Chapter Thirty-Five: Familiar Voices
For ordinary people, there is no doubt about the danger and cruelty of the end times!
This is not necessary at all, and it is modified with any adjectives!
You only need to give a few numbers to a deep experience......
Since the end times......
The world's population has dropped from 9 billion to nearly 10 billion, and even if it is optimistic, it is less than 1 billion!!
It's a shocking set of numbers!!
You must know that behind the numbers, what originally represented was a piece of fresh life!!
True......
The harsh environment and the abruptly changing climate, as well as the almost ubiquitous demons, blood clans, dark chasers, and mutated creatures that make people unguarded, are indeed the main reasons for this!!
Too much to say......
But at least 80 percent of the people die on this......
But there is another reason that people have to ignore......
That's people!!
As many people expected, the real danger in the last days is not only the harsh environment and climate, but also the demons, blood clans, mutants, and people who are also dangerous, in fact, there are still people's hearts!!
It is precisely because most of the survivors who can survive the end times deeply understand this that it is a sick situation that it is difficult for human survivors to trust strangers who are of the same kind in the last days!!
In this world......
Is there any other creature that is so hostile to its own kind?
Except for humans. I'm afraid it's hard to find another one!!
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Since entering the campus, Xia Jian has followed behind Ren Hao, and this way has come and gone......
What one sees and hears......
is telling Xia Jian everything. They have taken this kind of vigilance against their own kind to the extreme!!
Such as......
In order to divert Xia Jian's attention, Ren Hao did not hesitate to risk his life to lure the three-headed dark chasers to the gate of the campus, wanting to create an illusion that there were a large number of dark chasers on the campus!!
Another example......
Ren Hao them. There are good houses to live in, and come to the campus, in this most unnoticeable corner. In this bamboo forest overgrown with bamboo, it took months of hard work to dig out a huge basement in the ground!!
And the purpose, too, is for. Give one to the person. There is no illusion of survivors on this campus!!
After Ren Hao's later explanation......
Xia Jian even learned that because on weekdays, there were often some survivors from other settlements who came to trade with them, and they even specially arranged a few rooms in that multi-purpose building as their temporary stay!!
When other powerful armies come to them to trade. Ren Hao and them, they will settle down from the secret point. Pulling out a third of the people and living in that one gives the illusion that their nest is actually there!
Such......
In the event of an accident, or something unpleasant happens!
Ren Hao, they won't have no way out!
So, at the end of the day, it's still a matter of trust......
In addition to the existing partners, the survivors in the apocalypse, it is really difficult to trust anyone else!!
It is precisely because Xia Jian knows this very well that many times, Xia Jian will be a little emotional......
Is there really a future for a race that even the clan can't believe in in this cruel, competitive apocalypse?
Maybe there is!!
Let's be honest......
In this regard, sometimes, even Xia Jian is very skeptical and unconfident!!
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The basement under the bamboo forest is very simple and the space is very limited!!
The frozen soil on the surrounding walls is clearly visible, and you can also see a lot of bamboo rhizomes, crisscrossing from the soil, stubbornly growing!
The area of the basement is only about ten square meters......
It's pitch black inside! Jet-black! At first glance, it's empty!
It's hard to associate with a secret room!
"Here ......"
Xia Jian was also very puzzled in his heart......
Could this be the destination this time?
But what about the others?
The answer was soon revealed......
This time, Ren Hao didn't pause, walked straight to the corner of this basement, slapped it against the wall, and slapped it a few times......
At the time of shooting......
Ren Hao paid attention to controlling his rhythm!!
"Bang Bang ......"
Then Xia Jian soon found that there was also a series of extremely rhythmic knocking sounds from inside the wall!
See this scene......
At this time, even if Ren Hao doesn't explain, he knows what's going on!
Want......
Even if they were already in this small square of the bamboo forest, digging a basement to be their lair, Ren Hao and they didn't feel how safe they were!
For this reason, they deliberately dug another basement under the basement to serve as their real gathering place!!
As for that basement up there......
Naturally, it's just a bait!!
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got Ren Hao's response, and the people inside quickly opened the wall!
What is exposed is an oblique underground passage that is about two meters directly behind......
Five minutes later......
After a long, pitch-black journey, Xia Jian finally entered Ren Hao's real lair, which is the destination this time!
Compared to that basement above......
This underground space, though also very rough!
But at least, on the walls around it, it has already been painted with cement once!
Perhaps underneath the invisible concrete, there is a mezzanine made of bricks and stones.
