Chapter 24: The Sinful Side of Human Nature
Back at the base, Meng Soul counted the ammunition, in just a few hours, 200,000 rounds of ammunition were shot out, more than half of the rockets and mortar shells were gone, and only 110 tons of grain were returned, half a ton of salt, and hundreds of kilograms of cooking oil, cooking oil was still hidden in a corner of the rice warehouse, it is estimated that someone planned to smuggle out with the rice to make some money, which made Meng Soul a little headache, the consumption was too great, at first I felt that so many bullets felt that I had a little capital, but a small battle was lost by one-tenth, If it goes on like this, it won't last a few battles at all, and there will be nothing, just when Meng Soul was worried, Wang Yangming ran over, and before anyone entered the house, he shouted first: "Brother Meng!! ”
Meng Soul was in a daze, and was startled by Wang Yangming, and raised his head: "Yangming, such a big person, stabilize the point!" What's wrong? ”
"Zheng Tao and the three of them are back!! Guess what they brought back? Wang Yangming said with his eyebrows fluttering.
"Don't sell it, tell me what you found? I'm going to die of ammunition! Meng Soul asked with a sad face.
"Cut, it's boring, they came back with 5 chickens!" Wang Yangming said.
"I thought what it was, what could five chickens do??" Meng Soul pursed his lips.
"Five live chickens! It's alive!! One rooster, three hens! We had eggs, chicken to eat! Wang Yangming danced with his hands and gestures.
"What?! Alive? Since the outbreak of the end times, Meng Soul has never seen a living animal except for a mouse, and as soon as he heard a live chicken, he stood up: "Where is it?" Take me there! ”
When the two came to the gate, Zheng Tao and the three of them had been fenced off, and there was an iron cage next to them, and the five chickens in it were probably frightened by a large group of people and crowded in the corner.
"Live chickens, but there are too few, can one of the five chickens eat one bite?"
"Are you stupid? What can you do with one meal? Satisfy cravings?? Raise it! With roosters and hens, we have eggs, and we can hatch chicks. The crowd of onlookers said babblingly.
"Brother Meng!" Seeing Meng Soul coming over, Zheng Tao and the three of them separated everyone and came to Meng Soul, since Meng Soul destroyed Feng Qi and rescued the survivors, except for Instructor Ling in the base, the rest of the people are called Meng Soul Meng Ge, no matter how big or small, Meng Soul corrected it a few times and no one changed his words, Meng Soul could only accept it helplessly, "The task is successfully completed!" Meng Soul said: "Thank you for your hard work! Where were these chickens found? ”
It turned out that after Min I rushed over, Zheng Tao and a few people fought and retreated, running towards the building materials market, taking Min I in a circle in the building materials market, after Meng Soul's grain moving team retreated, the three of them drove quickly to get rid of Min I, but they didn't expect to meet the corpses on the way, seeing the scale of at least tens of thousands, they could only bypass the corpses and run in the opposite direction of the base, there are several towns around X City, and the direction they ran in this direction is M Town, because the surrounding is very barren land, basically what is planted is not good for growth, it used to be a very poor place, The townspeople basically left, leaving some old and weak people who didn't want to go, and later opened a farm with the support of the X municipal government, chickens, ducks, all of them, and then supplied to X city for consumption, Zheng Tao and the three of them found these five chickens in the farm at the very edge of the town, the chickens in the chicken farm are basically dead, and the corpses are everywhere, and the five chickens were caught by Zheng Tao when the chicken farm was circling around.
"Brother Meng, these chickens are very ferocious, I don't know if they have mutated, they can jump and fly, Wang Lung was almost pecked in the eye." Zheng Tao said with palpitations. While Wang Lung touched his head and smiled, there was a small peck on his face near his eyes.
Meng Soul walked to the chicken coop, these chickens looked different from ordinary chickens, the tail hair was longer, the color was also very bright, the beak was very long, twice as long as the average domestic chicken, Meng Soul touched his chin: "This looks more like a pheasant, not quite like a breeding chicken, how can the beak of a domestic chicken be so long?" Is it really a mutant species? ”
There are no breeding experts or biologists here, and no one can answer Meng Soul's question.
"Well done!" Meng Soul said to Zheng Tao and the others: "Each person will be rewarded with thirty points, and the military rank will be raised by one level!" Five points for each person involved in moving grain, two points for staying at the base", everyone immediately cheered, you must know that the points in the base are very useful, as long as you work in the base, you can eat, but you can only make a living, if you want to eat better things, you need all kinds of labor and resources in exchange for points and then in exchange for materials, do two days of work a little points, collect materials, every 10 bags of instant noodles can be exchanged for a point, every 10 bullets can be exchanged for a point, a point can be exchanged for a pack of Chinese cigarettes, If you change the Hibiscus King, you can change two packs, the cheapest cigarettes can even be exchanged for a whole one, if you want to fight the tooth sacrifice, a little point can also be exchanged for a box of individual self-heating rice, a box of canned beef and a box of thick soup treasure, this is a hot dish hot rice heating soup! If you can get a military rank in the base, you can apply for thermal weapons to go out to search for supplies, ordinary survivors can only take their turn to follow the combat team once or twice a month to search, and they can live a better life if they can get supplies, and people will always want to improve their lives after they are full, Zheng Tao was originally a second lieutenant, but he was promoted to lieutenant, Wang Long and Kang Hui were promoted to sergeants and sergeants respectively, and several people went back to rest happily, Meng Soul looked at a few chickens, called a few construction experts, and asked them to quickly design and build a chicken farm. Otherwise, these chickens are a bit inappropriate to keep in cages.
