Downtown, living quarters.

As one of the largest settlements in the lower city, the living quarters are miserable.

Over the years, the changes in the lower city have become greater and greater, and the contradictions between the city defense team and the exploration team have become more and more acute.

As a member of the exploration team, Wang Qiang lives in the military zone all year round.

The passage between the living quarters and the military area is very strictly controlled, which helps to prevent possible riots or virus outbreaks or other accidents.

Returning to his long-lost residence, Wang Qiang found that his small shelter had been rummaged over and over again. This is not surprising, as robberies and thefts are commonplace in living quarters.

The living quarters of the downtown settlements are like beehives with a space separated every few square meters, as a living room for one person, when the number of people reaches a certain number, some people are willing to merge and transform a larger environment, so that large and small living groups are established, like various forms of co-tenants before the end of the world.

These groups lived together and received rations from the lower city settlements, and many of them had nothing to do, which led to riots and crime.

There are about two or three thousand people in the entire living quarter, which is the largest population resettlement capacity in the lower city settlement, and it is also the lowest class in the lower city. In short, it is not easy to survive in the lower city.

The upper echelons of the lower city do not live here, and the members of the city defense team and some of the elites of the exploration team live in the military zone, where there is a wider space and a cleaner and more comfortable environment, and there is no need to smell the strange stench in the crowd, and suffer from the fierce eyes around them, which can be regarded as the special care enjoyed by the privileged class.

Wang Qiang spent a lot of time tidying up his living room. The space of less than ten square meters here is full of miscellaneous items and a narrow wooden bed, and there is a dark quilt on the bed, the cotton wool is black and greasy, and a peculiar smell is emitted on it, and thanks to this stinking smell, the quilt is not let go away.

Although there are two or three thousand people living in the living quarters of the lower city settlement, the vast majority of these people do not have any work to do, and they are like a large herd of pigs in captivity, confined to this underground city. Only when they are out looking for supplies will they be released from their living quarters.

Sometimes, when the food and material reserves of the lower city settlements came down to the cordon, these people would also be driven out and go out in search of any resources they could use.

Throughout the Lower City, only the City Defense Team and the Exploration Team have more room to move. The lower city has several lookout points on the ground, as well as two additional guard fortifications inside and outside the alloy gates. These military-controlled areas, all under the jurisdiction of the Lower City Guards, are mainly aimed at large-scale corpse waves and aggressive wilderness wanderers.

The Lower City Exploration Team is the key to maintaining the life and operation of the Lower City Settlement, and relying on the monthly harvest of the exploration team, the Lower City Settlement can be maintained for more than ten years.

In this materialistic and orderly living environment, not having a job means being ruthlessly eliminated. The hard shell of the Lower City lurks a corrupt inner being, and many outsiders flock to the settlement every year, but the population of the Lower City never exceeds 3,000.

Lunchtime quietly came, and in the rush of gongs, thousands of people walked out of their dwellings, holding all kinds of bowls and utensils, to the center of the square in the lower city. The square in the lower city is usually a distribution center and a market for the exchange of goods, and when it is time to eat, it becomes a place where people gather collectively.

The people of the lower city were served two meals a day, usually with synthetic food and a pitiful amount of diced vegetables, which could not be fed, but there was no danger of starvation.

The people who live in the Lower City settlement all the year round are almost numb, lacking spiritual and material pursuits, in fact, they are not much different from the walking dead outside, and the only place where these people still embody their humanity is probably only when they eat.

Wang Qiang looked at the time and found that it was too late to rush back to the military area for lunch, so he might as well solve it in the living area. Thinking about the food that has not been eaten in the square of the lower city for a long time, there is some strange nostalgia for it. Because of the protection of the exploration team over the years, Wang Qiang can eat with the exploration team members in the canteen of the military zone. Although there are many unruly people in the military zone, powerful individuals often have no fun bullying those who are too weak, and Wang Qiang, who is very popular, is not very disgusting, but rarely gets unjust.

Dozens of long queues were discharged in an orderly manner in the square, each holding the guy who was eating, looking forward to it with a little anxiety. After Wang Qiang queued up to get his own meal, he was quickly pushed out of the crowd by others, looking at the food in his hand that was much worse than the military zone, Wang Qiang couldn't help but shake his head.

On the way back to the room with the lunch box, several people blocked Wang Qiang's way.

These are a few newcomers to Xiacheng, and Wang Qiang can judge from their yellow faces that still retain their dishes. These people still have the residue of synthetic food at the corners of their mouths, and it seems that they have just eaten their own share of food. However, looking at the greed blooming in their eyes, Wang Qiang could be sure that they were paying attention to the food in their hands.

