My Post-Apocalyptic Shelter Levels Up Infinitely! - Chapter 1438

[1428. Chapter 1408: Build a territory and you will be the lord!]

At first, Lao Zhang still wanted to answer a few words, but as more people gathered around him and kept talking, he lost his patience.

“Don’t ask. If you ask, he won’t tell you. Will you die if you go and see it yourself?”

Seeing Lao Zhang’s strange appearance, the survivors couldn’t help but grumble and could only disperse the encirclement.

Oh, they are just asking about the situation, they are not planning to rob money, why do they have such an attitude.

However, everyone overlooked one thing. Even if Lao Zhang told them the true situation of the golden giant eagle, would they choose to leave now that they were here?

There were only four days left until the disaster, and the sampan was not a guerrilla boat and could not travel hundreds of kilometers a day.

No matter how bad the situation inside is, they will not give up until they go and see it for themselves.

After waiting for a long time, the sampans of the survivors that had surrounded him finally dispersed. Lao Zhang simply changed direction and walked along the shore, so that he would not be noticed again.

After walking about five kilometers, scattered abandoned buildings began to appear on the shore.

Because it was once built by the Golden Eagle, the building as a whole looks very complete and is basically made of bricks.

If this kind of house were placed in the Star Alliance, the Grid Territory, or any small territory, it would definitely be a hot commodity.

But if it is placed next to the Golden Giant Eagle’s territory, even though it is free, the survivors passing by don’t even have the slightest desire to occupy it.

“Keep going forward, to the abandoned village we saw during the day.”

Su Mo took a look and decided to keep some distance from the golden giant eagle.

After all, what he is going to do next is unprecedented, if not unprecedented.

Continuing forward from the abandoned building, the sampan drifted on the water for more than four hours and stopped more than 60 kilometers away from the rear checkpoint.

Old Zhang skillfully pushed the sampan to the shore and stopped it at the dock of the abandoned village.

“This is really a luxury. Such a nice pier is just abandoned just like that!”

The scale of the dock is ten times the size of the previous grid territory. There are hundreds of pillars for tying sampans alone, stretching for nearly two hundred meters.

However, when we got ashore, we could tell from the damaged wooden boards on the dock that this place had been abandoned for a long time, and no one had been here for at least two months.

“Hey, this place doesn’t seem to be built entirely by survivors. Instead, it looks a bit like a tribe of wanderers.”

Several people explored separately, and Su Mo soon discovered the strangeness of this abandoned village.

Many of the buildings look too old, and their architectural style is very consistent with the aesthetic of wanderers.

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 show signs of defensive facilities.

This is also consistent with the characteristic that wanderers lack a sense of security and build their houses into fortresses.

After walking along the winding gravel road in the village for more than ten minutes, the group met at the other end of the village.

Generally speaking, the area of the abandoned village is not large, and it can only accommodate about ten thousand people at most.

“Are we going to stay here and survive the disaster?” Lao Zhang asked. “When we passed by during the day, this place looked quite desolate. I didn’t expect that there are actually quite a few people living here.”

“Of course. With hundreds of thousands of people, there are always some who don’t want to queue and don’t want to be used as cannon fodder.”

Su Mo was not surprised. He looked up at the huge black shadow in the distance under the moonlight.

It was a mountain of rocks stretching for several kilometers.

The steeper sunny side of the Stone Mountain is relatively flat, but there are obvious signs of mining on the shady side, as if it had been nibbled a few times by Pac-Man.

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. When the moonlight shines, the stones reflect a faint, cold silver light.

Noticing that Su Mo had been staring at the mountains, Luo You was the first to react: “Are you planning to go up the mountain?”

“I have this idea”

Su Mo raised his hand and used his fingers to measure the slope of the mountains.

The angle is basically around 30 degrees. In ancient times, it was a naturally defensible and difficult to attack terrain.

“Lao Zhang, go to the village and ask the people here if there is anyone familiar with these mountains. Ask them to lead us up there and have a look.”

Lao Zhang nodded, and hurriedly returned along the same route to the bright spot in the village to ask someone.

Less than half an hour later, two sturdy men with alert looks followed.

