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The fleet was driving on the river, just entering the Yangtze River, and there were seven cargo ships parked on the barge dock on the river at the exit, all of which were bulk carriers, loaded with sand, coal, containers, and steel building materials.

At the first glance of these ships, Zhang Xiaoqiang knew that he had found the second hidden warehouse, the first hidden warehouse was the highway, and the second hidden warehouse was the entire Yangtze River.

Compared with road transport and aircraft transport, waterway transport has too many advantages, the time is not slow, the transport volume is large, the volume is relatively low, the whole Yangtze River itself is a busy freight hub, countless cargo ships shuttle throughout the Yangtze River until the sea, there are countless freight terminals and container terminals along the way.

The cool breeze on the river made everyone feel a rare relief, Zhang Xiaoqiang looked at the map in his hand and groaned, from the map, although they took the waterway, they only walked a third of the place in total, and it was evening in a few hours, they couldn't get to the shipyard anyway, and it was urgent to find a safe camp to settle in.

Zhang Xiaoqiang knows that there are a lot of sandbanks on the Yangtze River, and the sandbanks are surrounded by rivers on all sides, except for the zombies of the soil, there are no other zombies who can go to the sandbank, maybe the sandbar is a good place to stay, of course, there is something to do in the hours before this...

There is a wharf at the exit of Changgang, the place in the wharf area is not small, there are not many buildings, piles of sand like a hill, large and small pebbles are all over the wharf area, and there are occasionally piles of various building materials between various high-raised conveyor tracks.

Relatively speaking, the dock area is a relatively safe area, but unfortunately, it is far from meeting Zhang Xiaoqiang's requirements, he needs to park the boat on the side of the dock barge, Zhang Xiaoqiang's fleet seems to be not small, but unfortunately the ship is too small, the people on the ship are densely crowded, and they have to pile up all kinds of ammunition and materials, even if they sit on the boat, they are already tired to the limit.

The bulk carrier parked on the side of the barge is relatively large, compared to Zhang Xiaoqiang's ships that they used various small boats to refit the ship, like a monster in front of them, the explorer slowly approached the cargo ship, among the seven ships, there are four loaded with goods, most of them are coal, one is equipped with spiky pebbles, and a pointed bottom oil tanker is parked next to a single barge, the oil tanker is pointed at one end and the other is flat, and the middle is welded into a steel coffin-like appearance by steel plates, and all kinds of thick or thin pipes are all over it.

Zhang Xiaoqiang's goal is all the ships, since he wants to do it, he simply catch it all, he stood at the bow of the ship and watched the ship approach, beside him stood Huang Quan Chen Ye and five team members, Chen Ye completely recovered from his injury, and was divided into a team by Zhang Xiaoqiang, following Huang Quan's wishes, this operation, Zhang Xiaoqiang did not need to do it, everything was in charge of Huang Quan, and he began to learn to think about the whole situation.

"Bump ... " The ship collided, still shaking, one by one the team members jumped to the opposite boat, a figure soared into the air, Chen Ye, who was holding the Jingwei sword, crossed the top of everyone's heads, and landed steadily on the opposite side of the ship, and the one-foot-wide side of the ship did not even shake.

Chen Ye came first, carrying the Jingwei sword and rushing towards the ship's surface building, followed by the team members who were carrying swords and shields, but the actual commander Huang Quan fell behind.

Zhang Xiaoqiang stood on the foredeck and looked at Huangquan and them, involuntarily holding the trigger of the anti-aircraft machine gun, unexpected accidents may occur at any time, even if it is nine out of ten, Zhang Xiaoqiang does not dare to be careless, this is the habit and ability learned in the struggle of the last days.

Seven people rushed into the boat building one after another, and when the time was not up, Huang Quan ran out and waved at Zhang Xiaoqiang, Zhang Xiaoqiang wondered, is there something strange about such a broken boat?

The front of the big ship has been facing everyone, and the appearance is intact, and when you enter the bridge inside, a huge hole can clear the river surface at the stern, and the staircase welded by steel bars twists and falls off, bending into a camel-like shape between the second and first floors, and the iron pillars are intertwined, and the layers of iron floor slabs are twisted and bent, like torn folding fans, and like crooked ghost claws.

The huge hole is in the wall behind the staircase, and the ship-deck building is made of thick wooden planks and iron sheets, which were originally embedded in each other, cracked and deformed, and the broken wood dregs are scattered all over the ground, and the open iron sheets are rolled into the shape of flower rolls, and the red, green, and yellow wires are twisted and entangled on the floor, and countless threads are dazzling.

"When..." Zhang Xiaoqiang kicked open the small metal box in front of him, stepped on the messy pieces of wood, bypassed the tangled wires, went to the wall, stretched out his head to look out of the hole, just stretched out his head, a cool breeze blew on his face, and the wind carried a unique fishy smell of the river, and his eyes were on the deck behind the stern and the rolling river not far away.

The rear deck was covered with dust, and a thick drag mark fell from the hole through the entire deck to the center of the river, and the wires were entangled and dragged outside, extending along the drag marks to the river, and the ship undulated with the waves on the river, and the dragged wires also twisted on the deck with the undulations of the ship, as if alive.

"Did you notice anything unusual when you came in?"

Zhang Xiaoqiang retreated, straightened his waist and asked everyone present, his fingers still caressing the broken hole, measuring the thickness of the wall.

Huang Quan shook his head, they entered the hull and arrived at the huge hole, he had also stuck his head out like Zhang Xiaoqiang and glanced at it, and when he felt that something was wrong, he returned outside and reported to Zhang Xiaoqiang.

Zhang Xiaoqiang didn't ask any more questions, looked up at the direction of the second floor above his head, although the stairs were rolled into scrap iron, the two-story building seemed to be intact, just when Zhang Xiaoqiang was thinking about whether to go up, Chen Ye spoke.

"I didn't see zombies when I came in, there are fragments of clothes here, there should also be zombies, it is not ruled out that zombies fell into the water outside, but I also found this thing."

Chen Ye handed over a palm-sized scale to Zhang Xiaoqiang's hand, the scales are blue-black, dull, diamond-shaped, smooth at the four corners, no edge on the side, light texture, holding in the hand as if there is nothing, tried the toughness, but found that the material of the scales is not bad, the hardness of the body is very high, and the toughness is also very sufficient, even if Zhang Xiaoqiang folds the scales in half into a thirty-degree angle, the scales can remain unbroken, and it is useless to even fold a little after restoration.

Zhang Xiaoqiang flicked the scales with his fingers, making a few muffled sounds like playing on thick cardboard, and then Zhang Xiaoqiang put the scales into his pocket, took out the walkie-talkie and gave an order:

"All of you pay attention... Observe the river and the side of the ship at all times, and all personnel are prepared for a first-class battle, and if something is wrong, they will fire at me..."

The cargo ships and barges parked in the dock area were all attacked by an unknown mutant beast, this unknown aquatic mutant beast didn't seem to like to go through the front door, almost all of the hull was twisted out of a big hole by it, but the two empty ships parked at the edge showed no signs of being attacked, maybe there were no zombies on the ship.

Zhang Xiaoqiang stood on the top of the cab, looking at the riverside, hundreds of long drag marks dragged out deep traces on the ground by the river, Zhang Xiaoqiang's scalp was a little numb, he didn't know if this was left by a mutant beast, or dozens of mutant beasts, obviously, the Yangtze River is not safe.