The worst-case scenario Zhou Rong imagined had finally happened. He stood on the roof of the factory, put down the military binoculars, and looked at the sky thoughtfully.
The autumn water stretched across the sky, and thousands of miles were washed clean.
In the distance, B City was devastated, like a huge tomb between heaven and earth.
"The shortwave in the country was cut off, the base's communication was cut off, and no one responded to the positioning signal. A whole week has passed, B City Military District must have fallen, but no nuclear bomb came to clean it up … "
Zhou Rong murmured, "What's the situation?"
The sound of climbing iron stairs came from behind, and someone said lightly, "Maybe the military districts that have the ability to launch nuclear bombs have fallen, and even the strongest fortress can't resist the internal collapse – you know that, right?"
"Yan Hao," Zhou Rong said seriously, "If you talk like a Sinan again, I'll beat you up, really."
Yan Hao laughed and handed over a cigarette.
"Oh," Zhou Rong was a little surprised, "You still have stock?"
"The people gave it to me."
"The People's Liberation Army can't take a needle or a thread from the people …"
"The People's Liberation Army stood guard for the people, carried gas tanks, and took a cigarette. You can't get away with it, so smoke yours."
The autumn wind was bleak, and the sky was high. Zhou Rong and Yan Hao stood face to face and smoked for a while. In the front yard of the factory, the men gathered together to install barbed wire. The women were feeding the chickens, planting vegetables, and chatting from time to time.
Zhou Rongyi flicked the ash and said, "After the defense construction is finished in two days, I'll go to B Military District alone to check out the situation. You guys wait for my news."
Yan Haodeng frowned, "Are you crazy? Do you know how big B City is? Where are you going to get a helicopter? "
"…"
"If B Military District falls, there will be hundreds of thousands of zombies crowded in the shelter. Do you want to die or what?"
Zhou Rongyi held the cigarette in one hand and rubbed his chin with the other. After a long time, he finally said, "I think it's a bit strange. How did this virus come about, how will it develop, and how can the well-defended B Military District fall? I don't believe you when you tell me that the fallout shelter doesn't have a strict quarantine system. But if every survivor that entered the fallout shelter had been quarantined, how could the virus still break out from the inside? "
"Unless," Zhou Rong said in a deep voice, "the virus mutated and escaped the current known quarantine methods, just like the nurses in T City who were not bitten but were infected."
A chill suddenly rose in Yan Hao's heart.
Zhou Rong said, "In the grand scheme of things, we are the best, strongest, and most secretive team in the entire North China region. We are also the team closest to City B so far. If even we don't move forward, then no one will know what happened in Military District B. "
"From a small point of view, if we don't figure out the direction of the virus mutation, our small sanctuary won't be able to last for a long time. We are so close to City B, how can we stay in a corner?"
"…" Yan Hao was silent for a long time before he finally admitted, "What you said makes sense."
Zhou Rong shrugged like a gentleman and stubbed out the cigarette.
Yan Hao thought for a while and shook his head, "But you can't go alone, it's too dangerous. We have to have a plan of action … "
"We?" Zhou Rong laughed, "What, we're all going together? Then what about the thirty plus people and the pregnant woman? Who will protect them? "
Yan Hao wanted to say something, but suddenly, not far away, a person carrying a box passed through the backyard and happened to look up at the roof of the factory.
It was Sinan.
Sinan found a researcher's white coat from the fertilizer factory's laboratory. He wore goggles and gloves, and his sleeves were rolled up to his elbows, revealing his slender and powerful arms.
He carried a test box on his shoulder and stood in the open space, looking at Zhou Rong and Yan Hao from a distance. After a few seconds, he smiled slightly.
Then he didn't say anything, turned around, and left.
"…" Zhou Rong poked Yan Hao and said in shock, "Did you notice that he has been avoiding us these days?"
There was no answer.
Zhou Rong turned his head and saw Yan Hao jump off the roof in a few steps. He landed on the ground vigorously and chased after Sinan.
Zhou Rong put the cigarette butt into his mouth, chewed slowly for a while, and laughed at himself.
He squatted by the eaves for a while in a daze, grabbed his hair, and suddenly shouted at the top of his lungs, "Cao 'er —!"
Chun Cao's voice came from the chicken shed, "What —!"
"What are you doing —!"
"Feeding the chicken —!"
"Daddy will feed it for you!" Zhou Rong became energetic, jumped off the roof, and clapped his hands.
"What is this, nitrocellulose?" Yan Hao stood in the open space and asked with a frown.
Sinan spread a cloth on the small open space in front of the back of the factory. He used tweezers to pick up the wet cotton from the test box and carefully laid it on the cloth. He replied with an English word, "Dispersoid."
"…" Yan Hao asked, "Do you want to say disperse the quality?"
Sinan, "?"
The two of them looked at each other for a few seconds, and Sinan asked, "Didn't I just say dispersoid?"