Time passed slowly, and all the locations on the map drawn by Meng Soul when he was still at home were searched, and a batch of weapons and ammunition was obtained, but most of them were police equipment, and the caliber of equipment and ammunition was messy, and many of the equipment only had hundreds or even dozens of bullets.
There are about 1 million permanent residents in the urban area of X City, about 1.5 million migrant workers and floating population, and at least 1.2 million zombies are active in the city, there are no regular army garrison troops near X City, in order to have more ammunition and equipment, Meng Soul took the combat team for two days to go to a reserve anti-aircraft artillery regiment, and found that the entire artillery regiment was completely destroyed, and there were zombie corpses and soldiers' corpses everywhere, and wandering zombies were everywhere, It seems that this place is still too close to the city, and the camp has been breached.
After cleaning up the hundreds of zombies in the camp, Meng Soul found that this was already an empty camp, and in the warehouse where the military compressed biscuits were stored, Meng Soul found fifteen unkempt soldiers, these people had lived here like rats for several months, and from their mouths, Meng Soul learned that after the disaster, the official established an official gathering place in the middle of the river on the edge of X City, the gathering place was in the middle of the big river, and there was a river with a depth of 8 meters on all sides, and a bridge connected to the gathering place from the left bank, and then from the gathering place to the opposite bank, The gathering place blew up the bridge on the side of the city, and held it, most of the people of the anti-aircraft artillery regiment were called to defend the official gathering place, and then there was no news again, there were originally two companies left behind in the station, once the corpses passed by, the entire base was breached, most of the people died, they fought and retreated, and survived in the warehouse until now, most of the weapons were taken to the official gathering place, and the rest were moved by them in this warehouse, only dozens of 81 bars and less than 20,000 rounds of ammunition, and other weapons were either destroyed or taken away. Meng Soul on the way back to the base Meng Soul found a small survivor gathering place, the people in the gathering place were very strange, after seeing the military vehicle, they did not run over very excitedly, but turned around and ran, Meng Soul and others quickly went up and caught the four men who were fleeing, this small gathering place was chosen very well, in a school on the edge of the city, it turned out that this was a vocational and technical college just built campus, which was put into use after the New Year, but I didn't expect the end to break out, there is no residential area near here, there is no densely populated place, It is a good place of refuge, with the four men who caught, through the playground, behind the teaching building is the student dormitory, in the dormitory building was built with bricks to build a wall, around the wall is greeted by a brick earthen stove, a black cauldron on the earthen stove, the fire in the stove is burning, the cauldron water has been boiled, some minced meat-like things are tumbling up and down, next to the earthen stove is a small door that is hidden, leading to the dormitory building, Meng Soul took out a flashlight and pushed open the small door, a smell of bacon came to his face, The flashlight illuminated the small room, a black rope was hung overhead, and several thin ropes hung down from the rope, and several pieces of bacon were hanging from the strings.
In the middle is the body of half a person, which has been smoked black, the salt flowers are shining in the light of the flashlight, the shriveled chest can be seen to be a woman's body, wisps of human oil drip down the body on the ground, no longer dare to look at these bacon, Meng Soul and a few people walked into the next room, the room was very dark, there were a few mattresses on the ground that could no longer see the color, a foul smell came from above, there was a table on the side of the mattress, and there were a few dirty bowls on the table that could not be seen in their original color, There were still some leftover broken bones in the bowl, and there were a few mattresses in the corner, and a sound came, Meng Soul walked over, under the flashlight was a defenseless woman, covered with mud and black I don't know what it was, there were all scars where the skin could be seen, one leg was missing, the calf part of the other leg was missing, the wound was smeared with some plant ash, some wounds had suppurated, lying on the dirty mattress and shivering, Meng Soul looked at the woman in front of him, The anger in his heart rushed directly from the soles of his feet to the top of his head, and he bent down and picked up the dirty woman and walked out of the door, there was no trace of emotion on his calm face, but several people around Meng Soul felt a trace of coolness......
Walking out of the door, Meng Soul asked people to find clean water to wash the woman, put it on a clean mattress, and covered it with a quilt, Meng Soul didn't say a word when he did these things, and the members of the team next to him didn't speak, and after doing everything, Meng Soul walked up to the four men, didn't speak, and suddenly raised his fist and punched one of them, a scream, the man's mouthful of blood mixed with several teeth was spurted out, and with a wave of his hand, the battle team came over, and Meng Soul's voice came with coldness:" Chop off the limbs of these four people and hang them on ropes to wait for them to dry! After speaking, she walked to the woman, and the woman had already woken up, and looked at Meng Soul who came over and said intermittently: "Thank you... Please... Kill me... I can't live anymore, please give me one last ride......"
A gunshot rang out, and the combat team left the school, with flames blazing behind them......