#157 - Chapter 157 Return
It was three in the afternoon.
Inside the Yangcheng Military Region.
The team members finally packed up all the valuable supplies here and loaded them onto the vehicles.
5 heavy trucks, 3 trucks, 2 tankers, and 6 transport flatbeds were all fully loaded again.
Even the scrapped tanks and several armored vehicles were not wasted. They were moved onto the flatbeds using forklifts and other towing equipment brought along and placed behind the transport flatbeds.
The crashed helicopter was also stripped of many parts, which were collected regardless of whether they would be useful in the future.
Compared to the last trip to Zhushi, this time it was more like coming to collect scrap.
In comparison, Qin Jin was quite satisfied.
These things might be used in the future, so he would take them back and store them.
Seeing that the time was almost up, he called all the team members to get in the vehicles.
It was quite a distance from here to the shelter, and the return journey would take a lot of time, so it was time to go back.
The convoy started.
He sat on the Saber-toothed Tiger, leading the newly harvested team towards the temporary base.
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Former Guo Family Shelter.
After the day's work, the piles of corpses outside the walls had been cleared further away by the team members who stayed behind, using bulldozers.
This time, when Qin Jin came out, he not only made a plan to kill the zombies, but also prepared for the subsequent handling of the corpses and the transportation of the tank wreckage.
When he came out, he put several forklifts on the transport flatbeds, anyway, these engineering vehicles would not take up too much space.
Yesterday, the corpses that fell outside the walls during the day and night were estimated to be two or three thousand, and it took the team members several hours to clear them to a distance, so that the corpses would not be piled up again in the future.
Of course, the corpses in the驻地 were also shoveled out. Even if the smell was not as strong as before, it was still creepy to think about them.
They still had to stay here for one night.
The burnt corpses no longer emitted a strong smell, and a lot of zombies around had been attracted and killed before, which temporarily created a vacuum in this area. Surprisingly, they didn't see many new zombies coming during the day today.
This allowed the team members who stayed behind to complete the cleaning work easily.
In the afternoon, the cleaning of the corpse piles was completely completed, and the team members on guard on the wall had received the news that the base team was about to arrive.
Sure enough, not long after, a long convoy appeared in front of them.
After confirming that it was correct, the convoy entered the already opened gate of the驻地 one after another.
Getting out of the car, Qin Jin asked the留守队员 about the situation. After understanding that there were no problems, he asked the squad leaders to arrange things on their own.
The trip to the Yangcheng Military Region was just average, and even the vehicles that came over were not fully loaded.
Of course, this was also a normal situation. It would be strange if it was full every time.
The defense here tonight should be much better than last night, and the team members should be able to rest a little better.
After two consecutive days of high-intensity combat, many team members were gritting their teeth to support themselves.
As dusk approached, they finally set up large pots and cooked meat.
Compared to yesterday's lack of appetite, today was much better. After a night's sleep, humans can always forget most of the unpleasant things that happened before.
Even if they are now in a place where hundreds of people have died.
It doesn't matter much.
The end of the world is killing people every day, and they themselves are killing gods. Now even ghosts may be afraid of them.
When eating, many team members ate several bowls in a row, as if they wanted to make up for yesterday's share.
Qin Jin naturally let them do it. It was so hard and dangerous to come out to fight, and he would not be stingy with this little food. He would make sure they had enough to eat.
Night.
The驻地 was unusually calm.
There were not even a few zombies outside the wall. I don't know if this area was really killed into a vacuum, or if they ran to the pile of corpses over there.
Everyone was naturally happy about this.
The night watch was still going on as usual, but it was not necessary to be busy with high intensity, which was also considered a rest.
Nothing happened overnight.
The next day.
After recovering some energy, everyone got up early. Taking advantage of the rising sun, the convoy was assembled and drove out of this temporary驻地 one after another, and the door was locked.
Maybe this place can be used in the future.
The convoy embarked on the return journey again.
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Wanshi Base.
Inside one of the buildings, a large classroom on the second floor.
Many independent small single rooms have been separated here, which is where the night defense team of the base lives.
Brother Chen had just finished work and returned to his dormitory to rest.
Last night was another night of high-intensity blocking of zombie attacks.
Their team spent a lot of effort to complete the defense work and contribute to the safety of the base.
He rubbed his sore shoulders and arms and sat down on his铺位. The most comfortable and peaceful time every day was when he returned to his small窝.
Although this small窝 was only three or four square meters, barely enough to put down a bed about 1 meter wide, and there was a passageway for one person to walk through.
It was even smaller than a prison cubicle.
Brother Chen felt very satisfied with this. At least it was several grades better than those survivors who built iron皮.
He had not fallen asleep at this time, because he was waiting for the base to distribute food in a while.
Now the Wanshi Base only has two meals, porridge is distributed at 8 am and 5 pm, and the people who receive the food arrange their own eating time.
Those who have "work" will receive more food based on their identity.
Those survivors who are unwilling to "work" are useless even if they are envious. If they want it, they can participate in the construction of the base.
Recently, I heard that more people have joined the base's construction team.
Like raising the walls, building more buildings to resist the cold, and helping the base to polish cold weapons, there is a shortage of people everywhere.
You can even join the base's night defense team and the外出物资搜寻队.
The wall has reached a height of nearly eight meters due to more adequate personnel.
It is considered much better than before.
Just as Brother Chen was waiting for the food to be distributed, someone suddenly shouted outside the house that someone was looking for him.
With doubts, he walked out of the small窝 and came to the door, and found that it was actually the female neighbor who wanted him to take her in and escape together!
He remembered that this woman had blamed him for bringing her to Wanshi Base before, and then how she had tried to curry favor with him some time ago.
He didn't want to have anything to do with this woman, so he was about to turn around and go back to rest, and said unceremoniously:
"Why are you still here? I don't take in other people here, you should go find someone else!"
When the woman heard this, a trace of regret flashed in her eyes, but she still bit the bullet and continued:
"Don't go yet! I have something else to ask you! It's about your cousin!"
Brother Chen paused in his steps towards the inside.
His face also turned cold.
He turned his head and glanced at the woman, and said indifferently:
"I have nothing to do with him anymore, you should ask someone else if you have anything."
The woman was anxious. She didn't expect that this Brother Chen would be so ruthless to his cousin. In order to hold on to this life-saving straw, she stepped forward and grabbed Brother Chen's hand, and continued anxiously:
"Your brother is injured! He joined that gang to go out to find supplies. Yesterday, he was chased by zombies outside and fell from a high place and broke a leg! He was finally found by the people from the shelter and rescued back to the base. Now he urgently needs medicine to treat him! Otherwise, his leg will not be saved!"
(End of this chapter)
