Chapter 1392 The Team Heading North (Second Update)
"Why is there smoke over there? Is it on fire?" Master Luo looked at the thick smoke billowing behind the limestone mine.
Lao Luo raised his head and looked in that direction, and sure enough, there was white smoke coming out.
"The city lord said they are back and should be fine."
While they were talking, several trucks appeared on the right side of the limestone mine, heading towards them.
Lao Luo quickly stood up and jumped out of the car.
Welcoming the city lord and the others under the car.
Crunch!
The vehicle stopped, and Lao Luo and others gathered around.
"City Lord."
"City Lord."
"City Lord, what's going on over there in the cave? What should we do now?"
After hearing what Lao Luo said, Li Yu turned his head and looked at the limestone mines nearby.
"The cave has been sealed by our explosion."
"you."
"Let's all retreat. Don't mine in this mine. Find a limestone mine instead."
There is an underground river in that underground cave. They don't know where the underground river will lead. Leaving here is the best choice.
Hearing that the city lord wanted to leave here, Master Luo's face lit up.
Once a mining site is determined, the collaborators are the ones who need to stay here permanently, and people from outside cities rarely come here.
So many of his subordinates died here, and there were so many zombies in the cave not far from them, it made me sick just thinking about it.
Master Luo was eager to leave here.
"Pack up and go back to base."
Li Yu got out of the car and walked towards the helicopter.
Lao Bi and others behind him lifted up the tightly tied mutant zombies and carried them onto the helicopter.
This trip was not particularly smooth, because I didn't see the underground river, and I didn't know why there were so many mutant zombies in it.
However, at least the underground cave was sealed.
Li Yu and others boarded the helicopter, leaving Yu Wei, Master Luo and others to drive the electric trucks back to the headquarters base.
Buzz buzz——
The helicopter flew into the sky, and Li Yu looked at the raging fire burning below.
The flames have spread to the woods, and even the nearby mountains and forests have been ignited.
Withdraw your gaze, close your eyes and rest your mind.
It’s the end of the world, who cares about them burning mountains?
What's more, if all these weeds and trees are burned, the zombies will have less hiding place.
Ten minutes later.
The helicopter landed in the city outside the Da Zhangshu base.
Bai Jie asked Lao Bi and the others to help carry the mutant zombies they brought back into the scientific research institute.
She must seize the time to study these mutant zombies. According to Yu Wei and others, these mutant zombies are stronger than before.
By conducting slice studies, we can find out whether the amount of virus contained in these zombies has increased.
If it increases, it will once again verify the previous guess:
The more viruses an individual zombie carries, the more powerful it becomes.
This is just the change of zombies found in the cave. It may be special and not representative.
Later, we need to capture mutant zombies from other places and study them to confirm that the zombies are indeed getting stronger.
Not long after Li Yu and others returned to the base, several more helicopters took off and flew north.
Lao Zhou personally led the team and sent the ultraviolet lamps recently produced in the base to Oil City and the North.
In addition, there are also some agricultural-related technical experts who will be sent to the north together.
Agricultural planting in the north has been planned for a long time.
As early as half a year ago, after the Northern Territory was slaughtered, Li Yu had finalized the decision with his second uncle and the others.
Even the raw materials, PVC solar panel materials and equipment for building the sun greenhouse are ready.
Work began for a while, but then a thunderstorm disrupted their plans.
I have no choice but to put it on hold until now.
On the helicopter, Lao Zhou sat in the co-pilot and looked at the electronic map.
"Dingshan, I haven't been to that oil city yet. What does it look like?"
Dingshan drives a helicopter and wears black sunglasses.
The corners of his mouth turned up slightly, "How to put it, I don't know how to describe it. You'll know when you go there."
"Brother Zhou, did you follow Brother Qin before?"
Lao Zhou smiled and said:
"Well, after I was discharged from the army, I went to a lathe factory. I didn't know that Lao Qin was from that team before."
Dingshan said with emotion: "Brother Qin and I went to the Northern Territory half a year ago and saw with our own eyes the minister's suppression of those affiliated with the Northern Territory who disobeyed management. It was fierce!"
Lao Zhou and Yourong Yan recalled the time they spent at the lathe factory with Lao Qin, and felt as if they were in another world.
