Chapter 1360 There is still an evil star lurking in the northwest
Li Yu stopped, pulled out the chair he had just put back, and sat down.
He was very curious as to why Qingyuan asked him to go to the northwest.
Qingyuan crossed his legs, thought for a few seconds and then said:
"City Lord, you still remember that little poem. There is a sentence in it: there is an evil star lurking in the northwest, so I can't sing the song of peace all over the place."
"The future challenge of the Great Zhangshu Base may be in the northwest. If you want to break the situation, you, the city lord, need to make a trip to the northwest in person."
As a member of the Dazhangshu base, Li Yu has gathered countless honors and disgrace. He is extremely important to the Dazhangshu base.
Logically speaking, a gentleman should not stand on a dangerous wall, let alone the lord of a city.
If there is a big enemy in the northwest as Qingyuan said, then he can't put himself in danger.
However, when Li Yu heard Qingyuan's suggestion that he leave the Da Zhangshu base and go to the northwest, he was not only not dissatisfied, but also a little excited.
He has a crazy factor in his bones, he likes adventure, excitement, and fighting at the front.
But due to his status as the city lord of the Great Zhangshu Base, he was well protected most of the time.
Even his second uncle, eldest uncle and others tried their best to dissuade him from going to the front line in person.
"The enemy in the northwest? Where exactly are they located? And what are their strengths?" Li Yu asked, sitting on a chair and squinting his eyes.
This Qingyuan is a bit too magical, it can even count the enemies?
Qingyuan shook his head and said:
"It's not necessarily the enemy. It's just that the future challenge to the Da Zhangshu Base is in the northwest direction of the Da Zhangshu Base. The specific location is not clear, and the strength is even less clear."
As he spoke, he added another sentence.
"In fact, blessings and misfortunes are interdependent, which can be challenges or opportunities."
These words are too vague, and the northwest direction of the Da Zhangshu Base covers too wide a range.
Later, it was said that blessings and misfortunes depend on each other, what the hell...
He said everything.
"Is there anything else you want to tell me?" Li Yu asked patiently.
Although Qingyuan's words were extremely vague, based on Qingyuan's previous performance, Li Yu still attached great importance to what he said.
What's more, five years of rebirth have passed, and without the advantage of foresight, this magical little Taoist priest who comes to your door must be taken seriously.
"No more, City Lord." Qingyuan saluted Li Yu.
"Thank you, Taoist Priest Qingyuan. If anything happens later, you can just go to He Chao and ask him to find me."
"Okay, the city lord is welcome."
Li Yu smiled and nodded, then left the room.
Qingyuan looked at Li Yu's leaving figure and fell into deep thought.
The reason why he took the initiative to remind him was that he saw that Li Yu's natal chart was excellent and showed signs of great prosperity.
The apocalypse is currently in turmoil, and the life chart Li Yu carries is the hope to end this apocalypse.
He saw this.
That's why he took the initiative to remind me.
In fact, whether he says it or does it, it may not change the outcome.
However, he was eating and drinking for free at the Da Zhangshu base, so he had to do something to repay him.
What's more, the reunion between him and his junior brother was also thanks to City Master Li. It's not right to accept favors without repaying them.
.....
After coming out of the residential building in the outer city, Li Yu was also thinking over and over what Qing Yuan had just said.
"northwest?"
"Do I still have to go in person to break the situation?"
"The prerequisite for breaking the situation must be that we have encountered difficulties, otherwise there would be no way to break the situation."
"What kind of challenges will there be in the northwest? Is it people, zombies, or..."
No matter what, after this natural disaster has passed, I will send people to the northwest to explore and see if there are any large-scale forces.
Let’s first go to the Northwest. The Northwest is vast and has five provinces in total.
It occupies 32% of the total land area.
This range is quite broad, it’s like looking for a needle in a haystack.
I don't know if I can find it...
While Li Yu was thinking, he came to the edge of the outer city wall unknowingly.
Now that we have all come here, we go up to the wall to see the situation of the zombie wave, and also take a look at the second uncle and the others in the duty room.
The rainwater on the fence flows along the small drainage ditches on both sides.
Li Yu went up to the wall and saw a man standing on duty in the rain.
Tread——
Song Qi heard the footsteps behind him and quickly turned around to look this way.