Sure enough, one of the leading people rolled his tongue around the residue at the corner of his mouth, and said to Wang Qiang extremely arrogantly: "Boy, new here, according to the rules, you should show us that maybe our brothers are in a good mood, and in the future, we will give you more care in the settlement and hand over the food in your hands." ”

Wang Qiang had a wry smile on his face, it seems that these guys who have just come to the city see that they are small and want to uncover the rules, and they were coerced by people naked before they arrived in the living area, which is a bad thing.

Wang Qiang scooped a spoonful of synthetic food with the rice spoon in his hand and put it in his mouth, trying the salty taste of warm liquid.

"If you want to eat the portion that doesn't belong to you, you have to exchange your life, and if you're unlucky, you're not qualified to eat the next meal." Wang Qiang said coolly, this sentence is Daddy Hu's mantra.

The few people in front of him showed a cruel smile, and the one who took the lead scolded: "Ah, seeing that you are not big, you dare to say such a thing, it's really boring, brothers, go up together and kill him." ”

After speaking, the short man with a thin figure and a yellow face stretched out his hand to snatch the lunch box in Wang Qiang's hand.

As a member of the exploration team, Wang Qiang has received the basic teachings of Hu Kaiqing, and has also cultivated perseverance and willpower in the environment of survival in the wild, how can he give up easily at this time? He smashed the iron lunch box in his hand on the head of the man who reached out to snatch him, only to hear a muffled sound, and the vicious robber ate a discus and was smashed to the ground.

The sky was covered with a rain of white slurry of liquid food, and there were faint green diced vegetables scattered in it, and the man who took the lead in the robbery had a buzzing sound, and his five senses suddenly lost his four senses, and the rest was numb.

An iron lunch box slammed down, looking at the eating guy in his eyes suddenly deformed, Wang Qiang was stunned for a moment, and found that his hand strength was actually a lot bigger out of thin air.

According to the past, the level of this all-out smash was at most unexpected, but I didn't expect that this time I could smash the lunch box into a twist.

However, he is not allowed to think crankily between fights, and Lao Hu emphasized in the exploration team that the fate of field exploration often hangs by a thread, and the slightest carelessness will be over, and the enemy must never be troubled. So Wang Qiang hit out in a row, a split leg swept over, the wind entrained thunder, Wang Qiang couldn't stop his surprise, this whip leg actually pulled out the sound, this kind of sound Wang Qiang only saw from Lao Hu's fighting teachings, it is said that the power acceleration reaches a certain high level, faintly repels the air, can cause a sonic boom, this is the perfect combination of strength and speed, I can't imagine that I can kick out with my feet, what's going on?

Before Wang Qiang could think about the result, the whip leg had already been whipped on the body of the lewd man, and the man who had been smashed and lost his senses flew out like a sandbag, flying straight out for more than ten meters, smashing on the ground, and sliding out of the boss for a distance on the ground before he could stop castration. Looking at the man again, blood had overflowed from his eyes, ears, mouth and nose, and it was obvious that he was seriously injured.

Wang Qiang's two consecutive blows of wind and thunder made the other hooligans who were about to pounce widen their eyes, and the fear that rose in the depths of their pupils like a tide instantly spread to their faces. The faces that were still vegetable yellow a moment ago turned purple in a blink of an eye, and these people turned around and ran, lest they not run slowly enough or decisively.

Since the end of the world, the years of human beings being chased have been long enough, and in the face of danger, the greatest instinct of man is to turn around and run, without doubt or hesitation, because those who shout and hesitate have died in these years, and those who remain have the instinct to run. Because we run, we live, and this is the foundation of human extinction.

These filthy homeless people who were still desperate and wanted to follow the rules just now disappeared without a trace in an instant, leaving only the leader who was kicked and fainted to death by Wang Qiang and fell to the ground.

Wang Qiang looked at the twisted and deformed lunch box in his hand, and was shocked in his heart, why did his strength increase so much out of thin air. Look at the bare foot with the torn wound, the bandage has been torn in the leg technique with great strength just now, and the scabbed wound appears in the eyes, and the wound has actually healed in less than two days!

Although Wang Qiang practiced martial arts diligently in the exploration team, his undeveloped body and long-term lack of nutrition made Lao Hu scoff at his martial arts assessment. In the exploration team, Wang Qiang has always been a difficult person at the level of hanging oil bottles, so he will be ruthlessly abandoned. However, Wang Qiang looked at the twist-like iron lunch box in his hand again, and the robber buddies lying on the ground with blood flowing, and he seemed to faintly realize something.

A sharp whistle sounded in the distance, and it seemed that the men of the city defense team noticed the brawl here and hurried here. Wang Qiang knew the methods of the city defense team and didn't want to do much, so he dodged and walked quickly into the shack-lined residential area, and disappeared into the chaotic and dense crowd in three or two.