Chapter 21 Let's go eliminate those contaminated areas!
Yun Zhao walked alone on the streets of the inner city.
The inner city looks large, but most of it consists of office areas, research institutes, and residential areas.
Senior sentries reside in the inner city.
Their five senses are highly acute; their vision, hearing, and smell are several times stronger than those of ordinary people, making them easily susceptible to external interference.
Therefore, the sentry's housing needs to use special soundproofing materials, and the density of surrounding houses cannot be too high.
During the day.
The residents of the inner city were all at work or out on missions, and the streets were deserted with hardly anyone in sight.
As Yun Zhao walked, he arrived at the central square again.
She sat down on a bench by the square and stared blankly at the statue of the girl on the high platform.
Minister Duan's words flashed through my mind.
"People outside have a misconception that the pollution zones are numbered according to the order in which they were formed, but that's not the case. We don't have the ability to find out what happened 200 years ago."
"After the four bases made contact, in order to set up sentry posts for monitoring and to make it easier for everyone to find their way, we divided the area into different regions and assigned numbers to each road section."
"Just like the section of road you passed through, the polluted area there is called Pollution Zone 102. Similarly, the section of road that is on the sixth road will be named Pollution Zone 6. If there are multiple polluted areas in the area, they will be named 6-1, 6-2, etc."
"No one knows how long Contaminated Zone Six has existed, but it is certain that it formed in the early Dark Ages and is a five-star dangerous area."
Information about Pollution Zone No. 6 dates back over a hundred years.
Its scope is simply too vast.
And it continues to spread, devouring the land and the mutants along its path.
Yun Zhao looked up at the statue of the girl, her long eyelashes trembling.
Regardless of whether Minister Duan and his team come looking for her, she will eventually find a way to join Team Zero.
She traveled a long way to the Dawn Base, not just to bask in the sun.
As a guide, she lacks a strong physique and exceptional combat abilities.
She knew nothing about the contaminated area, and even the information about the gatekeeper was only recently obtained from a sentry at Dawn Base.
The uncles found her on the edge of the No. 6 contaminated zone back then.
The townspeople all say that apart from the search party's sentries, no one goes there; everyone tries to hide as soon as they see the contaminated area.
Yun Zhao had a vague feeling that she herself had come out of the contaminated area.
She wants to enter Zone Six to find out about her origins and is looking for a team of high-ranking sentinels to guide her.
She chose Xie Tu from the very beginning.
Now my wish has come true.
Yun Zhao, however, was not happy at all.
Because she gradually came to understand that in the two hundred years since the dark apocalypse, the efforts made or are being made by each generation have deeply moved her with their unwavering beliefs.
It seems that one's background is no longer important.
Let's go and eliminate those polluted areas.
As Yun Zhao gazed at the statue of the young girl, he wondered if the distant place she was looking at represented the once bustling and prosperous old era in her heart.
What was that era really like?
Are people able to have enough to eat? Are they free from the fear of being eaten by mutants at any moment? Do children all have access to education?
The little bluebird sensed that her host was in a bad mood, so it jumped onto her lap and raised its head to look at her.
Are you sad?
Yun Zhao corrected it: "This is not sadness, but bewilderment."
What are the differences?
Yun Zhao: "There is a sense of loss in my heart that you don't understand."
It truly didn't understand, arrogantly raising its head and emphasizing: "Bird stand."
Yun Zhao sighed, "I know. We need to check out the prices at the base. Let's go shopping."
Minister Duan said that she would report for duty after she was settled in.
Now that she had agreed to join the operations department, she had to get herself two new outfits.
She will likely meet many people in the future, including the members of Team Zero and the guides at the base.
It's not good to dress too shabbily.
But... could those four people who were peeking around on the first floor of the operations department be her future teammates?
It just doesn't seem very reliable.
*
The shopping center is right across from the square, very close by.
Yun Zhao put aside his thoughts and took the little bluebird shopping.
The shopping center is divided into three floors. The first floor sells all kinds of food and a wide variety of goods, with vegetables, meat, fruits, pastries, braised dishes, etc. displayed in separate sections.
She wanted to find out the prices at the base, so she started browsing from the first floor.
The prices marked on the shelves were staggering.
The cheapest meat costs 60 points per pound, a bundle of vegetables is priced at 20 points, and fruit is even more expensive; apples are sold individually, priced at 5 points each.
The items are so expensive, it hurts her wallet just looking at them.
The points card was given to Aunt Zhao. The people in the town had never seen such outrageous prices before, and they probably wouldn't be willing to buy anything.
Yun Zhao was wearing ill-fitting old clothes, and his expression changed with each price he saw.
