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Hou Ying’s hearing has been very developed, and he can hear the voice within a radius of 500 meters. He took Li Xuanyuan to hide in the dark and listened to the situation, then he ran forward in a panic, and shouted, “Is anybody there! Is there anyone alive?! Help! Come on! There are cannibals out there!”\n
He cried in horror and was suddenly watched coldly by many people.\n
Startled, he rushed up to catch the nearest middle-aged man and panicked, “Big brother, what’s going on? Can you lend me your cell phone? I called the police. Someone outside was crazy and ate… cannibalism, what I said is true. Please lend me your phone, I can’t get the signal…”\n
The middle-aged man pushed him away, “Call the police?! Are you sick! The end of the world is here, you call the police!”\n
Hou Ying was frightened and confused.\n</ins>\n\nThe middle-aged man saw that although he was frightened, there was no despair and shadow in his eyes. He seemed to know nothing about the end of the world and had not awakened an ability, so he coldly told Hou Ying and his companion about the end of the world. Seeing Hou Ying’s face turned pale from fright, the middle-aged man felt a little more complacent, so in a good mood, he pointed out a direction and told him that new survivors would register there.\n
The two walked for more than ten minutes before reaching the survivor registry.\n
First, they were asked to strip naked to check if there were any wounds on their body and measure their body temperature. After that, they were asked to do a questionnaire. The above was a question that intelligent creatures and humans know the answer to.\n
Hou Ying thought while filling in the answer, it seems that Yecheng’s situation is better than he imagined. At least there are people here who are managing the order and there are certain rules and systems. After completing the questionnaire, an information registration form was sent out. In addition to the basic question of name, age, gender, birthplace, a description column was specially set up for the survivors to fill in whether they have abilities (superpowers).\n
Hou Ying was fortunate that he had communicated with Li Xuanyuan about his situation before and wrote his address in Yecheng in the column of birthplace.\n
Take the registration form and leave the inspection room, go to the registration window next door to get a temporary ID card.\n
The registrar had a cold attitude, glanced at the ability column on the data, and saw: None. It turned out to be two wastes, and his expression immediately became arrogant.\n
“What did you do before? I heard that you don’t even know the zombie apocalypse, so you call the police when you enter the city?”\n
He speaks the local dialect of Kangcheng. Hou Ying has been in Kangcheng for so many years. He knows the difference between Kangcheng people and outsiders, so he replies in Kangcheng dialect, “My friend and I are trapped in the South Island warehouse these days.”\n
No one noticed that Li Xuanyuan clenched his fist, if Qiao Daye and the others are here, they will tacitly avoid Li Xuanyuan three meters away, who was happily staging a bloody scene in his mind!\n</ins>\n\nBecause the number of zombies near the warehouse is too small, Li Xuanyuan, who has asked Hou Ying why, has learned that because two pairs of homosexuals have committed suicide there, it has become a place that Yecheng people avoided, so it has been abandoned. There’s only one group of people going to the South Island warehouse and that is gays who go there to do indescribable sports.\n
The first time Hou Ying hints to others that he and him, this damned gay, are birds with the same feather and he has already torn the other to pieces! But in fact, he can only swallow his anger and cooperate with Hou Ying, how can he not be aggrieved.\n
Hou Ying went on to say, “We had planned to come out a long time ago, but we were scared back by the cannibal monsters. Then I suddenly didn’t know how I could hear the sound from quite far away, they kept screaming outside, and it was too scary! Although the movement outside seemed to gradually decrease later, we did not dare to come out, so we kept hiding. There was really nothing to eat today, so we mustered up the courage to run back.”\n
The registrar apparently also knew about the South Island warehouse outside Yecheng and what’s going on there, then glanced contemptuously at him and Li Xuanyuan behind him.\n
He filled in the word hearing in the ability column of Hou Ying’s datasheet, and then pointed to Li Xuanyuan and said, “You also talk about it.”\n
Li Xuanyuan, “…”\n
