Zhao Xiaoxiu turned off the walkie-talkie and took out her phone to check tomorrow's weather forecast.
The sky is clear, and the temperature is between -1 and -3 degrees Celsius.
She put away her phone and rushed into the tool shed to find Zhao Gang. "Dad, let's go to the city to see Grandma Meng and the others tomorrow!"
As Zhao Gang was busy, he turned his head and met a pair of eyes that were full of worry and a hint of pleading.
He sighed inwardly and repeated, "Don't worry, Xiaoxiu, they're all alive."
"I know." Zhao Xiaoxiu glared at her living father with a rare air of anger, and said, "The person is definitely alive, but the situation is definitely not good!"
Don't even think about fooling her!
Zhao Xiaoxiu took out a beaded necklace from a small BMW, the one she brought back from Yungu Temple with the Meng brothers.
“When we were in trouble before, Grandma Meng and Uncle Meng would help us. Now that they are in trouble, we should help them too,” Zhao Xiaoxiu said earnestly, holding the necklace.
She secretly asked Sister Miaomiao, and she learned that the housing conditions provided by Taoyuan Base to the survivors of Hope Base were very poor.
A six-month interest-free rental loan sounds like a good deal, but with installment payments, the price of affordable housing isn't exactly low.
The new residents were constantly bullied by the original inhabitants, and with various gangs of all sizes mixed together in the low-rent area, the survivors who had just arrived at Hope Base lived a very cautious life.
If you offend someone, countless people will die silently in the sewers at night.
They wanted to seek help from the base, but the guards were too busy to help themselves.
The original plan was for the survivors of the two bases to be divided into separate areas for treatment, but when the orders from the higher-ups were relayed to the lower levels, no one actually carried them out.
Less than half a month after the self-governance was implemented, the low-rent housing areas were already mixed up.
Only the nobles in the inner city area still maintain the autonomy of their respective districts.
After Jiangcheng was recaptured, the base leadership suggested that everyone move there, but after three months of operation, most survivors were reluctant to give up and chose to stay.
After all, every relocation means starting all over again, so most families with elderly people and children choose to stay in the Taoyuan base.
In addition, there are factories outside the city where workers receive stable wages, making it even less likely for them to move.
Even if they were to move, they would wait until things were completely stable in Jiangcheng before considering it.
Zhao Xiaoxiu's thinking was simple: if Granny Meng and the others were doing well, they would have called her long ago.
The fact that they haven't made a single phone call since they separated suggests that the Meng family's situation is not good.
It wasn't a big deal before, but now that she knows Taoyuan Base was attacked, Zhao Xiaoxiu feels she can't sleep peacefully until she sees them safe and sound.
"Dad~" Zhao Xiaoxiu ran to Zhao Gang's side and grabbed his hand, shaking it. "Just take a look, we'll come back after just one look, okay?"
What can Zhao Gang do?
When has he ever refused a request from his own child?
"Okay," Zhao Gang nodded. A small request, granted!
Zhao Xiaoxiu jumped up happily, hugged her father tightly, clung to him like a monkey, and rubbed her head against his chest, loudly declaring, "Dad! You are the best dad in the world!"
Zhao Gang chuckled. What father wouldn't enjoy his daughter's praise?
So, the father, flattered by his daughter's praise, let her rummage through the kitchen, packing up the thirty bottles of relief nutrient solution she hadn't finished, the remaining half bowl of mutated frog meat, a thick quilt, and three pairs of trophy leather boots.
Oh, and she also brought a bottle of yogurt, saying that Grandma Meng's teeth weren't good, so this would be suitable for her.
Sister Monkey watched silently, her heart aching. She felt sorry that the cub had found the yogurt she had secretly hidden and ruthlessly confiscated it.
After packing everything up, Zhao Xiaoxiu was still worried before going to bed, so she got up to check it again to see if anything had been forgotten.
Remembering that the Meng family only had one gun before, she packed up the silenced rifle she had used before, zipped up her backpack, climbed into bed, and crawled into the warm blankets that had already been touched to sleep.
Zhao Gang made no attempt to stop his cubs from "moving" like this.
Remembering the stories of people offering help in times of need, he quietly added ten pounds of charcoal to the pot.
Because this trip down the mountain will allow us to buy even more charcoal from the farmers. If the person is still alive.
Whether the charcoal seller lives or dies is not important; what matters is that the charcoal is still there.
Zhao Gang himself found it strange that he was actually looking forward to seeing the Meng brothers, whom he hadn't seen in a long time, the next day.
He carefully recalled the time he spent with the two brothers. Having two "obedient and tight-lipped" underlings following behind him, calling him "Brother Gang" this and "Brother Gang" that, felt pretty good.
Father and daughter slept soundly through the night, filled with anticipation of seeing old friends in the city.
When the alarm clock rang at six o'clock, Zhao Xiaoxiu immediately got up, dressed, and went downstairs to complete her daily basic training.
At 6:30, after finishing my practice, I immediately contacted my master via walkie-talkie to tell her that I was going out with my father today, so that she wouldn't make a wasted trip.
Sheng Qingyang went into the mountains yesterday and didn't return until midnight, but he had a small harvest.
Upon hearing the message from his apprentice, he decided to take a nap to replenish his energy and simply replied, "Received."
I tossed the walkie-talkie aside and went back to sleep without worry.
After arranging everything, Zhao Xiaoxiu drank a bottle of warmed nutritional supplement. Zhao Gang told Sister Hou to take good care of the house, and the father and daughter set off with a large backpack full of supplies and a rolled-up quilt.
Patrol stations in the three major planting areas take turns cleaning the roads, so there are no problems with traffic passing through.
Zhao Gang covered the leaky truck with a tarpaulin, filled it with gas, and drove his daughter to Taoyuan Base.
The truck skidded along the road, Zhao Gang drove recklessly, and Zhao Xiaoxiu had a very thrilling and dangerous ride.
The little girl gripped the door handle and the seat beneath her tightly, which prevented her from flying out of the front window, which couldn't be covered with a rainproof sheet.
Before 10 a.m., the truck took the father and daughter to the outskirts of Taoyuan Base City.
If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, neither the father nor the daughter would have believed that this place, covered in broken bricks and scorched earth, was once a fertile, interconnected, and thriving agricultural village.
On the scorched earth, a wide and deep ravine remains, as if a giant had lashed the earth with a long whip.
Zhao Gang stopped the truck. In front of the truck was a section of the deep ravine, nearly 100 meters wide and 20 meters deep, which blocked the road from the village to the city.
The father and daughter had to park the car on the side of the road, get out, and walk around to enter the city.
Zhao Gang put the backpack on his back, folded the rolled-up quilt on top of the backpack, and tied it with a rope.
Zhao Xiaoxiu wanted to walk by herself, but when Zhao Gang saw the cratered ground, he decisively picked her up and strode forward.
Zhao Xiaoxiu looked back at the deep ditch that stretched across the scorched earth and clicked her tongue in amazement.
"Dad, just how big is this giant mutated python?" Zhao Xiaoxiu asked in a shocked whisper.
Zhao Gang commented objectively, "If you piled them up, they'd be as big as a mountain."
Zhao Xiaoxiu was horrified.
That python is so big, even if all the survivors in the base were combined, they probably wouldn't be enough to fill its teeth!
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