Chapter 827: Roads and Vehicles
From summer to autumn, the expansion of the Endless City has been a chain reaction that has made a difference in the lives of the survivors in and out of the city.
It's just that it's time to live a life, it's time to go out on a mission or to go out, and it's time to go to the wilderness and continue to pioneer, the difference is that the Endless City has become several times bigger, so that many people who are familiar with the life and roads in the city have become some
How so?
It's just a little strange and inconvenient.
The strangeness is because of the construction and planning of the city in the Endless City for more than a year, as well as the efforts of various gang groups and survivors, the buildings and facilities in the city have once again changed from desolation to new life, the roads are clean and tidy, and the houses are brand new and neat.
And now after the expansion of the Endless City, those originally deserted cities are once again divided into the city, if you look down at the ground from the sky, you can see the entire Endless City, the center point is around the Endless Fortress for several kilometers, the voices of people are full of people, and the buildings are colorful and blooming, but in the distance, it is the gray-black dilapidated buildings that wrap this "stamen", like a decaying tidbit.
As for the inconvenience, it is also very easy to understand, because of the expansion of the Endless City, people who were familiar with the city before, those who had a car could drive to the city gate in just a few minutes, but now it takes nearly ten minutes, not to mention those brand new streets in the Endless City, most of them have not been completely cleaned up, which has caused them a lot of travel trouble.
Those who don't have a car and need to walk even have to walk for about half an hour to get out of the city, which makes many people feel inconvenient.
So this also made the Endless City's own bus system, began to increase the flow of passengers, some of the original reluctant to take the bus route, one by one, for the convenience of travel, also on the bus out of the city, so that a few shifts of buses a day not only full of people, but also continue to put forward opinions in the customer service center of the Endless Fortress, hoping that the fortress will increase the shuttle bus and new routes of traffic.
Maybe many people are curious, why are there still people who don't travel on foot, now there are no rules in the end times, except for the Endless City, inside and outside the entire city, there are pre-apocalyptic vehicles everywhere, which can be easily captured, why don't you drive.
In fact, you can't think of everything as simple.
It has been more than two years since the beginning of the apocalypse, and the vehicle has spent two years in such an unknown environment as the end of the world.
Not to mention the normal vehicles, which are not used for two years, the aging and wear and tear of the vehicles, these vehicles without keys and gasoline are transferred to the city, which requires a very large amount of work and energy to complete and ensure the safety of the transportation route.
And not every vehicle that is still in good condition can be transported to the city to be renovated, because the vehicles used in the last days must be transformed, and they need to be transformed into vehicles that can at least resist the invasion of zombies.
This is also the reason why many small teams of survivors in the city, in addition to searching for various materials, as well as the most valuable materials such as gold and diamonds, focus on looking for vehicles as valuable means of transportation.
Vehicles, weapons, firearms, and the most valuable strategic goods besides gold and diamonds are not only expensive but also status symbols in the city.
As for the materials that surpass these, they are not something that ordinary people can have an in-depth understanding of, such as skill books, and some divine weapons provided in the fortress, as well as various magical technological products, as well as some mutated fruits and vegetables that can be used by survivors who have broken out outside the city.
Going back to the old topic, regarding vehicles, the various gangs in the city are also running a business about the means of transportation that survivors of the apocalyptic world will inevitably use.
Each gang and group has its own pioneer department responsible for searching for vehicles, and there are also transactions in the city for some scattered people and small groups to buy vehicles.
Of course, the operation was born from the original Wanda base, the birth of some car repair shops and modified car shops, and now the year of the Endless City, which has become more widespread and huge.
Several of the original vehicle remodeling shops in the city, with the cooperation with the large gangs, have become more powerful, it can be said that they have contracted the maintenance and modification of most of the vehicles in the city, and although the Endless Fortress also sells vehicles, the vehicles sold in the fortress trading hall are inevitably expensive combat vehicles, although the effect is first-class, but the average survivor can only sigh when they look at the expensive price.
This also leads to the fact that most of the vehicles inside and outside the city are monopolized and contracted by them.
Many small groups are willing to enjoy this kind of work, pioneer and find a source of cars, and then subcontract them to these car remodeling shops in the city, and then get a lot of money.
You may wonder why vehicles have not yet been popularized to most of the survivors, since they are contracted and monopolized by vehicle modifications in the city, and with the support and cooperation of large gangs.
It needs to be explained here that the price of ordinary vehicles and modified vehicles is very different.
An ordinary vehicle enters the transformation shop, it needs to go through a period of time, and then it is transformed into a modified combat vehicle that can ensure a certain safety in the field, and then it is sold, at this time, the price may have increased several times, which is not something that ordinary people can afford.
As for some people who drive in the city without renovation, it is conceivable that ordinary residents in the city will not buy such a means of transportation just for convenience and forced use, it is better to rent some bicycles and reasonably priced motorcycles.
In addition, after the creation of Everfree City, the chaotic and crowded vehicles in the city, and the opening of roads, and some traffic jams and car accidents, Endless Fortress also launched some measures to clean up vehicles, which also discouraged survivors who wanted to or could buy vehicles.
However, as long as the vehicles in the city want to drive on the road in the city, they must be registered and registered in the Endless Fortress.
This so-called registration and reporting is very well understood, recording the ownership and location of the vehicle, as well as the degree of transformation and the assembly of weapons, as for the license, that is, a new electronic license plate established by the update of the Endless Fortress, similar to the identity card, it has a storage function, which can cooperate with the scanning function required by all the Endless Fortress in the Endless City, which is convenient for the owner of the vehicle, and is also easy to find and manage.
And the license plate of these numbers is different from the abbreviation of the province and city marked in front before the end of the world, but can be marked with the Chinese abbreviation of their respective gangs and groups, and even individuals, of course, there is only one word at most.
However, some gangs and group cars, inevitably need to be modified behind the license plate, spray the name of their respective gang, so as to facilitate the management and identification inside and outside the city, this was not originally an endless fortress proposed regulations, in the city of each gang should be the first to circulate, because in the area outside the city, some gang convoys will encounter, in order to identify the identity of the vehicle, will be sprayed on the body of the respective gang name, so that the gang brothers can easily identify.
Although there is a single abbreviation on the license plate, it must not be compared with the spraying marked in the conspicuous place of the vehicle.
The license plate issued by the Endless Fortress also requires a certain handling fee, as well as a simple assessment to pass, before the end of the world, there are still many people who do not have a driver's license, even after the end of the world, this chaotic world, will not let some people who can't drive, get a license, accidentally have an accident in the city, causing unnecessary trouble.
Therefore, the needs and problems of vehicles have always existed, but for some people, this is an inevitable need, and they will also follow the rules of the Endless City to compromise and adapt.