Apocalypse Rebirth: 3000 million won at the beginning

Chapter 2133 At Three in the Morning, the Hanged Woman in Red

under night.

A long convoy drove out of the oil city.
They passed through the oil city, the trading market, the buffer city, and then through the gates of the still-under-construction edge city.

Heading into the night.

The construction speed of the peripheral cities on the oil city side is not as fast as that of the headquarters base.

However, the difference is not significant; the overall wall structure is only about a hundred meters away from being fully enclosed.

They used a special passage, which allowed them to pass through smoothly, with guards at each gate letting them through directly.

After leaving the edge city, we drove south.

After driving less than two kilometers, more than a dozen cars came from the opposite direction.

Beep beep—beep beep—beep—

The car at the very front honked its horn to warn oncoming vehicles.

Upon hearing the horn, oncoming vehicles quickly followed suit and honked their horns in the same rhythm.

They quickly moved the vehicle to the side to clear the central road.

"Brother, what's wrong?" A young man sitting in the middle of the dump truck shielded his eyes from the oncoming headlights.

"These bastards over there are so unethical! Installing such flashing lights, who the hell would turn off their high beams?"

It's too flashy.

The searchlights installed on the transport vehicles are ultra-high beam searchlights; when the lights are on, it's like daytime, illuminating a distance of up to 100 meters.

A bald, burly man driving the vehicle squinted as the headlights shone on him.

"It must be an official transport team; only a transport team would have such bright lights."

After he finished speaking, the high beams of the opposite transport team were switched off the next second, leaving only the low beams on for close-range use.

The bald, burly man breathed a sigh of relief, poked his head out to look at the vehicles behind him, and only retreated back into his car after seeing that they had all moved aside.

On one of the armored vehicles in the transport convoy.

Guo Peng curiously picked up the walkie-talkie and asked:
"Old Niu, what's wrong? Why has your speed slowed down so much?"

In the lead car of the convoy, Niu Shoufu looked out the window and saw the camphor tree markings on the other cars. He then picked up the walkie-talkie and replied:

"We encountered more than a dozen vehicles ahead, which should be a scavenger team from our base. The road here is narrow, so slow down when passing each other."

"Oh." Guo Peng didn't pay much attention after hearing this.

In the past few months, when they were carrying out transportation missions, they would often encounter groups of scavengers at night.

These scavenger teams understand that this is a golden opportunity, so they frantically search for supplies outside to exchange for points.

Back when zombies roamed the land, we never had such a good opportunity.

When the transport convoy met the scavenger convoy, the people in the scavenger convoy were all watching the transport convoy.

The young man sitting in the middle of the first vehicle clicked his tongue in amazement and exclaimed, "It really is a transport convoy!"

The man sitting near the right window looked at the electric trucks with a hint of envy.

"This electric truck is great. It's said to be able to travel 2500 kilometers on a full charge, and the charging speed is incredibly fast."

The bald, burly man driving the vehicle said with some regret:

"Unfortunately, we can't buy this thing. It's said to be produced at the headquarters base and is currently only supplied to official transport fleets and engineering transport teams."

"However, once their official vehicle needs are met, they should also open them for sale in the trading market, at which time we scavengers should also have the opportunity to buy them."

The young man sitting in the center stared at an armored vehicle with envy.

"I've never ridden in an armored vehicle before. This armored vehicle looks really imposing."

A dozen minutes later, the transport convoy left.

The bald, burly man restarted the vehicle and picked up the walkie-talkie to contact his men behind him.

"Follow!"

The scavenger convoy continued heading towards the oil city.

"Brother, I just counted, that transport convoy that just passed by had a total of 420 vehicles, that's amazing!"

The bald, burly man didn't reply; he simply turned on his high beams silently.

After the convoy passed through a large mountain, the oil city came into view in the distance.

The walls, stretching for tens of meters, are illuminated by lights, and many workers are constructing them.

Outside the edge city, dense crowds of people and vehicles are queuing to enter.

Every time the bald, burly man saw the oil city, he felt a sense of coming home.

This is a city that never sleeps in a post-apocalyptic world.

It is also a safe haven for people like them to survive in the apocalypse.

The night sky is dotted with stars.

Guo Peng felt a bit stuffy inside the enclosed armored vehicle, so he opened the cover on the top of the vehicle and sat on it.

Because it was nighttime, the driving speed was reduced to 40 kilometers per hour.

A gentle evening breeze dispelled the daytime heat.

It's already mid-to-late December, which should be winter, but the daytime temperature is still as high as 40 degrees Celsius, and the air is extremely dry.

They only feel more comfortable at night.

Guo Peng lit a cigarette and stared blankly at the black shadows of the trees rushing past him.

