Chapter 27: The Infected (3)
Zhao Gao led Lu Xun across the campus, and the surrounding area was empty and silent, and there were almost no pedestrians in sight. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
The area of this military academy is somewhat unexpected, the location of the main building is obviously the center of the academy, there is a square in front of the main building, and a marble statue is placed on the high platform in the center of the square, which seems to be a human figure...... But Lu Xun couldn't tell who that person was, Zhao Gao led him under the statue, and Lu Xun deliberately looked at it twice...... The statue was half collapsed, charred and blackened, and looked like it had been hit by a grenade.
On both sides of the square stand five or six storey buildings, all of which are typical of the form of teaching buildings, with rows of neat glass windows on the gray exterior wall, which are square and rigid and boring. The school gate is directly opposite the square, far away from the main building, it is also a typical college-style iron gate, and there is a marble seven or eight meters long standing on the lawn inside the gate, and the marble is engraved with eight big characters in vermilion...... "SH Naval Military Academy".
This was the first time Lu Xun had seen the whole picture of the academy, and he was a little curious, and followed Zhao Gao to look around.
The college is empty and quiet, like an ordinary college that is closing the school during the long vacation, the students have left the school to go home, and the air is even filled with a faint smell of grass, no matter how you look at it, it doesn't look like the last stronghold of human beings in the last days, Lu Xun strolled on the square, and had such an illusion in his heart: he actually didn't cross over, what zombie hunter The end of the world is all nonsense in the far side, this is a simple academy...... Lu Xun could even imagine the young students hurrying past with their schoolbags in their arms, the scent of the girls wafting in the breeze.
But what happened next shattered Lu Xun's reverie...... The entrance to the academy was completely blocked by burned-out abandoned buses in front of the school gates, the walls of the academy were sealed with bricks and stones, the walls were topped with barbed wire, and the guard towers stood in the corners, and the heavily armed soldiers with automatic rifles stood on top of the towers, which were so heavily defended that they looked like concentration camps in Nazi Germany.
The sentry spotted Zhao Gao and Lu Xun approaching and waved their hands.
Zhao Gao also waved his hand.
"Here, as long as it's human...... It's friends. Zhao Gao turned his head and said, "The last survivors of the city are here to unite to protect themselves, like young beasts huddled together in a raging storm to keep each other warm." ”
Lu Xun was silent, and he suddenly remembered the joke that Lao Jia made...... Will he really become a savior like Neo in The Matrix? Is there really anyone who can save this stormy human society?
"There are a total of 120 people in this security zone, most of them are civilians, there are a few soldiers, and you don't see many people at this time because they are all working at their posts." Zhao Gao said, "This college can actually be regarded as a very miniature society, everyone has their own role to play, maintaining the normal operation of the security zone, from food and water to electricity and communications, as well as security work, all of which are indispensable...... For example, for your breakfast this morning, we have carved out a piece of land in the backyard of the college for the cultivation of fruits and vegetables, and there are two people who are responsible for taking care of those fragile plants, and they pick a part of the vegetables every day and send them to the back kitchen of the restaurant, and the chefs process the raw materials into mature food and then deliver them to you. ”
Lu Xun was stunned, he actually never thought about where the food he ate came from, before the destruction of the world, human beings had already solved the food problem, the food produced by mechanized farms was continuously sent to the city every day, and the residents had long been accustomed to the days when they came to open their mouths, but now that human society has collapsed, they no longer have a huge source of food, and people have returned to the way of life tens of thousands of years ago, and they need to worry about filling their stomachs.
Lu Xun didn't really adapt to life here, he had only been here for three days, and in Lu Xun's subconscious, food had never been a noteworthy issue, but now after Zhao Gao's reminder, he suddenly realized...... In this resource-scarce apocalypse, what was once the least likely threat to humanity's survival has become the culprit most likely to lead to the complete extinction of humanity.
"And what about protein?" Lu Xun asked, "Where did the meat I ate come from...... It won't be ......"
Lu Xun suddenly had a bad imagination in his heart...... Vegetables and fruits can still be cultivated, but meat can't always be grown in the ground, right? Could it be that these people are still raising chickens, pigs and cattle in the academy?
You can't raise pigs here, but zombies and hunters are everywhere...... Lu Xun suddenly felt a little sick to his stomach, could it be ...... Do you eat it yourself......
