Chapter 1767 Brown Bear in the Snow
Whirl, whistling——
The wind howled.
The snowstorm raged like a beast, and the sky and earth were vast.
The wind carried the snow, as if it was going to swallow the whole world. The snowflakes were torn by the ruthless wind in the air and scattered everywhere.
The earth was covered with a thick layer of white snow, and the familiar scenery became blurred. Everything seemed unusually quiet, with only the sound of the wind whistling in the ears.
Oil City.
On the wall of the trading market.
Luo Gui wore a thick hat and covered it tightly, looking at the buffer city outside.
The greenhouse built in the buffer city was completely stopped, and all the workers involved in the construction retreated back to the trading market.
The buffer city wall was also abandoned. Luo Gui stood on the wall of the trading market and could see the piles of ice and snow outside the buffer city wall in the distance.
The blizzard was too heavy, and the thickness of the snow outside the buffer city had exceeded the height of the buffer city wall.
Because the buffer city has been carrying out snow removal work recently, the thickness of the snow outside the trading market wall is less than half a meter.
After being continuously raised, the wall of the trading market has now reached a height of more than 30 meters.
The wall of the oil city behind is nearly 50 meters high.
Pah!
Luo Gui spat at the bottom of the wall, his eyes full of resentment towards the natural disaster.
"Captain, all the people in the city have gone in." A subordinate hurriedly walked to Luo Gui and said.
"Well, I know."
Luo Gui turned around and looked at the fourth and fifth level members who were patrolling on the wall.
"Tell them all to pay attention. The buffer city wall has been withdrawn. Now we are the first and last defense wall."
"More than 2,000 people can defend the buffer city wall, and now there are more than 2,000 people. With such a large density, each sentry tower must strictly investigate lazy behavior and must rotate every 30 minutes."
"Once anyone is found to be slacking off, he will be fired immediately!"
"Yes, captain."
The trading market covers thousands of acres, which is only one eighth of the buffer city.
However, there are quite a few sentry towers on the wall, with dozens of them.
There are two types of personnel on duty on the wall, one is 200 members of the militia brigade.
The other is 2,000 conscripted members of the fourth and fifth levels.
The militia brigade holds firearms, and the 2,000 fourth and fifth level members hold cold weapons.
There are a total of fifty sentry towers in the trading market.
With the sentry tower as the center, each sentry tower is assigned 4 members of the militia brigade and 40 fourth and fifth level members.
Each sentry tower is divided into four squads, and each squad is equipped with 1 member of the militia brigade and 10 fourth and fifth level members.
Each time on duty, two squads go out, and the remaining two squads stay in the sentry tower to rest.
For example, the section from sentry tower No. 2 to sentry tower No. 3 needs someone to patrol and be on duty.
The people of squads 1 and 2 of sentry tower No. 2 go out, and the people of squads 3 and 4 stay in sentry tower No. 2 to rest.
For the No. 3~No. 4 sentry towers, the same goes for the people from Classes 1 and 2 to go out, and the people from Classes 3 and 4 to stay.
Then when a new round starts, the people from Classes 1 and 2 will stay in the sentry tower, and the people from Classes 3 and 4 will go out.
This forms a cycle, just like a baton, with people from each class moving forward instead of staying in a fixed sentry tower.
This way, they can check each other's problems and avoid serious consequences caused by some mistakes in details.
Luo Gui shrank his neck and turned to walk into the sentry tower behind him.
When he walked into the sentry tower, he glanced at the thermometer on the wall beside the door, which showed that the outdoor temperature at this time reached minus 68 degrees Celsius.
Really cruel! Luo Gui thought to himself.
He lifted the curtain, pushed open the door, and walked into the sentry tower.
As soon as he entered the sentry tower, a warm air rushed towards him.
He stretched his arms comfortably and shook his head. The snow particles on his head shook and fell to the ground.
Inside the sentry tower, more than twenty people were sitting on the wall, and the heating filled the whole room, making people drowsy.
Luo Gui said nothing and walked straight to the back. When his men who were resting on the chair saw him coming, they stood up immediately.
Luo Gui pushed him back to the chair and shook his head at him.
He found a place to sit down casually, leaning against the wall and closing his eyes to rest.
No. 1 sentry tower outside the city, five kilometers away from the oil city.
Outside this sentry tower, which is less than 20 meters high, the snow has buried half of its height.
The first and second floors below are all covered with snow.
But they clean the snow outside the gate every day and dig out a slope, which becomes steeper as they go up.
They try their best to keep the gate open normally. If they don't clean the snow, they will be covered by the snow and cannot escape.
