Chapter 182: Queen of the Wasteland
Groups of white tents were grouped together and placed at the foot of a high low hill.
The village is called "Cold Lake Town", and its name comes from a small lake a few hundred meters wide behind a low mountain, which is probably the only bit of blue that can be seen outside the sky within a radius of several hundred kilometers.
The town of Cold Lake was founded by refugees on a ruined ground and is located in the westernmost part of the Third Continent.
The closer you get, the more ruins you can see. The broken and decaying reinforced concrete was simply repaired and became a fence against sandstorms in Cold Lake.
Chu Yu tightened the brakes, and the motorcycle began to slow down, slowly driving between the white tents of different sizes.
It is said that it is a tent, but most of them are actually white cloths held up with tattered wooden sticks.
Some tents even had a corner on a broken light pole, and the past glory could be faintly seen from the exposed wires.
Between the narrow sidewalks, miscellaneous things are scattered unchecked: four-wheeled off-road vehicles, piles of tattered computers, and the bones of dried alien beasts...... There are also a variety of daily necessities.
Chu Yu slumped down on the motorcycle, walked through a "forest" of dried clothes, and walked towards the depths of Cold Lake Town.
The deeper you go, the noisier the voices become. Along with the human voice, there are all kinds of smells: sweat, alcohol, engine oil, disinfectant, and so on. Chu Yu also smelled a smell of manure, which was the smell from a certain pig farm.
The Steel Dome Company's treatment of the Lingyuan Star can be simply summarized in four words: let it go.
With the exception of a limited number of metropolises, the rest of the city is outside France.
So there are many similar settlements in the desert, and they are all built brick by brick by ordinary people who have survived the war.
For the tyranny of the Steel Dome, naturally there are people who try to resist, but not everyone has this idea, and ordinary people do not have this ability.
After going through hardships and dangers and the rest of their lives, people still have to live, and only when they are alive can there be hope.
Chu Yu carefully avoided a garbage heap where insects and flies were flying, and finally found the destination of this trip.
The tent was much taller than the others, like a minaret jutting out of a sea of white.
Chu Yu stopped the motorcycle, tied it to a fairly intact electric light pole with a lock, lifted the curtain, and walked in with the sack.
The large tent was crowded with people, scantily clad men and women sitting around wooden tables in twos and threes, wine glasses in their hands, and chatting and chatting endlessly.
Some of these people were merchants, some mercenaries, and some ordinary people, their cheeks flushed with alcohol, they played cards, they talked loudly, and from time to time they let out a few rude laughs, and lived a life of drinking and drunkenness.
Seeing Chu Yu coming from outside, there were many people at the wine table waving to her, and it seemed that she was very popular here.
Chu Yu smiled at the corner of his mouth, nodded to these people one by one, and came to the innermost bar unhurriedly.
Sitting at the bar was a shirtless, bald man. Seeing Chu Yu coming, he had already stood up and smiled.
"Miss Chu, what do you want to drink today, or is it the same old-fashioned, Weidi cocktail?"
"I won't drink the wine today." Chu Yu flipped his arms, and the hemp bag on his shoulder fell on the bar with a bang, "You order the quantity." ”
"Okay." The bald head untied the sack, revealing the piles of alien limbs inside.
He sorted the valuable materials and lined them up on the floor one by one, and the smile on his face grew with each piece he took out.
There were already a lot of good people around the two of them, and they came to the side with their wine glasses, and counted the limbs with the bald head.
"This, this, this...... This is the compound eye of the 'flying mantis', there are so many, there are more than a dozen! A plainly dressed man looked at the materials all over the floor in amazement: "What is the origin of this sister?" ”
"Hey, how do you talk!" A drunken and hazy strong man touched the man with his elbow, "Boy, you're new here, aren't you?" This is the queen of our wasteland! ”
"What are these dozen or so flying mantises, I still remember that our sister Chu came back last month with a whole 'spade armor', oh, that scene is spectacular, such a big spade armor, if it wasn't cut outside, you wouldn't even be able to enter the door!" A thin man stood next to him and added.
"The queen can't talk about it, just catch a few more bugs." Chu Yu replied modestly, but his chin was still raised proudly, looking very useful.
"Sister, no matter how many times I see it, I still envy it, why don't you even tan it? On such a hot day, I stood in the sun for a little longer, and the skin was about to melt. A girl in the crowd said to Chu Yu: "People are really angry compared to people." ”
"Why don't you try our new sunscreen?" I've always used this. Chu Yu skillfully chatted with everyone in the tavern.
"Oh? So here's the secret? "The Girl in the Cowboy Hat's Eyes Shine" Introduce me? ”
"Company?" The man who had been stunned from earlier continued to be dumbfounded.
"Hmph, the true identity of our Queen Chu, it scares you to death when she says it! He is the president of Cattail Company! The thin man said with a smug expression, as if he were an employee of the Cattail Company.
"The president of the cattail company...... Could it be the one who was very popular a few years ago, the beautiful entrepreneur Chu Xiaoye? ”
The man's stunned eyes were mixed with a hint of sudden realization: "I said, look at how she looks a little familiar!" ”
The bald head had already counted all the materials, raised his head and looked at Chu Yu: "There are a total of fourteen flying mantises, compound eyes, forelimbs, coccyx, and poison sacs...... Does Miss Chu want cash, or is she the same as before, in exchange for equivalent eggs? ”
"The same old way." After Chu Yu recommended sunscreen to the girl, he nodded towards the bald head.
It didn't take long for Chu Yu to have more than forty "worm eggs" in his hands.
These insect eggs are actually the demon pills of these alien insects.
They can find the demon pill, and others can naturally find it too. But ordinary people can't see the true value of these demon pills, so they treat them as dead eggs.
These eggs are also quite marketable, because bullets made from these things have been found to be much more powerful than ordinary metal bullets, and even contain toxins.
Chu Yu put away these demon pills with a smile on his face, and suddenly turned to face the people in the tavern:
"Miss Ben is happy today, and all the wine here today will be credited to my account!"
The crowd erupted in cheers, the table was slapped and the high-fives rang out, and everyone raised their wine glasses to greet Chu Yu.
"Queen Chu! When to take the brothers to hunt insects, we also want to see the big scene! ”
"Next time, definitely!" Chu Yu put away the sack and walked out of the tent amid the laughter of everyone.
She took out her mobile phone to confirm the map, stepped on the motorcycle, and drove in the direction where her senior sister was.
(End of chapter)