After Zhong Chuchu, Ding Meng and others moved the grain from the transport brigade truck to the underground warehouse,
Zuo Ruxue and Xiao Hu were asked to immediately drive the truck to the storage area where the oil was stored, and quickly load the oil barrels that had been prepared into the truck.
In the third uncle's office.
Zuo Ruxue and Xiao Hu came in.
The two of them were actually a little nervous and entangled because they were not sure whether to continue transporting oil to the headquarters base.
Although the strong wind has stopped now, heavy snow may fall at any time.
If they take the convoy back to the headquarters base, they have to take certain risks.
If it snows on the way back, it will be difficult to walk.
However, compared with the journey from the north to Oil City, it is much safer to return to the headquarters base from Oil City.
At least you can spend the night at the Wu City military base, instead of spending the night in fear like you did in An City last night.
However, in the long run, it is definitely safer to survive the ice disaster at the headquarters base.
The headquarters base is stronger than staying in Oil City in terms of defense and food.
The third uncle sat on the chair, looked at the two people and asked:
"I came to you mainly to see what you think? Do you want to lead the team back to the headquarters base?"
Zuo Ruxue and Xiao Hu looked at each other, and Zuo Ruxue said first:
"I will follow the minister's arrangements."
Xiao Hu nodded and said: "Me too. If you ask me to go back, I will go back. If you ask me to stay, I will stay. I think it doesn't matter."
The third uncle was silent for a few seconds and then said:
"I'm asking you for your own thoughts. The base also respects your opinions this time. If you want to stay, stay in the Oil City and wait until this natural disaster has passed before returning to the headquarters base. If you want to return to the headquarters base as soon as possible, tomorrow
You can go back at eight o'clock in the morning."
Xiao Hu looked at Zuo Ruxue, "Lao Zuo, do you want to go back?"
Zuo Ruxue looked confused.
Because when she just came over from Zhong Chuchu, she knew that this time there was a batch of equipment that was going to be delivered to the headquarters base, and the headquarters base just needed it.
This batch of equipment was collected by survivors through the Trading Market Mission Hall.
All along, Da Zhangshu Base has mainly transported food, ammunition, and human resources support to Oil City.
Oil City, on the other hand, searches for materials, equipment and other supplies needed for various headquarters bases through the vast number of survivors, as well as the most critical oil.
Petroleum is not only used as fuel for cars, but can also be used in other fields.
Such as covering chemical raw materials, building materials and other fields.
Specifically, for example, plastics, almost all plastic products are derivatives of petroleum.
Another example is synthetic rubber, which is widely used in tires, sports equipment, wires and cables, etc.
In pharmaceuticals and food, petroleum is used to make fertilizers and pesticides, and is involved in food preservation, dyeing and seasoning.
Then there are lubricating oil and grease, which are used for machine lubrication to ensure the normal operation of the machinery.
There are many machines in the Da Zhangshu base, the most critical of which is the moving knife. Some lubricating oil must be applied regularly to ensure the normal operation of the knife.
If it is only used as fuel, the current reserves of Da Zhangshu Base are sufficient for the time being.
To date, 60% of the vehicles at the Dazhangshu base have been electrified.
Most short- and medium-distance transportation uses electric trucks and vans.
The electricity generated by the zombie generator in the big camphor tree can meet the current power demand.
Zuo Ruxue knew that the reason why the minister let herself and Xiao Hu choose was because of the uncertainty on the return journey.
But they didn't want to force them to return home at the risk of a blizzard at any time.
Therefore, let them choose by themselves.
After thinking for a moment, Zuo Ruxue took a deep breath and said:
"I think I can go back."
Xiao Hu smiled when he heard this, "Okay, let's return to the headquarters base."
After getting the answers from the two people, the third uncle nodded and said:
"OK, then you have a good rest tonight and return to the headquarters base early tomorrow morning."
"You don't have to worry about loading. I'll let Zhong Chuchu and the others handle it overnight."
"In addition, just in case, I will send you an extra snow plow. If it snows, you can also use the snow plow to clear the road."
"Okay, Minister." The two said in unison.
Snowplows have long been available in oil cities.
However, there were only six of them, and ten more were later modified using forklifts.
Snowplows and forklifts look very similar, but their specific functions are different.
Modification is not complicated.
The maximum driving speed of the forklift can reach 60 kilometers per hour, and it can also keep up with the convoy.
After confirming this matter, the third uncle said to the two people:
"That's it, you go down and rest early."
"Yes, Minister."
Zuo Ruxue and Xiao Hu turned around and left the third uncle's office.
After Zuo Ruxue left her third uncle's office, she did not immediately return to her residence to rest.
Instead, he went to the oil warehouse to find Zhong Chuchu.
