Twenty years ago when the end of the world came, ninety-nine percent of the animals had turned into mutated beasts. Therefore, in the wild, one could encounter ferocious mutated beasts at all times.
Luckily, the road that Wang Hao Yu and the others were traveling on was a necessary route from Ao Lung Base to the hunting grounds, and there were quite a number of people crossing it every day throughout the years. Most of the mutant beasts on the road had been cleared, leaving only three to two mutant beasts searching for food on the road.
"Don't you have a car?"
After watching a truck whiz by in the distance next to him, Wang Hao Yu had this question.
"It seems like you really don't know anything." Blankly glancing at Wang Hao Yu, Lin Wanting felt as if this guy had come from ancient times and didn't understand anything.
The technology of this world was advanced, but after entering the post-apocalyptic world, a large amount of equipment had been destroyed, and nine times out of ten, those factories that produced new types of fuel had already been destroyed. The construction of factories that manufactured fuel required a large amount of resources, and in this post-apocalyptic world, it was difficult to find them.
Therefore, after the end of the world, most of the cars can only use the oldest fuel to drive. Due to the limited availability of fuel, it was very expensive and not something that ordinary people could afford to drive.
After listening to Lin Wanting's introduction, Wang Hao Yu also understood. Through the contact in the past few days, Wang Hao Yu knew that Lin Wanting was considered an orphan, and being able to survive in this panicked post-apocalyptic world was already very difficult. Although her own strength was not bad, she was ultimately a person.
In the post-apocalyptic world, those who could drive cars were mostly hunting teams or rich merchants. The ordinary people would not dare to approach these vehicles for fear of getting into trouble.
The AoLong base was more than a hundred kilometers away from Wang HaoYu's house, and with the duo's speed, they didn't arrive at the periphery of the base until the third day.
Within these two days, the two encountered a few mutant beasts, but they were all killed under Lin Wanting's precise marksmanship. At night, the two took turns on night duty, and they were safe and sound.
"What is that?" Looking at the densely packed tents in the distance, Wang Hao Yu opened his mouth and asked.
From a long distance away, Wang Hao Yu saw the walls of Ao Long Base. After twenty years of post-apocalyptic life, almost all of the large bases had added walls in order to prevent attacks from mutant beasts and zombies. In front of him, the wall of Ao Lung Base was seven or eight meters high, the length of which could not be seen at a glance, and on top of it, there was a post every fifty meters, with three or two silhouettes swaying within the post, which were thought to be the guards of the base.
"That's the slum area, where the old, weak, sick, and disabled who have no fighting ability are." Looking at the cluster of tents, Lin Wanting did not have a single expression in her eyes. After twenty years of living, she had already lost count of how many of these ordinary paupers she had seen. Once upon a time, she was also one of them.
"Does it mean that they don't belong to the members of Auron Base?" Looking at the dense cluster of tents, Wang Hao Yu asked curiously.
After so many years of the end of the world, the entire world had died a lot of people, and the existing population was already less than one tenth of what it was before the end of the world. And in this case, there shouldn't be a situation where the population is overpopulated and placed outside the base.
"These people are all unarmed, so who is Auron Base to feed them? With a population of 100,000 people in the entire base, self-sufficiency is barely enough, there is no one who will care about them."
When she said this, Lin Wanting also had some hard feelings in her heart, but she quickly recovered her naturalness. This was how it was in the end times, there were times when one was used to seeing life and death, and would be at a loss.
Nodding his head, Wang Hao Yu followed Lin Wanting towards the gate of the Ao Lung base.
This place was one of the four gates of the Auron base, and people were coming and going at the gate, most of them were people who were out hunting or rushing back.
"Boss, do me a favor and give some food."
"Just give some food, anything, please boss."
"I can have children and live well ..."
Just as Wang Hao Yu and Lin Wanting were walking through the slum area and preparing to enter the city, the sound of begging came from time to time around them. Some of them were able to say anything unpleasant for a little bit of food.
Looking to both sides, on both sides of the road leading to the gate, many poorly dressed people were begging there. Seeing someone passing by, they reached out their hands one after another. Their faces were waxy and their bodies were thin, obviously the result of prolonged malnutrition.
But what Wang Hao Yu noticed was that although they were beggars in their mouths, no one dared to come into the middle of the road to block the path of pedestrians. Carefully, he saw that there were a few gun-toting guards not far from the gate there, looking at those paupers on both sides with an unfavorable gaze.
After seeing these sights, Wang Hao Yu could do nothing. Looking roughly at the entire slum area there were at least thousands of people, he might be able to feed a few people, but with such a large number of people, even he, who possessed a storage space, could not do anything about it.
"Are all these people old and sick?"
While walking, Wang Hao Yu asked towards Lin Wanting beside him.
At first, when he saw these poor people, Wan Hao Yu might have felt sorry for them. But after seeing so many of them, this feeling faded a bit.
He now possessed a system that allowed him to travel back and forth between the post-apocalyptic world and real space. If not for this, with Wang Hao Yu himself, I am afraid that soon after arriving at the end of the world, he would have become a member of the ghetto just like them.
No one deserves pity in this post-apocalyptic world. Without strength, no one would have any pity at all. Twenty years of post-apocalyptic life had made people even more apathetic.
"There were also some original techies or elites from other industries, but they had no hands to kill mutant beasts to get magic crystals, so they could only fall here. I'm not too sure if there's too much to say, after all, this world turned into a post-apocalyptic world as soon as I was born." While walking towards the front, Lin Wanting opened her mouth.
Hearing Lin Wanting's words, Wang Hao Yu's heart stirred. If there were technological talents here, would it be useful to him? There was a difference of a hundred years between the technology of the real world and that of the end times, so as long as he got a little bit of technology here, it would be a great benefit in reality.
However, at the moment, Wang Hao Yu did not make any moves, but instead, he and Lin Wanting each swiped a magic crystal with their ID cards before entering the Auron base.
First, he accompanied Lin Wanting to the base's external trade zone, where Lin Wanting spent 10 magic crystals to exchange for some pulse bullets. Individuals were not allowed to trade ammunition within the AoLong base, all demanded ammunition had to be bought in the base's official trade area. If caught trading ammunition privately, one would be sentenced to death.
"What? Pulse bullets are that expensive?"
After inquiring under curiosity about the price of the pulse bullets that Lin Wanting had purchased, Wang Hao Yu said in surprise.