Doomsday rat

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"...That's not a waste of food. I've just been full for a few days!" Although there are good reasons, Hong Tao is the one who can be questioned. He frowned and pondered for a few seconds, and immediately found another unquestionable reason. .

"What are you going to do? Have you checked all the vehicles? Are all the accessories and tools installed? This time is not an ordinary long-distance run. If you want to go deep into the zombie-controlled area, you will have to pay for anything missing. be thrown off balance!"

Seeing that Fat Sheep still wanted to talk back, he immediately assumed the attitude of the boss and started talking about work.A total of thirty four-wheeled carriages were parked on the street, each of which was equipped with a foldable roof, as well as luggage bags neatly wrapped in tarpaulin, and spare wheels. It seemed that they were going to travel far.

"I have been preparing for a week according to the list you wrote, and I loaded the car before dawn. I checked it three times myself, and there is not a single bullet!" The fat sheep turned his face to the other side and made a face at the scalper, venting his anger. After finishing the dissatisfaction in his heart, he turned his head and smiled all over his face, and explained the progress of the work with a very sincere attitude.

Originally, the invisible boss didn't drive long distances with the car, but after receiving this big job, he suddenly had to lead the team again.It's not as troublesome for others to go out as he is, wishing to take natural disasters into account, double the supplies that need to be carried and turn around.

"...Where's the bullet you processed?"

The leader inspects the work and doesn't like employees who are careless and not serious about their work, but they are even more annoyed by employees who can't find any faults. It is a good thing to complete the work 100%, but you have to leave some loopholes for the leader, otherwise it is very difficult to prove that the leader is better than you.

Fat Sheep made this mistake, what, not even one bullet?Then I am not asking in vain!Let's do it, if you can't find any mistakes on the big surface, I'll dig deep, and see if you're still stubborn!

"I...you didn't say you wanted to bring it!" Fat Sheep was dumbfounded now, those bullets were all specially made dum bullets, the boss said they should be hidden and no one was allowed to use them casually.

"Brain, brain! Let me ask you, where is the convoy going this time?" Hearing that the fat sheep didn't bring dum bombs, Hong Tao showed a smug smile on his face, and reached out and tapped the fat sheep on the head twice. , knocking and asking.Boy, don't blame me for being serious, this is the price of talking back to the leader!

"Go, go to the zombie control area..." Fat Sheep rubbed his head before he could react.

"That's right, do you need to hit the head when you hit a zombie? Is it more lethal to use dum bullets? Good steel is used on the blade. If you don't prepare it for me at this time, is it because you want me to never return? Do you still think the brothers have a long life?"

"I, I...I'll get it now!" A series of soul tortures made Fat Sheep speechless. He looked at the scalper, then at Populus euphratica, and found that no one was going to save him, so he turned around and ran away. Had to be beaten on the head.

"Let's go with the alliance army, don't be so careful..." Hu Yang didn't speak until the fat sheep ran away. From the moment he mentioned the underpants and socks, he knew that this stupid brother was going to be in trouble, but he really didn't dare to intervene to make things right, otherwise his head would go up. The one who was beaten should be himself.

"Old Hu, it's not that I'm narrow-minded. If I let me say that I shouldn't pick up this job... Cheng Chengcheng, I picked up everything, and it's too late to say anything now. I did this to ensure everyone's safety. It is difficult for Rihao to go out for a while, and there is no harm in being more prepared."

If only Hu Yang was present, Hong Tao would have to smack him on the head with his raised hand, and kick him a few more times after the slap.But there are scalpers and stupid pigs next to them, and it is necessary to save some face for Manager Hu of Ping An Transportation Company. Not only can they not hit, they can't even speak casually like they are with Fat Sheep, let alone swear.

"We are gold diggers. Going to the zombie-controlled area is almost the same as returning home. Isn't it so scary!" Hu Yang has been a company manager for a few months, and his temperament has indeed changed a bit. And talk back.

"Zombies are indeed not scary, but people's hearts are unpredictable...I always feel that something is wrong, and I can't tell what's wrong." Hong Tao was really questioned, and he couldn't convince people with reasoning, so he had to come to fantasy, Speaking of the sixth sense, I am not weak either.

