Li Hao is not here, what should I do now?

Zhao Ji would never ask such a question. Although most of the time in the shelter these days, Zhao Ji pretends not to think and wander around idly like the walking dead, she has never lacked thought, let alone action.

This was Li Hao's first official day as a patrol leader, and he also went out on patrol with his patrol team as usual. After Li Hao went out, Zhao Ji continued to pretend to be confused and wandered out.

As soon as he went out, Zhao Ji keenly noticed some subtle changes.

The first is that there are obviously fewer "idlers" like her.

When they first arrived at the shelter, Zhao Ji still remembered the fact that Li Hao went to take out the garbage to earn points, and she also remembered that when Li Hao said that she was idle, she said to Li Hao that it was natural for men to earn money to support their families. In fact, after Zhao Ji's observation, many people in the shelter were idle. Because the asylum has a minimum guarantee system, which means that you don't do anything, and with the basic rations distributed every day, you won't die. Of course, it is limited to not starving to death, like Li Hao became the patrol captain, their living conditions have become more comfortable.

But after all, there are only a few people who can be patrol leaders, and even if they can be patrol members, there are not many people. On the other hand, there are not many people who are willing to be patrol members, after all, it is a high-risk profession, taking Li Hao's patrol team as an example, basically every time he goes out on patrol, he will die!

Therefore, many people choose to receive the minimum guarantee, hang their lives, wander the streets when they have strength, and lie in the chase shop when they have no strength, just like those people in the room where Zhuo Kai is hiding.

At first, Zhao Ji thought that the survivors were too lazy or too depressed, but after careful observation, she found that this was not exactly the case, but that there was no need for more people to work here except as patrol members. How to put it, in addition to the work of taking out the garbage, which earns no more than the subsistence allowance, a lot of the work in this is actually automated. Even though the machines here look old, there are a lot of automatic features that should be available.

And most importantly, the source of the food, the food here seems to be not cultivated, harvested and cooked. The food they receive every day is food that can be preserved for a long time, that is, ready-made products, even vegetables and fruits used to supplement vitamins, which are basically refined pills or powders. These things don't have a production date, and no one knows exactly how long they've been stored! And since you don't even need people to get food, you don't need so many people to work.

This is very different from what they thought when they first arrived. At that time, Li Hao thought that when he arrived at this refuge, he would be able to live a self-reliant social life...... But after these days, Li Hao and Zhao Ji both agreed that the survivors in this shelter were actually kept in captivity.

In addition to them, there are obviously other people who have discovered this, Zhao Ji has seen someone run to the administrative center to question the clerks there, and then, such a person will either be enriched into the patrol, maybe he can be seen back on the first day, happily and Li Hao on the first day with super high points to exchange for a lot of luxury living materials, but the next day may appear in the loss list, or quit the patrol team and join the ranks of receiving the subsistence allowance.

There are very few patrol captains like Li Hao who have survived the so-called probationary period. Although there are few, he is not the only one, Li Hao and Zhao Ji analyzed, which is also what he did not pay special attention to. The Vault allows people to be clear-headed, and there is no mandatory mind control of all people, which they believe is actually a need for experimental sampling.

The second change that Zhao Ji found was that there were some new faces on the "street". This change is not something that people like Zhao Ji, who wander outside every day and observe very carefully, can't find it, because new faces come in the shelter every day.

This point used to make Zhao Ji very confused, when she and Li Hao came over, it was actually because she was hiding from Zhuo Kai people, which was full of accidents, and this shelter was actually in the city center, the disaster broke out for so long, how many survivors were able to survive in the city until now, and they could still pass through the tens of thousands of zombies in the city center to come here?

However, new faces still appear here every day, which makes Zhao Ji very puzzled. She didn't dare to talk to the new faces easily, after all, she had to stay in a state of mindless walking dead, and the surveillance in the vault was almost everywhere except for the inside of the rooms like theirs. By the time she figured out the blind spots of the surveillance, those new faces had become in this state of confusion, or had disappeared.

With the intuition of a policeman, Zhao Ji thinks that these new faces are not like her and Li Hao, who came to the door by themselves...... So in other words, they were brought here with a purpose.

If that's too subtle, then these new faces should have been caught here.

But these new faces that Zhao Ji found today were different from those who came before, they were not as full of curiosity and questions about this place as the newcomers before, especially when they saw these muddy people wandering around idly on the street, they were not surprised, and they did not have the behavior of constantly looking and observing like the newcomers in the past. Obviously, they already knew about the existence of these muddy ones.

