The pickup truck started, and after everyone stood there for a few minutes, Iger decided to transport the pickup truck back to the camp first. After all, it was only a kilometer away from the camp, and the camp was in urgent need of freight vehicles.
So, Joanna and Nicholas drove two cars back to Rapid Creek, while Thomas and Egg stayed on the farm.
Thomas sat on the sofa in the living room with his legs crossed to rest. He could lie down and never sit, and he could sit and never stand.
Egger is studying the agricultural machinery in the agricultural machinery warehouse.
Modern agriculture also happens to be a blind spot for the "omniscient" Egger. He seems to be researching, but in fact he can only come up with farts.
After looking at all kinds of strange agricultural machinery for a long time, Egger only came to one conclusion: the equipment here looks quite complete.
More than ten minutes later, the pickup truck turned back. After Iger and Thomas got in, the pickup truck continued to drive forward along the highway.
Just as Egger speculated, it is still the early days of the end of the world, and materials are extremely abundant. It can be said that they are everywhere. As long as you are patient and careful, there will basically be no shortage.
We stopped when we encountered farmhouses along the way. The field team continued to find usable transport vehicles. In addition to pickup trucks, there was also a small truck.
In order to balance efficiency, Ige decided not to rush back to Jixi Town one by one for the time being. After starting the vehicle and charging for a while, he drove the vehicle to the side of the road and parked it, took off the car key and left, preparing to wait.
When you turn around and go back, drive away together.
Soon, the third car was found. Egger looked at his watch, it was 10:55, so he turned on the intercom.
After the accident where the communication between the field team and the base camp was interrupted, Iger learned from the pain. He discussed with Lily and decided to stagger the communication time of the base camp and the broadcast time of the program, so as to avoid interference with the program and reduce the possibility of being heard by other people.
First of all, considering the habit of field team members who like to sleep in, the first call time was set at 11:00, then the second call time was 14:00, and the third call time was 18:00.
If you want to call, it will be called 10 times each time, with an interval of 30 seconds each time. So as long as you don’t miss the time, you will not miss it.
Iger waited until 11:02 and didn't hear any broadcast information, so he turned off the intercom.
There was no emergency notice from the base camp and it was still so early. Egg decided to go to the nearest town to explore today.
This town is called Vassar Town, which is larger than Jixi Town. There is even a high school in the town, and Joanna goes to school here.
The day of the outbreak was a Monday, and school was in session, but Joanna happened to be at home at the time.
If a blood epidemic breaks out in such a densely populated school, and survivors face the first wave of infected people, it will be basically difficult to escape.
Joanna skipped class that day.
The reason is that several children living in Qixi Town originally planned to skip school on Monday and go for a picnic. However, because of the quarrel the night before, Joanna was so angry that she neither went to the picnic nor went to school. It turned out to be a blessing in disguise.
Dodged a bullet.
High school, for some students who know from the beginning that they have no hope of going to college, is a place to hang out.
From a practical point of view, instead of fooling around with classmates in school every day, it would be more realistic to work part-time or something to solve the problem of living expenses.
And from a certain perspective, not going to college may be a wise choice. At least you don't have to take on heavy student loans and spend the rest of your life paying off debt on impulse.
With an inexplicable sense of excitement, Joanna drove the pickup truck very fast, and not long after, the field team arrived in Vassar Town.
The pickup truck slowly drove into the town, and what they saw was ruins.
The town of Vasa was destroyed by a fire.
Egger has always been very curious as to why he could not see survivors from other towns. This is because he calculated that the probability of immunity to a blood plague outbreak was about 10%.
According to this probability, America has a population of almost 400 million, which means there are about 40 million survivors.
Even after the first wave of attacks and the three-month adaptation period, if not one out of ten survived, there should be 4 million survivors.
Or maybe Iger felt that he had estimated the difficulty of survival too simply. He really didn't think it was difficult to get through this journey.
However, no matter what, the four Andys finally escaped from Jixi Town, and more people escaped from Todo Town, but Egger did not see any of the survivors from Vasa Town.
Now seeing the tragic situation in Vasa Town, Egg understood. At the same time, he also knew why there was no group of infected people in Vasa Town. Because of the fire, all the survivors and infected people were burned to death.
Egger can even imagine a picture in his mind:
The survivors are relying on various obstacles and bunkers in a building, using firearms and cold weapons to carry out desperate resistance against the infected.
At this time, an accident happened. A fire started burning out of nowhere. Because no one put out the fire, the fire grew bigger and bigger.
Subsequently, raging flames swept in with the wind. The remaining survivors were blocked in the building due to the attack of the infected, and watched helplessly as the fire spread around them.
