Chapter 459: The Great Wall
"I saw reindeer, a big herd."
The hope of coming back pointed at her, and she was excited, and her face was still covered with frosted dew.
Verelle wiped her face painfully, hoping to tell everyone that the reindeer herd was more than ten kilometers to the northeast.
If there are reindeer, there must be shepherds who are free-range, and Chen Hang and Verier immediately rushed in that direction.
Along the way, most of the places here are ice meadows, and the mountains on the horizon are gently undulating, and when Chen Hang and the others pass through a coniferous forest, the vision in front of them suddenly opens up.
"See? Reindeer, reindeer. ”
Hoping pointed to the deer on the meadow and rejoiced, Chen Hang and Verier were dumbfounded. Nearly 100,000 reindeer roamed the meadows, and the gray-and-white dots stretched all the way to the sky.
"Wow, what a herd of deer!"
Chen Hang exclaimed, but Verier covered her mouth of hope, and she whispered, "Silence, there are people in the deer herd." ”
Chen Hang and Hope immediately looked carefully, and sure enough, they saw a shepherd on horseback in the reindeer herd, and saw that those people were dressed in clothes made of animal skins and carrying a spear behind their backs.
"Soldiers? These reindeer are privately stocked property. ”
Chen Hang said in surprise, he didn't expect such large-scale human activities here, Verier observed carefully for a while, she whispered:
"It's the military, and they're very vigilant."
Chen Hang, Verelle, and Hope had been hiding in the woods, and they had been observing the shepherds. When the sun began to set in the west, the shepherds drove the deer herd north.
The carpet-like herd of deer crossed the vast meadows and climbed over the gentle slopes of the hills, and as they entered another wide land, Chen Hang saw a city wall stretching east-west.
The walls are made of rubble from the wasteland, and the walls are about ten meters high, and they stretch to the sky on both sides, and the walls are as majestic as a giant python lying across the land.
"Wow, the Great Wall?! They actually built a new Great Wall here! ”
Chen Hang and the others were dumbfounded, they didn't expect to be able to see such a grand project in this bitter cold place.
Then there was a sound of "cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck" from the direction of the Great Wall, and the tall gate on the city wall opened, and the shepherds drove the deer into the city wall.
It took two hours for the reindeer to enter the city, and when the deer were fully inside, the gates were closed again, and the wasteland outside the city was immediately silent.
"Wow, humanity has really returned to farming and pastoral society!"
Chen Hang and Hope sighed, Verier shook her head gently, and she whispered:
"I see the end."
When night fell, thin snowflakes fell in the sky, and Chen Hang and Verier still stayed in the woods and did not move.
Hope stood behind them and kept rubbing her hands and stamping her feet, and she muttered dissatisfiedly:
"Why? Let's go into town, it's cold here. ”
Verelle pointed to the top of the city, and she whispered:
"Don't worry, people here don't welcome outsiders. It's heavily guarded. ”
"Shall we go back then?"
"No, you still have to go into the city, but you are not allowed to fly."
"Why?"
"Your white wings are too conspicuous at night."
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In the middle of the night, Verier waved her hand, and Chen Hang and Hope followed her and ran cautiously towards the city wall.
Verelle was familiar with the way the people were stationed here. Every time she advanced, she would immediately lurk, and Chen Hang and Hope also lay on the ground, the cold frost seeping into their clothes.
It took a little time, and the three of them reached the bottom of the city wall without danger, hoping to see the cannon hidden above the city wall.
"Professional arrangement, this is the handiwork of the military, I remember that there used to be a military base here, and this fortress should have been built by them."
Verelle whispered her judgment, she pointed to the inside of the city wall, and Verelle whispered:
"I'll go in and take a look, you and Hope are out there, and I don't think the people here will necessarily welcome us."
Chen Hang and Hope nodded, and the three of them carefully climbed to the top of the city wall, and they saw the soldiers patrolling the city wall.
Verier pointed down, and she fell down the city wall again, while Chen Hang and Hope found a place to hide.
The environment behind the walls was completely different from the outside.
On the west side of the city was a reindeer enclosure, and the reindeer grazing during the day were resting in the enclosure. To the east of the city are large barracks, with tents and buildings, and this side is exactly like a city.
Vigilance in the city is still high, with military patrolling the roads here and there, and searchlights sweeping around a building in the distance.
Verelle has already seen the design in general. This is a rare post-apocalyptic surviving settlement, where the soldiers of the local military base organized these people, they built a city here, and people hid in the ice fields of the wild north to start their lives again.
Verelle didn't rush into action, she found a hidden place to hide, and Verelle waited for the dawn.
The nights in Alaska are cold, with snowflakes falling in the sky in the middle of the night, and by the time the wee hours of the morning fall, the city is completely white.
Early in the morning, the people who lived in the city began to come out and move, and more and more people appeared in the streets, and none of them noticed that a person came out of the corner of the circle, and Verelle quietly blended into the crowd.
With the help of the early morning light, Verelle could see more clearly, and she noticed a large number of heavy machinery in the city.
Bulldozers, rollers, concrete mixers, the city continues to expand, and some factories are being built.
On the high ground in the city, there were some tanks there, which had turned this place into a battery with black barrels pointed outside the city.
The city was bigger than Verelle had imagined, and as she kept along the road, Verelle saw more buildings.
As Chen Hang said, people in the post-apocalyptic world have begun to adapt to their current life, and the resilience of human beings has allowed them to reproduce here again.
Handicrafts, manufacturing, agriculture and animal husbandry, the people in the city consciously divide the labor, each person assumes the corresponding position, and those soldiers are responsible for security and order, and the materials in the city are rationed by the management department here.
In the heart of the city, Verelle was pleasantly surprised to see a school where children were learning in the classroom, where human technology had been passed down.
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