When the sky was dawning, Du Yan and Shen Heng returned to the No. 5 home they had just left. Hurrying on the road all night, Du Yan stayed in the back room to sleep, while Shen Heng was an infected person who didn't need much sleep.
When entering the edge of the city, Shen Heng took a direction and opened a fork in the road.
Du Yan was a little surprised and asked, "Where are you going? Isn't that the way to the settlements outside the home?"
Shen Heng nodded: "We don't go to my foothold, it's definitely not safe there now."
"Oh." Du Yan nodded obediently and said nothing more.
Shen Heng's concerns were very reasonable. Now that the institute knew that Du Yan was taken away by him, they would naturally find someone to monitor Shen Heng's whereabouts.
Although Shen Heng was not afraid of the hunters sent by the research institute, he was confident that he could protect Du Yan well.
But the purpose of bringing them back this time is to investigate the murder of the Du family. In order to avoid extra troubles, of course, they should change their foothold, and it is more appropriate to hide their whereabouts and investigate secretly.
Shen Heng has been alone in his homes and settlements for so many years. He is already a veteran, and he is very familiar with the distribution of forces in various places.
The current destination is one of the forces in the colony of infected people outside the No. 5 homeland. The leader of this force is an extremely radical infected person.
It is estimated that his name is almost forgotten, and there is only one nickname called Lao K.
The source of the nickname is very simple, old K loves to play poker. The king of poker is king, so he nicknamed himself the old king.
After the nuclear crisis, there were not a few people who abandoned their names, and Lao K was just one of them.
Lao K is a crazy person. He looks down on pure people, thinking that pure people are useless weak chickens. But he had to make a deal with the Purifier in exchange for anti-radiation medicine.
As a compromise, Old K chose to take root near the No. 5 homestead, because the No. 5 homestead used to be a military base. He believed that most of the pure people in it were descendants of soldiers, who could use armor and have the ability to fight against mutant creatures. It is still fundamentally different from the rest of the weak chickens.
Shen Heng brought Du Yan here precisely because Lao K looked down on pure people, especially the pure people in the No. 1 homestead focusing on scientific research.
In the old K's camp, the radio signal of the No. 1 home is blocked, and naturally he will not receive the wanted order issued before. In addition, his stronghold is located at the very edge of the fifth home, so the two of them hid in Here is the safest.
Another reason why Shen Heng can come here with confidence is that he once saved Lao K's life. In his opinion, Lao K, although a bit wild and unruly, is a person who repays his gratitude.
Now he brought Du Yan here, but it was only a day or two. With the help of Old K to cover it up, the information that he and Du Yan came back should not be spread to the research institute so quickly.
Before entering the sphere of influence of the old K, Shen Heng used the radio to contact the other party, and the old K expressed an extremely warm welcome to the arrival of Shen Heng.
The predecessor of Home No. 5 was a military base built in the desert. Naturally, there were no buildings left on the edge. Almost all the buildings in the old K's camp were built by the infected themselves after the nuclear crisis. The architectural style of the entire camp is very reckless, completely different from the extremely regular interior of the No. 5 home.
Shen Heng drove the "giant beast" into a manor, and after passing the gate, the architectural style suddenly changed again, all of which were resplendent and extravagant.
Du Yan was a little surprised, lying on the window, looking very seriously.
Shen Heng asked, "Do you like these houses?"
Just when Shen Heng was taking stock of his footholds in his heart, and which one was this style, he heard Du Yan's answer.
"I'm just surprised that the buildings inside look like two worlds from the outside."
Shen Heng said: "The old K and his subordinates live here. Old K likes this style, so they unified it and created this look."
While the two were talking, the "giant beast" had stopped in front of the largest building in the manor. When the person guarding the door saw Shen Heng's car approaching, he turned around and went in to report.
After Du Yan got out of the car, he saw a burly man walking out of the car, with a strong physique and a beard. From the appearance alone, it is indeed the bold and wild person described by Shen Heng.
When Old K came out of the car, he found that there was no one in the driver's seat, and was stunned for a moment, and then saw Shen Heng and the same teenager turning out of the car from the other side.
When Old K saw Shen Heng bringing people here, he was surprised and said, "Boss Shen, this is the sun coming out from the west? You finally found a company?"
After a few chats, it was a dinner party that could not be turned away. The venue of the banquet was in the splendid building behind it that was out of tune with the end times.
The dishes on the table made Du Yan feel in a trance that it didn't feel like a wasteland world. He was intoxicated with money, and it was no different from the peaceful world before the nuclear crisis that he had seen in the documents.
