Chapter 8: A Dog's Life

In a room in Building No. 7, Lin Zaishan and Li Yan faced each other silently.

"I really didn't mean to." Lin Zaishan began to speak first: "I really saw the mutant cat. ”

"That's not what I'm most concerned about right now." Li Yan said: "I don't understand why you agreed to accept the punishment? In terms of strength, the two of us can live without relying on them. Their decisions are not at all binding on us. ”

"Li Yan, have you thought about it? If the two of us leave, this team will only be left with the elderly, weak, women and children, and it will be difficult for them to survive. The fact that more than a dozen of them are now surviving is the result of the efforts and sacrifices of SWAT officers, police officers, firefighters, rescue crews, and medical personnel, as well as unattainable luck. Can you bear to let the efforts of your predecessors go to waste? ”

"However, your survival has also been through a lot of hardships and dangers, and there is no one in ten thousand. How can you easily let them dictate your fate? ”

"I'm a state worker, so I should stand up when the masses are in the most crisis. This is my duty and duty, and it is also my destiny and glory. At this point, I will never hesitate and back down! ”

"Your will is my will, and I will do everything possible to support you and cooperate with you."

"I've wronged you, I've worked hard for you."

"Then shouldn't you give me a little sweetness?" Li Yanfa said.

"What do you want?"

"Kiss me."

"Ha, I can't ask for it!" Lin Zaishan, who was kissed, blossomed happily on the mountain horse, and immediately stepped forward to prepare to put his hands up and down and feast. Suddenly, there was a knock on the door. Wu Chaoqun's voice came:

"Brother, can I come in?"

"Big brother, please come in."

Wu Chaoqun's first words when he entered the house were:

"Brother, I was on night duty at the fence in front of me, and when I came back, I heard that something had happened. How can you agree to go to the county seat alone to scout? The road must be dangerous, shall I go with you? ”

"Brother, you've come just in time. I have a few things to entrust you. ”

"Brother, what you say sounds a bit serious. What's up? ”

"First of all, I found a new mutant beast?"

"Mutant cats?"

"Yes, this mutant beast is extremely fast, and it is like walking on the ground when it comes to the beam, and as long as one of them has the strength to wipe us out."

"I also saw one when I was on duty at night, and it disappeared in the blink of an eye, and the rat meat was stolen without knowing it. It's amazing! ”

"Therefore, you must remind everyone to be careful, not to go out alone, to reduce outdoor exposure, and to hide indoors in a bright place. It's a good idea to place obstacles, traps, or warning devices around the room. ”

"It's no problem, I'll handle it, just leave it to me."

"The second thing is that the threatening zombies and rats in the bunker have been basically annihilated, and the remaining ones should be able to capture them with the skills of the big brother. ……”

"I'm going to clean up the bunker today!"

"Big brother, I'm not done." Lin Zaishan continued: "Big brother, have you thought about it, since the bunker can come in so many big rats, it must be able to bring in other creatures of the same size or smaller. It could be another mouse, or it could be a natural predator of rats. ”

"Mutant cats?"

"Felines don't seem to have a habit of burrowing."

"What could that be?"

"Snake!" Li Yan exclaimed from the side.

"There is nothing to be afraid of snakes, my brother is the number one master of catching snakes in the military region."

"What if it's a big, fierce mutant snake that can feed on mutant rats?" Lin Zaishan gestured.

"Brother, your worries are very reasonable. I've got to figure it out right away. ”

"No matter how fierce the beast is, it will be afraid of fire, as long as the eldest brother arranges more burning materials in key positions, and Li Yan will be able to leave the rest." Lin Zaishan turned his gaze to Li Yan, gently grabbed her little hand and said, "You must continue to improve yourself to make yourself braver, stronger, faster, and hotter!" ”

"Don't worry, I'll be a female tyrannosaurus when you come back in a few days." Li Yan pinched Lin Zaishan's finger and quipped.

"The third thing I've noticed is that more and more people on my team are showing up for abilities. Big Brother has to find ways to stimulate the abilities of more people and make those who have them stronger, including Big Brother himself. I dare say that abilities will replace weapons as the most important support and capital for our survival in the last days. ”

"Understood! Anything else? ”

"The key to the bunker will be handed over to you, and the rest will be gone for the time being."

"Okay, brother, I'll go back to tactical defense. Hurry up and make out again. ”

After watching Wu Chaoqun leave, Lin Zaishan pulled Li Yan into his arms and said:

"Darling, let me explore the unknown."

"Smack!" Lin Zaishan, without exception, suffered another blow.

