#1811 - Land and Ocean

Oil city.

Uncle San learned from the radio that the Judge had already set off from the headquarters base.

After saying a few words to the judge, he turned off the play button.

"Three thousand five hundred kilometers." Uncle San looked at the map hanging on the wall. According to the plan of the Judge and others, they should be able to arrive in Quanzhou tomorrow morning.

Rustle, rustle——

There were footsteps outside.

Then there was a knock on the door.

"Minister, there is an important situation to report." Ju Tianrui's voice came from outside.

"Come in."

"What's the matter?" Uncle San asked with a frown.

Ju Tianrui walked up to his uncle and said, "Outside the trading market, more than a hundred zombies suddenly appeared today. I don't know where they came from."

A hundred or so zombies are actually very few considering a place as big as a trading market.

However, we are still in the midst of a natural disaster.

A few days ago, I didn’t see a single zombie all day long.

Ever since the blizzard, zombies have become extinct and are hard to see.

Hundreds of zombies suddenly appeared today. There must be a reason for this, and they must find out why.

Does the appearance of these hundreds of zombies mean that all the zombies have escaped, and there will be more and more zombies outside in the future?

Or has the zombies undergone some special mutation?

"Okay, let's go check it out."

Uncle San put on a coat, a hat, gloves and a full set of cold-resistant gear, and followed Ju Tianrui out.

After ten days of clearing, the snow in the oil city has been basically cleared.

The snow was compacted into snow bricks and transported to the southern area of ​​the trading market.

The collapsed oil tower was also dismantled and moved to make room for the road.

Coming out of the oil city, almost half of the snow in the trading market had been cleared away.

The commercial area was cleaned up extremely well, and there were only a few dozen people scattered around the commercial district.

The temperature outside is still very low now, and everyone is huddled in their rooms, trying not to go out if possible.

Uncle San rode a snowmobile to the trading market.

Uncle San raised his head and looked into the distance, but there were no more zombies coming.

It is very likely that the snow in a nearby cave loosened and collapsed, and the zombies that were originally trapped were released, and they smelled the scent of humans in the trading market and ran over.

Although the residents of the trading market do not go out, the residential buildings are equipped with ventilation systems, and the exit end of the ventilation duct is just inside the wall of the trading market.

There are more than 200,000 people and it is extremely popular.

"Minister, do you want to kill these zombies?" Ju Tianrui asked.

"Well, kill them. Let the brothers keep an eye out at night. Ordinary zombies have appeared, and there may also be wall-climbing zombies at night. Let's see tomorrow during the day which direction these zombies are coming from." Uncle San replied.

It's freezing cold now, neither drones nor helicopters can fly, and it's too dangerous to send people out for reconnaissance, so we can only wait and see.

"Okay, Minister." Ju Tianrui picked up the walkie-talkie and contacted the captains of the 6th and 13th battalions of the Civil Armed Forces Department who were on duty at the wall, asking them to kill the zombies under the wall immediately.

Bang bang bang!

After a burst of gunfire, all the zombies under the wall fell down.

Uncle San walked to the edge of the wall and looked at the installed ultraviolet lamp.

If there are wall-climbing zombies appearing at night, this ultraviolet lamp is the last layer of protection.

However, after the judge and his group left the big camphor tree base, they headed southeast.

From Gan City all the way to Rui City, and then going east, you will reach the junction of Gan and Fujian provinces.

When they arrived in Rui City, it was already dark.

Seven o'clock in the evening.

The sky was dark and the white snow around it reflected light from the car lights, which was a bit dazzling.

Five cars were lined up in a straight line. The two giant searchlights on the front of the giant car could illuminate dozens of meters away and were extremely bright.

These five vehicles are equipped with ultraviolet lights in the front, back, left and right. When it gets dark, all the lights are turned on. From a distance, they look like a caterpillar emitting purple light.

The behemoth was driving in the front, maintaining a constant speed of 30 kilometers per hour.

In the car.

Heishou wore the headphones and MP3 borrowed from Gu Feiyang, turned up the volume to the highest, played powerful electronic percussion music, sat on the giant sofa in the middle, and shook his head.

The car body shook slightly. He walked to the front of the car and looked at the snow outside the windshield and the dark mountains in the distance. He felt that their trip was simply super cool.

