?"Xiao Jin, what is that place with the national flag for? Is it the office of the studio?" Lin Tao asked, looking at a yard in the distance before going out. ?
Jin Yan looked back, shook her head and said, "No, that's where the army is stationed! The more than two hundred soldiers stationed there are all former regular troops. I heard that most of them are special forces. They
They are equivalent to the military elites here, who are responsible for suppressing armed riots, but they usually go out to look for food. After all, the rations issued by the government are not enough to feed soldiers like them!"
"Is the leader of them Captain Luo Rong?" Zhang Xu also asked curiously.
"Haha~ Brother Zhang, do you know Captain Luo? She is the idol of women in our entire gathering, but she is only their instructor. There is a regiment leader named Jiang above her, and that regiment leader is well-known.
He is so stubborn, he treats everyone with a cold face all day long, he doesn't drink or smoke, and he doesn't even go to the red light district!" Jin Yan said with a mysterious look on her face.
"Let's go shopping on the street!" Lin Tao took a deep look at the station with the national flag flying, then turned around and led everyone towards Hong Kong Street.
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Wherever there are people, there are rivers and lakes. Similarly, where there are people, a society will definitely be formed. When nearly 100,000 survivors gather together, they will definitely try their best to restore the original appearance of their civilized society, or develop in a better way.
, or extending to worse aspects, but the entire small society is moving forward, trying to get rid of the shadow that the end of the world has brought to mankind.
Of course, it is impossible for everyone in a gathering place of 100,000 people to have enough to eat. The vast majority can only reach the level of food and clothing, and it is far from the point of being full, warm and thinking about yin/yu. Therefore, the entire Hong Kong street
Basically it is a paradise for the rich, nothing like what it seems on the surface.
It is so prosperous, and the majority of the people in ragged clothes, with yellow faces and skinny faces are just here to make a living. I pray that the rich people who are above the food and clothing line can show them a little bit from the gaps between their fingers, so that he or his family can live here today.
Don't go hungry again.
The whole street is bustling with people, shouting hawkers, selling others and even selling themselves. People will talk unscrupulously about how many kilograms of rice a beautiful woman can sell, and some of them can’t wait to tear open their clothes to show off their clothes.
Women with capital are asking the sky for prices, but those who can actually go out to find food and come back safely to become rich are only a small part of the top of the pyramid, so there are many people hawking on the street, but there are not many real buyers.
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Contrary to the original civilized society, those rough guys with simple minds and well-developed limbs have jumped to the top of the pyramid overnight. The original fat-headed, big-eared, shrewd shopping mall elites have been reduced to the point where they can't even beg to eat.
to the point where they
The mistresses, secretaries and lovers of the year, those women who were as arrogant as little hens in the past, already want to sell themselves by the pound, just like the most common sentence in the entire movie theater every day, people are so hungry.
I want to eat everything I see, I even want to lick the shit!
As soon as they stepped into Hong Kong Street, Lin Tao and his group of extremely well-dressed people were surrounded by people with a "buzz" sound, shouting and other things. If it weren't for two patrolmen blowing whistles who came in time, Lin Tao and the others would have been killed.
It may be impossible to even think about going back.
"Damn, what kind of plane is this?" Zhang Xu looked at the white coat he had just put on with great depression. It was covered with big black handprints. He pointed at a young man who was driven away by the patrol and said with a smile.
: "Did you hear what that boy just said? He actually said that he would sell himself to me as his son. I almost laughed because I was so angry at him. I want such a big son like him to be useless!"
"Haha~ Forget about sons, even if you want to buy a grandson, a bunch of big men will jump out and call you grandpa!" Jin Yan smiled as usual, and then continued to lead everyone slowly inside. Here
It is indeed prosperous in the apocalypse. Even if it is not as modern as in the past, it is definitely unique in the apocalypse.
Just like there are people selling real US dollars and euros on the street, exchanging a pound of rice for 100,000 US dollars, saying that they are burned to relatives below during the Tomb Sweeping Day, which is definitely more affordable than using fake money. There are also people who directly sell gold and silver bars, saying that it is
When the world improves, these things will become valuable again. Of course, the most common ones are those that sell to others, fathers sell their daughters, husbands sell their wives, and you sell your own, to name a few!
The items on Hong Kong Street are extremely complicated, and there is nothing you can’t imagine. There is absolutely nothing you can’t buy here. After just half a walk around, everyone has a lot of various items in their hands. Bingbing even bought one for ten kilograms of rice.
The ruby necklace, which was bigger than her eyeballs, immediately made the women completely excited. They shuttled through the crowd like crazy, trying to pick up a few more, but they didn't know that the most valuable things now are these.
