Chapter Fifty-Eight: Gem City
"White Widow lives in the second tallest building in Gem City, and she has a balcony made of glass, and she likes to put a sunscreen umbrella on the balcony and sit on a white beach chair and drink soda with ice and look at the scenery in the distance."
"She's looking at the scenery in the distance, and the people below are looking at the scenery above."
"Do you know what she likes to wear the most?"
"Hip pants and fishnet stockings, huh...... Before nuclear war, you will be held accountable. ”
"It's said that her outfit came from overseas, and it was brought back from the Americas by Johnson, the owner of the Wanderer Bar."
General Wang noticed that Tang Yan was impatient and hurriedly explained the main point.
"Any idea what's behind the lace edge of fishnet stockings? White...... Silky, shallow, bent. ”
"Every time she sat on the balcony, there would be a line of men standing underneath. She looks at the scenery in the distance, and they look at her landscape. ”
"Besides," General Wang's face was pasted forward, "I heard that she doesn't have a ...... there Well, you get the idea. ”
"For the nickname White Widow, she is not ashamed but happy."
Speaking of which, General Wang finally made it clear how the word "white widow" was placed on the woman's head.
"She's killed all three of her husbands, and Merlin's bad old man isn't afraid to become the next joke." There was a sour smell in General Wang's words that was difficult to hide.
This shows the weight and image of White Widow in the hearts of men in Gem City.
Zang Feng snorted coldly.
The three guns who were driving and General Wang, who had a tasteful face, changed color and posed as if they were sitting upright.
Fortunately, the girl lying on the lap of the legion commander rolled over and continued to sleep, making a slight snoring sound, and the gunfire just now did not wake her up.
Tang Yan didn't care about the White Widow's figure, face, or dress.
He looked at Zang Feng's face in the rearview mirror and said, "I wonder if the governor is satisfied with the greeting gift we sent to the door?" ”
Zang Feng told him that the Governor is not omnipotent in Gem City, and that person doesn't want the Black Hand Mercenary Group to get bigger and bigger, so he will take care of secondary mercenary teams such as the Panda Man Legion and the Warrior Company in many things.
In short, the Black Hand Mercenary Regiment took money to do things and was not loyal to the Governor.
Zang Feng looked at Tang Yan's face in the rearview mirror and said, "It's a little more public." ”
Tang Yan smiled and did not speak.
What he wants is such an effect, from the perspective of collecting reward points, only by doing things will there be gains, and abiding by the golden mean is not the way he wants to go.
No, one shot in exchange for 24 bonus points, and the transaction is not a loss.
Now that he is the deputy head of the Pandaren Legion, he has to reverse the style of this mercenary group.
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The sea breeze blew away the rain clouds, and when the evening sun shone on Tang Yan's face, the modified pickup truck stopped in front of a row of barricades.
The entrance to Gem City is just a short walk ahead, and it's the front line checkpoint.
THE BARRICADES ARE FLANKED BY DEFENSIVE PLATFORMS MADE OF STEEL SHEETS MORE THAN 30 MM THICK, WITH GUARDS PATROLLING WITH Type 03 assault rifles on top, and bunkers built in rows of cement bags below, behind which automatic sentry guns are deployed.
Tang Yan noticed that there were no less than three snipers hiding in the ruins of the building more than 100 meters away from the checkpoint, all of whom were holding anti-materiel sniper rifles.
The guard recognized that it was a vehicle owned by the Pandaren Legion, and even knew who was sitting in the back seat, so he didn't deliberately make things difficult, smiled and looked at the cargo compartment and beckoned to the people behind him, signaling for release.
Tang Yan noticed that the inspector's eyes lit up when he saw the mechanical exoskeleton in the cargo compartment.
It seems that even in a place like Gem City, mechanical exoskeletons are a rarity.
After all, when the nuclear war broke out, the P-62 power armor had just passed the acceptance of the military department, and even the P-50 power armor was not massively used------ only front-line combat units and special agencies were qualified to assemble it.
This is completely different from the StarCraft world, where CMC power armor has become the standard armament for soldiers.
The soldiers in front moved the barricades, and the three guns lightly stepped on the accelerator and slowly drove through the blockade area.
The road is smoother and easier to navigate than before, and it is often maintained by the residents of Gem City.
Compared to the southern side, which is close to the sea, the northern side where Gem City is located is in a better situation, and the city was prosperous before the nuclear war can be seen through the abandoned buildings of varying degrees of collapse.
As the vehicles went deeper, there were many more figures in the ruins of the city.
Some are guards on patrol missions, clearing out living corpses and driving away ferocious beasts.
Some are amateur scavengers, hoping to find something from the rubble that they can exchange for food. In most cases, they can only pick up some worn-out metal and sell it as scrap in the city.
There are also losers who have been kicked out of Gem City because they can't afford to pay protection money or because they have broken the rules, and they are basically addicts, lazy people, sick people, and cripples.
Gem City doesn't have people who don't have value, or the wasteland doesn't have people who don't.
