Da Fei didn't want this man to stay here, for fear that he would find out about the goods hoarded inside. These goods are not only varied, but also very large, and once the general public knows that "gold diggers" are such a lucrative profession, then more and more people will dare to take risks.

Now most people only know that "gold panning" is a dangerous job, and everyone is unaware of the oil and water and profits in it. After Da Fei found a reason to send the man away, the two drove to the direction of Lixin Village Farm to find Ling Shidong to report the situation of the lair.

Qiao Xingyu and Zhao Guangcheng rushed through the smoke in a vegetable and fruit picking garden, the area of this orchard is not large, only less than 100,000 square meters, the entire orchard is neatly divided into eight rectangular squares, each square edge is separated by barbed wire.

The smoke was coming out of the corner of one of the squares, and when Qiao Xingyu arrived, the person who had warned him before was standing outside the barbed wire, keeping a distance of one to two meters from the fence.

"Where are the zombies?" Qiao Xingyu ran over and asked the man.

"In the woods," said a middle-aged man who had told them with a smoke bomb, he pointed to the fruit groves inside the barbed wire, "I saw it behind the trees just now, and now it seems to have gone inside." ”

"Then you have to go in and find it," Qiao Xingyu thought for a moment, and began to look along the barbed wire fence for the entrance to enter.

"Locked?" He came to the gate of the orchard and found that the iron gate was locked.

"Let's climb in," Zhao Guangcheng slung his gun to his back, ready to climb the barbed wire.

"Guangcheng, wait a minute," Qiao Xingyu called out to him, and then called the middle-aged man over, "Is there no one in the vegetable and fruit picking garden?" ”

"Some time ago, there were people, but now it's winter, and there's nothing to do in the garden, so everyone may be busy going their own way," the middle-aged man thought about it and added, "It is said that after the beginning of the year, there may be a local chicken breeding here, and at that time, it will be planting vegetables and fruits, and raising chickens, and there will be more people." ”

"In whose possession is the key to their garden?" Qiao Xingyu asked.

"I don't know about this, maybe it's in the duty room," the middle-aged man said, "I went outside the watch room before, and there was no one there, and the door to the duty room was locked." ”

"Are you going to smash the door to his duty room?" Zhao Guangcheng looked at Qiao Xingyu.

"Why smash the door of the duty room, just smash the door of this garden," Qiao Xingyu gave up his plan to find the key after hearing the news that there was no one in the duty room, he directly broke the lock on the iron door of the vegetable and fruit garden with a gun, and then went inside with Zhao Guangcheng.

"Shall I go in together?" The middle-aged man asked.

"No, you don't."

"Well," he breathed a sigh of relief when he heard that he didn't have to go in with him.

The orchard is densely populated with trees, and because no one has been managing them for several days, the underside of the trees is overgrown with weeds.

Qiao Xingyu watched his surroundings carefully, and also paid attention to the situation in the nearby grass from time to time. Zhao Guangcheng followed with a gun to help cover his flank, and the two of them exchanged horns as they marched, each giving his back to his companion.

Their footsteps seemed to alarm something, only to see a sudden movement in the weeds in front of them.

"Who!" Qiao Xingyu shouted.

A gray shadow sprang out, then leaped forward and disappeared into the nearby trees.

", it's a rabbit."

"Let's use our voices to attract zombies," Zhao Guangcheng proposed.

"Okay," Qiao Xingyu nodded, then covered his hand into a horn shape and began to shout loudly around the vegetable and fruit garden.

Just when the first shouting stopped, Qiao Xingyu and Zhao Guangcheng both heard a "rustling" sound from behind the fruit tree not far away. "It's coming!" The two of them were in a state of suspense, and they immediately prepared for battle.

A zombie came out of the bushes, and Qiao Xingyu and Zhao Guangcheng raised their guns and shot them as soon as it appeared, without the slightest hesitation.

The zombie suddenly had a few more holes in its body, and after black blood bloomed on its head, it collapsed to the ground and did not move.

"It's a bit strange," Qiao Xingyu suddenly thought of a question after killing the zombies, "The door of the vegetable and fruit garden is locked, how did the zombies get in?" ”

"Could it be the survivor who was injured by the zombies, who escaped into the vegetable and fruit garden by jumping over the barbed wire fence when he was being chased by the zombies?" Zhao Guangcheng said.

"It's not impossible that this situation you said," Qiao Xingyu nodded, and the two began to shout loudly again, using their voices to attract zombies while continuing to search the vegetable and fruit garden.

As a result of this illegal incident, nearly 200 soldiers were dispatched to Dongtan, and almost all the farms in Lixin Village were in a state of suspension, and the number of deaths in the incident has not yet been counted, but those who participated in the operation knew that the number of casualties among the masses this time would certainly not be less.

