Chapter 593: Safe Harbor
Gu Yu and Long Tao only came back in the evening, today may be our lucky day, and what they brought back is also good news.
Gu Yu contacted Nei Ying, who he had left in the safe zone, and learned some information from the other party.
The Safe Zone wasn't as chaotic as I thought after learning of Tuya's death, and there was one person who stepped in to hold up the audience, and she was now the head of the Safe Zone.
As soon as I heard Gu Yu say the name Xie Xin, the picture of her death flashed in my mind instantly, but she was in another time and space.
I've almost forgotten about this person, I haven't met her since I came to this plane, and she hasn't been around.
Xie Xin was a friend of Tuya's and had troubled me on another plane and purposefully sent me to the mine to die.
But in this time and space, I have never seen her by Tuya's side, and the last time I attended Qin Dong's wedding, Tuya didn't take her with me.
If Gu Yu didn't mention it, I can't remember that there was such a person at all, Gu Yu said that Xie Xin moved out of the safe zone after the death of Captain Li in the name of excessive grief and not wanting to touch the scene.
She is the widow of Captain Li, and she already has some prestige in the security zone, so she only brought a few bodyguards with her when she left, but when she came back, she pulled a team of tens of thousands of people.
The people who originally supported Captain Li and Captain Li's old subordinates all sided with her, including Captain Ji.
"Captain Ji is a person from Tumu, and those who know the times are Junjie!" I couldn't help but sigh when I heard this.
"They had been very close before, and there had been rumors in the camp for a while, but General Li didn't believe it." Long Tao rolled his eyes and said.
No matter what the relationship between Captain Ji and Xie Xin is, I am not surprised that the two of them cooperate, because in my opinion, they are the same kind of people, the kind of people who look down on people if they have a little power in their hands.
It was a good idea for Xie Xin to choose to hide his edge after Captain Li's death and find another place to recuperate and pull the team.
The safe zone of this time and space has not experienced an army of zombies, nor has it been attacked by other forces, and Captain Li died of a sudden cerebral hemorrhage, which is not surprising for his age.
But I know Xie Xin's true identity, and I feel that Captain Li's death may not be so simple, and even the team that Xie Xin pulled up is suspicious.
"What about Song Eunru's whereabouts?" I ask the questions that matter most.
"She's in the hospital in the safe zone, she's not doing well, you have to meet her as soon as possible."
"What's wrong with her?"
"She's very weak now, she could be at any time..."Gu Yu didn't finish his words, but his meaning was already obvious.
"What about the shapeshifters, have you heard anything about them lately?"
"No, the specific cause of Tuya's death and the matter of the shapeshifter have all been blocked, and the people I arranged have not inquired."
"Shapeshifters are the public enemy of the human camp, and there's nothing to hide about it."
"If you let the survivors know that their head is a shapeshifter, the consequences will be dire." Long Tao spoke up again: "Then you say, is it possible that everyone is a shapeshifter, and the camp is not chaotic?" ”
"There is another possibility, if the transformers have been making trouble in the camp, the news can't be hidden, and now there is no news about the transformers in the safe zone, they won't stop for no reason, don't forget, the best thing the transformers are at camouflage and hiding, the more no news, the deeper they hide, not to mention that everyone is a shapeshifter, but there are many I think it's possible."
And the people in the disguise of these shapeshifters are precisely the ones who can hide the news, I paused and said, "Let's make a bold assumption, what if one-third, or more than half-of-the-small, leaders and survivors in the safe zone are already shapeshifters?" ”
Of course, the wind is calm, they are already in control of the camp, and occasionally someone notices an abnormality, and it can be solved quickly.
As long as they eat away at humans little by little, slowly take their identities and take their place, and give the camp a big change, everything can be done quietly.
"That's an exaggeration." Long Tao shook his head: "Impossible." ”
"Possibly." Gu Yu said categorically, "Xiao Rou said that this possibility is very high, Xie Xin is the widow of General Li, yes, but after all, she has not been in the safe zone for two years, and as soon as she came back, she won the support of most people, and took over the camp bloodlessly, don't you think it's too easy." ”
Tuya's sudden death, but the security zone is not chaotic, and the new ruler is still an outsider, which is an unusual sign that the current situation in the security zone is not optimistic.
Shapeshifters have integrated into the human community, but humans have very little knowledge of them, and they don't even know how many of their kind.
"This ...... Maybe Xie Xin left her henchmen before she left, and her people have held real power in the past two years, so she will be on the throne as soon as she comes back. Long Tao said.
"If those people have real power, why do you have to let her be the family?" I immediately raised doubts, the struggle for power has always been bloody and cruel, Xie Xin has been away for two years, even if she left a secret stake in order to make a comeback one day, but when the people she left behind really grasped the power and refused her to come back, what could she do?
