The worst situation that Zhou Rong imagined finally happened. He stood on the roof of the factory building, put down the military telescope, and looked at the sky thoughtfully.
Autumn water is long, thousands of miles are like washing.
City B in the distance was devastated, like a huge tomb between heaven and earth.
"Shortwaves across the country were interrupted, base communications were cut off, and no one responded when a positioning signal was sent. A whole week has passed, and the military district of City B must have fallen, but no nuclear bombs came to clean it up..."
Zhou Rong murmured, "What's the situation?"
There was the sound of climbing the iron ladder behind him, and someone said indifferently: "Maybe all the military regions capable of launching nuclear bombs have fallen, and no matter how strong the fortress can resist the internal collapse - you know it."
"Yan Hao," Zhou Rong said seriously, "I'll beat you up if you follow Sinan's tone, really."
Yan Hao laughed and handed a cigarette.
"Yo," Zhou Rong was a little surprised: "Do you still have stock?"
"Given by the masses."
"The People's Liberation Army can't take every single stitch of the masses..."
"The People's Liberation Army stands guard and moves gas tanks for the masses. If you can't eat a cigarette, you can smoke yours."
The autumn wind was bleak, the sky was high and the earth was far away, Zhou Rong and Yan Hao stood face to face and smoked for a while. In the front yard of the factory building, the men are gathering together to install the barbed wire, and they are doing it in full swing. The women are feeding chickens, growing vegetables, and chatting from time to time.
Zhou Rong flicked the soot and said, "The defense construction is over in two days. I will go to the B military region to check the situation. You wait for my news."
Yan Hao frowned: "Are you crazy? You know how big City B is. Where do you get helicopters?"
"… "
"If the B military area falls, it will be hundreds of thousands of zombies crowded in the shelter. Do you think your life is too long or what?"
Zhou Rong held a cigarette in one hand and rubbed his chin in the other. After a long time, he finally said, "I think it's a little weird. How did this virus come about, how did it develop, and why did the heavily defended military area B fall? You tell me there is no refuge in the I don’t believe in the strict quarantine access system. But if every survivor who enters the shelter has been quarantined, why is the virus still breaking out from within?”
"Unless," Zhou Rong said solemnly, "the virus has mutated and escaped the currently known quarantine methods, just like the nurses in T City were infected without being bitten."
A chill suddenly rose in Yan Hao's heart.
Zhou Rong said: "From a moral point of view, we are the top, most powerful, and the highest level of secrecy of the special forces in the entire North China region, and the team closest to City B so far. If even we can't move forward, then the military region of B will be in the end. No one will know what happened."
"From a small point of view, if we don't understand the mutation direction of the virus, our small shelter will not be able to last for a long time - there are eggs under the nest, and we are so close to City B, how can we be in a corner?"
"..." Yan Hao was silent for a long time, and finally admitted: "What you said makes sense."
Zhou Rong shrugged his shoulders gently and snuffed out the cigarette butts.
Yan Hao thought for a while, then shook his head and said, "But you can't go alone, it's too dangerous. We have to have an action plan..."
"Us?" Zhou Rong said with a smirk: "Why, let's go together? What about these thirty-odd old and young plus a pregnant woman, who will protect them?"
Yan Hao wanted to say something, but suddenly a person carrying a box not far away walked across the backyard and happened to look up at the roof of the factory building.
- It's Simon.
Sinan found a researcher's white lab coat from the fertilizer factory laboratory, wearing goggles and gloves, with cuffs stacked up to his elbows, revealing his long and powerful arms.
With a reagent box on his shoulder, he stood in the open space and looked at Zhou Rong and Yan Hao from a distance, and smiled a few seconds later.
Then he didn't say anything and turned away.
"..." Zhou Rong poked Yan Hao and said stunned: "Have you noticed that he has been hiding from us these days?"
There was no answer on the side.
Zhou Rong looked back, Yan Hao jumped off the roof in a few steps, landed vigorously, and chased after Sinan.
Zhou Rong put the cigarette butt into his mouth, chewed it slowly for a long time, and smiled self-deprecatingly.
He squatted by the eaves for a while, scratched his hair, and suddenly shouted, "Grass!"
Chuncao's voice sounded from the chicken coop: "What are you doing!"
"What are you doing!"
"Hey the chicken!"
"Dad help you feed!" Zhou Rong came alive, jumped off the roof, and clapped his hands over.
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"What is this, nitrocellulose?" Yan Hao asked while standing in the open space, frowning.
Sinan spread a piece of cloth on the small open space in front of the back workshop, took out the wet cotton from the reagent box with tweezers, carefully spread it on the cloth, and replied an English word: "Dispersoid."
"..." Yan Hao asked, "Are you trying to talk about dispersoids?"
