Speaking of which, Tashdian doesn't seem to have experienced much of the devastation of the earthquake, and the houses are relatively intact. But the appearance was even worse, most of the town was flooded by the river, and only a long slip of houses near the road was barely preserved due to the relatively high terrain.

None of these houses were wasted and used by the homeless, most of which were hotels. The homeless people are not afraid to go to the ruins of the city to kill zombies and find living supplies, but no one dares to sleep in the wild easily, as long as they have to go back to the town to find a place to sleep, these hotels are for them.

Don't talk about any service items, there is no star rating, only a house that can shelter from the wind and rain and a bed to sleep in. Basically, no one will eat black in the hotel, and it is relatively safe.

In addition to the inns that provide food, drink and lodging, the second most common place in town is the grocery store. This kind of shop not only sells goods but also buys, and its biggest business is to buy all kinds of materials found by the displaced people.

Nearly 500 kilometers from Barentai Town to Yining Base, there are no natural tribulations along the way, but there are many ups and downs caused by humans.

According to the rules of the redeemer, in addition to the food, drink, and clothing that they carry with them, as well as weapons and means of transport for personal use, all other items that pass through the checkpoint are subject to tax.

There are three fixed checkpoints along the way, such as Balentai, Nalati, and Yining, and it is not realistic to want to avoid them all, if you clear the customs one by one, you can't say that you can run for nothing, anyway, you have to give a 50% discount to the materials you find back with your life.

Where there is demand, there is a business opportunity, and the grocery store was born. Displaced people can sell the supplies they find to grocery stores in exchange for shopping vouchers, although the price given is lower than that of Yining, but it is the first choice for most homeless people who come to Korla to pan for gold.

The reason is very simple, when you go through the checkpoint, in addition to paying taxes, you will be eaten by the sentry and asked for a card, which may be more expensive than selling it to a grocery store at a low price. If you take into account the risk of being hacked, it doesn't seem to be much lower than the official purchase price.

As for how the grocery store can make money by transporting the purchased goods to the Yining base, that is another problem. More than once, Hong Tao had seen people dressed as homeless people sitting on military vehicles with redeemer flags outside the base, and several large packages beside him.

Those who are capable of this kind of business are certainly not ordinary homeless, they must have something to do with the checkpoint, pay less taxes, do not be eaten and asked for cards, and then have military vehicles to escort them, and the profits will not come out. In fact, in addition to most of the hard-working outcasts, the Redeemer Base will suffer in the end, but this is a bad account and cannot be calculated.

In addition to inns and grocery stores, another indispensable trade is the blacksmith shop. Due to the high cost of bullets, most of the homeless people can only use cold weapons to deal with zombies. Even if a few people have guns, they are reluctant to kill zombies, and they are all reserved to save lives in an emergency.

There was only one blacksmith shop in the town, and it was quite large, and the trade was very hot, and three or four blacksmiths were banging around the fire shirtless, and the sweat and coal dust on their bodies were mixed and ran down their backs and cheeks, turning people black and white.

Hong Tao doesn't need to stay in a hotel, to be honest, the environment inside is not as good as sleeping on the street, not to mention whether there are fleas and lice, the smell alone is enough for people to bear.

What? Cell! Thinking too much, the customers here are all homeless people who have to play for their lives in order to survive, it would be good to have a chase bunk to sleep in, who would spend more money to live in a single room for the cleanliness habit of not eating or drinking.

"Brother, look at this, can you fix it?" As a man with a gun and no shortage of ammunition, he shouldn't have bothered the blacksmith, but if he wanted to disguise the outcasts more like them, he had to do things according to the habits of the outcasts, such as getting a steel crossbow with him, and using it without it.

Hong Tao bought the steel plate crossbow in Kuitun, but it would definitely not be possible to have a crossbow without arrows, so he also came over to pretend to buy a few tailless steel crossbow arrows, and by the way, he repaired the trap that was almost pulled apart when he caught the blue devil last time. If nothing else, it is his consistent style to pick up grass and beat rabbits.

Who said that Pathfinder can't catch a Blue Devil by the way to subsidize the family, in addition to income, it can also make him look more like a gold digger. It's just that this time the accent has been changed again, and it sounds a bit of a northwestern dialect, and there are many immigrants from Gansu here in Xinjiang Province.