"City Lord? City Lord, you are here."
In the past five years, Song Qi has transformed from a young boy into a tall and mature young man.
From his eyebrows, we can see some similarities between him and Song Min.
"Well, yes." Li Yu smiled and nodded.
Song Qi looked at Li Yu with admiration in her eyes, "Okay, City Lord, please slow down, the ground is slippery."
The duty room is just ahead.
As an important duty room in Da Zhangshu Base, the largest number of people always gather here.
Walking into Duty Room No. 1, Duty Room No. 1 has been upgraded and renovated many times, and its area has increased a lot.
And all kinds of items and equipment are available inside.
Maps of Petroleum City, Dazhangshu Base, Gan City, and nationwide maps were all posted on the wall.
The second uncle usually stays here to work. Sometimes at noon, he is too lazy to go to the canteen, so he eats here.
There are even several camp beds here, so you can lie down and rest here at night.
Squeak——
Li Yu pushed open the door of the duty room, and there were more than a dozen people busy inside.
Looking at the surveillance camera, the operator sitting in front of the long-wave radio station...
The second uncle stood by the wall, looking at the map of Oil City in a daze.
"City Lord."
"City Lord."
....
Li Yu smiled and waved to them, "You are busy, don't worry about me."
Hearing the voices of He An and others, the second uncle turned his head and looked towards the door.
"Xiaoyu, you are here."
"Second uncle, you are staring at the map, what are you thinking about?"
"It's been raining heavily. Your third uncle gave Lao Xie the Type III potion yesterday to take out for use. I don't know when this thunderstorm natural disaster will end..."
When the second uncle said this, his eyebrows were filled with sadness.
Like Li Yu, he was also worried about Oil City.
Based on the current situation, Oil City may be able to last longer, but the trading market can only last another month and a half at most.
One and a half months later, the thunderstorm disaster was not over, and the trading market was over.
All the hard work that has been put into it has been in vain. The future development of the Da Zhangshu Base will be even more difficult.
Li Yu just came over from Qingyuan and made a divination from Qingyuan, which was about this matter.
After hesitating for a few seconds, he finally said:
"It should be... soon."
"oh?"
The second uncle glanced at Li Yu with some doubts. He was not a fool, and he understood that what Li Yu said was definitely not without purpose.
There must be something he doesn't know that makes Li Yu think so.
"What Qing Yuan said?"
"It's not that clear." Li Yu replied calmly.
"oh."
The second uncle was dubious. Even now, the second uncle is still reluctant to believe the results of Qingyuan's divination.
But the divination was correct these several times. This irrefutable fact made him a little confused.
"There's one more thing."
"What?" The second uncle looked at Li Yu doubtfully.
Li Yu pointed to the small compartment in the duty room, which was used to store weapons and ammunition.
The second uncle instantly understood what Li Yu meant, which meant that he didn't want others to hear it.
The two walked into the cubicle.
"Qingyuan said that the future challenge to the Zhangshu Base will come from the northwest, but he did not make it clear whether this challenge was from a certain force or something else."
"He said the key to breaking the situation is for me to go to the northwest in person."
.....
Li Yu probably told his second uncle what Qing Yuan said.
The second uncle frowned when he heard half of it, especially when he heard that Li Yu was asked to go to the northwest in person.
"This Qingyuan...what he said is too vague."
"Xiaoyu, you can't go. Not to mention that the northwest is vast. If you want to find it, how will it be found? How long will it take? If this challenge really refers to a powerful force, run there in person in case you encounter it.
what to do?"
"This Qingyuan! It's true!"
The second uncle was a little wary and had already begun to wonder if Qingyuan had something up his sleeve.
That's how he is, always thinking the worst about people's minds.
Seeing how excited his second uncle was, Li Yu smiled bitterly and said:
"Second uncle, please don't get excited yet."
"I didn't say I was going now, or as soon as the thunderstorm was over. The northwest is so big, there's no point running around like a headless fly."
"I definitely won't go there right away, but I don't think Qingyuan is the kind of person who talks nonsense. There must be a reason for him to say that."
"So, I want to wait for the thunderstorm and natural disaster to send a group of people to the northwest to explore the place. They can find the best one. If they can't find it, there is nothing they can do."
