Millennium: I Love Demon King

The convoy finally arrived in Beijing 13 days later, only to be told that the base no longer accepted survivors from other provinces and cities. The guards at the base told them to go to the surrounding bases to try their luck.

Luo Wei and the others found it hard to hide their disappointment. Gu Cheng had long been mentally prepared for this. What was strange was that at this time in his life, Beijing hadn't even started accepting special abilities. Later on, he remembered that people had yet to discover the use of the crystal nucleus. The military probably was still deliberately concealing this fact at this time, so as to let their own armed forces grow stronger a step ahead of them.

He didn't have such high expectations for the capital base like the others, so he discussed with Lin Xin about settling down at the surrounding base and only enter the capital base when the time came.

The Liu and Sun families would naturally follow them. Luo Wei and the others had no other choice, so the group of people once again set off for Tianjin.

Fortunately, this time, they were lucky. After handing in a certain amount of materials as the price to enter the first base, they passed the "security check" and followed the other survivors to the isolation zone outside the base. For safety reasons, those who passed the security check had to stay in the isolation zone for three days to be allowed to enter.

There were quite a number of people who complained incessantly about this. It was not as if they had never been to other bases. Only this base's requirements were especially strict, and they had to stay in the open air isolation zone for three days. There was not even a roof to block out the sun in the middle of summer. Who could endure three days of sun exposure? The temperature was too low at night. Even a strong young man would not be able to withstand the heat, let alone an old man or a child.

But no matter how much they complained, no one was willing to leave. In the last year of the apocalypse, the word capital had become synonymous with a sense of security in the eyes of the survivors. The closer they got to her, the safer they felt. They had rushed here with their lives on the line, so how could they just turn around and leave so easily?

Gu Cheng and the rest settled down in a quiet corner far away from the crowd. He had warned everyone to take care of their supplies in the quarantine area. It would be best if there was someone guarding the car to prevent the door from being broken open to steal their supplies.

Although they had Grandma Liu's space, the children and women of the two families were a huge problem. Therefore, they were not allowed to wander around for the past few days, staying in their own cars or riding on Gu Cheng's bus as much as possible.

Such caution was not a false alarm. On their second night in the quarantine area, Gu Cheng's car was robbed. Because they had long since been prepared, the thief had been scared away before he had been able to obtain any benefits. After a while, a series of howls and cries came from the tents across the way. The Liu family went over to investigate and found out that the tent had been touched while they were sleeping. A large bag of food had been stolen. Everyone could only comfort the family. At this time, no one had too much money on their hands. A small steamed bun could save lives any day, so how could they have the ability to help others?

He thought that he had met with misfortune that night, but it was this family that lost all their rations. On the morning of the third day, the men who woke up conveniently saw the naked corpse of the woman that had been abandoned under the city walls. Beside it was her clothes that had been torn apart and thrown away.

"What a sin!" One of the onlookers sighed. Someone stepped forward and covered her with her clothes. The brazen one wanted to close her eyes and try a few times, but to no avail.

"She died with grievances. This girl is in the sky looking like she's committing evil. There will be a day when these people will have their retribution."

Gu Cheng held Lin Xin's hand and walked away. Retribution? People always hope and these illusions of ghosts and gods, but only weak.

The excitement of the morning was soon gone. The girl had come alone. No one knew her, and no one knew if she still had relatives visiting the base, but that didn't stop people from taking over her possessions. In order to snatch a small bag of instant noodles and jelly, a few men fiercely fought over it. Those who lost could only spit on the ground and walk away resentfully.

The guards on the city walls watched on numbly.

The women in the caravan felt the same way. They had seen this strange woman encounter too many times in the apocalypse, but they didn't feel it too often. After breakfast, Bing Bing and co. called for Lin Xin. They cleaned up the girl and sent her outside the base for cremation. They collected the ashes and buried her under a large tree.

