Reborn in the end of the world, I scavenged in the empty city and bought for free

Gu Tongwan treated Liao Yunyun's weird neighbors as just a minor episode and didn't care about what this family thought.

After a simple meal of instant noodles, the two of them wrapped themselves in quilts and continued to warm themselves by the fire. Because Liao Yunyun's house had a single bed, and even the sofas in the house were single sofas, if Gu Tongwan wanted to stay overnight he couldn't just spread a mat on the ground like he did in summer. Fortunately, Liao Yunyun had a folding bed that she had used for camping before. It was 80 cm wide and 1.7 meters long, which was just enough for Gu Tongwan to sleep on for one night.

The two of them chatted face to face by the fire at night, which reminded Gu Tongwan of the time when they were little in the orphanage, when they also whispered to each other face to face through the quilt.

"Yunyun, remember not to go out during this period of time. It's best if you don't even go downstairs." The firelight cast a layer of light orange on Gu Tongwan's face, but her bright eyes were still exceptionally beautiful.

Liao Yunyun had heard her mention the matter of the "snow ape" before. Although she had never seen that monster with her own eyes, she knew that since her friend, who was always calm, had such a secretive look on her face, this matter must be more serious than she had imagined.

And considering the "mutants" discovered in the underground city some time ago, it is hard not to wonder whether Jiangcheng has been invaded by species from other places.

"Wanwan, what do you think? Could it be that the 'mutants' in the underground city and the 'snow apes' this time are coincidences? If we infer the direction of this incident based on conspiracy theories, the possibility of human intervention may not be ruled out." Liao Yunyun's favorite things to watch are suspense and horror novels and TV dramas. In addition, the base has been concealing these two things from the outside world, so no matter how you think about it, there are doubts.

Gu Tongwan tried hard to recall the measures taken by the base after the beast tide ended in her previous life. It seemed that the base promulgated a policy the week before her death, which seemed to be new regulations on hunting mutant animals. However, she did not have permission to enter the base at that time, so many things were brought up by black market merchants who could enter and leave the base freely after drinking.

However, many things have changed in this life because of the butterfly effect, and Gu Tongwan is not sure whether the decree issued by the base in the previous life is related to this incident.

"The top brass at the base must be hiding something, but there's no point in speculating here. We might as well focus on livelihood issues first. By the way, last time your friend said that the price of charcoal would be monopolized, and it turned out to be true. Does your friend have any other inside information?" Gu Tongwan turned over, picked up a piece of charcoal with tweezers and threw it into the heating stove in the middle.

Liao Yunyun stared at the burning charcoal in a daze, then curled her lips and said, "Well, there is no source of information. That guy was originally my suitor, but when he saw that I didn't agree to him, he turned around and ran after the leader's daughter. Now the two of them are having a hot affair."

At this point, Liao Yunyun changed the subject and deliberately teased, "In fact, there is a person who has a faster source of information than us. Why don't you ask me?"

Gu Tongwan knew, of course, that she was referring to Chen Yanxi, but her relationship with Chen Yanxi was now somewhat like 'more than friends, but less than lovers'.

Seeing that her friend didn't say anything, Liao Yunyun simply asked, "If you don't like him, just reject him openly, but you haven't made your attitude clear, so you must have been moved, right?"

"Well, since you didn't deny it, that means you admit it. In fact, let me say that you two are a good match in terms of appearance and personality. Neither of you has a flamboyant personality. Moreover, Chen Yanxi can tolerate you unconditionally. Besides, he has the ability to protect you now. And one more thing, he has liked you for many years. You must know this, right? Where can you find such a good man? If the person he likes is me, I would agree in a minute." Liao Yunyun was about to add fuel to the fire here, but saw Gu Tongwan frowning slightly and distracted, and it seemed that he was considering the matter carefully.

"Don't tell me that you haven't considered dating because it's the end of the world. In fact, if you ask me, since the world has become such a shitty state, we should cherish the present and do things that we didn't dare to do or haven't done before, whether it's dating or something else."

