Corpse transformation! Panic! Chaos! Doomsday is coming!

After the disaster, the once prosperous cities turned into dilapidated ruins. Most of the human beings either died or were infected and turned into zombies that preyed on others. The economic environment shrank and regressed for decades, and human society was close to collapse.

After a bloody and long adaptation period, the remaining humans built towering walls and hid in safe zones to survive.

Human civilization once again shines with a faint light. In the safe zone surrounded by high walls, the chains of order slowly and fragilely unfold, trying to bind every hungry and anxious soul.

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In the year 0020 of the New Era, in the infection zone 200 kilometers away from the north of the No. 4 Safety Zone in China.

On a dilapidated street, a team of seven or eight people was slowly advancing under the cover of night. Each of them was wearing tattered clothes. It would not be an exaggeration to say that they were ragged. In the hands of each person,

They all held iron and wooden sticks of different lengths.

At the end of the team, a tall young man held a solid steel baseball bat, his eyes shining brightly, and he scanned the surroundings cautiously.

The young man's name is Ling Tian, ​​he is twenty years old, 1.83 meters tall, with broad shoulders and a broad back. He is a typical northerner from China.

If you look closely at Ling Tian's face, you will find that he has sharp eyebrows and starry eyes, a straight nose and a square mouth. He is a handsome and handsome young man.

But at this time, he looked very slovenly, not to mention gray-haired, unshaven, his hair, which was not long, seemed to be oily and stuck together, and there was an unbearable smell all over his body.

But Ling Tian himself didn't mind at all. He just held the baseball bat with both hands, frowned and looked around, and walked at the end of the team with a very strange and careful posture.

This is a temporary team of "garbage pickers", that is, "garbage pickers" who scour dilapidated and abandoned cities, collect daily necessities, and make a living in exchange for meager remuneration.

This job is very risky and dangerous. Every time you set off, there will be people who will never come back. But the pay is pitifully low. There are also many people who follow the team in the infected area for several days but get nothing.

The team walked cautiously on the street, fearing to make any noise. Most of the shops on both sides of the road were dark. Under the bright moonlight, only sporadic rats would make noise from time to time.

The evening breeze was blowing, and in front of the store on the sidewalk, broken billboards flapped irregularly on the wall.

The weather in October was a bit cold, but Ling Tian was covered in white hair and sweat.

"Something's wrong, something's really wrong!" Ling Tian felt a little uneasy. He had been living in an infected area since he was fifteen or sixteen, so he had developed a very rich survival experience and a strong sense of vigilance.

He has been to this county-level city No. 0209 dozens of times, but this is the first time that something so abnormal has happened. It has been the third day since the team sneaked into the infected area, but they did not encounter any large-scale zombie groups along the way.

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Most of them are scattered "loners" who are defenseless against the steel pipes and iron rods in the hands of everyone in the team.

It was precisely because of the reduced number of zombies that the team easily sneaked into the center of county-level city No. 0209 this time.

"Be careful, if you make any noise, everyone will be ruined!" At the front of the team, a strong man at the head, holding a wooden baseball bat with nails on the head, warned in a low voice.

Afterwards, the entire team became more careful. In addition to the sound of the wind, everyone could even hear each other's nervous breathing and heartbeats.

Ling Tian was carrying a tight black package and was hanging carefully behind the team, in a position where he could neither follow too closely nor fall behind.

Soon, the team groped their way to their destination, a large supermarket in the city center.

The strong man in the lead led the two clerks quickly to the main entrance of the supermarket, leaned carefully against the door, then took out a strong flashlight from his arms and scanned the store carefully.

Everywhere the flashlight passed was a mess. Even in the more dangerous city center, this large supermarket had already been robbed many times by the same teams of "scavengers".

Looking at the empty shelves that had been plundered, the leading man’s eyebrows knitted into a knot, but he still waved to the team behind him: “Come in! Watch your step!”

Hearing the leader's words, the impatient people behind him hurriedly filed in and ran to their favorite areas to explore for supplies.

Ling Tian was still at the end of the team, but he was not in a hurry to enter the supermarket. Instead, he went around to the side of the supermarket to carefully check the location of the fire exits and safety exits, and then returned to the main entrance to enter.

In the supermarket, everyone who entered early gathered together with their companions in twos and threes, gathering supplies where there were still goods.

In the kitchen supplies area on the inside of the first floor, a young couple was carefully exploring with a flashlight.

"How's it going? Xiaomo, is there anything else?" The young man asked his girlfriend in a trembling voice, holding a flashlight in his left hand and a slender wooden stick in his right hand.

"There must be something like this, don't worry!" The girl with her twin tails lowered her voice excitedly, and kept rummaging through the dark and messy shelves with her hands.

After turning it over for a while, I heard a crisp sound and the sound of metal tapping.

"Found it!" the girl growled excitedly.

The young man scanned it with a flashlight, and sure enough, on the bottom shelf, the girl dug out bundles of stainless steel spatulas.

Since the outbreak of the zombie crisis, large areas of land have been deserted, and the remaining human living space and environmental resources have been squeezed to the point of collapse. A large number of factories, steel mills, and even power plants have suffered unprecedented heavy blows.