"How about I go with you and let Wang Gang stay and look after the house!"

Hu Yang really didn't dare to say that he was thinking blindly, since he left Sailimu Lake, there have been many accidents along the way.For example, being attacked by wolves and wild dogs in the middle of the night, or encountering a horse patrol when crossing the border.

If it weren't for this hero's psychotic advance perception, these people would have been eaten by wild beasts or captured by the redeemer.Since the matter is so serious, I can't just sit at home and stare, I have to charge forward.

"...If all of us die outside, what about Fat Sheep, Thin Monkey, Water Snake, and Ma Yu? What about the company that finally took their lives in exchange for it? I'm no worse than you in fighting zombies, so you stay steadfast. Take care of the family business for the brothers, lest we come back and become poor again.

Don't think that staying here is a good job. During this period of time, people from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs appeared in the safe zone again, and Sun Changzhong was watching over him.If you don't understand something, don't make decisions on your own, and don't ask Sun Feihu, and discuss it with Boss Tong more. "

Hong Tao patted Populus euphratica on the thick shoulder. He really wanted to take this guy with him, but his reason told him that he couldn't take him with him. He had to keep a few reliable people at home.

About ten days ago, I went to the ranch in the north of the city again, transported two generators and gasoline saws collected in the red zone, and took a look at the construction of the ranch.

The herdsmen from the two Xinjiang provinces were too enthusiastic. They had barbecued meat and bought wine, so they refused to let them go.As a result, as soon as they drank, they chatted and chatted, and soon it was dark, and it was still raining outside, so they just stayed overnight.

Chapter 799

Unexpectedly, after returning, Hu Yang said with a big grin and a shy face that he had taken on a big job, helping the alliance army transport logistics supplies, and went to XY City to participate in the annual expedition.

Although the journey was a bit far, the shipping fee was more than three times the normal one, and the benefits were even better.Not only provide daily food and drink, and distribute ammunition, but if you don’t have your own guns, you can also borrow the standard weapons of the Union Army for free.

The most exciting thing is not the freight, nor the free food, drink, ammunition and weapons, but the materials collected along the way.According to the regulations of the alliance, the transportation company can replace the previous freight company. Except for the materials on the special list that need to be sold to the government at a basic price, the rest are all owned by the company and tax-free!

Although there is an alliance military material station about 200 kilometers away on this road, most of the area is a blank area that has not been cleaned up much. It is fatter than the ruins near the capital and Jinmen Port that have been rummaged countless times. many.

As a gold digger, Populus euphratica knows very well what useful materials can be found in the ruins of the city, and especially understands their value.After asking Sun Feihu for his opinion, he signed a contract with the military representative on the spot, promising to send at least 30 carriages.

But this good news sounded like an alarm in Hong Tao's ears. He couldn't eat for several days and couldn't sleep at night, trying to figure out what was wrong.However, due to the lack of information in hand, imagination alone is not enough to make accurate judgments.

So he didn't care about hiding his identity anymore, and asked Wang Gang to make an appointment with Sun Feihu and Mrs. Xiushan to ask a few questions face to face.He ran to Langfang 914 factory non-stop, and specifically asked Yu Qing, the only military person he was familiar with, about this matter, and basically figured out the ins and outs of this matter.

The so-called expedition is an annual action to clear the zombie-controlled area.In recent years, although the Alliance military has become less keen on this thankless job, it still sends a regiment of troops to the south every year to simply clean up the areas controlled by zombies along the way.

On the one hand, it is to open up the road to the south, and on the other hand, it is also for military training.If an army does not train all day to go to the battlefield, no matter how much its combat effectiveness on paper increases, its actual combat effectiveness will become weaker and weaker.

Regardless of whether Randy is the Minister of Armed Forces or Jiao Qiao is the Minister of Armed Forces, the Alliance Army has never given up on the concept of using combat as a substitute for training. If they cannot find a suitable opponent, they will use zombies.

This method went smoothly in the first few years. At that time, the zombie-controlled area was not far from the alliance-controlled area, and even bordered on it. They met each other after walking for a day, and did not need logistical supplies.