It feels like a long, long time has passed.
But in fact, it has only been more than five years since the end of the world, but it feels like he has experienced it more than ten or twenty years ago.
The helicopter flew towards Oil City according to the established route.
Dingshan has flown this route many times and is very familiar with it.
The two chatted and time passed slowly.
Three and a half hours later, they arrived at Oil City successfully.
Lao Zhou looked down from the sky and saw Nuoda's oil city and trading market, with shock in his eyes.
He originally thought it was just a very small base, but he didn't expect it to be so big!
The trading market covers an area of two thousand acres, which is almost the same area as the inner city of Da Zhangshu Base plus the four outer cities.
However, if the headquarters base and the buffer city are included, it will be more than ten times larger than the trading market.
Lao Zhou stayed at the headquarters base for a long time and didn't know that there was such a large territory outside the base.
And it looks like there are still a lot of people inside.
The construction work is going on in full swing in the trading market, and the houses are arranged very neatly.
It can be expected that if the trading market is completed, it should not be too bad.
With this shocked mood, the helicopter slowly landed in the oil city.
Knowing that someone from the headquarters base had come, Ju Tianrui brought Dongtai and others out to greet them.
"Huh? Old Zhou, why are you here? I thought it was Captain Li Tie and his team?"
Old Zhou looked at Ju Tianrui, who he hadn't seen for a long time,
"They just happened to have something to do, so I came to replace them and run a trip. You did a good job. You did it very well and made such a large area without making a sound."
Ju Tianrui had a smile on his face. Indeed, the oil city has changed a lot during this period.
The trading market was built at an astonishing speed, and there is a market street that has become more and more popular recently.
He watched the trading market being built from scratch.
"All these are achieved under the leadership of the city lord."
Hearing Ju Tianrui's answer, Lao Zhou laughed teasingly: "You have become too greasy."
"Come on, come on, I'll take you to the canteen to welcome you. You haven't eaten yet, right? I'll take you to the canteen. The food here is definitely not as good as the food at the headquarters base. Just eat something." Ju Tianrui pulled Lao Zhou away from the helicopter pad.
After a few greetings, the unfamiliarity of not seeing each other for a long time faded a lot.
Dongtai and others also took Zhang Qiwu and other agricultural experts and technical teams over.
When Lao Zhou and his team arrived at Oil City, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.
In the canteen.
Lao Zhou always felt that the food cooked in Oil City was not good enough.
It can be seen that the cooking skills of the people who made this food are not low, but there are some problems with the ingredients, which are not fresh enough.
There are no vegetables grown in Oil City. Many of them are dehydrated vegetables transported from the headquarters base, and the main food here is staple food, not many meat and vegetables.
The two chatted while eating food.
"Where are Lao Yi and Lao Xie? Isn't he also in Oil City?"
"As for them, Lao Xie has already gone to the North, and Lao Yi also set off for the North with a convoy two days ago. I think they should be able to reach the North tomorrow."
"Oh, my main task this time is to transport ultraviolet lamps and send people like Zhang to the North. I guess we will set off after lunch."
"So anxious?"
"Well, the headquarters said that the minister was in a hurry, but when we came back, we were not so anxious, so we could stay in Oil City for one more day."
"Okay, I'll take you to visit the trade fair when you come back."
Lao Zhou thought about it and suddenly Ran said:
"By the way, the ultraviolet lamps produced by the headquarters base are sent to the north, and we can keep another batch for you."
"Hmm?"
Ju Tianrui asked with some doubts:
"We have enough here, why."
Lao Zhou put down his chopsticks, rubbed his sore hands and explained:
"The city lord said that we can put some in the trading market for sale. On the one hand, it will promote the circulation of goods in the trading market, and on the other hand, it is also to give those survivors more chances to survive in the wild at night."
"I see, the city lord is indeed thinking far-reaching." Ju Tianrui nodded, his tone full of admiration.
Ten minutes later.
Lao Zhou boarded the helicopter accompanied by Ju Tianrui.
Watching the helicopter flying farther and farther, Ju Tianrui suddenly asked Xiao Jun next to him:
"Do you think Lao Zhou seems to have become whiter?"
