And the premise of knowing oneself and knowing one's opponent is naturally to find a foothold for ourselves first.

We didn't dare to stay where we were for too long after we rejoined, because stagnation in one spot was the easiest thing to detect, so we followed the trail all the way to an area of about 20 kilometers deep in Dongkou Province under the guidance of Mr. Qin.

Of course, in order to avoid unnecessary conflicts, we still use the disguise of a wanderer ((swing dàng) dàng) to cover up, after all, with Liu Yong, our (身shēn) share will not arouse suspicion.

However, Liu Yong's "passage order" will not last long, because it will not be long before the fact that Liu Yong has been abducted will spread throughout the entire community of wanderers.

We are now simply looking for food under the wolf's mouth, but we can't retreat outside the Dongkou Province, because that will only attract more dangerous moon spirits, if the wanderers ((swing dàng) dàng) are wolves, then those ghosts and spirits under the moon spirits are undoubtedly tigers.

Rather than the moon spirit, I would rather choose to deal with the swimmer ((swing dàng) dàng).

I've said before that I don't want to go to the weird lower floors with mural patterns as a stop, but in order to make the pros and cons as clear as possible, when Mr. Qin told us that there was one such spot on the side of the road, I decided to go down and have a look.

The entrance to the underground level is hidden near a barren meadow, and there is little sign of biological activity around, suggesting that the place has been untouched for at least the last few months.

Mr. Qin told me that there are dozens of underground floors like this in Dongkou Province alone, and this does not include some underground floors that may be found in other areas around Dongkou Province.

In this way, the number and scale of these underground layers are more than a notch larger than what I knew before, and it seems that the activity of Gu worms had already infiltrated on a large scale before the cataclysm.

I asked the others to wait above, and I only took Zhao Tian and He Yunsong down to investigate the situation.

"Why don't the people of the wanderers occupy these places?" I asked Zhao Tiandao, "Do they think there is something wrong with these places?"

"Not really. Zhao Tian shook his head: "It's just that Dongkou Province is vast and sparsely populated, and after occupying here, there is a lot of land available for construction, and there is no need for them to drill into the ground anymore, except for some necessary warehouses for storing materials will be selected (sex xìng) to be placed in the underground layer." “

"Didn't they wonder about such underground floors? Don't you want to know what they're for?"

"I don't think there's any special use. Zhao Tian said without thinking: "Built underground, it can only mean that these facilities are for the Gu worm virus, but then the catastrophe started too suddenly, and these facilities are not useful at all." ”

I didn't say anything, because Zhao Tian didn't know what was going on in those altar rooms, let alone the effect of those murals on me, and I didn't plan to tell him now, and even if other people wanted to, it wouldn't be so easy to explain.

The basement level we are going down to now is much smaller than the few we have encountered in the past. However, although the sparrow is small and has all kinds of organs, the structure inside is similar to that of some simple facilities, and there are also altar rooms, and there are some stone platforms that remain. In addition, the mural patterns are also indispensable, and what I saw in these murals were all old things, most of which were narrative paintings of various strange people behaving in their actions, and some of them depicted various monster forms.

I don't know much about the role of these patterns, but I've seen some of them.

What impressed me the most was undoubtedly the experience of encountering the "ghost" of the nameless little girl, and the cold air brought the nearby mural patterns to life, which can bring great chaos to people, at least on the spiritual level.

This is already a very useful ability, but I feel that the real purpose of these murals is far from that simple.

The most obvious thing is that although we have seen all kinds of murals all the time, only a few times have they interfered with my movements, and most of the time they exist as still lifes, so there must be a lot of undiscovered content.

There weren't any traps in this basement, and it only took the three of us a few minutes to read it, and we found that there was no harm in this lower level except for the cold and damp (yin yīn), and if it was slightly ventilated, it could be used for a similar purpose to a cellar.

Next, under the guidance of Mr. Qin, we looked at three or four similar underground floors in succession, and the situation was almost the same, except for the different areas, the shape of the inside was nothing special.

After about two hours, we finally arrived at the first large underground water inlet, the scale of the sewer system here is really comparable to a large building on the ground, the entrance alone is almost like a dam, but unfortunately due to disrepair, half of the entrance has collapsed, and it is no longer possible to see it in its entirety.

This place was suggested by Mr. Qin and Liu Yong after joint consultation, after all, Liu Yong also knew that he would act with us next, and if our situation was not safe, he would not be much better.

Liu Yong told me that such sewer systems are everywhere in Dong Kou Province, and many of them are interconnected, so if we want to find a place to "settle down", we need to not only keep the outside hidden, but also look for hidden threats from the inside.

Because some of the sewer swimmers also use knives, once they are connected to our area, then sooner or later our home will be discovered.

Liu Yong's suggestion alerted me, so I led someone to do a thorough search of the entire nearby sewer area, and finally found that the sewer system should belong to some small town, so the total area is not very large, and we spent an hour to find out all the entrances and exits and draw a simple map.

Then I personally surveyed the surrounding above-ground area and confirmed that there were no nearby outposts or outposts that were close to us.

It seems that this place is safe for the time being.

However, this does not mean that there are such places everywhere in the entire Dongkou Province, in fact, there are not many similar lots, and the reason why we can find them so quickly is completely dependent on the two "guides" of Mr. Qin and Liu Yong.