But as time went by, the zombie-controlled area became farther and farther away, and the transportation problem had to be put on the agenda at this time.With a regiment of thousands of people, the cleanup operation lasted for nearly two months. It is obviously not enough for the soldiers to carry supplies by themselves.

Send out the military logistics force, the cost is a bit high.All Union soldiers have a fixed ration, and it will increase during wartime. It is obviously not worthwhile to pay such a high price just for military training.

So someone came up with a compromise solution, setting up a freight company dominated by refugees to undertake logistical support, so that the military only had to pay a little freight and didn't have to worry about anything, including casualties.

The refugee coachman can not only provide logistical supplies, but also carry out a carpet search of many villages, towns and urban ruins along the way, bringing back all the useful materials that can be seen.

At that time, the alliance government can adopt the method of official procurement to purchase some urgently needed materials from the migrant drivers, and the income obtained can completely offset the freight paid.

If there is a big discovery, such as a relatively well-preserved food, machinery, electronic product warehouse or even an ammunition depot, the alliance government will not only spend nothing, but will actually make a lot of money.

The homeless coachman can own the remaining supplies and sell them on the market when they come back, which is also a lot of money.The alliance army did not delay the training of troops and open up the road to the south, it was killing three birds with one stone.

Originally, this work was entrusted to the freight company as the main force, which was the kind of work done by the thin monkey neighbor.Although they are also companies dominated by refugees, they are essentially more like the tertiary industry of the coalition government.

As the saying goes, fat and water don't flow into outsiders' fields, such a fat job must be divided into relatives and estrangements.Only when the transportation capacity is insufficient, will another batch of vehicles from the transportation company be hired as assistance, but the treatment will be the same.

But this year has to be an exception. As the arrival date of the second batch of immigrants from Xinjiang Province is approaching, some of the freight company's vehicles have been transferred to transport immigrants near Chang'an, and the remaining vehicles have to cooperate with the railway to go to Xinjiang Province as a short-term transit transport. The main force, a car can't be vacated.

So this job all fell to the transportation company, which could only play a supporting role, and the military representative did find Sun Changzhong first.No matter how troubled Zhang Fengwu's case is, the two transportation companies Changfeng and Zhongyi are old brands after all, and their transportation capacity and credit are guaranteed.

However, Sun Changzhong pulled his hips at a critical moment. The carriages of Changfeng and Zhongyi two transportation companies are sufficient, but due to the recent impact of the company, the loss of coachmen is serious, and only 50 carriages can be produced at full capacity, which is 80 kilometers away from the minimum required by the military. There is still a big gap.

As a last resort, the military representative could only find Sun Feihu, the shareholder of Ping An Transportation Company, through the relationship of the Infrastructure Department of the Logistics Department. After talking about this matter, Sun Feihu immediately called Hu Yang over.

Hu Yang and Sun Feihu also had good intentions. If the military can take over this large order and complete it well, then the military will definitely not only think about Sun Changzhong when they have transportation tasks in the future.As long as it can compete fairly, Ping An Transportation Company is confident that it will not be inferior to the old-brand transportation companies, and can do better!

Although Ping An Transportation Company has developed rapidly in the past two months, it still cannot compare with Sun Changzhong's transportation company in terms of scale and credit.The main reason is that the time is too short to allow more customers to know and be familiar with it. This time is indeed a good opportunity.

But Hong Tao really doesn't think so. No matter what happens to his rogue personality, the first thing he sees is definitely not the benefit but the risk.Only after determining where the risk comes from, how to avoid it, and whether it can be avoided, will you calculate how much you can earn.

This time was no exception. When he heard that Hu Yang had signed the contract, he wanted to scold her.It's not like going to the emergency room. If you delay for a few hours, you will die. If you delay it for another day, you can discuss it when you come back and make a decision!

But thinking of Hu Yang's identity and his age, Hong Tao swallowed back the words that came to his lips.I am not their father, and I have no right to control them everywhere, let alone scold and teach them a lesson.

But not scolding does not mean doing the right thing. In the next few days, Hong Tao first had an open and honest chat with Tong Limin, then found Feihu Sun and Mrs. Xiushan, and through the relationship between Shen Nan and Bai Xiude, from various aspects Inquired about the authenticity of this matter.

