Xu Feng and Liu Rui, who came here early in the morning to squat here, have been squatting here all morning.
The whole morning here gave them a deeper understanding of the mission hall.
"Brother Feng, it seems that we have only a few ways to earn points. We can either go out to collect supplies, go for transportation, or participate in construction sites..."
Li Da quickly said: "No, we can't do transportation, we don't even have a car."
There was worry in Liu Rui's eyes, "But... we can't find the supplies we need here for a while..."
When they first entered the trading market, they were completely broke.
Unlike other teams, at least they still have some points on hand, so they can purchase weapons and food, and travel far away to search for the supplies they need in the trading bazaar.
Xu Feng leaned against the wall and stared at the task window.
"If it doesn't work, just go to the shops in the commercial district and see if they can still recruit workers."
Ding dong——
At this time, the latest mission was updated on the big screen in the mission hall of the trading market.
【☆Construction site recruitment: 3,000 construction workers.
Requirements: Aged between 15 and 65 years old, male or female, strong and strong.
Benefits: Food included, 0.5~0.7 points per day.】
Whoosh!
Xu Feng caught a glimpse of it and rushed over quickly, shouting as he ran:
"Hurry up! Come and sign up!"
Liu Rui and Li Da quickly followed.
This once-in-a-lifetime opportunity actually happened.
With this opportunity, they can take root and survive in the trading market!
In the morning, there were very few workers on the construction site, and due to the appearance of zombies climbing the wall during the day, about a hundred people withdrew.
Therefore, it was necessary to supplement these workers, and the third uncle ordered to speed up the construction of the buffer city wall, so the general recruited more people.
Recruiting 3,000 people, this is only the first batch.
In the future, 1,000 quotas will be distributed every day for 7 days.
Altogether, a total of 10,000 people were recruited.
The purpose of dividing recruitment into eight days is to give more survivors a chance. Some people ran out to do tasks and happened to be away from the trading market so I didn't see them.
In addition, more survivors have joined the trading market in recent days, with the number increasing almost every day.
Spreading the recruitment over several days also gives opportunities to newcomers like them.
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It was noon at this time, but there was no sun.
Looking up at the sky, there is only a gloomy sky.
The clouds were thick and heavy, making people breathless.
When the trading market launched an emergency plan to resist the wall-climbing zombies,
Many survivors scattered in other places also face the challenge of wall-climbing zombies.
Yu Province, Luo City.
In the Funiu Mountain Forest in the south.
There is a natural cave with a hole about half the size of a man at the top of the center.
Two rebars are welded horizontally and vertically on this hole to form a cross shape.
The rebar is firmly welded to the cave wall, as if it is naturally integrated with the rock.
It's exactly noon.
A faint light shines into the cave from the top.
The light is dim, and you can barely see clearly with this beam of light in the cave, but the further away you are from this beam of light, the less clear you can see.
The area inside the cave is tens of square meters. From the entrance to the cave, the area becomes larger as you go inside.
It presents a pattern of narrow outside and wide inside.
There is a distance of about 10 meters from the entrance to the deepest part of the cave.
entrance of the cave.
Three people stood.
"Brother, please pay attention to safety when you go down the mountain." A teenage boy said to the two people in front of him.
The other two people each held two white plastic buckets and carried poles and ropes on their shoulders.
One is older, about fifty years old, and the other looks to be in his early twenties.
The middle-aged man nodded and said to the young man:
"Well, you collect more firewood. The weather has gotten colder recently, so I need to make more charcoal."
The young man smiled and said:
"Okay, I'll just use that earthen kiln to make it. I've seen you do it so many times, I already know how to do it."
"It's up to you." The middle-aged man warned a few more words, and then walked down the mountain with his eldest son.
They are the locals at the foot of Funiu Mountain.
A middle-aged man named Zhou Dafu.
More than ten years ago, I served as a soldier for several years. After being discharged from the army, I returned to my hometown for various reasons.
He built a house at the foot of Funiu Mountain, went on a blind date and married a daughter-in-law.
I took over a few acres of land from my old father to farm. I usually do transportation in the village, taking people from the village to the market in the town, and earn three or four yuan per person.
After so many years, two children were born. He and his wife raised their two sons. Before the end of the world, one was in high school and the other was in junior high school. They both went to school in the town.
After the apocalypse broke out, it happened to be a Saturday, and both sons were at home, so they survived.
Since it is in a rural area and his nearest neighbor is several hundred meters away, he rarely encounters zombies.
In addition, he had served as a soldier before and his combat effectiveness was stronger than that of ordinary people, allowing him to protect his wife and children very well.
