Egg's two shots were like really poking a hornet's nest. The infected group rushed towards him crazily. However, with the acceleration of the pickup truck, the distance became farther and farther, and they were soon thrown out of sight.
Joanna drove the pickup truck to the temporary outpost in one breath. After parking the car, she opened the door and jumped out of the car. She asked Iger: "Eger, what should I do?"
"Go, go now, we can't stay here any longer." Iger responded to Joanna, and then jumped out of the bed of the pickup truck.
There is no way to stay in this damn place. Among the group of infected people just now, there were actually 9 screamers. If each screamer was "full", there would be more than a thousand infected people.
I really can’t stand it!
How big is the population of America as a whole? You just gave me such a big group. That’s enough people for several towns!
"Shall we go to the outpost yesterday?" Joanna asked as she walked. In fact, it would be good to go back to where we were yesterday. After all, we just spent an afternoon tidying up. It would be a waste to only sleep for one night.
"No. Let's go back to Quick Creek Town." Egg opened the door and walked in. He said to Joanna: "You wake up Phoebe, and I'll wake Thomas."
Originally, Iger didn't want to be so cruel to Thomas. He knew that Thomas' coma was not fake, but that he had really fainted. But when he lifted Thomas just now, Iger's arm was already almost disabled. If he lifted it again, it would definitely be disabled.
Men, you have to be cruel to others.
So Iger stretched out his cold hand and pinched Thomas' nose.
A few minutes later, the four of them successfully evacuated the house, with a weak Phoebe and an even weaker Thomas sitting in the back seat.
Just now, after Thomas was suffocated by Egg pinching his nose and mouth, he became extremely angry.
"What are you going to do!!!" Thomas roared at Egg like a crazy lion.
"Uh~" Iger didn't expect Thomas to be so angry when he got up. After escaping the first wave of output, he said weakly to Thomas: "You forgot to take your medicine..."
"..."
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Thomas fell asleep again after taking a tranquilizer.
In less than half an hour, the pickup truck returned to the spot where they turned off.
In front of us is the group of infected people just now. The difficulty now is how to get through them.
Although there is grassland on the left side of the road, there is a step difference of almost 1 meter from the roadbed of the road. It is impossible to get down or up.
On the right side of the road are rolling hills. There is no way to drive through them. The side of it next to the road is very steep. Ige and the others were very lucky just now. At least the section down was still a slope. The other places can be called
It's a cliff. Except for the gentle slope like a gap, cars can only fly up in other places.
Another way is to take a detour, but Clyde has demonstrated it. Don't use this thing if it's not necessary, or you might get yourself into a trap.
So there is only one way left: when we meet on a narrow road, the brave one wins.
Although this Ford pickup truck may look a bit old, it is a powerful little road tank that can easily overcome obstacles.
Joanna stepped on the accelerator and increased the speed of the car. Egger, who was sitting in the passenger seat, was already ready for impact.
At this time, Joanna suddenly stepped on the clutch, hit the steering wheel with her left hand, and pulled the handbrake with her right hand at the same time. The pickup truck swerved and turned around.
In an instant, Joanna put into reverse gear and hit the group of infected people with the back of the pickup truck.
The important parts of the car are all at the front of the car. It is safer to use the rear of the car to hit anything. As an experienced driver, Joanna naturally knows this.
I just hit the infected person with the front of the pickup truck. Firstly, the speed of the pickup truck was not very fast, and the outer shell of the pickup truck itself was very strong, so there was no damage.
But if the speed is too fast, the force is mutual. It may look cool to knock the infected person away, but if some parts in the front of the car are damaged and the car stalls, it will be completely destroyed.
Another common knowledge is that the wheel torque of a car in reverse gear is greater than that of first gear.
The pickup truck was like plowing grass, its wide rear pushed flatly through the crowd of infected people.
Seeing the infected people falling under the wheels in the rearview mirror, Egger couldn't help but think of an idiom: a mantis's arm is like a car.
When the pickup truck passed the group of infected people, the infected people slowly turned their heads.
Egg discovered a weakness of the infected. Their movements when turning on the spot were extremely sluggish, which may be related to their weakened balance ability.
