Zhao Xiaoxiu cleared the game up to level ninety-nine in one go.
Tears welled up in Youyou's eyes in shock; his highest record was only the twelfth level.
Zhao Xiaoxiu yawned and handed the tablet, which was almost out of battery, back to Youyou. "Thank you."
"No, you're welcome, ooh—"
The little boy, who had been pretending to be strong, pouted and lowered his head as soon as he opened his mouth.
Zhao Xiaoxiu turned around and took out a satellite phone from her backpack. "Here, you can play with it. You can listen to music and take pictures."
Youyou suddenly looked up. "Really?"
Zhao Xiaoxiu nodded, "Mm." She successfully diverted the attention.
Things are always more fun when they come from other people.
Zhao Xiaoxiu has an old satellite phone, which Youyou thinks is something only adults can own, and that children shouldn't play with mobile phones.
He happily swiped the screen, opened the camera as Zhao Xiaoxiu reminded him, and started snapping pictures of himself and Zhao Xiaoxiu.
Zhao Xiaoxiu curiously leaned closer to look at the finished product, and it was either a blurry eye or a corner of an object that she couldn't tell what it was.
She glanced suspiciously at the overjoyed Youyou, and couldn't help but wonder if there was something wrong with his brain.
"Ah!" Youyou cried out in disappointment, "The battery is dead."
Zhao Xiaoxiu lay in the booth, her tone languid, "Just top it up."
Youyou said "oh" and immediately went to find a charger to charge her dead phone.
Sure enough, it turned on smoothly as soon as it was plugged in.
He took off his shoes, put on special socks, and didn't mind exposing his eleven toes. He sat cross-legged next to Zhao Xiaoxiu, continued taking pictures with his phone, and even instinctively turned on the video recording, capturing the scene of Zhao Xiaoxiu snoring in her sleep.
The convoy, stretching as far as the eye could see, stopped on a riverbank after driving for five hours.
"Little one, wake up," Yang Mei called softly.
Youyou reminded her, "Mom, her name is Zhao Xiaoxiu."
Yang Mei glanced at her son speechlessly, then changed her words: "Little Zhao Xiaoxiu, we've arrived. Wake up."
Zhao Xiaoxiu, who was dreaming of eating KFC and drinking Coca-Cola, groggily opened her eyes and saw Youyou's big head right above her.
"Hehe." He chuckled and handed her the fully charged phone.
He even whispered mysteriously in her ear, "You drool in your sleep."
Zhao Xiaoxiu: Are you being polite?!
Zhao Gang stood outside the RV door, and when the door opened, he carried his sleeping baby with messy hair out of the vehicle.
Youyou wanted to go down too, but Yang Mei ruthlessly sent her back to the car.
So the little guy ran to the restaurant, opened the car window, and squatted on the table to look outside.
Unfortunately, the father and daughter pushed their bicycles, which were loaded with backpacks, away without even glancing back at him.
The soldiers reminded the father and daughter: "Everyone from our base is gathered and resting on the east side of the riverbank. We'll have to wait for further instructions from above before we can proceed. For safety's sake, don't stray too far."
Zhao Gang nodded. "Thank you."
We have arrived at Taoyuan Base.
There are no rolling mountains here, but a vast plain of hills.
The father and daughter walked onto the bridge, where a wide view opened up, and a 30-meter-high wall came into view first.
The core area of Taoyuan Base is built on a plain, surrounded by high walls that protect the entire city.
On the high walls are military defense towers, equipped with the most powerful and advanced weapons, ready to defend against attacks from mutated plants and animals at any time.
However, since there are no deep mountains around, it is inherently safer than the Hope Base.
There is also a slightly lower outer wall on the outskirts of the main urban area.
That area is the outer city, and it's also where people from the Taoyuan base usually go about their activities and socialize.
The main force of Hope Base, which had fled there, established a temporary assembly point east of the outer wall.
It seems that Taoyuan Base has not yet opened its doors to them.
However, the arrival of Yang Mei's main force significantly boosted the morale of all survivors at Hope Base.
The survivors who were lying dead under the wall became excited when they saw the convoy of vehicles parked on the riverbank. They cheered, ran, and gathered around the riverbank.
Immediately afterwards, Yang Mei's words brought tears of joy to the eyes of the survivors at Hope Base.
"Points redemption is being arranged. Please queue in an orderly manner and wait patiently."
Standing atop the armored vehicle, holding a megaphone, she spoke calmly and steadily:
"I have contacted the higher-ups, and our general has not abandoned us, nor will he ever abandon us..."
"The general is leading our negotiation team at the Peach Blossom Base to negotiate with their leaders about arrangements for all the survivors we hope to see at the base. The negotiations are going very well. Please have faith in our general and wait patiently for the results."
Upon hearing these words, the survivors of Hope Base, who had been locked out of Peach Blossom Base, instantly saw hope.
Points redemption points were quickly set up.
Survivors at Hope Base can exchange a limited number of supplies using their points cards.
Zhao Xiaoxiu held her father's points card. The father and daughter looked at each other and saw relief in each other's eyes.
Fortunately, I didn't throw away my points card in a fit of anger.
The redemption point stipulates that each person can only redeem a maximum of 30 points for food and water at a time.
30 points can be exchanged for 6 bottles of nutrient solution, or 4 bottles of nutrient solution and a 500ml bottle of drinking water.
The supplies don't seem like much, but they're enough to last one person four to five days, while we wait for notification from the Peach Blossom Base.
Zhao Xiaoxiu's family still had 15 bottles of nutrient solution in stock. She exchanged all 30 points for water and got three 500ml bottles of clean drinking water.
The eastern campsite looked overcrowded, with no place to shelter from the wind and rain. Those with tents pitched them, while those without used planks and cloth found in nearby villages to build makeshift shelters against the wall.
There are also many small villages along the river, inhabited by survivors from the Peach Blossom Base.
They are professional growers at the Taoyuan base.
Occupying a natural advantage in terms of land, the survivors of Peach Blossom Base derive their main income from land output.
This is the largest food source among the five bases.
Relying on planting, Taoyuan Base continuously supplies grains and fruits and vegetables to several other major bases in the surrounding area, in exchange for guns, cannons, and advanced production tools.
And what they hope the base will bring is exactly what they need.
Under the direction of his cub, Zhao Gang took her to a planting village near the base, where she exchanged her pitiful state and a stainless steel flat-bottomed steamer for a three-day stay in a cowshed.
The cowshed stood alone by the roadside, far from the farmers' residence. The farmers weren't worried about being targeted by outsiders, so they readily rented it to the father and daughter.
There were many other Hope Base survivors doing the same thing around, mostly in family units, with groups of elderly and young.
Their combination gives people a sense of reassurance.
Of course, there were also some overbearing survivors who tried to directly seize other people's houses.
There are only two possible outcomes for people like this.
1. He was killed by the homeowner.
Second, he was taken away and killed by the joint patrol and guard team of Taoyuan Base and Hope Base.
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