Gu Tongwan smiled and joked, "It's not like I haven't been in love before."

Liao Yunyun rolled her eyes. "Yeah, yeah, you were with that scumbag Zhang Heng, right? That counts as being in a relationship. You two were just holding hands, right? You even kissed briefly, that doesn't count as a kiss, baby."

"I really regret telling you everything back then." Gu Tongwan sighed.

Liao Yunyun chuckled and then continued, "Seriously, you should at least give them a chance after the New Year. I sincerely hope to see my two best friends together in my lifetime."

Gu Tongwan didn't say anything, but just pretended to close her eyes and rest. Just when Liao Yunyun thought she was getting away with it again, she heard a slight "hmm".

At first, Liao Yunyun thought she had misheard, but out of the corner of her eye she saw her friend open her eyes, with a hint of a smile in her clear eyes.

Did he really take her words to heart? Would we hear about their "official announcement" soon?

After the banter was almost over, the two continued talking about the previous topic.

"So you are worried that those snow apes will sneak into the community?" Liao Yunyun bit her lip and pulled the quilt tighter around her body with some fear.

"Those snow apes can hide freely in the snow. On the way here just now, I found that the snow in the community has reached the depth of the knees. If this blizzard continues to rage, the snow here will soon reach about the thigh, which will only make it easier for the snow apes to move." Because the blizzard continued, the base simply did not have enough time to organize volunteers to shovel snow, so the snow in the base would only deepen day by day.

"According to what you said, those things can't crawl outside the building, and they can't be exposed to an environment without a blizzard for a long time, so they are likely to survive in the blizzard. But once people are exposed outdoors, they are very likely to be attacked by them. Will the residents on the second floor be in danger?"

At present, the first floor of all the residential buildings in the base are set up as parking garages or utility rooms. The most fundamental reason is that considering the possibility of floods or insect plagues in the future, the risk of the first floor will be higher than other floors. Therefore, the base chooses to abandon the first floor of all residential areas. However, at the same time, the floor heights in the residential areas have been greatly shortened, and each floor is only about two meters and three meters high. Therefore, the house will appear cramped and oppressive. The reason why Liao Yunyun is worried is that the distance between the second floor and the first floor is less than three meters. If the snow ape really sneaks into the residential area in search of prey, the residents on the second floor may very likely become the targets of hunting.

Gu Tongwan didn't think it was that deep, but he continued the topic: "It is possible, but if they stay in the room and don't go out, it should be fine, because snow apes are social creatures, if they want to attack humans, they will act together. If they move too much, it will alert the Self-Defense Forces nearby. And didn't your community property hire a professional mercenary? There should be patrols every day, right?"

Since the massacre, this community has been designated as a key protection area. In addition, it is not far from the city center, and the residents here are all employees of various units. Therefore, it is often ridiculed as a "civil servant community". The patrol intensity is more intensive than other communities. The property management of the community even hired a team of free mercenaries to manage public security. In addition, the community is only six or seven kilometers away from the nearby Self-Defense Force center, and the Self-Defense Force has been patrolling the surrounding area recently. It can be said that the security of this community is second only to the villa area and high-end communities in the most central location.

Therefore, the probability of what Liao Yunyun is worried about is very small, but as the saying goes, there is always a loophole. Now snow apes have frequently appeared in the inner circle. It is possible that one day when they are extremely hungry, they will indiscriminately attack the residential areas where humans live.

"I get angry when I think of that mercenary. They weren't hired to maintain public order. They were just a bunch of thugs. They just drink and play cards all day long. Even when they're on patrol, they don't forget to tease single girls. They're so evil that they're infuriating to the point where both humans and gods are outraged!"

"What's going on?" Gu Tongwan propped himself up on his elbows and looked at his friend inquiringly.

