Plans cannot keep up with changes quickly.
This sentence is reflected in the mouths of tourists, that is, you never know what bad things will happen in the testing ground to torment you.
While No. 34 was watching the various jokes on the other side due to the increasing population, he was also trying to accommodate the increasing number of people.
When the shelter was originally built, it didn't have much space. At most, it could accommodate a thousand people for normal living. Of course, this doesn’t mean that it won’t work if there are too many people. If you squeeze in a little, there will always be room, not to mention that there are collection teams that are not around for several days, so the turnover is easy.
"Is there someone else here today?"
"Um."
It has been two days since I returned here. A total of four teams came in these two days, and one of them actually walked here on bicycles and legs. You can imagine how poor they are.
Lu Ning inquired a little and found out that these people were "refugees" who escaped from the surrounding shelters. You don't need to ask to know what happened to those shelters. Naturally, Cao Xiong will not sit idly by and has already begun to select healthy young people to start training.
Along with it came more questions.
On the 33rd, there were fierce quarrels over the distribution of supplies every day. There were not enough rooms to live in, and even the canteen and training ground were set aside. There were still complaints. Tuliba and Qiu Ren, the two patrol teams on the left and right of the firefighting team, probably have no time to prepare any supplies.
Although the situation on the 34th was slightly better, the large influx of strangers in a short period of time also caused more provocations. From the fact that Lu Ning and Xuan Zhitong were reported to Cao Xiong for being disabled before, it can be seen that at least there was no such serious incident here on the 34th, but now every day there are sounds of someone getting into a fight and breaking a bone. .
"A bunch of scourges."
In the cafeteria, the bald man sat across from Lu Ning's table with a rice bowl. In his bowl were two pieces of potatoes, one sweet potato, and half a greasy ham, which were obviously his own rations.
"What happened again?"
After the fight that day, Baldhead actually started to have a friendship with Lu Ning and others. This man is also a talkative person. Because of his outstanding skills, he is also a small boss in the shelter, and he has much better information than Lu Ning.
"That group of sailors robbed a few of the Southerners who came here today. The Southerners went back and brought people in for a group fight. Now they are lying on the floor in the corridor on the third underground floor."
The bald man picked up a potato, blew hard and peeled off the skin. Potato skins are probably something that people on the 34th will not eat, but the other side will probably go crazy.
"Boss Cao, don't you care?"
"Now I am busy training people and preparing weapons. We all know that there are monsters and zombies around. These little things are all taken care of by my subordinates."
How to manage? It's a place with few rules to begin with, and others followed the rules and didn't cause any trouble. At most, they made a little noise, and if they gave the person in charge something to do, the trouble would be minimized.
"The influx of too many outsiders in a short period of time has led to the formation of cliques. If this continues, it will be sooner or later that they will abandon each other." Lu Ning calmly took out a meatball from the bowl.
The bald man's eyes widened when he saw it. He hurriedly took a look into Lu Ning's bowl and found that it was actually porridge cooked with grains, vegetables and meatballs!
The canteen here on the 34th is almost in name only. Everyone does what they want. A few who can cook occasionally come out to help prepare a big meal for a processing fee. The rest of the rough guys mostly steam or fry in water, such as The thing in the bald man's hand was made by himself.
He can barely cook porridge, but Lu Ning is extraordinary!
"Where did you get the food?"
"I went out and opened a warehouse before, and put several kilograms of dried vegetables in it."
"Hey, hey, how about I trade with you? It's not much, just a pound!"
It has been so long since the apocalypse, and vegetables have long been a rare species. There are various methods of preserving meat, but vegetables other than pickles and dried vegetables cannot be preserved for such a long time! Although the meat is delicious, I have already become tired of it after eating it for so many months.
"What can I exchange for it?" Lu Ning raised her eyes.
"what do you want?"
"Do you have any electronic components there? Chips or something like that."
The bald head was instantly stuck.
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After coming out of the cafeteria, Lu Ning and Xuan Zhitong knocked on Lu Wenshuo's door.
"Have you eaten?" Lu Wenshuo asked after opening the door. Behind him, Liao Yimeng was sitting on the bed eating biscuits.
"Well, I just got the news that Cao Xiong is going to engage in military affairs. Then I can sell him the news about my batch of gunpowder."
"Are you going to take action? That's just in time. Yun Zhiyao just sent me a message. She found a large number of magical beasts entrenched in the ruins of a small town behind a mountain in the south. There are at least two plasma beasts among them. It is estimated that It’s the Evil Claw army that’s about to attack here.”
"One. There must be more than one... How far did Yun Zhiyao go?"
"After running for three days... Don't worry, she can scold you to death, but she will never delay what she has to do. I will give you the visual inspection of the military strength in a moment."
"Okay, besides, I have to go out tomorrow and borrow Chu Jianting's help."
"Just go to him."
Lu Wenshuo smiled and sold the person directly to her.
After thanking Lu Wenshuo, Lu Ning took Xuan Zitong outside for a walk. The two of them were considered semi-celebrities here. It was rumored that they were both vicious and ruthless, and no one was unsightly at this time. Make trouble for them.
"North, northwest, if possible, I would like to have an ambush on this road... Considering the existence of the plasma beast, be prepared to detonate it with both hands."
