Chapter 12: The Camp
Wang Hao followed Peng Hu into the camp gate through a small door, and as soon as he got out of the car, two guards with robberies appeared in the darkness immediately, they first swept Wang Hao with ultraviolet light, then shone his eyes with a flashlight, and then opened his mouth like buying a mule and horse to look at his teeth, and then nodded and let go.
"This kid is a new human?" The guard saw the dream at a glance, took a step back, and raised his hand to point at the dream.
"yes, I caught it."
Wang Hao's face did not change, and he was very skillful in telling the lie he had just told Peng Hu and them again, and then walked towards the camp with a dream in the admiring eyes of the guards.
There is a saying in the old days that a lie is told three times and it becomes true. Wang Hao only said it twice, and he felt that it didn't seem to be lying, and the dream was his captive.
The highest level of lying is to deceive yourself first, and Wang Hao found that he could almost do this.
At this time, the sky was slightly bright, and the people in the camp had already gotten up one after another to start their day's work, and the guards at the camp gate had also begun to change their guards.
Looking inside from the gate, the scale of the camp in front of me is really not small, the area is the size of several football fields, and I am afraid that nearly a thousand people have lived.
Peng Hu led the way in front, pointing out to Wang Hao as he walked, where is the living area, where is the place where you can have some fun, where you can receive some tasks, where is the best leader area to go casually, and where is the arsenal where you will be shot if you go.
In addition, Peng Hu also highlighted some of the more domineering guys in the camp who are better not to offend.
It's not that Peng Hu doesn't have a sense of secrecy, it's just that in the new era, friends and foes are very easy to divide, there are only two categories: new humans and old humans, even if they are bad old humans, they don't think that they can be recognized by new humans by betraying their own kind.
No matter how well-behaved and obedient the pig is, in the eyes of people, it is still food, at most it is praised for growing fatter, and it is still a knife at the end of the year.
Of course, this is just a general situation. Maybe like Huangfu Yun, even in front of the highest-level new humans, except for those who are enough to protect themselves. But obviously, Peng Hu would not think that Wang Hao had this ability, and a person with the ability of Huang Fuyun did not need to pave the way for himself with a camp of 1,000 people.
Wang Hao and the four of them quickly walked to a house made of logs on the edge of the camp, Peng Hu pushed open the door and said with a smile: "Brother Wang, you should be wronged first, live in a room with our brothers, and if you make a big profit one day, you can buy one for yourself." ”
"There's still a deal here?" Wang Hao was a little surprised, a camp with a scale of 1,000 people is just an economic circulation, which is incredible.
Hao Sansheng smiled innocently: "I can't talk about buying and selling, but the leaders of our camp often send a little paid surname task or something, and those who complete the task can get a certain material reward, and the house is one of them." ”
He pointed to a huge house not far away, which was more than 20 meters long, and said, "It doesn't matter if you don't have the ability to complete the task, you can huddle together with everyone." ”
Wang Hao nodded and smiled: "On the emotional side, it is a chase shop, a low-rent house, this cottage, but a small villa." ”
Peng Hu laughed: "Brother is right. ”
When the four of them entered the house, Hao Sansheng took off a handcuff from his waist and gave it to Wang Hao, and said to Meng Nunu: "Brother Wang, do you want to handcuff this little cub?" ”
Wang Hao was shirking, and suddenly thought about it, no matter how small the dream is, it is also a new human being, and Peng Hao and the others are probably not willing to stay in the same room with a little vampire who moves freely. If you act too good for your dreams, you will definitely arouse suspicion.
Chaomeng made a look, Meng nodded very sensibly, obediently stretched out his little hand, Wang Hao handcuffed one end to Meng's wrist, one end to his wrist, and the other end to his wrist, and then took Dream to the corner of the room to prepare to rest.
"Brother Wang, it's not okay for you to be afraid like this." Peng Hu's eyes widened: "What should she do if she bites you while you are asleep?" ”
Wang Hao smiled mysteriously: "Brother, don't worry, since I can catch her, little brother, there is a way for her not to dare to bite me." ”
"Huh? Brother Wang, you are so young, you are so powerful! Peng Hu and Hao Sansheng glanced at each other, and looked at Wang Hao with a little more admiration in their eyes.
