The drifting city of the last days

"Did you tell them?" Zhang Jinzhong handed the freshly brewed tea to Colonel Zhang, and the two brothers stood side by side in front of the window on the second floor, watching Lu Hen and Luo Zhen's car leave.

"No." Colonel Zhang picked up his teacup and took a sip, "I can't let them bring this news to Jinghua Base. Besides, Gong Lu and the others are just guessing now, and they can't really be sure."

Zhang Jinzhong was silent for a while before continuing, "It's good to look around like them, maybe they know the world better than us."

"For me, the interests of the base will always come first." Colonel Zhang stroked the wall of the steamed teacup, expressing a deep meaning.

On the way back, Luo Zhen's car passed the captive animal area, and more than a dozen animal houses were scattered in that area.One of the larger semi-circular animal halls has a constant stream of people coming and going at the entrance. Many people are dragging sacks and woven bags, and some even carry the dead bodies of mutant animals with their bare hands.What is this place for?Qi Liang looked at the two cute resin statues of giant pandas. It turned out to be a giant panda house?

When he got closer, he found a sign at the door, [Management Office].

This is the management office?Qi Liang patted the backs of Luo Zhen and Wu Shi's car seats, and signaled the two who were busy taking care of the drunk to look over there. They had a lot of base coins in their hands. Would you like to take this opportunity to exchange something here?

Luo Zhen scanned the words "management office" and immediately understood what Qi Liang meant.Lan Shan and the others were overwhelmed with alcohol and wanted to go back to sleep, so Luo Zhen asked them to take care of Shao Yunfan and Wu Fei, and he, Qi Liang, Wu Shi, Xia An, and Lin Lie got off the car and went to the management office.

The hall was full of voices, many people were talking at the top of their voices, and the echo produced a deafening effect.The first thing Qi Liang did when he went in was to cover his ears, the naked noise was harmful.

Hearing the sound of "Ow!", something like a beast roared in the depths of the venue, and the whole hall fell silent in an instant.The aisle of the venue was spiraling in the shape of a conch shell. Luo Zhen and the others stood guard in the lobby and watched the sound, but they still couldn't see what was going on inside.

The ground under his feet trembled. A giant panda the size of an adult elephant walked out slowly on all fours, staring angrily in the direction of the hall.Every time it took a step, the ground in the hall would tremble.

"Bang!" It slapped the ground with its front paws in a demonstrative manner, and the gravel splashed, and a deep pit the size of a 42-inch TV immediately appeared on the ground, and several spider web-like cracks spread to five or six meters away. Very annoying to wake up.

A man in a white coat went up to meet him, touched the panda's forehead comfortingly, and patted its paw affectionately, beckoning it to go outside with him.The panda hummed slightly aggrieved, but still twisted its chubby body and followed the man.

There are still pandas in the museum, and they are mutated?Luo Zhen and the other five couldn't help being stunned.

"Don't worry, it doesn't hurt anyone." Someone spoke up beside them, and Qi Liang turned his head, but it was the thin young man with a portable space who went to the tunnel of Quanming Mountain together last time. "It was delivered by the breeder himself. When the tsunami happened, it was only three months old. All the other pandas ran away, only it was stuck in the nursery box."

Luo Zhen raised his eyebrows. When he was on a mission last time, the kid was taciturn. Now it seems that maybe not all?

"Are you here to pick up the mission?" Seeing that Luo Zhen was silent, the child licked his lips nervously, "Well, if you need to pack things, you can consider me, only eight yuan for a trip, no, seven bases currency."

The noise was like a tide, and after a short pause, it went back and forth, filling the entire hall again.

"Aren't you going to go to Mount Quanming again with them?" Qi Liang rubbed his ears and looked at him. This kid came to the management office to find a job?Judging by his appearance, it seems that he needs money?

"I brought back all the remaining diesel yesterday." The child nodded and added eagerly, "I promise I won't cause any trouble for you when we act."

"We're not here to pick up the mission, we're just strolling around." Qi Liang explained to him helplessly.

"Sorry to bother you." The child bowed to them with a disappointed face, turned and rushed into the crowd.

Wu looked at Luo Zhen, "Actually, we can pay him one base currency and ask him to be a guide for us in the management office." Instead of wasting time here, it's better to go back and take care of that drunk kid at home as soon as possible.

"It's late." Luo Zhen shrugged his shoulders, the child was like a flexible fish, and disappeared in a blink of an eye. "Let's see for yourself."

The entire hall of the management office is divided into three large areas. The window on the left hand side that used to receive the electronic explanation machine in the museum is now responsible for publishing and handing in tasks. There are five A1-sized handwritten notices in a row at the bottom of the window, listing the bases by category At present, the tasks that need to be completed by the mutant team.Each one has the task number, basic description, rewards and restrictions.

Luo Zhen glanced at them, most of them were looking for supplies or certain types of items, mainly practical or special items.For example, a bucket with a volume of more than 100l, or a small diesel generator or the like.Basically, items that are needed but not important, and there is no need to directly assign an official search team.

In the direction of the hall facing the entrance, it is divided into two by the isolation belt, which are the windows for exchanging base currency and exchanging base currency for things.

