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Published at 1st of September 2017 04:32:55 PM


Chapter 70

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Chapter 70: Food Tax (Part 2)

Seeking for foodstuffs in the suburbs might look simple, but in reality it was a very risky and dangerous undertaking. Taking their safety into account, they didn’t force their way through the Eastern District nor did they directly traverse to the suburb through the end border of the Northern District.

Although it was only a few days ago Yun Tu had brought Feng Ling and Qing Yi to find foodstuffs in the suburbs’ greenhouses area; however, the changes the Apocalypse had brought were much faster than the average people could have ever had expected. After they arrived there, the environment in the outskirts of the city had changed entirely compared to a few days ago.

 

Since the suburb was in the northern end of the town in the Northern District, it was estimated that the place had already been ransacked from the search for foodstuffs. Even the houses had long been searched and looted countless times; even the plastic greenhouses had also been trampled flat and spoiled.

The further they ventured into the suburbs, the more they saw that the landscape after the Apocalypse had changed greatly compared to the past. The rain of blood had caused the dead trees to grow back, and the new buds and leaves were completely different from the original ones. Some leaves even emitted out a dark halo, giving off the feeling of some alien world people used to see in science fiction movies.

 

From time to time, they also encountered zombies and ferocious beasts along the way as they fought their way forward whilst also improving their teamwork in the fights. After they had traveled for a few kilometers outside the city, they finally saw a greenhouse area for vegetable cultivation, which seemed to still be well preserved.

Everyone was overjoyed as they thought that they could finally return home fully loaded. But then, an accident happened.

 

They cleaned up the way to the greenhouse with their blades. But after they entered the building, all the fruits and vegetables had all been wasted. It was a complete mess, as animal footprints could be seen everywhere along with a lot of holes on the ground that looked like rabbit or snake holes.

 

It took nearly six hours to get to this place from the base, as they also travelled on foot with great difficulty to this greenhouse area, only to find nothing. Feng Ling, who was hot headed, as always, begun to feel somewhat irritated and angry as she unceasingly swung her machete to cut everything inside the shed. Everything was broken and messed up.

 

“It must be because of those vicious beasts, I’m sure of it!”

 

The greenhouse area was quite big, but even such a vast area was ruined by some beasts. Then it could be estimated that the number of the beasts were certainly massive. Upon thinking about it, suddenly, Gui Jiaosan felt a bad premonition.

 

“Withdraw! Don’t ask or complain. Everyone! Let’s draw back to the road. It seems that we have to rethink our next plan!”

Since he could feel that danger was looming, Gui Jiaosan immediately issued a command.

 

At this time, Qing Yi suddenly felt that the soft soil under her feet had began to collapse. Whilst shouting “IT’S BAD”, half of her body began to go down.

 

It turned out that the spot she was standing upon was on top of a huge rat hole, so when she walked above it, the soft and loose soil couldn’t support her weight as a large chunk of mud-like soil under her feet collapsed.

 

Fortunately, the rat hole was not built in a vertical line as it was slanted, causing Qing Yi to only fall down three feet before she fell onto a solid ground on the bottom.

 

Previously, Yun Tu had made an arrangement that Li Xin would be the main person who was responsible for Qing Yi’s safety. So she was also beside Qing Yi. Upon seeing that Qing Yi suddenly falling down, she immediately extended her hand and pulled her up.

 

Just when everyone thought that the alarm was false, suddenly, tens of thousands Demon Rats came out of each and every rat hole in the entire area of the shed, encircling everyone in the middle all of a sudden.

 

In this critical time, Gui Jiaosan didn’t panic, but immediately made arrangements, “Feng Ling, Xiao Bao, you two move to a separate position in the front. Everyone, all of you create a circle and protect Qing Yi in the middle. We’ll move with a circle formation, and we must maintain this formation and draw back to the road. Pay attention to your footing and don’t step on a patch of loose soil!”

 

While travelling all the way here and having gone through several fights, more or less he had some understanding about each person’s characteristics.

A single Demon Rat was quite weak, but they relied on their numbers to win. Feng Ling had a group attack technique and her speed was very fast. While Xiao Bao’s Flame Master technique, which could release flame balls, would be a difficult adversary for this kind of small Demon Rats. So, his arrangements, either the the line-up formation or the member’s positioning, were very accurate and scientific.

 

However, this horde of Demon Rats was truly big, as they had to fight them with their teamwork, fighting bitterly and hard for more than an hour before they were finally able to come out from the greenhouse area and back to the concrete road.

 

Although they had returned to the road, but they were still surrounded by these evil beasts.  But since they didn’t have to worry about the sudden collapse of their footing on the ground, the speed of their formation was greatly accelerated. And soon after, they were finally able to shake off the encirclement of the Demon Rats.

 

They ran back in the city’s direction for a few kilometers. And after they believed that those Demon Rats didn’t follow them, they finally caught their breath and heaved a sigh of relief. They set off from the city brimming with confidence, and now all of them got injured. Even Qing Yi who was in the middle of the formation and heavily protected by everyone, was no exception.

 

Whilst enduring her own pain, Qing Yi began to heal everyone, causing her own injuries to become more serious. Finally, Feng Ling had to give her a piggyback to take her back to the city.

 

For this one-day action, except for Li Xin who was able to collect a small amount of materials, they basically achieved nothing. Thus, it could be said that the execution of the food sweeping plan, had ended in failure.

On the other side, the failure of the team’s operation in the field, was something Liu Wei, who was responsible to take care of the children at the base, would have never imagined!

 

While everyone was risking their lives outside, only he was idle alone at the base. He felt that since he was the only male adult now, he thought that he must take the initiative to find something to do; otherwise, he wouldn’t take the situation more seriously of having had meals and drinks without doing anything.

 

He thought that he must go out, since he felt that sooner or later the guild would have to recruit new members. Then, the first thing he should do, was to make an advertisement when he came out. He looked to East and West, looking for some paper for him to write the ads on, but didn’t find any. Afterward, he walked to the street and finally found a pack of A4 size paper and a few pens from an ads printing shop. After which, he returned back to the base and began to write recruitment ads.

 

Taking Yun Tu’s character into consideration, as well as compiling some of the ads other guilds had done in the public square yesterday, he finally compiled a piece of advertisement as followed:





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