Chapter 42: The Orchard

Ji Hao tried to rummage through his memories. Pen Fun Pavilion www.biquge.info trying to find more useful information. Because he found that the road was now getting farther and farther away from the military base in his memory.

He remembers sitting on the school bus, turning past the farm, walking some distance and then turning left, with a hill on his left and a village on his right. But it is not as straight as the current road, as if there is no end to it.

At the beginning of military training, after stopping in an idle factory, they crossed the street, went up from the side of the road, walked a few hundred meters, and only after passing two small villas did they reach the main gate of the military base. (This address is purely fictitious, if there is a visitor who looks for it according to this address and sees something amazing, don't say that I let you go.) )

However, now, Ji Hao and the others have also advanced for most of the day, but they did not turn left, but gradually left the village. The people here have been there to shoot targets. Seeing that the scenery along the way was wrong, they also had questions, and they began to question whether the path led by Ji Hao was correct. The road is lined with fields of cultivated land, and there are some orchards in between. There were no zombies in the nearby farmland, and the zombies following behind them also gave up tailgating because they lost their goals.

It's almost six o'clock now. Ji Hao suddenly realized that even if they had made sufficient preparations before leaving, they were too reckless now. Although it was still early before dark, as the night gradually approached, Ji Hao had to find a place to stay. If you wait until it gets dark to find a place to stay, then it's too late!

According to the original backup plan, if they couldn't find a military base, Ji Hao would repair it at the farm. But there was a village next to the lonely farm in their original memory, and in this case, that farm could not be suitable for them to live in. And they were followed by a string of zombies. Although the zombies are all out of sight now, God knows what the inhuman zombies will do. At this point in time, it is obviously very unwise to go back and run through the village to the farm.

Four cars were parked side by side on the side of the road. Everyone looked at Ji Hao together, waiting for Ji Hao's decision.

"Keep going!" Ji Hao relied on his life experience to make a decision. "Most orchards are equipped with huts and guardrails to guard the orchards, so we'll spend the night in the next orchard tonight!"

For their group, the orchard was in the middle of nowhere, and it was not suitable to encounter corpses, and although the hut was small, it was still possible to live if it was squeezed down except for the night watchman. Although the guardrail is low, it is possible to block the footsteps of the corpses, and even isolate one or two individual small zombies. And just like that, after the plan was made, they hit the road again.

The clock is ticking. It's June now, and it's getting dark late. However, at this time, the sky was already glowing with the red light of the sunset, and finally, Ji Hao saw a black and oppressive forest in front of him. Now it's too far away for them to see clearly. However, if you are planting wood, the wood should be long and straight, and there will be a little light through the trees. However, the woods ahead were dense. I think it must be a relatively low fruit tree.

The convoy was heading towards the orchard, and now it was finally clear that the dense patch was actually a fence around the orchard. The fence alone is more than two meters high, which adds a lot of security when viewed from the outside.

But Ji Hao was a little uneasy in his heart.

Ji Hao's hometown has its own orchard, and they have seen two or three orchards along the way, but the orchard in front of them gives Ji Hao a strange feeling.

This feeling is by no means groundless, Ji Hao ordered to loosen the cover of the modified car to ensure that everyone can get out of the modified car as soon as possible. The convoy continued to move forward, gradually approaching the orchard, and Ji Hao finally realized where his strange feeling came from.

It's too thick! The fence is too thick and too high.

The fence materials for the orchard are made of rough wood. In order not to affect the normal growth of fruit trees, the fence of the general orchard is only about 1.5 to 1.8 meters, but the fence in front of me has reached a height of 2.5 meters. The fence is also thicker and more solid. It's not so much a fence as a wooden fence!

Soon after, they found more artificially altered places.

There is no door to the front of the orchard. A one-meter-deep trench was dug around the orchard. On the front of the wall, a ladder was raised high, and according to the height of the ladder exposed to the wall, this ladder was at least five meters long! This was apparently converted into a safe place to live after the apocalypse.

Ji Hao tried to shout to the orchard, but did not respond. Everyone speculated whether the owner of this place had fallen to the end of the world. Or is it still hiding inside the wall and waiting for Ji Hao to leave? Or is there some other purpose? How they should deal with it needs to be considered by Ji Hao, the captain who is everyone's default captain.

Ji Hao planned to send someone around the orchard first to check the specific status of the orchard.

Ji Hao and the others are not too short of manpower, but their weapons are really backward. Even if some iron spearheads were processed with tools later, they were still in the era of cold weapons, and they didn't even have even much armor, and the only long-range weapon, Xiao Nan's bow and arrows, ran out of arrows. It's not good for them!

The orchard is surrounded by soft ploughland and a ring of ditches. Modified cars are really hard to get into. Ji Hao had no choice but to divide his troops into two ways, one team surrounded the orchard to scout the environment, and the other team stayed behind to modify the car to ensure the safety of materials.

In case there are people in the orchard, they will either intercept the reconnaissance team or shock the garrison. Either side will take a high risk due to a lack of manpower.

The garrison has supplies, and if the people in the orchard want to attack, this is likely to be the main target of the other party, so the garrison must have more people.

However, as soon as there were many people stationed in the team, the reconnaissance team was undermanned. Instead, it is vulnerable to attack. Persimmon picks soft pinch, this is a truth that everyone understands. Even if it is not yet certain how many people are in the orchard, it is not yet certain whether the people in the orchard are benevolent or malicious. So everything has to start with the worst. Now Ji Hao regrets it very much. He should have sent someone to scout the orchard from a distance at the beginning, instead of exposing the convoy and thinking about how to do both. "I ...... After all, he is a student, and he can't be proficient in everything......" Although Ji Hao has really done a good job, he is still comforting himself like this.