Section 129: A Long Journey
Chapter 129: Traveling far away
In the empty wilderness, a path that is not very obvious but actually exists is repeatedly crushed by thick rubber tires.
Five thousand tons of grain is a very huge number.
Every day, several or dozens of trucks loaded with cargo come from the northeast. Following a fixed route, passing through the partition area in the middle of the camp, slowly driving into the mechanical city gate more than ten meters wide in the middle of Yinyue Town wall.
In this radiation-filled world, vehicles are more advanced than luxury goods. Civilized faults lead to technology that cannot make up for the lack of manufacturing, which is certainly one of the reasons for this phenomenon. However, in terms of frequency of use, wear of parts, energy consumption and demand are the most important factors.
In addition to recycling and refining available oil from ruins or former human settlements, the main fuel source of this era is still the same as in the old era, from large institutions that occupy oil resources and have their own energy refining. Of course, micro-nuclear reactors and large-power small batteries can also provide driving energy for vehicles. But this involves a series of complex modification and overall vehicle transformation technologies. The high purchase price and technical blockade have made Sosbia only use the traditional fuel-drive method. This has also led to a sharp increase in transportation costs and cargo selling prices. In order to meet the extremely harsh compensation conditions proposed by Lin Xiang, Bergson, who had saved his life, almost exhausted all the fuel reserves accumulated by the Luton family for a lot of effort.
Standing on both sides of the passage to watch the vehicles traveling, it has become the biggest entertainment and entertainment for refugees in recent times. Countless pairs of bet on the truck from different directions, releasing various complex gazes of surprise, greed, doubt, fear, fear, and panic.
Refugees do not understand profound and obscure business theories. They only use the reality they see and hear from their eyes and ears as the only criterion for judging food.
The tires crush the ground have very deep ruts, which shows that the cargo loaded in the car is very heavy and heavy. The machine guns mounted on the front of the car and the armed guards with live ammunition are enough to prove the importance of pulling and transporting materials in the car. Through the thick waterproof cloth, you can smell the fragrance of rice and noodles.
The symbol of the one-horned lion on the surface of the truck proves that the goods come from Sosbia. Many people with ulterior motives once secretly wrote down the numbers on the surface of each vehicle body and calculated them based on the round-trip time and the no-load ratio. The results were shocked, and their attitude towards Yinyue Town gradually turned from dissatisfaction at the beginning to fear.
The way of thinking of refugees is very simple and direct - there are enough guns and endless food to eat, which is the most fundamental manifestation of strength.
The busy transportation lasted for more than a week and did not end. In addition to the amazing amount of food, Sosbia also had to pay other materials listed on the compensation list. These things quickly became the material basis for the development of Yinyue Town. With the walls outside the town as the border, an emerging small city began to slowly expand to the north along the gentle hilly area behind the town.
Unlike the vassal camp outside the town, underground drainage pipes were laid on a large scale inside the fence. Small nuclear power generation equipment obtained from the Skeleton Knights provided sufficient energy for various construction machinery. New underground warehouses began to be built, and after the re-planned streets and residential houses began to take shape. High-quality stone from the quarry, coupled with relevant building materials provided by Sosbia, made Yinyue Town expand at an unprecedented rate.
This is a comprehensive and thorough transformation. The expanded Yinyue Town can meet the living needs of 5,000 people. The light and dark warning towers set up inside and outside the city will connect to form a dense defense line. They form a support to the artillery positions arranged in hidden parts of the mountains. With the entire city as the center, the firepower covers a radius of more than 20 kilometers.
Yinyue Town was officially renamed Yinyue City.
Sufficient manpower ensures the speed of urban transformation. According to regulations, only those who have passed the recognition of urban managers, have special skills or make significant contributions to urban development are eligible to enter the city to live and obtain formal citizenship.
This is just one of the most basic ways to control the people. Lin Xiang does not intend to deliberately strengthen the boundary between ordinary people and the privileged class. In fact, there is not much difference between the entire city and the outside world. The civilian camps scattered on the outside have also been planned. There are enough streets around the residential area, and the ground drainage system is gradually being improved. Simple cargo transactions have caused some small shops to appear in the area. As the number of armed personnel increases, the warning towers and fire defense points set up around the camp begin to move outward, causing the city's tentacles to gradually extend towards a more distant place in the wilderness.
Yinyue City does not reject outsiders. Urban development requires more fresh blood, and they will bring more transaction opportunities and related information. Of course, there will definitely be spies placed by other forces among the outsiders. However, as long as the city is maintained, there are tough management models and grassroots facilities that are downgraded step by step, the chance of causing urban chaos will be greatly reduced.
