Chapter 18 The Pattern of Small Towns

Shen Lie's words made the tattooed young man more sure that Shen Lie was a survivor who had been living on the other side of the river, or a lucky person who had awakened his abilities, and the thoughts in his heart became stronger and stronger, and he said knowingly: "The medicinal herb base in the north of the town is now red mist, and it is impossible to get close at all, although this mushroom field is on the edge, but somehow there is a group of mutated crows over there, ordinary people are okay, if the awakened people get close, they will be attacked by those crows crazy, and two awakened people have already died over there, The rest of the few are very desperate for their lives, and they don't take risks themselves, but they monopolize the materials and let us ordinary people work hard. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info"

The tattooed young man couldn't help but grit his teeth a little when he said that he monopolized the materials, it seemed that he had not been exploited by those so-called awakened people, and the expressions of the rest of the people were similar, and Shen Lie could basically think of some of the situation in the town at this time.

"Tell me about the town." Shen Lie picked up the pistol that the tattooed youth threw away and said. He didn't pick up the box containing the mushrooms, after three months of life and death experience, caution has been engraved in his bones, and unknown items should not be held casually in his hands.

The tattooed young man didn't have any other expression when he saw Shen Lie's actions, he put the mushroom box on the ground, then took out the mushrooms inside, put them in front of his nose, sniffed them and put them back, and then began to talk to Shen Lie about the situation in the town.

Half an hour later, Shen Lie walked out of the woods by the river, carrying his backpack, followed by a group of ten people including the tattooed youth, but the tattooed youth's right little finger was cut off, and it was bloody and exposed outside without bandaging.

Shen Lie didn't do anything to these people in the end, because after learning about the situation in this town, he felt that it was really not so easy for a person to live, and the way out around this town was all shrouded in red mist on the medicine field, and it was difficult to leave in a short time, so when the tattooed young man and others wanted to worship him, the 'awakened one', when the boss formed a temporary group, he agreed to it.

And the tattooed young man is also a decisive person, after giving up the position of the leader of the small group, he immediately cut off one of his little fingers with a kitchen knife as an apology for being rude to Shen Lie just now, Shen Lie smiled and didn't say much, but he was more vigilant about this tattooed young man, a person who was ruthless to himself would definitely be more serious to others.

From the half-hour-long exchange, Shen Lie finally learned about the situation in the town at this time, there are currently four so-called awakened people in the entire town, all of whom have mutated one after another since the beginning of the apocalypse. At first, there were six, and two were soldiers sent by the military to guide the masses to evacuate, but these two people went to the medicine field to collect them after discovering the effect of the phantom mushroom, and were attacked and killed by those mutant crows.

It is the nature of human beings to never forget the struggle for power and profit.

After getting through the panic at the beginning of the apocalypse, because of the lack of the constraints of order and the psychological distortion after the radical change, some people who have a certain power begin to bully the weak and find the pleasure of venting from it. Especially after discovering that the entire town was surrounded by the red mist of the medicine fields outside and could not leave, and those terrifying spider monsters could not cross that 'red river', the inferior roots of human nature completely exploded!

Robbery, rape, murder, all the crimes that were basically invisible before happen almost all the time, and the most important thing is that there are no law enforcers to come out to suppress it, the only powerful agency in the town is at the end of the bridge, and the first time the end of the world comes, it was attacked by spider monsters, all the police were destroyed, and only one assistant police officer escaped by luck, and now he is missing.

Due to the late transfer of people here, except for the first few people who left, all the people in the town were trapped here before the transfer, and the reason was because of the red fog outside the town!

Dongfeng Town is a big town, according to the tattooed youth, the town had nearly 10,000 survivors at the beginning, and after the arrival of the spider monster, tragedy occurred, enough thousands of people were killed in one day, and became the ration of more than a dozen spider monsters for several days.

Fortunately, there was a squad of military region soldiers here to command the retreat, they had weapons in their hands plus some bloody youths and these monsters had a short confrontation, after paying half of the warrior sacrifices and countless youth corpses, it was found that the source of the spider monster was in the south of the bridge, and the existence of the 'Red River' was also discovered. Then everyone retreated to the north of the bridge, and blew up the bridge with explosives, and after paying the price of countless deaths, the two monsters in the north of the bridge were finally eliminated and stabilized.