"It was made by the Blue Devil, right?" The gray-haired blacksmith put down the hammer in his hand, took the trap and looked at it, and immediately came to the right conclusion.

In terms of how to catch the blue devil, the homeless people have practiced with their lives for more than half a year, and have summed up several more reliable methods, and the use of animal traps when the number of people is small is one of them.

"The spring is gone, it needs to be replaced...... The day after tomorrow at the earliest? But the old blacksmith did not immediately start the work, but handed the trap back again, and gave him an inquiring look.

"I'm in a hurry, add more money, can you fix it tomorrow morning!" Day after tomorrow! Hong Tao really couldn't wait, so he reached into his arms and took out a cigarette and handed it over. He just wanted to catch the rabbit with grass, and he didn't really want to catch the Blue Devil, so it would definitely not be possible to delay for two more days.

"Look at it, those are waiting to be repaired, no one can take them before tomorrow morning, the springs are out of stock, and they will not be delivered until the second half of the night at the earliest." The old blacksmith was quite particular, and he didn't plan to take advantage of it if he couldn't help, so he didn't take cigarettes.

"Two, I'll be the first one tomorrow morning!" Hong Tao looked in the direction of the old blacksmith's finger, and it was true that there were more than a dozen traps of all kinds piled up in the corner, so he had to retreat and find a cigarette.

"Show me a safe inn and don't let people steal the horses." Seeing that the old blacksmith still refused to accept cigarettes, Hong Tao knew that he was not too little but too much, so he simply bothered one more thing and helped him introduce a reliable hotel.

It's still acceptable to wait an extra night, but you can't sleep on the street like you did at the Yining base. It's outside the checkpoint, there are no wooden towers or sentinels on the streets, and there are so many unidentified homeless gold prospectors. If nothing else, these two horses alone are enough for some people to take risks.

"The No. 1 store is the most reliable, it is a chain store, there are stores in Barentai, Nalati, and Yining, the boss has a hard relationship, the guys in the store have guns, no one dares to make trouble in his place, people and horses are safe!" The old blacksmith pointed to the northernmost one, then took the cigarette and took out a metal cigarette case from his bosom, and carefully put it in.

"Good guys, they're all chained......" Hong Tao doesn't live in a hotel in Kuitun or Yining, he really doesn't know much about this industry, and he can't laugh or cry when he hears the old blacksmith. I had to lead the horse to the north according to the words.

Along the way, every building with a sign of an inn will be greeted with enthusiastic shouts from the guys, and the advertisements such as clean beds, hot water, special care for the horses, good horse feed, free bicycle maintenance, etc. are endless.

"Tashkent Highway Section...... Police station...... ...... telecommunications business hall, Hong Tao took a closer look, these inns were all opened using old-world buildings, in addition to the signboard, a number of white lanterns were hung outside the door, and the words "inn" were written on them to be considered open.

"Brother, brother, is it the first time? Come on, come on, it doesn't matter if you can't live or not, let's take a look first. It's not me who blows, it's the safest place in town. Every time the patrol team comes, they also live in our house, and if you live here, it is equivalent to having a sentry to stand guard, not powerful! ”

The northernmost inn is a former industrial and commercial office, and the emblem on the door is still there. The guy is not very old, but his mouth is neater than the previous ones, and he understands the psychology of customers, and he does not mention whether the bed is clean or not, whether there is hot water, and only says that there is an advantage, safety.

"Little brother, where are you from Gansu?" Hong Tao didn't say that he couldn't stop it, he first got into the family routine with the young man.

"Listening to the accent, you're also from Gansu, right? My hometown Tianshui, I followed my parents when I was a child! The young man really let Hong Tao's fake Gansu dialect be blinded, and reported himself to his home first.

"That's far away, I'm from Wuwei, no wonder I don't like your accent. In this way, I stayed in the shop, and first fed the two horses, and I did not go in, and slept outside the stable. ”

This is called the wicked person to sue first, obviously because he didn't learn much like it, but he said that the accent of the other person tasted wrong, and then chose a distant place to be his hometown. In fact, there are many accents in Gansu, such as Longzhong, Longdong, Lanzhou, Hezhou, and Hexi, even locals are not easy to distinguish.