acT38: The tip of the iceberg

"You go on." Song Jiu nodded.

"I don't know why they're in the county, but they didn't attack you, and they're ...... I also saved one of your people......" Liu Yan considered the wording and said slowly: "I think they just want you to come here." Song Jiu raised his eyebrows and motioned for him to continue.

"According to what Brother Ziqian said, if there was no such thing that night... Living corpses, you're planning to stay in the county seat, right? Liu Yan asked.

"That's right." Luo Yu replied before Jiao Ziqian.

"So, if there are no living corpses, it is very likely that you will not be able to detect the large-scale corpse attack, according to your armed forces at that time, once you are trapped in the city, you are only afraid of many bad luck." Liu Yan did not shy away from it, and took the opportunity to talk about some things about living corpses: "You said that those living corpses are not afraid of walking corpses at all, this is a piece of evidence." The living corpse is not as complicated as you think, but it is not that simple, such as me, and the other living corpses in the camp, and they can only run in the face of the walking corpse. ”

"Why?"

"Because... Because..."Liu Yan licked his lips, as if he didn't know what to say, thought about it, and made a weird analogy: "It's like two assembly line products, with different workmanship." "A table of eyeballs jumped.

"Workmanship?" Jiao Ziqian's facial features twisted together, and he said in surprise: "Could it be that you are artificial people!" Luo Yu gave him a roll of the eye and teased: "Read less comics and read more." ”

"Well, that's how it could be described." Liu Yan surprisingly did not refute, but agreed with this description, and frowned: "One or two sentences are difficult to explain, to put it simply...... Living corpses are all products of drugs that cause disease, and have nothing to do with the natural mutations spread outside! "Another bombshell news.

"Drugs?" Song Jiu furrowed his eyebrows, and the kitchen lady Jia lowered her eyelids, and she never participated in the conversation.

"Yes, but it's a long story, I'll tell you about it slowly when I have time." Liu Yan pulled the topic back to the place where he was talking, and said, "So I think the living corpses you encountered should have something to do with here, maybe it was the advance or something else, in short, I met you, and warned you before the group of walking corpses attacked." The purpose is to get you here, which is in line with the camp's principle of keeping survivors in captivity. ”

"I agree with him." Luo Yu nodded in agreement.

"So you're saying that the living corpses search for survivors on a large scale, gather them in the camp in various ways, and then cycle through the blood exchange, like this?" Song Jiu threw out a question that was not answered, pondered for a moment, and said: "This makes sense, it's okay, the county is safe, it's convenient for us to move, as for the living corpses, don't be nervous, I asked Sister Jia to re-record the list in the camp, and I have arranged the guards, so there is no problem of mixing in." Even if they were secretly observing the place, there was no reason why they would be aware of the changes inside. ”

"So you're going to lure the wolf in?" The acne girl finally found a place where she could pick up the stubble, and hurriedly asked.

"It's also called please enter the urn." Chef Jia squeaked coldly, pursed her lips and smiled: "It's very bold, but if you succeed, it will save you a lot of trouble." But I don't think you realize the root of the problem. ”

"Oh?" Song Jiu raised his eyebrows and asked, "Tell me about it." ”

"The enemy you envision now is just a group of living corpses that come back every month." Chef Niangjia dipped her finger in some wine, drew a circle on the mahogany table, and said, "Maybe we can eat this group of people, but behind them is a powerful force that has formed a scale and has a somewhat well-established system, and I have reason to believe that this camp is just one of their many captive areas." What do you think will happen if the team of living corpses responsible for the turnover here is gone? ”

"......" Chef Niangjia's words that were not salty or light instantly pulled the indoor temperature to freezing, and everyone at the table looked at each other, and their eyebrows were twisted into marijuana flowers one after another.

Song Jiu's fingertips tapped on the tabletop and gently broke the silence: "So, Sister Jia, what advice do you want to give me?" Cook Jia breathed a sigh of relief and spread her hands: "I don't know, in short, this thing is very difficult to do, we are not the only ones alive, we have to face far more severe than we imagined." Now that you're the owner of this camp, I can only give advice, and it's up to you to decide what to do. ”

"Hmm." Song Jiu nodded, thought for a while, and asked, "Actually, I'm curious about one thing, where did the large amount of materials brought back by the living corpses come from?" If they are so wealthy, why are survivors kept in captivity in the wilderness in these mountain suburbs? Why not take it away in a car? ”

"I can probably answer the first question." Cook Niangjia took the wine glass and drank it all, her fair cheeks flushed, and she said: "It's still the same sentence just now, we are not the only ones alive, and in the same way, this camp is not the only one. I was also curious at first, because they often brought back seasonal vegetables and fresh meats, which were not well frozen, but showed no signs of spoilage. The Knights of the Round Table frowned and listened, waiting for Chef Niangjia to continue to decipher.

"This means that the place where they have a lot of supplies is not far from here, or...... The supplies were obtained in the vicinity of here. Chef Niangjia's eyes swept over everyone and stopped on Song Jiu's face: "There must be more than one place where the living gather not far away, and the supplies supplied by the living corpses should be replenished along the way." "Silence, suffocating silence.

