Everyone was stunned by this sudden turn of events.
Ryan and Ella left Qixi Town in a small van this morning. The fertilizers on the truck were unloaded yesterday, and the newly formed back-office scavenging team is preparing to go to Todo Town to transport some supplies back.
Since the minivan only had a single row of seats, Ryan, who was familiar with the road conditions, took Ella with him, and they set off.
Unexpectedly, a few hours later, Ella brought back Ryan's body.
Later, Ella told what happened during this period.
When today passed, Ella fell asleep while sitting in the passenger seat because she was a little tired in the past few days. After Ryan drove the small van to Todo Town, Ella was deeply sleepy. Ella was in a daze.
Ask Ryan to go shopping in the store first, and then come over after squinting for a while.
A few minutes after Ryan got out of the car, Ella heard three gunshots.
As soon as she heard the gunshot, Ella was so frightened that she shrank under the passenger seat and hid. Because Ella knew that Ryan was unarmed. The only weapon of the scavenging team was a shotgun in the hands of security officer Ella.
After Ella hid in fear for a while, she heard the sound of a car starting. After the sound of the car faded away, Ella poked her head out and looked around, but saw no one around.
Then, Ella carefully opened the car door and took out the shotgun. When she sneaked into the store, she saw Ryan lying in a pool of blood.
At this time, Ryan had fallen into a coma. Ella tried her best to pull Ryan into the car, and then rushed towards Jixi Town. In the end, everything was still too late, and Ryan had already died from excessive blood loss.
Ella doesn't know how the whole incident happened, nor who the other party is, nor how many people there are. From the moment it happened to now, everything is a mystery to her.
From a fair point of view, Ella's approach was really the best choice at the time. Whether she showed up rashly or went to check blindly, she might be involved.
From Ella's account, the murderer left immediately after killing Ryan, without even thinking of picking up the vehicle he drove in, indicating that it was a sudden murder of passion.
No one knows what the reason was. Maybe Ryan and the murderer had an argument, maybe Ryan blocked the murderer's way, or maybe it was just that Ryan glanced at the murderer one more time.
Such emergencies are completely unpredictable.
When Egger was shocked that Lane was shot and killed, the rest of the team didn't react so violently.
Perhaps because of the blood epidemic, everyone hasn't heard about this for a long time, and they have gradually forgotten it. But in America, there is no need for a reason for shooting or being shot.
It doesn't matter what Ryan may or may not have done. After the blood plague broke out, the good guys survived, and the bad guys also survived.
When Egg arrived in Todo Town that day, what he saw was a friendly smile. Maybe Egg met a friendly stranger, or maybe the friendliness of the stranger was just for the four fully armed people in front of him.
Ryan was still too careless. He walked out of the store alone with his bare hands. The store was definitely the place where the conflicts were most acute at the moment.
Your strength is everything that determines others' attitude towards you.
The smiling face you met yesterday may not be the same smiling face today.
In the current environment, it is normal for everyone to be in danger, and an open and inclusive mentality like the gospel team is the alternative.
Evangelism team emergency meeting.
At the meeting, regarding Ryan’s unexpected death, everyone only discussed and added some new systems for field trips.
For example, except for Fran's third team, all other teams, whether they are field teams or internal scavenger teams, must ensure a minimum size of four people each time they go out, and in terms of firepower, they must be equipped with at least three long guns.
However, regarding the Lane incident, no one proposed punishing the murderer at the meeting, because they did not even know who the murderer was, let alone revenge.
The reality is so helpless, Ryan's death is even more aggrieved than Penny's.
In the suffocating silence, Iger opened his mouth to remind Lily that this incident should not be broadcast on the radio.
Firstly, it is disrespectful to gossip about the dead on the radio. Secondly, it is not only meaningless for the current situation, but also can easily deepen the hostility and tension among the scavengers.
After hearing what Iger said, Lily nodded in agreement.
Iger felt a little heartbroken about Ryan. He still remembered Ryan squatting at the door in the middle of the night and crying bitterly.
Ryan's sudden death dealt a huge blow to Egger's plan to resume agricultural production. Not to mention how to use a lot of agricultural machinery, I don't know where to find seeds now.
In this way, the unexpected death of one person had a significant impact on the future development of the team.
However, Ige cannot specifically propose that certain people must be given special protection.
No one’s life is more precious than anyone else’s, including Egger’s own.
Except for some people who are not suitable for field work, such as Lily, there are also some people who are not suitable for leaving Jixi Town due to their own functions, such as Dr. Heidemi. Others, including Father Locke and Sister Maria, can only arrange field work.
It's a matter of priority, but there is no transcendent reason for refusing to go out into the field.
The Ege field brigade completed two of the three mission objectives in one go today. We have the delivery vehicles and oil barrels. We can find the wheels of the broken car if we can. If we can’t find them, forget about it. The fertilizers will be left in the semi-trailer for now.
On the road, you can find a car to transfer it when needed.
Egg raised an important task request at the meeting, regarding fuel collection instructions.
"In many field missions, I found that the difficulty of picking up materials is very different. Therefore, our scavenging team should give priority to picking up important and high-value materials.
Currently, the most valuable material is fuel. On the one hand, fuel has a high use value, and on the other hand, it is very difficult to obtain fuel.
The next highest value items are firearms, ammunition and food, and perhaps some special medicines.
The items with slightly higher value are various daily necessities and production materials.
Slightly less valuable are various durable goods, including but not limited to clothes, cars, etc.
There are also a large number of items that are of certain practicality but of low value, such as the tabletop game chess that everyone plays at night.
So, I have an idea, and I’ll share it for everyone’s reference.
I don't think we need to pick up all the supplies. We can try to get the supplies that are relatively expensive for us to pick up by trading with other survivor groups.
Judging from these field trips, there are a lot of survivors scavenging in the outside world, but they have not gathered together. On the contrary, the survivor team seems to be avoiding contact with each other, so it gives everyone a sense that we are living in an unmanned environment.
District' feeling.
I also talked to a few survivors. They all have no fixed campsites and just walk and scavenge.
When they do this, two problems are likely to arise. One is that they may not pick up what they want, and the other is that they may be able to find something that is not easy for us to find.
With comparative advantage, trade can proceed.
We can use fuel as a calibration object and exchange things for things. On the one hand, we can expand our scavenging efficiency, and on the other hand, we can expand the influence of our team.
However, this has two prerequisites.
First, we need to have a large amount of high-value goods, such as fuel.
Secondly, we need to have the ability to protect ourselves and our goods, such as a fortress.
In this way, we can avoid being maliciously attacked by some survivor teams while making transactions.
Uncle Vance, how long will it take for us to complete the transformation?"
After hearing what Iger said, Vance thought for a moment and then said: "It will take two months at the earliest."
"Why did it take more than a week to build, and the final completion period has become longer!" Egger couldn't help but ask after hearing this.
When Vance heard this, he said with some dissatisfaction: "It's not because you expanded the planning area."
When Iger heard this, he felt guilty and stopped talking.
