Chapter 142: Fighting for Survival
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We may be just one of the many survivors, but now that we have the support of the Theater Command, what we do is much easier to do -- support that may be insignificant to the military, but it is vital to us.
I was still struggling with whether it was necessary to go to the tourism college to save people, but Grace told me that there were indeed survivors there, and I don't know how they got to the present, and there were not many people, but there were still them. Moreover, Li Shuming flew a micro drone, which roughly passed the situation along the way from Cedar Villa to the Tourism College and near the school.
Frankly speaking, seeing the picture transmitted by the drone, I think this operation is not optimistic, there are too many zombies. Yushan District is the least populated urban area among the city's ten main urban areas, but it has developed rapidly in recent years, and the permanent residents of Yushan District plus the floating population plus foreign tourists can easily reach millions. Of course, they are not all concentrated in the urban area of Yushan District, but even if they are discounted, this population base is too large for us to look at directly.
And the military's large-scale operation, whether it is rescue or isolation, has not advanced to Yushan District so far, so the streets of the entire Yushan District, as can be seen from the video transmitted by the drone, are full of zombies. There are no rules for the distribution of these zombies, they are everywhere, and they are mainly loitering. This is not a good sign, because where zombies roam without a target, it often means that there are no human survivors.
It's been almost two months since the disaster broke out, and even if there were survivors hiding at home or somewhere in the city at the beginning, after such a long time, even if they weren't eaten by zombies, they would have starved to death of thirst.
We used to yearn for cities, people in the countryside yearn for towns, people in towns yearn for small cities, people in small cities yearn for big cities, people in big cities yearn for big cities, and big cities yearn for big cities, and the metropolis can be said to be the highest achievement of modern human society.
It is prosperous, wealthy, modern and fashionable, there is a lot of traffic, there are high-rise buildings, there is never darkness at night, and there is the most concentrated wealth and technology that mankind has developed so far. Every year, there are many college graduates who squeeze their heads in order to stay in the big city, and everyone thinks that only by staying in the big city can they be worthy of their life, even if they stay in the big city to be the lowest level of workers, live in a low-rent apartment like a pigeon cage, and dream of getting ahead one day and do not want to go back to the countryside.
However, the images from the drone made me realize that when disaster strikes, big cities are actually dead land. Even if you survive the initial virus infection and zombie attacks, you will soon lose the conditions to survive, and you will not be able to grow food in those ornately decorated apartments, and you will not be able to dig spring water out of the walls if there is no electricity or water.
In the past, people were keen on the challenges of surviving in the wild, but they didn't know that surviving in the city was the hardest. What I mean by survival here is not the survival of finding a job in the city to support the family in the past, but equating the city with nature to survive.
When the drone flew over the tourism college, we saw a lot of zombies gathered around the school. That's a signal, and there's a survivor in it. The Tourism College is a small private vocational and technical school, located on the edge of the urban area of Yushan District, with a high wall enclosing the school, and there are only two doors in and out.
Now the zombies have surrounded the entire campus, but the street at the main entrance has the largest number, almost the entire street has been blocked, and there are many outside the back door, which shows that at the beginning of the disaster, the school gate was blocked from the inside, which is likely to be the key to the survivors inside holding on until now. There is no zombie activity in the school now, but there are still a lot of corpses in the pictures sent back by the drone, which should be the zombies killed by the survivors, because the zombies outside can't enter, and the few zombies inside have been gradually eliminated in the past two months, which the survivors should be able to do.
"If we want to save people, we have to start here." Lin Zhuoran paused the projector, enlarged the still picture, pointed to a location in the northern section of the wall above, and said: "Behind this wall is a wasteland, and the information we found before is that there is a pig farm contracted by someone nearby, and the pigs in it are free-range, and the whole pig farm covers a wide area."
