blood plague

Chapter 165 The Adjacent Town

The pickup truck started, and after everyone stood there for a few minutes, Iger decided to transport the pickup truck back to the camp. After all, it was only one kilometer away from the camp, and the camp urgently needed freight vehicles.

So, Joanna and Nicholas drove two cars back to Rapid Creek Town, while Thomas and Iger stayed on the farm.

Thomas sat cross-legged on the sofa in the living room to rest. He was the master who could lie down and never sit, and could sit and never stand.

Iger is studying the agricultural machinery in the agricultural machinery warehouse.

Modern agriculture also happens to be an "omniscient" Iger knowledge blind spot. He seems to be researching, but in fact he can only research a fart.

After looking at all kinds of strange agricultural machinery for a long time, Iger only came to one conclusion: the equipment here seems to be quite complete.

After more than ten minutes, the pickup truck turned back. After Iger and Thomas got in the car, the pickup truck continued to drive forward along the road.

Just like Iger's speculation, it is still in the early days of the end of the world, and supplies are extremely abundant, and it can be said that they are everywhere. As long as you are patient and careful, there will be basically no shortage.

They stopped when they encountered farm houses along the way, and the field team continued to find usable vehicles, including a pickup truck and a minivan.

In order to take into account efficiency, Iger decided not to rush back to Jixi Town one by one for the time being. After the vehicle was started and charged for a while, he drove the vehicle to the side of the road and parked it, took off the car key and left, ready to wait Turn around and drive away in unison.

Soon, the third car has been found.Iger glanced at his watch, 10:55, so he turned on the walkie-talkie.

After the accident in which the communication between the field team and the base camp was interrupted, Iger learned from it. He discussed with Lily and decided to stagger the communication time of the base camp and the broadcast time of the program, so as to avoid program interference and reduce the possibility of being heard by others.

First of all, considering the habit of the field team members who like to sleep late, the first call time is set at 11:00, then the second call time is 14:00, and the third call time is 18:00.

If you want to call, you will call 10 times each time, with an interval of 30 seconds between each time.So as long as you don't miss the time, you won't miss it.

Iger waited until 11:02 and didn't hear any broadcast information, so he turned off the walkie-talkie.

In the absence of an emergency notification from the base camp, and it was still so early, Iger decided to go to the nearest small town to visit today.

This small town is called Vasa Town, which is larger than Rapid Creek Town. There is even a high school in the town, and Joanna goes to school here.

The day when the blood epidemic broke out was Monday, and the school was in session normally, but Joanna happened to be at home at that time.

If the school is so densely populated, after the outbreak of the blood epidemic, the survivors face the first wave of infected people, and it is basically difficult to escape.

Joanna skipped class that day.

The reason is that a few children living in Jixi Town originally planned to skip class and go for a picnic on Monday, but because of the quarrel the night before, Joanna was so angry that she neither went to the picnic nor to school, but it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Dodged a bullet.

High school, for some students who know from the beginning that they have no hope of going to college, is a place to dawdle.

From a realistic point of view, instead of messing around with classmates every day at school, it would be more realistic to do some part-time jobs to solve your own living expenses.

And from a certain point of view, it may be a wise choice not to go to college, at least you don't have to bear heavy student loans, so that you don't have to spend the rest of your life repaying debts on impulse.

With an inexplicable sense of joy, Joanna drove the pickup truck fast, and it didn't take long for the field team to arrive in Vaasa Town.

The pickup truck slowly drove into the town, and what they saw was ruins.

The town of Vaasa was devastated by a fire.

Iger has always wondered why there are no survivors from other towns.Because he calculated the immunity probability of the blood plague outbreak, which is about 10%.

According to this probability, America has a population of almost 4 million, that is, about 4000 million survivors.

Even after going through the first wave of attacks and the three-month adaptation period, there should be 400 million survivors.

Or, Iger felt that he had estimated the difficulty of survival too simply. He really didn't think how difficult it was to walk this way.

However, no matter how you say it, Andy's foursome finally escaped from Rapid Creek Town, and more people escaped from Todo Town, but Iger didn't see any of the survivors from Vasa Town.

Now seeing the tragedy in Vaasa Town, Iger understands, and at the same time, he also knows why there is no group of infected people in Vaasa Town. Because of this fire, all the survivors and infected people were burned to death.

Iger can even make up a picture in his mind:

The survivors are relying on various obstacles, bunkers, and using guns and cold weapons to resist the infected in a building.

At this time, an accident happened, and the flames that rose from nowhere burned up, because there was no one to put out the fire, and the fire burned bigger and bigger.

Afterwards, raging flames swept in with the wind, and the remaining survivors were blocked in the building due to the attack of the infected, watching the fire spread to their sides.

And when the survivors fell into the flames, the infected people in the whole town rushed towards the burning buildings, and their bodies became the best combustion aids and fuels.

