After resting in the cement house for a night, the next morning everyone continued on their way without mentioning what happened to the people who were locked up. They just patted their butts and kept going.
On both sides of the road were vast farmlands, and occasionally there were several connected greenhouses. As they were approaching X City, no one stopped for lunch and just ate some biscuits and bread while walking to satisfy their hunger.
“We’re almost there.” Xiao Wen lifted a road sign hanging on the side of the road.
X City 17 Km
Glancing back at the old and young behind them, Han Ya said to Xiao Wen, “Let’s drive there, walking would be too conspicuous.” Seeing Xiao Wen nod, he had Wen Le bring out the car.
Several large water containers were placed in the trunks of the two cars, along with two cans of gasoline and some miscellaneous food and clothing. Several blankets were thrown directly into the car and placed on the seats or covered on top of them. From afar, there were still many dark red blood stains on the sides of the two cars, looking dirty and in line with the image of refugees.
“Let’s go!” Han Ya sat in the passenger seat and patted Mo Yan’s shoulder.
And so, two black SUV’s ran awkwardly on the shimmering snow under the sun.
This was the sight that soldiers guarding the front of the government relief station in X City saw.
The soldier in front of the iron gate waved the small red flag in his hand, signaling the cars to stop.
The main road in front of the relief station had already been cleared, and Mo Yan accurately parked the car in front of the soldier.
“Where are you coming from?” The young soldier inserted the flag into his waistband, rubbed his frozen red hands, and walked up seriously.
“A City. Here, warm your hands. Where is this place?” Han Ya got out of the car with a smile and stuffed a warm handbag into the young soldier’s hand.
The young soldier wanted to refuse with a serious face, but the warmth of the bag made him hesitate for a moment, and he finally took it. His serious expression finally softened.
“A City? Not bad, you managed to come all the way here. Hey! You even have warm handbags, and your equipment is quite complete.”
“What are you saying? If we weren’t already in the outskirts when things went down, who knows if we would have made it alive? And this warm handbag was picked up at a gas station we passed by. What is this place?”
“This is the former X City Military Region, now established as a government relief station. The city is in chaos, so we can only arrange things here. You’re lucky to have come from A City. If you came from the south, you might have had to cross X City.” The young soldier said while putting the warm handbag into his pocket, then looked inside the car. He didn’t pay attention to the black car window glass that blocked his view. “Are all of you from A City?”
“Not exactly. On the way, we also brought along a few people, including some students from Q University,” the speaker replied.
“You’re kind-hearted, but none of the people who came before were willing to bring outsiders with them,” the young soldier remembered their faces and sneered. He looked at the two cars in front of him and felt much better.
“They’re all just trying to survive. If we meet them, we can’t just ignore them. If we can help, we should help. It’s not easy to survive in this world,” Han Ya said, following the soldier’s lead.
“Okay, enough of this talk. Do any of you come from X city? If so, you don’t need to turn in your things, but everyone else needs to turn in a third of their supplies. After you enter the rescue station, you’ll have to observe for a night to make sure you don’t have the zombie virus before you can be let in. Tomorrow morning, someone will take you to where you’ll be staying. If you turn in enough or have special items, you’ll get a better place,” the soldier explained patiently.
“What kind of special items?” someone asked.
“Medicine, guns, and gasoline all count. These things are all in short supply right now and hard to collect, so if you turn them in, you’ll get better treatment,” the soldier explained.
Han Ya nodded thoughtfully, looking at the people in the car. He followed the soldier as he walked away, and the two cars started their engines and followed them.
The soldier waved his hand at the wall, and the gate slowly opened. The people in the car discreetly surveyed their surroundings. If they weren’t mistaken, there were small black dots that looked like gun barrels sticking out of the wall not far away.
As soon as they entered the gate, they saw a large warehouse on their right. The two cars drove into the factory according to the soldier’s gestures.
A plain clothes man walked up to replace the soldier, but the two men didn’t say anything. Han Ya couldn’t help but notice the sarcastic look on the young soldier’s face before he turned around.
“This car is pretty good,” the man in the white shirt who came up to them said with a smile.
Wearing a shirt in the dead of winter? Although the temperature inside the warehouse wasn’t as cold as outside, it wasn’t exactly warm either.
He must be an ability user!
Wen Le thought and used his mental power to scan the man in the white shirt. He had an earth-based ability.
Han Ya smiled and shook hands with the man.
“Should we bring the things down or do you want to go up and check them?” he asked.
“I’m sorry, we have to trouble you to come down. We were told that we have to personally move the items ourselves. We have no choice.”
Han Ya smiled and nodded, “It’s okay, we’re all here to help. Mo Yan, let everyone get off the car.”
In no time, everyone got off the car and stood aside, watching as the young man in the white shirt and his three companions got on the car and moved all the items out. They even opened the seat cushions and checked everything thoroughly.
After everything was accounted for, the young man in the white shirt asked Han Ya, “Are any of you from X City? If so, please show your ID card or household registration. Otherwise, it won’t count.”
“No.”
After hearing Han Ya’s response, the young man in the white shirt nodded and had the items divided into three parts.
There weren’t many items in the car, so it only took a few minutes to divide them.
“Which part do you want to submit? We don’t have any mandatory requirements. You can choose for yourselves.”
