Chapter 27 Shuiwei Town
Bai Chen immediately slowed down the heavy motorcycle and looked forward.
A hundred meters away, there was a red-brown wall that extended to both sides as much as possible, turning backwards at the end of Bai Chen's sight, as if it was about to surround it.
Most of the bricks on this wall are mottled and old, but there are also a small number that look very new, like they were only burned in the past year.
There are rusty barbed wire fences on the top and outside the walls, and only one road can pass through.
Between the barbed wire and the wall, on several wooden racks erected behind the wall, there were guards with dirty clothes and chaotic styles patrolling and guarding with guns.
The warning to Bai Chen was the guard standing on the tallest wooden rack. He was wearing a yellow and hard shirt inside, and a navy blue outside, suspected to be a cotton jacket, and looked very fluffy and bloated clothes.
The guard was carrying an automatic rifle and holding a black item like a pen in his hand.
The item emitted red light, shining in front of Bai Chen, forming a small dot.
Bai Chen stopped the motorcycle, took off his helmet, and tried to put the short hair that had just passed his ear back.
She is deliberately showing her female identity.
This is not to charm or seduce anyone, but to make the other party relax and not so nervous.
She knew very well that on the dust and in places where there was not much order, even if guns could bring harm to men and women to the same level, it would not be able to truly smooth out the gap between the two sides in this regard.
Whether in terms of physique or aggressiveness, men are more dangerous than women.
A stranger who is a man can cause panic far more than a woman.
Bai Chen always showed two different states when she was wandering in the wilderness: when she needed to explore the ruins, hunt in the wild, cross more dangerous areas, and trade with certain bandits, she would hide her long hair, make a black face, change her outfit, and make herself look like a man; when she approached a settlement with a certain order, or deal with ruins hunters from major forces who care more about intelligence and old world information, she would show her identity as a woman.
When she was absorbed by "Pangu Biology" and had the confidence, she could finally cut a hairstyle that was neither long nor short according to her preference.
After putting the helmet in front of him, Bai Chen let the heavy motorcycle continue to move forward slowly.
During this process, the red light spot always swayed in front of her and fell on her motorcycle from time to time. This means that the other party has aimed and is not careless.
When the distance between the two sides was closer to thirty meters, Bai Chen leaned into the motorcycle, supported the ground with one foot, and shouted loudly:
"I'll come to find Mayor Tianerhetian!"
She repeated twice, stopped talking, and patiently waited.
The guards on the wooden frame were divided into one and walked down the oblique wooden boards.
Five or six minutes later, an old man appeared on the wall.
He wore a furry dark blue hat, as if he had pressed a bowl upside down on his head.
He had very obvious white hair at his temples, sunken eye sockets, thin face, wrinkles that could grow wrinkles, and looked very old.
However, his dark brown eyes were still bright and his spirit was very energetic. It was Tian Erhe, the mayor of this settlement.
He was wearing a white and yellow T-shirt, a wrinkled patched suit, and a military green coat that was large and long and obviously dissatisfied with his figure.
His lower body was covered with dark yellow woolen pants, and I don’t know how many pairs of other pants were stuffed inside, and he looked very bloated.
Tian Erhe looked at Bai Chen and carefully distinguished for a few seconds.
"Ah..." He seemed to recognize the other party, but when he wanted to say hello, he found that Bai Chen was too far away and he could no longer shout loudly as casually as before.
He quickly turned his head and said angrily to the guard beside him:
“Give me my horn!
"Really, not smart at all!"
The guard responded aggrievedly:
"Your speaker has run out of power, and I haven't changed the same battery recently.
"I, I can shout for you..."
Tian Erhe thought for a while and said:
"Call me: Bai Yatou, where has you died this year? I thought you were eaten by a wild beast!"
"Bai Yat..." The guard suddenly realized, "Is it the Bai Chen who often came before?"
"Who else can you be if it's not her? I'm in my seventies, and my eyes are getting worse and worse. I can recognize you. Why are you a young man in your early twenties like a blind man?" Tian Erhe glanced at the guard and cursed a few times.
Everyone in this settlement has become accustomed to Tian Erhe's temper. The guards didn't care about the scolding just now, but just muttered a few words:
"She looks much better than before...If you don't look carefully, you can recognize her..."
Before Tian Erhe could stare at him, the guard opened his voice and shouted loudly:
"Bai Yatou, where has he died this year? I thought you were eaten by wild animals!"
Bai Chen's expression softened unknowingly, and she replied loudly:
“Going somewhere else.
"Master, I'll exchange something!"
This place is called "Shuiwei Town". Bai Chen heard from Tian Erhe that the town name originated from before the destruction of the old world and was named after the four rivers.
After the destruction of the old world, the long-term melee, and many geological disasters, the nearby water flow has become part of the swamp, which provides a natural defensive wall for Shuiwei Town and brings enough concealment.