Shen Heng tasted almost every dish, and only after determining what kind of mutant creature's radiation value was in the meat inside, did he start serving Du Yan's dishes.
Du Yan has a special physique and can purify radiation by himself, but Shen Heng was worried that if the radiation value in his body increased too much in an instant, he would have a high fever like the first encounter. Therefore, Shen Heng usually controls Du Yan's diet very strictly, and food with too high radiation value will not be allowed to eat.
Du Yan was also accustomed to this way of getting along. The food was only eaten after Shen Heng had determined the radiation value.
However, this way of getting along with each other that the two have become accustomed to, almost didn't let the person who knew Shen Heng at the dinner table poked chopsticks into their nostrils.
Others didn't dare to say anything more. Old K was a person with no taboos, and even after a few glasses of wine, he was even more open-minded.
He grabbed the woman sitting next to him and said with a smile: "Boss Shen, I didn't expect you to like this type of person, I should have said it earlier, after you saved my life, I said that you can choose what I have. But I left without anything. If I had known that you liked this type, I would have picked out ten or eight for you to choose. Although there are not many slender teenagers in the infected, but in my territory …”
Shen Heng stopped Du Yan's hand for picking vegetables. He didn't say anything, just looked up at Old K.
Old K was swept away by that look, and if he was still rolling on the tip of his tongue, he suddenly swallowed it back into his stomach, he sneered, raised his glass and said, "You know that I am a man who peees in three or two glasses of horses, and I can't talk to my head. , self-punished three cups, self-punished three cups.”
Shen Heng nodded without arguing with him. He and Du Yan only borrowed this place to stay for a day or two, and would not get along with Old K for a long time, so there was no need to fight for the benefits of these words.
Du Yan was not a vulnerable teenager, and he would not take these words to heart.
He just lowered his head and ate the food in the bowl seriously, perfectly showing the appearance of a young man who had just woken up from the freezer and was still a little afraid of the outside world.
Old K has been in the rivers and lakes for so many years, and looking at people's faces is a basic skill.
Judging from his current performance, he clearly knew that Shen Heng seemed to value the young man named Du Yan next to him, and it was not a simple physical relationship. So he no longer brought the topic to the young man, but began to discuss the business with Shen Heng.
When he heard that Shen Heng was here to investigate the matter, Lao K directly waved his hand and called the most powerful intelligence dealer in the area.
Naturally, Shen Heng wouldn't tell old K everything. He only said that he heard the wanted order and happened to be nearby, so he wanted to investigate what happened.
What Shen Heng despised the most was the killing of children, something that almost all infected people knew, and it is not too unreasonable for him to make this request now.
As soon as Old K heard it, he said that it was not difficult, and then he found the most well-informed intelligence dealer under him, and asked him to inquire about the news related to this matter.
Afterwards, the two stayed at the place arranged by Old K, waiting for the information traffickers to bring news about the murder of the Du family.
Old K's subordinates were very efficient, and the next morning, the intelligence dealer brought extremely useful information.
The intelligence trafficker had a long-term relationship with a staff member of the home surveillance center, and his news came from there.
The other party offered a price and agreed to copy the surveillance video near Du's house during that time period and give it to Shen Heng.
It's just that the person has an additional condition, □□, and because the other party is pure, the transaction can only be carried out in the trading center.
Shen Heng was a little hesitant in his heart, it was extremely dangerous and impossible to bring Du Yan into the trading center. But if I didn't go to the trading center to get the surveillance video, I don't know how to investigate this matter.
Seeing Shen Heng's face, the intelligence agent explained cautiously, "Boss Shen, I tried my best. After all, copying the surveillance video of his homeland may cause him to lose his job. It is understandable to be cautious about seeing the transaction partner. of… "
Shen Heng nodded and said, "You wait for me outside."
The intelligence dealer closed the door and left, but Shen Heng remained silent on the sofa. Du Yan, who was beside him, saw through what he was worried about, and stood up directly and walked to Shen Heng.
He said, "Go over, I won't leave here, and I also have means of self-protection."
Shen Heng only thought that the self-protection method Du Yan said was a gun, so he said: "A light gun is almost useless against a powerful infected person..."
Du Yan bent down and narrowed the distance between the two. He stared at Shen Heng's eyes, slowed down and said word by word: "Go ahead, I have the means to protect myself, and it is enough to deal with the infected."
For some reason, Shen Heng suddenly believed that Du Yan did have a means of self-protection, and even if an infected person broke in, it would not hurt him.
When Shen Heng came back to his senses, he had already arrived at the trading center, waiting for the arrival of the trading partner.