Chapter 1408 Build a territory and you will be the lord!
After leaving the water community, the surrounding air seems to be much fresher, making people no longer dizzy.
The survivors who were still rushing to the Golden Eagle at night were extremely curious about the rare rebel. From time to time, people rowed over to ask about the situation.
Lao Zhang still had the energy to answer a few sentences at first, but as more people gathered behind him, he lost his patience for this and that.
“Don’t ask, don’t tell if you ask, can you die if you go and see for yourself?”
Seeing Lao Zhang's strange appearance, the survivors couldn't help muttering and could only disperse the encirclement.
Harm, they are just inquiring about the situation, and they are not planning to steal money. Why are they doing this?
However, everyone has overlooked one thing. Even if Lao Zhang tells them the true situation of the Golden Eagle, is it possible that they still choose to leave after they are already here?
There are only four days left before the disaster. The sampan is not a guerrilla boat and does not have the ability to travel hundreds of kilometers a day.
No matter how bad the situation inside is, they will not give up unless they go and see for themselves.
After waiting for a while, all the survivor sampans that had gathered around him dispersed. Lao Zhang simply changed his direction and walked along the shore, so that no one would notice him anymore.
After about five kilometers, scattered abandoned buildings began to appear on the shore.
Because it was once built by the Golden Eagle, the overall building looks very complete, and it is basically a brick house.
If this kind of house was placed in the Starfield Alliance, in the Grid Territory, or in any small territory, it would definitely be a hot commodity.
It can be placed next to the Golden Eagle territory. Even if it is free, the survivors passing by do not even have the slightest intention to occupy it.
"Keep going to the abandoned village we saw during the day."
Sumo took a look twice and decided to put some distance between himself and the golden giant eagle.
After all, what he plans to do next is definitely unprecedented, if not unprecedented.
Continuing forward from the abandoned building, the sampan floated on the water for more than four hours and stopped more than 60 kilometers away from the rear checkpoint.
Lao Zhang skillfully pushed the sampan to the shore and stopped it at the dock of the abandoned village.
"This is really a luxury. If you build such a good pier, it will be abandoned!"
The scale of the pier is ten times the size of the previous grid territory, and there are more pillars to tie the sampans. There are hundreds of roots, stretching nearly 200 meters.
But once we get ashore, we can still tell from the damage to the wooden boards on the pier that this place has been abandoned for a long time. No one has come here for at least two months.
“Hey, it seems that this place is not all built by survivors, but it looks a bit like a tribe of wanderers.”
A few people split up to explore, and Sumo quickly discovered this abandoned village. The strangeness.
Many of the buildings look too old, and the architectural style fits the homeless aesthetic.
Big is beautiful, thick is beautiful!
Any house made of stone can easily accommodate thirty people, and the supporting pillars are five or six meters wide.
More importantly, these houses are almost all independent and have traces of defensive facilities.
This is also consistent with the characteristics of homeless people who lack a sense of security and will build their houses into fortresses.
After walking along the gravel road in the village for more than ten minutes, a few people met at the other end of the village.
In general, the area of the abandoned village is not large, and the limit is to accommodate tens of thousands of people.
“Should we camp here to survive the disaster?” Lao Kai opened his mouth, “This place looked quite desolate when we passed by during the day, but we didn’t expect that there were actually many people living inside.”
“Of course, among hundreds of thousands of people, there are always some people who don’t want to line up or be used as cannon fodder.”
Sumo was not surprised. He raised his head and looked at the huge tower in the distance under the moonlight. Dark shadow.
It is a mountain of rocks that stretches for several kilometers.
The steeper sunny side of Stone Mountain is relatively flat, but the shady side has obvious signs of mining, as if Pac-Man had taken a few bites.
It is not difficult to guess that some of the stones used by the Golden Eagle to build various buildings came from here.
There is no vegetation on the mountain. After the moonlight shines, the stones reflect a faint cold silver.
Realizing that Somo had been staring at these mountains, Luo You was the first to react: "Are you planning to go up the mountain?"
"I have this idea"
Sumo raised his hand and measured the slope of these mountains with his fingers.
Basically, it is around 30 degrees. In ancient times, it was a naturally easy-to-defend but difficult-to-attack terrain.
"Old Zhang, go to the village and ask the people here to see if anyone is familiar with these mountains and ask him to lead us to have a look."
Old Zhang nodded. He quickly returned along the original road and went to the bright light in the village to find someone to ask.
