When the four of Shen Shi'an came out of the isolation area, it was already around ten o'clock the next morning. After leaving the shed area, the appearance of the entire cigarette factory base is fully displayed in front of our eyes:
After entering the gate, there is an irregular circular square. There is a sculptural fountain in the center of the square. The water pipes have stopped spraying water for a long time, but the shiny metallic sculptures still look brand new. On the left of the fountain is a large green landscape and parking shed, and on the right is a rather impressive administrative building with a total of four floors, and the dark blue glass windows are dazzling in the sun.
Liu Fangzhou raised his hand to block the light, leaned closer to Shen Shi'an, and secretly lowered his voice: "Brother Shen, what should I do about that note?"
If you are an evolutionary, please keep your identity secret to prevent becoming a military experiment.
Because of this sentence on the note, he was so scared that he didn't sleep well last night. The "evolutionary" in this sentence obviously refers to the supernatural being. If what the note says is true, the soldiers in the base will experiment with the supernatural being. Into the trap? He likes dissecting people, yes, but he doesn't like being dissected! If this is really a place similar to a terrorist concentration camp, then hurry up and run away!
Shen Shi'an held Shen Xun in his arms, carefully observed the surrounding environment, and at the same time whispered: "Don't worry, just wait and see what happens."
The information contained in the note is undoubtedly horrifying, but they are currently not sure whether the note is true or not. If it is true, rash actions will definitely attract the attention of the garrison; if it is false, the motive of the comer is unknown, let alone act rashly. And no matter who put the note, since the other party is willing to take the risk of being discovered by the garrison to send information to the newcomers in the quarantine area, they will definitely contact them afterwards.
After receiving the note, Shen Shi'an and the others were especially able to remain calm, but not necessarily the others. Especially the black and thin man who was identified by Liu Fangzhou as a person with supernatural powers, now he has become a frightened bird, holding his backpack tightly at the back of the team, trying to be as far away as possible from the soldier leading the way.
After Shen Shi'an's eyes swept across the opponent's body, he quickly ignored him. The square was open, and a group of people followed the soldiers for nearly two minutes before passing through the square. Along the way, Shen Shian found many slogans, either pasted on the wall, hung on trees, or handwritten directly on the ground with paint or other pigments. Except for the items that are absolutely prohibited in the twelve codes of conduct, the rest are all calls for survivors to participate in material collection operations:
"Zombies are not scary, defeat depends on you and him", "Collect materials well, and strive for everyone to eat", "Self-reliance and sufficient food and clothing", "The survivors are a family, and the collection of materials depends on everyone"... etc. Wait.
The propaganda slogans are so dense, maybe the base encountered some difficulties in searching for materials
After crossing the square, there is a row of two-story flat buildings, which look like ordinary employee offices, and are now transformed into a public activity area, which is also covered with slogans. The back of the flat building is divided into two parts, one side is the production workshop of the tobacco factory, and the other side is the dormitory building. The canteen is diagonally in front of the dormitory building. At this time, there are two long winding dragons stretching hundreds of meters in front of the canteen.
This is Shen Shi'an's first close contact with survivors in the base. There are about 2,000 people in line, most of them are thin and sallow, with the most common features of post-apocalyptic survivors. But the mental state seemed to be quite good, and many people even raised their hands to greet the twenty newcomers.
Most of the others were wary, but Liu Fangzhou greeted him with fiery eyes and even more enthusiasm.
"The cafeteria in the base is open twice a day, at ten in the morning and six in the evening." The soldier who led the way introduced: "Food is not free, you can go to the administrative building to get work, and you can exchange it through labor contributions. The scope of work is very wide, from the most From simple cleaning to patrolling and guarding, different jobs have different requirements and rewards. The higher the difficulty, the greater the contribution value. If you want to eat well, you can also go out with the search team to collect supplies, regardless of How much you find is your own."
During the soldier's introduction, Shen Shi'an had been observing the cafeteria. His eyesight is outstanding. Through the long queue, he could clearly see that there were only two windows in the cafeteria. Four heavily armed soldiers were guarding by the windows. The survivors stepped forward one by one. He took his share of food from the window. The whole "fighting" process was fairly smooth, but whether it was the four muzzles used as a deterrent or the faintly audible dissatisfaction in the team, it was obvious that the atmosphere between the survivors and the base garrison was not harmonious.
Shen Shi'an looked away thoughtfully, and followed the leading soldiers into the dormitory building. There are three dormitory buildings, each with four floors, and there are corridors connecting them inside. After they entered the lobby on the first floor, they went directly to the fourth floor of the third building.
