Chapter Seventy-Eight: Return to the Heart Like an Arrow
Wang Haoren took Zhang Dongheng back to the brilliant base and continued to look for suitable talents. After finding it, Zhang Dongheng led the puppet beast herd to escort the talent back to the rock base. Wang Haoren stayed in the brilliant base to continue to collect talents, and also went to the surrounding cities from time to time to kill zombies and collect crystals. The brilliant base is full of talents, and any coolie who moves bricks may also be a university professor. In the slum outside the brilliant base, Zhang Dongheng secretly recruited talents with grain.
Zhang Dongheng rode into the slum in a scrapped bus pulled by a puppet ox and pretended to be a vendor selling goods. The car was loaded with daily necessities, old clothes and a small amount of food. In an open space, Zhang Dongheng set up a few wooden planks to put various commodities on it, and played it on a loudspeaker: "Look! Let's take a look! It's a big sale! Towels, toothbrushes, laundry detergent, cotton clothes, cotton pants, big fur hats, there is always one thing you can use! The loudspeaker was playing on a loop, attracting a lot of people to buy it.
Zhang Dongheng didn't dare to be too publicistic when he first arrived, the goods sold were the same as the price in the brilliant base, but the same price, one was going to enter the city, and the other was at the doorstep, of course, there would be many people to buy. These things were all wholesaled by Zhang Dongheng in the brilliant base, if it weren't for his purpose of making money, selling them for a day would not be enough for his own food expenses. After setting up stalls in the surrounding slums for a few days, and getting acquainted with these people, Zhang Dongheng paid attention to suitable candidates from small talk.
"Xiao Zhang, this life is impermanent, I think my brother was also a turtle back then, with an annual salary of millions and a luxury house and a famous car, but I didn't expect that now I would be mixed up in the ploughing fields and collecting firewood."
Mutated corn grows when it is sown, and the cob is thicker than the thigh, and is the main source of food. The small insects on the corn used to be the size of an index finger, so it was still a good dish to catch. The mutated plants have high yields of corn, peanuts, and soybeans, which basically don't need to be taken care of, and you can wait for the harvest by sprinkling the seeds, so people in the slums will consciously reclaim wasteland and plant a few acres.
As long as it is not spoiled by mutated insects, the food is basically guaranteed. The mutated plants are very dense, and in this snowy weather, collecting firewood is also a tricky job. First find the right tree, cut the roots and let the tree die and dehydrate before you cut it down and bring it back.
Most of the dried mutant trees are harder than steel, and those who don't know how to distinguish can't get back firewood from exhaustion, and they can't cut it! The axe chops down and splashes a spark, and you can't pull a tree back with dozens or hundreds of meters, right? It's cold and snowy, and I can't pull it back if I'm tired! What's more, there are mutant beasts and mutant insects in the way.
"Oh? Brother Lin, what did you do before? This Lin Fu stall selling firewood is placed next to it, chattering from time to time for a few days, Zhang Dongheng and he are also familiar with him, Zhang Dongheng asked casually.
"Does e-Power Technology know? I developed the vehicle runner. Lin Fu replied proudly.
"Okay! Brother Lin, high-tech talents! It's those super-energy cars, right? Zhang Dongheng was interested, but he didn't expect that a random firewood seller was such a high-end rare talent, and he really had nowhere to find it in his iron shoes, and it didn't take much effort to get it.
"Yes, let me tell you, the design of this program is directly related to the utilization rate of energy, and the running program I presided over the development can save 12% of the use efficiency......" Lin Fu talked endlessly, and the professional data kept jumping out.
Zhang Dongheng knew that he had picked up a treasure this time, and hurriedly invited Lin Fu to the rock base. Lin Fu had nothing to worry about, so he simply agreed, and also introduced a lot of professionals to Zhang Dongheng.
I don't know why, zombies evolve at a much faster rate than other species, in terms of strength, speed, and defense. If it weren't for the fact that the zombies didn't have intelligence and didn't leave the original gathering place easily, the living space of humans would be even more difficult.
Don't forget that zombies are not only difficult to deal with, but also infectious, and once they are injured, they will be over. Mutants who would not have been infected by the zombie virus can be the main force to resist zombies. Humanity's rejection of mutants has resulted in a sparse number of mutants and an extreme hatred of humans. Some mutants also deliberately attracted zombies to attack human gathering places, and many bases were destroyed because of this. If it weren't for the heavy snow blocking the road now, the movement of zombies would have been hindered, and the life of human beings would not have been so easy.
Mutant beasts and mutant insects can move freely in the snow, but zombies can't, and they can easily get stuck in the thick snow. This is a great opportunity to hunt zombies, many people go to hunt zombies to get crystals in order to survive and risk, of course, they can't break the scale armor of zombies above the green crystal, but the blue crystal zombies can still be dealt with. One or two people on skis led the zombies into the snow and then quickly left. After the zombies are frozen and incapacitated, use a spear to stab through the heads of the zombies trapped in the snow to collect crystals, and if you are lucky, you can collect more than a dozen zombie crystals one day.
Most of the zombies stayed in the previous city, and the supplies trapped in the zombie shop were also a large amount of income. For a long time, people didn't know that many of these materials had already carried the zombie virus, and after being brought back to the base, it caused the spread of the zombie virus.
The entire survival base was affected by the virus, and it quietly became a new zombie city. Only a small number of mutants who were not afraid of being infected by the zombie virus escaped. The zombies that the warriors become infected with the virus are even more terrifying, and these zombies instinctively retain their habits before they were alive, wearing armor and holding weapons, and it is more difficult to deal with them.
Wang Haoren received the information that Zhang Dongheng asked the puppet beast to bring, and immediately hurried back to the rock base. The message mentions that the Rock Base has been infected by the zombie virus. Fortunately, most of the combat troops in the base had already taken anti-poison drugs and a large number of mutants to stop the danger. It's just that the rock base is contaminated with viruses everywhere, and it is no longer suitable for human habitation, and the relocation of the base is imminent.
After all, there are less than 100,000 people taking anti-poison drugs, and with the base of almost two million people in the rock base, it will not have much effect. Moreover, the raw materials for making anti-poison agents are scarce, and the manufacturing process is complicated and cumbersome, so it is impossible to dispense it to everyone.
Something happened at the rock base, Wang Haoren was not worried about the safety of the eldest brother, there were puppet beasts in the group, and nothing could threaten them. He was most concerned about the survival of the two million people at the Rock Base, and once the Rock Base was forced to evacuate, large-scale casualties were inevitable. Moreover, the Rock Base is not like other bases, driving ordinary people who can't cultivate out of the base to live. There are so many ordinary people who have no combat effectiveness to drag them down, which makes it even more difficult to evacuate.
In the ice and snow, it is not easy for even a martial artist to march, let alone an ordinary person without combat effectiveness. Evacuation must bring all the supplies that can be taken away, how can you take so many things away without a vehicle transporting them?
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