Chapter 975 Gathering Place


    Fortunately, under Aiden''s explanation, the guards finally put them in. Of course, although they were put in, they also said...


    "If you dare to do something dangerous, we will shoot immediately!"


    At the beginning, everyone didn''t quite understand why the atmosphere in this gathering place was so tense, but when they walked into the inside of the gathering place, they immediately understood the source of the tension.


    I saw dozens of corpses piled up in the open space in the gathering area, some guards were holding firewood and gasoline nearby, and some people were crying and wailing...


    "It seems that a lot of people must have been lost here last night."


    Gao Cheng Shaye observed carefully, then whispered, her expression was a little stiff, but it was normal to think about it carefully. After all, in the case of Blood Moon, not all places have the power similar to the Inquisition. Especially the larger the gathering place, the more likely it is to suffer heavy losses.


    "Well, it''s a bit interesting."


    Duanmu Huai stood there, turning a blind eye to the horrifying gazes thrown at him by the people around him, and just looked around curiously. These survivors occupy a large factory as their base. From the outside, it should be a food processing plant. Well, this way, it can be understood why people in this city choose this place as a gathering place.


    “How come it is so expensive?”


    Just as Duanmuhuai looked at the gathering place curiously, Joel''s voice came from a distance. He turned his head and saw Joel''s face red and arguing with a man who looked like a guard, who looked very impatient.


    "What''s wrong?"


    Duanmu Huai walked over curiously and asked. Seeing his arrival, the guard''s face changed and he didn''t say anything, but Joel complained.


    "The things at this gathering place are too expensive. I originally wanted to exchange them for some storage of dry food, but I didn''t expect that he actually asked me for a hundred bullets!"


    With the arrival of doomsday, of course, currency has no effect. As for what bottle cap currency is even more nonsense. According to Aiden and Joel, in this world, transactions are generally made in barter, such as if you have medicines and I have food, both parties need each other, so you can exchange a little.


    Joel came to the gathering place this time to buy some dry food for himself and Ellie, and then buy some supplies. But what he didn''t expect was that this gathering place mainly needed energy reserves such as gasoline and diesel, and then medicines... Although Joel searched for equipment and components for repairing machinery that he was plundering on the road, there was also a demand, but the demand was not very large.


    If Joel hadn’t had his luck and had harvested several boxes of wasteland hard currency such as cigarettes, I’m afraid the other party wouldn’t even want to look at Joel.


    "Even if you say that, we do not have high requirements for this."


    Although the guard was a little cowardly when he saw Duanmu Huai, he also tried hard to argue. After all, this is the end of the world. Every little resource is almost at stake in life. How can we trade easily?


    Joel argued with the other party for a long time, and the guard didn''t let go easily. After all, the medicines Joel needed were also hard currency, and cigarettes could only relieve boredom. Medicines could save lives...


    "It''s useless for you guys to argue here."


    Duanmuhuai stood beside him and listened for a while, thinking that this was actually no different from bargaining such as "one piece of food is too expensive, give me one piece" and "no piece of food, at least one piece of food" in the roadside vegetable stall. He decisively lost interest.


    "Since there is no agreement on the transaction price, is there no other way?"


    "Are other ways?"


    Joel and the guards were stunned when they heard Duanmuhuai’s proposal, and Duanmuhuai nodded.


    "I remember Aiden was not that... the wanderer was still something. He could not accept some commissions and then someone paid him... Can''t you do this too? Since the price cannot be negotiated, do you have any tasks that can be handed over to him? If he helps you get it done, then it''s okay for you to give him some medicines as a reward?"


    "this………"


    Hearing this, the guard and Joel were both stunned. The former thought for a moment, then looked at Joel and then looked at Duanmu Huai.


    "If this is the case, I really have a task to you. If you can complete it, then we can provide you with some supplies you need."


    "So generous? It''s very dangerous."


    "Of course it''s dangerous."


    The guard did not make a mistake, but nodded.


    "When you entered the gathering place, you saw those corpses."


    “Yes, I saw it.”


    "Actually, they were carrying important tasks..."


    Soon, the guard also explained Duanmuhuai and Joel. It turned out that after the doomsday, the gathering place had been gradually expanding and attracted many refugees. But there is a problem, that is, their energy supply is not much. There are several generators for backup emergency response in the entire food processing plant, but there is not enough fuel.


    Before this, the gathering place was sent to nearby gas stations and other places to collect fuel, but now the surrounding gas stations have also been collected.


    However, the scouts sent by the gathering place brought good news. They found a fuel pipeline that had not been damaged and an oil warehouse near the other side of the city. Although it is just a small warehouse, if it can occupy it and open a transportation line connecting the food factory, the fuel problem in the gathering place can be solved for a long time.


