Chapter 39

The room was packed with supplies.

The neatly stacked boxes on the left all have pictures of food on them. Some of them are placed in the top open boxes, and the food inside can be clearly seen. The large barrels placed on the right side are even labeled with gasoline. Even through the barrels, you can vaguely smell the smell inside.

So much of it is gasoline, so they don't have to worry about their vehicles running out of gas in a short period of time.

It took Grandpa Bai a long time to react, and he looked at Wen Zheng with some worry: "Xiao Zheng, these supplies were obviously collected here. We won't run into an inhabited house, right?"

"There were people here before, but not necessarily anymore."

Without answering the confused Grandpa Bai, Wen Zheng listened carefully after coming in. There should be no one living in this house.

However, just in case, he carefully opened the door with his weapon. There are two other rooms on this floor. It seems that the layout inside is for the owner. Wen Zheng checked briefly and found that there was no identity of the owner of the room. illustrate.

However, the cabinets in the house were locked. When opened, they could be seen to be filled with all kinds of gold and silver jewelry. They were so dazzling that Grandpa Bai, who followed behind, took a deep breath.

"These things were probably robbed." Wen Zheng said firmly.

Facing Grandpa Bai's questions, Wen Zheng explained the process one by one. Many of these gold and silver jewelry are jewelry. You can't tell it as necklaces, but there are obvious differences in the rings of different sizes. It is roughly estimated that these items come from at least seven or eight different people.

The key is still the observational gaze they felt when they came here, and the gang of Brother Yang who ambushed them. The appearance of the group was similar to the description of the four young people who had been to the community, and the young people had been extorted by them at a gas station. Considering the gasoline in the next room, the connection was naturally connected.

"You mean, this was once the stronghold of the group that ambushed us." Grandpa Bai quickly realized it, but he didn't expect it to be such a coincidence.

Wen Zheng nodded: "These rooms have not been occupied for a while. It is estimated that they all moved out when they ambush us, but none of them were able to come back."

After reading the third floor, I went to the second floor. They were basically the bedrooms where those people lived. There were not many supplies inside, and most of the supplies were basically in the room on the third floor. When he went down from the second floor to the first floor, even Wen Zheng didn't expect that there were two intact trucks parked in the lobby on this floor.

"How many vehicles did this group of people robbed?" Wen Zheng sighed. The small truck was too obvious to be disguised, so they didn't drive out to ambush last time. They stayed here and now it's an advantage for us.

While talking, Wen Zheng found two car keys from the car next to him, took the keys directly up, inserted the car keys into it, and started the vehicle. Wen Zheng opened the car window and faced the worried Grandpa Bai. The corners of his mouth raised excitedly: "Grandpa Bai, first see how I drive, and then decide whether I can drive."

Wen Zheng and Grandpa Bai went out for two days. The grandparents who stayed in the community have been busy since they left, not only to strengthen the houses, but also to build walls to defend against zombies.

Several grandfathers helped build houses when they were young. Although the materials in the community are not sufficient, with the earth element ability, bricks removed from other houses can be fixed into walls, which can also increase a lot of efficiency.

At first they did not plan to build too high a wall, but reluctantly surrounded the house and left a yard where they could grow vegetables. They are continuing to defend now, and there are not many people, so they plan to build a small one first, and then build a larger wall to surround the entire community when they have time and materials.

Two days were barely enough for them to build a rough prototype.

Wen Zheng and Grandpa Bai came back the next afternoon. The people who stayed behind were pleasantly surprised by the speed of Wen Zheng and their return.

"Where did I find these two small trucks? They are really good. The chassis is so high and there is a lot of stuff in the truck." Grandma Shuying put down the rapeseed she was spreading and ran to the door of the courtyard, her eyes shining as she said.

"Don't just look at the car, look at the things inside the car first, it will shock you even more." Grandpa Bai Shu jumped out of the car with a proud look on his face.

Wen Zheng followed and got out of the driving position of the truck behind him. Before he could speak, Grandpa Li, who was staying at home, changed his expression from confusion to shock and then to anger. He yelled at Grandpa Bai angrily.

"I thought I met other survivors and drove back together, but... I told you to keep an eye on Xiao Zheng. Why did you just let him drive around? The safety of trucks and supplies is not important. What if something happens on the road? Half!"

