Chapter 10 Forks in the Road
"There's a fork in the road." Zhao Qiang's last reluctant situation happened, when the idea of preparing for war and preparing for famine took over most people's minds, this huge and sturdy underground facility was designed into a labyrinth, and the fork in the road was the most used thing in the maze that made people feel a headache.
In this dark and closed environment, there are always countless strange thoughts of one kind or another in the human brain, and these thoughts will make people feel inexplicable fear and boundless loneliness, as if they are in another world, a world without light and hope, as if they are already in hell.
The cold wind in the tunnel is constantly bringing the low roar of zombies from deeper places, reminding the team that it is not safe here.
"Maybe we should go back." Chen Ergou doesn't like this place very much, he doesn't like it more than Cai Jiashu, he comes from the countryside and has been exposed to more things about strange powers, ghosts and gods, and materialism is an unfathomable scientific theory for him. "We've gone too far, we don't know how many forks in the road ahead, we're going to get lost."
Chen Ergou is right, no one knows how many forks in the road are waiting for the team ahead, in the face of every fork in the road, the team must reorganize and explore every road, in the absence of a map, no lighting, it is a very unwise thing to explore a completely unfamiliar underground labyrinth, reinforced concrete will hinder the smooth flow of communication, and once lost, everyone will fall into a situation of no return, not to mention here, even a strong flashlight can only illuminate a distance of less than 10 meters, This greatly limits the combat effectiveness of the team, which means that when facing zombies, the team only has a reaction distance of 10 meters, and for zombie dogs, it only takes a blink of an eye to cross this distance.
"We can't just get out of here!" Cai Jiashu jumped out to oppose one by one, as long as the zombies in the air-raid shelter are not eliminated for a day, the precious light weapons production line of the Jianglu Machinery Factory will not be put into use for a day, and the wise man hidden in the air-raid shelter will summon more and more zombies, which means that the future work will be more difficult, even if the environment here is unbearable.
For a while, the team was divided into two factions, one group advocated retreating and waiting for more equipment to arrive before conducting a new round of exploration, while the other group advocated continuing the search until the last zombie in this bomb shelter was eliminated. Under the training of Wei Tao and Sabre, everyone in the squad learned to think independently, and the squad has always maintained the democratic tradition, so that the two factions stopped at the first fork in the road and began to chatter and argue, each faction had enough reasons to support its own views, and each faction could not overpower the other to achieve democratic superiority.
"Brothers, brothers!" Zhao Qiang couldn't stand this endless argument anymore, and although it did seem to be very democratic, the team had been here for too long anyway, and the wind blowing from the depths of the tunnel had become much lighter.
"Shh Zhao Qiang made a silent gesture and lay on the ground with his ears on the ground. Seeing Zhao Qiang's actions, the team members realized the seriousness of the problem, stopped one after another, and pricked up their ears to listen.
After listening for a while, Zhao Qiang jumped up, took out a few glow sticks with a solemn face, and bent a few times before slamming the left tunnel mouth.
This kind of light stick was found from an outdoor specialty store, consisting of two parts, a glass tube and a plastic tube filled with different liquids, after being bent and gently shaken by external force, the glass tube containing different liquids hidden in the plastic tube shattered, and the two liquids mixed to emit a chemical light source large enough to illuminate a small space, and I didn't take it out to use it before because the number of such light sticks on hand was too small.
The glowstick cut through the thick darkness, rolled dozens of heels in the air, crashed into something, bounced back and fell to the ground.
"Smasher!" Zhao Qiang screamed violently, although it was only for a moment, it could still make everyone see the ugly and terrifying face of the smasher and countless hideous zombies through the faint fluorescence.
"Withdraw!" Zhao Qiang's scream obviously stimulated the zombie army, and the smasher immediately followed suit, the deafening sound almost drowned out Zhao Qiang's retreat order, followed by the heavy footsteps of the smasher.
"Fire! Fire! The team didn't turn around and run, but methodically retreated towards the entrance while firing at the zombie army.
"Lao Cai, grenade!" The attack of the zombie army was limited to a small space, but the dark environment also caused great trouble to the shooting of the team, and the team members could only judge whether they had hit the target with the help of the flames spit out from the muzzle of the gun when they fired and the trajectory of the bullet when they crossed the air.
Cai Jiashu immediately understood, took out the only two grenades on his body, and seeing that most of the team members had already run to the exit, the two of them threw all four grenades at the zombie army that followed closely behind without hesitation.
"Grenades!" Zhao Qiang and Cai Jiashu were the last to rush out of the bomb shelter, only to see the two of them pounce, and a huge explosion came from behind them, and a huge flame also appeared.
Obviously, the explosion did not stop the footsteps of the zombie army, the 4 oval grenades did not cause much damage to them, as long as the head was not fatally damaged, the zombie army would not stop their footsteps chasing the survivors, and the first to rush out of that hidden exit was a large group of zombies covered in charred black and white smoke.
"Kill them!" Cai Jiashu decisively gave the order, the terrain here is open, the light is good, in the face of zombies that can only rush out of a relatively small space, the team does not have to worry too much at all, not to mention, there are two best Tiger armored vehicles behind them, with abundant supplies, and they can retreat at any time.
All kinds of zombies rushed out of the entrance of the bomb shelter in a steady stream, and a hill had been piled up in the open space at the door, but the zombie army still had no intention of stopping, and some strange zombies such as smascerizers and zombie dogs followed the cannon fodder and kept pouring out.
"Attention to the heavens!" Zhao Qiang suddenly noticed that a large group of bats poured out of the bomb shelter, hovering above the heads of the team, squeaking and attacking the team members.