"You said 'dispersoid'."
Sinan's eyes showed a moment of confusion, and then he reacted and said perfunctorily, "You heard wrong."
He got up and went to the other corner of the plastic sheet and continued to spread the cotton.
"Dispersoid" was not a common English word. If he could say it smoothly, at least it meant that his English was good, or he had some skills in the chemical industry. Yan Hao's eyes unconsciously showed some curiosity, but he didn't show it. He smiled and asked, "You want to make nitroglycerin bombs?"
"Yes." Sinan didn't raise his head, "I'll try. The purity of the nitrocellulose is not high, and I'm afraid that the nitrocellulose doesn't have enough nitrogen, but it's possible to make incendiary bombs. "
Yan Hao silently opened his mouth and nodded. Finally, he couldn't help but ask, "What did you do before?"
"What do you think?" Sinan asked.
Yan Hao thought for a long time and admitted, "I can't guess. With your skills, you must have received professional training, right? Are you a senior bodyguard or in the public security system? If it's the latter, it's possible for you to be in contact with chemical weapons, but you have to be in the middle and high-level of the profession. At your age … "
Yan Hao looked at Sinan and felt that he looked quite young. It was possible to say that he was in his mid-twenties, but it wasn't impossible to say that he was in his early twenties.
At this age, he could shoot a gun, drive a car, and make bombs. There was only one kind of person who could think otherwise.
Terrorists.
Yan Hao's eyelids began to twitch, and he asked tentatively, "… You don't believe in religion, right?"
Sinan was confused, "What religion?"
Sinan carefully spread the last bit of nitrocellulose, and let the whole plastic sheet dry naturally to avoid direct sunlight. He immediately got up and went back to the back of the factory, which was a closed laboratory that he had personally remodeled.
Yan Hao wanted to follow him, but just as he took a step, Sinan ordered, "Stand still."
Yan Hao had no choice but to stop.
A few minutes later, Sinan pushed the door open and put down the cardboard box in his arms. There was a dropper, a piece of white paper, a hammer, and the motorcycle jacket and helmet that he had brought from T City. Before Yan Hao had time to ask, Sinan waved his hand and motioned him to stay away.
Sinan took off his white coat, took off his goggles, put on the motorcycle jacket and helmet, and pulled the zipper up to his chin. After he wrapped himself up tightly, he used the dropper to suck the solution in the test tube, and carefully dropped a drop on the white paper.
Then he put down the white paper, picked up the hammer, and took a deep breath.
At this moment, a rooster flew out of the chicken shed in the distance. It seemed to have been provoked by something, and it screeched and flew straight to the open space.
Zhou Rong caught up with it and shouted angrily, "Don't run!"
Bang!
Sinan smashed the white paper with the hammer. The nitroglycerin reacted violently, and in an instant, a shocking explosion occurred!
The high explosive speed of 7500 meters per second produced a dazzling fire. Yan Hao had no time to react. He only felt the force of the explosion rushing towards him, and in an instant, he took a few steps back!
Bang! Blood splattered everywhere, and the rooster fell from the sky.
"Sinan!"
Sinan fell to the ground, and Yan Hao rushed forward to help him up. He saw that the white paper had turned into ashes, and there was a bowl-sized pit under his feet. Fine sand and dust were scattered all over the ground.
Yan Haoping had never seen such a talented person who was willing to sacrifice himself for science. He pointed at the pit for a long time without saying anything. Sinan took off the cracked helmet and let out a long breath, "You wanted to ask me what religion I believe in just now?"
"…" Yan Hao said, "No, nothing."
"Comrades," Zhou Rong said gloomily behind them.
The two of them turned around at the same time, and saw the yard full of chicken feathers. Zhou Rong's hands were covered in blood, and he was holding a rooster with a crooked neck. It was obviously dead.
"I don't have a problem with you doing scientific experiments, but since this is the only one in the chicken shed with a handle …" He waved the rooster's head in front of Sinan and Yan Hao, and said coldly, "Congratulations, the chicken breeding program is officially dead."
Sinan covered his nose and asked, "Can we eat fried chicken tonight?"
There was no fried chicken at night, but there was shredded chicken and sauerkraut. Everyone in the shelter was given a small spoonful.
"There's not enough fried chicken." Zhou Rong explained to Sinan and solemnly warned him, "I hope you won't do something like testing nitroglycerin every day in front of the chicken shed for your own personal gain. We still need eggs."
He scooped a spoonful of shredded chicken from his bowl to Si Nan. On the other side of the round table, Guo Weixiang was picking at the chicken bones in his bowl. Suddenly, he let out a long sigh, "Alas, how nice it would be to be a rooster in the next life."
Spring Grass was surprised, "Did you take the wrong medicine, Xiangzi?"
