bestfiction Chapter 334
Chapter 334
Qi Mingyu looked at her seriously, then suddenly turned back to driving. He then promised, "Wanwan, I'll give you a better bracelet when we get back."
Zhou Shuwan laughed dumbly: "Aren't all those weapons you stockpiled here with me? There shouldn't be a weapon more useful than this wooden bracelet, right?"
There were only a few grenades at the time, and the reaction time was half a minute slower than that of the bracelet, and the coverage area was also smaller.
So, today Zhou Shuwan made a quick decision and used the bracelet.
Qi Mingyu didn't say much, just said: "You will know after we go back."
Zhou Shuwan became curious. Could it be that Qi Mingyu still had some weapons in stock?
It took more than an hour to drive south.
It felt like we had run for another 50 kilometers before everyone slowed down.
This time, everyone was extra careful and didn't stop until they saw someone fishing on the shore.
Because this fishing team includes old people, children, and women.
Their fishing boats are very simple, and many of them are bamboo rafts made of bamboo, which are unique to the south.
The fishing nets thrown into the sea were also rather worn out.
These old men, women and children all have red cheekbones, thin bodies and thick finger joints.
The blush on their cheeks is caused by the sea breeze that lingers all year round, and their finger joints are thick because they are prone to rheumatism at the seaside.
Zhang Jia and others observed for a long time before sending a few team members who were best at dealing with people to inquire about the surrounding situation.
They hid aside and watched the situation.
After several team members came back with the news and discussed it again, Zhang Jia decided to stay here temporarily.
The scouting team came back and said that the old people, women and children they had just seen belonged to a small base nearby.
When floods and tsunamis submerged the coastal cities, they were among the few people who escaped. They hid underground during the high temperature period, and when the high temperature ended, they moved back to the seaside and made a living by fishing.
This small base has a small population of about a thousand people.
They were all survivors who escaped from the shipwreck.
After the city was destroyed, they lost their homes, the supplies they had painstakingly stockpiled, and their weapons.
At the same time, in addition to their base, there are countless bases of various sizes standing on the seashore along the coastline.
Without government leadership, they are a mess.
There have been countless battles between large and small bases. The big ones have swallowed up the small ones, and even bases of similar size will fight and swallow up each other.
Gradually, fewer and fewer people survived.
The reason why there are so many survivors in their base called Red Star is because the leader is a very loyal man who can win the hearts of the people.
As early as the tsunami ended, he took people diving and found a lot of weapons and supplies, and was willing to take in vulnerable groups such as the elderly and children.
Gradually, people flocked to the Red Star Base after hearing about it.
Gradually, the small base with only a few hundred people gradually developed into the current medium-sized base with a thousand people.
The reason why it was so easy for the team to find out the news was because the other party thought they also wanted to find a base to stay in.
The Red Star Base welcomes survivors to join it.
After listening to Zhang Jia's words, Zhou Shuwan raised an eyebrow and asked, "How could the leader of this private base be such a chivalrous, courageous, and resourceful hero?"
No wonder she didn't believe it.
In her previous life, she traveled from south to north and almost never encountered a private base willing to accept vulnerable groups such as the elderly and children.
All private bases have the nature of local tyrants.
"Don't worry, let's observe for a while." Qi Mingyu said, "Since we came here to investigate the water resources, let's stay here first and make decisions once we are familiar with the surrounding situation."
As they discussed this, an old man sitting on the beach cleaning up his catch whispered to a young man, "Go back and tell the base commander that there are dozens of strangers here with cars and weapons!"
The young man responded and rode away quickly on his motorcycle.
Zhang Jia and his friends stayed here for two days.
During these two days, they did not disturb each other with the people from the Red Star Base who came to fish.
Everyone sent out boats and people, busy fishing from morning to night.
We only caught enough fish for everyone to eat in the next few days, and we need to stock up some to take back.
But the salt they brought was not enough, so Zhang Jiacai personally talked to the other party and agreed to exchange 50 kilograms of fish for 100 kilograms of salt.
There is no shortage of salt on the seashore.
There wasn't much in the Red Star Base except for seafood and salt.
But the other party also made it clear that the salt they sifted out was not as fine as the high-quality salt sold before the end of the world. The grains were a bit large and coarse, and could only be barely called coarse salt.
But it is enough for stir-frying and marinating fish.
When he saw the finished salt, Zhang Jia was silent for a moment before deciding to accept the salt.
The privately-made salt is not made with refined technology and is not white, but has a light yellow color like sand.
You can taste it, that's fine.
The people in the caravan began to catch fish even more unscrupulously.
Every day a group of people go out to sea to fish, and the rest of the group stays by the sea, cleaning and pickling the fish.
Zhou Shuwan and Qi Mingyu also went out to sea several times.
When she first started using space to directly collect fish from the sea into space, she would feel dizzy and her head was swollen, but gradually, perhaps she got used to it, or perhaps her consciousness became stronger.
She can use space to sense the surrounding area of several hundred meters each time, and then collect all the fish and shrimps within this range into the space.
It's really a win-win situation.
They also had to consider not disturbing the fishing of the people in the convoy, so she and Qi Mingyu used the motorboat and rode a few hundred meters farther than others.
Zhang Jia was a little worried, and after persuading him twice, he finally understood.
Maybe Shu Wan and her husband were just taking this opportunity to have a date on the sea.
She stopped trying to persuade him and made things difficult for herself.
Anyway, one of these two people is a special forces soldier who can do anything, and the other is a bit more shrewd than the others.
Ordinary dangers are not a problem for these two people.
A few days later, after the team and the people from the Red Star Base conducted another transaction, both sides developed a sense of trust.
Zhang Jia began to inquire where the water for the people in the Red Star Base came from.
Just like Lao Jiao before, the people here are very secretive about the origin of the water.
Zhang Jia had no choice but to think about it and decided to meet the head of the Red Star base.
She thought that since the commander of the Red Star Base was a man with a great foresight, he should understand that they had traveled thousands of miles from the north to the south in order to find clean water resources to solve the water crisis in their own base.
If the other party has the technology to extract fresh water from seawater, then they should share it.
The commander of the Red Star Base also agreed to a meeting.