From four or five steps away, the two men relaxed slightly when they saw the cripple Luo You and the two children.

“Brother, can you tell me now? What do you want to do on the mountain?”

Seeing Lao Zhang stop, someone asked hurriedly.

“Why are you asking so many questions? I’ll give you the reward. Why don’t you just take us up there for a tour?”

“It’s easy to say, but it’s late at night in this wilderness, who knows if you guys want to…”

“What do you want to do?”

Lao Zhang turned his head, and I have to say, his big beard looked quite intimidating.

Coupled with the big, reflective bald head and burly physique, the two strong men were immediately frightened and took three or four steps back.

“Oh, with your guts, no wonder you guys hid here.”

“In short, if you want to get paid, don’t ask anything. If you are scared, go back now. I won’t stop you.”

It was blatant sarcasm, and the two men’s expressions changed back and forth, but in the end they didn’t dare to say anything more.

Just by walking around the mountain, they could get half a bag of salted fish, enough for them to eat for a week.

This reward really gives people a reason to take the risk.

“Come on, which mountain do you want to go to?”

Pointing to the stone mountain in the distance, the man on the left said, “Golden Eagle mined here for a while before, but the stones mined were too difficult to transport, so they were abandoned. The two of us worked as miners here for a while, so we are basically familiar with any traces of mining.”

“Hey, were you miners here before?” Su Mo suddenly interrupted.

The man who spoke nodded, glanced at Lao Zhang who didn’t react, and quickly started talking to Su Mo.

It seems that we can’t get any useful information from Lao Zhang.

But this unprepossessing middle-aged man seems to be quite kind.

“What’s your name, brother?”

“The last name is Ji, and the single character is Long.”

“Hello, Brother Ji Long. My name is Niu Dan, and this is my younger brother Niu Shuang.” Patting the man on the shoulder, Niu Dan continued, “We started mining here a few months ago, so we are definitely familiar with the terrain of these stone mountains.”

“That’s strange. Logically speaking, when the Golden Eagle moved, you didn’t go with it?”

Niu Dan said with a hint of sarcasm: “People outside think that the Golden Eagle is a paradise and the last hope of mankind. They will understand once they get in.”

“What do you mean, do you think the Golden Eagle is bad?”

“No, we never said anything like that.”

Niu Dan immediately smiled and denied it: “Brother Ji Long, you can eat whatever you want, but you can’t say whatever you want. If some of the survivors heard what you said, I’m afraid they would fight you to death on the spot.”

“What are you talking about? If you have something to say, just say it. If you don’t, just keep it to yourself. 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 something, just answer it honestly if you know the answer. If he’s satisfied, I’ll give you an extra salted fish for each question.”

“really?”

“How could it be true?” Old Zhang curled his lips and simply took out a hard candy from his pocket and threw it over.

“This is a deposit. As I said before, it’s up to you whether you believe it or not.”

“Fuck, you guys actually have this good stuff in your hands.”

Niu Dan reached out to take it, looked at it like a treasure, and became alert.

When he looked at Soma again, the longing look in his eyes was completely different from before.

“Now you can tell me why you don’t want to follow me to the Golden Eagle?”

“Of course. Actually, this is not a glorious thing. We brothers just couldn’t bear the hardship, so we left during the relocation. We didn’t know where to stay, so we continued to live in the village.”

Niu Dan scratched his head and said awkwardly, “The Golden Eagle doesn’t keep idle people. If you don’t accept the horrible workload, or fail to complete it, no one will even look at you even if you starve to death on the road. Moreover, when we were mining here, we had to mine for at least fourteen hours a day. If we go to the other side to rebuild, the workload will increase, and it will probably take at least sixteen hours. I heard that many people died of exhaustion while digging.”

“Then why didn’t I see anyone talking about this issue on the world channel?” Luo You asked with a frown.

Niu Dan subconsciously looked at Lao Zhang, asking with his eyes, and after getting a positive answer, he left and replied:
“What’s the point of saying it? The world channel is for everyone to exchange their wonderful lives in the wasteland, not for you to complain about human gathering places. If you don’t believe me, go there now and post the true situation of the golden giant eagle. Do you think anyone will pay attention to you?”

