Chapter 17 - Exploring the Exhibition Hall
A few more days passed in the dull days, on the 30th day of the calamity; Nandu ushered in the first typhoon day after the beginning of summer, and it was windy and raining heavily outside; As far as the eye can see, it is all gray, and the faint outline of the building is accompanied by the sound of the wind whistling by; Accompanied by the sound of raindrops the size of rice grains falling on the glass.
Five people in the safe room were staring at a large satellite offline map, with several places marked with red circles.
On satellite maps, the more densely populated the developed areas are black and gray; To go where there is no population, it is light green to dark green, that is, grasslands, hills, forests and mountains.
The lines of various colors represent national highways, provincial roads, county roads and other roads, and trains, high-speed railways, and subways have specific representative symbols.
The dark blue represents the water resources, and the lines represent the rivers; The shape of the map represents a reservoir or lake, and the locations marked by the red circles are all dark green places on the map, and there are dark blue patterns representing water sources nearby.
"The distance from the nearest county is more than 20 kilometers in a straight line, and there are several large reservoirs that circulate upstream and downstream; Good location for this national forest park"
Zhou Zhiyuan circled another location on the map
"It seems that we can only go east and north, and all other directions pass through the big cities; It's too dangerous."
Liu Jianyu said to the map
"It's okay, as long as there is oil, there is a way to pass through places where there are no roads"
Zhou Zhiyuan said
"yes, we're driving in all-road conditions; The former owners are just running in the city, and they don't need to worry about the terrain; Just have to worry about the oil."
Zhang Hongda said
"Where are everyone's hometowns marked?"
Zhou Zhiyuan took out a green pen and pointed it at the crowd
After everyone circled the area of their hometown on the map, Zhou Zhiyuan connected each point with a line; The driving distance of the navigation is marked on it.
"If we can't wait for help, we go to our families ourselves; No matter how hard you try, Ah Jian, your hometown is the closest, and then come to Guohao; Then come to Hongda, and finally Dongcheng; My family is the last, more than 2,000 kilometers have to pass through the undersea tunnel."
Zhou Zhiyuan said abruptly to his hometown on the ground
"Brother Yuan, no matter what our family is; We'll go with you to your family."
Liu Jianyu said solemnly
"yes, I wouldn't be able to stand here without your brainstorm."
Zhang Hongda said with a smile
The other two also nodded at Zhou Zhiyuan
"Brother Yuan, when are we leaving?"
Xie Dongcheng asked
"I want to call the weather bad these days, check the airport and then leave"
Zhou Zhiyuan replied
"Oh! Why?", "Didn't the drone shoot it that day?", "There are tens of thousands of living corpses in it!"
Everyone expressed their puzzlement
"You see, in the middle of the second phase of the airport and the first phase of the terminal, there is a 50,000-square-meter exhibition hall and an airport hotel; I have an image of an international police equipment exhibition in June, and I think there will be more powerful weapons there."
Zhou Zhiyuan explained
"Although there are a lot of people there, several accidents at the airport have brought out a lot of living corpses; I guess it shouldn't be a problem to go in and just get a few things."
Zhou Zhiyuan continued
"Brother Yuan, I talked about it on the forum before; There will be no live ammunition at domestic police exhibitions and military exhibitions, and many of them are still models."
Chen Guohao reminded Zhou Zhiyuan
"I'm not going for a firearm, I'm going to find a special bow and crossbow for the police; There are also police knives and personal defense weapons."
Zhou Zhiyuan said
"We now have all the melee on hand, and they are not used as weapons per se; And I think it's important to prepare weapons that can deter ordinary people, and in this day and age, I feel that the enemy is not just a living corpse."
Zhou Zhiyuan said to everyone
The group nodded, and began to plan how to infiltrate the exhibition hall and how to evacuate.
The outer circle of the exhibition hall is a parking lot, and the parking lot is further outside the second phase of the terminal project; The preliminary plan is to enter from the southeast side of the second phase of the terminal project to climb from the parking lot to the corner of the exhibition hall to the toilet on the highest floor; Observe the situation in the middle of the exhibition from a high vantage point, attract the living corpses to other places, and then take the equipment and leave.
Therefore, two sets of equipment such as climbing ropes and landing gear will be carried, one for the outside of the exhibition hall and one for the inside of the exhibition hall; There are also wireless Bluetooth speakers, which are used to induce living corpses.
After saying hello to the people who stayed at the mall, leave Lolo in the mall; Zhou Zhiyuan and Zhang Hongda came to the parking lot on the second floor of the basement and drove a BMW SUV casually, and after a while, the car drove through the new runway area of the airport; Came to the intersection of the second phase of the terminal project and the junction of the International Indoor Exhibition Hall.
After the two stopped their cars, they each carried a 30-liter backpack and walked towards the parking lot, but there was no intact car in the entire parking lot; The glass on the car was all shattered, and I don't know how powerful the explosion was.
Zhang Hongda leaned against the building wall, half-squatting, holding each other with his second-hand palms facing up, Zhou Zhiyuan took a few steps back, ran over, stepped on his hand, and jumped upward; And Zhang Hongda's arm also dragged up at the same time, and Zhou Zhiyuan easily stepped on the toilet window on the third floor about 6 or 7 meters high.