Only the residents of Shuiwei Town and the guests they once invited can find the seemingly mud-covered roads in the Everglades and arrive here in a maze-like environment.
Compared with those settlements that often migrate, Shuiwei Town, which has clean water sources and a lot of arable land, has been here since the destruction of the old world.
Tian Erhe wanted to talk loudly for a few words, but before he could speak, his throat was itchy and he couldn't help coughing twice.
"Come in, come in." He waved his hand helplessly.
The guard next to him immediately shouted:
"Come in! Come in!
"Take the gun to the person at the door!"
Bang! Tian Erhe photographed him:
"Who asked you to add the next sentence?
"Bai Yatou is someone you can trust!"
"But she hasn't been here for a year." The guard responded with his neck thorned.
Tian Erhe was silent for two seconds, and said nothing, turning around and walking off the wooden frame.
Bai Chen did not resist and handed over all the guns he carried, the pistols he carried on, and the heavy motorcycle to the guards at the gate.
The iron-black door that opened was immediately opened.
Tian Erhe was already waiting there, looked Bai Chen up and down a few times, and laughed:
"It seems that I've been doing well recently. I used to be a mud girl."
Bai Chen instinctively closed his eyes:
"A team took me in."
Tian Erhe nodded thoughtfully:
“Not bad, not bad.”
He didn't continue the topic and asked casually:
"Where is your robot? Call it, call it 35."
Bai Chen's eyes drooped slightly and said one second:
"broken."
Tian Erhe suddenly became silent.
After a few seconds, he took a breath and asked as if he had communicated nothing just now:
"What are you going to exchange for?"
"Some parts on the car..." Bai Chen replied as usual.
"Stop! Don't tell me what it is. I don't understand. I'll take you to take a look and pick it." Tian Erhe interrupted Bai Chen's words with a smile.
He turned around and led Bai Chen to the depths of the town.
This town is not big, it is completely different from the town in the old world concept.
Bai Chen looked at it and the first thing he saw was three three-story buildings in the distance. The buildings were not high, but very long, and each floor was separated by many rooms.
These three houses are not parallel, but are inverted and oblique, with the word "子".
As Bai Chen knows, those who live here, those who have private or floor toilets are all members of the town guards and their families. At the same time, people with important skills can also be assigned to rooms, such as those who know how to repair firearms, and those who master old world agricultural technology.
There are two large public toilets on both sides of the character "Pin"; there is a small square made of cement in front of the character "Pin", and there are three small squares with rammed earth as the base.
There is a row of bungalows on the left and right of the square. They are not far from the wall and belong to the original townsmen of Shuiwei Town. With the population base of Shuiwei Town, most townsmen have members of the town guards, otherwise it would not be enough to maintain the town guards.
Above the four squares, there are difficult to count, chaotic houses, mud houses, brick houses, and tents.
These buildings come from wilderness wanderers absorbed by Shuiwei Town over the years, or those whose original members violated the laws.
At this time, the sun was still in the sky, and the evening was far away. Some of the residents of Shuiwei Town were still working in the fields behind the town, while the other part went out to hunt in the form of a team, and only a few people stayed in the town.
They walked out of the densely packed houses and cast their eyes behind the glass. The common point was: their faces were not very clean, their hair was dry, but their clothes were not well-made, and they might not be in line with their body shape, but their eyes were more spiritual than the wilderness wanderers Bai Chen encountered elsewhere.
"Mayor, how are you doing recently?" Bai Chen didn't care about other people's gazes, opened his mouth and asked not very skillfully.
Tian Erhe laughed at himself:
"It's okay, but I'm getting more and more afraid of the cold. Look, winter is not yet here, so I have to wear so much. Haha, I don't know if I can live this winter."
"It's certainly possible." Bai Chen followed Tian Erhe and walked along the road between the chaotic houses to the three buildings with a font shape.
She answered very confidently, but her tone was a bit erratic.
"Don't comfort me." Tian Erhe touched the chin of the remaining white stubble, "I'm seventy-seven! How many people who have experienced the destruction of the old world can live to this age? Besides, my children are gone. Even if I wait a few years and really find a new world, it doesn't make any sense to me. Alas, if Nan Nan is still alive, she should be about the same age as you..."
"... At least you have to take a look at the new world." Bai Chen said in silence for a while.
Out of the corner of her eyes, she swept through the chaotic houses around her. She saw plastic bottles, glass bottles, old cardboard, buttons, rags piled up by the windows at their doors, parts from which they were from, long or short cables, metal bottle caps, handles with incomplete buttons, cracked mirror boxes, bullet shells, scopes, rusty glasses frames and other things, just like garbage dumps and recycling bins.
Tian Erhe sighed with a "hoosh":
"The new world...who knows where...
"Young people can believe that at least they have hope. Forget it, old guys like us."
Chapter completed!