Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2153 The Doomsday Hardcore Band!

During the inspection, Ju Tianrui told Li Yu about the conditions he wanted one by one.

In particular, Li Yu supported Ju Tianrui's desire for autonomy over Oriental Paradise after hearing Ju Tianrui's detailed policy.

Prices will vary between each branch base, depending on the characteristics of each base.

For example, the price of food in Oil City is higher than in the North, Northwest, and even Headquarters Base, but the price of food in Oriental Paradise is higher than in Oil City.

Furthermore, the price of oil in Oil City is cheaper than in headquarters and the North.

Of course, the place with the cheapest oil prices is the Northwest.

Prices vary at each sub-base, and the points-based wages awarded to residents also differ.

What Ju Tianrui wanted to obtain were policies regarding the wages paid to residents and the points ratio for scavengers to exchange for goods.

Increase workers' wages and appropriately reduce the points exchange rate for scavengers' materials to encourage more people to join the construction team.

His request was reasonable, and Li Yu had no reason to refuse.

Inside Oriental Paradise, crowds surged, and wherever they drove, there were heads everywhere.

When they arrived at the zombie generator, a two-meter-high wall had been erected to block residents from entering, and members of the militia were also stationed there to guard the area.

Non-military personnel are prohibited from entering.

Li Yu stayed in the zombie generator for more than ten minutes. The zombie generators here were no different from those in other branch bases, all using the latest zombie generator equipment.

Security measures are also quite rigorous.

After inspecting the zombie generator, Li Yu wanted to visit the supply distribution center at Oriental Paradise, where scavengers could exchange various items they collected outside for points.

Ju Tianrui stopped him.
"Sir, because the population of Oriental Paradise is too large, Oriental Paradise cannot accommodate so many people, especially the distribution center for goods with a particularly high flow of people."

So I moved the goods exchange and distribution center outside the city, where there are a lot of people.

I suggest you climb up the wall; the view is the same from there.

Ju Tianrui's main concern is safety.

Because there is also a commercial street in Oriental Paradise, and there are also gun rentals on the street.

Firearms and other weapons are not allowed in Oriental Paradise. All residents must undergo inspection before entering Oriental Paradise.

But it's different outside the city; some of the scavengers who haven't entered the city yet have guns.

The area is crowded and chaotic, and he felt it would be quite dangerous for the leader to go there.

In just five months, the number of people at Oriental Paradise has grown from zero to over 0. However, these residents generally do not have a high level of acceptance of the big camphor tree and still need to be educated.

When Li Yu saw Ju Tianrui trying to dissuade him, he didn't think much of it. Coupled with the drunk driving incident that had just happened, it gave him a direct sense of how chaotic Oriental Paradise was.

So he listened to Ju Tianrui's advice and nodded:
"Okay, let's go take a look over the wall. It's evening now, let's see the sunset over Oriental Paradise."

Ju Tianrui breathed a slight sigh of relief when he heard Li Yu agree.

"Sir, this way please."

The vehicle drove into the gated community area, and Li Yu got out of the car.

Originally, the walls of Oriental Paradise were only a dozen meters high, but after Chen Er arrived, he and the engineering construction support team he sent increased the height of the walls.

Several months later, the height of the wall here was increased to nearly forty meters.

Furthermore, the width of the wall has been widened and reinforced.

The intelligent mobile switchgear, perimeter streetlights, elevators, sentry towers, and perimeter weapon systems have all been installed.

Ju Tianrui led Li Yu and the others to the elevator, and after half a minute, they arrived at the wall.

The view from the wall is expansive.

The terrain around Oriental Paradise is extremely flat. Standing on the 40-meter-high wall, you can even see the buildings in the Nanshi urban area dozens of kilometers away.

As the sun sets, fallen leaves drift across the orange sky.

A sense of desolation arose spontaneously.

"Hello, Chief."

"Hello, Chief."

The militia members guarding the wall greeted Li Yu when they saw him.

Li Yu responded with a smile, and they walked together to the west side of the Oriental Paradise wall.

A center for exchanging and distributing scavenged goods was set up at the western corner of the wall.

From the air, the scene below resembled a rural market town before the apocalypse, bustling with people and a constant flow of vehicles, all loaded with various collected equipment and materials.

The place was bustling with noise, and even in the evening, it remained noisy.

