the road, he was stimulated by message boards and posts almost every day. Now that he finally returned to the fortress, he naturally wanted to do something big.

Unfortunately, the needs of people in the fortress are different from those in the wasteland. Salt, sugar, alcohol and hemostatic powder, which can be used as hard currency in the wasteland, are not in short supply in the fortress.

As for vegetables and grains, Qingmu Fort, which is rich in growers, is unlikely to be short of them.

Moreover, to do business, one needs to hold relevant certificates, especially salt, which is a controlled commodity. If he dares to sell it, he will definitely be arrested and investigated.

Moreover, he was not given a valuable position after he came back. Instead, someone was watching his every move, so the number of transactions was not as large as imagined.

However, the fortress was rich in supplies. Although he could not sell goods, he was not restricted in shopping.

So he still earned a lot of points by selling Qingmu Fort's goods in the trading area.

[Green as Blue: We're being watched, how can we possibly run around?]

Green as Blue: I heard that headquarters is organizing people to go to the deserted city, and I don’t seem to be included... It’s a good thing you’re still alive, otherwise I would definitely go there at all costs.

Green Like Blue: Oh, aren't you in the deserted city? Can you ask my sister for the password?

【Xiang Tianshi: What's the password?】

[Green as Blue: I have no money to buy goods, I asked her for some]

【Chilong:. 】

[Green Like Blue: Who is this? Why are they here in our thread? We already asked you to increase your payment points!]

【Xiang Tianshi: Your sister.】

【Green as Blue: Huh?】

[Xiang Tianshi: She really is your sister. I wasn't lying to you. I lured her into this.]

【Green as Blue: ……】

Green as Blue: What is your relationship with the mysterious businessman? How could He listen to you so much?

【Xiangtianshi: It can be recommended.】

[Chilong: What? You don't want to see me?]

【Green Like Blue: Sis, you are my real sister! Of course I really want to see you!】

[Chilong: Were you recruited to join the Shangshen Cult when you met Datang and the others?]

【Green as Blue: ……】

【Green as Blue: Sister, I was wrong】

【Chilong: What's wrong? 】

【Green as Blue: I should have told you the first time I saw you, but I chose to hide it】

【Green as Blue: I was wrong, I am not a human being, I deserve to die! 】

Hongli looked at Chi Hao's kneeling apology without comment.

[Chilong: The headquarters has sent people to the deserted city. If you try hard, Old Xie will help you.]

【Green as Blue: Okay! 】

Green Like Blue: Sis, did you miss me? Hehe, your name is quite impressive!

Green Like Blue: That's not right. Why do you and Old Xie both have such nice names? Mine is... okay, too!

I don't know what he was thinking about, but he finally changed his tone.

Hongli didn't respond, but just asked him.

[Chilong: Did you buy another gas bottle today?]

【Green as Blue: Huh? How did you know?】

Hongli curled up the corners of her mouth slightly and was about to reply when she saw a system prompt suddenly pop up.

[Congratulations! Triggering the elite mission "Adopt an Orphan"]

[Description: There are many orphans who have lost their parents in the Jufeng Mountains. The cold disaster is approaching, and they cannot survive. The Huangcheng Home is building an orphanage where these orphans can be sent.]

[Mission Content: Send 50 displaced children to their homes in the deserted city (0/50)]

[Mission Reward: 1000 points, 1 fuel motorcycle]

Looking at the content of the task, Hongli couldn't help but raise his eyebrows slightly.

Send all the orphans from Jufeng Mountain to the Deserted City Home? That would indeed be a good place for these children.

But will Huangcheng Home really be willing to accept it?

Hongli took another look at the mission reward.

1,000 points were not particularly attractive to her, after all, she had a brother who had given her a lot of points.

But, a gasoline-powered motorcycle? That’s pretty good!

After arriving in Jufeng Town, there was naturally a lack of transportation. She and the guards had to run back and forth between the deserted city and Jufeng Mountain.

If you have a motorcycle and a cement road, it may only take one or two hours to get to the deserted city.

This task can be done!

Thinking this, Hongli summoned the guards and issued new orders.

When they set out again the next day, starting from the second stronghold, the guards searched inside and out and took away any children they found.

Although some of them were not orphans, they were cruelly pushed out by their parents when the guards came to their door. In such cases, the guards would take them away as well.

As for those who try their best to protect their children, they will not make things too difficult for them.

When they went up the mountain and arrived at the gate of Jufeng Town, more than half of the guards were holding a child in their arms.

There were five or six half-grown boys and girls following in the group.

Such a team is naturally eye-catching. If Hongli had not led the team personally, someone might have come forward to ask questions.

Even so, people who saw this scene were talking about it.

If Hongli had not previously adopted extremely violent measures to prohibit cannibalism and the bullying of women and children, people would probably have doubted her purpose in gathering these children.

Fortunately, no one is causing trouble for the time being.

When Hongli returned to the garrison, he had gathered all 50 children required for the mission.

Now the question is, how to send these 50 children to their homes in the deserted city?