"I'm going to work out early, so take a break and take some rest. I'm leaving. ”

In the warehouse girl's room, Li Yan stood in front of Du Lili with sparkling hands, and asked lukewarmly, "With your ability, you should be able to prevent Lin Zaishan from being punished just now, why didn't you take action?" ”

"Sister Li Yan, you think too highly of me, how can I stop so many men?"

"Then you can stop Lin Zaishan from accepting the punishment!"

"Sister Li Yan, Captain Lin is your man, you can't stop it, how can you expect me to be a minor?"

"You!" Li Yan was so angry that she was speechless, and sparks appeared in her palms.

"Principal Wang, please come here!" Du Lili shouted.

At nine o'clock in the morning, Lin Zaishan was ready to go. He wears a riot helmet, a rescue team uniform, a jacket and a bulletproof vest, a backpack, an electric baton and a military spur pinned to his waist, a multi-functional military dagger tied to his legs, special police gloves on his hands, a flashlight, a medical kit, surgical tools, compressed biscuits, purified water, ropes, climbing hooks, lighters, multi-function power supplies and data cables in his backpack, and a few crystals collected in front of him and a mobile phone that can no longer be turned on in the pockets of his close-fitting clothes. Parts that are easily exposed and attacked, such as trouser legs, are wrapped in a sturdy canvas.

At this time, the adults were busy cleaning up the station and arranging the fortifications under the command of Principal Wang and Wu Chaoqun, and only three students came to say goodbye.

"Captain Lin, how heavy is your equipment?" The little fat man asked.

"About 40 kilograms."

"So heavy? You still have that far to go. ”

"It's okay, I'm used to it."

"Captain Lin, you have to come back early." Du Lili said reluctantly.

Jiang Wei looked at Lin Zaishan intently and didn't speak.

"Don't worry, I'll be back. These days, you have to be good. After Lin Zaishan finished speaking, he left.

The sky was blue, with hardly a trace of clouds. The ground is green, and there are new sprouts of plants everywhere. Lin Zaishan, who has always liked turquoise, can't help but feel refreshed and walk lightly.

There are about 25 kilometers of mountain road from the station to the county seat, and although Lin Zaishan carries a weight of 40 kilograms, his walking speed is still comparable to that of a normal young adult. He soon descended the mountain and came to the main road in the county. As soon as he got on the main road, Lin Zaishan found the wreckage of two cars parked in front of him, one with his feet facing the sky in the middle of the road, and the other clinging to a boulder next to the road. Lin Zaishan hurried over to inspect and found a charred corpse in the driver's seat of the first car; Two bodies were found in the driver's and passenger seats of the second car, vaguely identifiable as a man and a woman. It seems that these two cars are destroying the Sunrise thing. Lin Zaishan took out a dagger and pried open the trunk of the first car, and a bunch of deformed and spoiled food fell out of it; He pried open the trunk of the second car again, and was stunned when he saw the contents inside:

In the trunk were three large bundles of blackened and deformed hundred-dollar bills, each almost 30 centimeters high, and the three bundles of banknotes occupied almost the entire trunk, and in the pile of bills there was a suitcase slightly larger than Lin's previous laptop. Lin Zaishan ignored the hundred-dollar bills, picked up the suitcase with great interest, and started very heavy. This is a special suitcase, which gives the appearance of an unbreakable appearance alone, and the case has a combination lock, which is made up of three rows of numbers from 0 to 9.

"It seems that if you want to know what's in the suitcase, you'll have to play the guessing code game again. What password to guess? ”

Lin Zaishan casually typed "520", pressed the button with his finger, and with a "snap", the suitcase was actually opened.

"Holy! This luck is too rebellious. No, it's the owner of this suitcase that is too easy to guess. ”

Lin Zaishan opened the suitcase expectantly, and then let out a cheer.

In the suitcase lies a delicately shaped and elegant handheld computer, which appears to be in perfect condition. The rest of the place was filled with gold bars, 10 of them.

"10 kilograms of gold can be regarded as a tyrant in a small place like Yutai. Shall I have it in my pocket? If before the end of the world, stealing 10 kilograms of gold was enough to put yourself in prison for a long time, but now that it is the end of the world, no one should be held accountable. What's the use of just bringing this gold? Does gold in the last days have a hard currency value in addition to ornamentation? Maybe you can use it as a raw material when crafting something. Forget it, let's take it with difficulty. ”

Lin Zaishan put the gold bar into the suitcase again and found that there was a small translucent sealable plastic bag in the suitcase. He opened the seal, just as the sun shone in, and a bright light flashed.

