Chapter 1722 Every second counts
Three o'clock in the afternoon.
Oil City.
On the wall, Lao Luo was doing routine inspections when suddenly there was a noise around him.
"It's snowing!"
"It's snowing!"
He looked up and saw snowflakes slowly falling from the sky. In the gray sky, snowflakes fluttered and fell on Yang's face.
Drops--
It snowed for a few seconds, and the entire Oil City and even the Buffer City were filled with sharp whistles.
Outside the Buffer City.
Zhang Rufeng saw the flying snowflakes and quickly turned his head to look behind.
Picked up the intercom to contact Xie Changshan: "Xie Changshan, stop the construction of the wall quickly and quickly install the ultraviolet lamp!"
The people from the Civilian Armed Forces Department could not retreat now. They had to wait until the ultraviolet lamps and other things were installed at the construction site behind before they could retreat and seal the east gate of the Buffer City.
Zizizizi--
There was a noise on the opposite side, and Xie Changshan's voice came from there, "I know, I'm arranging it!"
Xie Changshan looked serious and took a deep breath.
He was originally under the buffer city, and he quickly ran towards the buffer city.
While running, he picked up the walkie-talkie to contact all the supervisors on the construction site.
"Stop building the wall, and quickly install the UV lamps that were prepared before! Immediately!"
"Also, quickly have them install a temporary closed sentry tower and connect the heating pipes!"
"Yes!"
"Received!"
They had reserved the wire pipes long before, and now they only need to install the UV lamps that had been prepared long ago.
In addition, a week ago, when the buffer city walls were closed, Uncle San had an idea, that is, to continue to build the buffer city in the frozen disaster.
Save time.
This idea was recognized by the headquarters of the Dazhangshu base, and since then, water, electricity, and heating pipes have been laid.
Because the buffer city is closed, it can resist ordinary zombies. As for the zombies climbing the wall, as long as the UV lamps are installed, there will be no problem.
In this way, the construction of greenhouses and other buildings in the buffer city can continue, without worrying about zombies outside the buffer city crawling in.
Therefore, they dug out from the trading market and buried the heating pipes in advance, which led to the pipes reserved in advance on the wall.
The circumference of the buffer city wall is tens of thousands of meters, and an average of 300 meters to build a sentry tower, about 100 sentry towers are needed.
If you build a concrete fixed sentry tower, it will take a lot of time, but if it is a container-type closed sentry tower, you only need to lift the container with a crane and fix it.
The installation speed is very fast.
These container-type sentry towers are actually not very convenient to see the situation outside from inside, but at least they are closed.
Keep warm!
As long as the heating pipes and electricity are connected, there will be heating and electricity inside.
It is suitable for the guards on the buffer city to be on duty for a long time.
It is particularly important to protect the buffer city wall and prevent the wall-climbing zombies from entering the buffer city.
But the temperature is so low now, and if the temperature continues to drop later, the guards will not be able to stand in the blizzard for a long time, for several hours or even more than ten hours.
Sooner or later, they will freeze to death due to hypothermia.
More than one hundred sentry towers can provide a short rest time for the guards on the buffer city, so that they will not be exposed to the low temperature environment for a long time.
Therefore, the existence of closed sentry towers is extremely important!
Xie Changshan quickly ran to the buffer city wall and personally directed the installation.
Although the elevator on the inner side of the buffer city wall was not installed in time, there is a walking passage up, plus there are scaffolding, it is not difficult to go up and down the wall from the inside.
On the construction site, shouts were everywhere.
"You guys, hurry down to help, use roller skates to pull up the container!"
"A13 team, I told you before, you go up to install the ultraviolet lamp, the ultraviolet lamp is in the shed next to it"
On the construction site, Zhang Shi touched the snow on his head and twisted it into snow water.
The workers he was in charge of were not assigned to install the UV lamps, so he shouted to the workers next to him:
"Don't run around, wait up there to help pull the container."
Under the command of many supervisors, the workers on the construction site were orderly in chaos, stopped the wall heightening project, and focused on installing UV lamps and building temporary container-type sentry towers.
After the snowfall, the temperature did not drop immediately, and it even felt a little bit higher.
In addition, there was no wind at the moment, so it was not as cold as imagined.