When the second uncle heard what Li Yu said, he understood.
"You mean, whether it's there or not, send someone over to check it out first? Just where to look for it? The northwest is so big?"
"Let's search all the way there, just let it happen. To search such a big place requires a lot of manpower. We don't have that many manpower. Even if we do, there is no need to waste too much manpower on this. At most, we can send a small team there.
.
If you can find it, look for it; if you can’t find it, come back.”
"If a shotgun is fired into the sky, whether it will hit or not depends entirely on luck?" The second uncle used a metaphor to describe Li Yu's words.
"Um...that's pretty much what it means."
After hearing this, the second uncle smacked his lips and said, "Okay, it just so happens that we can let the team explore the situation in the other northwest. It has been so long since the end of the world, and we have never heard any news from the northwest, nor have we heard anything from the northwest.
Survivors who came over.”
"So, this is why I sent someone there."
To expand your base, you must gradually understand the overall environment.
Find out what large forces are around you.
The development of Dazhangshu Base has always been relatively conservative and has never launched malicious attacks on the outside.
Usually it's because stranger forces are greedy and don't care about their lives, so they will fight back.
This world is dominated by the weak and the strong, and there is no need for any reason for the struggle between forces.
Partners like Southern Paradise that can form a strategic alliance are rare.
If other forces had the strength of Da Zhangshu Base, they would definitely annex Southern Paradise directly. Master Hu and the leadership of Southern Paradise would be killed, supplies would be robbed, and the rest would either surrender or be used as slaves.
But Da Zhangshu Base did not do this. Instead, it used the method of bundling interests to play with this little brother.
But unknowingly, as the cooperation between Southern Paradise and Oil City becomes more and more in-depth, there is actually some trend of integration.
Apart from anything else, Southern Paradise has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the trading market, and the sunk costs are huge. If it wants to participate in the management here in the future, it will definitely have to invest more...
Moreover, Mr. Hu is already older. If Mr. Hu dies, who can control Southern Paradise...
Ma Yingxue is Mr. Hu's adopted daughter and is based in Oil City.
.....
"Then I agree. Just send a small team there. I agree."
"But, who would be more suitable to lead the team there? The northwest is not close to us. This mission is probably going to take a long time..."
"Second uncle." Li Yu suddenly had an idea in his head.
"Um."
"You said, why don't we just issue the mission directly? Under the heavy reward, there will be brave men. After the natural disaster, we can simply issue the mission to explore the northwest at the Da Zhangshu base and trading market.
As long as we collect information about the forces in the northwest, we will give you a major reward!"
When the second uncle heard this, he coughed and said:
"Well, scattered survivors can't participate at all. They can't go that far, and they don't have fuel and energy."
"For the medium and large forces, you have the ability to cross such a long distance, but we don't know what's going on in the northwest, so we can't give them a destination.
In other words, for them, the past may be empty-handed, and this possibility is very high.
Besides, the cost of the past trip must have been quite high.”
"Not to mention the food consumed on the road, the various complicated road conditions and dangers encountered on the road are enough to make them retreat."
"It's difficult to travel thousands of kilometers just for such an unclear goal."
After hearing his second uncle's analysis, Li Yu felt that it made sense.
Touching his chin, the slightly raised stubble was a bit prickly.
"So, this matter can only be done by our own people?"
"I think it is."
The second uncle continued:
"It would be more efficient if those survivors help us search the northwest, but the northwest is too big. Even if dozens of teams go there, it will be a drop in the bucket.
On the contrary, with so many people running over, if there really is a powerful force in the northwest and captures these survivors...
Then wouldn’t we be exposed?”
"It is impossible to rely on these survivors who have received the mission. They are willing to pay the price of their lives and not tell any news about Da Zhangshu Base or Oil City. People are realistic."
"Um."
Li Yu quite agrees with this point.
If the northwest that Qingyuan mentioned is really a powerful force, then it is best not to let them know about the existence of the Zhangshu Base.
Whoever knows the other party first will have more initiative.
I would rather not find the other person than let the other person know about me.
"What the second uncle said makes sense, then let's send our own people there to search." Li Yu nodded.
"I came here to talk to you about this matter. As for the candidate, let's wait until the natural disaster passes."