Less than half an hour later, two muscular men with alert expressions followed.
Four or five steps away, they saw Luo You, a lame man, and his two children, and their expressions relaxed slightly.
"Brother, can you tell me now, what do you want to go up the mountain for?"
Seeing Lao Zhang stop, one person asked quickly.
“Why do you ask so many questions? I’ll give you a reward. Just take us up for a walk.”
"To put it simply, it's still late at night in this wilderness. Who knows if you want to..."
"What do you want to do?"
Old Zhang turned his head and had to say, his A large beard looks quite intimidating.
Coupled with a large reflective bald head and a burly body, the two strong men were immediately frightened and took three or four steps back.
“Oh, no wonder you are so brave and hide here.”
"In a word, if you want to get paid, don't ask anything. If you're afraid, go back now. I won't stop you."
With naked ridicule, the two people's expressions changed back and forth, but in the end they did not dare to say anything more.
Just by walking up the mountain, they can get a small half bag of salted fish, which is enough for them to eat for a week.
This reward really gives people a reason to take risks.
“Let’s go, which mountain do you want to go to?”
Pointing to the stone mountain in the distance, the man on the left said: "The Golden Eagle mined here for a period of time before, but the stone mined later was too difficult to transport, so it was abandoned. The two of us worked as miners here for a period of time. As long as there are traces of mining, they are basically familiar."
"Hey, you were a miner here before?" Su Mo suddenly asked.
The man who spoke nodded, glanced at Lao Zhang and showed no reaction, and quickly started talking to Su Mo.
It seems that I can’t get any useful information from Lao Zhang.
But this middle-aged man with an unattractive appearance seems to be quite kind.
"What do you call brothers?"
"The last name is Ji, and the single character is dragon."
"Hello, brother Ji Long, my name is Niu Dan, and this is my brother Niu Shuang." He patted the side. On the man's shoulders, Niu Dan continued: "We have been mining here a few months ago, and we are definitely familiar with the terrain of these stone mountains."
"That's strange. It stands to reason that when the Golden Eagle relocated .You didn’t go with me?” “No, people like us can’t afford those blessings.”
Niu Dan showed a bit of sarcasm: "People outside think that the Golden Eagle is a paradise and the last hope of mankind. They will understand when they go in."
"What do you mean, you think the golden eagle is a paradise?" Is the Giant Eagle bad?"
"No, we never said that."
Niu Dan immediately smiled and denied it: "Brother Ji Long, you can eat whatever you want. You can't talk nonsense. If your words are heard by some survivors, I'm afraid they will fight you on the spot. "
"What are you talking about? Say what you have to say, and hold back what you don't have to say. No one treats you like a dead person.”
Lao Zhang interrupted at the right time and glared at Niu Dan.
"Ji Ling... If Brother Ji asks you, if you know the answer, then answer it honestly. If he is satisfied, I will give you an extra salted fish for each question."
"Seriously?"
"Is it still fake?" Lao Zhang curled his lips and simply took out a hard candy from his pocket and threw it over.
“Is this a deposit, or is it the same sentence? It depends on you whether you believe it or not.”
"Damn it, you still have such a good thing in your hands."
Niu Dan reached out and took it, looked at it like a treasure, and his whole body became energetic.
When he looked at Somo again, his longing eyes were completely different from before.
“Now let’s talk about it, why are you unwilling to go to the Golden Eagle?”
“Of course, in fact, this is not a glorious thing, it is purely for us brothers to eat I didn’t want to suffer those hardships, so I left during the relocation period, and then continued to live in the village since I didn’t want to settle down anywhere.”
Niu Dan scratched his head and said awkwardly: "The golden giant eagle doesn't support idle people. If you don't accept the terrifying workload or fail to complete it, no one will even look at you even if you starve to death on the road. And when we are mining here, , I have to dig for at least fourteen hours a day, and when I go to the other side to rebuild, the workload increases, and I’m afraid it takes sixteen hours to lay the foundation. I heard that many people died of exhaustion while digging.”
"Then why haven't I seen anyone mention this issue on the World Channel?" Luo You asked with a frown on the side.
Niu Dan looked at Lao Zhang subconsciously, asked with his eyes, and after receiving confirmation, left and replied:
"What's the use of talking about it? The world channel is used to communicate with everyone in the wasteland. It is not for you to complain about the beautiful life in the human gathering place. If you don’t believe me, go and post the real situation of the golden giant eagle. How many people do you think will hate you?”
