Volume I: Section 54: Bribery
Su Hao looked at him suspiciously, subconsciously raised his hand, trembled and pointed to the military uniform on the soldier next to him, and asked in horror: "Then, who are you?" β
Wu Guoguang's face was difficult to read in the gloomy light. He was silent for a few seconds and said, "I see that you belong to the category of people who qualify. I can get you out of this city. β
Su Hao's previous scene of fighting zombies in the rain left a deep impression on him.
"Where?" Su Hao's problem is simply conditioned reflex.
"You are brave and tenacious."
Wu Guoguang didn't answer directly, he cleared his throat and said, "We need people like you." Of course, your performance can only be described as decent. Just now you have every chance to take out more monsters, they are very slow, as long as you see the opportunity and know the order of your attacks, you can kill them all when it is safe to do so. Actually, these things are not very advanced skills, you just lack training. β
Su Hao's thick eyelashes shook slightly, and he was thinking about Wu Guoguang's words: "What do you mean, let me join you?" β
Wu Guoguang nodded: "To be precise, it is to join the National Defense Force." β
This seemingly ordinary sentence made the expression on Su Hao's face change rapidly. Shock, shock, anger, and loss are transformed into incomparably strong grief and indignation.
He raised his head, his gaze slowly sweeping over each soldier. The moment their eyes collided, everyone clearly saw that ββββ bright eyes were burning with flames.
"Do you know the weakness of the zombies? Why don't you save the living? β
Su Hao heard his voice tremble, and pain and fear were released from the depths of his eyes. In the future world, from the day he was born sensible, he has been constantly thinking about this question, and he has also used his identity to repeatedly search for answers in computer files. Unfortunately, until he activated the space-time teleporter and escaped from that dimension, Su Hao couldn't find what he was looking for from the dense and complicated file files.
"It's been a few months since the virus broke out, but where are you? At least a million people died in the city. They were bitten to death by zombies and eaten as food. Many more people become infected from scratching and biting. We had no food, no water, no communication with the outside world, and we waited for nearly five months to see the shadow of the rescue team, and the only thing we got was disappointment and despair. Did you know that there are women and children among the survivors of the Path? What are you doing when we need help the most? Where are you? β
This is the question that Su Hao brought from the future world.
He wondered why governments would remain silent at the same time in the early stages of a virus outbreak.
No country or region has activated an emergency response plan, nor has any head of state stepped forward to give confidence and support to the people?
Overnight, the ruling apparatus disappeared.
Of course, presidents and heads of state are also people. They may be infected by the virus at the first opportunity, so that the military and the highest organs of power are completely useless.
However, the information consulted by Su Hao shows that at that time, at least 70 percent of the state power remained intact. They should have immediately issued a general mobilization order to organize the population to fight the catastrophe within their respective spheres of power. However, none of the heads of state did this, and they collectively remained silent in this matter, as if nothing had happened. And a few months later, in those cities occupied by zombies, the soldiers of the Supervision Bureau appeared for the first time.
Wu Guoguang's face was slightly red.
Not only him, but all the soldiers had unnatural expressions. They measured their bodies, took their eyes off Su Hao, and turned to other places; Either look up or down and turn your attention elsewhere.
They did not admit Su Hao's accusations, nor did they deny them.
Su Hao's face was full of pain, he stared at Wu Guoguang, and asked slowly and expectantly, "What are you doing?" β
It's not acting anymore. It also contains Su Hao's own true feelings.
Wu Guoguang looked at Su Hao's angry face. After a few seconds, he sighed, as if he wanted to open his mouth to say something, but he couldn't make a sound. He looked at Su Hao with a complicated expression, his eyes searched back and forth on the other party, and the focus of his eyes quickly fell on the "95" pistol on his waist.
"Where did you get that?"
He gestured casually, wanting to use this to change the subject.
Su Hao looked at him coldly, and his voice was tough and sharp: "Some soldiers are very brave, and they have been fighting until the rear. Many died in battle, leaving only weapons. It's a pity that there were very few bullets, only six. β
The last sentence made Wu Guoguang feel that he had found a topic that interested each other. He touched his trouser pocket, took out a magazine full of bullets, and handed it to Su Hao: "This is 5." Bullets of 8 mm caliber. If it's not enough, I can give you some more. β
Su Hao shook his head indifferently, his eyes looked straight ahead, stood up, and walked a few steps in the direction of the gate. Suddenly he stopped, turned around, and whispered, "If you die, I will take it from your corpse." β
He walked out of the gate of the garrison headquarters alone, his back fading away in the gray rain.
One of the sergeants took off his helmet, wiped the sweat from the part that came into contact with his scalp, and said sullenly, "This kid has a lot of backbone, and he looks much more pleasing to the eye than the guys before." There is some truth to what he said. β
A soldier next to him nodded slowly: "There are a lot of people still alive, we should do something." β
"I advise you to dispel such thoughts as soon as possible."