These workers included skilled workers and workers who had just joined the team not long ago. Some of them panicked when they saw the snow.
"It's snowing, why don't you let us go down and return to the trading market?" asked a worker who had just joined the team a few days ago.
"Yes, our lives are also lives. It's snowing. I want to go back to the trading market."
"It's snowing. I'm afraid more zombies will come. Are we going to stay on this wall and wait for death?"
An old worker who has worked on the wall for a long time heard them complaining in a low voice, frowned and cursed:
"Stop arguing. You newcomers are really ungrateful. Don't you see that the people from the militia brigade outside are still outside? They haven't retreated yet, so why should we retreat on the wall!"
"Besides, we can only get half a day's points if we retreat now. It's not that cold now. If you are afraid of the cold, don't sign up for the construction. You are earning points now, but if it gets colder later and there is no work to do, you will have no points. Let's see what you will do!"
After the newcomers heard what he said, worry appeared on their faces.
It's getting cold, it's snowing, and the city will be closed soon.
They stay in the trading market, and if they don't have enough points, they can only wait to die.
Or can we just run out in the wind and snow?
But running out of the trading market at this time is tantamount to courting death.
Thinking about it carefully, I feel that he is right.
"Brother Zheng, what do you think we should do now?"
"Yes, yes, I just came to the trading market and I don't understand anything. What if I have no points and can't buy food here?"
The old worker named Zheng glanced at them and said calmly:
"What else can we do? Let's follow the arrangements and finish the work today. As for the rest, we'll see what happens. According to the urine in Oil City, since we want to defend the buffer city wall, I'm afraid we have some considerations."
"Did you see the greenhouse materials over there? I guess there must be work behind it."
"That's good, as long as you have work to do." A man with curly hair patted his chest and breathed a sigh of relief.
Not far away, the supervisor shouted to them:
"What are you doing? Come here quickly and help us pull this container over!"
"Here we come!" Lao Zheng rubbed his hands and walked over there.
The supervisor stood by the wall, and a huge container was suspended in the air by a crane next to it.
This kind of container is generally 6 meters long, 2.4 meters wide and 2.4 meters high.
The buffer city wall can be placed completely. The width of the buffer city wall reaches 6 meters. If it is placed close to the wall, there is still 3.6 meters of width on the other side of the wall for passing people.
In the snow.
Their vision was affected. Zhang Rufeng and others outside the buffer city all got out of the car.
It stares straight into the distance, and when it spots a human-shaped object, it will take out a loudspeaker and shout.
"Is it a human or a zombie? If it's a human, raise your hands. If not, I'll kill you!"
Before it snowed, they could still see hundreds of meters away, but once it snowed and was blocked by snowflakes, they could only see tens of meters away.
The characteristics of wall-climbing zombies are relatively obvious. They like to get on all fours. Although their movements are fast, they can be recognized at a glance.
Once they recognized the wall-climbing zombies, they immediately covered them with firepower.
At this moment, they are facing the most severe test.
The sky was dark and snowflakes were falling.
Behind them, there were various shouts, orders, and mechanical sounds such as electric drills.
The source of water for the waterworks outside Oil City.
In the fixed sentry tower built on the dock, Zhong Jiuling, the water plant equipment maintenance engineer stationed here, and Zhang Wei from the first group of the third squadron of the 17th Civil Armed Forces Brigade were stationed here with eight team members.
Not long after the snow fell, they were immediately notified to return to Oil City immediately.
When they saw it was snowing, they immediately got off the watchtower and quickly got into the car.
While on the road, they received a notice asking them to withdraw.
They were stationed at Nan Van Lake and had a very hard time.
They didn't want to be stationed in such a dangerous place at all, but they caught the lot and had no choice but to come over.
The most unlucky person is Zhong Jiuling. As a water plant maintenance engineer, he has been stationed here since the dock here was built.
I live a life of fear every day.
Sometimes, zombies enter the water from the land, and there are also zombies crawling out of the water.
The time is uncertain.
Especially at night, they can see zombies rolling on the lake in the sentry tower.
Boom boom boom——
Zhang Wei stepped on the accelerator to the bottom, and the vehicle drove loudly on the ice and snow road.
"Close the windows tightly, it's too cold!" he shouted to the co-pilot team member.