They thought they had taken a huge advantage, but in the eyes of the locals in the movie studio, they were acting like fools.
The women were all in high spirits and maximized their natural shopping skills, but the men began to complain endlessly. Even Lin Tao felt that his legs were as heavy as lead. He felt that it was too much, so he went to Zhang Xu.
At his suggestion, the girls finally stopped and collectively came to a food stall.
It is said to be a food stall, but food stalls in the apocalypse are rarer than giant pandas. Everyone has hardly seen them along the way. Moreover, this food stall is placed in front of a jeweled clothing store. Not only does it not have the city management to take care of it,
Even the people in the clothing store seemed to have completely ignored her and allowed her to fill the store with smoke, so her arrogance and domineering level can be seen clearly!
"Mom boss, what's there to eat?" Zhang Xu sat on a folding table with a cigarette in his mouth and shouted to a woman behind the cart who was eating melon seeds.
"Wonton noodles, tea eggs, what do you want?"
The woman was not old, she looked to be in her thirties. In addition to some pasta, there were also several bottles of wine and cigarettes on the cart. She stood up and put the melon seeds in her hand on the cart.
, raised the lid of the steaming pot with orchid fingers and looked at Zhang Xu, and said: "Chaos is three kilograms of rice for a bowl, noodles are two kilograms of rice for each bowl, tea eggs are two kilograms of rice for each, what do you want?"
"Give me two tea eggs and a bowl of wontons!" Li Manli jumped up and sat next to Zhang Xu and said first.
"Oh~ You're not welcome. Who do you expect to pay for you? It seems like you borrowed your underwear from someone else, right?" Bingbing sat on the other side of Zhang Xu with an unhappy look on her face. Since Li Manli shamelessly followed her,
After Zhang Xu, Bingbing almost got into a fight with this woman several times. Of course, it was just a matter of jealousy. Even if they joined forces to serve Rasual, they could not eliminate their hostility to each other no matter what.
"Ha~ That's a strange question for you to ask. Of course it was my man who paid for me!" After saying that, Li Manli cooed on Zhang Xu, kissed him sweetly, and said softly: "Isn't that right?
Ah, my dear!"
"To your sister!" Zhang Xu gave Li Manli a big roll of his eyes, waved his hands and said, "Boss boss, just give them a bowl of wontons. It's not like we don't have eggs at home. Going out to eat overpriced food will make you miserable.
!”
"But I haven't eaten tea eggs for a long time!" Li Manli pouted with a look of grievance on her face. Seeing Zhang Xu's indifferent expression, she turned boringly to look at the proprietress of the food stall. Although the proprietress's dress was a bit low-end,
But her appearance is still particularly good. The ten fingernails are actually painted in colorful colors.
She could probably look like a charming young woman if she dressed up, but Li Manli always felt that this woman looked very familiar. After looking at it for a few times, she asked doubtfully: "Madam boss, are you and Cai Lin from Taiwan who sang "Seventy-two Strategies of Love"?
Lin looks similar, especially with your accent. Have you ever participated in an imitation show?"
The proprietress who was counting the wontons glanced sideways at Li Manli, and then said very depressedly: "You seem to be the editor of the "Pretending to Be a Woman" magazine, right? You personally conducted an interview with me and even took a cover photo for you.
Can’t you recognize it now?”
"Ah? Is it really you?" Li Manli and everyone present looked at her in surprise, looking at this woman with messy hair, slovenly appearance, and a faded plaid shirt. She didn't have the slightest aura of a star.
It is not an exaggeration to say that she is a country woman, and Bingbing even cried out: "Why did you end up like this? You flew on our plane before, you are my idol!"
"Idol? Isn't there an idol who is older than me sitting next to you? Isn't she here eating at a roadside stall? In the past, she would have come here to eat?"
After Cai Linlin put all the things everyone ordered into the pot, she looked at Bai Ru, who was also surprised, with complicated eyes. She took out a cigarette from her plaid shirt, lit it, and leaned on the cart to smoke.
Yanbian said calmly: "Miss Bai, I thought we had performed on the same stage back then, but I didn't expect that things would change so quickly. You are still so beautiful and noble, but I... ugh!"
"Miss Cai, I didn't expect you to be here!" Bai Ru let go of Lin Tao's arm, stood up and said to Cai Linlin with a wry smile: "If I hadn't met my husband, my situation might be worse than yours.
It's possible to die, I'm just luckier than you!"
"Oh~ I knew you must be married too. You can't survive without men these days!" Cai Linlin leaned on the cart with a sigh on her face. Her soft accent with a strong Taiwanese flavor was still as pleasant as ever.