Hou Ying quickly said, “You must forgive me, big brother, it’s not that he offends you, he stutters, not very good at talking… Why don’t you let him write it for you?”\n
The registrar was obviously impatient. Hou Ying thought of something, hurriedly searched his body, and found a pack of crumpled cigarettes. The other side’s eyes suddenly lit up and snatched the smoke, but when he saw that there were only two cigarettes in it, he regained his coldness.\n
Hou Ying said hurriedly, “My friend and I don’t smoke, this one is left in the warehouse by others. I wanted to eat it when I didn’t have anything to eat, so I took it with me. I didn’t expect it to be taken away when people searched our clothes just now. These two were only left after I asked to honor you. Big brother, can you make it convenient for us?” \n
Hou Ying saluted the other side to please.\n</ins>\n\n“What is convenient?” The registrar quickly put the cigarette into his trouser pocket for fear of being seen by others, then pointed to the notice posted on the glass window, “Did you see it? To enter the inner city, each person pays 50 catties of food each, and those who have abilities only pay half. If not, you can find a place in the refugee camp outside the city with your temporary ID card. Then help build the city wall honestly, beat zombies, and accumulate points, or you can get a powerful ability person to take you in, otherwise, hum, just stay outside!”\n
Hou Ying’s face became stiff and flustered, but he thought in his heart: Sure enough, the social status of people with abilities and ordinary people has been separated into three, six, or nine levels.\n
On the way to the registration office, he had seen a large wall built two or three kilometers ahead. But the outside of the city is still empty. It is not guaranteed that when zombies will eventually come in, ordinary people who can only fight hand-to-hand without abilities if they can’t get the help of abilities and gunmen, will surely die!\n
“Comrade, how can this be? My house is inside, that house is under my name, can’t I go back? Yes, yes, this is my ID card. You see, it’s true. My family lives at No. 27, Yecheng North Street. Can you please let me go back?”\n
The registrar looked at the address, his face changed drastically, and screamed, “Don’t dream! Can a waste like you live in the small villa on North Street?! If you can’t pay the entrance fee, you can get out before dark and find a place to live. If you make trouble here, you don’t know how you died!”\n
Hou Ying was impatient and angry but he still pretended to be humble in front of him and begged. The registrar listened for a while before snorting coldly, “I only took your filial piety to show you a clear road. You can’t go back to that place and you can’t offend the people who live there now. If you don’t want to die, quickly forget your thoughts of going back home.”\n
Hou Ying almost cried, “How could this be… Then, what about my family? Have they been driven away? How could it be like this!”\n
The registrar has heard a lot of tragic stories of many survivors and is completely unmoved by Hou Ying’s crying. No matter how Hou Ying asks for help, he didn’t open his mouth to help and show how to find the local survivors in Yecheng but drove them out impatiently.\n
On the way back to the refugee camp in the outer city, Hou Ying has a gloomy face.\n
Li Xuanyuan watched him pretending to be crazy and acting stupidly, giving up his self-esteem for his nephew and friends, and the anger of being labeled as “gay” in his heart long ago dissipated. Seeing the real situation of the outside world with his own eyes, he also understood why Hou Ying had to rush back.\n
Seeing that he was sad and anxious, he who was not good at comforting others, could only ask awkwardly, “What are you going to do now?”\n
Hou Ying took a deep breath and said, “Let’s go step by step. First, go to the refugee camp in the outer city to see the situation and inquire about how to find people. If it doesn’t work, we’ll find some places where we can exchange materials or have a large flow of people, write a few big words and see if we can wait for them to come to us.”\n
At this moment, he could only think of this.\n
Li Xuanyuan wanted to say something but swallowed it back. Hou Ying seemed to have never thought of the possibility that his nephew and friends would have been killed. Li Xuanyuan worried that he was too hopeful and would not be able to withstand the blow if he failed, and wanted to remind him to prepare for the worst in advance, but when the words come to his lips, he finds that he can’t say it as easily as before.\n