Simon: "?"
The two looked at each other for a few seconds, and Sinan asked back, "Isn't what I said about dispersoids?"
"You said 'Dispersoid'."
Sinan's eyes flashed for a moment, then he reacted and said perfunctorily, "You heard it wrong."
He got up and turned to the other corner of the plastic sheet and continued to lay cotton.
Dispersoid is not an everyday English word. If it can come out smoothly, it means that the person is good at English, or has some level of chemical engineering. Yan Hao unconsciously carried some exploration in his eyes, but he did not show it, and asked with a smile: "You Want to make a nitroglycerin bomb?"
"Yeah." Sinan said without raising his head, "I'll try. The nitric acid I found so far is not of high purity. I'm afraid that the nitrogen content of nitrocellulose is not enough to explode, but it is feasible to make incendiary bombs."
Yan Hao opened his mouth silently, nodded, and finally couldn't help but ask, "What on earth did you do before?"
"What do you think?" Sinan asked back.
Yan Hao thought for a long time and admitted: "I can't guess. You must be professionally trained, senior bodyguard or public security system? If it is the latter, it is possible to come into contact with chemical explosives, and it must be a professional counterpart. Only high-level people, your age... "
Yan Hao looked at Sinan and felt that he looked quite young. He said that it was possible to say that he was in his early twenties.
At this age, he can shoot, drive well, and can make explosives, except for one kind of person who doesn't think-
terrorist.
Yan Hao's eyelids instantly began to jump wildly, and he said tentatively, "...You don't believe in religion, do you?"
Sinan was inexplicable: "What teaching?"
Sinan carefully laid the last bit of nitrocellulose, and let the whole piece of plastic sheet dry naturally to avoid direct sunlight, and immediately got up and returned to the back workshop, which was a closed laboratory that he transformed by himself.
Yan Hao wanted to follow up, but just after taking a step, Sinan commanded like a long eye on the back of his head: "Stand."
Yan Hao had to stop.
A few minutes later, Sinan pushed open the door and went out, putting down the cardboard box he was holding in his arms. Inside, he saw a dropper, a piece of white paper, a hammer, and the motorcycle leather jacket and helmet he brought from T City; Yan Hao; Before he could ask for advice, Sinan waved his hand, motioning him to stay away.
Sinan took off his white coat, took off his goggles, put on his motorcycle jacket and helmet, and pulled the zipper to his chin. After wrapping himself tightly in this way, he used a dropper to absorb the solution in the test tube and carefully dropped a drop on the white paper.
Then he put down the blank paper, picked up the hammer, and took a deep breath.
At this moment, at the entrance of the chicken shed in the distance, a rooster screamed and flew out, rushing straight towards the clearing—
Zhou Rong chased after him with strides, and said angrily, "Don't run!"
boom!
Sinan smashed the white paper with a hammer, the nitroglycerin reacted violently, and an amazing explosion occurred in an instant!
The high explosive speed of up to 7500 m/s produced a dazzling flame, and Yan Hao didn't have time to react.
boom! The rooster splattered with blood and fell in the air.
"Sinan!"
Sinan fell to the ground and was helped up by Yan Hao, who saw that the white paper had turned into ashes, and a pit the size of the bowl had appeared under his feet.
Yan Hao had never seen such a person who dared to devote himself to science in his life. He pointed to the pit for a while without saying a word. Sinan lifted the cracked motorcycle helmet and let out a long breath: "What religion did you just want to ask me?"
"..." Yan Hao said, "No, nothing."
"Comrades," Zhou Rong said sadly behind him.
The two turned back at the same time, only to see that the chicken feathers in the courtyard were messy, and Zhou Rong was full of blood, holding a big cock with a crooked neck and staring eyes, obviously he was dead.
"I have no problem with your scientific experiments, but since this is the only one with a handle in the chicken coop..." He shook the chicken head in front of Sinan and Yan Hao, and said coldly: "Congratulations, chicken flock The breeding program is officially dead."
Sinan covered his nose and asked, "Can I eat fried chicken at night?"
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There was no fried chicken in the evening, but there was fried sauerkraut with shredded chicken, and everyone in the shelter was given a small spoonful.
"Fried chicken is not enough." Zhou Rong explained to Sinan in this way, and solemnly warned: "I hope you don't try to explode nitroglycerin at the gate of the chicken shed every day for your own selfish interests. We still need eggs."
He scooped the spoonful of chicken shreds from his bowl to Sinan, only to hear Guo Weixiang on the other side of the round table grabbing the chicken bones in the bowl, and suddenly let out a long sigh: "Alas - it would be great to be a rooster in the next life."
Chuncao wondered, "You took the wrong medicine, Xiangzi?"