Zhong Chuchu saw her leaving and coming back, and asked curiously:
"Are you sure? Are you going back?"
Zuo Ruxue nodded and said, "Go back."
"The minister asked us to make our own choice, and Xiao Hu and I both chose to go back."
Zhong Chuchu pondered for a moment and then said:
"It's better to go back. It's better to stay at the headquarters base than to stay here. No matter what time comes there, at least there will be no risk of internal chaos."
"I heard there is a great migration plan?" Zuo Ruxue asked.
"Um."
Zhong Chuchu continued: "However, it will not start until the frozen natural disaster has passed."
"I just learned about it. It is said that it is to balance the population of Oil City and the headquarters base, reduce the population pressure here in Oil City, and also to promote the development of the headquarters base."
"Okay, then I'll go and leave this to you." Zuo Ruxue said.
"Okay, don't worry, I'll have someone from the maintenance team come over for the vehicle."
"Um."
.......
The next day.
After a night's rest, Zuo Ruxue and others felt much better when they woke up in the morning.
Zhong Chuchu, Ding Meng and others stayed up all night.
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They also repaired the vehicle and repaired the ultraviolet lamp that had been damaged by wall-climbing zombies.
All vehicles are filled with fuel.
Zuo Ruxue and Xiao Hu set off on time at eight o'clock in the morning after meeting their third uncle.
According to their speed of fifty kilometers per hour, it would only take six hours to reach the Wu City military base, probably between two and three o'clock in the afternoon.
With such ample time, even if there are a few twists and turns on the road, they can ensure that they reach Wu City before night.
In oil city.
Most of the manpower was used to lay heating pipes. In the residential buildings in the trading market, tens of thousands of people were busy with this task. The speed of laying pipes was extremely fast. Workers were scattered around working at the same time. The pipe laying process was visible to the naked eye.
The speed is paved.
Since there has not been a heavy snowstorm today, the construction of the buffer city is still in progress.
buffer city.
A pickup truck stopped at the construction site.
Jie Changshan got off the car, pointed at the east gate and said:
"Now that the transport convoy has gone out, we should almost seal the four gates of the east, west, north and south!"
Liu Yu looked hesitant, "Should we all seal it? There are new survivors coming in every day. If we seal it, they won't be able to get in."
Jie Changshan thought for a while and said:
"Then seal the three gates in the south, west and north first. You can pour rocks and sand over them. This is the fastest. As for the east gate, prepare the corresponding materials. Once it snows, seal the gate immediately."
"Okay." Liu Yu nodded.
Now the walls of the buffer city have all been built to 6 meters. If all four gates are sealed, new survivors from outside will definitely not be able to enter.
There are also some people who went out to do remote tasks very early and have not returned yet.
If the gate is sealed, they can only lower the rope and let them climb in.
The door was sealed very quickly.
The four gates are only eight meters tall and about ten meters wide.
They drove trucks over, dumped hundreds of square meters of rocks and sand, and quickly sealed the three gates.
When it snows, the weather is freezing, and the snow lasts for more than three days, the sand and stones will be covered with a thick layer of ice, making them very solid.
.....
Three o'clock in the evening.
Zuo Ruxue and the others arrived at the Wu City military base on time.
Song Qi and the others opened the gate of the military base to welcome them.
Song Qi and others stayed in this military base, and few people from the headquarters base came.
Usually, you can see Zuo Ruxue and the others once in two weeks.
Meeting Zuo Ruxue and the others meant that Zuo Ruxue and the others had already gone to Oil City, then from Oil City to the North, then from the North back to Oil City, and then from Oil City back to the headquarters base.
After so many months, with a cycle of about two weeks, Zuo Ruxue and the others were able to travel to three places and circulate materials from the three places.
However, this time, Zuo Ruxue and the others came a few days earlier than before.
"I thought you wouldn't come!" Li Qi said, holding Zuo Ruxue's hand.
The two of them have known each other a long time ago and are excellent best friends.
Zuo Ruxue said with a smile: "Of course I have to come. I won't come out when I return to the headquarters base tomorrow. I can finally rest for a while."
Li Qi asked curiously:
"Are you tired from running?"
"Forehead..."
Zuo Ruxue looked at Li Qi and said with great interest:
"Why don't you wait until someone takes over your garrison job and then join the transportation brigade? It just so happens that we need to recruit another transportation brigade."
"Forget it, I feel tired seeing you look so thin." Li Qi waved her hand and said.
He complained a little depressedly:
"It's really boring to stay in a military base. I feel like I'm going to be depressed when I stay here underground every day."
Zuo Ruxue rolled her eyes, pointed to the table tennis table next to her and said:
"Your conditions are considered good. When Xiao Hu and I were stationed here during the last thunderstorm, there were no entertainment activities. You brought so many books and downloaded so many videos. Don't be too happy."
