The door to the basement was opened.
Jiang Chen watched as the 1.7 meter tall man rushed in and used the butt of his gun to break the lock of the "cell". He cried and hugged his wife tightly. The woman's upper body was bare, and her eyes were lifeless. However, she seemed to be affected by the crying as her eyes gradually regained their vigor, and tears of sadness filled her eyes.
"I can't bear to look at it." Jiang Chen's tone was complicated as he muttered to himself.
"What are you going to do with the captives?" Sun Jiao glanced at the door that locked Zhou Xiaoxia.
"Public execution."
A choice without hesitation.
For prestige, for order.
Jiang Chen paused before he continued, "But before that, I want to see our old enemy."
Hearing this, a mischievous smile appeared on Sun Jiao's face.
…
Zhou Guoping sat in the cell dejectedly. He knew his fate, but he still held onto a glimmer of hope. He didn't mind who he worked for as he was confident in his smart brain. However, when he saw the face outside the small window, his confidence instantly vanished, and his face lost all color.
"Oh, do you remember me?" Jiang Chen said with a smile. Although Jiang Chen hadn't seen him before, he must have known Jiang Chen.
Zhou Guoping swallowed with difficulty as he slowly nodded.
"Do you remember Hu Lei?"
How nostalgic. That was the first person he killed after coming to this world.
Jiang Chen vaguely remembered how it felt, the shock of seeing the skull explode under the smoke of the gun.
"Killed by you, right?" Zhou Guoping smiled, but it was a smile uglier than crying.
"That's right, there's no reason to let him go." Jiang Chen's tone was relaxed.
"Then why are you wasting time with me?" Zhou Guoping forced a smile.
Jiang Chen grinned and put his hand on the door.
"You have two choices now. One, tell me everything you know. If it's valuable enough, I might consider sparing your life. Of course, I will ask the same question to others, so you better be honest. Two, I don't think I need to tell you. "
"I choose one." He made his choice without any hesitation. He didn't want to die yet, even though he knew that he would most likely die anyway.
"You can start," Jiang Chen said with a smile.
In order to survive, Zhou Guoping told Jiang Chen everything he knew. Based on his words, Jiang Chen obtained a lot of useful information.
First, there was the issue of supplies.
In addition to the quadruple machine gun and the bullet production line, there was also a zombie generator in the basement of the laboratory building.
Fats, proteins, and other organic matter from zombies or mutants were used as raw materials to produce electricity.
This was a good thing. Winter was coming, and the Fishbone base's main source of power would definitely see a decrease in power generation. If they had this zombie generator, they wouldn't have to worry about the base's energy problem for the time being.
It was really surprising that these bandits actually hid such a good thing.
Other than supplies, Jiang Chen also heard a lot of interesting information.
"The group of Mutated Humans came from Jia City and are now stationed at Area No. 7. They initially wanted to recruit us, but our boss rejected them. No one wanted to become a eunuch. The first wave only had five people, and we successfully took them out. I didn't expect a large group of them to come this time. " Zhou Guoping smiled bitterly. "It was a disaster. Our boss's skull was smashed in half."
He was wondering why he didn't see the leader of the Huizhong Mercenaries. He was killed in the crossfire.
"Where is Area No. 7?" Jiang Chen raised his eyebrows. The terrain of the apocalypse was quite different from the modern world.
Zhou Guoping looked at him with a strange expression.
"In between the highway of Wanghai City and Jia City is a light industrial zone. There are few people there, and there aren't many zombies, but there are some powerful mutants."
Jiang Chen rubbed his chin thoughtfully.
"Do you know why they came to Wanghai City?"
Hearing this, Zhou Guoping smiled bitterly again.
"I don't know. There is no possibility of negotiation between mutated humans and humans. From what I see, other than the fact that they don't eat human flesh, they are just a bunch of mutants that use guns. "
This analogy made Jiang Chen's expression look strange. After thinking about it carefully, it seemed to be the case. They could eat things that humans couldn't eat, and they could eat things that mutants didn't dare to eat, even the rotten meat on Roshan's body. They could enter and exit nuclear craters with their bodies alone. No vaccine or virus could affect them.
