Chapter 1752 The Old Taoist Priest of Mount Hua

Huashan.

The snow covers every corner of Huashan.

The top of the steep mountain is covered with silver, which makes it look more vast and mysterious.

After the wind and snow, the world is clean and the air is filled with cold freshness.

The sun shines through the clouds and shines on the snow peaks, reflecting dazzling light, as if the fairy light from heaven has descended to the earth.

Crystal icicles hang on the mountain walls, and occasionally they collapse due to gravity, making crisp sounds that echo in the silent valleys.

In such a dangerous environment, vitality still stubbornly shows its existence. The exposed pine branches are covered with snowflakes, like works of art carved from white jade, quietly telling of tenacity and indomitable spirit. Occasionally, a few mountain birds fly by, shaking off the snow on their feathers, singing crisp and pleasant songs, bringing a hint of vitality to this frozen world.

Climbing high and looking far away, the sea of ​​clouds is rolling, contrasting with the snow peaks. Surrounded by clouds and mist, Huashan is like a fairyland, making people forget the worries of the world.

In this white world, every step is full of challenges, and every breath feels chilly. But it is this challenge that makes those who bravely explore it more fascinated by the beauty of Huashan.

After this blizzard, Huashan showed the most shocking scenery, which made those who were lucky enough to witness it unforgettable.

On the top of Huashan, there is a Taoist temple standing on the edge of the cliff. The Taoist temple is not big, covering only half an acre.

Jiba stood in front of the Taoist temple, overlooking the snow scene in front of him, surrounded by clouds and mist, and it was extremely beautiful.

Everything in front of him was like the scene in the ancient paintings. He suddenly realized that the landscape paintings painted by the ancients were not freehand, but realistic, which was really beautiful.

Just when Jiba was immersed in such a beautiful scenery, an old Taoist priest with white hair and crane-like figure came behind him.

"Qingfeng, go pick up some firewood." The old Taoist priest whispered to Jiba in front of him.

"Okay, Master." Ji Ba turned his head and made a Taoist salute.

He turned to the path next to him and walked slowly.

He set out from the Oil City before the ice disaster, and came to the Huashan Mountain he had been thinking about all the way.

He was different from others. He yearned for freedom. To him, freedom was even more important than life. He would not wait until the next day to go to a place he wanted to go, but would set out immediately, regardless of whether he could get there or not.

In the end of the world, there were zombies everywhere, and when the natural disaster was about to break out, he still came out of the Oil City. It can be said that he was a madman.

He encountered various setbacks and hardships on the way, but he finally arrived.

However, when he was climbing Huashan Mountain, a strong wind happened to blow. Huashan Mountain was extremely steep. In the strong wind, he almost fell off the cliff and died.

But he was lucky and was rescued by an old Taoist priest.

Then he was taken to the Taoist temple on the top of the mountain.

The strong wind blew for several days, and soon after, a blizzard fell.

The blizzard lasted for more than 20 days, and all the food in his backpack was consumed.

When the blizzard first fell, he was with the old Taoist priest day and night, and was impressed by the old Taoist priest's charm and asked to become his disciple.

The old Taoist priest was reluctant at first, so Ji Ba walked out of the small Taoist temple and knelt in the blizzard, as if he would not get up unless he was accepted.

The blizzard was heavy, and he knelt for a long time, and the snow outside buried his legs.

The old Taoist priest had no choice but to accept him and gave him a Taoist name, Qingfeng, for fear that he would die in the blizzard.

Ji Ba was very happy that he succeeded in becoming his disciple that day.

He stepped on the wooden board and walked along the path on the top of the mountain to a row of trees.

The blizzard was heavy these days, burying many trees at the bottom of the mountain, but the trees on the edge of the cliff on the top of the mountain fell directly off the cliff when the blizzard fell, and the trees on the edge of the cliff survived.

Jiba pulled out his machete, cut down a few Chinese pine trees, tied them together with ropes, and dragged the firewood to the Taoist temple.

The wind was strong on the top of the mountain, and the cold wind was biting. Jiba wore a jacket and stepped on the snow.

The Chinese pine trees behind him scratched on the snow, leaving traces.

Back to the Taoist temple.

The Taoist temple was in ruins, with several holes, but they were all blocked with wood and stones.

There was a fire pit in the center, and sparks were still burning on it.

