#127 - Chapter 127 Encounter
Green Source Base.
Two days had passed since Qin Jin had left with the team.
The base was still operating in an orderly manner according to the established plan.
After the acid rain, the base's defense personnel were once again frequently going outside the walls to work.
Today.
The gates of Green Source Base opened, and several machines drove out, including trucks, small excavators, loaders, and more.
Outside the walls, sounds had been played in advance to attract the nearby zombies and clear them away.
This was also a periodic task and activity for the base.
Now, except for a few elderly people, everyone in the base had personally killed many zombies!
Even the underage children that Wang Yang and Zhang Dong had recently brought back were no exception!
Children in their teens also had to personally go to the walls to stab and kill zombies!
The base did not support idlers; everyone was assigned something to do.
Even, when necessary, everyone could pick up a weapon and fight as a soldier!
A true case of universal conscription!
Don't think that only combat personnel and defense personnel would pick up weapons to fight; others were just relatively inexperienced. Given some time, some of them might not lose out to other combat personnel.
These vehicles came out today not only to clear the fallen corpses at the base of the walls, but also for other tasks.
Li Xu sat in one of the trucks, directing the driver to drive the truck to the side of the wall before stopping. He got out of the truck and said to the several base personnel who followed behind:
"Let's start here!"
"In a moment, I will make many marks on the ground. You guys help drive in the ground stakes, and then drive the steel columns from the truck into the ground, leaving 2 meters exposed."
The personnel next to him had no objections; they had been instructed by Old Qin to come out and help Li Xu with his work.
Soon, some machinery was brought down and construction work began.
Li Xu also took a tape measure to measure the distance, walking and stopping, occasionally scattering some lime on the ground to mark the spots, making it easier for the personnel behind to carry out the construction.
Several defense personnel stood guard nearby with guns or crossbows.
The construction had a certain amount of noise, which could easily attract some zombies from afar, so it was necessary to be prepared to deal with them at any time.
The walls had now been raised to 17 meters, and the defense personnel standing on them could see very far away, and would immediately report any situation.
Li Xu's current operation was naturally to add a buffer zone around the base, as he had mentioned to Qin Jin before.
With just simply processed steel columns and ropes, a zombie isolation buffer zone could be created. In the future, if zombies came, they could be blocked at a distance from the walls and killed directly with ranged weapons.
There would be no need for them to all pile up at the bottom to form corpse towers.
Zombies had no intelligence and would not bypass ropes unless there were special circumstances.
This project was simple and easy to do. After the acid rain, the materials were prepared and they came out today to implement it.
Father Qin stood by the guard post on the wall above the gate, watching the team working enthusiastically outside the base, and nodded slightly.
Under the leadership of his son and the efforts of other department heads, Green Source Base could already be described as having taken initial shape.
Although he didn't know how the survivors in other places were surviving, he himself was very satisfied with the development and construction of Green Source here.
He wondered what this place would develop into in the future.
Everything depended on how his son led them.
Around 11 a.m.
On the combat team's side.
After spending a lot of effort, the convoy finally finished the national highway section and began to enter the expressway.
After the apocalypse, there were no regulations about driving on the right side of the road. When they returned, they still followed the same road as when they came, driving directly along the left side.
They had already dealt with some obstacles blocking the way when they came, so there was no need to take the other lane to clear a new path.
What they had to do now was to rush back to Green Source Base today. Countless important weapons were on the vehicles, and everyone would only be completely relieved when they returned.
As for the wholesale market that Lin Zhijie had mentioned and some food, Qin Jin was too lazy to waste time clearing zombies to collect them.
Currently, even food had to take a back seat; the weapons on the vehicles were the most important!
There were many places outside with a certain amount of food. That was why other shelters were able to support so many survivors who had come to rely on them in the early days of the apocalypse.
They could send the combat team out to continue collecting them in the future. There were still some places in Guangyuan City that had not been completely searched.
After the convoy entered the expressway, the overall speed immediately increased, reaching a cruising speed of 70-90 kilometers per hour.
Compared to the 40-60 kilometers per hour that they could only travel on national and rural roads, this speed was already very good.
Moreover, the zombies attracted by the sound of the convoy disappeared all at once.
Qin Jin also had a headache about the problem of the vehicles being too loud.
Almost all of their main vehicles for going out were gas guzzlers. They didn't dare to drive out those with poor power, which caused the entire convoy to make a loud booming sound that could be heard from far away as soon as it started.
It wasn't that he hadn't thought about using electric vehicles, but he immediately dismissed the idea.
A big problem with electric vehicles was that the range was completely insufficient.
Like this trip to Zhu City, which was nearly a thousand kilometers round trip, the temperature had already dropped to near zero degrees. In the cold, the range might not even be half of what it was, not to mention the sharp increase in power consumption when fully loaded, and even the stability was a problem.
The range of electric trucks was inherently much less than that of sedan-type vehicles, and if they used sedans, they wouldn't be able to load anything.
Only the mechanical internal combustion engines that had been developed for countless years could adapt to the apocalypse.
After the geomagnetic disturbance disaster in the future, almost all electric vehicles outside would be scrapped. On the contrary, most old-fashioned fuel vehicles with low electronic components could still be driven.
Qin Jin planned to find a way to solve the problem of the vehicles being too loud after returning to the base this time.
The Smilodon was still leading the entire convoy forward.
They were about to reach the service area where they had stayed before. They planned to rest there for a while, and then continue to rush back to the base with all their strength.
Qin Jin stared at the road ahead, thinking about things in his mind.
Suddenly.
He seemed to notice something.
His originally dilated pupils contracted instantly!
With his super vision, he saw cars appearing in the distance on the opposite side of the road!
The kind that were driving!
And not just one, because of the curve, he could see that there were as many as seven or eight vehicles in the opposite convoy!
"Reduce speed! Vehicles are coming from the opposite direction!"
Qin Jin said to the driver Xiao Liu next to him, and then picked up the walkie-talkie to continue notifying the team on the channel.
"Everyone, pay attention! People are coming from the opposite direction. Listen to my orders later, and everyone, be prepared for battle!"
He informed all the team members first, so that they wouldn't be unable to react if something happened.
At the same time, he continued to stare solemnly at this group of unknown survivors who were getting closer and closer.
As the vehicles approached, he saw that the front row on the opposite side were several popular off-road vehicles from peacetime, followed by several sedans and trucks!
Very similar to their configuration in the early days of the apocalypse!
Obviously, it was a team with good strength!
(End of chapter)
