Chapter 1657 Damn it! Where did the zombies appear?
Everyone is gathering firewood and the flames are high,
There is strength in numbers.
Li Yu walked on the wall of Oil City, overlooking the trading market and the buffer city in the distance.
The construction site is densely packed with people everywhere.
The sight of tens of thousands of workers building it together is extremely shocking.
But it also means that a lot of food is consumed every day.
After successfully harvesting grain in the northern grain growing area and the buffer city of Da Zhangshu Base.
With thousands of tons of grain reserves in the oil city, Uncle San dared to recruit workers vigorously and went all out to build the trading market project and the buffer city.
This is the productivity that bursts out after having massive amounts of food.
Today's big camphor tree forces in the three places have formed a positive cycle after accumulating for many years.
The larger the planting area, the more food can be produced, and the more people can be fed. The greater productivity can be exerted, and a wider area can be built to grow food, and then feed more people.
Advance step by step.
It has only been ten days since the buffer city wall was built. The foundation on the east side has been completed, and the construction of the foundation on the south side of the wall has actually begun.
This construction speed is more than ten times faster than the buffer city of Da Zhangshu Headquarters.
I think the buffer city at the Da Zhangshu headquarters base lasted on and off for nearly a year.
This was not only due to manpower shortage, but also affected by natural disasters, which put it on hold for a long time.
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Buffer city wall construction site.
A scene of construction in full swing.
Tens of thousands of people are busy here, and the sky is filled with dust.
Wu Xing sat on the roof of the car, looking at the construction site of Nuo University, and sighed to Zhang Tianfu next to him:
"Old Zhang, our oil city is very generous. This is the first time I have seen such a big scene in the apocalypse."
Zhang Tianfu pressed the magazine in his hand back into the gun and waved the white smoke that blew over.
"Feeding so many people is not an easy task."
"A few days ago, the transportation team delivered grain. I heard it was thousands of tons. This is the most impressive batch!"
When Wu Xing heard the word "food", he sighed:
"Yes, if our Southern Paradise had sufficient food, we wouldn't have to integrate into the Oil City."
"It's truly remarkable that Oil City can still produce so much food in the apocalypse."
Zhang Tianfu smiled and said:
"But... after integrating into Oil City, life will be much easier, isn't it?"
"certainly!"
Wu Xing nodded heavily and said:
"City Master Li is also a kind and kind person. After taking over our Southern Paradise, he did not exclude others and gave us the treatment of third-level personnel, which is really good."
"At least I have food and drink, so I don't have to go hungry anymore."
Zhang Tianfu looked to the south and said with emotion:
"This should be the treatment that Mr. Hu fought for for us. I don't know how his old man is doing."
"If you have a chance, I'd better go and see him."
Hearing Zhang Tianfu mention Tiger Lord, Wu Xing felt a little heavy.
"How is Master Hu's health lately?"
A few months ago, Mr. Hu's doctor had pronounced that Mr. Hu would not survive more than two months.
But after going to the sanatorium at the Da Zhangshu headquarters base, he is still alive today.
Zhang Tianfu replied:
"I heard from the minister that Mr. Hu no longer needs to lie in bed, he can already walk, and his physical condition is pretty good."
"Tsk."
Speaking of this, Zhang Tianfu couldn't help but sigh.
"This headquarters base is really strong. It can only produce so much food, and the medical level is so good. If I have the chance, I really want to visit the headquarters base."
Hearing what he said, Wu Xing also looked forward to the headquarters base.
According to Zhang Rufeng, who has been to the headquarters base,
Although the headquarters base is quieter, it is more like a paradise.
Sizzling——
At this moment, a voice came from Wu Xing's walkie-talkie.
"Team Wu, there are about a dozen zombies coming over from Jigong Mountain... they appear out of nowhere..."
Wu Xing quickly replied: "Just kill him, you still have to ask me about this kind of thing."
After speaking, he thought for a while, picked up the walkie-talkie and continued:
"Wait, I'll come over."
He quickly inserted the walkie-talkie back into his chest, and then said to Zhang Tianfu:
"I'm going to go there. Someone should be guarding the main road over there. There are zombies that appear out of nowhere. I have to go there myself."
"Okay, I'll watch over here at the construction site." Zhang Tianfu nodded.
Wu Xing jumped out of the car, walked to a pickup truck opposite, took a few people and drove towards Jigong Mountain.
The buffer city is very large, much larger than the buffer city at the Da Zhangshu Headquarters Base.