Hualala--

Jiba dragged the pine tree in, broke off the branches on it and threw it into the fire pit.

There was still some snow on the pine branches, and it made a crackling sound when burning in the fire pit.

"Master, the blizzard has stopped. Where are you going next?"

The old Taoist priest raised his head and said with emotion:

"Natural disasters happen frequently, and people are having a hard time. When the snow melts, we will go down the mountain. As for where to go, I don't know. Let's go wherever there are people."

"Do your best and save as many people as possible."

Ji Ba heard this and stopped the action in his hand.

"Master, I know where there are many people. Have you heard of Oil City?"

"Oil City?"

The old Taoist priest shook his head and said:

"I haven't heard of it. Where is it?"

Ji Ba said excitedly:

"In Xinyang, Henan Province, there are more than 100,000 people! There are many people there, and that Oil City is the most prosperous and harmonious place I have ever seen under governance."

"Oil City is very powerful. I have seen their managers. They are quite righteous. And they have a trading market. Survivors can go in to avoid zombies and trade various materials in it."

Hearing what Ji Ba said, the old Taoist priest became interested.

He has been to many places and many small groups, but when he returned, the bases of these small groups were destroyed.

I didn't expect that in the end of the world, there would be a super-large base with more than 100,000 people.

It is rare to achieve this.

"Tell me in detail about this oil city."

This blizzard is far more terrifying than any previous natural disaster.

The ten-meter-high snow covered the entire world with a thick white protective film.

Indiscriminate treatment, whether it is zombies, buildings, trees, or even everything is covered by the blizzard.

If it is in the mountainous and hilly areas, it is better, but the low-lying roads are covered with snow.

In some plains, large areas of buildings are covered with snow.

Even the roofs of three-story houses cannot be seen.

At this stage, there are only a handful of forces that can survive, but they all have a strong ability to resist risks.

As for the general small and medium-sized forces, most of them have been defeated by these natural disasters.

Especially this blizzard.

Survivors living in the city have to face the problem of heating. There is no firewood in the city, no energy for burning for heating, and there are many zombies in the city buildings.

If you live in the countryside and mountains far away from the city, there will also be troubles, and there must be a shelter.

The blizzard is so heavy, and most of the buildings in the countryside are low-rise. Such a heavy blizzard will definitely cause some houses to be buried in the snow.

They live in the countryside and can only brave the freezing blizzard and go out to sweep the snow. The workload is huge. After a long time, frostbite and freezing to death occur frequently.

Some people even tried hard to clear the snow, but they still couldn't resist the speed of the blizzard. They could only watch the blizzard submerge the shelter, standing in the blizzard with nowhere to hide, and finally froze to death.

Zhang City.

Snow-covered.

Zhou Songming stood on the roof in despair, overlooking the farm pasture in front of him.

It's over!

It's all over!

This terrible blizzard not only buried and froze the open-air crops in the farm, but also collapsed two-thirds of the greenhouses they built.

He had tried his best to protect the greenhouses, but due to the lack of manpower, the snow shoveling work was not done properly, resulting in the collapse of a large number of greenhouses.

The farms and pastures here are supplied to the Northwest Base.

During this period, he did not dare to report the real situation here to the Northwest Headquarters Base.

Once the Northwest Headquarters Base knew about it, Zhou Songming would have no way out.

Now, the snow stopped.

"Let Anfeng take people to repair the greenhouses." Zhou Songming sighed and said to his men behind him.

"Yes." The men were about to leave, but were stopped by Zhou Songming.

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"Wait."

"Tell everyone to keep their mouths shut and don't let the situation here know to the northwest, otherwise we will suffer. Now the snow has stopped. If we repair and resume planting and production before the snow melts, we can still explain it to the past."

The subordinate looked solemn and nodded: "Yes, I will warn them."

Zhou Songming waved his hand and let him leave.

Alas.

This blizzard caused heavy losses to the farms and ranches in Zhang City.

Because it is in the hinterland of the northwest, Wuyuan Mountain Ma Laoliu is guarding the east and resisting the zombies from the west.

The farms and ranches in Zhang City are not protected by walls, but surrounded by the simplest barbed wire or wooden fences.

Over the years, although there have been some losses after several natural disasters, they are not as serious as this time, which greatly damaged their production.

