It's just that in this way, I can't come back for a few months. I wanted to take advantage of this time to go to a nest in Russia once, and by the way, I brought some daily necessities to store.

Be prepared, Hong Tao doesn't know how long he can live in Sailimu Lake, this matter does not depend on him, and he has to plan in advance if he doesn't want to be homeless.

Over the past few years, he has traveled to all the towns in northern Xinjiang, not to wander around, let alone to tease zombies to chase and play, but to find a second, third, and fourth spare nest.

If you want to say who is the biggest mouse in the world, he has to be. At any time, as long as he is idle, he doesn't listen to digging holes to store grain to prepare for the back road, it is no longer deliberate, it is simply instinctive, and he is a very particular big mouse!

Is it just a place to live? It's still far from it. What he said back then and in early autumn was really not bragging, it was far easier and more comfortable for him to live alone in the last days than with a group of people.

Food, daily necessities, weapons and ammunition, warm clothing, vegetable seeds, necessary tools, including electrical facilities, and even mattresses and reclining chairs should be prepared. This is not qualified, and places without more than two escape channels are still not worth it.

So reversing back and forth between several nests to reserve supplies is the only serious thing he has done in the past three years, and he has persevered. Even in the winter when the mountains are covered with heavy snow, they are constantly drilling, and the farthest nest has already entered the territory of Russia.

It was a Russian border guard outpost, and there was a lot of weapons and ammunition in it, but there was no food or daily necessities. To get through the northern part of Xinjiang, you need to climb over the Altai Mountains, which are close to 4,000 meters above sea level, and most of the way is uninhabited, and in some places there is snow even in summer.

But the words of the tea stall owner made him temporarily cancel this plan. It's not too urgent to improve the nest, but it's not easy to be bullied if you can get close to the Yining base safely, and it's not always available.

It's been seven years since he came to Xinjiang Province, and it's been more than three years since he wandered around, but he hasn't been to the Yining base once, and he's never even approached it. The reason is simple, it is the main base of the redeemer, it has a large population, it is relatively strictly managed, and the roads are not in all directions, so it is not suitable for recklessness.

You say that if you don't bring enough weapons and equipment, you can really get a machete or a homemade bow and crossbow like a homeless person, he really has no sense of security, who has the addiction to being slaughtered by others. But if you go fully armed, you don't have to be happy to take revenge, you have to be discovered as soon as you arrive at the checkpoint, and it is not easy to run.

There is no foundation and acquaintance to rush into it, except to suffer and suffer. Hong Tao did not believe that there was no scourge of bullying and dominating the market and forcing people to buy and sell in the homeless settlement area of the Yining base. It's a little milder on the surface, but it's actually more fucked up in the bones.

I don't have a good impression of the Redeemer management, just looking at the virtue of the Kuitun sub-base, you can get a little generalization. There is no rigid need for the exchange materials they can provide, and you can find what you want.

But now it's different, if the owner of the tea stall can get in touch with the people in the Yining base and gain a foothold in the homeless area, he can reduce a lot of worries. Try to go over there and see that at least you won't be bullied too much, but you can still go.

In addition, Hong Tao also wants to go to southern Xinjiang to see, the nearest road is from Yining east to Bayinbrook Town, Hejing County, and from there to the south along the Duku Highway to Kuqa.

Since there is no human-controlled area in southern Xinjiang, Bayinbrook Town is the southernmost stronghold of the Redeemers, and if you want to go south through here, you must have a pass to the Yining base.

Why do you have to go to southern Xinjiang to see it? Hong Tao wasn't curious, he listened to the sentries who had been stationed in Bayinbrook Town at the Kuitun base chatting over tea, and the endless Taklamakan Desert has been transformed into a complex landform of wetlands, swamps, and deserts and Gobi after nearly a decade of natural transformation, and there are many wild animals that have made their homes there.

In addition, in some parts of southern Xinjiang, there are also groups of survivors who are called rebels by the redeemers and privately called rebels by the displaced people.