"The lower three floors are fully occupied, and only the fourth floor has space." The leading soldier said as he went upstairs: "The zombies have been cleaned up long ago, and the basic supplies are all in there. You may need to clean it yourself. There is no running water on the fourth floor, so you need to take a bucket to pick it up on the first and second floors. The room is allocated by yourself, there is no upper limit for at least four people, and you can live as you please.”
He stepped on the last step and stopped at the top of the stairs. When all twenty people came up to gather, he put his right hand on the holster around his waist and looked very serious: "After entering the base, except for the front administration building, all You can move freely anywhere. But you must remember one thing, any violence and sabotage activities are absolutely not allowed in the base, and once you discover it, you will bear the consequences."
Looking around among the twenty people for a week, he said again: "I hope everyone can make their own contributions and work hard to build the base better. If you intend to join the search team to collect supplies in the urban area, gather at the gate at seven o'clock every morning. , everyone is welcome to sign up. If you have any other questions, you can go to the first floor of the administration building for consultation.”
After speaking, he stood at attention and saluted, then turned and walked downstairs.
After the soldiers left, the newcomers dispersed separately. Shen Shi'an and his party happened to be four people, so they randomly chose an empty dormitory, worked together to clean it up and lived in it temporarily.
Since the soldiers said that they can move around except the administrative building, Shen Shi'an did not miss this good opportunity to investigate the situation. After a simple meal, Chen Nan stayed in the dormitory to guard the luggage, and he took Shen Xun and Liu Fangzhou around the entire base.
This tobacco factory is a little bigger than Shen Shian expected. It takes 48 minutes and 33 seconds to complete a full circle along the wall at a normal speed.
The infrastructure inside is relatively complete. There are dormitories, a canteen, and a basketball court behind the dormitory.
In addition to the administrative building, the production workshop of the tobacco factory should be the most valuable building in the entire factory before the end of the world. There are not only extremely modern assembly line production machinery, but also piles of tobacco and packaged cigarettes.
Shen Shi'an asked Liu Fangzhou to make sure there was no one around, and then collected a batch in the space: He doesn't smoke, but this kind of thing is definitely a rare commodity in the last days.
There used to be a large green belt outside the production workshop, but now it has been reclaimed into a vegetable field, and the tender green plants have just emerged. Shen Shi'an can barely identify one piece of sweet potato seedlings through the barbed wire, but the others cannot be recognized.
The protection measures of the vegetable fields are very strict, not only surrounded by barbed wire, but also installed a camera in each of the four corners. Liu Fangzhou circled the barbed wire twice: "Hey, it's like guarding against thieves. Brother Shen, why do you think they don't use supernatural beings to directly spawn them? It's a waste of time to grow them yourself."
Liu Fangzhou can only sense the color, intensity, and size of the light clusters corresponding to different targets, but cannot distinguish the specific abilities of the other party. However, it stands to reason that if the colors of the light clusters are similar, the abilities they represent should have something in common. There are about 150 people with supernatural powers in the base, 17 of them are the same as Chen Nan, and the color of the light group is green. If their abilities are also related to the birth of plants, they can just be responsible for growing vegetables directly, why do they have to...
Oh. Liu Fangzhou remembered. It was written on the note: Expose the ability to be arrested for experimentation.
Tut tut. Liu Fangzhou shook his head: This is called shooting yourself in the foot. If the garrison team is willing to treat the supernatural beings better, the two sides will cooperate and win-win, so there is no need for such trouble.
After leaving the vegetable field, Shen Shi'an took the two children around the base a few more times, and found that apart from the soldiers standing guard at the gate and the administrative building, there were not many troops stationed in the entire tobacco factory. Reminiscent of the fact that the three military trucks I saw during the observation that day were not there at this time, could it be that all the other garrisons have gone out to collect supplies
Shen Shi'an thought about it a few times, took Shen Xun's hand and said to Liu Fangzhou, "Let's go, go back to the dormitory first."
At around 7 o'clock that night, some survivors knocked on the dormitory door of Shen Shi'an and others, inviting them to participate in the "welcome party" held on the top floor platform of the dormitory building.
It is said to be a welcome party, but it is actually a large group of survivors gathering together to talk about the world, and by the way, getting to know each other with the newcomers.
When Shen Shi'an and four arrived, the platform was already full of people, chatting against the railing, or playing cards around the campfire. Almost everyone had a cigarette in their hands, and countless lights flickered in the night. Red dot.
