Chapter 756 All living beings are in various situations, and the resistance of little people!
The east coast of the New World, the territory of Dragon and Phoenix.
The scorching and poisonous sunlight at noon, as the scorching sun spread across the sky, brought a heat wave to the entire land.
On the dry and barren black-brown ground, only some shady places can see yellow-green plants lying tightly on the ground.
In Longyin Town, the only town in the territory.
Low and dilapidated houses stand one after another.
Skinny refugees wearing straw hats can be seen everywhere, walking among them, carrying building materials from unknown sources to the designated location.
But the Dragon and Phoenix defense team members standing on both sides of the street, loaded with guns and ammunition, could lazily lean against the wall in the shade.
Occasionally, when they see one or two refugees hesitating, they will impatiently step forward, open their mouths and curse.
"Damn it, the dragon lord is not only responsible for your daily fixed meals, but also helps you rebuild your houses. As a result, you people don't know how to be grateful and work hard, and are lazy here."
"It's been eight years in the wasteland. I really don't know how people like you managed to survive until now."
The weather is dry.
Being insulted like this, most people will feel a hint of impulsive anger.
But as soon as his eyes turned to the guns carried by the defense team members, a basin of cold water completely extinguished the anger that had just risen.
"Why don't you get out quickly?"
Seeing some of the sluggish crowd still standing there, the arrogant defense team members smiled ferociously.
He immediately stepped forward and kicked him to the ground with his big feet.
Unlike young people like Hou Yong, several people were already suffering from heatstroke after being kicked, and now it was even worse.
After falling to the ground, they tried hard to stand up, but could only watch helplessly as the footsteps nearby quickened, leaving themselves behind.
"Am I going to...am I going to die?"
Ning Chao lay on the ground, took a deep breath, and suddenly felt a flash of regret in his mind.
Just a few days ago.
Ge Dabao, who was in the construction team with him, also ran over and told him to leave the Dragon Phoenix territory as soon as possible, otherwise a disaster would definitely be imminent.
At that time, Ning Chao was still a little disdainful. Although he agreed with his mouth, he didn't take it seriously at all.
He came to the New World three years ago in the wasteland. When he came here, he was an orphan, and both his parents were dead.
His ability to survive until now depends on his ability to adapt to the wind and recognize the situation clearly.
Judging from past experience, although the Dragon Phoenix Territory suffered heavy losses this time, it has not reached its end.
Escape, where can you escape to?
It's nothing more than changing to a similar territory and starting from scratch.
Therefore, even if the arrogant defense team robbed the family's food reserves, Ning Chao still persisted in his thoughts.
Only this time, luck was not on his side.
His experience was misjudged, and his life seemed to be coming to an end.
Under the scorching sun of 40 degrees, if no one saves him, he will stay in the sun for about ten minutes.
Tomorrow, the mass grave outside Longyin Town will be Ning Chao's final resting place.
"Please, please, please help me!"
The strong desire to survive and the adrenaline secreted cannot make the dry body glow with even a trace of strength.
Two or three minutes passed, and Ning Chao's consciousness became increasingly blurred, reaching the edge of coma.
But it was just at this time.
The moment he was about to fall to the bottom of despair, a pair of rough hands fell on his collar and lifted him up from the ground.
The next moment, the sweet well water entered his throat.
Although the amount was not much, it greatly replenished his slack energy and made him sober.
"Thank you."
"Be patient, I'll take you to a shady place to rest."
Being carried by big hands, Ning Chao did not dare to exert any force, and simply relaxed his body's guard and completely collapsed.
Not long after.
Walking through the street where I just lay down, I finally came to a place shaded by a wall that was almost crowded with refugees.
The man found his position and put him down.
Only then did Ning Chao finally see clearly the face of his "savior."
It's rough, dark, and has a few pieces of dead skin that have been exposed to high temperatures.
The man cannot be said to be handsome, but he is kind.
"Ge Ge Dabao?"
Seeing the middle-aged man in front of him who looked very similar to Ge Dabao, Ning Chao couldn't help but make a sound.
"Hey, do you know Dabao?"
Ge Jian'an exclaimed in surprise, put down the ebony he was carrying on his shoulders, and sat down.
"Well, Dabao asked me to go out of the city to seek refuge before, but I didn't listen to him. I..."
"It's okay, just lie down and talk less for now. Dabao will come over later."
Seeing Ning Chao's weak appearance, Ge Jian'an took off the water bottle from his waist and shook it. He took a big sip himself, and then handed over all the remaining water.
In an instant, four or five eyes focused on him.
But when he saw Ge Jian'an's strong physique, the owner of his gaze could only secretly lick his chapped lips.
Since the disaster ended more than a week ago, the Dragon and Phoenix Territory has quickly ended its market economy and entered a planned economy.
Everyone's supplies were confiscated.
Each person is only entitled to a fixed portion of food and water per day.
The number of these shares is only enough to ensure that they will not starve to death or die of thirst.
If you want more shares, you either have to spend points to buy them, or you have to find a way to grab them from other people.
only.
A liter of water is now sold for 0.3 trading points in the Dragon Phoenix Territory. This is an unimaginable sky-high price for refugees struggling on the poverty line.