"Team leader, it's already closed." The team member said helplessly.
Swish, brush, brush!
Snowflakes were falling on the front windshield of the car.
As the vehicle was moving, the wind blew, and the wind got in through the gaps in the vehicle.
The cold made them shiver.
Zhang Wei turned on the heater and the temperature inside the car rose, making them feel better.
It is only ten kilometers from Nanwan Lake to the trading market and can be returned in ten minutes.
They have good luck.
When they ran out of the guard tower, there happened to be no zombies around, so they were able to run so quickly to the car in the grass on the shore.
Even so, when they ran out, they still alerted some zombies in the lake, who climbed onto the shore and pursued them.
However, the speed of the zombies could not match the speed of the vehicles, and they successfully got rid of the zombies chasing behind them.
They had already prepared to run away in the guard tower, so when they saw the snow, they didn't wait for the notice from Oil City, and they didn't even have time to pack their things. When they saw that there were no zombies on the dock, they locked the door and ran away.
If they didn't retreat in time, they might have to survive this frozen natural disaster in the sentry tower.
I shudder just thinking about it.
The wind and snow pounded hard against the windshield.
At first it was just a few sporadic drops, and then it fell in groups. The snowflakes were as big as goose feathers.
And it is getting worse.
Thumb, thump, thump—
They were passing through a bumpy road. The front of the car lurched forward, the body of the car was suspended in the air, and it fell heavily to the ground.
Zhang Wei in the car held the steering wheel tightly and tried his best to control the direction.
It was snowing and the roads were a little slippery.
After the vehicle became more stable, Zhang Wei slowed down a bit.
He didn't want to overturn the car because of driving too fast, leaving everyone trapped in this place.
There were still five kilometers left to the oil city. If the car overturned, it would take at least an hour to walk back.
Various accidents could happen in this hour.
Buffer outside the city.
Zhang Rufeng wore a windproof cap and squinted his eyes to stare at the front.
"Captain, it seems that another group of survivors have come." The men next to him shouted to Zhang Rufeng.
Zhang Rufeng said, "Use the horn to remind them!"
"Okay!"
Liu Cunxi picked up the horn and shouted to them:
"Listen, people in front, if you are human, raise your hands to signal, otherwise, treat them as zombies and kill them. Repeat."
He shouted several times in a row.
I saw that group of people raised their hands one after another.
Seeing them raise their hands, Zhang Rufeng took his finger off the trigger.
He almost fired the gun accidentally.
As the group of people approached, Zhang Rufeng and others could see what they looked like.
These people were in ragged clothes, pale and skinny, and looked like zombies.
Especially when they walked, they staggered and looked weak.
"Ahem, cough, cough, is this where we enter the trading market?" The gray-haired old man in the lead shouted to Zhang Rufeng and others.
His hair was full of snowflakes, blending with his white hair.
"Well, hurry in. Go in from here, walk straight for two kilometers and you will see a door. Go in and you will see the trading market." Zhang Rufeng nodded.
For some reason, when Zhang Rufeng saw him, he remembered the leader of the Sanshan Village who had accepted him, and was also his father-in-law.
It's a pity that he died in the zombie tide in that winter.
"Thank you, cough cough." The old man in the lead coughed twice, covered his mouth with his hand, stretched out his hand and saw a pool of blood on his hand.
The old man clenched his fist, nodded to Zhang Rufeng, and walked towards the buffer city with the members behind him.
This team was the most miserable team Zhang Rufeng had seen in recent times.
They were all old, weak, sick and disabled. Although there were also strong men, they were skinny like ribs.
Their clothes were extremely tattered. In such a cold day, they were only wearing a thin long-sleeved shirt, and there were even holes in the long sleeves.
Their faces were dirty, as if they had not eaten for many days.
Moreover, they had very little luggage, and they looked extremely poor.
Alas.
Zhang Rufeng looked at their backs as they left, sighed and shook his head.
He had no choice, he could not help them.
However, they were lucky to get in before the buffer city was closed.
"I don't know when the people above can get it done." Zhang Rufeng turned his head and looked at the wall behind.
He saw a huge container fixed on the eight-meter-high buffer city wall.
The workers above were cutting holes in the container and inserting heating pipes into it.
(Seeking monthly tickets)
