Chapter 64: A Mess
As he was talking, Chang Shilei came over.
He had been badly wounded on his arm, and the scar on his left arm was so obvious that he wanted to order a row of large staples from a distance.
"Third brother, can we refine it?"
Chang Shilei is a college student in the end, and he asks the key point as soon as he asks.
Su San replied with a smile:
"Can't, but who says it can't in the future. Once we had coke and blast furnaces (small, for family workshops), we were able to produce bows and arrows on a large scale. When the time comes, our combat power will be the strongest in this piece. Let's not forget, 20 km from our village there is a casting factory called Jinye, where there is a small blast furnace. ”
Su San said this, let everyone stay in battle formation, take weapons and tools, and slowly come to the side of the tracks.
The rails are long and heavy, and they don't need to be torn apart much. It's enough to make 2,000 arrowheads. There is no shortage of iron at home, but unfortunately those ordinary steels do not have enough penetration, and they cannot be compared with these.
After two hours of work, everyone was tired and sweaty, and only then did they load 12 steel rails onto the single-row car.
After a short rest, the large army continued along the road in the direction of the county seat.
The first time he came out, Su San didn't have much hope.
Try to explore the way and see the situation. Now that we have reaped the harvest, it is not a loss to return the way we came.
This time, they targeted the labor insurance store. It's best if you can find clothes, and if you can't find them, go home immediately.
Seeds, pesticides, fertilizers are not the purpose of this trip.
Pulling such an important thing, you must not take the main road, and you can be cut off by people in any village you pass. After exploring the road, the next target is these agricultural materials.
The convoy drove through the South-to-North Water Diversion Canal and entered the outer ring of the county.
The scene here made Su San and them stunned.
Compared to the orderly countryside, this is simply a place abandoned by humans. The two sides of the road are rotten beyond description. I don't know how many times it has happened to all kinds of smashing and robbing. The social order is completely chaotic, to be precise, there is no social order here at all.
After walking a kilometer, there was no living person to see.
It's not the kind of rural invisible. In the countryside, you don't see the living people because they are hiding in their homes. But you can feel the breath of the living. The neat courtyard walls, clean roofs, closed gates, and even the household garbage on the street can be seen to be freshly thrown out.
And here, lifeless, without a trace of life.
Strangely, not only are there no living people here, but not a single zombie is visible. It's like a world cut off after a war.
"Third brother, it's rotten like this, I'm afraid there is nothing left."
Zhao Jun, who was in a car with Su San, said.
"It's only been two months, how did it become like this, it shouldn't be."
Su San seemed to be talking to the people in the car, more like talking to himself.
In just two months, the order has rotted like this. Where have all the people gone? ZF's management and control capabilities are also too poor.
"The population in the urban area is concentrated, and when the zombies break out, there must be fewer living people and more zombies. I'm afraid that all the living people have been bitten off, and there are not a few left. By the way, just ask Chang Shilei if you don't know, he ran all the way from the city to our village. ”
Su San was right to think about it, and immediately put Chang Shilei in the car.
After inquiry, not much useful information was obtained.
When Chang Shilei passed through the county seat, living people were still everywhere. Except that the order is almost the same, it is not what it is now.
As for why the sky has changed in such a short period of time, Chang Shilei can't say clearly.
In the end, it was Su San who gave everyone a reassurance.
"Don't worry so much, it's a good thing that there are no living people. It's chaotic, but most of it is caused by rummaging through food and self-defense weapons. There is nothing of value in these places of labor insurance shops, and the living are not interested. As for the agricultural material center, it is still useful for living people to ask for pesticides, after all, they can be used to commit suicide. Other fertilizers, seeds (modern seeds are all finished products after being processed by seed companies, and the seeds are wrapped with a layer of drugs to prevent pests and diseases, which are highly toxic. We can't eat it at all, so maybe we'll pick up a big bargain. ”
Su San is right, the most chaotic places in the city are hardware stores and machinery and equipment shopping malls. Here crowbars, steel pipes, shovels, all kinds of tools. Cables, generators, motors, batteries, and more are all key to survival in the apocalypse. The living have long since looted these places.
This is followed by hospitals, major pharmacies, supermarkets, and wet markets. These are also necessities that will certainly not be left behind.
Again, it is an outdoor goods store, and the wilderness survival equipment inside: tents, sleeping bags, jackets, water bottles, ropes, buckles, kerosene lamps, alcohol lamps, moisture-proof mats, hiking boots, solar panels, flashlights, cold fireworks, and so on have also been looted and cleaned, and nothing has been left.
On the contrary, it is the labor insurance shop, which is something that people in the city do not look down on, is completely preserved.
The environment in which humans live determines the direction they choose in the end times.
Take the office workers in the city as an example, after they can't stay in the city, their first choice is to move closer to the big cities such as the imperial capital. Some choose to go to the mountains to survive in the wilderness, some choose to occupy the mountains as kings and become bandits, and most of them will not think of going to the countryside to farm. Therefore, the agricultural material center was remembered and robbed of some things, but most of the things were kept.
After Su San and the others drove around the city, they found two labor insurance shops. The store has been turned into a mess, but there is no shortage of police uniforms and military uniforms.
In addition, Su San also asked everyone to carry knitted gloves, plastic gloves, fireproof gloves and other things into the car.
When passing by a building materials shopping mall, Su San took everyone to throw fireproof bricks, fireproof cement, mortar, cellulose, rubber powder, water leakage, caulk, foam glue and other things into the car. These things are useless at the moment, and they will be used later.
For example, fireproof bricks and fireproof cement are necessary materials for building blast furnaces in the future. Caulk and foam glue are indispensable.
In addition, although the hardware store was looted, there were saw discs, welding rods, water pipes, V-belts, barbed wire from 8 to 200 meshes, plastic buckets of more than 100 liters, speed regulating motors, brick trowels, levels... No one wanted these things, but Su San refused to let them go, and threw them all on the single-row car.
At three o'clock in the afternoon, the convoy came to the outside of the agricultural material center.
The county's agricultural material center is a big shopping mall like a pedestrian street. Various stores are scattered throughout it. Anything you can think of, it's all in it.
From Chinese cabbage seeds, to agricultural machinery accessories, and even the kind of one-person small agricultural ploughing machine, seeding machine is available.
Su San asked Su Qi to lead the team, went to the agricultural materials center to take a turn, and after confirming that it was worth coming again, he simply loaded all kinds of vegetable seeds into the car, and then left.
Once night falls, who knows what will happen, safety first.