#137 - Chapter 137 Noise Reduction Vehicle Test
Fenghe County.
A certain residential complex.
This is where Brother Chen, who went to join the Guan City base, used to live.
In a certain unit.
The original family of three with a child.
Tonight, they went to bed early.
Today, they finished their last bit of food during the day, and they have nothing to eat at night.
"Mommy, I'm so hungry."
A weak, childish voice sounded, it was the little boy.
He was even thinner now.
His originally thin face, after more than a month of battling hunger, now revealed the contours of his face at such a young age.
Having no dinner, he couldn't help but protest his hunger again.
"Good boy, Xiaoming, Daddy will go out to find food tomorrow, just bear with it, go to sleep early and you won't be hungry."
The lady of the house comforted him numbly.
She didn't know how many times she had comforted her child.
After speaking, she couldn't help but pinch her husband, who was also lying on the bed. It was this damn thing's fault for not bringing back food, putting their family of three in the current situation of having no rice to cook.
The man's arm was in pain, but he remained silent.
Compared to the pain on the surface of his flesh, a stronger, burning pain came from his stomach.
That day with the acid rain, he excitedly went to collect water, but a large area of skin on his hands was corroded, and it took several days to slowly recover, leaving behind many unsightly scars.
These past few days, he also took advantage of the daytime to go outside to find food, but he basically returned empty-handed.
At most, he brought back a few bottles of seasoning that others didn't want, almost completely used up.
The easy-to-find food outside had disappeared completely.
These past two days, after consuming the last bit of food, they were completely out of food.
At night, they could only drink some water found outside to buffer the hunger in their stomachs.
What they didn't know was that most of the water sources outside had been contaminated by acid rain. Flowing water was a little better, but the stagnant water was basically acidic.
The pain in the man's stomach at this moment was the contaminated water taking effect.
This was also the state of most survivors.
More than a month into the apocalypse, many survivors were truly starting to run out of food.
The man endured the pain in his stomach for a while, and after it eased slightly, he said:
"Xiaoming, hang in there, Daddy will go further tomorrow to find food."
The little boy didn't answer his father, he had heard these words too many times and no longer believed what the adults said.
"Mommy, I'm so cold."
Hearing this, the woman hugged her child tightly, wanting to bring him warmth with her body temperature.
She really didn't know what was happening in this world. There was no food, they were running out of water, and even the weather was terribly cold. They had lived in the south for a long time and couldn't stand this cold at all.
With hunger and fear for the future, they lay on the bed, hugging each other for warmth.
What they didn't know was that their situation was relatively good.
Many more survivors outside didn't have comfortable beds or warm quilts, and could only hide in secret places with hunger, shivering while listening to the zombies attracted to the door from time to time.
Hunger and cold were the main themes for survivors now.
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The next day.
Green Source Base welcomed a sunny morning.
Although the temperature was still below zero.
But the sunlight shining on people's bodies always made them feel the warmth brought by the star.
The base personnel had already gotten up early and started their busy day's work.
In the office on the third floor of the office building, Qin Jin had arrived early to handle matters.
At this time.
Five squad leaders from the combat team came to the office.
After receiving the new material collection list yesterday, they hadn't gone out to search yet today, because the boss had other plans.
The military region in Yangcheng also needed to be explored.
Yesterday afternoon and last night, a total of about 10 noise-reducing cars were modified, and there was still a distance to go before all the combat team's cars were processed.
It is expected that it will take another whole day to modify them today.
They came here today, naturally, for other matters.
"Boss, my and Team Leader Li's cars have been modified, let us go out for a spin to test the effect."
Zhang Tiankai, who was present, volunteered.
His squad's car had been modified, and silencers had been added to the weapons. He couldn't wait to go out and test the effect.
To see how powerful the upgraded weapons were against zombies.
"Okay. Whichever team has modified their cars can go out for a spin, those who haven't been modified can stay at the base and wait for the modification to be completed. We may have to go to Yangcheng tomorrow."
Qin Jin agreed to them with a relaxed expression.
This kind of thing didn't matter much to him. A day and a half of material collection was no longer important to the current Green Source Base.
On the contrary, the matter of the Yangcheng military region was relatively more important.
The captains understood what the boss meant and began to leave the office one after another.
The squads that had modified their cars began to gather their personnel and prepare to go out and do things.
Soon, Zhang Tiankai's squad and Li Bowen's squad were ready with their vehicles and guns, and drove out of the base gate in the eyes of the defending team members on the wall, disappearing into the distance on the road.
Now Zhang Tiankai had long since replaced it with a modified high-horsepower off-road vehicle. Although it wasn't as powerful as the Sabretooth Tiger and Li Bowen's explosion-proof vehicle, his vehicle, which was also equipped with a large ram, was not inferior.
His squad was also three cars, led by his pioneer car, followed by two heavy trucks driven by other team members.
Each car had 2-3 people.
In just ten minutes, they had left the base and appeared in the center of another town.
They had been here many times before. It was impossible to move all the materials from a town cleanly in just a few times. They often had to repeatedly search an area many times.
They had come to this town to search for a lot of materials. Those large targets, such as some supermarkets, wholesale markets, grain and oil stores, large restaurants, etc.
They had basically gone in to find them. At that time, the list given by the boss, combined with the map navigation, basically wouldn't miss these targets.
After more than a month, other small targets have basically been visited by other survivors.
Some convenience stores, small restaurants, generally have a lot of food, and will not wait for the combat team to come and find them.
It can be considered that they eat meat, and other survivors drink soup.
Now the places where food can still be found are often those houses with closed doors and zombies inside.
These zombies couldn't get out after being directly transformed, and kept guarding their homes waiting for someone to enter.
It is also the way most ordinary survivors obtain food now.
As long as you defeat the zombies inside, you will have the opportunity to obtain the food inside.
Of course, the combat team doesn't care about that little food now. After eating large meat targets such as large supermarkets, they are immune to these mosquito meat.
Now they have new search targets.
Electronic products, precision components, mechanical equipment.
(End of this chapter)