Of course, all of this was done behind Hu Yang's back, and Wang Gang was the one who came forward, and he himself was still the brainless thug who stood by and only listened, occasionally asked a question, and patronized to play cool.

The final investigation results proved that the matter was true. The military found Feihu Sun through the logistics department because they could not raise enough horse-drawn carriages, and planned to try their luck.

Don't think that if you leave, you won't be able to go on an expedition. It is true that the military can transfer capacity from the pastoral areas in the north of the city and Jinmen Port. They just don't want to go to war and affect the work arrangements of other departments.

However, Tong Limin made a calculation, which made Hong Tao dare not let go of his heart.He said that Changfeng and Zhongyi have more than 100 coachmen directly under them and nearly [-] vehicles. Even if all the joined teams run away, they can still take over the expedition mission.

Moreover, compared with other freight projects, it is more profitable to provide logistical support for military expeditions, and it only happens once a year, so no matter how troublesome it is, it will not be easily given up.

So here comes the question, did Sun Changzhong's direct motorcade and drivers get scattered?There is no need to ask anyone this question, Hong Tao can give the answer himself, far from reaching it!

Not only did the directly affiliated teams stay, but many franchised teams still relied on Sun Changzhong to make ends meet.In the past two months, it is true that there are quite a few teams that have turned from the dark to the bright, but compared with the total number, they are still only a small part.

Chapter 800 Good things take time 2

However, under the premise that he could take all the expedition missions, Sun Changzhong took the risk of offending the military and wanted to bring in the Ping An Transportation Company, which was not quite logical.

As the saying goes, if things are abnormal, there must be demons!Hong Tao felt that there was a strong taste of conspiracy in this matter, no matter whether he was supercilious or there was an accident on Sun Changzhong's side, he must be more vigilant.

So he carried two baskets of cheese bought from the safety zone in the north of the city, and ran to the 914 factory to catch up with fellow villagers. In fact, he wanted to ask Yu Qing if he knew more about the inside story of the expedition.

If he, a fellow townsman, still recognizes the truth, he can not only passively help with the alibi, but also act as a half-teacher.When the transport team was first established last time, he gave very pertinent suggestions, and this time he taught him another lesson on the issue of expeditions.

Before Yu Qing was transferred to Factory 914, he participated in two expeditions, one of which was in charge of logistics and transportation protection, and he had a lot of contact with the freight company and transportation company at that time.

In his words, it's better not to go if you can. It sounds like a good job, but in fact it's like trying your luck every day, which is quite dangerous.Why do you say that, because in addition to zombies, you may also encounter living corpses!

That's right, the Alliance military has not relaxed its search and targeted removal of living corpses over the years, and not only the East Asian Alliance, but all survivor organizations in the world put this work at the top of the list, and those who have the ability will not be lazy.

We also regularly report to the Human Survivors Alliance the number and location of the found and confiscated living corpses, gradually establish a database, and use the data to analyze the activity patterns of zombies and living corpses in various places, so as to speculate on the number of living corpses and their possible hiding Area.

But no matter how it is analyzed and how it is cleared, as time goes by, there are fewer and fewer high-tech weapons in the hands of human beings.Some survivor groups that are developing slowly can't even lift propeller planes into the air now, and the search coverage area that only relies on people to cast nets is too small.

In fact, even the East Asian Alliance is a bit too much. There are propeller planes, but the distance is getting farther and farther, and the cost of each dispatch is increasing.For this reason, we had to find suitable airports near the route and build air force bases one after another.

With an air force base, it is necessary to equip a certain number of troops for defense, and to provide logistical support for the army, which in turn requires the establishment of warehouses nearby to stockpile supplies.But as the search area gets bigger and bigger, the distance between the base and the warehouse will be far away in two years, and we have to move forward, endlessly.

Then there was a living corpse that slipped through the net. Yu Qing had never encountered it before, and the last time it appeared was the year before last.At that time, a regiment of Union troops and more than 200 migrant coachmen were surrounded by a group of zombies led by living corpses near Xuchang.

