Chapter XXII. Long
The next day, Yi Ling was called up by Zhang Mingwei in his sleep, Yi Ling rubbed his eyes and didn't understand the situation, Zhang Mingwei stuffed the pistol into Yi Ling's hand, and hurriedly pulled Yi Ling out.
Starting with the cold steel, Yi Ling suddenly sobered up a lot, subconsciously held the pistol, and followed behind Zhang Mingwei to wait for him to give an explanation.
"Yi Ling follow, there is a group of survivors outside!"
Someone out there?!
Hearing this, Yi Ling's sleepiness dissipated directly, the biggest threat to survival in the last days is not only the food crisis, but also the most terrifying thing is other kinds.
Following Zhang Mingwei to a dark corner on the side of the road and looking out, Yi Ling saw the survivor in his mouth.
It was several survivors in heavy metal clothes, not so much clothes as cauldron lids, covering them tightly from top to bottom, and if you looked closely, you could see some shadows of the front hoods of cars on top of this cauldron lid.
This should also be a homemade chemical protective suit, a steel suit made of the front hood of a car, and the inside should be inlaid with some lead plates or something.
Wearing such heavy clothing, several survivors had a particularly difficult walk, holding a long iron rod and pulling the remains on the side of the road as they went.
Occasionally, some food could be found on the remains on the side of the road, and the survivors were surprised to receive the food into the bag, and then looked around vigilantly at the other survivors.
The survivors are not monolithic inside......
Yi Ling watched the group of tin cans go farther and farther away, pondering.
These survivors are organized, disciplined, and most importantly, protected, even if it is a simple protective suit, not even a gas mask or eyepiece, but such protective equipment can stump 99% of the survivors.
First of all, thanks to the unique advantages of the automobile city, they have sufficient equipment to process steel materials, and secondly, it is difficult to get such a thing as lead plates, that is, there are many material stores around the automobile city, otherwise it is not easy to get these lead plates.
The unique advantage allows the survivors here to go out and search for supplies in the radiation environment, but the unique environment of the Motor City also determines that it is impossible to find enough materials to live in its surroundings.
There are many small supermarkets and small shops, but there is no large supermarket.
Small supermarkets generally do not have cold storage, and even if they do, they are very small, so how many people can they feed with that little thing on the shelf? What's more, there are many things that have been destroyed and polluted in the last days, and there are even fewer that can be safely eaten.
And when it comes to food, water is even more scarce.
Originally, it was an urban area, and the water was supported by tap water, and the rural countryside could also rely on groundwater to live, and the river by the canal could also rely on flowing water to live, but the automobile city was a reinforced concrete jungle, and it was not easy to get enough water resources!
After the tap water is cut off, the only safe source of water is bottled water, it is not raining in the sky, the problem is the rain falling from the sky, who dares to drink it? Probably only those who are on the verge of dying of thirst dare to drink this kind of thing.
Industrial equipment gives the survivors here a natural advantage, and the basic zero survival resources also make the survivors here miserable, in order to increase the supply, send people out to find supplies, how can the materials brought back feed so many people?
Where there are disputes, there will be struggles, and the result of struggles is a living life.
Yi Ling had no intention of provoking these survivors, but just vigilantly watched them go farther and farther away, until they disappeared at the end of the field of vision, and then let go of the hanging heart.
Zhang Mingwei's muzzle gestured at the group of people: "Yi Ling, can the pistol penetrate their turtle shells?"
"They must have welded two pieces of the front hood of the car together, filled with lead plates or something." Yi Ling said with a somewhat gloomy face: "The two Type 64 in the hands of Zhou Xingyuan and Li Shuying will definitely not be able to wear this clothes, and the Type 92 we take should be able to penetrate this iron shell, but it is difficult to say how much power is left."
"Can a head hit kill you with a single blow?"
"Headshot?" Yi Ling rolled his eyes: "Do you think you play shooting games?" The human skull is very hard! Normally, the skull can't stop a bullet, but if you're wearing a helmet, it's a different story entirely, and the bullet will be so powerful that it's almost impossible to pierce the skull. ”
"Then where do you say you should fight?"
"Hitting the lungs and beating the heart can kill with one blow." Yi Ling pointed to his chest and said: "After the lung is injured, the blood will leak out, filling the entire lung, and then it will suffocate to death, and the heart injury will directly affect the blood supply to the whole body, and the lack of oxygen will cause death."
"So that's the case, I always thought I had to take the ......lead," Zhang Mingwei muttered embarrassedly and complained.
"How difficult it is to hit the head, if you want to cause a fatal injury, hit the chest." Yi Ling pushed Zhang Mingwei's shoulders away and walked in the direction of the RV: "Walked back, it's not safe here, we have to move quickly."
Back in the RV, Li Shuying, who was sleeping like a pig, woke up, and everyone moved all the batteries that had been neatly arranged onto the pickup truck, drove them to a remote place in the outer ring to hide, and then walked back to the city.
The group of survivors was long gone, and only the clean corpses along the way proved that they had been there.
Zhang Mingwei suggested that everyone go home, this time the harvest was rich enough, but Yi Ling was unwilling to give up the RV.
