Lu Hao knew that Qian Peng's advice was well-intentioned. Qian Peng had been here since the beginning of the base, so he was very familiar with the situation of the base. After Lu Hao took out a roast chicken made in the space, Qian Peng had completely stood on the side of several people and started to talk about everything.
"The commander of our base is a very righteous man. He has good gold-related abilities and is quite skilled in martial arts. However, he is hampered by the reality of life. After one of his brothers died, he probably suffered a blow and simply let go of many things. However, the security at the base gate is still as strict as before. This is his bottom line."
Qian Peng's words seemed to be full of admiration for the current base commander, but he also revealed a sense of regret all the time.
"Then how did his brother die?"
Lu Hao asked, he felt that this was the crux of the matter.
Qian Peng touched the roast chicken in his arms. The roast chicken was wrapped very tightly and no smell came out, but the familiar touch made him drool. Even if he would starve to death one day in the future, he would have no regrets after eating this roast chicken.
"I don't know the details, but it is said that he died while saving others."
Qian Peng replied that he had no special abilities, so he seldom went out, and he had only heard about it from others.
Lu Hao nodded to show his understanding. After asking some more questions about the base, he signaled Qian Peng that he could go back.
"Where I live, I have some hand-drawn maps of the base. I'll send them to you later. I live in an empty convenience store not far from this yard."
Qian Peng said before leaving.
"Then thank you for your help."
When Su Xiangzhe saw Qian Peng off, he thanked him again and walked back after closing the door tightly.
"Xiao Jin, come out, there's no one here."
Su Xiangzhe said.
Next to Lin Tianhui, Su Jin, who was holding Tuhao Jin, asked Tuhao Jin to remove his invisibility ability and appeared in front of everyone.
“I’ve never heard of this base before.”
Su Jin recalled that she had never heard of the H Province Base in her previous life, so she could not provide any useful information.
"If it's what Qian Peng said, we'd better not sell supplies for the time being."
Lu Hao felt that they should follow Qian Peng's advice, not because they were afraid of trouble, but because they did not want to conflict with the people here.
"So what should we do? Should we keep going forward?"
Lin Xiuyuan asked, why are you still staying here if you are not selling supplies.
"Let's go find the base commander first. If possible, we'll only trade with the base this time."
Lu Hao expressed his thoughts. This base felt different from the bases they had visited before.
"I agree"
Su Xiangzhe nodded and thought it was okay. It would be better to be safe. The looks of those "guides" made him feel uncomfortable.
Even Lin Xiuyuan, who was always fearless, did not object, and he was quite interested in the base commander mentioned by Qian Peng.
"Then how do we find the base commander? We don't know where he is."
Lin Xiuyuan asked.
"Wait for Qian Peng. Didn't he say that a topographic map would be delivered later?"
Lu Guanhai sat down on the armchair that Su Jin took out. There was not even a bench in this place. If they really lived here, they would probably have to sleep on the floor.
So the family cleaned up the place a little bit, took out some mats and folding beds and placed them in the rooms next to the main hall. Even though they would go to the space to rest at night, they still had to do the cover-up work outside.
However, the family waited until nightfall, but still did not receive Qian Peng's map. Su Jin suddenly had a bad feeling and asked Su Xiangzhe, "Dad, did you see which direction Qian Peng went?"
"I saw him. I watched him walk away before I came in. What happened?"
Su Xiangzhe asked.
"Xiao Jin is suspicious of the people here?"
Lu Hao seemed to guess what Su Jin meant.
Su Jin nodded: "He took the food and left."
The family suddenly thought of something, and Huang Yunxiang asked in surprise: "No way? It can't be what I think?"
"Dad and I will go and take a look, everyone stay here first"
Lu Hao said that even if Qian Peng was fine, they could still take the map directly from him.
Su Xiangzhe went in the direction Qian Peng left. He remembered that Qian Peng had said before that he lived in a convenience store in front, and in fact, they quickly found a convenience store.
Lu Guanhai and Lin Xiuyuan, who followed out together, also thought that this should be the place. After all, there didn’t seem to be any other convenience stores nearby.
The door of the convenience store was open, and when they walked in, they found Qian Peng dead inside.
"Damn it, who is so cruel?"
Lu Guanhai turned his head away and didn't want to see Qian Peng's miserable condition anymore.
Qian Peng had obviously struggled violently before his death. His entire face was swollen, and the degree to which his arms were bent indicated that his arms were also broken.
“He died of suffocation.”
Lu Hao squatted down and took a look at the corpse on the ground and said, the bruises and fingerprints on Qian Peng's neck also showed that he was strangled to death in the end.
“Who’s there!”
Lin Xiuyuan shouted, this convenience store was divided into two rooms, and he just heard the sound coming from the other room.
Nie Qing, who was at the door, quickly caught a man who was trying to rush out. He was a ragged man with hair that was longer than his shoulders. When the man saw that he was caught, he immediately started to cry out for injustice.
"I didn't kill him. I just followed him to see if he had anything edible. He had already been killed by those people when I came in."
"Those people? Do you know who killed him?"
Su Xiangzhe asked.
"I know, it was Zhang Wenbin and the others. I saw them with my own eyes. If you let me go, I will tell you where he is."
The man confessed immediately.
"If you're here looking for food, why are you carrying weapons and such a big bag?"
Lu Hao questioned after taking the thing from the man's hand.
The long-haired man lowered his head deeply and said something in a muffled voice. Although his voice was not loud, everyone present heard it.
He said: "Even after a person dies, their flesh can still be eaten."
Lu Hao recalled some of the things Yao Rui had learned at the D City base before, and then he understood why those people said there was no bottom line here.
"I know, go away."
Lu Hao said to the man on the ground. Although his tone was flat, the whole family could hear that Lu Hao was very angry.
The man looked at Qian Peng on the ground reluctantly again, then picked up his things and ran out without looking back.
"What a pity for Qian Peng!"
Su Xiangzhe sighed and said that now even the corpses were not spared by those people.
Knowing that someone was still planning to take over Qian Peng, several people found an abandoned bathtub nearby, put Qian Peng in it, and then Lu Hao directly turned his body into ashes.
Nie Qing used his wind power to put the ashes into a wooden box and buried it behind the convenience store. After doing all this, the few of them walked back.
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