Chapter 51: The Way Back
Hu Kaiqing, who has always been calm, looked at the image fed back by the monitoring probe with a colorless face, now is not the time when the lower city is in danger to defend, the two alloy gates were blown to pieces, and the Yongdao was dug through again.
Hu Kaiqing realized that something had to be done, and he sounded the siren in the monitoring room, the red alarm lights flashed inside the base, and the sound of explosions resounded through the city. Just when everyone didn't know why, Hu Kaiqing's voice sounded at the base.
"I am Hu Kaiqing, and now I announce that Xiacheng has entered the highest alert state, and I am Hu Kaiqing, and now I announce that Xiacheng has entered the highest alert state."
Lin He angrily broke into the monitoring room when he heard the alarm, nominally, he was the supreme leader. As the leader of the base, he unknowingly triggered the highest alert state, which was a prelude to the seizure of power, which made him angry.
It must be known that even if the city is facing an extremely difficult situation in the past two days, the maximum alert level has still not been turned on. That's because everything is still under control.
But this Hu Kaiqing actually advocated without authorization and opened the highest vigilance, what is he going to do?
"Hu Kaiqing, what are you going to do, and are there any rules, I am the boss here!" Lin He rushed into the control room and yelled at Daddy Hu.
The megaphone speech of the entire base was being carried out in the monitoring room, and as a result, Lin He's roar reached everyone's ears for the first time, and the people in every lower city settlement showed a puzzled look. One is the generous and virtuous Mayor Lin, and the other is the iron-blooded Father Hu, both of whom are the spiritual backbone of the city, but at this moment, under the current situation of the great enemy, contradictions have openly erupted!
Hu Kaiqing didn't pay attention to Lin He, but continued to say into the megaphone: "Everyone, everyone in the lower city where the living area, military area, and storage area are located, bring weapons and equipment, and immediately rush to the fortification of the second gate. I repeat, this is not a drill, this is the last moment of life and death, this is not a drill, this is the last moment of life and death......
The invaders who attacked the lower city, this is the command post of the lower city, and now I give you a chance to atone for your sins. Bring your weapons and go to the fortifications as the first sequence of the battle. You have no choice, and if you refuse, I will order your destruction at once. ”
The sergeant in the wilderness, when his own general did not hesitate to kill his own men to break through the tunnel and jump down, noticed that the situation was different. And Wu Long's voice shouted that the sky was broken, and all the sergeants suddenly found that their troops had fallen into the encirclement of the zombie tide.
The rolling tide of loss was surging, and the dark green light spots in the wilderness were densely packed.
Since the outbreak of the cataclysm, the history of mankind is simply a history of resistance against zombies, and when you turn the first page of the history book, there is a sentence that is a truth: in the face of the zombie tide, any resistance is futile.
Whenever a zombie tide breaks out, humans choose to lie dormant and flee, and many populous and powerful settlements are wiped out in the overwhelming confrontation with the zombie tide. Settlements that can survive for a long time have the unique advantage of avoiding the zombie tide.
It's like the lower city, hidden underground, the two alloy gates safely protect the settlement, and the narrow area of the corridor also reduces the pressure of defense, and the zombies are not smart enough to learn to dig three feet into the ground, so the zombie tide again and again, the lower city can always survive safely.
It's like the Tree Plain, this land is paddled and governed, the river is the only natural enemy of zombies in nature, there is a river, so the Tree Plains don't have to worry about the zombie tide. And the people who live high in the trees do not need to be afraid of zombies, because zombies almost do not climb trees, and under the double insurance, the tree field can also gather a large number of homeless people to form a settlement, even if these people are hungry.
The Fangjia Village settlement is even more favorable to the environment, surrounded by water and adjacent to the tree plain, and the fried tree is a bridge leading directly to the top of the tree. There are landing bridges on the north bank, there are garrisons, you can attack and retreat, you can defend, and you can cross the border to open the county to catch a handful while the zombies are taking a nap, and you can open an independent kingdom in order.
However, at this moment, the largest barrier in the lower city has disappeared, and has been replaced by a line of defense full of holes.
After Wu Long's sergeants discovered the trail of the zombie tide that was close at hand, they rushed to jump off the Yongdao crossing in fear, just like dumplings. After these people jumped into the corridor, they found that the people in the settlement of the lower city were all armed with guns and cannons at the moment, and many people instantly sighed that the sorrow of life could not be more than this.
Fortunately, Wu Long has been subdued by Lin Er, and the two sides are still quite restrained, and by the time Wu Long shouted zombies, some smart people in the lower city had already reacted, and the only ones who could force these invaders to jump over the wall were probably zombies. It's just that what kind of zombies do you need to scare these people like this?
Not everyone knows that the outside world is experiencing a massive zombie wave these days, and this news is only controlled by a small number of people, in order to reduce the spread of panic.
