This dilapidated and old car left Jiang City in a hurry, passed the Nanjiang Highway, passed through Nanshi, a county-level city in Jiang City, and soon entered the boundary of Xinghua City, a neighboring city of Jiang City.
Because the road was not very congested, although there were many zombies during the period, but in the end it was a near miss.
Xinghua City is surrounded by mountains on all sides. It is a small city with many mountains and hills. Its development is a little behind that of Jiang City. However, because of its topography and economic level restrictions, it is vast and sparsely populated.
Although the area is the largest in the province, the population is only 2.65 million, ranking third from the bottom of the province's resident population.
A more important reason for the sparsely populated area is that it is the hometown of overseas Chinese just like the open market. The number of overseas Chinese in Europe and the United States has reached more than five million, and there are also more than three million settled in Hong Kong and Taiwan.
Because of this, after Hao Jian and the others stepped into this place, they encountered far fewer zombies than elsewhere. However, judging from the road conditions, there have also been many traffic accidents here, mainly because many people think that Xinghua City is backward and has many mountains and forests, which is very suitable for avoiding zombies, so they all flock here regardless of whether they have a place to live here.
There is only one highway that cannot be used, and there is only one national road here. Because there are mountains everywhere, construction is difficult, and there are not so many traffic flows on weekdays, so the construction of public transportation in the periphery is far less than that of big cities.
Although these places seem to be backward, Lian Ruling and others are still fascinated by the surrounding scenery, as if they forgot that all places are being destroyed by zombies.
"The green mountains and green water here are very suitable for health preservation, the air is good, and there is wind!" Xin Ting sighed.
Hao Jian looked at the map in Lian Ru Ning's phone and said, "This place is really suitable for health preservation and tourism. There is the Chashan tourist area in front, and to the right is the eco-tourism resort area, and there are several reservoirs. The air quality is said to be among the best in the province. The area… About 56 kilometers west of here are the main townships and urban areas of Xinghua City.”
The distribution map of the main townships and urban areas in Xinghua City looks like the sole of the left foot from the map, and is surrounded by hills. Except for the only expressway and national road that cross the densely populated area from east to west, the entrances and exits of other provincial and county roads are basically concentrated in the urban area.
"If you can pass through the major townships and urban areas and enter the national road, and then walk about 30 kilometers, you can enter the boundary of Chengxiang, where the terrain is open, and after that, there will be Xiangshi."
Xiangshi and Focheng are the first- and second-tier cities next to Nanfang City, with a permanent population of more than 8 million, which is no less dangerous than Nanfang City.
After Hao Jian finished speaking, Peng Mao and Xin Ting both looked at Lian Runing. After all, Hao Jian said that she listened to Lian Runing.
Lian Runing, who was driving, was also a little worried. Should he take the risk to cross Xinghua City, or should he go farther
It would save time if they crossed Xinghua City, but would they be able to break out of the densely populated urban area
If you take a long detour, you will inevitably delay longer on the road. Originally, it would take two hours to travel from their current location to Chengxiang, even on the highway. If they needed to stop and rest on the road, it might take a day to get to Chengxiang.
Lian Runing could not give an answer yet, but Peng Mao was clinging to the seat and staring at the object in Hao Jian's hand: "Where did you get this solar charger? There are also binoculars and these two machetes..."
Hao Jian took out the level reward, and bought two machetes in the weapons section of the mall.
At that time, they put things in their backpacks, and they didn't pay attention. When Lian Ruling's mobile phone was out of power, and Hao Jian needed to use the offline map, she took it out to charge the phone.
As for the binoculars, she always asked Lian Ruling to help observe the road ahead when she was driving, and she was in charge of reconnaissance after she changed Lian Ruling to drive.
She and Lian Runing each had the machete, the crowbar was given to Peng Mao, and the axe was given to Xin Ting.
Hao Jian's face didn't change: "Yi Gao and the others gave it, otherwise where do you think it came from, and can you make it out of thin air?"
Under Hao Jian's normal expression, Lian Runing and the others would naturally not be suspicious, and it's not surprising that supplies such as solar chargers and binoculars were collected by the guards.