Originally, this sentry tower was an above-ground building, but now it has been covered by snow and turned into a semi-underground building. Nearly half of the sentry tower is buried under the snow.
Inside the sentry tower.
The third floor.
Firewood was burning in an iron bucket.
Chang Yichang sat on a wooden bench, stretched out his hands to warm himself by the fire, and looked at the window railing next to him.
The snow outside the railing had buried half of it.
This used to be the third floor, but now it has become the first floor.
Alas.
He sighed, picked up the cup next to the iron bucket, and drank a sip of hot water.
When will this kind of life end?
Tap, tap, tap——
There was a sound of footsteps downstairs, and Biaozi ran in with snow on his head.
When Chang Yichang saw him, he stood up and made way for him to sit on the wooden bench.
Biaozi was not polite and sat directly on the wooden bench and took off his gloves.
His hands, which were purple and red from the cold, were exposed.
He placed his hands directly on the fire to bake, his hands trembling and white smoke emitting.
The snow on my eyebrows slowly melted.
There was mist steaming over his head.
"Brother Chang, I just finished shoveling. There is such a heavy snowstorm today. The further we go, the more snow we have to shovel. It's so tiring."
Chang Yichang patted his shoulder.
"There is nothing we can do about it. This sentry tower is completely enclosed. There is only one way out, which can only be through the gate at the bottom. The surrounding windows are all welded shut with steel."
"If we didn't shovel the snow and the gate was covered in snow, we would be completely buried."
"I'm so convinced, why does it keep snowing?" Biaozi cursed, venting his depressed emotions.
They didn't have much food to begin with, but they were lucky to have the dozens of tortillas given to them by Oil City.
Later, I met an elk on the way here and got two deer legs.
After arriving at the sentry tower, they scraped off all the bark that could be scraped from the surrounding trees, plus some roots and grasses such as lichens.
Later I discovered frozen mushrooms and made more than 100 kilograms.
It's been snowing for almost a month, and they've been depleting the food very quickly.
After all, there were more than thirty of them.
The main food now is the bark scraped from the trees and the roots dug up, which are put into an iron pot with a corn tortilla and cooked into a pot of porridge with the bark and roots.
"Dongbao, how much food do we have?" Chang Yichang looked at Zhao Dongbao who was lying on the bed next to him.
Zhao Dongbao climbed up from the wooden bed, wrapped himself tightly in quilt, thought for a while and said:
"There are 25 corn tortillas left, one elk leg left, three buckets of frozen mushrooms left, and the tree bark will probably last for a month."
"Um."
Chang Yi tasted and nodded. His complexion was dark and yellow. He had eaten too much tree bark recently, causing many of them to suffer from constipation.
The bark is difficult to digest, and eating too much can lead to constipation.
If they hadn't eaten it with venison and frozen mushrooms and corn tortillas,
Just eating the bark makes them feel even worse now.
It is even possible that eating too much bark may cause the belly to bulge and cause death.
Chang Yichang sighed, looked at the snowstorm outside the window, and said:
"Save your food."
He didn't know how long the blizzard would last, but if the last bark was gone, they would be dead.
Now the bark and roots of the trees outside are nowhere to be found.
The iron barrel was blackened by the fire, and the firewood in the iron barrel made a crackling sound.
Time passes slowly.
The sky outside became dark.
Suddenly, boom, boom, boom!
There was a slapping sound outside the iron wall.
Everyone in the room was awakened.
Chang Yichang picked up the spear immediately and quickly climbed up.
"Where is the sound coming from?"
Boom!
There was another slapping sound.
Chang Yichang immediately ran to the window to look.
But the snow outside blocked most of the windows, making it impossible to see what was going on outside.
In desperation, he ran towards the roof.
The top of the guard tower has the best view of what's going on below.
Except for Chang Yichang, Biaozi and Shunfeng all ran to the roof.
Chang Yichang saw them following and shouted quickly:
"Ask Guodong and the others to go downstairs and look at the door to see if it's locked."
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This sentry tower is very strong. If zombies want to break in, they can only enter through the gate.
"Yes." Hearing this, Nanshan stopped and ran downstairs.
soon.
Chang Yi tasted it and took Biaozi and others to the top of the building.
Looking down, it was so dark that only a shadow could be seen in the snow.
A big blob.
"Give me the flashlight." Chang Yichang said toward the wind behind him.
Shunfeng quickly handed over the flashlight in his pocket.
They haven't seen zombies for a long time since the blizzard fell.
Now that zombies have been discovered, they can report to Oil City.
At least it gave Oil City some confidence.
Since they arrived here, they have found no trace of zombies and have been unable to provide useful information to Oil City.
