"Thank you."

After listening to the evaluation of the assistant Xiao Liu, Xia Qing also inserted one with a bamboo skewer and put it in his mouth. Caution is due, but it's also worth taking a risk when it comes to food.

There are also a lot of these things in Xia Qing's territory, and many of them were dug up when cleaning up the farmland, but she was too lazy to test them one by one, and she was reluctant to fry the known oil, so she fed them to fish, birds, and snakes.

At this moment, eating the fried golden cicada that was still hot and crispy, Xia Qing felt that she could also spend some effort and oil for this stuttering.

After Xia Qing ate it, Tang Huai glanced at Wei Chengdong proudly, and distributed the fried golden cicada to everyone in the car except Wei Chengdong, and the atmosphere suddenly became lively.

Xia Qing understood that Tang Huai wanted to take this opportunity to reverse the unfavorable situation of the lords of the nearby territories getting close to the Blue Dragon Clan and alienating the Tang family.

Just when everyone was busy asking Tang Huai for advice on the experience of digging up monkeys, there were lords on the bus one after another.

A total of sixteen lords came up from the first to the twenty-eighth territory, and all of them who could come should have come, and those who did not come were either cut off from the outside world like the eighth lord, or the territory was empty and deserted.

The lords naturally divided into three small groups according to the walkie-talkie communication channel. The representatives from the twelfth territory crowded around Tang Huai, so the small group of lords from one to the tenth was more numerous than the other two combined.

After Tan Junjie and the other two soldiers entered the rear compartment, they sped up and rushed to the territory of No. 29 to 50, which was close to the security zone. In accordance with the agricultural product fair process announced in advance, Tan Junjie and the three began to inspect the types and quantities of agricultural products brought by each lord, and labeled them with the territorial management department, sealed the bag and returned it to the lord.

After the agricultural products brought by the lord have passed the official inspection, they can be brought back to the safe area for trading and exchange.

In order to protect the safety of the lord, the detection was carried out in the area of the carriage separated by partitions. There was no verbal communication during the test, and those with auditory evolutionary abilities did not know what each lord or representative had brought.

Xia Qing came out of the testing area with a backpack and a backpack, returned to the original position and sat down, seemingly closing his eyes and recuperating, but in fact, his hearing was fully open, monitoring the movements inside and outside the car.

Based on the degree of bumps in the road and the sound of wind and birds, Xia Qing judged that the car was passing through the ruins of the town.

Ten years ago, this area was a bustling and beautiful city, but now it is empty, and the whistling sound of the wind as it passes through the ruins sounds particularly bleak.

Suddenly, a different sound came from the wind. Xia Qing, who had been trained by Luo Pei for more than a month, was no longer what it used to be, and he still closed his eyes and remained motionless.

Xia Qing didn't move, but Tang Huai moved, "Did you hear the cry?" There seemed to be the cry of a child outside. ”

Not a possibility, but certainly a child's cry. But the sound was so small that the average person in the car would not be able to hear it. This cry reminded Xia Qing of Zhong Tao and Zheng Kui when they drove through this ruin half a month ago, when they were ambushed by a woman holding a child and were injured.

The tall Zhao Ze still likes to pat himself on the back as much as he does in the lord's channel, "I didn't hear anything, Brother Huai's hearing is so good, no wonder I can hear the movement of insects in the soil." ”

Cong Qingwei also replied, "There can't be children in this place, it is estimated that wild cats are barking." ”

"How could Lao Tzu hear it wrong!" Tang Huai felt that Cong Qingwei was insulting his abilities.

was glared at by Tang Huai, and Kuang Qingwei immediately laughed. Qi Fu hurriedly interrupted, "It may be the children of the lord's family, there are many people who take the lead in farming." ”

Everyone was quiet again, and Xia Qing silently thought about what would happen before a woman would leave the safe zone and take the child to risk surviving in the ruins.

After two hours of jolting, the speed of the car slowed down, and the lords of the twenty-ninth to fiftyth places got into the car one after another.

After Sun Zhe, the lord of No. 48, came up, he saw Xia Qing sitting in the innermost part at a glance - although there were several women in the car, Xia Qing's red face was too recognizable.

Xia Qing also saw Sun Zhe and nodded to him.

When the military card was parked outside the security zone, Xia Qing took out his old mobile phone and glanced at the time. She set out from the territory at six o'clock in the morning and arrived at the safe zone at half past nine in the morning. Although the road was still bumpy, it took nearly twice as long as when she left the safe zone to go to the territory.

It seems that the base "made great efforts" to build roads as mentioned on the radio, and it really put great effort into it.

Tan Junjie beckoned everyone to get out of the car, and Xia Qing followed the crowd with a huge backpack and easily jumped out of the car.

The Huisan base took great pains for this trade fair, and the four military trucks from the east, west, south and north arrived at the main gate of the security zone at about the same time, and the lords were either carrying large bags and baskets, or carrying large baskets and large bags, standing beside the cars and looking at each other.

Xia Qing roughly counted, there were about a hundred people.

A total of 200 territories were opened up at the Huisan base last year, all of which were taken away in February, and only 100 people returned to the safe zone five months later to participate in the agricultural products fair.

The remaining 100 territories are most likely to be empty, and in the face of such a high casualty rate, it is understandable that ordinary residents in the security zone are reluctant to come out to farm.

The heavy iron door of the safe zone has been opened, and a striking red banner hangs on the door: Welcome the lords to come home and see.

Under the banner, there was a large group of security area staff, and Xia Qing actually saw someone with a camera on his shoulder recording the video. Her calm gaze moved away from the banners, the crowd, and the cameras, to the vast expanse of dark, colored blood on the walls of the safe zone.

Staining the walls red was her father's blood.

A bald middle-aged man in a black suit strode over with a smile on his face and shook hands with the lords cordially, "Welcome everyone back to participate in the agricultural products fair of our Huisan base, I am Jiang Quan from the Territory Management Department, please follow me into the safe zone." ”

Xia Qing hugged the backpack and protected it, and after showing his identity card to the guards and accepting inspections, the security zone followed the flow of people into the security zone.

Both sides of the road were crowded with yellow-skinned residents, who stared at the lords like hooks, eager to grab the produce they had brought with them and swallow them in their stomachs.

Cong Qingwei, who was holding a backpack, complained loudly, "Why is the safe zone so smelly, it's incomparable to the territory." ”

"With so many people who don't take a shower or change their clothes huddled together, can it smell good?" Zhao Ze responded in a low voice, with smugness in his voice, "We used to be like this, I really don't know how to endure it." ”

Not just the crowd, but the entire security area emitted a suffocating smell. After ten years of natural disasters, most human beings have a great fear of everything outside the safe zone, and as long as they can survive in the safe zone, they dare not take this step.

Xia Qing didn't say a word, walked forward expressionlessly, she has never stopped in the past ten years. Because after the natural disaster began, her parents told her countless times: no matter how hard the road ahead is, it is closer to happiness than standing still.

They promised each other that they would work towards happiness.

So even if Xia Qing is the only one left now, she must continue to run towards happiness according to the agreement with her parents.

(End of chapter)