“In this world? It is a worse world. Everyone will only envy you for living a happy life, and will not feel any sympathy for the suffering you have experienced. Everyone will only believe what they want to believe, and will not believe the "reality" in your mouth. What's more, if people know that the Golden Eagle has to work for fourteen hours before taking a break, believe it or not, those small and medium-sized territories will immediately increase their working hours to fifteen or sixteen hours!"
"In the end, the Golden Eagle will still be a super territory that everyone envies and wants to go to."
Something seems to have broken again.
Su Mo glanced and found that the expression on Luo Xiang's face became increasingly complicated.
"Then what are you going to do in the future?" Luo You asked again.
“Let’s take it one step at a time. Life is much easier now than before. We can survive for a while with the materials accumulated through hard work. Let’s wait until this disaster is over before making other decisions.”
This time it was Niu Shuang who answered: "I don't think you are bad people. You are all quite innocent. It's a miracle that you can survive to this day."
"It's indeed a miracle."
< br>Luo You shrugged noncommittally and sat on a big rock: "My legs and feet are inconvenient, so I won't follow you up the mountain."
"That's okay, I'll let Luo Jiao stay and take care of you. You."
Assigned Luo Jiao to take care of Luo You, the three of them followed the Niu brothers towards Stone Mountain.
Because there is no vegetation and it has been mined, this road is easy to walk even at night.
The sky was only slightly bright, and several nearby hills were surveyed by Somo, who basically understood the situation.
“This is your reward.”
Back to the place where they met in the evening, Lao Zhang took out a sufficient amount of salted fish and handed it over as promised.
Su Mo thought for a while and asked Lao Zhang to give him a small handful of hard candies as extra reward.
Not to mention anything else, the Niu brothers took them all night, up and down the mountain for 40,000 to 50,000 steps without saying a word of trouble. It was just that this performance was definitely not what they said, and they could not endure the hardships of the miners.
Choose not to move with the golden eagle, there is definitely a hidden agenda.
"Brother Zhang is really a real person. There will be other people who need help from our two brothers in the future. Even if you open your mouth, we are still a bit thin-faced in this Stone Village."
Niudan and Niu Both of us were very excited. Including leading the way and answering questions, we gained more in one night than in a week as a miner.
“How many people are there in Stone Village?”
"There are almost a thousand people, and it's not fixed. People leave and join every day."
Niu Dan thought for a while and introduced the situation in the village in detail.
Without anyone taking the lead in development, Stone Village is destined not to have too many idle people staying.
Moreover, the terrain here is not suitable for farming, and the fertility of the land is far less than that of other places in the Southern Fire Territory.
Some of the people who still choose to stay here are former miners from Stone Mountain and are used to living here.
The other part is because of the survivors who lined up to escape and planned to join the Golden Eagle after the disaster.
“Going downstream along the river, there are many villages that were once established by the golden giant eagle to collect resources, but there are probably more people in Stone Village.”
"It's okay. You can go. We will come find you if necessary."
After greeting the Niu brothers to leave, Sumo breathed a sigh of relief, sat down, opened the kettle and took a few sips.
After staying up all night and trekking six mountains, he felt a little tired.
Lao Zhang and Luo Xiang were extremely tired and sat aside, snoring and drinking warm water.
After drinking, Lao Zhang thought for a while and came over and said: "Lord Ji, why do I feel that these Niu brothers don't have a few truths in their mouths?"
"Oh? You said Say?”
“He said that the miners who stayed here were all left because they couldn’t endure the hardship. I don’t think it’s true. If they can’t endure that kind of hardship, how many people in this wasteland can endure it? OK?”
“What do you think is their purpose of staying here?”
"Could he be looking for something?" Lao Zhang made a wild guess: "It doesn't matter if he is familiar with a mountain. He is familiar with every mountain and can clearly remember the points of leverage on the complicated and steep cliffs. Could it be that The mining locations were randomly arranged every day?”
“You guessed it right.” Su Mo gave a thumbs up, Lao Zhang is really a talent.
His delicate thoughts and rough appearance once again prove that people cannot be judged by their appearance.
But thinking of this, Sumo suddenly smiled and said: "I want to discuss something with you?"
"You say." Lao Zhang stood up quickly and made a loyal expression.
He transformed from a humble fisherman into a man feared and respected by ordinary survivors.
He knew clearly that all these changes in status were given to him by Soma.
"I plan to establish a territory on the mountain, and how about you becoming the lord?"
"What?"