When the survivors fell into the sea of fire, the infected people in the town rushed towards the burning building, and their bodies became the best combustion accelerant and fuel.
In the end, the desperate survivors and the infected people in the town perished together in the sea of fire, and the out-of-control fire burned the entire built-up area of the town into ruins.
The pickup truck slowly passed through the block with only broken walls left, and then, as if encountering a miracle, a group of intact buildings came into view.
Because of the protection of the fence, the school building was not affected by the fire.
Looking at the intact teaching buildings amid the ruins, Joanna didn't know whether to be happy or sad: such a big fire had burned down the entire town, but her school was still fine!
Joanna parked her car in front of the school. She turned her head and looked at the familiar sight silently for a while. She finally calmed down and said to Iger, "Let's go, do you want to take a stroll in my school?"
Egger shook his head. What is interesting about the school? Apart from tables, chairs and benches, there are only books. The current resources that the team can use are 0.
After passing the school, the pickup truck passed through the town, and Joanna quickly drove the pickup truck to a gas station outside the town.
Judging from the appearance, the gas station was not swept by the fire.
When the pickup truck stopped and everyone jumped out of the truck, they discovered that most of the gas pumps at the gas station had been violently damaged.
Iger walked to the door of the gas station store and took a look inside. The store had also been looted.
It seems that although there are no survivors in Vasa Town, survivors from the surrounding areas have already visited.
The reason why Jixi Town has not been looted is thanks to the protection of the infected, so the scavengers dare not approach it rashly.
Later, although Jixi Town was empty, the infected people blocked every road. The Egg team also conquered Jixi Town after opening the road to Gospel Community.
The only valuable place in the town of Vasa now is the gas station.
Fuel is the most precious commodity nowadays. Although gas stations are everywhere, once the power is lost, there is no way to pump the fuel from the oil depot.
This kind of behavior of smashing the gas pump is similar to the behavior of smashing the ATM machine. They probably thought that if they smashed the gas tank open, the gasoline would spray out.
In fact, it is not difficult to restore the operation of a gas station. First, you need a portable generator, and then you need an electrician to do the wiring.
However, this sounds simple, but in actual operation, generators are easy to find, but electricians are difficult to find.
If you know some basic electrical knowledge, for example, a guy like Iger, you can also try to teach yourself. It may work if you try a few times.
Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans have 0 electrical knowledge.
If there is no power generation, another way is to forcefully open the oil depot. The oil depot of a gas station cannot be opened with ordinary methods. If you force the cutting with a welding gun or a chain saw, well, I can only say good luck to him.
After seeing the situation at the gas station, Iger keenly discovered that if trade resumes in the future, fuel may become a hard currency. Currently, the gospel team controls two gas stations and must find ways to obtain more fuel as much as possible.
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Egg suddenly thought of the fire truck that had been idle and useless. It might be feasible to use that fire truck to transfer fuel in large quantities.
There are too many things that need to be done now, the team is extremely short of labor, and the back-office staff are almost overwhelmed.
Later, Iger found a large number of empty metal oil barrels at the gas station. He asked Joanna to drive the pickup truck over, then stuffed several empty oil barrels into the pickup truck and tied the empty oil barrels tightly with ropes.
After returning to the town, the pickup truck slowly circled along the streets of the town. There were many vehicles on the streets, and most of them were destroyed by the fire.
Most of the wheels of the remaining cars that were preserved had been deformed by heat, and the wiring in the cars might have melted and stuck together. All these baked cars were scrapped.
Iger checked his watch and saw that it was 14:00. He turned on the intercom and listened for a few minutes, but there was no emergency call.
Since he couldn't find a resting spot, Iger decided to return to the camp early today. Afterwards, Iger led the field team back the same way. Every time they passed a vehicle parked on the roadside, a team member would get out of the car and drive.
Soon, the field team returned to Jixi Town.
In only half a day today, the field team recovered a total of three pickup trucks and a minivan, which basically solved the gospel team's lack of cargo capacity.
After handing in the task, Iger and Joanna, who had missed lunch, were sitting on a bench on the street in Jixi Town with their field lunches, enjoying the afternoon sunshine. At this time, a small van came on
He rushed into the streets of Jixi Town like crazy.
As soon as the car stopped, the driver Ella opened the door and jumped out. She waved to Iger and Joanna not far away and shouted: "Help! There are seriously injured people here!"
When Iger heard this, he dropped the can in his hand and ran straight away. Then, he lifted the bloody man from the passenger seat.
Lane was shot.
"Doctor! Doctor!!" Joanna screamed loudly and ran towards the Morgan Building.
A few minutes later, when Joanna came over with Hedme, there was already a large circle of people surrounding the place.