Therefore, the length of the wall must be much longer.
Although it is daytime now, due to the accumulation of clouds, guards need to be outside to protect the construction workers.
To prevent zombies from breaking into the construction site and affecting the normal construction of the project.
Wu Xing and Zhang Tianfu both belonged to the militia brigade and were captains of the 12th and 13th brigades.
Each led two hundred militiamen to patrol around the buffer city construction site to ensure the safety of the construction site.
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Wu Xing hurriedly drove the vehicle to the east intersection.
There are ten militiamen here at the fork in the road, guarding the main road.
Avoid zombies coming from the main road.
Several trucks transporting materials passed by, and Wu Xing parked the truck on the curb.
He shook off the dust in front of his eyes, covered his mouth and nose, and walked over.
Due to the recent large-scale construction, many transport trucks are carrying construction materials, such as some sand and gravel passing by. It is inevitable that sand and gravel will fall when the vehicles vibrate.
In addition, it has not rained in recent months, and the air is extremely dry.
This caused several cars to drive by, kicking up dust all over the sky.
In the dust, Wu Xing walked up to the men stationed here.
"Brother Xing, these zombies appeared from the main road, but at the checkpoint in front, they all said they didn't see any zombies. It's very possible that the zombies ran out of the mountains." His subordinates said quickly.
Wu Xing glanced at him and said, "Zombies are not that smart. They will avoid people? Are you kidding me?"
He squatted down and took a closer look at the zombies. The zombies were a little wet on the surface, as if they had just crawled out of the water.
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! Wu Xing discovered this keenly.
water?
The ditches around the trading market have long since dried up.
But these zombies look like they just walked out of the water.
"Dumb, where is the water near here?"
His subordinate Dumb smiled and replied:
"Water, how can there be water nearby? It hasn't rained in almost five or six months. Where can the water come from..."
As he spoke, he suddenly looked towards the distance of the road.
After reacting, he said:
"There is water. There is a ditch in front of it that transports water from Nanwan Lake to Oil City. There is a wellhead right there."
The ditch from Nam Van Lake to the trading market is 10 kilometers long, two meters long and wide, and is buried underground.
In order to prevent the ditch from being blocked by sediment and garbage when transporting water, there is a wellhead every few hundred meters.
The well head can be descended from the ground into the trench.
After turning off the water diversion switch, you can clean up the garbage inside.
That place is the only place with water around.
When Wu Xing heard what Ah-Dai said, his eyes narrowed.
You must know that it has not rained for nearly half a year, so the water from Nam Van Lake is life-saving water.
That is the lifeline of the oil city and trading market.
There must be no room for problems.
He stood up immediately, "Let's go, take me there!"
Dui also realized the seriousness of the problem, took a small step with his gun, and hurriedly ran down to the mouth of the well.
Soon, they ran to the corner of the road a hundred meters away.
Dui pointed to a protruding cement pile in the east and said, "That is the wellhead."
The ditch was originally built along the road, so the entrance to the well was naturally not far from the main road.
Wu Xing quickly jumped off the main road and walked to the entrance of the well.
When he walked to the entrance of the well, he saw the open entrance of the well, the pushed-open manhole cover and the unlocked iron lock.
His eyebrows were pounding.
"Damn it, what bastard opened the entrance to the well!"
This kind of wellhead will only be opened when the ditch is blocked.
But now the wellhead at this location has been opened and has not yet been closed.
Ah-Dai looked at the lake water flowing in the well mouth below and said:
"Brother Xing, do you think it was the survivors who opened this cover?"
Wu Xing walked over and lifted the cover. It was very heavy.
It weighs at least three to four hundred kilograms and cannot be lifted by just one or two people.
The lock was opened, the chain was not cut.
If the lock is still in good condition, it means that the person who opened the lock either has the key or is a master of lock picking.
Wu Xing thought for a while and said:
"This needs to be confirmed to see if the maintenance personnel forgot to close the manhole mouth, or if other survivors opened it on purpose... I have to confirm with the maintenance manager Zhong Jiuling."
"Brother Xing, look!"
At this moment, Dumb pointed under the mouth of the well.
Wu Xing looked down and saw several zombies floating in the lake below, grabbing onto the handrails on the well wall and climbing up.
After a zombie has been immersed in water for a long time, its body will become very flexible.
Therefore, in a natural disaster caused by a heavy rain, ordinary zombies can perform stacking movements after being exposed to the rain and their limbs become flexible.
