Chapter 107: The Lonely City
Up to now, it has been discovered by information that has been accessed by countries around the world. Unless the Awakened "coordinate" from it, it is impossible for the vast majority of the Awakened to coexist in peace and quiet. Especially when "grabbing territory", it is often like Mars hitting the earth to kill each other.
But there are exceptions.
The Awakened who used to occupy Changtai Town were the Snake Man and the Earthworm People. The two are similar in many ways, with the upper body being humanoid and the lower body merging legs to mutate into the shape of a snake, and both are adept at spitting strong acid to attack enemies. The more obvious difference is that the snake people are densely covered with sturdy scales and have excellent climbing ability, while the earthworms are covered with slippery, strong acidic liquids. Good at making holes. Snake people and earthworm people belong to the types that can coexist compatibly.
After a little turn around the town, Lin Feng soon found a grain processing factory in the town, and this discovery strengthened the idea in his heart.
In the warehouses of the grain processing plant, there are nothing but torn sacks of grain all over the floor. Whole. The venue was empty. There were several large holes in the walls of the warehouse, and the thick iron door of the warehouse had long since fallen to the ground, and the doorway was littered with fragments of two human corpses.
Xiao Bailan, who was following him, said depressedly: "Nothing? β
Feng Yong also sighed regretfully: "It's all eaten up!" β
Lin Ban picked up the sack on the ground, carefully analyzed the debris on it, and quickly judged that this was originally a warehouse full of corn.
Since hugging Lin Feng's thigh, Xiao Bailan and Feng Yong have both saved the idea of leaving the army at the right time. It's just that they, like Niu Qi and others, are all subject to lack of food, and they can't leave if they want to.
Lin Ban looked at the warehouse, which was about the size of a basketball court and a half, and the number of broken sacks discarded on the floor was obviously not much compared to his huge space.
Chen Jin entered the nearby administrator's room and found the inventory records of the warehouse from there. According to the date recorded, the day before the Awoken disaster, more than thirty tons of jade millet had been added to the warehouse, and with the original stock, the amount of grain that was originally stored here should be no less than fifty tons.
Then she took the inventory record and said to Lin Feng: "The number of those empty sacks on the ground is too small!" β
Outside the grain warehouse, other evolutionaries and soldiers searched wildly. From time to time, from factory floors and abandoned cars, human remains that have been eaten to the point of only skeletons are removed.
Lin Ban said: "I asked the brigade commander, since the disaster of the Awakened, Changtai Town has always fallen into the hands of the Awakened, and it has never been recovered before today, which means that the food here cannot be removed by humans." And when those guys fled today, they were all well fed, and there must still be food in the city, but they moved and hid it! β
Xiao Bailan was stunned and said, "This is unlikely, right?" β
Lin Ban said: "How is it impossible? Rats know how to store food for the winter, and they are much smarter than rats! β
These evolutionaries who came to hug their thighs were very ordinary, and it was Chen Jin's expression that made Lin Feng's eyes light up. However, mediocre people also have the usefulness of mediocre people, not to mention that Lin Feng never thought that there were really stupid people in the world. The so-called stupid people are often people who use the wrong place. Xiao Bailan and these people are not very ambitious, but they can just help Lin Ban do many things that are inconvenient for him to do directly. During this period of time, although Wang Chao and Du Lei have an excellent relationship with Lin Feng, these people are too sunny in their hearts and too orthodox in their ways. It was obviously not too suitable for them to do this kind of private food hiding thing together, and Lin Feng didn't want to affect the shape in their hearts because of this kind of thing
Lin Ban squatted down, pressed one hand on the ground, and began to sense the situation underground. The earthworm people dug the entire town into a labyrinth. In order to survive, it is not uncommon for the Awakened to fight each other for food. Lin Feng believed that the grain was most likely hidden underground by them, since the rats who were much dumber than the Awakened knew how to hide the grain, how could they not do this?
Thirty seconds later, scanning the structure of the land under his feet, a smile gradually appeared on Lin Feng's face.
Soon, he took three of his "henchmen" out of the warehouse gate, walked quickly to the southeast, walked more than two hundred meters away, and finally stopped in a small forest.
In the past few days, there has been continuous snowfall, and Changtai Town, which has put on a thick "white makeup" on the earth, is no exception. The consequence of snow accumulation is that the actions of the Awakened will leave visible marks on the snow. The snow around this grove was trampled so badly that there were dense footprints everywhere.