Before he knew it, he had been a member of the camphor tree for seven or eight years. In these seven or eight years, he had experienced more than he had in the first half of his life.

Who could have imagined that the camphor tree that once stood in the remote mountain corner could grow into such a massive tree?

However, he was also glad that he had boarded the giant ship of the Big Camphor Tree early on.

If he hadn't joined the Big Camphor Tree Base back then, he and his men would probably be dead by now.

Even if they survived, the surviving brothers would probably not be as well-united as they are now.

If he had joined Dazhangshu a few years later, he would absolutely not have been able to hold such an important position as the captain of the Third Transportation Brigade.

Currently, a transportation brigade has as many as a thousand people, far more than the number of people under the command of a militia brigade captain.

Moreover, due to the special nature of the transport battalion, their status is not much lower than that of the combat battalion.

With his mind filled with all sorts of random thoughts, he finished a cigarette and returned to the armored vehicle.

It's only because the zombies have all gone to the ocean that he wouldn't dare climb onto the roof of the car and leisurely smoke a cigarette.

It's only a little over 200 kilometers from the oil city to the Wushi military base.

They set off at 5:30 p.m., stopped twice along the way, and finally arrived near the Wushi military base at nearly 11 p.m.

The Wushi military base is not far from the original K824 track, and the railway construction team only needs to lay 40 kilometers of new track.

This section of road is not being repaired, but rather built from scratch, so the construction process is quite slow.

Before they even reached the Wushi military base, they saw a cluster of lights ahead.

And it was accompanied by the sounds of excavators and other machinery.

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The Imperial Concubine contacted Guo Peng via walkie-talkie:
"Guo Peng, I contacted Zhang Yunxiang first. He told us to drive forward and someone would come to pick us up. We just need to follow him and deliver the goods to the designated location."

“Okay,” Guo Peng replied.

They were only a dozen meters away from the railway construction site. Sure enough, after driving for a kilometer, they saw several people ahead holding flashlights and gesturing towards them.

The car stopped, and the Imperial Concubine got out to meet them.

"Hello, Captain Guifei, I am Sun Liu'er. I was sent by Engineer Zhang to give you directions."

The Imperial Concubine nodded:

“Okay, lead the way.” Sun Liu’er quickly got back into a pickup truck and drove at the front of the transport team to lead the way for them.

A long convoy followed behind, and after more than ten minutes, they arrived at a very wide flat area.

On the flat ground, more than twenty forklifts were parked, and thousands of workers were waiting.

Sun Liu'er got out of the car, waved to them, and directed them to park the car on flat ground.

These people are all very skilled and often unload construction materials such as steel rails.

On the flat ground, they began to get busy.

The waiting workers hurried to unload the goods, because the transport convoy carried not only steel rails, but also oil destined for the headquarters base in Dazhangshu, as well as various other collected supplies.

Ten minutes later.

Zhang Yunxiang arrived late, and not only him, but also Wang Cheng and Gao Zhongtian, the heads of the military base stationed in Wushi.

As soon as Zhang Yunxiang got out of the car, he explained to Guifei and Guo Peng, who were resting beside the car:
"Captain Guo, Captain Guifei, I'm so sorry, I was busy at the military base and that's why I was late in coming to see you."

Upon seeing Guo Peng and the other person, Wang Cheng smiled and said:

"Let's go. Since we'll be moving things for a while anyway, why don't we go to the military base for a bath and a rest?"

The Imperial Concubine shook her head and said:
"No, at this speed, we can finish moving within an hour. The headquarters is waiting for us. We'll head there as soon as we're done."

Guo Peng echoed:

"Yes, the people from the headquarters logistics department were just asking me where I am now. Maybe next time."

When Wang Cheng heard what the two said, he didn't dare to try to persuade them anymore.

The initial section of the railway has now reached the military base, but the area around the military base still needs to be replanned so that trains can eventually enter the base.

Guo Peng noticed Zhang Yunxiang's awkwardness beside him, and said:
“We understand that Mr. Zhang is quite busy. You can just focus on your work.”

There's no need for you to come all the way to see us.

Zhang Yunxiang thought to himself: I didn't come here specifically to see you; I just wanted to check the quality of this batch of rails.

But even if he thought that way in his heart, he said something completely different aloud:
"Oh, not at all. You two have gone through so much trouble to transport these materials; I have nothing to offer you in return."

The Imperial Concubine disliked beating around the bush and said directly:
"Zhang, go and compare the quality and quantity of this batch of rails. I've already given the list to your subordinate, Sun Liu'er."

"I'll get on the bus first, you guys chat."

After speaking, the Imperial Concubine returned to her carriage to rest.

Standing is nowhere is as comfortable as lying down; these people in the transportation team are all sleep-deprived.