Both groups looked at the three parts that were divided and listened to the young man in the white shirt’s seemingly generous words, and they were speechless.
One part contained all their food, another part was gasoline, and the third part was a package of medicine that Wen Le had taken out after hearing the young soldier mention it earlier.
“If we submit the medicine, would it count as a special item?” Han Ya squinted his eyes and looked at the young man in the white shirt. The young man in the white shirt was clearly stunned, and his face looked a little uncomfortable, but he quickly regained his smile.
“That young man just told you, both medicine and gasoline are special items, but if you want to use them to exchange for a better place to stay, they cannot be counted as resources.”
“Can you please redistribute the items again? We need to keep the gasoline as a special item.” The items that were originally turned in are similar to residency permits at a relief station, while special items are like the processing fees for higher-level residency permits.
Watching Han Ya’s reluctant expression, as if he was in a difficult situation, the white shirt turned black.
“We’re not asking for medicine! You think these two barrels of gasoline can make up for this big bag of medicine?”
“Hey, brother, think about it. You need gasoline to go out and collect supplies. If you turn in the gasoline, are you going to walk out?”
“You see, we have old and young people here. Even if we go out, how much can we collect? Besides, we finally escaped here and just want to live peacefully for a few days. Sigh!”
“You have so many medicines, you won’t need them for a while. When you rest, you can go out and collect more. Isn’t that better?” The white shirt had a I’m doing this for your own good expression.
Cough, cough, cough!
Li Yunsheng was amused by their performance and couldn’t help but cough.
“See, my grandpa is sick. How can I just casually exchange these medicines? These are life-saving! “
Seeing that Han Ya was not willing to listen, the white shirt didn’t bother to fake a smile anymore and handed the group over to one of his men to distribute the items. Then he left with three other young men carrying their things.
Han Ya shrugged innocently at the person who was laughing behind them and followed the remaining young man. The others loaded the remaining supplies onto the car and followed them.
The isolation area was on the other side of the gate, surrounded by a wire mesh fence. Several iron sheds were built near the outer wall of the relief station.
“You can enter from here. There are iron sheds over there, but they’re not very warm. You can wait in the car for the night. At least it can block the wind. Someone will take you inside tomorrow morning. Take this. It’s your certificate for the special item you turned in. Don’t lose it.” The young man led them to the place, and instead of the fake smile of the white shirt, he kindly reminded them.
Han Ya took a red iron plate handed over by the young man and asked, “Thank you. Can we all be arranged inside with this?”
The young man nodded.
“You came early. There are no rules yet about how many people will be assigned for how many items turned in. When more people come after the snow melts, there will be new rules.”
Although there were still many questions, Han Ya didn’t ask any further. He thanked the young man and got into the car, driving into the isolation area.
There was no one else in the isolation area except for their group. The car drove to the side of the iron shed and turned around, with the front facing the wall.
“Why not trade medicine instead?” Chen Ye asked. “Shouldn’t we leave the gasoline behind as planned? If we don’t have it on the surface, we’ll be suspected if we have to drive again.”
“Extracting gasoline is easier than producing various medicines, so although both are special items, medicines will become more and more valuable in the future. Secondly, from what the man in the white shirt said earlier, it is obvious that the government is currently facing a shortage of drugs, and I suspect that the military and the government are not getting along. Therefore, one side will definitely be more in need than the other, and it will be easier to exchange things with the most needy people, maximizing our profits,” Han Ya explained.
Xiao Wen and Wen Le nodded. Both of them had noticed the soldier’s expression before he left.
Other people: …
“How did they figure that out? They’ve only been here for less than half an hour!”
“Alright, let’s not worry about it if we can’t understand it.” Chen Ye sighed.
“What are we eating tonight?” Yin Chengyang asked. He only cared about that. He was too lazy to think about all the other stuff.
Wen Le glared at him. “Biscuits!” That’s all he knew how to eat!
With no rush to get anywhere and no danger to worry about, the group gathered in their own little groups to chat. If they got hungry, they would munch on some biscuits.
Wen Le didn’t torture them too much, anyway. The car windows were opaque, so he brought out some hot seaweed soup to warm everyone’s stomachs. The other foods had too strong a taste and would be easily discovered.
After they finished the soup, Wen Le got out of the car to collect the pot from another car. He then saw three off-road vehicles driving towards the gate and heading straight for the warehouse. After a while, they drove out again, and nobody led them. A middle-aged man got out of the lead car and opened the iron gate to the isolation area himself. He waited for all three cars to enter before closing it.
Whether it was intentional or not, the three cars parked side by side to the right of Wen Le’s two cars.
Han Ya looked at Xiao Wen and saw him shake his head, so he didn’t go down to say hello.
After a while, the man who had gotten out of the car to open the gate got back in and his target was clearly Wen Le and his group.
Wait.. I’m confuse.. Han Ya has psychic power? When was it mention? I thought it was Wen Le.
Anws, thank you for the translation. hehe
I’m sorry, it’s Wen Le, not Han Ya…
Thanks for the chapter!
Han Ya is so cunning while Yin Chengyang is clearly more muscular than brain, if they are a couple the balance would be complete 🤩
Thanks for the update!! 🤗
I agree with you 🙂