Thank god, these monsters were all eunuchs.
"Did you capture a captive to interrogate?" Zhou Guoping asked carefully.
Jiang Chen glanced at him.
"No, you already said that they are the same as mutants. Have you tried to capture a Death Claw?"
Zhou Guoping forced a smile and rubbed his nose.
"Boss, do you think the information I provided is enough to exchange for my life?"
Jiang Chen looked at him with a half-smile, which made his hair stand on end.
To kill or not to kill?
"Although I brought you a lot of trouble before, it was only because I was standing on the side of the Huizhong Mercenaries. Now that the Huizhong Mercenaries have been destroyed by you, even if you kill me, it would only be one more corpse. You can spare my worthless life. Trust me, my ability will not disappoint you. "Seeing Jiang Chen's expression, Zhou Guoping carefully said.
"Oh? Tell me, what use do you have? "Jiang Chen glanced at him and smiled.
"I'm very familiar with Songjiang. I more or less know the location of some small survivor bases and gathering points. Also, my eloquence and investigation abilities are quite good. I will definitely not waste your nutrient supply. Also, if I wear an electronic collar or slavery chip, you don't have to worry about my loyalty, right? " Since it was related to his life, Zhou Guoping was very careful with his words as he observed the change in Jiang Chen's expression.
If he killed him, it would only be one more corpse. If he didn't kill him, he would at least be cannon fodder. Although he had to kill the bandits, this person seemed to have some use.
After a moment of consideration, Jiang Chen made a decision. Looking at Zhou Guoping's anxious face, he smiled.
"Very good, you convinced me. I will spare your life. I hope you can convince others for me in the future."
Hearing this, Zhou Guoping was ecstatic as he immediately kneeled on the ground without any dignity.
"Thank you, boss, for not killing me!"
Jiang Chen looked at him in disdain as he coughed.
"Call me boss, I am not a bandit."
"Yes! Boss. "
…
After taking care of Zhou Guoping, Jiang Chen walked to the door that locked Chu Nan.
Looking at the man who no longer wanted to leave, Jiang Chen knocked on the door.
Hearing the sound, Chu Nan raised his head. When he saw it was Jiang Chen, a bitter smile appeared on his face.
"Can you let me out now?"
"Of course, do you want me to open the door now?" Jiang Chen shook the key, smiled, and asked, "Can I ask where you are going next?"
Hearing this, Chu Nan fell into a brief silence.
"I don't know, but I can't go back to Liuding Town."
Seeing this, Jiang Chen used a relaxed tone to ask, "Do you want to come to my place?"
Hearing this, Chu Nan raised his head and looked at Jiang Chen.
"Don't you not need pilots?"
Jiang Chen shrugged. "Now I changed my mind. Although I don't have a plane right now, I will definitely get one in the near future."
Looking at Jiang Chen suspiciously, Chu Nan was still hesitant.
"I don't even know what kind of organization you are —"
"The bread you ate last time, three meals a day."
"Deal!" Almost without hesitation, Chu Nan immediately shouted.
"Are you not going to reconsider?" Jiang Chen laughed.
"Hehe, do I even need to reconsider?" Chu Nan touched his nose and laughed.
What a joke, there was food for every meal. Although Liuding Town provided B-level nutrient supply to pilots like him, even the A-level nutrient supply was not as good as food.
Jiang Chen nodded. "Okay, in two days, I will send you to the Sixth Street to implant a chip, and then you will be a member of the Fishbone base."
Then, Jiang Chen was about to leave, but at that moment-
"Wait a minute." Chu Nan suddenly stopped him.
"What is it?" Jiang Chen turned around and looked at him, confused.
"Umm …" Chu Nan hesitated for a moment. "What are you going to do with those women?"
Those women?
Jiang Chen fell into deep thought.
He almost ignored this question. Thinking about it carefully, the women who were almost ruined by the bandits were not easy to deal with. Bring them back? But what was the point of keeping them? The Fishbone base was not an orphanage.
