CHAPTER XVIII. Tucker Base 18

In the next few days, everything seemed to have returned to calm, the three people who originally needed Li Jie's resurrection, no one did any communication with Li Jie about this matter, and directly got one person, that is, the virology expert of the Bald Eagle Country, and the other two, the former military boss, and his son, disappeared quietly, did not appear in front of Li Jie, and no one asked Li Jie to treat these two people, as for where they had been infected, Li Jie did not know.

The base is still in order, and there are still survivors coming to the Tucker base every day, and the Tucker base still arranges these survivors who have worked so hard to get here, a place to live, three days of food, and a job.

Even so, Li Jie still smelled a hint of crisis.

……

No matter how uneasy Li Jie is, Li Jie, who doesn't know about the water problem, can only repeat his old life.

On weekdays, except for three working days a week, Li Jie will stay in the 501 Institute and cooperate with researchers to conduct research, and the rest of the time, he will walk around Tucker City with guards.

Although the guards tried their best to advise Li Jie not to go around in crowded places unless necessary, they couldn't stand Li Jie's insistence! Helpless, they could only be vigilant and follow inch by inch.

In the streets and alleys, in addition to some so-called "state-run" shops, many people began to set up stalls, which became Li Jie's favorite place to hang out.

Over the past few days, Li Jie has already figured out the basic layout of Tucker City. It is roughly divided into 36 districts, each with military and police stationing.

Among them, one of the streets in the 6th arrondissement is the most prosperous.

Especially at night, when the wind is not blowing in the Tucker Desert, countless batteries are connected to different types of light bulbs, which illuminate the place brilliantly.

Today, Li Jie simply drove out, and took the family who had been bored at home for a long time, and collectively came out to walk around this night market, which can be regarded as letting his parents relax.

In Li Jie's family, because of his particularity, Zeng Pei and Li Jianguo, Xie Xiaoli, Zeng Aiguo, and Han Caixia were not arranged to work, and the people in the No. 1 compound basically didn't go out much, coupled with serious differences in life experience and circles, the family basically had nothing to say in the courtyard.

"Wow! There's a stroller here! Walking on the cement road in District 6, Zeng Pei saw a young woman's stall at a glance, saying that it was a stall, and only a few things were scattered, among them, a stroller that could be folded into the size of a backpack attracted Zeng Pei's attention.

"How do you sell this?" Li Jie smiled and walked over to the stall.

“50！ Only 50! Only water tickets are accepted! The woman looked at Li Jie a little nervously and made her own request.

"Huh? Why? Food stamps are not either? Aren't these two things exchangeable? Li Jie asked with some confusion.

At the Tucker base, in addition to paying for tap water, the water ticket can also be exchanged for additional water directly at the official business where the water is sold.

After all, the supply of clean water for one hour a day is not very stable, and it is often only a stream as thick as chopsticks.

"Water tickets are worth a lot of money now." The woman glanced at Li Jie and said with a slight hesitation.

Li Jie's water ticket has hardly been used, and for him, the water at home is just a matter of raising his hand. Raising his eyebrows, Li Jie took out his mobile phone, used his mobile phone to pay, and transferred the water ticket to the woman, the woman was overjoyed, and couldn't help but say a few more words: "In the past, there were acquaintances who could buy more water from the water truck, and they earned a little extra money, but now, it is said that the daily water has begun to be limited, and each person can only buy 2L per day, and if you want to buy more, it is almost twice as expensive!" ”

In the Tucker Desert, bathing is a luxury for everyone. The shortage of water sources has led to the fact that everyone can only use roughly filtered domestic water to bathe and wash clothes, but this water is corrosive, and after washing the head, the head will itch quickly, and the body is not comfortable, so it has almost become a practice to buy some fresh water as much as possible.

But now, it's a limited supply?

Li Jie nodded thoughtfully, kept the news in his heart, and then took the stroller and put the babbling little Chen Xi inside.

Xiao Chen Xi, this child, since he came to Tucker City, his body has grown rapidly, and now he will babble and shout to Li Jie, "Baba, Baba." "I will stretch out my hand to hug, my favorite person is Li Jie, followed by Li Jianguo, Zeng Aiguo, Zeng Pei claims to be his mother, but he can only rank last.

With children, a family, walking on the street of the night market in Tucker City, it is a rare feeling of relaxation.

