One week later in the evening.
Lin Qingqing drove an off-road vehicle and appeared outside the Liancheng base, looking exhausted.
The city walls here have become dilapidated after several zombie attacks.
It didn't snow in Liancheng, it just rained all the time.
Outside the base, the ground was muddy, with bits of flesh and skeletons scattered here and there.
The bustling scene of people queuing to enter the city gate last year is no longer there.
It seems that the population here has dropped sharply!
Lin Qingqing drove slowly towards the VIP channel.
The few soldiers standing guard were emaciated and listlessly guarding the door, and their eyes were not as sharp as they used to be.
Until he saw Lin Qingqing's car, his eyes glowed green like a hungry wolf.
"Please show your ID!" The soldier made a hoarse sound in his throat and looked into Lin Qingqing's car. When he found that there was nothing in the car, his face became gloomy.
Lin Qingqing handed over the ID card she had applied for at the Lotus City base years ago. The man glanced at it casually and said, "It's expired. You need to apply for a new ID card if you want to enter the city."
Lin Qingqing glanced at him and handed over a card with 500 points. "Is it okay now?"
"Sure..." The soldier grinned. Sure enough, the driver had the upper hand. He reached out to grab the card, but another person got there first. "No!"
Lin Qingqing looked up and saw Qiu Kai in a dirty coat. She couldn't help but curl her lips, "You're really going backwards!"
"It's hard to explain in a few words." Qiu Kai returned the card he had taken back from the soldier to Lin Qingqing, opened the car door and sat in the passenger seat.
Those experienced soldiers were all his subordinates. Seeing this, they hurriedly raised the barrier and let the car pass.
"Who is it?"
"I don't know! Luckily I didn't ask for the card. She offered it to me on her own initiative. The boss won't punish me, will he?"
“It’s hard to say…”
Behind the car, there were a few soldiers talking. Lin Qingqing didn't take it seriously. She glanced at the distant relative of the commander of the Liancheng base and asked, "How did it become like this?"
"Alas, there is not enough food... Half a year ago, a madman came here and asked us to disband the base and move everyone to the west. The base commander ignored him and burned down the warehouse!" When Qiu Kai thought of this, he wanted to bite that man to death.
Everyone in the entire base wants to bite him to death!
Lin Qingqing beeped at Cai's dad: "Who? How dare you be crazier than me?"
Cai Donghu: "One dollar bet on the Corpse King!"
Lin Qingqing asked, "Has he ever been back to Liancheng?" (Help! I forgot what I wrote. Did Qu Guanqing tell Lin Qingqing he was coming to Liancheng? If anyone remembers, let me know.)
Cai Donghu nodded and didn't say anything else. He was busy!
Lin Qingqing drove the car towards Ji Yu's villa. On the streets of the base, the survivors were in even worse condition. They were so thin that they seemed like they could be blown away by a gust of wind.
Lin Qingqing even doubted whether they could maintain this situation for another two years.
Is Qu Guanqing trying to make his little zombies lose weight? He burned the food and starved them of their rations.
"Then why don't you go to the West?" Lin Qingqing asked Qiu Kai casually.
"Going west? Are you crazy too?" Qiu Kai looked at Lin Qingqing in shock. "It's at least three thousand miles from here to the west. My cousin said the snow in Beijing is a meter thick! Going out now is tantamount to seeking death!"
Lin Qingqing chuckled, "Is staying in the base and tightening your belt the way out for you?"
Qiu Kai choked and muttered, "It's better than freezing to death or starving to death outside!... Dear sister, is there anything to eat?" Speaking of food, Qiu Kai couldn't help swallowing his saliva.
"I thought you had made something of yourself." Lin Qingqing rolled her eyes at him, feeling sorry for him for holding back until now.
She took out a can of eight-treasure porridge and gave it to Qiu Kai. "Take some for a meal first. I'll treat you to a big meal when we get home."
Qiu Kai took the eight-treasure porridge and didn't bother to answer Lin Qingqing. He opened the can and poured it into his mouth.
After a few sips, I finally broke off the spoon on the lid and scraped the remaining residue off the iron sheet...
"I knew that only by following you can I have food to eat. Qingqing, otherwise, I wouldn't join the army. I'll just be your little brother!" Qiu Kai licked his lips, savoring the delicious taste on his tongue.
"Oh! When the time comes, I will build a base and ask you to guard the gate. When you have nothing to do, you can oppress the people..." Lin Qingqing sneered.
This guy is really lucky. He has done a lot of bad things, but he hasn't been beaten to death even after more than a year in the apocalypse.
"How could I have oppressed the common people? I only oppressed the local tyrants..." Qiu Kai still argued.
As they were talking, the car ran into Wu Jiangtao and Wang Zherong who were walking. When they saw Lin Qingqing, they yelled, "Lin! Qing! Qing!"
Lin Qingqing stopped the car and smiled slightly, "Get in!"
The two of them jumped into the car with laughter, and they were so excited that they couldn't stop asking questions:
"Doctor Lin, why did you come back just now?"
"Doctor Lin, I heard that the north was covered in snow. How did you get back?"
"Doctor Lin, Zhao Yifan went to Beijing to look for you. Did you meet him?"
"Forest……"
There were so many questions that Lin Qingqing didn't know where to begin. Qiu Kai couldn't bear to listen any longer, "You keep asking questions. Don't you see that Doctor Lin is exhausted?"
"Yes, yes, let's go home first! Doctor Lin, you take a rest, I'll drive." Wang Zherong said attentively.
"Need not."
It's just a few hundred meters away. Compared with the Yanjiao base, the Liancheng base is not even as big as a district in Yanjiao.
A few minutes later, the car stopped at the entrance of the villa. Wu Jiangtao and Wang Zherong jumped out first. The two overly excited people directly banged on the door, "Open the door quickly! Open the door and come out to see God!"
Lin Qingqing: “…”
It was not yet nightfall, and there were not many people at home in the villa. After hearing the loud noise, only a few kittens ran out.
There were Zhou Ping'er and Boss Wang, the two people in charge of the kitchen, as well as a few familiar-looking children.
Several people were excited again.
Lin Qingqing saw that their faces also looked pale, but they were much better than the skinny passers-by outside.
"Is there not enough food?" Lin Qingqing asked Boss Wang after entering the villa.
Boss Wang glanced at the 'outsider' Qiu Kai and said, "There's not enough food, but we can take turns going out to the base to look for supplies, and we should be able to bring back some."
Lin Qingqing said, "Where's my Master Cai?"
"Mr. Cai has not been in good health since winter began. He sleeps more and wakes up less often. He is sleeping upstairs now." Zhou Ping'er replied to Lin Qingqing.
She was the one who took care of Mr. Cai most of the time, so she was the only one who couldn't leave and had never gone out to look for supplies.
"I'll go see him first, you guys cook first." Lin Qingqing said, taking out two bags of rice, a few pounds of meat, cabbage, radishes and the like from the space.
Amidst the cheers of the crowd, she dropped her things and ran upstairs.
The doors of several rooms on the second floor were all closed. Lin Qingqing was just wondering where Dr. Cai lived when Cai Donghu's slightly anxious reminder came to her mind, "My grandfather is in the first room on the left. Go in and take a look. He seems to be dying."
When Lin Qingqing heard this, she quickly ran to open the door.
In the room, the old man was wearing an oxygen mask, his chest rising and falling with his breathing.
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