"It turned out to be diamonds!" Dozens of diamonds that look very large and have excellent color. "It seems that the socioeconomic status of the suitcase owner will have to be reassessed."

Lin Zaishan casually put the diamond bag into his personal pocket, and his interest was completely focused on the computer. He reached out and pressed the power button, silently muttering in his heart: "Buddha and Bodhisattva bless, this computer is intact!" ”

The computer power indicator is on.

"There's a play!"

The boot screen flashed, and soon the computer was booted up, and Lin Zaishan's familiar window operating system interface appeared. Lin Zaishan quickly checked the computer resources and found that in addition to the operating system and a few commonly used office software, there was only one "global geographic information system" software, and there were no personal documents. Although this computer is small, the configuration is amazing: the CPU is 4 cores 3.5G, the memory is 32G, the video memory is 8G, and the hard disk is 2T.

"Now it's up to us to see if we can read the phone information." Lin Zaishan connected the mobile phone to the computer with a data cable, but the computer did not respond. "It looks like the phone is broken. If you want to restart 'Lin Fuzi', you can only repair your mobile phone first. ”

He ran the "Global Geographic Information System" software again, and couldn't help but be overjoyed: this system stores the world's basic geographic information and civil transportation and tourism information offline, and can display the real scene information in almost any corner of the world in 3D form (of course, this information is filmed before, and it is limited to civilian level), which is still offline; If it is online, it may be able to be displayed in real time (in the last days, the network is paralyzed, and the satellite is estimated to have exploded, so there is no need to think about it in real time).

"Haha, this time I went to the county seat, hoping to find a chance to fix my phone. Who knows that as soon as you go out, you will find a treasure, although the phone has not been repaired, but the 'global geographic information system' is also very practical, what is there to complain about such luck. ”

At present, Lin Zaishan is only active in Yutai County, he is very familiar with the geographical transportation information of Yutai County, and he can accurately locate important locations with his eyes closed, and he does not need a "global geographic information system" at all, so he naturally put the handheld computer back into the suitcase along with the gold bars, put it on the password lock, and put it in the backpack.

12:00。 Lin Zaishan has walked more than 10 kilometers. Except for a few small birds and a rabbit that had grown in size, Lin Zaishan did not encounter any birds or animals along the way. However, Lin Zaishan was still startled by the rabbit, although the rabbit seemed even more frightened when he saw Lin Zaishan.

"Thankfully, vegan animals are still vegans. If even rabbits eat meat, then all my ideas about this apocalyptic world will have to be revised. ”

Fifty meters ahead, a gas station is located, and in the distance you can see collapsed advertising signs and the wreckage of five or six cars.

"There shouldn't be any survivors at this gas station." Lin Zaishan approached while thinking. There had apparently been explosions and burns, and the oil depot had been completely destroyed and the ground was charred black. The gas station staff's room is still intact, but the doors and windows are damaged. Lin Zaishan entered the room and looked around, and found nothing of value except for two charred corpses. In view of the previous major gains in the trunk of the car, Lin Zaishan naturally spent the rest of his time looting the wreckage of several cars. He was lucky enough to find a couple of well-sealed canned beers. Lin Zaishan opened a bottle of beer, and a familiar aroma of wine came to his nose. He took a big sip, held up the wine jar and posed like the models in the TV commercials, and praised: "Cool! ”。

After a short rest, continue on your way.

14:30。 Lin Zaishan arrived at the edge of the county, and the main road of the county naturally became the central street of the county. Lin Zaishan is at the westernmost end of Central Street. In front is a huge rotating road plate, and in the center of the road plate is a traffic guard box. More than a dozen cars were parked on the turnaround, and they were relatively intact, only some of them appeared to have exploded or burned, and even the glass of a few vehicles was not broken.

"If it's not the quality of the vehicles in the county, it's that the damage to the county is lighter. Obviously, the latter is more likely. Even the high-rise buildings in the county are generally relatively intact, presumably far from the epicenter of the explosion. It seems that there is a high probability that those who stay in the county will survive. ”

Lin Zaishan checked the traffic booth, where was the body of a traffic policeman, whose lower limbs were obviously broken, and he was holding a walkie-talkie in his right hand. Lin Zaishan picked up the walkie-talkie, and the walkie-talkie was damaged, but the degree of damage was not high. Lin Zaishan picked up the waist bag on the traffic policeman's body again, which contained masks, gauze, flashlights and other items, and Lin Zaishan naturally pocketed it unceremoniously. He then did a cursory search of the cars on the carousel and found a lot of cash, bank cards, clothing and packaged food. He tried several cars in a row, but none of them could start.

