Chapter 693: Careless [8000-Word Chapter, Please Subscribe and Vote]

"Fallen leaves have no roots, and a single thread cannot form a line.

With nothing to rely on, there is no desire to wander.

"

Li Yu stood on the balcony, wearing headphones, listening to the music downloaded before the outbreak of the apocalypse.

Listening to this song, he was filled with infinite emotion.

The fallen leaves return to their roots. In the apocalypse, many people have lost their humanity in order to survive, like zombies, without hope and without goals.

The spirit and the body, only the body is left. In order to keep their bodies alive, the spirit is extremely empty.

It was the same in his previous life.

This is living, but it is just living.

Fortunately, rebirth gave him the opportunity to feel the love of family, love and friendship.

All of this is precious.

The next day, Ding Jiu counted the materials needed for the expansion of the third outer city early in the morning, and copied several copies and gave them to everyone.

Li Yu also got a copy.

On the other hand, the second uncle and He Chao also added these materials to the list of external cooperation, and after updating, gave them to all the partners and non-staff personnel.

After receiving the new exchange list, these people were eager to leave the Dazhangshu base as soon as possible and go out to perform the mission.

Li Yu also found two groups of non-staff personnel, Zhu Xiao and Guo Peng, in advance on this morning before announcing that many non-staff and cooperative personnel could go out to perform the mission.

Zhu Xiao had left a deep impression on Li Yu before. He was a two-meter-tall strong man with strong combat effectiveness, and the key was that he was also smart.

Guo Peng was the first non-staff member to join the group. Out of the principle of trust, Li Yu asked their group and Zhu Xiao's group to follow Uncle San to the steel plant in Guang Province.

They added up to more than 40 people, and two groups were enough.

In Li Yu's plan, in addition to Uncle San and Lao Qin driving an armored RV, the base also sent ten heavy trucks to accompany them. These ten heavy trucks were handed over to Xiao Hu and Guo Peng to control. If the steel plant was found at that time, they would be mainly responsible for the transportation.

On the wall of Dazhangshu base.

Close to the west side.

Zhu Xiao and Guo Peng, led by He Chao and his second uncle, came to Li Yu's side.

"Mr. Li, Guo Peng and the others are here." He Chao saw Li Yu looking at the forest outside the base and reminded him.

Li Yu retracted his gaze from the distant hillside, turned his head, and saw Guo Peng and the others.

Guo Peng and the others saw Li Yu looking back and hurriedly greeted him.

"Mr. Li."

"Mr. Li."

Li Yu nodded slightly and said with a smile: "I admire you very much. You also got the list of materials for exchange this time. Do you find anything new when you see it?"

Guo Peng and Zhu Xiao looked at each other with a little doubt.

In fact, this was the first time Li Yu called them alone.

Even when He Chao ran to them and called them just now, other non-staff members were a little confused and envious.

Guo Peng was also simple. He pondered for two seconds and said, "I found that in addition to some equipment and instruments, there is a great demand for building materials, mainly steel. Is there any big move in the base?"

Li Yu did not answer directly. He looked at Guo Peng and said, "Your group is the first to join among the non-staff personnel. How many points do you have now?"

"79.5 points, Mr. Li." Guo Peng said.

"Zhu Xiao, how about your group?" Li Yu looked at Zhu Xiao and asked.

"76 points." Zhu Xiao said.

In the point system adopted by the Dazhangshu Base, if the cooperative personnel meet 60 points and pass the review of the observer, they can be included as non-staff personnel and receive the minimum guarantee every month.

If non-staff personnel perform tasks, 1. The points reach 80 points, 2. They have cooperated with the Dazhangshu Base for more than half a year and made relatively large contributions, or have relatively unique talents that are urgently needed in the base. 3. After being personally assessed by Li Yu, Second Uncle and others, they can join the outer city.

The points of the outer city personnel have accumulated to 100 points, and they have made outstanding contributions to the base. They can join the inner city only after being proposed by more than three people, discussed at the internal core meeting, and voted on.

Now Guo Peng has been promoted from a cooperative staff to a non-staff staff for more than a year, and he is considered an old man.

At this time, the points have reached a critical point for entering the outer city.

But entering the base is not just based on points, but the most important thing is how to prove your loyalty and ability to the base.

How to prove it? You need to do something that can be proved, but that requires opportunities.

After hearing the points of their group, Li Yu nodded slightly, and then said to the two: "There is a task that I want to give to your two groups to execute. It may be more dangerous. Are you willing?"

"I am willing." Zhu Xiao and Guo Peng said in unison.

Almost as soon as Li Yu finished speaking, they answered.