The sales clerks scoffed at this, and none of them came forward to greet her.
Yun Zhao paid no attention to their disdainful looks.
After all, she could see that look in her eyes every day through her spiritual body.
Ordinary people cannot see the spirit body.
now.
Sure enough, the little bluebird was looking at the sales clerks with the same disdainful and contemptuous gaze.
[Useless, trash...]
Yun Zhao wandered around the first floor alone, looking but not buying. After finishing his walk, he went straight up the stairs to the second floor.
The second floor is where clothing and outdoor equipment stores are located.
It is divided into different areas such as men's wear, women's wear, and children's wear.
Compared to food prices, some clothing items are relatively affordable.
There is a discount section with prices ranging from ten to fifty points.
The women's clothing section is very large, and the further you go in, the more luxurious the decoration becomes. In the innermost shops, the mannequins in the glass windows are wearing extremely beautiful dresses with long trains trailing on the ground.
Yun Zhao is not interested in flashy but impractical items.
I walked around and came back, picked out two pieces of clothing in the discount section, and held them up to myself.
These clothes are much prettier than the faded clothes she's wearing.
The fabric feels exceptionally comfortable.
Yun Zhao picked out two sets of inexpensive new clothes and a set of pajamas, and then went to the children's section to buy two new outfits for Pingping and An'an.
I realized I couldn't show favoritism.
For He Xiang's sister and the children of his uncles, they each picked one item.
She chose the cheapest options, but still spent over a hundred points.
After calculating the price, Yun Zhao approached the female teller and honestly said, "I'm not very familiar with online payment. How should I pay?"
The female teller was chatting with the person next to her when she heard this. She impatiently pointed to the equipment next to the computer and said, "Over there."
There was no mention of how to operate it at all.
The sales clerks could tell from her shabby clothes that she was from out of town.
I chose the cheapest discounted item, but nobody paid any attention to me; they just kept chatting.
Yun Zhao stood there without moving, and said calmly, "Are all the service personnel in the base like you, looking down on people?"
The shopping centers in the inner city offer exquisite goods at high prices.
It's understandable that she was looked down upon because of her simple attire.
She didn't buy anything on the first floor, so she didn't care, but now that she's made a purchase, there's no reason for her to have to put up with other people's attitudes after spending her points.
Ignoring the stunned gazes of the tellers.
Yun Zhao then asked, "If I want to file a complaint, who should I contact?"
Upon hearing this, the sales clerks on both sides burst into laughter.
The female clerk realized what was happening, rolled her eyes, and said, "Go ahead and complain, you country bumpkin."
Her father was an A-level sentry, and her mother worked in the base's logistics department. Through connections, she got her a job as a sales clerk in a shopping mall.
They are not afraid of complaints at all.
The little bluebird immediately bristled: "You stinking trash! Who are you calling names?!"
Suddenly, countless cyan fluorescent lights appeared out of thin air and flew towards the female clerk.
Bai Yu, who had just come out of the dress shop, happened to witness this scene.
The bluish-green fluorescence turned into tiny stars and rushed towards the female teller. Before it could enter her body, Yun Zhao raised his hand to stop it, and the fluorescence quickly dissipated.
Ordinary people can't withstand her mental strain.
The crime doesn't warrant the death penalty; a complaint is enough.
The female clerk had no idea that she had escaped a terrible ordeal.
Just as he was about to make another sarcastic remark, he noticed a figure approaching in the distance and immediately put on a smiling face. "Guide Bai, have you chosen your attire yet?"
The girl known as the White Guide was only seventeen or eighteen years old.
She had fair skin, bright and clear eyes, and wore an elegant white knee-length dress.
Bai Yu ignored the female clerk and curiously sized up Yun Zhao, saying kindly, "If the service staff are rude, you can directly complain to the Base Commercial Administration Bureau. Their highest leader is Minister Shao of the Logistics Department."
Bai Yu's father is none other than Bai Mo, the head of the Special Abilities Department.
She had recently differentiated into an A-level guide.
The later a guide awakens, the higher their level.
Bai Yu often came to the shopping center to buy things. Before she became a guide, the sales staff always treated her with enthusiasm and respect because of her father.
It was also the first time she had ever seen salespeople fawning over people and belittling them, treating them differently based on their status.
Unfortunately, the salesperson misjudged the situation this time.
Bai Yu quietly observed Yun Zhao's spiritual body.
The tiny bluebird, no bigger than a palm, had a cold gaze, looking at the salesperson as if she were a dead man.
She learned that the base had detected an S-class guide by overhearing her father's phone conversation.
If I'm not mistaken, it's probably the person in front of me.
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