Chapter 130 Meeting an Old Friend Again

"Why can't we enter the base?"

Cheng Sinian continued chatting with the Chen brothers and keenly grasped the key points of his words.

Chen Xiangdong scoffed, "I have nothing to hand over."

Cheng Sinian was even more confused after hearing this. "Hand in something? Do I need to hand in something to enter the survivor base?"

"What do you think?!" Chen Xiangdong said nonchalantly, "A survivor base also requires manpower and material resources to operate. How can we provide safe shelter for free?"

Qiao Yu understood exactly what Chen Xiangdong said.

In fact, when the survivor base was first established, it did accommodate survivors for free.

However, as the number of residents in the base increased dramatically, the base's capacity gradually became exhausted and expansion was necessary.

Expansion requires a lot of manpower and material resources, but the original protection force - the army is gradually being reduced. The leaders of the base have no choice but to find ways to let the survivors "voluntarily" make some contributions to the base.

Mercenary groups and mercenary hunters were born in this situation.

But it is obvious that almost all those who can join the mercenary group and become mercenary hunters are aliens and mutants.

As for the ordinary survivors, since they have no abilities and are physically weak, they can only huddle in the base and become the "weaklings" who are protected and have no contribution.

In this era, the weak are not valued.

Especially when the number of these weak ones increases and gradually becomes a "burden", they are destined to be abandoned.

Therefore, all major bases later introduced corresponding systems to fundamentally raise the threshold for ordinary survivors to enter the base.

Want to enter the base and enjoy full protection?

Yes, but you need to pay for the supplies.

Everyone had a quota for the supplies they had to hand in. If they had crystal cores, they would hand in crystal cores; if they didn't, they would hand in food, water, or daily necessities.

As long as you pay a certain amount of supplies, you will have access to the base.

However, ordinary people who have neither supplies nor other contributions will not be welcomed by the base.

It's cruel, but there's nothing we can do about it, this is reality.

"arrive."

Qiao Yu was still lost in thought when he suddenly heard Chen Xiangbei's reminder.

Qiao Yu came to his senses and found that they were standing in front of a steel door.

The Chen brothers worked together to open the steel door. They saw a spiral stone staircase leading underground.

The five people followed the Chen brothers down the stone steps. After landing and walking for a distance, they saw several people standing not far away waiting for them.

The leading man was dressed in a simple black T-shirt and jeans. He was tall and thin, with thick eyebrows and big eyes. He had a baby face and looked to be in his early twenties, but his eyes shone with a ruthlessness that was completely inconsistent with his appearance. He looked like someone who was not to be trifled with.

Qiao Yu and the others were secretly alert.

Unexpectedly, before Qiao Yu and the others could say anything, the man spoke first with a look of surprise: "Jiang Zhan?"

Both groups of people were stunned.

Qiao Yu immediately looked up at Jiang Zhan, "Zhan, do you know him?"

Jiang Zhan looked at Qiao Yu with a gentle expression. Just as he was about to introduce her, Gu Nanyu interrupted him: "Oh, this is your sister-in-law, right?"

"I've heard a lot about you! I'm Jiang Zhan's cousin. If you don't mind, you can follow him and call me Third Brother."

A playful smile appeared on Gu Nanyu's fair, baby-like face.

Third... Third brother? So this Gu Nanyu is older than Jiang Zhan?

Qiao Yu scratched her brow. Facing such a baby-faced boy, she really couldn't call him "Third Brother".

Jiang Zhan seemed to see Qiao Yu's dilemma. He stroked her hair and whispered, "Ignore him. Just call him Gu Nanyu."

Upon hearing this, Gu Nanyu curled his lips, with a look of regret on his face.

But he quickly recovered, turned his head and saw Cheng Sinian standing beside him, and smiled again, "Hey, is this Cheng Sinian? You've grown so big?"

"..." Cheng Sinian was already confused, and after hearing his familiar tone, he couldn't help but become even more confused.

Do they know each other?

How come he doesn't know?

This guy looks fierce, but I didn't expect he is even more familiar than him?

Seeing Cheng Sinian's bewildered expression, Gu Nanyu raised his eyebrows slightly. "You don't remember me? Well, we only met once, and you had just arrived at the Jiang family not long ago. It's normal that you don't remember me."

"Let me remind you, the first time we met was in the Jiang family's back mountain. You poked a hornet's nest and accidentally got your head stuck in a crack in the rocks. You were stung all over your face and butt, and you couldn't see the road and cried. I carried you back that time."

“…”

Cheng Sinian's ears suddenly turned red.

He did remember.

No wonder he had no impression of Gu Nanyu.

He was stung in the eyes by a wasp at that time. His eyes were so swollen that he couldn't see anything. He almost thought he was blind.

He had no idea who carried him back and thought it was a servant from the Jiang family.

But listening to the suppressed laughter around him, Cheng Sinian felt deeply that it was better not to mention this awakening.

Damn it! Such a dark part of his history was exposed nakedly in public!

The others were fine. Cheng Sinian glanced over and stared directly at Luo Zhenzhen, his eyes threatening.

The expression on his face seemed to be saying: If you dare to laugh, I will make trouble for you!

Poor Luo Zhenzhen's face turned red, but she had to hold back her smile as she touched Cheng Sinian's arm and stroked the fur of the big-tailed wolf in front of her whose tail had been stepped on.

"Okay, since you're one of us, don't just stand there like an idiot." Gu Nanyu walked over to Jiang Zhan and put his hand on his shoulder. "Come on, go upstairs and talk to me."

Jiang Zhan didn't respond. Although he directly knocked Gu Nanyu's hand away, he still put his arm around Qiao Yu's waist and said to Gu Nanyu calmly, "Lead the way."

The self-righteous tone almost made people think that this was his territory.

"Hahaha..." Gu Nanyu was not annoyed at all when he saw this. Instead, he laughed a few times, and then took the lead to walk towards the spiral stone steps.

Chen Xiangdong shouted from behind: "Hey - Brother Yu, this batch of goods..."

"No rush!" Gu Nanyu stood on the stone steps and looked back. After thinking for a moment, he continued, "Have someone bring it up and send it to my room. And bring some food as well!"

"You all should go and have some rest too! I'm happy today, so I'm giving you a day off!"

After saying that, he no longer cared about the reactions of his subordinates, turned around and continued to walk towards the ground with the five people.

Qiao Yu could see that the joy on Gu Nanyu's face was indeed genuine.

You can also feel the faint joy emanating from Jiang Zhan's calm face.

She was a little surprised.

Could it be that Jiang Zhan also has such a good relative?

But, cousin...

Is it someone from Jiang Zhan’s mother’s side?

Jiang Zhan had never told her about his mother's family. She had always believed that Jiang Zhan had severed ties with that family because of his mother.

But now it seems...

It seems... not like that?

But if their relationship was really good, why didn't Jiang Zhan keep Gu Nanyu by his side at the beginning of the apocalypse?