Wang Hao's sleep can be regarded as very unhappy, Peng Hu's snoring almost knocked over the roof, the noisy people can't sleep at all, and I don't know how Hao Sansheng "cohabited" with him for so long. Finally, I gradually got used to the earth-shattering snoring, squinted for a while, but my heart was not steady, and I had to be more wary of it when I arrived in such a strange place.
It wasn't until noon that Wang Hao barely fell asleep, and woke up after sleeping for two or three hours. Wang Hao opened his eyes leisurely, but found that the room was empty, and Peng Hu and Hao Sansheng had disappeared.
From yesterday's conversation, I learned that these two guys are the kind of people in the camp who specialize in completing "tasks" to get rewards, similar to mercenaries, and they probably went to work early in the morning.
As soon as she turned her head, she saw that she had woken up from the dream, and she was looking at herself with big eyes, her eyes were blue at a young age, and she had thick bags under her eyes, probably like herself, and she didn't sleep much.
Wang Hao and Meng looked at each other and smiled bitterly, and were about to stand up, but before they could stand up straight, there was a slight pain in their wrists.
"Damn, I forgot to find Peng Hu to get the handcuff key!" Wang Hao looked at the handcuffs helplessly, it seemed that he and the dream were inseparable.
The dream was dragged by Wang Hao, but he didn't cry out in pain, but looked at Wang Hao pitifully, and spit out a word: "Hungry." ”
Although new humans must consume blood regularly, blood is not a substitute for normal food, and it looks like a thirst for blood when looking at dreams.
When she said this, Wang Hao also felt hungry, from last night to now, there have been more than ten hours of water and rice without touching his teeth, and his stomach is hungry, straight to pantothenic acid.
"Let's go, I'll take you to find something to eat!" Wang Hao took Meng's little hand and walked out of the house.
Outside the hut, there are already a lot of people busy on both sides of the street, most of them are middle-aged and elderly women and children, doing some washing and scrubbing work, there are almost no young men on the way, it seems that the young and strong men here are either guarding or going to receive the "task".
Men are creatures who, in any era, even the last second before the end of the world, are burdened with an unshirkable responsibility: to provide for their families and protect their women and children.
There used to be an interesting slogan among the Flame Volunteers: Men are responsible for the battle and women are responsible for living.
In fact, Wang Hao has always believed that life is sometimes more difficult than death.
When the old humans around them saw the dream, they all stopped what they were doing in surprise, and pointed at her with unkind eyes. Meng lowered his head all the way, pitifully following behind Wang Hao, looking aggrieved.
Feeling that Dream was holding his hand tighter and tighter, Wang Hao, a careless guy, found that Dream was in a very low mood, so he laughed and rubbed Meng's head to show comfort.
Meng took Wang Hao's clothes by the corner, and under the guidance of a group of people, he followed Wang Hao towards the northeast of the camp. There is a "supply area", there is a free supply of food, and people who cannot find work for the time being can receive two bowls of porridge a day to survive.
Along the way, Wang Hao found that the camp in front of him was eighty percent of the old era of some kind of building renovation, and it might even be an abandoned missile launch base or something.
Far northern, there are a few small buildings that are significantly taller than ordinary houses, which are the residences of the "leaders" in Peng Hu's mouth.
The place where he lived was not far from the supply area, and he arrived soon, Wang Hao lined up with his dreams, and he also successfully received free porridge.
Sure enough, it's porridge, very thin, similar to the feeling of being able to look in a mirror described in the novel.
As soon as Wang Hao raised his head, he made a bowl of hot porridge!
Then, under the strange gaze of Aunt Porridge, she fed Meng a bowl.
"Don't be too kind, young man." The aunt kindly reminded: "These little cubs bite when they are full." ”
"Thank you, Auntie, this porridge, I'm afraid she won't be able to eat enough." Wang Hao smiled, handed back the bowl, and took Mengxue towards a tavern not far away.
It's not that I'm going to have a few drinks, but from Peng Hu's introduction, I learned that this tavern is the place where the "leader" issues tasks, and the able-bodied people in the camp often come back here to hang out and see what is suitable for them.
These tasks are not necessarily all fights and the like, sometimes there are some sewing and patching, and even herb picking and other things that women and children can do.
Of course, hunting, or kidnapping new humans and hunting mutated beasts, is the most rewarding, crafting technical work, and the rewards are not small.
As soon as I entered the door of the tavern, a pungent smell came to my face.