"What do you know, if you were born as a rooster, you can at least have twenty hens, and you can sit there and watch twenty hens compete for yourself every day. But what if you were unfortunate enough to be born an Alpha?"
Guo Weixiang picked up a chicken rib and stared at it with extraordinary eyes: "According to the current gender ratio of ABOs, at least 20 Alphas have to fight for an Omega. If it is Beta, it will be even more useless, It is difficult to find a Beta girl to marry and have children, and Omega don't even think about it.
Chuncao said: "Your thinking is a bit dangerous, comrade, don't give up life easily, okay?"
"Making a base is not a beast. After the virus continues, the future of mankind will be a base. But then again, if I want to do it, I will definitely not choose the captain..."
Zhou Rong: "?"
"Yan Hao is a good candidate." Guo Weixiang thought for a while, and then rejected himself: "It's a pity that Yan Hao is too strong. He will grow into King Kong Barbie sooner or later if he develops like this, in case..."
Yan Hao heard his name and turned around from the other round table: "What did you say?"
Chuncao smiled and said, "Xiangzi is discussing the possibility of messing with you."
Yan Hao seemed to have heard a joke, and pointed to himself and Guo Weixiang: "—Who is it, try it tonight, buddy?"
Guo Weixiang hurriedly raised his hand to beg for mercy, suddenly caught a glimpse of Sinan from the other side of the dining table, and hurriedly said, "Yes, you can engage Sinan!"
Sinan raised one eye from the edge of his rice bowl and stared at Guo Weixiang coldly.
Comrade Xiangzi laughed, stepped forward and forcibly hooked Sinan's shoulder, but unfortunately there were not many people at the round table. Only Zhou Rong interjected with interest: "Xiangzi, don't make trouble, our Comrade Xiaosi looks down on you."
Guo Weixiang said, "Huh?" "Really?"
Sinan's answer was to remove his hand from his shoulders inch by inch. His movements were calm, but his strength could not be rejected. He said, "When Beta is good, it is better than Alpha, so don't belittle yourself."
Guo Weixiang smiled and opened his mouth to say something, only to hear Sinan casually say:
"If you weren't Beta, it was so risky to save you in T City, I might regret it."
Guo Weixiang's sentence "But we are not Beta" was stuck in his throat, and he felt like he was swallowing an egg.
The table full of special forces stared wide and small. Sinan took a chopstick and shredded potatoes, and suddenly realized that the atmosphere was too quiet: "What's wrong?"
"..." Zhou Rong said slowly: "Comrade Xiaosi, did you say something just now? I always thought you were a gender egalitarian..."
Sinan laughed and said, "I have never had gender equality. I have always looked down on Alpha."
After a heart-pounding silence, Yan Hao finally asked a solemn question: "Why?"
"I'm afraid of trouble." Sinan thought for a while, and said flatly: "Many Alphas are very weak now, and they must devote their energy to protect them when they are in danger. And Alpha's deep-rooted chauvinism... Although they are said to be the most genetically superior human beings , but in fact it is just that the evolution of animal nature is not complete."
He picked up the last bite of rice in the bowl, put down his chopsticks and said unexpectedly, "I'm full, why don't you eat?"
In his suspicious eyes, everyone at the table was silent for a long time, neither making a sound nor making any movement.
After a long while, Zhou Rong finally coughed and explained, "We... don't have much appetite today."
Dinner ended in an indescribable silence, and even Chuncao didn't eat her third bowl of rice.
Since they set up camp at the fertilizer factory, two special forces have patrolled with ten men every night, while others have been exercising, exercising, learning to fight in the courtyard, and inspecting the barbed wire and security facilities around the factory.
However, for some reason, Captain Zhou and Vice-Captain Yan, who taught everyone to fight tonight, were not very energetic. They closed the stall early at 9:30 and let people go back to wash and rest. In the courtyard, men, women and children, in groups of three and five, walked towards the dormitory behind the factory building. Several young people were still trying to pester Zhou Rong to ask something, when suddenly there was a sharp sound of car tires rubbing against the road in the distance.
Zhou Rong turned back suddenly.
In the darkness outside the factory, an unnoticeable danger was getting closer and closer, bringing a sense of restlessness and unease.
Boom!
The back door of the factory building was pushed open, and Sinan hurriedly took off his goggles. The hem of his white coat flew up as he walked, and said condensedly, "The entrance to the industrial zone on the north side, at one o'clock, 800 meters away."
Zhou Rong was calm, his perception spread in all directions, and suddenly his pupils were slightly squeezed—
"Brother Rong!" Chuncao slid down from the tree and rushed towards the ground like a sharp arrow: "A container truck overturned on the northern highway. There are more than ten survivors, which is extremely attractive to zombies!"
"It is roughly estimated that there are hundreds of zombies nearby, and they are following them this way!"