Lian Runing used this telescope to observe just now, and found that people standing on the roof of a residential building four or five kilometers away could see it, so a telescope of such good quality is definitely not something you can just pick up on the street.
With the relationship between Hao Jian and Yi Gao, it is common sense that they gave her so many good things.
Thinking of this, they remembered that Hao Jian was just sending a letter of thanks to others, and Peng Mao couldn't help but sigh again: "You are really rude, why don't you change your name to 'Hao Cao', although you are also rude, but..."
Hao Jian glanced at Peng Mao through the rearview mirror, with a warning in his eyes, Peng Mao retracted his neck angrily and looked out the window.
The breeze poured in from the car window, and in this hot summer day, they finally felt a touch of coolness from nature.
Before I came here, even if there was wind blowing in from the window, it would only be a hot wind that made my face sticky. Wherever it is like here, the mountains and rivers are beautiful, and the birdsong that cannot be heard elsewhere can be vaguely heard here.
Hao Jian confirmed the nearby road on the system map, and after it was not much different from the offline map, he took his mind off the system map and said, "Take the country road Y555!"
Practice Ru Ning's mind is sure, should be down.
Peng Mao and Xin Ting didn't know how Hao Jian planned to go, so they asked, "Where does Y555 lead to?"
"To the national road."
Only then did Peng Mao and Xin Ting understand that Hao Jian was planning to cross the city.
Hao Jian picked up the binoculars to observe the surrounding situation, and said, "I looked at the map carefully just now. The positional relationship between the townships and the urban area seems to be radial, scattered and not very dense. But one thing, those townships There are not many rural roads, and unlike the prosperous cities, the two sides of these rural roads are not entirely residential buildings, but farmland. What does this mean?”
"It shows that we can completely avoid densely populated villages or towns before entering the urban road section." Lian Runing's expression was much more relaxed.
"Well, let's consider the population and geographical environment here. For a mountainous city surrounded by mountains, the mountains are a natural barrier! Except for the various roads that can be directly entered by zombies, zombies want to enter through other means. , you can only go over mountains and mountains, and this may take a year and a half."
"Yeah, can this place become a refuge base for millions of people?!" Peng Maoguang imagined the scene after a large-scale refuge base was built here, and he felt excited.
However, it is not easy to clean up the zombies here, unless the strength of all the guards is concentrated to build, otherwise it is difficult to achieve.
They remembered what An Minghui said, the country is so big, but there are only hundreds of escort members assigned to each city to perform rescue missions, and maybe only a hundred people in small cities. Every city has people who need their protection, so how could it be possible to mobilize people to build it here
Thinking of this, Peng Mao sighed again.
Xin Ting did not think as long as Peng Mao, she asked: "Does that mean that such a geographical environment will reduce the number of foreign zombies. In the absence of the threat of so many foreign zombies, what we have to face is only the city. Existing zombies... with people?"
"You can think of it this way. On an optimistic point of view, the population here is only more than two million, and after the initial wave of returning home was after the news of zombies was widely spread on the Internet, the traffic at that time was almost paralyzed, so even before that, there were Many people are lucky enough to come back. As long as the news here is not so blocked, the speed of the zombie virus infection will not be too fast. Of course, if you think about the bad, 70% of the people here have become zombies, but only one Five hundred and sixty thousand, isn't it?"
"The population here is indeed smaller than in Jiang City..." Peng Mao counted and stared, "But that's a lot!"
"You have to think in a good place, these zombies are scattered around, because there are many living people everywhere, so the zombies will not just hang around in one place. For a land area of 16,000 square kilometers For the area of 1.6 million zombies, the concept of 1.6 million zombies is that there is only one zombie every ten kilometers. If you throw away the area of the mountainous area, the existence of zombies is not very dense. "
After Hao Jian's analysis, they are indeed a little more optimistic. No matter how many zombies there are, there will never be more than Jiang City, right
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Seeing that the mountains and forests on both sides of the national road are becoming less and less, and the number of private houses is gradually increasing, they know that this is an area that is close to the flat terrain of Xinghua City.
