Chapter 1395: Chapter 820: Arrival at the Base, Typhoon Countdown!

In the back, sitting behind Old Huang, Xiao Ye chimed in at the right time and said, "Wow! Then what about the Outer City people? What benefits do they get?"

Xiao Ding said proudly, "Speaking of Outer City folks, now that’s a long list."

"Hot water showers, daily rationed meals, and once every two days you get a meat dish."

"Woooooow!!!!"

"And that’s not all, we even held banquets before. At the banquet, pig’s head meat, beef head soup, vegetables all-you-can-eat.

Aunt Zhou’s cooking is seriously amazing!

I think the best of all is the braised pig trotter rice.

Soft and tender, fresh and fragrant, fatty but not greasy, loads of sauce,

soaked right through the rice, plus some half-raw cabbage to cut the grease, the flavor is super rich.

Just imagine that pig trotter rice, when the rice and the fatty-lean meat all mix together.

The warmth of the rice, the aroma of the meat, the taste of the sauce all mixing as one,

a big mouthful, and a huge sense of satisfaction.

Tsk tsk, that taste, in one word: divine!

In two words: f**king divine!

And there’s outdoor movies too..."

"Gulp!"

"Gulp!"

"Gulp!"

....

The whole bus was full of swallowing sounds, everyone’s eyes were glowing green as they stared at Xiao Ding, who was spitting all over as he talked.

Everyone on the bus was from the Original Oil City.

You have to know, not long ago, before Li Yu and the others came, they basically existed as slaves. They had almost no food, eating stuff that was worse than what pigs and dogs got, and even for that garbage-worse-than-pigs-and-dogs food, most of them still had to fight over it.

The ones who couldn’t抢到了 starved to death.

It was only after they entered Oil City not long ago, repairing the walls every day, that they got a bit of grain.

They thought that was already heaven, just being able to fill their stomachs was enough.

But now, with Xiao Ding’s vivid, color-and-sound storytelling, it was like a whole spread of food was really laid out before their eyes.

Meat, vegetables, rice, and sweet canned fruit....

They were people who had suffered, suffered the worst. These two or three years of the Doomsday had already made them forget what pre-Doomsday life was like.

Yet at this moment, through Xiao Ding’s description, a scene surfaced in their minds:

Perfect sunshine, blue skies and white clouds.

Tall walls giving them a full sense of security.

Lawns spread out under the walls, everywhere, filling the entire space.

The houses in the near distance are where they live; inside there’s electricity, bathrooms, bedrooms to sleep in, air conditioning and heating.

Behind the lawns some crops are planted, heavy rice ears drooping down.

Delightful cucumbers hang from the trellises, big red tomatoes dangle there.

Someone is holding a hose, spraying water over these vegetables; a few kids are running through the mist, trampling the grass, laughing and shouting.

The water mist in the sunlight refracts into a seven-color rainbow.

And in the center there’s a huge long table, covered with all kinds of food, and alcohol too.

It’s basically like a buffet; they can take whatever they want.

Next to the buffet there’s also a huge outdoor movie screen, playing a beautiful love story on the giant screen.

The air itself seems filled with the smell of happiness.

.......

"Hey, I’ve been talking so much, how come none of you are saying anything!" Xiao Ding suddenly stopped. He’d been going on and on just now and couldn’t stop for a while.

After quite a while, he finally asked in some confusion.

No one was playing along, so it was hard for him to keep going.

He quickly glanced toward the back and saw that everyone behind had their heads tilted up, mouths slightly open, eyes closed, smiles on their faces.

Sweet smiles.

Only the drool at the corners of some people’s mouths made Xiao Ding burst out laughing.

Turned out his storytelling had completely drawn them in.

Once Xiao Ding stopped talking, everyone sank deep into their own imaginations.

At this moment, everyone on the bus had formed their own fantasy of the Big Camphor Tree Base in their heads. Each one was different, but for them, it was all the most beautiful place they could imagine.

A few minutes later.

Someone finally snapped out of it and wiped the drool from the corner of his mouth.

"Gulp!" He swallowed.

Then he said to Xiao Ding, "Brother Ding, if it’s that good, do we have a shot at it?"

Xiao Ding smiled and said, "Of course you do. At the Big Camphor Tree Base, everything depends on strength and Contribution Value. As long as you can create value, as long as you have a skill, you can move up fast.

And even if you don’t have a skill, that’s fine too. As long as you honestly help the Big Camphor Tree Base do things, one day you can go from Cooperative Personnel to Extra Staff, then to Outer City personnel, and finally into that Inner City."

"Brother Ding, and you are?"

Smiling, Xiao Ding said, "Me? I actually haven’t been in that long either; I’m still Outer City personnel right now. The requirements for entering the Inner City are too high. Only people who make outstanding contributions can get in, it’s not that easy."

"But the treatment you just mentioned for Outer City people already sounds pretty great."

Xiao Ding laughed and said, "It’s okay, I’m pretty satisfied anyway. You guys are actually lucky, getting to come to the Big Camphor Tree Base."

"At the very least, the Big Camphor Tree Base still has a lot of human warmth. Every time there’s a natural disaster, heavy rain and such, they let tons of Cooperative Personnel and Extra Staff into the Outer City to shelter for free. At least that way you can avoid the Zombies outside."

"Wow, they even do that? Then doesn’t that mean we’ll be able to enter the Outer City too?"

"More or less." Xiao Ding felt a bit awkward, because when Cooperative Personnel enter the Outer City, it’s always when it’s pouring or some natural disaster is happening.

...

On the bus, Xiao Ding’s little speech once again filled them with longing and fantasies about this Big Camphor Tree Base they’d never seen. 𝒻𝑟𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝑛𝘰𝓋ℯ𝘭.𝘤𝘰𝘮

They wanted even more to keep doing missions to rack up Contribution Value and get into the Big Camphor Tree Base.

Inside the bus, Old Huang sat with his head lowered in thought, muttering to himself, "Looks like this Big Camphor Tree Base is pretty friendly to people with skills."

....

From the northern highway outpost to the Big Camphor Tree Base was only a little over ten kilometers.

In under twenty minutes, Li Yu and the others arrived at the highway entrance leading into the Big Camphor Tree Base.

Right then the sun was at the horizon, and Cooperative Personnel Sha Wenji’s team was just turning onto the country road.

They saw the mighty convoy and saw the RV that Li Yu was riding in.

Excited, he said to the brothers next to him, "The City Lord is back!"

Near the edge of the highway, after one round of organizing by Second Uncle, they’d spent a day reinforcing the wooden railings originally built by those Cooperative and Extra Staff. Now they were a lot more orderly and sturdy.

The vehicles passed through a simple barrier and entered the country road, with residential houses all around, and some people in those houses were looking their way.

Outside the bus window, Noble Consort Gui looked at the scenery.

She muttered, "We’re here already?"

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