It was almost dawn that Chu Tianjiang and the others found the secret base that Rachel said near Gannett Peak in Wyoming.

Here, the straight-line distance from Salt Lake City is about 300 kilometers, and all along the way are desolate Gobi. Chu Tianjiang and the others arrived at dawn, mainly because they spent too much time in other places.

In the Midwest of the United States, there is no shortage of military bases.

Before the cataclysm, there were more than 100 publicly available military bases in the area, many more secret bases affiliated with the CIA, the Homeland Security Agency, and the services and arms intelligence agencies, and countless paramilitary facilities managed by the FBI. It's just that almost all of the large military bases, and the vast majority of clandestine bases and paramilitary installations, were either destroyed in the catastrophe or looted after the invasion ended.

Before coming here, Chu Tianjiang and the others went to two military bases and three secret bases, but in vain.

For this secret base, Chu Tianjiang didn't have much hope. Although Gannett Peak is forty kilometers from the nearest town, and the secret base is only a dirt path. But before entering the secret base, Chu Tianjiang realized that he would not return empty-handed this time. The reason for this is that the dirt path, which is only large enough for one vehicle to pass, has collapsed in several places and is impossible for vehicles to pass through. What's more, Chu Tianjiang found no rut marks, no traces left by the passing of large troops along the way, and no garbage discarded at will.

That is, after the great calamity, no one has ever been here.

If this is the case, this secret base has not been looted, and the weapons and ammunition stored inside should be intact!

Strictly speaking, this is not a military base, not even a secret base.

Rachel has only been here once, and according to her, all the guns stored here are standard guns from other countries, or guns that are still in large numbers in hot spots, some of which are more than 50 years old, such as the MG42 general-purpose machine gun and MP38 submachine gun that the German army was heavily equipped with during World War II. Of course, this is not a museum, but a secret base of the CIA, a secret warehouse to be exact. The weapons stored here are mainly supplied to intelligence officers who carry out secret missions abroad.

There are not many people who know this secret warehouse.

Rachel had been here once in a little over a year, when she was sent on a secret mission to Brazil, and it was a secret mission that only a few people knew about, so she came here on her own to pick up Brazilian military and police standard weapons, such as the Taurus PT52S pistol and the MD97 rifle.

Rachel recalls that there were only a few employees and they lived on the base.

This is understandable, as it is only a secret warehouse for special firearms, and it is far away from the city, so it does not need many personnel to guard and manage it.

After entering the base, Chu Tianjiang realized that this was not the case at all.

Apparently, Rachel didn't know much about this secret base. In the case at the time, she did not enter the base either, and left after collecting the gun.

It's a huge and well-managed weapons warehouse.

It's just that Rachel is not mistaken, what is stored here is indeed weapons and equipment from other countries, mainly guns, as well as a small number of individual weapons such as bazookas, anti-tank missiles and individual anti-aircraft missiles, as well as automatic grenade launchers, large-caliber anti-aircraft machine guns and other heavy weapons that are not suitable for individual use.

The warehouse is at the foot of the mountain, very large, with an area of more than 100,000 square meters, and tens of thousands of firearms of various types are stored.

It is mainly a variety of automatic rifles and assault rifles, and mainly small-caliber assault rifles, many of which are equipped with optical sights such as reflective red dot sights. There are also quite a few machine guns, but they are mainly small-caliber squad machine guns, and the number of general-purpose machine guns and large-caliber machine guns is not large.

It's just that Chu Tianjiang's purpose is not guns, but more important ammunition.

Before the cataclysm, ammunition was very cheap. A box of 200 rounds of NATO standard caliber 5.56 mm rifle ammunition is only a few tens of dollars, while a box of 7.62 mm intermediate gun ammunition of the Warsaw Pact group is only a few tens of dollars per box of 1,000 rounds. Even some of the most unusual and rare ammunition is not very expensive, such as the M200 sniper rifle's 10.36mm high-precision bullet, which costs only $200 for a box of 50 rounds.

According to Chu Tianjiang's guess, there shouldn't be too much ammunition in the base.

Fortunately, Chu Tianjiang guessed wrong.

The base not only has a separate ammunition depot, but also has a large amount of ammunition in stock, mainly 5.56 mm small-caliber rifle cartridges, 7.62 mm high-power rifle dots, and 7.62 mm intermediate rifle cartridges, all of which have a reserve of tens of millions of rounds, in addition to a small number of 12.7 mm large-caliber machine gun bullets and pistol cartridges of various calibers, and even some very rare 14.5 mm anti-aircraft machine gun cartridges.

Soon, Chu Tianjiang understood why there was so much ammunition in the base.