Not to mention that they originally had to do some tasks to offset the part of food that the Dazhangshu base gave them that exceeded the subsidy some time ago.

More importantly, in their opinion, this was Li Yu's appreciation and recognition of them. The entire non-staff team was usually assigned tasks by He Chao, but this time it was General Manager Li who personally assigned them the task.

They had no choice but to do a good job, perform well, and leave a good impression in the heart of Li Yu, the helmsman of the Dazhangshu base, so that they could enter the outer city.

Both of them realized this, so they agreed directly without asking Li Yu what task he wanted to give them.

Seeing their agreement, Li Yu nodded with satisfaction, and then said: "Tomorrow, you follow Lao Qin and my third uncle to go to Guangzhou to find a steel plant and transport some of the steel back. This time I will give you ten heavy trucks. Truck, when the time comes, follow my uncle’s orders and transport the steel back.”

After the two heard about this mission, especially when they heard that Uncle Li Yu was leading the team, their eyes flashed with anticipation.

They had also heard some rumors about the third uncle, and had seen the third uncle show off his power before, so they admired the third uncle very much.

"clear."

"OK."

Li Yu stepped forward, patted their shoulders, and said slowly: "Do a good job, don't let me down."

"Yes, Mr. Li!" The two of them felt Li Yu's kindness and encouragement, their heads were hot, and they said loudly.

Li Yu nodded and said to He Chao behind the two of them: "Okay, you take them down and prepare to deliver ten trucks to them together."

He Chao said: "Okay, you two, come down with me."

After Zhu Xiao and Li Yu said goodbye, they followed He Chao down the wall.

In fact, Li Yu also thought about letting Zuo Ruxue and others, but they are all girls, relatively weak, and most of them can't drive, so they let Zhu Xiao take over.

There are ten heavy trucks, each of which can carry 50 tons when fully loaded. To be safe, the load is 40 tons.

If their trip goes well, they can bring back 400 tons of steel to build the third outer city, which will be enough for a while.

There are still more than 200 tons of steel in the base, so we can start building the third outer city at the same time.

After the two left, the second uncle came over and said to Li Yu: "Xiaoyu, can we let the other non-staff personnel and collaborators go out to perform their tasks?"

Li Yu nodded and said, "Okay, you can talk to them later. The third outer city can be built first."

"Okay, then I'll talk to them now." After the second uncle finished speaking, he turned around and left.

Li Yu looked at the land outside the wall. In the future, this would be the third outer city.

After He Chao took Zhu Xiao and Guo Peng down, he said to them: "You go back and clean up quickly. I will drive the heavy truck over to you later."

"Okay, thank you." The two said to He Chao.

After the two returned to the greenhouse, Xiao Hu, Zuo Ruxue and others immediately surrounded them.

"Butcher, what did He Chao ask you to do just now? Tell us." Xiao Hu asked with a gossipy look on his face.

Zhu Xiao and Xiao Hu have a good relationship, but he knows that Li Yu specially called the two of them up, and he must not want everyone to know.

Besides, this is not suitable to say.

So Zhu Xiao said mysteriously: "This will be kept secret for the time being."

Xiao Hu glanced at him, his eyes full of questions. Although he had a lot of curiosity in his heart, since Zhu Xiao was unwilling to speak, he couldn't force him to answer.

So there were no more questions.

It's just that everyone looked at the two of them with envy. Normally, if they were specially asked to come up like this, they must have a special mission.

This kind of special task is the easiest way to increase your points.

They want this opportunity too.

Not to mention Zhu Xiao and the others, on the other side, Third Uncle also found Lao Qin and proposed to go out to perform a mission tomorrow.

Outer city residential area.

The third uncle threw a pack of cigarettes to Old Qin and said, "Old Qin, you go out with me tomorrow to complete a mission."

Lao Qin took the pack of cigarettes with a smile, without asking what the mission was or when he would be back. After taking the cigarettes, he opened the package, lit a cigarette, and said to his third uncle, "Do you want to bring a sniper rifle?"

The third uncle thought for a while and then said: "You can choose the weapon of your choice. Just tell me what you want and I will bring it to you tomorrow."

Lao Qin said habitually: "A sniper rifle, two pistols, 1,000 rounds of bullets, and a body armor."

The third uncle nodded slightly and said, "Then it's the same thing you used to do. I'll get it for you tomorrow."

After saying that, the third uncle left.

Lao Qin didn't ask what specific tasks he wanted to perform, and his third uncle didn't say anything either.

Lao Qin's trust in his third uncle has reached a level where he doesn't need to think about it at all.

The two of them can trust each other without any worries.

In the outer city.

The second uncle asked Guo Peng to gather all non-staff personnel and collaborators.

