But as a result, I won't be able to come back for a few months. I wanted to take advantage of this period to go to a small house in Russia and bring some daily necessities for storage.

To be prepared, Hong Tao doesn't know how long he can live in Sailimu Lake. This matter does not depend on him. If he doesn't want to be homeless, he must make arrangements in advance.

In the past few years, he has traveled to all the towns in northern Xinjiang. He is not just wandering around, and he is not chasing zombies for fun. He is looking for the second, third, and fourth spare dens.

To say who is the biggest rat in the world, it has to be him. Whenever he has free time, he will dig holes to store food and prepare for his escape. This is no longer deliberate, it is simply instinct, and he is also a very good person.

A fastidious big rat!

Is it enough to just have a place to live? It's far from it. What he said to Chuqiu back then was really not a boast. It would be much easier and more comfortable for him to live alone in the apocalypse than with a group of people.

Food, daily necessities, weapons and ammunition, warm clothing, vegetable seeds, necessary tools, including electrical facilities, and even mattresses and recliners must be prepared. This is not considered qualified, and a place without more than two escape channels is still not suitable.

So going back and forth between several dens to stock up on supplies was the only serious thing he did in the past three years, and he persisted in it. Even in the winter when the mountains were blocked by heavy snow, he kept going back and forth.

A small nest has entered Russia.

That place is a Russian border guard post. There are a lot of weapons and ammunition stored in it, but there is no food or daily necessities. If you want to cross from northern Xinjiang, you need to cross the Altai Mountains, which is nearly 4,000 meters above sea level. Most of the way is uninhabited land, and some places

There is snow even in summer.

But the tea stall owner's words made him temporarily abandon this plan. There was no rush to complete the nest, but the opportunity to be safely close to the Yining base without being easily bullied did not come around all the time.

It has been seven years since he came to Xinjiang Province, and he has been wandering around for more than three years, but he has never been to Yining Base once, or even been close to it. The reason is simple. It is the main base of the Redeemers and has a large population.

The management is also relatively strict, and the roads are not extending in all directions, so it is not suitable for wanton behavior.

You said you don't bring enough weapons and equipment. Just go with a machete or a homemade crossbow like a refugee. He is really insecure. Who has the addiction to being slaughtered by others? But if you go fully armed, don't be happy.

Qiu, you have to be discovered as soon as you arrive at the checkpoint, and it's not easy to escape.

Without any foundation or acquaintances, he jumped in and suffered nothing but suffering. Hong Tao didn't believe that there was no bullying and forced buying and selling in the refugee settlement in Yining base. He was a bit gentle on the surface, but he was actually more gentle in his heart.

Damn it.

I don't have a favorable impression of the Redeemer management. I can get an overview just by looking at the virtues of the Kuitun branch. I don't have a firm need for the exchange materials they can provide, so I can find what I want on my own.

But things are different now. If the tea stall owner can establish a relationship with the people in Yining base and gain a foothold in the refugee settlement, he can reduce a lot of worries. Try to go there and at least you won't be bullied too much.

If it really doesn't work, you can still leave.

In addition, Hong Tao also wants to visit southern Xinjiang. The nearest road is to go east from Yining to Bayinbuluke Town in Hejing County, and then go south along the Duku Highway to Kuqa.

Since there are no human-controlled areas in southern Xinjiang, Bayinbuluk Town is the southernmost stronghold of the Redeemers. If you want to go south through here, you must have a pass from Yining Base.

Why do we have to go to southern Xinjiang to see it? Hong Tao is not curious. At Kuitun Base, he listened to the sentries who once stationed in Bayinbuluke Town chatting while drinking tea. The endless Taklimakan Desert has been transformed by nature in the past ten years.

It has turned into a complex landform of wetlands, swamps, desert and Gobi, where many wild animals have made their home.

In addition, in some places in southern Xinjiang, there is still a group of survivors who are called rebels by the redeemers and privately called resistance forces by the refugees.

It is said that they were also part of the Redeemers at the beginning. Later, due to different philosophies and perhaps a failure in the power struggle, they had no choice but to escape from the Yining base. But they were pursued by the Redeemers and had nowhere to go, so they had to plunge into the zombies in southern Xinjiang.

control area.

