"Wu Qi, my name is An Yi. Regardless of my age, you can call me Uncle An. It's cold outside and we can talk inside if you need anything." An Yi enthusiastically led Wu Qi into the town and spoke to the other mercenaries on the other side. The team members waved their hands and said, "Disbanded on the spot."
Direct communication with the boss of the unknown human settlement was an easy thing for Wu Qi, and he did not resist the enthusiasm of comfort. In jungle life where every physical strength, food, and time are precious, efficiency is the most important. An Yi is the leader of the armed group in this residential area. There is no doubt that his power and methods can bring benefits to Wu Qi.
Walking through the unevenly paved gray stone road with some small puddles remaining in the gaps, Wu Qi quickly looked at this human residential area. The street lamp poles that lost power were mostly covered with rough scratches and rotten advertising paper. The store signs on both sides had long been weathered and worn away most of their characters. Occasionally, abandoned vehicles could be seen parked on both sides of the street. Each car is so old that it is full of rust and dust, and the glass windows are mostly broken. If you look carefully inside the car windows, you can still see the watching eyes of poor children hiding in the cars and using the abandoned cars as shelters. .
An Yi took Wu Qi to an old residential area in a small town, opened the iron door downstairs, and the two of them walked up the short gray stairs to the second floor.
Turning the corner, An Yi took out the key from his trouser pocket and opened a mailbox cabinet in the old-fashioned mailbox cabinet next to the door. From a group of keys in the cabinet, he took out a key wrapped in a cloth with "202" written on it. He pointed at the house number of 202 and said, "Here, go in."
Wu Qi took the key and opened the door of 202. The room is filled with furniture from various civilized eras, but not much, and they are all covered with thick dust. There are also hazy spider webs hanging on the clock on the wall. It is obvious that this place needs to be cleaned before it can be lived in. The advantage is that the intact windows and walls without big cracks make the air in the room relatively dry and less prone to rain, dampness and mold. The room is not big, only 50 square meters, which is a very small residence for small town residents in the civilized era. , but for Wu Qi, who has lived in a mountain cave for nine years, the space here is already quite large and dry enough.
Wu Qi has almost no memory left before he was 7 years old. His understanding of human beings is only the knowledge that Ruorong gave him in the past 6 years. He remembers a famous saying from his ancestors: "No reward for no work", so Wu Qi Just stood at the door of the room and turned around for An Yi Road.
"Children on the street are still hiding in abandoned cars to take shelter from the wind and rain. When I first entered your territory, I gave you a house to live in. Uncle An, what do you want me to pay?"
An Yi smiled and glanced at Wu Qi praise. He said: "The resources in our safe area are not short, but it is not abundant. In the fifty years of the night, the invasion and invasion and the invasion and the mutant beasts before Attacking, most houses have collapsed and destroyed or have serious leaks. There are not many residences like this. Here is a certain price to change the right to residence. I have the price you can see. came here."
Wu Qidao: "Uncle An, you have been interested in the animal skins in my luggage since the door. I can sell them, after all, I have no use for them anymore."
After that, Wu Qi took out a lot of beast materials from the bag, including a bear skin carpet of about 5 meters long and 4 meters wide, and the good crocodile skin, tiger skin and claws on the crocodile tiger dragon. Every time he took out something, An Yi's eyes were shining.
"I can give you all of these, I want to change the right to the living room, as well as clean food and distilled water, clean clothes; it is best to have some meat, let me fed July." Wu Qi lined up on the table all. Something, when he finished speaking, he reached out and touched Qiyue on his shoulder.
Anyi almost laughed at the flowers. As a senior mercenary, he knew the value of the beast skin of mutant animals such as iron brown bears and deep -murmured crocodiles. He generously: "Food and water can be delivered within half an hour. The right to reside is also yours.”
Wu Qi nodded, and then asked a little strangely: "Don't you use coins here?" According to the knowledge Ruorong taught him, humans all use coins as an intermediary for the circulation of goods.
An Yi's froze, and then smiled roughly: "Haha, I almost forgot if you don't say it. Of course, how can you say that this is also a safe area that has been in operation for more than 20 years, but you don’t follow the section 50 years ago. It’s a parallel to a time when food was exchanged for everything.”
After half an hour, the beast materials on Wu Qi's desk were replaced with a new era of 120 yuan, 10 bottles of 500ml distilled water, 10 boxes of densely sealed dry food, and two canned meat, several clean underwear and clothes. His materials were sold for a total of 900 yuan and he had a two-month residency. An Yi told him that he could always sell mutated animal materials or work in exchange for food - after Wu Qi admitted that these materials were obtained by him hunting.
But in his comfort zone, he didn't believe that a 16-year-old boy who could hunt with a cold weapon that even his own mercenary team would struggle to handle the Iron Rift Brown Bear and the Deep Marsh Giant was lucky for Wu. But the 16-year-old, who lives alone in the wilderness outside the safety zone and has only a knife and a Red Fox pet, does have many mysteries that make life unintelligible.
If you replace the word "mystery" with "pioneer", all the fog will dissipate. An Yi's respect for Wu Qi and the "awe" of "mystery" that is hard to imagine but exists vaguely are based on this unknown answer.
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It is like the sky that has pulled the black curtain was divided by the dark clouds. The white and yellow moon was blocked by the clouds with turbid moon. Small puddles reflected scattered spots of light, and two or three black crows landed on the high wires, raising their beaks and making unpleasant calls.
The night in the safe zone is not peaceful.
When Mr. Wu checked into room 202, he used the existing broom rags to sweep the room roughly and ventilation to ensure that the dust concentration in the room did not harm his respiratory tract. Nine years of experience in forest caves helped him develop a diet like a boa constrictor and a frugal drinking habit. He ingested enough heat, drank half a bottle of water and opened the rare canned meat to a full July, then wrapped himself in a thick quilt and laid on a bed that was 100 times more comfortable than a leather carpet.
In the dim room, Wu Qi's eyes outlined the appearance of the dark ceiling in his head, thinking about how to ask Anyi tomorrow to inquire about the matter of Sister Ruoyu. Just as he was preparing to sleep in July, there was a sudden knock on the door.
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