Chapter 975 Gathering Place

Fortunately, after Aiden's explanation, the guards finally let them in. Of course, although they let them in, they also said...

"If you dare to do anything dangerous, we will shoot immediately!"

At the beginning, everyone didn't quite understand why the atmosphere in this gathering place was so tense, but when they walked into the gathering place, they immediately understood the source of the tense atmosphere.

On the open space in the gathering place, dozens of corpses were piled there, some guards were holding firewood and gasoline nearby, and some people were crying beside them...

"It seems that a lot of people should have been lost here last night."

Takashiro Saya observed carefully, and then spoke in a low voice. Her expression was somewhat stiff, but it was normal to think about it carefully. After all, in the case of the blood moon, not everywhere has the power of the Tribunal. Especially the larger the gathering place, the more likely it is to suffer heavy losses.

"Well, it's a bit interesting."

Duanmu Huai stood where he was, ignoring the horrified eyes cast by the people around him, and just looked around curiously. These survivors occupied a large factory as their base. From the outside, it should be a food processing plant. Well, this way, it is understandable why the people of this city chose this place as a gathering place.

"Why is it so expensive?"

Just as Duanmu Huai was curiously looking at the gathering place, Joel's voice came from not far away. He turned his head and saw Joel arguing with a man who looked like a guard, who looked very impatient.

"What's wrong?"

Duanmu Huai walked over curiously and asked. Seeing his arrival, the guard's face changed and he didn't say anything. Instead, Joel complained.

"The things in this gathering place are too expensive. I originally just wanted to exchange some stored dry food, but I didn't expect him to ask me for a hundred bullets!"

With the advent of the doomsday, of course, the currency has no effect. As for the bottle cap currency, it is even more nonsense. According to Aiden and Joel, the general transactions in this world are barter. For example, you have medicine and I have food. Both parties need each other and can exchange a little.

Joel came to the gathering place this time to buy some dry food for himself and Ellie, and then exchange some supplies. But what he didn't expect was that this gathering place mainly needed energy reserves such as gasoline and diesel, and then medicines... and the equipment and parts for repairing machinery that Joel looted on the road were also in demand, but the demand was not very large.

If Joel hadn't been lucky and got a few boxes of cigarettes, which were hard currency in the wasteland, I'm afraid the other party wouldn't even want to look at Joel.

"Even if you say so, our requirements in this regard are indeed not high."

Although the guard was a little scared when he saw Duanmu Huai, he still bit the bullet and argued with reason. After all, this is the end of the world, and every bit of resources is almost life-threatening. How can it be easily traded?

Joel argued with the other party for a long time, but the guard refused to give in easily. After all, the medicine Joel needed was also hard currency, and cigarettes could only relieve boredom, but medicine could save lives...

"It's useless for you to argue here."

Duanmu Huai stood by and listened for a while, thinking that this was actually no different from the bargaining at the roadside vegetable stalls, "This vegetable is too expensive for 1.5 yuan, give it to me for 1 yuan", "I won't sell it for 1 yuan, at least 1.3 yuan", and decisively lost interest.

"Since we can't reach an agreement on the transaction price, is there no other way?"

"Another way?"

Joel and the guard, who were arguing endlessly, were also stunned when they heard Duanmu Huai's proposal, and Duanmu Huai nodded.

"I remember Aiden wasn't that... wanderer or something, wasn't he supposed to take on some commissions, and then people would pay him... couldn't you do the same? Since the price couldn't be agreed upon, do you have any tasks you can give him to complete? If he helps you, wouldn't it be okay for you to give him some medicine as a reward?"

"This........."

Hearing this, the guard and Joel were stunned. The former thought for a moment, then looked at Joel, and then at Duanmu Huai.

"If that's the case, then I really have a task for you. If you can complete it, then we can provide you with some supplies you need."

"So generous? It's dangerous, isn't it?"

"Of course it's dangerous."

The guard didn't lie, but nodded.

"When you entered the gathering place, you saw those corpses, right?"

"Yes, I did."

"In fact, they were originally carrying an important mission..."

Soon, the guard also explained to Duanmu Huai and Joel that after the apocalypse, this gathering place has been gradually expanding and has also taken in a lot of refugees. But there is a problem, that is, their energy supply is not much. The entire food processing plant did have several backup generators, but there was not enough fuel.

Before this, the gathering place sent people to nearby gas stations and other places to collect fuel, but now all the surrounding gas stations have been emptied.