Later, in order to avoid zombies, he took his family to a cave in Funiu Back Mountain.
He also moved all useful materials from home and other families in the village up the mountain.
This cave was a place where he often played in his childhood.
Funiu Mountain covers a large area and is a branch of the Qinling Mountains. It is distributed in nearly ten counties and covers an area of tens of thousands of hectares.
Zhou Dafu connected two white plastic buckets with a rope and hung them on a pole.
Such a white plastic bucket can hold 20 liters of water. He and his son brought four plastic buckets, which can hold 80 liters.
Use this water sparingly, it will be enough for them for half a month.
The water collection place is 5 kilometers away from the cave on a mountain road, and it takes two hours to get there.
On the way, Zhou Chen looked around and asked his father:
"Da, why don't we go look elsewhere? Last time we finally met a group of survivors, but you didn't contact them. We don't know what the outside world has become like."
Since they moved up the mountain, they have never returned to the village except for searching for supplies.
Especially in the past two years, they have almost never gone down the mountain.
If it hadn't been for the spring in the cave drying up, they wouldn't have gone down the mountain to get water.
In that cave, there is a one-meter-wide spring mouth. They used to rely on this spring water to solve the drinking water problem.
After Zhou Dafu heard his son's question, he turned to his eldest son and said seriously:
"Don't run out out of curiosity. It's definitely not as safe outside as we are in the mountains."
"Why?" Zhou Chen asked doubtfully.
He was only 15 years old when the apocalypse broke out. Even now, he is only 21 years old. He is at a high-spirited age, but he is trapped in the mountains, which makes him very uncomfortable.
Zhou Dafu looked at the sky with cloudy eyes.
There was vicissitudes in his tone: "Because under this kind of natural disaster, the more people there are, the more dangerous it is."
"Anyway, it's safest if we don't run out. You are already that old and have seen some things. You also know how your uncle Zhao, our next door neighbor, died."
"Let's go quickly."
After the man finished speaking, he continued walking down the mountain.
The mountain road was steep and they had difficulty walking.
The drought lasted for several months, and large tracts of trees on the mountains died.
There were bare branches and fallen leaves on the ground. They stepped on the fallen leaves and made a rustling sound.
A gray finch was standing on the branch.
Zhou Chen said with some regret after seeing it:
"Da, it's a pity that I didn't bring out my bow and arrows, otherwise I could have shot this bird down."
"Stop looking and leave quickly. It's getting dark early now, so we have to go back quickly." Zhou Dafu said without looking back.
The two of them carried the poles and walked down the mountain.
Passing through some extremely rough sections, they had to put down the poles and buckets on their shoulders and climb down.
This rugged road section has a slope of 90 degrees. It is impossible to get down without throwing things down first and carrying things.
Because the mountain is steep, not many zombies have bothered them in the past few years.
But even so, zombies can still be encountered occasionally, posing a threat to their survival.
More than an hour later.
They arrived at a reservoir at the foot of the mountain.
This lake covers a large area and was a relatively large reservoir before the end of the world, named Luhun Reservoir.
Even though it hasn't rained for several months, this reservoir has not dried up.
The lake surface of the reservoir is extremely calm, but danger lurks beneath the calm surface.
The reservoir area is very large, more than 30 square kilometers, with Luhun Town to the south.
Moreover, the river from the west flows into here, and when the river flows into here, it will also bring zombies here.
The two walked to the top of a cliff, skillfully removed the hemp rope from the pole, and tied the hemp rope to the hanging ear on the white plastic bucket.
"Da, the water level in this reservoir seems to have become low again. If this continues, we may have to go down to get water." Zhou Chen said, looking at the lake under the cliff.
The cliff is about fifteen meters from the water. When they came to fetch water in the past, the distance between the cliff and the water was only about ten meters.
This means the water level in the reservoir has dropped another five meters.
"Let's talk about it then. Come here and tie the rope to that tree." Zhou Dafu tied the rope to the ear of the bucket and threw the other end to his eldest son.
Zhou Chen took the other end of the rope, pulled it back, and tied it to the tree behind.
Zhou Dafu was holding a white plastic bucket, holding the rope tightly, and lowering it down little by little.
He didn't dare to throw the plastic bucket directly into the water because the sound would be too loud and would easily disturb the zombies in the reservoir.
Although they were on a cliff, the zombies in the water had to go a long way to get up.
Even if the zombies in the reservoir were alerted, they would have already retreated by the time the zombies in the water reached their location.
However, once the zombies in the water are disturbed, they will inevitably pull their buckets, which will cause great trouble for them to get water.
