After a day's rest, Egger led the field team and went out to the field again.
After attending the funeral yesterday, Egger and Robin tried making a small firecracker together. According to Robin's configuration plan, this firecracker was much safer than Egger's previous one, and it was not less powerful at all.
In fact, the type of fuel added has little effect on the power of the explosive. The power of the explosive is only related to the amount and purity of the fertilizer. The fuel added is only to allow the fertilizer to reach the critical temperature for chemical reactions.
But there was also a problem. This kind of fuel was not easy to ignite. Then Iger proposed to try mixed fuel, so they had another firecracker, and this time they achieved a result that both of them were satisfied with.
It is not difficult to make explosives. The most important fertilizer has been shipped back. The fire starter in Project Egg is still to use a glass windshield candle. The best fire starter should be the lead thermite, but whether it is a safe and stable lead or aluminum
Thermal agents are not something that the current team can produce, and candles are still practical.
The iron cover can be processed by Vance just by getting some scrap steel bars, and it won't take much time. The only problem now is that there are not enough iron oil drums.
The iron oil drums that can be found currently are filled with fuel transported from the gospel community. The explosives Iger plans to make do not mean that one or two are enough.
So today, Iger and his field team were going to go out for a walk.
Yesterday, Ige reported three resource points including the fertilizer warehouse, broken down vehicles and Todo Town to the board of directors. The board of directors will arrange an in-house scavenger team to rush to transport supplies.
The infected people who invaded the safe zone have been eliminated, but that doesn't mean that the field team members can just sit in the sun and do nothing all day long.
Compared with the field team, which is Fran's third field team, the field team also has another important function: to open up wasteland, that is, to look for resources everywhere.
At present, the important materials that the field team needs to search for include: large-capacity vehicles, including but not limited to pickup trucks; iron oil barrels for making explosives; and a suitable car tire.
Although there is currently no shortage of vehicles available for the gospel team, except for a pickup truck and a small van brought back by the Aige field team, the rest are all cars.
The carrying capacity of cars is very limited. In order to improve the scavenging efficiency of the in-house scavenging team, more transport vehicles are needed.
America is a country on wheels, so there is no shortage of cars, as long as you have the patience to look for them.
Originally, there was a huge difficulty for the field team in pioneering: Egg didn't know the road.
Well, the other team members left the house and didn’t know the way. But this problem has been solved by Egg.
Yesterday, Iger saw Clyde busy in the digital store, and he walked over to watch. At this time, Iger saw a row of new mobile phones placed on the counter of the digital store.
Suddenly, Aige had an idea. He took a new mobile phone, plugged it into the charger, charged it to the point where it could be turned on, and then turned on the phone.
After a series of quick settings, a familiar interface appeared. After swiping around, Iger found a preset app, an electronic map.
Although there is no communication signal and no network now, the navigation function is useless, but the offline map can still be used.
After playing around with the map for a while, Egger finally found the area he was in under Joanna's guidance. He maximized the map, found Jixi Town, and then started with the Gospel Community.
After looking at it for a while, Iger found that the accuracy of the offline map was very high and there was no problem in using it.
When going out in the field, it is best to have a navigation system, but when there is no navigation, it is also good to have a highly accurate electronic map.
This time, for the first time, Egger knew where he was in America. Egger tried to find the names of the few big cities he knew. Good guy, none of them were near him.
Let’s put it this way, regarding Jixi Town and its surrounding geographical environment, it is definitely a black hole area for Aige’s knowledge.
After giving up on his high goals, Egger zoomed in on the map again to Jixi Town, and then slowly checked the surrounding terrain. He was surprised to find that there were several small towns not far apart in the other direction, passing through these small towns all the way.
You will come to a city called Rama.
Iger carefully zoomed in on the map of Rama City. This city has a large built-up area on the map. Then, Iger asked Joanna for information about Rama City. Joanna said a simple sentence, and Iger almost fell head over heels.
Fall to the ground.
Rama City has a permanent population of several hundred thousand.
With a population of hundreds of thousands, there are not hundreds of thousands of infected people!
The shocked Iger turned around and asked Joanna how far Lama City was from here. Joanna actually said she didn't know because she had never been there.
Well.
Egger was misled by an inherent stereotype that Americans like to travel.
The real situation is that Americans did like to travel around in the last century, because at this time the entire United States was in its golden age. The salary of an assembly line assembly worker could support a wife, three children, a dog, and...
You can live in a big house, drive a large-displacement car, and go to BBQ parties every weekend.
The Americans of that era lived a very free and easy life. Some people had similar ideas to Sanhe, except that one spent time in Internet cafes and the other wasted time wandering around.
After the millennium, the golden age gradually came to an end. With various crises, people at the bottom were increasingly under pressure, and they no longer had the energy or financial resources to wander around.
With the development of the Internet, the interest in travel among the young Generation Z (equivalent to those born after 2000) has further decreased. Everything is available online. Until going to college, few people will leave the area where they live.
Because when we reach the Z generation, in addition to the economic cost of domestic (America) travel, the safety cost is also not low. Instead of spending money and worrying about it, it is better to stay at home comfortably.
To this day, it’s the old guys like Vance who still prefer traveling.
After asking Joanna to no avail, Iger had no choice but to use a scale to make a rough calculation. He used his fingers to compare the distance from Jixi Town to the Gospel Community, and then compared the distance from Jixi Town to Rama City. It was about
It is calculated that it should be about 300 kilometers, and the actual distance should be only a lot more.
so far.
Egg breathed a sigh of relief.
Well, instead of setting our sights too high on Rama City, it’s better to target nearby areas first.
Closer, Iger discovered the town of Todo. Next to Todo town, there was a city much smaller than Rama City, called Putuo City.
However, Todo Town and Putuo City are still far away, and there are even closer places.
Aige took a closer look at the vicinity of Jixi Town. There are a total of 5 small towns nearby. The nearest one is about 30 kilometers away, and the farthest one is almost to Rama City.
As for the field goals these days, Egger plans to explore the three nearest towns one by one to see if there are any scarce resources and search for important supplies.