Ju Tianrui pointed below and said:

"The distribution center for the exchange of goods is currently experiencing a huge flow of people, and the amount of goods exchanged every day is also enormous. If it hadn't been moved outside the city, it would probably be packed to the point of bursting at the seams inside the city!"

"Although it looks a bit messy, there are just too many people coming here, so this is the only way."

Li Yu has excellent eyesight and spotted a familiar face at the distribution center immediately.

The mastermind.

At the distribution center, Black Hand led members of the militia brigade, using loudspeakers to manage the order of the scavengers queuing up.

He saw a car drive over the weighbridge, be weighed, and then drive to an open space where people unloaded the contents of the car, and then a group of people quickly calculated the points value.

Empty vehicles will be emptied of their supplies and then driven off the inventory platform.

Behind the inventory platform, near the wall, piles of supplies formed small mountains.

Some are mechanical equipment, some are precious raw materials such as gold, and some are dismantled engines.
At the very front were several passageways separated by fences, with queues stretching for kilometers.

Someone in the group was driving a beat-up pickup truck that looked like it had been used many times.
More than a dozen of these vehicles were powered by homemade firewood, and the smoke from their burning could be seen from a distance.

Some people were pushing bicycles with boards tied horizontally to the back of the bicycles. I don't know how they placed them, but the things on the boards were piled up higher than a person.

Others rode motorcycles with a two-wheeled cart pushed behind them, the cart piled high with supplies.

Those who couldn't afford to drive would pull handcarts or wheelbarrows, using only their own strength to move the vehicles.

Sudden.

Li Yu was attracted by a car coming from behind.

Because it hasn't rained for a long time, the land outside the city is cracked and dry, and if vehicles drive too fast, they will kick up a lot of dust.

The vehicle, which was converted from a pickup truck, was traveling at a considerable speed.

The vehicles kicked up clouds of dust, with the setting sun behind them.

The car looked like it had just emerged from the sunset, creating a truly apocalyptic atmosphere.

Crunch!

The pickup truck stopped about 100 meters to the left of the goods exchange and distribution center.

After the dust settled.

The pickup truck was revealed.

A man wearing a tattered baseball cap jumped onto the roof of the truck.

He was holding an electric guitar inlaid with a skull, wearing ripped leather pants and a brown cowhide jacket, with a skull on his thumb.

He was wearing a pair of tattered Dr. Martens boots, so dirty that their original color was no longer visible.

The shoelaces were loose, making it look a bit messy.

He was wearing black sunglasses, and his worn-out baseball cap had a very low brim, making it difficult to see his face.

In the setting sun, although you could vaguely see the lower half of his face, it was all tattoos.

Full of mystery.

It was just too far away to see clearly what was tattooed on his face.

"Hmm?" Li Yu's eyebrows twitched when he saw the strange car, and he walked in that direction with some curiosity.

When Ju Tianrui saw the convoy, he frowned, clearly knowing what the people in the vehicles did for a living.

So he picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted Zheng Shiwu:
"Old Zheng, kick that Chicken Feather Band out! We wouldn't let them sing in the city before, and now they're singing outside again!"

Li Yu, who was walking ahead, heard Ju Tianrui's words and turned around to dissuade him:

"Wait, don't send them away."

"Huh?" Ju Tianrui was a little confused, but he quickly recovered and immediately added:

"We'll chase them away later, you guys go ahead first."

Li Yu asked curiously:
You're saying this is a band?

Ju Tianrui noticed that Li Yu was interested in the band, so he explained:
“Yes, ever since I came to Oriental Paradise, these people have been putting on performances every now and then, singing songs they made themselves.” “They’re very noisy. If there weren’t zombies on land right now, I would have punished them long ago.”

Li Yu smiled and said:

"Did you sing well?"

Ju Tianrui wasn't too keen on it. "I don't know, it's a mess and very noisy."

Li Yu looked down and saw that more and more survivors were gathering around them.

"It seems this band has quite a few listeners. They've attracted so many people in such a short time."

Ju Tianrui said helplessly:

"There aren't many entertainment options at Oriental Paradise, so..."

As they were talking, the people in the strange vehicle below had already unloaded four huge speakers from the truck bed and were already in position.

There are four people in total:
One of them is the keyboardist, standing on the far right. He is wearing a tattered cloak, has long hair with a whip tied behind his back, and most notably, he has a skull-shaped mask on his face.