Chef Niangjia's conjecture was a little unbelievable, Jiao Ziqian heard it in a fog, but Song Jiu and the others vaguely figured out what Chef Niangjia meant.

The riverbank camp may be just a screw in a large link, or one of the stops, on this road that does not know the beginning and the end, there are survivors' captive land, material supply land, and more detailed distribution, and maybe there will be full-time vegetable planting, livestock breeding, drug resource storage, gasoline and coal storage, daily necessities storage...... Just like the circle that Chef Niangjia drew on the table, the living corpse arranges the points of different duties according to the set route, completes each cycle, and uses the storage area of the previous station to supplement the next station, and repeats the cycle to achieve a certain balance!

Song Jiu suddenly understood the worry between the chef's eyebrows, what she was worried about was not the living corpse that was about to return, but the chain reaction caused by breaking the balance!

Staring at the disappearing circle on the table, many puzzling questions seemed to be solved and became no longer mysterious.

For example, the riverbank camp will regularly exchange blood and secretly transfer a group of people, and Song Jiu has never understood the meaning of transferring these people.

At first, he thought that the living corpse was cultivating some people with management skills, but after Chef Niangjia's suggestion, Song Jiu suddenly realized his misunderstanding.

It's a circle, and the previous stop at the riverbank camp may have provided food, so what does the riverbank camp deliver to the next location?

The answer is obvious. It's like an arithmetic problem, the starting point of the circle is

"10", the living corpse

"10" is rounded into zero, placed one by one in ten locations, and then from

"1" took away part of the transfer to

"2", again from

"2" takes away a part of the conveyance to

“3”…… In this way, the cycle is cycled for a week, and the final result is naturally greater than

"10", what about the extra one? Song Jiu gasped, stunned by his own assumptions.

A circle of people looked at Song Jiu in unison, not knowing why he suddenly showed this expression. Cook Niangjia smiled, her smile was full of bitterness, she knew that Song Jiu understood.

"Oh my God, living corpses are building cities?!" Luo Yu realized it later, and also had a beautiful expression.

"What's that? What are you talking about? Jiao Ziqian was so anxious that he scratched his ears and cheeks, patted this and that, and waited for the smart person to announce the answer.

"The living corpse has invisibly established the prototype of the city......" Luo Yu looked at Song Jiu in disbelief, and after a few deliberations, he didn't know how to use the words, so he had to explain in the vernacular: "With so many duties within a fixed range, isn't this the prototype of the city?" Like this camp, although there are farms and livestock, the production is not enough to sustain the consumption of so many people, so supplies need to be supplied from upstream or downstream. Other places may be able to stably supply and produce a certain type of material, but the personnel are not enough to expand the scale, so it is necessary to replenish fresh blood from the riverbank camp, one ring after another, and finally form an indispensable chain! ”

"Sounds ...... Seems pretty good. The acne girl blinked and wondered, "If that's the case, then let's just continue to work like this." ”

"Could it be the government?" Xu Aifei was also intrigued by this conjecture and speculated: "When this circle becomes complete, won't the orderly human society reappear?" ”

"Not the government." Liu Yan lifted his glasses and said firmly: "The remnants of the government have fled abroad as early as three years ago. ”

"How do you know a little bit about everything?" Jiao Ziqian was very curious, looked at Liu Yan with an awe-inspiring face, and said, "How do you know?" Liu Yan raised his eyelids, and saw that everyone's puzzled eyes were on him, so he sighed helplessly, and said: "This matter is also difficult to explain, believe me, I have time to talk to you in detail." ”

"Wait, don't interrupt." The acne girl hurriedly waved her hand and said, "No one answered my question just now!" Why do you think this is bad? ”

"Guli, if the government rebuilds order, it is indeed a good thing, but the source now is not the government." Chef Niangjia touched the hair of the acne girl's chicken nest, and Wen Yan explained: "As far as we can see, the living corpse is the starting point of this circle, they may want to establish a regime, but it will never be the kind we imagined. The circle is constantly expanding, and the more each station grows, the more difficult it is to get rid of the whole circle, and the upstream and downstream sites are like beads, and the living corpse is the thread that strings the beads. For example, we are now out of the circle, first of all, we will lose the supply of materials, fortunately our population base is relatively large, and the geographical location by the mountains and rivers has a certain advantage, and it is still the early stage of drawing a circle, as long as we see the back road, we will always get through the work together. But what about the future? The living corpses connect the entire line, with mobility and firepower that we don't have, and once the city is formed, do you think it is possible for us to become the citizens of the past? ”

"I don't understand, what will it be?" Jiao Ziqian asked with a grin.

"Slaves." Xin Mengfan didn't know when he appeared on the side, and lightly opened his lips and spit out two words.

"Almost." Luo Yu nodded and added: "We are the cornerstone of the pyramid, we need to run in cycles, and the result of maintaining balance is to have an absolute dependence on the top, and the existence at the top of the pyramid is precisely the living corpse." ”

"That's right, as the cornerstone, the larger the population base, the more resources can be created, and the resources that fall into our pockets are only enough to continue to operate, and the majority is at the top......" Song Jiu sorted out the context and concluded: "The living corpses grabbed resources and became the part that got rich first, as for us, we can only continue to be pulled by the rope tied to our necks, walking around the millstone." ”...