long night fire

This is no smaller than the Nuhu Lake near Hongshiji. Long Yuehong couldn't see the end of the water at a glance.

The water quality of this great lake is clear, reflecting the blue sky without any impurities, it is as beautiful as a fairyland.

"It's so beautiful." Long Yuehong held back for a long time and couldn't think of a suitable poem.

Bai Chen echoed:

"The weather is also very good."

"Retire early today and camp by the lake." Jiang Baimian knew very well that during the long journey, the team members should be properly relaxed, and the strings should not be tensed all the time.

As the jeep stopped, Shang Jianyao pushed the door out and went straight to the lake.

What he saw was an old world swing chair standing there, and he couldn't wait to sit on it.

Now it is the one who values ​​feelings but has a young mental age.

boom!

The swing chair collapsed immediately, and Shang Jian Yao fell into a disgrace.

Long Yuehong forcibly held back her laughter, lest Xiaobai think she had a dark mind.

Both Bai Chen and Jiang Baimian smiled, but they were not too gloating.

"Why don't you check first?" Honest Gnava asked with concern.

Shang Jian Yao showed no shame:

"Don't let Xiaohong get ahead!"

I am not a child!Long Yuehong muttered in her heart.

Shang Jianyao continued:

"He will definitely show courtesy to Xiaobai and invite her to sit with him."

Uh... Long Yuehong suddenly felt that she really missed something.

In order to hide his embarrassment, he walked to the lake, looked at the clear blue water, and said to himself:

"I don't know how the meat quality of the fish here is..."

As soon as he finished speaking, several fishes in the water opened their mouths to him, revealing two rows of white teeth.

Pa, a few black tentacles jumped out from another larger fish and slapped towards the water surface, as if they wanted to drag Long Yuehong down.

Long Yuehong quickly took a few steps back:

"This?"

Jiang Baimian thought for a while and said:

"This place is not yet a true Old World ice sheet, but a product of the expansion of the ice sheet after the destruction of the Old World and the drastic climate change.

"The reason why the climate in this area has changed drastically, I think it has something to do with the confrontation of various high-energy weapons. The pollution left behind must be very serious."

She was explaining why distorted fish appeared in a great lake like a wonderland.

"No wonder there are no settlements in such a large lake." Bai Chen nodded.

According to her knowledge, there is such a lake with good water quality and a lot of fish, which will definitely attract some wilderness wanderers to migrate here in spring and go south when autumn comes.

Lives by water and prey.

While speaking, Bai Chen looked around.

Suddenly, she found a few black spots at the junction of water and sky, which seemed to be ships.

Chapter 174 Resting Point

"There is a boat." As the team's sniper, a human being who has undergone corresponding genetic modification, Bai Chen's ability to observe the situation in the distance is only inferior to Gnawa.

Hearing this, Jiang Baimian took off the binoculars from his armed belt, and brought it close to his eyes. Shang Jian Yao made exactly the same movements as he did the gourd painting.

Soon, the two of them saw clearly the black spot that Bai Chen was pointing at.

It was indeed a ship, a ship made of steel but rather crude.

There are quite a few human beings on each boat. Some of them have intact legs, but they can only crawl on the deck, throwing fishing nets in different directions. Some had extra limbs and were busy maneuvering ships.

To a team like the Old Tune Group who had seen and experienced too much on the dirt, those human traits were so distinct they were instantly recognizable.

Deformed!

This is similar to sub-humans, all of which are tragedies caused by various pollutions. What is even worse for deformed people is that the changes in their bodies are basically useless and different, making it difficult to form a stable group.

They are like disabled people among human beings. It is difficult to find a place willing to accept them in the gray soil where many people starve to death every year. They can only wait to be eliminated by nature like some creatures in the theory of evolution.

The former "Salvation Army" treated them equally and did not give up on them, but later they were limited by the food problem and no longer accepted new ones.

Today, except for some heavy radiation areas, such people are actually no longer visible.

"I didn't expect that there are still many deformed people living on this big lake." Jiang Baimian sighed while observing, "They seem to be fishing for a living."

Shang Jianyao held the telescope in one hand and rubbed his chin with the other:

"The question is, where did they get the oil for their ships?"

Some of these deformed people can read old world books, become self-taught, and master the technology of how to repair and maintain those ships.

"There should be quite a few islands in such a big lake, and maybe one or more of them has an oil depot with a lot of reserves." Jiang Baimian said casually, "It may also be that there are caravans coming here regularly. Fuel for specialty products."

She put down the binoculars, hung it back on the armed belt, then looked around and said:

"Let's go a little further and don't bother these poor people."

This is one reason, and another reason is that the fish in this big lake have been polluted and seriously distorted. Even if the "old tune team" stayed, they would not dare to taste "local delicacies" in order to reduce the consumption of materials.

Long Yuehong and the others had no objection.

The jeep of the "Old Tune Group" drove north for nearly an hour along the up and down roads by the lake, and accidentally found a rest point with a gas station next to a certain old world wide road.

