Eye of the Wasteland

Chapter 10 The Lost Wanderer

After walking out of the small courtyard, Wu Yunhao walked slowly on the slightly messy streets of the homeless stronghold.

After passing dilapidated houses, prefabricated houses, and huts rebuilt from containers in the alleys in the distance, Wu Yunhao came to a small square in the homeless stronghold.

At this moment, many homeless people in this square are gathering here to set up stalls, selling the things they brought from the wasteland.

At the same time, in the corner of the square, there are also many homeless teams recruiting members, or sign volunteers to follow their homeless teams to do various dangerous tasks.

Obviously, this square is the market for this homeless stronghold.

After passing through the crowded market, Wu Yunhao came to a corner of the market, found an open space and sat down.

The wound on the arm is scabbed, so as long as you don't deliberately touch it, it doesn't hurt much, and the pain in the right eye seems to be weakening.

After taking off his camouflage jacket and the T-shirt that was so damaged that there were only a few pieces of cloth left, Wu Yunhao tied those broken pieces of cloth into cloth strips, and barely bandaged the wound on his right eye.

Putting on the camouflage jacket again, Wu Yunhao looked around the corner of the square where he was.

Besides him, there were some ragged, sallow-faced men and women squatting or sitting in corners.

On the cruel wasteland, whether it is fighting or being robbed or robbed secretly, as well as all kinds of natural and man-made disasters that may happen at any time, it is possible to completely destroy your already precarious life.

After losing the money or source of life to survive, all you can do is to place yourself in the market and sell your labor or even sell yourself as a slave in exchange for a chance to survive.

If you don't take advantage of this last chance, this corner of the marketplace will be your last dwelling in the wasteland.

After a period of time, you will die quietly, and then after being found, you will be dragged away by the unlucky wanderer corpses and discarded or burned.

Even homeless strongholds with a little shortage of supplies may turn these corpses into fodder to raise those alienated livestock.

After looking at the surrounding environment, Wu Yunhao felt that someone would come to ask him the price soon.

After all, compared to those wanderers who were in the same situation as him, even though he was seriously injured at the moment, he looked much better than those dying living dead.

So soon, a strong man wearing alienated animal bone armor came in front of Wu Yunhao.

He looked down at Wu Yunhao whose arms and half of his face were bandaged, and then the strong man asked in a deep voice, "Help hunt mutant wolves, twenty silver coins, do you want to do it?"

He raised his head and glanced at the strong man, Wu Yunhao shook his head and replied, "I was seriously injured earlier, so I won't be able to accept the battle job for the time being."

Hearing Wu Yunhao's answer, the strong man turned around and walked towards the other homeless squatting in the corner of the square.

The price of twenty silver coins was not low for a hunting mission, so the strong man soon led a few grateful wanderers away with satisfaction.

It's just that with the weak physique of those homeless people, Wu Yunhao felt that it would be good to have one of them come back.

At this moment, Wu Yunhao heard a slightly deep female voice asking: "Since you are injured and cannot accept combat missions, you can always do construction work such as digging soil, transporting bricks, and mixing cement?"

Wu Yunhao raised his head when he heard the words, and met the eyes of a young woman in a large grass-green cloak who was looking at him.

A pair of bright eyes lie beneath a wide cloak, although a wide hood and a windbreaker veil hide most of the young woman's face.

But with those eyes alone, Wu Yunhao could tell that this woman must be pretty.

What happened these two days, why didn't they know that there are so many beauties in the homeless?
With a self-deprecating laugh in his heart, Wu Yunhao raised his bandaged arm towards the young woman and asked back: "My arm is injured, and my work efficiency may not be high. Do you accept it?"

The woman replied a little cunningly: "Because you have injuries on your body, your work efficiency may not be high, so your salary will naturally be halved, but you only need to complete your daily quota."

Hearing this sentence, Wu Yunhao knew that the other party should be a homeless team providing construction services for a nearby survivor town.

Although these homeless teams also do some waste picking activities on weekdays, most of the time they earn money by building houses and public facilities for survivor cities and towns.

Compared with those homeless teams that do bounty hunting and even other dangerous tasks, they are relatively safer, and the possibility of following them to encounter gangsters will be much smaller.

So, Wu Yunhao stood up slowly, then nodded to the young woman and said: "Okay, then I will go with you."

After speaking, Wu Yunhao stood up and followed behind the woman.

The woman then picked out a few vagrants with yellow faces but barely able to work in the corner of the square, and then led Wu Yunhao and the other vagrants towards the outside of the square.

On the street next to the square, a transport truck was already waiting there.

The woman came to the transport truck, greeted several waiting companions, and then signaled Wu Yunhao and other homeless people to sit in the back compartment by themselves.

After Wu Yunhao and others climbed into the rear compartment one after another, the woman and her companion got into the front of the car and started the engine, driving the transport truck towards the outside of the homeless stronghold.

With previous experience, Wu Yunhao, who was sitting in the rear compartment, looked worriedly through the guardrail of the compartment fender, and looked towards the setting sun that was gradually sinking into the horizon in the distance.

This time, he shouldn't be so unlucky to run into a mutant or something else, right?
Fortunately, the transport truck arrived in front of a small town of survivors before it completely darkened.

When the transport truck stopped, the woman and her companion opened the door and stepped out, while beating the tailgate of the rear compartment to signal the people in the rear compartment to get off.

After everyone in the rear compartment got out of the car, Wu Yunhao saw the huge construction site on the wasteland outside the survivor's town.

It seems that this town of survivors should have saved enough money and supplies, and is planning to expand the town.

Looking enviously at the bustling construction site, Wu Yunhao followed the other wanderers and walked towards the construction site under the guidance of the woman and her companion.

Although this scene made Wu Yunhao and the other homeless feel a little envious and sad, it also made them secretly rejoice.

At least, this time the job is real, so you don't have to worry about getting caught in the dark.

(End of this chapter)