末世 二三 事

The people in the team put the rescued people in those vacant houses. The bedding and the like were found out from the holes in the ground. will feel cold.

These people have been tortured for a long time, and they haven't had a good night's sleep. Now that they are full and clean, they lie in the warm quilt and fall asleep almost immediately.

After tossing around in the middle of the night, no one in the team could sleep. One of the night watchers was bitten, so a temporary replacement was made, and Jing Lin and the others continued to complete the night's shift. sleep.

After dawn, Zhao Zhiwen and Yan Lu made breakfast together, and Jing Lin and Yan Fei woke up. Although they only slept for less than three hours, they were still very energetic and did not feel sleepy.

Qu Zhengchao and the others had already found out the location of the blue stone from Brother Dong. After the meal, Jing Lin brought the whole family with him. Some people in the team stayed to watch the car, and they found the blue stone from the rescued crowd. Two healthy people led the way and entered the mountain.

The mountains near here are sparsely grassed and have many rocks.So at this moment, although the vegetation is still lush on the mountain, there are very few towering giant trees.

The village is not far from the destination, and the guides said that they would be driven into the mountains before dawn every day, and then they would dig for a whole day before going back when it was dark.Because the stones are not easy to dig, there are often only three or four stones that can be obtained in a day.These stones are kept by Brother Dong and the others, and they are regularly taken to the city to find people to trade in exchange for supplies.People like them who have been arrested, have soup and wild herbs without rice grains every day. Occasionally, they can eat rice noodles for one or two meals, but they are basically moldy, but even so, Dong Ge is afraid After starving them to death for a while, they will be taken out for them to eat if they can't catch labor substitutes.

All these phenomena show that Brother Dong and the others are completely raising the captured people as livestock. However, before and after the livestock work, the owner still knows how to feed them.

The road to the destination had already been stepped on by them, so it was very smooth to walk in. After more than half an hour, a piece of blue appeared in front of everyone.

Due to the ups and downs of the mountains, the mountains are intertwined and connected, so although the color of the mountain is so conspicuous, if you don't come here in person, just stand outside and look at it, it is completely impossible to discover the mystery inside.

At the foot of the mountain were all the rocks that fell from the landslide at that time. Everyone stepped on it and walked directly over.After the mountain collapsed, the mountain wall looked particularly sharp and steep. As soon as they stood at the foot of the mountain, a suffocating sense of oppression came to them. It seemed that the mountain would fall down and press down on them in the next second.

The person who led the way led them to the corner where they usually dig stones, pointed to a place with obvious chiseling marks, and said, "This is where we usually dig blue ore."

Yan Lu took the cactus thorn she brought, and inserted it directly into a corner of the stone.The cactus thorns with the attack talisman were extraordinarily hard, and the tip pierced directly in. Yan Lu pried a few times, and a small stone was pried off.

The person leading the way looked at the blood blisters on his hands, then at Yan Lu, and said in surprise, "It's amazing!"

Yan Lu smiled at him, picked up the stone and looked at it first, and after grinding the blue gray matter, handed it to Jing Lin.

Qu Zhengchao and the others gathered together, and everyone took turns to look at it. They all felt that it was just a kind of dyed stone, which looked ordinary.

Afterwards, the people who came up went up to try to see if they could dig the rocks. Basically, the weapons of the several base teams all had the attack charms that Shi Lei bought from Jinglin at that time. They were not as strong as Yan Lu. But after a few more tries, a piece can still be pried off.

Lele came in all the way on Yaya's back, and now he has got off Yaya's back, hugging Brown like a small stove, squatting curiously beside Uncle Zhiwen to watch him pry stones, Yaya is free Nothing happened, so he flew over with fluttering wings, squeezed Zhao Zhiwen away, raised his feet and opened his sharp claws, and swiped at the mountain, a few stones fell down with a plop.

"Amazing!" Zhao Zhiwen gave it a thumbs up.

