The biting sea breeze and a faint mist blew past the convoy, and even in the cold of winter, you could still smell the smell of sea water in the air.

The outermost station is a one-person high-voltage power grid, and behind it is a tall concrete fence with gunmen patrolling between the grid and the wall. The wall is nearly five meters high, the bottom and upper part are inlaid with steel plates, and defensive weapons of different shapes are erected on the top of the wall, although it is not clear what kind of weapons they are, but the power they have can be imagined, and a huge "N-5" is sprayed on the wall.

Seeing that the destination was close in sight, Meng Qingqiang commanded the convoy to stop on the side of the road, and after some discussion, it was decided that he, Xing Tianliang, Ji Liang, Bai Ying, Wang Yan, Yang Lili and a middle-aged man surnamed Guo would drive two leather cars loaded with trading goods with the villagers of Mengjia Village, and go to negotiate first, this man surnamed Guo is the new leader elected after Yang Bin's death. And after they leave, the rest of the people and the two black hands will stay on the bus, waiting for their news.

At this moment a boy who had been wandering across the road ran to them who were discussing under the car, the boy was not very old, only thirteen or fourteen years old, very bloated, a little shabby but clean, and straddled a large shopping bag not much smaller than him.

"Hello uncles and aunts, this is your first time at the N-5 base, right?" The boy asked as he ran, baring a mouthful of white teeth

Ji Liang, who had just been arranged by Meng Qingqiang as a negotiator, also smiled a few steps forward and replied, "Hello, little brother, how do you know?" ”

"I've seen you for a while, generally experienced outsiders have a foothold in the city, they will only drive a car with goods directly to the checkpoint outside the gate to register, only people who come here for the first time, will be like you, a bunch of people drive a bus to carry everyone, to the base gate near the parking and discussion." The boy said smugly.

"Oh, little brother, you are really experienced" Ji Liang praised the boy, and then said: "We are indeed here for the first time, we have no experience, what to do, it just so happens that little brother you are here, can you help us?" ”

Ji Liang could see at a glance that the boy didn't come over to talk because he was bored, he must have some purpose

"Are you here to settle down, or are you here to trade?" The little boy looked at the people in front of him and the vehicles parked behind him up close, and after seeing the old and young in the bus and the goods in the pickup truck, his eyes rolled and asked.

"The ones in the car behind are going to settle here, and the goods in the car are going to be traded, what advice does the little brother have." Ji Liang replied vaguely.

"Since you're new to the city, I'll tell you about the rules here," the boy said in a serious manner.

Regarding the situation of the city, Meng Qingqiang had heard Xing Tianliang talk about it before, but because Wang Husheng and they had only come once, and the interval was relatively long, and now they don't know much about the specific situation here, so the introduction of this boy is also very helpful to them.

From the boy's mouth, it was learned that the population of the city outside the transit station had increased greatly with the arrival of outsiders. Without the management of the government, the base is laissez-faire to outsiders, so people spontaneously form various organizations, these groups are entrenched in the periphery of the base, each with its own sphere of influence, and they organize people to patrol in their own sphere of influence or go out to collect supplies to protect their own people and territory. There is also competition between groups, one is to fight for a larger sphere of influence, and the other is to win over people, whether they are from other organizations or outsiders, they will absorb them into their own groups according to their own terms, and at the same time take into account the transaction with transit stations or outsiders.

At present, there are two major organizations, the Light of Hope in the south of the city and the Brotherhood in the north of the city, and there are some small groups living in the sphere of influence of these large groups.

"I'm a member of the Chengnan Human Mutual Aid Association, and we are also a big force here, uncle, I see that you have a lot of people, and there are a lot of things. Or I'll intercede with our boss, and you can join our mutual aid society," the boy exclaimed.

"Hehe, little bag, I'm bragging there again, your mutual aid club is a group of old and weak, it's difficult to eat, even a little kid like you goes to the street to solicit customers, and what kind of big forces do you say."

It was one of the several young men who had just come over who was standing aside smoking and did not interject, when he heard the boy's big words, he couldn't help but smile and debunk him.

After speaking, the man didn't pay attention to the angry rebuttal of the "little bag" on the side, but smiled at Meng Qingqiang who was standing behind Ji Liang, he had been observing Meng Qingqiang and his group from the side, although it was Ji Liang who was talking to the little bag, but he didn't think that the leader of these people was him, he thought that Meng Qingqiang, who was standing behind Ji Liang and didn't say a word, was the real leader.

Whether it is Meng Qingqiang's personal appearance and temperament, or the attitude of the people around him, it all shows that this one-eyed man is the leader of these people. The man found that when Ji Liang was communicating with the boy, he would always subconsciously look back at Meng Qingqiang.

Looking at the man in front of him, Meng Qingqiang didn't speak, only to see that this young man was not tall and thin, and the most impressive thing was that his upper lip was missing by one-third, which made his upper teeth exposed all the time, even if he didn't smile, it seemed to be baring his teeth.