What is surprising is that not only did they not fend for themselves, but they also gradually grew and expanded. From time to time, they would launch raids or infiltrate into the areas controlled by the Redeemers. The year before last, they almost blew up the oil refinery in Kuitun.

Although the Redeemers have a large number of people, there is nothing they can do against them. Unable to attack, they can only strengthen the defenses of Bayinbuluke Town and Baluntai Town to prevent the resistance forces from infiltrating as much as possible.

Hong Tao wanted to find an opportunity to get a pass to see what the completely changed Taklimakan Desert looked like, and also to build a few small houses in southern Xinjiang. The weather was unpredictable, and it might rain in which clouds until someone died.

God has used it.

It would be better if he could see what kind of character the rebels have. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t want to join them, I’m just curious. Now he has lost confidence in all the survivor forces, and he doesn’t think anyone is better than anyone else. Among them,

Including the Renaissance Alliance he established by himself, now called the East Asia Alliance.

Yili is not a city, but a region. Its full name is Ili Kazakh Autonomous Prefecture. This place has been famous since ancient times. During the Western Han Dynasty, the Wusun Kingdom was located here and was under the jurisdiction of the Western Regions Protectorate. In the Tang Dynasty, the Kunling Protectorate was established to govern the country.

Ethnic minority tribes east of Yecheng, including the Ili area.

Later, Genghis Khan destroyed the Western Liao Dynasty, and this became the fiefdom of Chagatai, and the capital was Alimari, which is near today's Huocheng. It was the largest city in Central Asia during the Mongolian and Yuan Dynasties.

After the local government of Junggar was pacified in the Qing Dynasty, the entire territory of Xinjiang was unified. Generals such as General Manager Yili were set up to oversee affairs in Xinjiang, referred to as General Yili. Nine cities including Huiyuan, Ningyuan, Xichun and Suiding were built successively, with Huiyuan as the center.

, like the stars overcoming the moon.

All in all, all in all, this area has a very long history, no shorter than the ancient capital of the Central Plains. For a long time, the center of Xinjiang was not Urumqi, but Ili.

So here comes the question, why have humans regarded this place as an important city so long ago? Throughout history, there are only three situations where cities and capitals are built. First, the transportation is developed; second, it is easy to defend and difficult to attack.

; Third, the climate and geographical environment are suitable for development.

The Ili area, also known as the Ili Valley, is where the Ili River flows westward into Kazakhstan, forming a long and narrow basin, or plain, sandwiched between mountains.

In ancient times, human beings did not have the ability to fight against the sky and the earth. If they wanted to have enough to eat, they had to find a place suitable for farming and grazing to live in. The Ili River Valley is such a fertile land and has a less harsh climate.

As far as Xinjiang Province is concerned, it covers an area of ​​more than 1.6 million square kilometers, accounting for more than one-sixth of the country's area, but has a population of only more than 20 million, which is the same as Beijing. Why is the population so small? Because it is remote

? Not entirely, the main reason is lack of water.

On the whole, most areas of Xinjiang Province are deserts, Gobis and mountainous areas, with relatively low precipitation. The main source of water is rivers formed by melting snow. Water for human farming, grazing, and domestic use is low here.

Rain can't solve it, so we can only live next to the river.

People who have been to and traveled through most of Xinjiang Province should know that wherever there are rivers, they are already full of people and fields. Once you leave the river, within tens of kilometers or even a few kilometers away, there will be drought and barrenness.

The Gobi Desert, or a desert filled with yellow sand and barren of grass.

The Ili Valley area has been a natural treasure land with dense forests, green grass everywhere, moderate climate, abundant water, and rich products since ancient times. Not only the ancients thought so, but the survivors also thought so, and they also did so.

As the largest group of survivors in Xinjiang Province, the Redeemers were initially divided into two parts, one in Yining and one in Urumqi. After several years of development and changes, they finally decided to merge the two into one, choosing Yining as the main base.
Chapter completed!