Chapter Twenty-Seven: Arriving at the Base
"The college road in front is the road at the west gate of our school, the road is too narrow to pass the car, and it is very troublesome to block it casually. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 infoFurther west is Pengcheng Road and Changqing Road, the road is not narrow, but those two are small commercial streets, there are too many small shops on the street, and it is easy to have accidents. Now that we have a car, we might as well take a little more west to detour to Xinnan Avenue, which is similar to this Jinhe Avenue, with six lanes in both directions, and the sidewalks on the side of the road are wide enough. In this way, at least you can drive directly to Fuhua Road, where the base is located, and Fuhua Road is easy to walk because there are many high-end communities built on both sides of the road. Although the sidewalks may not be passable, people in those neighborhoods generally drive, and the bike lanes should be empty and walkable. Zhou Beichen thought about it for a while, and then made the decision to detour to the west to Xinnan Avenue.
"Brother Zhou, you are really a god, is your side job a driver? How do you know the way so clearly, do you live around here? Zhang Hao looked at Zhou Beichen with admiration, and secretly sighed that people and people's brains really can't be compared.
Zhou Beichen smiled and didn't speak, and threw the key to the Passat to Zhang Hao, and the extra two keys were placed on the windshields of the other two cars, which could be regarded as for the convenience of future generations. He had stayed at that base for half a year in his last life, and the roads around him were too familiar to be cooked. "Let's go, you follow me, let's go slowly. Both cars are heavily overloaded, and it's no joke in case they break down. ”
Zhang Hao said hello, walked back to the Passat, opened the door and sat in the driver's seat. He fastened his seatbelt and took a deep breath to cheer himself up: "Don't be nervous, don't be nervous, this is not a small broken Jetta in a driving school, don't be so troublesome to step on the clutch, I can drive this car with my eyes closed." Turn on the fire, gear first, go on the accelerator, stop the brake, hey, I'll go, which is the brake? ”
In this Passat car sat several of Zhang Hao's brothers, and when they heard his small muttering, they immediately boiled.
"Brother Zhang, you are my brother, do you really know how to drive? I don't want to escape from the zombie's mouth, but give it to you, the rookie driver. ”
"Brother Zhang, in fact, there is quite plenty of time, why don't you go and learn from Brother Zhou before you come back, and we will go down to let the wind go first?"
"You bastards, can you give some confidence? I remembered, ah, the brake in the middle, the accelerator on the right, no problem. Zhang Hao responded to his brothers' coaxing with a little dissatisfaction.
Thankfully, the automatic transmission is indeed a blessing for novice drivers, and the new Passat is even equipped with an electronic parking brake, which helps Zhang Hao perfectly avoid the most common mistake of pulling the handbrake to drive, after all, someone is completely unaware that there is such a step.
Half an hour later, Zhang Hao actually appeared in front of the base unscathed, at least on the outside.
Everything is as Zhou Beichen calculated, although the motor and non-motorized lanes of Xinnan Avenue are seriously congested, the spacious sidewalks ensure that they can pass smoothly. In addition, the bicycle lanes on Fuhua Road are as empty as expected, with the occasional car breaking the guardrail crossing the sidewalk, but all of them can be detoured, and someone must have deliberately cleaned it up. After turning onto Fuhua Road, they even ran into a small convoy that also came to the base, but they were later thrown away because of the speed problem.
In general, except for the novice driver Zhang Hao's nervous dizziness, stiff shoulders, weak hands and feet, and almost falling to the ground after getting out of the car, the journey was quite pleasant and nothing went wrong. The first thing Zhang Hao did after getting out of the car was to slap the key on Zhou Beichen's hand and staggered: "Lao Tzu will never drive again!" It's more tiring than running here! This remark caused his brothers to burst into laughter.
The community where the base is located is called Bishui Huating, which is named after a jade belt-like blue water river that surrounds the community. The developer of this community is very shrewd, and in the name of good feng shui, he has developed this land into a high-end community that ranks first in Xinle City. The community is characterized by a group of high-rise buildings arranged like goose wings as a "mountain ring" pattern, and the Bishui River that meanders through it to the south as a "water hug" pattern, which generally sounds like no problem. But if you think about it carefully, the only building in the community that is really good feng shui is the villa area built between the high-rise and the Bishui River. After all, they are the only ones that can be regarded as truly surrounded by mountains and rivers, and those who are fooled into buying high-rise apartments at high prices and waiting for appreciation are most likely to lose to the clever sales lady.
A large white signboard is placed on an iron stand in front of the community, and there are faint traces of the original advertisement on the back. The signboard has four big characters written on it in red paint, the southern suburbs base. It was the name of this temporary shelter, not flashy or ostentatious, that, under the leadership of its founder, did everything in its power to shelter the people, albeit with limited places, although it only lasted for half a year.
Zhou Beichen got out of the car and looked at the place where he once lived, full of emotion. In the previous life, when he protected Qin Qin and Yang Lan and just escaped, he was embarrassed. At that time, Zhang Hao's rescue team did not drive, and everyone relied on two pairs of legs to hide in Tibet, but the journey of three or four kilometers took a full six hours. Even in order to avoid zombies, most of the materials were discarded except for personal backpacks. They arrived at the base almost empty-handed, and were accepted into the place with trepidation.