The house at this rest spot is well-repaired, and there are even lights shining from the windows, dispelling the darkness of the evening.

In the old world, similar rest spots must have a large parking lot, and here is no exception. Now there are five or six cars sparsely filling the empty area.

"Why does it feel like returning to the hinterland of 'The Salvation Army'?" Long Yuehong, who took turns driving, said in surprise.

Jiang Baimian, who has always been sympathetic to the team members, has already sat in the back row, looking at the scene outside the window, she said:

"It's even a bit like some scenes in old world entertainment materials."

After driving for a long time on the expressway, I finally came across such a rest spot with a gas station, a parking lot, a rest area, and a variety of food and merchandise sales...

Bai Chen pointed to the other side of the co-pilot:

"This place seems to belong to the Salvation Army."

"Really?" Jiang Baimian didn't try to cross Gnawa and Shang Jianyao to observe the situation on the opposite side, but waited patiently for Long Yuehong to turn the steering wheel.

She then saw four men in black Salvation Army uniforms patrolling the entrance to the rest stop and the parking area in pairs.

These people are either carrying the "Red Maple Forest" assault rifles produced by the "Salvation Army", or carrying the "short neck" submachine guns that are more common on the dust. From the temperament point of view, they really look like soldiers who have received formal military training rather than soldiers. A gang of bandits running rampant.

"Didn't it mean that the 'Salvation Army' didn't actually control the ice field?" Long Yuehong asked suspiciously.

In other words, the "Salvation Army" only sends people to the ice field on a large scale every summer to search for supplies and hunt wild animals, and has not established long-term settlements.

Shang Jian Yao sneered:

"There are exceptions to everything, just like you are only 1.7 meters five after genetic modification..."

"You'll know if you ask later." Bai Chen interrupted Shang Jianyao's "chanting".

After the "old tune team" parked the jeep, Gnava was left to guard the vehicle based on the unfamiliarity with this resting point.

Shang Jianyao went straight to a group of soldiers on patrol, and was about to put his hands on his chest and shouted "for all mankind", but one of the targets first pointed his elbow at the connected houses in the rest area:

"Go in and ask if you have any questions."

What he meant was not to interfere with his own patrol and distract the guards.

"Okay." Facing the "Salvation Army", Shang Jianyao was quite polite.

Entering the gate of that house, Jiang Baimian and others' eyes brightened.

Amidst the roar of fuel generators, energy-saving lamps emitted white light, illuminating the neatly arranged dining tables.

These are tables for four, but some are pushed together, with seven or eight people sitting around.

Near the door of the hall, there was a counter, behind which stood a not tall but rather wide, gray man with an ordinary appearance.

He was also wearing the black uniform of the Salvation Army with a Ubei 7 pinned to his waist.

"Do you want to see the pass?" Shang Jian Yao asked familiarly.

The man froze for a moment:

"If you have."

Jiang Baimian immediately handed over the pass issued by Hong Guangming.

The ordinary-looking man reached out to take it, and glanced at it casually.

"This pass does not include intelligent robots.

"When the corresponding four personnel enter the settlement, they cannot carry heavy weapons, high-tech equipment, or crates."

Uh... The man raised his head and looked at Jiang Baimian and the others in surprise and solemnity.

He interpreted the two items attached to the pass from another angle:

The opposite team really has intelligent robots, heavy weapons, and high-tech equipment instead of equipment.

"We didn't bring anything, and we didn't carry a crate." Jiang Baimian smiled.

Compared with the Honghe people, her appearance is more in line with the aesthetics of the Huitu people. The man was startled and said:

"Meet the requirements of the pass, and you can enter the Bei'an Lake Rest Point."

"Are you really from the Salvation Army?" Long Yuehong asked curiously.

The man nodded, stretched out his right hand, pressed his left chest and said:

"right.

"But it doesn't mean much to you, isn't it because we are members of the 'Salvation Army', you are not here to rest tonight, to replenish fuel and other supplies?"

"Supplements also have the difference between civilized and uncivilized." Bai Chen simply replied.

Uncivilized refers to direct robbery.

The man was speechless.

After a few seconds, he smiled and said:

"You can try."

He looks confident.

"Really?" Shang saw Yao eager to try.

Jiang Baimian took a step sideways, stood in front of this guy, and said with a smile:

"We just wondered how there could be a resting place for the Salvation Army on the ice sheet.

"By the way, what's the name?"

The man muttered:

"Chang Haijiang."

He paused and said:

"Similar rest points, our 'Salvation Army' has rebuilt a lot on the ice field, mainly for our teams to rest and replenish.

"You don't think that our Salvation Army will send people to the ice field only in summer, do you?"

She really thought so... Long Yuehong was suddenly a little embarrassed.

Chang Haijiang pointed to the north:

"The simplest is that we have established several ice sheet meteorological observation and research stations, which are stationed all year round.

"Climate change on the ice sheets is indirectly affecting food harvests in our 'salvation army' north."