Chapter 1644: Human Life in the Wasteland

Hundreds of kilometers, in the wasteland world, is actually quite a long distance.

Because the road is very unsafe, human beings have dropped from the top of the food chain to almost the bottom, and the breathing time has also given humans time to adapt, but the pattern has not changed.

On the same day, Cai Ruichen and his party followed the armored regiment at the Taliban base along the eastern highway.

Due to the great help of the Taliban armored regiment, all the Taliban soldiers were very polite to Cai Ruichen and others.

It also allowed Cai Ruichen to understand a lot of the situation, especially this road and the situation at the Taliban base.

Cai Ruichen even found out why the Taliban armored group attacked Mashhad's strategy.

In fact, this is not a secret, Zhao Long was also told by others, because the head of the armored regiment also planned to get some information about the Middle East and the West to the Mediterranean from them, after all, Cai Ruichen and the others came from there.

Both sides just take what they need, but Zhao Long didn't say too much, he just said that there is a very safe passage from Mashhad to Iraq, and there are almost no mutants in Iraq.

This made Atdan very shocked. Under his questioning, Zhao Long only vaguely explained with what he heard. It is said that there is a very powerful human organization in Iraq, which has gradually cleared the Iraqi territory. There are many mutants.

Zhao Long also emphasized that this is just something you said, they have never seen it.

As for other things, Zhao Long didn't say much, but from what Atdan knew, since most of the mutants disappeared in Iran, the Taliban base also began to try to open a road to Europe.

Although countries still harbor evil intentions, and the hatred of the Third World War has not been completely temporarily let go, but in the face of the basic survival of human beings, more human beings are willing to unite.

Especially when it comes to mutual exchange and allocation of materials, all countries are very clear and need each other, so they are very cooperative.

The existence of the Taliban base is like the distribution center of the ancient Silk Road. There are also many distribution points of goods of different sizes between the current passages between China and Russia.

This kind of transaction method does not mean that the materials needed by China are personally dispatched to transport troops to the Taliban base and other countries for transactions, but a one-stop relay delivery.

For example, the core control area of ​​China is near the capital circle, so the base in the capital circle of China is at most to transport materials to Lanzhou, or even just Inner Mongolia, and then deliver them to the last stop of the Taliban one by one.

If a route connecting Europe is opened in the future, the entire transaction will be able to run through the entire Eurasian continental plate.

This one-stop material transfer method enables cooperation between various regions and is responsible for the safety of a section of road, which can reduce a lot of security pressure.

Building such a safe channel is not a very simple matter. Over the years, for the birth of this channel, an unknown number of people have been sacrificed.

And the replacement materials are all quite high-end, not simple civilian commodities. As long as those things are barely usable, such precious transportation resources will not be wasted.

The materials transported are all equipment or technical drawings that are closely related to military and technology [Lu Zhen] Empress Dowager

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It is estimated that there are not many memories that can be used in the wasteland at present. Many things are restored to the ancient recording method of blueprints.

And some drawings are not just a few, in many cases, there are many, even a large car.

There are also some special materials such as depleted uranium ore, rare earth, carbon fiber, etc., which are also key transactions.

Of course, food is the most traded. If it is not a relative exchange of goods at equal value, then it is food.

However, the food traded in the wasteland is not the rice and canned and vacuum-packed food as imagined.

They are all nutrients that human beings can really depend on for survival.

As for all normal food for human beings, it is a pity that in the wasteland world, that thing is truly an absolute luxury.

No matter whether a bag of rice appears on the market, no matter whether it is moldy or not, no matter whether it has passed the shelf life or not, no human being can resist such a temptation.

Although nutritional supplements can supplement the body's calories and most of the nutrients, they are difficult to swallow. Many people only use nutritional supplements when they are very hungry or even feel a little hypoglycemic.

And the nutritional supplements are not enough to eat, let alone live healthy, just barely maintain the nutritional balance of the human body.

If ordinary people want to survive in the wasteland, they must have the value of existence. Although there are very few survivors gathering areas, they are all merged into bases, warming each other, and jointly resisting mutants. If there are too many, decision-makers naturally need to consider public opinion.

Otherwise, once the vast majority of ordinary people feel that they cannot survive, it will definitely be a mess.

Therefore, in those large bases, the survival of ordinary people is still guaranteed to a certain extent, but in this world, only half of a labor is rewarded, so ordinary people either choose to join the army and receive rigorous military training. Or to be a manual laborer.

Building defenses and maintaining facilities for communication lines, as long as they can create value, one labor force can keep a family of four from starving to death.

The so-called salary is how much work you do every day and how much nutrition you get.

Nutrients are also like currency, they can be used to buy some common daily consumables. As for house furniture and so on, those things are completely worthless, and they are everywhere on the street.

This is also the biggest difference from Cai Ruichen's establishment of the base. In Hope Base, everyone has their own identity information, and earns points through labor. Points are equivalent to currency, but they are different from virtual currency.

Virtual currency has zero value, and points represent how much contribution this person has made and how much value he has brought to the development of the entire base.

This kind of value can be reflected in the practical aspect, and the points have become a currency that can be circulated, because Cai Ruichen will not generate points, and all the points are created by everyone's labor.

Points can do everything that used to be currency, and you can buy a lot of things in the base. Every Sunday is the day when the entire hope base rests, and it is also the day for the big market. There will be piles of goods on this day. People in the base buy it.

Therefore, I hope that the people in the base have actually returned to their former rhythm of life.

(To be continued.)