Chapter 124: The Truth
Several people sat in the car and after a bumpy ride, they finally arrived at the legendary Yucheng.
This is the main scene in the novel. Nearly 80% of the book describes Yucheng. However, Su Tang found it funny.
As a person who traveled through the book, this was the first time I came to the main scene described in the book.
Yucheng is far smaller than the Black Wolf Gang, and the city walls are shorter. These walls are stained with blood, which shows that the defense battle every night is quite difficult.
But fortunately, Yucheng has electricity.
After being connected to the power grid, most ordinary zombies will be electrocuted into a charred mess.
Su Tang took a breath, and his nostrils were filled with the smell of zombies being electrocuted into a paste. How to say it, Su Tang had already gotten used to it.
Anyway, it smells better than those rotting zombie corpses.
It was almost dusk at this moment. Everyone got off the bus. Their shadows were stretched infinitely long by the setting sun. Bai Yanxing successfully mixed in with the transport team.
As usual, the people at the door will check whether they are carrying any dangerous items. Although the two cities have signed a peace treaty, it does not mean that they are not vigilant at all.
Bai Yanxing knew about the pistol. Although it was not visible on the surface, it would be almost completely exposed if the other party searched his body.
So, she prepared a response strategy early on.
He took out a pack of cigarettes from his pocket. His eyes lit up when he saw the cigarettes. These cigarettes were produced by Black Wolf for him. They were better than the randomly cut local cigarettes.
It is a carefully selected high-quality product.
Rolled up with rough paper, each paper has a wolf head printed on it. It is used by the Black Wolf Gang as a reward or as hard currency to exchange with other city-states.
"Brother, we're just here to help transport the goods, so there's no need to go through the trouble of searching us, right?"
"It's inconvenient for us girls. You'll have to find a female soldier to search us."
Bai Yanxing handed over a pack of cigarettes.
When the man saw the cigarettes of such good quality, his eyes lit up. It felt like a seagull seeing French fries or a black bear seeing honey.
His eyes widened instantly.
"Hehe... We are all brothers, why be polite?"
The man smiled. The relationship between Yucheng and the Black Wolf Gang was quite harmonious now, so he didn't plan to search them.
Bai Yanxing successfully sneaked in with a pack of high-end cigarettes and avoided the fate of having her pistol searched. The price of high-end cigarettes is now comparable to gold before the end of the world. She spent a lot of money to be bribed.
Cars drove in and began loading construction materials onto the vehicles.
Bai Yanxing looked around and found the place with weak guards with his excellent eyesight. He then began to stroll around and ask questions.
She's not stupid either.
He didn't ask Zhao Fenglin right away.
Instead, he tentatively asked whether the city lord's wife was sick.
The answers were all negative.
"It seems that Zhao Tianxiang deceived us."
Bai Yanxing turned around and went to find Su Tang. The two looked at each other and both sensed a conspiracy.
"I know an acquaintance who will definitely tell the truth."
Gu Mei tightly grasped the pistol on her waist. She could not accept that her beloved was in danger.
But fortunately, Gu Mei was a member of Yucheng before.
And having worked and lived here for a long time, she still had some remaining connections, so Gu Mei took a few people to find people she knew.
When I got there, the other party was sitting in the tent.
There were messy tools on the table, and it emitted a pungent smell of glue.
He is mending shoes.
If you look closely, you can see that his left leg has been amputated. Because of his disability, he can only do these jobs.
"Are you here to mend your shoes or to pick them up? A hole in the shoe costs a steamed bun, and if the whole shoe is torn, it'll cost two or three coins."
The man didn't look up, but just kept talking about the price of his repair. Gu Mei saw that his hands were black, there was glue in the gaps between his nails, and his face looked a little haggard.
There is something indescribable in my heart.
The two used to be teammates fighting side by side, but now he has become like this, which is really sad. No matter whether it is the end of the world or not, society will always be like this, too cruel and too realistic.
"I'm not here to mend shoes, Xiao Wang, I have something to talk to you about."
Although Gu Mei said this, she still took out the dry food she brought from her schoolbag. This dry food was made of nuts mixed with oil and sugar.
Only the elite troops of the Black Wolf Gang can use it, and the heat effect it brings is no less than that of an energy bar.
Hearing a familiar voice, the man looked up.
Seeing Gu Mei's face made him slightly shocked, and then he smiled self-deprecatingly.
"Gu Mei, aren't you doing well in the Black Wolf Gang? I heard that you've even made it into the inner city. Do you have anything else to ask me?"
But when he saw the energy bar in Gu Mei's hand, his fingers trembled slightly, but he still reached out to take it, his eyes full of desire for food.
Whether it is the Black Wolf Gang or Yucheng, the welfare benefits for those who have lost their ability to work are not particularly good.
After all, if people with all their limbs can hardly survive, who will take care of them?
Seeing this, Bai Yanxing also took out an energy bar from her schoolbag. She didn't bring much with her, but any amount she could give was valuable.
A few dry rice balls with bacon inside were a benefit only given to the team leader. Gu Mei only had energy bars.
The aroma of bacon lingered on the plastic film, and the man's eyes lit up. He swallowed his saliva frantically. It was obvious that he hadn't eaten such delicious food for a long time.
"As long as you tell Gu Mei what she wants to know, I can give you twenty more of these."
Loyalty is the most worthless thing in the end times, let alone for someone who has been half-abandoned by Yucheng.
"What are you asking? I've said... I've said..."
The man held the rice ball in his hands, with longing in his eyes.
"Has Zhao Fenglin returned to Yucheng recently?"
Bai Yanxing asked step by step, and she indeed saw a look of hesitation on the man's face.
He seemed a little hesitant, wondering whether he should answer such a question.
Seeing this, Su Tang reached out and snatched the rice ball away. The man had little strength and snatched it away in one go.
"mine…"
He looked at the rice ball, seemed to be stimulated by the smell of meat, and finally bit it with his teeth.
"Okay, let me tell you, Miss Zhao has been back for a long time."
"It's just that she was locked up for being disobedient. I heard that her wedding is tomorrow night, but I have a lame leg, so it's not convenient for me to go and see it, and I didn't receive an invitation."
When she heard about the wedding, Gu Mei almost fainted, but she was not stupid. Of course she knew that Zhao Fenglin definitely did not agree to the wedding.
Everyone has been arrested, there is only one possibility.
Zhao Fenglin was forced.
Gu Mei frowned tightly, and her eyebrows were also a faint red, following the color of her hair.
At this moment, it is like a flame of melancholy.
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