Lord of Illusions City
Chapter 658 I Want to Come Back
At that time, Wang Zifeng and his son were trapped in the corpse horde led by the Leopard Commander. Li Yunshan wanted to inform Li Chenzhou because the Leopard Commander was going to cooperate with another creature, and he happened to discover Wang Zifeng.
So, Li Yunshan sent two of his team members to send Wang Zifeng and his son out of the city. He also asked him to deliver a letter to Li Chenzhou and told him the location of the war reserve depot and Wu Village base.
Li Yunshan knew that these two bases had a very good relationship with Li Chenzhou, so delivering the letter to these two places would ensure it reached Li Chenzhou.
Unfortunately, when Wang Zifeng arrived at these two bases, he found that there were many armed personnel with guns inside, and he felt guilty. So, he didn't dare to go over, but threw the letter into an abandoned off-road vehicle, and then disappeared. Unexpectedly, he ended up going to the chemical plant base.
Unable to remember Wang Zifeng, Li Chenzhou simply categorized him as someone offended by Duan Lei, which made Duan Lei inexplicably take the blame.
Arriving at the prison base, Li Chenzhou found that the prison base hadn't changed much. But thinking about it, the buildings in the prison base were already enough for those survivors to use, and the materials used to build the prison were also top-notch.
If they were torn down and rebuilt, it would be better to use the previous ones. Moreover, the prison cells themselves were actually single or double rooms with toilets. Especially the metal栅栏 (zhàlán) gates, at this time, would bring a sense of security to the people inside.
So, the people living in the prison didn't feel any discomfort, nor did they feel that their homes needed to be改造 (gǎizào, transformed). Therefore, the original prison was basically untouched! Including the walls and guard towers!
However, Ding Ning followed Li Chenzhou's suggestion and fenced off a large piece of land outside the prison walls for planting, in order to ensure the prison's supply. However, judging from the scale, these farmlands didn't seem to be enough, at least not enough for the prison base to be self-sufficient.
Li Chenzhou walked around the prison. At other bases, the leaders had already known when he arrived, but the prison base only discovered him after he arrived.
The reason was simple: the prison base didn't send out any侦查 (zhēnchá, scouting) personnel, not a single scout. Their only early warning was the soldiers guarding the watchtowers inside the prison walls!
"This kid... he's ruthless enough, but his experience is still lacking!"
Seeing this situation, Li Chenzhou couldn't help shaking his head.
He really didn't expect that the prison, which should have been the most suitable place to build a base, now seemed to be the worst of the three bases he had seen. At least, if this base didn't have external supplies, it wouldn't be able to sustain itself!
Ding Ning was still young after all, and he was a prison guard. So, after becoming the leader of the base, he still followed the previous prison system, so naturally there was no need to send out scouts.
As for the problem that the planted farmland was not enough, there had been no harvest yet, so Ding Ning naturally couldn't detect it. What's more, the prison itself had a lot of food stored, enough for those survivors to eat for a long time, so no one considered this problem.
While Li Chenzhou was circling the base, the哨兵 (shàobīng, sentry) had already reported the situation. The prison base basically had no new survivors, because Ding Ning didn't want to expand the prison base, so the people here basically knew Li Chenzhou.
Upon learning of Li Chenzhou's arrival, Ding Ning quickly led people out to greet him, just as Li Chenzhou had completed his circle and arrived at the prison gate!
"Brother Li! Long time no see!"
Seeing Li Chenzhou, Ding Ning seemed very excited.
So much time had passed, and the originally still稚嫩 (zhìnèn, inexperienced) Ding Ning now had a hint of the aura of a leader, but when he saw Li Chenzhou, that aura was冲 (chōng, washed away) by excitement.
"Xiao Ning, your place hasn't changed much!"
Li Chenzhou put away his motorcycle, came to Ding Ning, patted him on the shoulder and said with a smile.
"Brother Li! You know me, I don't have any ambition, I don't even want to be the leader of this base. Now, I just want to guard my brothers here!"
Ding Ning looked back at the stone tablet engraved with the names of those prison guards, and said with some bitterness.
Li Chenzhou also looked at the stone tablet and sighed softly, but didn't say anything.
There was no way for him to comfort Ding Ning in this situation. Only when he figured it out himself could he come out!
"Xiao Ning, come here!"
Looking around, Li Chenzhou didn't enter the main prison, but directly pulled Ding Ning into the guard room next to the prison gate, which was where Gray Bear wanted to open the gate.
"Xiao Ning, after we left here, we went to many places! In this process, we found..."
Li Chenzhou once again said what he had said to Kong Xiang and Luo Hong, and finally, he looked at Ding Ning and said:
"What we have to face is a quite powerful enemy that we don't understand, so I want to concentrate as much of our human power as possible. Do you understand what I mean?"
"Brother Li! Don't worry, I will bring all the survivors here. If you really have the kind of fortress you said, because there are many old people and children here, I don't want anything to happen to them!"
Ding Ning looked at Li Chenzhou and said.
"I can't absolutely guarantee their safety. I can only say that they are absolutely safe until we combat personnel are dead!"
Li Chenzhou said.
"Then there's no problem. We will definitely be there, but..."
After hesitating for a moment, Ding Ning looked back at the stone tablet outside:
"I still have to come back, I must守住 (shǒuzhù, guard) here, this is the order they left me!"
"You alone?"
Li Chenzhou looked at Ding Ning and sighed inwardly!
"Of course not, and them!"
Ding Ning smiled.
"Okay! If you insist, I won't force you!"
Li Chenzhou nodded. He knew that the "them" Ding Ning was talking about were the prison guards who had died.
"Thank you, Brother Li!"
Ding Ning looked at Li Chenzhou and said seriously.
"Alright! Go prepare. Except for you, the other survivors should bring their personal belongings, the kind that are纪念 (jìniàn, commemorative), nothing else!"
Li Chenzhou stood up, turned and walked out. Then, he exchanged a space chariot in the Killing System and turned to Ding Ning and said:
"This car is for you. This car has internal space and comes with an intelligent brain. If you don't understand anything, just ask it. I have to go to the next base, so I'll leave first!"
After speaking, Li Chenzhou didn't wait for Ding Ning's response, took out his motorcycle and sped away...