The next morning, Qu Weiwei and Tang Wenjie went to sell vegetables as usual. Song Kaiji and Shen Qing came to the refugee camp outside the base under the guidance of Tang's mother.
Compared to the last time I brought Tang Wenjie and Tang's mother back to the base, the size of the refugee camp has expanded a lot: before, the tents were hidden at the base of the south wall and at the corners, but now they are directly at the gate of the base and extend several hundred meters outward.
The densely packed tents gathered in one place became larger and larger, increasingly chaotic and difficult to manage.
"I asked yesterday and was told that an official team went to the cities and counties below to search and rescue, and brought back a lot of people. Many of the tents were set up with the help of the patrol team. But the entrance fee to the base has increased again," Mother Tang held up two fingers, "It has increased to twenty crystal cores per person! Who can get in now? Everyone is blocked outside."
Shen Qing felt a little strange: "If they are not allowed to come in, why do they keep rescuing people?" They went to so much trouble to save people, but they are just piled up at the door?
Mother Tang lowered her voice: "The government is also divided into factions. The military is out to rescue people, and the government is collecting city fees. Maybe the leaders of the two sides didn't reach an agreement." Mother Tang glanced at the refugee camp again: "But if you ask me, even if it's setting up a tent at the gate of the base, it's better than being outside!"
She had really experienced both kinds of life. Although being a refugee at the gate of the base was hard, she didn't have to worry about zombies appearing at any time. Officials would regularly clean up the zombies around the base, so it was relatively safe. She just had to pay attention to the people around her and keep an eye on her things.
Shen Qing seemed to understand, but Song Kaiji had heard some rumors. Now the apocalypse has been going on for almost a year. Even though the Hongcheng base is an official base, it is inevitable that everyone will have some small thoughts after a long time. Even if it is not selfish, it is normal to have conflicts due to different political views.
The military believes that they are all human lives, and they should be saved if possible; while the government believes that the military only knows how to save people and does not know how to manage. How can the current Hongcheng base accommodate so many people? Even if it can accommodate so many people, if the admission fee is not added, where will the construction funds of the base come from?
If everyone can enter the city without paying an entrance fee, and there is no cost of silence, who will cherish it after entering? If they don’t cherish it, how can they obey the management? This is no longer a peaceful era when human rights are emphasized!
Those who cannot afford the entrance fee have no cash-in ability to some extent. How will they survive after entering the base? How will they get food? The difficulty of management will be greatly increased!
Neither side could convince the other, and neither side was willing to compromise. The emperor was far away, and the communication was cut off. How could they complain to the higher-ups? So the stalemate led to the current situation.
They turned around and around in the densely packed tents, looking for Li Liang and Li Li's tents. Because the three of them were dressed neatly, they were very different from the people in the refugee camp. They encountered several waves of people with bad intentions along the way. Some planned to steal, some planned to rob, and some wanted to beg them to take them into the base. Song Kaiji protected Shen Qing behind him, and with a cold face and a gun in hand, he forced several waves of people back.
Mother Tang, who was trying to pry open the child's hands that were pulling at her trouser legs, said:
Song Kaiji walked forward a few steps, and as if he suddenly came to his senses, he turned back and grabbed the child's collar and threw it back into the arms of the child's parents. Ignoring the child's parents' scolding, Song Kaiji held Shen Qing in one hand and Tang's mother in the other, and walked forward with difficulty.
"I should have known I wouldn't have come to trouble you." Shen Qing whispered. Originally, he should have gone back last night after getting the book. Miao was still waiting for him at home for the New Year. But seeing Song Kaiji's dazed and uncertain look, Shen Qing stayed behind for some unknown reason. Today, he accompanied Song Kaiji to look for someone, but it seemed to cause more trouble for Song Kaiji.
"How is it a nuisance? I'm so happy that you're willing to accompany me." Song Kaiji looked at the tent with his sharp eyes and said it without thinking. Shen Qing lowered his head, his sleeves being pulled by Song Kaiji, and he felt a little happy in his heart: Song Kaiji finally returned to his original self. When they first met, Song Kaiji took him around the Hongcheng base like this, and enthusiastically introduced every part of the base to him, and would flatter him and make him happy in everything.
Shen Qing knew that Song Kaiji did that to build his own business, but he still enjoyed it. But when their team was just formed, Song Kaiji changed. He became silent and didn't like to talk to him. He even avoided him. Shen Qing thought he was very strange, and felt a little disappointed.
Fortunately, it has changed again recently! Shen Qing still feels that this is the most comfortable way to get along with Song Kaiji.
They walked a little further, and Tang's mother pointed the way. Song Kaiji saw Li Liang fighting with someone from a distance. It turned out that someone cut a big hole in their tent last night. It was so cold that people almost froze to death. How could Li Liang tolerate this? He immediately started to curse. He didn't find the person who cut the tent, but disturbed the sleep of many people nearby.
They are not related, why should others spoil Li Liang? At first, there were scoldings, and slowly the quarrels escalated into physical fights. Li Li was almost dying of anxiety, why was her brother so forgetful! If this wasn't her only relative, she would really want to run away, fearing that Li Liang would get involved in a fight with others. But if she really let her run away, she didn't dare to live alone.
Just as I was getting anxious, I saw the middle-aged woman from yesterday walking towards this side with two men. Who else could one of them be but Song Kaiji?
Song Kaiji was dressed neatly and cleanly, without a trace of dirt on his body, unlike her, who had been sleeping in a tent in the wild for more than half a month and was covered in mud and dirt.