Captain Zhang Hao in the previous life was still very kind, and distributed two days' rations to everyone before leaving, he was afraid that someone would run away on the road, so he sent it to everyone early in the name of taking his own supplies. Although because he did not return to the small supermarket, he gave less than in this life, but Zhou Beichen was very clear, and Zhang Hao's own team did not leave much more supplies at that time.
So in this life, although he has the ability to go to this base alone with his companions, and six people are enough to cope with the average situation, it will even be easier and faster than walking with so many classmates who dare not move. But he didn't, he wanted to help Zhang Hao fulfill his promise and bring everyone to the base safely. Just like in the previous life, no matter how many dangers and troubles were encountered on the road, Zhang Hao never abandoned a person from beginning to end, and finally brought everyone to the base intact.
Zhou Beichen exhaled a long breath, pulled Qin Qin, who had just gotten out of the car, and greeted the base guards who were walking towards their group.
It was a young man who looked upright, no more than 25 years old, wearing a military uniform, and his face was as cold and hard as a city wall. He walked up to the two cars, watched them pop out like dumplings, and opened his mouth several times to say something, but he held back. It wasn't until Lu Letian finally moved out of the Wuling Hongguang with difficulty that the guard finally hesitated to speak: "You guys, it's dangerous to drive like this." ”
Zhou Beichen looked at Zhang Hao, who was still weak and in a trance, and gently squeezed Qin Qin's hand, Qin Qin stepped forward and negotiated with the guard a little nervously. "This, this big brother, we also know that this is dangerous, so we have been driving very slowly on the road, and the speed does not exceed 15 kilometers per hour. Now, as you can see, there are so many of us, only two of us can drive, and we can't find a bigger car, so we can only make do with it for the time being. ”
The young guard nodded, he was just a kind reminder, and he didn't mean to pursue anything. And he couldn't help but feel a little nervous when he saw that there were so many boys actually letting a little girl come to negotiate with him. "You're here, uh, you're here to join the base after you heard the announcement?"
Qin Qin replied: "Yes, we heard on the radio that there is a temporary shelter here, and it was established by the army, so we rushed here." Are there any conditions for us to join? ”
The young guard stood up straight as if he was making a report, and replied seriously: "The southern suburbs base was established by Regiment Commander Chen with more than a hundred of our brothers, and we are all garrisons of the city, responsible for protecting the safety of the entire base. You don't need any conditions to enter the base, but this community has limited space, and we want to admit more people in, so the living conditions will be worse, I hope you don't mind. Of course, if you are willing to hand over some supplies, there will be preferential treatment in terms of accommodation. After all, so many of us have to protect the entire community, and there is a shortage of materials. ”
Qin Qin nodded in understanding, and suddenly thought of another question, curious, she hesitated again and again but couldn't help asking: "I'll ask a question, don't you mind." I want to know what about the previous residents of this community? Are they okay with the fact that you occupy their house? What if someone wants to go home and live with you? ”
The young guard stayed for a moment, as if he didn't expect Qin Qin to ask this question, and was stunned for a long time before explaining, "How can we forcibly occupy someone else's house? This community has just been built, and it has only been half a year since the delivery of the house, and most of the owners have just renovated their houses and have not had time to move in. And our head of the group said that they have already investigated, and most of the people who buy houses here are for investment, and the owners will not live in them themselves. When we came here last night, there were only a few dozen lights in the whole community, and we all communicated with each other when we cleaned up today, and they agreed to let more people in the house go in, as a reward for us to protect the whole community. ”
After hearing this, Qin Qin couldn't help but be in awe of that Commander Chen, there were many people in the barracks and they lived densely, although the physical fitness of the soldiers was much better than that of ordinary people, but the population base was there, and there would be no shortage of soldiers who became zombies. It was not easy to find a suitable community to set up a base in this area, and it was even more admirable that he was able to get up early the next day and broadcast the decision to take in ordinary people for free. However, what Qin Qin admired the most was that Head Chen did not rely on force to occupy other people's homes, but solved it through negotiation and communication.
She originally thought that in this extraordinary period, the original residents would be forced to move out of their homes and squeeze together with others according to the arrangements of the base's higher-ups, after all, it would be more efficient and convenient. She didn't expect the base to be very humane, just to let more people live in the residents' homes, although it would still cause some inconvenience, but it was much better than the original owner being forced to move out.
With an admiring smile, Qin Qin extended a thumbs up to the young guard and exclaimed, "You guys are doing so well, it's all our good fortune to be protected by a soldier like you." ”
The young guard pursed his lips and smiled, waved his hand to the group, and said, "The car is parked across the road, and the underground parking lot in the community has also been allocated for residents." After you enter the base, first report to the property center over there, and the staff inside will arrange accommodation for you. If you come early, you can get a better place, and when it's full, the underground parking lot is not a good place to go. As a word of caution, if you find any suspicious people in the community who look like zombies, please report them to the guards in the community immediately, and they will deal with them. ”