658 Albatross
Towards the end of October, all the convoy licences and permits were issued. Shen Nan once again gathered the leading figures in the safety zone in the Third Ring Entertainment City and held a lively celebration banquet, and Hu Yangguang received more than 800 yuan in red envelopes, which can be said to be enthusiastic.
Hong Tao didn't go to this party, and replaced it with a lazy dog and a pony. Anyway, there's nothing serious about going, it's all a good opportunity to eat and drink for nothing, and you have to let the brothers take turns to feel it.
"Do you say that the surname Shen is not so bad, this time you really want to help us find a business owner?" After returning, Hu Yang, who was already a little dizzy, did not sleep immediately, but sneaked into Hongtao's house, intending to talk about human nature again.
Hong Tao didn't sleep, he was lying on a modern hardwood desk, sketching on a map by the flickering oil lamp. With the license plates, the horses and carts are all in place, and in the period before winter, the transportation forces of the alliance are also running non-stop to transport coal, which is a good time for the transportation team to go out to collect work.
But you can't just rush out, how to get on the road is a big problem. Hong Tao is familiar with the city and its surroundings, but does not include the road conditions at this time. After years of destruction by nature and the ravages of man-made floods, it is necessary to sharpen the guns on which roads can still be taken and which roads are impassable.
These days, in addition to moving hamsters day and night, and constantly pouring all kinds of materials back from the red zone, Hong Tao also gave the thin monkey and the water snake a task, asking them to inquire about the situation of the roads around the city in the market, and recorded it in detail, and gathered the fat sheep that repaired the car through the door every few days.
Now all he has to do is to put all the information on the map, whether it's all correct or not, and make sure that he knows it first. In this way, when you pick up the job, you will know whether the road is good or not, and how long the journey is.
"You two are long-lost brothers? Or is it a good comrade-in-arms who has been a soldier on the battlefield? It's really not a base...... Oh, neither, so why would he be kind to a few newcomers? There are so many homeless people here, you go and ask, who has he laughed at more than once. ”
After listening to Populus Hu's question, Hong Tao didn't even raise his head, and only asked a few questions that didn't need to be answered at all. The sugar-coated cannonball is really a big killer, and it is indeed easy for people with good faces and evil hearts to confuse people. After just two contacts, Shen Nan was about to confuse Populus euphratica.
"Will there be a contingency?" Hu Yang still didn't give up, and always felt that Shen Nan showed more kindness than malice.
“…… There must be, no one is a god, how can you fully know what others think. But we don't have to guess whether he is good or malicious, we just need to be vigilant at all times. ”
"If he is well-intentioned, there will be an opportunity to repay it later. It doesn't matter, as long as he doesn't harm us, we'll all be friends. I'm going to try it at the International Trade Bridge tomorrow, so be careful when you stay at home. ”
After marking the last part of the road, Hong Tao put the thin monkey's hand-drawn scratch paper on the oil lamp, lit a cigarette by the way, and did not argue about who is the good guy and who is the bad guy in the world's most difficult problem.
“…… So fast? Hu Yang was a little stunned when he heard that the convoy was going to leave tomorrow.
"It's November soon, and the coal here is very expensive. Thin Monkey heard from the people in the market that the price of coal in Jinmen was cheaper, so I went to see if I could find a job to deliver goods to Jinmen, and by the way, I also pulled a few truckloads of coal back. "Hong Tao's reasons are very good, and they are not all lies, of course, there are still some reasons that are not said.
He had been in the safe zone south of the city for more than a month, and he really wanted to go out and see what was going on in the neighborhood. Now that I have a pass, I feel like grass growing every day, and I can't wait.
"What is the name of the device that you said can talk hundreds of kilometers away, why don't you wait until it is ready?" Hu Yang knew that he could not be persuaded, so he had to try to delay in other aspects.
"It's a lot of electricity, and it's not cost-effective to rely on batteries alone. I heard Shen Nan say that I am afraid that we will not be able to connect to the electricity this year, and besides, we don't have so much money. Don't be afraid, this time is to explore the path and familiarize yourself with the business. I'll only take two cars and three people with me, and let the scalpers stay with you to look after your home. ”
Hu Yang was talking about radio relay equipment, and Hong Tao had planned to build one, and he did find three repeaters in the red zone. But they are all bad, and they need to be disassembled to see if they can be replaced by each other to make one. This is a meticulous job, which requires a lot of instruments, and there is no condition for the time being.