Grandpa Bai, who was sprayed all over his face by Grandpa Li, wiped his face helplessly. I agreed to the driving, but Wen Zheng was the main driver. In the end, all his anger was directed at me. This big brother is partial. . And to be honest, this guy Wen Zheng is not very aggressive when driving, but he has not had any accidents.

Although if he had stayed behind and seen this scene, he would probably be partial to Wen Zheng.

Thinking this in his heart, Grandpa Bai couldn't help but rolled his eyes at Grandpa Li: "Am I such an unreliable person? I must have checked Xiao Zheng's driving skills before agreeing to let him drive. "

"That's right, you should ask questions first if you are anxious. Don't blame my Lao Bai for no reason." Grandma Chunxi was naturally thinking of her wife, and Grandpa Bai immediately held Grandma Chunxi's hand in emotion.

Seeing the old people quarreling over him, Wen Zheng quickly changed the topic and opened the compartment of the truck: "Grandpas, grandma, and Yueyue, why don't you come and see what Grandpa Bai and I have brought back?"

"Gasoline? Have you found a gas station?"

Several old people were equally surprised. They first put away all the supplies they brought back, and then sat in the room and listened to Wen Zheng explain the matter. After listening, everyone sighed, at least Wen Zheng solved it at that time. That group of people had been eliminated.

After Wen Zheng harvested the truck and showed that he was indeed capable of driving, the frequency of their driving out to search for supplies increased. Wen Zheng was the one who went out every time, and the grandparents took turns going out.

Mainly to exercise the courage to kill zombies and to train the attack methods of supernatural powers. I also collected a lot of crystal cores. However, they also consume a lot of energy to exercise their superpowers on a daily basis. They also need to keep some crystal cores at home for emergency use. In fact, the crystal cores are not enough.

After the surrounding area was almost cleaned up, Wen Zheng and the old people discussed it, brought together potentially useful supplies, and followed Grandpa Li to drive to the nearby Northeastern base.

Radios that can receive official signals can always be used. In the past few days, two bases in the same city gave a general introduction to the situation of the bases. These two bases have temporarily escaped from the situation of being surrounded by zombies, and the lives of the people inside have generally improved. On track.

Several old people preferred to live in the base in the future, but the last experience made them change their minds and decided to go to the base to see the situation first, and then move there if the life there was good.

So the oldest Wen Zheng and Grandpa Li became the ones to inquire about the situation and went to the base together.

We set out at dawn and turned all the way to the road where the army once walked. There were not many vehicles on the road. We walked for more than two hours. During this period, we changed to another road. We occasionally encountered very few vehicles on the road. Everything was dusty. , it looked like it was coming from a distance, and the vehicle looked like it had encountered zombies.

As we approach the base, we can see trucks used by the military leaving the base and heading out, looking like a team out to search for supplies.

When we arrived at the base, there were two gates in front of the wall. One gate allowed the vehicles inside to get out, and the other gate was filled with vehicles that wanted to get in. They were all parked on the roadside waiting for inspection. People also had to get out of their cars and queue up. Wen Zheng Naturally, I drove to the back of the queue and took Grandpa Li down.

There was nothing to do while waiting in line. Wen Zheng would chat softly with Grandpa Li from time to time. People who were also waiting in line would occasionally join in the chat between the two.

Grandpa Li once served in the army and then returned from the army. Wen Zheng entered the base at the very beginning of his last world, and later stayed in the army for a lifetime. The two of them looked at the walls of this northeastern base, and stood guard at the door and walls. The soldiers wearing green military uniforms felt close to each other from the heart.

"Everyone has to go to the room next to them to check their wounds. Anyone with a wound has to wait for more than twelve hours, or use part of the supplies to exchange for a blood test. There is no need to check the wound, and the results can be obtained in half an hour." Those who queued up. At that time, the soldier in charge of inspection came over and informed them.

The team began to discuss, and some people asked how much supplies would be needed for the test. It turned out that each person needed twenty kilograms of grain or twenty crystal nuclei.

The amount of supplies required is definitely a lot under the current circumstances, but there are still people who can provide it. Both Wen Zheng and Grandpa Li can afford it, but Wen Zheng is not very confident about the process of drawing blood. Maybe he is too suspicious, but he is worried that the needles are not sterilized.

