In the middle and late stages of the apocalypse when resources are extremely scarce, it is not uncommon for scavengers to fight over a bit of rags.
But now, there are so many resources that you only need to bend down to pick them up. Whether it is different teams or individual scavengers, there is no need for competition and conflict.
You know, fighting is risky.
When everyone is fighting now, the biggest risk is not that both parties must have guns, but that once anyone is injured, there will be no ambulance to save their lives, and the mortality rate is extremely high.
Joanna stopped the pickup truck, and then everyone got out of the car together. After observing, she found that no one really cared about them.
At this time, Iger stretched out his hand to stop a woman pushing a loaded trolley. He asked, "Sorry, please."
"These are mine." The woman interrupted Egger rudely. Time is precious, who has time to waste time here?
Ige took a step back, and the woman quickly pushed the trolley towards a car. Looking at her furious back, she looked very much like a housewife who left her three children and husband at home and went out shopping alone.
"Let's go and walk around." Iger said to the four people behind him, and then he took the lead into the store.
The shelves in the store are much empty, but there are still a lot of various products. A few strange survivors are carefully selecting what they need as if they were shopping, instead of frantically pushing everything they see into their carts.
Upper plug.
It seems that their cars are already full, and now everyone is just looking to see if there is anything missing.
Speaking of which, the reason why everyone can come here to buy something for zero yuan has something to do with the gospel team.
At noon the day before yesterday, Lili mentioned on the gospel radio that infected people were clustering in clusters, and some infected people might leave their original locations and migrate along the road. At this time, the survivor team from around the town cautiously came to Todo Town to explore.
Wow, sure enough, this town is empty.
So, all the survivor groups from around the town came over to buy things for zero dollars.
However, no one thought of occupying this town. Firstly, there was no need, secondly, it was unnecessary, and thirdly, they were incapable of doing so.
Not to mention occupying this place, these survivors are ready to give up even their original stronghold at any time.
Their idea was similar to Ben's. All they needed to do now was to replenish supplies, then keep moving, and then replenish supplies.
It can be said that the small team of survivors is now almost ready to fight guerrillas against the infected.
After wandering around the store, Iger turned to the back door of the store.
There is a small yard at the back door, and there is a small van about the same size as a van in the yard.
Iger walked over and opened the door. There was no key in the car, and the car's tires were too small and obviously did not match the fully loaded truck.
This truck looks new, and if it can be used, you can jump directly from option 1 to the backup option.
When Joanna walked over and saw Egg staring at the truck in a daze, she turned back to the store and walked directly towards the cashier.
After a while, Joanna came over chewing gum. She held up a finger and was turning a buckled car key on her finger.
Thomas was wandering around the store eating potato chips.
Snacks such as potato chips, which are large in size and have little content, are the first to be given up by experienced survivors nowadays. When choosing food, people tend to prefer items with high unit energy, such as chocolate, compressed biscuits, etc.
Canned food is also very popular.
Thomas was eating potato chips. At this time, he felt that working in the field was really good, and it was really much better than working in the back office.
After shopping around for two times, he heard the roar of a car outside the door. Thomas glanced left and right, and suddenly he was the only one left in the store.
Thomas' heart tightened, he threw the potato chips in his hand on the ground, turned around and ran out the door.
Outside the store, Thomas saw his pickup truck parked there, and he breathed a sigh of relief.
Although he had no worries about eating and drinking here, Thomas didn't want to be left alone here at all. He turned around and walked into the store. After walking around again, he found that the other four people in the team were studying a small car with the hood open in the backyard.
van.
Yep, what a big deal.
Thomas went back to the store, got another bag of potato chips, and started shopping while eating.
After opening the fuel tank cap of the minivan, Iger shook the car vigorously a few times. He heard the sound of fuel rippling from inside, indicating that there was oil.
So there is only one reason why the fire cannot be lit now, the battery is out of power. This is simple, just use a pickup truck to power up.
It's hard to find wires in the wilderness, but you can't find wires in a small town. Just take a vise and clamp it casually on the street.
After assigning the work, Joanna and Nicholas returned to the pickup truck together.
Joanna drove the pickup truck around from the other side of the street to the backyard, while Nicholas took a vise from the tool box and prepared to see where to get a piece of wire.