Ya Ya proudly held its head up, went down with a few paws, and dug down a few blue stones, and Zhao Zhiwen was busy picking up stones.

Suzhen couldn't see the white-haired ugly monster in the family with his ass almost up to the sky, snorted coldly, picked a place where no one was around, swam there, and slammed his tail down, and heard the sound of clicking, where It cracked directly, and you can pick it off with a knife.

Seeing this scene, the little black dragon looked at his own little tail, and flicked it twice anxiously.

And the baby earthfly following Longzhang is the most powerful. You must know that it usually burrows underground when there is nothing to do. It completely forgot about its master at the moment, swam to Suzhen's side to show its courtesy, and opened its mouth to the corner of the rock. Bite off a few pieces, then throw the stone in front of Suzhen with the stone in her mouth, and push it with her tail, her pair of peas eyes are extremely shining.

As a result, Suzhen was naturally disgusted.

Quack squatted aside, stretched out his tongue and rolled back all the stones scattered on the ground.

Everyone looked at it and thought it would be good to raise a mutant beast, each of them is a little helper.

Because they didn't bring tools to hold the stones, everyone just tried it and then went back with the stones that the mutant beasts got down.

After going back, they discussed and decided to stay here for a few days. After arranging the whereabouts of these rescued people, they also needed to dig some stones to leave.

After that, they continued to interrogate Brother Dong and asked them who they had traded with in the city before.

Brother Dong and the others' lives are now in the hands of the team, and now they can say whatever they ask.They brought these stones to the city to find a man named Boss Wang. They didn't know what the man was doing before. They only knew that he was very well-connected. Collect some strange things, such as strange flowers and stones, the bodies of mutant animals, etc., and occasionally hold auctions in the past six months.After careful consideration, they made a deal with Boss Wang with stones.

After the transaction, Boss Wang just asked them where the stone was found and what it was used for.It can be said that it is useful, but they naturally found an excuse to perfunctory it. They just said that they picked it up on the road. They heard that he likes these things, so they came to try their luck.

Boss Wang didn't ask any more questions after hearing this, and just told them to bring all such stones to him in the future.Every time Brother Dong and the others brought back a batch of supplies, they could live on for a period of time, but not long after, they heard that every time Boss Wang held an auction, these stones were auctioned off as finale items. What I got in the end was much more than Dong Ge and the others exchanged.

Brother Dong and the others were angry, and of course they thought about going out and selling the stones themselves, but they didn't have the backing support, so they just took it out like a three-year-old child, holding gold to pass the market, and this transaction has been going on so helplessly, Brother Dong Wait until someone wants to get familiar with the power of the base before changing the transaction partner.

After a period of hard work, they gradually became clearer about the distribution of some forces in the base.

There are three major forces in the Peace Base, one is the local official force, the other is the local giant business alliance, and the other is the foreign military force that has just arrived at the base. Boss Wang is not small, but he seems to have no intention of participating in it, and only concentrates on developing With his own shopping mall, he is the object of the three forces' constant wooing.

Qu Zhengchao asked: "Military force? Who is leading the team?"

"It's a man named Lu Yun."

Qu Zhengchao was stunned for a moment, then smiled, and said to Jing Lin and the others: "If it was him, then this matter would be easier to handle."

As mentioned earlier, the end of the world has just arrived, and Qu Zhengchao and the others have been touring different places to help local official forces build bases. These bases are all under the supervision of the capital base, so they, the army, also have a monitoring role.This Lu Yun, whom he met briefly during a handover, is a son of an official family. He was thrown into the army by his family for training. He is a bit rebellious, but he still has a strong sense of responsibility.

The people in the team want to entrust the rescued people to the local base, not to mention the tickets for staying in the base, at least to allow them to have basic guarantees to maintain their lives during the period of recuperating, so supplies are indispensable.

They can only stay here for a few days, and they don't have so much time to select which forces are reliable, and it is much more convenient to have acquaintances.