And assembly line products that used to be ubiquitous in the past, such as stainless steel spatulas, have now become hot commodities. Whether the metal is recycled and reforged or used directly, it can be sold at a good price.

"Hey, hurry up! Pack up quickly!" The girl giggled, grabbed the huge hiking bag on her boyfriend's back, opened the zipper, and stuffed the bundles of spatulas inside.

Stacks of spatulas collided together in the backpack, making sharp sounds.

"Slow...slow down, slow down." The young man was half-hunched over, sweating profusely, his heart beating violently, and he kept licking his dry lips. His stiff body did not notice the darkness not far away at all.

In the corner, a twisted figure slowly approached.

At the main entrance of the supermarket, Ling Tian was wearing strong deerskin gloves on both hands and holding a multifunctional flashlight in his mouth. He was checking the third cashier. People who were looking for supplies around him couldn't help but shook their heads when they saw it. The end of the world is coming.

The currency of the past has long been eliminated and cannot be circulated.

The currencies currently circulating in society are either the Asian dollar launched by the Asian Alliance coalition government, or hard currencies such as gold, silver, and diamonds.

The other option is to barter. In a chaotic infected area, currency circulation is chaotic and supplies are scarce, so bartering is more common.

Ling Tian held the flashlight in his mouth and carefully checked the cashier, not caring about the surprised looks of others.

The third one didn't. Ling Tian gently closed the cabinet door, not discouraged, wiped the sweat from his forehead, got up again and walked quietly to the fourth cashier.

When he walked to the cashier, Ling Tian did not open the cash drawer to get the banknotes as everyone expected, but kept groping in the cabinet under the cashier.

Suddenly, Ling Tian touched a heavy metal object.

"Yes!" Ling Tian was overjoyed.

Ling Tian took out a tin can from the small cabinet under the cash register. Ling Tian gently held the heavy tin can in his arms and opened it.

really!

I saw that the jar was full of coins that circulated before the Era!

Although these coins are no longer circulating in the market, the metal value and collection value of their alloys still exist. Before the catastrophe, many large, medium and small supermarket checkout counters would have such containers to store a large number of coins.

This is Ling Tian’s valuable experience accumulated from scavenging in infected areas over the years.

Ling Tian opened the box, carefully took out a handful of coins, and shined a light on them.

It is the fourth set of coins issued by China in 1992, which is the most common flower series coin. Its materials are aluminum-zinc alloy for one dime, copper-zinc alloy for five cents, and nickel-plated steel core for one dollar.

Holding the heavy iron can, Ling Tian grinned from ear to ear. This trip was not in vain after all.

"This is enough to last a week!"

Just as Ling Tian was complacently holding the coin jar, a pair of worn-out hiking boots appeared beside him.

"The harvest is not small! Little brother! Show me what it is like."

When Ling Tian looked up, he saw a tall and thin man with a mouth full of yellow teeth. He said to him with a smile. As he spoke, he stretched his hand directly to the coin jar.

Ling Tian frowned and hid the jar behind his back without leaving any trace. This man was the companion of the leading strong man, and was left at the main entrance of the supermarket to look out.

Looking at the coin jar behind Ling Tian, ​​the tall and thin man felt happy. He had been observing this boy for a long time. Judging from his clothes, he could tell that this boy was an experienced "trash picker". As expected.

"This batch of goods can be exchanged for at least more than 200 yuan in cash!" The tall and thin man licked his lips, greed flashing in his slender triangular eyes.

"I asked you to show me, didn't you hear? I'm from Donglian!" Seeing that Ling Tian was unmoved, the tall and thin man growled with his eyes wide open, and then showed Ling Tian the tattoo on his chest.

red sign.

The full name of Eastern Alliance is "Eastern Alliance". It is a social organization active in several living towns outside the No. 4 Security Zone. This organization controls the scavenging rights of several small infected areas outside the zone, and within its own sphere of influence

It’s also about what you get the money for.

If you want to enter the infected area to search for living supplies, but do not have the strength to break in alone, then you can choose to form a team, and Donglian will take on a lot of the team leadership work and the purchase of supplies after returning to the living town.

Ling Tian has been living outside the district since he was a child, and has also been running around in the infected area for four or five years, so he is very familiar with this organization. With his strength, he can easily join and even serve as the team leader, but Ling Tian is really familiar with this organization.

His behavior style is not cold.

"I can't see it. I want to go look for it myself." Ling Tian stood up without haste and replied calmly, but his gloved hand had already quietly touched behind him.

"Haha, you are so shameless, aren't you..." The tall and thin man was not annoyed when he hit a soft nail. He directly took out a short knife from his arms and was about to say harsh words.

"ah!!!"

At this moment, a scream suddenly came from inside the supermarket.

The tall and thin man turned around when he heard the sound, and the hand holding the short knife froze in mid-air.

"bass!"

As soon as the tall and thin man turned around, Ling Tian, ​​who had been squatting on the ground, suddenly jumped up, holding down the wrist of the tall and thin man holding the knife with one hand, while his right hand was holding a dagger taken out from the waist, pointing at it.
Chapter completed!