Chapter 601: Meeting
I was driving against the wind in the vast snowfield, and the scenery along the way did not change much. After entering the territory of Zuobar, I encountered a check of the post.
I didn't know many people from Zobar, and I couldn't see that the guards had changed, so I reported Shangguan Li's name and said that I was his friend and came from Safe Harbor City.
Guard Xianben was still looking at me. When he heard the words "Safe Harbor", his eyes suddenly moved up and stared at my face for two seconds.
Another guard came forward and said he wanted to collect some blood. I was not afraid of collecting blood. As long as I didn't use instruments to test it, I stretched out my hand and let him scratch a small mouth from his fingertips.
A little bright red dyed his fingertips, and the two guards looked at each other and nodded.
I noticed that they had something in common with the guards of the Safe Harbor, and their vision stayed on my clothes for a little longer.
I dressed very cleanly, and I searched from the counters of the big shopping malls from top to bottom, and my face looked like I didn't look sick.
Although it is not an era of looking at faces, the key points of the guards in various camps, even the robbers, when it comes to looking at people, are to look at their clothes.
Others, such as personal hygiene and physical health, are also the basis for them to determine whether a person is valuable.
At first I thought they were sensitive to the name Safe Harbor because Safe Harbor City is well-known and guards are trying to get some benefits from me.
But after collecting blood, their relaxed expression made me realize that things were not what I thought, and that the name Safe Harbor should make them nervous.
It seemed to be confirmed that I was safe and harmless, and their expressions softened, but they still showed some vigilance.
"Please wait, I'll inform you." The guard spoke politely and reported to his superiors through the walkie-talkie. Shangguan Li returned almost instantly, asking them to let him go quickly. After the guards were allowed, they put me into the city.
I drove all the way and drove into the central area of Zobar camp. The scenery of the grassland did not change, but Zobar's changes were very obvious.
I drove past the busiest street, and there was not a single pedestrian on the street.
Only Shangguan Li stood alone at the gate of the camp management center, with a smile on his face and was very happy to see me.
I moved all the canned food, pickles, water, and some useful small equipment I brought from the city. I came from all the way and couldn't come empty-handed.
Shangguan Li helped me move my things into the building of the management center and piled them randomly in the corner of the hall. There were no people in the building. Although this place was not prosperous in the past, it was at least more lively and now it is deserted.
"It's too cold. They only come here to work for two to three hours a day before they can go home." Shangguan Li explained.
"Next." I threw the oranges I exchanged for points to Shangguan Li and followed him upstairs.
Shangguan Li's changes were as big as this camp. He became dark and thin, and his temperament became more and more like a working people. The wind on the grassland polished a few fine crow's feet on the corners of his eyes.
He must have been worried about the camp matter a lot, but fortunately, he was in good spirits and had a little more perseverance in his eyes that he had never had before.
He was wearing a thick sheepskin coat, tied tightly with a thick belt around his waist, and four circles of leather boots were stained with dry mud, and his outfit looked like a local herder.
I think he has integrated into this land, but his life is probably not very satisfactory. Although he is very energetic, the dark dizziness is too prominent. I guess he hasn't slept well for a long time.
As leaders, the overall situation of Zobar is not optimistic.
Shangguan Li is still enthusiastic about me. We haven't seen each other for a long time. When I followed him upstairs, I sucked some blood from him and confirmed that he was still a human and had not been replaced by a transformant.
He invited me to his office. As soon as I entered the room, I was attracted by the various dried vegetables hanging on the wall. The large desk was full of debris, and there were no sofas or coffee tables by the wall, but piles of pots and pans.
"Sometimes I live here." Shangguan Li noticed my gaze and explained again.
He told me something about me after I left, and I asked him if Xindu and the Security Zone were still working together?
Shangguan Li shook his head and said that the people in the safety zone had withdrawn. Because the winter was too long and the conditions in the grassland were getting worse and worse, everyone in the safety zone had left.
I immediately asked, "Why don't you leave? You can tell how bad the conditions are at a glance. What is the reason why you insist on not leaving?"
Shangguan Li closed the office door tightly. He also nailed a thick curtain to the door frame and sealed the windows with plastic cloth, at least the cold wind could not blow in.
Shangguan Li was not in a hurry to answer my question. It seemed that he had a long story, so he planned to tell me slowly.
But before answering my question, he asked me a question, "How are you?"
The temperature in the office was slightly higher than that in the outdoors. There was a chimney connected to the house, and a earthen stove stood in the center of the room. The furnace door was closed and there was no fire.
"It's great. Your conditions are so difficult?" I walked to the stove, reached out and put it on the stove and tried it. The heat emitted by the stove can only be considered warm. At night, I'm afraid that only by sleeping against the stove will you not freeze to death.
Shangguan Li moved two small stools to the stove. He sat on the small stool with his long legs shrank. The demeanor of the old master no longer existed.
