Chapter 135 - The Age of Casualties
After several calm days and nights, all the fire trucks in the base were suddenly mobilized on this day, and all kinds of fire sprinklers with a total mass from large to small drove out of the gate of the base one after another.
In order to prevent the introduction of external sources of infection, the military has set up a guard post and a separation zone more than 100 meters in front of all entrances to the base and civilian residential areas, and all vehicles and people entering from the outside must be subjected to strict careful washing and biochemical testing, even after the aircraft has landed.
"Dongcheng, you and I will go over and see the situation of the military, and you two will continue to look at the mission area."
Zhou Zhiyuan pressed the switch of the Bluetooth earphones and said
Not long after the two people walked out of the gate, they saw that the fire truck was washing the armored vehicle with a strong column of water, and the inspection area of the personnel on the side was also set up with tents made of special fabrics, and many soldiers were lining up in a straight line to enter the tent one after another to wash and inspect, while the equipment and combat uniforms they took off were collected by other soldiers wearing protective clothing for other treatment.
Zhou Zhiyuan looked at the crowd and said: "You can see that there are obvious changes in their expressions, most of them look sad and confused, it seems that this mission has made these soldiers grow a lot."
Xie Dongcheng looked at the side and said: "There are also a lot of people in the quarantine area, I think some people should not be able to tell whether the wound is injured by a living corpse or a fragment destroyed in the battle, so I will temporarily isolate it to see the reaction, with the current speed of corpse transformation, it should be fine after 6 hours, there should be no problem."
Zhou Zhiyuan nodded and said: "Well, and I believe that according to the psychological quality of these soldiers now, if there is anything wrong with the people around them, they will never sit idly by like they did when the disaster first struck a few months ago."
The two of them walked towards the waiting area after passing the inspection, and many soldiers who had seen or heard of the reputation of wolves saluted the two of them, Zhou Zhiyuan and Xie Dongcheng nodded to the soldiers on the two sides and silently greeted them, patted the soldier's arm, shook the officer's palm, and put a hand on the shoulder of the non-commissioned officer.
After seeing Xu Changshan, who was wearing a military uniform passing through the checkpoint, Zhou Zhiyuan strode towards him and gave him a big bear hug, and after letting go, he asked him softly: "How is the battle situation in the past few days, and is the loss big?"
Xu Changshan shook his head sadly and replied: "Of the 1,000 people brought out, only more than 800 came back, and the death of the brothers who died in the battle is really miserable, and almost none of them can be put together into a complete individual to come back."
Zhou Zhiyuan said solemnly: "A total of more than 200 people died in the battle?!" It must have been caught off guard when fighting a new breed of living corpse on the road that he lost so many soldiers, right?"
Xu Changshan nodded and said: "Yes, the speed of climbing corpses caught everyone off guard, the first time I met it, I jumped directly from the window into the team and bit people and didn't let go, or I personally sent those brothers on the road."
Zhou Zhiyuan asked again: "What about Lao Zeng?" How's his battle going along the way?"
Xu Changshan sighed and said: "There are more brothers on his way who died in battle, and I have killed more than 50 people on this road, and he is 3 times as many as mine on that road!"
Zhou Zhiyuan asked in surprise, "How can this be?" Isn't the number of people in your second lane about the same? And the novices and veterans are all mixed."
Xu Changshan said helplessly: "I'm unlucky and fell into the corpse pit!" There was an old refuge bomb shelter under the big square in that town, and the people in it starved to death and then dug holes everywhere to catch mutant voles to eat, and as soon as Lao Zeng and his vanguard company stepped on it, the whole ground was completely ruined, and as a result, dozens of living corpses were wrapped in dumplings, and the company commander and several officers pulled out the grenades, and the whole company was wiped out."
Zhou Zhiyuan frowned and said: "I see that even the surface of the ground will have to be probed with instruments to pass in the future, I have also encountered a large mutant vole in the wild before, which can dig into the ground and escape within 2 seconds, if even the living corpse can hunt them, doesn't that mean that the living corpse is also very capable of burrowing?!"
Xu Changshan nodded and replied: "Well, you're right, fortunately, the military has a miniature radar to detect whether there is a hole under the surface, which is divided into 2 types: individual soldier and vehicle, this equipment is very light in weight and very simple to use, if you need it, you will go to the logistics brigade to get it."
Zhou Zhiyuan said: "Well, it just so happens that we have recently modified our off-road RV and installed a radar of this kind by the way, Dongcheng, you go to help the medical battalion, I and Adjutant Xu will talk after waiting for Major General Zeng to check it."
Xie Dongcheng nodded and walked in the direction of the temporary quarantine area, while Zhou Zhiyuan and Xu Changshan were waiting together at the exit of the inspection area, and in the process of waiting for Zeng Weizhong, Zhou Zhiyuan explained to Xu Changshan the process of dealing with the scum in the defense army a few days ago.
"This kind of thing is supposed to be handled like this, some people start to think about some mess as long as the environment is a little more stable, and they have to come out to do things in a good life."
Xu Changshan said
Zhou Zhiyuan shook his head and said: "I really don't understand what those people think, I think your military still has to arrest those people in the defense army and logistics brigade for training, and take them to see what is going on outside regularly so that you won't forget why they are alive now!"
The two chatted for a while, and saw Zeng Weizhong frowning and walking over with a suspicious expression.
Zhou Zhiyuan looked at him sincerely and said: "Lao Zeng, although I have never been a soldier, I know that as a general, your steps are the first to set foot on the battlefield and the last to leave the battlefield, and whether you live or die, you have brought all your subordinates back, so you are a good commander!"
Zeng Weizhong looked at Zhou Zhiyuan for a few seconds and then nodded and said, "Thank you for these words, you have been helping me take care of my house these days, nothing happened, right?"
Zhou Zhiyuan said with a smile: "It's nothing, it's all inconsequential and petty troubles, I will help you solve it, and the means are fair and open and don't block you."
Zeng Weizhong also smiled: "I still wish you could add to my blockage, this favor is rolling like a snowball, and when the time comes, I can't see it and don't admit it, don't blame me."
Xu Changshan suddenly said: "You can repay some favors now."
Zhou Zhiyuan looked at the two of them suspiciously
Zeng Weizhong said with a smile: "I almost forgot, you should have seen me send a drone out a few days ago, right?" That's because on the way, I suddenly received news from the surviving brothers of their army in Changshan, who were hiding in a small barracks on the mountains by the sea with a group of survivors who had escaped from the city."
Xu Changshan continued: "Because when we went out to investigate and look for supplies, we saw hundreds of living corpses moving in the direction where they were, so the dead horse was a live horse while fleeing with satellite phones and radios that I don't know whether they were good or bad, and we immediately sent drones to support, and only after we got out of danger did we ask about the survivors who seemed to have the families of your teammates."