Relying on the ruins of the city and fighting for more than 3 hours, more than half of the expeditionary force and logistics convoy were killed or injured.If it wasn't for the dawn, the nearby Air Force planes arrived in time for reinforcements, and they were so lucky that the first wave of bombing would have killed the living corpses, and no one would be able to come back.

So far this year, the coalition military has established five southbound bases and airports in Baoding, SJZ, Anyang, Xinzheng, and Xinyang.According to the tacit agreement between the East Asian Alliance and the Southeast Alliance, the two sides have always regarded the area between the Huaihe River and the Yangtze River as a buffer zone, and no one has stationed troops.

But this year, the East Asian Alliance seems to be breaking this relatively stable relationship. The scope of cleanup selected by the expeditionary force includes XY City.After carefully looking at the map, Hong Tao understood why he chose Xinyang.

This trick is quite ingenious. If the Southeast Alliance raises objections, it can be said that traces of living corpses were found in the local area, so they sent troops to go deep and collect them.Xinyang has just crossed the Huaihe River, which is equivalent to establishing a bridgehead.

Starting from here, it is completely within the combat radius of the alliance air force, and can rely on the long-range projection capability of the air force to skip Wuhan and directly attack Changsha.

Most of the heavy troops of the Southeast Alliance should be defending on the south bank of the Yangtze River and in the direction of the Southwest Alliance. After being skipped, they want to return to help. With the current land transportation capacity, they may not be able to quench their thirst.

Moreover, the current group of survivors is far from the level of organization of a country. As long as key departments and key figures are controlled, others will have no intention of fighting. With the appeal of the East Asian Alliance, most of them may choose to surrender.

Of course, Hong Tao didn't think he was a military genius, and he didn't even think that he could be better than a bunch of professionals in the staff who specialize in planning combat operations with his own brain.

What he cares about is not how the alliance army attacked Changsha, but mourning for the survivors.Obviously there are still living corpses that have not been cleaned up, and the forces of all parties are relatively far away. There is basically no shortage of resources to compete for. Why do they have to meet in such a hurry?

I have also done things to seize other people's bases before, and I have done it a lot, but the situation at that time was different from now, it was for survival and development.You can't just watch people who have no specific development plan occupy enough energy to dawdle, and wait for death if you don't have anything to do.

Putting aside these issues beyond his control, Hong Tao was more worried about the density of local zombies.As we all know, living corpses evolved from zombies, and the greater the density of zombies, the higher the probability of living corpses existing.

Henan is a province with a large population. Xinyang has a population of more than 600 million. It is only 100 kilometers away from Wuhan, which is a large city with a population of more than 1000 million.In the past ten years, both the East Asian Alliance and the Southeast Alliance have regarded this area as a buffer zone. In other words, no one has explored it!

"Which plan is this that was designed by Qiandao..." Hong Tao's buttocks tightened when he thought of walking in a zombie-controlled area with dense water networks, overlapping mountains, and unexplored zombies, and he called the staff in his heart. Some of the arrogant generation of the ancestors scolded them all over the eight generations.

But things have come to this point and I can't shrink back even if I want to shrink, so I can only walk forward with my head stretched out.I hope that the alliance military has done a thorough investigation of the area, and there is a high probability that there are no signs of living corpses.I have to pray to God for my face, so as not to catch up with the continuous rainy weather.Otherwise, the air force is just a decoration and can't do anything.

Compared with Hong Tao, who was full of melancholy, most of the coachmen who were going to set off didn't feel how difficult the journey was, especially after learning about the much higher welfare benefits and the possibility of huge profits. So little caution is gone, including scalpers, ponies, and lazy dogs.

"Brother Mouse, we still have colorful things in our inventory, do you need to bring them?"

If you want to say who knows Hong Tao best among these people, it's not Populus euphratica or Skinny Monkey, but Bungy Pig.It wasn't that he had spent a long time with Hong Tao, nor was it because he lost his temper, but that he was quite frightened among the adjudicators back then.

Didn't the ancients say that the person who knows you best is often your enemy, that's the reason.Seeing that the hero who never worried much became so worried now, he had to worry.

