#442 - Chapter 442 Wucheng! Mountain base!
Wucheng.
This is an ordinary third- or fourth-tier city located in Guanglin Province.
Not far to the south is Yucheng, a border city of Guannan Province.
It doesn't have any famous pillar industries, and it's considered a very ordinary small to medium-sized city during China's peaceful era.
Due to its small population, the zombie crisis that broke out after the apocalypse was much weaker than in many large cities, and the surviving humans are correspondingly more concentrated.
But.
Wucheng has a significant geographical advantage.
There are many mountains and forests here, and there are correspondingly many surviving plants.
At least most of the survivors here won't starve to death thanks to the outdoor plants and animals.
Outside the urban area of Wucheng is an inconspicuous small mountain.
Please don't underestimate it!
It is the famous New Hope Base in the mouths of nearby survivors!
This is a mountain base built against the mountain, jointly created by many survivors!
The mountain is not high, only a few dozen meters, but it is exceptionally steep.
Ordinary humans need to put in a lot of effort to climb it.
On the surface of the mountain, you can faintly see some figures looking around and patrolling.
On the ground, outside the mountain base, there is a low fence, about three to four meters high.
It's okay to defend against zombies during the day, but it's obviously not enough to defend against the tide of corpses at night or even on misty days.
On the ground of this mountain base, you can see several holes, and some survivors outside are busy with something.
Pulling the perspective forward, you can clearly see that they are transporting soil and various building materials!
Thump!
A young boy lost his balance for some reason, and the wheelbarrow he was pushing fell to the ground, attracting onlookers from many survivors nearby.
"You xxx! Are you trying to slack off again!? Huh?! Get up and clean up quickly! Otherwise, get out of our base!!"
A man with a whip roared fiercely at the fallen boy.
He brandished the whip in his hand as if to strike.
At this moment.
A young man rushed out, opened his arms to protect the boy, and glared at the whip-wielding man:
"Stop it! He's just physically weak, it's not intentional! We only eat that little bit of tree bark, wild vegetables, and grass roots every day, where do we get the strength to work??! Are you still human? There's so much food in the base, why can't they eat it??!"
The young man spoke with righteous indignation, looking as if he deeply hated the whip-wielding man's group.
His name is Lu Xiaohe, and he is a survivor who wandered here from the north with his mentor. (See Chapter 200 for details)
Last year's terrible snowstorm caused many survivors in the north to migrate south, and he and his mentor, Uncle Fang, were among them.
With relatively good luck and the flexible minds of the two, they survived all the way to Guanglin Province.
Unfortunately.
Just as they were about to enter Guannan Province and prepare to continue south, they arrived at the New Hope Base.
Just like the name here, at first they thought they had found the hope of mankind!
Because there are many survivors here!
When they first saw hundreds or thousands of people working and living outside, they were shocked.
It was the first time they had seen so many humans gathered together after the apocalypse!
Didn't they know that too many survivors gathering would attract a siege of zombies?
With hope and doubt, they entered the New Hope Base.
Then they saw the answer.
The mountain of the New Hope Base used to be a large karst cave!
A group of survivors holding an astonishing number of hot weapons occupied this place and continued to absorb manpower to expand the inside of the cave.
Like ants moving house, after half a year of development, nearly half of this mountain has been excavated!
These people have dug out spaces of various sizes inside. So far, nearly two thousand people live in the New Hope Base!
The number is absolutely terrifying!
The "flesh smell" emitted by such a large number of survivors gathered together is unparalleled in its attraction to zombies.
Even though the New Hope Base is located in Wucheng, which was not a prosperous place, there are thousands of zombies attracted at night!
This is still a normal night.
If it were the time when that purple mist rises, this number would be multiplied many times!
"Hehe, why are there still people with your kind of thinking in this world?! This is the end of the world! Put away your disgusting rhetoric!"
"If our New Hope Base didn't provide them with safe housing? These people would have died in the mouths of zombies outside long ago! What's wrong with us asking them to do some work??! It's justified!"
The whip-wielding man scoffed at Lu Xiaohe's words.
The world is like this, and this kind of person with dogmatic ideas can never be completely eliminated.
"You...!"
Hearing the whip-wielding man's words, Lu Xiaohe didn't know how to refute him for a while.
Because what he said also made some sense.
However, the fire in his heart made him unable to ignore this kind of thing.
"Even so, can't you treat the survivors who come to join you with a little more politeness? They have already had it hard enough! They need to go outside to find food themselves, and they have to spend several hours a day digging for the New Hope Base! They simply don't have enough time to get more food and supplies!"
Lu Xiaohe seemed to have found a breakthrough point and wanted to reason with the whip-wielding man again.
"I'm too lazy to talk to you!"
"If you and your teacher weren't of some use to our base, we wouldn't even let you in! Go cool off somewhere else!"
The whip-wielding man sneered, not wanting to continue arguing with this recently joined Mr. Fang's disciple, who was being held under house arrest by the base management.
If this Lu Xiaohe didn't have a good teacher, he probably would have died in some corner long ago, right?
Speaking of which, that Mr. Fang is indeed extremely capable. Not long after joining, he designed a variety of very constructive opinions for the base, which greatly improved the strength of the entire base.
It's just that the other party doesn't seem to plan to stay in the New Hope Base and wants to continue migrating south.
Just kidding!
How could the management of the New Hope Base let go of this capable person?
Of course, they would restrict him from leaving and continue to create value for the New Hope Base!
Perhaps this is the last hope of mankind, and only if they are strong can they save mankind in the future!
Although this is a slogan put forward by the management to attract surrounding survivors.
But many of them truly regard themselves as such.
This Lu Xiaohe, as the person who came with that Mr. Fang, the management saw that the relationship between the two was inseparable, so they arranged for this one to do other work in the base, on the one hand, to provide a little labor force, and on the other hand, as a hostage.
As long as the management still needs Mr. Fang, this Lu Xiaohe cannot be killed for the time being.
Otherwise, just with his disgusting righteous indignation, the whip-wielding man would have killed him dozens of times!
Only a few veterans of the New Hope Base know.
They robbed a large number of hot weapons from the Yangcheng military base!
And some of them are people who escaped from the broken Yangcheng base and Dongguan city base last year during the purple mist day!
(End of this chapter)
[Tomorrow I will start writing some pretentious plots, please be prepared to hold on tight]