One of the red dots suddenly lit up and then went out as if someone took a few puffs of it, a middle-aged man threw the extinguished cigarette butt into the trash can, stood up and greeted the four of them: "Hello, hello , welcome to join the base, my surname is Zhou, and my name is Zhou Jianghai, but everyone else here calls me a doctor."
The visitor was about fifty years old, wearing a pair of black-rimmed glasses, and the sleeves of his shirt were neatly rolled up to the elbows. He was thin but still tall. Because his beard was well groomed, he looked much more energetic than other survivors .
Shen Shi'an stretched out his hand to hold it: "Yun Feiyang." As soon as the palm touched the opponent, an inexplicable warm current suddenly passed from the opponent's palm and poured into the meridian of the right arm. The method has already started to function instinctively, and the spiritual power in the dantian is instantly concentrated to the right arm, blasting the warm current out the same way with lightning speed, and at the same time, the right hand quickly withdraws. Shen Xun bared his teeth and let out a low growl from his throat. Chen Nan and the two sensed something was wrong, and immediately surrounded Shen Shi'an in a defensive posture.
The man named Zhou Jianghai staggered back half a step, waved his hands hastily when he saw this, and said, "Don't get me wrong, don't get me wrong, I have no malicious intentions, I am an evolutionary, and the ability I evolved is to heal others, so other people call me a doctor, That just now is my ability, not only harmless to the body but also beneficial."
evolutionary
Shen Shi'an didn't lower his guard at all, every muscle was in a tense state, if the opponent showed any abnormality, the long sword behind his back could be clanged and unsheathed at any time to take his head. "For no reason, why use the ability on me?"
"Sorry, sorry, I didn't do it on purpose." Zhou Jianghai looked very embarrassed: "My ability seems to have evolved again recently, so it's a bit out of control, and when I'm in contact with others, I will scurry out accidentally , if Brother Yun has any doubts, you can ask other people, or a dozen other new friends."
"The doctor didn't lie," someone in the crowd immediately said, "Oh boy, don't be nervous. It's normal to feel a warm current. This is what a doctor's ability is. As long as you let this warm current circulate in your body, you will not only feel refreshed Shuang is full of energy, and any wound or ailment can be healed in a few minutes, this warm current is precious, usually only those who are sick, injured or physically weak can enjoy it, young man, you have earned it!"
A newcomer who was also in the quarantine area yesterday also said: "I felt it just now, and I was shocked, but it is really comfortable after the warm current is over, and I feel like my energy has recovered. I only ate a bag of egg yolk pie today. , I didn’t have any strength at first, but it’s much better now.”
It sounds like it is slightly similar to the effect of spiritual power in his body. Shen Shi'an relaxed a little.
Zhou Jianghai apologized again: "I'm really sorry, I was too presumptuous, I should explain clearly before shaking hands with you."
Liu Fangzhou's eyes were fiery and eager to try. Seeing Shen Shi'an's relaxed expression and reaching a settlement with the other party, he hurriedly came over and held Zhou Jianghai's hand: "Hello, hello, my name is Liu Fangzhou, so you were a doctor before the end of the world?"
Zhou Jianghai said: "No, I used to be a high school teacher, teaching history." After holding it, he wanted to put his hand away, but he couldn't twitch.
Liu Fangzhou was so enthusiastic that he was completely unaware of the other party's desire to let go, and shook the other hand: "Is there any limit to your ability? Can all diseases or wounds be healed? What if you were bitten by a zombie? Can the injury..."
"Ark," Shen Shi'an snorted, and then said to Zhou Jianghai, "Sorry, the child is not sensible."
"It's all right," Zhou Jianghai smiled good-naturedly: "Young people, it's normal to be curious. According to my current experience, minor ailments and pains can be cured, but if it's too serious, it won't work. As for being bitten by a zombie, It's a pity that my ability can't play any role." Pulling his hand back with force, he greeted the four people: "Come, come, don't just stand, let's sit down and talk."
Someone handed Shen Shi'an a pack of cigarettes: "Brother, would you like one? There is nothing else in the base, but this is the most. Don't tell me the taste is pretty good."
Someone next to him answered: "This brand is very expensive, of course it tastes good. I didn't dare to smoke hard before, because it cost money and hurt my body, but now it's better. I live in a cigarette factory and I can smoke whatever I want. Take out lung cancer, liver cancer, tracheal cancer and so on, and our doctor is here."
