Chapter 109: Apache and the Communication Network
Leon was surprised that there were still living people in the office on the top floor.
It's been 10 months since the disaster struck, and even some small private shelters may not last that long, not to mention that there seems to be more than one person in their situation.
Jasmine, with Sasha and Tessir, stood outside the ornate wooden door with some hesitation, not knowing how to answer.
At this moment, Leon's voice reached the ears of the three again.
"Be careful, stay vigilant, go in with them and see how many survivors there are, who they are."
Whispered a few words with Jasmine, how to prevent accidents after going in, what to say, and so on.
Soon, Leon followed Jasmine's perspective into the top office.
Just saw the scene inside, this originally decorated very luxurious and high-end office, his first impression was dirty and smelly.
The ground was littered with all sorts of strange garbage, no one cleaned it up, the original high-end furniture was piled up in different places, and the air was filled with the stench of human waste, of course, which Leon couldn't understand through the camera, but he knew it from Sasha's disgusted little expression and the curse in his mouth.
In addition to these dirty environments, there were a total of 6 people standing in front of Jasmine.
A white balding old man in a suit, a tall bald mixed-race man, a young and beautiful blonde beautiful girl, a middle-aged Asian man with glasses, and two middle-aged white men in a white military uniform.
Jasmine and Sasha both seemed to recognize the bald half-breed man, and when they saw him, they cried out in surprise.
"It's Johnny the Rock, the action star."
With the famous star Johnny the Rock as a guide, after a period of mutual vigilance, speculation, temptation and communication, Leon also knew the identities of these people.
The white balding old man is a vice president of Delta Air Lines, named Dowton, a beautiful blonde girl named Melissa, the daughter of a top rich man, and the middle-aged Asian man with glasses is a personal doctor named Chen Jingzhong, who is also Melissa's assistant and bodyguard, and the two middle-aged men are actually wearing the captain's flight suit, they are both Delta Airlines captains.
In the aftermath of the disaster, Johnny the Rock, as well as Melissa and her assistant Chen Jingzhong, were first-class guests, and they fled to the vice president's office under the leadership of the captain of the plane.
According to Johnny the Rock, there were 18 of them at first, all of whom were first-class customers.
Later as time passed. Some of them committed suicide because they couldn't stand the oppressive environment, some people tried to escape from the rooftop office surrounded by zombies and disappeared, and some were eaten by zombies in the process of breaking out.
The failure of the others also made the remaining 6 people dare not act rashly, there is a backup power supply and a considerable amount of supplies, relying on the equipment here, the rain from the outside world, and the restraint between each other, they have survived until now.
recounted this embarrassing past, and this action superstar, who once enjoyed fame in the world, also sighed a little embarrassed.
"I originally came back from abroad and was going to transfer to Hollywood to shoot a new movie, but I didn't expect the world to suddenly change like this, hey."
"I don't know what happened to my family."
After learning the purpose of Jasmine and the others, Dalton, the vice president of Delta Air Lines, happily handed over his ID card and told a lot of information about Jackson Airport.
In a fairly friendly environment, both sides talked about their past experiences, no matter how many truths and lies there were, but finding the vice president of Delta Air Lines and the two captains of the plane was a windfall for Lyon.
"Jasmine, now that you've found your ID card, you can take them down with you to meet us."
In the face of Jasmine's invitation, although these survivors had some apprehension and fear, they did not dare to give up this only opportunity that had been waiting for nearly a year to appear, and after struggling for a few minutes, they all followed Jasmine and the others, avoiding the passage of zombie corpses everywhere, and came to the waiting hall on the first floor where Leon and others were.
After the two sides met, everyone's mood was a little complicated.
However, in the face of the so-called action superstar, the daughter of a rich man, the vice president of an airline and the captain of an airplane, Leon doesn't care much, in the current world, the past identity has become a void, and the only thing that can measure the value of existence is his own ability.
Leon only politely chatted with them, introduced the situation of the Umbrella Company, and then turned his attention to Team Rick.
After more than an hour of fighting, Rick and the others had cleared a safe road behind the departure hall, which was directly connected to the warehouse area of the airport.
