The end of the world begins with the king

Chapter 211 Dangerous Land
On the seventh day of August, twenty miles southeast of Yuanyang.

This place is unremarkable, but it is the boundary between Yuanyang Prefecture and Hecheng County.

On the official road, a large number of young and strong people walked forward slowly with sickles, surrounded by soldiers escorting them.

On both sides of the official road, there were corpses piled up, obviously after being cleaned up, they had not had time to burn them.

If it was before, after seeing these corpses, the young adults would definitely run around in fright.

But now, they have been able to take it lightly.

The courage to support them is entirely because the army of the palace is strong enough to block the invasion of almost all zombies.

Meng Hai and Ma Shan walked side by side, and they were also in the team. They came out of the city this time to participate in harvesting grain.

According to Meng Hai's rough estimate, the grain collected in Yuanyang City during this period is enough to feed everyone in the city for a year.

But even in the case of sufficient food, the palace still spared no effort to send troops and people to this place dozens of miles away from the city to collect the food from these further places.

"Brother, this is our third day outside the city. Except for the corpse on the ground next to it, we really haven't seen a single monster!" Ma Shan couldn't help but said.

This is indeed something to be amazed at. Ten days ago they thought the zombies were invincible, but now they couldn't even see the zombies alive.

Such a strong contrast is enough to make Ma Shan truly amazed.

Glancing at the sickle in his hand, Ma Shan continued: "Brother, you have been working day and night for more than ten days. The palace has taken back so much grain, and the granary will almost not be able to hold it!"

"How long do you think we have to work before we finish this job?"

Meng Hai glanced at Ma Shan and said, "I would like to accept it forever, but I'm afraid there will be no more work for ten days at most!"

"Why is this?"

"According to the season, in ten days and a half months, the rainy season will come!" Meng Hai explained.

Even if he is just a butcher, Ma Shan understands the meaning behind these words.

When the rainy season comes, the wheat that has not been harvested in time will basically rot in the ground, and maybe new seedlings will grow in the ground next year.

"That's true, when it rains, no matter how good the wheat is, it will have to rot!" Ma Shan said regretfully.

There is no way to do this. With so much food outside the city, most of it will inevitably rot.

The team continued on, and soon they were taken outside a Zhuangzi, where the houses had been cleared.

Because of the need to increase the absolute amount of grain harvest, almost all the young and strong in the city were sent out of the city, canceling the initial rotation system.

Meng Hai and the others have only been out of the city for three days, but some members of this team have already been outside the city for half a month.

They stayed outside the city for a long time, and they all lived outside the city, which is this kind of small village that has been cleaned up.

The food that has been taken back in the city is handled by the old and weak women and children staying in the city. It can be said that the entire Yuanyang City has been mobilized.

"Stand up, stand in line, hurry up!"

Under the yelling of a hundred households, the young and strong people who left the city stood up quickly, and their movements were extremely fast.

For the convenience of management, these young and strong people who went out of the city were organized into teams, with NO.50 people in each team.

In order to motivate everyone to fight, the team that harvests the most food every day can be rewarded with a fish.

Now, almost all the zombies on the banks of the Bahe River have been cleaned up, so Zhao Yanxun also arranged for people to fish.

These rewarded fish will be recorded on the account and distributed together when they return to the city.

At this moment, everyone has lined up, and they all look at the hundreds of households leading the team and waiting for the lecture.

Tan Lu stood on a big rock, looked at the people below with a serious expression, and then said loudly: "It's not the first day for you to be outside, and you must know the rules outside!"

"But I still want to say, except for harvesting wheat, don't run around when you have nothing to do!"

"Damn it, if anyone dares to run out, even if the monster doesn't bite you to death, I will kill you!"

Stepping off the stone, Tan Lu said in a more stern tone: "The captains of each of your teams must watch over the people under them, and you must be responsible for any accidents!"

Of course, if someone was bitten to death by a zombie, the responsibility of guarding Tan Lu would be even greater.

"Okay, I'll give you half an hour to find a place to live in the village and arrange your personal belongings, and then come here to gather in half an hour and start working!"

"It's gone!"

As Tan Lu finished speaking, the crowd did not become chaotic, but were gathered together by their respective captains.

What needs to be explained is that the captain does not depend on whoever is big enough, but who has a good brain.

What the palace needs is to increase production, not to let them go to the battlefield to kill zombies, so someone needs to arrange the manpower reasonably.

The captain is appointed by the palace, if anyone feels that his fist is disobedient, there will naturally be soldiers to clean it up.

After the first batch of thorns were dealt with severely, everyone is now very peaceful.

The team that Meng Hai is in right now is captained by a thin and small man, and he is leading his subordinates to the Zhuangzi.

While hurrying, the team leader Zhang Dashi said, "You all have to take to heart what Tan Baihu said just now, this is not a joke!"

"Although most of the monsters have been killed, there are always some missing. Danger may happen at any time, so everyone must be vigilant!"

Zhuangzi is not big, and it is surrounded by horses, which is enough to deal with small-scale zombies. In other words, it is very safe inside.

Under the leadership of Zhang Dashi, Meng Hai and his party were led to the northeast corner of Zhuangzi, where several houses were allocated to them.

In fact, there was a tacit agreement between the captains on how to allocate the dormitories each time, at least in their group.

"Meng Hai, Ma Shan, and Wu San, the three of you cook, and the rest put away things quickly!"

Zhang Dashi quickly arranged the task, and he must ensure that his subordinates eat their lunch quickly within half an hour.

After half an hour, they will work in the field until the evening, and they can't bear it without eating.

After receiving the order, Meng Hai and Ma Shan didn't say much, and started to make lunch.

Cooking is actually not difficult, just heat up the prepared dry food and cook a pot of egg flower soup.

It was only at noon that they could drink a bowl of egg flower soup.

Ma Shan was getting dry food, Wu San was lighting a fire, and Meng Hai was busy with eggs.

"Old Meng, you said that you are capable, why don't you fight for the captain!"

Speaking of this, Wu San glanced at Zhang Dashi in the distance, then lowered his voice and said: "The virtue of the surname Zhang is comparable to you!"

Hearing this, Meng Hai said with a calm expression: "I'm new here, so naturally it's not my turn to be the captain!"

This is indeed the most fundamental reason. He, Meng Hai, has only been in Yuanyang for a few days, and the chances of being trusted and becoming the captain are too small.

"Zhang Dashi, bastard, don't look at him speaking upright, this guy is not a good guy at all, you have to guard against him!"

Hearing this, Meng Hai glanced at Wu San, stared for a few breaths before saying: "Let's cook, everyone will be waiting to eat later!"

(End of this chapter)