Chapter Seventy-Eight: Into the City
Jiang Sen was not surprised, nodded and said: "The people in the city can't be eliminated, Li Tao, you let your subordinates talk to the people who go out and enter the city, and our base can accept survivors." β
Li Tao nodded, and the old man Wang Zhenye spoke: "There are many survivors in the city, and our people who have entered the city have begun to slowly contact them, and many survivors in the city rely on us for survival, for example, most of our cement and bricks are exchanged with rice and pork with them." β
Zhang Nan, who was in Yan Juan's arms, followed Jiang Mu to play on the sofa in the hall after she was full, as the logistics supervisor, she heard Wang Zhenye's words and spoke: "The outflow of our materials is far greater than the inflow, we also need to trade, we have a large number of military materials in the warehouse, but there is a lack of civilian materials." β
The old man smiled and said, "We have harvested all the ripe wheat near the camp, and in a few months, the rice will be harvested as well." The number of newly planted turnips and potatoes was abundant, but for the economic needs of the base, we had to have enough sources of civilian supplies, and more importantly, we lacked salt. However, although these things are lacking in our base, there are still a lot of scattered in the cities outside, and the economy of the base has begun to circulate, only we have enough stones to exchange, and we can always buy them in the market. The issue that we must urgently address now is fuel. The SEA01 base in the south of the city has completely cut off our gasoline supply. This is a crisis for us. β
The old man did not exaggerate. In fact, fuel has become one of the most important supplies for the entire team, in addition to food. Diesel is required for all kinds of machinery, heavy trucks to operate, and gasoline is also required for regular vehicles to be driven.
Jiang Sen walked to the table, took out the map of the city from the closet next to him, spread it out, pointed to the location of the base on the map, and said to the people standing around: "We are here, and the nearby kilometers have basically been cleaned by us." The nearest petrol station is on the street a few kilometers away. The fuel there has been supplying all of our consumption since May. As we all know, traffic control prohibits large-tonnage trucks from entering urban areas. Therefore, the gas stations set up in urban areas have common characteristicsββββ diesel depot capacity is small, while gasoline depot capacity is large. Now, the station is running out of diesel and we have to find a new source of fuel. β
Li Tao stared at the signs representing gas stations on the map, and said thoughtfully: "You mean, we want to control more gas stations?" β
"We need oil! And the Morgan family cut off our gasoline supply. β
Jiang Sen said calmly: "Of course, there is another wayββββ the abandoned vehicles scattered outside have a part of the stored oil. The main source of gasoline for the survivors who have gone out now is to pump it out with leather hoses. Now that the base economy is working, we can buy gasoline in the market, but this is slow and takes a lot of time. We are too short of human resources, so we have to build camps, farm, hunt zombies, and find resources... I'm afraid you can't waste too many resources to do this kind of thing. Therefore, the most convenient and direct way is to control other gas stations. β
Zhang Derun clasped his hands in front of his chest, frowned, and tried to think: "What should I do?" Load all the oil stored at other gas stations and transport it away? I know there's a parking lot on the outskirts of the city where there are several large tanker trucks that can be put to good use. β
"Even a heavy tanker truck with a capacity of 30 tons cannot transport all the oil stockpiled."
Jiang Sen shook his head again and again, and drew a jumper line with his hand on the map: "We can clear out several commonly used traffic arteries according to the coordinates of the gas station." It's not difficult to do this, just drag the car blocking the road to the side. β
"More than four hundred and seventy gas stations.."
Luan Yue interjected with great interest and asked, "So what is the capacity of each gas station?" How much oil can you store? How do we get it back? β
"Not necessarily!"
Luan Huan, who was standing next to her, seemed to be familiar with this aspect. She cleared her throat and said lightly: "The capacity of the gas station depends on the traffic flow in the area. In general, the volume is usually thirty to one hundred tons. As for the stock.. For some time before the zombie mayhem, there was no news about fuel shortages in the city, and oil prices were stable. We can make a discount of 50 percent. This is just my personal guess, though, and the actual number could be much more than that. β
You can clearly hear the "hiss" sound of gasping from the mouths of many people.
"That's a big number, very impressive. This fuel is enough to keep existing machinery and vehicles running for a long time. β
Jiang Sen looked up, his eyes were full of determination and strength: "We need them!" Especially now that we can't get gasoline directly from the Morgan family! β
Jiang Sen sat down and decided, this time it was the core team members of Xiaolou who came to implement this decision, since the construction of the base began, they had not worked together on a mission for a long time.
The small building has become the official residence of the government recognized by the base, and the members of the Standing Committee and the Military Committee and the Civil Committee live on the top floor, and the main managers of various government departments, companies, and project bases live on the other floors. A small convoy of two Humvees and a fuel tanker stopped in front of the building, and the heavy machine guns mounted on the roof of each vehicle showed the fierceness of the convoy.
Jiang Sen, Wang Muyan, Zhang Derun, Li Tao, Luan Yue, Chen Jing and others wore body armor, came out of the small building with guns on their backs, opened the door and got into the car.
The convoy passed through the entire construction site-like base, and the people working in the base watched the tank convoy drive out of the base from the small building and into the city, and the whole base was pressed, and the lack of fuel in the base has made everyone a little unstable, and now the ruler of the small building has personally entered the city, and they hope that this time the base can open up the supply of gasoline.
The convoy crossed most of the city, through the bustling area adjacent to the south, and slowly stopped in front of a gas station with a red and white sign.
In the green belt on the side of the road, there is a van light truck that has overturned on its side. Its right front wheel was deflated, possibly because it had run over some kind of sharp object, causing a puncture. A large pile of disorganized furniture scattered from the open rear door, crushing the bushes in the green belt. Underneath the mountain of debris, half of the gnawed human remains were revealed.
Jiang Sen jumped out of the car and carefully observed the movement around him.
There are four zombies roaming the corridor of the gas station, one lying under the eaves of the sunless house, the other two standing next to the corner of the wall and slowly shaking, and the last one lying on the ground, studying a few ants like the most professional entomologist. Curious, it sticks out its dry tongue and wants to lick and eat these seemingly delicious little creatures.
Although, there is not much meat.
The movement brought by the Hummer was so loud that the roar of the engine or the braking of the brakes was enough to attract the attention of the zombies. As if they had been given a booster, they immediately woke up from their lazy stupor. Slowly, he pounced with teeth and claws.
"Bang bang!" The last thing that the LEG base lacks now is bullets, Luan Yue jumped out of the car, bent down slightly, the butt of the gun was against his right shoulder, and fired the gun accurately, and the zombies that rushed towards the convoy were instantly shot in the head, and the bullets that flew out hit the fuel dispenser in the gas station with the black flesh and blood of the zombies.
"You have such courage! However, next time you do this, you'd better give me notice first, and I'll hide first! Li Tao, who got out of the car with a long knife, looked at the few zombies that had fallen in the gas station, put away the knife, patted Luan Yue's shoulder and joked with a smile.
"Huh?" , Luan Yue put away the gun, with a hint of puzzlement.
Li Tao patted Luan Yue's head vigorously, "If you hit something, you shouldn't have hit it, detonating the entire gas station, you want everyone to bury you!" β
Wang Muyan glanced at Luan Yue with a smile, and walked into the convenience store of the gas station with a gun, the door of the convenience store was wide open, and someone should have patronized it.
Jiang Sen walked up to Luan Yue and Li Tao and said, "Okay, in the future, you have to remember that before shooting, bullets are used to kill!" β