Finding materials to use in the middle of a hot architectural desert is no easy task.

Whether it is the heavy protective clothing of its own or the barren condition of this architectural desert, the difficulty of searching for materials has increased by several levels.

As a two-person team, even with the leadership of Su Qianxue, who has lived in this area for several years, the two still dare not rashly enter some dangerous areas.

Some of those areas are naturally formed, some are occupied by radiants, but many more are man-made.

Just this morning, so Xia they were pushed back by no less than three waves of people with guns.

Following behind Su Qianxue, Gu Xia could obviously feel her displeasure, from occasionally talking to herself in the morning, to now she has remained silent.

Weighing the bag behind him, most of them were twisted metal objects, and occasionally he could see one or two empty cans.

As for Su Qianxue, the supplies she was carrying behind her back were not much more than those of Gu Xia, and it seemed that the harvest was not good.

"So Xia, when you come with me into the camp in the Autonomous Territory, remember not to look around, and don't talk casually."

Su Qianxue, who hadn't said a word for a long time, suddenly spoke, so Xia was stunned for a moment, and then immediately responded.

After a period of hurrying, the feeling of the late summer is about more than an hour.

The two of them finally came to a camp that looked a little different from the style around them, but the interior was just as messy.

Long barbed wire fences were laid around the camp three times, leaving only two openings about five metres wide in the north and south directions.

Although there was a lot of reluctance, Gu Xia was finally led by Su Qianxue to the south entrance.

Su Qianxue stepped forward first, put the backpack behind her on the ground under the watchful eye of the guard, and walked to the side with an open mouth.

A more advanced guard gave the younger brother next to him a look, and the younger brother stepped forward to check the backpack.

"Boss, I took a look, and the value of the things in this is about five servings of food."

"The old rule is that the material tax is 60 percent, and if you want to exchange food, these can be exchanged for two servings of food." The guard turned his head and said to Su Qianxue.

"Just switch to food." After Su Qianxue finished speaking, she waved her hand and motioned for Gu Xia to step forward, "Gu Xia, you show them the things in your bag." ”

Therefore, Xia learned Su Qianxue's previous movements, put the backpack on the ground, and opened his mouth.

After some inspection, after paying the material tax in the summer, there were only enough materials left to exchange for food.

Looking at Su Qianxue, Su Qianxue just nodded slightly, so Xia directly exchanged the supplies for food.

After changing the food, Su Qianxue left directly with Gu Xia.

On the way home, Su Qianxue's mood was obviously better, and she complained to Gu Xia as she walked.

"These people in the Dominion Territory are really, in the past few years, those materials were enough for a dozen servings of food, and the material tax was only one-tenth, but now it has become like this, it is really getting more and more excessive."

"So Xia, don't you say?"

Therefore, when Xia heard this, he felt a little helpless, he had only been here for two days, how could he know what had happened before, but the appearance of this Dominion was indeed a little ugly.

"It's excessive."

Without waiting for Gu Xia to continue speaking, Su Qianxue picked up: "In a few years, I'm afraid that the supplies we picked up today won't even be able to eat a meal, now that I think about it, it's really better to find someone to knock down the camp while they have just established the camp, even if there is less food, but at least there is no need to be as passive as now." ”

"Boiled frogs in warm water, no way."

"What is a frog?"

"Uh, this ......"

……

After some exchanges, Gu Xia, who was a little thirsty, finally explained to Su Qianxue about frogs.

And Gu Xia also got some information again.

According to Su Qianxue, there were many forces in this area that had planting facilities in the past, but since the people from the Dominion came, they were either coerced or induced, and those forces with planting facilities either joined the Dominion or were forced to destroy their own production equipment.

At that time, the Dominion also claimed that this was to consolidate the planting equipment in order to improve production efficiency.

The fact is, however, that the Dominion did increase its grain exports and lower prices in the first year of integration, but from the second year onwards grain production began to decline and prices increased.

Although after the price of food reached a high level, some powerful forces once again began to collect materials to build new planting equipment, but they were all wiped out by the Dominions who had established themselves on a stable foothold.

The remaining forces and the scattered survivors who did not join any of them dared to speak out and could only accept the exploitation.

When Gu Xia and Su Qianxue returned to the shelter again, it was already dark, and when they took off their equipment, they felt comfortable.

"You go take a shower first." Su Qianxue took out the food in her backpack and prepared to make dinner.

"There's a place to take a shower?" Therefore, Xia suddenly came to the spirit, and today I was sweating all day, and I really need to clean myself up.

"There's a passage behind my bed, and there's a shower place to walk over." Su Qianxue replied without raising her head, "By the way, the water is very cold." ”

Some impatient Gu Xia ran directly to the bathing place, opened a small door, and walked into a narrow passage.

At the end of the passage, Soxia saw a ruptured water pipe erupting with a cool liquid.

took off his clothes, so Xia didn't care about the source of water, and directly began to rinse his body.

After taking a shower and walking back to the shelter, Su Qianxue glanced in the direction of Gu Xia.

"Put the clean clothes on the table, change them yourself, remember to wash the follow-up clothes yourself, I'm going to take a shower, you remember to take care of the pot."

After speaking, without waiting for Gu Xia to answer, Su Qianxue picked up the clothes on the bed and walked into the small door.

……

Holding a small bowl, so Xia slowly pulled the potatoes in the bowl that had turned into a paste with a spoon, and Su Qianxue on the side did the same, but she put the bowl on the table to eat.

The potatoes in the bowl were slightly bitter, so Xia didn't know the reason, maybe it was because the potatoes had mutated due to radiation?

But I can't care about it anymore, so I can't stop eating.

Su Qianxue frowned, compared to Gu Xia, this was the first time she didn't know how many times she had eaten such unpalatable potatoes.

"So Xia, did you say that in the pre-war world, there were many delicious things, such as potatoes that were not bitter...... Something like that? Su Qianxue, who was born after the war, found it difficult to imagine the pre-war society, and the only knowledge about the pre-war period was to give the shelter to her grandfather to tell her.

"Don't say it's potatoes, potatoes are just the most common food, not to mention anything else, the pre-war world even had thousands of ways to eat potatoes, like shredded potatoes, potato cakes or something." It is rare that Su Qianxue is interested in the world before the war, so Xia plans to talk to her well.

By the way, wake up Su Qianxue's willingness to resist or something, killing two birds with one stone.

In this way, a fantasy conversation of the pre-war world, intertwined with imagination and brain supplementation, began in this small shelter of only 20 square meters.