Eye of the Wasteland

Chapter 247 Xinshan Village Stronghold in Winter (Part [-])
Under the leadership of Zhang Hongwei, Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang walked towards the meeting hall along the road in the stronghold.

The closer you get to the meeting hall, the more prosperous the Xinshan Village stronghold is displayed.

The open space where the well used to draw water for everyone has now been paved with bricks and turned into a small square.

Many women sat on small benches, doing handicrafts and chatting about the daily life of Zhang's parents and Li Jiashou, while their children were running and playing in the square.

Those children were also wearing winter clothes full of patches, and they were all tightly wrapped up in order to prevent their thin bodies from catching cold.

The children took the branches they picked up from nowhere, pretended to be guns and shot forward.

There was even a child who wore a blindfold over his right eye, laughed and waved his hands while running and screaming.

Curiously observing the child with the blindfolded right eye, Wu Yunhao couldn't help but shook his head with a smile when he saw the child lifted the blindfold to reveal his right eye.

I didn't expect that there would be children who would like this dress...

Because this street is closer to the center of the stronghold, many small farmyards have added roofs to their small courtyards and simply transformed them into a small shop facing the street.

These shops sell all kinds of department stores, as well as some old clothes and shoes that are recycled and mended, and sell some cold weapons that are also recycled and repaired.

In consideration of the safety of the base, the firearms and ammunition in the Xinshan Village base are managed and sold by wasteland rangers.

The existence of these small shops facing the street also makes this the only place in the stronghold that looks like a commercial street.

When the vendors and passers-by on the street recognized Zhang Hongwei one after another, many people also recognized Ding Shiyang.

Because of the conspicuous attire that covered his right eye, everyone present would secretly look at Wu Yunhao after greeting Zhang Hongwei and Ding Shiyang.

After greeting Zhang Hongwei, a group of passing homeless soldiers greeted Ding Shiyang twice in surprise.

Afterwards, they nodded to Wu Yunhao restrainedly at the wanderer captain with a look of admiration.

After parting with this homeless team, Wu Yunhao heard the homeless team leader say to the curious team members beside him with a proud face: "He is Wu Yunhao..."

"The awakener of our wasteland ranger, the one-eyed dragon of Fuyuan City... By the way, I heard that Mr. Wu and our Captain Chen are boyfriend and girlfriend..."

Well, why did this cause a scandal...

Just after chuckling from the bottom of his heart, Wu Yunhao remembered the fiery kiss he had with Chen Xiaojia.

Well, it's not a gossip...

At this time, Zhang Hongwei led Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang into the newly renovated meeting hall.

Even if Wu Yunhao could see some traces of the old farmyard from the small courtyard, the refurbished conference hall has turned into a spacious and bright conference hall worthy of the name.

The other two rooms in that small courtyard have been used as a simple office space for the wasteland rangers, and some wasteland ranger team members are busy in it.

When they saw Zhang Hongwei leading Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang to sit in, they were curious and surprised to stand up to greet them, but Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang raised their hands and smiled and refused.

There are a lot of handmade wooden chairs in the meeting hall, and a podium for speaking is also built, and there is an old projector beside the podium.

Seeing Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang looking at everything in the conference hall, Zhang Hongwei said with a smile: "Although our base can't use all kinds of electrical appliances like Fuyuan City."

"But getting a projector back and showing movies to everyone when there is no meeting can be regarded as making full use of the space here."

Asking Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang to observe the conference hall again, Zhang Hongwei said with a smile: "Mr. Wu, Lao Ding, I will let you go to the industrial area of ​​our stronghold next."

Regarding this title, Ding Shiyang asked curiously: "Is the industrial area the blacksmith shop and bullet reloading workshop in our stronghold?"

Zhang Hongwei raised his head with a smile and replied: "Old Ding, you have been busy in Fuyuan City these days, and you don't even know the changes in our base during this time."

"When Cao Cheng'an originally planned the industrial zone, I also thought that there were blacksmith shops, bullet reloading workshops and some handicraft workshops, but it turned out that I was really wrong."

"It is indeed the era of wasteland, but the knowledge and theories left over from the age of civilization have not changed."

"Technology is productivity. Only by improving productivity can more people live a happy life."

"In the past, we were just thinking about how to find a stronghold so that we could live comfortably without worrying about dying suddenly in the wilderness or in a corner."

"And now, what the industrial zone provides is how to make us live better, more comfortably and conveniently, and let us live more like a person."

When Zhang Hongwei was speaking, everyone passed by what was supposed to be the east gate of the stronghold.

Nowadays, due to the expansion of the entire stronghold, the east gate of the stronghold has been demolished, and houses and shops have been built in the extra area.

Part of the remaining open space was turned into a sentry box, and the homeless soldiers stationed there were responsible for maintaining order and stability in the nearby area.

After passing the east gate of the former stronghold, Wu Yunhao saw the newly built residential area outside the east gate.

Compared with the original slightly messy buildings in the stronghold, the orderly buildings here appear patchwork, and the orderly houses also make people look very comfortable at a glance.

Many homeless people go in and out of their gates, or they can see a scene of their life at home through the windows.

And after passing the residential area outside the east gate, Wu Yunhao could smell the industrial smell in the air.
At the same time, the end of the road ahead is as bustling and crowded as the commercial street in the stronghold.

The chimney of the blacksmith's shop is spewing thick smoke into the sky, and beside the simple stove emitting bursts of heat, the blacksmith is taking out the red-hot iron blocks for forging, and the apprentices on the side are using the bellows to make the stove burn more vigorously .

At the same time, the blacksmith's wife and daughter are in front of the blacksmith's shop, introducing the ironware made to the gathered guests or rummaging through the ordered goods with handwritten orders.

On the other side, in the workshop transformed from broken containers and iron houses, many workers are adding prepared gunpowder and warheads to empty shell cases.

At first, Wu Yunhao and Ding Shiyang didn't notice anything, but after Wu Yunhao discovered that the tailor's shop next to the blacksmith's shop was another blacksmith's shop, he and Ding Shiyang looked at each other in surprise.

What's the situation... How come there is a second blacksmith shop, and the scale of the bullet repacking factory seems to be far beyond the original plan. Is the industrial area expanded?

(End of this chapter)