On that day, they spent all the rest of their time digging stones, and planned to take them to the peace base tomorrow to exchange them for supplies.

Because they were afraid that the mountain would collapse again during the digging process, everyone dug carefully and did not dare to dig too much. When they finally went back, they dug about a thousand catties of fist-sized stones. It sounded like a lot, but it didn’t look like much. .

The next day, I asked Brother Dong to draw a route map to the base, and marked the location of Boss Wang's shopping mall, and asked him to describe Boss Wang's appearance. A group of twenty or so people drove several ox carts, He took the stone and went to the city.

This village is relatively close to the city, just next to it. It usually takes more than an hour to get to the station by bus, but the place where the peace base is located is an area that has just been developed by the city in recent years for construction. A large square, covering an area of ​​more than 200 mu, is just on the edge of the city, directly shortening the distance by half.So they can arrive at the base in just over two hours.

Because they left early, at about nine o'clock in the morning, they drove from the road covered with weeds to the asphalt road that had been cleaned up, although it was a bit potholed.

Intermittently, people appeared on the road, basically in groups, and there were also scattered people.To enter the base, they need to go through three checkpoints, one is the inspection for entering the city, and the other is the inspection before entering the base. Passing these two checkpoints only means that you have entered the scope of being included by the base, and it does not mean that you have entered the real area of ​​the base. sphere of influence.Along the way, they saw many small stalls with strange things on them, such as plastic flowers and colorful stones. The only thing they could confirm was that no one put anything edible.

They don't need to enter the third checkpoint for the time being, it's all inside the big shopping mall, because Boss Wang is within the scope of the second checkpoint, on the huge square outside the big shopping mall.

This square is planned into different areas, and there are many sheds or houses inside, wooden sheds, fabric sheds, and even straw sheds, and some are built with colored steel and simple materials, and some red brick houses are inhabited by people. After looking for the road map for a while, and asking a few passers-by, I finally arrived at Mr. Wang's shopping mall.

The word "shopping mall" sounds grand, but it is actually a cement bungalow built after the end of the world. It looks very simple. There is only a simple wooden sign hanging on the entrance door, which reads "Laowang Shopping Mall". The words are pretty ugly.

The bullock cart was parked next to the shopping mall, and they put the stone in a sack before it got on the cart. Others watched, and Jing Lin, who could talk, lifted the stone and walked in directly.

There is a huge price list hanging behind the counter in the shopping mall. Like the Shuguang base, it lists the exchange prices of commonly used daily necessities. There is another one next to it, with some names written in eye-catching black and white, basically stained with "mutation" "The two words, the exchange price is very high.

There was only a thin middle-aged man sitting at the counter. When Jing Lin and the others entered, there were two young men standing in front of him, looking at the man nervously.And the man was holding a green stone in his hand and looked at it carefully. After looking at it for a while, he frowned, and threw the stone casually on the counter, making a "boom".

I saw him leaning lazily on the chair, staring at the two people and said, "Don't be ashamed of the dyed things? My old Wang doesn't accept everything here."

The faces of the two young people changed for a while, and one of them forced a smile: "Mr. Wang, how dare we fool you like this, or you can take another look?"

The surname is Wang, and the description in Dongge's mouth can be matched again. It seems that this person is the boss Wang.

Over there, Boss Wang snorted heavily: "Throw them out for me."

As he said that, two burly men appeared out of nowhere, each lifted one, dragged the other by the back of the neck to the door, and threw them out viciously.

"Ouch!"

The two of them rolled on the ground, they were thrown to pieces, they didn't dare to say anything, they didn't want the stone, they ran away desperately supporting each other.

Boss Wang rubbed his forehead, raised his eyes to see Jing Lin and the others, and put down his hands, "Come here, what am I doing here if I don't change things? Why are you standing there?"

Jing Lin and the others walked in and put the sack on the ground, Yan Fei directly took out one and put it on the counter, "Exchange this thing."