Suddenly, an indescribable aroma came, and a barbecue stall was not far ahead.

An old man in his 50s, with a teenage boy, set up three simple tables on the side of the road, and used charcoal fire on another stove to make kebabs!

Barbecue!

Li Jie's eyes lit up subconsciously, and he took a deep breath intoxicated, and the intoxicating aroma of cumin chili pepper suddenly made him can't help but walk to the edge of the barbecue stall.

"Oh, come on, do it, pony, go get another table! Roast beef, it's all fresh frozen beef from the grain station, how many people, eat some? The older man greeted him warmly as he roasted the meat.

"How do you sell it?" Li Jie asked with a smile.

"1 water ticket for a string, or 1.5 food stamps for a string, it's fine!" The man said cheerfully.

"Here's me, well, a bunch to try first." Li Jie swallowed back half of his words, rolled his eyes, and said with a smile.

"Oh! Eat with confidence! This beef is not killed first, not as good as my old horse used to sell, but it is still fresh, eat, this string of my old horse is a treat! Guests should try it! Lao Ma immediately understood what Li Jie meant, and wanted to see how his things were, so he waved his hand boldly, pinched out a few skewers from the handful of meat that had just been roasted, and handed them to Li Jie and Zeng Aiguo, the two tasted it, Li Jie's eyes lit up, good guy, the taste is really good!!

"Come on, come on, mom and dad, do it, give us 50 skewers of meat first, 50 skewers of tendons, and then ......" Li Jie was overjoyed and opened his mouth to come!

"Oops, guest, only meat, only meat, no separate skewers!" Lao Ma hurriedly explained.

"Well, okay then, meat is meat, come on 100 skewers!" Li Jie waved his hand and motioned to the old horse to barbecue!

On the stall, counting Li Jie's family at this time, there are four tables, and the rest of the tables look at Li Jie's family, and they can't help but be a little surprised in their eyes!

At this time, there are definitely not many people who can be together as a family, and the entire Tucker base is definitely not much, especially one like Li Jie's family, which is simply one in ten thousand!

This is the first time Li Jie has eaten such authentic barbecue in half a year, which makes him extremely rare, and he regrets why he didn't come here earlier, chatting with his family while eating meat!

On the other three tables, one of which was filled with only one person, eating the barbecue slowly, and on the table there were already a pile of barbecue skewers made from bicycle spokes (iron skewers on wheels).

This person is about 30 years old, but he seems to be very calm, but there is a bored look in his eyebrows, and he is eating, when he suddenly hears the conversation between the boss and Li Jie, and looks back meaningfully.

Looking at the old and young who were obviously a family, he was a little surprised at first, and then he didn't look at it anymore, picked up the only remaining string and put it in his mouth, and as soon as he took a bite, his eyes lit up suddenly, and then he turned back sharply and looked directly at Li Jie!

Ma Xiaodong reluctantly took the meat handed over by Li Jie, although he also likes to eat it, but in this kind of place, Li Jie's safety is what he is most worried about, he would rather not eat this meat, and only hope that Li Jie will go home quickly.

Suddenly, at the table farthest from here, the man who was eating meat slowly and methodically was looking back at Li Jie suddenly, his eyes were full of incredulity, surprise, and countless complex emotions!

Ma Xiaodong "chuckled" in his heart, but immediately covered up his abnormality, and then naturally took out a string of meat and said to Cao Siyuan: "Old Cao." It's been a long time since you've eaten meat, right? Try!! Come on! ”

Cao Siyuan was stunned for a moment, and saw Ma Xiaodong facing him, with one hand slightly making a few simple gestures, and the content of the gesture was: "Alert!" Unknown person, direction, behind me! ”

Cao Siyuan instantly understood, took the barbecue with a smile, and swept his eyes behind Ma Xiaodong without a trace, and immediately paid attention to the man staring at Li Jie!

didn't dare to look more, immediately withdrew his eyes, and then secretly signaled Xiao Li and Mao Tianyu, simple sign language communication, the four of them ate barbecue without a trace, but all the attention was on the surrounding environment!

Ma Xiaodong stared at this suspicious person, Cao Siyuan looked around, looking for possible accomplices, and Mao Tianyu and Xiao Li were on full alert, lest something happen!