The sky, which was originally windy and sunny, slowly gathered dark clouds, and the sky was gloomy, like the scene of the end of natural disasters.
"It's going to rain." Xin Ting glanced worriedly at the window on the driver's side. There is no car window, once it rains and the rain pours in, the driver will inevitably become a jerk.
"If you can't get down for a while, leave here first, and then find a relatively safe place to shelter from the rain." Hao Jian said.
After speaking, she picked up the telescope again to observe the environment several kilometers away.
Suddenly, she said again: "Wait a moment, there is a rural road on the right, go there."
"Is there a situation ahead?"
"Well, the provincial road ahead was blocked by a large number of scrap cars, and even in the farmland on both sides of the road, there were many cars."
Lian Runing frowned: "What's going on here?"
"If the map shows no errors, there are villages behind those places. It seems that this is an artificial roadblock, perhaps to prevent outsiders or zombies from entering."
The reason why they were able to set up roadblocks was all because of the terrain here. There were rolling hills on both sides, and there was only one national road in the middle. If it is ancient, if the army is marching to fight, it must be a place that is easy to defend and difficult to attack.
Fortunately, there are some mountain roads built along the foot of the mountain that can be detoured, but even Hao Jian couldn't see on the system map whether there were also roadblocks on the village road.
After turning into the village road, Hao Jian asked Lian Runing to stop and change the driver. Because she has a systematic map, they will be faster than giving Lian Ruling directions.
It was originally agreed that the four of them would take turns driving, but since Peng Mao always missed the road pointed by Hao Jian, Hao Jian simply took turns with Lian Runing.
Xin Ting was implicated by Peng Mao, so she could only sit in the back and follow Hao Jian's request to formulate a survival strategy. She listed all the supplies they needed, followed by delineating where each city might build a refuge base, and finally considering various emergencies.
"I'm in a hurry to urinate. I'll go for convenience first, and I'll be back soon!" Peng Mao said, and went to the overgrown forest next to him.
"In this case, let's rest for a while. I'll look for something to seal the car window first, so as to prevent rain from entering." Lian Runing said.
"But we don't have glass!" Xin Ting said.
Lian Runing thought for a while, then took off her sun protection suit: "Whether this jacket is effectively waterproof, let's replace it with it first, just leave a gap to observe the left rearview mirror."
As soon as she fixed her clothes on the window, she suddenly heard Peng Mao's cry: "Fuck, there are zombies, help!"
I saw that he didn't even tie the belt, he ran towards them with his pants in hand, and behind him were two zombies that followed closely.
Hao Jian glanced at his trousers that seemed to be wet, held back a smile, picked up the machete and walked behind him with Lian Runing.
Peng Mao hurriedly fastened his belt, then went back to the car and took out his crowbar to help Hao Jian and the others, but by the time he rushed there, the two zombies had been eliminated by Hao Jian and Lian Runing.
"Huh, these two guys suddenly appeared sneakily, so scared that I almost shrunk my urine back!" Peng Mao said.
"Is this why you wet your pants?" Hao Jian asked.
Her words attracted the attention of Lian Runing and Xin Ting, they both looked at Peng Mao's pants subconsciously, Peng Mao covered his crotch and scolded: "You three big girls, staring at people here, don't think so. Ashamed?!"
"You, a big man, will be scared to pee, aren't you ashamed?" Hao Jian asked back.
Lian Runing held back her laughter, Xin Ting lowered her head and snickered. Seeing this, Peng Mao's face turned red like a boiled shrimp.
Seeing that the heavy rain was coming, Hao Jian wiped the dirt off the machete and returned to the car.
Just when she killed one of the zombies just now, a prompt from the system suddenly popped into her mind: "Congratulations to the host for killing 100 zombies in total, obtaining the title of 'Warrior' and achievements, and participating in a lottery. I hope the host will make persistent efforts!"
At this time, she asked calmly: "The 'achievements' have come out, and I have more and more the illusion that I am playing a game. Is the system, this world, real?"