Chapter 168: The Escaped Survivors
"It's so hot! The weather changes so quickly, every day is different." A girl with twin ponytails fanned herself, licked her cracked lips, and whispered to the boy next to her, "Brother, where are we going? We've been running away for half a month, and we haven't reached our destination yet?"
The boy touched her head and said, "There's a flood in the east. We can only go to higher altitudes. Once we reach the southwest, we can find a place to stay. Just bear with it for a while, ah."
"Honey, look!" The woman in the front passenger seat was observing the road conditions ahead with a telescope. She didn't know what she saw, so she hurriedly shouted to the man next to her to stop the car.
The other three people in the car all looked in the direction she pointed.'
I saw two military trucks driving forward on a fork road on the right. Their destination was a place that looked like a toll booth.
Unlike the toll stations in other cities they passed by, which were dilapidated, dirty, and full of zombies, this one was guarded by many people. The original lifting poles and toll booths were half removed and replaced with a large tent with ventilation on all sides and a long roadblock with spikes in front.
Two military trucks stopped in front of the toll booth. A man came out of the tent, said a few words to the driver of the car in front, and then asked the people behind to start moving the roadblocks and make way for them.
military vehicle?
Several people looked at each other and said, "Let's go and take a look."
As they walked along, the cities along the way were either deserted or filled with people fleeing like them. This was the first time they encountered such a large-scale base with an army.
After all, none of the official bases reported on the radio at the time included any nearby cities.
The man fell back a bit and turned to the right.
The closer we got, the more we could feel the difference. All the facilities looked very new. There were about 10 to 20 people in each tent on both sides. They were all strong and energetic, dressed neatly and had sharp eyes. Most importantly, some of them were holding rifles.
The two military trucks drove away, and someone came out, shouting through a loudspeaker and waving a stop sign at them, "Number plate 763, stop, stop."
The man pulled up to the roadblock, rolled down the window, and asked the man with the loudspeaker, "Brother, is there a base here?"
The man first examined the overall condition of the car, then stared at him for a moment, and instead of answering, asked: "Where are you from? What are you doing here?"
The man frowned slightly. "We are from H City and wanted to go to the Southwest Base. We passed by here and saw someone, so we came to take a look."
The man nodded and said, "Yes, we are from Chaoyang Base. Our base is right inside here, so if you don't enter the base, you can't pass through here. Sorry."
Chaoyang Base?
Never heard of it.
How could such a large civilian base be built here? And the conditions look quite good, but I wonder if it was paid for by enslaving other residents.
Do you want to take a gamble?
The man turned around and looked at the three haggard faces in the car. He hesitated for a moment and shook his head. "Sorry, we won't—"
However, before he could finish, he heard the roar of an engine coming from behind the car, and everyone turned to look.
The man saw from the rearview mirror that a man in a black military shirt was riding a very cool red motorcycle quickly towards the toll booth, and then with a graceful tailspin, he stopped next to their car.
When the people in the two tents saw this, their faces changed. They stood up and walked out, greeting the man with a smile.
"Sister Lu!"
"Instructor Lu!"
The man stepped out of the car, took off his sunglasses, nodded to the guards, and then looked towards their car.
And they also saw the person's appearance clearly. She was actually a girl with fair skin and extremely beautiful looks!
She pointed at the car and asked, "What is this?"
The man with the loudspeaker replied, "They're from H City, wanting to go to the Southwest Base, and happened to be passing through here."
"Want to go to the Southwest Base?" she asked back, then smiled and said, "You have the courage."
There are so many animals and plants there, wow.
But she didn't say much, instead she nodded to the guards and said, "Open the door, I'll go back first."
"Okay!"
Someone quickly ran out to move the roadblock and opened a gap.
The girl put on her sunglasses, got into the car, took out a green mineral water bottle from somewhere, and threw it into the arms of the man holding the horn, "Thank you for your hard work." Then she stepped on the accelerator and sped away.
The person holding the water's eyes lit up and shouted back, "Thank you, Sister Lu!"
The others looked at him with jealous eyes and started to make a fuss.
The man in the car asked him, "Hey, man, who is that?"
He smiled and replied, "She? She's a veteran of our base. Hey, are you guys coming in or not? If not, get out of the way."
That little girl turned out to be a veteran?
She looked only a few years older than his daughter.
It seems that at least women and children in this base will not be sold like goods.
The man nodded firmly, "Come in!"
"Okay. Open the door."
The roadblock opened and the man drove in with a confused look on his face.
Is it, is it that simple…?
No need to register or anything?
Entering along the clean and empty highway, passing some sentry boxes set up not far away on both sides, when I could see the buildings, I found another gate in front of me.
Oh, no wonder there was no need to register there just now.
This gate looks more formal. It was built based on an original overpass that crossed the road. There are some tents on the overpass, which are blocked by railings and you can't see inside. In the middle below are two large iron gates with two lanes for entry and exit. It is very wide, and there are two bungalows on each side of the gate.
At this moment, someone came out from inside, came to the car, and asked the man driving while writing down, "What's your name?"
"Zhao Mingyuan."
"How many people?"
"Four."
"How did you know about our base?"
“I saw it on the road.”
The man nodded, registered their license plate, put an H sticker on the front of the car, and picked up the walkie-talkie. "How is it?"
As if he had received some kind of answer, he nodded and shouted back, "Open the door!"
The gate on the left quickly opened halfway, the man waved his hand, and the man drove the car in again.
This time he guessed that maybe that wasn't their real gate either.
Sure enough, as we walked along, the streets on both sides were empty and there was no one in the buildings, but the roads were neat and clean, without zombies or debris. It looked like a newly built city.
After driving along the main road for nearly an hour, they were all surprised when they saw a towering wall in front of them. They exclaimed in admiration, "So high..."
A horn honked, "Zhao Mingyuan, please stop and register. Thank you for your cooperation."
Zhao Mingyuan parked the car in front of the gate, took the things handed to him by the guard with a gun, and thanked him: "Thank you."
The three people in the car came over to take a look and found that what they got was a "Chaoyang Base Entry Registration Form", a "Chaoyang Base Housing Description Card" and a pen.
Zhao Mingyuan began to fill out the registration form, which consisted of some routine items. In the column "Long-term residence or temporary stay", he chose temporary stay, and then checked "Are you willing to apply for an official position at the base" to indicate that he would not consider it for the time being.
"Their rent is very cheap, is it because there are so few people? A three-bedroom apartment only costs 10 kilograms of food a month, and can accommodate up to 15 people." said the woman next to her.
"That's more than that. The most common job pays three kilograms of food a day." The girl leaned over and tilted her head to look at the back of the card and added.
The young man next to them listened to their conversation, looked at the high wall in front of them, and remained silent.
Is it really that good here?
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