Seeing something familiar, Boss Wang sat up straight, took a look at it, and then looked at Jing Lin and the others thoughtfully: "Swapped?"

Jing Lin and the others pretended not to understand, "Who should I replace?"

Boss Wang said, "You don't know Cheng Dong?"

Everyone shook their heads: "I don't know."

Boss Wang didn't ask any more questions. Others like this stone, but to him, it is of little use. This is why Cheng Dong and the others are always safe and sound.

But when he saw the bags of stones brought by Jing Lin and the others, he was still shocked, and then looked at the group of people in front of him, his eyes suddenly became unusual.

He has a clear understanding of the characteristics of this stone, so he knows how difficult it is to mine. You can't tell much from the quantity, but as long as you look at the size of the stones, you will find that they are basically the same size. Being able to control the size of the stone, you can feel the extraordinary strength of these people.

In the past, the stones he received from Cheng Dong were either big or small, but they had never been so uniform.

Boss Wang accepted the stones, and Jing Lin and the others listed the materials that needed to be exchanged one by one. Because they exchanged a lot of materials this time, Boss Wang directly asked someone to go to the warehouse to get them.

I have to say that Boss Wang looks like an ordinary person, but it is not simple. He has almost everything here, from fresh rice to rough toilet paper, from common medicines to some scarce life-saving medicines, etc. There are many.Some material qualities are also divided into several sections and placed in different places to meet the needs of different levels of changers.

When Boss Wang asked people to prepare supplies for them, a group of six people came in dragging a mutant beast that was still dripping with blood. A long bloodstain snaked from the door to the counter.

The man dragging the mutated beast was a rough-looking man in his twenties. He put the dead mutated beast aside, raised his chin and looked at Boss Wang: "This thing, see how much medicine it can replace."

The door was covered in blood, and Boss Wang was not annoyed. He walked around the counter and squatted down to take a look. After standing up, he waved at him: "I won't accept such a troublesome thing."

The rugged man stared, and pointed to the eye-catching price list, "Isn't it written that mutant beasts are also accepted?"

Boss Wang gave him a sympathetic look: "You probably didn't know it when you came here, but this mutant beast in your hand is the pet cat of Mr. Ou's beloved daughter."

The matter involved the forces of the base, and Boss Wang, who seemed to have great powers, also chose to stay away from right and wrong.

The rough man's face turned blue all of a sudden, and he exchanged glances with his companions, knowing that they had caused trouble.

At this moment, Jing Lin and the others could see clearly that the mutant beast turned out to be a mutant tortoiseshell cat, and its eyes widened as it died.

At this moment, there was a sudden commotion outside the store, and a sharp girlish voice suddenly came: "Adai, where is my Adai!"

A girl in red rushed in, and seeing the mutated cat that was dead on the ground, she trembled, raised the whip in her hand, and lashed the rough man's face with it.

His face was bruised, and the rough man seemed to have a violent temper, but he forcibly endured the whip.

The girl asked someone to lift the tortoise shell, and before leaving, she said viciously: "Go back and tell you Boss Lu, I will never give up until I have an explanation for this matter!"

After the girl left, the rough man covered his face and groaned in pain, and slammed the iron counter hard, saying in a hateful voice, "We've been tricked!"

A small man among them frowned and said: "We came all the way so ostentatiously, we must know everything we need to know, Brother Lu must know too, let's go back quickly."

They were about to leave when Qu Zhengchao hurriedly said, "Please wait."

The six turned around and heard Qu Zhengchao ask, "Is the Brother Lu you are talking about called Lu Yun?"

It is estimated that few people do not know the names of the people in power of the three forces in the base. The little man nodded: "Yes."

Qu Zhengchao said: "Lu Yun and I have met for a few times in Province G. Can you let us meet him? When you go back, you can report my name first. My name is Qu Zhengchao. He should have an impression. of."

These six people are all brothers who have been with Lu Yun for a long time, and naturally they know exactly where Lu Yun has been, so they nodded hesitantly, promising that they would tell when they saw Lu Yun.

