11. How Steel is Made (1)
Two years ago, in a small town called nuns in the western part of North Carolina, the United States, it was raining heavily and it was dark. A large truck sits in front of a fitness center in town called "Big-Headed Monster".
This gym is a basement, and the water on the ground caused by heavy rain has started to flow into the gym, and it won't be long before the gym will be flooded by rain. Standing at the entrance of the gym stood two young men, both about 1.9 meters tall, one with strong muscles comparable to that of a bodybuilder, and the other with scrawny muscles, who were building a temporary embankment in front of the gym with various debris, ready to save the gym.
The two young men obviously had little experience, and although the entrance to the gym was full of tables, chairs, benches, pillows, TVs and other miscellaneous items, they could not stop the menacing water on the ground, and the stagnant water still kept flowing into the basement.
"Forget it, this place will soon be flooded," the muscular young man decided to give up the gym when he saw that his efforts were ineffective, pinched his waist, looked at the big truck at the door, and said to the scrawny young man, "There are people living there, too." ”
"Believe me, it's not a long-term solution," the scrawny young man said to the muscular man, "first, we don't know where to go, and second, if we are surrounded by zombies, we will die." ”
"So you're lucky to be here?" The muscular man sighed, shook his head, and said to the thin man with some dejection, "Isn't it okay to have something to eat?" ”
"Everyone thinks so, I thought so at first," Ma Gan Nan stared at the truck, while thinking of ideas, he said to the muscle man, "There must be a fixed place to hold on, it is safe, in order to hold on longer, come to think of a way," Ma Gan Man waved his hand to the muscle man, and walked towards the truck with water, the muscle man obviously wanted to give up his efforts completely, and when he saw that the thin man was going to make trouble again, he shook his head helplessly, stretched his arms, and followed the thin man dejectedly, and walked towards the truck.
Braving the heavy rain, Ma Gan Man walked to the cab of the truck, opened the door, rummaged for a while, and finally jumped down from the car with a German sapper shovel and a thick dozen plastic bags, pushed the door shut, and raised his chin with the muscular man.
The muscular man shrugged his shoulders, took the sapper shovel, looked around, and finally walked under the tree to shovel the soil, shovel after shovel, and put the mud and sand into the plastic bag that Ma Gan Man was holding.
Soon the bag was full, Ma Gannan tied the plastic bag, nodded to the muscular man, and then ran to the door of the key room, and put the plastic bag on the inside of the leaky embankment made of debris.
The two worked closely together, and it didn't take long to build a waterproof embankment about half a meter high at the entrance of the gym, and Ma Gannan found a large piece of plastic sheeting from the truck to cover the embankment, and the muscular man found bricks and barbell plates, and pressed the plastic sheeting tightly, finally blocking the water from the ground to the basement.
The muscular man breathed a sigh of relief and proposed to the Ma Gan man to rest for a while, the Ma Gan Man was panting so badly that he seemed to be tired enough, but after looking at the heavy rain in the sky, he still waved his hand to the muscle man, picked up a basin, ran to the gym, and began to clear the water in the basement. Ma Gan Man carried the stagnant water from the basement one after another, and the muscular man stood at the door and watched, and after a while, the muscular man shook his head helplessly, and then picked up a box and joined the battle to clean up the stagnant water in the basement.
It was a real battle, and it was raining heavily outside, and the two of them were busy until dark, when the stagnant water in the basement was emptied, and they were both so tired that they couldn't breathe, and the Venus that came out of their eyes was so much that the heavy rain couldn't extinguish it.
Ma Gan Nan mustered up his last strength, walked outside, took the key to open the back door of the truck, the truck was full of all kinds of food, Ma Gan Man jumped into the car, selected a few foods and put them into a plastic bag, then jumped out of the car, locked the car door, braved the heavy rain and ran into the key room, the muscle man closed the iron door at the door of the gym, locked it with a chain lock, turned around and went down to the basement.
"It seems that we were right to put the generator on the shelves in the first place," the muscular man glanced at the electric light above his head, and as he moved a square table to the open space, he said to the Ma Gan man who had just come out of the locker room, "If there is no electricity here, it will be really dark with no fingers sticking out." ”
"I've seen it, the clothes in the middle and upper wardrobes are all dry," Ma Gan Nan changed into dry clothes and shoes, put the towel for wiping his head on the square table, ran up to help the muscle man get the chair, and said to the muscle man with a smile, "Fortunately, you have enough members here, otherwise in this hellish weather, we will be frozen to death in wet clothes or naked." ”
"Well, didn't you put your coat on top of the locker in the locker room before?" The muscular man put a chair next to the square table, breathed a sigh of relief, and walked towards the locker room, smiling at Ma Gannan, "We can sleep on the top of the cabinet at night, it doesn't seem that the situation is too bad." This is the first heavy rain in such a long time, and as soon as it rains, your lucky star will arrive, and it seems that the good luck is not all gone. ”
"This place is really good, we can't give up easily," Ma Gannan said to the muscular man who had already walked into the locker room while wiping the water droplets on the square table and chair with a towel, "Fortunately, the zombies didn't come to make trouble, and God finally opened his eyes." ”
"With such a heavy rain, I'm afraid they can only stay put, because they can't hear or see," the muscular man changed into dry clothes and walked out of the locker room, and said to Ma Gannan while sorting out his clothes, "On the other hand, this is also suitable for driving a truck away from the distance, but unfortunately now we don't have a chance!" ”
"I don't think so, it's not that the zombies can't see or hear, they can only see the rain, hear the rain, it's everywhere," Ma Gannan hung the bag of food taken from the truck on a butterfly machine, took it off and put it on the square table at the moment, and shook his head at the muscular man while pulling things out, saying his opinion, "There are a lot of uncertainties in driving a truck, the truck breaks down on the way, this bad weather, we encounter any robbers, there is nowhere to escape, it is terrible." ”
"Ah, that's it, we didn't make it anyway," the muscle man sighed, rubbed his hands and sat down at the square table, staring at the food on the table, and said to Ma Gan with a smile, "Let me see what you have in the car, beef, sardines," the muscle man picked up the two cans on the table with great interest, and said in surprise, "I haven't eaten this delicacy in months, oh my God!" I can even swallow the cans now," said the muscular man, opening both cans, closing his eyes and smelling the aroma of beef and sardines, with a look of intoxication, "The smell is so charming, I feel like I'm alive again, back to the world." ”
"There's more, I'll take two portions, eat more later," Ma Gan Man saw that the muscle man liked these foods, smiled and took out two cans from the plastic bag and put them on the table, and said to the muscle man, "These cans used to be unhealthy food, but now they are judged to be delicious in the world, and they have the effect of resurrecting the dead, I don't know what those gourmets and scientists will think when they hear it," Ma Gan Man put a can of peaches on the table, and took out two plastic old-fashioned breads.
"Well, whatever they think," Muscleman said disdainfully to the foodies and scientists as he opened the can, "they're going to fuck the shit," Muscleman patted the bottom of the glass jar and unscrewed the can of peaches as he said to Magan, "Now, they won't miss these cans and go to the trees to pick wholesome fruits to eat, a bunch of hypocrites who eat mixed rice!" I'll go get a fork," the muscular man put down the can of fruit, swallowed his saliva, got up and walked towards the storage room, and said as he said, "Now they are either eaten by zombies, or they have become zombies, hmph, I just think that human flesh with blood is delicious, and it can be regarded as retribution......"