Chapter 59: The Evolving Virus
Zhang Qiru and Zhao Yun followed the brown bear all the time, and they didn't find any special zombies for almost two hours, so they simply gave up tracking.
Now the snow is more than a meter thick, Zhang Qiru and Zhao Yunhe are swimming, and they all wade back in the snow. Especially Zhang Qiru, as soon as he returned to the car, he took off his military coat, and then went into the bathroom to rinse it with hot water.
"Brother, the convoy is all together, right?" Zhang Qiru asked as soon as he took a shower.
"Well, I've just had a baffle on the rudder of each car's wheels so that the snow doesn't get on and it doesn't freeze. I think the main reason is that we are moving too slowly, so the steering rudder freezes, and if we keep moving, there shouldn't be a problem. Zhang Qidao inspected the condition of each car and made an analysis.
"Can we go now?"
"Yes, but it's still not too fast, 30 kilometers per hour at most!"
"That's ......" Zhang Qiru thought for a while, and then asked, "Is there any new information from the central base?" ”
"Yes, and it's bad news!" Zhang Qidao said solemnly, "The virus has evolved!" ”
"Evolved? What's going on? Zhang Qiru was shocked, the virus evolved so quickly?
"It's not exactly evolution, it's also possible that the virus itself has this function. Didn't we find that the zombies were frozen? But that was only temporary, three hours ago, the military of Maozi near Siberia announced that after 24 hours of zombie freezing, the virus in the zombie will change, adapt to the cold environment, and regain vitality. At present, the biological mechanism has not been clarified. The only thing that is clear is that all Frozen Zombies will undergo this change. ”
"Damn, I just finished talking about it for a few months, I'm afraid it won't even stop for a day!" Zhao Yun said bitterly.
"This is a trivial matter, I'm worried, the zombies will not be affected in winter, and we will be affected, it was originally difficult to survive the winter, but now it is even more difficult!" Zhang Qiru said that this news is not worse, it is completely hail on the snow!
"We also need at least two months' food rations! Surviving the winter is the first step before we can get to the camps. Zhao Yun was upset.
"Then we need to hurry up and get the supplies before the zombies wake up!"
"Big brother, check if there are any supermarkets and shops nearby!"
"Yes, thirty kilometers away, in the city of Xiacheng. The question, though, is what do we load with! ”
"Is Soul Hunter II okay?"
"You can try, but you have to take out the weapons and equipment inside!"
"Then take it out. I don't think we're going to be the only ones taking advantage of this opportunity to get supplies, so it's best to be prepared. Soul Hunter II has strong defense capabilities and enough power, so it is no problem to pull more than a dozen tons. ”
"Without further ado, let's go!"
Zhang Qiru arranged the defense of the convoy, and then set off with the Soul Hunter No. 2 and rushed to Xiacheng. As for Zhang Qidao and Shang Ze, they stayed in charge of the team. Soul Hunter No. 1 is their foundation, as long as Soul Hunter No. 1 does not have problems, the rest can be slowly accumulated.
Soul Hunter II has its own ramming angle, and the snow clearing speed is very fast, without the drag of the car behind, and the speed can reach 50 kilometers per hour. It took about forty minutes to arrive in Summer City. Zhang Qiru has always liked to pay more attention to things, so as soon as he arrived in Xia City, Zhang Qiru separated from the team. The fourth team of Soul Hunter was led by Zhao Yun to rush to the Xiacheng Shopping Supermarket, while Zhang Qiru chose to rush to the Xiacheng Grain and Oil Market.
Zhang Qiru came to the grain and oil market, he was not in a hurry to find imports, but patrolled the surroundings. Whenever you enter a building, you should observe the surrounding situation as much as possible to avoid being wrapped in dumplings in an emergency.
After walking around, Zhang Qiru found no trace of zombies, not even a corpse, and it looked very clean. This made Zhang Qiru suspicious, even if there are no zombies, at least there should be traces of zombie activities, like such a grain and oil market, many people must have made up their minds, but the reality is that there is no slightest disturbance here. Rows of shops hid quietly, without a trace of life.
Zhang Qiru felt that something was wrong, and carefully observed the situation in the market. He walked cautiously down the street and saw that almost all the shops in the surrounding area were closed, and the few that were occasionally open were empty. Zhang Qiru decided to get closer to some shops to see if he could hear the sounds inside. He was clinging to the facades of some of the shops, his ears resting against the walls, and his sharper sense of hearing should be able to pick up some information.
After inspecting many stores in a row, Zhang Qiru finally found that there were some sounds in one store, although they were very soft, but they could indeed be heard clearly.
After Zhang Qiru confirmed that there were people inside, he knew that he could not act rashly, he did not know what the character of the person occupying the store was, and from the situation around the grain and oil market, it was obvious that he was not a vegetarian. For safety, he decided to do a raid.
Zhang Qiru came to the side of the row of shops, he believed that at this temperature, no one would come out to sentry, if there was, then he would be unlucky.
