Volume 1, The Land of Despair 035, What Comes Is Safe
Judging from the battle scenes, the military and police with armored vehicles and all kinds of modern firearms seemed to be a one-sided slaughter, tens of thousands of zombies fell under the guns, but they still rushed forward without feeling, but the military and police began to have a fear that bordered on despair.
Fortunately, they still maintained a strong execution, and after the entire convoy completed the turn, the medium-sized vehicles opened the road, and the combat vehicles blocked the zombies' forward path with firepower, and the supply vehicles shuttled among them to deliver bullets to the combat vehicles. Although this is a battalion-level unit, they are very well equipped. It didn't take long for the convoy to break away from the main road of Route 1 and begin to advance rapidly along an alternative road.
This alternate route is nowhere near as bustling as Highway 1, and likewise, there are far fewer zombies around it.
Gao Yang just didn't understand why he didn't choose this remote road in the first place, but he couldn't say that the previous choice was meaningless, at least this convoy attracted enough zombies, and after 20 minutes, he heard an earth-shattering explosion, and also felt the tremor of the earth.
It was a warship on the sea in the distance, after receiving a call from the convoy, and according to the attack coordinates provided by the forward troops, it carried out a covering naval artillery strike several dozen kilometers away. At this time, the convoy had not gone too far, and the vehicle hanging at the end was only about two or three kilometers away from the attack point, and the people in the car could clearly see that the glass in the building two or three kilometers away was shattered in the explosion and sprayed outward.
Gao Yang's school bus was in the middle of the line, but the violent explosion and the strong shaking of the ground like an earthquake still made him and the civilians in the bus pale. But soon, the pale civilians raised their arms and cheered in the deafening explosion.
Even if they were so close to the explosion, even if their ears were even temporarily deaf, they were not terrified by the explosion itself, but felt a strong excitement at the thought of the zombies who were torn apart and consumed by the flames in the explosion. The fear and despair of the past few days also seemed to be sent away by this explosion.
Of course, when the convoy drove up a slope and turned to look at the blast area, they could also see billowing smoke rising along Avenue 1, which was once the most prosperous area, and many high-rise buildings were falling in the smoke and dust, and the fire was spreading everywhere. The hysterical excitement that had been there had turned into a deep silence.
That familiar place used to be the place where they and their relatives, lovers, friends, colleagues worked, lived, went shopping, watched concerts, watched movies, listened to concerts, watched games, and gathered with friends, etc. They had struggled, tried, failed, complained and cursed, but when the once vivid scene turned into ruins before their eyes, they suddenly realized that what they had lost was not a road, a building.
And no one knows if they can go back to their old lives.
All this is just the beginning.
The convoy moved farther and farther away, changed course, and after calling in the surface ships for a covering artillery strike, the road ahead of them seemed to be much clearer at once. There were also abandoned cars that broke down on the road, and the military bulldozers pushed them to the side of the road effortlessly, and there were some scattered or even hundreds of zombies, which the convoy simply ignored, just closed the doors and windows, and let them hit the fast-moving body and be bounced away from the distance.
In this case, if it is a normal person, even if he is not killed, he will be seriously injured, but the people in the car see that they twist their deformed bodies, and still stand up or climb up, the kind of posture that has been twisted to the point of unbelievable is extremely shocking, but the people in the car seem to have become a little used to it, or numb.
After a while, some people saw a formation of planes flying low in the sky, and the strong noise from the low flight of jet fighters was also shocking, but they were also a little numb.
On the other hand, the convoy made two stops, which made them react much more. Because they don't know what it means for the convoy to stop suddenly, because there is no way ahead, or if they encounter another tidal wave of zombies? Then they heard the soldiers in the car intercom questioning them, and the reply was that survivors had been found in the vicinity and that the convoy had sent a rescue team to rescue them.
Then some people complained that even if they went to save people, the convoy should not stop, because everyone knew that if the convoy stayed too long, the zombies would be surrounded on a large scale. After all, the movement of such a convoy is too big. Then I heard the sound of gunshots, and heard the news of the casualties on the soldier's walkie-talkie, and some people said that it was really not worth it to save the lives of the soldiers in order to save those civilians one by two.
