The chat with Vance last night made Egg frustrated for a long time. He finally understood why there were so many zombie games and movies. The characters in them were desperately running around and searching for supplies, but never thought of establishing their own stronghold.
When establishing a stronghold, the first thing to solve is the food problem.
Modern agriculture that cannot function due to the collapse of the industrial chain is definitely unreliable. But it is also extremely difficult to restore traditional planting.
Today's potato spot woke up Egger. No matter how seed companies control the seeds of plants, they have no way to control root plants.
Potatoes are the best root plants. They have high yields, are easy to save seeds, are durable in storage, and are high in starch. They are simply a god-sent food.
After seeing the potatoes, Iger lost interest in other scattered gadgets. He ran to the back kitchen and looked around, but it turned out that the back kitchen only had this bag in stock.
One bag is enough, the worst is to bear with it now.
Iger just did what he said. After taking away two kitchen knives and cutting boards, he took the two girls and went straight to the family garden store. Together, they pulled out the plants in all the flower pots and carefully filled the flower pots with soil.
Get in the car, this will be of great use.
After working for a while, the sun rose, and the sun warmed everyone's body. After the three of them moved various things including insecticides, small shovels, etc., they sat in a row on the ground to rest in an inconspicuous manner.
"Hey, it's time to eat." Joanna saw a red flag unfurled on the bell tower, which was a signal to call people who were out to return to the church quickly.
Egg glanced at the watch he inherited from an infected person. It was only 9:30, and it was still time to eat.
"Let's go back." After Iger stood up, enduring the dizziness caused by hypoglycemia, the three of them got in the car and quickly returned to the church.
"Iger, Father Locke asked you to go to Lily's room immediately when you come back." Avella, who was fetching water in the yard, shouted to Iger.
Iger turned around and nodded to Joanna, then walked towards Lily's room in three steps and two steps at a time.
As Egg walked, he was guessing what might have happened. The worst-case scenario was that something happened to Vance and the others at the lumber camp, or a large group of infected people appeared nearby.
Thinking of this, Iger belatedly discovered that he had forgotten to bring his gun when he went out today, and both guns were still under the covers.
Halfway there, Egger turned another corner. He quickly walked to the bed, reached out and took out two guns and put them on his body, and then hurried to Lily's room.
"What happened?" Egg saw that only Father Locke and Lily were in Lily's room, and they were both staring at the radio with serious expressions.
When Father Locke saw Egg arriving, he nodded to him and then patted Lily.
Lily turned around and saw Iger coming. She took off the headphones she was wearing, handed them to Iger, motioned for him to put them on, and then said, "They are very anxious. I can tell that this is not a recording."
Iger put on the earphones. After waiting for a few minutes, he heard the broadcast sound coming from the earphones: "
This is a distress signal.
We were trapped in the visitor center of Feihua Falls Scenic Area.
We are still alive, no one is infected, but there is not much food left.
Please, please, we have three people in urgent need of rescue."
This broadcast ended quickly, followed by the white noise of electricity.
It has been more than ten days since the blood plague broke out, and there are still trapped survivors.
This sentence should be understood in this way. There are actually wild survivors who survive in areas that are not safe zones.
Egg asked Lily and Father Locke who were looking at him: "When did you first hear the news?"
Lily replied: "When I don't broadcast during the day, I habitually turn on the radio station at the hour and then search all the frequency bands. As a result, I heard the last sentence of the broadcast at 9:01.
At 9:10 they repeated it. Father Locke and I both heard it.
Then there’s 9:20 and 9:30, and you hear 9:40.”
Such a high-frequency broadcast every ten minutes will quickly run out of power if there is not enough backup power.
These survivors either have sufficient power, or they are very impatient, or they are so desperate that they put all the chips in their hands at one go.
Thinking of this, Iger asked Lily: "Have you responded?"
Lily nodded and said, "I responded. I responded five times before, after, and between broadcasts, but they didn't seem to be answering."
If there is no response, either the other party subjectively did not receive Lily's broadcast, or it may be objectively due to location that Lily's broadcast signal cannot be transmitted.
"How are we going to rescue him?" Father Locke asked Egger.
Egg, who originally thought he would immediately summon people to respond quickly, became unusually silent after Father Locke asked the question.
After a while, Egger said awkwardly: "I'm sorry, I don't know where the distress signal is."
After hearing what Iger said, Lily and Father Locke suddenly realized that Iger may indeed not know where the waterfall scenic spot is. Everyone had almost forgotten that Iger was a child (from another world).
Lily rummaged in the drawer, found a folded travel guide, and handed it to Iger.
Iger got the travel guide and opened it. There were some tourism promotional pictures on the front. He turned the guide over. There was a map printed on the back of the guide. On the map, you can see Rama City, Jixi Town, and Fei Waterfall Scenic Area.
There is also a gospel community in the next corner.
Originally, Iger thought that the rescue point was far away, so that he would almost not have to think about rescue. After all, there was nothing he could do to help. However, he did not expect that the waterfall scenic spot happened to be not far away from them.
Iger looked at the map ruler and some brief introductions on the side. It was a winding mountain road from Gospel Community to Fei Waterfall Scenic Area, about 50-60 kilometers long.
The risks of traveling such a long distance for rescue are completely unknown, and what is even more worrying is whether it is worth increasing the population size of the team when we are about to face a food shortage crisis.
At that time, Iger vowed to save all the survivors that could be saved. Firstly, because those survivors were at the foot of the church hill, and secondly, Iger and Vance had just returned from the bakery, and Iger thought that the food would be enough for two or three years.
But now, whether to rescue or not is an extremely difficult decision.
Carrying out rescue will face great unknown risks. Even if the rescue is successful, it will be burdened with heavy population pressure;
If no rescue is carried out, the faith that was finally built up will collapse.
Decades of life and work experience in his previous life have taught Egger to understand that the more difficult the situation, the more grand beliefs are needed to maintain people's hearts.
Living on their own, to put it mildly, means that the structure is too small. In the long run, this kind of team will inevitably be destroyed.
For example, so many entrepreneurial companies in the previous life were all about making money to survive.
It is right to focus on making money, but if you only focus on making money after reaching a certain scale, the company will be full of profit-seeking mobs. Once difficulties are encountered, everyone from top to bottom will rush to jump ship, and people will be more depressed than before.
Enterprises are fast, and enterprises collapse faster than landslides.
Iger often uses two very topical examples, namely Xidi and Xinwei, as cases to explain the importance of entrepreneurial spirit in training classes.
If any enterprise wants to achieve final success, it must have great ambitions. Even if it is a certain software, a certain book, a certain specialty, or a certain fruit that has been reduced to just bad money, when they were founded, their mission was to promote change and progress in the world.
ambition.
People who have not experienced it personally always feel that illusory and ridiculous ambition is the real power that can bring a group of people together.
At the beginning, Iger set the ultimate goal for the gospel team to rebuild their homeland. In other words, this is called saving mankind and continuing human civilization. What Iger hopes is to give the gospel team as much motivation as possible spiritually.
Now comes the first test of the gospel team: whether they can survive on their own, or whether they really dare to make sacrifices to save mankind.