"Although there are a lot of things, they are not very useful, take some of the junk food that can be eaten, and talk about the rest."

The purpose of his visit was threefold: first, to get in touch with the county party committee or other survivor groups that could represent the highest authority in the county; Second, repair the phone and restart "Lin Fuzi"; Third, try to search for valuable intelligence, supplies, and equipment, preferably a drivable vehicle. At present, the primary goal has not been completed, and Lin Zaishan has no intention of wasting time on prying the trunk.

"It's more than enough to get to the prefectural government building before dark, but you still can't be careless, who knows what deadly monsters lurk in these sealed vehicles and complex buildings lining the roads?"

Passing through the revolving road plate is considered to have officially entered the county seat. A huge billboard reading "Welcome to Yutai" slumped sideways on the side of the road, with a skewed bus stop sign on the side of the road, and a large bus overturned not far away.

Suddenly, there was a stir in the bus. This movement was so familiar that Lin Zaishan drew his electric baton without hesitation and reacted defensively.

He turned to the front of the bus, looked through the broken glass, and saw a wizened zombie in the driver's seat flapping the steering wheel with both hands, its torso still firmly bound to its seat belt. Lin Zaishan could also imagine what kind of story happened here with his eyes closed.

He came across the road again, which was a "driver's restaurant". The doors and window panes of the restaurant were damaged, and the tables, stools, and plates in the lobby were all over the floor, but there were no bodies or figures. Lin Zaishan entered the kitchen of the restaurant lightly, where a female zombie was pressing on an obese male corpse on the ground to gnaw on his internal organs, and she heard Lin Zaishan's footsteps slowly stand up, still holding a piece of intestines in her hand.

"Whew!" The female zombie let out a beastly roar and stretched out its claws to pounce on Lin Zaishan. As soon as Lin Zaishan stretched out the electric baton, the female zombie fell to the ground, and Lin Zaishan picked up a garlic mallet in the restaurant and smashed the female zombie's skull cleanly. His movements are carefully calculated to avoid direct contact with zombies and splashing with bodily fluids such as zombies' brains. After finishing the matter, Lin Zaishan threw the garlic hammer to the floor again, thinking: "This zombie has already eaten people, if you don't annihilate it quickly, I'm afraid it will soon become a very terrible opponent." ”

Out of the restaurant, it's an auto repair shop. Lin Zaishan couldn't wait to get into the store, he needed to find maintenance equipment and get a car that could be driven. However, to his disappointment, the auto repair shop was in shambles, apparently there was a very serious fire, and the equipment and equipment were burned to the point that they were melted and deformed, and almost none of them were directly usable.

"No, if you want to repair a car, you have to fix the auto repair shop first, and if you go back in this logic, you may not have a car in a week or two. Forget it, let's search for the county government building first. You might even find a good car on the road. ”

As soon as the thought came to my head, I heard the roar of a car engine. Lin Zaishan immediately followed the prestige, only to see a pickup truck coming out of the crossroads at the intersection in the distance, turning a corner, and speeding along the central street towards the far end. Lin Zaishan's first reaction was to open his mouth to call, but he immediately controlled it. An inexplicable sense of danger hit him, forcing Lin to quickly crouch down and hide behind the wreckage of a car.

"Bang bang!" Two gunshots rang out in the distance, followed by the savage roars of men and the horrific laughter.

"Who are these people? They had cars, guns, and dared to brazenly commit murder on the streets of the county center. This is not like the style of the authorities. ”

After the pickup truck was out of sight, Lin Zaishan stood up and continued to move forward. This time he was much faster, but more stealthy. When he reached the first intersection and looked left and right along the crossroads, he couldn't help but be surprised. Dozens of zombies roam the horizontal road on either side, and these zombies seem to be dull in their senses, but they are generally tall.

"They must have enjoyed the 'nutritious meal', and if I give them another chance to replenish the 'nutrition', my life will definitely not be guaranteed."

This is not a small air-raid shelter, but an open city street, where all kinds of exciting signals that distract the attention of zombies come and go, and the zombies do not notice Lin Zaishan for a while. Lin Zaishan didn't dare to stay here for a long time, so he quickly crossed the intersection and continued eastward along the central street.

"Buzz! Airplanes! "Suddenly there was a sound of a dog barking in a car on the side of the road. Lin Zaishan is like a great enemy, and the electric baton and military thorns are taken out at the same time, and he is on guard. He was impressed by the mutant dogs, and although their hind leg meat was extremely delicious, it was their agility that was most memorable.