Whenever I have time, I try to rest and sleep to catch up on my sleep.

Since Wang Cheng and Gao Zhongtian were both there, Guo Peng chatted with them for a while before returning to his car to rest.

Guo Peng and the Imperial Concubine are both Level 2 personnel, but they are only one step away from being promoted to Level 1.

They didn't need to say anything irrelevant to Zhang Yunxiang, who was only a level four staff member.

Even if Zhang Yunxiang completes the repair and renovation of all railway lines, he can only be promoted to level three at most.

Zhang Yunxiang hadn't been a member of the Big Camphor Tree faction for long. If it weren't for the need for railway repairs and his expertise in the relevant field, he wouldn't have been able to advance from a regular Level 6 staff member to Level 4 so quickly.

Guo Peng was not familiar with Zhang Yunxiang, and the difference in their levels was too great, so they didn't have much in common.

After the two got into the car, Zhang Yunxiang looked at Wang Cheng and Gao Zhongtian and asked:
"Um, did I just say something wrong?"

Wang Cheng laughed:

"No, that's just the Consort's temperament. Guo Peng is also straightforward. Besides, they drive and ride around all day, which is quite tiring."

Gao Zhongtian patted Zhang Yunxiang on the shoulder and said:
"Let's go and discuss the plan for the train entrance to the military base."

"I still think the entrance should be smaller, otherwise when the sea fog disaster comes, zombies can easily squeeze in."

“Okay.” Zhang Yunxiang glanced at the car not far away, a hint of doubt in his eyes, but said nothing more and got into the car with Gao Zhongtian.

An hour flies by.

After all the steel rail materials were unloaded from the trucks, Consort Gui used the radio to inform Zhang Yunxiang and Wang Cheng, and then led the transport convoy to continue towards the headquarters base.

On their way back to Dazhangshu, they also spotted the southern section of the railway repair team in the distance.

The person in charge of the southern section's repairs is Shan Zimo, and his repair speed is much faster than that of Zhang Yunxiang, the person in charge of the northern section.

However, the transport team did not stop in the southern section; the rails for the southern section had already been delivered there by the second transport team a few days earlier.

Three o'clock in the morning.

The transport convoy has entered the area of ​​Yifeng County, which is under the jurisdiction of Yishi City.

The northern part of Yifeng County is located in the Jiuling Mountains.

The convoy traveled along the highway, which was surrounded by mountains and had several tunnels.

If this had happened before the zombies went into the sea, they would have preferred to take the national highway rather than the expressway.

Because there are many high-speed tunnels, some of which are several kilometers long.

During the day, the tunnel is teeming with zombies, making it extremely dangerous to travel through.

The zombies have all gone to the ocean, which is why they are willing to take the highway, although it is much faster.

On the armored vehicle at the very front.

The observer rubbed his eyes, looked at the warning sign to the side, and said to the driver, "The tunnel is ahead. Reduce your speed to 65 kilometers per hour."

"Okay." The driver slowed down and, after turning a corner, the entrance to the Jiuling Tunnel appeared ahead.

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As the vehicle approached, the driver could see three corpses hanging from the tunnel entrance. The three corpses were all dressed in red, with pale faces, scarlet lips, and bulging eyes.

His whole body felt like it was being pricked with needles.

"Holy crap! Holy crap! Holy crap! Did you see that?! What the hell is that?!"

It's 3:30 a.m., the middle of the night.

Suddenly, I saw three hanged ghosts being lowered down from the tunnel, all dressed in red.

That's absolutely terrifying!
The observer in the co-pilot's seat also saw the three bodies at the tunnel entrance.

He got goosebumps.

He shouted to Niu Shoufu behind him:

"Brother Niu, there's trouble ahead!"

Upon hearing this, Niu Shoufu quickly opened the armored vehicle's hatch.

He had just poked his head out when a cool breeze blew through the tunnel.

A sudden chill.

At a glance, he spotted the three red-clad corpses a dozen meters away.

boom!
He quickly slammed the armored vehicle's hatch shut and cursed:

"Damn it, who played that prank? It scared the crap out of me!"

"Why would someone want to commit suicide here? What's wrong with them?!"

But being wary, he immediately looked suspiciously at the foothills on both sides of the road outside the car window and said doubtfully:

"Could it be that at this point, there are still clueless survivor groups trying to rob us? Are they looking for death?"

As he spoke, he cursed at the driver in front:

"Who cares what it is, shoot it down!"

"Drone operators, please take the drone to the foothills on both sides and check if there is any situation."

What kind of monsters and demons could possibly turn the world upside down in the face of overwhelming firepower!

They're a transportation brigade; they've traveled all over the country over the years and seen it all.

(End of this chapter)