The only fate for people like this is death, the difference is only starvation, disease, radiation, or being bitten to death by living corpses or ferocious beasts, or even becoming "human dolls" for marauders to decorate their camps. ”
The third artillery took out the 54 pistol found from the Institute of Physics to scare away the people who stopped the car and begged, stepped on the accelerator, and the modified pickup truck sped away.
In fact, even if he didn't, the guards roaming around the neighborhood would come and solve the problem.
Tang Yan was not interested in asking how the Jewel City guards would solve the so-called "problem", because after turning a large bend, a four-meter-high green wall flashed in front of the modified pickup truck.
At the end of the road there was a thick iron gate, in front of which stood several guards, and the figures of the gunmen could be seen on the walls on both sides of the iron gate.
That was the entrance and walls of Gem City.
Like last time, the modified pickup truck stopped in front of the door, and the guards let it go after a second inspection.
With a rattling sound, the heavy gate opened inside, and the three guns drove into the city.
When the nuclear war broke out, the coastal cities belonged to the enemy's nuclear bomb key care objects, it can be said that the coastal areas of the Chinese mainland are the most severely affected areas, and the southern district of Qindao City, where the gem city is located, was almost razed to the ground, and only the northern area is a little better.
Many large buildings were destroyed in the war, but fortunately the stadium was saved due to its location.
Years after the apocalypse, the short-lived highly radioactive material gradually lost its lethality, and the remaining local garrisons returned to land and moved some of the survivors to the stadium for resettlement...... Gradually, a circle of life around the stadium was formed.
As time went on, the number of residents in Gem City increased, and the stadium could not provide enough space for activities and living, so people tried to expand outward, with the stadium as the core and the pre-war building as the cornerstone to build a green high wall to isolate the living corpses, fierce beasts, and bandits raging in the wild.
When Tang Yan looked at the various tin houses and cabins built inside the wall with great interest, as well as the residents of Gem City who were moving around, Zang Feng patted Sanpao's back to signal to stop, and then got out of the car with Rena in his arms.
Tang Yan and Dog Meat also left the car together under his beckoning.
General Wang subconsciously accompanied him, not wanting to be stopped by the three artillery------ when he came, he said first, and the two of them were going to Mr. Qiaoshou's workshop to find a craftsman to repair the damaged mechanical exoskeleton.
Seeing the modified pickup truck drive towards the stadium, Tang Yan looked puzzled, unable to understand why Zang Feng pulled himself down.
"Before I go to the Doge's Palace, I'm going to see someone."
Zang Feng opened the folding wheelchair and put Rena on it, pushing her towards a house converted from a shipping container.
Tang Yan didn't say anything, and while following behind, he looked at the people he met along the road.
The sun had not yet set, and the young and strong laborers of Gem City had not called it a day, and the road was mostly filled with idle children and old people returning from scavenging, as well as masked guards walking around with guns.
He was looking at the people, and the people were looking at him.
Having a pet is a luxury, not to mention the fact that the dog has a spiral horn on its head.
There was also the windy armor, even if Tang Yan removed the jet pack components, the Reaper armor still attracted many envious or jealous glances.
Of course, those eyes are not to the level of greed, after all, everyone who lives here has basically seen the big names of the Jewel City Guard wearing P-43 power armor.
The appearance of the Reaper's First Armor with the jetpack removed is enough to pull the wind, but in the eyes of those people, it is at most the equipment of the level of the Red Sword Mechanical Exoskeleton, or even worse, after all, there are no components such as the transmission system, sensor group, nuclear battery, and hydraulic device.
The pre-war city of Kotoshima was a seaport city, and shipping containers were extremely common, and converting them into simple dwellings was the most feasible nesting solution, both before and after the expansion of Gem City.
Rusty containers are scattered and connected by ladders.
Wealthy people live in shipping containers close to the road, and they also open a window or two on the sunny side to paint the shell brightly to hide the rust spots that affect people's moods.
Poor people can only live in places where there is no sunlight, and even multiple people are crammed into a shipping container.
This is the living environment of the average resident of Gem City, although it is difficult, but safe, and there is no need to worry about becoming food for living corpses and beasts while sleeping.
Zang Feng pushed Reina into an alley and walked towards the container at the back.
Only then did Tang Yan ask the purpose of this place from his mouth.
Zang Feng wants to find a man named "Beethoven", hoping to crack the encryption program of the data cassette before meeting the governor to see what kind of secret is hidden inside.
The three of them came to the back where they couldn't see the sun at all, Tang Yan looked at the large room in front of him made of three containers, and thought to himself that the man named Beethoven was quite rich.
Zang Feng handed Rena into Tang Yan's hands, walked to the black iron door, and was about to knock on the door to greet him, but before he could raise his hand, the door brushed open.
A man with black-rimmed glasses and a pale vampire face rushed out, and was stunned when he saw the person standing in front of the door, thinking that he recognized the person's identity.
Zang Feng was about to speak, but the man interrupted in a hurry.
"It's not good, run."