A newcomer walked past Zhao Ji, glanced at her, and then said to his companion with a smile: "You look pretty good." ”.

The companion also smiled and said, "The breasts are not big enough, but the legs are really beautiful." ”

"It's a pity ......"

"There's nothing to be sorry about, haven't you seen too little?"

"I love this one."

"Then you can check the number, if you have time...... It should still work, hahahaha......"

The two of them drifted by as they spoke, and the last laugh seemed obscene and evil, of course Zhao Ji didn't look back, and she didn't even change her wandering movements, but she heard a whistle behind her, and then the whistle gradually rippled and dissipated.

These new faces, Zhao Ji observed, there were a total of 6 people before and after. The number of new faces added to the vault every day is about 10 to 20, which is more or less the same as the number of faces that disappear every day.

Supposedly, the presence of six of them at the same time would have attracted the attention of the Vault, but apparently not.

After a while, Zhao Ji calculated according to the distance he had traveled on the street, and after about an hour, those new faces appeared on the street again, this time, they were holding instruments in their hands, and they were recording the muddy nightmares wandering the streets one by one, and No. 2 also appeared, he accompanied these people, and was introducing the situation in the shelter. There were also some patrolmen with them, who were relatively early faces, and they seemed to be normal, just indifferent to what they saw.

Zhao Ji pretended to be unconscious and walked into the corner to avoid them, but she heard the radio command.

"174, immediately assemble from where you are now in the central plaza, via points A4, G6 and F14."

174 is Zhao Ji's number, Li Hao's is 514, even if he is the patrol captain, this number has not changed. Every day when Zhao Ji wanders around, when he hears the radio instructions, he will go to the required place according to the instructions, and the instructions will be specific to the point she wants to pass, because the confused person does not remember the way, and must arrive at the point by point, correct the walking direction, and finally arrive at the designated place.

Most of the time the instructions were to ask her to "go home", or to the central square. The broadcast command will not call her alone, and all the people will obediently arrive at the designated place after hearing the command, and she is also because she has mastered this rule, and the performance is in place, so she has not been found abnormal.

After Zhao Ji received the order, as usual, he began to walk towards the nearest point. At this time, she noticed that two newcomers appeared on her way, and they were accompanied by a familiar face...... The patrol leader Liu Xinrong that Zhao Ji and Li Hao saw when they first arrived at this shelter. At the beginning, he brought Zhao Ji and Li Hao to the administrative center to register and apply for identity plates, and he was also very angry that Zhao Ji's flower was inserted on Li Hao's pile of cow dung.

At that time, Zhao Ji and Li Hao, especially Li Hao, had the impression that this refuge was that this was a small society, and Liu Xinrong, including the existence of 025 who was doing things, was a normal state of human feelings. Later, Zhao Ji rarely saw Liu Xinrong again, but he no longer seemed to be the patrol leader, as if he had become a middle-level officer.

Zhao Ji continued to walk with his usual pace, and when the two newcomers were about to pass her, they suddenly stopped. It's the two guys who criticized Zhao Jipin before.

Zhao Ji once again felt their obscene and ill-intentioned gazes, and in her heart, she had already hung them up and beaten them a hundred times. But for now, she could only keep her mechanical stride with a blank face, ignoring them.

"Hey, stop and talk to my brother." The newcomer who had previously expressed his appreciation for Zhao Ji whistled at Zhao Ji.

Zhao Ji turned a deaf ear and continued to walk forward.

Then she heard that Liu Xinrong say: "Leader, they don't have independent thinking and self-awareness now, although they look like normal people, but they act according to instructions." This girl is indeed more punctual, but she has a husband, and her husband is a very powerful patrol leader. ”

"It doesn't matter, give her orders to go to this room." The newcomer looked at Zhao Ji who was gradually walking by, and pointed to a room next to him.

"Damn, you're interested in the walking dead like that?" The other newcomer laughed and cursed.

"Why not? Their thinking is just stagnant, their bodies are still normal, they can still scream, they can still move, they can use it. You go to work first, and I'll look for you in an hour. ”

"An hour, you think too much of yourself, I'll wait for you outside, 20 minutes."

"174, the original order is deleted, the new order is to enter room 1594."

Zhao Ji stopped, and his right hand, hidden in his sleeve, was already clenched into a fist.