The Rebirth of the Last Days and Return to [Fang] Hao

At 8:30 in the morning, the military vehicles arrived. The squads were all set up and followed, in formation, behind the military convoy.

This time the military dispatched five large trucks, including ground combat vehicles, tanks, rocket launchers, and so on. That assortment was a lot more than the batch of things He Zizhong had collected outside the city before.

It seems that in the last defensive battle, although the military did consume a lot of ammunition, it still retained a lot of things.

After seeing these cars, He Zizhong and his colleagues at least let down the half the worries. It seems that the base really wants to get those equipment back. At best, they will be used as manpower for heavy firearms and cannon fodder. The mission shouldn’t be deliberately aimed at ability people.

The convoy was mighty and drew a long trail on the highway after leaving the base.

He Zizhong and the Samsara team’s vehicles were responsible for opening the road and defending the military convoy, smashing the zombies not far away, and slowly advancing northwest.

He Zizhong had two walkie-talkies in their car. One is dedicated to the military, and the other is in contact with Guo Bing and the others. In order to distinguish them, Fang Hao pulled out colored stickers from the space. Green was stuck on the one with Guo Bing and the others, and red was pasted on the military walkie-talkie.

The convoy advanced all day in a boring, bitter manner, before stopping by a highway when the sky darkened. The cars and teams got off to rest for one night.

When getting out of the vehicles, both Fang Hao and He Zizhong felt their legs were numb and bodies stiff. No one could bear it after a long time of driving and riding.

Even if they had gone out for tasks before, they would stop at least twice a day, and take a break in the middle. Unless there is an emergency, who would drive so long without a pause in the middle?

“We only traveled so far today?” Fang Hao checked the map against the signage on the road and dilapidated buildings. The distance they advanced today was much slower than when they went out before, even after factoring they usually rested once or twice in the middle of the day.

“There are too many vehicles coming out this time, and the road ahead is slow, so we can only travel slowly.” Although there are all types of armored vehicles with strong off-road capabilities, there are still many trucks ready to transport equipment back . In order to clear the way for these vehicles, the armored vehicles in front had to move forward while clearing the roadblocks and zombies that came their way. How could their speed be fast?

“Brother He, why don’t you you two come over to eat together?” Guo Bing’s voice came from the green walkie-talkie. He Zizhong replied, looking around for the Samsara team, and walked over.

When the cars parked, most of the small teams gathered on one side, and the military gathered on the other side.

The Samsara team wasn’t far away from the Overlord team. Busy with other big and small matters in the team, Allen was unable to spare any time thinking about hooking other people’s boyfriends; those women and men his team are too busy, how can he think about Fang Hao?

Although he saw He Zizhong and Fang Hao not far away when resting, Allen, who was busy calculating with Yin Dong how to make more money in this mission, could only put this kind of thing off to the side.

He Zizhong and Fang Hao ignored the situation on Overlord’s side. After sitting down, they participated in the conversation between Guo Bing and the others.

“At this speed, it would be nice if we could reach the refinery within five days.” Guo Bing took out a cigarette, sniffed it under his nose, and put it behind his ears.

“To get to the arsenal, barring any accidents on the road, it might take seven or eight days. Even up to ten days.” Chen Ning moved his fingers on the map and raised his eyes to look at Guo Bing. “Fortunately, we left enough back at the base, otherwise if we can’t return in time, they might need to go out and exchange things.”

He Zizhong and Fang Hao also left the things to pay their rent in the Samsara villa before leaving this time. Let the housekeepers pay rent for them when the time comes. The Samsara logistics staff did not participate in the operation this time. They stayed at the base to beat zombies, dig crystal nuclei, and take care of the villa.

“The amount of gasoline we can carry in each car is limited this time. Even if the military has more, it will be used up. They will always rush to the first replenishment point before it runs out.” He Zizhong’s tapped on their first goal-the refinery.

As several people talked, the team members in charge of cooking prepared the meals. When the went out this time, the number of Samsara members was relatively small, so the two groups decided to join forces. He Zizhong and Fang Hao brought the rice and flour they prepared in advance to the Samsara team. In addition, there were some salted duck eggs and preserved eggs1Preserved eggs, century eggs, songhua egg, etc. Are all the same thing. collected before the end of the world. At noon, because the troops did not stop for a rest, everyone ate in their own car. After that, they would eat a big pot of rice together in the morning and evening.