Before the infected person could turn around, Joanna had already shifted into forward gear, and the pickup truck made a sharp turn and rushed up the steep grassy slope next to the road.
Although the initial speed was somewhat insufficient, with the support of the powerful four-wheel drive of the pickup truck, it finally climbed to the top of the slope, leaving the group of infected people at the bottom of the slope, and then sped away.
Iger was frightened. Compared to Phoebe's driving skills, Joanna's driving skills were not much different, but in terms of driving style, the gap was really huge.
Someone once concluded that driving style is human nature, and this is really appropriate.
Following the way it came, the pickup truck passed the Destroyer's Hut, returned to the road, and then headed towards Quick Creek Town.
We are still more than 100 kilometers away from Jixi Town. It is now 1 o'clock at noon. If we move quickly, we can still go home for dinner.
While passing by yesterday's outpost, Iger suddenly spoke and motioned for Joanna to drive over.
When the pickup truck stopped, Egger jumped out and walked quickly toward the barn.
After a while, Egger walked out of the barn empty-handed, and walked towards the farmhouse without looking back.
"Hey, what are you looking for?" Joanna shouted to Iger.
Egger turned to Joanna and replied with only one word: "Fertilizer!"
Joanna understood instantly.
Iger has given up on the foolish old man moving mountains with a spoon. In addition to being simple and effective in dealing with infected people, now we also need to consider efficiency, otherwise we will tire ourselves to death.
Iger is afraid because he is tired, not afraid. He is not afraid of infected people yet. No matter how many infected people there are, it is just a matter of workload.
As long as your IQ does not decline, there are always more solutions than difficulties.
Currently, there is nothing better than giant mixed explosives to deal with such a large group of infected people.
After a while, Iger came out with his hands spread out, and there was no one in the house.
Later, Iger and Joanna searched as they walked. They stopped at every farmhouse with a barn to check, but they couldn't find a bag of fertilizer.
"It's strange, how come there isn't one?" Iger was confused. He suddenly remembered that Ryan in the team, the farm worker who escaped from the farm, said that he knew where the seeds and fertilizers were.
"No more searching, let's go back to Jixi Town directly." Egg said to Joanna, "I'm going to get a few cans, so we won't delay. We'll eat while walking in the car and have some cushion before returning to Jixi Town.
"
When the pickup truck finally returned to Rapid Creek, it was getting dark, Phoebe and Thomas had already woken up, and the gospel team had already eaten dinner.
The return of the four disgraced field staff was warmly welcomed by everyone.
Just by seeing the dents and scratches on the pickup truck, and the splash of dark red on the body and wheels, everyone knew that the field team deserved to be welcomed with applause.
Joanna and Caitlin prepared dinner for the field team together. While they were still preparing, Egger went to find Vance privately.
After Iger hesitated for a moment, he walked to the chatting crowd and pulled Andy over. Finally, Iger led the two of them to walk and talk, and they arrived at Father Locke's office on the fourth floor.
Iger has something very important to discuss with them.
As a result, when Iger opened the wooden door, Sister Maria was talking to Father Locke. Iger said sorry and was about to close the door and exit.
"Ige, you don't have to go out." Father Locke said to Ige, and then he said to the other two people outside the door, "You guys can come in together."
Everyone entered the office together, and after finding a random place to sit down, Father Locke repeated the conversation Sister Maria had just had with him.
Sister Maria discovered someone stealing items from the shelves.
In order to prepare cookies for Holy Communion for Sarah this morning, Sister Maria went through all the cookies on the shelf and finally chose an unpretentious breakfast cookie in a large package.
While preparing dinner just now, Sister Maria passed by the biscuit area on her way to get ingredients. She took a casual look and immediately noticed something was wrong.
Later, Sister Maria stopped and took a careful inventory. At least 5 boxes of biscuits had been stolen. Since other supplies had not been inventoried, it was impossible to confirm whether they had been stolen.
"That's what happened." Father Locke said to the three of them.
The thief is most likely a new member, but old members are not excluded.
The theft may be the first time today, but it cannot be ruled out that it has happened many times before and was just discovered.
