"Okay, everyone has completed the test and is fully qualified. Please settle some related expenses. The test fee is thirty-six kilograms of rice, the parking fee and the safe fee are five kilograms of rice, and the total is forty-one kilograms of rice.
Do you use rice to settle the bill, or use other food to offset it?" A girl smiled and took out an electronic scale and put it on the table. Her movements were extremely quick and her expression was extremely professional. Everyone who looked at it was stunned for a moment, which was quite a bit strange.
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Lin Tao waved Cao Mei to come up and pay the fee. Cao Mei was too lazy to go to the car to get rice, so she just threw a bunch of ham sausage over and settled the matter. Then Lin Tao took a few steps forward and asked: "Girl, I want to ask you,
How is food exchange defined here? Are there any specific rules?"
"There are public signs in four places in the city, and it's written on them. And if you find it troublesome to exchange things for things, you can go directly to the public grain stations in the city to exchange food for food stamps. They only charge one hundred kilograms of rice.
The handling fee is two meters, so it’s very convenient to buy things with food stamps!”
The girl smiled and put away Lin Tao's supplies, but she was secretly surprised at how generous these people were, so she kindly reminded her: "Each of you can get free supplies from the grain station every day with proof of identity.
Two liters of water, but the water must be boiled before you can drink it. In the past, some people turned into living corpses after drinking raw water!"
"Do you have a water source here?" Lin Tao was stunned and asked quickly. This is a major matter related to the survival of all of them.
"Yes, we have a total of eight wells here, but only four of them have water. However, these wells are guarded and ordinary people are not allowed to approach them. The city leaders organized people to transport them to the grain station and distribute them one by one.
,After all, we are also short of water here!" the girl said with a smile.
"Ha, as long as you have water, it's better than drinking toner when I was thirsty!" Zhang Xu said very happily.
"Okay, everyone, we will meet again later. I hope the cinema can bring you more surprises!" Meizi stepped forward and looked at everyone with a smile. She was preparing to see off the guests, but she still said kindly: "One last reminder.
Everyone, never look at this city with old eyes, the rules of survival in the apocalypse also apply here!"
"Yes! Thank you!" Lin Tao nodded politely, feeling deeply that Mei Zi's last words were golden words. The apocalypse is the apocalypse. As long as the living corpses remain alive, the laws of the apocalypse will never disappear among humans!
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After coming out of the registration office, Lin Tao and his party returned to the parking lot. With the enthusiastic help of Captain Yao, they unloaded all the food and daily necessities onto several supermarket carts. At this time, Bai Ru pushed a cart away
When he came to Lin Tao's side, he said with some worry: "Husband, a lot of food was stolen on our way, and we were in a hurry when we left the gathering place, so we didn't bring a lot of winter clothes. Now it's okay during the day, but if we are outdoors at night
Everyone can’t stand it anymore!”
"It doesn't matter. There must be a place selling clothes in this city. As for food, Zhang Xu and I will go out in a few days and try to get more at once!" Lin Tao smiled and turned to Yao, who was still busy at work.
The captain said: "Captain Yao, I won't bother you. We can just go in by ourselves. When we find a place to stay, you can come over and have a drink together in the evening!"
"Okay, there are a lot of empty houses in the city. You can live in them as long as you give them some food! I have to go back to work. If anything happens, you can come here to see me again, or you can go to my house. I will stay at my house.
No. 26 in the east of the city!" Captain Yao waved his hand as he spoke, then refused a few times and accepted the two packs of cigarettes offered by Cao Mei with a smile, and then happily carried his Bayi bar back.
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"Brother Lin, look at this place, it's so damn different!" Zhang Xu blinked and looked around, sighing and said: "Compared with this place, our original gathering place is really a rubbish among rubbish.
Not only is the scale small, but even the management methods are so backward, it is simply the difference between bandits and regular soldiers. Alas~ Even if I really have to be a law-abiding citizen here, I will be willing to do so!"
"How many people are there in Jiangcheng gathering place? Of course it cannot be compared with here. There must be professional urban management talents here, but it is really not easy to do this in the last days!" Lin Tao also looked around with emotion, and then
Look at the women around you, everyone has beautiful longing on their faces, looking forward to this quaint city becoming a haven for them to settle down!
The gate of Wengcheng is opened at the diagonal corner of the main gate. It is said that it is to restore the reality. All the big cities in ancient times were built in this way. Lin Tao and his party pushed the trolley to the gate of Wengcheng. They just handed over everyone
Before the physical examination report came into the city, a girl with big watery eyes immediately came up from inside, glanced at everyone, ran to the leader Lin Tao in a few steps, nodded and said: "Good morning, brother, I need a tour guide.
?”
"Guide... Tour guide?" Zhang Xu bit a piece of ham and looked at the girl in front of him curiously. The girl was only about seventeen or eighteen years old. Although she looked sweet, her figure was slightly skinny. It seemed that she was caused by long-term malnutrition.
Zhang Xu looked at the girl from top to bottom and said inexplicably: "What do you need a tour guide for? We are not here to travel!"
