Chapter 964: Border News (1)
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All in all, we're in safety again for the time being, and the men led by the Whip Man in the castle seem to be retreating like we are avoiding the Moon Spirit's edge.
But as for where they are retreating, it is unknown, and I feel that it is at least not Dongkou Province, because from the previous information, these gangs and the wanderers of Dongkou Province are also in a hostile state, or rather...... These people are actually hostile to everyone.
They must have returned to their lair, which was what I had assumed to be a secret stronghold in another province.
I didn't fall asleep again for the rest of the day, because other people's deaths kept flashing back before my eyes like a slideshow......
I'm still trying to reassure me that it's just a nightmare.
But when the first rays of the morning sun shine through the window, I know that it was all real and cruel, and I have to move on to what follows.
The bounty hunters who went out are all back now, and we don't have any reason to stay, because not reaching Dongkou Province means that the crisis of the Moon Spirit will be approaching at any time, so we really set off immediately.
Before leaving, I also asked Lu Ming and the other bounty hunters for their opinions, asking them if they would like to accept the deep transformation of my spiritual energy, which is simply to further enhance their personal physical fitness.
Naturally, I did this selfishly, because in this way, they would be tethered to me, and it would be impossible for them to betray me at all.
However, these guys are extremely wary of the Gu worm virus, and none of them agreed, plus they all said that the spiritual effect of Dongkou Province would be reduced by almost 100%, even if you have a spiritual energy in the bitter cold area, it will be useless, and in the end I have to give up.
After packing up, we began to rush to the northeast with a full load of supplies, along the way those bounty hunters almost every place where there may be supplies, will get out of the car for a simple search and check, at first I still felt a little unimpressed, but after a few times, I was surprised to find that their search accuracy rate is as high as seven or eighty percent, and a lot of materials have been scavenged.
I said it was hard to understand, I don't know how these bounty hunters smelled these supplies, Lu Ming told me that this was a long-term wilderness search instinct, and this was the same routine they used to search for semi-infected people before.
In addition to finding supplies, we also found more survivors than I could have imagined.
I never knew there were so many survivors in the two provinces, but almost none of them wanted to go with us, and even when we showed us the benefits of going to Dongkou Province, they were indifferent.
Recruitment is much harder than I thought, and there are two reasons for this.
The first is that the impact of the cold on the Gu worm virus is indeed real, and most of the locations of these survivors are actually located in areas close to Dongkou Province, which are not within the range of activities of the wanderers, and have a great inhibitory effect on the side effects and other effects brought by the Gu worm virus, which allows these people to survive in these places.
The closer I get to Dongkou Province, the weaker the psionic wave I throw out, and if it continues to develop at this rate, when I reach Dongkou Province, I am afraid it will be difficult for me to hit a threatening psionic wave. However, there is also good news, that is, the Gu worm virus has a very small impact on the improvement of my own physical fitness, although I can also feel some weakening, but this magnitude is negligible compared to spiritual energy.
Similarly, the closer you get to Dongkou Province, the more survivors grow, and in some places even small towns have formed. This is something I never expected before, and it seems that the scope of our previous exploration is still very limited, and our understanding of the existing world needs to be expanded.
The second reason is the hostility of these survivors towards the wanderers in Dongkou Province, many of whom are not only unwilling to follow us, but even persuade us not to go to Dongkou Province, because the rejection of outsiders by those wanderers is extremely serious.
After all, the materials are limited now, and the people's creative productivity has almost degraded to the primitive society, which has led to the fact that people's competition for material and distribution has reached a white-hot stage, and since the catastrophe occurred in Dongkou Province, the competition for materials of the local factions has not stopped, until the wanderers control the overall situation, the competition in Dongkou Province has gradually flattened, and finally formed the current situation.
The internal leadership of the Wanderers has also changed dramatically during this time, and the Wanderers were originally made up of countless small groups of disorder, each with its own leader, and these leaders eventually merged into the entire Wanderer faction, but they were not high or low with each other.
However, this is no longer the case, and now the wanderers of Dongkou Province have their own big leader, a fat man nicknamed "Big Scar", who is said to have been a pirate in the past.
Pirate......
It reminds me of the situation on the island, where we had captured the leader of the "pirates" who had attacked us, the bearded pirate who had since died in our camp, whom I had carried out and buried, and who I had seen with my own eyes before he died.
This shows that from that time on, these "pirates" who were actually wanderers already had a super physique that was hit by the Gu worm virus.
I don't know why I thought of this, after all, that bearded man is dead, and unlike Duan Long, I buried him myself, and the burial site is not far from our camp, within the patrol range, no one sneaks him away at all, he can't crawl out of the soil by himself without anyone helping him, right?
But while it can't be the bearded pirate, I think that many of the wanderers in Dongkou Province must have participated in the attack on our island, after all, we did not wipe out all of them after we repelled them, and a considerable number of them escaped while the Salvation Army attacked the island.
......
Since I can't win these survivors, I don't bother to work anymore, but I don't plan to give up on these people completely, thinking that if I can stabilize the situation in Dongkou Province, the first thing I need to do is to win over the remaining survivors to join us again.
