Chapter 56 Salt Lake City

In the huge basin, there are countless hills and canyons formed by rocks. Between the gaps between these canyons or rocky mountains, if you look down from the sky, you will find green stripes in the gap. In fact, the growth between the gaps is all crops in the basin, as well as some wild plants.

In the whole basin, only in these canyons will accumulate some soil, giving the people who grow on this land a trace of vitality.

The strange peaks and strange stones are dazzling, and the whole caravan is overwhelmed.

I'm not familiar with this place, which makes Chen Zhuangping and others black.

Of course, with a guide like Zhang Jianyang, there is no need to worry about losing your way.

The caravan kept moving along the road. At the first fork, Zhang Jianyang asked the trainer to control the bull to turn into the fork.

There are three cities in the Tamu Basin, one big and two small. Like two small cities, the resident population is only about 100,000, which is not within the consideration of Zhang Jianyang. The central city of the Tamu Basin is different. With a population of more than 600,000, it is also a small city. More importantly, Salt Lake City, the central city, is built on the edge of the salt lake in the Tamu Basin, which is the most direct origin of refined salt.

Similarly, Salt Lake City has a dominant position over the whole Tamu Basin and is the political center of the Tamu Basin. At the privileged stage, they all live in the Salt Lake City.

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After walking for more than an hour, I finally walked around this dozens of kilometers of rock sea. In front of everyone, there is a blue lake connected by water and sky, and the white salt belt formed by countless natural salt flowers extends along the shore of the lake to the distance. Between this white salt belt, a huge city appeared in front of us.

Standing in this position, it seems that you can step on the giant lake and the city below.

The noise of the city is really heard here.

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Half an hour later, the caravan appeared at the Salt Lake City entrance checkpoint.

The soldiers guarding the checkpoint looked at the caravan at a loss. For so many years, they had never seen the caravan appear. Now they are about to change posts, but there is a caravan, which is not a small caravan, so that they don't know how to deal with this matter at all.

The stationmaster of the checkpoint reported the situation here as quickly as possible, and then rushed to the caravan. He did not have the demeanor of being a station leader at all. Like a shopkeeper, he nodded and asked, "Who is the captain?" I'm the stationmaster here.

Like some urban import and export stationmasters, they are all people with real power. As long as you want to pass under their eyes, you have to look at them and pay a lot of "tax" money. Otherwise, if they are not satisfied, they will put a small shoe on you immediately and prohibit you from entering the city for a few days and a half months. It is definitely a disaster for a caravan.

So in the eyes of many people, the stationmasters of these checkpoints are all arrogant masters, and they can't be offended.

Chen Zhuangping, who had been used to all this before, looked at this with some surprise and nodded and bowed, and also put on the head of the checkpoint with a smile on his face. The huge contrast made him not react at all.

It's just that Zhang Jianyang was embarrassed and said arrogantly, "I'm the captain of the caravan."

Zhang Jianyang's appearance did not make the other party more unhappiness, but made the other party more frightened and said happily, "I'm glad you are here. The mayor asked me to say hello for you and welcome you and your caravan. At the same time, we also welcome you to Salt Lake City.

These are all expected things, and Zhang Jianyang just nodded.

The stationmaster was in the caravan and whispered, but when he turned around, he was immediately fierce and majestic. He shouted at the stunned soldiers, "Why are you all stopping? Why don't you move the aisle for our guests?"

The soldier who received the order suddenly rushed to the aisle of the checkpoint and hurriedly removed the interceptor above.

In Salt Lake City, the role of checkpoints is almost equal to zero. The main reason for its establishment is to prevent some things that may happen in the future. Salt Lake City also needs to produce crude oil, but I don't know how long it has been stopped, because the cars in Salt Lake City have not been replenished for a hundred years, and now there are only a few cars that can still be driven.

The people entering and leaving Salt Lake City are all residents of the Tamu Basin. They all go to the city with some prey and strange things in exchange for some poor daily necessities.

After people moved the passage, the stationmaster also referred to sending more than a dozen soldiers, carrying guns, walking in front of the caravan, leading the caravan through the checkpoint and entering the city. From beginning to end, not to mention checking the goods carried by the caravan, I didn't even ask. No matter what it is now, the most important thing is for the caravan to appear in the Tamu Basin, and the rest is not important at all.

Salt Lake City gives people the feeling that it is old in addition to being old.

Many buildings on the street can be traced back to before the nuclear war. Many of the former shops have not been operated for many years, perhaps to the point of unmanned operation. Many shops don't even have doors. They are full of groceries and so on. A few open stores are operated by some simple daily necessities, as well as some knives and so on.

There are very few pedestrians on the road at this time, and most of them stay at home.

The temperature in the basin is lower at night than at night in the desert. No one wants to hang out on the street at this low temperature.

In fact, Salt Lake City is definitely an agricultural city, because more than 70% of the residents living here have no job. They just own a piece of land that belongs to them. Every day, they leave the city and go outside the city to manage their own fields. With the lack of business, only a few people can find a job in the city.

Today's Salt Lake City is just a huge village with high-rise buildings in the city, but it looks lifeless.

But this kind of lifeless was broken by the arrival of the caravan.

The people who got the news were as excited as chicken blood. They poked their heads out of the balcony and window one by one, watching the caravan.

More people still flock to the street and stand on both sides of the street, which reminds people of the scene in the movie when the People's Liberation Army entered the city.

Chen Zhuangping, who has never imagined or experienced this scene, was a little panicked, sat on the bull and the cargo compartment, a little at a loss, and even twisted his body uneasily to modify his nervous mood at the moment. They have never experienced such a scene. On both sides of the street, there are tens of thousands of people all the way.

In front of the street, those who can't see the head are all surrounded by people.

More than a dozen soldiers kept drinking and getting out of the way of pedestrians on the street, smashing them with gun butters from time to time, and abruptly opened a passage.

In the whole caravan, only Zhang Jianyang's expression remained unchanged. He sat on the platform behind the bull, smoked peacefully, and waved his hands to the people on both sides from time to time. Although it was impossible to receive cheers, his face was full of enjoyment. This feeling of being noticed by everyone is not so easy to get it elsewhere.

Compared with Zhang Jianyang's complainance, other people look unbearable, and their faces are so nervous that they turn white.

Wang Hanguang, who is not afraid of heaven and earth, is also dumb at this time. He straightened his waist, grabbed his hand and heard the gun, pretending not to squint. In fact, he was also nervous.

Zhang Jianyang's performance makes the people in the team admire to death, or the team is bullish. Such a scene can still... be calm!!

(Please fire, brothers... Whoo-hoo, I've been dumped a few streets. It's terrible!)