Seeing Meng Qingqiang looking at himself, the man licked his exposed teeth with his tongue, and said with a smile: "My surname is Wang, because my lip was bitten off, my teeth have been bared, everyone else calls me Wang Yaya, I am the contact person of the Chengbei Brotherhood, looking at you are looking for a place, to be honest, there are not many places to clean up in the city now, even if there is a place, it is not big or in which corner, so it is wisest to find a group to join, just now the small cloth bag is right, the strength of our brotherhood is second to none, If you are a fierce friend at first glance, our fraternity is very welcome. ”

"Hey, Brother Yaya, these uncles and aunts are all the first ones I knew, you can't break the rules." "Hehe, little guy, what are the rules and regulations, our brotherhood is the rules, see that you are young and ignorant, I won't embarrass you, hurry up to the side, what do adults talk about and children interject", after speaking, he glared at the boy fiercely.

Looking at the two of them staring at each other, Meng Qingliang said with a smile: "You two misunderstood, I and these people around me are here to trade, we won't live in the city, we'll leave after the transaction." Pointing to Yang Lili and the man surnamed Guo, he said, "They and the people on the bus are the people who want to settle here, and we are just stopping by." ”

After listening to Meng Qingqiang's words, the two of them who were glaring at each other froze, skimmed Yang Lili and the others, and threw down a sentence: "If this eldest brother has any needs, whether it is settlement or trading, he can come to the north of the city, and if he asks casually, he can find my Wang Yaya, and I will leave first." "After that, turn around and leave.

Looking at Wang Yanya, who simply turned around, Meng Qingqiang shook his head and said to Yang Lili and the others who were smiling bitterly on the side: "As we thought before, this is not a good place." ”

And the small cloth bag standing on the side, although he hadn't left at this time, he was also hesitant with a tangled face, and at this time, under Meng Qingqiang's signal, Ji Liang said: "How about the little brother, you have solved the situation, or let's join your mutual aid association, aren't you called the human mutual aid association?" Are we all human? ”

"Well, okay. My name is Zhang Xiaoguang, you can call me a cloth bag. You come with me now, or go to the transit station to trade first," the boy gritted his teeth and made up his mind.

Meng Qingqiang decided to trade first, but he was a little worried about Yang Lili and the others, so he made an appointment with Xiaobu Bag and asked him to pick them up later. After the boy agreed, he explained to them some common knowledge about the transaction, and then went back to the mutual aid society to prepare for their arrival.

Looking at the boy who also left, Yang Lili was a little worried about whether he would come back. And Meng Qingqiang has no worries, if the boy doesn't come to pick them up in the end, it doesn't matter, Meng Qingqiang believes that with his own people, he can find a place to set up an organization by himself, or pack them directly back to Mengjia Village.

At the checkpoint at the end of the road, there are already many vehicles parked in line, and according to Xing Tianliang, these vehicles are all surviving humans who have come from afar, or they have come to trade with the transit station like Meng Qingqiang and his party.

According to the original plan, Meng Qingqiang and others also joined the queue, and it didn't take long for their turn. A soldier walked up to the car, looked at it, briefly inquired about the purpose of coming here, and when he learned that they were here to trade, he handed over a form for them to fill out.

There are two pages of the form, and the first page needs to fill in a lot of content, first of all, the name of the group, the number of people, the place of residence, then the person in charge of the transaction, the list of goods to be traded, etc. The second page is a description of the transaction, which indicates the list of convertible materials and the price, the unit of price is a special currency, and this currency is the kind of chip-like thing that Meng Qingqiang just saw on the way here, also called "yuan", which contains an anti-counterfeiting chip.

And the current way of trading at the transit station is also different from the past, when Wang Hu was born in the past, there was no such currency, and at that time it was all barter. Now, you need to exchange the items you need at the transit station for "money", and then you need to exchange "money" for the supplies you need.

After filling out the form, Meng Qingqiang received a number plate and was told that after entering the base, he could not walk around, but could only go to the dock dedicated to trading, find his location according to the number, and then there would be a special person to check the goods, and when everything passed, there would also be a special person to send them the money in exchange. As for buying more, you can go to the shop built on the pier to buy it.

Meng Qingqiang is very satisfied, the rules are simple and clear, and the first place on the base demand column is the head of the corpse, and the corpse has a special name here: mutant (PS for ease of reading, the following will be called mutant), and such as Meng Qingqiang, it is called a transformation mutant. He also noticed that there was something in the last few columns of the list that he was particularly concerned about: an unidentified yellow substance, often found in the brains of transformed mutants. This item has a very high replacement price on the list.

Meng Qingqiang's speculation waited for confirmation, it seems that human research institutions have discovered that substance, and it can be seen from the price that perhaps the people in the base know more about this substance than themselves.

Touching his head, he smiled, maybe this was the most valuable of all their items this time.