Chapter 32: Recuperation
After the two sides converged, Qin Yue roughly recounted what happened, although everyone felt sorry for the loss of the tanker truck, but no one complained when they saw that the fat man was safe, and after a simple repair, he immediately restarted in the night.
He Shan was still driving the off-road vehicle, Qin Yue was sitting in the co-pilot and studying the map against the lights, and the fat man leaned on the back seat and it didn't take long for him to snor again.
"No, I'll open it, you come to my side and squint for a while." Qin Yue glanced at He Shan, who was yawning, and put away the map.
"No, I'm still holding on to ......" He Shan squeezed the tears in his eyes and regained his spirits.
"Listen to me, stop the car." Qin Yue said as he unbuckled his seat belt.
"There is a situation!" He Shan's face tightened at this time.
Qin Yue hurriedly looked, and a two-story building outline appeared at the right-turn bend fifty meters ahead, with walls on all sides, and an arched iron fence gate in the middle, and there seemed to be something written on the door.
"Let's take a look." Qin Yue frowned, grabbed the walkie-talkie and informed the car behind of him of the situation, asking them to park on the spot.
The off-road vehicle stopped in front of the fence gate, and under the illumination of the headlights, you can clearly see several large words on the door that "Yongjun Auto Repair Factory"
There is an iron chain lock tied to the fence gate, the light shines clearly through the gap between the fences, the gate is facing a large doorway, two maintenance bridges extend from the doorway, which is full of various car parts, the back wall is connected to the front face, and it seems to be a backyard through the doorway.
"The door is locked, and there should be no danger inside." He Shan grabbed the big lock on the chain and looked at it.
"Then you can't be careless, find a way to pry the door open first, and after confirming that it is safe, it can be used as a temporary camp." Qin Yue looked around and said.
"I remember that Xuanzi seemed to find a pair of steel tongs in the service area, but I don't know if he brought it." He Shan was a little unsure, "I'll go get the walkie-talkie and ask." ”
Qin Yue nodded, turned on the flashlight and looked around, there was a row of small bungalows more than ten meters away on the right side of the repair shop, half of them were hotels and half of them were rooms for parking and accommodation, Qin Yue checked them one by one, and found no signs of living corpse activity.
When Qin Yue returned to the front of the repair shop, he saw that Xie Xuan had already rushed over, and at this moment he was holding a handful of steel shears and He Shan's iron chain on the fence gate, and the fat man who had just woken up stood aside to shine a flashlight on them.
"Is it easy to get it?" Qin Yue stepped forward to take a look.
"No problem, I'll do it right away!" Xie Xuan's face turned red, his arms "clicked" hard, and a chain was cut open.
He Shan quickly untied the iron chain, and then pushed inward with Qin Yue one by one, and the two fence gates with rollers were pushed to the limit in the piercing rust grinding sound.
Xie Xuan put down the steel clamps and followed the fat man at the same time with their respective fully automatic ones.
The workshop is not very large, and in the doorway directly from the gate is the repair shop, which smells of heavy engine oil, is full of car parts, and there is an old Santana on a two-column lift.
On the left is an iron staircase leading to the second floor, and at the back is a small courtyard that is connected to stack the scrap parts and old tires that have been replaced.
The second floor is used as a place for repair shop employees to rest and cook, although the upper and lower areas are the same, but the second floor is divided into four small rooms, which are fully equipped with daily necessities.
After confirming the safety, Qin Yue beckoned He Shan to reverse the off-road vehicle, and at the same time notified Xiaozhuang with the walkie-talkie, and the bus quickly drove over, and it slowly poured into the repair shop under the command of the fat man.
The room on the second floor was quickly cleaned up, and except for Su Xue, who was alone in one room, everyone else was crowded together in two or three.
Xiao Zhuang hadn't said a word since he got off the bus, and at the moment he was sitting alone on the windowsill on the second floor and looking out in a daze.
There were less than three hours before dawn, and it happened to be Xiao Zhuang's turn to be on duty, so Qin Yue didn't come forward to disturb.
Everyone was tossed by the mutant pig for most of the night, and at this time they were already physically and mentally tired, and it didn't take long for them to fall asleep.
A few hours passed, Qin Yue heard the sound of electric welding in a daze, turned over and got up to find that Xie Xuan beside him was gone, and the smell of rice wafted from outside the door.