At present, judging from the pictures, there are only scattered zombies in this area, and we can deal with it. The route is from the base to the west, and there is a fork in the road at the dam, and the remote road goes around the north of the school, passing through two bridges, three tunnels, and a large area of abandoned farmland outside the pig farm, which is about 35 to 40 kilometers. But this route is the route with the least number of zombies, passing only a small residential area in between, and the zombies on the streets are not enough to form enough resistance if you pass quickly. It would be ideal to go back the way you came, and if necessary, blow up one of the two bridges on the way back.
If this route is not easy, you can continue west, cross several suburban roads into the Second Ring Road in Yushan District, and return to the base from the east in a huge arc. The road conditions of the Second Ring Road can be determined from the current drone footage to be half unblocked, which is enough for us to exert the speed of motor vehicles. However, there have been small groups of zombies on several roads leading to the base in the east, that is, the villa, and it is estimated that we have already sensed our stay in the villa, but the distance is far away, and it should not be a large-scale inward inward swarm in the short term. In addition to going out to rescue people this time, we must also seize the time to collect materials and build a perimeter defense to deal with the large-scale zombie surrounding.
On this point, I don't think we need to take any chances, no matter where we put our bases, including labor camps, it is only a matter of time before we are surrounded by zombies. Only when we are well prepared can we persevere in the long term. ”
What if we build a base further afield? For example, in the depths of the Yushan Forest Park, or in the Xuanwu Mountain Canyon Scenic Area? We have discussed this, and the answer is that this kind of construction is not something that we can do, and it seems good to run into the forest, but we can't build the most basic protective wall, so what can we build? Felling wood, and then building it out of wood? For those of us, I'm afraid it will take a few years, but can we have a few years? The canyon scenic area is even more unrealistic, it is impossible to close the place at all, if it is really closed, there will be no food in it...... Either it's wandering, but the biggest problem of wandering is supply, if it's a few people wandering, you can also hope and collect materials, but the process of collecting materials is full of danger, even if you enter a small supermarket, you may never be able to get out again, not to mention dozens of people, the daily consumption is difficult to fill by collecting materials.
No matter how you calculate it, it is very difficult to survive in such an environment, whether it is engaged in base construction or wandering, it is actually a desperate situation. In the end, the base can't escape the zombie siege, and the wanderer will die at any time when he runs out of ammunition and food, and he feels desperate when he thinks about it.
But this is the end of the world, to survive in the end times, every minute of life is earned.
In fact, I saw Lin Zhuoran so active and enthusiastic about building the base, and I also admired him, knowing that no matter how much he built, the situation would only get worse and worse, but he could only grit his teeth and make a look as if the disaster was about to pass, which required extremely strong psychological quality. It also makes me feel that if I really leave, I can't stand him. I feel like he's literally burning his life to do this right now, or is he just doing it behind the scenes, and on the surface, it's all that I'm promoting. Whatever his purpose, he has given everything.
Now I really hope that those scientists can actually develop a drug that reverses the gene, save the infected people who have become zombies, and then end this disaster as soon as possible, so that everything we are doing now is not in vain.
But there is also a question, if the zombies in front of us are really just patients who still have hope of being treated, then shouldn't we kill them? Or do we still have the right to shoot zombies? The question flashed through my mind, and I was thrown aside. How long will it take for scientists to develop an antidote (I don't know how they will name this so-called reversal and genetic drug, but it must be very difficult to say, I think it is much simpler to call it "antidote" directly, and to get to the essence) How long it will take, only God knows, whether it can be developed or not is only God knows, but if we don't shoot at the zombies, we will be eaten by them, we are fighting for survival, I think there is no reason to carry any psychological burden.
Come on, now is not the time to think about these things. Lin Zhuoran's plan is much more detailed than he said, just like when we were in the academic exchange center of City University, he can help us think about any detail that we can't consider, and it is his detailed plan and backup plan that we have been lucky to survive again and again. And my plan is all hot-headed, I do it regardless of it, and every time I look back, I am afraid to death. But Lin Zhuoran also repeatedly told me that his plan is dead, and at the critical moment, everything depends on my decision, and he also told me that he just thinks a lot when he makes plans, and when it comes to action, he thinks that many of my ways of dealing with it are effective and feasible. (To be continued.) )