With a team of only 10,000 people, can she compete with the safe zone?
"Because they have the handle in her hands, they don't have a choice." Long Tao said.
"Okay, I'll talk about Xie Xin's matter later, now the priority is Song Enru, Xiaorou, you prepare and set off immediately." Gu Yu looked at his watch and ended the discussion.
Along with it, my 'vacation' was also over, and Gu Yu asked Long Tao to set off with me, Long Tao was familiar with the terrain of the safe zone and knew the location of the hospital.
Gu Yu is the head of our team, he can't always leave everyone behind and follow me around, the construction of the 'fortress' can be handed over to Bailichuan, but he also has to stay in charge.
Long Tao deliberately disguised himself before leaving, disguising himself as a middle-aged uncle with a stubbled beard, I was relatively simple, and wiped a little mud on my face, many women in the last days do this, making themselves look dirty and smelly.
This plane has not evolved king-level zombies, and the corpse group poses much less threat to humans, so the safe zone set up camp in a coastal city, and did not drift on the sea like another plane.
We drove into the famous tourist city on the seaside, with its harbour marina and the safe zone still controlling the boats.
The former name was abandoned, and the area has been renamed Safe Harbor City, and a large number of survivors were absorbed in the early days of the disaster.
Speaking of the city's method of dealing with zombies at that time, Long Tao still remembers it vividly, the fleet used blood to lure the zombies into the sea, and then intercepted them with a giant net, and then launched a fish/torodo.
I don't know exactly how many fish/mines were consumed by hundreds of thousands of zombies, but the sea at that time must have been bloody.
Long Tao said that the sea of blood attracted a school of sharks, and the fish mixed together with the corpses, and the zombies that were not killed by the explosion surfaced on the surface, and there were helicopter formations in the air, and they would shoot when they saw something moving on the sea.
This massacre is not spectacular, and the problem of zombies blocking the city was violently solved, and the follow-up cleanup work lasted half a year.
Only a powerful camp like the security zone was willing to consume so many high-grade weapons, or Captain Li and Guo Wei were ready to become the overlords of one side in the early stage of the disaster.
The infrastructure of cities is especially valuable to survivors, and while it is safer to evacuate from cities, there are many problems that come with it.
The car was close to Safe Harbor City, and we encountered the first checkpoint, and now we came out to walk, and the unarmed person was suspicious.
The two of us obediently handed over our weapons to the guards for inspection, but they did not confiscate our weapons, and the inspection returned them to us.
This means that survivors are allowed to possess weapons in Safe Harbor City, and the subtext is that it's dangerous inside, and we have to be more careful.
We didn't bring anything suspicious with us except for our self-defense weapons, and the guards asked a few questions before quickly letting them go.
A large camp like Safe Harbor has survivors joining every day, and a city cannot function without manpower, and it is impossible for them to keep the survivors out of the city, but whether they can survive here depends on whether these survivors are capable or not.
We drove into the city area, but there was still a checkpoint into the city, and we checked it carefully.
People and cars were checked, and I was not afraid that they would check for anything else, but I was afraid that they would check for zombies, but fortunately they didn't treat me as an infected person and didn't conduct a special test.
Entering the urban area, the road is full of traffic, pedestrians are endless, I haven't seen so many people get together for a long time, and I am a little dizzy for a while.
However, mixed in the crowd, I was more at ease, Long Tao did not take me directly to the hospital, the two of us said that we were here to beg for a living, and we couldn't go straight to the hospital if we couldn't go into the city.
We first went to the survivor registration center and registered with a fake name, and the registration staff will record the basic information, and if there is a specialty, it will also be recorded.
Long Tao told the registration staff that he wanted to find a job as a part-time worker, which is the most common job in the camp, and that it does not require special skills and is poorly paid.
I casually said I was looking for a job as a cleaner, which paid very little, but was still very sought-after, and I couldn't just find it.
We left the registration center on the pretext of waiting for news, and walked around the busy area before turning to the hospital.
There are so many people in the city, but the hospital is deserted, and I muttered in my heart, don't people like to get sick after the disaster?
"Do you wonder why the hospital is empty?" Long Tao and I walked side by side into the empty outpatient hall.
"yes."
"The medical expenses here are sky-high, no one comes, the upstairs has been changed into a VIP ward, only the God of Wealth can afford to live, they eat and drink well, and there can be a few sick people, so it is so quiet."
"Then the hospital can still operate without income?"
"It's raised in the city, doctors and nurses have a fixed salary, just enough to eat and drink, so what, who dares to work against the head of the camp, give a stutter, how many people rush to ask for this position."
Therefore, the money earned from receiving a patient may be worth a year's salary for doctors and nurses, and there may be a surplus.
"Alas... Okay, let's go find Song Eunru. ”