Capítulo 44: pretty woman
After breakfast, the convoy officially started. There is no ready-made road to go from the small oasis to the highway. It is all in the yellow sand. It takes nearly ten minutes to travel a few kilometers. The temperature also changed from the cold early in the morning to a little hot.
On the highway, about ten kilometers away from the settlement, you can see lively hunting scenes everywhere. One by one, teams of survivors without weapons are trying every means to hunt zombies and struggle for a day's food. They are poor and destitute. Only those with good luck will be qualified to live in the central town, but more people can only stay in the refugee camp forever and struggle to survive.
The caravan composed of convoys is no longer a new thing in the wilderness settlement. The caravan composed of thirty cars can barely be regarded as medium-sized, but driving on the road still makes the poor hunters envious. When the caravan passes by, they watch and wait.
There are many people who want to do business in the settlement. From the spread of news, everyone can realize that everything is scarce in the Grand Canyon settlement. As long as you can go there, whether you can make money or not is secondary, but you can definitely exchange a lot of food. It's just that there is a lack of transportation and weapons with fierce firepower. There are zombies everywhere. The distance of more than 300 kilometers makes all those who intend to go barefoot stop. From another perspective, doing business between the two settlements seems to be a game for the rich.
The mud smoke brought by the caravan can be seen clearly even from a few kilometers away. For the convenience of observation, Zhou Yuanqiang sat in the passenger seat of the leading pickup truck. Zhang Yixuan was driving, and Qiu Guorui was on the roof. He acted as an observer and commander. Telescopes are scarce in this world. The advantage of predicting the enemy from a distance makes its price comparable to a light machine gun. The one in Qiu Guorui's hand was of course brought by Zhou Yuanqiang from the modern world.
In addition to equipping five telescopes, distributed in the front, back and middle of the convoy, Zhou Yuanqiang also brought the use of walkie-talkies to the end of the world.
It goes without saying that these equipment are so precious to a caravan that has to cross a forest of zombies. They are enough for the caravan to find signs of zombie activity early, and they can also use walkie-talkies to see every angle of the convoy. It is no exaggeration to say that the five telescopes and ten walkie-talkies are so expensive that even the strongest team in the settlement cannot have them.
It is the expensiveness of these equipment that makes Zhou Yuanqiang mysterious all of a sudden. Everyone looks at him with curiosity and awe.
Zhou Yuanqiang did not expect that these things, which are only a few thousand dollars in total, can make this group of strong men easier to manage. Seeing their eyes looking at him one by one, Zhou Yuanqiang suddenly felt that if he made a call from a high place, would there be a lot of followers? Of course, this was just a fantasy. Their good impression of me has definitely increased. Whether I could trick them into working for me or not, I had to at least complete this business trip and give them proof to make them truly convinced.
The boring journey was originally full of boredom. Zhang Yixuan was concentrating on driving, Qiu Guorui was observing the movements a few kilometers ahead on the roof of the car, and Zhou Yuanqiang really couldn't find anyone to talk to. The air conditioner on the pickup truck had been broken for a long time. The sun had just come out, and it was already unbearably hot. Sitting in the pickup truck was like being roasted by fire.
On the side of the road, a thin woman stared blankly at the moving convoy. Zhou Yuanqiang was also accustomed to such a situation and was not curious. Many women without support would also join the brutal corpse hunting team.
But the next moment, this thin woman was limping and suddenly stood across the road.
Zhang Yixuan's driving skills come from the special forces, and his reaction ability is not to be underestimated. With a sharp brake sound, the pickup truck suddenly stopped. The entire convoy has walkie-talkies. The distance between each car is 30 meters. In addition, the speed is not fast, and the sudden brake did not cause any unexpected situations.
This thin woman is very smart. She knows the cruelty of the end of the world. If she encounters some cruel people, they will directly shoot her to death. So while Zhou Yuanqiang and others have not reacted yet, she has already shouted: "Don't shoot, don't shoot, I am useful to you."
