After another day of travel, the group finally saw the Fuzhou gathering place around noon on the second day.
However, they were horrified when they saw the scene before them. Standing on the hilltop, they could see corpses of zombies strewn everywhere.
Among these corpses, you can also see quite a few people who seem to be searching for magic cores.
I took out my binoculars and looked towards the Fuzhou settlement. I saw that the tall city walls were in a terrible state, and some places seemed to have been breached by zombies. However, the city center was completely unharmed.
Seeing this, Wang Bin felt relieved. What he feared most was that the Fuzhou settlement would be captured, and he really didn't know where he would lead everyone then.
"Thank goodness it hasn't been captured yet!" Wang Bin exclaimed and handed the binoculars to the others to look through.
Hearing Wang Bin's words, everyone felt relieved and excitedly began to look at the Fuzhou gathering place through their binoculars.
It's more than 20 kilometers from the foot of the mountain to the gathering place in Fuzhou. This stretch of road is littered with zombie corpses, making it impossible to drive. Everyone has no choice but to walk.
For safety reasons, everyone carried a rifle. Wang Bin did not take out his Fire Dragon Gun, since a gun would attract too much attention and inevitably cause unnecessary trouble.
Along the way, Wang Bin and his group saw many survivors. Whenever they passed by, these people would watch Wang Bin and his group warily, and only after they had passed would they begin to search for the magic core.
On the way, Wang Bin discovered that most of the magic cores had been taken away, leaving only a very small portion. However, these people didn't care how smelly the zombie corpses were, and they were still tirelessly searching through the zombie corpses for the magic cores.
Wang Bin wanted to ask the survivors what had happened, but every time he approached them, they would run away warily. He had no choice but to give up and wait until he entered the city to ask them for details.
Before long, they finally arrived at the city gate, where a large number of people were coming and going. Many were carrying zombie corpses, some were queuing to enter the city, and others were waiting to leave.
While waiting in line, Wang Bin asked a man in front of him for information, but the man ignored him.
But when Wang Bin took out a pack of cigarettes, the man's eyes lit up and he immediately tried to curry favor with Wang Bin.
"Brother, do you have any more? I'll trade you some magic cores for them."
Wang Bin chuckled inwardly. If you had answered properly, I could have given it to you for free. Why did you have to offer me a magic core to curry favor?
"This is the only pack I have left," Wang Bin said calmly.
After saying that, he took out a cigarette, lit it, and started smoking. Although he didn't smoke, he had often seen Li Dazhu and others smoking.
He was smoking a fake cigarette; he didn't swallow it, but held it tightly in his mouth for a while before spitting it out.
The man, smelling the smoke, couldn't resist any longer.
"Brother, I was blind just now. I apologize. Please sell me one. I'm willing to trade you a magic core for it!"
Upon hearing that one magic core could be exchanged for one ordinary magic core, Wang Bin was so excited he almost laughed out loud, but he managed to hold it in.
"Okay, but you have to answer a few questions for me. If you answer them well, I can give you one for free!"
"Alright, brother, ask me anything you want to know, and I'll tell you anything I know!"
"Hmm, we just arrived here today. What's going on here? Why are there so many zombie corpses?"
"It's a real shame you missed this great battle. Let me tell you, it was a once-in-a-century actual war..."
In order to get Wang Bin's free cigarettes, the man talked on and on, quickly recounting what had happened.
It turns out that a week ago, nearly 100 million zombies gathered outside the Fuzhou settlement. After a three-day and three-night battle, the zombies were finally wiped out. But after this battle, the military almost ran out of ammunition.
After the great battle, the military took most of the magic cores and left, retreating to three islands more than 500 kilometers from the coast.
After the apocalypse broke out, the military had been developing the project, which was already completed. With limited ammunition, the military retreated to the three major islands with most of its personnel.
It is said that this battle involved a zombie king and hundreds of elite zombie monsters. The elite zombie monsters were all eliminated, but the zombie king was seriously injured and escaped.
After the military withdrew, the area was taken over by four major families and five major gangs, who divided up the territory and each controlled a piece of land.
Newcomers who wish to live in the city must submit ten ordinary magic cores to obtain a new ID card. With this new ID card, they can live in the city and will not need to submit magic cores to enter or leave in the future.
However, if you want to live in the city, you have to pay a fee to the big boss who controls the territory to buy a house.
Wang Bin was very satisfied with the big man's story and gave him three cigarettes, which moved the big man to say thank you several times.
He then inquired about the situation of several bigwigs in the Fuzhou area, so that he could choose a relatively safe place to stay when he entered the city.
Relatively speaking, the areas controlled by the four major families are safer because many of their businesses are open and aboveboard, unlike the gangs which do a lot of bad things behind the scenes.
For this reason, the amount of magic cores given to those who want to stay in the territory of the four major families is twice that given to those who want to stay in the territory controlled by the major gangs.
Most people can't afford this price, so they choose to stay in the areas of the major gangs.
For safety reasons, Wang Bin ultimately chose the Jin family, one of the four major families, because the southern part of the city controlled by the Jin family was the most prosperous trading area in Fuzhou, and food was the last thing Wang Bin lacked.
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