"One of our workers has recently experienced an abnormality, as if their physical function has deteriorated a lot...... You know, at least seventy percent of our productivity comes from them, so I guess...... Please try to see if you can get them back. Qin Yao said.

Liu Yong immediately glanced at me after hearing this, and I nodded slightly quietly.

The workers were clearly referring to semi-infected people, and I had always wondered where they were hiding, and now I could find out.

After Liu Yong's consent, Qin Yao beckoned us to get into a stretch car and start marching along the road on the outskirts of Life No. 2 City, heading north, that is, in the direction of the Qinhuai Mountains.

In addition to the body of our stretch car, Qin Yao naturally also has her own personal guards, these personal guards are all elite personnel of wanderers in their twenties, each of them is equipped with a long and short gun, and there are also matching protective suits to defend against psionic energy and Gu poison.

Next, we passed by several small production factories of various materials in a row, and every time we passed, Qin Yao would get out of the car and greet the people there, looking really like a politician.

I have to say that this Qin Yao should still be very good at managing the people under him, and this is what I lack the most now, I can't help but start to imagine that if Qin Yao can find a way to recruit his subordinates, it should still be very helpful to unite my people.

On the way, Qin Yao began to introduce Liu Yong to the passive situation of the current wanderers, and she said that the voodoo people had now fully occupied the land border area of Dongkou Province, and had begun to fully advance towards the inner area. And based on the previous battles, it was more as if these voodoos were trying to fight quickly, as if they had other more important things to deal with.

"Haven't you thought of making peace with them?" I asked.

Qin Yao shook his head: "This is impossible, if you want to negotiate peace with the enemy, you must have two conditions, one is that the strength cannot be too weak than the opponent, and the other is that you can provide them with what they want, but now we are not satisfied with either." ”

"Is that an exaggeration?" I asked, confused, "how much weaker?"

"How much weaker? Don't you know yourself?" Qin Yao looked at me meaningfully and said, "You know, you are also one of us, right?"

The sweat on the back of my head came down when I heard this, and I said that I was too careless just now, and I said that I had leaked my mouth......

I don't know if this Qin Yao has heard the Tao inside, but I can't make a mistake now, I can only hope that Qin Yao will not doubt it.

At this time, it was Zhao Tian who came forward to relieve the siege for me, and he defended me by saying that I was in charge of logistics support, and I had never been particularly familiar with the war on the front line.

Qin Yao nodded and said, "It seems that you have to know more about it in the future, after all, the current rear may become the front line at any time." ”

"Then how long do you think we can hold on?" Zhao Tian continued to ask.

"Well...... It's hard to say. Qin Yao's eyes blinked: "Sometimes willpower can indeed change the combat effectiveness of a group, and what we lack most now is this, everyone has been frightened by the rapid march of the voodoo sect, and many people are disheartened, I hope that this time the Wanderers Alliance can change this situation, the alliance leader Zhao Youkuang is a very far-sighted and eloquent person, he should be able to lead us to victory." ”

"Then how many people have we lost now?" Liu Yong also asked.

"At least more than a thousand. Qin Yao's expression was a little more solemn: "And it doesn't include the dead soldiers." ”

I didn't really understand what "dead men" meant at the time, and I only later learned that it referred to the wanderers they controlled who didn't have a full mind.

However, Liu Yong and Zhao Tian both know this title, and thanks to this, we didn't show it.

"Then will we be completely defensive in the next step?" Zhao Tian said in the tone of a military strategist: "Sometimes you can't blindly do this, for such a strong enemy, blindly defending will definitely suffer, if you want to turn the situation around, you must find an opportunity to counterattack, and you must firmly seize it!"

Qin Yao nodded approvingly: "I have the same idea as you, but this point can only be done after our discussion, now is not the time to make a small fight with the Blue Bird Company in North China Province, our previous scattered situation will also bring us a greater negative impact, we must eradicate this." ”

Next, Qin Yao talked with us for a while, a lot of content was about ourselves, and I felt that this Qin Yao was probing us from all aspects.

This conversation lasted for about fifteen minutes, and then the car suddenly stopped, and the driver in front turned around and said to Qin Yao in a respectful voice: "Miss Qin, it's here, please get out of the car." ”

Qin Yao nodded at the driver, and then motioned for us to get out of the car.

Liu Yong and Zhao Tian jumped down first, and the rest of us followed.

At this time, we were approaching the eastern branch of the Qinhuai Mountains, and in front of us was a small mound protrusion zone, with a number of simple sheds built nearby, and a large number of simple daily necessities piled up inside and outside the sheds.

Looking further down the flat ground across the mound, I saw a number of entrances to the ground, with some cable connections near them, and I even saw some improvised railroad tracks that ran from the ground to the surface.

Combined with the large amount of black dust raised nearby, I understood in an instant...... It's a small coal mine!

It's no wonder that the power supply in the city of Life 2 is so abundant, they already have this precious energy source in their hands.

And the people who work here are naturally semi-infected.

I continued to look at the half-infected people who were pulling the cart just now, and I saw that the mental state of these people was extremely poor, and their already pale faces looked as terrifying as zombies, their eyes were blank, and their bones were as thin as firewood...... It's like having some incurable disease.

Several semi-infected individuals limply pulled carts full of coal behind them and were heading towards a nearby pulled truck.

Soon more carts were brought out along the tracks, and more semi-infected people came out of the underground mines and nearby sheds.

To my surprise, there was no half-wanderer guard, who were completely unattended.