It’s not easy for Hou Ying to have such an optimistic attitude at this time, he’d better not stimulate him.\n</ins>\n\nThe two went to the refugee camp outside the city and bumped against the wall several times before they were pointed out to the management office of the refugee camp. With the temporary identity certificate from the registration office, they got the last seat in the refugee camp.\n
Bullying is a common problem among human beings. Hou Ying had no hope for the seat arranged, but he was shocked when he got there.\n
It was in a large tent that was damaged in many places. I didn’t feel cold when I walked in, but it was stuffy because there were so many people inside! The sour smell is disgusting!\n
Hou Ying noticed that there are more old people and children in this place. Only some middle-aged and weak young people are crowded like dumplings. They had to find a place to walk through the crowd. However, it is unusually quiet here. The survivors hardly communicate with each other, they just took a cold look at the two newcomers, they aren’t curious and do not intend to have any contact with them.\n
Hou Ying had a good hearing, and he could clearly hear the maddening self-talk of some people. After listening for a few sentences, he discovered that they were all survivors whose parents, husbands, wives, and children have become zombies.\n
When they find their seats, Li Xuanyuan, who has been turning a blind eye to the filthy environment, frowns.\n
The seats with their numbers are full of excrement. After all, Hou Ying was an ordinary person who liked to be clean, he vomited and turned his head.\n
Li Xuanyuan looked at him solemnly, “Do you still want to live here?”\n
Hou Ying really didn’t have the courage, so he led Li Xuanyuan to apply for another address at the management office. After being rejected, they had to sign up to take part in the work of building the city wall first and join the queue of transporting sand while they had two hours to work before nightfall.\n
Here, Hou Ying finally heard some useful news.\n</ins>\n\nHe locked on an ordinary person who was working fast and alone, and he was close to them. Seeing that the other party was not as indifferent as the survivors outside the city, when the work was over, they took the meal and squatted together, and with Hou Ying’s social skills, they were able to talk to each other.\n
This ordinary person is Su Fenghe. He is stout and tall—a little taller than Hou Ying, who is 188cm. Although he also speaks the Kangcheng dialect, the accent is a little bit harder than the soft-tongued Kangcheng people. He should be part of a group who come from the north to work in Kangcheng.\n
Seeing that the two young men had just arrived, they asked about some basic information, so he didn’t hide it from them. From the narration of Su Fenghe, Hou Ying summed up the following points:\n
First of all, the number of survivors in Yecheng did not exceed 30,000, of which less than 1,000 had abilities. There were nearly 10,000 people in the inner city, most of them, except for the people with abilities and their families, were survivors who escaped from Kangcheng and carried food.\n
Secondly, Yecheng’s management has a complex but surprisingly harmonious faction, at least so far their decision-making is still unified.\n
After cleaning up the zombies around Yecheng two days ago, ordinary people and people with abilities above and below Yecheng were all involved in the construction of the inner city wall. The ability users take turns guarding during the day, and at night, they will be involved in the construction of the city wall in batches, while ordinary people are restricted because of the unqualified construction of the wall due to limited lighting or exhaustion from work during the day.\n
This is the largest source of food for ordinary people now. If they do more work, they will get more food.\n
But as Su Fenghe said, a strong and ordinary man like him starts work at five in the morning and finishes work at six in the evening. At the end of the day, he can barely feed himself, let alone others. Some ordinary people must work very hard in order to feed the elderly and children at home. There have been several safety accidents on the city wall where they fell from the wall due to fatigue, starvation, and lack of water.\n
Finally, Su Fenghe specifically told them that there have been many disappearances and murders in Yecheng’s outer refuge at night. He told them not to walk around at night, or they would end up in a terrible situation if they had an accident or were found by the patrolmen.\n
Hou Ying promised, but in his heart, he had already begun to figure out how to use the opportunity of building the city wall to find Wang Hehe and Ji Yao.\n
After Su Fenghe ate his food and hurriedly left, Li Xuanyuan whispered, “Be careful of this person, he concealed his strength.”\n\n