He also told them that they could now go out from the base to perform tasks, and gave each of their groups a walkie-talkie, and asked them to report the situation at any time if they encountered strangers or suspicious people outside. , if you report useful information, you will also be rewarded.

After everyone received the walkie-talkies and heard that they could go out, they lined up one by one to receive the vehicles and weapons they had handed in before entering.

Fortunately, they came to the Da Zhangshu base, otherwise their cars would be left outside and they would probably not be able to use them now.

Cannon, Li Tie and others stood on the wall, holding guns and looking down.

He Bing, Lao Zhou and others returned weapons and car keys to non-staff and collaborators one by one.

Zuo Ruxue looked at the crumpled piece of paper in her hand. There were some new writings on the paper. These new writings were all exchange tasks that had just been issued to them in the base yesterday.

"Sister Zuo, have you made up your mind? Which mission are we going to perform?" asked the busty girl next to her.

Zuo Ruxue looked at the exchange list on the paper, hesitated for a moment and said: "The flood has just ended, and the situation outside is unclear. Let's go out and see the situation before deciding."

The busty girl felt that what Zuo Ruxue said made sense, so she nodded and said: "Okay."

Line up and take the weapons and cars they handed in before.

The gate opened.

Everyone swam out of the base like fish.

Some people had already made plans and would go far away as soon as they went out.

Some people returned to the Dazhangshu base, cleaned up the silt, and settled down around the base.

The reason why some people did this was because there was a project involved in the construction of the exchanged food, which provided three meals a day.

These three meals can be exchanged for the part of food that the Dazhangshu base gave them in advance in the base according to the ratio.

For example, they can eat two meals a day instead of three meals a day, and use the remaining meal to offset the previous debt.

This method is the safest for them.

But when they walked out of the camphor tree base, they found that there was mud dried by the sun everywhere, even on the national highway.

Many trees in the mountains and forests collapsed.

Zuo Ruxue led her team back to a house on the rural road.

This house was completely flooded.

It looked dirty and dilapidated at this time.

When they walked into the yard, they saw the wooden door that was swollen by water, and then after being exposed to the sun for two days, the paint peeled and there were many burrs.

Zuo Ruxue rolled up her sleeves and said to everyone: "Sisters, clean up our place!"

They pushed open the door and saw that all kinds of furniture placed here were tilted in the house, and some were even covered with mud.

The big-breasted girl had a sad face. It would take most of the day just to clean up here.

At the camphor tree base, all the non-staff and cooperative personnel, except for Zhu Xiao and Guo Peng, who stayed behind, all others went out.

Uncle San also explained to Lao Qin, and found Li Yuan to go to the basement to get the weapons and equipment to be used tomorrow.

Uncle San thought that both of them would drive the armored RV out, so he simply brought some more bullets and guns.

Ten thousand bullets, most of them can be put in the car when the time comes.

Li Yu also found Ding Jiu, Li's father, Xiao Qian and others, and asked them to start building the third outer city tomorrow.

The most important thing for building the third outer city is concrete and steel.

There are more than 200 tons of steel in the base, which can be used now. As for concrete, the most important things are cement, mud, sand, and stone.

As for cement, Fusheng and others can handle it. The big camphor tree base has achieved independent cement production.

Mud, sand, and stones have been exchanged for points, so that those non-staff and cooperative personnel can find ways to get them.

When Ding Jiu heard that Li Yu would start tomorrow, he was a little shocked by Li Yu's swiftness, but after thinking about it, he felt that there was really nothing to prepare.

If everything is ready, it is estimated that several months have passed.

It is faster to prepare materials while working.

After finding Ding Jiu, Li Yu went to the outer city again.

Uncle San mentioned that the control of the Dazhangshu base over Xincheng and even the entire Gan City should be improved.

Previously, Deng Ben and his men were usually stationed in Xincheng, but now if we want to expand the influence of the base, we must expand the personnel stationed outside.

At least four points should be divided.

There is a temporary residence outside the Dazhangshu base in the north, a temporary residence in Xincheng, a temporary residence outside Xincheng and Dazhangshu base, and a temporary residence outside Xincheng to Gan City.

About three people are needed at each point, a total of 12 people are needed.

Li Yu decided to use the form of rostering, and let Lao Luo, Lao Bi, Ju Tianrui, Deng Ben, A Guang, Xiao Jun, Lao Yi, Lao Zhou, A Hong and others take turns to patrol at several points.

These people do not stay at one point, but one person leads three or four people every day to patrol at various points, so as to use walkie-talkies to cover the surrounding area of ​​dozens of kilometers, and add repeaters at various points to expand the range.

