With the arrival of Zhang Qiwu, Lao Zhou and others, the transformation project in the northern border was restarted and gradually got on the right track.
It took half a day yesterday for Lao Xie, Gu Long and others to redeploy the defense system in the northern border.
Although it is not as tight as the headquarters base, it still has certain air defense capabilities.
More than a dozen anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft machine guns, plus sentry towers everywhere, are enough to deal a heavy blow to the enemy when they get close.
Everything is on track.
In the inner city, Xie Weishan transported the PC sun panels and steel frames that had been produced from the warehouse and began to build a greenhouse.
On this trip, he brought a dozen skilled construction workers over, and after leaving the work here to them, he hurriedly transported some PC solar panels to the outer city by truck with Guo Peng and others.
Teach Shan Zheng and other people from outside the city step by step how to build greenhouses.
The outer city in the north has a vast area, and the planting area is much larger than the inner and outer city of Da Zhangshu Base.
In addition to residential buildings, parking garages, sidewalks, and driveways, greenhouses must be built in other places in these places.
If greenhouses are built in these places, food can be produced stably all year round.
In this way, massive amounts of food can be stably exported to Oil City and Da Zhangshu Base.
At least it will be more than five times more than the current grain production of Da Zhangshu Base.
The area inside and outside the Da Zhangshu Base is not very large, and a lot of the space inside is used for other purposes, leaving much less space for greenhouses.
On the outer wall of the city.
Lao Huang took the bag of tobacco from Lao Yi and smiled from ear to ear.
"Lao Yi, you are still interesting enough to think about me, Lao Huang."
Lao Yi smiled and did not respond.
He stretched and walked out of the sentry tower.
A heat wave is coming, the sky is blue, the clouds are white, and the sun is shining brightly.
After the thunderstorm, the temperature suddenly rose.
It has been at least thirty-eight or nine degrees these past two days.
It even reached forty degrees in places without shade.
They had already put on thin, wide, short-sleeved combat uniforms, but even so, they were still sweating profusely after staying on the wall for a while.
To the south of the northern border is a plain with an excellent view.
In addition, the walls are high, so you can see far away.
A meandering river flows into the plain, where houses are scattered.
There are no buildings within three kilometers of the northern border. In order to provide a better view of the northern border, Yuan Zhi demolished all these houses.
In the plains, the abandoned fields are overgrown with weeds.
The heavy rains some time ago and the abundant sunshine these days have caused these shrubs and weeds to grow rapidly, reaching more than one meter in height.
The dilapidated houses in the distance have roofs covered with various plants.
There are dense trees, overlooking this area from the fence.
Full of life.
Even on the roads leading to the north, there are some sparse vegetation.
In the cracks of the sun-baked asphalt road, a few foxtail grass swayed in the wind.
"Um?"
Lao Yi suddenly saw a group of people walking towards them seven or eight kilometers away.
who?
He returned to the guard tower, took out his telescope, and looked over there.
This group of people looked extremely embarrassed. There were about a dozen people, carrying large and small packages on their backs and holding crutches in their hands. They looked no different from the refugees seen in the apocalypse.
However, Lao Yi saw the guns in their hands and felt that these people might not look like refugees.
How can refugees have weapons like firearms?
In doubt, he quickly called the eagle who was also on duty on the outer city wall to come over.
The current outer city wall is mainly watched by the outer city personnel, but a team from the inner city will also be sent to watch the gate.
There are thousands of talents coming from the Da Zhangshu Base Headquarters, and some of them are technicians in various industries. The remaining people also have to manage the inner and outer cities, as well as guard the inner city walls.
There are not enough manpower to guard the outer city, so we need people from the outer city like Eagle to come and help.
After hearing what Lao Yi said on the intercom, Eagle hurried over from the side.
He rides a mini electric donkey produced at the Da Zhangshu Base, which is an extremely convenient means of transportation.
Very popular in Oil City and on the base wall of Da Zhangshu.
After all, the area is large and the perimeter of the wall is very long. It would be too slow to walk through it.
The little eDonkey is just right.
