93. Snowy night
San Francisco, a port city on the Pacific Coast of California, United States of California, is a world-famous tourist attraction and the fourth largest city in California (population). San Francisco is close to Silicon Valley, the world's most famous high-tech industrial area, and is the world's most important high-tech R&D base and the most important financial center in the western United States.
The above is San Francisco before the end of the world.
In the post-apocalyptic period, San Francisco was also one of the first cities to be reconquered by humans. After a nuclear bomb explosion, a flood of ghouls, and a siege by mutant creatures, San Francisco has survived from the largest refugee colony in the United States of Blue Eagle to the advanced and bustling city it is now.
However, San Francisco is not controlled by a single force, but is governed by dozens or hundreds of large and medium-sized forces, and many forces have established a large number of cities within cities in the city, and its pattern is extremely complex, and even the Volunteers and the Shadow Council can hardly grasp the power of a large enough voice.
However, in view of the fact that with the help of Ding Hao, the Volunteers recaptured Portland City at a very small cost, Captain Buckry said that the Volunteers would provide all the help they could for Ding Hao's next actions.
But Ding Hao declined Buckry's kindness, and simply asked the Volunteers' agents in San Francisco to provide information about the weapons exhibition and auction. After all, if you want to do something, it's best to do it yourself, and since you can do it yourself, you don't have to owe favors.
It's just that Portland is 861 kilometers from San Francisco, and it will be a great test to traverse such a long distance in 3 days.
And now it's almost Christmas, watching the snowflakes slowly falling from the sky, Ding Hao feels that it is better to install the window glass of the Baji car before setting off.
Of course, in addition to the window glass, it would be nice to modify everything else as well.
So this idea delayed Ding Hao for most of the day, and the original simple structure of the Baji car became very different.
It's easy to install a car window glass, but since the window glass is installed, why not get a car air conditioner? After all, now that the weather is so cold, no one will refuse a warm cab. Now that you have the window glass and the air conditioner, you have to think about the safety of driving in the wild, after all, no one wants to hit something casually, and the windshield that you have worked so hard to install will crack into a spider web. So Ding Hao installed an anti-collision cage around the Baji car, the strong titanium alloy cage can effectively protect the body from impact damage, and there is also an impact impact lever at the front of the car, the sharp impact bar can be very efficient to tear apart the attacking mutant creatures. In addition, there are ultraviolet lamps on both the front and roof of the car, which can be used to create a safe zone against mutated creatures.
Finally, the Hound drone is mounted on the back cover of the car, and the fuel tank is filled with fuel, and the preparations before departure are ready.
"It's getting dark soon, are you sure you want to leave at this time?" Buckry looked at his watch, it was already five o'clock in the afternoon, the sun had sunk in the west, and waiting until the sun set was the most active time for mutant creatures, so he felt a little puzzled by Ding Hao's decision.
"Of course, I'm ready." Ding Hao flicked the ultraviolet lamp installed on the inside of the anti-collision cage with his fingers, "This gadget can create an ultraviolet area around the off-road vehicle, and with it, you don't have to worry about those mutated creatures." ”
"Since you're so insistent." Captain Buckry instructed the soldiers over the walkie-talkie to open the city gates, "Good luck then." ”
Ding Hao drove out of Portland in an off-road vehicle, after all, it was the end of the world, compared to the inside of the city, the danger outside the city was everywhere, and countless hungry predators were hungry for delicious flesh and blood. The sound of the off-road vehicle quickly attracted a large group of mutated creatures, but four wheels were usually faster than four legs, not to mention the little short legs that lived in the ruins of the city, Ding Hao quickly threw off these mutated creatures as soon as he stepped on the accelerator, and then successfully rushed onto the highway.
Because the cities of Portland and San Francisco have been reclaimed by humans, and the highways connecting the two cities have been specially cleared, although the ground is still cracked, there are far fewer car wrecks on it, at least there is no need to get out of the car and climb over the crash site on foot.
Controlling the square plate with one hand, and taking the thermos cup off the small heater with the other hand, and then taking a sip of fragrant coffee, and taking a few more sips of nutrients by the way, Ding Hao suddenly felt that the whole person was refreshed. It's good to drive a car, it's very comfortable, and you can eat and drink while you're in a hurry.