But after hearing Qu Zhengchao's repeated urging them to hurry up and they can't rest here at night, thinking about the disaster they just caused, they just said impatiently: "Just wait."

After the six people left, Jing Lin and the others prepared all the supplies they exchanged, because they still had to wait for Lu Yun to meet, so they stayed in the mall temporarily.

Boss Wang didn't chase them away either. He asked someone to clean up the blood in front of them, and then sat back at the counter by himself.

By noon, there was no news of Lu Yun.Everyone habitually prepares some dry food as long as they go out, so they are not afraid of being hungry at noon, so they settle their lunch casually and just sit and wait.

During the period, they had the honor to take a look at Boss Wang's lunch meal, white rice with roast meat, and wild vegetable soup. It seems that even people like Boss Wang who can still open shopping malls in the last days want to eat the most common food in the past. Vegetables, too, seemed out of the question.

After waiting until mid-afternoon, Jing Lin and the others, who were squatting at the door, finally saw the little man in the morning walking over with a tall young man.

Qu Zhengchao stood on the spot and gave a military salute. After the other party replied, a series of questions came out: "Qu Zhengchao, is it really you? Shouldn't you go back to your hometown? Why did you come here?"

Qu Zhengchao said, "I came to ask you to cooperate."

Lu Yun looked him up and down, including Jing Lin and the others, and then said: "This is not a place to talk, come with me first."

Jing Lin and the others had already greeted Boss Wang, put away the supplies first, and the rest of the brothers continued to stay here. They followed Lu Yun through the third checkpoint and entered the big shopping mall.

The first floor of the shopping mall is very lively, and there are people coming and going inside. Compared with the outside, these people's mental outlook is much healthier.

Lu Yun took them to his office, and after they all sat down, Lu Yun asked them directly: "What do you want to cooperate with?"

"This." Qu Zhengchao took out a small piece of blue stone that had been in his pocket all the time, and put it in front of Lu Yun.

Lu Yun paused, took a look at it, and said: "This is a good thing. It's cold now, and the quantity of this thing is very small every time. Many people in the base don't need it if they want to use it. Boss Wang has been using it for a while. The stones for the auction will not be given to him by you, right?"

"No." Qu Zhengchao said, and then gave a general account of their coming here, and finally said: "Our request is that we can tell you about the resources of this blue stone, but you have to take over those people. Guarantee their lifelong residency at the base."

Lu Yun immediately said: "It's no problem, as long as I live for one day, they can live in the base for one day. If you really give me this stone resource, you will help me a lot. My brother was offended by the local official forces in the morning. Mr. Ou's beloved daughter, I am worried about how to solve this matter, and it will not be difficult with this stone."

Zhao Zhiwen asked curiously, "Why don't you get along?"

Lu Yun sneered and said, "Isn't the world chaotic now? Some people's ambitions are inflated. They want to reshuffle the cards, break free from the supervision of the capital, and become kings on their own." He is new here and doesn't understand many things. This time, while some of my brothers were out hunting, I caught Mr. Ou’s daughter’s pet and threw it half to death in the middle of the road. A few people who came home happened to see it and thought they had picked up a bargain, so they took the cat with them. Go to Boss Wang's place to change the medicine.

She thought she was doing it perfectly, but how could she really hide it from the eyes and ears of both parties? It was precisely because she knew that they were also the one being plotted against, so Ms. Ou only gave his brother a whip. Of course, a follow-up apology is still indispensable.

After hearing this, Jing Lin and the others just shrugged their shoulders.The capital is currently the center of power in the country, and monks like Wei Zhen who are sent out to help eliminate threatening mutant animals and plants do so for the sake of experience and to obey the orders of the country.The stability of the environment cannot be separated from the power of the state, but there are still people who want to jump out. Now the places should not be completely stabilized. Once it is stable, it is time to free up your hands to clean up these dishonest people. useless