Chapter 109 Re-entering the safe zone
“Thank you.”
After listening to the evaluation of assistant Xiao Liu, Xia Qing also inserted a bamboo stick into his mouth. Being cautious is worth it, but it is worth taking some risks when facing delicious food.
There were also many things in Xia Qing''s territory, and many of them were dug out when cleaning the farmland. However, she was too lazy to test one by one, and she couldn''t bear to fry the cicada oil, so she fed them all to fish, birds and snakes.
At this moment, while eating the hot and crispy fried cicada, Xia Qing felt that she could also take some effort and oil to eat for this stutter.
After Xia Qing ate, Tang Huai glanced at Wei Chengdong proudly and distributed the fried cicada to everyone in the car except Wei Chengdong. The atmosphere suddenly became lively.
Xia Qing understood that Tang Huai wanted to take this opportunity to reverse the unfavorable situation of the lords in nearby territories getting close to the Qinglong team and alienating the Tang family.
Just as everyone was asking Tang Huai for advice on the experience of digging the cicada monkey, lords got on the car one after another.
There were 16 lords coming from the territory No. 26. All those who could come were probably coming. Those who did not come either cut off their external contacts like Lord No. 8, or the territory was empty and deserted.
The lords naturally divided into three small groups according to the intercom communication channel. The representatives from the territory No. 12 squeezed to Tang Huai, so the small group of lords from one to ten was more than the other two combined.
After Tan Junjie and two other soldiers entered the rear compartment, the car accelerated and rushed to the territory No. 29 to 50 near the safety zone. According to the agricultural product trade fair process announced in advance, Tan Junjie and the other two began to check the types and quantity of agricultural products brought by each lord, and labeled them with the territory management department, sealed the bag and returned it to the lord.
The agricultural products brought by the lord can only be brought back to the safe area for transaction and exchange after the official inspection.
In order to protect the lord''s safety, the inspection is carried out in an area separated by partitions in the car. There is no language communication throughout the test, and the auditory evolutionists do not know what each lord or representative has brought.
Xia Qing came out of the detection area with her backpack and backpack. She returned to her original position and sat down, looking like she closed her eyes and rested, but in fact she was listening to her full voice and monitoring the movement inside and outside the car.
Based on the bumpyness of the road, the sound of wind and birds, Xia Qing judged that the car was traveling through the ruins of the town.
Ten years ago, this area was once a prosperous and beautiful city, but it was empty at this moment. The howling sound of the wind passing through the ruins sounded particularly desolate.
Suddenly, different sounds came from the wind. Xia Qing, who had been scolded by Luo Pei for more than a month, had his concentration no longer the same as before, and he still closed his eyes and remained motionless.
Xia Qing didn''t move, but Tang Huai moved, "Did you hear the crying? There seemed to be a child crying outside."
It’s not possible, but it must be the cry of the child. But the sound was extremely small and the ordinary people in the car would definitely not be able to hear it. The crying reminded Xia Qing of the incident where Zhong Tao and Zheng Kui were ambushed and injured when they were driving through the ruins half a month ago.
The tall Zhao Ze still likes to flatter him as much as he does on the Lord’s channel, “I haven’t heard anything. Brother Huai has such a good hearing. No wonder he can hear the movements of insects in the soil.”
Kuang Qingwei also answered, "There is no children in this place, it is probably a wild cat that is jesting."
"How could I hear it wrong!" Tang Huai felt that Kuang Qingwei was insulting his ability.
After being glared by Tang Huai, Kuang Qingwei immediately became a coward and laughed apologetically. Qi Fu quickly interrupted, "Maybe it was the child of the lord family, and there were many people who took the lead in farming."
Everyone became quiet again, and Xia Qing silently thought about what happened so that a woman would leave the safe zone and take her child to risk survival in the ruins.
After two hours of turbulence in the military card, the speed of the car dropped, and the lords from the 29th to 50th got on the car one after another. After Sun Zhejiang, the lord of the No. 48th land, came up and saw Xia Qing sitting in the innermost place. Although there were several women in the car, Xia Qing''s blushing face was too recognizable.
Xia Qing also saw Sun Zhejiang and nodded to him.
When the military card was parked outside the safe area, Xia Qing took out his old phone and took a look at the time. She set out from six o''clock in the morning and arrived at the safe area at 9:30 in the morning. Although the road was still very bumpy, it was nearly twice as short as when she left the safe area to go to the territory.
It seems that the base mentioned in the radio has really put in the effort to build roads.
JJ Tan asked everyone to get out of the car, and Xia Qing jumped out easily with her huge backpack with her backpack.
Huisan Base took great pains to this trade fair. Four military cards from east, west, south and north arrived at the main entrance of the security zone at about the same time. The lords either carried large bags, big baskets, or carried large baskets and big pockets, standing by the side of the car and looking at each other.
Xia Qing counted roughly, and there were about one hundred people.
Huisan Base opened up a total of 200 territories last year, and all of them were taken away in February. Five months later, only 100 people returned to the safe area to participate in the agricultural product fair.
The remaining 100 pieces of territory are likely to be gone. In the face of such a high casualty rate, it is understandable that ordinary residents in the safe zone are unwilling to come out to farm.
The thick iron door in the safety area has been opened, and there are eye-catching red banners hanging on the door: Welcome the lords to go home and take a look.
Under the banner, there was a large group of safety area staff standing. Xia Qing actually saw someone recording a video with a camera on his shoulder. Her calm eyes moved away from the banners, the crowds and the cameras, and to the vast dark and **** patches of the safety zone wall.
The wall dyed red is her father''s blood.
A bald middle-aged man in a black suit strode over with a smile on his face and shook hands cordially with the lords, "Welcome everyone back to participate in the agricultural product trade fair at our Huisan Base. I am Jiang Quan from the Territory Management Department. Please follow me into the safe zone."
Xia Qing hugged her backpack in front of her to protect her. After showing her identity card to the guard and undergoing inspection, she followed the crowd into the safe area.
The road was crowded with pale and thin residents. Their eyes were like hooks when they stared at the lords, and they wanted to catch the agricultural products they brought and swallow them into their stomachs.
Kuang Qingwei, holding his backpack, complained loudly as if no one else was around, "Why is the safe area so smelly? It''s incomparable to the territory."
"Can the smell be good if so many people who don''t take a shower or change their clothes squeeze together?" Zhao Ze responded in a low voice, with pride in his voice, "We used to be like this, I really don''t know how to endure it."
Not only the crowd, but the entire safety area emits a suffocating smell. After ten years of natural disasters, most humans are extremely afraid of everything outside the safe zone. As long as they can survive in the safe zone, they dare not take this step.
Xia Qing walked forward without saying a word, expressionless, and she had never stopped in the past ten years. Because after the natural disaster began, my parents told her countless times: No matter how hard the road ahead is, it is closer to happiness than standing there.
They have promised each other and strive to be happy.
So even if Xia Qing is the only one left now, she will continue to run towards happiness as agreed with her parents.
(This chapter ends)