“This world is full of people comparing themselves to the worst. People will only envy you for living a fulfilling life, but will not feel the slightest sympathy for the suffering you have gone through. People will only believe what they want to believe, and will not believe what you call ‘reality’. Moreover, if people knew that the Golden Eagle had to work for fourteen hours before taking a break, believe it or not, those small and medium-sized territories would 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 visit.”

Something seemed to break again.

Su Mo glanced and found that the expression on Luo Xiang’s face became more complicated.

“So 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 still survive for a while with the supplies we have accumulated from work. As for other things, we can make a decision after this disaster is over.”

This time it was Niu Shuang who answered: “I don’t think you guys are bad people. You’re all quite simple. It’s a miracle that you’re still alive today.”

“It’s really a miracle.”

Luo You shrugged his shoulders and sat on a big rock: “My legs and feet are not convenient, so I won’t go up the mountain with you.”

“Okay then, I’ll let Luo Jiao stay and take care of you.”

After arranging Luo Jiao to take care of Luo You, the three of them followed the Niu brothers towards the Stone Mountain.

Because there is no vegetation and it has been mined, this road is easy to walk on even at night.

As the sky was just getting light, Su Mo had already explored several nearby hills and had a basic understanding of the situation.

“This is your reward.”

Back at the meeting place in the evening, Lao Zhang took out enough salted fish and handed them over as promised.

Su Mo thought about it and asked Lao Zhang to give a small handful of hard candies as an extra reward.

Apart from anything else, the Niu brothers took them on a whole night’s walk, going up and down the mountain forty or fifty thousand steps without complaining a word of trouble. Judging from their performance, they were definitely not like what they said, that they could not endure the hardships of the miners.

There must be some hidden reason behind choosing not to move with the Golden Eagle.

“Brother Zhang is a very honest man. If you need our help in the future, just ask. We still have some face in this Stone Village.”

Niu Dan and Niu Shuang were extremely excited. Including leading the way and answering questions, they earned far more in one night than they did in a week as miners.

“How many people are left in Stone Village?”

“About a thousand people, it’s not fixed, some people leave and some join every day.”

Niu Dan thought about it and then gave a detailed introduction to the situation in the village.

Without anyone taking the lead in developing the village, there will not be many idle people staying in Shitou Village.

Moreover, the terrain here is not suitable for farming, and the soil fertility is far inferior to other places in the southern fire region.

Some of the people who choose to stay here now are former miners from Stone Mountain who are used to living here.

Another part is because the survivors who escaped in a line are planning to join the Golden Eagle after the disaster.

“Going downstream along the river, there are many more villages. They were all once established by the Golden Eagle to collect resources, but the people in Stone Village should be considered the most numerous.”

“It’s okay, you guys go, we’ll come find you if we need you.”

After asking the Niu brothers to leave, Su Mo let out a long sigh, sat down, unscrewed the kettle and took a few sips.

After staying up all night and trekking through six mountains, even he felt a little tired.

Lao Zhang and Luo Xiang were extremely tired. They sat aside, slurping warm water.

After drinking, Lao Zhang thought for a moment and came over to say, “Lord Ji, why do I feel like these Niu brothers don’t speak much truth?”

“Oh? Tell me about it?”

“He said that the miners who stayed here were those who couldn’t bear the hardship. I don’t think that’s true. If they can’t bear that kind of hardship, how many people in this wasteland can bear it?”

“So what do you think their purpose for staying here is?”

“Could he be looking for something?” Lao Zhang guessed randomly, “It would be fine if he was familiar with one mountain, but he is familiar with every mountain and can clearly remember the leverage points on those complex 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. Old Zhang is really a talented guy.

His delicate mind and rough appearance once again prove that you can’t judge a book by its cover.

But thinking of this, Su Mo suddenly smiled and said, “Can I discuss something with you?”

“You say.” Lao Zhang quickly stood up and made a loyal expression.

He has transformed himself from a humble fisherman to Brother Zhang, who is 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 then you will be the lord, how about that?”

“What?”