"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 and were heading towards them.
Lao Luo quickly stood up and jumped out of the car.
Went out of the car to welcome the city lord and his companions back.
Crunch!
The vehicle stopped, and Lao Luo and others gathered around it.
"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 be stationed here permanently, and people from outside cities will rarely come.
So many of his men died here, and there were so many zombies in the cave not far from them. It makes 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.
Take your eyes back, close your eyes and rest your mind.
It's the end of the world, who cares about burning mountains?
What's more, if all these weeds and trees are burned, the place for zombies to hide will be smaller.
.....
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 to 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 is.
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 solar greenhouse have been prepared.
Work started for a while, but then a thunderstorm interrupted 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 should I 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 in the lathe factory with Lao Qin, and they felt as if they were in another world.
It's 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 bazaar.
Lao Zhou has stayed at the headquarters base for a long time and didn't know there was such a large territory outside the base.
And it looked like there were a lot of people inside.
Construction work is being carried out in full swing in the trading market, and the rows of houses are arranged very neatly.
It can be expected that if the construction of the trading market is completed, it should not be too bad.
With this feeling of shock, the helicopter slowly landed in the oil city.
Knowing that someone was coming from the headquarters base, Ju Tianrui took Dongtai and others out to greet them.
"Huh? Lao Zhou, why are you here? I thought it was Captain Li Tie and the others?"
Lao Zhou looked at Ju Tianrui, whom he had not seen for a long time.
"They happened to have something to do, so I came over as a substitute to follow them. You did a good job. You did it very well and created such a large territory without saying a word."
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 the market street has become more and more popular recently.
The trading market started from scratch, and he watched it being built bit by bit.
"These are all results achieved under the leadership of the city lord."
Hearing Ju Tianrui's answer, Lao Zhou teased and said, "You have become so greasy."
"Let's take you for a walk. You haven't eaten yet. I'll take you to the cafeteria to eat... The food here is definitely not as good as the one at the headquarters base. Just eat whatever you want." Ju Tianrui pulled him.
Lao Zhou left the helipad.
After the two exchanged a few words of greeting, the strange feeling of not seeing each other for a long time subsided a lot.
Dongtai and others also brought Zhang Qiwu and other agricultural expert technical teams over.
When Lao Zhou and the others arrived at Oil City, it was already one o'clock in the afternoon.
In the cafeteria.
When Lao Zhou ate the food cooked here in Oil City, he always felt a bit uneasy.
It can be seen that the person who made this food has good cooking skills, but there are some problems with the ingredients and they are not fresh enough.
There are no vegetables grown here in Oil City. Many of them are dried vegetables transported from the headquarters base. Moreover, we mainly eat staple food here, and there are not many meat and vegetables.
The two of them ate food and chatted.
"Where are Lao Yi and Lao Xie? Aren't they also in Oil City?"
"They, Lao Xie has already gone to the Northern Territory, and Lao Yi also left for the Northern Territory with his convoy two days ago. It is estimated that they will be able to reach the Northern Territory tomorrow."
"Oh, my main mission on this trip is to transport ultraviolet lamps and send Mr. Zhang and others to the north. I will probably set off after lunch."
"So anxious?"
"Well, the headquarters said that the minister was in a hurry, but when he came back he was not in such a hurry. He could stay in Oil City for one more day."
"Okay, when you come back, I will take you to visit the trading market."
Lao Zhou thought for a while and suddenly said:
"By the way, the ultraviolet lamps produced at the headquarters base will be sent to the north. I can leave another batch for you."
"Um?"
Ju Tianrui asked with some confusion:
"We have enough here, why..."
Lao Zhou put down his chopsticks, rubbed his sore hands and explained:
"The city lord said that some can be sold in the trading market. On the one hand, it will promote the circulation of goods in the trading market, and on the other hand, it will also give those survivors more chances to survive in the wild at night."
"I understand, the city lord has indeed thought far and far." Ju Tianrui nodded, his tone full of admiration.
Ten minutes later.
Lao Zhou, accompanied by Ju Tianrui, boarded the helicopter.