Due to the abundant reserves of supplies, it took us less than two days to escape from the clutches of the castle guards until we arrived at the border of Dongkou Province, during which time was delayed by the attack of Gu beasts marching by the group, otherwise it would have been faster.
By now, the limits on the use of psionic energy have almost made it possible for us to abandon it...... The psionic energy I can hit now can only create a breeze effect at best......
And the rest of the people...... The psionic energy is completely unusable.
The happiest person in this regard is the bounty hunters, whose long-standing strong combat qualities can be brought into full play at this time.
Lu Ming's own self-confidence is also very high, he said that he has not fought with those wanderers before, most of them are walking corpses who do not have full consciousness, and it is estimated that it is not a problem for them to fight against a hundred.
In the same way, I am actually very convinced of this, after all, I myself have been engaged in several successive clashes with wanderers near the Ocean Park in Xiangning City, and their combat effectiveness can be described as low, even if they are equipped with earth guns, they are not enough for us to see.
However, we were soon slapped in the face......
When we arrived at the border of Dongkou Province, in order to prevent any accidents from entering it, we planned to find a temporary settlement nearby to camp in, so that we could retreat and transit, but before we could set up this camp, we were attacked by a team of wanderers.
It's still similar to the past, these wanderers are still led by a few people with completely normal minds, plus a large number of other "puppets" who do not have full consciousness to act as team members.
However, their combat effectiveness is much stronger than when they were in South China and North China Provinces......
This is not to say that their physical fitness has improved, in fact, their physical fitness is actually no different from before, and even after my own physical fitness has improved, I feel that they have weakened a lot.
What really makes them stronger is still their own subjective thinking, although they can't be described as normal people now, at most they are intelligent robots that obey the command of their masters, but their "intelligence" is much higher than before, they used to rush straight to the enemy like fools, without doing any dodging, but now they can not only dodge like normal people, but even cooperate with each other.
It was such a small detachment of less than twenty men that destroyed two of our cars and wounded a bounty hunter.
And when we tried to fight back, the team withdrew in time.
This is not necessarily a bad thing for us, at least we have learned that the current strength of these wanderers is completely different from what it used to be, and we can't look at them with old eyes.
So our plan of action can only be changed.
Originally, our plan was to enter Dongkou Province first, and then look for clues about Liu Yong from within Dongkou Province.
But now I'm afraid we have to determine the exact location of Nine Rivers City first, and then go directly to Nine Rivers City to conduct an accurate search, so as to minimize the conflict between us and those wanderers.
In addition, Lu Ming also directly told me the overall purpose of the operation, that is, it is impossible to have a head-on conflict with the wanderers now, and the only way for us to find Liu Yong is to sneak in and smuggle Liu Yong out without alarming the enemy.
I'm still very good at this, after all, I've had countless double infiltrations with Moon Spirit before......
Since most of the terrain has changed dramatically after the cataclysm, and the road directions between towns have been destroyed, it is not so simple to really find Jiuhe City, we originally wanted to rely on the original map to find it, but found that the current map can no longer match the real terrain, in desperation, we can only temporarily retreat a little, and start to explore the situation from some of the survivor settlements we passed by before.
In order to increase the intensity of obtaining information, we simply divided into more than 10 teams and went into some of the more closely connected survivor settlements to collect information.
The bounty hunters themselves divided into teams of four, and I, along with Amy and He Yunsong, went into a small town of about five or six hundred people to find out information.
As for the other people around me, I let them stay in the temporary resting place where the convoy stayed, after all, Zhou Qiqi is still unconscious, and someone must guard her.
The survivors were very wary of strangers, and the guards had all our weapons seized of us before we entered the town, and finally at my repeated requests, they agreed to keep my sword for the time being, and return it when I left.
As for the other weapons, they should be used as their intelligence expenses.
That's right, my first piece of information came from the guards who seized our weapons, and they gave me two valuable pieces of information.
First, the actual scope of Jiuhe City is actually not the location before the catastrophe, and the current scope of Jiuhe City has actually been reduced a lot, and at most it can only be called a military fortress. However, it was a frontier for wanderers, and patrols often passed by, and they did not dare to approach it.
But these guards only told us that Nine Rivers City was roughly in the direction of the east, and they didn't know the exact location, because no one had ever approached ...... Or rather, those who came close were killed.
The second is some detailed information about the Wanderer's previous migration to Dongkou Province. You must know that among the current survivors, there are actually some people who migrated with the wanderer team at the beginning, but they did not choose to enter Dongkou Province in the end, but stayed in the border area. The choice of these people now seems to be wise, although their situation is not as safe as that of Dongkou Province, but they will not be closely guarded by wanderers.
They told me that during the large-scale migration of wanderers, there was a fierce internal conflict, and it seemed that many people had died on both sides of the conflict, and all this happened for the sake of fighting for one person, the name of this person they did not know, only that it seemed to be a person who was highly perfectly integrated with the Gu worm virus, and played a very important role in realizing the transformation of the Gu worm virus on the human body.
I frowned, and said in my heart, could this person be Liu Yong?