In addition, the second uncle distributed walkie-talkies to dozens of cooperative personnel and a dozen non-staff groups today.

Through the four fixed points, the mobile outer city patrol personnel, plus dozens of mobile or fixed cooperative personnel.

In this way, the entire Xincheng can be basically covered.

Each cooperative personnel group has become the eyes and ears of the big camphor tree base.

Once there is an abnormal situation or an outsider breaks in, the big camphor tree base can quickly know and respond.

Orange Island Head.

Because this location is near the Xiangjiang River, the flood here has a great impact.

The water level of the flood is very high, hundreds of meters of flood, Gan Hu and others waited for a long time before finally waiting for the flood to recede.

After finally seeing the flood recede, Gan Hu and Yao Zuo were eager to return to the Western Alliance.

They only have less than five days of food left, and it is calculated according to the minimum share per person.

The top floor of Puhua Building.

Gan Hu looked at the ground below the building, which had dried up after being exposed to the sun for the past two days, and said to Yao Zuo, "Is it about time for us to evacuate?"

Yao Zuo also walked to the balcony and threw a stool.

The stool fell on the ground, and the mud on it was dry and ready to go.

So he nodded and said to Gan Hu: "It's time to go, let's leave now."

They quickly packed their luggage. In fact, they didn't have much luggage, just a very small amount of food and bedding.

Five minutes later, they came to the door of the floor that they had originally sealed.

The door was tied with various iron chains, and various heavy things were piled up.

Everyone moved these things away one by one.

Only the iron chain was left.

Gan Hu asked someone to remove the iron chain, and then asked someone to open the door.

The young man had an ugly face.

He was a little nervous.

Under normal circumstances, zombies are not seen during the day, especially in the city.

But at night, zombies are rampant.

So where do zombies go during the day?

Naturally, they hide in the buildings in the city.

If it was in the past, the zombies' mobility was not so strong, and they usually appeared in the basement of the building or the lower floor.

After all, under normal circumstances, zombies are not as sensitive as humans. It is very difficult for them to climb such a high building like humans.

Unless it is rainy, the sensitivity of zombies is enhanced.

But in the recent rainstorm, the flood washed many zombies into the building.

Some of these zombies stayed in the building.

They also have this building.

Not to mention other things, just last night, they heard the roar of zombies downstairs.

Just below their floor.

Although it is daytime now, he is still a little scared.

"Hurry up!" Gan Hu urged when he saw that this person was still hesitating.

The young man heard Gan Hu's urging and knew that he had to go up.

So he gritted his teeth, calmed his mind, moved his feet slightly backward, and leaned his body forward. This action was to prepare for evacuation at any time.

The young man put his hands on the door handle and silently counted three numbers in his heart.

Three.

Two.

One.

He pulled the door handle hard and opened the two iron doors.

At the same time, he immediately stepped back and ran behind everyone.

Bang!

The two iron doors were opened forcefully and hit the walls on both sides, making a loud noise.

The stairs at the door were dark.

The sound of the iron door hitting just now echoed in the long stairs.

Gan Hu looked at the young man with some contempt, pointed at him and said, "Go down, you lead the way."

The young man cursed Gan Hu in his heart, but said to Gan Hu with bitterness on his face, "Brother Hu, I have opened the door. If you go downstairs, let's change someone, right?"

Gan Hu pointed at him and cursed, "Go down if I tell you to. Why are you talking so much nonsense? Go down quickly."

The young man showed a trace of anger on his face, but he immediately lowered his head. Based on his understanding of Gan Hu, if he knew that he was reluctant and saw the expression on his face, he would definitely not have a good ending. He might even be killed by Gan Hu.

However, going down is also a big risk.

Just when he was in a dilemma, he saw Gan Hu's impatient expression again, so he gritted his teeth and said to Gan Hu: "Brother Hu, give me a flashlight, I can't see clearly below."

The stairwell of this building is different from the residential area. There are no windows installed. In fact, there is no need to install windows before the end of the world.

Generally, such high-end buildings will have elevators, and the stairs are basically not used.

So this kind of building, especially those above 30 floors, basically has no windows in the stairs, but some vents are installed.

Gan Hu looked at the dark stairs behind the door, hesitated for a moment, and asked Yao Zuo to give him a hand-cranked flashlight.

This kind of hand-cranked flashlight needs to be pressed continuously by hand to produce light.

Ji Gu Ji Gu——

The young man pressed the flashlight hard, holding a spear in his right hand.

Trembling all over, he slowly walked into the stairs in the building.

In the stairs, it was terribly quiet.

There was only the sound of his hand-cranked flashlight.