If this RV is modified, the front windshield is replaced with bulletproof glass, and then a protective fence is installed in front of the bulletproof glass, and everyone will travel more safely in the future.
Then thicken the armor of the RV, add a crash angle to the front, and install a protective fence and anti-climbing structure on the roof of the RV, which is a mobile fortress.
The boss spoke, and everyone couldn't refute it, so they could only discuss the feasibility of the plan.
The first thing to do is to fix the motorhome, at least to get it moving, which requires a professional to inspect and repair it, and it shouldn't be difficult to find such a survivor in the Motor City.
The second is the equipment and materials that need to be modified for vehicles, there are not many such modification shops in the automobile city, Yi Ling decided to try his luck at the special vehicle modification shop.
There are several SUVs on display in the tuning shop, and you can see that they have been modified to be bulletproof by looking at the appearance, and everyone looks at each other and comes forward to test the car.
This time it was good luck, two of the four SUVs were still running.
The price of Yi Ling's car smacked his lips: "This thing is really not cheap, before the change, the total assets of our few together couldn't afford to buy half of this thing, but now it's ......."
Everyone entered the factory and began to check the equipment one by one, and at this time, Yi Ling noticed the problem.
The door of the garage in the factory was touched.
Everything else was covered with dust, and here there was a clear dividing line, and this door had recently been opened.
Gesturing to Zhang Mingwei, Yi Ling quietly approached the garage door with a gun, and Zhang Mingwei followed, the two of them left and right, covering each other's attack corners.
Li Shuying opened the garage door, and as the door slowly opened, a black figure hurriedly jumped back.
"Don't move!" Yi Ling scolded angrily, the muzzle of the gun was slightly oblique, and pulled the trigger.
The dull sound of gunfire was so harsh, and the black figure stood stunned in place, motionless.
"Don't, don't kill my dad!"
A gray figure jumped out of a large truck next to her, and the man blocked her father with his body.
The man in black, whom she called her father, also hugged her, and the two hugged each other.
Is this father and daughter the only ones here?
Yi Ling frowned, biting the father and daughter with the muzzle of the gun, and shouted to Zhang Mingwei without looking back.
"Brother Zhang, check if there are any other survivors around."
"Understood." Zhang Mingwei took the order and left, and the father and daughter also spoke.
"Wait, is there some misunderstanding between us!"
"There's no misunderstanding, it's just a matter of starting first." Yi Ling said coldly, pointing to the truck that was facing the garage door.
"Isn't your daughter also sitting in a truck ready to hit her, if I hadn't pointed my gun at you, I guess this truck would have hit her, right?"
The man in black was stunned by the question, and he didn't squeak for a long time, so he could only change the topic.
"Little brother, I see that you are dressed in clothes, don't you look like a person from the Motor City?"
"Don't call me a brother, who is a brother to you? Where do I care about your business? ”
Faced with the overtures of the man in black, Yi Ling didn't appreciate it, and asked coldly: "Tell me, what is the situation of the survivors in the Motor City now, is there anyone else in this factory besides you, and why are you two here."
The man in black hugged his daughter, and wanted to sit down and talk slowly, but in the face of the muzzle of the black hole, he really didn't dare to make any movements, so he could only stand honestly and answer: "There are only two people in this factory, my daughter and me, we only recently escaped from that hell, and that hell-like place is the underground garage of the Motor City...... Can I sit down and say? ”
"Please." Yi Ling nodded his gun and motioned for the man to continue.
The man breathed a sigh of relief, his calves were weak due to the sound of gunshots, and he stumbled several times before he sat down with difficulty, and continued: "When the nuclear bomb exploded, there were thousands of survivors in the underground garage, and at first everyone was not short of food, and they could coexist peacefully, but within a week, everyone's food had been eaten, and some hungry people went out to look for food, but they went out and never came back."
"Dare to go out less than a week after the nuclear bomb exploded, do you really think that nuclear radiation is a joke?"
Yi Ling sneered, but the man shook his head.
"But what can we do, there is no food, no water, everyone stays in the basement and ends up starving, it is better to go out and look for it, and see if we can find a way to live......"
Yi Ling was silent when he heard this, and nodded his gun to signal the man to continue.
"More and more people are hungry and go out in search of food and water, but none of them have been able to come back, seven or eight hundred...... Just died outside. ”
The man sighed, there was no sadness in his tone, but he was a little lucky, probably glad that he had survived the disaster.
"A third of the people died at once, and everyone calmed down and began to look for a way to get out safely."
"So you came up with the idea of removing the front hood of a car and turning it into clothes?"
"Yes, that's a mechanic foreman came up with it." The man looked up at the ceiling, a little melancholy: "They removed the front hood of the car, made a shape, welded it with lead strips, removed the leather from the leather seats, fitted it inside, and made such steel armor."
"We just saw a team of survivors like this, and it seems that this method is working."
"Yes, yes, hehe, the foreman of the garage went out with someone and brought back a lot of food and water, but what?" Speaking of this, the man laughed self-deprecatingly: "Since ancient times, people have not been widowed but have suffered unevenly, even if they brought back supplies and distributed them to others, the survivors are still resentful of them, jealous that they can go out, jealous that they have sufficient supplies, in short, jealous of everything they ......"