It is small and can be lifted by one person.
The eagle came to the main entrance of the wall, "Captain Yi, are you looking for me?"
Lao Yi handed over the telescope in his hand and frowned slightly.
"Look, do you recognize these people?"
The eagle glanced in the direction Lao Yi was looking at, but it was too far away to see clearly.
Putting the telescope in front of you, after magnifying, it became much clearer.
He looked at it carefully.
He stayed on the man at the front of the group for a few seconds.
He put down the telescope with a complicated expression.
"Know?" Lao Yi guessed after seeing his expression.
"Um."
"I know the people from the Flame Gang. They are also one of the affiliated members of the Northern Territory. However, during the thunderstorm and natural disaster, they refused to enter the Northern Territory and did not go to Oil City. They chose to stay at their station."
"The person walking at the front is the leader of the Flame Gang, Huo Guanghua."
"It seems like they came all the way from their own shelter."
Eagle's tone was full of regrets. The Flame Gang was considered a relatively powerful team among the original affiliated forces in the North, with a strength of four to five hundred people and dozens of guns.
The leader of the Flame Gang, Huo Guanghua, was also a very proud man. At that time, he even laughed at those who stayed in the north.
They gathered in Ding County, 80 kilometers southeast of the northern border, unexpectedly after a thunderstorm.
There are only so many people left.
The mortality rate reached over 95%.
However, Huo Guanghua is capable of surviving a thunderstorm disaster.
The mortality rate of these people who stayed in the north was extremely high.
Not to mention those of them who stay outside.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! After Lao Yi learned that these people were affiliated forces that were previously unwilling to enter the North, his face became a little unhappy.
This group of people had reminded them at the beginning that they did not believe in thunderstorms and natural disasters, but now that they had become so miserable, they had the nerve to return to the north.
However, if you are unhappy, you will be unhappy.
The minister is here and he has no power to prevent these people from entering the city.
Whether they can enter the northern border, they still need to ask the minister's intention.
Thinking of this, he pressed the play button on the intercom on his chest,
"Minister, people from the Flame Gang have come to the Northern Territory. They are affiliated forces that we warned before but did not come to the Northern Territory. It seems that they have suffered heavy losses. There are only a dozen of them now."
"Should we drive them away or let them in?"
The third uncle was in the PC solar panel processing factory in the inner city at this time. After hearing what Lao Yi said, he said to the staff next to him:
"Produce it as soon as possible. Now we are waiting for the solar panel to be used. You must provide Xie Weishan and the others with the speed of use."
After saying that, he walked towards the outside of the factory.
Under the scorching sun, he did not immediately answer Lao Yi's words.
After thinking for a while, he said: "Wait, I'll come over."
I got into a pickup truck parked outside the factory, and the air conditioner in the car was turned on.
The air-conditioning air slowly blew out from the vents, making people feel refreshed.
"Captain, are you going to the outer city?" Lao Qin asked from the driver's seat.
"Well, let's go take a look."
Vehicles travel through the main roads in the inner city.
After two days of cleaning, the inner city is no longer as messy as when we first arrived.
It's just that the weather is a little hot, and people who are exposed to the sun are a little out of sorts.
Crunch!
The vehicle stopped at the steps leading up to the outer city wall, and the third uncle got out of the vehicle.
Looking at the long steps, he paused and said, "The headquarters base is more convenient. There is a helicopter."
Hearing this, Lao Qin chuckled and said: "It is indeed true, Captain, it has been more than half a year since we left the headquarters base."
The third uncle counted the days and said, "Yes."
"Yes, let's ask Jackal to go back to the headquarters base another day. His son is at the headquarters base. The father and son haven't seen each other for more than half a year. It's just time for him to send back the zombie body that Lao Yi brought back."
"Yeah." Lao Qin nodded.
After climbing the wall, Lao Yi, Ying Ying and others came to greet them.
At a glance, the third uncle saw a group of people coming from the main road leading to the north three kilometers away.
I picked up the telescope and looked at this group of people carefully. Their faces were pale, and they all looked like hungry ghosts.
