If the fire in the business district that day was like dry firewood encountering a fierce fire, then the fire in the slums was like burning white garbage fished out of the river.
If the smoke is small and the fire is small, it will not burn smoothly and thoroughly.
After two days of burning, many buildings in the slums were still smoking and emitting bursts of stench, but looking around, there were no intact houses in the slums.
Those houses built with low-quality insulation boards or who-knows-what construction waste do not need to be burned by fire, they will melt as soon as they are baked.
At the edge of the slum, the convoy stopped.
The convoy just stopped along the road and did not disperse. The team members did not get off the car. The team members standing in the car moved the stereo to the roof of the car, then started the stereo and turned the sound to the maximum.
Countless waves of sound came instantly, and all kinds of strange sounds rushed towards his ears. Iger seemed to have arrived at the grand square at the busiest time in his previous life, with old men and women dancing in all directions.
Playing speakers outside the destroyed slums looks like a disco on top of a grave.
After there were no buildings to block and absorb the sound, the sound of the speakers spread to such a distance that even the remaining team members in Nancheng Building heard it.
A little taunting is still useful. Some withered and black figures wandered out from the corners of the ruins of the slums.
Sure enough, some of them were not smoked to death.
Egger was sitting in the co-pilot. He picked up a car loudspeaker and shouted: "All teams, one person on guard and one person on shooting, free fire."
As soon as Egg finished speaking, several gunshots rang out, and several anxious team members had already fired at the infected people in the distance.
However, their marksmanship is obviously not up to the level of being able to hit the target at a distance of three to four hundred meters.
As the infected get closer and closer, more and more people are trying to shoot. Now it feels like they are not fighting, but more like showing off their skills, competing to see whose shooting skills are better.
Iger was sitting in the car. His arm was injured. He will not compete with everyone today.
There were several cans of nameless drinks that had been wiped in the pickup truck. Iger originally wanted to open one, but he thought that it was most likely mixed with cherry-flavored sparkling water, so he hesitated and chose to give up.
The sound of the speakers above and the sound of gunshots were not only deafening, but also destructive to human hearing. Joanna had already put on sound-isolating earmuffs, and Egger also put on the earmuffs with one hand.
As he put on the sound-isolating earmuffs, the headache-inducing sound became a little quieter, and then Egger heard another sound.
No, I didn’t hear it, it just appeared in my mind.
Egger glanced to the right, where were the ruins of the commercial district that had been destroyed by fire a few days ago. He reached out to open the passenger door, casually touched the gun belt hanging around his waist, and unbuckled it.
After Iger got out of the car, he slowly moved forward step by step in the direction of the ruins. He was very sure that there was something lurking in the ruins. As the distance got closer, he already knew what was lurking there. He was still far away from the ruins.
When he was ten meters away, Egger stopped.
This is a safe distance for both parties.
"We are no longer the same kind." Iger didn't know how to speak in his mind, so he muttered to himself in front of the ruins: "Yesterday you let me go once, and I let you go today. Next time we meet,
I'll shoot.
You are very fast, but my gun is faster, and you can't move faster than bullets."
When Iger spoke, his right hand was always on the holster. Bill had taught Iger some tips on rapid fire with a semi-automatic pistol. It was impossible for any creature that was not bulletproof to break through the distance in front of Iger.
After Egger finished talking to himself, after a while, he could feel that the special infected person lurking in the ruins left. Then he walked over cautiously and began to search the ruins.
Behind a broken wall, Egger found a large, old backpack. He lifted the backpack up with one hand. The backpack was not heavy. Egger put it on his shoulders and quickly left the ruins.
Opening the back seat of the pickup truck, Iger first threw his backpack in, and then he also got in. Joanna, who was sitting in the driver's seat, looked back and didn't ask why Iger left.
When a boy leaves suddenly, it is best for a girl not to ask why, and just go and pee after asking.
Iger was sitting in the second row. He unzipped his backpack with one hand. There were not many things in the backpack. There was a dirty black rag doll, a delicate comb, and a book with many torn pages.
peppa pig picture album, and a photo in a plastic photo frame.
Egger stared at the three people smiling brightly on the sunny beach in the photo. He saw that the rag doll the little girl was holding was the same model as the dirty and ugly doll in front of him.
Joanna saw Iger's silence. After taking off the soundproof earmuffs, she asked loudly to Iger: "What are you looking at?"