Another soldier frowned: "The base has repeatedly refused to accept any unrecognized survivors. When we came, we talked about this issue specifically. Helicopter pilots wouldn't let them board, and even if they walked to the base, the guards wouldn't open the door and let them go. Unless they're strong enough to beat the zombies. β
"Enough is enoughββββ"
Suddenly, Wu Guoguang yelled impatiently, "Don't talk about this anymore. It is the duty of a soldier to obey orders. We must be ordered to do so, not to involve our personal feelings, and now we all go back to our posts and continue to be vigilant! β
The crowd dispersed.
The rain became smaller and finer than before, like the fluff of an animal. Heaven and earth are filled with cold dampness.
Wu Guoguang stood at the gate of the headquarters, through the thick all-steel protective fence, lit a cigarette, and smoked silently.
"This kid has a very hard personality. He's right. Maybe I should help the poor people. β
Su Hao went directly back to the bank building.
He was sure that Wu Guoguang would not send someone to follow him. The number of soldiers stationed at the city's monitoring stations is actually very small, and their only task is to select suitable survivors to send to the base for training.
After briefly explaining some precautions to Xinyan, Su Hao walked into his room, closed the door, stripped naked and walked into the bathroom.
He spent days in a dirty environment, and there was nothing more comfortable than taking a good shower.
With his eyes closed, he let the dense flow of water wash over his body, and his divergent thoughts moved out a large number of memory pictures like ants, which were constantly combined and piled up in Su Hao's mind.
There is no difference between the direction of history and the original dimension.
The military began to set up monitoring and management stations in abandoned cities. Since the outbreak of the virus, survivors who have been battling zombies for months will be sent to various bases in the north for military training and then formed into an army.
Only the most experienced, survivable, and fierce group will be selected. The living conditions of the elderly, women, children and the weak will never change. They still have to fight for food and water, and continue to fight against the ever-evolving zombies, which form the basis of the demographic structure of the future world. Perhaps because of genetic mutations caused by the environment, or viruses, or also by immune agents, human fertility is rapidly increasing. The normal pregnancy period has been increased from 10 months to 6 months, the pregnancy rate has increased by 180 percent, the breastfeeding time has been shortened to 120 days, and twins and multiple births are more common than at any other stage in human history.
While lurking in the building to observe, Su Hao saw Wu Guoguang distributing immunity pills to those survivors. But he didn't give himself a shot like he did with everyone else, and the second lieutenant thought he would go back? After all, once selected by the military, it means embarking on a very different path from the other survivors.
You don't have to worry about food and water, and you have powerful weapons and defensive suits. If you perform well in battle, you can be promoted to an officer and get more things that ordinary people can only dream of.
It's like a piece of chocolate in peacetime with a price tag of two yuan and five jiao, just candy that anyone can buy with money on the store shelf.
In the future realm, its status has been changed to a limited number of special supplies, and only soldiers of the rank of non-commissioned officer and above are eligible to exchange for special currency (such as silver bones). Stunning beauties take the initiative to strip naked for ten grams of candy and other things abound, and there are many children who can't resist the sweet temptation and are willing to sell themselves into slavery.
Su Hao's performance in front of Wu Guoguang was very successful.
From the eyes of those soldiers, he found some of the answers he wanted to know.
Yes, the attitude of the military towards civilians has never changed.
They are not as cold-blooded as they imagined, but they are unable to take care of everyone, so they can only choose the strongest among them.
Zombies are constantly evolving, and armies need to be expanded. Only when the main combat strength reaches a balance, the rest have a chance to survive.
As for more questions, I'm afraid I'll have to wait until later, and go to the northern base to find answers.
Su Hao is also constantly revealing his informationββββ he told Wu Guoguang that he is not alone, there are many survivors gathered together, and the other party also recorded the identity information he said
For now, that's enough.
The station will always be in the city, and there will be many opportunities to interact with the military. Su Hao wanted more from the military.
For example: large-caliber cannon interloading, energy potions, ammunition
Today is just a temptation, Su Hao has a lot of hole cards in his hands.
For example, the Silver Bone, once this thing is made public, it will quickly change the values of the entire world. Su Hao has a firm grasp of the rhythm of time, and only needs to catch up with its real discoverer, that is, pass the relevant information to the military before May next year, and he will definitely get rich benefits.
He also thought about using his own blood to develop a few "worker bees" among the surveillance soldiers.
However, Zhou Chen's research shows that this kind of cell attraction requires the premise of being controlled by the brain's mind. Unlike outsiders who are willing to work in the camps for food, further contact with the soldiers is needed to develop a real sense of acceptance
Lu Tao sat on the sofa, staring at the rat in the cage in a daze.
