The cold north wind blows from outside the iron gate of the safe zone, and it is getting late, and the gradually decreasing temperature erodes the last remaining heat of the human body. Outside the iron gate was obviously not a good place to talk, and Yi Yi looked at the young man from the wilderness and let him into the safe zone.

"The security zone is not something you can enter casually, and for the sake of security, we need to check your belongings." An Yi stretched out his palm and said to Wu Qi.

Wu Qi looked at the middle-aged man standing in the center of a group of gunmen in front of him from beginning to end, who seemed to be the leader. Strictly speaking, this was the first time he had seen a human other than Ruoying in nine years. The similar appearance and similar taste made Wu Qi, who had a keen sense of smell, smell a smell that did not belong to the mountains and wastelands.

Wu Qi nodded, took the bag off his back and put it on the ground, he opened the opening of the bag, and a soft whimper came out of the bag. It was clearly the voice of some kind of animal, and all the mercenaries were immediately on alert.

Wu Qi rubbed his cold hands, and after generating a little heat, he stretched out his hand and hugged a small red fox that was arm wide. The red fox's limbs obediently hugged Wu Qi's solid arms, the bright red and soft fur moved slightly in the breeze, it licked Wu Qi's chin with its tongue like a little cub attached to its mother, its furry tail rubbed the back of his hand, and its two small and round eyes blinked, and after showing an intimate look to Wu Qi, it turned its head to observe the surroundings.

The smell of the humans around him was different from Wu Qi's, it was a strange and dangerous smell. The external environment is not as warm as in the bag, the strong smell of blood and the smell of gunsmoke makes its nose very uncomfortable, and the red fox July grinned at An Yi and the others, and the unfriendly warning was particularly obvious.

"This is the Red Fox?" An Yi and the others were taken aback, and they felt more and more that this young man from the wilderness was mysterious. Now in this year, it is difficult for humans to protect themselves, and where can they have the spare energy to raise pets. Moreover, mutated animals are powerful and wild, and the possibility of domestication is extremely low.

"It's called July, it's my pet, you don't have to worry about it hurting you." Wu Qi stroked a handful of July's soft back, his steady breathing and constant temperature gave July a signal of safety, July seemed to understand what Wu Qi meant, put away his teeth exposed in the air, settled down, and climbed onto Wu Qi's shoulder to stay.

In such a scene, Rao is comfortable thirty-two-year-old experience was also shocked. At this time, Lao Kang called out loudly for comfort.

"Captain, look, this young man's bag is full of fine animal skins and mutated animal body materials!"

This remark alarmed the others, and everyone's curiosity was ignited, and they all looked into their bags. It was filled with valuable materials such as animal skins that Wu Qi had just taken off from the crocodile tiger dragon, as well as animal skin carpets that had been stepped on for several years. Wu Qi probably knew that these things existed in value, but he didn't expect that they would surprise this group of people so much.

An Yi rubbed the warm and tough surface of the animal skin, and was sure that this was definitely the fur of a fierce carnivorous mutant animal, and it would never be stripped off the body of a beast of the size of the dire wolf, and he just wanted to continue to explore the true face of the animal skin, a white and rough palm was inserted from the field of vision, grabbed the strap of the bag, and pulled the bag back completely.

Wu Qi put on a cold face of resistance, and his voice was like a percussion of beautiful jade, covered with a layer of frost: "I only asked you to check whether it was safe or not, but I didn't allow you to check it so carefully." ”

An Yi retracted his hand, and became more curious about Wu Qi's origin, he pointed to the long strip-shaped object wrapped in animal skin on Wu Qi's back, and asked, "What is that?" ”

"It's a knife."

A mercenary team member walked around Wu Qi's back, tapped and touched the long strip-like object, and then said to An Yi, "It's indeed a knife." ”

Ease of mind, since it is a knife, there is nothing to worry about, can this worldly cold weapon be stronger than a gun. As long as this person does not shake the prestige of their mercenary team in the safe zone, allowing them to join can also expand the labor force.

"Welcome to SW0304 Safe Zone, what's your name." An Yi took the initiative to shake hands with Wu Qi, just a few dozen seconds, the mystery of the other party and the sense of surprise brought to him deserve his respect, and he was quite interested in the animal skin in Wu Qi's bag.

Wu Qi thought for a second, and then replied, "Wu Qi." ”

"Wu Qi, my name is An Yi, you can call me Uncle An in terms of age. It's cold outside and talking inside, if you need anything, we can talk," An Yi enthusiastically led Wu Qi into the town, and waved his hand to the other mercenaries on the other side and said, "Disbanded on the spot." ”

Communicating directly with the boss of an unknown human settlement was an easy thing for Wu Qi, and he did not resist the enthusiasm of comfort. In every jungle life where physical strength, food, and time are precious, efficiency is the most important, and comfort is the leader of the armed group in this settlement, and there is no doubt that his power and path can bring Wu Qi's benefits.

