Chapter 200: Nodding Yes, Shaking No

"Trade? This way of putting it... is very fresh! How do you understand it?" Scarface looked at Yu Wen with slight confusion, waiting for him to explain.

"Of course it's a trade. You carry modern weapons, proving you have considerable strength. We are just using grain to trade for this safety guarantee. My understanding is correct, right?"

"Hahaha! Old man, I like this way of putting it! If those people before had your awareness, our work would be much simpler! I won't hide it from you, on this trip, we killed three people, all because they were stubborn, stupid donkeys! You wait a moment..."

After speaking, Scarface turned and walked toward the pickup truck, not knowing what he communicated with his companions. Afterward, he returned to Yu Wen and pointed to the foot of the mountain: "Old man, do you live on the mountain?"

"Yes, the mountain is a scenic spot, there are a few homestays and farmhouses. We settled there after coming out of Qincheng."

Yu Wen said half-truthfully.

"Oh, a scenic spot." Scarface squinted his eyes and looked toward Tianmayu. Due to the angle, he couldn't see anything, only a winding mountain road faintly visible.

After thinking it over, Scarface turned to his companions and said: "I'll follow the old man to take a look. You guys wait for me here. If I don't come back in ten minutes, you know what to do."

"Don't worry, Brother Sang!"

"Understood, understood!"

Yu Wen stood still, his head stopped shaking, and he revealed a miserable smile: "I was injured on the road of escape, and now my head shakes as soon as I walk, I can't control it."

Zheng Xinyu hurriedly picked up another walkie-talkie to convey Zhang Su's meaning to the people on the mountain.

Scarface noticed Yu Wen's strange behavior.

"Let's go, old man!"

Scarface tilted his head toward the foot of the mountain.

Yu Wen issued a sincere invitation to the crowd.

"I'm afraid this fire... forget it, it must be fine. Let's go!" Scarface fruitlessly refused the invitation.

"Brother Su, Teacher Yu is bringing that person up the mountain, but Teacher Yu has been shaking his head. What does that mean?"

"Meaning don't make a move, hide the guns quickly, keep working, pretend you don't know anything!"

"Aren't those gentlemen going? They've traveled a long way, why not come up the mountain for a cup of tea together?"

"No need, I'll just recognize the road, don't be so long-winded, let's go!" Scarface fruitlessly refused the invitation.

"Heh, this is so damn fresh..."

"Oh, oh!"

Yu Wen sighed secretly in his heart. If he could trick everyone into the camp, the problem would be simple. Unfortunately, things didn't go as planned...

He led the way toward the foot of the mountain, his head shaking as he walked, as if he had Parkinson's.

In the Tianmayu monitoring room, Zheng Xinyu, who was staring at the screen, was talking to Zhang Su on the walkie-talkie.

The few people from the Qinglong Corps raised their necks arrogantly, and the firearms on their chests gave them infinite courage.

"Old man, what are you shaking your head for?"

Scarface spat, following behind Yu Wen, carefully watching the situation around him.

Usually, whether driving a car or a small electric scooter, one wouldn't feel how far it was from the highway to Tianmayu, just three or five minutes. Walking on "eleven roads" (walking) really took some time.

"Gentleman, have you encountered anyone else on your way south?"

On the road, Yu Wen asked in a casual tone.

"You don't ask so much!"

Scarface was very unwilling to talk about this topic, perhaps worried about the organizations collecting protection fees uniting to cause trouble.

"Fine, fine, I won't ask. Then... does your Qinglong Corps still absorb survivors? If one wants to join, what are the conditions?"

Yu Wen changed the subject.

"There is a special review department. As long as you have the ability, our camp wants you. As for which team you are assigned to, it depends on individual ability! I say, old man, why do you talk so much? Is it because your camp eats too well?"

Yu Wen's mouth twitched, and he smiled awkwardly: "Isn't it because I'm bored? I won't say anymore, I won't say anymore."

It took a full quarter of an hour for Yu Wen to lead Scarface to the front of the safe camp's wall.

"Everyone is busy, haha. This gentleman, do you want to go in and sit for a while? We have tea."

Yu Wen raised his hand very politely.

Inside the gate, four or five people were pretending to be busy. They didn't know what they were busy with, but they were very busy anyway. The guns weren't on their backs, but they were hidden in the building materials nearby. It would take seconds to take them out...

Scarface looked at the three or four-meter-high wall built of concrete and brick, then looked at the ground that hadn't been cleaned up yet, and associated it with the raging fire burning at the foot of the mountain. His expression was serious: "Did you encounter a zombie horde attack here?"

Yu Wen had an expression of "I told you so and you didn't believe me": "Yes, those corpses below are the zombie horde that attacked here two days ago, haha. But the disaster has passed. There was no attack inside. Go in and sit for a while, tea leaves brought from the city."

Scarface's expression was unusually serious, losing his previous lightheartedness and arrogance. The word "cautious" was almost written on his forehead.

"No need!" He didn't accept Yu Wen's invitation and continued: "I can give you a small piece of advice. Our corps is considering including cigarettes, alcohol, and tea into grain units, so if you have tea leaves, save them."

"Oh, oh, okay, okay!"

Scarface didn't intend to enter the camp, nor did he leave. He looked around and asked: "How many zombies attacked here? What did you use to deal with them? No guns?"

"Yes, we have two pistols!"

Yu Wen pointed to the sentry post: "Usually they are given to companions on sentry duty."

"Pistols?" Scarface questioned with disdain: "No submachine guns or rifles? How do you kill zombies?"

"How could we have those guns..."

Yu Wen had an expression of "don't joke," then pointed to the broken obstacles that hadn't been cleaned up yet, and then raised the steel bar in his hand: "Thanks to those obstacles, blocking the zombies, we used steel bars to stab them all to death. Not many, just over a hundred. It seems that the quantity standard you set has great reference value."

Fortunately, Keji Haoyun helped pick up empty shell casings, and coupled with the fact that the few people who shot were very careful, almost all bullets hit the zombies, and there were no shooting marks left at the scene, otherwise Yu Wen wouldn't have been able to round it off.

The pile of corpses at the foot of the mountain had been burning for more than an hour, and there wasn't much left. Scarface didn't doubt the quantity and nodded: "The rules are naturally not set randomly. We have some other rules. If you can provide gathering places for other survivor forces, the next grain handover will be exempted by ten percent. Do you have any news in this regard?"

"Yo." Yu Wen frowned, patting his thigh in a dilemma: "I do know there are others nearby, but I don't know where they are. Even if I run into them, I'm cautious and careful, not daring to expose their specific location."

"Fine, it seems you won't get this reward!" Scarface patted Yu Wen on the shoulder: "Remember to prepare eight hundred units of grain in seven days. Let's go!"

"Ah? Leaving already? Gentleman, don't you want to go in and take a look? It would be good to meet the people in our camp, count if there are eighteen people. By the way, I can't guarantee that I won't accept new survivors in the future..."

Yu Wen tried to persuade him to stay again and again.

"No need. I see you are a sensible person and won't make an issue of this kind of thing! Even if you accept new survivors, that will be calculated at the next grain handover!"

After speaking, Scarface turned and walked toward the foot of the mountain, without any intention of going in to sit. He had a faint sense of unease, always feeling that this place was hiding inexplicable danger, and there was no need to risk his life for the mission!

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 201 =====