Keep driving south, and as the sky gets darker and darker, the snowflakes flying in the sky become more and more dense.
Looking at the goose feather snow in the sky, Ding Hao couldn't help but be a little worried, this snow is too big, what if the road is blocked?
"Woooooooo However, he didn't think about it for long, and he was interrupted by a few long wolf howls. Turning his head to look at the wilderness on both sides of the road, Ding Hao saw that the wolf pack composed of six giant rotten wolves was running side by side with the off-road vehicle in the wilderness, and turned his head to look in the direction of Ding Hao while running, with a great posture of pounce.
"Death!" Ding Hao pressed on the tactical terminal, activated the automatic turret on the back cover of the car, and the turret immediately turned the muzzle of the gun and aimed at the rotten wolf and shot a bullet, the 12.7mm caliber armor-piercing incendiary high-explosive bomb can easily tear the rotten wolf into two like tearing a rag doll, and after killing two or three rotten wolves, the remaining few felt that the target was a little difficult to provoke, and immediately scattered and fled.
The snow was getting heavier and heavier, and finally it was completely white in front of me, and I couldn't even see the road, so I couldn't drive at all, and God knew if I would hit my head on something, so it seemed like it was time to find a place to rest.
The road from Portland to San Francisco belongs to the coastal area, belongs to the densely populated area, there are many cities and villages, Ding Hao does not have the luxury of finding any settlement, just find a place to shelter from the wind and rain and lie down for the night.
After getting out of the car, Ding Hao realized how bad the weather is now. Low temperatures, strong winds, and blizzards are simply catastrophic natural phenomena. Pull the off-road vehicle back into the interface space, and then Ding Hao lowered his body and struggled forward against the snowstorm, fortunately, he didn't go far, Ding Hao saw an abandoned town on the side of the highway, the town was dark, and there was no trace of fire.
The town is a typical United States of the Blue Eagle town, small in size, with only a dozen houses, and about the size of a night town in the twilight forest.
"Anyone?" Ding Hao opened his voice and shouted vigorously, but before the words could be spoken, he was torn and shattered by a blizzard 5 meters away, and Ding Hao, who was shivering from the cold, turned on the life detector and walked around the town. Luckily, there are no people or mutated creatures except for a few rats, so it should be an ideal place to live temporarily.
But seeing the house creaking in the snowstorm, Ding Hao didn't dare to live in it directly, for fear that he would sleep until the middle of the night and the house would collapse and let himself be buried alive, which would be too stupid. However, Ding Hao soon found a basement, compared to the ground structure, the basement should be much more stable, which can be regarded as an ideal place to spend the night......
After hiding Hound No. 1 in the weeds outside as a surveillance, and setting up a few traps, Ding Hao lifted the basement baffle and got in.
However, as soon as he entered the basement, a corpse fell on Ding Hao's body, which startled Ding Hao, and then found out that it was a dry corpse that had been dead for an unknown number of years. This corpse is supposed to have died while guarding against outsiders breaking in, and this action was maintained in this undisturbed basement for decades, until Ding Hao finally pounced on the intruder after breaking in.
Throwing the body out, Ding Hao, who was almost frozen, closed the basement window, and then took out a small stove from the interface space, poured gasoline and lit it with flint, and the small underground space finally regained some warmth.
"Huh......" Ding Hao shivered fiercely, and then he felt that the blood that was almost frozen flowed again, the blizzard just now was simply evil, compared to the temperature before the snow, the temperature suddenly plummeted by dozens of degrees, it felt like it was from the subtropics directly to the polar regions, Ding Hao only wore a layer of armor, of course, he couldn't bear this low temperature, and almost froze to death.
After roasting in front of the stove for a while, and only after the warm flame completely expelled the chill on his body did Ding Hao get up and cover the basement window with a black cloth.
And nocturnal creatures that can move freely in this freezing cold are obviously not simple characters.
After the arrangement was completed, Ding Hao released the sleeping bag and got in.