It's just that they seem to have forgotten that when they were rescued, they were also such scattered survivors. And some people mentioned that in fact, there must be scattered survivors in the high-rise buildings near Avenue 1, since that place can be bombed, it is necessary to bomb wherever there are large-scale zombies, otherwise it is meaningless...... In short, since they are lucky to survive, then they should do their best to ensure that they continue to live, as for the other survivors, it does not matter.
Gao Yang listened to these various words, sometimes he felt ridiculous, sometimes he felt sad, sometimes he felt the same way, he thought of the movies they had made before.
He read the original script, which also showed the complexity and changes of people's human nature when the disaster broke out, and the protagonist was relatively weak, and then the script was changed to be simple and clear, as long as the protagonist took a few young ladies to kill the Quartet, and talked about a few polyamorous relationships along the way, at that time he felt that the changed script was easy to act, and the fans also liked it, and now I know that even the original more gloomy script is far from reflecting a part of the disaster.
And sitting in the hustle and bustle, with different accents and even different languages arguing and arguing, Gao Yang suddenly found that he was not the protagonist, there was no young lady around him to help fight monsters, and he himself had not evolved any superpowers, so how to live next, he felt that he had to think about it carefully. He hoped that Ye Xiang could help him come up with some ideas, but he knew very well that in this regard, Ye Xiang might not be able to come up with any constructive ideas.
In the midst of Gao Yang's complicated thoughts, the convoy stopped and stopped for a whole day, and finally in the evening, along a completely newly opened field road, it came to the foot of the central mountain range of Paradise Island.
Gao Yang was as surprised as the survivors in the convoy to find that in just two or three days from the first appearance of the zombies, various construction machinery at the foot of the central mountain range has been working around the clock, and a wall has been rapidly built that has begun to take shape, and this wall is still improving and extending.
The wall was made of all kinds of modern composite materials, and it was certainly not beautiful, but it was built not only quickly, but also high enough, thick enough, and long enough, and at the foot of the wall, the frantic work of the excavators had dug a long trench.
The convoy passed over the bridge that had not yet been fully built according to the instructions from inside the wall, and the military bulldozers joined the construction on the spot, and the infantry vehicles were incorporated into the combat units, and only a few civilian vehicles actually entered the wall.
In the red sunset, Gao Yang got out of the car with the civilians in the car, and according to the command of the two guides, they gathered on a square inside the wall that was still dirt floor. He remembered that when he set off from Fenghua High School, there were less than 100 civilians in the convoy, and now, he was surprised to find that there seemed to be more than 300 civilians gathered in the square. Not counting the junior high school students who also gathered in the square, dressed in military uniforms.
He let out a long breath and suddenly felt that the soldiers who had brought them here were amazing.
"I'll go, shouldn't we just stay there?"
Ye Xiang and Gao Yang lined up in the queue waiting for registration, and saw from a distance that at the edge of a messy construction site, leaning against the foot of the mountain, with engineering materials to build a simple house, to be precise, a house that had not yet been built. The houses are surrounded by excavator-dug dirt and gravel, and are filled with pipelines, and the hillside is freshly dug loess that looks like a construction site.
It was difficult for Ye Xiang to accept living in such a place, and when he thought that Gao Yang was going to live here, he felt that this environment was too unfriendly.
"Brother Xiang, I'm afraid you're thinking too much." Gao Yang had already come to a lot of reason at this time, he pointed to a tent made of simpler materials that was still some distance away from the simple house, and said, "I think we should live here." ”
No matter how simple those simple houses are, they are also neatly arranged houses, with walls, roofs, doors and windows, and those tents are a few pillars erected in the open space, and then a huge tarp is pulled on the top, and then a few curtains are pulled on all sides to be shielded, and when the wind blows, you can see that it is made of no material, probably a low single bed made of plastic sheets. The only thing that is commendable is that these simple tents are also neatly arranged, separated by railings into two large areas, which are supposed to be distributed according to gender.
For a while, Ye Xiang was a little speechless in shock.
It was Gao Yang who lined his shoulders and said, "If you come, you will be safe, but we are still alive." ”