In addition, no one is in a problem with the power problem at present, and the alliance is very strict about the approval of power supply in the safety zone, and this year's quota has been distributed. In this regard, not only Shen Nan had no choice, but even Mrs. Xiushan also said that she couldn't help.
"If we all go out to sports in the future, the house will be empty. If you don't let the water snake come back, it should be enough to keep the thin monkey as an eye and ear. "Don't look at the thick and big poplar, in fact, the mind is quite fine, in addition to charging into battle, it is also quite familiar with logistics management.
"It's better to keep it, it's easier to deal with things when the two of you are together. There is no need to rush the manpower, when we are familiar with the road and the market situation is clear, we can hire people from the homeless people. Anyway, loading, unloading, transporting, and driving are not too confidential things, and you will be smart enough to follow a few trips. ”
Hong Tao is not too worried about the lack of people in the transport team, speaking of which, there is a shortage of people here, especially those who are willing to work hard. He had already thought about running as many times as possible before the beginning of spring, one was to be familiar with the road, and the other was to be a thunderstorm.
Use frequent activities to force out all possible troubles, deal with what you can handle, and close down as soon as possible if you can't cope with it, so as not to burden the employed homeless people to eat melons with you.
Anyway, with the secret entrance in the courtyard, no one can stop me from going out if I want to, it's nothing more than a troublesome point. And with this secret tunnel, even if there is no income from the transport team, everyone will not be cold and hungry.
In the early hours of November 1, just after the rooster crowed for the third time, two four-wheeled carriages slowly drove out of the courtyard gate and headed north along the only main road in Security Zone 5.
There were four people sitting in the carriage, and from the outward appearance it looked like four shadows of a person. They all wore hooded dark trench coats, matching Marine boots, green military pants, and sunglasses. It's not exactly the same this time, but it's all sunglasses.
Needless to say, the albatross transport team, which had only been established for a few days, began its first attempt. Don't get me wrong, this name really didn't come from Hong Tao, it came from Shen Nan. This guy who always tries to make himself look like a Confucian merchant said that the albatross flies high and far, which means very auspicious.
Hu Yang didn't pay much attention to the naming thing, but after listening to it, he thought it was very good, so he gave it up. Hong Tao can't change it if he knows it, Shen Nan has already reported his name to the management office, and the pass has been printed, and if he wants to change his name, he will have to wait at least a year!
But the personnel and equipment for the mission were decided by Hong Tao personally, lazy dogs, stupid pigs, ponies and him, each wearing a Russian army's 6B33 bulletproof vest and 6B27 Kevlar helmet.
It's a pity that there are no ceramic armor pieces in the package of the bulletproof vest, only steel armor pieces, and the ability to resist rifle armor-piercing bullets at medium and close ranges is slightly weaker.
If you want to ask if there will be any trouble in openly wearing military-standard body armor and helmets in the Alliance's security zone, rest assured, the Alliance only restricts the proliferation of standard weapons, and does not care about the homeless people taking any means to protect themselves.
This can also be confirmed by the corpse of You Sihai, who was wearing body armor from the South Korean Army with two of his men. It's a pity that that kind of body armor is mainly used for anti-fragmentation attacks, is relatively light in weight, more comfortable to wear, and has little effect on high-power pistol bullets at close range.
In addition, Hong Tao also prepared four automatic rifles, two shotguns, four pistols, 150 rounds of ammunition per person, two grenades and two walkie-talkies for the four drivers, including himself.
These weapons and ammunition will not be able to be carried in the security zone, but it doesn't matter, most of the weapons and ammunition have been dug out of the burial site a few days ago and transferred through the subway tunnel to two secret locations, one in the nearest subway station staff quarters, and one in the trunk of a car in the garage on the ground floor.
If you can really get the transportation work smoothly, it won't be too far to come back. As long as they get out of the safe zone, the convoy can go as they want, and no one will pay attention to these things outside of the arrival time.