The geographical location of the shelter is not very good. As mentioned before, it is surrounded by plains in a large area. Who knows how far Yun Zhiyao ran and even climbed over a mountain. This kind of terrain is not suitable for laying mines, mainly because there are not so many things in hand.
Lu Ning decided to take care of it first. After asking a few later refugees, it seems that there is a huge group of corpses in the north. Compared with the Warcraft, these stupid guys walking in a straight line are easier to arrange.
The location they were inspecting was not far from the shelter. There was a slightly undulating forest area in the north. It was one of the few terrains nearby that could be used. There are search teams here from time to time to clean up, and no zombies or monsters can be seen, so safety can be guaranteed.
In the end, Xuan Zhitong demarcated a few places. Originally, the success rate of underground blasting would be higher according to her wishes, but it was a pity that she did not have a convenient excavation machine at hand.
When the two were about to leave, they suddenly heard the sound of a car engine. Through the bare trees, a long motorcade could be seen slowly driving in this direction.
"Again?"
Xuan Zhitong hid behind the tree.
Lu Ning patted her and asked her to follow her, and jumped out of the bushes. The jeep at the front of the motorcade also immediately spotted Lu Ning. A man in a military coat poked out of the window and waved vigorously.
"Hello! Is there a shelter in front of here?"
Lu Ning did not answer immediately, but first observed the situation of the convoy.
There are not many large vehicles that people like to use when escaping. Most of them are cars and vans. There are no people following the car, and there are no open-air models. The few cars behind are looking good, and the cleanliness of all the vehicles is also at the end of the world. above the average line.
"Haha, don't scare the little girl."
As the jeep stopped, the cars behind it also stopped in an orderly manner. An old man with a gray beard got out of the passenger seat of the jeep, holding a box of cookies in his hand, and came up and handed it out.
"You are……"
Lu Ning did not answer, but looked at them warily.
"The one who escaped came from the west. Take it. This is the reward for asking for directions."
The old man pushed the biscuit forward, and Lu Ning reached out to take it and handed it to Xuan Zhitong behind him.
"Girl, is there a shelter ahead?"
"Well, we live there."
"It allows you two little girls to travel alone. It seems that the surrounding security management is good. How is the situation in the shelter? Do you think there are so many of us, can it be accommodated?"
There is no room for it.
Not to mention the already tense number of rooms, the appearance of this team alone is different from before. In the past, the refugees fought on their own. At most, a group of twenty or thirty people would be the end. They could not cause much trouble if they entered two shelters separately. However, although this group has not reached the level of prohibition, it is still possible. The skill with which the car in front stops and the one behind it quickly follows shows how well organized they are.
"How many people are there?" Of course Lu Ning would not say that directly.
"Ah, about two hundred people, what? Are there already a lot of people there?"
The old man chuckled, and several middle-aged men wearing military coats and holding guns in their hands had already walked up behind him. Just by looking at them, they knew they were from the military.
"There have been more people coming recently."
"A lot of people? That's a good thing. More people are more powerful. We originally thought that there were only some small shelters left around here, but we didn't expect that there was a good one hidden."
As he spoke, the old man gave a few instructions to a soldier, who immediately turned around and walked towards the convoy, as if to convey some order.
"Why did you come to escape? What happened?"
"Haha, I'm ashamed to say that I was caught off guard by a new type of monster. Half of the entire base was destroyed. A cold wave warning was issued from above. We didn't have time to rebuild, so we had to leave in batches and wait until we get through this winter. reconstruction."
"New type of monster?"
"Well, so when I meet the leader of the shelter, I have to tell him. Don't think the old man is too talkative. He rarely goes out to take risks these days. The world is becoming more and more unsafe."
Several thoughts flashed through Lu Ning's mind, but she nodded calmly on the surface.
Then, the two of them acted as guides at the old man's invitation. Out of caution, Lu Ning politely declined the old man's invitation to get in the car, and she and Xuan Zhitong led the convoy back to the shelter on foot.
Then, as expected, when they saw the shelter being split into two, the two sides immediately had a conflict of opinions. Those who came from large bases had obviously never heard of this weird management method, while Zhang Nianxiu and Cao Xiong insisted not to Ken put the shelter back together.
In the meantime, Lu Ning and Xuan Zhitong had already quietly returned to the shelter.
"Will they cooperate?"
"meeting."
Lu Ning didn't worry about external problems at all. Those people were all veterans and knew exactly what to focus on under what circumstances. What's more, the coming external pressure also forces them to cooperate, so the result will inevitably be a compromise.
"But this shelter will definitely not be able to hold."
"Why?"
"When we obviously start to pile up favorable conditions, it means that we have completely fallen into a disadvantage. Did you hear what the old man said just now? Cold wave - our enemies are not just Warcraft and zombies."
"Then, how to deal with it?"
"Tomorrow we will go out with Chu Jianting. This time our goals are fuel, vehicles and reconnaissance of suitable shelters. We are not them. We can go back as long as we survive for a certain number of days, so there is no need to consider future development issues."
Lu Ning returned to the room, pulled out a map she had drawn long ago from under the blanket, stuffed it into her pocket, took a few bites of a biscuit from the biscuit box in Xuan Zhitong's hand, and nodded slightly.
"It doesn't have any taste. Put it away. What we have to prepare next is this kind of dry food that is easy to carry. We can eat it as extravagant as we want."