It is said that they were also part of the Redeemers at the beginning, but later due to different philosophies, perhaps because of the failure of the power struggle, they had to flee the Yining base. But facing the siege and interception of the redeemers, he had nowhere to go, so he had to plunge headlong into the zombie-controlled area in southern Xinjiang.

What is surprising is that not only did they not fend for themselves, but they also slowly grew stronger, from time to time they raided or infiltrated the Redeemer-controlled area, and the year before last, they almost blew up the refinery in Kuitun.

Although there are many people on the redeemer's side, there is nothing good to do with them. Unable to attack, they could only strengthen the defenses of Bayingbrook and Barentai to prevent the rebels from infiltrating as much as possible.

Hong Tao wanted to find a chance to get a pass to see what the completely changed Taklamakan Desert looked like, and by the way, he would also build a few small nests in southern Xinjiang. There are unforeseen storms and clouds in the sky, and whoever dies and which cloud has rain may be used one day.

It would be nice to see what the rebels are, don't get me wrong, it's not that you want to join them, it's just pure curiosity. Now he has lost faith in all the survivor forces, and does not feel that anyone is stronger than the other, including the revival alliance he himself has built, now called the East Asia Alliance.

Ili is not a city, but a region, and its full name is Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. This place has been quite famous since ancient times, and the Wusun Kingdom was located here during the Western Han Dynasty, which was under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Protectorate. The Tang Dynasty also established the Kunling Protectorate, which governed the ethnic minority tribes east of Broken Leaf City, including the Ili region.

Later, Genghis Khan destroyed the Western Liao, and it became the fief of Chagatai, and the capital was built in Alimali, which is near today's Huocheng, and was the largest city in Central Asia during the Mengyuan and Yuan dynasties.

After the Qing Dynasty pacified the local government of Junggaria, it unified the entire territory of Xinjiang, and set up a general in charge of Ili and other departments to take charge of Xinjiang affairs, referred to as General Ili. It has successively built 9 cities such as Huiyuan, Ningyuan, Xichun, Suiding, etc., with Huiyuan as the center, and has become the trend of many stars and moons.

In short, all in all, the history of this area is very long, no shorter than the time of the ancient capital of the Central Plains. For a long time, the center of Xinjiang was not Urumqi, but Ili.

So the question is, why did humans consider this place to be an important city for so long ago? Throughout history, wherever a city or capital has been built, there are nothing more than three situations. First, the transportation is developed; second, easy to defend and difficult to attack; Third, the climate and geographical environment are suitable for development.

The Ili region, also known as the Ili Valley, flows from where the Ili River flows westward into Kazakhstan, forming a long and narrow basin, or plain, sandwiched between mountain ranges.

In ancient times, human beings did not have the ability to fight the heavens and the earth, and if they wanted to eat enough, they had to find a place suitable for farming and grazing to live, and the Ili River Valley was such a fertile land, and there was a less difficult climate.

Xinjiang Province alone covers an area of more than 1.6 million square kilometers, accounting for more than one-sixth of the country's area, but has a population of just over 20 million, which is the same as Beijing. Why is the population so small? Is it because of remoteness? Not quite, the main reason is water shortage.

On the whole, most of Xinjiang Province is desert, Gobi and mountainous areas, with relatively low precipitation, and the main source of water is rivers formed by melting snow. Human farming, grazing, and domestic water cannot be solved by rain here, so they can only live next to the river.

Those who have been to and walked through most of the provinces should know that wherever there are rivers, they are already full of people and planted land. Once you leave the river, less than a few dozen kilometers, or even a few kilometers away, is the arid and barren Gobi Desert, or the desert with yellow sand and no grass.

The Ili River Valley has been a natural treasure land with dense forests, green grasses, moderate climate, abundant water, and abundant products since ancient times. Not only did the ancients think so, but the survivors also thought so, and they did so.

As the largest group of survivors in Xinjiang Province, the Redeemers were initially divided into two parts, one in Yining and one in Urumqi. After several years of development and changes, it was finally decided to merge the two into one, choosing Yining as the main base, and at the same time abandoning Urumqi.