In the dark night with the temperature of over seventy degrees below zero, he was driving this mechanical monster outside while listening to exciting music inside. It was so cool!

"Black Hand!"

The judge saw that Black Hand had not responded, so he raised his voice and called out again.

But the music in Black Hand's headset was too loud, and Black Hand still didn't hear it.

Helplessly, the judge had to stand up and pat Black Hand on the shoulder.

Feeling someone tapping his shoulder, Heishou quickly took off his headset and turned to see the Judge.

"Commander, what's the matter?"

"In three or four hours you will be on duty as the navigator. Why are you hanging around outside instead of going to the lounge to sleep?"

"I just woke up and now I can't fall asleep." Black Hand said, scratching his head.

The judge frowned and said, "If you can't sleep, don't run around in the corridor. Go back to your room and rest."

"Oh, okay." Heishou held the headset listlessly and walked towards the lounge.

The judge looked at Black Hand's back and frowned.

This black hand was quite lively and active along the way. It's not that he disliked lively people, but in his opinion, completing the task was the most important thing and one must have a serious attitude towards work.

If you take turns driving or piloting without getting enough rest, problems are likely to occur. Once a problem occurs, the impact will be serious and will delay the entire team's journey.

Along the way, not to mention seeing humans, I didn't even see a single living creature.

This is enough to show how great an impact this ice disaster has on the creatures on Earth.

The vehicles were driving in the pitch-black night, with no pre-apocalyptic road landmarks to identify their location. They could only rely on the location of the large camphor tree base in the electronic beacon to reversely infer whether the direction they were driving was correct.

Although I don't know where I am now, the direction I am heading should be correct.

The four sustainable RVs behind the behemoth were about eight meters apart from each other. The RVs behind had turned on adaptive cruise control and followed automatically, and no mistakes occurred along the way.

The time soon came to eleven o'clock in the evening.

It's time to change the guard.

Gu Feiyang, who was driving the behemoth, stood up without stopping the car, with one hand on the steering wheel.

Zheng Shiwu replaced his position, took the steering wheel from him and adapted to driving.

Since the Big Mac also has cruise control, you don't need to keep your foot on the accelerator when it is in cruise control. The Big Mac starts the cruise control at 30 kilometers per hour.

They only need to control the steering wheel, which saves a lot of energy.

The co-pilot's Black Hand also replaced He Feng, acting as the navigator and assistant.

As the commander of the vehicle, the judge was not that sleepy, but he still followed the regulations and let Xing Mingmu take over the command of this behemoth.

After Xing Mingmu sat in the driving seat, he immediately picked up the walkie-talkie to contact the vehicle behind.

"Convoy safety report, number 1."

Sizzle.

"Number 2 is normal."

"Number 3 is normal."

"Number 4 is normal."

"Number 5 is normal."

On average, the convoy would report the number every half hour to make sure the vehicles behind were following without any problems.

It was better during the day, as the behemoth could see the cars behind it through the camera on the rear of the car, but at night, it was not clear enough to determine whether the cars behind were following it.

So at this time, reporting and checking becomes extremely important.

After the judge talked a few words with Xing Mingmu, he walked to the Big Mac restaurant area and found a pack of bread from the cupboard. The bread was made by the headquarters base food processing factory.

The taste is not much different from the instant noodles before the apocalypse.

However, the noodles come with more toppings, including dehydrated vegetables and dehydrated dried meat. The nutrition is richer than the instant noodles before the apocalypse.

After filling half a basin of hot water from the water heater, the judge walked to the central seat with a bowl of instant noodles and looked at the picture on the display.

Sudden.

A wall-climbing zombie appeared on the display, but soon let out a shrill scream and jumped off the Behemoth.

It was obvious that it was exposed to the ultraviolet light on the body of the behemoth.

This kind of situation just happened, it's normal.

Although the temperature is still very cold now, since the snow has solidified, one or two wall-climbing zombies will appear from time to time at night.

Given the weight of the Behemoth, the fact that it is in motion, and the ultraviolet light is on, the wall-climbing zombies cannot have any effect on the Behemoth.

Sizzle.

The judge was eating instant noodles while lowering his head to open the tablet computer on the table and study the map on it.

At the current driving speed, we should be able to arrive in Quanzhou tomorrow morning.

After finishing a bowl of instant noodles, the judge went to the shower room to take a quick rinse and then returned to the lounge to sleep.