Therefore, if they can avoid alerting the zombies, they will never ask for trouble to attract their attention.
Under his tug, the bucket slowly reached the lake.
The weight on the hanging ear increases the weight of the head of the plastic bucket and causes the mouth of the plastic bucket to sink.
Gudu Gudu——
Water continued to enter the plastic bucket, causing small ripples on the originally calm lake surface.
The two people on the cliff held their breath, not daring to take a breath.
Looking at the plastic bucket on the lake, it slowly sank into the lake water.
The next second.
Zhou Dafu tightened the rope and pulled it up hard.
20 liters of water is not heavy, but at a height of more than ten meters, if your hand slips and falls, it will definitely attract the attention of the zombies in the lake.
Zhou Dafu used both hands to pull up little by little, while Zhou Chen behind him was holding on to the rope behind him.
This prevents the father from slipping his hand, and he can tighten it to prevent the bucket from falling to the water.
Two minutes later, Zhou Dafu lifted the bucket he had pulled up, put it aside, and then untied the rope on the bucket.
"Give me another bucket." Zhou Dafu said to his son.
"Da, here you go." Zhou Chen handed it over.
They repeated the operation just now, and after ten minutes the remaining three buckets were filled.
At this point, according to past experience, it is basically more than half successful.
There is a cliff, and the zombies in the lake cannot get up at all.
Zhou Dafu took a long breath and said to his son:
"Okay, hurry up and put on the bucket, let's go back."
Zhou Chen looked at Luhun Town across from the reservoir. It was several kilometers away from them, and the view from here was a bit blurry.
Before the end of the world, he was a student in Luhun Town.
Luhun Middle School.
He was only fifteen years old at the time and had a girlfriend and classmate at school.
On the Friday before the end of the world, he had made an appointment with Xiaomei to go roller skating at the skating rink in the town on Sunday.
But an apocalyptic outbreak disrupted everything and caused his first love to end without a problem.
"Xiaochen." Zhou Dafu called again.
Zhou Chen quickly looked away. Suddenly, he saw a zombie swimming on the lake in the distance.
and swam toward them.
"Da! Look what that is!" Zhou Chen quickly pulled his father's arm.
Zhou Dafu took a closer look and saw a wall-climbing zombie on the lake.
Shaking all over.
Grass!
"No, scary zombies!" Zhou Dafu quickly pressed his son's shoulders, and the two of them squatted down.
"Horror zombies? Don't horror zombies only appear at night? It's daytime now!" Zhou Chen's eyes were full of shock and his body was trembling slightly.
Wall-climbing zombies are called differently by different survivors. Some people call them wall-climbing zombies, some call them night demons, and some like Zhou Dafu and others have their own names.
They once encountered a terrifying zombie, which appeared one night after a thunderstorm.
That terrifying zombie almost killed all four of their family.
If the hole at the top of the cave hadn't been welded shut with two pieces of rebar, the terrifying zombie would have gotten in through the hole at the top.
Thinking of what happened that night, Zhou Chen's eyes were filled with fear.
"Perfume, where's the perfume I asked you to bring out?" Zhou Dafu asked quickly.
Horror zombies have an extremely keen sense of smell, and although they also have eyesight, it is relatively poor.
They were staying above the cliff, surrounded by bushes. The terrifying zombie below might not have seen them, but it should have smelled their uniquely human scent.
Except for horror zombies, other zombies are the same. Although they have eyesight, their sense of smell and hearing are better.
Horror zombies can climb and ignore cliffs.
If they carry the water and run away immediately at this time, the smell will be strong, and the scary zombies will definitely be able to catch up with them if they smell the smell and pursue them.
They were carrying two buckets of water, and the bodies of the scary zombies were extremely flexible and could climb trees and bounce.
Climbing a mountain is very simple.
If you run away, you will definitely be chased by terrifying zombies.
So, the best way is to hide it.
The perfume has a strong smell and is an excellent tool for escaping from zombies.
Zhou Chen took out the perfume from the small bag and slurped——
He sprayed it twice, and the air was filled with a strong smell of inferior perfume.
Zhou Dafu quickly took the perfume and sprayed it on his son, spraying a lot.
Sprayed all over from top to bottom.
Then I sprayed it all over myself, and finally I sprayed it twice on my head.
The two of them were covered in the smell of perfume, which made them want to sneeze.
Zhou Dafu pressed his son's shoulders and hid in the bushes motionless.
In addition, he held the handle of the knife tightly with one hand, preparing to fight with all his strength if he was discovered.