"And then, a conflict broke out in the underground garage?"
"Well, there are careerists who pull up a team and when the search party returns, close the gate and attack...... The search team was completely wiped out, and all the equipment and equipment were confiscated......" The man said this, his eyes overflowing with murderous intent: "After they obtained the supplies and equipment, they killed all those who dared to resist them, treated their wives and daughters as slaves, and exercised cruel rule, they sent their cronies out to search for supplies, and when the materials found were less and less, their rule became more and more brutal."
"All the old and weak were put to death, and all the women were taken into slavery. They feed on human flesh and wantonly kill those who do not want to join them. ”
"It's all a bunch of crazy people...... Yi Ling scolded secretly and put the gun away: "Say, who are you the foreman in your mouth."
"That foreman is my brother......" The man pondered for a while and decided to confess truthfully: "They brutally killed my brother, and my sister-in-law was also murdered by them, my wife...... We didn't survive, only my daughter and I survived. ”
"Oh?" Yi Ling glanced at the man up and down, and smiled: "With your small body, how did you escape?"
"I'm just an auto mechanic." The man's eyes stared at Yi Ling's mask, as if he could penetrate the blindfold and make eye contact with Yi Ling: "They found enough supplies, so they decided to go back to replenish them first, leaving me and my daughter to repair this heavy truck, we repaired the power system of the car, added armor, and even began to install photovoltaic cells for the car, but the bad news came suddenly."
"You know there's something going on in the basement?"
"Well, there are brothers who told us everything through the walkie-talkie." The man pursed his lips and said calmly: "I drove the car, smashed the door of the garage, saw the sea of corpses and blood, and saw the corpse mountain. Humiliated to death by my wife, I was so angry that I wanted to drive and crush the bunch of miscellaneous. But they hid behind the pillar like a swarm of rats, and I knew that I had no chance of revenge, so I had no choice but to flee......"
"After all, you have a lovely daughter."
"Yes, she is my hope to live."
The man hugged his daughter, his voice choked.
Auto mechanic......
Yi Ling massaged his temples, his mind turned around, and said, "You are very lucky, my shelter happens to be short of auto mechanics, I can give you a chance to see your abilities."
"Why should I join you? You were still pointing a gun at me just now! ”
"If I were really the bad guy, I should have shot you and killed you and arrested your lovely and beautiful daughter." Yi Ling smiled and beckoned: "Brother Zhang, come here."
Zhang Mingwei walked out of the shadow of the truck and pointed his gun at the father and daughter: "Yi Ling, what's wrong?"
"You take his daughter and check the RV for breakdowns, we have to drive the RV away, you, come with me to load the equipment onto the truck."
"Alright, boss." Zhang Mingwei grinned, and the muzzle of the gun swayed: "Little beauty, do you want to be pointed at my gun, or go by yourself."
"I have legs of my own, so I won't bother you."
The voice of the woman in gray was a little hoarse, like a smoke voice, she was tall, and she felt that her temper was quite irritable.
Yi Ling looked at the gray-clothed figure from afar, touched his chin with interest, and the man in black was anxiously buttoning his head on the side, which made Yi Ling a little embarrassed.
"We're not bad guys, what's your hurry? Hurry up and get all this equipment in the car? Or do you want to be held at gunpoint too? ”
The situation is stronger than people, and the man in black can only watch his daughter go away, gritting his teeth and replying: "These equipment can't be moved by manpower at all, there is a forklift in the factory that can still be driven, and only by using a forklift can these equipment be moved."
"Do you know how to drive a forklift?"
"Well, I can open it, but I need your help to set up the equipment and tie it up."
"Well, no problem, let's get to work first."
……
"Chick, don't talk so impulsively, our boss is also a good person."
"If you take the muzzle of your gun off when you say that, I feel like I'm more convinced."
Feeling the contempt in the woman's tone, Zhang Mingwei smiled coldly, and just wanted to teach her a lesson, a tingling pain came from his waist.
"Zhang Mingwei, who are you calling a chick?"
"Hiss, daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law, I was wrong, let go." Zhang Mingwei gritted his teeth and closed the pistol safety, and then grabbed the troublesome little hand on his waist.
"Don't be skinny, don't get down to business?"
Zhou Xingyuan had a kind smile on his face, and asked with a smile: "Yo, our Uncle Zhang's business is to call other people's chicks."
"Where do you want to go daughter-in-law, this is the car repairman found by Boss Yi Ling, and asked me to take her to repair the car."
"Take someone to repair the car, you have to stick so close? Why don't you hug it? Yes? ”
"I'm so close, I'm pointing a gun at her for fear that she'll run away! You just pinched me and almost pulled the trigger by reflex! ”
Zhang Mingwei was also a little annoyed, and glanced at Zhou Xingyuan fiercely, and Miss Zhou also knew that she was almost in trouble, so she hurriedly took a few steps back and didn't dare to speak.
Ay...... It's been too long to live comfortably, and it's not a place to flirt outside, and any wayward behavior can lead to unexpected results.