As long as you have sufficient drinking water and food, Yinyue City can maintain stable and orderly development for a long time without the threat of foreign armed groups.
Glifiz sent twenty administrative personnel from Emma City. They were all ordinary people who had no evolution or strengthening ability, but had rich experience in urban management. As a necessary reserve of talents, Lin Xiang selected a group of trustworthy primitive residents in the town as their assistants. No one is a natural warrior or leader, and he is learning and mature through exploration. This is also an indispensable link from weak to strong.
The free supply of food will not last long. When the autumn harvest season comes, residents will also have the first item of supplies to be freely controlled. Next year, the area of cultivated land will also increase accordingly.
The basic structure of the "Vulture" mercenary group has taken shape. Fifty members of the former Yinyue Town guards who have been specially selected and have no problem with loyalty have formed the core of the mercenary group. Each of them has powerful supernatural powers equivalent to level 8 of evolution. This extraordinary ability comes from the diluted and diluted blood in Lin Xiang's body. In order to hide his existence, he cannot turn everyone into a parasite without reservation. He can only add enough combat power to his own private armed forces without any reservation.
From beginning to end, Lin Xiang has never actively used his power in public. Without detecting the breath, no one will associate him with a powerful parasite. In a sense, the existence of Wang Biao and Yang Hua has replaced him and become the focus of many attention.
More than 200 kilometers northwest of Yinyue City is a winding river. The distance between the river surface is not too wide. The nuclear explosion caused a large number of plants to die, causing large areas of loosening of the soil near the embankment. The climate abnormalities caused by the nuclear winter for decades have caused the river to frequently have dry water and broken flows. Looking from the tall and dilapidated dam, the river water slowly flowing from the foot of the dam is only about half of the normal period.
Crossing the river bridge left over from the old era, off-road vehicles drive northwest along the river border. The terrain of this area is relatively flat, and dense forests can be seen everywhere on both sides of the river bank. Although this place belongs to a moderate radiation area, it is more dangerous than ordinary severe radiation areas. The radiation substances precipitated from the river water gather in large quantities in the wet soil, and invade the plant body along the roots deep in the soil layer, forming a vast mutant forest. The soil here cannot be cultivated, and river water with radiation exceeding the level of human beings can accept cannot be drunk. Strong nuclear pollution makes nearby organisms more aggressive. With the central area where the river flows through, there are desolate unmanned areas within nearly 50 kilometers on both sides.
On the ground without roads, the speed can only remain relatively stable. Lin Xiang, who was driving the vehicle, did not express any dissatisfaction. This heavy-duty off-road vehicle made by the Skeleton Knights can use two driving methods: small nuclear batteries and ordinary fuel. The spacious carriage carries a sufficient amount of ammunition, food and water. In a short period of time, at least you don’t have to worry about supply issues.
Locke leaned against the passenger seat, wearing a black Sosbian combat suit with the logo removed. He hung Erlang with his legs in the local area, dense black chest hair poked out from the center of the half-open collar, a cigarette that seemed to never disappear, was slanted in the center of two thin lips.
If it were the case before, without taking anti-radiation agents, he could not survive in the moderate radiation area at all. But now he lives very moist. The strong rays not only did not make the body feel any discomfort, but also made him feel a slight pleasure of cells being stimulated.
Looking at the scenery passing by quickly from the front, Locke squirted out a mouthful of smoke that disappeared quickly: "I have to admit that you are a very magical guy. Yes, magical, only this word is truly worthy of you."
From the corner of his eyes, Lin Xiang smiled and glanced at him without saying a word.
"Samsung Parasite... tsk! I never dreamed of having such power."
With his thick arms stretched out and stroking his rough skin as if he was narcissistic, Locke whistled frivolously: "Tonight, I must find a hot and sexy girl, talk about life, and talk about ideals, and then do a good job of experimenting to see if my underside becomes as hard and upright as my fists."
"To be honest, how do you know that I can save your life?" Lin Xiang directly filtered out the language that was irrelevant to the core of the conversation and looked straight ahead.
"Intuition." Locke took a breath of cigarette and replied faintly.
"Have your intuition always been so accurate?" Lin Xiang shook his head disapprovingly.
"It's not necessarily accurate. But at that time, I can only believe you. Haha! That guy named Bill was so fucking ruthless that he shattered all my internal organs. Gliffiz spent all his savings and only bought half of my life back from him. To be honest, I never thought of living... Rather than believing in you, it would be better to hold your last breath and just want to see you again before dying..."
The wind whistled through the lake on both sides of the car window and slashed on the face. It was very hard and felt a kind of suffocation that blocked breathing.
