It's a crisp autumn morning, and the city is as quiet as ever, with the occasional herd of wild dogs seen in the chaotic streets. Zombies hide in the city's buildings and wait for the night to fall, while the survivors also burrow out from all corners of the city in search of food to keep them alive.

Everything is so chaotic, but there is a little natural order in the chaos. The survivors, who live like rats all over the city, have begun to get used to this apocalyptic life.

It has to be said that human adaptability is definitely one of the most advanced among all known species in the world, and even if there is only a glimmer of hope, human beings will survive in the worst environment with the desire to survive.

In order to survive, human beings can abandon their dignity, ideals, feelings, loved ones, and even a certain part of their own body, and as long as they can survive, human beings can do anything. This is the human race in the last days, ridiculous, pathetic, but incomparably tenacious.

Those who are still alive have left behind everything they had fought for before. What money, power, fame, and status are not as affordable as a pack of cookies for survivors still living in the city. Whether you used to be a popular star, a municipal dignitary, a multimillionaire or some other celebrity, in this post-apocalyptic world, you are just a survivor who survives.

Celebrities will starve to death without food, a lot of money is better than toilet paper that can wipe your buttocks, even if you used to be a celebrity in the limelight, now you can only live like a mouse, because this is the end of the world.

This day should have been a difficult but ordinary day for the survivors in the city, but the appearance of a convoy broke the hard life that the survivors had long been forced to get used to in the city, because they saw hope, to be exact, the national rescue team vehicle marked with the word "hope base".

This is a fleet of modified civilian vehicles, the size of the fleet is not very large, a total of seven vehicles, namely two forklifts, two trucks equipped with heavy firepower, two modified and reinforced buses and an army green Ford Raptor pickup truck, it is the Qishan Detention Center, no, it should be the survivor collection team of the Hope Base.

At this time, the convoy was slowly driving through the streets of the Chengxi District of BD City, and Yu Lin's first target today was to be annihilated by the convoy when they were transporting food before, and the survivor group led by the man who called himself Brother Wang was entrenched in Xinhua Supermarket.

According to the information that had to be obtained from Brother Wang's subordinates at that time, there were at least forty survivors in Xinhua Supermarket. This is not a small group, and Yu Lin's goal today is to fill the two buses.

Each modified bus can accommodate 60 people, and the two cars add up to 120 people, just a survivor group can make Yu Lin's goal today a third of the way, how can he not be tempted.

In order to let more survivors know about the existence of the Hope Base, Yu Lin also asked Wang Sen to install a high-power speaker on the roof of the bus. However, when Yu Lin ordered someone to turn on the speaker, the recording inside made Yu Lin, who was standing on the roof of the dump truck and controlling the recoilless gun, almost fall out of the car.

Just listen, from the high-power speaker, came out of a deliberately low and magnetic voice, but because the original vocal cords were not suitable for such a sound, and it seemed nondescript, roaring passionately.

"BD City survivors, are you still worried about being eaten by zombies? Are you still tired of running around for food? Now you don't have to worry about the zombie threat, and you can get plenty of food because we're coming, and we're hoping that the base's survivor rescue convoy is coming. ”

"The Hope Base is a paradise for survivors. We had plenty of food, were protected by a sturdy fence, and had warm and comfortable beds. We also have machine guns and elite fighters against zombies! BD City survivors, what are you waiting for, if you don't want to live like a rat in the world, join us in the hope base. ”

"As long as you abide by the rules and regulations of the base and devote yourself to the construction of the hope base, we will give you the status of a full member of the base, and the survivors who get this status will not worry about their future lives, and will have generous treatment, please sign up enthusiastically. Today's quota is 120, and there is no deception in Tong Suo, and there is no waiting for the expiration. ”

You don't need to carefully identify Yu Lin to be able to hear that this radio word, which is like a recruitment advertisement before the catastrophe, must have been recorded by Huang Zhi, a living treasure, and he can even imagine the cheap smile on his face when Huang Zhi took the manuscript and recorded in front of the tape recorder.

"This kid is really talented." Yu Lin shook his head helplessly and muttered to himself.

can't send it, anyway, it's already started to be played, and Yu Lin had to listen to it as a joke, but Yu Lin made up his mind that after he went back, he would definitely let someone record a new promotional recording, this kid's advertisement, no matter how you listen to it, makes Yu Lin feel very awkward.

Soon, the broadcast worked, and on the way to the Xinhua supermarket, the convoy had already received two groups of survivors, the first batch of 6 people and the second group of 9 people. These people are both men and women, but they all have one thing in common: they are extremely emaciated due to chronic malnutrition.