Li Jie's family didn't know the abnormality of the four guards, but ate and drank happily, Li Jie also ordered a drink, a drink made of sour grass from the Tucker Desert, which tasted sweet and sour, not delicious, but also distinctive, better than drinking water.

And the man retracted his gaze at this moment, and his heart was like a turbulent wave!!

The light in his eyes flowed, countless thoughts came to his brain, nervously holding the stick, and the fierce ideological struggle made him almost lose his temper on the spot!

"Is that him?"

"Could it be him?"

"A family, a family of six, it must be them! The four next to them must be guards! ”

"What should I do?"

"There are so many guards, there is no way to get close to him......"

"Next time, find a chance to ......"

"No, it's too late......"

"But the guard, his guard should have been eyeing me......"

"No, I'll have to figure out how to ......"

“……”

The man clenched his fists for a while, gritted his teeth for a while, quietly took out a piece of paper, wrote a few words on it, quietly crumpled it into a ball, and after about 5 minutes, he finally calmed down slowly.

He understood that he had to seize this rare opportunity.

He turned his head and turned sideways to face Li Jie, with a hesitation, doubt, and uncertain expression on his face, pondering there, wandering, and finally, slowly standing up, walking in front of the owner of the barbecue stall.

"Oh, Brother Ma, check out!"

"Good! Well, 50 skewers, water stamps or food stamps? The old horse replied cheerfully, and the pony hurriedly went up to clean up the table.

"Water ticket! Give ......"

After paying the money, the man looked at Li Jie with some hesitation, and then called out to Li Jie who was 5 meters away: "Li ...... Li Jie? ”

"Huh?"

"Ah, sure enough, it's you, I'm Xiao Wenxing! Long time no see! At this moment, the middle-aged man looked at Li Jie excitedly, with the look of an old acquaintance in a foreign country.

"Xiao Wenxing...? Ah, ah, long time no see! Li Jie looked at the benevolent brother in front of him with a confused expression, Xiao Wenxing? When did I remember my classmates?

"It's great that you're alive! Remember me, right? When we used to be in junior high school, we would skip school and play games in Internet cafes, but I often invited you to play! Xiao Wenxing burst into tears with excitement, and didn't forget to say with a smile.

"Oh! Yes, yes, yes! Li Jie's heart suddenly stirred, when he was in junior high school, he never skipped school, and he never went to an Internet café!

This man is not his own classmate, he knows himself!

But subconsciously, Li Jie didn't intend to expose this person, he came here to eat barbecue, it was completely random, and he was already here, obviously, this should be a coincidence!

But how could he know himself?

Thinking with your toes, you understand that your relevant information must be kept absolutely confidential, otherwise, the two peaches kill the three soldiers, and the allusions such as not suffering from widowhood and suffering from unevenness are not a joke!

The person in front of him is obviously unwilling to reveal his identity, but he knows himself and pretends to be his classmate!

"Oh, hello uncle and aunt, well, Li Jie and I haven't seen each other for a long time, but I still have something to do, so I'll leave a phone call, let's talk about it!" As he spoke, he looked like he had something to leave, and turned to the owner of the barbecue stall: "Boss, lend me a piece of paper!" ”

Then, in a hurry, he left a set of phones, handed them to Li Jie under the watchful eyes of several guards, patted Li Jie's shoulder gently, and said, "The children are so old, congratulations!" I'll go first, no matter how much to contact! ”

Li Jie took the piece of paper, but under the piece of paper, there was a small ball of paper!

took it quietly, quietly put it in his sleeve, and then pretended to be relaxed and said: "Oh, I can't think of another classmate like this, haha, hey, it seems to be a little impression, hey, it's been decades, the vicissitudes of life!" ”

"Canghai fart, you are still decades~~" Zeng Pei smiled and despised Li Jie, and the two of them laughed.

The four guards who were on guard looked at it with some suspicion, and then slowly relaxed.

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At night, when they got home, they didn't shy away from the guards, and even helped them extract water from their mobile phones, and then the family went back to their rooms, turned off the lights and went to sleep.

At this time, Li Jie quietly took out the paper ball that was crumpled into a small ball, only the size of a soybean, from his pants pocket!

Quietly unfolded, under the faint light of the mobile phone, a line of words was written: "The base is dangerous, nuclear contamination, contact me quickly!" 6 for 9! ”