The guards of the base couldn't wait for someone to take care of them, so they sent a soldier to follow them out of the city. While cleaning up the girl's belongings, Lin Xin and the others discovered the bracelet on her wrist. Because the gold item had lost its value in the apocalypse, the culprit didn't take it away.

On the inside of the bracelet was carved a small line of words, "foreveryours D.B."

Bing Bing held the bracelet and looked at it for a long time. Finally, she put it on herself. "It's probably from her boyfriend. Maybe he can help her return it to him in the future. Tell him what happened to her."

Everyone was silent. They were moved by the story behind this bracelet. Their mood on the journey back was even heavier than when they first set out. When she entered the base, Lin Xin subconsciously looked towards the big tree outside the base. The leaves on the tree rustled in the wind, as if she was talking about her hopeless love.

The Tianjin First Base was much larger than the new dawn base they had stayed in previously. The moment Gu Cheng and his group entered the base, many Yellow Ox crowded around to snatch up business. Wearing clean clothes, they stood out among a group of refugee survivors. Quite a few of them desperately tried to squeeze into their cars, hoping that they would be able to snatch their business away from them.

Gu Cheng looked outside and picked a tall and thin guy. The guy asked for half a metre of rice or two bags of instant noodles. It would be enough for one day of eating. Gu Cheng gave him half of it first. As soon as the skinny, tall fellow got the instant noodles, he carefully hid them in his clothes and began explaining the rules of survival for the first base in Tianjin.

First of all, the base did not allow gangs to fight. If something happened, the Security Force would still take care of it. However, there were too few people and there were many cases that were reported, so it was best to rely on himself and not cause any trouble.

Secondly, the base missions were available in the central hall of each of the four districts. Each district's mission announcement was different. Overall, the central hall in the east district was simpler, but the reward was also much lower. For people like you, the man chuckled, with a look of understanding on his face, you can go to the central hall in the north to accept missions.

Third, lodging. The rent could be paid with food, but it was very expensive. One could also choose the mission to cover the rent, which was the choice of most people. The number and difficulty of the mission depends on the location and size of the house you choose.

Fourth, the big shots in the base. The defense of the city was still in the hands of the military, and so was the decision-making power. However, one thing that could not be overlooked was that the big families of Tianjin city before the apocalypse still had a lot of influence in the base, even though they were no longer as powerful as they were before. He purposely called out a few names, giving a meaningful look at the women in the caravan, reminding them that if they met these people, they would be able to hide.

Hearing this, Gu Cheng asked him, "The base doesn't care?"

The tall and skinny guy smiled bitterly, "They have half of the grain depot. The base can't control it even if they want to. Beijing's own troubles are just a bunch of piles. They can't even get close."

He could tell that they were not in a hurry to eat and drink. Knowing that they could afford to live in a good house, and having also pointed out to Gu Cheng the route to the housing distribution hall, he stopped and waited for the other half of the reward.

Gu Cheng looked at the people at the side who had left long ago. He was very satisfied that this person was not long-winded and had a clear focus. He then handed him a black plastic bag, which was so heavy that it was unknown what it contained. That person wanted to open it and take a look, but he was stopped by Gu Cheng. The lanky youth nimbly hid the items in his arms. The instant he touched the bag, he already had an answer in his heart. He looked at Gu Cheng with unconcealable excitement.

"If you have any news in the future, remember to come to South City to find me. Just go to the best house."

The tall, thin man watched them leave. He didn't have time to do business anymore and ran home. He opened the bag and found an apple, a small piece of pork, and two packets of instant noodles.

It was too eye-catching to sell pork. Everyone knew that there was nothing left to eat anymore and no one would buy it, even if there was no mutation. He could only stay and eat at home, so that he could satisfy his wife and children's craving. The tall and thin guy often went to the black market to trade for things. He knew that the current price of the fruit had been raised to an outrageous amount and was extremely excited. This transaction was truly worth it. He remembered Gu Cheng's words and made up his mind. If there were any new news, he would hurry to Southern City to notify him.