The girl looked at the freshly peeled ham sausage in Zhang Xu's hand and visibly swallowed, and then said with a smile: "Hehe~ This handsome brother doesn't understand, our movie theater covers an area of more than 2,000 acres.
It takes more than half an hour to walk from the front door to the back door. You can't wander around without a familiar person to guide you, right? Brother, and I'm cheap. With five ham sausages, I can tell you what you want to know.
I’ll tell you everything, and you see, I have a formal tour guide certificate, so I am the certified tour guide of this movie theater!”
"Then how did you know that we are new here?" Zhang Xu stretched his head and looked at the certificate hanging around the girl's neck. It was indeed an authentic tour guide certificate, but the validity period had long ago expired, and there must be no place to reissue it now.
"Since the day the disaster struck, I have never stepped out of the door here. I can naturally tell who is new at a glance. Moreover, so many people have come here in the past two days, but my business is the best.
When is the time!" The girl's big black eyes turned very shrewdly, and she asked with a naive expression: "How are you? Brothers and sisters, let me help you find a place to stay first, and then take you to visit this place.
!”
"Give her five ham sausages!" Lin Tao smiled and asked Cao Mei to pass five ham sausages to the girl. The girl immediately accepted them with great joy and said happily: "Brother, you are still generous. Those people yesterday were so generous.
You are not easy to talk to, so I agreed to five ham sausages and finally gave me a handful of rice just to get rid of me. Fortunately, we have Uncle Jingcha who can uphold justice, otherwise my work yesterday would have been in vain!"
Lin Tao followed the girl forward and asked curiously: "Where do those people who just arrived live?"
"It's hard to say, because the gap between the rich and the poor is huge. Some rich people live in hotels and some rent houses. Anyway, they just live in whatever they like. They live everywhere in the city. But
Those poor people like me naturally lived in the resettlement sheds on the west side of the city.
There is an open space used for filming large-scale military parades. They are all tents and shacks. As long as you can bear it, you don’t need food to live in, but usually seven or eight people squeeze into one shack!" The girl said in detail, with a look on her face.
There was no trace of sadness on his face, he was obviously used to it.
"It seems that the class differentiation here is also very serious!" Bai Ru, who was holding Lin Tao's arm, interjected curiously.
"Haha~ Our country seems to have been like this since ancient times, right?" the girl asked back, and said as she walked: "Actually, our leaders and mayor here are very good, and even if they pay the rent, they are working hard to create survival for everyone.
opportunities, and those who are capable and have special skills will naturally want
To enjoy better conditions, it is inevitable for those who have no ability to suffer a little. Now it is not labor that creates wealth, but skills that create wealth. The best people living here are those who dare to go out to look for food. Of course
, the conditions for managers and scientific researchers in the city are also very good!"
"This looks like a real gathering place. The management here is really good!" Lin Tao nodded with great satisfaction. It's not that he has never seen big scenes, but as soon as he entered here, he was surrounded by extremely clean people.
He was shocked by the ground and clean streets. He couldn't believe that he was walking in the gathering place of the apocalypse. Even before the apocalypse, the streets in Europe would not be so clean. To describe it as spotless is not an exaggeration.
Everywhere reveals an almost mystical cleanliness!
"Wow, they are jujube trees and peach trees. There are actually jujubes on the jujube trees!" Bingbing suddenly pointed to the two rows of trees beside the road in surprise. The long-lost green made everyone extremely excited, and they actually shouted and wanted to go up.
They were picking dates, but the tour guide girl hurriedly stepped forward to stop them and said eagerly: "You can't pick them, you can't pick them, you will be detained for picking dates from the government!"
"Ah? You have to be detained for picking broken dates? What kind of world is this?" Bingbing quickly retracted her hand and asked with a puzzled look on her face. The word "detention" still has a very heavy weight in the minds of the Chinese people, so she just
Even Zhang Xu was surprised.
"Of course they will be detained. Think about it, these are all food. If you pick one and he picks one, it will all be gone in a long time. Moreover, the trees here are carefully cultivated by workers. If they are killed,
But you have to be shot!" The little tour guide took a breath and patiently explained: "It's hard to see green plants outside now.
They either died of drought or sunburn, so these fruit trees and the food we grew around them were all cultivated by the original Academy of Agricultural Sciences staff, who were more careful than taking care of babies. These trees will be covered soon.
There is a sun protection shelter, we should stay away from the trees, otherwise if someone sees us, they will definitely come up and question us!"
"Are you still growing food? Can you survive?" Zhang Xu asked in surprise.
"Of course I can survive. When the apocalypse broke out, a group of people from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences came to visit us, and they were immediately blocked here and couldn't get out. Now they are the most valuable talents in the entire city. It is precisely those who
Only with their experience can we keep the plants alive!”
The tour guide girl said, pointing to a group of people walking slowly in front of them with carts and various farm tools, and said: "See those people, they are our farmers here, but don't underestimate them.