Da Da Da --

He walked slowly to the half-floor staircase, and the light illuminated the door of the next floor, which was open.

There was also some faint light from the windows of the next floor.

Although the light was very weak, at least it was there!

This gave him psychological comfort.

Huhuhu --

Seeing the light, he felt much more relaxed.

So he continued to walk down.

After he stood on the next floor, he saw that there were no zombies around, so he shouted to Gan Hu and others above: "No zombies have been found for the time being, you guys come down."

Dozens of floors, the dark stairs echoed the words of the young man.

"Come down."

"Come down."

It was empty and sounded creepy.

If they hadn't known that it was daytime, they would have felt like there were ghosts.

Gan Hu was very brave. When he heard the young man say that it was okay, he said to the people behind him: "Let's go!"

So he took the lead and walked over first, and the others behind him quickly carried their luggage and followed.

They don't want to be the last one. You know, in this environment, the first and last person are the most dangerous.

The young man watched them coming down, their flashlights waving around, lighting up the stairs on this floor, and he felt more relaxed.

But what he didn't know was that there were three or four zombies standing behind him at the door of the floor where he was standing.

They opened their bloody mouths and slowly approached him.

The young man didn't check the inside of this floor. In his opinion, since there was light inside, there must be no zombies inside.

But he was also a little confused. Last night, there was a zombie roar from this floor, but now where are the zombies?

What he didn't know was that there was a window on this floor facing the staircase. Although it was a little far away, it still shone the light on the stairs.

But the area of ​​one floor is very large, and there are many other places that are not illuminated by the sun outside.

Tap tap tap——

Gan Hu came up from the upstairs on the steps.

Seeing the young man standing at the door of the lower floor, the flashlight was shining on the door of the lower floor. He was about to ask him to continue going down.

But he saw several zombies behind the young man.

The young man looked at Gan Hu with wide eyes, slightly open mouth, and a look of horror.

So he smiled and said: "Brother Hu, it's okay here, I just checked it."

Then, he saw several other people behind Gan Hu, also looking at him with the same expression.

He couldn't help but feel a little confused.

"Behind you!" said a man behind Gan Hu, and then he ran upstairs.

A frightening thought flashed through the young man's mind, and he twisted his neck like a machine, trying to look back.

Kacha——

The neck was instantly bitten by the zombie, and blood gushed out like a column.

Gan Hu looked at the young man being bitten to death by the zombie, and a trace of horror appeared on his face.

But two seconds later, he regained his composure.

What are you afraid of!

Just kill!

Still looking back, why not just run away.

So he raised the spear in his hand and said to the people behind him: "Brothers, let's charge! Kill!"

At this time.

Roar, roar——

As if stimulated by the blood, these zombies suddenly burst into roars.

Then, dozens of floors below all roared.

The roars became one.

The corridor was originally closed, so the zombies' roars kept echoing and colliding, and it sounded like there were a lot of zombies.

Damn it!

Gan Hu stopped abruptly and cursed.

Da Da Da ---

Seeing that the zombies behind the door were about to run over, he immediately turned into the crowd like a fish and ran upstairs.

Careless.

Almost didn't dodge!

I didn't expect that there were so many zombies in this building, how would they go downstairs.

Alas!

Sanqing Mountain.

Watching the flood in the valley gradually recede.

Xu Chengcai counted the food in the hut, and there was still one-third of the food left.

In the heavy rain, when the warehouse was just discovered, in order to teach Xiaoyong to practice swordsmanship, the food supply was a little normal.

However, it couldn't withstand consumption later, so they reduced it again.

Xu Chengcai watched Xiaoyong grow two centimeters taller during this period of time while eating these foods that did not have much nutrition, and he felt a little sad.

He must find a place that is stable and safe enough for the child to grow up healthily.

They must leave here. If they stay here and wait until all the food is eaten up, they will no longer have the strength to leave, and no strength to go further.

Before leaving, he wanted to go to the top of the mountain to see if there were any useful things on the mountain, and maybe he could find something.

So he packed his bag and left some heavier things in the warehouse, waiting for them to come back from the mountain, otherwise it would be too tiring to climb the mountain.

In the morning light, they climbed up the mountain with their bags on their backs.

Lushan Mountain.

Near the Changhe River.

The flood was declining very slowly. After half a month, the flood had only gone halfway, and the water level was still relatively high, and the road below the mountain was still flooded.

They could not leave from here, so they had to take that road to go down the mountain.

Dongfeng, Wanbo and others looked forward to it, but they could only wait quietly for the flood to go away.

Big Camphor Tree Base.

The next day.

When the sun just rose,

Big Camphor Tree Base began to build the third outer city!