At this moment, Gu Cheng and the others had already registered the information in the living room of the base. He chose a house in the villa area. Originally, the Liu family wanted to find a cheaper house for themselves to live in, but Lin Xin advised them, firstly, everyone has to live together, and the house is large enough to accommodate so many people. Secondly, it's not like they don't have to take their rent.

The two families discussed for a while. The third floor's villa was enough for a family to live in. They were actually worried that Gu Cheng and Lin Xin would be too dependent on them. They were merely neighbors. They had already taken care of them enough along the way. Hearing that Lin Xin still wanted everyone to accept quests and pay the rent, they didn't take advantage of her for nothing, so they agreed. In the end, the two clans still mentioned that they would set up a new company in the future, saying that they would not be able to affect the world of Gu Cheng and Lin Xin.

Lin Xin knew that this was their bottom line, so she didn't say anything more. Luo Wei and the others who were accompanying them did not have the confidence that Gu Cheng did. They chose a cheap rented house ten minutes away from the villa complex. However, people like them were the normal way of life for the survivors in the base. As for those who lacked money or strength, they couldn't even afford a decent house and were all concentrated in the tent area on the east side. As for those who didn't have money or no strength, they couldn't even afford a decent house and were all concentrated in the tent area on the east side.

These were originally their own businesses. When the military took over and built the base in Tianjin, they did not forcibly take over their residence and only cleaned out the ownerless villa, where the majority of the base's political leaders lived. As for ordinary people like Gu Cheng and the rest, they had to pay a huge amount of rent to stay in the villa complex. There were very few and very few of them. As soon as the residence distribution hall was registered, the rumours about them had already spread throughout the base. After all, everyone didn't have much fun right now. Just a little bit of news could make people talk for ten days to half a month. Therefore, when their caravan entered the district, it attracted a lot of people's attention.

Gu Cheng didn't seem to care at all about the looks being given him by these people. Lin Xin, on the other hand, wasn't even thinking this much. Villa Number 13 was the only house they rented and it was the only house in the district that was free. It was probably because they despised this number as unlucky — this was probably the point that the cultural exchange between China and the West was most obvious because of superstition. The Liu family lived on the first floor, the Sun family lived on the second floor, and Lin Xin and Gu Cheng lived on the third floor. The duplicated living space was much larger than the lower two floors, and they even brought a terrace along with them.

Gu Cheng felt that He Meiwei's ability to get water was too slow, so he filled every household with a bathtub of water from within the space. The men were in charge of arranging the walls and furniture while the women were in charge of washing and brushing them. Gu Cheng told Lin Xin not to be in a hurry to clean up. He pulled her out to the courtyard to look around. After repairing the broken doors and windows, he then took her to the labor market to hire people.

Most of the rich people in the Southern City came from the labour market, which had unique characteristics unique to the Southern City. It specifically served these upper class people. Gu Cheng and the rest circled around, picking out three women who looked clean. After negotiating the price with the intermediary, they brought them back to the villa. In the past, Lin Xin wasn't a person who didn't care about the Yang Spring Water. She spent every New Year's Eve in a desolate place, so there was no need to clean up everything. Colleagues with families in the company would often hire hourly workers from home management companies for the new year. Those with particularly good jobs would start at fifty in an hour, even at one hundred. The monthly income from the daily list was even higher than what these white-collars earned. However, this time, the hour job they hired was very cheap. It was not calculated according to the time. The 20 jobs in the base only cost 2 packs of instant noodles or half a kilogram of rice.

Note: In the first base, the base task points are used as currency symbols for trading, which is convenient for people to trade in the market. Newcomers like Gu Cheng and the others who had yet to take on a mission could also be exchanged for an equivalent amount of food in exchange for a base's work points.