"Uh, battalion commander, I'm not familiar with him." Xiao Jun heard Ju Tianrui asking this question, and his cerebellum atrophied a little.
"What I mean is that Lao Zhou is doing mechanical engineering in the base, and he stays in the factory all day. He doesn't have the sense of crisis that he had at the beginning?"
"Forget it, I can't explain it clearly."
Ju Tianrui shook his head and stopped thinking about it. Seeing Dongtai passing by, he hurriedly called him.
"Dongtai, did you leave anyone behind just now?"
Dongtai pointed to the lounge in the Oil City and said:
"I left an agricultural student of Mr. Zhang behind. I will take them to the ancient tomb bunker later."
They will build a zombie generator in the ancient tomb bunker to generate electricity, and at the same time, they will divide an area to grow crops.
Ju Tianrui and his people are all combatants and don't know how to grow crops at all.
So they left an agricultural expert to be responsible for this matter.
"That's fine." After hearing that an expert was left behind, Ju Tianrui nodded with satisfaction.
He is in charge of the Oil City, not only to manage the protection of zombies to ensure the safety of the Oil City, but also to consider the big and small things in each Oil City.
Let alone other things, oil extraction alone requires professionals to do it.
Not to mention the others.
During this period, he became more and more aware of the importance of professionals.
Many things that he couldn't understand at all were solved by professionals in a few seconds.
To manage a city, everyone has their own expertise.
During the thunderstorm disaster, he was with his uncle and became more aware of this problem.
As the person in charge of a city, you must have a big picture view.
You can't do everything yourself. This behavior seems to be very attentive, but the efficiency is extremely low.
As a person in charge, it is not about how outstanding the individual's ability is in a certain field, but to know how to use people and put the right people in the right positions.
This way, he can be more relaxed and things can be done better.
He watched the minister manage the Oil City with his own eyes and learned a lot from it.
After the minister left the Oil City, he followed suit.
He didn't know how to manage the trading market, didn't know what categories of goods should be added, and didn't know what specific system to use to regulate market behavior.
So he recruited everyone in the Oil City and even the trading market,
from the non-staff members of the Oil City to the cooperative personnel,
even the members of the affiliated forces in the North, and even the survivors in the trading market.
He called them to propose solutions and selected a few real economic experts to help.
Stretching lazily, he walked leisurely towards the lounge.
"Go see that agricultural expert."
After learning how to use people, he felt more relaxed, and didn't have to frown and rack his brains to think about things he didn't understand at all.
He had more time to think about how to win over more talents.
I have to look through the registration manual for people entering and leaving the trading market to see if there are any powerful people.
Four o'clock in the afternoon.
But Lao Yi led the armored vehicles and military trucks and set off from the oil city, heading north.
Now they have just arrived at a logistics park in the northern suburbs of Shijia City.
Logistics parks are generally built in places with convenient transportation and have walls.
It is very suitable for their convoy on the road.
"Captain, let's spend the night here tonight?" Changsheng parked the armored vehicle on the side of the road and pointed to the logistics park not far away.
Lao Yi looked at the logistics park outside the car window.
The wall of the logistics park is made of concrete, with a height of three and a half meters, which is quite suitable for their needs to spend the night.
In fact, they have no choice but to go by land.
Some large equipment and items cannot be transported by helicopter at all.
For armored vehicles and heavy artillery, the most suitable way is to go by land.
The northern border is very large, and if there is not enough firepower, it cannot be defended at all.
"Then let's go this way."
Old Yi picked up the intercom and called:
"Gu Long, take some people in to investigate first."
"Okay."
In another armored vehicle, Gu Long asked the driver to drive the car to the entrance of the logistics park.
The gate of the logistics park was open. Although it was four o'clock in the afternoon, it was still a bit hot.
The scorching sun was burning, and the logistics park was empty. There were piles of garbage inside, and flies were attached to a rotting corpse.
Crunch!
The tires of the armored vehicle rolled on the road and entered the logistics park.
With a loud "clang", a piece of glass fell from the building in the logistics park.
Debris was scattered everywhere, and at the same time, a beast-like roar came from deep inside the logistics park.
A group of zombies rushed out of the building.
(Seeking monthly tickets) (End of this chapter)