After the location was confirmed, I asked Chen Mengyu, Amy, and Xia Ran to stay where they were, while Zhao Tian and He Yunsong set off with Zhao Tian and He Yunsong to return to the location of our temporary convoy outside Dongkou Province to gather the bounty hunters there and the remnants of the Salvation Army led by Bai Ye......

On the way, Zhao Tian said that he could clearly feel that Dongkou Province had "changed the sky", and it was no longer a hall of words of wanderers, the most obvious example was that we could no longer see those lazy patrols, and judging from the traces of nearby activities, it should have been more Burmese who broke into Dongkou Province later, and it seems that these two groups will engage in large-scale firefighting for a long time to come.

Actually...... Until now, I didn't understand what the Burmese were for, I thought they were looking for Liu Yong, but in the end I found that they didn't have any special interest in Liu Yong, or even me. Coupled with the fact that the number of these Burmese is exaggerated, I am now beginning to suspect that these Burmese are really just here to find a new habitat for themselves.

Don't......

There is no room for them in Myanmar now?

This is not impossible, after all, the initial stage of the outbreak was in Myanmar, if there is a worst situation and where the Gu worm virus is the most rampant, it is undoubtedly Myanmar itself.

This is something I don't want to foresee, because after we return to Taoyuan Island, the next step is to prepare to enter Myanmar.

......

When we finally returned to the location of the temporary convoy to meet Bai Ye, Lu Ming and the others, it was already night, and it took a whole day to advance the matter (情qíng) to the current stage, I was quite satisfied, after all, everything was going well.

When everyone heard that I had found Liu Yong and captured him, everyone was very surprised, but Bai Ye specially reminded me to pay attention to Liu Yong's movements, this person is definitely not as simple as I thought, at least I can no longer look at him from the eyes of my former classmates, you must know that the hierarchy within the wanderer ((swing dàng) dàng is very strict, and it is definitely not easy for Liu Yong to climb from an outsider to a position equal to Liao Fang.

I understood what Bai Ye meant, and what he meant was that Liu Yong must have something hidden that he hadn't told me, but I wasn't too worried about that, because by capturing Liu Yong himself, I was sure to pry out the secrets in his mouth little by little, and no matter how Liu Yong behaved, I would never give him any human freedom.

My previous prayer seems to have been fulfilled, the amount of materials that Bai Ye and Lu Ming collected was quite large, and they also got a lot of healthy crop seeds, plus there are still a considerable number of normal wild animals in Dongkou Province because they have not been eroded by the Gu worm virus, if we can drive other forces away or subdue them, we can completely use Dongkou Province as a base point for social reconstruction.

For the first time in a long time, I really saw hope.

But there's still a long way to go.

In addition to the supplies, the most surprising thing for me was the addition of more survivors.

The number of survivors I had added before I left was only a few hundred, but after I returned, Bai Ye and Lu Ming had brought back more survivors, although it was only a small fraction of the total number of survivors, but it was enough for me.

The number of new survivors is more than 700, and most of them are young and middle-aged, because the old, weak, sick and disabled have almost all died in the previous conflict.

Although it is a bit inappropriate to say this, I do need to optimize the population as much as possible now, because if we want to survive in Dongkou Province, we will inevitably face many dangers, and the more people who can fight and protect ourselves at this time, the better our chances of winning.

In fact, a considerable number of the survivors who joined after this were intimidated by Lu Ming's bounty hunters, and they threatened these people with only two ways, either they would die in the wilderness after being robbed of their supplies, or they would take their supplies with them.

A considerable number of people chose the latter, which is the main composition of the more than seven or eight people......

This approach is very rude, and I would never agree to it before, but I appreciate it now, because the special period has no room for the Huairou policy, and I am afraid that we have been attacked several times before the personnel are arranged.

Whether it is the reign of fear or the convincing of virtue, as long as these survivors are under my command, once these people have tasted the sweetness and understood my good intentions, I believe that they can also truly obey me.

In order to keep our team safe as much as possible, I decided to divide all the people who had taken refuge in Dong Kou Province into small groups of about 30 to 50 people.

This has the advantage of not only narrowing down the target, but also preventing the entire army from being wiped out in the event of a special situation.

The leaders of these small groups were selected from among the bounty hunters, and I had the bounty hunters work in groups of two or three to lead their own groups of survivors.

That's right...... By now, those Bounty Hunters had become the backbone of our team, and their strong personal survival experience and excellent insight were indeed crucial to this operation.

After the personnel were dispatched, we also made a simple division of supplies, and basically each small group would carry a certain amount of supplies.

In addition, I handed out the gravel guns that I had collected, and as a sign of trust in the survivors, I even equipped them with weapons for the best of the best.

Finally, after I told all the bounty hunters about the direction coordinates, everyone began to carry their supplies on the road in batches.

This was a small migration, and I knew very well that the journey would not be easy, after all, there were a lot of targets, and it was inevitable that some people would happen to be attacked by wanderers or Burmese, and I could only pray that they would be blessed, after all, I would not be able to escort everyone at the same time.

However, in order to cover the migration of these teams as much as possible, I decided to launch a second Disturbance (sex) attack on Nine Rivers City with the former Salvation Army members led by White Night.

On the one hand, this will draw the attention of the wanderers to the vicinity of Jiuhe City, and on the other hand, I will also take the opportunity to see how the war between them and the Burmese has been going on.