Jackson Airport has a large warehouse area and a large number of warehouses, and as one of the busiest airports in the world, there are more supplies waiting to be transported here than many people think.
In contrast, the security of the entire warehouse area of Jackson Airport is much stricter than that of many warehouses, except for the outermost concrete fence, the top of the entire warehouse area has a steel skeleton to build a sealed roof, no living thing can enter or exit, and the only entrance and exit is the cargo passage on the right side of the departure hall.
Leon looked at the time and found that it was close to noon, he turned to the members of Jasmine's team behind him and said:
"We're going to clear the freight lanes and finish the preliminary work for fuel transportation this morning."
After saying that, he said to the few survivors who were rescued:
"You're all following Peggy, and in the afternoon, someone will be there to take you to safety."
Following the safe passage cleared by Rick and others, Leon and others quickly joined them, and the long battle made these elite soldiers fall into physical exhaustion, but there was no way, before the transportation channel was cleared, the outside vehicles could not enter the warehouse area, and they could not get food supplies, and if they wanted to carry out a thorough repair, they had to open the passage or return the same way.
Hungry and exhausted, everyone came to the safe passage of goods under the guidance of the vice president named Dowton.
However, as a place where porters gather, the number of zombies here is very large, about 200 or so.
Standing on the periphery of the freight passage, looking at the group of zombies gathered inside, Leon asked Rick and Jasmine with a smile on his lips:
"There are so many zombies here, what are you going to do?"
In fact, in this group of people, only his physical strength is almost not consumed, and his combat power is much higher than that of ordinary people, like this kind of rotten zombies whose joints and muscles have rotted, even if the number exceeds 200, it doesn't even take half an hour for Leon to kill them all.
And Jasmine and Rick both know that this mission is actually a kind of assessment for them by Leon, and they both want to perform more outstanding and be recognized by Leon, only in this way can they occupy a higher position in the organization in the future.
After thinking about it for dozens of seconds, Jasmine took the lead in thinking of a way, she used the climbing rope and grappling hook on her body, and it only took more than ten seconds to climb to the top of a cargo box more than 4 meters high, and then used the climbing rope, from light to heavy, to pull her team members onto the top of this cargo box, and with the help of the insurmountable advantage in height, she directly took out the silencer pistol and started the shooting mode.
And Rick's side also used a similar method, most of them were macho men in their team, so they directly chose a corner location, and placed an empty cargo box in the shape of a horn, effectively preventing the siege of the zombie group, leaving only a small gap in the front place, so that the corpse group can only squeeze in one or two zombies at a time, and change the mode of zombie beating to the mode of them beating zombies.
Seeing the actions of the two teams, Leon nodded approvingly, dealing with zombies is not an honest physical struggle, as long as you use your brains a little and change the environment of both sides, these stupid monsters will be easier to deal with than children who have just become adults.
This is also what he has been advocating since the beginning of the disaster, using the brain to solve the enemy.
Half an hour later, after Leon cleaned up the few zombies attracted by their group, all the zombies were killed by the two squads.
Looking at the members of the Stinger Squad who were already so tired that they were almost paralyzed on the ground, Leon glanced at the stunned survivors behind him and smiled with satisfaction.
From the beginning of this mission to the present, in addition to the zombies killed by Leon, Rick Jasmine and other eight people, in just one morning, almost seven or eight hundred zombies have been killed, and more than 100 are distributed to each person's head, which is an unimaginable number for those survivors who dare not fight with zombies.
Such a record is enough to prove the bravery and toughness of Rick and others, as well as the combat effectiveness of the Stinger team.
"You guys take a break here for a while, and clear the area that is blocking the passage of traffic."
"I'm going to drive our supply trucks in, let's have lunch together and take a break."
"In the afternoon, our convoy will come, and then the task will not be so urgent."
Leon smiled and gave a few orders, then used Dowton's ID card to open the door to the transportation aisle, and led Peggy to the place where they had stored their supply vehicles.
Towards noon, Leon and the others enjoyed a hearty lunch, and people like Johnny the Rock and Dalton were already disgusted by the single-tasting emergency food in the office on the top floor.