In a clearing in the woods, Lin Feng lightly found a piece of land that had been turned over and backfilled. The Awoken are indeed sapient beings, and they have deliberately covered this backfilled clearing with a layer of snow as cover. This desire may have deceived the same kind, but in the eyes of human beings, it is almost the same as three hundred taels of silver here.
Two meters deep at the foot of the plank, there is a long tunnel about one meter long and one meter wide, and this backfilled place is the entrance. Within a hundred meters of this entrance, Lin Feng even found a large number of abandoned sacks of corn, which was self-evident. The grains that were missing from the warehouse were now buried at a depth of about five meters at Lin Feng's feet. Standing here, feeling the structure of the "Awakened" granary at his feet, Lin Feng could imagine what had happened here a few days ago.
The snake man and the earthworm man teamed up to drive out the other competitors and took over the grain processing plant. But in terms of combat effectiveness, both are only at the middle level of the Awakened group. In order to preserve the fruits of their victory, they cleverly dug a big hole in the ground and transferred most of the grain in the warehouse here.
Lin Feng used his perception to probe the structure of this "underground granary" and calculated that there were at least more than three hundred bags of grain hidden below.
Feng Yong said happily: "In the future, we won't have to worry about running out of food after escaping!" β
Xiao Bailan also said: "The next thing left is how to bring the family out!" β
Lin Ban secretly scolded the two guys who had no interest. Chen Jin's words made him very satisfied.
"I can't imagine that earthworms and snake people have the habit of storing food, and if we don't eat in the future, we can consider robbing them!"
It doesn't matter if the force value is not high, the important thing is to have a self-motivated spirit, just a few words, the gap between these three "henchmen" in the "strong concept" is revealed. Feng Yong and Xiao Bailan never gave up the idea of leaving, but the grim precedent of Xingshì and Tang Jian's gang forced them to give up this idea temporarily. However, after hugging Lin Feng's thigh, the two couldn't stop relapsing.
Chen Jin objected: "If you have any small plans, you have to wait to get through this difficult situation in front of you!" The current situation is more dangerous outside. β
Xiao Bailan said: "But stay here, they obviously want us to be cannon fodder!" β
Chen Jin retorted: "Our family members are all in Tianhe, and when we become deserters, how can we bring them out every time?" β
Xiao Bailan was speechless for a moment.
"I'm afraid of what's going on!" As the boss of this small group, Lin Feng knew that it was time to speak out, so he stomped on his face. Hao pointed to the ten ground under his feet. Then he said in a very mechanical voice! "If you want to be a deserter, you also have to pay attention to skills! Before the war, escaping could not shake off the hat of a deserter. But "Escape from Death" can sometimes get a medal! Since you all believe in me and recognize me as the boss, it is also the boss's responsibility to protect the life of the little brother! Even if the whole battalion is dead. I won't let you do the work of sending you to death! β
What they want is nothing more than this promise, using the words of the dead Taoist friend who does not die to the younger brother, after calming the worries of the younger brothers. Lin Ban and his party disguised the scene better, and then left the woods. In the following time, under the pretext of clearing the unstable factors underground, Lin Feng ordered the sappers to dig out the earthworm people, and the two tunnels leading to the granary were all blown up.
By the time Lin Feng found food in the city, the entire town of Changtai had now turned into a huge construction site, with the rumbling of cement mixers and excavators everywhere.
There was a terrible lesson in the afternoon with the birdman field battle, and the entire outer edge of Changtai was built with a covered air-raid trench everywhere. The source flame of the fourth-level birdman is extremely powerful, but it is not difficult to defend
A thick layer of dirt is all that is needed to easily block it.
However, this kind of covered air raid shelter is only used as a temporary measure to avoid the air raids of the birdmen. The entire town defense system is built entirely on the basis of old buildings.
Changtai Town is a small town, the whole town is no more than 3 kilometers long and less than 2.5 kilometers wide. There are not many high-rise buildings in the town, including the town government building, and the tallest building is only six floors. All the buildings along the street, the ground floor fence has been reinforced and thickened, most of the buildings, after transporting heavy equipment into the building, the entrance of the stairs on the ground floor is small and directly pushed into a large amount of earth by a forklift, if you want to enter and exit these buildings, you can only climb the window directly! However, this reinforcement can only block the skill attacks of ordinary awakened people, once they are approached by third-level awakened people. Any Level 3 Awakened can easily smash the reinforced wall with the strength of his arm. Break through the wall.