The positive terminal of the minivan had been disconnected. Not long after the pickup truck arrived, Nicholas came over with wires. Everyone connected the positive and negative terminals of the minivan to the pickup truck battery. Ryan stepped on the clutch and twisted in the car.
Just listen to the key and the minivan starts successfully.
Then, with the idea of taking nothing for nothing, everyone gave another round of supplies. Thinking of the unpleasant experience last night, Iger kicked open the door of a house at will, took two quilts and tied them up.
Throw it in a pickup truck.
After replenishing so many supplies, the pickup truck is fully loaded. The only problem now is that there is no space for people, so the shooter cannot flip into the cargo bed.
But the problem is not big. Iger predicts that as long as they don't take the initiative to cause trouble for the infected, the infected will not be able to cause trouble for them.
Cars can run much faster than people.
Egger does not agree with the nomadic life of using a car as a home. From now on, this method of traveling around is indeed an efficient, safe and low-risk approach.
But Iger remembers a sentence. When he first started working, his big brother taught him sincerely: "Do difficult things."
The difficult things mentioned here do not mean "If there are difficulties, we must overcome them; if there are no difficulties, we must create difficulties." It means that there are two ways to solve a problem, one is easy in the short term, and the other is difficult in the long term.
Then, you must dare to choose the difficult approach.
Driving around in a car is an easy choice to solve the current problem. After all, if all the infected people on this land are gathered together, they will not be able to occupy the entire continent, and the gap for survival is indeed huge.
But what this mobile life cannot solve is the restoration and development of production.
To develop production, you must settle down, and establishing a permanent settlement is an extremely difficult task, but once completed, the benefits are extremely long-lasting.
If there are no settlements and everyone is fighting guerrillas, people can only act as consumers, constantly consuming existing supplies.
Although the remaining nutrients of human civilization are extremely abundant, they will be exhausted sooner or later.
More importantly, people's thoughts will change, their will will be worn away, and their skills will gradually deteriorate due to neglect.
You can live like this for one year, or you can live like this for five years, but what about ten years from now, or twenty years from now?
More seriously, when the people of this generation who have witnessed the most glorious civilization grow old or die, how will the new generation after the outbreak of the blood epidemic know what "rebuilding civilization" means?
It is impossible to build settlements now, and it will be even less possible to build settlements in the future.
Because grass grows in the human heart.
So after having a brief conversation with these strangers, Iger didn't even tell them the names of his team, let alone win over them.
If the way is different, don't think of it as a plan.
You take your Yangguan Road, and I'll cross my single-plank bridge.
Although this minivan is much smaller than the previous van, it is very new and in good condition. Its stability on snowy roads is much higher than that of the old van.
Whether a car is stable on icy or snowy roads depends not only on the size of the vehicle. Some people say that the heavier the vehicle, the more stable it is. This is not necessarily true.
Generally speaking, with the advancement of technology, the safety performance of new cars is better than that of old cars in all aspects.
This small van was well-equipped and had sufficient heating. Thomas found a music CD, and then the car subwoofer came with the sound of "move every time".
Half an hour later, everyone returned to the breaking point of the van. Egger opened the truck compartment, took off several gas masks from above, and prepared to start moving the goods.
After putting on the gas mask, Iger suddenly thought of a question. He took off the gas mask and said to everyone: "Let's go to the fertilizer warehouse to load the truck."
Oh, that's right.
Egger suddenly thought, since it is all about loading cars, why not go to the warehouse to load it.
He left this truck of fertilizer here. No one would take it anyway, and he couldn't take it away even if he wanted to. If he returned to the base camp and waited for Vance to patch up the tire before sending a car to deliver it, he could just pull it over.
Have gone back.
Why bother loading and unloading again?
Just like that, after going around in a circle, the field team returned to the fertilizer warehouse and repeated yesterday's work.
However, everyone's physical strength was not very good today, so we took a break after working for a while. After loading the car, we remembered that we hadn't had lunch yet.
Everyone was so tired that they no longer had the energy to rush back. Iger was not a model worker. Even if he wanted to be a model worker, he still had to consider whether his subordinates would follow or not.
Therefore, at three o'clock in the afternoon, the field team decided to rest at the fertilizer warehouse until the next day. The good news was that they had obtained a lot of supplies today, and they could have dinner.
Now, even Nicholas had to believe that the benefits of the field team were really good. He could actually eat two cans for dinner!