"No, I can't cure cancer, you should smoke less." Zhou Jianghai responded with a smile, seeing Shen Shi'an politely refusing to smoke, and then looked at Shen Xun in his arms: "This child is so beautiful, our base Haven’t seen the child come in for a while? Oh, look at my brain, I can’t let the child smoke second-hand smoke, or let’s all put out the smoke first.”
"No need," Shen Shi'an said, "you can do whatever you want, I'll take him to the railing to blow some air." After speaking, he carried Gou Zijing to the corner of the platform, and Chen Nan and the others followed.
In summer, the sunset is late, and it doesn't take long for the sky to get dark. In the night, most of the base was shrouded in hazy darkness, only the searchlights on the fence and the lights in the administrative building were still bright and dazzling.
A newcomer asked: "Since there is a generator that can generate electricity, why can't the dormitory building be powered on?"
"Needless to say," someone exhaled a smoke ring: "The administrative buildings are all occupied by soldiers, so of course the good things must be kept up with the soldiers first. We ordinary people are not entitled to enjoy them."
There was a laughing voice not far away: "That's not true. Master Bing eats delicious food and drinks spicy food. We serve people like cows and horses. We can only barely survive every day without starving to death."
"Ahem." Zhou Jianghai, who was sitting in the middle of the crowd, cleared his throat: "Tonight is the welcome party, and the new friends who just arrived are the protagonists, so don't get too far away. There are twenty newcomers this time. People, everyone has just entered the base not long ago, I am afraid you have a lot of questions? If you want to ask anything, just ask, don't feel embarrassed."
Now that he said that, someone asked a question soon, and it was the black and thin man with supernatural powers named Ma Zhongyi who asked the question. "Why did you expose your identity as an evolutionary?" Ma Zhongyi, still on guard, asked Zhou Jianghai with his arms around his backpack: "I heard that this base seems to do something to evolutionaries... you Do you understand?"
Zhou Jianghai seemed to understand, but he didn't seem to understand at all. He pushed the frame of his glasses and said with a smile: "Early exposure is also exposure, and late exposure is also exposure. After the end of the world, everyone Life is very difficult, like in our base, most people don’t have enough to eat, and sometimes they are so hungry that they can’t walk steadily. Since my ability can help everyone, what’s the point of hiding it? Even if there are consequences because of this, I can accept it calmly."
Ma Zhongyi fell silent, but the other survivors in the base had something to say: "The life in our base was not so difficult before, we had food, shelter and sleep, and there were walls to keep zombies out, but the wages paid by those soldiers Fewer and fewer, everyone should still remember that there used to be at least two bags of bread for cleaning, but now they can only receive a pack of biscuits, and they are small packages, so what the hell. If it weren’t for the doctor Now, I'm afraid someone has starved to death."
These words seemed to open a floodgate invisibly, and the platform was soon flooded with dissatisfaction and complaints from the survivors:
"Sweeping toilets, emptying garbage, opening up wasteland, farming, fertilizing and watering, what dirty and tiring work is not done by us? As a result, they pulled back truckloads of supplies and hid them all in the administrative building like thieves, but they didn't even let us I can’t bear to eat a full meal!”
"This group of soldiers, before the apocalypse broke out, had this kind of privilege. After the apocalypse broke out, they still treated us as slaves. What the hell are you doing?"
"I think it's great to have a gun in your hand. Everyone's attitude is arrogant. I wish I could grow my eyes to the sky. As long as I live comfortably, when did I treat us as human beings. Alas, before the end of the world, I felt that I was a cheap labor force. Now Well, I have become a cheap slave."
"Hehe, it's great to have a gun. There are many precedents in history. Where there is oppression, there will be resistance. Don't forget that Feng Shui turns, sooner or later... hmph."
The terrain on the platform was open, and it was far away from the administrative building. The voices of the crowd quickly dissipated in the wind. Probably because he has no scruples, and there are too many dissatisfaction accumulated in his heart, the discussion is getting louder and louder, and the subtext in it is becoming more explicit.
After listening to it for a long time, Chen Nan couldn't bear it, and raised his voice and said, "If you want to eat well, why don't you go out and collect supplies?"
The crowd fell silent: "... what?"
Chen Nan took a step forward: "I feel that working in the base is less paid and I don't have enough to eat, so why don't you go out with the search team to collect supplies? When I came in today, I heard from the soldiers that as long as you participate in the search operation, No matter how many things you find, they are all yours, so you can be full, right?"
The crowd was quiet again for a moment, and then someone laughed: "It really is a young man who has just entered the base. Do you think it is so easy to collect supplies? If you are ordered to go out, you may not be ordered to come back."
