The 22nd day after the nuclear war.

From a distance, I could see the edge of the city, and more and more vehicles were discarded on the roadside. Chi Hua suddenly braked and stepped on the speeding Land Rover off-road vehicle.

A roadblock suddenly appeared in front of him to cut off the road in half, and eight soldiers with guns were standing behind the checkpoint.

"There is a refuge camp ahead, and the car can't drive in." A young soldier in his early twenties stepped forward and saluted.

"Then how do we go back to Beijing?" Xiaofei poked his head out from his seat and asked.

"The direction of Xining is a severe nuclear radiation area, and the way out is broken."

"What should we do with our car?" Chi Hua asked.

"If you want to enter the camp, just find a place to park. There are too many people inside and the car can't stop. Look, aren't all the parking lots on the road?"

Although he was blocked, Chi Hua was still very happy that the presence of the People's Liberation Army soldiers meant the existence of the government. Although people always shouted for freedom every day and hated the constraints of various rules, once they lost these rules, people realized that it was truly terrible and could not even guarantee their own lives, and human society became an animal world where the strong prey on the weak.

An An suddenly pushed open the car door and walked down.

"Chi Hua, I know you are a good person, thank you! I'll be here, see you again if you're destined to do it!" After An An said that, he walked into the checkpoint without looking back. He saw An An say a few words to a soldier, and then led the soldiers to the camp.

"Goodbye, An An!" Chi Hua waved to An An's back.

"Brother Hua, why did your girlfriend leave with the soldier?"

"roll!"

On a rusty abandoned steel bridge, Chi Hua looked at the steel bridge.

"Brother Hua, don't be unable to think about it. You can look for your girlfriend again when she leaves!" The little fat man shouted heartily in the car next to him.

"Don't talk nonsense, move all the rice and noodles in the car."

"Why did you let me do it? You are using child labor illegally!" the fat man protested.

"Do you let me do it if you don't want to do it? I know you can move, hurry up!"

"Brother Hua, what are you going to do?" Xiaofei asked with a bag of barley noodles in one hand and holding a bag of barley noodles next to Chi Hua.

"I want to make a closed metal box under the bridge to hide our food first." Chi Hua replied, "Xiaofei, remember that nuclear war destroyed the entire world, and many people will starve to death next time. The first rule of the end of the world is the most important thing no matter when!"

"Yeah!" Xiaofei nodded heavily, "I'm most afraid of being hungry!"

Chi Hua quickly made a closed metal box and connected it to the bridge body, put all the food in, and finally applied a layer of soil outside, making the box look less abrupt. He only put a dozen kilograms of rice, some ham sausages and instant noodles into a large backpack that was carried.

...

In a small office, two middle-aged men were arguing fiercely.

"Mayor Lu, we can no longer accept the masses, otherwise everyone will go hungry." A man in military uniform said seriously, with two bars and three-star eagles on his straight military uniform.

"How long can we last? Captain Chen." asked a middle-aged man in his 40s with golden eyes.

"This is a wartime refuge, and there is not much spare grain. Although a batch of people were urgently raised before the war, due to time constraints, it was only more than 5,000 tons."

"There are quite a lot?" said the middle-aged man looking straight at the officer.

"My Mayor Lu, but we have nearly 300,000 mouths to eat. Even if each person has a pound of food per day, it will be 150 tons a day! According to the current consumption, we can last for at most another two weeks, and everyone will go hungry after that!" The middle-aged officer was a little anxious.

"Don't the masses still have some food in their hands?"

The middle-aged officer smiled contemptuously, "Mayor Lu, you think of human nature too kindly! When we deliver food, everyone will come to collect it regardless of whether there is food or not. But it would be too naive to collect food from the masses!"

"Captain Chen, what about your suggestions?" the middle-aged man said seriously.

"Evacuate immediately and give each person rations for 10 days. The rest will be done to everyone, otherwise they will starve to death if they get together!"

"No! The government cannot give up on the masses at any time." The middle-aged man sternly.

"Government? The war has been outbreak for more than 20 days. The Central Committee and the Provincial Party Committee have no news at all. You, Mayor Lu, are the only one left in the government!"

"Captain Chen, you are a local. As a soldier and a soldier of the people, do you have the heart to watch your fellow villagers starve to death?" When he was excited, the middle-aged man had tears in his eyes.

"Hey!" the officer sighed deeply and said, "I can't bear it. What can I do? Where can we find so much food to feed nearly 300,000 mouths outside? Now the temperature outside has dropped to 0 degrees. If it gets colder, people living in tents will freeze to death, let alone those who don't even have tents? Where can we find materials for building houses?"

"Let's do this, the food relief will be reduced by half from tomorrow. We will organize more people to expand the search scope of grain and clothing. In addition, as the deputy mayor in charge of agriculture, I know the specific situation of several large grain storage warehouses in the city. We will send a search team to see if the grain warehouse is still there, and things may be slow."

