Chapter 131, Within the Barrier!

I don’t know how long I waited, the gate of the barriers finally slowly opened, that thick door was pulled upwards by the ropes hidden in the wall, the huge loom in this wall made a rattling sound.

Ren Xiaosu turned his head openly towards the gate, this was the first time he had ever surveyed that world so eagerly.

In the past, the gates of the 113 barriers had often opened, but Ren Xiaosu had never restrained himself from looking at it all, because there were both bitter and sweet days in this world, and he was afraid that he would think about it day and night after seeing that world.

There was a time when Yan Liuyuan wanted to sneak a look inside, but he was also stopped by Ren Xiaosu, and at that time Ren Xiaosu said that he would definitely bring Yan Liuyuan to live inside the barriers in the future, but in fact, he himself didn’t believe in this kind of talk.

And now, they would also belong to that world.

A large group of people came out from the barriers, a plump and handsome middle-aged man stepped out with great strides, he greeted Luo Lan with a smile, “Boss Luo has come to visit, I’m sorry to have missed you!”

As a result, Luo Lan’s face was gloomy: “You’re done with this?”

Lu Yuan smiled and apologized, “When I received Boss Qing’s notification on my side, I let people go without stopping to pick you up, but they lost contact with me as well, or else I would have waited here a long time ago.”

At this moment, Luo Lan didn’t say anything more, instead he directly walked towards the inside of the 109 Barrier, he waved his hand at the truck, “Follow!”

Suddenly Lu Yuan said in a loud voice, “Wait, who are all the people in the car, they have to get off and get inspected, right?”

The next moment Luo Lan turned around and slapped Lu Yuan in the face with a resounding slap, “Shame on you, my Qing’s car dares to be inspected?”

Everyone froze! This was Lu Yuan, this was the administrator of 109 Barriers!

This scene made Ren Xiaosu a bit surprised, he didn’t expect Luo Lan to be so violent all of a sudden, until this moment, Luo Lan finally looked a bit like the “big shot of the consortium” in his imagination.

However, after getting along with Luo Lan along the way, he knew very well that this was not Luo Lan’s nature.

Or rather, this was actually the shell that Luo Lan used to protect himself, and he needed others to fear him.

No wonder the people in the 113th Barrier were so in awe when they heard Luo Lan’s name in the first place.

In fact, what Ren Xiaosu didn’t know was that the 113 Barrier’s administrator, Old Liu, who had also had his fate of life and death decided by just a single word from Qing Zhen, had now died in exile on his way to the 178 Barrier!

However, Ren Xiaosu suddenly felt that this Luo Lan was somewhat interesting, because this time Luo Lan did so in order to bring them into the Barrier, realizing that there was nothing in the car, only the six people from his Ren Xiaosu’s team, as well as Jiang Wu with her more than twenty students.

That middle-aged man stood still for a long time after being slapped, Luo Lan said with a smirk, “What’s wrong Lu Yuan, forgot who you are?”

Lu Yuan bowed his head, “Haven’t forgotten, Boss Luo inside please.”

He didn’t even ask why those people he sent out didn’t follow him back, it wasn’t really something important to him.

Ren Xiaosu sat in the bucket of the car and watched quietly, so this was the power and backbone of the consortium.

At this time from the ledge a few more people came out to Luo Lan’s side and respectfully said, “Boss Qing asked us to wait for you here.”

Luo Lan raised his eyebrows, “My brother’s men?”

“Yes.”

Luo Lan raised his eyebrows and smiled, “Alright lead the way,” here he turned his head to Lu Yuan and said, “You should be busy with whatever you need to be busy with, I’ll have someone bring you the identity information in the evening, and you’ll make two dozen resident information cards for me and send them over.”

“Okay understand,” Lu Yuan said politely.

After saying that, Luo Lan got into the SUV that came to pick him up, Ren Xiaosu watched from the shadow of the bucket as the truck drove a little bit into the ledge, while that Lu Yuan stood outside the ledge quietly, not knowing what to think.

Once the vehicle entered the ledge, Yan Liu Yuan lay down on the back of the vehicle and exclaimed, “Brother, the streets in this ledge are so clean!”

“Brother, the buildings in the wall are all so tall!”

In the market town, there were only bungalows and no tall buildings, whereas here two or three story buildings could be found everywhere, and even taller five or six story ones.

However, what Ren Xiaosu wanted to tell Yan Liuyuan was that he had also seen even taller skyscrapers in that abandoned city in the Realm Mountain, towering like a sword in the sky.

After seeing that scene, Ren Xiaosu realized that the tall buildings in the wall seemed to be still almost interesting as well, after all, human civilization had regressed a lot after all.

Jiang Wu quietly looked at Yan Liu Yuan as if she was dazzled, but she did not have the slightest thought of amusement within her, instead she felt that the original life that they were accustomed to was so rare to the stragglers.

“Brother, there’s quite a lot of plants in this ledge, there are planted on both sides of the road, wait, look over there there’s also a large grassy area,” Yan Liu Yuan marveled.

“That’s a park,” Jiang Wu answered for Yan Liu Yuan, “People in the walled city can take a walk here after meals, and at night there will also be older women dancing here, tape recorders are relatively rare in this era, and whichever older woman can own a tape recorder and cassette tapes that play music, then she’ll be the most dazzling person in the dance team ……”

Yan Liu Yuan nodded, “Brother look at that lawn there sits a father and daughter, are feeding each other something to eat, what a loving scene …… Wait, how did they kiss ……”

Jiang Wu said with an odd face, “That’s not a father and daughter ……”

Just at this time, a peculiarly shaped car sped past the truck, and as it passed, the roar of the car’s engine set off a wave of sound, and in the car sat a middle-aged man with somewhat thinning hair.

Ren Xiaosu said curiously to Jiang Wu: “Why doesn’t this car have a roof?”

Jiang Wu thought for a moment and said, “This is called a convertible, it’s a car that only the rich can drive in the walled city, and it’s also one of the status symbols in the walled city.”

Ren Xiaosu sighed, “It’s so nice to be rich, even your hair is open-topped ……”

“……” Jiang Wu froze for a long time, as she was hard-pressed to know how to answer!

At this moment Ren Xiaosu finally understood that no wonder there were even stars like Luo Xingyu existing in the barriers, so it turned out that the people in the barriers were living a much happier life than they were!

These people also didn’t have to face wild beasts, nor did they have to sweat and carry baskets of coal out of the mines, all they needed to do was to do something decent in the barriers and they would be able to obtain resources.

The stragglers outside the barriers were like worker ants, feeding more than 100,000 ant queens.

Ren Xiaosu had heard Zhang Jinglin say that 113 the stragglers outside the barriers were quite small, there were some places where a large number of stragglers were gathered to grow crops or participate in industrial manufacturing, and there were even large human gatherings that were full of stragglers.

Of course, these large human gatherings were also controlled by the consortium as well.

Suddenly, Ren Xiaosu saw a few railroad tracks set into the ground on the road, “What’s this?”

“These are the tracks for the trams,” said Jiang Wu, “The residents can take the trams to work and leave work every day.”