For seventeen years in the apocalypse, the fields yielded no crops. Lin Man and her mother struggled daily on the brink of starvation and thirst, until one day, she obtained a space.
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Lin Man understood after listening. These people had one purpose, delivering supplies, but another was to find out the current situation of these cities in the south.
No matter how many zombies are left, kill them if you find any. No matter how many survivors are left, bring as many back as you can.
She was also a little puzzled. Since they described their base as so great and powerful, and the management was still the same government team before the apocalypse, and they said they were of good origin and committed to reviving the country and restoring order, why hadn't they come to the south to eliminate the zombies and save people for all these years?
The white-skinned man smiled bitterly and said, "We haven't had the time to split ourselves these years."
This is half true and half false.
Five years before the end of the world, zombies were rampant. At the beginning, there were no bases, just temporary strongholds. The army was everywhere doing disaster relief and missions, and then they fell one after another. In just a few months, most of the living forces were dead.
The country had no one to send, so the people could only rely on themselves. In these troubled times, heroes emerged one after another and established their own bases, some in the north and some in the south. High-ranking government officials, senior military officials, etc. were basically in the north.
They were actively or passively sent to different bases, and the state apparatus was thus divided. At that time, it was not easy to guard their own bases, and they had no energy to take care of other things. Staying alive was the top priority, and they could not send manpower to maintain the security of the entire country.
By the time the zombies gradually left the scene, this kind of base structure had already been formed. The bosses had been in power for many years, and everyone thought that they were the most legitimate and popular. No one was willing to submit to anyone else, and for a long time there were power struggles within the base and annexations between bases.
In order to gain more support and recognition, each large base did go to various parts of the country to help clear out zombies, thereby improving their own reputation and recruiting more people, but they did not contribute much.
In addition, these places in the south, far away from the center, are also full of talented people and have numerous bases. In the south, they are happily sitting on the throne as local emperors, but in the north, no matter which base they join, they will be someone else's younger brother.
So if you can make a living on your own, who would want to go north?
The entire country was torn apart and the regime ceased to exist.
Long years passed, until the last two years, when the situation became increasingly wrong. The yields in the fields first decreased, and then stopped producing. The large bases were still okay, as technology had developed well over the past decade and there had been breakthroughs in agriculture, but the small bases were simply at the end of the road.
The most desperate thing is that the population growth situation has been precarious for many years, and the population has been decreasing year after year, so the major bases in the north have started their rescue work, or snatching people away.
The small bases in the south or north are the focus of capture, but the people scattered in the cities and wilderness are also not easy to miss.
In order to encourage everyone to show up on their own initiative, we came up with the strategy of sending supplies and love.
Lin Man looked at the survivors around him who were skin and bones and looked half human and half ghost, and felt that among the bases in the north, at least the two black and white bases should still be okay.
——Even if the population is insufficient and we urgently need to replenish it, what can more than ten people make up for? Their bodies are so weak that they may not be able to reproduce. If we take them to the base, we will have to spend a lot of food to replenish their bodies.
No matter how you look at it, it's a losing deal, but these two people still have a good attitude and try their best to persuade everyone to follow them.
But no matter how nice they said, Lin Man would not leave. She also received a package, wrapped in green cloth, and it was indeed heavy. She was satisfied and wanted to find a place to see what was inside. She said "thank you" and was about to leave.
"Wait, who else is in your family? Let's go together in our helicopter. There is really no life left in the South. It's a shame for you to stay here at your age." The white-skinned man dissuaded.
Lin Man looked at them and asked: "When are you leaving?"
"This time tomorrow, we'll be back on the plane again and will be taking off before 2 p.m."
Lin Man nodded: "I will discuss it with my family."
The family members are naturally a cover.
Lin Man left this place and ran to a place where no one could see him. The indifference on his face faded away and he happily opened the package.
The package was a thick green cloth, about 30 cm by 30 cm, and contained two packets of salt, a box of antibiotics, a bottle of water, and two packets of compressed biscuits.
Lin Man was quite satisfied, but also quite disappointed. Each person could only receive one package, and each package contained only two bags of salt. When would it take to collect enough salt for three or four hundred people?
Besides, the other party should remember what she looks like. Even if they change cities next time, if it’s still the same two people, she may not be able to get it, right?
Checking household registration is really a bit scary.
She couldn't say, "There are hundreds of people waiting for me, so please give me more salt." Judging from the attitude of those two people, they would definitely ask to see the gathering place of hundreds of people.
distressed.
If only she could know whether the base they were talking about was real, and whether people there had really been treated like good citizens in the past, with food, drink and shelter provided, then she could go back and tell the hundreds of people at the Peace Base the truth. It would be up to her to decide whether to leave or not.
Lin Man narrowed her eyes suddenly as she thought about it. Each of those people had two bags of salt. If she exchanged her food with them...
She didn't expect that the opportunity to get salt would come soon without having to wait for the exchange.
Suddenly there was a noise and screams of terror from the helicopter. Lin Man was startled and threw the things on the ground into the space. He hurried back, but before he got there, he smelled a familiar rotten smell.
It's the smell of zombies!
There is also the smell of fresh blood, someone is injured!
Lin Man did not run out rashly. He found a cover and looked over. Sure enough, a zombie appeared over there on the helicopter. It was not a human-shaped one, but a big zombie bird!
Lin Man's scalp was tingling.
The adults told him that human zombies are not scary, but some animal zombies are scary, such as zombie birds, which fly around in the sky and can suddenly catch you. It is impossible to guard against them, so you have to hide in some well-protected place.
Fortunately, the toxins of animal zombies do not infect humans, otherwise they will become zombies once caught. A zombie bird can destroy a base, unless the base is covered.
The zombie bird had long arms and extremely wide-spread wings. Its body was gray and black, and its claws and beak were also gray and black. It had obviously appeared very suddenly and attacked several people at once.
The black and white pair raised their guns and fired. Their guns were probably equipped with silencers or some high-tech equipment. In any case, they were not as loud as Lin Man knew.
But the zombie bird moved very quickly, dodging all the vital points. It didn't feel any pain when hit in the corners, and it didn't cause much trouble to it.
It dodged bullets as it swooped down, tore a piece of flesh from a man's shoulder with its claws, gulped it down, and then moved even faster.
"Hide underground quickly!" the white-skinned man shouted, pulling up the unlucky guy whose shoulder was torn and screaming, and fighting and retreating to the nearest sewer manhole.