Liao Yunyun had been holding a lot of anger in for a while. Besides the weird neighbor next door, the mercenaries here also bothered her a lot, so she told the whole story in detail.

It turned out that although the mercenaries hired by the community property were officially registered with the Superpower Center Association, and most of them were superpowers, the Superpower Association only had the right to supervise mercenaries but not the right to mobilize them. That is to say, although all recorded mercenaries were supervised, they were not actually managed by the Superpower Association. The so-called supervisory right was just a nice word.

All of these mercenaries were transferred from other cities during the short period of time when the base was temporarily opened at the end of last year. Because they are psychics, and have certificates issued by the Psychic Association, they were able to enter the base very smoothly. Also, because they have rich combat experience, these mercenaries have easy access to jobs. Some large companies and municipal centers are recruiting. The Self-Defense Forces are short of manpower and need to enter various communities for support operations, and the Guardians need to perform other special tasks. The Hunter Association has been assigned other operations, so mercenaries with greater freedom are often the first choice for various communities and companies.

The mercenaries hired by Liao Yunyun's community now consist of seven people, all of whom are C-level or above. Their boss is a B-level power user. It is said that he has had hundreds of combat experiences after the apocalypse. Moreover, most of them came from different teams before the apocalypse. Some of them were former students of sports schools or people in the sports industry, and some may have been retired soldiers for several years. Some may be social personnel. These people are superior to ordinary users in terms of physical fitness and superpowers, and they don't like to be bound by rules and regulations. Therefore, a small number of them will join the mercenary industry after the apocalypse.

The reason why Liao Yunyun was disgusted by this mercenary team found by the community was because their style of doing things was completely like that of "hooligans". Liao Yunyun had met them once by chance before. When they saw that she was a girl who had just come back from buying vegetables and there was no one around her, they had some bad thoughts in their hearts. Not only did they tease her verbally, they even started to make moves on her. Fortunately, Liao Yunyun was not a pushover in the past few years in the apocalypse. She usually carried some self-defense weapons with her. She took out the small pistol that Gu Tongwan had given her from her bag, which immediately changed the faces of those mercenaries. They knew that they had run into a tough guy, so they smiled and said it was a joke.

Liao Yunyun did not have an outburst at that time, but she heard that the next day, one of the girls who lived in the building next door was surrounded by the group of mercenaries at the stairwell for nearly half an hour. By the time the property management staff arrived, the girl was so scared that she just kept crying.

In fact, more than one household has complained to the property management about this group of mercenaries. However, the property management spent a lot of money to hire these mercenaries, and the average salary of the entire team is nearly three thousand. Considering the security issues in the vicinity and the money that has already been spent, the property management is reluctant to fire the mercenaries directly. They can only please both sides, appease the residents and punish the mercenaries, and give verbal warnings to the mercenaries. But in fact, they dare not say a single harsh word in front of this group of uncles.

Since this group of mercenaries entered the community, the so-called public security has not only not improved, but even more problems have arisen, especially the increase in thefts. These are not burglaries, but some residents habitually use the vacant space in the corridor to dry or temporarily store some personal belongings, thinking that few people will pay attention to them during a snowstorm, and even fewer people will go out. However, the things often disappear the next day, because they are not very valuable things like bacon or frozen cabbage, and all the residents whose things are stolen will not choose to call the police.

"Don't you want to call the police? If the situation is serious, we still have to call the police to handle it." Gu Tongwan really couldn't understand why the residents here continued to choose to endure it when it has come to this.

"It's no use calling the police. The property management is not willing to drive him away. They paid real money to hire him. Even if he is a big shot, they have to find a way to keep him." Liao Yunyun sighed helplessly, and then frowned and said, "I have always suspected that the property management is hiding something, otherwise it would not be possible for the property management to ignore this matter. And I just remembered one thing. I think I haven't seen the property manager here for a long time."

As Liao Yunyun's expression became increasingly serious, the whole thing began to unfold in a certain direction.