"Hey! Let's do it first..."

...

At the gate of the refuge camp, the staff at the door were registering one by one. Chi Hua and Xiaofei slowly moved forward with the long queue. Most of the people in the queue were local people. People with large and small bags were full of confusion. It was rare for people from other places like Chi Hua and Xiaofei to be seen.

Finally it was their turn. "Name, address, ID card?" a female government staff member asked without raising his head.

"My name is Li Xiaofei. I live in the Interior Ministry Street, Dongcheng District, Beijing. My ID card was lost. This is my eldest brother Chi Hua, and he is from Beijing." The fat man answered with a smile on his face.

"Why are you so poor? Let him say it yourself." The staff member raised his head and saw that it was a half-aged child, so he put it away and was unhappy.

"Don't be as knowledgeable as your children." Chi Hua said as he handed over his ID card.

"Why are you here?" the staff asked.

"Come on a trip, and then I can't go back." Xiaofei suddenly said with tears in his eyes. I don't know if the little fat man was really sad or his performance skills were strong.

"Forget it, go in. After entering, find a place to live by yourself. Two meal vouchers every morning and evening are queued to the relief point on the 37th to collect them." As he said that, he handed them two cards with "37" written on it and red sealed them.

"It's really an ancient tradition of our country. You have to stamp anything you do." Chi Hua secretly complained.

Looking up, the refuge camp was bustling with people, no living plan, no roads, and even insufficient toilets. The blank space was densely packed with various tents. Those without tents would find an open space to lay mats in the sun, and barely build a shack with materials such as wooden boards or cardboard shells and branches.

This was originally a country park with underground shelter facilities. Before the nuclear war, a regiment of the People's Liberation Army in the Northwest War Theater was stationed. After being attacked by the first nuclear bomb, China became a refuge for more than 100,000 people around. After the nuclear war broke out, it gradually accepted more than 100,000 people. Now the camp has accommodated nearly 300,000 people.

The original underground shelter became a storage warehouse for food and weapons, and the original houses of the park management office became offices for the military and government, while the troops set up rows of simple houses around the entrance of the underground shelter to form internal camps. Ordinary people could only set up tents at will within the park.

Looking at the messy situation in front of him like a garbage dump, Chi Hua couldn't help frowning, and he felt secretly retreating.

Seeing Chi Hua looking around in a daze, a small flat-headed man with a thick gold chain suddenly came over, "Friend, do you need a place to live?"

"What? Do you have a way?" Chi Hua asked with interest.

"I'll find a tent for you two, but I'll squeeze in with people."

"How much?" Xiaofei interrupted.

"What's the use of money now? We only collect gold, diamonds, grain, and gold jewelry." The little flat-headed man replied.

“What price?”

"10 grams of gold per person or 25 kilograms of grain per person, the jewelry should be discounted appropriately." said the flat-headed man.

"Good guy, now you can only buy 2 and a half kilograms of grain for 1 gram of gold. This is enough to buy more than 100 kilograms before the war!" Chi Hua was secretly surprised.

"We have no gold and no food. Can we have a discussion?" Chi Hua asked softly.

"Fuck, that's all that's the matter!" Xiao Ping's head spitted a sputum on the ground, and he continued to find the next target.

Without taking two steps, a thin man in jeans came over from somewhere.

"Two little brothers, are you having fun? The serious female college student is in the tent in front." The thin man whispered.

"What's the price?" Xiaofei asked with his eyes lit up suddenly.

"5 kilograms of food at a time." The thin man replied.

"Do you guys have all your hair? Let's go?" Chi Hua said, pulling Xiaofei and continuing to walk forward.

Chi Hua took Xiaofei and walked around the camp for half a circle before finding a slightly clean place to sit down. "How do you feel? Xiaofei." Chi Hua asked.

"This broken place doesn't even have a place to sleep. It's so cold that it's not freezing to death? Brother Hua, we have the ability, cars and food. Why are we doing here? Let's go." The little fat man said angrily.

"Humans are group animals. The more dangerous it is, the more they want to keep warm. But there is a saying that Xiaofei, you are right. We have the ability. After all, there are few evolvers. No matter which force is eager to seek talents, this camp is also recruiting."

"How did you know?" the little fat man asked with a puzzled look on his face.

"There is a recruitment notice posted over there. The evolvers joined and directly awarded the rank of captain. Do you think we were just wandering around the park?" Chi Hua said and knocked hard on Xiaofei's head. "Xiaofei, remember the second rule of survival in troubled times. Either you have the power yourself or rely on a force, and never be a loner who is right! Xiaofei, have you ever thought about joining the army and leading a team of people to charge on the battlefield."

Chi Hua suddenly shouted loudly: "Why don't a man bring Wu Gou and collect the fifty states of Guanshan Mountain? Please go to Lingyan Pavilion temporarily, as a scholar, ten thousand household marquis!"
Chapter completed!