In the face of fresh fruits and vegetables, fresh meat and cold drinks brought by Leon and others, these celebrities who had a considerable status in the past began to gobble up, and the embarrassed eating was no better than the homeless and beggars on the street.
After lunch, after an hour or two of rest, the afternoon battle was indeed much easier.
Although the area in the warehouse area is very large, because they usually rely on vehicles to carry them, there are not too many workers, and after Leon and others have cleaned up dozens of zombies, a black Apache helicopter gunship has flown over their heads.
From Leon's walkie-talkie came the sound of Lily's communication.
"Boss, the gunship is in place, and the follow-up convoy will arrive in two hours."
"Waiting for a follow-up mission."
Hearing this, Leon took the laptop in Peggy's hand, looked at the dense group of corpses surrounding the wreckage of the burning plane, thought for a moment and said:
"I didn't see the dense crowd of tens of thousands of zombies."
"Fire freely, let me see the power of the Apache gunship."
There seemed to be a pause on the other end of the intercom for a second or two before Leon heard Lily reply in a somewhat excited voice:
"Okay, boss, watch me fire all the way and tear them apart."
Even in her military career, Lily had never encountered a battle that required the full firepower of an Apache helicopter, and with her operation, the black Apache helicopter gunship seemed to be transformed into an arms fortress flying in the air.
Two M-261 19-pack 2.75-inch (70mm) Sea Snake -70 rocket launchers, two sets of quadruple M-299 missile launchers with AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles, eight AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles, and one M-230 chain gun with 3,000 rounds in reserve.
Such firepower is enough to deal with a tank group of 20 tanks alone in an open area.
Boom! Da-da-da-da!
With the firepower of the Apache helicopter gunship, in less than 5 minutes, the group of tens of thousands of zombies gathered together was torn apart by a full fifth, and almost more than 10,000 zombies were directly torn to pieces by the Apache fire.
Such a power can't help but make Leon feel emotional, human creativity for weapons is really unimaginable, nuclear bombs, hydrogen bombs, thermobaric air bombs, the power of each weapon is devastating.
Unfortunately, the number of professional pilots in the umbrella company is too small at present, and they have powerful weapons, but it will take a long time to train the talents to use them.
Lily's slightly gasping voice of excitement continued.
"Boss, I've poured all my firepower out and am waiting for the next order."
Leon observed it for a moment, then continued to order:
"There are no other orders for the time being, so you can find a nearby high place to land and continue to attract the attention of the zombie group."
"Watch the fuel and wait for the next order."
After giving Lily the order, the entire operation also fell into a brief standstill, waiting for more than an hour, and when the Glenn team escorted a convoy of more than 100 large fuel tankers to Jackson Airport, the whole mission gradually came to an end.
The number of nearly 100,000 tons of high-grade fuel in the fuel warehouse is too much, and a hundred large tank trucks can only transport nearly 2,000 tons of high-grade fuel at a time, while 100,000 tons of high-grade fuel oil needs them to transport nearly 50 times.
However, high-grade fuel also has the benefits of high-grade fuel, although the ignition value of aircraft fuel and ordinary fuel is different, and it is difficult to use ordinary cars, but equipment such as fuel generators, high-grade fuel can be used for a longer time, consume less, and so on, even if it is more than ten or twenty years, it can continue to be used.
In the following time, Leon and the Glenn team firmly attracted the attention of the zombie group by blowing up the wreckage of the plane on the airport several times, and their logistics personnel, under the guidance of Vice President Dalton and Professor Amlin, completely emptied all valuable items in the entire Jackson Airport within ten consecutive days.
Among them, the most valuable, in addition to the 100,000 tons of high-grade fuel oil, there is also a small communication radar system that can be directly connected to communication satellites.
Although it is temporarily unusable due to various reasons such as equipment transfer, lack of manpower, signal interruption, etc., Professor Amlin patted his chest and promised that he would gather people as soon as possible to search for information, repair the communication system, and establish a set of information networks for the entire umbrella company that can cover the entire America, so that mankind can return to the information age again.
(End of chapter)