Walking across the gray stone pavement with small puddles left in the unevenly paved crevices, Wu Qi quickly took a look at the human settlement. The street lamp poles that have lost electricity are mostly rough scratches and rotten advertising paper, the store signs on both sides have long been weathered and worn away, and there are occasionally abandoned vehicles parked on both sides of the street, almost every one of them is worn out to the point of rust and dust, and the glass windows are mostly broken.

An Yi took Wu Qi to an old-style residential area in a small town, opened the iron door downstairs, and the two walked down the gray low stairs to the second floor.

Turning the corner, An Yi took out the key in his trouser pocket and opened one of the mailbox cabinets in the old-fashioned mailbox cabinet next to the door, and took out a key wrapped in cloth and written "202" from the cluster of keys in the cabinet, he casually pointed to the door number of 202 and said, "Oh, let's go in." ”

Wu Qi took the key and opened the door of 202. The room was furnished with all sorts of civilized furniture, but not much, and was covered in a thick layer of dust, and the clock on the wall was covered with hazy cobwebs, and it was obvious that it needed to be cleaned before it could be inhabited. The advantage is that the intact windows and walls without large cracks make the air in the room drier, and it is not easy to have rain and damp mold; The room is not big, but 50 square meters, which is a small residence for the townspeople in the civilized era, but for Wu Qi, who has lived in the mountain cave for 9 years, the space here is already very large and dry enough.

Wu Qi's memory before the age of 7 is almost gone, and the only way to know human beings is the knowledge that Ruoying handed him in 6 years, and he remembers that there is a famous saying of his ancestors called "No merit is not a blessing", so Wu Qi stood at the door of the room, and turned to An Yidao.

"The children on the street are still hiding in abandoned cars to shelter from the wind and rain, and I have given a house to live in when I first entered your territory. Uncle An, what do you want me to give? ”

An Yi smiled and glanced at Wu Qi appreciatively, and he said, "The resources of our security zone are not scarce, but they are not abundant. In the fifty years of the Night Age, it had been invaded and attacked by mutant beasts, and most of the houses had collapsed or had serious leaks, and there were not many dwellings like this that remained intact. It costs a certain price in exchange for residency, and I brought you here because you saw the starting price. ”

Wu Qi said: "Uncle An, from the door, you have taken a fancy to the animal skin in my bag." I can sell it, after all, I don't need it anymore. ”

With that, Wu Qi took out a large number of beast materials from his bag, including a bearskin carpet about 5 meters long and 4 meters wide, and the crocodile skin, tiger skin, and claw fangs on the crocodile dragon's body. Every time I took it out, my comfortable eyes were shining.

"I can give you all of these, I will change the occupancy of this room, as well as clean food and distilled water, clean clothes; It would be nice to have some meat for me to feed July. Wu Qi lined up everything on the table, and when the words fell, he reached out and touched July on his shoulder.

An Yi almost smiled, as a senior mercenary, he knew the value of the hides of mutated animals such as the Iron Cracked Brown Bear and the Deep Marsh Giant Crocodile, and he generously said: "Food and water can be delivered in half an hour, and the right to live is also yours." ”

Wu Qi nodded, and then asked with a little strangeness: "You don't use coins here?" According to what Ruoying taught him, human beings use coins as an intermediary for the circulation of goods.

An Yi was stunned for a moment, and then smiled roughly: "Haha, I almost forgot if you didn't say it, kid." Of course, this is also a safe zone that has been in operation for more than 20 years, but it is not comparable to the era of bartering everything with food 50 years ago. ”

After half an hour, the beast materials on Wu Qi's table were replaced by 120 yuan of new era coins, 10 bottles of 500ml distilled water, 10 boxes of sealed dry food, 2 canned minced meat, and a few clean underwear and clothes. His materials were sold for a total of 900 yuan, and the right to live for two months. An Yi tells him that he can always sell the materials of the mutant animals or work in exchange for food—after Wu Qi admits that he had hunted them.

However, in An Yi's heart, he didn't believe that a 16-year-old child could hunt the iron-cracked brown bear and the deep swamp giant crocodile that even his own mercenary team could not handle with a cold weapon. It's just that a 16-year-old boy who can live alone in the mountains and wilderness outside the safe zone, only carries a knife and has a red fox pet, and there are indeed many mysteries on his body that An Yi can't understand.

If the word "mysterious" is replaced by "pioneer", then all the fog will dissipate. An Yi's respect for Wu Qi and the "awe" that is difficult to imagine but faintly exist in the "mysterious" is based on this answer that I don't know yet.