Along the side rainwater pipes, Zhang Qiru easily climbed to the top of that row of shops. When Zhang Qiru came to the top, he found that these stores were connected, probably because they were dedicated to rice, flour, grain and oil, in order to prevent dust explosions, so the stores were built into one and were easy to manage.
Zhang Qiru walked gently on the roof of the building, avoiding disturbing the people in the house. After searching all around, Zhang Qiru decided to climb down the ventilation duct on the outside of the store, there was a window next to the ventilation pipe that could be used, as long as he entered the store without being attacked by sneak attacks, with his superior physical fitness and the gun in his hand, he could control all the people inside effortlessly.
With his agile skills, Zhang Qiru soon came to the window. The window did not close, Zhang Qiru jumped and landed on the windowsill. It just so happened that there was a man smoking under the window, holding a wine bottle in his hand, looking very leisurely. The person under the window felt that someone was intruding, stood up and was about to shout, saying that it was too late and that it was too fast, Zhang Qiru jumped off the window sill and smashed it with a punch, hitting the nose. Before the man could make a sound, he was killed by K.O., and Zhang Qiru also took advantage of the situation to enter the house.
As soon as Zhang Qiru settled, he knew that he had been discovered. More than a dozen people ran towards his position in confusion, and after a while he was surrounded. These ten people were all men, some holding kitchen knives, some holding crowbars, and some holding steel pipes, staring at Zhang Qiru with fierce eyes.
"Friend, isn't it rude for you to come uninvited like this?" A voice that sounded a little imposing came, and it seemed that there was still a person in charge here, but he didn't show up.
"Friend, isn't it even more rude for you to fight each other with swords like this?" Zhang Qiru was also unceremonious, and immediately returned the color.
"Hehe, as long as my friends don't break my rules here, I'm naturally welcome." The man's voice sounded very reasonable, but it made Zhang Qiru disgusted, and he wanted to be a bandit and set up a chastity archway.
"Oh, that's embarrassing, I'm a man who likes to challenge authority." Zhang Qiru also smiled and said, "However, can this friend come out and talk about it?" ”
"Hmph, since you don't understand the rules, don't blame me for being rude. Tell you, I'm the boss here, you don't have to ask, the rules are set by me, you obediently be a little brother here, maybe I can spare you, otherwise ......"
"Or will you kneel down and beg me for mercy?" Zhang Qiru smiled, and then turned the 81 bar in his hand. "If your men weren't blind, they should be able to see my rifle, and if you're not mentally retarded, you should know I'm not feeling good right now."
"Brother, I'm sorry, I don't know Taishan with my eyes, do you dissipate your anger?" A very burly-looking, but very obscene-looking guy heard that Zhang Qiru had a gun, and immediately walked out from behind the shelf, nodding his head.
"Go, go, change your face really fast! Who is your brother? Ask me something, answer me honestly! Zhang Qiru doesn't like this kind of person very much, although he has done it himself.
"You ask, you ask!" The lewd man laughed.
"Reach out!" Zhang Qiru said to the lewd man.
"This ......" The lewd man looked surprised, could it be that the little brother opposite was the legendary ...... Glass? Isn't it chastity to take oneself?
Before the lewd man could finish thinking about it, he wailed fiercely - Zhang Qiru had already pinched his hand. The lewd man felt as if his hand was being clamped tightly by a pair of pliers, and no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't ask for it, even though he was already struggling with both hands.
"Big brother, big brother, spare your life, spare your life!" The lewd man begged for mercy.
"Young man, don't say I didn't remind you, I just lost the gun, and I just cleaned you up like a play, so answer my question well, otherwise, ......" Zhang Qiru added another layer of strength.
"Ah......" the lewd man screamed even more, "I know, I know......"
The lewd man originally looked down on Zhang Qiru a little, because Zhang Qiru was a weak scholar-type character, and he relied on a gun to play prestige. But he couldn't figure out why Zhang Qiru had so much power! He can be sure that Zhang Qiru's strength is already the most he has seen in his life, including some outstanding athletes he has seen can't reach it, in terms of grip strength, it is more than 180 kilograms, you know, normal talents are between 60 and 80.
"I ask you, how many of you have here? What's going on? Zhang Qiru felt that there was a lot of food here.
"Big brother, we have more than fifty people here...... Originally, there were a lot of zombies here, but then most of them left for some unknown reason, so we occupied this place. There was some food here, so we agreed to stay here together. ”
"When you came, most of the shops ran out of food?" Zhang Qiru was very curious, this is obviously a wholesale market, but there is not so much food.
"I heard, I just heard that the food here has been taken away by Brother Leopard......"
"Who is Brother Leopard?"
"The boss of a survivor organization, known as Brother Leopard. This person is more than two meters tall, has practiced free fighting, is very powerful, has gathered a large number of junior brothers, and scavenged for supplies everywhere......"
Brother Leopard? Zhang Qiru muttered, this guy won't go to the supermarket today to grab supplies, right?