The zombies under the wellhead have been soaked in water for a long time, so their limbs can remain relatively flexible and they can climb up from the well.
Oh shit!
After Wu Xing saw this, he determined where the zombies that had just run to the fork in the road came from. They crawled out from under the damn well.
Logically speaking, as long as the cover is not opened, there will definitely be no zombies appearing in the ditch.
Although there are many zombies in Nam Van Lake, a three-layer barrier has been set up at the water intake.
Something as big as a zombie cannot pass through the three-layer block.
Unless the group block and blocking pole are broken.
How could the steel pole be broken?
In addition, there are railings on both sides of each manhole to block some relatively large garbage.
More than 20 people went down to the wellhead and blocked dozens of nets.
If the zombies in the lake want to reach here, they have to break through dozens of layers of barriers. How is that possible?
These barriers are all made of rebar up to four centimeters thick. Zombies have no intelligence. How could they turn on the switches and break through layer by layer?
Wu Xing watched the zombies crawling up from the bottom of the well, but did not stop them from coming up.
He glanced at Dumb and said, "Wait until they climb up and clean them up."
"Yes." Dumb's men nodded quickly.
And retreated and scattered to the sides.
Wu Xing climbed up to the intersection and looked at the zombies climbing up from the wellhead and thought.
First of all, where did the zombies in the well come from? There is absolutely no way they came from Nam Van Lake.
Combined with the removal of the manhole cover, there is only one possibility.
That's at night. The zombies smell the popularity and rush to the Oil City. The trading market has a large population, and zombies come outside the wall every day at night.
Then these zombies like water, and may hide in the mouth of the well when daytime arrives.
Maybe because of the recent construction of the wall, there was a lot of traffic and people passing by.
So the ordinary zombies hiding below were attracted and climbed up during the day.
The more Wu Xing thought about it, the more he felt that his guess was the truth.
At this moment, pfffffffffffffffffft——
The dumb guys below killed these ordinary zombies in twos and twos.
They deliberately led the zombies to a place far away from the well entrance to kill them, just to prevent their corpses from falling into the well.
Although the water they use now is brought from Nanwan Lake.
But if the body falls, it still has to be fished out later.
No matter how much we clean up the zombies in Nam Van Lake, we can't clean them out. Even if we clean them up today, there will still be zombies running into the lake tomorrow.
Nan Van Lake covers an area of 75 kilometers and is so large that it cannot be defended no matter how hard it is defended.
The water they used was soaked in zombies, which was inevitable.
But after the water reaches the trading market water plant, it must be filtered and disinfected at all levels before it can be used.
That's why the water plant was built in the trading market.
Avoid filtered and disinfected water from being contaminated during the transfer process
Wu Xing was fascinated by his thoughts and squinted his eyes to realize that this matter was big.
"Brother Xing, what should we do next?"
Upon hearing this, Wu Xing was about to take out his walkie-talkie and contact the maintenance staff Zhong Jiuling, but he stopped again.
"Let's go find Director Ju. I want to report the situation to him face to face!" Wu Xing said solemnly.
Water is an extremely precious resource now that it doesn't rain for half a year.
But now there are zombies hiding in the ditch!
So close to the main road, right next to it.
The hidden danger is huge!
This matter must be made a big deal and the people above should pay attention to it.
After hurriedly running to the car, Ah-Dai asked breathlessly:
"Brother Xing, didn't you say you would contact Zhong Jiuling and ask him to come over?"
Wu Xing shook his head and said: "No, the cover was opened just like that. Whether it was an ordinary survivor trying to save a few 0.00 points, or maybe the maintenance personnel forgot to close the cover."
"But the wellhead is too easy to open. We need to report it to the top to get the top management to pay attention to this matter."
As Duan started the car, he was shocked when he heard Wu Xing said that the survivors were saving points and did not want to enter the trading market to buy water.
"No, Brother Xing, the water in the trading market is so cheap, and it's filtered and disinfected clean water. Just to save a few points, is it okay?"
"Who knows, there is no monitoring installed at the wellhead, so hurry up and drive." Wu Xing urged.
"etc."
Wu Xing suddenly stopped and said to Liu Keming outside the car window:
"Keming, you guys stop guarding the fork in the road. Go to the wellhead. Who knows if there are any zombies inside, but as long as one comes up, you will kill one!"
"Received." Liu Keming nodded.
Wu Xing looked at Ah-Dai and said, "Drive."
Boom boom boom——
The pickup truck roared towards the trading market.