Eye of the Wasteland

Chapter 38 A New Day at the Stronghold

When the sun once again shone into the dilapidated bungalow through the windows and cracks in the door, Wu Yunhao got out of his sleeping bag.

Then, he left the bungalow with his toothbrush and water cup, and went to the shaft in the stronghold to fetch water for washing.

Along the way, Wu Yunhao greeted the passing workers and homeless soldiers.

Beside the shaft, Wu Yunhao also met Qi Weimin and Qi Beibei's grandfather and grandson who came to fetch water in the morning.

Compared with the haggard and weak of the previous days, Qi Weimin can be said to get better and better during this time.

With a red face, he was wearing work clothes and nodded respectfully to Wu Yunhao from a long distance away.

Qi Weimin, who was standing next to Qi Weimin and carrying a large bucket, had a cool cropped cut, and that immature face also had a childlike smile.

Seeing Wu Yunhao approaching, Qi Beibei followed his grandfather and gave Wu Yunhao a shy smile.

Stretching out his hand to touch Qi Beibei's small cut hair, Wu Yunhao took a glass of water to wash at the side of everyone's humility.

When Wu Yunhao finished washing and sent the toothbrush and water cup to his house, he saw Ding Shiyang, Fang Yu, and Zhang Hongwei passing by, ready to go out.

Upon seeing this, Wu Yunhao greeted them curiously, and then asked them where they were going this early in the morning.

When he learned that they were going to cut some wood nearby in that transport truck, Wu Yunhao, who happened to have nothing to do, proposed to go with them.

Although they didn't want to trouble Wu Yunhao with these trivial matters, at Wu Yunhao's insistence, everyone followed Wu Yunhao and got on the transport truck.

Then, the transport truck drove the crowd towards the nearby woods.

After the Doomsday War, the sharply reduced population also gave nature a chance to breathe, and those plants and trees had some mutations due to radiation.

The vegetation coverage of the wasteland era is spreading across the barren land at a rapid speed, and nature is using its unique ability to restore the planet again.

Those dense forests, spore forests, and various mutated plants form various strange ecological circles, and also provide various resources for humans in the wasteland era.

Whether it's the faster-growing fast-growing forest, or the weird fungi and plants in the spore forest that can satisfy hunger, it is another natural gift for humans.

Swinging the ax in his hand vigorously and chopping on the tree trunk in front of him, Wu Yunhao only needed more than ten swings to make the thick tree slowly crack.

After the tall tree fell down with a sound of breaking, the homeless waiting aside took a few saws and quickly sawed off the branches on the trunk.

While sawing those branches, Fang Yu and Zhang Hongwei laughed and chatted, next time the captain was asked to go to Fuyuan City, should he buy a chainsaw to speed up his work efficiency.

Standing aside and watching them busy, Wu Yunhao lowered his head to look at his arms that swung the ax earlier.

Whether it was the difficult-to-handle ax or the thick tree, they all gave him a particularly strange feeling.

The ax seemed to have no special weight when swung in his hand, and the thick tree fell down like a small sapling without being cut a few times.

Wu Yunhao felt that he didn't swing the ax too hard before, but the thick tree was felled without taking too many blows.

Even though he had logging experience before, neither the strength nor the speed of logging had reached the current level.

From the previous battle with the monster on the mountain, to my logging today, my strength, speed, reaction ability, and hearing seem to have become much stronger than before.

Could it be that... all because of some unknown change in my right eye, my body also changed accordingly. Could it be... really awakened?

Just thinking of this, Wu Yunhao saw that Ding Shiyang was helping Fang Yu and Zhang Hongwei to cut the processed logs, so he hurried forward to help.

After the three big trees were felled, cut into log sections that could be used by the stronghold, and loaded onto the back compartment of the transport truck, Wu Yunhao sat down next to the transport truck to rest along with the other three.

Ding Shiyang took out a cigarette and lit it, and then handed it to Wu Yunhao for a puff, and then Wu Yunhao returned the cigarette to Ding Shiyang with a smile.

When Ding Shiyang took another puff, he handed the cigarette to Fang Yu and Zhang Hongwei beside him.

Slowly exhaling the smoke from his mouth, Ding Shiyang asked Wu Yunhao: "Mr. Wu, you have... must have experienced many battles?"

Wu Yunhao smiled and asked Ding Shiyang, "Why do you say that?"

Taking the cigarette from Zhang Hongwei's hand and taking another puff, Ding Shiyang replied softly: "From my observation, you should have been the guard of the Survivor City, right?"

Raising his hand and waving towards Ding Shiyang who was passing the cigarette, Wu Yunhao signaled Ding Shiyang to continue, and then Ding Shiyang continued: "Your fighting skills are not something ordinary homeless people can possess."

"And a homeless person like you, if you have been wandering outside, I'm afraid you would have formed your team long ago, but when we met you, you were alone."

"If it wasn't because of being betrayed, there is only one possibility. You recently left the survivor city where you lived for a long time, and thus wandered in the wasteland."

I didn't expect Ding Shiyang, a taciturn man, to have such a strong observation ability, but Wu Yunhao didn't mean to hide his past experience, and then nodded in response: "I told you, it's about the same."

"I used to work for the guard army in Jingdong City. I was a homeless mercenary under the guard army, but a second generation in the Jingdong City Tiger Army fell in love with my brother's sister."

"But that girl didn't like that second generation, so that second generation wanted to use violence. My brother went to stop him and was killed by them, and his sister was also ruined by them, and then she couldn't bear the humiliation and committed suicide."

Hearing this, Fang Yu on the side asked: "Later, you killed the second generation of the Tiger Army?"

Wu Yunhao laughed softly, and then replied: "I ambushed that guy and his minions in the wild, then tied a rope with a jeep, dragged him all the way outside Jingdong City, and finally refilled a bunch of bullets."

Hearing Wu Yunhao's words, Fang Yu nodded excitedly and praised: "Yes, that's how it should be done. Revenge if you have grudges, and repay grudges if you have grudges."

Ding Shiyang and Zhang Hongwei looked at each other in surprise, and then looked at Wu Yunhao with a look of admiration.

But before everyone continued to chat, Chen Xiaojia's serious voice came from the walkie-talkie at Ding Shiyang's waist.

"Ding Shiyang, hurry up and bring Wu Yunhao and the others back. A group of homeless people suddenly appeared outside our stronghold. We need support."

(End of this chapter)