In the end, the desperate survivors and the infected people in the whole town perished together in the sea of ​​fire, and the out-of-control fire burned the entire built-up area of ​​the town into ruins.

The pickup truck slowly passed through the neighborhood with only broken walls, and then, like a miracle, a group of intact buildings came into view.

Because of the protection of the fence, the school buildings were not affected by the fire.

Looking at the intact teaching buildings in the ruins, Joanna didn't know whether to be happy or sad: such a big fire destroyed the whole town, but her school was still in good condition!
Joanna parked the car at the gate of the school. After she turned her head and looked at the familiar scene silently for a while, she finally calmed down and said to Iger, "Come on, do you want to visit my school?"

Iger shook his head. What is there to see in the school? Except for tables, chairs and benches, there are only books. The resources currently available to the team are 0.

After passing the school, the pickup truck drove out of the town, and Joanna drove the pickup truck to a gas station outside the town.

Judging by the appearance, the gas station was not engulfed by the fire.

When the pickup truck stopped and everyone jumped out of the car, it was only then that they discovered that most of the tankers at the gas station had been violently destroyed.

Iger walked to the door of the gas station store and took a look inside. The store had also been looted.

It seems that although there are no survivors in Vaasa Town, survivors from the surrounding areas have already visited.

The reason why Jixi Town has not been looted is thanks to the protection of the infected, those scavengers dare not approach rashly.

Afterwards, although Jixi Town was empty, the group of infected people blocked every road, and Egger's team conquered Jixi Town only after they got through the road of the Gospel Community.

The only place of value in Vaasa right now is the gas station.

Fuel is the rarest material at the moment. Although there are gas stations everywhere, once the power is lost, there is no way to get the fuel out of the fuel depot.

This kind of behavior of smashing the fuel dispenser is similar to the behavior of smashing the ATM machine. It is estimated that they think that the gasoline can be sprayed out by smashing the fuel dispenser open.

In fact, it is not difficult to restore the operation of the gas station. The first thing is to have a portable generator, and then you need an electrician to do the wiring.

But this is easy to say, but in actual operation, generators are easy to find, but electricians are hard to find.

If you know some basic electrical knowledge, such as a guy like Iger, you can also try to learn by yourself, maybe it will work after a few more tries.

Unfortunately, the vast majority of Americans have zero electrical knowledge.

If there is no power generation, another way is to forcibly open the oil depot.The oil depot of the gas station cannot be opened by ordinary methods. If you force it to be cut with a welding torch or a chain saw, uh, I can only say good luck to him.

After seeing the situation at the gas station, Iger keenly discovered that if trade resumes in the future, fuel may become a hard currency.Currently, the Gospel team controls 2 gas stations and must find a way to get as much fuel as possible.

Iger suddenly thought of the fire truck that had been idle and useless.It should be possible to use that fire truck to transfer fuel in large quantities.

There are too many things that need to be done now, the team labor is extremely scarce, and the internal staff are almost busy flying.

Later, Iger found a large number of empty tin oil drums at the gas station. He asked Joanna to drive the pickup truck over, then stuffed a few empty oil drums into the pickup truck, and tied the empty oil drums tightly with ropes.

After returning to the small town, the pickup truck slowly circled the town for a week. There were many vehicles on the street, and most of them were destroyed by the fire.

Most of the wheels of the remaining cars that have been preserved have been deformed by heat, and the wiring in the car may have melted and adhered. These baked cars are all scrapped.

Iger looked at his watch. It was 14:00. He turned on the walkie-talkie and listened for a few minutes, but there was no emergency call.

Since he couldn't find a rest point, Iger decided to return to the camp early today.Afterwards, Iger led the field team back on the same road, and every time they passed a vehicle parked on the side of the road, a team member got out of the car and drove.

Soon, the field team returned to Jixi Town.

It took only half a day today, and the field team recovered three pickup trucks and one minivan, which basically solved the problem of the Gospel team's lack of cargo capacity.

After handing in the task, Iger and Joanna, who missed lunch, were sitting on a bench in the street of Jixi Town with their field lunch alone, enjoying the afternoon sun.At this time, a small van rushed into the streets of Jixi Town like crazy.

As soon as the car stopped, the driver Ella opened the door and jumped off. She waved to Iger and Joanna who were not far away, and shouted: "Help!! There are seriously injured people here!"

When Iger heard this, he dropped the can in his hand and went straight. Then, he lifted the bloody man from the co-pilot.

Lane was shot.

"Doctor! Doctor!!" Joanna ran towards the Morgan Building while screaming loudly.

A few minutes later, when Joanna rushed over with Heidemi, there was already a large circle of people.

Heidemi quickly separated the crowd, she squatted down and quickly checked Ryan lying on the ground, and then she checked it again carefully, and finally Heidemi raised her head and said to everyone in a regretful tone: "I'm sorry, he has passed away gone."

(End of this chapter)