Several people in the queue chose to take blood tests, but the blood test had to be done in another small room built next to it, and the situation inside was completely invisible from the outside.

Anyway, there were no wounds on their bodies, so it was better to check them directly. However, it was a little embarrassing to take off their clothes in front of the inspectors. Wen Zheng always felt that the inspectors looked at him a few more times. Even Grandpa Li praised him for his usual I didn't notice it, but now I see that Wen Zheng's body is quite strong.

That is, he has both superpowers and cultivation methods, and he usually works killing zombies. Instead of having eight-pack abs, he has six-pack abs.

"There are no wounds. Please fill out these forms first and wait until your vehicle is inspected before you can go in." The staff member who had checked the wounds on the body took out two forms and placed them in front of them.

The first name, place of residence, and ID card number are all normal content, but the second part needs to be filled in whether you have superpowers and the attributes of the superpowers. There are several lines at the bottom of the form, all of which describe the benefits that the base provides to people with superpowers, including housing. As well as the treatment, they just need to follow the arrangements of the base.

Wen Zheng thought for a while and filled in "None" for the time being. However, Grandpa Li next to him didn't put much thought into it, but honestly filled in the earth attribute.

"The old man has superpowers? You are so lucky. You are the only one with superpowers registered in the base who is older." The staff member who took the registration form just glanced at it casually, and when he saw the item about superpowers , the smiles are much more enthusiastic than before.

The rest of the people cast envious glances at Grandpa Li, and the staff next to him even introduced: "Old man, there are tests for people with superpowers. Someone will take you there later. Our base's policy for people with superpowers." , it was written on the form just now, and the person who will guide you will introduce more details later. "

"I'll go alone. What's wrong with my grandson?" Grandpa Li glanced at Wen Zheng.

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"Of course your grandson will follow you." The staff member introduced, and after going out, he called a man in ordinary clothes, but with a red cloth tied on his shoulders, and asked him to take Wen Zheng and Grandpa Wen to test their superpowers.

The staff member's main conversation partner was Grandpa Li, who had superpowers. Wen Zheng stood quietly beside him, not having much presence. He secretly observed the situation around him, and saw the staff member who had just checked the small truck, and then opened the door again from another unclear angle.

Before Wen Zheng had time to ask, he was called into the base by the staff.

Following the staff's car, we drove to the superpower detection area, which is a special building, but not very lively. Wen Zheng and Grandpa Wen just got off the car accompanied by the staff, and many passers-by took a second look.

After the two entered, Wen Zheng was especially welcomed by the testers inside. Xiao Li, who accompanied them, immediately explained: "It's not this young man who has superpowers, but this old man."

The tester who made the mistake was not embarrassed, he smiled at the two, and then explained: "The few people in the base who can awaken superpowers are very young, we thought it was this young man based on experience, but we didn't expect to make a fool of ourselves. Old man, please come this way, you can resist such a serious zombie virus to stimulate superpowers, it's really amazing, you must have been in good health before the end of the world."

"Thanks to Xiao Zheng." Grandpa Li didn't know why Wen Zheng hid his superpowers. If Wen Zheng didn't say it, he wouldn't mention it, but when faced with this kind of question, he automatically said what he really thought in his heart.

Everyone looked over, and Wen Zheng shook his head: "Grandpa Li, you have watched me grow up since I was a child. Even if you were bitten by a zombie, I would not be willing to do it. And since you have superpowers, you have been protecting me to come to the base. I should thank you anyway."

Grandpa Li patted Wen Zheng's shoulder, smiled but said no more. He controlled the soil according to the instructions of the testers, measured the most soil that could be controlled, the farthest distance, etc. According to the increasingly excited expressions of the staff, it was known that Grandpa Li's performance was outstanding among the superpowers.

After all these tests were completed, the testers gave Grandpa Li a medal representing superpowers, and like Xiao Li who led them, he kept introducing the benefits of superpowers joining the base.

To be honest, superpowers have advantages over ordinary people in combat and other aspects. Now ordinary people can still match superpowers by using firearms. But superpowers can absorb crystal cores, which can obviously enhance their strength, and there is no problem with the enthusiasm of the base.

And it is because superpowers need to work that they can get such good treatment, which makes people feel at ease.

