On the second and third days after Iger broke his leg, due to bad weather, everyone huddled up in the church and rested for two days. If possible, we should get as little rain as possible. In an era when there is a shortage of medical treatment and medicine, we must ensure our health.
It is also important to be healthy and do less work.
Surprisingly, on the third day when Fran went out alone, he came back safely and brought back a deer weighing 70 to 80 pounds.
The deer had been bled and its internal organs had been removed in time. After the deer was carried to the kitchen, several men swarmed over with knives and quickly decomposed it into a pile of meat and bones.
At dinner, everyone was given a small bowl of thick bone broth and a piece of roasted venison that was not too big but very tempting. The rough cooking techniques and simple seasoning could not reduce its fragrance by half.
After dinner, everyone's morale was high. The men gathered together to pick their teeth with exaggerated movements and brag loudly. Several ladies hid in the room and prepared to use up the last bit of foundation.
Fran was wearing thick clothes to resist the cold wind and rain, contentedly standing guard on the bell tower - compared to the noisy place below, this was his paradise.
On the third day, it was fine. The gospel team's wilderness operations team and community search and rescue team were all dispatched to do their own things.
There is a small episode.
Egg's beloved AR-7 was about to run out of bullets. After everyone discussed it, the AR-7 was dismantled into parts and put into the gun butt, and then handed over to Fran along with the remaining bullets.
This "survival rifle" finally got into the hands of the "survival master".
In this way, Fran has two options: crossbows and firearms for hunting and self-defense. Although using a gun will definitely make more noise than a crossbow, the efficiency is not comparable to that of a crossbow.
As the team's important marksman, Egger cannot be left empty-handed. Vance's AR-15 is temporarily assigned to him.
Everyone has great confidence in weapons. Although the team is currently short of guns and ammunition, as long as the infected can be successfully eliminated, among other things, guns and ammunition will definitely be indispensable.
In this cleanup operation, four members of the community search and rescue team were dispatched together. Although Egger’s foot injury no longer required the use of crutches, he was still unable to lift heavy objects. Some physical work required at least two men to do it, so he did not go out for a long time.
Father Locke, who works in the field, once again partners with Vance.
After collective discussion, the place where the explosion trap was to be installed this time was selected on the street below the T-intersection.
The street was divided into two ends by a truck that turned sideways in the middle. The outer section was blocked by the truck, so everyone felt that it was safer to work secretly. To say the least, even if an infected person was accidentally attracted during the operation, there would be a truck in the way.
Everyone has a greater chance of escaping.
In order to prevent the sound of the vehicle's engine from alerting the infected, the pickup truck was parked a little far away. After parking, Iger sat in the cargo box of the pickup truck holding the AR-15 and kept watch while the other three people moved things back and forth and ran several times before finally
Finish moving things.
Because they were worried that preparing explosives in advance would change their chemical properties or cause danger, everyone piled the materials in the center of the street before starting to prepare them on site.
Father Locke and Vance were opening bags of fertilizer and pouring it carefully from the mouth of the oil drum. Joanna picked up a thick and long rope and threw it up several times, and finally successfully bypassed the street light.
The pole hung down at the back, and she tied the hanging end to the tape recorder so that it would need to be hoisted up later.
Not long after, all 17 bags of fertilizer found in the home garden store were poured into the oil drum. After shaking it a few times, there was obviously some space left in the oil drum, but this did not affect the homemade explosion.
explosion of matter.
Next, Vance tore the strips of old cotton clothes that he had prepared and stuffed them through the oil drum hole until they were a little tight.
Afterwards, Father Locke and Vance carefully poured the fuel drawn from the oil drum onto the cloth and slowly poured it down, allowing the fuel to soak into the cloth and then into the fertilizer.
Finally, Vance placed a small piece of candle with an accurately calculated burning time on a cloth soaked in fuel, lit it, and put on a glass lampshade. Father Locke placed a metal shield around the candle to prevent an infected person from elbowing it.
He knocked over the candle and detonated the oil barrel in advance.
After all the work here was done, Vance raised his thumb to Joanna, who had been waiting for a long time.
Joanna, who had practiced many times while waiting, pressed the play button of the tape recorder, then grabbed the rope and raised it high. After the tape recorder reached the top, Joanna quickly tied the rope to death.
"Evacuate!" Father Locke gave the order, and the three of them quickly ran towards the pickup truck.
There was a gap of more than ten seconds in front of the tape in the recorder. When the three of them quickly got into the car and opened the door, a song with a strong rhythm began to play.
The operation ended successfully without disturbing the infected. Egger's spirit relaxed. As soon as the magic sound entered his ears, he unconsciously hummed along with the tune: "
she was more like a beauty queen,
from a movie scene……”
What Iger didn't hear was that Father Locke, who was in the passenger seat of the car, couldn't help but shake his head and hum: "
people always told me,
be careful of what you do,
and don’t go around breaking young girls’ hearts…”
After the pickup truck drove out of the community, it stopped far away. The music played from the recorder on the pole in the distance could still be heard clearly. The song had entered its climax, and MJ was repeating the following:
"she says i am the one,
but the kid is not my son…”
Joanna doesn't like this song very much. It should be said that she is a little disgusted.
Its lyrics look like a poor big boy telling everyone that he has been wronged, but Joanna feels that this song is more like the confessions of those scumbag men.
Therefore, when she heard the mature and steady Father Locke humming along to the rhythm, Joanna felt that the world might not be what she thought it was.
After playing a song, a few infected people gathered under the street lights. Egg looked worriedly into the distance, and then encouraged himself: "It doesn't matter, maybe a large wave of infected people are on the way."
As soon as I had said this in my mind, I saw a large line of infected people "squeezing" out of the not-so-wide gap between the overturned truck and the street wall.
A steady stream of infected people poured out from the gap, and several infected people rolled over the front of the car, fell to the ground, got up, and ran forward again.
Not long after, a dark wave of infected people filled the streets. They surrounded the gasoline barrels with candles, crowded under the street lights, raised their hands and waved wildly toward the sky. To the rhythm of MJ's song, they seemed to be gathering.
They dance like crazy together.
Seeing this scene, everyone understood what happened to those people at the police station that day. It can be said that with such a large group of infected people, the survivors had no choice but to flee.
This also shows that the first two solutions proposed by Egger seem feasible, but when there is such a large and dense infection group, it is very difficult to implement piecemeal tactics.
Everyone watched the magical and crazy scene from a distance with complicated emotions, and prayed that the candles would successfully light the oil drums.
After several more minutes, with the strong rhythm of mechanical dance, "smooth criminal" sounded, and the infected dancers became even more energetic.
Just hearing MJ's scream, sparks erupted from the stage.
After waiting for more than ten minutes, the candle finally succeeded in lighting the clothes stuffed in the mouth of the oil drum.
After the flame burned for more than ten seconds, it suddenly grew larger, like fireworks set off during a festival, and a slender flame burst out.
Everyone held their breath, knowing that the critical moment was coming.
Suddenly there was a flash of light, and in an instant, the infected people who were dancing crazily around the oil drums turned into debris flying all over the sky.
It took several seconds before a huge "rumbling" sound reached everyone's ears.
The infected people who were once entrenched in the community were cleared out by a huge explosion.