Anti-aircraft guns, anti-aircraft rapid-fire guns, and even old millimeter heavy artillery were all pulled into the building and placed. Heavy long-range artillery was housed on the ground floor, while large-caliber anti-aircraft guns and anti-aircraft speed guns were housed on the top floor. The reinforcements sent by Tianhe City were supplemented with a large number of millimeter towed artillery and four-millimeter cannons. However, all the more advanced self-propelled guns were transferred and withdrawn to Tianhe City. The old Type 69 tanks were left behind, and they were driven into some low-rise buildings to serve as fixed batteries, and in order to stuff the tanks into the houses, the construction crews directly demolished one of the walls of these houses and drove the tanks in.
Before the Crisis of the Awoken, it would have been nearly impossible to transform a small town into a military fortress in a single day, even with the help of a large number of modern engineering equipment. However, after the outbreak of the Awakened crisis, with the emergence of a large number of superpower evolutionaries, many construction problems that seemed to be very troublesome can be easily solved by sending evolutionaries.
How can a few tons of artillery be transported to a six-story building?
Scaffolding? There's no need, just take the cannon apart. Just call a few Level 3 power-type evolutionaries and carry them on their shoulders.
It's freezing and the water is frozen and you can't mix the concrete?
There are microheated evolutionaries here, let them help. What, you can't do it if you don't have enough time? Ask an Evolver with enhanced material skills to come and help, and you can complete the enhancement of concrete castings in a minute.
Not enough rebar?
The town is full of iron, collect a pile of scrap iron, or simply dismantle a few abandoned cars and let the evolutionaries of the metal form make a batch temporarily.
Some of the Changtai construction personnel sent are evolutionaries who use superpowers to build fortifications, and they have experience in building fortifications in Tianhe City or other cities. Therefore, the fortress construction of the entire Changtai Array was astonishingly fast. Before dark, the walls of the ground floor of almost all buildings were thickened and reinforced. Some even add a steel plate between the newly added wall and the original wall.
In just eight hours, the entire Changtai completed the initial transformation from a small town to a militarized fortress. But all the reinforcement and renovation work of the building has not stopped. The Awakened can't be judged from the point of view of the old humans, their jumping power is excellent, and the walls of the buildings they are on must be reinforced, and after absorbing the lessons of last night's fight with the fourth-level birdmen, a thin retaining wall has been temporarily built in the room where the open windows of each building are located This is to prevent the recurrence of the tragedy of last night, when a birdman sprayed a flame into the window, and the people in the house were completely wiped out due to the lack of dodge cover. Of course, the psychological significance of this design effect is greater than the actual effect. The fireball emitted by the fourth-level birdman is extremely fast, and under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the people in the house to take the first step behind the fire retaining wall, and only God knows how effective it will be in actual combat.
Each building was stocked with a large amount of weapons and ammunition, enough to last more than ten days of continuous combat. After seeing the posture put forward by the military, people with a little brain understand that Changtai is not only the front line of resisting the awakened, but also the "Jedi" that the entire sword division garrison must hold until death During this time, Lin Feng was not idle, he patrolled the terrain everywhere and diligently explored the terrain, reserving a back road for escape when the town could not hold on to any day.
During this period, Lin Ji tentatively questioned Wang Chao and Du Lei.
"If one day, this town can't be defended, what are your plans?"
"And if you don't die? Of course, I tried my best to get out, and my wife and children are still waiting for me at home! β
Wang Chao and Du Lei's answers were very close.
"What if the above wants us to hold on to death?"
The two fell silent together.
After a while, Wang Chao replied first: "My life is my own!" β
And Du Lei replied: "I still remember what you said to the general when you were at the checkpoint that day. β
Then, the two asked Lin Feng together: "What about you?" β
Lin Ban replied: "If I die, what kind of fate do you think Xiaomei and their sisters will fall to?" β
The three of them laughed together, and their thoughts were now connected.
Lin Ban stretched out a hand, and then Wang Chao and Du Lei also stretched out their hands one after another, and the three hands were put together.
Those who have survived the crisis of the awakened are smart people, and no one will willingly carry out a mortal mission. Forty-year-old uncle-level characters, they may be loyal to the country and something like that because of some old insistence, but at the same time they are also very realistic.
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Yesterday I updated two chapters, Lin Feng's son didn't expect this chapter to be updated, and the subscription was actually two hundred higher than the previous chapter, could it be that the name of this chapter makes everyone very quiet?
In the previous chapter, someone said that the fifth-level birdman used the problem of fire skills, this is not planing, after mastering the source power, you can use other skills, Lin Feng is not like this. It's just that in terms of skill, it's better to use your own natural skills