Ren Xinyu has long figured out that in this world, useless people can only be eliminated by society. Only using value is the only condition for survival.
Anyone would be furious in such a situation, Zhou Yuanqiang was no exception. However, after hearing what the other party said, Zhou Yuanqiang laughed and looked at the woman who walked to the side of the co-pilot seat, saying, "Oh? Are you useful to us? I wonder what kind of usefulness?"
Ren Xinyu said seriously, "I know you must be a caravan heading to the Grand Canyon settlement. I used to be a tourist guide in Qingyuan City, and the route is from Qingyuan City to the Grand Canyon Farm. I grew up in a small village near the Grand Canyon." She quickly pointed out these, and then immediately continued, "The road from here to the Grand Canyon has been destroyed. If you follow the road, at least It will take three to four days to reach the Grand Canyon, and it is very dangerous, but I know there is a dirt road with a shorter route, fewer zombies, and the journey will be shortened. It will take two days to reach the Grand Canyon settlement. "
Zhou Yuanqiang frowned slightly and said strangely: "What do you mean?"
Ren Xinyu stared at Zhou Yuanqiang, biting her cracked lips and said: "As long as you are willing to take me to the Grand Canyon settlement, I will show you the way." She looked at a long line of cars and said: "It is not difficult for you to take one more person."
Zhou Yuanqiang looked at Qiu Guorui, who just thought about it for a while and nodded. The gains and losses are really disproportionate. A shortcut will face fewer zombies and save more time. This is undoubtedly what everyone wants. At least your risk will be minimized. If you are lucky, it is not impossible to run back and forth smoothly.
The pickup truck was a hatchback, and there was another row of seats behind the passenger seat. Zhou Yuanqiang stretched out his hand to open the door and said, "Get in the car, we are in a hurry."
Seeing success, Ren Xinyu breathed a sigh of relief, dragged her injured thigh, and got on the pickup truck with difficulty. She smiled at Zhou Yuanqiang and said, "Thank you."
Ren Xinyu's face was dark and yellow, with a thick layer of dust. Her hair was messy and scattered on her shoulders. Her clothes were a little tattered, and you could see the skin inside. Maybe it was because of the heat, the skin inside the carcass was a bit wheat-colored. Seeing that she was dark and smooth, it was really hard to tell what she looked like. But this is not what Zhou Yuanqiang needs to worry about. He glanced at Ren Xinyu's injured and festering thigh and said, "This should be a bullet wound, right?"
Ren Xinyu grinned, showing his white teeth, "I stopped a few convoys. Once I was unlucky and ran into unreasonable people. They shot me. Fortunately, they didn't kill me. They just made a hole in my thigh."
It seems that Ren Xinyu said it easily, but Zhou Yuanqiang knew the danger. There are not many reasonable people in the end times. If Ren Xinyu does this, it will be easy for him to be killed and abandoned on the road, becoming lunch for zombies in vain. But Zhou Yuanqiang is even more puzzled. Ren Xinyu is very valuable. Why don't others understand it?
Zhou Yuanqiang asked this question, Ren Xinyu smiled bitterly and said, "Do you believe it? I didn't even have a chance to speak before they drove me away. After my thigh was injured, I knew it would be difficult to survive in this world, so I hoped I could try my luck and find a caravan that believed in me and let them take me for a ride."
Ren Xinyu's words were not exaggerated. If you are injured and lack medicine, the wound will easily worsen in this weather and you will lose your entire thigh. If you don't cut off your thigh, it will endanger your life. In the end times, no one will pity you. If you die, you die. At most, the number of disabled people in the refugee camp will increase by one.
"I don't think the Grand Canyon settlement is a paradise. Even if you go there, with your current situation, can you..."
Ren Xinyu looked calm and said, "I know the Grand Canyon is not a paradise. There is no paradise in this world. My parents always talk about returning to their roots. I just want to die in my hometown, in the small village where I live."
The other party's desperate and indifferent eyes, in Zhou Yuanqiang's eyes, represent the unwillingness of life and the resignation to the cruel reality.
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