"It's nothing." Iger said, "The backpack picked up on the roadside is probably a relic of a survivor."
Iger then put everything into his backpack and sat in the passenger seat. After a while, Iger reached out and picked up a can of drink with a still black skin, pulled it open with one hand, and then put it to his mouth and took a sip.
Great, it does taste like cherry. I need the stimulation of this flavor right now.
Iger drank the cherry-flavored sugar water contentedly until half an hour later, Iger stopped the baiting operation.
Next, all the teams returned to Nancheng Building, and the third joint operation mission ended perfectly. The tens of thousands of infected people entrenched in Puduo City were eliminated, and Puduo City returned to human control. However, Puduo City
There aren't many buildings left that can be used.
After leaving four garrison teams of 12 people, Egger will lead the team to withdraw. He will hand over the garrison command to Under. Naturally, he will return to Ross Town to recuperate.
This time Egger led a team to go into battle, destroying a city and annihilating 60,000 infected people.
That night, Gospel Radio reported that the joint field team led by Ige had completely eliminated the infected people in Puduo City. Currently, there are only a few stray infected people left in Puduo County. Next, the joint field team will conduct a comprehensive investigation of the stray infected people.
If infected people are thoroughly eliminated, Puduo County will become a huge green zone.
Listening to Lily's broadcast, Egger shook his head.
How could it be that simple?
Last time, in order to rescue the trapped joint field team, everyone went crazy to pull monsters and pulled at least several thousand infected people outside the city. Now those infected people have all dispersed.
Although the threat level is reduced after the infected people disperse, it also becomes more difficult to eliminate them. It would be even better if the infected people leave the road and run around. At least it will take a while to kill them all.
.
Although this is true, those in the audience don't think so.
Green Zone, Green Zone, Green Zone!
Puduo County has become a paradise in the hearts of people who have survived to this day.
Ross Town.
Iger was in a meeting. He gave an overview of the joint field operation to the other three members of the board of directors, and then arranged for Erica and Bill to organize the fourth joint operation.
The difference between the fourth operation and the previous one is that the Nancheng Building must be permanently stationed. This time, the battle line has been dragged out a bit long. However, under the current situation, the place in Puduo City must be occupied, and Ross Town cannot
Discard at will.
Although Egger casually said to Bella that day that Ross Town is a forward position, this is absolutely correct. More importantly, Ross Town now has water and electricity connections, as well as huge amounts of fuel and gas resources, and there are many nearby places.
It is dense farmland. This is an extremely important place and the center of the future development of the reclamation group.
Although Puduo City seems very important, it only has existing resources and no capacity for new development. Now hold on to the Nancheng Building to eat the existing resources, and then discuss how to deal with it after the underground warehouse is emptied.
Kate's auto repair shop has indeed opened. Under Egger's arrangement, Bill and Erica led the team there first, and replaced the members of the two teams of Under and De. In the next few days, Kate will be looking for trucks to repair.
Then go to Puduo City to transfer the goods assigned to the reclamation group.
After withdrawing from Puduo City yesterday, Iger applied to convene a board of directors. At the board meeting, Iger briefly reported on the war situation in Puduo City, and then he proposed that the materials in the Nancheng Building warehouse should be moved as soon as possible.
Puduo City is too far away from Jixi Town, so transporting the rich supplies back to the gospel team is called settling for safety.
At the same time, Iger applied to settle the accounts of the reclamation group.
After obtaining these materials, the reclamation group no longer needs blood transfusions from Jixi Town, and subsequent material assistance can be stopped. For those materials that have not been paid for, Iger applied for a discount to offset the previous loan of the reclamation group. Now the reclamation group is equivalent to payment for the gospel team.
Two clears.
Of course, the trade that should be carried out in the future still needs to be carried out. Since everyone is our own people and the fundamental purpose of trade is mutual assistance, another internal trade price system should be implemented, in other words, it is called most-favored nation treatment.
Iger's proposal was a bit shameless. The gospel team had spent so much material on the reclamation group, and now Iger just said "the payment must be paid in full" and it was over. After hearing this, the board of directors felt somewhat uncomfortable.
However, the gospel team's original intention and purpose of establishing the reclamation group has been achieved, and the materials spent are far less than originally planned, and huge benefits have been obtained from the sub-team.
Without the reclamation team, Puduo City would not have been able to win it so quickly. Compared with the mountains of materials piled up in the warehouse downstairs of the Nancheng Building, the initial investment was simply a drop in the bucket.