Leave them here? Release them? That was no different from directly killing them.
"Actually, there is a use for you to bring them back to the base." Chu Nan seemed to have noticed Jiang Chen's hesitation as he suggested.
"Oh? What use? " Jiang Chen glanced at Chu Nan and suddenly laughed out loud. "You are not going to find a girl to get rid of your virginity, are you?"
Chu Nan paused for a moment before he reacted and said angrily.
"Fu * k, my name is Chu Nan, I never said I was a virgin."
Chu Nan paused, took a deep breath, and then continued.
"If you don't even have the chip implantation technology, then you should be a small survival base."
Jiang Chen looked at him in surprise. This analysis was reasonable.
"That's right, so?" Jiang Chen didn't deny it as he directly admitted.
"On the wasteland, men's ability to survive is stronger than women, so the ratio of men to women is obvious. I don't know about the Sixth Street, but there are a lot of bachelors in Liuding town, "Chu Nan said seriously.
"Like you?" Jiang Chen laughed.
"That's right." Chu Nan nodded without hesitation as he continued, "If it was in Liuding town, there would be a government-run gymnasium for the survivors to relieve their stress and solve their physiological needs. This would not only prevent possible crimes, but it would also improve the stability of the base. "
"Is that so? Everyone in my Fishbone base has the "slavery chip" implanted. Do you think I need to worry about stability? "Jiang Chen looked at Chu Nan noncommittally as he smiled.
"I've implanted the chip before. That's right, although the name is different, the function should be similar. Let me put it this way, although you can monitor everyone's privacy and control everyone's life and death, you can't decide everyone's emotions. "
"So?" Jiang Chen thought for a moment.
"Unless you can keep everyone in a perpetual state of starvation, so they don't have time to think about anything other than survival, then you can't expect a group of bachelors to have hope for tomorrow. It may not be a problem in the short term, but in the long run, there will definitely be problems. Especially on the wasteland shrouded in radiation dust, everyone's mental state isn't any better. "Chu Nan went straight to the point.
Mental state? Jiang Chen didn't consider this before. He only paid attention to his mental state.
For example, when he first returned from the apocalypse, he immediately went to Sanya to be a prostitute.
In the ghetto of the Sixth Street, the unemployed survivors were in a state of starvation all day, so didn't they have the desire to "reproduce"? And when they arrived at the Fishbone base, because the problem of food and clothing was solved, would they start to think about other issues?
Perhaps just like what Chu Nan said, unless he could keep everyone hungry forever, he couldn't expect them to not have new desires. Even if Jiang Chen could control their life and death, he couldn't control everyone's emotions. After all, not everyone had the dream of becoming a monk.
When he bought the survivors (slaves), he purposely selected people with families and controlled the male to female ratio. But no matter how he controlled it, the male population was still a few times larger than the female population. Should he let the remaining bachelors masturbate? It obviously wouldn't work.
"In other words, you think I should open a technical institute?" Jiang Chen's expression was a bit strange. This method was contrary to his beliefs.
"Of course, there are other ways." Chu Nan paused. He sensed Jiang Chen's disgust towards this method, so he added, "For example, use these people as" prizes "to reward the bachelors who contributed to the base."
"Prizes? I don't agree with this inhumane method. "
"Humane? Do you think this is before the war? "
Jiang Chen paused for a moment and fell into silence.
"If you really have a moral obsession, you can choose to create laws to protect the rights of these people. For example, you can prohibit the owner from crippling them, and reward the person who can help them regain their sanity and participate in the work. Since you are the leader, then you can make these rules. The key is just how you choose. "
After listening to Chu Nan's words, Jiang Chen looked at him with surprise.
"I didn't know that you know a lot."
"Hehe, I read a bit when I was bored." Chu Nan touched his nose.
Just as he was about to leave, Jiang Chen suddenly stopped and asked casually.
"Also, do you think people will want these people?"
Chu Nan paused for a moment as he looked at Jiang Chen, confused.
"Why wouldn't anyone want them?"
Jiang Chen was speechless.
Is this the legendary generation gap?
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