There is a test to be a farmer here, and only one or two out of a hundred people can be selected. They are all good farmers in the past. They not only have diplomas, but also have rich experience. The drought-tolerant food we grow outside the city requires
Leave it to them to take good care of you!"
"Then who owns the food grown? Does it all belong to the public?" Zhang Xu became more and more curious and continued to ask while picking his chin.
"Part of it will go to the farmers and people from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences, and the rest will be handed over to the grain station, and then various departments will pay salaries to the civil servants in the movie theater according to the workload assigned. Oh, and every three days the city will also pay
I will send some food to the extremely poor households!" the girl said nonchalantly.
From time to time, he also expresses his own personal opinions: "Actually, let me tell you, the management here is no worse than before the end of the world, and even worse. If we can reduce those hateful living corpses,
If I can still fill my stomach, I would rather live here for the rest of my life than leave!"
"Alas~ This is the common wish of all of us humans!" Zhang Xu shook his head and sighed helplessly.
The tour guide led everyone to continue walking forward. The main thoroughfare of this movie theater was designed in the style of the former Qing Dynasty. They were all antique Qing Dynasty buildings. However, most of these buildings have now become homes, and occasionally you can still see a few.
Children with runny noses were playing in front of the door. Some of them looked like their homes were in good condition. From the open door, you could also see some beautiful women playing mahjong and playing mahjong. The whole city looked a little less beautiful.
It's desolate in the end of the world, but it has a bit of rare tranquility and peace!
"Husband, I used to be here before, and I was the one who cut it when it was completed. But now that I'm here again, I really feel like I've traveled through time and space!" Bai Ru walked forward slowly, holding Lin Tao's arm.
He looked around and said with a smile: "You see there is basically no electricity here. People are starting to use the most primitive tools again. Even the needlework that women had almost thrown away has been picked up. It is estimated that it will not be long before
Some people are starting to weave their own cloth!”
"Yes, in the end, the things passed down by these ancestors are the most reliable. If there were not those living corpses, I believe that the people here will continue to reproduce stably, and then it will be a prosperous age for mankind. And it is good like this now.
People are a little less impetuous!" Lin Tao hugged Bai Ru's soft waist, his face full of sighs.
"Okay everyone, this Qianqing Street is coming to an end soon. If you go straight, you will find the offices of various city departments and the grain depot. It was originally a place used for filming modern dramas. Most of the architectural styles are similar to those before liberation.
It’s similar to Guangzhou, so we call it Guangzhou Street. Turn right and it’s the most prosperous place in our entire movie theater.
The location is called "Hong Kong Street", where land is very valuable. Teahouses, cafes, clothing stores, hotels, and even cinemas are all there. However, I would like to remind you that all electricity and food-related items are there.
Everything is the most expensive. It takes ten kilograms of rice to get a taste of dried abalone, two kilograms of rice for a cup of coffee..."
"...Oh, by the way, the "European Street" after Hong Kong Street may be the place you most yearn for. It is our red light district, where there are about five to six thousand professional women engaged in sex work.
These brothers will definitely be able to find your favorite type! However, I would like to remind you here that the sex workers here are all persistent
For those who have a license to work, there will be dedicated people to give them physical examinations every week. Those with infectious diseases will have their licenses confiscated, so you must check the other person's ID before making a purchase. If there is no ID or the ID has expired, I advise you to still
Don't have a relationship with them, after all, your own health is the most important, and trying to be cheap will only result in more losses than gains!"
The tour guide girl looked at the men with sharp eyes and winked at them playfully, as if she understood the men's thoughts. She was a little embarrassed when she saw the men. She immediately changed the topic and asked with a smile: "Who are you?"
Brother, how do you plan our next trip? Should we go shopping first or find a place to stay?"
"Let's find a place to live first. It's not good for us to be so ostentatious in the city!" Lin Tao thought for a while and said to the girl: "We need a bigger yard, a courtyard type would be best. Can you help me?"
Let’s search for it!”
"Well, I know a very good place. It has a big yard and faces south. However, the rent may be a bit expensive. It only costs fifty kilograms of rice a month. What do you think, brother?" The girl looked at Lin Tao and asked.
"Ah? Your rent here is too expensive, right? Do you think we live in the palace?" Bingbing frowned immediately. If calculated based on the rent of a house alone, fifty kilograms of rice per month is indeed very expensive.
You must know that many adult men today may not be able to earn fifty kilograms of rice a month.
"Haha~ Sister, you are right. The courtyard was originally designed to be a palace. It has a big reputation. Not only does it have a front and back yard, but there is also a pond and pavilion in the back. Of course, the pond is out of water now.
, it’s because the rent is high that the house is empty until now!” The girl said with a smile and gave everyone a very surprising answer.
"Brother Lin, if it doesn't work, let's go and have a look. If we're satisfied, we'll live there. If it doesn't work, we'll change again. Hehe~ I haven't lived in the palace yet, so let's give it a try this time!" Zhang Xu rubbed his hands with a smile.
Hands, obviously a coquettish woman, her thoughts began to wander back and forth again.