Luckily, with Aiden's explanation, the guards eventually let them in. Of course, although they said that they were put in, they also said that they ...............

"If you dare to do something dangerous, we'll shoot you right away!"

At first, the crowd didn't quite understand why the atmosphere in the gathering place was so tense, but when they walked inside the gathering place, they immediately understood the source of the tension.

I saw dozens of corpses piled up in the open space in the gathering place, some guards with firewood and gasoline nearby, and some people next to them were crying bitterly.........

"Looks like we must have lost a lot of people here last night."

Saya Takajo observed it carefully, and then said in a low voice, her expression was somewhat stiff, but it was normal to think about it carefully, after all, in the case of the blood moon, not everywhere has the power of a similar court. In particular, the larger the agglomeration, the more likely it is to suffer heavy losses.

"Well, that's kind of interesting."

Duanmu Huai stood in place, ignoring the frightened gazes of the people around him, and just looked around curiously. These survivors occupy a large factory as their base, which is supposed to be a food processing factory from the outside, well, it is understandable why the people of the city chose this place as a gathering place.

"How can it be so expensive?"

Just as Duanmu Huai was curiously looking at the gathering place, Joel's voice came from not far away, and he turned his head to see Joel arguing with a man who looked like a guard, and the latter looked very impatient.

"What's wrong?"

Duanmu Huai walked over curiously and asked. Seeing him coming, the guard's face changed, and instead of speaking, Joel complained.

"The things in this gathering place are too expensive, I originally just wanted to exchange it for some stored dry food, but I didn't expect him to ask me for a hundred bullets!"

With the end of the world, money certainly has no effect. As for what bottle cap currency is even more nonsense. According to Aiden and Joel, the world is generally bartered, for example, you have medicine, I have food, both sides need each other, can exchange a little.

Joel came to the gathering place this time to buy some dry food for herself and Ellie, and then to buy some supplies. But what he didn't expect was that the main need for this gathering place was energy reserves such as gasoline and diesel, and then medicines......... And the equipment and parts used to repair machinery that Joel scavenged on the road are also in demand, but the demand is not very large.

If it weren't for Joel's luck and the harvest of a few boxes of cigarettes, I'm afraid the other party wouldn't even want to look at Joel.

"Even if you say that, we really don't have a lot of requirements for that."

Although the guards were a little cowardly when he saw Duanmu Huai, he also fought the ground. After all, this is the end of the world, and every bit of resources is almost a matter of human life, where can it be easily traded?

Joel and the other party argued for a long time, and the guard did not let go easily, after all, the medicine that Joel needed was also hard currency, and cigarettes could only relieve boredom, and medicine could save lives.........

"It's no use you arguing around here."

Duanmuhuai stood next to him and listened for a while, feeling that this was actually no different from bargaining at a roadside vegetable stall, such as "this dish is too expensive for five a piece, give me one piece" and "one piece is not sold, at least three pieces of a piece", so he decisively lost interest.

"Since we can't agree on a transaction price, is there no other way?"

"Something else?"

Joel and the guards, who were arguing endlessly, were also stunned for a moment when they heard Duanmu Huai's proposal, while Duanmu Huai nodded.

"I remember Aiden wasn't that or something......... The wanderer is still something, can't he take some commissions and then be paid......... Can't you do the same? Since the price is not negotiable, is there any task you can give him to complete, and if he can help you do it, then it is okay for you to give him some medicine or something in return? ”

"This ..............."

Hearing this, both the guard and Joel were stunned, the former thought for a moment, then looked at Joel, and then at Duanmu Huai.

"If that's the case, then I really have a task for you, and if you can complete it, then we can provide you with some of the supplies you need."

"So generous? It's dangerous. ”

"Of course it's dangerous."

The guard didn't ramble, but nodded.

"When you entered the gathering place, did you see the corpses?"

"Yes, I saw it."

"Actually, they were originally burdened with important tasks........."

Soon, the guards also explained to Duanmu Huai and Joel, it turned out that after the apocalypse, this gathering place has been gradually expanding, and it has also received many refugees. But there is a problem, and that is that they do not have a lot of energy. The entire food processing plant had a few backup generators, but there was not enough fuel.

Previously, the gathering place sent people to nearby gas stations and other places to collect fuel, but now the surrounding gas stations have also been collected.

However, the scouts sent by the Gathering brought good news, as they found an undamaged fuel line and a fuel depot on the other side of the city. Although it is only a small warehouse, if it can be occupied and a transportation route connecting the food factory can be opened, the fuel problem in the agglomeration can be solved for a long time.