"I don't go to the safe harbor because I suspect that the transformant has already been infiltrated and has a high status. I don't know how many similar it has. In the past, it might have fallen into the trap." Shangguan Li picked up the kettle on the stove and poured me a cup of warm water.
"There is no Zobar?"
"No, I check every day, there are not many people left anyway, most of them are gone."
I suddenly thought of the two guards collecting blood for me. It turned out that they also used this method to distinguish the deformed monsters.
In this way, the guards showed nervousness when they heard the word "Safe Harbor" because they also knew that there were shapeshifts in the Safe Harbor.
I became more and more puzzled, so I asked again: "Then why didn't you leave this?"
"If you want to leave, you have to bring it all. Our fuel is only enough for the convoy to drive to Qicheng. There is no resources there, and the situation is no more optimistic."
In winter, we all rely on fuel to move on foot, and we know how dangerous it is to move on foot with two legs.
I didn't expect Zobar to be so short of oil, and it was hard to even move.
"The camps in the three northern provinces have been incorporated into safe harbors, Xindu is in a civil war again, and the temperature in the Soviet Union is even lower. It's not that we don't want to move, but the conditions do not allow it."
Shangguan Li sighed helplessly, "How are you? I heard you are a player in the corpse clearing game?"
"Ah, you've heard of this?"
"There was a game in Bell a few days ago. I went over and saw people talking about you."
"Why, am I so popular?"
"A girl named Lei Feng is domineering as soon as she appears. Who else is besides you?"
I laughed. Could this be what people say when they pretend to be x, my sister is not in the world, but there has always been a legend about my sister in the world?
"Where are you, why do you think of me as an old friend?" Shangguan Li said with a faint smile.
"You won't go to the Three Treasure Hall for nothing. Have you refused to be included in the Safe Harbor City?" I asked with a smile.
"No, the camp that refused them died overnight. I kept dragging it and didn't give a correct answer, but I just received the ultimatum a few days ago."
"I'm here to tell you about this."
Shangguan Li asked in surprise: "Do they ask you to be a lobbyist?"
I shook my head: "It's not them, it's Tumu."
Shangguan Li's expression was even more surprised. I didn't wait for him to ask and told him about Tumu's fraudulent death and counter-espionage plan.
After saying that, I waited quietly for Shangguan Li to digest the information, opened the furnace cover and glanced inside, and saw a black mass of smoke, not knowing what it was.
Shangguan Li was silent for a while, and his expression changed a few times. Naturally, he had more worries than me. After all, he was taking thousands of people to take risks and was under great pressure.
"Tumu wants to regain control of the safe zone?" Shangguan Li suddenly asked.
"Maybe more than that. He has also installed undercover agents in several other areas, and the Transformer replaced the leaders of the major camps. Don't you think this is a good opportunity?"
Shangguan Li lowered his eyes and thought for a while, then looked up and said, "This is equivalent to the shapeshifter who has eliminated his competitors for him."
I smiled and said, "That's right, so he just needs to find someone to get rid of the shapeshift monster. In this way, he will be the only surviving leader among the major camps, so he will naturally respond to it."
"Ha, it's really easy to plot." Shangguan Li sneered, then his expression changed and said sincerely: "Thank you Sang Rou, you trust me, and I trust you too. If the transformed monster is angry and uses poison gas bombs, everyone will really have no way out. It's better to take a try."
"The deformed monster must be resolved as soon as possible, but we have to be careful of Tumu. After being incorporated into the safe harbor, you are actually the most dangerous person."
Because most of the former leaders of each camp are deeply trusted by survivors, if Tumu did not eliminate these people, the regime he established would have hidden dangers.
Tumu's anti-split plan is to use undercover agents like me to break into small and medium-sized camps, and then join the five major districts, and then find opportunities to sneak into the top management.
Strive to live among the shapeshifters, do their work for them, and win their trust.
Mark them all, wait for a certain right time to wipe them out in a fast, accurate and ruthless way.
Of course, it would be better if they could find their weaknesses in the lurking process.
As for what Tumu mentioned, whether we can find opportunities to make them coax, I think the probability is very small.
Once you enter the five major areas, the undercover agent has to adapt to the situation and wait for Tumu's notification.
"I will be careful, but I didn't understand it at all." Shangguan Li frowned and thought.
"What?"
"Tumu came to you and you quickly agreed to cooperate with him. How can he guarantee that you will not rebel after entering the five major regions?"
This is indeed a problem, but it is not difficult to explain. "He came to me and must have done an investigation. I am incompatible with the Transformation Monster. Perhaps the people he looked for are the same as me. Even if he turned against Tumu, he would never stand on the side of the Transformation Monster."
Shangguan Li did not refute me on this point, but he immediately asked another question: "Just relying on a few people to kill all the transformants in the five major regions, has he told you how to annihilate them?"
I shook my head decisively: "No, he said he would tell me when he notifies the action."
Chapter completed!