    So the gathering place gathered a group of people to try to take down the oil warehouse and open the passageway.    However………


    In the end, it failed.


    The reason is very simple, there is not enough time.


    If this world does not have a blood moon every seven days, then they will move forward slowly and may really succeed. But unfortunately, the blood moon frenzy broke out every seven days in this world. In this case, the gathering place could not be promoted slowly.


    But if they have to speed up, they don’t have that powerful force.


    The end result was that they did not have time to open the road to the oil warehouse before the blood moon arrived, so they suffered heavy losses.


    so………


    "If you can open up the road to the oil warehouse and eliminate the zombies that occupy it, then we can indeed provide you with material supplements."


    "this………"


    Hearing the guard''s request, Joel frowned. He knew that it was impossible for him to do this. Of course, it was almost the same for you to ask him to go there to get a few buckets of fuel back... although it was also difficult.


    "Um………"


    On the contrary, Duanmu Huai thought about it after listening.


    "Okay, no problem."


    "Why?"


    I have to say that when I heard Duanmuhuai’s answer, Joel and Ellie were stunned.


    This is obviously their business, and it seems to have nothing to do with the court, right?


    Soon, Duanmuhuai gathered everyone and explained them.


    After listening to Duanmu Huai’s explanation, the survivors were quite incredible. Of course, from their perspective. They do hope to get some support from this gathering place in terms of material resources, but to put it bluntly, this is their own business. For example, Joel and Ellie, they need materials to continue their journey and naturally have to take risks. This is natural.


    But... the Inquisition doesn''t need to take risks with them at all, right?


    "We do need supplies, and for the moment, this is also very important to us, but..."


    Gao Chengshaye frowned and looked at Duanmuhuai.


    "Mr. Duanmu, the court does not need these supplies, is your help purely out of... goodwill?"


    “Of course not.”


    Duanmu Huai shook his head.


    "The duty of the Tribunal is to protect the existence of mankind and eliminate all existences that threaten mankind. For this gathering place, at least for the moment, it belongs to one of the sparks of the existence of human civilization. Since they need help, the Tribunal will naturally be willing to assist them out of their duties. Of course, the right to make the choice lies with us."


    Speaking of this, Duanmu Huai looked at Gaocheng Shaye.


    "It''s like you, for the Inquisition, it''s our duty to save you. After all, only by living human beings can we continue civilization and existence. Do you understand?"


    "This...well, I think I can understand it, it''s just a little......"


    I have to say that the survivors were all very surprised when they heard Duanmu Huai''s answer. You should know that in this era and such a world, the so-called saving humanity is almost impossible to hear. Almost everyone is fighting for their own interests. Organizations like the Inquisition are really unimaginable for everyone.


    Of course, more importantly, the Inquisition is not just talking, they really did it.


    However, these survivors did not know that Duanmu Huai did this, on the one hand, it was indeed the responsibility of the court, and on the other hand, it was also a fight for rabbits. After all, he didn''t know where the world was the main line, so he just did the tasks one by one. Maybe he would find the main line as he did it.


    The commander of the gathering place just now also talked with Duanmu Huai, and the two sides have reached an agreement. As of now, this should be the main task of the gathering place. Open up transportation channels and occupy the oil warehouse... Alas, how to say it, wasteland is really troublesome.


    Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai scratched his head. If it were that kind of normal fragmented world, at least he could find a core civilization point, which was almost broken like this world, and he didn''t know where there would be a core civilization gathering place. If there wasn''t, then he...


    Hey, so it’s not good to say that sandbox games are just that. There are no branches everywhere without main lines.


    Duanmu Huai felt that he was a little confused as if he had just crawled out of the shelter, looking at the devastated radiant wasteland outside, "Who am I, where am I, what am I going to do?"


    What''s more, there is no BB boy who is navigating himself, right?


    You can''t be addicted to picking up trash.


    "Forget it, in short, side quests are also tasks, don''t you do it."


    Duanmu Huai thought about it and asked directly, while the survivors discussed it and finally agreed to participate in the mission. After all, the bosses of the gathering place said that if they can really complete the task, they will give them all good things. Duanmuhuai seems to want it, but they still need some capital to walk in the wasteland. What''s more, this kind of task would definitely be suicide, but now Duanmu Huai takes the lead - they have seen the combat effectiveness of the Inquisition Court. Isn''t this thigh a waste or not?


    So everyone discussed it and could not get a tiger''s son if he didn''t enter the tiger''s den. It''s a fuck!


    (This chapter ends)