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"Miss Cai, how could you do this?" Li Manli on the side finally couldn't help asking. She thought it was miserable enough for her to laugh and please men every day, but she saw that the popular female singer turned into
With this outcome, she felt like she was living in paradise.
"It's not as serious as you think. I don't have to worry about food and drink now. Look, there are only a few roadside stalls on this street, but they are all set up by people with profound backgrounds. Do you think anyone can do it?"
What about setting up a stall?" Cai Linlin said, exhaling a long puff of white smoke, clamping the Guangming cigarette worth 25 cents in her mouth on her slender fingers, and then tilted her head
He said with some helplessness: "I gave birth to a loser girl to my man. Her figure is gone, her skin is wrinkled, and her throat is damaged by smoking. She can't compare with those pretty little girls."
I was sent here to set up a stall by him. Even if he can keep me alive, he can’t see it and I don’t dare to dress up too beautifully. My man is too suspicious!”
"How did you come here in the first place? Are you here to shoot the music video?" Li Manli felt somewhat sympathetic, and stood up and asked with a distressed look on her face.
"My husband is a martial artist in the crew. We came from another gathering place before, but that was more than half a year ago. Alas, it is my luck and my misfortune to come here. At least I won't come here.
, there are few people in our gathering place, and the competition among women is not so fierce!" Cai Linlin shook her head, with a bitter look on her face.
"At least the tea eggs you cooked taste very good!" Lin Tao was spinning a tea egg that Cao Mei had peeled and handed over to him. He was eating it with gusto. Although he was not a star, he was not impressed. Even an international star like Bai Ru was
He is already asleep, so what does Cai Linlin, who is several levels below her, mean?
"Haha~ It's all forced. If you eat two more, you are taking care of my business. My food stall rarely opens several times a day. They are all visited by some of my former fans who were mistresses, and their appetites are better than
The cat is still young!" Cai Linlin showed a happy smile to Lin Tao, and her beautiful eyes rolled on his and Bai Ru's faces, looking very curious.
After a while, the wontons came out of the pot, and Cai Linlin quickly served everyone a bowl. But at this time, two girls in extremely revealing clothes began to stand not far from her food stall, talking softly.
Looking at the unashamed and skillful looks of the men who were soliciting those who passed by, it was obvious that they were two senior ladies who had been in the industry for a long time.
Cai Linlin put down the colander in her hand, frowned and said to the two women: "Hey, you two beauties, are you just here? How dare you solicit customers here? The police will definitely arrest you later.
Arrest me, and you guys hanging around here are also affecting my business. People think I am a hair-washing room!"
"Ah? We're not allowed to solicit customers here? But we're not allowed to solicit customers in the red light district, so what should we do?" Two very scantily clad young women turned around and looked at Cai Linlin longingly, and Cai Linlin
Then Tan Tan said with his hands: "Then you must have some infectious disease. I advise you not to harm others or yourself, either go to the clinic for treatment, or find other ways as soon as possible. Chickens without a license are not even the men in the shack."
Dare to ask for it!"
"Hey? Aren't you the two red cards under Zhang Hong? Why are you here?" Zhang Xu, who also peeled off a tea egg, looked at the two women in surprise and asked very strangely: "Zhang Hong
What? Why doesn’t she care about you?"
"Ah! It's Mr. Xu!" The two women's eyes lit up, and they gathered around him in surprise. They looked at him pitifully and said, "We... we failed the physical examination, and the red light district did not issue us a license, and here we are.
The clinic is very expensive to treat, and Dr. Qin can’t be found, so Sister Hong asked us to go outside to solicit customers for the time being. We didn’t expect the competition here to be so fierce. Hundreds of us sisters couldn’t even get a splash once we entered.
Get up, and there are still a small number of people like us who can’t get a license, so we have to come here to try our luck at a cheaper price!”
"What's Zhang Hong's plan? We can't keep letting you go out soliciting customers like this, right?" Lin Tao said, picking up two eggs from the bowl and handing them to the hands of the two women. The two women were slim, but
The naked belly was already sunken deeply by hunger, and it goes without saying that there was no trace of oil or water in it.
"Thank you Mr. Lin!" The two women were obviously hungry. They swallowed the eggs in a few mouthfuls, then held their necks and muttered: "Sister Hong told Brother Qiang that she wanted to build one near the red light district.
A unique nightclub where you can sing karaoke. However, Mr. Qiang was seriously injured last time and has not had the energy to take care of these things in the past two days. Those of us sisters who cannot get a license can only rely on those who have a license to support us.