With the preserved eggs they contributed, the person in charge of cooking simply made preserved egg and lean meat porridge. The mean was also contributed by them – dried meat. Although the taste was a little worse and the quantity wasn’t much, it was still meat. Coupled with preserved eggs and dried green onions, a big pot of fragrant porridge with hard pancakes bought from the base… everyone ate a warm mouthful.

For a time, bursts of fragrance came from the fire surrounded by the various teams. This time, most of the bosses of the various teams brought their core members, so the food was pretty good. It’s just that flour has become more precious these days, and most people are only willing to use rice to make porridge. However, there were a few small groups who used white flour to make pancakes, which attracted the attention of people nearby.

Less than ten minutes after dinner, the skies began to rain again. This gloomy weather made the hearts of all the survivors who survived the last days depressed.

“Go back.” Guo Bing got up and patted his muscled legs. “If the weather is fine, I might sleep outside. We don’t know how long the rain will last, so let’s go back to our own cars.” The inside of the car is not as big as the outside. Especially this time, Guo Bing and his people piled into a couple of cars, so it’s not very comfortable fitting the big men inside.

“It’s safer in the cars.” He Zizhong glanced to the east. From the time of the meal to the present, the gunfire near the convoy has not stopped.

Each team has a night shift. The Samsara and Fengche teams were not scheduled, so they went back to have a good rest. Until the middle of the night, gunshots could still be heard from time to time. Not one of the rough guys trained in the apocalypse was so squeamish that they couldn’t sleep, and most of them were knocked out on their pillows. Even He Zizhong and Fang Hao, two cheaters with a gold finger, quickly fell asleep after returning to their vehicle.

Sure enough, as several people predicted, the convoy took four and a half days to arrive at an oil refinery that was only a day’s drive before the end of the world at 3 p.m. on the fifth day.

The roads outside the refinery were filled with scattered cars of various colors, and the streets were deserted and there were no people everywhere.

Driving cautiously drove towards the gate of the refinery, the front convoy pushed away the cars blocking the road.

Looking at the cars scattered around, He Zizhong frowned: “These should all be here to find fuel.”

Fang Hao stared at the street warily, holding a small assault rifle in his hands. He looked at He Zizhong before looking at the refinery gates again. “So, there might be many zombies inside?”

The refinery is far away from the residential area. Although there are many vehicles on nearby roads, there are no traces of zombies, so all of these zombies must be still in the refinery.

The two people’s guess was correct, and gunshots came from the front.

After the end of the world, most of the people nearby and people passing by will come here to try their luck when they find that they lack gasoline. Not to mention that some survivors in the vicinity after the end of the world will deliberately come here to find gasoline and other people to exchange things.

The zombies waved their arms excitedly. No one has been here for a long time, and the people from the previous troops did not go this way. It is rare to smell human breath, making these zombies who have been hungry for a long time as excited as if they had been injected with chicken blood.

“Attention! Try to eliminate them at the gate, and don’t ignite the oil tanks inside by mistake!” This is an oil refinery. The entrance in front is fine, but there are all kinds of large and small oil tanks in the open space behind!

There was a burst of gunfire and shouting. The ability users with long-range attack skills were sent to the front to assist in the killing.

When the two came to the front, they saw that the zombies waving their arms to the extreme of excitement almost all surrounded the gate. The scene was as if everyone was standing on the city wall and watching a tide of zombies.

“Damn! How many zombies are there!” I don’t know which team member cursed, and started attacking the zombies in front of him with his gun.

Because of the experience of defending the city, everyone is not flustered when facing this situation. The troops had blocked a few tanks in front of the gate in advance, and the zombies couldn’t climb up for a while.

The situation was quickly brought under control, and all that was left was a matter of time. But just as everyone was getting acquainted with the process, two figures suddenly jumped out of the zombies!

“Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!”

“Mutant zombies!”

“Concentrate your firepower and shoot!”

“Lao er, Lao san, don’t shoot…”2Lao er, and Lao san are ways of calling people according to position, referring to the 2nd and 3rd.

The moment the two fell into the zombies, they were quickly dismembered by nearby zombies. Many people have seen second-level zombies before in the urban area, but the movements of these second-level zombies are too fast, and they dragged people into the horde before even He Zizhong and others even noticed.

 

 

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1Preserved eggs, century eggs, songhua egg, etc. Are all the same thing.2Lao er, and Lao san are ways of calling people according to position, referring to the 2nd and 3rd.