In addition, in terms of area, this underground space is also dozens of times better than the basement above!!
Too much to say......
But here, hide a few hundred people. It's still not too big!
Other than that......
It's not pitch black anymore in this underground space!
On the humble roof overhead, at intervals of a short distance. A small energy-saving lamp will be installed!
The energy-saving lamps emit soft light, illuminating the entire underground space!!
And because of these lights......
Xia Jian saw the dense survivors in this space at a glance!!
Needless to say, these figures are the partners in Ren Hao's mouth!
It's just different from the lifelessness that Xia Jian believed......
appeared in front of Xia Jian at this time. It was like a busy scene in full swing, and in a trance, Xia Jian actually had such a thing. Have you traveled to a full-capacity workshop before the Great Apocalypse?
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Forehead! Work workshop?
To be precise, what appeared in front of Xia Jian was a large work workshop......
Hundreds of people. In this workshop. It's busy!
The sound of clanging metal! A high-pitched, piercing grinding sound! All kinds of crashing sounds! All kinds of shouting! Resounding throughout the underground space!
See this scene......
Xia Jian was shocked again!!
All right!
Xia Jian admitted that along the way, Ren Hao's settlement gave him too many surprises!
So much so that even he himself was about to remember clearly, this was the first time he was shocked!
But even so......
Xia Jian still has to say that compared with the previous times, this underground space gave him a shock. I think it's the strongest one!!
Who could have imagined when other survivors. Even those evolutionaries are struggling with their daily food, but here, in this inconspicuous underground space, it would be such a busy scene!!
And......
Xia Jian only spread his spiritual perception out of the ground slightly, and he had already discovered that in the entire underground space, even if he was the strongest, he was only the strength of a ninth-level enhancer!!
This......
Xia Jian didn't know how to describe his mood at the moment!
Maybe I can only admire!!
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Next......
As we continue to go deeper......
Xia Jian also slowly figured out some details of these people, busy with them, and what they were making!!
In the outermost direction, near the entrance......
Xia Jian saw a few naked muscular men, holding a big hammer, sweating like rain on several iron plates!
From these iron plates, Xia Jian could easily distinguish some traces left, some of which were disassembled from the truck body! There are also some iron roller shutter doors that we often see every day! There are even some that are simply steel from construction sites......
Under the constant knocking of these strong men, these things that can be seen everywhere on weekdays are gradually changing their shape!
The metal materials, which are a little thinner and lighter, will be slowly beaten into the fan blades of the windmill......
Those that are thicker will be beaten flat, and the neat yards will be put aside, presumably waiting for the second processing!
Wait until you pass through a noise source, and go in a little bit......
What appeared in front of Xia Jian's eyes was an area responsible for the disassembly of spare parts!!
Xia Jian saw a group of middle-aged women, as well as some young men whose bodies were a little thinner, buried their heads in a large number of messy machine parts and wastes, patiently dismantled some of these waste parts, some spare parts that could still be used, and then placed them in small boxes one by one!
Xia Jian glanced at it......
Among these sorted out spare parts, there are steel balls the size of a grain of rice, screws, and even copper wires as small as a hair, as well as bearings and gears the size of grinding discs!!
As long as it's still usable!!
It won't be wasted!
Even those things that are unusable and have broken down will be stacked neatly according to the material......
In the further ......
Xia Jian saw dozens of guys, most of them with eyes, burying their heads and assembling those disassembled spare parts!!
There's everything you can assemble......
Just in Xia Jian's field of vision, it was seen by Xia Jian. There's a fully assembled bicycle and unicycle, a couple of slightly odder-looking iron crossbows and rough, unformed birds!
This is only what Xia Jian can tell......
Can't tell. There are even more things that can't be named!!
Not far away......
Xia Jian saw again that several women were turning, a rough spinning wheel assembled from wheels, spinning some cotton into some cotton threads!
Next to this rough spinning wheel, Xia Jian saw several old people. I was patiently disassembling some quilts and other things, and taking out all the cotton inside. Carefully shake it open, shake it off!
Next......
Xia Jian also saw the grinding wheel modified from the bicycle to grind things!
I also saw the ...... of weaving clothes with a wooden machine
In the very corner of this underground space. Xia Jian even saw two big stoves......
A dozen strong men. Sweating like rain, shouting trumpets one after another, surrounding the two stoves, knocking and pounding!!
It's a few blacksmiths!!
In the stove, the heat emitted also makes the entire underground space warm like spring!!
And look at the entire underground space......