The base currency exchange area is already overcrowded, but there are only four or five people on the other side.

The five people walked over and looked curiously at the exchange list posted on the wall. One base currency can be exchanged for five bags of biscuits, or ten ham sausages, or five bottles of drinking water, or ten rolls of paper, or two catties of Animal meat, or half a catty of vegetables, etc.Basically food-based.Two base coins can be exchanged for a single coat or trousers, and five base coins can be exchanged for shoes or a cotton jacket.Wu Shi glanced at it twice, then walked to the other side where the crowds were crowded.

"Should we buy some clothes?" Qi Liang looked up at the long list and quickly thought about the items they needed.

"It's best to buy some suitable bullets. There are only three or four hundred rounds left in the ship's inventory. It would be even better if you can bring some grenades and grenade launchers." Xia An added.

"The most important thing is clothes and water, followed by the bullet supplies that Xia An said, as well as weapons such as grenade, bazooka, grenade, flamethrower. If you have information or maps about the Jinghua base, you can also buy it." Luo Zhen nodded.

"Except for weapons, don't buy anything else." Wu Shi walked back quickly, his eyes shining brightly, "Go out and inquire later, I guess there should be other unofficial trading markets, and the prices are definitely It’s cheaper than here.” One base coin can buy two catties of animal meat here, but at the window on the other side, five catties of animal meat can be exchanged for one base coin. This price difference is unscientific, and it should be because of secretly encouraging free circulation.Although they have a lot of base coins in their hands, there is no need to spend them indiscriminately.

Since weapons are controlled materials, the last few people only bought two boxes of bullets and ten grenades.

As Wu expected, they quickly inquired about a trading area when they went out, which was about 500 meters away from the left turn at the entrance.The grenade could also be carried in Qi Liang's backpack. Luo Zhen and Xia An could only carry the two boxes of bullets on their shoulders to go shopping in the trading area.

"Now I feel that the child's portable space was too practical." Xia An turned sideways and complained to Luo Zhen.

Luo Zhen nodded, walking all the way, his shoulders were so sore from the box of bullets.Similar to the trading area on the safety island, the atmosphere of the trading area is very similar to a flea market. Except for a few people who display their items on stone tables, most people place them directly on the ground and sit on the ground.

As expected, the things here are basically [-] to [-]% off from the management office.Qi Liang bought some miscellaneous daily necessities, dozens of underwear and socks, and picked out two sets of unlined clothing and sneakers for everyone. Considering the wear and tear, he specially bought three sets for Lanshan.Drinking water even bought [-] boxes in one go.In the end, there were so many things that Lin Lie and Xia An had to fly back to Haihou while they were still shopping, and send back all the things they bought.

Wu Shi buried himself in picking snacks for someone. When Qi Liang was negotiating the price with the stall owner, Luo Zhen, who was bored, suddenly caught a glimpse of a deserted stall next to him. There were several long knives, short swords and daggers, but no one was there. Patronizing, the stall owner himself was dozing off boredly.

Luo Zhen leaned over curiously. The stall owner's things were placed on a piece of sapphire blue brocade, roughly divided into two stalls. One stall was for swords and daggers. Those swords were of different styles and colors, and some were rough. Simple and unsophisticated, the decorations only have simple geometric lines, some are complicated and gorgeous, inlaid with beads and jade, and even the animal capitals on the sword grid are cast vividly.The other booth has miscellaneous everything, such as bracelets, armlets, broken knife handles, silver crossbows, rosewood miniature screens inlaid with jade, and some strange shapes, it seems that it is almost impossible to tell whether it is protective gear or jewelry. There are all kinds of things, at least thirty or forty.

"Are these... antiques or weapons?" Luo Zhen looked at the pile of things that no one cared about, and felt that they looked like antiques.It's a pity that antiques are hidden in prosperous times, and gold is left in troubled times.These things are not as tempting to the current survivors as a pack of biscuits.

"These are all good things that the people from the search team found in a mansion a few days ago, and I bought them at a high price." Seeing that someone finally came to the stall, the stall owner immediately explained to Luo Zhen how to get it. These things are more thrilling and exciting than tomb robbery, as if he was there at the time.

Luo Zhen picked up the short knife and pulled it out of the scabbard. A cold breath of the blade rushed towards his face. He tapped the back of the blade lightly with his fingertips, the blade trembled, and there was a soft sound like the roar of dragons and tigers.The saber Shao Yunfan used before was too short, but the length of this short knife is just right.

He pulled out the remaining swords one by one, and chose two daggers for Qi Liang and Zhang Junjiu.Then he picked out the crossbow from the pile of things next to him, "How much are these four things in total?"

The stall owner rubbed his hands excitedly, "A total of 500 yuan base currency."

"Five hundred, you're too big to open your mouth!" Qi Liang, the "housekeeper" who rushed over from the side, looked at the pile of things dissatisfied, "Up to two hundred base coins."

"Well, how about 300 yuan, I'll build another one for you." The stall owner randomly picked one out of the pile of scattered things and stuffed it in the pile.

Qi Liang blinked, seeing Luo Zhen nodding, he counted out [-] base coins and handed them to the man.