Grandpa Li also wanted to let all the family members who stayed in the community move to the base. Everyone has superpowers, so he read the terms and conditions very carefully. But when asked whether he wanted to join, Grandpa Li said he would consider it, at least he would go back and tell everyone.

After asking the staff about the general layout of the base, they got a detailed map, and then they said goodbye to the staff and prepared to go around the base by themselves.

After leaving the staff, only Grandpa Li and Wen Zheng were left. Grandpa Li asked Wen Zheng: "Xiao Zheng, why don't you write that you are a superpower?"

Wen Zheng's eyes were always looking out the window. He didn't say what he was worried about, but talked about some of the things he saw.

"Grandpa Li, when we were queuing outside the base, I noticed that all the teams going out had to pay a certain amount of supplies or crystal cores, but the amount paid was different. Some teams didn't pay anything. When we came out after checking the wounds, the people responsible for checking the vehicles had come down, but after seeing someone making a gesture, they went up again in a secretive manner."

Not only that, during the time he entered the base, Wen Zheng found that the situation of this base was okay at first glance, but it didn't feel like the military base he stayed in his previous life.

"Xiao Zheng, you are suspicious..." Grandpa Li was not sure.

Wen Zheng smiled: "I'm not sure either, but I just feel that the management of this base is not very good."

According to the map, we came to the trading area opened in the base. Basically, ordinary people set up stalls to buy, but the vehicles need to be parked in the specially designated parking lot outside.

When getting off the car, Grandpa Li didn't bring the badge representing the superpowers, and followed Wen Zheng to take a look inside the car. The car was very messy, but it was normal to mess up things when checking whether there were zombies or people who were bitten by zombies in the car. After checking everything, nothing was missing. It was impossible to say that the base inspectors would take advantage of the opportunity to steal. This was just a groundless guess for the time being.

Grandpa Li and Wen Zheng took 20 kilograms of rice and 10 kilograms of flour from the carriage and put them into the supermarket cart placed at the entrance of the trading area, as well as two jars of pickled cabbage. Wen Zheng also took a lot of crystal cores and put them in the pockets of his clothes.

After entering, they found that there were many kinds of things for sale in the stalls. Wen Zheng and Grandpa Li did not buy anything first, but walked around the entire trading market and took a look at the trading methods here.

The coins before the end of the world have lost their effectiveness. Now food, precious metals and crystal cores are used as money. Food is the most popular, but more people still trade in the form of barter.

After wandering around for a long time, they found that they were not short of many materials, but several things that used solar energy to charge aroused Wen Zheng's interest. In addition, there were various canned and air-dried smoked meats. When they saw the stalls selling live chickens and fertilized eggs, they rushed over with their eyes shining.

There were many people around the vendor, but few people were willing to buy chickens and fertilized eggs. Many people bought ordinary unfertilized eggs at most. The stall owner was a man who looked to be in his fifties. He did not greet anyone when he saw them coming, and looked like he didn't care whether he wanted to buy or not.

In the end of the world where most animals died, he was able to get these things to sell, and he was so confident. His background must be not simple.

However, Wen Zheng and Grandpa Li wanted to buy things, and they didn't care about the background of the stall owner. When they walked to the stall, Wen Zheng looked at the chicken carefully, which was quite energetic. Then he looked at the eggs, which were indeed good.

"Boss, are all the roosters you sell here?"

"Hens are kept to lay eggs, how can they be sold? If you want to buy, just buy them and don't talk so much nonsense."

"Buy, of course we will buy, we want both roosters, including these fertilized eggs, which can hatch little □□."

The stall owner looked at them straight in the eye, looked at the two of them one by one, and then introduced the situation and price of these things slowly.

All things are exchanged for food. Roosters are sold by jin, and each jin requires ten jin of food. Fertilized eggs are sold by piece, and each one is one jin of food. It can ensure that the roosters are alive and healthy now. The eggs are indeed fertilized eggs, but whether they can hatch depends on themselves.

The prices of these things are not ordinary high, no wonder no one is willing to buy them. But if it can be fed, it is sustainable meat. Wen Zheng and Grandpa Li plan to buy these. There is enough food in the car, but buying things naturally requires bargaining.

Although Grandpa Li is a man, he is very reasonable when bargaining, and finally let the stall owner give a fixed price.