"According to what you said," Chen Nan couldn't understand: "Don't the soldiers risk their lives when they went out to collect supplies? They took the biggest risk, so they enjoyed the best treatment. Is there any problem?"
This time it was Zhou Jianghai who answered him. Unlike the resentment of other survivors, Zhou Jianghai's voice was very gentle, with a hint of helplessness: "Young man, it's not that we don't want to go out to collect supplies. There is a very important thing about collecting supplies. The premise is that you must be able to kill zombies, right? The garrisons at the base are all professionally trained, equipped with guns, bombs, equipment and weapons. Killing zombies may not be difficult for them. But you Look at us survivors again, what do we have? The old, the weak, the sick, the disabled, women, children and children are all available. Should we go up and fight the zombies with bare hands? We have actually discussed with the soldiers, if we can also equip the survivors with some weapons—no need Too many, at least it gives us a little bit of confidence and confidence, knowing that we are not going to die, so many, many people are willing to join the search operation, but the garrison refused. I guess they should be worried about us, but since they have already At the end of the world, shouldn't we unite and treat the zombies as the only enemy?"
Chen Nan subconsciously wanted to refute, but for a moment he didn't know where to start—Zhou Jianghai's words sounded reasonable, and there was no flaw at all.
Some survivors added meaningfully: "Besides, if we participate in the search operation, the danger we face will not only come from zombies, but the dark knife stabbing from behind is the most difficult to guard against."
Shen Shi'an, Liu Fangzhou and others looked at each other, thinking of the note from last night.
They were obviously not the only ones who made such associations, and soon some newcomers approached the veteran survivors and asked in a low voice about the "evolutionary" and the "experimental product".
However, the survivors seem to be secretive about this issue, covering up and ambiguous, Tai Chi is very good, and they just refuse to speak out.
The more this is the case, the more certain the newcomers are that there is definitely something wrong with it, and their concerns about the content of the note have quietly increased.
Shen Shi'an let go of his five senses and listened for a while, then said to Chen Nan and the others: "Let's go back."
After bidding farewell to everyone, he walked to the corridor on the fourth floor in the dark. Shen Shi'an looked at the brightly lit administrative building in front of him and asked Liu Fangzhou, "How many people are there in the administrative building?"
"Two hundred and forty-eight." Liu Fangzhou reacted as soon as he finished speaking: "Eh? There are only more than two hundred troops in the base?" It's a thousand dollars.
Shen Shi'an nodded. Even including guards patrolling, it is estimated to be less than three hundred.
Less than 300 people support the material collection of more than 3,000 people in the entire base. No wonder there are slogans everywhere calling for survivors to participate in the search operation, and the work pay is getting lower and lower: there are only so many things to do in the base, survivors The more people there are, the less will be allocated to each person, and the reward will naturally be lower. "How many supernatural beings are there in the garrison?"
"No."
Shen Shi'an paused, then looked back at Liu Fangzhou: "What?"
"Not a single one, all the white light of ordinary survivors." Liu Fangzhou scratched his head, feeling a little strange. Among the more than 3,000 survivors, there are more than 150 people with supernatural abilities. According to this ratio, there should be at least one or two survivors in the garrison. Frowning and thinking for a moment, suddenly his eyes lit up, and he quietly leaned forward to suppress his voice: "Brother Shen, tell me, is it because there are no supernatural beings in my team, that's why those soldiers experimented with supernatural beings?"
Shen Shi'an didn't answer. After a few people entered the dormitory and closed the door, they took out two candles from their backpacks and lit them, and whispered in the candlelight: "Tomorrow, I will go with Chen Nan to participate in the search operation to find out the situation."
One of the main purposes for them to enter the base is to borrow the communication equipment of the garrison, and they have to get to know each other first before they can open this mouth. It's just a good time to observe the variation ratio of zombies in the urban area. As for the note, he still has doubts in his heart, but he is not sure yet, so he just needs to be more careful.
Liu Fangzhou said, "Then what about me?"
"Stay in the base and guard your luggage, and find a way to find out more information by the way." Liu Fangzhou is young and handsome. He looks harmless to humans and animals, and most people will not be too defensive against him. After thinking about it, he added: "Remember, don't stare at others casually, and don't ask random questions."
Shen Xun held Shen Shi'an's hand and shook it back and forth: "An'an, what about me!"
Shen Shi'an knelt down and looked at him: "I have a task for you: I need your help to take care of the child."
It took Liu Fangzhou a long time to react: "... eh???"
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