To the left is a bassist, wearing a black-clad suit, but the suit is covered in yellow dust. He is bald, about 40 years old, and has a full beard.

On the far left is a woman with long hair and a headscarf. Although her face is covered in dust, you can tell she is a pretty girl. She is sitting on a small stool with a drum set in front of her.

Right in the center was the man in the baseball cap who had jumped onto the roof of the car, holding an electric guitar with its cable connected to an external power source.

Hey!
Looks quite professional.

Li Yu was somewhat surprised when he saw it; it was a typical rock band setup.

Just as he was pondering, a piercing, sharp electric guitar sound rang out.

Boom!
Scratch!

Beep beep~ Diudiu~ Beep beep~
Then came the sound of an electronic keyboard, melodious and expansive.

The prelude carries a touch of nostalgia and sadness.

The electric guitar's tone changed abruptly.

The man in the baseball cap standing on the roof of the car brought his mouth close to the microphone.

His voice was hoarse, like the sound of metal scraping together.
"Yo!"

"Yo!"

"Yo!"

"Hey!"

"Hey!"

"Hey~~"

He began to sing in a melancholic tone, as if softly reciting poetry:
The Cloverfield Paradox: Everything is Intertwined

A pair of worn-out Vans shoes rubbed against the soles of my feet.

[Atomic Bomb Discovered]

【But where fxxkin you are】

Running amidst radiation in a post-apocalyptic racetrack

I will take off my coat and hide in the cellar forever.

The already noisy and chaotic goods exchange and distribution center suddenly became even more chaotic.

The vehicles that had exchanged their supplies drove directly to the vicinity of the band.

Dust filled the air.

But that couldn't stop the band from continuing to perform.

The lead singer stood on the roof of the car, raising his electric guitar.

His voice suddenly became low and deep.

The underground world is shrouded in darkness.

Faded photos evoke memories of the past.

The time between us has passed like smoke.

How to untie this knot?

As he finished singing those four lines, the smoke and dust cleared, revealing the figures of four people.

There were more and more vehicles and people around them.

They even surrounded the entire band.

When Li Yu heard these words, his eyes gradually became unfocused.

He remembered his past life, hiding in a dark, sunless cellar, avoiding zombies.

Missing family and reminiscing about the past.

Thinking of the many wonderful things from the past, and fantasizing about many things.
The lyrics of the song sung by this band deeply moved him.

It not only moved him, but also the other survivors who had been struggling in the apocalypse for nearly ten years.

The onlookers below waved their hands excitedly.

Some even had tears in their eyes, as if they were recalling the past.

The bass line enters.

The lead singer in the baseball cap's voice rose to a high pitch once again.
It was as if they were shouting.

I used expired Nuka-Cola to numb myself.

I don't want to search for meaning in a world without you.

Promise me you won't erase my memory.

Can the Pip-Boy retain more memories?

I've also thought about forgetting you.

But you're not on my mind.

Play this game using your name.

I want to be with you until the world falls apart.

I thought you would never leave me.

They say it's all just a game.

Why can I continue even after deleting the save file?

Please bury me in those ruins.

I never want to open my eyes again without you.

Some people in the crowd joined in the shouting and singing a song that Li Yu didn't know.

The band members below seem to have gone mad.

Shaking their bodies, they shouted with all their might.

Shouting out longing, regret, and inner pain.

Their cries resonated strongly with the survivors in the crowd.

Some onlookers threw the tortillas they were holding in front of the band.

In front of the band, there was a waterproof mat, presumably for receiving donations.

This is similar to street performers in pre-apocalyptic times singing for tips.

Besides throwing cornbread, some people even took the camphor tree, cigarettes, or bedding with it.

whoosh whoosh~
An electric guitar solo, its sound fading as the sun sets.

As the sun set, the electric guitarist and lead singer simply and stylishly knelt down to end the performance.

The man wearing a baseball cap swallowed hard, his throat feeling dry.

He casually put down his electric guitar, picked up the microphone, and spoke in a hoarse voice to the surrounding crowd:

"Hello everyone, we are the Doomsday Hardcore Band!"

"Thank you everyone for the supplies. Thank you. We hope our performance can give you strength and help you survive more strongly in this post-apocalyptic world!"

"Thank you."

"Next song, 'I Will Imagine a World,' is for everyone."

(End of this chapter)