"...Landmines?" Hong Tao didn't remember bringing landmines with him when he came out of Xinjiang Province, and he didn't plan to continue fighting guerrillas after he arrived in the capital. It was useless to have those things.

"Well, I carried it in my backpack..." Bungy nodded vigorously. It was true that Hong Tao didn't ask him to bring it, but he secretly took the bag himself.

"Why do you use it?" Hong Tao wondered. Bungy is good at marksmanship and likes firearms, especially sniper rifles, but he has never heard that he also likes to play with mines.

"...I heard them talk about how powerful this thing is in the adjudicator. I thought that if I can't get along here, throwing a few while running might work." Ben Zhu was afraid that this little thought would make Hu Yang listen After arriving, he would be ridiculed, so he leaned into Hong Tao's ear and whispered the truth.

"You're a fucking idiot too... Go get it. Oh yes, bring a few more batteries with you, you'll have the strength to carry it anyway."

Hong Tao clicked his lips, wanting to say that if there is a big basket here and wants to run away, the pursuers must have armored vehicles in addition to riding horses, and there will be planes in the sky, neither of which can be dealt with by anti-personnel mines.But after thinking about it, there is no harm in bringing it with you. Anyway, there are horse-drawn carriages that don't need people to carry them, and there are officers leading the team, so they can be exempted from inspection along the way!

"Here we come...do we need to go out to greet him?"

While talking, a horse team ran from the north, and Hu Yang immediately relaxed.He is now a little used to contacting officials, but he feels that this hero is getting more and more difficult to understand, so he hides whenever he can.

Chapter 801

"With Wang Gang here, you are the general manager and you must know how to be reserved. Don't be a man in official clothes and come over. You don't think it's embarrassing and we have to face it! Why are you smiling? Don't throw things away when you get them. superior!"

Hong Tao stopped Hu Yang, and sneered again.After talking happily, he took the scalper and lazy dog ​​and walked out with a big backpack, but instead of going to Wang Gang, he slipped along the gate to the end of the convoy.

"Boss Tong, are you waiting for me?" Unfortunately, he miscalculated again and avoided the alliance soldiers, but was blocked by a person, Tong Limin!

"Before I leave, there are a few words I want to say..." Tong Limin was still wearing a padded jacket, with his hands in his sleeves after the Qingming Festival.But some turbid old eyes can still shine a little light from time to time, such as now.

"Come on, wait for me in the car, don't run around!" Knowing that the old man didn't want to say it in front of outsiders, Hong Tao threw his backpack to Bunzhu, supported Tong Limin's shoulders and leaned into the gap in the middle of the motorcade.

"I smoke this..." Tong Limin took out the cigarette pouch and pot in front of the cigarette handed over, but did not refuse Hong Tao to light the fire.

"Are you afraid that Gangzi will be in danger?" Hong Tao probably knows what the old man wants to say. Although he and Wang Gang are not related by blood, they are very similar to father and son emotionally, and whoever leaves will miss each other.

"Since you specifically asked about the expedition, the more I thought about it, the more I felt that something was wrong, so I took the time to go back to the east of the city, and asked two old guys about the lack of drivers in Changfeng and Zhongyi Company. Strange.

Ordinarily, Sun Changzhong's side was not peaceful during this period, and the family should have some trustworthy people.Guess what, he sent three brothers, Sun Ning, Zhu Zhenrong and Jin Yonghui, all with the most caring drivers!

You may not be familiar with these three guys, but they are well-known ruthless characters in the two companies of Changfeng and Zhongyi.Usually they are responsible for a share, and no one gets involved in other's affairs. In my memory, I rarely see three people appearing together. "

Tong Limin did not deny that he was also secretly investigating this matter, and came to the same conclusion as Hong Tao, but the way of judgment was different. He used the abnormal behavior of Sun Changzhong's backbone as evidence.

"It's a big deal to go on an expedition with the army. Even Wang Gang and I have personally taken command. It's not abnormal for them to let the backbone travel?"

What Hong Tao has to do is not to follow Tong Limin's thinking, on the contrary, he wants to find fault in the other party's conclusion.It's not the head of the stick, but to help pick up the omissions and make up for the omissions, perfect the details of logical analysis and reasoning, and get closer to the truth.