Originally, it would not have been possible for so many survivors to survive even with the help of warriors, but in the panic of life and death, the bodies of four people suddenly mutated and became awakened people who mastered the ability, playing a vital role in the battle.

Among them, there were two awakened people in that group of soldiers, one platoon commander and one soldier, and the other two were ordinary people, so that after the survivors retreated to the north of the bridge, the status of these four people changed, but still led by the platoon commander of the military, and order could barely be maintained.

However, when the two Awakened officers had a misfortune in the mist of the medicine field, the situation changed in an instant, and the other two resident Awakened were unwilling to accept the control of the 'ordinary people', and suddenly took over the command of the remaining soldiers, and began to override all the survivors.

Later, the two were divided into two factions because of their interests, and they fought a lot, but after two more people awakened their abilities, the situation became delicate, and the four awakened people each recruited a group of people with relatives and friends as a circle, forming four 'armed groups', and the remaining few soldiers relied on thermal weapons to win over the residents who were not related to the four awakened people, forming the only team without the awakened people, and the small half of the town actually formed a five-point world situation after three months of collision and running-in!

The five forces have formed a delicate balance, and thanks to the blockage of the Red River, there are basically no spider monsters in Qiaobei District, so although food is becoming more and more scarce, it has also lived a peaceful life for two months, except for being bullied by some 'superiors' to not starve to death.

But everything changed a month ago!

Although this Dongfeng town is mainly planted with medicinal herbs, there are also some corn fields, and there is a grain depot in the town, which is not large but also has a lot of grain, and it is built in Qiaobei District, so these grains have become the rations of the people of the entire town, and they are also important materials to maintain surface stability.

But just a month ago, for unknown reasons, all the grain in this granary suddenly became moldy and spoiled overnight, and hundreds of tons of corn turned into garbage.

As soon as the news came out, the whole town was filled with an atmosphere called despair, you must know that there are six or seven thousand survivors in the whole town, and the food consumption in a day is quite amazing.

Not having food means snatching and killing, which means starvation and death, and the fact is that the day after the grain depot was moldy, several large groups broke out into a fierce battle for supplies, looting everything that could be eaten in the entire Qiaobei area, and the number of survivors dropped sharply by one or two thousand.

Another effect of this incident is that the rulers of various groups have begun to strictly control the use of materials, and if they want to get food, they must make their due contributions, and finding phantom mushrooms that can make the awakened more powerful is one of the contributions.

Either starve or die, a woman can also sell her body, provided that you are beautiful and someone is willing to ask for it. In this precarious last days, the elderly, children, and women are absolutely vulnerable, and a glimpse of the whole picture can be seen, and the small Dongfeng Town can reflect the whole world, and Shen Lie believes that other places are similar to here.

Shen Lie knew why the tattooed young man immediately bowed back as soon as he saw his palm turned golden, the strength was on the one hand, and on the other hand, the other party wanted to rely on his big tree to become a human being, because an awakened person means a new group, as the original 'elder', he would no longer desperately exchange for that insignificant food.

For this reason, the other party also took out the phantom mushroom to curry favor with him, and the other team members did not object, and Shen Lie couldn't help but look up to the tattooed youth's decisiveness and commanding ability.

However, Shen Lie has no intention of dominating one side here, others don't know, but he deeply understands the horror of those otherworldly monsters, there are not only spider monsters in the otherworld, but also that terrifying white giant worm, and that giant worm has always appeared in this crack area.

If that bug monster escaped from here, not to mention a small red river, even if all the creatures in the town were combined, no one would breathe!

Even if the bug monster doesn't appear, as there are more and more spider monsters on the opposite side, it is unknown whether the Red River can completely block it, at least the white spider may not have no way to come.

And since there is a mutated big black cat, it is not impossible for other creatures to mutate here, if there is a flying mutant beast, all measures will be in vain. In short, it is definitely not a wise choice to sit back and wait here, and when you know a certain amount of information, you must leave here and go to a large gathering point like Yangcheng.

"Li Cheng, let's go to your place and pause for a moment, and then think about the next move." Shen Lie's speed remained unchanged, and he lightly instructed the tattooed young man.