Here, Xia Jian doesn't have that kind of large-scale one. Extremely modern machinery!!
All the tools are basically made by everyone. The very rudimentary primitive tool......
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"Hoo ......"
Walking around the entire underground space, Xia Jian took a deep breath......
It's so shocking!!
It's amazing......
Xia Jian really didn't know what kind of language to use to express his current mood......
"How? We're not bad!! ”
During this period of time during Xia Jian's visit, Ren Hao, who had been silently following Xia Jian, was very knowledgeable and did not disturb Xia Jian's visit, and finally found an opportunity to brush his existence!!
"Nice!!"
Xia Jian nodded sincerely......
As if this was not enough, he added, "It's really good!" ”
Xia Jian said this, definitely not because of politeness, in order to give Ren Hao face!
But Xia Jian really thinks so from the bottom of his heart!
"Hey......
Hearing Xia Jian say this, Ren Hao was a little embarrassed while being proud, smiled shyly, and asked, "Xia Jian, I asked you before, what is the matter with your return this time?" “
It can be seen that Ren Hao asked these words after thinking about it for a long time!
"Nothing......"
Xia Jian was still immersed in the shock just now, and he didn't notice the abnormality in Ren Hao's tone at all, and explained very casually: "I just suddenly want to go back and have a look!" ”
Although Xia Jian didn't say the specific reason, it was generally not much different!
But when these words stopped in Ren Hao's ears, it became Xia Jian perfunctory him!
Just when Ren Hao was embarrassed and didn't know whether he should continue the topic below......
Xia Jian seemed to think of something, and his tone suddenly changed, and said, "That's right!" I noticed that you guys, it seems that there are a lot of people, are doing wind turbines, right? Do you need to do so much? “
Why did Xia Jian ask this......
That's because, after visiting along the way, Xia Jian saw at least eight wind turbine related equipment, which were manufactured at the same time!!
If these eight are successful at the same time......
Plus the four that are already in operation above!
Then there will be twelve wind turbines in this gathering place!!
Xia Jian is really curious, a small settlement, there are no electrical appliances, at most it is used to light a few lights or something, can it be used to install so many wind turbines?
"Ha Lu Ha ......"
But I didn't think about it, after hearing Xia Jian's question, Ren Hao actually laughed loudly, pointed to the wind turbine not far away, which had been completed for most of the time, and said, "You are asking this!" “
"Of course we don't need so much ......"
"But we don't need it, we can sell it to others!!"
"I'm ...... Sell to someone else? ”
Hearing this answer, Xia Jian was stunned at first, but in an instant, he had a feeling of enlightenment......
"That's right!!"
Ren Hao nodded heavily, "There are good things, are you afraid that no one will want them?" ”
"You don't know what to do, but now there are many people who have hid on the ice of the North Lake in order to escape from those who chase the darkness......"
"It's freezing there, and there's nothing on the lake, except for the fish that are bigger than the other! It's where these wind turbines are best used......"
"And this thing, unlike coal and charcoal, will be burned and there will be no ......"
"Usually, there are often people who bring food and come to us to exchange these wind turbines with us......"
Hearing Ren Hao's explanation, Xia Jian understood it......
Feelings, Ren Hao, they have already treated this thing as an industrialization!!
At the same time, Xia Jian also thought that before this, Ren Hao had indeed mentioned to himself that there would occasionally be some people who would come to trade things with them on weekdays!
Now think about it......
On the frozen lake, set up camp, install such a wind turbine, plus a circuit, roast the fire in the cold, dig the ice when you are hungry, catch a few fish and cook a big pot of soup, and there is no threat of dark chasers on weekdays!! Hehe...... that day, I really didn't feel too comfortable!!
And Ren Hao, what they appear here is not only wind turbines!
This really confirms the saying: nothing can't be done, only unexpected!!
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That's when it was ......
"Ren Hao, didn't you sentry today? What's going on......"
Xia Jian, who was immersed in the scene he had just imagined in his mind, suddenly heard a very crisp, lark-like voice, coming from afar!!
"Huh!"
The moment he heard this voice, Xia Jian was stunned on the spot!
Seemingly......
It seems like......
This voice seems to be a little familiar!!
But it's been more than ten years since I left here, and what kind of people's voices will make me feel so familiar?
Xia Jian, who was in doubt, didn't notice at all that Ren Hao, who was still explaining to him before, suddenly appeared on his face the moment he heard this voice, a kind of smile that only a man would understand, cheap, and with a sense of accomplishment!!
………………………………………… (To be continued......)