In terms of agriculture, the production has decreased by 80%.

Animal husbandry is a little better, and the livestock are all raised in farms, but some farms collapsed under the snow, causing some livestock to freeze to death.

But this blizzard was really terrible.

It snowed for more than 20 days in a row, and it was a heavy blizzard, and the snow could not be cleared at all.

The population in the northwest was originally sparse, and the population has only decreased over the years.

And most of the population is concentrated in the northwest headquarters base.

The five branch bases in the northwest, the population of each branch base combined is not as large as the population of the headquarters base.

Oil City.

Trading market, at the gate.

Crowded.

The dense crowd lined up to pass through the city and go to the buffer city.

In the crowd.

Sui Dahua followed the crowd to the buffer city.

"Old Xu, there are quite a few people participating in the construction of the greenhouse this time, wow, look at the people everywhere." Sui Dahua exclaimed to Xu Qingwen.

Xu Qingwen raised his head and looked around. People were everywhere.

He smacked his lips and said, "We recruited 20,000 construction workers at one time, and there are also 2,000 transporters, thousands of supervisors, and dispatchers."

"With so many people working on the construction, I'm afraid it will be a hassle to dispatch personnel. Fortunately, we are a little Karami."

"Hahaha."

Sui Dahua laughed when he heard it, and got close to Xu Qingwen, breathing out white mist and continued:

"I just saw Jiang Chao, and that grandson actually came out too."

"Oh?"

Xu Qingwen asked in confusion, "Wasn't he rejected because of his unqualified physical fitness? This grandson was so high-profile before, borrowing points everywhere without saving any points, and I ignored him."

"I don't know. I think he's in good condition." Sui Dahua replied.

"How did he survive?" Xu Qingwen asked.

Sui Dahua whispered, "I heard that he went to the sea."

Xu Qingwen's eyes widened, "What, him?"

"With him like that, there are still people who want him? Are you kidding me!"

"Besides, he is at least a level 4 member. It's outrageous for a level 4 member to go to Tingfeng Tower to be a duck!"

They are all level 4 personnel. During the frozen disaster, they stayed in their residences all day long with nothing to do. All kinds of gossip about people of the same level became their topic of conversation.

Jiang Chao is quite famous among the level 4 members.

It is said that he has been in the trading market for a long time. During the frozen disaster, he was reduced to moving to Area C. That's fine, but he didn't have points to buy food.

He could only ask acquaintances to borrow money humbly, but no one lent him money.

In desperation, Jiang Chao pawned his compound crossbow. When his points ran out, he pawned all the items stored in the warehouse for points.

He went bankrupt completely.

Later, his points ran out again. He applied for a snow shoveling job but was not hired.

Finally, he was forced to do nothing and went to Tingfeng Tower to be a gigolo.

Tingfeng Tower's business was not good during the blizzard, but he, who was quite high-profile before, went to be a gigolo.

That was fine, Huizi of Tingfeng Tower took him in, and there were actually people doing his business.

Through such a humiliating means, he at least had points to buy food and survived.

And he worked hard to exercise, two corn tortillas a day, at least he took care of his body.

This time, when the buffer city greenhouse was built, he passed the physical fitness test and signed up.

This surprised many people. Many people thought he would continue to be a gigolo in Tingfeng Tower. After all, there was heating in Tingfeng Tower, and he could make money by lying down.

I've already been in the sea, and now I'm running out to work in the greenhouse. It's so cold, and the points I earn are not as many as those in Tingfeng Tower.

Following the crowd, Jiang Chao lowered his head and said nothing.

People in front, behind, and on both sides deliberately kept a distance from him.

Listening to the mocking and talking of people around him, Jiang Chao clenched his fists and gritted his teeth as he walked forward.

This period of time was the most painful day in his life.

In order to survive, he had already knelt down and let others trample on his dignity at will.

The reason why he came out of Tingfeng Tower and returned to his job as a builder was because he understood one thing.

He had to upgrade, he had to climb up step by step, he had to upgrade to a high enough position so that others would not dare to mock him.

And those who borrowed points but did not exchange them, he must make them pay the price.

In Tingfeng Tower, although there are points, they are all trading points.

To upgrade to a third-level member, he can only do it by contributing points, so he came here to do construction.

(Seeking monthly tickets)