The women who had taken over the job all looked happy and happy. Originally, they had walked over to get the job themselves, but they didn't expect to be able to get on the bus this time. The labor market was an hour's walk away from the villa complex, and although walking wasn't tiring, it was a waste of time. With this, they were saved another hour of time. If they were lucky, they would be able to take on other jobs, so how could they not be happy?

Lin Xin thought to herself, with just this little bit of cleaning, it should have been fine even if she could just casually make herself an hour. Yet, Gu Cheng had to find a car to find a domestic helper.

By the time they got home, the other two families had already cleaned up and were resting. Gu Cheng brought them up to the third floor, told them that the water was in the bathroom, then took Lin Xin out for a stroll in the district.

It was a pity that people no longer had the mood to fix them. All they saw on their way was a bleak scenery, it was rare to see a few plants that were still alive, their leaves were all covered with a thick layer of dust, even the rich and powerful people did not have any excess water to waste.

"Let's plant the seeds we collected when we get back." Lin Xin said it was a pity that such a large garden was wasted.

Gu Cheng nodded in acknowledgement, not telling her that most of the soil had already been affected by the interstellar dust brought by the meteor shower. It was no longer suitable for the growth of most plants. He intended to wait until he got back, then turn the earth in the garden and try to cover it with the soil he had saved before the apocalypse.

He knew that Lin Xin had always dreamed of having a house with a garden. In his previous life, when he met her mother at Huiyang Base, she robbed them clean. That night, the two of them lay on their respective beds starving. They were so hungry that they couldn't sleep, so they began to chat at night. That was their most frank conversation. For the first time, she told him about her mother, about the loneliness of living alone after she turned fifteen, and about the hardships of starting work after graduation. Gu Cheng had always been a dutiful listener, listening to her worries, her happiness and her dreams … At that time, he didn't have the ability to make her live the life she wanted, but in this life, he only wanted to hold her in his hands and give her everything she wanted.

On the way back, they met a strange young man. The ear-piercing screeching of the brakes caught the attention of Gu Cheng and the rest. When they turned to look, the other side rolled down the window and stared at the two of them for a long while with his long and thin eyes, before pulling back the corners of his mouth in contempt and driving away.

"Who is it? Do you know him? " Lin Xin frowned, that person's eyes were not good, he clearly had a hostile look towards them.

"I don't know. I just checked his Discipline. He's just an ordinary man." Gu Cheng made a mental note and split his spiritual force to follow that person's car into villa # 28. Surprisingly, he saw a familiar person there and immediately understood that person's identity.

"It's the person in the two carriages that followed us last time. His name is Zhao Chen. I'll ask Little Shao about the details tomorrow."

Little Shao was the tall and thin guy that had given them information during the day. Lin Xin thought of the two cars she had seen on the road and thought that this world was really small, to think that she would run into one here.

When they got back to the villa, the three domestic workers moved quickly and had already cleaned up the terrace. They were having a hard time, and the wooden floor was still patchy after a long cleaning, but they were afraid that their employers would blame them for their work and charge them for it. The three of them were discussing whether to go back and get a plane and try to dig up the whole floor, and when they saw the two of them coming back, they pointed at the wooden floor and asked for their opinion. Lin Xin felt that there was nothing wrong with this mess. The room had already been cleaned up. These three people had done their jobs very meticulously, it was impossible for her to do anything better. She nodded and asked Gu Cheng to pay them.

The three of them were naturally overjoyed. The southern part of the city was called the Rich District, but those families were very picky when it came to inviting domestic workers. They didn't do well at all, and their points were deducted. However, the three of them had not expected that the male host would be so difficult to get along with. He had instead been so amiable as to accept their wages, and before they left, Gu Cheng had suddenly asked them if they wanted to take up another job, clean up the garden, and dig up the soil within the garden. It was a bit tiring, so he gave each of them four bags of instant noodles and a meal.

