The first caravan to the Wasteland Settlement finally returned a week after leaving.
This news was very sensational. All those who knew the news rushed to the west gate. Compared with the arrival of the assault team, there were many more people watching this time. The whole passage was crowded with people with different thoughts. The Administration did not stop it this time. The news was the farthest they spread, and they were afraid that it was to stimulate the nerves of the settlement that had been tense for a long time.
The Grand Canyon Settlement is only more than 300 kilometers away from the Wasteland Settlement. If there is a car, it should only take three or four hours to arrive. But there was no news for a few days, which brought a hint of haze to the second wave of fanatics who were preparing, and the atmosphere in the entire settlement became extremely depressing. Even the caravan organized by the Administration slowed down its movements, and the mercenary union outside the refugee camp completely stopped working.
No one knew whether the first wave of people had passed the terrifying sea of zombies and successfully arrived at the Grand Canyon Settlement. Many people who saw the huge number of zombies between the two places had already desperately guessed that the first wave of tens of thousands of people had been destroyed by the zombies.
When countless people sentenced the first wave of people to death, the vanguard caravan of the first wave returned to the settlement. Zhou Yuanqiang stood on the side of the road, looking at the dozens of cars of various types that arrived first, which were covered with yellow mud and dust. The trucks in the convoy were full of food and several kinds of fine wine brewed in the Grand Canyon settlement. For the Grand Canyon settlement far away from cities and towns, there are many commodities lacking. In addition to food and wine, there is probably nothing for the merchants in the wasteland settlement to bring back.
It seems that stimulated by the huge profits of the assault team, everyone has determined that wine is precious in the wasteland settlement, and they all want to replicate the success of the assault team and make a lot of money. Many people hold this idea, so the next day, the caravans that came back one after another, they almost all brought food and wine.
After seeing this scene, the enthusiastic people did not think much about it. Only the next day, the first caravan of nearly a thousand people organized in the refugee camp took all kinds of goods they had accumulated, half by car and half on foot, and set off for the Grand Canyon settlement with beautiful dreams. They also kicked off the second wave of craze.
The refugee camp took action, and the powerful teams in the central town could not sit still. Even the mud feet took action. If they did not take action, they might not even be able to drink soup at that time. If these guys succeeded and rode on their heads, it would be unfair. There was no need to hesitate. One team after another, just notified the management bureau, and rushed to the Grand Canyon settlement like a group of loose sand.
The whole settlement became crazy again because of the second wave of caravans.
Yes, fine wine is valuable, but only at the beginning. The raiders' plundering made the wasteland settlement quasi-saturated. This time, they brought back a larger amount of wine than the raiders, which made the demand for wine in the settlement saturated all of a sudden. Naturally, the price was not as lucrative as people imagined, but changed every day, and even fell to only one-fifth of the original price.
Compared with alcohol, the price of food is much more stable. After all, everyone can choose not to drink, but they definitely need to eat.
The rapid decline in the price of goods immediately cooled down the people who were still in a frenzy. Suddenly, people were surprised to find that the things in the Grand Canyon did not make people rich overnight as imagined, and might even make people lose all their money.
What really crushed people's dream of the Grand Canyon was the cruel casualty rate. According to statistics, the number of people who went to the Grand Canyon settlement to dig for gold reached more than 10,000, but the number of people who actually returned to the wasteland settlement was less than 3,000. Of course, some people stayed in the Grand Canyon settlement, but more people died in the passage. The huge number of zombies left some weak teams and hikers forever.
The death rate of more than half suddenly brought people's enthusiasm for the Grand Canyon to a freezing point. Many people have begun to worry about the second wave of people. Among these thousands of people, how many people can survive and return to the wilderness settlement safely? Even if they return, I am afraid that the saturated market will make them lose their capital, because they still need to pay the salaries of the mercenaries.
In this case, knowing that they will lose all their money, who will still be fascinated by the ethereal Grand Canyon settlement?