Looking inward, a living female corpse in a suit was wandering; And the storm outside made her not notice that there was an uncle squatting there on the windowsill of the women's bathroom.
Zhou Zhiyuan took out the survival knife and threw it at the female living corpse, and the living corpse girl fell to the ground with a soft "poof".
"Fat, I'll go to the toilet on the seventh floor, you wait for me"
Zhou Zhiyuan whispered into the radio
The entire exhibition hall has only a floorless venue in the middle, and there are seven floors in the surrounding circle; Each floor is dedicated to meeting rooms and offices for business discussions.
Zhou Zhiyuan went up from the escape ladder to the seventh floor, and he carefully pushed open the fire door and looked out; The four living corpses swayed from side to side, pulling out the ice axe and walking over with the cat in both hands, and all the living corpses lay down after the four crisp sounds of "click".
walked to the women's toilet on the seventh floor, fixed the lifter, and threw the equipment such as the riser and climbing rope down to Zhang Hongda; After he went up to the seventh floor, the two of them cautiously slipped into a small office, holding binoculars and observing the distribution of the exhibition.
"I'm going... Isn't this kind of exhibition not allowed to be attended by ordinary people, I see that there are definitely thousands of living corpses below."
Zhou Zhiyuan whispered in surprise
"Oh my God... A lot of people wear police uniforms, but they can't really be police people."
Zhang Hongda, who was also holding a telescope on the side, also exclaimed
The exhibition area in the field is very large, but fortunately it is a separate exhibition; It didn't take long for Zhou Zhiyuan to see the cold weapon area he liked, and after visually measuring the distance and direction, he fixed another set of elevator equipment and buckled it on himself.
"Fat Da, you go to the big conference room in the middle opposite, turn the Bluetooth speaker down to the loudest and run back to pick me up."
Zhou Zhiyuan whispered to Zhang Hongda
The exhibition area is full of sets of carrying bows and crossbows; There are powerful special composite crossbows, as well as laser pistol crossbows that can shoot small crossbow arrows and steel balls.
On the counter on the other side were several compound hunting bows; Each bow comes with a carrying case with arrows on one side and the bow and tools on the other.
After Zhang Hongda turned on the Bluetooth speaker, countless living corpses on the first floor moved to that side; Seeing this, Zhou Zhiyuan immediately slid to the first floor, closed the weapon box and carrying bag he needed, and used the climbing rope to run through all the handles; It was secured on the half-body harness again.
Zhang Hongda ran to the take-off and lander at the fastest speed, and constantly pulled Zhou Zhiyuan up with second-hand use; And Zhou Zhiyuan also cooperated with the two ascenders.
When the two returned to the women's bathroom, where they had climbed in, the living corpses that had rushed upstairs had thrown the speaker to the first floor and lost its target; It began to slowly disperse in all directions.
The two of them returned to the car in the heavy rain, put their things away, and boiled water in the car to eat something hot.
After all, it has been raining heavily for so long, although the physical fitness of myself and others has improved a lot; But he still maintains some of his previous habits.
"Whew, it's so comfortable to have a bowl of hot soup after the rain"
Zhang Hongda said with a smile
"Yes, we can still eat instant noodles in the car in this weather; It's amazing."
Zhou Zhiyuan also smiled
It was still stormy outside, and it was still white through the windshield; There are only traces of the wind blowing and the heavy rain fluttering.
After the two returned to the mall, they quietly stuffed the equipment they got back today into their respective off-road jeeps; Zhou Zhiyuan thinks that this is something he got back with his strength, and there is no need to share it with others, so he has to explain it if he collects it first.
The two went upstairs to play haha with the others, then found an excuse to go back to the safe room to take a bath, and after entering, they just quietly gave Liu Jianyu and the others a reassuring look.
After the night crept down, the wind and rain gradually stopped; The five of them gathered in the safe room again, and Chen Guohao put out the large map he had made again.
"Today, there are many assault vehicles, assault vehicles, patrol vehicles, etc., all of which are high-powered armored vehicles; There was no problem loading the five of us and equipping the food, but unfortunately there were too many zombies there; Otherwise, we won't be afraid to sleep in the wild."
Zhang Hongda smiled and said to everyone
"Isn't this nonsense, if you go there now, the car will be dismantled in a minute"
Chen Guohao glanced at Zhang Hongda and said
"People's brains just haven't improved much, so don't worry too much about him"
Xie Dongcheng said with a smile
"Brother Yuan, have you decided to go?"
Liu Jianyu asked Zhou Zhiyuan
"Well, almost; Waiting for the rescue that I don't know if there is better than taking the initiative yourself, your hometown is the closest to us; Let's go to your hometown first."
Zhou Zhiyuan replied
"If you usually scratch the road, it will take about 10 hours, and if there are living corpses, it should be longer."
Liu Jianyu said
"Anyway, you should take care of the backup resource supply points along the way, our journey is not as easy as your usual return to your hometown."
Zhou Zhiyuan said
Although Liu Jianyu's hometown is the closest, it is more than 200 kilometers to navigate; And if the road is impassable, it will be diverted to a mountain road or a country road.