They were unable to pay and did not dare to pay, for fear that all the points they would use to save their lives would be snatched away by these greedy locusts in the town.
"Hey, Ning Chao, why are you here?"
After a while, three dark-skinned young men walked over from the corner of the street.
After seeing Ning Chao lying on the ground and Ge Jianan sitting next to him from a distance, the three young men looked at each other.
The young people on both sides continued to follow the team, but the slightly stout young man in the middle quickened his pace and walked over.
"Dabao, thank you. Thank you."
"I didn't listen to you that night. It's all my fault. It's all me." Seeing Ge Dabao squatting down, Ning Chao struggled to get up with a look of regret on his face.
"I didn't expect Old Dog Long to be like this. He...he's not a human at all!"
"Oh, I told you before." Seeing his former friend become like this, Ge Dabao could only sigh.
There are the devices that Ge Jian arranged at home, as well as secret escape passages.
On the night when the disaster ended, everyone in the Ge family was able to escape safely and unscathed with supplies under the eyes of the enemy.
But others were not so lucky.
Before leaving, Ge Dabao generously informed eleven of his friends with whom he had relatively good relationships.
But the result was cruel.
Only two people believed what he said and followed him and fled with the supplies.
Only nine people were left, and the whole army was wiped out!
From night to day, the refugees under the curfew were attacked one by one, and all their homes were ransacked without causing any trouble.
now.
If you want to survive without supplies, you must follow the dragon lord's requirements and get up every day and put in heavy work.
Otherwise, even if we can get out of Longyin Town, we will not have enough resources to persist in other territories.
"Let's go to work first. You can rest for a while. I'll take you there this time."
"Dabao, you and Uncle Ge are really my lifesavers, thank you. Thank you!"
Amidst Ning Chao's countless words of gratitude, Ge Dabao stretched out his hand to fish it out and put the backpack on the ground on his body.
Under daylight.
Different from the thinness of ordinary people, Ge Dabao, who was carrying two backpacks and carrying two backpacks, was still relaxed, especially because his bronzed muscles were shiny, and he was no worse than those jackal-like escorts.
"Dad, Ning Chao is not a bad person at heart, he is just a little clever."
“Should we?”
After walking out of a street and ensuring that the surrounding attention was not on him, Ge Dabao slowed down and walked side by side with Ge Jian'an.
"Don't worry, we still have enough manpower now. The most important thing is to complete the task first."
"As for whether to absorb him or not, we'll talk about it in the afternoon."
"Okay!" Ge Dabao nodded calmly, stepped forward again, and gradually disappeared from Ge Jianan's sight.
Just like other ordinary refugees.
The exchange between the two did not attract the attention of the surrounding defense teams.
Time flew by like this, and it was not until six o'clock in the afternoon when the sun was about to set that the day laborer's bell rang in the town.
At the west gate.
Ge Jianan lowered his straw hat, leaned against a low wall, and looked around him alertly.
Near him, there were many refugees taking a rest. Most of them had tired faces and dull eyes, and they didn't know what they were thinking in their minds.
But if you look carefully, you can find that there are about ten people who are obviously in better spirits than the people around them.
Like Ge Jian'an, although they try their best to disguise themselves, they can still see some clues.
"Coming!"
Not long after, when Ge Dabao, who was supporting Ning Chao at the end of the street, finally came over, Ge Jianan breathed a sigh of relief and made a secret gesture.
The next moment.
Several people in the crowd stood up.
Under the leadership of Ge Jianan, they quietly walked along a low wall at the west gate.
Through the secret passage laid here, they can quietly go to the outside of Longyin Town and completely escape the sight of the jackals in the city.
Of course, everyone in Longyin Town actually had no intention of guarding against anyone escaping.
First, after the supplies were confiscated that night, the wealthy people from the territories who had some belongings had already left the city and fled to other territories by train. The remaining people were basically refugees who could not afford train tickets.
Even if they could escape outside the town, there would be no other small territory with the same size as the Dragon and Phoenix Territory within a hundred kilometers to go to.
The second reason is because the defense team in the town is even willing to allow those who are willing to resist in the city to escape quickly, and do not encourage the remaining people who work honestly.
People are afraid of death. Of course, they can use guns to suppress these dishonest bombs, but who knows if there will be any accidents in the process.
Therefore, without the Dragon Lord personally supervising the battle, the guards at the city gate basically turned a blind eye.
In only five minutes, Ge Jianan and his party successfully left the town and arrived in the desolate wilderness.
"Dabao, what are you doing?"
After being helped out of the city, Ning Chao just turned his head and was blown in by the passing wind.
He coughed repeatedly, but after looking around, he couldn't help but asked curiously.
There are now a total of twelve people following Ge Jianan.
Except for three of them whom he had never interacted with, the others were all peers he had talked to in the construction team on weekdays.
And from their faces, Ning Chao could clearly see a look that was different from those of the refugees in the city.
Distinguish carefully.
Very familiar, yet very strange.
Even though he could vaguely guess something in his heart, his reason told him that it might be better to be a confused person.
"Oh, you'll know when we get there later."