Of course, there are exceptions to everything, such as Zhou Yuanqiang, who is sitting in front of the tent in the camp at this time. Even if he has been there for more than half a month, he still can't adapt to the high temperature of the sun. In front of them are Xu Yuhai and Xu Dali and nine others. Chen Wenbo and other weak literati are naturally driven into the tent by Zhou Yuanqiang to continue their unfinished work. They were not the only ones present. Qiu Guorui's team was also invited by Zhou Yuanqiang.
After the first cooperation, Zhou Yuanqiang always took the opportunity to contact Qiu Guorui and his team, and would bring some scarce things from time to time, which made Qiu Guorui and his team have a good impression of Zhou Yuanqiang. The current elite team has lost a lot of strength after losing a heavy machine gun. Although the regulations stipulate that such unexpected losses are the responsibility of the mercenaries, Zhou Yuanqiang still took the responsibility and promised to return a better one.
Of course, Qiu Guorui and his team naturally regarded this as a kind of comfort, but their good impression of Zhou Yuanqiang still rose sharply.
"Boss... are you sure you are going to form a caravan to go to the Grand Canyon settlement?" Xu Yuhai, who was always calm, could not remain calm at this time, because Zhou Yuanqiang just announced that he would form a caravan to go to the Grand Canyon settlement and join the wave of gold digging.
It is no wonder that Xu Yuhai lost his composure. Ordinary people do not understand, but Xu Yuhai still knows a lot of inside information through some channels, such as the road conditions along the way, which were almost completely destroyed. This is also the reason why the first wave of caravans took a week to go back and forth. The road conditions are bad enough, but the number of zombies between the two places is still very large, and some high-level zombies and special infected people will appear from time to time. With their appearance, teams disappear in the passage one by one, becoming a symbol of death.
Not to mention the high risk, the dream of gold mining in the Grand Canyon settlement has been shattered. Even if they can arrive at the Grand Canyon settlement safely by chance and return to the wasteland settlement smoothly, the cheap goods are not enough to make back the capital. Losing all the money is foreseeable.
This is the first time that Xu Yuhai and his friends have tasted this kind of affluent life in five years, so they are naturally very firmly opposed to Zhou Yuanqiang's decision.
Compared with Xu Yuhai and his friends' strong backlash, Qiu Guorui and his five people have expressionless faces, as if they have nothing to do with them. They were already veterans, and had learned how to handle things long ago, and had learned a lot of things that Xu Yuhai and the others could not learn.
Looking at Xu Yuhai and the others' faces, which looked childish or mature, Zhou Yuanqiang suddenly smiled and said, "Your reasons are very sufficient, and you all want to live a peaceful life without worries about food and clothing, but have you ever thought about it? Who gave you all this?" Zhou Yuanqiang's tone suddenly became stern, and he stood up suddenly and sneered: "I gave it to you, but who will give me my food? Is it God? Or you?"
As soon as Zhou Yuanqiang said this, Xu Yuhai and the others remembered that Zhou Yuanqiang, who seemed kind in front of them, was their boss, and also their collar parents. What right did they have to point fingers at his decisions? What's more, Zhou Yuanqiang was right. Did the boss's food just fall from the sky? If they really followed their own ideas, they would have starved to death long ago. If they didn't fight, how could they earn food to survive?
What's more, why did the boss support them for nothing? Is there so much food that there is a famine?
"Boss, I'm sorry..." Xu Yuhai and the others, who clearly understood their identities, were scared and sweating, looking at Zhou Yuanqiang in horror.
Zhou Yuanqiang just nodded slightly and said, "I just need you to know that your only choice is to obey the boss's decision. Why should I waste food on those who don't obey? Similarly, I also want you to know that survival depends on your own fighting. Those who want to replace you will always exist in this settlement."
This beating did work, at least Zhou Yuanqiang saw awe in their eyes.