Upon hearing this lucrative proposal, the three of them were stunned for a moment. They immediately reacted and nodded their heads in agreement. After the job as an intermediary, their salaries would be split evenly between them and the intermediary. After the job after the job as an intermediary, their wages would be split equally with the intermediary.

The other two also reacted at this time, one of them hesitantly asked, "Sir, I have to go home and send something back, otherwise, they will starve tonight. Can you wait for my share to come back? "

Gu Cheng nodded his head, and Lin Xin then asked the other two for their opinions, "If you guys want to send something back, you can also leave. Gu Cheng nodded his head, and Lin Xin asked the other two for their opinion," If you guys want to send something back, you can leave.

Since they were able to do it after returning, the three of them were naturally willing to take a trip home first. They were all living in the tent area. The man in their home was either dead or seriously injured, unable to take on missions to support their families. These strong women relied on their own hands to support their families. They were all permanent labourers of the company, and were a little better off than the other residents of the tent area. In addition to having a high wall to guard against the petty thieves, the company gave them two bottles of water a week to keep their appearance clean. Others had stored the water for their own use or sold it on the black market, but most of them had used it to take care of themselves. If it doesn't look clean to be in their line of work, don't use them in families that are more particular.

Gu Cheng's bathtub of water had been secretly filled up by them and hidden within their work bags. With so much clean water, it was all used to clean up the house. It was truly a waste. The three of them first returned to the labor market to check in, then each of them returned home early. After dinner, they went together with the other to the villa complex, afraid that if they were late, the owner would change his mind.

When they arrived, they greeted Lin Xin and the others and then went to work. Some of the families even brought their children to help out, shoveling the soil into baskets and dumping them into the green zone outside.

They didn't need to clean up the garden themselves, they were already preparing to clean up the master bedroom.

Nearly two hundred square meters of working area, they chose Xiangyang's master bedroom. Gu Cheng put away the original bed, changed a two meter solid wooden bed, and replaced it with a full elastic Xi Mengsi. Then they put a ten kilogram bed made of mulberry silk as a cushion.

Lin Xin looked at him being both a blanket and a blanket, then suspiciously looked at the thermometer hanging on the wall. Gu Cheng must be having a fit at 38 degrees Celsius, right?

The next second, he took out that generator from the space and connected it to the air conditioner. Then, he pressed the remote control and a gust of cool air came into the air.

Lin Xin thought these domestic workers were very reliable. Even the air-conditioning in the room that she didn't need was wiped clean. After enjoying the cool and refreshing feeling for a while, the two went to the bathroom to take a shower and change their clothes. Gu Cheng once again got himself a semi-automatic washing machine.

Lin Xin had never seen this type of washing machine before. Under his guidance, she tried it out and found it quite interesting. After the washing machine had finished shaking off his clothes, Gu Cheng pulled a few clotheslines in Xiangyang House on the same side. Since there was no roof to protect against rain and dust, it was not convenient for him to bathe in the sun.

Gu Cheng placed the clothes they usually wore along with their cabinets. In the event that they had children in the future, he planned to renovate Xiangyang's house to be treated as a children's room. The last room was temporarily unavailable. It should have been used as a guest room. Thus, Gu Cheng retained its original appearance and locked the door. In any case, it would not be needed.

He tossed and turned until it was around 10 pm. Finally, the soil in the yard had been shoveled away. Gu Cheng went down to settle his salary with them. He arranged for them to come over every two weeks to clean up the third floor as per usual. It was none of his business whether they would report the job to the labor market agent or not.

While he was upstairs, Lin Xin waited for him to fall asleep. Gu Cheng snuck into bed quietly and covered her with the blanket. Sensing his movements, Lin Xin woke up. She lifted her eyes to confirm that it was him and then went over with ease. Gu Cheng held her, unconsciously stroking her shoulder-length hair. His eyes were closed, and a faint smile hung on his face.

This would be their home from now on.