"Don't be cranky!" Zhao Gao turned around and slapped him, "What do you think you're eating?" Protein cubes made from crushing cockroaches? Do you think this is from the movie "Snowpiercer"? ”
Lu Xunxin said that compared with what I just thought, cockroaches are not too bad.
"You're eating all-natural animal meat." "Including mutton, venison, ferrets and some small rodents," Zhao said. ”
"Lamb and venison?" Lu Xun was taken aback, "How did you get here?" ”
"Hunting, they can't get to your plate on their own." Zhao Gao shrugged his shoulders, "Because the number of human beings has greatly decreased, the city has basically been abandoned, and the wild animals that were originally hiding in the mountains have begun to breed in large numbers, and many of them have begun to approach the city, and if you have the opportunity to go out in the future, you may be able to meet sika deer on the streets...... And red deer. ”
"It's ridiculous to say that we have high technology, but we use this technology to hunt and become high-level primitives." Zhao Gao continued, "We only go out about once every other month, driving a Humvee with a shotgun to replenish food...... Of course, you won't run too far, just go around the safety zone, up to the edge of the primary exclusion zone. ”
Lu Xun was stunned, the lifestyle of these people was completely beyond his imagination.
"And what about electricity? What about energy? ”
"Electricity is powered by solar energy." Zhao Gao replied, "But the power generation of solar cells is really limited, at most it can only supply electricity to the main building, and there are spare diesel generators in the college, but diesel is now a very precious fuel, and it will not be easily used in case of emergency...... The academy's warehouses store hundreds of barrels of fuel, enough for daily use. ”
"But...... But there will always be ......"
"It's going to run out, right?" Zhao Gao didn't look back.
Lu Xun nodded.
"I'll add it when I'm done with it." Zhao Gao said, "The city is so big, can't you find gasoline?" Our current gasoline is shipped from several nearby gas stations. ”
"What if the city runs out of oil?" Lu Xun asked.
Zhao Gao paused and was silent for a long time.
"I didn't think about it." The young man shook his head.
Lu Xun was stunned.
"I didn't think about what to do if I ran out of gas, what to do if all the solar cells were damaged, and I didn't think about what to do if all the vegetable seeds ran out." Zhao Gao turned around and looked straight at Lu Xun, "I told you, right?" No one here dares to think too far, we dare not think about the future, because living in the present is already exhausting us...... How can anyone have the leisure to look up? ”
Lu Xun was stunned, Zhao Gao's tone hid a deep despair, this young man knew that human beings have no future, or rather...... Everyone here knows that humanity has no future, but they are still gritting their teeth and carrying loneliness and despair, insisting on survival, so no one dares to think about their future, they all know that one day they will hit a wall called "despair", but before that, they are still alive.
No one knows what to do when they run out of gas, no one knows what to do when they run out of food, and no one knows where they will end up...... But as long as they are alive, no one will give up.
"Don't worry, the resources in the academy can last for another two years, and we can find a way out in these years." Zhao Gao smiled, "Fortunately, there are only one hundred and twenty people in the academy, if there are more, it may not be able to hold on." ”
"If there were fewer people, would you have lasted longer?"
Zhao Gao was silent and glanced at Lu Xun, "Do you really think so?" ”
Lu Xun was stunned.
"Nobody wants fewer people...... Did I say that? We are the young beasts who embrace each other in the storm, and the only ones who can warm you are your kind. Zhao Gao said, "We are lonely enough, and the reason why no one is driven crazy now is because you can still find companions around you...... So we'd rather our resources be depleted faster and find more people. ”
Lu Xun did not speak.
Zhao Gao looked at Lu Xun, suddenly laughed and patted him on the shoulder, "Leave all this behind, if there is wine today and drunk tomorrow, men should have fun in time...... Come on, come on, our course is about to begin. ”
Zhao Gao turned around and lifted the sewer manhole cover at his feet, revealing the manhole mouth of the black hole.
Lu Xun was stunned...... What does this do? Do you have to learn how to unclog sewers? Are you missing a plumber?
"All entrances and exits to the academy have been sealed." Zhao Gao sat by the well and greeted Lu Xun, "We usually only enter and exit the academy through the sewer, which is a direct line leading to the primary forbidden area...... We generally call this the 'subway'. ”
Lu Xun was stunned, your subway is running in the sewer?
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