The pickup truck was traveling along the road in the opposite direction of yesterday's A.
Thomas stood in the cargo compartment and swallowed.
Walking forward from the few corpses just now, you can see the corpses of infected people continuously along the way. Thomas was just a little surprised at first, then shocked, and finally he was shocked to the point of being speechless.
Is this the result of the three people's victory yesterday?
It's really scary.
Thomas also participated in the battle of the Love and Family team to clean up the new stronghold. With four or five guns, he faced three or four infected people. The infected people had very strong resistance to attack and had to shoot several rounds.
The number of infected corpses lying dead on the ground has exceeded, no, it has reached several times the total number of people killed by the Love and Family team.
Soon, the pickup truck had arrived at the location of some charred corpses, which was where Egg dropped his cocktail yesterday. After the pickup truck drove forward for a while, the corpses were finally gone, and they had reached the end of the chase.
Iger stopped the pickup truck. He stretched out his fingers and rubbed his dry lips back and forth. He thought about the various possibilities in his mind.
The normal moving speed of the infected is about 0.5 kilometers per hour. Although the trotting state of the infected is faster, it obviously has some limitations, so in the absence of prey, they should only move slowly.
Yesterday we finished work at 14:15 pm, and now the time is 9:37 , which is about 19 hours, so the infected person can walk about 10 kilometers in total.
So, the current group of infected people should be within a large circle with a radius of 10 kilometers with the ending position yesterday afternoon as the center.
After thinking clearly about what might be going on, Egger said to Joanna: "Joanna, keep driving. Pay attention to the mileage meter and stop the car after 10 kilometers."
After hearing what Iger said, Joanna glanced at the mileage watch, and then muttered: "It is 195267 now, and after adding 10, it is..., it is..., it is..."
"195277." Egg said quickly.
In fact, when adding a whole 10, you don't need to look at that much at all, you only need to look at the last ten digits, but for Joanna, this is an astronomical operation.
"OK!" After Joanna heard Egger's report, she put the car back into gear and drove quickly forward.
Soon, the pickup truck milestone reached 195,277, and there was still no sign of the infected group.
"Joanna, go back to where you got off the bus." Iger said to Joanna, and he began to calculate quickly.
The temporary camp chosen by Aige was about 18 kilometers away from the infected group. They did not see the infected group along the way. That is to say, the infected group was not in the two directions of the road.
Returning to the place where he got off the car, Egg jumped out of the car and walked a few steps to the corpse of the infected person. He began to carefully study the bloody footprints next to the corpse. Unfortunately, these footprints were all pointing forward.
In other words, even if the infected group turns around, it will only happen after passing this point.
Egg raised his head and asked the three of them: "Let's think about it together, if the infected people turn, in which direction will they move?"
Egg felt that his asking was in vain. The only way now was to use this place as the center of the circle and search in a spiral shape.
At this time, Thomas said to Iger: "Brother, I know where they went."
Iger raised his head and looked at Thomas. Thomas stretched out his hand and pointed to a certain side of the road and said, "I think they went in that direction."
Thomas pointed a finger seemingly casually. Of course, Iger couldn't be naive enough to write a letter casually. He asked Thomas: "Why?"
Thomas said confidently: "Intuition."
After hearing Thomas' explanation, Egger's face turned away instantly. It is better to rely on others' so-called intuition than to rely on one's own thinking.
Iger was addicted to a reversal series of games. In addition to the extremely brain-burning logic, what is more important is the transformation of thinking.
When your thinking goes into a dead end, it is better to think in reverse.
Instead of thinking about where the infected went, we should think about why they went there.
Thinking of this, Iger suddenly had an idea, and he quickly deduced and decomposed the problem based on this inspiration.
First, why do infected people migrate? Second, why do infected people migrate along roads? Third, if infected people leave the road, why?
After breaking down the problem, Egg seemed to have found a clue.
If the infected person is not regarded as a zombie, but an animal similar to an insect, such as a group of ants, then the purpose of the infected person's migration can be relatively simply deduced, which is to look for food.
Why do infected people migrate along the road? Iger thinks that we should not think too much about metaphysics and should consider the most intuitive situation, because the hardened road is more convenient for humans to walk than the dirt road next to it.
For the first two questions, Iger felt that his logic should be tenable, so the third inference was relatively simple.
Since the infected group gave up on the more comfortable roads, they must have discovered something.
Thinking of this, Egg raised his head and said to the three of them: "I have a bad premonition. The infected group seemed to have discovered something, so they deviated from the road. It is very likely that there are survivors hiding nearby, but they were discovered by the infected.
Already."
With this inference, everyone continued to drive along the highway in the direction of the infected group with the mentality of giving it a try.
Not far ahead, Iger suddenly stopped the pickup truck and stopped it in front of a house on the roadside.
Yesterday, after Fran was struck by the blood plague and fell into a coma, Egger found a nearby place for him to rest, which was this house.
Egger remembered that when they came to this house yesterday, there were signs that the house had been ransacked, and there were two corpses of suspected infected people left in the house. In other words, there were survivors who came here after the blood epidemic broke out.
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After Iger opened the car door, he got out of the car and walked to the house to observe and think.
Survivors generally search for supplies in order from nearest to far from the stronghold. Searching for supplies is divided into walking and driving.
If the survivors who ransacked the house came by car, their whereabouts would not be traceable, so this factor was not considered for now.
If the survivors were searching for supplies on foot, Egg would be familiar with it. After all, he and Joanna had been humanoid donkeys many times, and those few times almost exhausted him to death.
When searching for supplies on foot, you must not be too far from the base.
If you are too far away from your base, you can’t carry more with you, and it’s not cost-effective to take less with you, you might as well learn to love and work as a family team, just like locusts, gnawing wherever you go, which can save a lot of walking distance.
After thinking of this, Egger returned to the pickup truck and said to Joanna: "With this as the center of the circle, let's look for nearby buildings within 5 kilometers."
No, maybe 5 kilometers is not needed. Based on the patience of the Americans, maybe a radius of 3 kilometers is enough.
In a sparsely populated area like this, it is not that easy to find buildings that can accommodate people. From this aspect, their workload will not be too big.
Joanna drove a pickup truck around here, and with sharp eyes, she saw the silhouette of a building exposed through a gap in a small forest in the distance.
The pickup truck drove towards the grove. After going around the grove, I saw several houses behind the grove. The straight-line distance was less than 1 kilometer. It was just because it was too hidden. Yesterday, everyone ran back and forth on the road several times.
I couldn't find any houses here.
Unfortunately, they arrived a step too late.
These houses clearly showed signs of reinforcement, but all the wooden boards used for reinforcement were washed away.
The four of them quickly got out of the car. Egger and Joanna approached with guns in hand. Phoebe and Thomas followed behind with clearing knives and murder axes, advancing cautiously.
All the rooms were very messy, and finally, everyone found the remains of four that had been eaten away until only a few scattered skeletons were left.
Needless to say, everyone has guessed the general circumstances of the tragedy that happened here.
Last night, a group of infected people surrounded this place. Amid the screams of the screamers, the infected people launched a surprise attack. The survivors were affected by the blood plague in their sleep and died without resistance.
This is why Egger requires that night watchmen be arranged at the outpost overnight. Any slightest carelessness may lead to the complete destruction of a team.
