Chapter 1,405 Build a territory and you will be the lord!
After leaving the floating community, the surrounding air seems to be a lot 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.
At first, Lao Zhang still had the energy to answer a few sentences, but as more people gathered behind him, he lost patience with this and that.
"Don't ask, don't tell me if you ask, can you die if you go see it yourself?"
Seeing Lao Zhang's strange appearance, the survivors couldn't help muttering and could only disperse the encirclement.
Damn, they were just inquiring about the situation, and they were 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 difficult to 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 cannot carry hundreds of kilometers a day.
No matter how bad the situation inside is, they won't give up unless they go and see for themselves.
After waiting for a while, all the survivor sampans surrounding him dispersed. Lao Zhang simply changed his direction and walked along the shore, so that no one would notice him anymore.
After walking 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 were placed in the Starfield Alliance, in the Grid Territory, or in any small territory, it would definitely be a hot commodity.
But if it is 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 second look and decided to put some distance between himself and the golden 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 pier of the abandoned village.
"This is really a luxury. If you build such a good pier, it will be abandoned!"
The scale of the dock is ten times that of the previous grid territory. There are hundreds of pillars to tie the sampans alone, stretching for nearly two hundred 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 doesn't seem like this place was built entirely by survivors. Instead, it looks like a tribe of wanderers."
The group of people explored separately, and Sumo soon discovered the strangeness of this abandoned village.
Many of the buildings look too old, and the architectural style is very consistent with 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 defense facilities.
This is also consistent with the characteristics of homeless people who lack a sense of security and 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.
Generally speaking, the area of the abandoned village is not large, and the limit is to accommodate tens of thousands of people.
"Are we going to camp here to survive the disaster?" Lao Zhang 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 queue up or be used as cannon fodder."
Sumo was not surprised. He raised his head and looked at the huge black shadow in the distance under the moonlight.
It is a chain of stone mountains 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, and after the moonlight shines, the stones reflect a faint cold silvery glow.
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..."
Somo 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.
"Lao Zhang, go to the village and ask the people here if anyone is familiar with these mountains and ask them to show us the way."
Lao Zhang nodded, hurriedly 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 do up the mountain?"
Seeing Lao Zhang stop, someone asked quickly.
"Why do you ask so many questions? As a reward, can you just take us up there and take a look around?"
"To put it simply, it's still late at night in the wilderness. Who knows if you want to..."
"What do you want to do?"
Lao Zhang turned his head, and I have to say that his big ring of beard looked 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.
"Haha, such courage... no wonder you are hiding here."
"In a word, if you want to get paid, don't ask anything. If you're scared, just go back now. I won't stop you."
Naked ridicule, the two people's expressions changed back and forth, but in the end they did not dare to say anything.
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 miners here before?" Sumo suddenly came in.
The man who spoke nodded, glanced at Lao Zhang but showed no reaction, and quickly started talking to Somo.
It seems that I can't get any useful information from Lao Zhang.
But this middle-aged man with an unattractive appearance should seem 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." Patting the shoulder of the man next to him, Niu Dan continued: "We mined here a few months ago, and we are definitely familiar with these stone mountains.
terrain.”
"That's strange. It stands to reason that when the Golden Eagle moved... you didn't go with it?"
"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 get in..."
"What do you mean, do you think the golden giant eagle is bad?"
"No, we never said anything like that."
Niu Dan immediately smiled and denied it: "Brother Ji Long, you can eat randomly, but 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? If you have something to say, say it. If you don't have something to say, just hold it back. No one will treat you like a dead person."
Lao Zhang interrupted at the right time and glared at Niu Dan fiercely.
"Ji Ling... If Brother Ji asks you a question, and you know the answer, then answer it honestly. If he is satisfied, I will give you an extra salted fish for each question."
"really?"
"Is there still a lie?" Lao Zhang curled his lips and simply took out a hard candy from his pocket and threw it over.
"Is this a deposit, or what I said, it's up to 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 you can tell me why you don't want to go to the Golden Eagle?"
"Of course. In fact, this is not a glorious thing. It's just that our brothers couldn't bear the hardships and left during the relocation. Then we didn't go anywhere to settle down, so we continued to live in the village."
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 you can't finish it, no one will even look at you even if you starve to death on the road... And we are mining here.
When I was there, I had to dig for at least fourteen hours a day, and when I went to the other side to rebuild, the workload increased, and I was afraid it would take sixteen hours to lay the groundwork. I heard that many people died of exhaustion just 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 subconsciously looked at Lao Zhang and asked with his eyes. After getting confirmation, he left and replied:
"What's the use? The World Channel is used to communicate about everyone's beautiful life in the wasteland. It's not used to make you complain about the human gathering place. If you don't believe me, go and post the real situation of the golden giant eagle. You
Do you think some people will take advantage of you?"
"This world 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 what you say."
"Reality", not to mention that if people know that the Golden Eagle has to work for fourteen hours before resting, believe it or not, those small and medium-sized territories will immediately increase the working hours to fifteen or sixteen hours!"
"In the end, the Golden Eagle will still be a super territory that everyone admires and wants to go to."
Something seems to have broken again.
Su Mo glanced at it 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 work. We can make other decisions after this disaster is over."
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 are still alive today."
"It's truly a miracle."
Luo You shrugged nonchalantly and sat on a big rock: "My legs and feet are inconvenient, so I won't follow you up the mountain."
"Okay, I'll let Luo Jiao stay and take care of you."
Luo Jiao was arranged to take care of Luo You, and the three of them followed the Niu brothers towards Stone Mountain.
Because there is no vegetation and it has been mined, this section of road is easy to walk even at night.
The sky was just getting slightly brighter, and several nearby hills were surveyed by Somo, who basically understood the situation.
"This is your reward."
Returning 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.
Sumo thought for a moment and asked Lao Zhang to give him a small handful of hard candies as extra reward.
Apart from anything else, the Niu brothers took them all night, up and down the mountain for 40,000 to 50,000 to 50,000 steps without saying a word of trouble. It was just that this performance was definitely not like what they said, and they could not endure the hardships of the miners.
Choosing not to relocate with the golden eagle definitely has a hidden agenda.
"Brother Zhang is really a real person. There will be others 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."
Niu Dan and Niu Shuang were extremely excited. Including leading the way and answering questions, they gained far more in one night than they had earned in a week as miners.
"How many people are there in Stone Village?"
"There are almost a thousand people there, 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 to take the lead in development, Stone Village is bound to not have many idle people staying.
Moreover, the terrain here is not suitable for farming, and the land fertility is far inferior to other places in the southern fire region.
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 due to 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. They were once established by the golden giant eagle to collect resources, but there are probably a lot of people in Stone Village."
"It's okay. You can go. We will come find you if necessary."
After calling the Niu brothers to leave, Sumo let out a long 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? Tell me?"
"He said that the miners who stay here are the ones who can't endure the hardship. I don't think it's true. If they can't endure the hardship, how many people in this wasteland can endure it?"
"Then what do you think their purpose is for staying here?"
"Could he be looking for something?" Lao Zhang guessed wildly: "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
Were the mining locations randomly arranged every day before?”
"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 said it." Lao Zhang stood up quickly and made a loyal expression.
He transformed from a humble fisherman into a brother Zhang who is feared and respected by ordinary survivors.
He clearly knew that all these changes in status were given to him by Soma.
"I plan to establish a territory on the mountain, and then how about you becoming the lord?"