Love and passion, cutting up the wasteland

Huo Buyang and the others are responsible for moving.

In a sense, the scavengers at the hub are like nomads, with no fixed abode to begin with.

It's just that the nomadic life is based on water and grass, while the scavengers live on ruins.

Relics are non-renewable resources. Whenever the scavengers find almost all the relics in a ruins, they need to move to the next area that has not been developed yet.

It is precisely because of this that scavengers generally do not live next to each other, and their respective activities do not overlap.

Once they overlap, it means conflict breaks out.

In fact, the ruins occupied by Huo Buyang and others have long been of no value for scavenging, and it stands to reason that they should have been relocated long ago.

But in fact, they no longer rely on scavenging to make a living, so there is no need to move.

The life they live now is actually more like the residents living in the hub block.

Residents do not have to scavenge and have their own fixed jobs, such as hunting, doing handicrafts, and mining.

Of course there's also the possibility of being a gang member.

Each neighborhood is attached to a gang. While being protected by the gang, it also has to pay taxes - protection fees.

Although there is no developed agriculture in the hub, the life of scavengers and settlement in neighborhoods can be compared to rural areas and towns, where classes are also clearly defined.

As for the direction of moving, Lu Meng also has his own considerations.

His current income is enough to meet the average living standards even in the neighborhood, but it is not a wise choice to move into a certain neighborhood at this stage.

Not to mention whether there is such a channel, life on the street is still tightly controlled by gangs, and one's secrets can easily be revealed in the presence of neighbors.

But the move they planned was not a migration like the scavengers of the past.

The migration of scavengers should consider the distance from the market, whether there are enough resources in the ruins, whether they are encroaching on other people's sphere of influence, whether they can gain a foothold there, etc.

And since Lu Meng no longer has to live a life of scavenging, the above requirements are naturally not a problem.

You can also do the opposite.

They want to go to an area as far away from the city as possible, and where the resources have long been exhausted and abandoned, so they don't have to worry about the control of the supervisor or other scavengers.

Lu Meng suggested: "It's best to stay closer to the black market."

For them, the black market has long replaced the street market and become the main place for exchanging goods.

The current layout of the hub is very different from that before the destruction. The once prosperous city center was reduced to ruins and is now a hunting ground for scavengers, equivalent to the "wilderness" of a general city.

The periphery of the city was controlled by the city because it was more conducive to contact with merchants. It was roughly divided into four major areas: east, west, north, south. Most of the population of the hub lived here. They were separated by the real desert and the vast city center. The ruins are sandwiched in between, forming a circular densely populated belt.

Lu Meng currently lives in the West District, Wei Yi is the supervisor here, and He Shuan is the supervisor of Fang City in the adjacent South District. He can also extend his tentacles to the West District through the Wugen Gang.

The black market is in the North District, where they chose their new home.

After deciding on the direction, Lu Meng, Huo Buyang, and Li Liu also packed up important items overnight. As for the building materials of the shack, they could be seen everywhere in the ruins, so there was no need to dismantle them.

After cleaning up the traces of their lives a little, they immediately embarked on their journey.

As for Zou Huang's body, leave it to the hub itself.

The world will slowly eat it up.

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desert.

Suddenly, a pika emerged from the ground.

With gray fur and long ears... it sniffs the air with its nose from time to time, looking for food and water.

call out!

A crossbow arrow shot out suddenly, but it hit just at its feet.

The little guy was so frightened that he jumped half a meter high, and then disappeared in a flash.

Lu Meng slowly walked out of the hiding place and pulled out the arrow, not feeling it was a pity.

It's not like he missed the mark.

After settling down after moving, and half a month of hunting, his [Crossbow] skill finally reached the "basic" level.

[Remote Skill: Crossbow 11 (Basic)]

It is easy to hit the prey, but it takes skill to deliberately miss it.

Lu Meng aimed at the gap between the pika's legs.

The shot is also very accurate.

I deliberately let it go today.

The moving process went as smoothly as expected, because there was no need to consider the conditions for scavenging, but more consideration was given to the livable environment of the place of residence.

This time they went a little deeper into the ruins and built a new home based on an abandoned but structurally sound small house.

The safety, space, comfort and convenience are far greater than ever before.

They can be regarded as serious homeowners.

More importantly, it is also closer to the black market, which not only means more convenience, but shortening the time spent on the road actually means safer.

Lu Meng also had the conditions to start selling some fresh meat.

Now he can obtain a stable source of meat through hunting.

Just hunting more prey is meaningless. Spending too much time in the black market will delay your plan to improve your strength. If there is not enough strength to protect you, excessive profits will also trigger the covetousness of others.

The most essential purpose of making money is to improve your own strength, such as updating equipment, supplementing nutrition, and using open coins to exchange for more free time for training.

The reason why we have to leave the hub station is because only in the colorful world outside can we have more opportunities to improve our strength, and strong dragons cannot be raised in shallow water.

A benevolent person uses wealth to make a fortune, and an unkind person makes a fortune with his or her body.

You cannot put the cart before the horse.

Therefore, although Lu Meng still goes hunting regularly, it is more to train his crossbow, perception, and stealth skills.

As for the prey, it is enough to catch four or five before leaving.

Now he sets out to hunt early in the morning every day, returns home at noon to start processing prey, and learns cooking skills. After a hearty meal, he then exercises throughout the afternoon and evening, and finally takes a good nap to eliminate the fatigue of the day.

Life is regular and fulfilling, and various attributes and skills are steadily improving.

But Lu Meng's regular life is simply a nightmare for rats and rabbits.

Even if mice and rabbits have strong reproductive capabilities, he has consciously released some mice and rabbits like just now, but they still can't be killed as fast as they live.

After all, the desert is too barren, and the biological carrying capacity of each area is not high.

Not only can’t it feed people, but it can’t feed too many rats and rabbits either.

This small hunting ground was barely enough for him to hunt alone.

Therefore, in order to avoid fishing in the marsh and killing all the people, Lu Meng also began to try to continue exploring the periphery and open up some new hunting grounds.

However, it was during this process that he also discovered a new goal that he could try to challenge.

A wild beast of burden.

As you can tell from the name, this is a creature that has been domesticated and widely used as a pack transport.

The role positioning is somewhat similar to the camel in the previous life.

Its scientific name should also be called "Jiatu" (transliterated as "Jialu"), although its species classification and appearance are completely different from camels.

It is also a unique species in this world.

Today, Lu Meng wears a rattan hat, has a tall and straight figure, and his muscles have begun to show lines, revealing a healthy beauty.

It was precisely because of his improved physical fitness that Lu Meng dared to explore farther on the edge of the desert.

Only then did we find traces of Jiatu.

The camel is different from the rat and rabbit. In addition to its meat and fur, it is full of treasures.

The energy-stored fat meat can be used to boil oil. The stomach pouch is the best water container for storing water in the desert. The bones are also harder than ordinary bird bones and animal bones. They are more than enough to make bone needles, bone knives and even bone spears...

But the most precious thing is a living camel.

In order to follow the reading of the new book, I also ask all my friends to come and support me~