Wen Zheng stopped Grandpa Li who wanted to speak, and squeezed out a flattering smile: "Uncle, it's not that we don't want to give up those food, it's really not enough food. We originally brought some, but after checking and entering the base, we found that there were 20 kilograms less food in the car. Otherwise, we will buy other things from you. We also have two jars of pickled vegetables and crystal cores."

"Then bring the pickled vegetables to me."

Wen Zheng immediately smiled and thanked, but his heart sank. After mentioning the inspection of stealing food, the boss's face was not angry at his slander, not even surprised, but just frowned slightly, a feeling that was more excessive than before, knowing that this kind of thing does exist and happens frequently.

After returning to the car with two roosters and thirty fertilized eggs, Wen Zheng and Grandpa Li took a little food to inquire and learned that the leader of the base had been replaced in the recent zombie wave. No one said bad things about the current leader, but they missed the previous leader.

After the two returned to the car and discussed, they felt that the management of the base was not good, and left the base directly with the things they bought. When they left, the staff in front of the base still remembered them and asked about their purpose of going out. They were quite puzzled in their eyes. Wen Zheng made up an excuse that he wanted to go out and fight some zombie crystal cores while it was still early, and handed a pack of cigarettes to the guards. There were vehicles behind them rushing out, so they still left successfully.

When they left the base, snowflakes floated in the sky, and winter was completely here.

After they went back, they told the old people about the situation of the base, and decided to stay in the community and not go to the base for the time being. The house walls, vegetable gardens, and air-raid shelters were all built by them bit by bit, and they were reluctant to leave. The two roosters were raised in the air-raid shelter, and the eggs were hatched artificially. Life here was quiet but not complicated.

The weather was getting colder and colder, and several snows fell one after another. The wall protecting the house was also built with everyone's efforts. Except for Wen Zheng, a fire-type supernatural being who was not afraid of the cold, everyone became reluctant to go out and liked to stay in the house.

Noticing that the kettle began to emit white smoke, Yueyue, who was curled up in the quilt and reading a book with the light from the window, immediately got up and ran to the kettle. Although she was still young, she was strong enough to lift the kettle and pour the hot water into the hot water bag next to her.

Holding two hot water bags in each hand, Yueyue ran into the air-raid shelter below through the entrance and exit. There were plush balls hanging on both sides of the plush hat on her head, shaking as she ran. The night light on her chest emitted a faint light. After walking inside for a few minutes, you can see the eggs in the cardboard box filled with cotton.

Carefully move the eggs away, take out the hot water bag under the cotton, and you will know it is cold when you touch it with your hand. Put the hot water bag that has just been filled with hot water into it, cover it with cotton, and then move the eggs back to the box, and turn all the eggs over.

The temperature for incubating eggs is generally above 38 degrees. The temperature in the air-raid shelter can be maintained at more than 20 degrees even in winter, so they use hot water bags to control the temperature. Every time you turn the eggs over, it is time to change the hot water bag.

After finishing her daily work, Yueyue gently touched the eggshell with her fingers, pouting and mumbling: "Little chicks, little chicks, why don't you come out from inside?"

After squatting for a while, her feet were a little numb. Yueyue stood up and stamped her feet, turning around to go up and continue reading. Just after walking a few steps away, she heard a crackling sound behind her. She looked back in disbelief and saw that a chick had indeed broken out of its shell.

"You are finally out!" Yueyue excitedly ran around the cardboard box for several laps, and finally squatted back to the position just now, gently placing her fingers in front of the chicks that had just hatched. Before her fingers touched it, the chick's sharp beak pecked twice.

It didn't hurt at all, but it was itchy, which made Yueyue laugh crisply.

Holding the newly hatched chick in her hand, Yueyue ran to the room on the ground and stayed by the fire. She didn't dare to bring the newly born and fragile chicks outside in such cold weather, and screamed to share the good news with everyone.

After that, the fertilized eggs in the cartons were hatched one after another. The thirty chicks chirped every day, making the air-raid shelter much noisier. Thanks to the fact that they stayed up there most of the time, they were not disturbed by the noise.

The hatched chicks had enough food and water and could run happily under the air-raid shelter. Although they didn't eat any special feed, they ate vegetables and insects every day, and the chicks, along with the two roosters that they were reluctant to kill, were growing rapidly in weight.

Time flies and it's almost the Spring Festival.