0157 Trip to Estuary
In Hekou Town, the only bar that is still open, Xiao Chu, who is wrapped in a skin and wears a bamboo hat on his head, is sitting quietly in a corner, quietly listening to the drinkers talk about the recent situation in the town.
Most of the drinkers are refugees who have fled from all over the world, and more than half of them are blonde and blue-eyed Europeans and Americans, who basically have little hope for the future, and all hope that they can live a life of drinking and getting drunk today.
Because the world economy collapsed and money became piles of waste paper, there is only one currency that can be used here, and that is gold. When the abandoned land was used for afforestation, the reason why this town was built at the mouth of the Bala River was also because of the nearby gold mine.
After the outbreak of the plague, the gold mines were controlled by the garrison of Estuary, who used very crude smelting techniques to cast the mined gold into fingernail-sized gold coins, which refugees could obtain for the army, which they could then exchange for supplies. It's just that the business rules formulated by these soldiers who don't understand the economy at all are actually very confusing, and there is no unified standard, for example, an ordinary bottle of beer here requires a gold coin, and a bottle of XO almost needs dozens or even hundreds of gold coins, after all, this thing can still be produced like beer, and drinking a bottle is one less bottle.
The most talked about are the recent disappearances in the town, and the zombie attack on the rice fields outside the city the night before yesterday. After listening for a long time, Xiao Chu learned that there was originally a simple protective wall built around the farmland, and a considerable number of military guards were allocated, but the day before yesterday, those soldiers were temporarily transferred, and those zombies happened to be the rice fields that were attacked after the defenders were transferred.
However, Xiao Chu can only get such a little useful information at most, and those who are more detailed will not know about it. Xiao Chu sat for a while, knowing that he couldn't get any valuable information here, and was about to leave quietly, but as soon as he walked to the door, the door was vigorously knocked open from the outside, and a tall redhead stumbled in, fortunately, Xiao Chu reacted quickly, even if he flashed to the side, otherwise even if he would not be hit in the face by the door, he would be hit by this menacing woman.
"Damn, whose old lady is so uneducated, and she kicks the door with her feet?" Xiao Chu secretly cursed in his heart, it didn't matter if he was hit, but if he was recognized as the 'notorious' zombie hunter, he would be expelled from the city immediately...... Because rumored to be a bloodthirsty demon king who is even more terrifying than zombies.
"Huh? She is ......" Xiao Chu, who was very unhappy in his heart, subconsciously glanced back, but he almost screamed in surprise.
The red-haired woman had long hair red like fire, wearing a light gray military uniform, a pair of black high-heeled military boots on her feet, and a white long whip in her hand.
"How could she be here???" Xiao Chu never expected to meet Natasha in Vietnam, I remember the night when I fled from the Emerald Mountain more than two months ago, I had agreed with her father Lussef to meet the next day, but I didn't talk about it because of the attack of the giant monster zombie, but now I met Natasha in Vietnam, does it mean that her companions are also here? Moreover, it is very likely that Lin Xin and his party are also with them, thinking of this, Xiao Chu couldn't help but be very surprised.
But soon he realized that something was wrong, Natasha's leg was bloodied, obviously injured, and she looked haggard, her hair was disheveled, she looked very embarrassed, and most importantly she seemed to be alone.
"Something must have happened to them!" Xiao Chu had a bad premonition in his heart, although he only had a one-sided relationship with those rebels, and he didn't even know each other, and they didn't get along well, but at least they had fought side by side together, and that Rutsef was indeed a good man, which could be seen from his reluctance to leave the bitten soldiers behind.
Natasha didn't recognize Xiao Chulai who was wearing a cloak and a bamboo hat, and didn't even look at him, but under the gaze of everyone in the whole bar, she walked to a table in the corner, and put the metal whip in her hand on the table with a 'bang', and then slowly sat down, which happened to be the table where Xiao Chu was sitting just now.
It may be that the refugees in this estuary town are usually very in awe of the military, and Natasha is obviously a female soldier, although she knows that she is not a local soldier, no one dares to come forward to talk, and even the conversation in the whole bar is quiet.
"Is there any vodka?" Natasha said in standard Chinese to the little waiter who was trembling forward, and at the same time took out a finger-thick gold bar from her pocket and placed it on the table with a 'bang'. The fineness and craftsmanship of the gold bar were clearly the official standard, and it was also engraved with a Russian number, presumably the trophy of their 'mutiny' in Moscow.
"Yes, I'll bring it to you." The little waiter was only about fifteen or sixteen years old, and he didn't look much older than Ruan Jichen. He didn't dare to accept Natasha's gold bars, so he went back to the bar to find a drink.
It seems that this female soldier with injuries and a somewhat vicious expression does not seem to be looking for trouble, and the bar owner is also relieved, now none of them are afraid of these businessmen, but they dare not provoke the soldiers, after all, his bar can only be opened under the care of the army.
"Hey, why are you here?" Xiao Chu waited for a long time, and finally when the attention of the drinkers was no longer here, he slowly walked to Natasha's table and sat down and asked.
"Who are you?" Natasha asked coldly. She looked Xiao Chu up and down several times, but still didn't recognize who he was. It's no wonder that Xiao Chu now has a beard on his face, and his hair is messy like a bird's nest, after all, he hasn't cleaned up for nearly two months, and he almost can't recognize himself, not to mention that he still has a big bamboo hat.
"I'm Xiao Chu, the one you caught with Ivan that day." Xiao Chu lifted the bamboo hat slightly, revealing his face.
"It's you!" Natasha was stunned for a moment, and she was also very surprised, Xiao Chu hurriedly glanced at her and signaled her to be quiet, he didn't want to reveal his identity like this.
Just then the waiter brought the wine, and Natasha didn't say a word, just picked up the bottle and took a big sip, which calmed down.