But this is also normal, there are not only zombies in the city, but also many survivor groups, most of the materials and food in those small buildings have been looted by large survivor groups, these small survivor groups, do not have the strength to enter large buildings to find supplies, sometimes a day of searching, are nothing.

The convoy got information from these two groups of survivors, and now there are at least a dozen survivor groups of more than 100 people in the city, the largest one has more than 300 people, and there are many groups of less than 100 people. And now the survivors of the cities have developed a system like the ancient tribes.

These groups of survivors went their own way, and there was some friction between these forces at first, but over time, a tacit understanding was formed between these groups of survivors. Each group has its own territory, and within the territory, other forces are not allowed to enter.

Of course, this is only for the forces of equal strength, and some large forces sometimes attack some weak groups. Just like the ancient wars between tribes, the defeated side will be swallowed up, the men will become slaves and cannon fodder to attract zombies when searching for supplies, and the women will become the prizes of the victorious combatants.

Some weak groups, if they do not want to be swallowed up by large forces, can only choose to attach themselves to those large forces, and also pay regular tribute to the forces they are attached to.

Sometimes there are some transactions between the various forces, most of which are bartered. Food, women, slaves, weapons, luxury items such as alcohol and cigarettes, and even drugs are all traded.

This information surprised Yu Lin incomparably. After the cataclysm, he haunted the city many times, but he never found that there were so many survivors in the city, and he had formed an institutional model like that of ancient society.

Yu Lin thought about it, although he often collected supplies in the city, he always tried to avoid contact with the survivors, and when he exterminated the Iron Three Gang, he didn't get any useful information, so it was normal not to know this.

Thinking of such a complex distribution of survivors in the city, Yu Lin knew that the task of collecting survivors in this convoy was not as simple as they were at the beginning, at least those powerful survivor groups could not be willing to succumb to others.

Thinking of this, Yu Lin said in a deep voice to Xiao Yi beside him: "Tiger, it seems that we must start with some small forces first, although we now have strong firepower, but after all, our manpower is still too small, and it is impossible for large force gangs to be willing to obey our dispatch." ”

"It's true that we know too little about the survivor organizations in the city, and the current development situation has exceeded our expectations, so let's do as you say, start with that Brother Wang, and see if we can learn about some other forces from him." Xiao Yi also agreed with Yu Lin's decision to start with small forces.

Yu Lin and Xiao Yi are not fools, and they do not feel that they are invincible in the world because they have weapons in their hands. After all, although they bear the name of a hope base, the actual combatants, all of whom add up to twenty people, compared with those big forces with more than 100 people, they only have an advantage in weapons and equipment.

But Yu Lin and Xiao Yi are both clear, except for the two of them, the others in the hope base have only gone through a month of military training, and they lack actual combat experience, and there are often fights between those forces, and the fighters of the hope base, compared with the fighters of those forces, are at best rookies with weapons, and before these people really grow up, they can't take the risk of co-opting those large forces.

It's just that Yu Lin didn't know that the prestige of their convoy had spread among the survivor groups in the city, and when they killed 25 Xinhua Supermarket forces, even the largest force in the city had already included the convoy in the scope that they could never provoke.

And the information about the strength of the convoy at that time was also revealed by Brother Wang himself to other forces. Because Yu Lin solved twenty-five people at one time, Brother Wang's power suddenly fell from a medium-sized force to a small force, and he had no choice but to rely on a large force, and the information of the convoy was also spread in this way, but Yu Lin, as the person concerned, did not know.

The convoy soon arrived at Xinhua Supermarket, but their convoy was not as Yu Lin expected, subject to the resistance of the forces led by Brother Wang here, to be exact, when the convoy stopped at the main entrance of Xinhua Supermarket, all the survivors in Xinhua Supermarket were already waiting there to be ready to accept the convoy.

Before the vehicle could stop, a man with a meaty face and two men ran out of the crowd at a trot, shouting at the convoy, "We are willing to join the Hope Base." ”

Yu Lin ignored the man yelling at the convoy, first directing the convoy members to stand guard around while he stood on the roof of the dump truck and looked at the survivors.

Compared with the situation that Lin knew, the number of survivors in Xinhua Supermarket at this time was a little smaller. The previous Brother Wang's subordinates said that there were a total of sixty-seven survivors here, and twenty-five were killed by the convoy, so there should be forty-two left. But now the number of survivors in Xinhua Supermarket is only thirty-five.

Looking at each survivor carefully, Yu Lin found that the expressions of the survivors here were different from those of the two groups of survivors he had encountered before. The previous people were pleasantly surprised when they met the team, as if they saw hope. But when the survivors here saw the convoy appear, some of them were very alarmed, and some of them were indifferent, but they were not surprised to see the rescue team.