Yes, but they don’t have enough to eat either!”
"What did you two do?" Bai Ru suddenly intervened and asked.
"I...I used to be a kindergarten teacher, and she was a salesperson for a medical device company!" One of the girls, wearing only a set of red underwear, stammered in reply, and a one-tael food stamp with the smallest face value came from her.
A corner was exposed from her thin underwear, which was probably all she had in her body.
"Miss Cai, where do the eggs you sell come from? Are there any farms in the city?" Bai Ru turned to look at Cai Linlin.
Cai Linlin placed a bowl of steaming wontons in front of Bai Ru and replied: "There must be farms, but I heard that the scale has never been increased. My men's men got these eggs from outside.
I sell it. When the dozens of kilograms at home are sold out, I don’t know if there will be any more. Eggs are not easy to transport, and the shelf life cannot be too long!"
"Husband, if that doesn't work, let's build a breeding farm? Our yard is very big, and we can also help these sisters who have no skills. It's not a problem for Zhang Hong to struggle alone. No matter what, they
They are all our companions who escaped with us!" Bai Ru turned her head and looked at Lin Tao with a little expectation in her eyes. She grabbed his wrist and said: "If we want to stay here for a long time, we must have someone.
A stable source of income!”
"Sister, we can't just talk nonsense. There are a lot of chickens selling themselves in the city, but we don't even have half of these edible chickens. Where do you want us to get them?"
Cao Mei stretched out her head and said with a wry smile.
"Then let them plant sweet potatoes and mushrooms first. I don't know if the mushrooms will survive, but if the sweet potatoes are planted in our dried-up pond, there will definitely be a good harvest. Don't forget that we still have a lot of mushroom seeds in the car.
!" Zhang Xu reminded, raising his head as he sucked in a night's worth of wontons with thin skin and little filling.
"That pond is several acres at least. Maybe with the current climate conditions, as long as it doesn't dry out too much, it's possible to plant it for two or three seasons a year. If the effect is good, it would be okay to allocate more plots for them to plant it!
"Wang Guodong, who was sitting at another table, also turned around. He had farmed in his hometown before, so he had a relatively strong say.
"Everyone, I'm not pouring cold water on you!" Cai Linlin suddenly shook her head and said slightly apologetically: "There are many fields for growing sweet potatoes outside the city. Do you know why there is no way to plant them on a large scale? First, it's daytime.
The head is really too poisonous, and there are constant blows of wind and sand, and the plants are not small.
The heart will die quickly, and the second and most critical thing is that we are seriously short of water here. We can’t even supply drinking water for people. How can there be water to water the plants? If the production team hadn’t taken over the city
If the urine of everyone here is concentrated and used for watering, even the hundreds of acres of fields outside the city won't be able to feed it!"
"Lack of water is a problem!" Lin Tao frowned and thought about it. After a while, he said to Bai Ru: "What you just said is right. We must find ways to help women without skills. In this way, when we go back
After that, I directly knocked down the courtyard wall and covered the open space outside. Even if it is a pilot plant, I will find a way to deal with water. When Zhang Xu and I go out to look for food in a few days, we will try our best.
Pay attention to all kinds of animals, try to catch more alive ones, and start planting and breeding!"
"Well, we can also ask those people from the Academy of Agricultural Sciences for advice!" Bai Ru nodded with interest, already beginning to make great plans for building their new home, and then turned around and looked at the two pitiful women.
Said: "Are you willing to farm and breed with us? We will provide you with food in advance!"
"Yes, yes! It's our intention, we can go with you now, and we don't have big appetites, so we won't waste much food!" The two girls immediately nodded their heads like rattles, and were extremely surprised. In fact, they were not forced.
At the end of the road, who of these girls from decent family backgrounds would actually sell themselves? In peacetime, it could be said that they are lazy and greedy for enjoyment, but in the apocalypse, the girls who sell themselves are really for
Stay alive!
"There's no need to be in such a hurry. You can go back and contact your sisters who can't get licenses first. In this way, we don't dare to ask for too many people at first. You can find thirty people first, but remember, you must find those
Those who can't get a license can at least support themselves with a license!" Bai Ru said with a smile to the two women. After asking for the address, the two women left with great gratitude. Such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity can also be obtained.
There is no reason why they should not be grateful.
"Ms. Bai, I understand now that when people said that your charity was just hype, they seemed to have misunderstood you. Now it is clear who is the real philanthropist!" Cai Linlin sighed with a look on her face.
Looking at Bai Ru, if Bai Ru still wants to put on a show, then she must be crazy, but sometimes when I think about it, the saying that good people are rewarded does not seem to be unreasonable!