That is, there is also a shooting range in the base. Judging by the facilities laid out, this is a shooting range dedicated to the verification of firearms. Apparently, in the past, the guards of the base would regularly inspect the stored guns and conduct shooting tests on the random guns to confirm the state of maintenance of the guns. In addition, in the storage room where he received the guns, Chu Tianjiang also found some magazines that were already full of bullets, as well as ammunition that had been packed and packed. In other words, intelligence officers who go on missions abroad will also receive a portion of the ammunition. This is understandable, as not all countries allow civilians to carry guns, so guns and ammunition are not available in those countries.

When he found the storage room, Chu Tianjiang also knew that there was nothing looted here.

In a sealed room in the storage room, there were seven corpses of mutants, and outside the door, there was a corpse with a bullet in the back of the head and an M9 pistol in his hand. Apparently, the personnel in the base were all male, and after being infected by the DNA virus, the unmutated personnel locked the other seven mutated or soon-to-be-mutated personnel into a secret room, and then committed suicide by swallowing a gun. Perhaps, the eight officers already knew what was going on, and then decided by lottery to let one person stay outside and lock the secret room.

None of the eight people in the base escaped, and the people outside the base were probably dead.

"They should decide by lottery who stays outside." Rachel walked over, took out the half-cut match that the corpse was holding in her left hand, and pointed to the TV hanging on the wall. "They should have seen the news that the virus is spreading and that men are not going to survive."

"Those mutants don't have bullet holes on their corpses, they should have been suffocated." Nichole pointed to the strips of cloth stuck in the crack of the door. "The person who stayed outside first blocked the crack in the door with a strip of cloth. After the base's power supply system was paralyzed, it was impossible to continue to ventilate the secret room, and all the mutants inside suffocated to death. ”

"They tried to get out, but they didn't succeed." Maya said the protrusions on the door panel.

"We're not Sherlock Holmes, so we don't need to find out what these people died." Chu Tianjiang let out a long breath and said, "Nicol and Rachel go to the armory room to find some usable optical sights, preferably reflective red dot sights, and then come to us at the ammunition depot." ”

"To Connie?"

Chu Tianjiang nodded, indicating that this was what he meant, and then took Maya and the others to the ammunition depot.

For starters, the difference between optical sights and mechanical sights is very obvious, and a reflective red dot sight without magnification can more than double the accuracy of shooting. Although the shooting accuracy can be improved through long-term training, and the difference between the two sights is not obvious to veterans, Chu Tianjiang obviously does not have enough ammunition to train Connie and the others to be marksmen like him. Before becoming a sniper, Chu Tianjiang used up tens of thousands of rounds of ammunition in shooting training, and after that, he consumed more than ten rounds of ammunition every year. In the past, in order to ensure that the bullet fired at the enemy hit accurately, it was possible to spend 10,000 or even 100,000 bullets on training in ordinary training to improve the accuracy of shooting or maintain the shooting level, but now this is not possible.

Of course, in this day and age, not everyone can afford to use a reflex red dot sight.

The reason is that this kind of sight needs to be equipped with batteries, and it is a silver-zinc button battery that is very rare nowadays, which is not only expensive, but also difficult to buy.

When Nichol and Rachel arrived with fifty reflex red dot sights, Chu Tianjiang had already prepared the ammunition for them to carry with them. Nichol thought very well and deliberately brought a few boxes of unopened batteries with him to ensure that the sights would last for several months.

Nicol and the seven of them, each with an extra-large military backpack with a maximum weight of 250 kilograms.

Chu Tianjiang carried a backpack of this type on his chest and behind his back, and also wrapped ten chains of 200 rounds of 7.62 mm machine gun bullets around his body, and then carried two 5.56 mm gun ammunition boxes with a capacity of 1,000 rounds in each hand, with a total weight of more than 700 kilograms.

Of course, this was not Chu Tianjiang's limit at all, but he managed to take away more ammunition.

Seeing Chu Tianjiang working so hard, Nicol and the others were not lazy, and each carried two ammunition boxes with 1,000 rounds, carrying a weight of more than 350 kilograms.

Because Chu Tianjiang equipped Connie with weapons, mainly M4 carbines, and Nichol's main combat weapons are also this kind of carbines, only Andre's two younger brothers used M240 general-purpose machine guns, Chu Tianjiang and Andre used M40A3 sniper rifles, in addition to several captured large-caliber sniper rifles, so Chu Tianjiang and they mainly carried small-caliber rifle cartridges and high-power rifle cartridges.

After carefully checking everyone's backs, Chu Tianjiang took Nicol and the others out of the base.

By this time, it was already dark outside.

In order to avoid being discovered, Chu Tianjiang and the others could only try to avoid roads and places with many people, and it took more time to return to the camp.