Chapter 86 Lead the way
Wu Chao ran up and said, "You people with special abilities don't need to be isolated. Ordinary people without any wounds can enter the base."
Ye Jin ignored him. He even ran over to say hello to the quarantined personnel. Ye Jin and the others came out of the quarantine room soon.
When Ye Jin saw Shen Yuting's face was not good when she was leaving, she asked, "What's wrong?"
Shen Yuting came out after Ye Jin, and she stiffly told him what she had just seen.
When she came out of the isolation room, she happened to see the next room. The people doing the tests were all women, while the other rooms were all men. She also saw a man in uniform asking all the women in the room to take off all their clothes, and pinching the breast of a beautiful girl. The girl cried but dared not say anything.
Shen Yuting felt extremely disgusted and very angry. Should those girls be treated like this just because they were ordinary people?
"As long as you're all fine, that's all. I just told you guys to check on women." Wu Chao said, taking credit for it, as if it was a matter of course, "Isn't this normal? They're just ordinary people. As long as they're alive, that's all. It's just that I didn't touch them."
"Aren't you just an ordinary person?" Ye Jin's face turned pale.
Wu Chao said angrily, "How can they compare with me? My brother-in-law is a superpower!"
"So? Aren't you still an ordinary person?" Ye Jin didn't expect that the management and public officials of the West City Base would be in such a mess.
After Ye Jin and the others left, Wu Chao followed behind and said, "I'll take you to my brother-in-law's place first. The treatment in his team is very good. You will definitely go the right way..."
Before he could finish his words, a knife was placed on his neck. Ye Jin said coldly, "Don't follow us anymore!"
Wu Chao was so frightened that he stood still. He waited until Ye Jin and the others were far away before he dared to move his stiff body. He yelled at the top of his lungs, "What the hell! Isn't he just a psychic? You're so great?! Your name is Ye Jin, right? Just wait and see. I'll tell my brother-in-law and I'll see how you survive in the West City base!!!"
Ye Jin's heart grew colder and colder. The scene in the base was even more outrageous than she had imagined. They were still in the outer city of the West City base. Every few steps they took, they saw refugees, skinny as sticks. A blanket spread on the ground was their only home.
"Are you new at the base? Do you need directions?"
A man in tattered clothes saw Ye Jin and the others dressed cleanly, and ran over to ask.
"Come to me, I'm familiar with you and I'm cheap."
"What do you mean by familiar? I was born and raised here. I've been here since before the base was built."
Soon, more and more refugees came over.
"My dear, please come to me. I am familiar with every corner of the base."
"I, I! Find me! One nuclear crystal is enough for me!"
"It's so expensive, how dare you say that? I only need a piece of bread."
"I'll take half a piece!"
Everyone was scrambling to find odd jobs introducing the base.
"That's enough!" Ye Jin said, "The person who just said he was born and raised in West City, please come out and help lead the way for us."
"Me! Me!" The man squeezed out of the crowd and walked in front of Ye Jin and the others, but he didn't dare to get too close. He said anxiously: "Me, I grew up here since I was a child. I know this area very well."
"Then you."
After Ye Jin finished speaking, the others did not disperse, their eyes still revealing the desire to see if there was a possibility of someone else choosing them.
The man led Ye Jin and the others forward and introduced them, "This West City Base used to be a small county town. We are now in the outer city. The further you go in, the richer it becomes."
He rubbed his hands and asked awkwardly, "Everyone, you can ask me anything you want to know. Can you give me a piece of bread... I haven't eaten for a few days."
"How many days have you not eaten?" Zhang Zhang took out a piece of bread from his backpack. Before he handed it to him, a child suddenly rushed out, snatched the bread from his hand and ran away.
Zhang Zhang was caught off guard, but he thought it was nothing, just a piece of bread.
But the man who led them burst into tears. It was too late for him to chase after the people. He cried, "You little bastard! Damn it! You are trying to kill me. You must be struck by lightning for stealing people's food!" He cried and wiped his tears with the back of his hand.
"That's enough." Zhang Zhang handed him another piece of bread and said, "Here, stop crying and get back to your work."
The man took the bread and gobbled it up, nodding and saying, "Okay...right away."
Zhang Zhang looked at him with an exaggerated expression: "How many days have you not eaten?"
The man almost choked, and Zhang Zhang handed him a bottle of mineral water. The man didn't dare to take it, so Zhang Zhang forced it into his hand.
The man drank a few sips, calmed down, and said, "Excuse me, I have been hungry for several days. Not only me, but also those who just competed with me for business have been hungry for a long time."
Ye Jin asked, "As a local, you should have a house on the base, right? Why are you doing so badly?"
"Oh, forget it. We're all expropriated by the base anyway, and even if you give me the house now, I can't afford the taxes."
Yu Zichen asked: "Don't you get any subsidies when your own houses are expropriated?"
He waved his hand: "No, I still have to pay heavy taxes!"
This was the first time Yu Zichen and his team had encountered such a thing. In the southern base, only unowned vacant houses would be confiscated.
"You have no food to eat, so you rely on leading people to make a living?" Zhang Zhang asked, "Don't you have any other jobs? You wouldn't be so destitute if you just went out and killed zombies."
"You need weapons to kill zombies," the man said. "A kitchen knife at the base costs a hundred core crystals. I'm leading the way, and I might not be able to afford one even if I lead the way for over ten years."
Shen Yuting had no idea about the base's nuclear crystals. Zhang Zhang was shocked. Ye Jin and Yu Zichen both found it outrageous. Are the prices in the West City base so high?
"If you can't even afford to eat, aren't you just waiting to die?" Shen Yuting asked.
"Isn't it just waiting to die? It's not that we don't want to work, we just don't have any weapons. Some of us can't survive, so we just go out and feed the zombies. People commit suicide every day."
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