After Chang Yichang got the flashlight, he quickly opened it and shined it downwards.
This sentry tower is only eighteen meters high, and now ten meters are covered by snow.
When the light shines down, it's only about six meters.
Under the light, they saw a big brown bear patting their tin house.
"Brown bear!?" Chang was surprised and delighted when he tasted it.
It's really what you need.
Although he didn't know where the brown bear came from, the fact that it appeared outside their shelter at this moment was, to them, a gift from God.
Biaozi looked at the brown bear below and said excitedly:
"Brother, it seems that the brown bear down there has not mutated into a zombie. We are so lucky."
After saying that, he hurried downstairs.
"Biaozi, go get the crossbow."
"Shunfeng, where is Biaozi?" Chang turned his head and did not see Biaozi.
"I guess he went to get the crossbow." Shunfeng replied.
The brown bear below noticed the light above its head, raised its head, and roared at them.
Hearing the roar of the brown bear, Chang Yichang's mouth almost stretched to his ears.
It was really an animal without mutation.
It was so rare.
In his eyes, this brown bear was no different from a diluted treasure.
"Biaozi."
Chang Yichang was very worried that the brown bear would run away, so he shouted a few times towards the corridor.
Shunfeng was on the roof, kneading the snow on the ground into a ball and throwing it on the brown bear to attract its attention so that it would not run away.
"Here we go!"
Biaozi ran up with a crossbow and brought all the arrows with him.
"Shoot it at the heart and lungs in the front of its chest!" Chang Yichang reminded.
Biaozi was holding the only compound crossbow in their team, which had made great contributions on their way south.
It was the most valuable thing in their team.
Biaozi drew the bow and pulled it tight.
Shunfeng hit the brown bear with snowballs to expose its weak spots.
Biaozi had been waiting.
A few seconds later.
Instantly, he found the best position and opportunity.
Whoosh!
The arrow shot out and accurately hit the brown bear's chest.
The brown bear roared miserably and slapped the iron house angrily.
Whoosh!
Biaozi then drew his bow and shot an arrow, hitting the brown bear's eyeball.
The brown bear's shrill wail resounded in the snowy night.
As if sensing their difficulty, the brown bear turned quickly and tried to escape.
Whoosh!
Biaozi shot another arrow and hit the brown bear's back.
After shooting three arrows in a row, he put down the crossbow.
Shunfeng urged:
"Keep shooting it, the brown bear is so big, you see it's not dead yet, if you don't shoot it, it will run away!"
Biaozi said proudly:
"Don't worry, it will fall down after walking three meters at most. I just hit its lungs, it will definitely not be able to walk a few steps."
Shunfeng half believed and half doubted, staring at the brown bear, staggering in the snow.
The brown bear shed red blood as it walked.
One.
Two.
Three.
Shunfeng raised his head and glanced at Biaozi, who was also a little unconfident, and was about to raise his crossbow and shoot another arrow.
Bang!
The big brown bear fell to the ground on the snow.
It's done!
Chang Yichang patted the two excitedly, "Come on, come on, come on, carry the brown bear into the sentry tower together."
A brown bear of this size is incredible.
The skin can be made into at least two pieces of clothing, or a thick, waterproof and warm quilt.
Chang Yichang ran downstairs happily with Biaozi and others.
He told everyone the good news.
When everyone heard the news, they were shocked.
"Fuck, brown bears, we don't have to eat tree bark anymore?!"
"Oh my God, it's too good for us."
"Boss, you are awesome, Brother Biao is awesome."
"Stop talking nonsense, hurry down and carry the brown bear in."
A brown bear can weigh more than a thousand pounds, but this brown bear seems to have been hungry for a long time.
It is so skinny that it is estimated to weigh only five or six hundred pounds.
But for people like Chang Yichang who are in desperate situations, this is already a good harvest.
More than a dozen of them worked together to carry the brown bear into the sentry tower.
They even took away the blood of the brown bear flowing in the snow with the snow.
Bear blood is very nourishing.
With the efforts of more than a dozen people, they pushed the brown bear into the gate of the sentry post with difficulty.
Looking at the brown bear that was like a hill.
Chang Yichang couldn't help laughing. The door was not closed, and cold air blew in.
He laughed, and the cold air entered his throat, causing him to cough violently.
"Brother, this bear paw looks delicious."
"Brother, can we eat bear meat tonight?"
"Brother, this bear looks really delicious."
Chang Yichang looked at his subordinates whose eyes were green with hunger, and restrained his smile.
"Let's disassemble this bear first, collect all the fat, we must make full use of this bear."
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