Chapter Ninety-Four: Trade Routes
By the time the xenomorph corpses in the base were cleaned, it was nearly dusk, but the radioactive dust in the sky blocked the sunlight, and it was just as dark as it was in the morning and evening.
To be on the safe side, Huang Shang led more than 200 soldiers of the Forward Battalion, plus skilled workers in the base, to carry out the repair of the base wall.
He first awakened the system and asked it to use the remaining iron raw materials on the surface to lay the foundations of the walls around the base.
If steel was abundant, he could have built a towering wall directly on the surface, but now it was different, and he had to take it slowly.
The height of the walls is not too high, which can not only play a role in resisting mutants, but also better hide in the ice and snow.
The concentration of radiation on the surface is too high to be exposed for a long time, even if you wear airtight radiation protection clothing.
After only one night, the nearly three-meter wall was erected, and with exhaustion, the bronze beast led a group of workers back underground.
A creepy beast roar sounded around the base, but after the melee during the day, the average xenomorph didn't dare to take a step forward.
Eight sentry machine guns were erected on the city wall, and the Queen Bee drone array was put into use again, although the base was still snow-white, Huang Shang did not intend to lose the airspace and territory.
After the work on the surface was completed, Huang Shang dragged his tired body back to the ground, took a hot bath, and lay comfortably on the bed.
Su Lan soon appeared beside the bed, because the size of the pajamas was not suitable, the snow-white skin was exposed to his eyes, and her lower body was stirred, she held a glass of red wine and looked at Huang Shang with a smile.
"Found it in the corner of the basement, presumably by accident while looting supplies." Su Lan shook the wine in the cup, "Why don't you have a glass?" Helps with sleep. β
"Okay." Huang Shang said with a smile.
"But there's only one glass." Su Lan looked at Huang Shang's helpless expression, smiled very enjoyably, then took a sip of the wine in the glass, sat down next to Huang Shang, and leaned down.
The bright red lips blocked Huang Shang's mouth to speak, the soft fragrant tongue skillfully pried open his teeth, and as the hot kiss continued, a small stream of warm red wine passed from his lips, almost subconsciously, Huang Shang hugged her willow waist.
Nothing was said all night.
The next day, Huang Shang rubbed his sleepy eyes, but found that the beauty around him had long since disappeared, and after a while, a glass of hot milk and a few slices of bread were handed to the bedside.
"Eat it while it's hot, and I'll talk to you later." After Su Lan wiped Huang Shang's hands with a hot towel, he said warmly.
"Just say it now."
"Well.... All right. Su Lan took a breath, "We don't have much food, and in order to keep the base running, this gap needs to be filled urgently." β
"How so? If we were to provide every one of our people with three normal meals, we would have enough food for several years. Huang Shang was unimpressed.
"No, in the base... There was something weird. Su Lan spread his hands helplessly.
"Strange disease?!" Huang Shang chuckled in his heart, the underground shelter was in a completely closed state, and if there were extremely infectious lesions at this time, the consequences would be unimaginable.
"Yes, many people in the base have the same symptoms, increased body temperature, bleeding from the seven orifices, and confusion."
"Dead?" Huang Shang asked.
Su Lan shook his head, "These symptoms seem to be serious, but the strange thing is that within a few days, these patients will recover automatically, but the amount of food will increase several times." β
"Are there any overrunners in the base?"
After listening to Su Lan's explanation, Huang Shang's first thought was that a large number of overlimits had awakened in the base, and after the nuclear explosion, most of the xenomorphs had undergone secondary evolution, and there was no reason for humans to remain unchanged.
"No, so it's weird." Su Lan bit his lip, "The main thing is that there is no independent research institute in the base, and it is impossible to determine what is going on in the bodies of these diseased people. β
"Indeed." Huang Shangwu nodded to himself, "You determine the number of lesions, record them, and wait until there is a medical research institution in the base, and then we will study it well." β
"Yes, sir." Su Lan pulled her hair behind her ears and turned to leave.
"Is there not enough food?" Huang Shang pondered for a long time, "The weak forces will not have much food in stock, and it seems that it is necessary to open up a trade route for large organizations." β
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Shangjing City, the sky is gray, as the most serious firepower points hit by nuclear bombs, Shangjing is undoubtedly on the top rank.
Nearly 100 nuclear bomb craters are densely packed throughout the city, and as far as the eye can see, there is a scorched earth.
The hill of countless corpses was sealed underground by ice and snow, and the advent of nuclear winter sprinkled salt on this land that had already fallen into hell, and the international metropolis with a population of tens of millions was almost invisible.
Only a few poor creatures shivered in the gloom, and a dying scream came from their throats.
On top of this purgatory-like wasteland, a building hundreds of stories tall stands out from everything around it.
This skyscraper has a new appearance, as if it has not been baptized by a nuclear bomb, and the small buildings are surrounded by stars and moons, layer by layer.
Plutocratic Union.
It's a resounding name, and even in the Old World, the elites who lived in the upper echelons were powerful enough to shake the whole of Asia and the world, both economically and politically.
After the apocalypse, instead of being rewritten, this situation has become more and more powerful without the constraints of the law.
Standing on the thirteenth floor of a skyscraper, Ma Gongming looked down through the floor-to-ceiling windows at everything below, the work of thousands of laborers and slaves day by day, and everything was in prosperity under the chaebol alliance.
He liked the feeling that God looked down on his people, and he looked down on the slaves and took control of their livesβthe giants of the plutocracy all started out in different industries, and his slave industry was not to be taken lightly.
"Boss."
Behind him came a knock on the secretary's door.
"Enter." He snorted coldly and didn't look back.
"Mr. Zhao put pressure on us, what he meant was that if our slaves could not complete the task within half a month, he would expel them by force."
"Fuck! No shame! β
Ma Gongming scolded angrily, "It is very clear in the contract that our people will build an arsenal for them to obtain 30,000 waste land coins, and seeing that the date is approaching, he actually plans to repay the debt?!" β
What's more, the other party actually wants to slaughter his slaves with firepower, although the slaves are not valuable, but they are his personal belongings, and private property is sacrosanct, which is the first article of the alliance treaty!
Zhao Lei dared to be a deaf ear!
"Alas!"
Although his face was very angry, Zhao Gongming still showed a helpless look, in the high-level council of the entire chaebol alliance, only he Ma Gongming's family did not have private arms, nor did they have large-scale hot weapons, although the business was very large, but they were always robbed by people with guns pointed at their necks, which was not pleasant.
What is even more infuriating is that in the chaebol alliance, all the high-level parliamentarians have the same attitude towards hot weapons: ban trade and no trafficking.
This made him unable to hold his head up in the council all the time, and he sent people to find major organizations outside Shangjing many times, hoping to obtain weapons through purchase, but the people sent out were like stones sinking into the sea, and they did not arouse any response at all.