Eye of the Wasteland

Chapter 183 Winter is Coming (Part [-])
Winter in the wasteland is a terrifying existence that is far easier to talk about than mutants, alienated beasts, mutant plants, and gang fights.

The climate change brought by the Doomsday War to the entire wasteland is very obvious in winter.

In the four winters of the Wasteland Era, the average temperature was around minus ten to twenty degrees, and in high latitudes it would even reach an astonishing minus forty or fifty degrees.

In the era of gangsters, where productivity is low and human forces are vigilant against each other, every winter is a season of countless tragedies.

Survivor cities are generally able to survive the severe winter because of their large food reserves.

It's just that the outer city and shack areas of the survivor city freeze to death every year, and this number depends on how much excess supplies the survivor city can allocate and distribute in winter.

There used to be riots in the outer city and shanty towns of a survivor city due to a shortage of supplies, which eventually turned into riots in the outer city of the survivor city.

As a result, the inner city of the survivor city relies on a strong armed force to defend the inner city.

However, the residents of the entire outer city and shack areas completely lost order and life due to riots and fighting, and all died of freezing and starvation in the ice and snow.

There are often cases of mutual killing and even human cannibalism in the stronghold of homeless people who have run out of food, and even some unlucky survivor towns have experienced such appalling situations.

Moreover, the activities of mutants who are seriously short of food in winter will be extremely frequent.

They will choose to attack and occupy those weak homeless strongholds, and then use the humans in that stronghold as their winter food.

In the harsh winter, the survivor city is always facing an enemy, and basically will not spare any energy to manage the survivor town.

Even for a rich and powerful survivor city like Fuyuan City, at best, they would send some guard troops to the more obedient survivor towns under their command before winter came.

With these guard troops plus the original guard army of the Survivor Town, it is confirmed that the Survivor Town can survive the entire winter in a stable situation.

Because I walked and chatted with Chen Xiaojia very late last night, it seemed that it was almost noon when Wu Yunhao got up.

And while he was taking his toothbrush, quilt, and towel to the well to wash, he saw many wasteland rangers and wanderers rushing towards the west gate of the stronghold.

Seeing the dignified faces of the Wasteland Rangers and Rangers, Wu Yunhao, who wiped his face with a towel, stood up curiously with a water glass and a toothbrush.

Then, Wu Yunhao noticed that these wasteland rangers and wanderers were fully armed, as if they were ready to fight at any time.

When another group of homeless people passed in front of him, he directly stopped a homeless person who passed by him.

"Hey, brother, what happened to Simon, what happened?"

The homeless team member nodded respectfully to Wu Yunhao and said, "Angkor, we don't know what's going on."

"However, the captain said that it was the brother on duty at Ximen who asked us to rush over to support. I think there may be some kind of homeless team causing trouble."

"However, the tone of the brother on duty is a bit dignified, so the captain asked us to prepare the guys in advance."

Watching those homeless people rush towards the west gate, Wu Yunhao quickly returned home, put on his equipment and hurried towards the west gate.

When Wu Yunhao arrived at Ximen, he found that the situation seemed to be much more serious than he expected.

Many Wasteland Ranger members have accompanied Chen Xiaojia to the west gate, and many wanderer members have climbed the watchtower and simple city wall of the west gate.

Everyone looked very serious and dignified. It seemed that they were engaged in a smoky confrontation with the people outside the stronghold. Seeing this, Wu Yunhao strode up.

"Mr. Wu, here we come!"

"Angkor!"

"Angkor, good morning."

"Mr. Wu, are you here?"

"Angkor, the captain and the others have already negotiated with those people outside."

Seeing Wu Yunhao approaching, many homeless players greeted or nodded towards Wu Yunhao.

After Wu Yunhao nodded towards them, he pushed aside the crowd and went directly to the west gate of the stronghold.

But when he saw clearly the forces confronting the Wasteland Ranger and the Rangers outside the west gate, he suddenly frowned.

At first, he thought it might be someone sent by Jing Dongcheng, or that the homeless team under Jing Dongcheng came here to make troubles during the winter.

It's just that Wu Yunhao never expected that there are many dilapidated minibuses, transport trucks and some dilapidated civilian vehicles outside the Xinshan Village stronghold at this moment.

At the same time, some young and middle-aged men in ragged clothes were begging helplessly to the wasteland rangers headed by Chen Xiaojia, and even some old men knelt down on the ground while begging.

Seeing this scene, Wu Yunhao realized that before the arrival of winter, the Xinshan Village stronghold might be facing even more troublesome things than winter.

Oops... a refugee.

In the wasteland era, there are always some people who will be displaced due to various things, such as the fall of the stronghold, being driven out by the homeless, and being exiled for doing some wrong things.

Of course, there are still a large number of people who left the survivors' urban shacks before winter to find a place to settle down.

However, quite a few of them don't have the skills of wanderers to survive in the wasteland.

Such people are worse than wanderers when they arrive in the wasteland, and they are jokingly called wandering civilians by the wanderers, or refugees for short.

They usually choose to seek refuge in some homeless strongholds or survivor towns nearby, and do some hard work in these places to support themselves.

Or, they will be captured by mutants during their wanderings and become food reserves for the winter, or they may be captured by some wandering teams and become slaves.

Today's Wasteland Ranger is famous, and Wasteland Ranger has just become a force supported by Feng Wenyan to rule the outer city of Fuyuan City on behalf of Feng Wenyan.

After receiving such news, there will naturally be refugees who come to the Xinshan Village stronghold, hoping to allow themselves to join this thriving force.

Coupled with the good reputation of Wasteland Ranger and Xinshan Village stronghold in some homeless strongholds nearby, more people will naturally come here.

Seeing that there were at least 500 refugees outside the west gate of the Xinshan Village stronghold at this moment, Wu Yunhao knew that this matter should not be as simple as the refugees coming here spontaneously.

Such a situation... should have something to do with Wasteland Ranger being supported by Feng Wenyan to take charge of the outer city of Fuyuan City.

(End of this chapter)