"Tiger, you and Sheep will stay here to look after the house, and you will leave two pistols. If the situation is critical, you don't need to take anything with you. Just get through the culvert and run west. We will definitely be back before dawn. If we don't come back, don't panic.

Just wait here in a down-to-earth manner and get to work when it's time."

"There is still some money here. Let's go to the market to buy some building materials and build a small building with a few rooms to live in. As long as I am still alive, I will definitely have a way to bring my brothers back."

Now that he has found a relatively hidden channel, Hong Tao feels somewhat confident. Of course, with his nature, he will never forget to arrange funeral arrangements at any time. Hu Yang and the others followed him to pursue a better life, and they did not go through life and death together.

Obligations and responsibilities.

Part of the money stolen from Youlong Labor Service Company was spent on buying a house, and the rest was divided into two parts, with half given to Tiger as living expenses for him and Sheep, as well as funds for activities to build the rear area...

Carry the other half with you and use it for yourself and others. If you are really found out by the alliance patrol that you cannot come back in a short time, you can also run south to the safe zone of Jinmen to temporarily avoid the limelight. You will need it when the time comes.

money.

"Well... why don't you take out the walkie-talkie? You can notify us immediately if you encounter danger."

As the leader of the gold diggers, Hu Yang has long been accustomed to life and death, and has no objections to Hong Tao's arrangements. However, he feels that it is better for everyone to be together. It is not easy to gather so many trustworthy partners in the apocalypse.

Even though the rules set by the East Asia Alliance are more inclined to protect the weak than those of the Redeemer, it is still an environment of the jungle after all. It doesn't matter if everyone suffers a little together, as long as they are mentally rich and still have a bright future, after they disperse, they can only live in an ignoble way.

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"...Don't do it for now. We don't have many batteries left, so we'd better save it for the critical moment. Don't worry, as long as God doesn't want to take me away, there's no need to go to war for ordinary minor troubles. This is not Xinjiang Province,

You are no longer gold diggers, and don’t be the first to think about killing someone when something happens."

Hong Tao thought about it carefully and finally rejected the proposal. In addition to not wanting to involve more people, he was mainly afraid that the walkie-talkies would be more easily exposed. The Redeemers did not have this technology, but the East Asia Alliance definitely had it and would use individual communication terminals.

Not just myself either.

Farmers pray for good weather, and those who work as robbers prefer a dark moon and a high wind. That night, not only the moon is dark but the wind is high, but also it rains. Although it is not as heavy as the first day, and there is no lightning or thunder, it can still make some people happy.

People use the cover of weather to do some shameful things.

At nightfall, six figures stood on tiptoes and crouched close to the western border of the New Sixth District. They first crouched in the weeds on the roadside and observed for more than half an hour, then watched a group of armed security guards heading south along the road.

After leaving, he slid down the slope to the abandoned drainage ditch on the side of the road, groped less than a hundred meters north, found the culvert half-hidden between weeds and construction debris, and drilled in.

"Stupid pig, was the entrance of the cave like this when you came here last time?" The culvert is only half a person tall, but quite long. After passing through the road above, it extends westward for dozens of meters before ending. After Hong Tao entered the cave, he opened it.

I turned on my headlamp and looked around while climbing. I suddenly stopped when I was approaching the exit.

"...Yes, have you met your colleagues?" When asked this question suddenly, Benzhu didn't react for a while, but he soon realized an important question, his expression became nervous, and he touched it with his hand.

A holster strapped to the thigh.

"I looked carefully when I came in. The entrance was 100% buried before. It should be construction debris when the land was leveled in the new area. But it was not buried deep, and it was dug up later. You see, this is

What!" Hong Tao nodded, stretched out his palm and opened it.

"It seems to be asphalt, right?" Several people picked up a small piece of black stuff and put it under their headlights to examine it carefully, then put it under their noses to smell it, and some stuck out their tongues to lick it. The scalper was the first to have the answer.

"Absolutely, it should be the dripping residue after burning the linoleum. Someone once used the linoleum as a torch to light up and passed by here. Judging from the amount of residue left on the ground, either there were a lot of people, or there was a lot of traffic. I

I think it’s probably the latter, which means we’re probably not the only ones using this culvert to enter the red zone.”