"Many people say that the word "friend" should not exist. At least, it will not exist in this damn world. However, it is just that coincidence that Gliffiz and I, and Otilia, will become best friends... Your appearance has expanded this small circle a little bit. Damn, this time I am not in a favor, the fat man bought me half of my life from Bill, and Niu'er robbed me of a few days from that bastard McGee. In the end, your blood saved me and made me evolve into a parasitic for some reason... Hahaha! This time I made a big profit and a big loss. What if I have a bad luck one day, you ask me to pay for all the food I have eaten, what should I do? Cut me into three sections, and each person has a piece of it? Hahahaha--"
Locke was laughing, but tears kept flowing in the corners of his eyes.
Lin Xiang could hear that he was indeed laughing, very happy, very comfortable and very happy.
As for tears... everyone will cry. But the meaning of crying does not necessarily mean sadness and pain. When the gentlest place in the deep heart is touched by something inadvertent, people will still cry.
In the dictionary of the old era, this word was called "touching".
To the north of the river is a low hill. The vegetation here seems slightly sparse, and clusters of shrubs are clustered in the empty wilderness. They also have sharp hard thorns and inaccessible appearance, but they do not like mutant plants in severe radiation areas, using lurking on the ground and green branches as covers to capture all the creatures that dare to approach and become the nutrients needed to provide their own growth.
Next to a fork that was obviously trampled out by human footprints, heading towards the west, north and southeast, forming several irregular roads, Locke jumped out of the car with his assault rifle and his bulging backpack.
Lin Xiang sat in the cab, with his hands on the steering wheel, and looked at him motionlessly.
Although I was unable to see the corpse of the mercenary captain buried with my own eyes, many people thought Locke was dead. Including the doctors and nurses who treated him in Emma City - in this era, all internal organs were ruptured, which was equivalent to death.
According to Lin Xiang's original idea, Locke, who evolved into a Samsung parasitizer, should become the deputy leader of the "Vulture" mercenary group. But Glifiz did not think so. According to him, a dead person, especially a powerful "dead person" with the power of a Samsung parasitizer, should play a more important role in other places.
"Locke is a dead man, a dead man who cancels his household registration among the two major forces of Ferdinand and Sosbia. Do you understand what I mean? At least hundreds of people can prove that this guy has become a bone, and no one will notice his existence. He can use another identity to quietly leave this land and go further and redevelop it in a place that does not belong to Ferdinand or Sosbia. You can't imagine what a wonderful plan this is. An ordinary person will only turn into a meat food in the belly of a mob, but Locke is different. He is terrible and powerful, and it makes people tremble. In order to develop in the Moon City, there is still a lot of things. Ferdinand and Sosbia are not omnipotent, and this era only favors strong people. The combat power of five hundred refugees is not as good as that of a primary parasitist. On the contrary, an initial parasitist can easily pull up a group of armed forces.
, an army. These people do not need you to spend a grain of food to support them. They will gradually grow and rob and even occupy what we need, but cannot buy or exchange them with money. They are a force that is lurking in the darkness. To the north, west, or south, just leave the sphere of influence of Ferdinand and Sosbia, you can form another new army, an army led by the dead. Instead of leaving Locke to stay in the city and even revealing your true identity, it is better to let him go as far as he can. This guy has hands and feet, and his fists are scary. He knows how to take care of himself. Maybe next time he meets, there will be more than a dozen coquettish women around him call him husband, and hundreds of little carrot heads call him father. The further he goes, the more helpful it will be to you-"
The thinking of the district manager is indeed different from that of ordinary people. Lin Xiang has to admit that although Gliffiz's words are not completely correct, at least, he has considered it much more thoroughly than himself.
This place is located on the edge of Ferdinand's power and is also where he broke up with Locke.
"You really plan to pick up your bride like this?" Locke said leisurely. In situations where there are only men, women are always the best and most interesting common topic.
"That is my wish and an indispensable sustenance." Lin Xiang smiled.
"Elena is a good girl. With your current status, she is a city lord. She will not suffer any loss by raising two wives."
After taking a deep breath of the cigarette butt that was about to burn out, Locke added meaningfully: "If it were me, I would have to marry at least twenty girls. This is the fucking life that men really should enjoy."
Lin Xiang just pretended that he didn't hear anything, and laughed and scolded him hard and patted him on the shoulder: "Get out quickly! There are rotten wolf everywhere in the wilderness. The female wolf likes men like you the most."
Locke curled his lips disapprovingly, suddenly clenched his fists and pounded his shoulders hard, and said in a deep voice: "As long as I stabilize, I will send you messages immediately. Help me tell Fatty and Otilia that everyone must live, no one is allowed to die-"
Lin Xiang nodded seriously: "So too."
Chapter completed!