In the evening, when the rain stopped, he also woke up from his light sleep, and with two other newcomers, he got into an old pickup truck led by Pheasant and Chang Wu, and traveled east along the bumpy road.

The shorter of the two newcomers is a talkative one, telling the story of how he escaped from Gem City by killing the overseer hired by the farmer and snatching the other's gun.

Now he has no way out, he can only join the Black Saints and embark on a brave path...... Just like the Black Saints' recruitment poster reads.

Tang Yan asked a few questions about Gem City, and the man answered them in detail.

The so-called Gem City is the largest human settlement within a radius of 200 km. It was a "new city" built on the wasteland, controlled by warlords who were remnants of the old era.

Starting from the first generation of the city lords of Gem City, the people below are all referred to as governors.

You must know that more than 100 years have passed since the outbreak of nuclear war, and in the process of human civilization surviving in the wasteland, those surviving scientists are not idle, and are trying to use all possible resources to develop purification technology, with the goal of clean water and sufficient food.

Gem City has a team of scientists who, under the protection of the Governor, specialize in the cleansing of radioactive dust from the soil. For the next 100 years between the outbreak of the nuclear war, they were able to carry out simple filtration operations, extract clean soil, and cultivate food in a closed facility in Gem City.

In the past 50 years, with the loss of the contamination effect of some radioactive materials with a short half-life, and the deepening of purification research, Gem City has initially mastered the technology of removing radioactive particles in the soil, and applied this technology to the open environment, and built small farms in the surrounding plots of Gem City to produce corn, potatoes and other vulnerable food crops with very low radiation values.

Where there is a farm, there are naturally farmers and laborers.

The cost of hiring labor in the city was great, and it was clearly not as cost-effective as buying the poorly clothed creatures from the slave traders.

The man named Zeng Hua in front of him was born as a slave.

No, strictly speaking, even if he becomes a laborer of Jewel City's Starlight Agriculture, the actual nature has not changed, and he is still a serf with no freedom, no personal property, and no guarantee of survival.

Killing the Overseer and escaping from the farm means that he will be the target of the Gem City, whether it is a slave trader or a bounty hunter, and he will not mind capturing him and handing him over to the Gem City in exchange for a bounty.

The reason why he didn't find a deep mountain and old forest to hide, or join bandit forces like the Razorman Demon and the Panda Man Legion, and came to the relatively small organization of the Black Saints, which has a short development time, is because the prophet of the Black Saints and the governor of Gem City do not agree with each other, and they don't like each other.

It sounds strange that a small group of bandits would dare to fight against a force as big as Gem City.

However, this is an undeniable fact, as the Black Saints do not need to rely on the resources of the bazaar in Gem City, and this new bandit organization has its own trade channels, which can exchange the proceeds of looting for food, ammunition, guns, medicines, etc., to maintain the growth of the organization.

Speaking of his life after joining the Black Saints, Zeng Hua was very excited, very excited, as if the picture presented in the recruitment poster was close at hand and within reach.

Compared with Zeng Hua's talkativeness, the other newcomer was speechless the whole time, his eyes were indifferent, and his expression was stiff, like an emotionless living dead.

When the stars light up the night, the pickup truck stops in front of a mountain villa.

It is said that it is a mountain villa, but in fact, a large part of the buildings have collapsed, and only the exterior walls have been repaired and reinforced, and they look quite intact.

The badly faded plaque at the gate of the villa suggests that the building was a sanatorium before the nuclear war.

Compared to the predecessor of the Black Saint Base, Tang Yan cared more about those people walking on the wall.

There is no doubt that it was the patrol who was in charge of the guard of the base.

There are a number of improvised watchtowers behind the gate and in the corner of the courtyard wall, with light machine guns of unknown models set up on concrete bunkers, and searchlights on the roof, constantly moving around the watchtowers.

Tang Yan was a little surprised, he thought that the Black Saints were a group of bandits composed of a rabble, but he didn't expect that the guy who liked others to call him a prophet was quite capable, and he really had the appearance of a base to run the nest.

The sentry guarding at the gate confirmed the identity of the pheasant and Chang Wu, and the people inside removed the door bolt, slowly opened the heavy iron door, and let the pickup truck drive into the parking lot of the hospital.

After the car stopped, Tang Yan jumped out of the carriage and glanced around with the light sown by the light pole.

There are several cars parked next to the pickup truck, most of them modified models. Some of them were equipped with stainless steel guards on the outside, and some of them placed light machine guns with outstanding firepower in the cargo compartment at the back.

A military off-road vehicle with a wide body caught his attention.

It was an era of scarce resources, the vast majority of vehicles were powered by electricity, and that military off-road vehicle was clearly a diesel-powered locomotive, which was definitely synonymous with being expensive in this world, and likewise a status symbol.

"Let's go, why are you still stunned?"

The sound of the pheasant woke him up, and he quickly withdrew his gaze from afar, and followed the footsteps of his predecessors to the brightly lit hall not far away.

"That car is great, it's one of the few diesel-powered cars in the entire Gem City, and the boss of the razor man and demon didn't agree to exchange it for 10 beauties and 20 bags of grain."

Chang Wuyi was full of wine when he spoke, and it seemed that he had eaten and drunk on the road just now.

Tang Yan didn't speak, just nodded.

Outside the brightly lit hall are stacked with cement bags in the corners, behind which are M14s, older than the M16, with empty magazines scattered on the ground.

No one is on duty.

People are all in the hall.

The hall is converted from an indoor basketball court, with baskets and backboards removed, and a small generator in each of the four corners to power the high-powered searchlights placed on the roof, illuminating the entire room.

The pheasant led a few people inside, and there was a human wall.

Behind the wall is a high platform with a gallows on the edge, and a thumb-thick hemp rope is tied to the neck of a dying middle-aged woman.

In front of the platform stood a man with a birthmark on his forehead, raising his arms and shouting at the bandits below.

Wooha, wooha, wooha, wooha......

After a burst of enthusiastic cheers, the man with the birthmark on his forehead descended from the high platform, and the other man walked up the stairs to the crowd.

Unlike the bandits in shabby leather armor or metal plates, the man wore a crisp suit and a red tie with a spotless white shirt underneath, and a silver strap that appeared and disappeared between the swings of his left hand.

Ascending to the high platform, the man straightened his shiny hair with his clean five fingers, and pressed down with his arms outstretched.