Hong Tao took out his lighter, roasted the black residue on the tip of the dagger, kneaded it into a small ball with his fingers, put it under his nose and smelled it. He confirmed this guess, which led to a lot of speculations.

"There are at least two people, but the footprints are not new. What should we do now?" Both Lazy Dog and Stupid Pig are better at surviving in the wild, but they are still a little uncomfortable when they suddenly arrive in a big city. Hong Tao started to search on the ground after being reminded.

, and soon found the footprints.

Gu Chu/span> "Don't panic, this is not Pear City, and there are not so many gold diggers. Let's do our job, be more careful and wait until we find out the situation." Seeing that everyone was ready to risk their lives, Hong Tao quickly signaled

Don't be so nervous.

But what he did next made people nervous. The monocular telescope that no one was allowed to touch was placed in his eyes. He hid at the edge of the hole and peered out.

Everyone who has been with him since he left Yining knows one thing very well. Whenever Brother Mouse takes out this strange-looking thing that is powered by batteries and consumes a lot of electricity, he will be close to death.

No one can guess what it is, and Brother Mouse never said it. But everyone is not stupid, and they know that it must be a device that can see people in the dark, and they all call this thing the Sangmen Star in private.

But today the Sangmen Star failed. Hong Tao squatted at the entrance of the cave and looked around for a long time without finding any suspicious targets. There were quite a few heat sources, but none of them looked human from the size. They might be rats, or weasels, or even foxes. Of course, they couldn't be missing.

A frequent visitor to the ruins of the city, crow!

Since there is no problem with the equipment, there should be no humans within a few hundred meters outside the cave. Of course, the thermal imaging scope cannot detect the heat source hiding behind the building, so every time you walk a certain distance, you have to change the angle and observe for a few minutes.

It is not easy to walk in the ruins of the city on a moonless night, and it is even harder not to make any noise. Since they were too close to the safe zone, no one in the group dared to turn on their headlights or flashlights, so they could only rely on experience to slowly

Move forward slowly.

"Click, click...fuck you!" But no matter how careful you are, you will inevitably step on something that makes a sound. This time, the scalper was the first to win the bid.

"Shhh... just hide away and stop shouting!" Hong Tao heard the voice and immediately hid his body behind the trash can on the roadside. He wanted to go over and kick the scalper's butt hard. It was not his first day as a gold digger.

Why are you still making such a fuss over a slight surprise like a newbie? It's so unprofessional.

"Brother Rat, Brother Rat... Come and take a look..." But instead of correcting the mistake, the scalper worsened the situation.

Hong Tao had to leave the bunker, walked across the street to the other side, covered his headlights with his hands, and planned to see why the scalpers were so rude. Then he saw a lot of dead branches stacked on the sidewalk, layer by layer.

Quite neat.

But if you continue to look carefully, you will find that there are only a few types of shapes of dead branches, and the shapes of each type are very similar. They are less like products of nature and more like man-made ones.

Hong Tao couldn't help but frown when he saw it. Those things were not dead branches at all, nor any processed man-made products, but the remains of zombies.

Yes, there are hundreds of corpses piled on the sidewalk on the west side of the road. They are probably the zombies killed during the first battle to defend the capital. But after so many years of exposure to wind, sun and rain, they have become even more shriveled up.

The appearance still maintains the appearance of a humanoid skeleton, and the color and texture have not changed much.

This is just an appearance. In fact, the dead bones have been weathered. Just now, the scalper accidentally stepped on the remains of a zombie and broke its thigh bone.

However, just like the research results of Wang Heping and Fan Chunling in the medical laboratory back then, the skin, muscle tissue and bones of zombies are much harder and more corrosion-resistant than humans, and even more stable than plants.

Although there is weathering, it is only the joints that are the most serious. Not to mention the bones, even the surface skin has not completely lost its toughness. Hong Tao squeezed it with his hands and broke it off hard. The bones were not broken, and the skin and muscles were not torn apart.
Chapter completed!