The cage is made of fine lattice barbed wire and is very strong. There were six rats inside. The small one is about half a foot long, and the big one is about half a foot. The brownish-gray fur is smooth and shiny, and the tiny eyes are constantly turning. The space in the cage is too cramped for these rats. They huddled together and stepped on each other, shaggy and shaggy, which made people can't help but feel a little scary.
The rat was wanted by Wei Wenyuan.
Lu Tao spent two days setting up a set of traps near the manhole and green belt outside the building, and caught more than 20 of them.
The night in the city is not safe, and Lu Tao must also rest. When he waited until dawn to go downstairs to collect the condoms, he found that most of the rats had been eaten by zombies as snacks. These hungry mutant creatures are not picky eaters because rats have less meat than living people. They eat happily. Due to the remote location of the cover, a zombie even stuck its head into the underground water pipe, and was stuck in the middle and could not advance or retreat. I could only look at the mouse that was scared half to death in a cage more than ten centimeters in front of me, and gasped for breath with excitement and anger.
Lu Tao used an axe to cut the zombie in two from the chest, and pierced the long steel bar through the zombie's chest cavity and drilled directly through the head. Then, use the wire to hook the cage in the water pipe and pull it out.
At that time, he felt that the poor rat had been so frightened that he could only shrink in the corner of the cage and shiver.
"Tuk! Tuk Tuk! β
There was a knock on the door.
Lu Tao opened the door, and Wei Wenyuan's bare head immediately came in. He looked at the furnishings in the room and said with interest, "College student, what do I want?" How many have you caught? β
A few days ago, Wei Wenyuan found Lu Tao and said that he asked him to help catch a few mice. According to the price negotiated in advance, one pack of instant noodles is exchanged for two mice.
Lu Tao turned around and walked into the room, taking out the cage full of mice.
The smile on Wei Wenyuan's face became thicker and thicker, he reached out to pick it up, but Lu Tao dodged and shrank the cage back, stretched out his left hand at the same time, and asked lightly, "What about the things you promised?" β
"Huh! You are a real man. β
Wei Wenyuan smiled wryly, and reluctantly took out three bags of "unified" instant noodles from his backpack.
Lu Tao took it, pinched it in his hand, and made sure that the bag was sealed intact and the contents were not faked, so he handed over the cage and completed the exchange.
"What, are you going to cook rat meat hot pot and eat it?"
Looking at Wei Wenyuan, who was counting, Lu Tao asked casuallyββββ as far as he knew, Wei Wenyuan had placed similar orders with several other people in the building. In the past few days, he has collected almost thirty rats.
Wei Wenyuan shook his head and said with a smile: "Who would eat such a thing?" It's so dirty, I drill in the dung heap all day long. Young man, don't say I didn't warn youββββ voles and mountain mice are certainly edible, and they taste good. But don't touch this rat in the sewer. They are covered in poison, similar to arsenic and dichlorvos. β
Lu Tao nodded.
His thoughts were similar to Wei Wenyuan's, but he was curiousββββ what did this old man do to get so many rats, what did he want to do?
Thinking of the zombie that was stuck in the sewer pipe before, Lu Tao suddenly had a very bad feeling in his mind. He frowned and asked tentatively, "I said, you don't want to use these rats to feed zombies, do you?" β
A hint of panic flashed in Wei Wenyuan's eyes. He quickly hid his facial expression and smiled as usual: "How is that possible?" It must be useful for me to collect these rats. I'll have to try it first and see if it works! If there is a benefit, Uncle Wei, I will not swallow it alone, I will have your share. β
Closing the door, Lu Tao stood alone in the messy living room and pondered.
There was no real leader in this building, it was just a makeshift team of many survivors. The survivors agreed that twenty or so able-bodied men would be on guard, and that those who went out every day would have to give a portion of food to the watchmen.
This way of working together is fair.
However, since more than two months ago, the atmosphere of the team has gradually changed.
First, a man on the third floor robbed a woman of food, and then several people who guarded the entrance of the building every day disappeared. Just last week, a woman on the sixth floor hacked to death with a kitchen knife to a man who was said to have been raped several times by the man, and the survivors' mindset is changing after getting out of the initial danger. There are no police, no one to control, and the free time of the day is basically spent sleeping, and there is no entertainment to vent excess energy. People no longer moved around each other as they had done before, but closed the doors tightly, scrutinizing every outsider with a wary and ferocious gaze.
Lu Tao already sensed the signs of danger.
He had several traps in his room, a backpack full of food and water, and a bundle of rope under his bed that he had to double-check every day. In order to ensure that he could escape in a critical moment, he even hid a bicycle in the green belt downstairs.
For several days in a row, he wandered around the gas station last time, but he never found any trace of Su Hao and the others.
Because, the oil depot is already empty.