So the gathering place gathered a team of people and tried to take the oil warehouse and open the road.

However...............

In the end, it failed.

The reason is simple, there is not enough time.

If this world didn't have a blood moon every seven days, then they would have made it slowly, and maybe they would have succeeded. But unfortunately, the Blood Moon Frenzy erupts in this world every seven days, and in this case, there is no way for the gathering place to move slowly.

But if you want to speed up, they don't have that much power.

The end result was that they didn't have time to open the road to the oil depot before the Blood Moon arrived, and they lost a lot of money.

So...............

"If you can open the road to the oil depot and destroy the zombies that have occupied it, then we can indeed provide you with supplies."

"This ..............."

Hearing the guard's request, Joel frowned, he knew that he couldn't do this by himself, of course, you said that you wanted him to go there and get a few barrels of fuel and come back......... Although there are also difficulties.

"Uh-huh..............."

On the contrary, after listening to Duanmu Huai, he thought about it for a while.

"Okay, no problem."

"Huh?"

I have to say that hearing Duanmu Huai's answer, Joel and Ellie couldn't help but be stunned.

This is obviously their business, and it doesn't seem to have anything to do with the court, right?

Soon, Duanmu Huai gathered everyone together and explained to them.

And after listening to Duanmu Huai's explanation, the survivors were quite incredible, of course, from their point of view. They did hope to get some support from the gathering place in terms of supplies, but ——— to put it bluntly, this is also their own business, like Joel and Ellie, they need supplies to continue their journey, so naturally they have to take risks, which is a matter of course.

But......... The Inquisition doesn't need to go on adventures with them at all, does it?

"We do need supplies, and it's important for us at the moment, but ........."

Saya Takajo frowned and looked at Duanmu Huai.

"Mr. Duanmu, the Inquisition doesn't need these supplies, it's purely out of ......... Good intentions? ”

"Of course not."

Duanmu Huai shook his head.

"The Inquisition's duty is to protect the survival of humanity and eliminate all threats to humanity, and for this gathering place, at least for the time being, it is one of the sparks for the survival of human civilization, and since they need help, it is natural that the Inquisition will be willing to assist them out of its duty. Of course, the choice of how to do it is up to us. ”

Speaking of this, Duanmu Huai glanced at Saya Takajo.

"It's like you, for the Inquisition, it's also our duty to save you, after all, human beings can survive to continue civilization and existence, understand?"

"This ............... Well, I think I can understand, just a little bit ..............."

I have to say that the survivors were very surprised when they heard Duanmu Huai's answer. You must know that in such an era and such a world, the so-called salvation of mankind is almost unheard. Almost everyone is fighting for their own interests, and an organization like the Inquisition has to be said to be really unimaginable for everyone.

Of course, more importantly, the Inquisition Court didn't just talk about it, they did.

However, these survivors don't know that the reason why Duanmu Huai did this is indeed the duty of the inquisition, on the one hand, and on the other hand, he is also beating rabbits, after all, he doesn't know where the main line is in this world, so he will do it one by one first, and he will find the main line while doing it.

Just now, the commander of this gathering place also talked with Duanmu Huai, and the two sides can be regarded as reaching an agreement, so far this should be the main task of this gathering place. Open up transportation channels and occupy oil warehouses......... Hey, how can I say it, the wasteland is really troublesome.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai scratched his head. If it was that kind of normal fragmented world, he could finally find a core civilization point, where it was like this world, almost in tatters, and he didn't know where there would be a core civilization gathering place, if not, then he would ...............

Hey, that's why sandbox games aren't good at all, and there's no main story everywhere.

Duanmu Huai felt like he had just crawled out of the shelter, looking at the devastated radioactive wasteland outside, with a confused look of "who am I, where am I, what am I going to do".

What's more, there's no BB kid to navigate for yourself, right?

Don't indulge in picking up garbage.

"Forget it, all in all, side quests are also quests, so let's do it or not."

Duanmu Huai thought about it for a while, but still asked directly, and those survivors discussed it for a while, and finally agreed to participate in this mission. After all, the boss of the gathering place has said that if they can really complete the task, then everything good will be given to them, Duanmu Huai seems to don't want it, but they still need a little capital to walk the wasteland. What's more, this kind of task would definitely be suicidal in normal times, but now that Duanmu Huai is taking the lead——— they have seen the combat effectiveness of the court, and this thigh is not hugging white, is it?

So everyone discussed, don't go into the tiger's den to get the tiger, do it!