"Go back first. Eating sand here is not a good thing."
Facing Ning Chao's doubts and glancing at Ge Jian'an, Ge Dabao shook his head slightly and avoided the topic.
Although after resting for a while in the afternoon, Ning Chao did not continue to pretend to be sick "smartly", but stood up and chose to complete the rest of the work by himself.
But these are still not enough to make everyone open their hearts completely.
Just like that gentleman needed Ge Jianan to present his certificate of surrender, Ning Chao also needed to present his own certificate of surrender in order to pass the test.
The plains in the evening were very windy and sandy.
In addition, the scale of the Dragon Phoenix Territory is extremely small, so the weather environment in the territory will naturally be a bit worse.
The yellow sand rising all over the sky, carrying coarse soil particles, rushed forward in waves and slapped on the objects protruding from the ground.
More than an hour after the group of people limped out, they had all turned into sandmen, and they coughed one after another.
"Dabao, Dabao, how long do we have to go!"
Ning Chao spit out the sand in his mouth fiercely, his legs and feet were a little weak due to heat stroke.
In the first half, he could grit his teeth and persevere, but after walking for more than an hour, the familiar blackness in front of his eyes struck again.
“That’s what’s ahead, just keep holding on.”
Looking in the direction Ge Dabao pointed, Ning Chao saw a slightly raised cliff.
At this time, an inexplicable force could not help but come from the bottom of my heart.
As his speed increased, the team's speed also increased.
Five minutes later, the cliff was finally within easy reach!
"Damn it, there's actually a natural cave here?"
When you look at the cliff from a distance, it looks ordinary.
But as he walked closer, he saw a cave entrance large enough for one person to enter and exit.
Then enter the inside of the cliff from the entrance of the cave and walk through a winding path.
Not long after, a huge space about ten meters high and more than thirty meters long and wide suddenly appeared in front of us.
"Jian'an, why did you come back at this hour? We are so anxious!"
Inside the natural cave, at first glance, there are only basic living facilities and reserve supplies.
There were actually five or six women sitting inside waiting anxiously.
Watching the long queue of people walk in, before Ge Jianan could take off his windproof mask, a middle-aged woman with a sallow complexion eagerly came forward.
"There is a wounded person, please go slower today."
Ge Jianan took off his mask and mouthed at Ning Chao behind him.
"He is?"
"Mom, he is my friend from the construction team, Ning Chao." Ge Dabao helped Ning Chao and walked up, rolling his eyes to indicate something.
"Hello, aunt, I really caused trouble for you." Ning Chao scratched his head and smiled sheepishly when Guan Taohua looked at her.
But it's a pity.
In just a second, his smile froze on his face.
Looking back in the direction of Guan Taohua, Ning Chao could clearly see the darkness behind the cave.
There were four people whose faces could not be seen clearly. They were tied to wooden pillars driven into the ground and were struggling hard.
Especially when he looked over, the man in the middle was struggling even more fiercely, and the chains he was wearing made a rattling sound.
Subconsciously, Ning Chao wanted to take a few steps back and break away from Ge Dabao's support.
But what frightened him even more was that Ge Dabao's hands were like pliers, squeezing his arms painfully.
"Dabao, I don't have much meat on my body, you want to eat it"
"My meat. My meat is sour and not delicious!"
Ning Chao was trembling all over, and when he looked at the other smiling people around him, he felt as if he had fallen into an ice cellar.
He has not only heard about the abnormal behaviors of humans when food is scarce.
He even saw with his own eyes that those people brutally killed their own kind and then took their own.
When he thought that he might have followed in those people's footsteps, Ning Chao's legs softened and he sat directly on the ground.
have to.
The front leg just left the breeding factory that treated them as animals, but the back leg went directly into another more terrifying cannibal cave.
Hearing the laughter one after another around him, Ning Chao wanted to call for help loudly, but he thought of the desolate plains along the way.
"Ning Chao, what's on your mind?"
"Ah? You don't want to eat it?"
"You big-headed devil!" Ge Dabao lifted Ning Chao up and directly went to the right side of the cave.
The torch is lit.
The next second, Ning Chao was dumbfounded.
In front of his eyes, the six or seven huge water tanks were filled with white rice, enough to feed everyone present for three months.
On the other side, he saw piles of flour bags, dried bacon hanging in the air, and some bread, drinks, and snacks that could only be bought from the large territory.
"If I really want to eat you, I can't bring you all the way from the town. You are always afraid of this and that and don't trust others. I saw that you didn't believe me before, so you are unlucky to have all your supplies confiscated.
Not enough!”
Facts speak louder than words.
After realizing that there was enough food here and hearing Ge Dabao's complaining voice, Ning Chao's originally gloomy eyes suddenly brightened up.
"Them"
"They are people sent by Long Laogou to steal our supplies. They just underestimated me, no, they underestimated my father's strength." Ge Dabao bared his white teeth and laughed silently.
“It’s easy to join us”
"You can find any one of those four people and kill them!"
"Kill them?" Ning Chao was stunned for a moment, then suddenly realized and said in disbelief: "Dabao, are you going to rebel?!"