"What do you know? If I was born a rooster, I could have at least 20 hens, and I could sit there and watch 20 hens fight over me every day. But what if I was born an Alpha? "
Guo Weixiang picked up a chicken rib and stared at it with extraordinary eyes, "According to the current ABO sex ratio, I would have to fight with at least 20 Alphas for an Omega. If it's a Beta, it's even more impossible. It's already difficult to find a Beta girl to marry and have children, let alone an Omega. It's better to be gay … "
Spring Grass said, "Your thinking is a bit dangerous, comrade. Don't give up on life so easily, okay?"
"Being gay is not a scourge. If the virus continues, the future of mankind will be gay. But then again, if I wanted to be gay, I definitely wouldn't choose a captain … "
Zhou Rong, "?"
"Yan Hao is a good candidate." Guo Weixiang thought about it and rejected himself, "Unfortunately, Yan Hao is too strong. If he continues to develop like this, sooner or later he will grow into a King Kong Barbie. What if …"
Yan Hao heard his name and turned around from another round table, "What are you talking about?"
Spring Grass laughed, "Xiangzi is discussing the possibility of messing with you."
Yan Hao seemed to have heard a joke. He pointed at himself and then at Guo Weixiang, "Who's messing with who? Let's try it tonight, buddy."
Guo Weixiang hurriedly raised his hand to beg for mercy. Suddenly, he caught a glimpse of Sinan from the other side of the table and hurriedly said, "Yes, we can mess with Sinan!"
Sinan raised one eye from the edge of his bowl and stared coldly at Guo Weixiang.
Xiangzi laughed loudly and stepped forward to forcefully hook his arm around Sinan's shoulder. Unfortunately, there were not many people at the round table who supported him. Only Zhou Rong interjected with interest, "Xiangzi, don't mess around. Our comrade Xiao Si doesn't like you."
"Eh?" Guo Weixiang exclaimed, "Really?"
Sinan's answer was to move his hand away from his shoulder inch by inch. His movements were calm, but his strength was irresistible. He said, "It's good to be a Beta. It's better than an Alpha. Don't belittle yourself."
Guo Weixiang smiled and opened his mouth to say something, only to hear Sinan casually say again.
"If you weren't a Beta, I might have regretted taking such a risk to save you in T City."
Guo Weixiang's "But we aren't a Beta" was stuck in his throat. He felt as if he had swallowed an egg raw.
The table full of special forces soldiers stared at each other. Sinan picked up some shredded potatoes with his chopsticks and suddenly realized that the atmosphere was too quiet. "What's wrong?"
"…" Zhou Rong said slowly, "Comrade Xiao Si, did you say something just now? I always thought you were a gender egalitarian … "
Sinan Shi smiled and said, "Who is gender egalitarian? I've never been one. I've always looked down on Alpha. "
After a heart-palpitating silence, Yan Hao finally asked solemnly, "Why?"
"Afraid of trouble." Sinan thought for a moment and said flatly, "Now many Alpha are very weak. When they encounter danger, they have to spare some energy to protect them. And Alpha's deep-rooted chauvinism … Although they are said to be the most genetically excellent human beings, in fact, it's just that their bestial nature has not fully evolved. "
He ate the last mouthful of rice in his bowl, put down his chopsticks and said in surprise, "I'm full, aren't you guys going to eat?"
Under his suspicious gaze, everyone at the table was silent for a long time. They neither made a sound nor did they move.
After a long while, Zhou Rong finally coughed and explained, "We … don't have much of an appetite today."
Dinner ended in an indescribable silence. Even Grassy didn't eat her third bowl of rice.
Ever since they set up camp at the fertilizer factory, there would be two special forces soldiers leading ten men to patrol the area every night. The others would exercise, train, and learn how to fight in the courtyard. They would also check the barbed wire fences and security facilities around the factory.
However, for some reason, Captain Zhou and Vice Captain Yan, who taught fighting tonight, were not very energetic. At 9: 30, they closed the stall early and let people go back to wash up and rest. In the courtyard, men and women, old and young, in groups of three or five, walked to the dormitory behind the factory. Several young people still wanted to pester Zhou Rong to ask something, but suddenly there was a sharp sound of car tires violently rubbing against the road in the distance.
Zhou Rong suddenly turned around.
In the night outside the factory, some kind of unnoticeable danger was getting closer and closer, bringing with it a restless and uneasy atmosphere.
Bang!
The back door of the factory was pushed open. Sinan hurriedly took off his goggles, and the hem of his white coat flew up as he walked. He said, "The entrance of the industrial zone in the north, one o 'clock, 800 meters away."
Zhou Rong focused his mind and spread his perception in all directions. Suddenly his pupils slightly contracted.
"Brother Rong!" Grassy slipped down from the tree and ran like an arrow, "A container truck overturned on the road in the north. There are more than ten survivors. It's extremely attractive to zombies!"
"There are roughly hundreds of zombies nearby, and they are following them here!"
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