Li Qi asked with some envy:
"You guys have contributed a lot of points by doing transportation outside. Are you going to level up soon?"
"I'm still stuck here as a Level 2 personnel, neither up nor down, ugh..."
Zuo Ruxue sighed and said:
"Running in the transport brigade is not only physically tiring but mainly mentally tiring..."
"You! You still think so much. It's not like you don't know what's going on in our base. If you want to upgrade quickly, you can only make contributions and run where there is danger..."
"If you work hard enough and let the base see your efforts, they will naturally see it."
"Okay, come on, I'll take you to the bathroom. We renovated the bathroom and made a bathtub..." Li Qi pulled Zuo Ruxue towards the accommodation area.
Zuo Ruxue heard this and said with some surprise:
"You still know how to organize the flowers, and the bathing pool has been repaired."
"It's not like I have nothing to do here all day long, so I just think of ways to improve the living environment. Anyway, it's just idle time."
There is no shortage of water sources in the Wuhan military base.
When the relevant designers built this military base before the end of the world, they thought about ways to obtain water.
Excavation has opened up underground water and the water source is abundant.
Zuo Ruxue followed Li Qi to the bathroom and saw a pool built by Li Qi and others. The excess heat from the boiler was used to boil water here.
There are two bathrooms built here. They are not large in size, only 20 square meters per room.
The bathing pool is only about six square meters.
After taking a comfortable bath, Li Qi brought her cold bean sprouts and mushroom stewed pork.
This pork is already available in military bases, and canned pork is used as individual soldier combat rations.
As for the mushrooms and bean sprouts, Li Qi and others grow them here themselves.
In addition to these, they even have vegetables like garlic, which can grow in a dark environment.
They grow a lot of these vegetables in their residence.
Although they were able to get some dehydrated vegetables sent from the headquarters base from Zuo Ruxue and others, after a long time, they all wanted to eat fresh vegetables.
Later, Li Qi asked Zuo Ruxue to help them bring some seeds and started planting them in the military base.
It did gain something, allowing them to have a bite of fresh vegetables when they were far away from the camphor tree base.
After a comfortable night's rest.
Early the next morning.
The gate of the military base.
Miso miso miso——
The lights on the top came on. Li Qi watched the surveillance camera for a while. After seeing that there were no zombies outside, she shouted to Meng Tian:
"Xiaotian, open the door."
Meng Tian pushed the switch upward.
Crash--
The gate of the military base slowly opened, and gray light from outside shone in.
On both sides of the vehicle, Song Qi and others rushed out immediately with firearms in hand, in case zombies suddenly came running outside.
After Song Qi and others ran out of the military base, they scattered on both sides of the gate.
Check the surrounding environment up and down, left and right, and immediately notify Li Qi and Zuo Ruxue if there is any disturbance.
The sky is gloomy now, and there are many more zombies outside than before.
What's more, the gate of their military base is built at the bottom of a mountain.
Above the gate of the military base is the entrance to a national defense field science and technology park. It is a large platform from which zombies may descend.
Seeing the door open, Zuo Ruxue and Xiao Hu didn't dare to waste time and immediately climbed into the car.
The vehicle starts quickly.
Zuo Ruxue opened the car window and waved to Li Qi behind her.
Li Qi looked at the back of the vehicle as it left, dumbfounded.
After Zuo Ruxue and the others left, it would probably be a few months or even a year before Li Qi wanted to see them again.
Ten minutes later.
The convoy drove out of the gate of the military base.
Outside, Song Qi and the others also killed dozens of zombies that came running after hearing the noise.
Sizzling——
"Song Qi, they left, come back quickly."
Hearing Li Qi's voice on the intercom, Song Qi quickly shouted to the surrounding team members:
"withdraw!"
About twenty combatants quickly ran towards the gate of the military base.
When the last person came in, Meng Tian pulled down the door switch.
Boom boom boom——
The door slowly fell.
Song Qi and others stood still and did not leave.
They quietly watched the door gradually falling, and the scene outside slowly disappearing.
Staring at the outside world with some lust.
If it closes this time, it will probably take a long time to open it next time.
Boom!
When the door was completely closed, Song Qi still stayed where he was, dazed for a while.
The less than twenty minutes that I just ran out were like a dream.
The air outside is fresher and the view is wider.
They are like prisoners in a prison who go outside to let loose at certain times.
People are always like this, they envy each other.
The less you can get, the more you want.
Zuo Ruxue envied Li Qi and the others for their safety and stability, and Li Qi and the others envied Zuo Ruxue and the others for being able to breathe fresh air and be free outside.
But no matter what time it is, nothing is 100% perfect and can go well with people's hearts.