When I walked out of the room, I saw Su Xue cooking in the simple kitchen at the top of the stairs, everyone else was busy downstairs, and Xiao Zhuang was sleeping alone in the next room.
Qin Yue didn't bother him, walked to the staircase and said a few words to Su Xue before going downstairs.
I saw He Shan carrying a square steel to the front yard, and Shen Kai, who was not far away, was moving an oxygen cylinder out.
"Shanzi, what are you doing?" Qin Yue stepped forward and stopped him.
"Xuanzi is reinforcing the vehicle, Xiao Kai and I will give him a hand." He Shan wiped the sweat from his face.
"It's a long-term idea, but I don't know what the technology is." Qin Yue smiled and stepped forward to help Shen Kai.
"It looks like it." He Shan also smiled.
"Brother Xuanzi said that their family used to run a repair shop, and this work is pediatrics." Shen Kai turned the oxygen cylinder.
While speaking, the three of them had already walked out of the doorway, and Xie Xuan, who was standing on the herringbone ladder and measuring the size of the car window, heard Shen Kai's words and turned his head to look over.
"Brother Yue, wake up, come and see how I have changed!"
Qin Yue helped Shen Kai remove the oxygen cylinder from the door and let go, walked to the bus and looked at it, "Yes, it would be better if you could add a shovel like a bulldozer to the front face." ”
Xie Xuan wiped the hot sweat from his forehead, "I thought about it a long time ago, there are two discarded steel plates in the backyard, weld them at a forty-five-degree angle, and then reinforce the front bumper." ”
"It's a way." Qin Yue nodded, bent down and patted the wheel hub, "Can this piece be changed?" ”
Xie Xuan looked at it, "It depends on how you change it." ”
Qin Yue looked at the wheels, "If you can add an iron spike or other sharp weapon to the silhouette like the ancient chariot, in case you encounter a group of corpses, at least you can prevent them from lying on the window." ”
"Iron Thorn ......" Xie Xuan frowned, and suddenly his eyes lit up, "Yes, I remember that there are a few shock-absorbing plates in the backyard that can be used." ”
Qin Yue nodded, "That's up to you." ”
Xie Xuan frowned again at this time, "However, if all this work is done, it will be night......
Qin Yue thought for a while, "Okay, don't be in a hurry for this day, what we want is to arrive safely, Xuanzi, this task will be handed over to you." ”
Xie Xuan smiled, "Don't worry, I promise to complete the task!" ”
Qin Yue looked around, "Why didn't you see the fat man?" ”
"Xiao Cui is making a gun target in the backyard," Yao Aiguo walked out of the doorway.
"Gun target?" Qin Yue was stunned, "What gun target?" ”
"It's the target we shot at, the kind we saw at the shooting range before." Yao Aiguo gestured.
Qin Yue came to the backyard full of doubts and saw the fat man pasting a crooked target with a picture on a tire standing on the table.
"What are you painting this thing for?" Qin Yue stepped forward and looked at him puzzled and asked him.
"We don't lack guns now, what we lack is people who shoot guns," the fat man turned his head to look at him, "In addition to you and me, He Shan and Young Master Zhuang in our team, have you seen anyone else shoot them?" ”
Qin Yue frowned, "Are you trying to ......?"
The fat man turned around and raised the arm hanging around his neck, "See, don't you want to hold a gun for ten and a half days and a half months without him, the only one who has ever played with a gun now is the one left, Young Master Zhuang is a master who often plays missing, you said that if you encounter some danger in the past ten days, how can you and He Shan protect everyone?" It's not like we're out of conditions now, so I want to take this opportunity to train another batch of gunners. ”
Qin Yue nodded, "I really didn't expect this before, fatty, your idea is very timely, I will arrange for everyone to start after eating, and the work of vehicle reinforcement will be left until the evening." ”
The fat man blushed and scratched his head, "Lao Qin, I am to blame for what happened last night, if it weren't for me, our tanker truck would be fine now......"
"It's a blessing that you're okay," Qin Yue smiled, "If the old doesn't go, the new won't come......"
In the last sentence, Qin Yue said it to the fat man and himself.
For the fat man, the old world where Qin Yue is located is the future, and for Qin Yue, the present is the new world, people can neither live in the past nor live in the future, the present is life.