Maybe everyone feels a little sad because the reclamation group has expanded rapidly after its establishment, and now its staff size has exceeded that of Jixi Town.
Finally, Iger proposed that reserve director Nicholas be officially appointed as a director, and this proposal was quickly adopted.
The current board of directors of the gospel team still maintains a 17-member structure, of which the reclamation team accounts for 3 directors. This structural ratio is a balance point that everyone is satisfied with.
After the meeting, Egger led the team back to Ross Town, and held another meeting after arriving in Ross Town.
In the past, Iger always criticized those people above me for not doing anything but having meetings every day. Only when I got to this position did I realize that there are some things that really require meetings.
After struggling at night, I could finally take a rest. Iger lay on the big bed in a bedroom of Hope Church and slowly fell into a deep sleep.
This room is the priest's bedroom in the Hope Church. There is a bed at least 3 meters wide in the room. The decoration of the room is much better than that of the Evangelical Church. It is low-key and luxurious.
Egg has stipulated that in order to save room, at least 2 people should live in each room. In actual implementation, because there are too many people in the reclamation group, only elite personnel are qualified to be stationed in the cathedral, and other personnel live in small teams in the cathedral.
In the surrounding residential areas.
It stands to reason that when living in a private residence, there is a lot of space for one person to have a room, but everyone chooses a double or quadruple room.
An extra companion means more care. If a person sleeps alone, he is afraid of being dragged away and eaten by an infected person in the middle of the night.
Now everyone knows that there are special infected people. Those special infected people who are good at hunting are called wild dogs and hunters. The name is not important. Anyway, two people have to go together to urinate in the wild.
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In the treatment room of Hope Church, Dr. Bella was changing Allen's dressing.
"Hiss, it hurts!" Allen couldn't help but groaned.
"Be patient. You opened the wound again." Bella said while treating Allen's wound: "Your wound doesn't look big, but it is very deep and has already damaged the muscles. If you
If you don’t want your right hand to become useless in the future, just take some rest during this period.”
"Okay, I'll listen to you." Allen sighed deeply.
It's a bit embarrassing to say that I was actually attacked by an infected person in the base camp. Of course, this special infected person is very powerful. Egg was also attacked and his arm was broken.
"Alan." After Bella changed the medicine, she said to Allen while wrapping the bandage: "Did you notice anything when you went to work with Egger this time?"
When Allen heard this, he pondered for a moment and then said to Bella: "It's really strange to say it. Iger's plan is not particularly good. Of course, there must be no problem. He is used to leaving a lot of escape routes for himself.
You can always escape calmly when encountering emergencies.
And it's so strange, he has very good luck. He relied on luck to set fire twice. It was obviously an accident or not a good thing, but he succeeded, and it was an extremely huge, almost unimaginable success.
But you have to know that good luck is not strength. Strength exists objectively and can be demonstrated every time.
You mistakenly estimated that Iger's luck was based on his strength.
So, I’m wondering if it’s a wrong decision for you to promote Ige as our leader.”
After thinking for a while, Bella said to Allen: "Alan, you have never been to the front line, and you have never really fought in a war. I have been in the war zone for 7 years and have seen all kinds of wounded people.
All kinds of fallen soldiers, do you know what is the most important lesson learned by soldiers on how to survive on the battlefield?"
"What is it?" Allen suddenly became interested.
"Follow that lucky dog." Bella said.
After Bella finished her work, she looked at Allen and said seriously: "This is the life-saving experience summed up by countless soldiers. On the battlefield, it does not depend on your ability or your equipment. Good luck matters.
It's what determines everything.
There are some lucky people who can survive the battlefield unscathed. Follow them and your chances of survival will increase.
Do you know that I have asked several field team members who have been following Iger for a long time? From the outbreak of the blood epidemic to now, as long as Iger leads the team out in the field, there will be no casualties, and the number of field personnel killed is 0."
After listening to Bella's words, Allen was thoughtful.
Bella then said: "The nuns from the Evangelical Church have begun to preach, but what I find interesting is that they think this catastrophe is God's punishment and test for the world."
As Allen put on his clothes, he said nonchalantly: "Don't all the people in the church say that? There's nothing strange about it."
Bella said: "The Evangelical Church is the Catholic Church, and they cannot be like the Protestants who can freely promote God's will.
The most interesting thing is that since it is a punishment given by God, there must be Noah. Who do you think Noah will be?"