But when Hu Kaiqing announced the highest alert with a voice that could be heard in the whole lower city, those in the lower city who knew immediately thought of the worst possible thing, and couldn't help but secretly complain.
Sure enough, when Hu Kaiqing put down the blood feud and began to mobilize the invaders to help resist, everyone knew that the object of this resistance was probably self-evident. There is a war between people, which is a contradiction within the people; And the war between humans and zombies is the contradiction of species extinction.
Wu Long really agreed without hesitation, and immediately began to reorganize the army, entering the fortifications to prepare to resist the zombies, but unfortunately retreated in a hurry, and a large number of weapons and baggage were lost in the wilderness, I am afraid that the problem of ammunition supply will be very big.
In the monitoring room, Lin He stared at the surveillance camera for a long time, all emotions had faded, along with his spirit. The situation that the field camera reacted back made Lin He not have the slightest confidence in the defense of this disaster.
His mind, which he often prides himself as Zhiduoxing, was in a mess at the moment, and he looked at the camera for a long time before finally realizing that he was going to do something.
"You say, you are somewhat sure that you will save the settlement, and you can say whatever you want, as long as I can give it, I will give it to you." Lin He almost lost his mind.
This situation has only happened once in the past 20 years, that is, ten years ago, in a similar situation, it was Hu Kaiqing who turned the tide. Now, Lin He has pinned his hopes on Hu Kaiqing.
Hu Kaiqing sat on the leather chair, looking haggard. He was originally an old man, but since he broke his arm, his physical condition has begun to deteriorate, and he has already run out of oil and lamps since he fought for days. Now that he has encountered an unprecedented catastrophe, how sure can Hu Kaiqing be?
"It's useless, Lin He. I'm old, and I'm not the one I used to be. And this time the internal and external troubles are not as good as before, and I am afraid that the lower city will be in a catastrophe, so you should arrange a back road. Hu Kaiqing said with a gloomy expression.
"The back road, what can there be a back road, there is only one way to go down to the city, this time we can't stop the zombie tide, we all have to die!" Lin He's expression was fierce.
"Hehe, Lin He, you asked Zhao Tie to tinker with those things all these years, Lao Zhao told me, you still don't want to be so dedicated. In other words, if Lao Zhao hadn't told me, you would have already laid out the back road, and I am afraid I would have been deceived by you. Hu Kaiqing sneered.
Lin He's tolerant and benevolent face instantly suffocated the color of pig liver, and there was nothing more embarrassing than being exposed to his face when a lie was exposed.
Lin He, as the decision-maker of the lower city, started before the end of the world. As the last cadre assigned by the state to this scientific research institution, Lin He has no professional ability. Lin He can neither fight nor fight, and does not have the ability to survive in the wild. In the final analysis, Lin He is a professional bureaucrat, an official for the sake of being an official. This kind of person's greatest ability is not to create GDP and benefit the society, but to check and balance and power, and to be able to fish the lower city in his hands and play around, which is Lin He's greatest ability.
After the end of the world, Lin He invited his cousin brother Lin Hu, who served in the army, and then sheltered the insatiable Lin San, and the three of them controlled a large number of population resources and hugged together, eating other forces to death, so the settlement of Xiacheng began to be dominated by them.
Later, everyone in the veteran scientific research institute in the settlement was killed and injured after several inexplicable X virus outbreaks, Lao Zhao's legs were broken in the accident, and the scientific research team in the lower city was not worried. With the passage of time, all kinds of small forces in Xiacheng were integrated, and only Hu Kaiqing was left.
It's just that at the end of the world, when employing people honestly, Hu Kaiqing's combat power is a good knife, and Lin He can't do without it, especially the vicious battle ten years ago, which shows Hu Kaiqing's role even more. In addition, Hu Kaiqing is a little pedantic and can't play Lin He and others at all, so Lin He can tolerate Hu Kaiqing for many years.
As a professional bureaucrat, how to keep vested interests is a compulsory subject for bureaucrats, and the topic of this discipline has gradually evolved into a proposition of how to keep life and wealth after the end of the world.
Therefore, Lin He has been privately preparing a safe back road for himself, which is only known to a very few henchmen and Lao Zhao, because Lao Zhao, as the only surviving builder of the lower city, cannot do without his help if he wants to bury a back road. Imagine that Lin He is fooling around, in case he digs up any important circuits and instantly points himself, it is not very sad, so Lao Zhao will become the actual operator of this "cunning rabbit plan".
Although Lao Zhao's legs are disabled, those things can be seen clearly, and the X virus will inexplicably break out in Xiacheng three times, until all the people in power in the scientific research institute have become zombies and have been shot in the head, which is strange in itself. And his feet were also confused and folded in the "accident". Lao Zhao is not a fool, he has an account in his heart. At a critical time, Lao Zhao was never anyone else, he was speaking for himself.
Therefore, Lao Zhao told Hu Kaiqing everything.