Watching the helicopter flying further and further away, Ju Tianrui suddenly asked Xiao Jun next to him:
"Do you feel like Lao Zhou has turned gray?"
"Uh... Battalion Commander, I'm not familiar with him." Xiao Jun's cerebellum shrank when he heard Ju Tianrui ask this question.
"What I mean is that Lao Zhou is engaged in mechanical engineering in the base and is bored in the factory all day long. He doesn't have the same... how should I say, sense of crisis that he had at the beginning?"
"Forget it, I can't tell clearly."
Ju Tianrui shook his head and stopped thinking about it. When he saw Dongtai passing by, he quickly called to stop.
"Dongtai, did you just leave someone?"
Dongtai pointed to the lounge in Oil City and said:
"I have left an agricultural student named Zhang Lao. I will take them to the Ancient Cemetery Castle later."
They will build a zombie generator in the ancient cemetery to generate electricity, and will also divide an area to grow crops.
Ju Tianrui and the others are all combatants and don’t know how to plant at all.
Therefore, an agricultural-related expert was retained to take charge of this matter.
"That's okay." After hearing that an expert was left, Ju Tianrui nodded with satisfaction.
He is in charge of Oil City. He not only has to manage the issue of protecting zombies and ensuring the safety of Oil City, but also considers all the major and minor matters in each oil city.
Apart from anything else, oil extraction alone requires professionals.
Not to mention the others.
During this period, he became increasingly aware of the importance of professionals.
There are many things that he can't understand at all, but can be solved by professionals in a few minutes.
To manage a city, one has to specialize in the art.
During the thunderstorm and natural disaster, he stayed with his third uncle and became more aware of this problem.
As the person in charge of a city, you must have an overall view.
You can't do everything yourself. This kind of behavior may seem very thoughtful, but it is extremely inefficient.
Being a person in charge does not require you to have outstanding abilities in a certain field, but you need to know how to employ people and put the right people in the right positions.
This way you can feel more relaxed and do things better.
He watched the minister manage Oil City with his own eyes and learned a lot from it.
After the minister left Oil City, he followed suit.
He doesn't know how to manage the trading market, what categories of products should be added, and what specific system should be used to regulate market behavior.
So he recruited everyone in the oil city and even the trading market,
From non-staff in Oil City to collaborators,
Even members of the affiliated forces in the north, and even survivors in the trading bazaar.
Gather them to propose solutions and select a few economic experts with real materials to help.
After stretching, he strolled toward the lounge.
"Go see that agricultural expert."
After learning how to use people, he felt more relaxed and no longer had to worry about things he didn't understand.
Have more time to think about how to recruit more talents.
I have to go back and look through the registration manual of people entering and exiting the trading market to see if there are any powerful people.
.....
Four p.m.
But it was said that Lao Yi led a team of armored vehicles and military trucks from the oil city and headed north.
Now we just arrived at a logistics park in the northern suburbs of Shijia City.
Logistics parks are generally built in places with convenient transportation and also have walls.
Perfect for their convoys on the road.
"Captain, let's stay here tonight, shall we?" Changsheng parked the armored vehicle on the side of the road and pointed to the logistics park not far away and said.
Lao Yi looked at the logistics park outside the car window.
The fence of the logistics park is made of concrete and has a height of three and a half meters, which is quite suitable for their overnight needs.
In fact, there was nothing they could do about traveling by land.
Some large equipment items cannot be transported by helicopter at all.
For things like armored vehicles and heavy artillery, the most suitable way is through land.
The northern border is very large, and if there is not enough firepower, it will be impossible to defend it.
"Then this way."
Lao Yi picked up the walkie-talkie and called:
"Gu Long, please bring some people in to investigate first."
"good."
On another armored vehicle, Gu Long asked the driver to drive to the entrance of the logistics park.
The door of the logistics park is open. Although it is four o'clock in the afternoon, it is still a bit hot.
The sun was scorching, and the logistics park was empty. There were piles of garbage inside, and insects and flies clung to a rotting corpse.
Crunch!
The tires of the armored vehicle rolled on the road and entered the logistics park.
There was a loud "clang" and 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 within the logistics park.