Zhao Tian should have known my doubts, and without waiting for me to ask, he took the initiative to whisper to me: "They must use these resources to exchange for the corresponding food and fresh water! You must know that the wanderers in Dongkou Province have monopolized most of the materials, and if they want to survive, they must use such methods! Therefore, there is no need for people to supervise at all, and this can also save the allocation of human resources for the wanderers!"

I nodded, it seems that their previous "big pot rice" distribution system was only used for their own people, for these semi-infected people whose status is simply inferior to cattle and horses, this distribution is completely extravagant, in fact, it is a miracle that they can live now.

The situation of these semi-infected people is much more miserable than I expected before I came to Dongkou Province, you must know that in the process of migrating to Dongkou Province, the wanderers walked a large number of leaflets along the way to make the group of semi-infected people go with them, and now it seems that they are doing this simply to bring some coolie laborers, which is completely false propaganda.

And there are indeed three semi-infected people in the camp group around me who were lured away by this method, that is, the three semi-infected groups of Yin Xian, Li Xingguo and Ma Monk who were tricked by Ouyang Shuo, if I am lucky, I may be able to meet these guys.

Qin Yao clapped his hands at this time, and the young men from the previous personal guard team followed, there were more than twenty people in this team, all of them looked like loyal dogs who swore to protect Qin Yao's life......

Qin Yao whispered to one of them, and this person quickly ran to the two semi-infected people who had just pulled the cart, and asked them to come to us in a commanding tone.

How dare these semi-infected people disobey their fate, they quickly ran over and stood in front of us with their heads bowed.

Qin Yao tilted his head and looked around the semi-infected people with a high posture, then turned his head to Liu Yong and said, "Look, this is the current situation, their bodies seem to be weakening for no reason...... Is it because the cold has made the energy in their bodies subside?"

Liu Yong pretended to be thoughtful and touched his chin, but he was glancing at me out of the corner of his eye, obviously making me want to say something.

I immediately gave him a look, Liu Yong was not stupid, and immediately said to Qin Yao: "You let the assistant explain this matter to you, I'll go and see the situation first." ”

After finishing speaking, Liu Yong walked towards the semi-infected people, while Qin Yao turned his head to look at me.

Damn, he actually said I was his assistant......

But now I can only admit it, I said slowly to Qin Yao: "Their current situation is naturally inseparable from the cold, you should be right, because the cold makes the Gu worm virus ineffective in their bodies, and then inhibits the human energy generated by the virus, plus they themselves have been semi-adapted to the body sensations brought by the Gu worm virus energy, and now they suddenly take out these energies, they will definitely be weak." ”

"Oh?" Qin Yao seemed to be convinced by what I said, and her expression revealed a hint of joy, but she still didn't have more facial expressions, she just continued to ask, "That...... What can you do?"

"There must be a way, but it still needs some detailed adjustments, and I'm afraid we have to find some semi-infected people to experiment first. I said deliberately.

"This is easy to do, I can arrest a few people, and you can dispose of them as you like. Qin Yao said coldly.

My heart sank...... Damn, this woman is really a typical example of softness on the outside and strength on the inside, and she is indeed ruthless!

"Also, I want to ask...... How many semi-infected workers do you have here?" I asked.

Qin Yao was a little more alert: "What's wrong, does this have anything to do with you?"

"Because once the treatment starts, it has to be a batch of actions, so I naturally have to know an approximate number in advance so that I can make a plan of action for the next step. ”

Qin Yao glanced back at Liu Yong, who was walking around behind him, thought for a while and said, "It's okay to tell you, after all, everyone is not an outsider, and the number of semi-infected people who are working in the No. 2 city of our life is about five thousand four hundred." ”

I smacked my tongue, this number was terrifying to me, I didn't expect that a small city of Life No. 2 would gather so many semi-infected people!

It also shows how much of the proportion of semi-infected people are still alive in the overall human population, and how many semi-infected people ...... Once I can unite them, it will undoubtedly be a very powerful force!

Although the personal combat effectiveness of these semi-infected people is somewhat low, they cannot stand the large number, not to mention, if we find a solution to their physical functions, then this combat power will be multiplied.

"All in this coal mine?" I asked casually.

"Of course not. Qin Yao said: "They have basically been sent to the quarry to collect sand and gravel raw materials during this time. ”

I thought to myself, no wonder the fortifications around Life 2 were so strong, and it seemed to be distributed with these sand and gravel materials.

It seems that these semi-infected people are engaged in the most arduous physical work, such a large workload and a working environment without any protective measures will inevitably lead to a very high mortality rate, it is conceivable that the living space of these semi-infected people has been squeezed to what extent, and even so, they did not collectively resist, which shows that these people's health is indeed a little bad.

I left Qin Yao at this time, and followed the others to the semi-infected people.

I can't tell the exact age of these semi-infected people, because their faces are covered with soot and their own skin cracks, and I can only infer from their approximate size that they are almost twenty or thirty years old.

Seeing us coming, the half-infected cringed even more, like lambs to the slaughter.

I whispered to them to relax as I began to take a closer look at them.

I have seen many semi-infected people before, especially the group of semi-infected people led by Tan Wei, who has died, who followed me all the way from the coastal area of South China to Huhai City, and we have been close to each other for a long time.

In fact, once those semi-infected people have relatively superior living conditions, both their complexion and skin texture can be greatly improved, and they can be close to normal people, but at present, these semi-infected people do not seem to belong to this kind of situation......

I noticed that their skin had begun to show the scaly and carapace-like texture of a resurrected corpse!