I put down the telescope and thought for a few seconds.
He glanced at the eagle and asked, "Eagle, do you think we should let them in?"
"ah?"
Eagle obviously did not expect that the minister would ask himself this question.
He couldn't guess what the minister was thinking.
After all, I warned you before and didn't listen. It doesn't seem very sincere to come back now.
After all, a person who doesn't believe in you, who has suffered a loss outside and now comes to seek refuge, is a bit annoying.
However, although he was not familiar with Huo Guanghua from the Flame Gang before, he at least had some acquaintance.
"I...I think we can let them in."
After a while, he finally expressed his truest thoughts.
"Reason?" Third Uncle asked immediately after he finished speaking.
"They have suffered losses outside and know how to cherish the opportunities they are given now. They will definitely be more loyal to you in the future."
The third uncle doesn't care much whether he is loyal or not. People's hearts are far apart in his belly, and he is not that powerful to see through people's hearts at a glance.
But one thing the eagle said is right. Only those who have endured hardship know how to cherish it.
"Then let them in."
The third uncle looked at Lao Yi and said:
"Tell them how they got through this period of time. It's interesting to be able to walk hundreds of kilometers without ultraviolet lights."
"Okay, Minister."
This is a trivial matter after all, and Third Uncle will not stay here waiting for them to come over and receive them personally.
Those people were walking too slowly. Three kilometers would take at least twenty or thirty minutes.
As for opening the city gate and bringing them in by car, that's even more impossible.
These people have to bear the consequences of the choices they make.
The third uncle took one look and left. He wanted to check the layout of the air defense system in the outer wall.
After the decoration was completed yesterday, he never had time to come over and take a look. Now he happened to come to the outer wall to take a look.
.....
The weather was suffocatingly hot, and the ground was as hot as a furnace. Huo Guanghua and others on the asphalt road kept crossing the edge of the long grass on the roadside.
Sweat dripped from their foreheads drop by drop, and their backs were already soaked with sweat.
My head felt dizzy.
After the thunderstorm disaster ended, they came out of the building where they had been hiding for months.
Tragic!
Those who did not run into the building in time all died in the thunderstorm.
Most of the food was also washed away by the floods during the heavy rain and there was no time to save it.
As soon as the thunderstorm ended, they knew that they would definitely not be able to survive the apocalypse if they relied on their own strength.
So they unanimously decided to head to the north.
They regretted it endlessly. If they had known that they had listened to Minister Li and others and moved to the north to stay together with other forces, it would have been better than now.
Traveling through mountains and rivers, they have to be wary of wall-climbing zombies at night. They can only hide in basements or closed buildings in the evening to spend the night.
Thanks to their small number of people and low popularity, they did not attract too many zombies.
Just because of the food consumption along the way, many people can no longer hold on.
thump!
When Huo Guanghua heard the sound, he quickly turned his head and saw one of his men falling to the ground.
"Binjie!" Huo Guanghua called out in a low voice.
His face was covered with sweat, and he walked over and squatted down.
He put his hand on Lan Binjie's nose and was still breathing.
Snap!
He slapped Lan Binjie twice in an attempt to wake him up.
I didn't wake up, I was completely passed out.
Motionless like a dead corpse.
If they left him alone, Lan Binjie would probably die here.
Friends, don't give up.
Huo Guanghua gritted his teeth and looked at the two people next to him.
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"Quick, help him up, we're only two kilometers away." Huo Guanghua shouted to his men on the left and right.
The two men were also weak and handed the backpacks on their backs to their companions.
Their physical strength has reached the limit. If they are carrying a bag and supporting others, they will definitely not be able to support it.
The two of them squatted down with difficulty, and then helped Lan Binjie up.
His legs were shaking violently and seemed unable to support Lan Binjie's weight.
Lan Binjie fainted at the damn right time. Both of them hated their companion at this moment.
Their bodies are on the verge of reaching their limit, and they want to pass out and let their companions help them walk.
well....
Hard to support, faltering.
We were very close to the northern border, and Huo Guanghua could see Lao Yi and Ying Ying standing on the outer wall.
