At this time, Hu Kaiqing's face was like water, and on the surface he seemed to have the upper hand, but in fact he was in a dilemma.

The two sides are at a stalemate.

At this time, many people came out of the settlement one after another, these are the elite backbones of the exploration team, and the leader is Hu Kaiqing's son Hu Xiao.

Hu Xiao was fiddling with the newly acquired weapon in his hand, and looked up to see his father entangled with Lin Er.

Inside Xiacheng, the city defense team and the exploration team have always been in a state of confrontation and competition, and there are even more contradictions between Lin Er and Hu Kaiqing.

At this time, Hu Kaiqing's knife was on Lin Er's neck, and the people of the city defense team surrounded Hu Kaiqing, and Hu Xiao judged that there was a dispute between the two sides.

"Daddy and Lin Er are fighting, everyone help." Hu Xiao roared and rushed over first, and the scorpion submachine pistol in his hand also let go of the safety box, ready to come at any time.

Everyone in the exploration team who came out showed their weapons one after another, surrounding Lin Er and the others tightly, and the situation became grim again for a while.

The city defense team members who originally laid down their weapons saw the exploration team aiming at themselves with weapons, and involuntarily raised their guns again, leaning close to each other in a fan shape to confront the exploration team members.

The scene is like a pile of explosives, all it takes is a little spark to blow up a bird with a bang, and it is uncontrollable.

"It's a shame that you all stop it, what kind of system do you become." A majestic voice came.

Everyone was stunned when they heard this, and then their vigilance was lifted. Hu Kaiqing also moved the knife on Lin Er's neck a little.

Several armed guards came out of the corridor, and the guards were surrounded by a dignified middle-aged man. This middle-aged man's face is six or seven points similar to Lin Er's, and there is a bit of power between his eyebrows, and his gestures are all a high-ranking person's bearing.

The person who came was none other than Lin Da, the number one leader of the Downtown settlement, known as the mayor.

Lin Da, formerly known as Lin He, is Lin Er's own brother, the patriarch of the Xiacheng settlement, and the recognized patron of the Xiacheng after the end of the world, even Hu Kaiqing has to give some respect to Lin Da. As for Lin Er, who is very domineering, he can only be regarded as a disobedient child in front of his brother.

Lin He walked to the field, his eyes swept over everyone, and everyone put down their weapons and lowered their heads. Lin He arrived, Hu Kaiqing knew that he couldn't fight today, and he also lowered the long knife in his hand. Only Lin Er stood in place with an aggrieved face and touched his neck.

"Daddy Hu, I can't stand you as a younger brother today, I didn't discipline my own little brother well, so I didn't want to go with you, I hope you put the overall situation first, and you don't have to make your brother ugly in front of the next life." Lin He said with a pleasant face.

Hu Kaiqing, who has been a human spirit for decades, climbed down the ladder, and simply inserted the long knife back into the scabbard: "Brother Lin, my brother's temper is hot, and I have blocked you." I don't blame Lin Er for this, it's me who talks a lot. Nowadays, the reserves of settlements are becoming scarcer, and it is better to save some money, so as not to encounter something in the future and be unable to deal with it. ”

At this time, someone came to Mayor Lin and whispered about the situation, Mayor Lin understood, and the matter was probably clear.

He looked at his little brother and scolded with a slashing face: "Lin Hu, you idiot, are Gatling's bullets used to hit these junior zombies?" What's going on in your head? I will go back after handing over the gun, and I will be punished for this month's special supply, and I will be disqualified from using Gatling to see what will happen. ”

The Lower City Settlement implements a strict material distribution system, and there are additional supplies for the city defense team and the exploration team every month, mostly fresh fruits and vegetables, and sometimes some meat, which are rare good things in the last days. Lin Er was punished for the month's supply at once, which was not miserable.

After Mayor Lin's strong pressure, Lin Er didn't even have a chance to refute, and slipped back to the settlement. And Hu Kaiqing was also happy to accept such a result, and the two sides were harmonious, and turned their attention back to the encirclement and suppression of zombies in the wilderness.

At this time, the cleanup of the zombie tide in the distance has come to an end.

There are only a few thousand zombies that came to attack this time, which is not much. In the past, Xiacheng encountered a tide of 100,000 zombies, which is called magnificent, and this zombie group is not enough to see.

With the cooperation of the Raptor armored vehicle, the soldiers of the city defense team wearing protective gear and steel helmets fully armed appeared on the stage with shields and knives, and the big knife team formed a strangulation formation in a group of several people, and the staggered fell so that they broke into the zombie group, and when they saw the zombies that pounced on them, they raised their shields with one hand to block, and slashed with the other hand, and the knives took the head directly, so as to kill them with one blow.

Soon, there were no standing zombies in the wilderness outside.

At this time, the soldiers of the city defense team began to focus on mending their knives, while the exploration team urgently excavated large graves. At noon, all the zombies were dragged into the pit and buried collectively.

After such a huge work, most of the people returned to the lower city settlement, waiting for physical isolation checks. If all is well, you will probably be able to return to your accommodation in the evening.