Song Kaiji seemed to be living well in Hongcheng Base. Li Li was jealous and regretful: If she had known that the apocalypse would happen, why did she bother Song Kaiji for the sake of her second uncle's property? Her father had a good idea. Her second uncle had no biological children, so it would be better to give the property to the Li family instead of giving it to outsiders. But once the apocalypse came, would the second uncle's house still be valuable, or would the savings still be usable?
On the contrary, Song Kaiji is doing so well in the end times! She was a little embarrassed to talk about it last night, but now that she really met someone, Li Li's tears flowed without preparation, as if the suffering she had endured these days was because of Song Kaiji: "Brother, cousin, you are here! We are all going to be bullied to death!"
Upon hearing this, the man who was fighting with Li Liang looked at the gun in Song Kaiji's hand with fear, spat fiercely, and stepped back.
If Song Kaiji had come a little later, Li Liang's teeth would have been knocked out. At this time, he stood up again and shouted, "Damn it, don't leave if you have the guts!"
Song Kaiji pushed Li Li who was trying to pull him with a cold face and said, "Okay, pack up your things. Where's uncle? Do you know where my parents are?"
Li Li paused and cried, "My dad...my dad is gone, and my mom is gone too!"
She cried with real feelings. It was all Li Liang's fault! Only then did Li Li have the courage to glare at Li Liang. She had resented Li Liang for a long time!
But all her family members had died, leaving only her and Li Liang. It was even more difficult for her to survive as a girl, so she had no choice but to endure it temporarily. When she met Song Kaiji at this time, it was clear that a safe life was just around the corner, so she couldn't help but reveal a little.
Zizhou, where they lived, was a prefecture-level city under Hongcheng. It had a small flow of people, and apart from local residents, few outsiders came to visit for sightseeing. Therefore, at the beginning of the apocalypse, Zizhou's situation was much better than Hongcheng's.
The communication was completely cut off almost a month after the outbreak of the apocalypse. During this period, they had already contacted their second uncle and aunt, and even moved to their second uncle and aunt's house - Song's mother's unit had good benefits, and they would give out rice and oil during festivals, so there was a lot left at home, but their family had already eaten it all.
Hearing that his uncle and aunt had contacted Song Kaiji and agreed to go to Hongcheng Base to meet up with Song Kaiji, Li Li's father was very dissatisfied and repeatedly obstructed him: Song Kaiji's mother didn't care, as she could save one person to eat if she left. But he hoped that Song Kaiji's stepfather could stay and go out with his two brothers to search for supplies. Because of this, Song Kaiji's parents didn't leave for a long time after the communication was disconnected. It was not because they didn't want to, but because they were held back by Li Li's father.
Later, because teams from other cities who were going to Hongcheng Base came to their city and almost looted all the supplies, Li Li's father had no choice but to agree to go to Hongcheng Base with them.
They traveled together with the teams from other cities, and no one cared. Song Kaiji's family had a car, and they had stored some gasoline when they searched for supplies. Song Kaiji's parents had been preparing to come to the Hongcheng base.
But Li Liang got into trouble.
Li Liang has always had a bad temper, and it's no exaggeration to say that he is irritable. There was a water-based psychic in the other team, who was kind and sometimes provided everyone with a small cup of drinking water for free, but if there was more, he would have to exchange it for food. Li Liang treated the other person as a fool, and asked for water in small amounts many times. Naturally, the other party refused, and they had an argument after a few times.
After a quarrel, the water-based supernatural being became unhappy and refused to provide a drop of water to his family, even in exchange for something else. This made Li Liang even angrier and he cursed even more harshly, using words like callous and unscrupulous.
The other party ignored him at first. They were originally traveling together, so if they had a falling out, they could just go their separate ways. But Li Liang couldn't get over it, and he provoked them again and again. He went to the other party's car and cursed at them, and almost attacked the water-based psychic.
The water-based mutant endured it again and again, but her boyfriend couldn't stand it anymore. One time when they were chased by zombies, the man used his supernatural powers to puncture their tires, leaving Song Kaiji's car stuck there forever.
But that time, she and Li Liang were not in the car, and they happened to get on someone else's car to exchange supplies.
Li Li watched helplessly as the car carrying her parents, uncle and aunt moved farther and farther away from them, until it was finally swallowed up by the swarm of zombies.
Li Li was filled with hatred! How could he be so cruel? Just because of a few quarrels and conflicts, he had to kill the whole family? She would rather that person only killed Li Liang and gave her parents back!
How she wanted to complain to Song Kaiji, how she wanted to tell him that the water-based mutant and her boyfriend were in the Hongcheng base, and to kill them to avenge her parents!
But she didn't dare to say it. If Song Kaiji faced the people in the previous team and knew that his second uncle and second aunt were also in that car, would Song Kaiji let them go? Li Li could only cry silently and swallow her hatred back into her stomach: "...Because my brother offended someone, that person smashed the car we were in, and my parents were in the car..."
She concealed the existence of her second uncle and second aunt.
Song Kaiji was stunned for a long time. He didn't expect his uncle to be like this... He calmed down and asked again: "What about my parents? Have you met my parents?"
Li Li paused, and said according to what she and Li Liang had discussed in advance: "I have met you. Second uncle and second aunt were with us at the beginning, but later they said they had agreed with you to come to Hongcheng Base, and they were afraid that you would be anxious waiting, so they left first. My parents were still there at that time. Why, second uncle and second aunt haven't come yet?"
However, Shen Qing noticed the moment she paused, and his eyes rolled around.
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