No matter how strict the supervision is, it is difficult to ensure that everything is clear, Ling Shidong is a person who has been on the front line, and he also knows how important the current security zone perimeter defense line on Chongming Island and Changxing Island is.

Nearly 70 percent of the military strength of the entire Chongming District has been assigned to these two lines of defense to ensure the security of the islands, and the remaining forces are sufficient for local law and order, but it is somewhat overstretched to deal with some sudden emergencies.

The large army adopted the previous encirclement tactics of the Lixin Ninth Team, and began to gradually advance south from the Lixin Seventh Team on the other side of Dongwang West Road, and every time the soldiers liberated a farm, Ling Shidong gathered the survivors inside and assigned them to the surrounding area to carry out the search for zombies, and at the same time he sent several more mobile teams out to relieve Chen Bin's operational pressure.

When the new mobile team was just sent out, Da Fei and Monkey found Ling Shidong from the Lixin Sixth Team in the direction where the gunshots came from.

"The 'Gold Diggers' lair?" Ling Shidong was shocked when he heard the news that they brought back, this officer who has lived in Chongming for a long time immediately discovered the loopholes in the security management of the government army, "The security zone of Chongming Island has been comprehensively cleaned up for zombies since we landed on the island, but we have not gone to a large-scale inspection since then, it seems that it is really as you said, idle buildings must be inspected regularly." ”

Ling Shidong suddenly thought of a serious question, "Since they have hoarded a lot of goods, then there must be a stable channel for selling stolen goods, otherwise if they only hoard goods and do not sell, there will not be so many people who take risks without a source of income." ”

"Yes, but they did this big thing, and they also put themselves in it," the monkey nodded, "It's a blessing in misfortune, as long as the idle buildings are searched more strictly, the phenomenon of 'gold rush' should be eliminated." ”

Ling Shidong didn't answer the monkey's words, because his thoughts were not as optimistic as the monkey's. As an officer in charge of an army, he has a much higher level of vision than a monkey.

In Ling Shidong's opinion, the incident that broke out this time is definitely not the whole picture of their forces, and these people can always be lurking underground in their daily operations, and there are still people secretly acting as their protective umbrella on the government side.

Ling Shidong instantly felt that the affairs of Dongtan were really complicated, and the dark tide was surging in the originally seemingly calm area. He is not as optimistic about the "gold diggers" as the monkeys, because the way to eradicate the roots is never to eliminate these people, but to change the soil that breeds these illegal acts.

"The two of you will go back to the factory near the factory to protect the site first, and then rush over after I have cleaned up the remaining brigade farms, and the stolen goods will be sealed and stored at that time, and we will also carefully inspect the scene." Ling Shidong instructed the monkey and Da Fei that almost all of his current manpower was concentrated in a few brigade farms in Lixin Village, and the people who had just been liberated from the Lixin Seventh Team were also mobilized to go to various places in Dongtan to assist in the search for the lone zombies, and the new mobile team also sent a few more out, so that the monkey and Da Fei could stay near the "lair" to guard the scene.

After the monkey and Da Fei left, Ling Shidong began to think about the follow-up actions against the "gold diggers", these people who violated the law and discipline could not be dealt with passively, because today's situation clearly taught him a lesson: the behavior of these people has a great hidden danger to the stability of the local people's livelihood.

If nothing happens, it's a big deal. And these people quietly and frequently enter and exit the boundaries of the security zone, which will definitely cause damage to that line of defense, like an anthill on a long river embankment, which may be executed one day.

The stability and security of Dongtan is critical to Chongming District, where most of the materials and energy needed by the people and government of the three islands come from, and where most of the research institutions in Chongming District are located.

Although Dongtan occupies less than one-eighth of the entire area of Chongming Island, it is twice as large as the area controlled by government forces on Changxing Island and the entire Hengsha Island combined, and the length of the security zone is more than four times the length of Changxing Island.

After the zombies on Hengsha Island were completely cleaned up, Changxing Island was the next target for government forces. At present, half of the whole island of Changxing is under the effective control of the government, and the remaining half is not large, and judging from the current armed forces of the government and the population of the people, the Chongming District authorities will be able to eat it in the coming period.

Of course, if the whole island of Changxing is occupied, the military strength that can ensure the safety of the living area and the number of people who can be put into production and construction in Chongming District will reach the limit, so the situation on Chongming Island is likely to remain in the current status quo for a long time.

The operation to attack Chongming Island will only be considered last, and the government still has a long way to go to achieve this result. Stable development is always a top priority, and without population, all planning and progress are in the pan.

If the number of troops is insufficient, the cleared area cannot be effectively occupied; If there are not enough people, then the resumption of production will become nonsense. It would only be a waste of resources to occupy a place that could not be inhabited, and it was meaningless otherwise, so when the government army was attacking the three islands, it was indeed a very wise choice to choose Hengsha Island.