He was extremely ashamed. He had always been proud, but pride was useless.
He lowered his proud head, this time he realized his problem.
If it had been... maybe so many people wouldn't have died.
Maybe those supplies won't be washed away by the flood.
It's a pity...there is no if.
The supplies that had been stored for many years were gone, and only a dozen people around him were dead.
Almost nothing.
Every time he thought about this journey, he felt extremely regretful.
But life still has to go on, and he has to take the remaining people with him and continue to live.
The scorching sun made them dizzy.
The food has been exhausted in the past few days. Without eating, I have no physical strength.
They have to walk such a long way again, and they can only rely on their willpower to support them.
Finally, we arrived at the gate of the northern outer wall.
Huo Guanghua pursed his stubborn lips and knelt down on the ground with a plop.
thump!
The group behind also followed suit.
Rather than kneeling down on the ground, it is better to say that he was exhausted and sat on the ground to rest.
"The Flame Gang, I, Huo Guanghua, was blind and did not listen to your suggestions. Our Flame Gang suffered heavy losses due to the thunderstorm and natural disaster."
"Now we have reached a desperate situation, please... take us in!"
"please!"
He kowtowed towards the north gate.
Lao Yi glanced at Huo Guanghua below in surprise, and then looked at the eagle.
This attitude is quite low, so it's not that serious.
Although they suffered heavy losses, there were at least a dozen of them, and they might be able to survive outside if they found a way.
What Lao Yi didn't know was that the thunderstorm disaster had really dealt a huge blow to them.
Moreover, the wall-climbing zombies that appeared after the thunderstorm disaster were like a nightmare, making them realize how weak they were.
"Open the city gate and let them in." Lao Yi shouted to a team member in the guard tower behind.
The team members pressed the city gate switch button.
Boom boom!
The outer city gate slowly opened.
When Huo Guanghua heard the sound of the city gate opening, he raised his head from where he had fallen to the ground.
When I saw the city gate open, my eyes were excited and there were some tears in my eyes.
"Brothers, the door is open, we are saved, let's go!"
He picked up a wooden stick on the ground, supported himself to stand up, and walked towards the door.
On the wall, the eagle saw the scene below and felt an indescribable feeling in his heart.
I'm not sarcastic, I just feel that sometimes it's not easy to live in this apocalyptic world.
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Big camphor tree base.
Under the scorching sun, the watermelons picked in the greenhouses were chilled and transported to the duty rooms in the inner and outer cities to provide relief from the heat to these duty personnel.
The card clicks!
Yang Tianlong took a big bite of a piece of watermelon, which was ice-cold and sweet.
"This melon is delicious, a little sweeter than yesterday's."
Others in the duty room were also eating watermelon, blowing on the air conditioner, and looking happy.
"Brother Yang, I've finished eating and I'm going out on patrol." A person on duty next to him said to Yang Tianlong.
"Put the watermelon rinds in the bucket. Lao Zhou said not to throw these watermelon rinds away, use them to feed the pigs." Yang Tianlong reminded.
"Yeah." Everyone said they understood.
Sometimes they feel like they are in a dream, eating iced watermelon in the scorching heat of the apocalypse.
Simply outrageous.
They ate all the red parts of the watermelon, leaving only the thin skin underneath.
Although watermelons are available at the headquarters base, there are many people at the base, so the portions distributed to each person are limited.
They were still on duty, so they had an extra piece.
For example, collaborators and non-staff personnel are not qualified to share these.
Sometimes the differences among the four levels cannot be felt, but they can often be reflected in some details.
In the inner city.
Li Yu took a spoon and dug into half of the iced watermelon. He had a big appetite and could finish half of it easily.
Lying on the recliner, swaying.
While holding the walkie-talkie, I learned about the situation in the base.
"He Chao, have Yu Wei and the others found a new limestone mine?"
"I found it and replaced it with a new one. It's near the fourth satellite city. It's only half the size of the limestone ore in Hefeng Town."
"Let's mine first. When the light comes out later, we can just move to another place."