Looking at the attitude of this group of survivors towards the convoy, Yu Lin probably guessed the reason. Survivors of previous co-options have mentioned how the forces in the city treat the other factions that have been annexed. These survivors, apparently, see the convoy as the same existence as the large survivor forces in the city.

Those forces treat the weak as slaves, cannon fodder, and goods. Apparently they felt that no matter who they followed, their fate would be the same. And the small groups of survivors that were incorporated before, because they had not been persecuted by the large forces in the city, they would only join Yu Lin's convoy when they saw them again.

If Yu Lin had met the survivors here just now, it is estimated that these people would probably be hiding, because they were persecuted by their own kind, far greater than those zombies who could only haunt at night.

"Are you the head of these people? So you are Brother Wang? Yu Lin looked at the big man with a meaty face and asked coldly.

After hearing Yu Lin say his name, the face of the big man with a meaty face instantly turned pale. He apparently knew the origin of the survivor rescue convoy of this so-called Hope Base, the food convoy he had sent people to attack a few days earlier.

Looking at these modified vehicles, especially when he saw the machine guns and cannons installed on them, Dahan's heart was even more frightened, he didn't know what the convoy would do to him, but obviously these people knew that the person who sent people to attack them before was himself.

Dahan forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart, and changed it to a flattering look and said to Lin: "Don't dare, don't dare, the villain's name is Wang Fugui, sir, what happened a few days ago was a misunderstanding, don't care too much." ”

Wang Fugui knew that these people were extremely ruthless, and when his men approached the grain convoy, he hid not far away and secretly watched. The fate of his twenty-five subordinates was miserable, especially those who were tortured to death by the soldiers in the convoy with cruel criminal laws, and now thinking of the scene that day, Wang Fugui shuddered.

Now Wang Fugui only thinks about how to please the military masters in front of him, and he doesn't dare to have any crooked brains for the military grandmothers.

"Why are there a few fewer of your people, I remember that you should have forty-two people here, right, now there are seven less, where have they gone." Yu Lin glanced at the survivor standing at the door of the supermarket, turned his head and asked Wang Fugui.

Hearing Yu Lin's question, Wang Fugui hurriedly stepped forward and replied with a smile: "Because of my momentary greed, I was killed by you more than 20 of my subordinates, and the other survivor forces have begun to eyeing me here. ”

Hearing Boss Lu, a person suddenly flashed in Yu Lin's head.

"What's that Boss Lu's full name?" Yu Lin asked coldly.

"Back to the chief, Boss Lu's name is Army Mountain, and he is the leader of the Zhongyi Hall in BD City before. Now it is also the strongest and most numerous of the survivor forces. Wang Fugui replied in detail, for fear that he would say the wrong word and be destroyed by the ancestors in front of him.

"Sure enough, it's him." Thinking about his grievances with this old guy before the catastrophe, Yu Lin's heart was extremely unhappy.

Xiao Yi, who was on the heavy machine gun firing platform of the container truck, saw that Yu Lin's expression was wrong, and asked Yu Lin suspiciously: "Golden krait, do you know this army mountain?" ”

Yu Lin snorted coldly and said slowly: "I know, my biggest opponent in BD City before, the underground forces in the western and central districts of BD City before the catastrophe were all owned by this old guy. ”

Wang Fugui is also a smart person, otherwise it would be impossible to mix well in this last days. Seeing the chill in Yu Lin's eyes when he said the name of Army Mountain, he knew that there must be some grievance between the young soldier in front of him and that Army Mountain.

Thinking of this, Wang Fugui secretly scolded himself for being unlucky, he had already offended these soldiers, but now it's okay, he just talked to a boss, and he was still the enemy of the other party, and he hoped that people would not be angry with him.

This Wang Fugui is not a local, his hometown is in the south, he is engaged in the business of smuggling cars, and he is also the No. 1 in their local area, and he had some business dealings with Army Mountain before the disaster. It's a pity that he is not very familiar with the underground forces in BD City, he only knows that there is an army mountain here, and he doesn't know that there is also a Yu Lin.

Just when Wang Fugui was thinking about how to please Yu Lin, he heard Yu Lin ask him: "You are now a vassal of the Army Mountain forces, you should be familiar with their situation there, tell me the location of their gathering place, the specific number of people, and the configuration of weapons." ”

"Greriff Hui, Boss Lu, no, the gathering place of Army Mountain is in the central area, and it is the Royal Entertainment City that he opens. He now has about 400 people in his hands, more than 200 of them are men, and there are quite a few guns, and the last time I went to his place, I saw at least dozens of thugs carrying guns, most of them with long guns. "Wang Fugui is not very clear about the specific strength of the Army Mountain, and what he said just now is because he saw it when he went to send tribute to the Army Mountain two days ago.