Some of the rest are finishing the work of washing the floor. The so-called washing of the floor is to renovate the soil on the battlefield, so that the smell of blood left over from the battle can be buried, so as not to attract more zombies in the wild.

This is a job that requires time and patience, and most of the time it is done by the exploration team, and the city defense team as a combat group is more often responsible for the tasks of the battlefield, and the work of the exploration team is often much more complicated.

The pony is intently renovating the dirt with a shovel, and from time to time he is sprinkling a handful of burnt ashes from the zombies, and the pony mutters as he works that it would save a lot of work if it could rain heavily.

In the position of the lower city, the treatment of the city defense team is the best, and the exploration team, as an auxiliary force, is greatly inferior in equipment and subsidies. However, often in the period when there is no big battle, the city defense team is more pampered, and the casualties of the exploration team in the field have always been high. Different treatment and different nature of work are the root causes of the contradictions between the two groups.

The pony looked up and saw a limping figure walking out, the pony's eyes were not very good, and after looking at the old man for a long time, he shouted: "Hey, everyone, look, isn't that a strong boy?" I didn't expect Qiang Zai to come back alive, it's really not simple, there are so many zombies in front of him, how did he dodge? ”

The teammates who cleaned the battlefield saw Wang Qiang and greeted him in surprise, Wang Qiang's popularity in the settlement is not too bad, and there must be a lot of things to nag if he doesn't die, and everyone ran to Wang Qiang.

Wang Qiang limped along the road with a backpack full of food, and when he saw his partners running to hug each other, tears flowed down his eyes. Everyone was cold for a while, and someone had already run to report to Daddy Hu.

Father Hu rushed to listen to Wang Qiang's report, and when he learned the news of the death of the others, he couldn't help but look gloomy, Wang Qiang's group were all young offspring who were less than eighteen years old, and it was a pity and pity to die like this.

Father Hu took over the heavy bag of food worth several lives from Wang Qiang's hand, and his heart could not hide his sadness.

Wang Qiang concealed the matter about Lu Ming, because Wang Qiang himself was afraid of being bitten by zombies, afraid that his companions would treat him with the attitude of treating the enemy, and he had seen too many such scenes. So he told Daddy Hu that he was bitten by a wild beast.

After a day of isolation, Wang Qiang walked out of the isolation room safe and sound, and the doctor in Xiacheng who came to check looked at the back of Wang Qiang leaving and had some doubts in his heart, the wound on the foot was clearly bitten out of the human mouth, where could it be a beast, but there was no infection, incredible, could it be that he bit it? The doctor thought curiously.

For a period of time in the future, due to Wang Qiang's injury, Hu Kaiqing specially approved him to take an injury on leave, which is a rare free time. In the past, Wang Qiang lived in the military district of Xiacheng, but this time he finally had free time to return to the living area and see the home left by his mother.

Speaking of the lower city, the maximum capacity of this small settlement would not exceed four thousand people. But it has never been full, firstly, the lower city cannot afford to support so many people, and secondly, several zombie tides and wild explorations every year will take away the lives of many people.

There are three major areas in the lower city, and most people are housed in living quarters, and the people here in the lower city are only guaranteed the most basic food supply, and they will not starve to death. If you want to have enough to eat, you have to go outside and find food on your own, and you risk dying. Back in the lower city, the settlement will take 30% of the harvest as a shelter tax.

These people in the living area are relatively free, they can come and go as they want, and the mobility of people is also very large, and the lower city generally does not restrict personal freedom.

The exploration team and the city defense team, on the other hand, are subordinate units directly under the jurisdiction of the settlement, and live in the military zone, where there are various facilities with complete supporting facilities and better logistical supplies. Every year, when the exploration team and the city defense team are reduced, qualified people will be recruited from the living area, and this series of recruitment work is also called a paradise journey by the people in the living area.

The third area of the lower city is the storage area, where a large amount of supplies and equipment are piled up, generally uninhabited and strictly protected, but there is a maintenance workshop, which is the residence of the mechanic Zhao Tie.

Mechanic Lao Zhao is the Dinghai Divine Needle in Xiacheng, and the eighteen weapons and defense systems in Xiacheng are all from him, which is a great big man.

Wang Qiang called Zhao Tie Lao Zhao for no other reason, the old man who had an amputated leg was old enough, except for his mother, Wang Qiang remembered that this person was the most kind to him. After his mother died, only Lao Zhao was good enough to Wang Qiang, and many times he was able to eat well in the exploration team, thanks to Lao Zhao's special instructions.

When it comes to her mother, she is a hard-hearted and hard-working woman. Because of his father's death, his mother refused to receive help from many parties in the lower city, and kept dragging the young Wang Qiang to struggle hard in the living area. Wang Qiang didn't even know his mother's name, only that this strong woman had been alone in the wilderness looking for food to support herself, and this life lasted for many years, until she was finally attacked by zombies and died tragically.

After his mother's death, the Xiacheng high-level had a brief meeting on his problem, and gave Wang Qiang a job while respecting his own wishes. In the end, Wang Qiang insisted on choosing to join the exploration team, because his mother died in the wilderness, and Wang Qiang resolutely chose such a path.