He set an alarm for six in the morning with his watch, put on his eye mask, and slowly fell asleep as the vehicle shook slightly.

The next day.

The alarm on the watch rang.

Didi Didi——

The judge took off his blindfold, turned off the alarm on his watch, and looked at the time. It was already six o'clock in the morning.

I felt the car body shaking, and the car is still moving.

"It should be here soon, right?"

The judge immediately threw back the quilt, stood up, put on his boots, put on a coat, and walked out.

The light in the lounge was very dim, but when you walked out of the lounge, the aisle of the Big Mac was very bright, all because of the sunlight coming in from the front windshield and the bulletproof glass above the car body.

The driver at this time was still Zheng Shiwu.

When Xing Mingmu, who was sitting in the command position, saw the judge, he immediately stood up from his seat.

"Commander."

"Where are we?" The judge sat down on the command chair.

"I don't know, but based on the direction and distance, we should be almost in Quanzhou."

"Nothing went wrong last night?"

"No, everything is running normally."

"Is there a car following behind?"

"That's fine."

"Um."

The judge stood up, returned the command chair to Xing Mingmu, walked to the communication desk in the middle of the car, and used the radio to contact the headquarters of the Dazhangshu base and the oil city to report their current situation.

We set out at three o'clock yesterday afternoon and now it is six o'clock in the morning, and we have been driving for more than ten hours.

The driver was changed once in the middle, but the vehicle did not stop.

There were no malfunctions and overall it went very smoothly.

7:30 in the morning.

There were no mountains ahead, only containers and overhead cranes that were half buried in snow.

"Commander, we should have arrived at Quanzhou Port now. Look at the containers and transport ships in front!" Xing Mingmu said, pointing at the containers in the front right.

The judge nodded and said to Xing Mingmu, "Drive the car over to the container and confirm it."

Because the snow was more than ten meters high and the ocean was frozen at dozens of degrees below zero, the snow was also more than ten meters high on the ocean ice surface.

Under such high snowpack, it was generally difficult to tell whether they were on land or sea.

However, in Fujian Province, there are eight mountains, one river and one field. When they are on land, there are always some mountains around. Although they are also covered with snow, the tall mountains still allow them to clearly know that they are still on land.

It was by the mountains that they determined that they were now on land.

The convoy drove to the dock, and the former dock was covered with snow.

Under the ravages of past typhoons, the tall tower cranes on the dock collapsed, leaving only the decaying containers and cargo ships.

The freighter was tens of meters high, and its hull was tilted and capsized, but it was still tens of meters high and extremely large.

Due to the ice disaster, a small half of these cargo ships were buried in snow, and the remaining exposed hulls were also covered with ice.

The whole world was covered in white, and under the sunlight, the hull reflected golden light.

The convoy drove up to the container ship.

Next to it was a tall tower with a command room on top, but the glass in the command room was broken and the room was filled with snow.

"Stop the car!" the judge said suddenly.

Zheng Shiwu did not stop the car immediately. Instead, he used the car's intercom to contact the cars behind and told them that he wanted to stop. Then he stepped on the brakes and slowly stopped the Behemoth.

After the vehicle stops.

The judge put on a self-heating suit and opened the escalator from the center of the behemoth.

I pressed the electric button on the upper armor plate and it slowly opened.

The judge climbed up, revealing half of his body as the giant.

The cold wind was biting, and the snow on the ground was blown into gusts of fine snow, as if it were sand in the desert, being blown by the wind.

The judge stared at the exposed cargo ships and containers, trying to find some text information on them.

But the cargo ship and containers were frozen in the ice and could not be seen at all.

Helplessly, the judge had to go down the escalator and close the armor plate.

He got off the bus and picked up the intercom to contact Lao Qin and others behind him: "We need to confirm our location. We must get off the bus and look for documents or logs in containers or cargo ships, or even in collapsed cranes, or find other evidence to prove that we are indeed in Quanzhou Port."

"Then let's go and take a look first." said Lao Qin.

"No, I will go down myself," the judge replied.

"You guys stay in the car to provide support. The personnel in the shooting compartments of each car are in place. Once you find a zombie, shoot immediately."

"good!"

The judge then said to He Feng and the others, "You guys, follow me down to take a look."

"yes."

(asking for monthly ticket)