Just when Deng Ai was feeling uneasy, the two of them unknowingly arrived in front of the town hall.
To his surprise, the leader of this mysterious force seemed to have no intention of going in, but just stood downstairs of the town hall.
Is it worthy of being called a government agency building? It is indeed beautifully built. Judging from the degree of damage, this is the only building in the entire town that can be called complete.
"Speaking of which, has a man named Lin Hai been to your place?" Zhu Tian asked casually!
Deng Ai was slightly stunned, but he didn't expect Zhu Tian to suddenly ask this irrelevant question.
He frowned, thought carefully and replied.
"There seems to be such a person...he came from Chushi."
"Didn't he tell you anything? For example, mutants are coming or something like that." Zhu Tian asked casually.
Looking at Zhu Tian blankly, Deng Ai shook his head and said, "No! He just stayed in our town for one night and then left in a hurry."
Didn't say anything?
This is very unusual! If they desperately want to prevent mutants from going to Jinling City, there is no reason why they would not remind the people here and let them prepare in advance. At least build a fortification or something to resist.
Zhu Tian frowned slightly and stared at Deng Ai's eyes carefully.
That blank expression didn't seem to be fake.
"How do you remember him... I mean, what was there about him that was particularly noteworthy for you?"
"Hey, that's right. Because most of the people traveling through this road are scavengers from Chu City, looking for chips or parts removed from military equipment. These things are very popular in any place in the mainland. Again
If not, they would go to Lishui Town to buy a few boxes of canned sea fish and take them back, and the price would at least double. But only Lin Hai came back empty-handed."
"Did he come only once?"
"Yes, he probably took another route when he entered Jinling City."
Zhu Tian nodded thoughtfully and fell into deep thought.
Deng Ai, who was standing aside, was trying to figure out the expression on Zhu Tian's face, but he couldn't read any useful information. He didn't understand why Zhu Tian suddenly asked about the lone traveler. Is there any deep meaning in it?
However, just as he was speculating, Zhu Tian spoke again, but this time he asked another question.
"Changing the topic, what do you do for a living?"
More than seven hundred people! This is not a small number. This is not an urban area, and there are not many zombies that can provide organic matter for refining the nutrient mixture. Although there are many alien species, they are often guys with strong combat capabilities. If you are hunting alien species
Yes, but they don't look like a survivor group with high combat effectiveness.
"We are growing some crops on the farm outside the town to refine the nutrient mixture." Deng Ai looked into Zhu Tian's eyes and said cautiously.
The fruits of mutated plants cannot be eaten, but they are good as raw materials for refining nutritional mixtures. Many survivor groups in Liuhe District will also grow such crops on the roofs of buildings, and then take them to Tianyuan Base to exchange for energy points or nutritional mixtures.
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"Oh, what's the soil pollution level here, and what's the radiation level?"
Seeing that Zhu Tian did not show greed for the nutritional mixture in the warehouse, Deng Ai breathed a sigh of relief and whispered: "It seems to be 9...and 20."
Regarding this, he has nothing to lie about. Those two data are very easy to measure. The radiation value can be measured with a personal terminal, and the soil pollution level only needs to take a sample and add two drops of reagent.
"9 is very good, I like this number!" Zhu Tian suddenly smiled, then reached out and patted Deng Ai on the shoulder: "From today on, you will be responsible for the farm."
Deng Ai was stunned and looked at him confused, not understanding what he meant.
"Farm? I..."
"That's right, who else could it be?" Zhu Tian looked at him with a smile and said.
After swallowing, Deng Ai asked in confusion: "If you want those mutated fruits, we are willing to pay tribute to you!"
Those things are not valuable at all, not to mention the current decline in the price of organic matter. Even based on the price two months ago, one ton of fruits can be extracted to produce a hundred nutritional mixtures, which can be exchanged for ten energy points. And they
The electromagnetic rifle he held in his hand cost twenty energy points, so he didn't seem to care about such a small gain.
Zhu Tian raised his hand to interrupt him.
"You misunderstood, we don't care about those rotten fruits you planted."
This is the truth. The Ming Dynasty Survivor Base does not need nutritional mixture at all.
"What do you mean?"
"Isn't what I said direct enough, Mr. Former Mayor? I need you to take care of my farm for me." There are two words that Zhu Tian bites particularly hard, that is "former mayor" and "my".
Hearing this, Deng Ai's face turned pale, and he stared at Zhu Tian with wide eyes: "You, are you going to occupy our home? You can't be like this..."
"But we can. The mutants have to pass through this river, but I don't allow it, so we came."
"But they are all dead now..." Deng Ai said with difficulty.
Zhu Tian glanced at Deng Ai strangely, smiled and said: "Did you misunderstand something? Do you think we came here specially to rescue? I'm sorry to tell you that we are just fighting mutants, and
This is just an outpost we captured from them. Besides, according to the rules in the wasteland, I rescued you, and you are all my prisoners."
Prisoners are equal to slaves!
Deng Ai's lips trembled and he couldn't say a word. He originally thought he was saved, but he didn't expect that it was just a change of ownership.
Seeing that he didn't respond, Zhu Tian didn't care.
"They will come back, and there will be more, but I will protect this place."
After a pause, he pointed to his feet.
"In contrast, from now on, this is my territory!"
...
Early the next morning, the sun and moon holding the dragon flag belonging to the Ming Dynasty Survivor Base was raised on the upper floor of the town hall in Donggou Town, announcing that this place was officially included in the territory of the Ming Dynasty Survivor Base.
Under the supervision of twenty riflemen, more than two hundred survivors carried cement bags and steel bars to the Chuhe River. Led by more than twenty engineers sent by the Daming Base, they will build defenses along the river.
facility.
Although they were still forced to do manual labor, Zhu Tian treated them much better than the mutants. Not only did they distribute cold-proof clothing bought from Tianyuan Base, but he also used whips to drive them. As long as they are not lazy,
No one will be punished and starve because they cannot complete the work.
When facing Donggou Town, Zhu Tian adopted a completely different strategy from that of wooing the Liuhe District survivor group.
Because it is located outside the city, the density of zombies here is extremely low, far less than that in Jinling City. After more than ten years of hard work, all zombies in the town have been eliminated.
It can be said that they have lived a very comfortable life over the years. Compared with other survivors struggling in the city, their combat effectiveness is much lower, and the difficulty of collecting them is naturally much easier.
For example, the survivors in Donggou Town are farmers carrying hoes, while the survivors in Liuhe are hunters holding guns in both hands.
For the scattered "hunters", Zhu Tian's strategy was to trade, then win over, and then assimilate. For these "peasants", his strategy was to recruit them directly by force.
All survivors implanted with slave chips were directly promoted to management, and infrastructure construction was handed over to the more than 700 newly added people. At this point, the pyramid-shaped governance structure has taken shape. Zhu Tian only needs to firmly
Those who firmly control the upper levels of the pyramid will naturally have people to worry about things below them.
In order to supervise the construction of fortifications, Li Chengwei personally led the team over.
The three hundred survivors were divided into thirty teams, each team was led by an engineer sent from the Ming Dynasty Survivor Base, and they were busy building fortifications.