However, the scouts sent by the gathering place brought good news. They found a fuel pipeline and an oil warehouse that had not been damaged near the other side of the city. Although it was just a small warehouse, if they could occupy it and open a transportation line connecting the food factory, then the fuel problem of the gathering place could be solved for a long time.

So the gathering place gathered a team of people and tried to take over the oil warehouse and open the road.

However...

Finally failed.

The reason is simple, there is not enough time.

If this world does not have a blood moon every seven days, then they slowly advance and may really succeed. But unfortunately, this world will erupt a blood moon frenzy every seven days. In this case, the gathering place can't slowly advance at all.

But if they want to speed up, they don't have such a strong force.

The final result is that they did not have time to open the road to the oil warehouse before the blood moon arrived, so they suffered heavy losses.

So……………

"If you can open the road to the oil warehouse and eliminate the zombies occupying there, then we can indeed provide you with supplies."

"This……………"

Joel frowned when he heard the guard's request. He knew that it was impossible for him to do this. Of course, it was almost the same if you asked him to go there and get a few barrels of fuel back… although it was also difficult.

"Well……………"

On the contrary, Duanmu Huai thought about it after listening to it.

"Okay, no problem."

"Huh?"

It must be said that Joel and Ellie were stunned when they heard Duanmu Huai's answer.

This is obviously their business, and it seems to have nothing to do with the Tribunal, right?

Soon, Duanmu Huai gathered everyone together and explained it to them.

After listening to Duanmu Huai's explanation, the survivors were quite incredible. Of course, from their perspective. They did hope to get some support from this gathering place in terms of supplies, but————To put it bluntly, this is also their own business. Like Joel and Ellie, they need supplies to continue their journey, so they naturally have to take risks. This is natural.

But... the Tribunal doesn't need to take risks with them, right?

"We do need supplies, and at present, this is also very important to us, but..."

Takashiro Saya frowned and looked at Duanmu Huai.

"Mr. Duanmu, the Tribunal doesn't need these supplies, right? Are you helping purely out of... goodwill?"

"Of course not."

Duanmu Huai shook his head.

"The Tribunal's duty is to protect the survival of mankind and eliminate all threats to mankind. For this gathering place, at least for now, it is one of the fires for the survival of human civilization. Since they need help, the Tribunal will naturally be willing to assist them out of duty. Of course, the choice of how to do it is ours."

At this point, Duanmu Huai glanced at Takashiro Saya.

"Just like you, for the Tribunal, it is also our duty to save you. After all, only when humans survive can civilization and existence continue. Do you understand?"

"This... well, I think I can understand, but it's just a little..."

It must be said that the survivors were very surprised to hear Duanmu Huai's answer. You know, in this era and this world, the so-called big talk of saving humanity is almost unheard of. Almost everyone is fighting for their own interests. An organization like the Tribunal is really unimaginable for everyone.

Of course, more importantly, the Tribunal is not just talking, they really do it.

However, these survivors don’t know that Duanmu Huai did this because, on the one hand, it is indeed the responsibility of the Tribunal, and on the other hand, it is also a matter of raking grass to kill rabbits. After all, he doesn’t know where the main line is in this world, so he just does the tasks one by one, and maybe he will find the main line while doing it.

The commander of this gathering place just now also talked with Duanmu Huai, and the two sides reached an agreement. At present, this should be the main task of this gathering place. Open up the transportation channel and occupy the oil warehouse... Hey, how to say it, the wasteland is really troublesome.

Thinking of this, Duanmu Huai scratched his head. If it was a normal fragmented world, at least he could find a core civilization point. This world is almost broken and there is no idea where there is a core civilization gathering place. If there is none, then this...

Ah, so this is the bad thing about sandbox games. It is not good to have side quests everywhere but no main quest.

Duanmu Huai felt that he was a bit like crawling out of a shelter, looking at the devastated radioactive wasteland outside, with a confused look on his face, "Who am I, where am I, what should I do?"

What's more, there is no BB boy to guide him, right?

You can't indulge in picking up garbage.

"Forget it, after all, side quests are also quests, so do it or not."

Duanmu Huai thought about it and asked directly. The survivors discussed it and finally agreed to participate in this mission. After all, the leader of the gathering place said that if they could really complete the mission, they would be given all the good things. Duanmu Huai seemed to be unwilling to take it, but they still needed some capital to walk in the wasteland. Moreover, this kind of mission would definitely be suicidal in normal times, but now Duanmu Huai was leading the way. They had seen the fighting power of the Tribunal. It would be a waste if they didn’t hug this thigh, right?

So everyone discussed it. No risk, no gain. Let’s do it!