Chapter 1309 Endless Sadness

In Oil City.

The third uncle was sitting in the conference room, looking at the screen behind the table.

The picture on the screen is shocking.

There were piles of zombies, and the number could not be estimated. There were at least hundreds of thousands, or even millions.

And that number keeps rising.

If the knife had not been moved to continuously cut away the stacked zombies,

It is estimated that the zombies have climbed to a height of more than ten meters, and may even have entered the base.

There are too many people in the trading bazaar, and the popularity is very strong, attracting a large number of zombies.

"Cameras No. 1 and 8 installed outside the wall of the trading market were destroyed, but the remaining thirteen cameras are still intact." Dongtai said while looking at the surveillance screen.

These cameras were all transported from the base headquarters. Logically speaking, in such a large area as the trading market, only fifteen cameras outside the wall are not enough.

But there is no way. After so many years of natural disasters, many cameras are broken. Even if some have been repaired, there are always some that cannot be repaired.

The warehouse that originally stocked many cameras was also somewhat stretched.

This time only forty cameras were sent.

In order to protect these cameras, they have thought of various ways.

Platforms for placing cameras were built with reinforced concrete at fixed locations.

It is framed with bulletproof glass and has a concrete baffle built above.

But even so, two cameras were still scrapped under the violent storm.

The third uncle looked at the monitoring screen and said solemnly:

"Always pay attention to the situation of the mobile knife."

"Okay, Minister." Dongtai nodded after hearing this.

The doors and windows in the conference room were closed.

Smoke billows.

The third uncle wore Martin boots and stepped on the water on the ground, causing water to splash everywhere.

It has been raining heavily for two days, and there is some water accumulation in Oil City.

Lao Yi next to him saw that his third uncle seemed a little worried, so he comforted him:

“Minister, don’t worry, the water is only a few centimeters thick.

There was a natural disaster before, and I was stationed here in Oil City. At that time, the water rose to two meters high. It was okay, so we just went upstairs. "

The third uncle glanced at him and was too lazy to answer his words.

Can that be the same?

At that time, the drainage system in Oil City had not been upgraded yet. The drainage system here had been upgraded twice, and water accumulation still occurred.

call--

But if you think about it carefully, this is still a plain, not a highland.

Besides, it's raining so hard now, so it's normal for some water to accumulate.

If this level of precipitation is maintained, it is estimated that the water level will not rise too high.

"Open the drainage system gate to the maximum!" Uncle San said to Lao Yi.

"yes."

Lao Yi immediately picked up the walkie-talkie and said, "Changsheng, take two people to open the drainage gates of Oil City and Trading Market."

With its floating design, the drainage gate can be opened manually without having to run under the fence.

Just go to the control room to adjust.

This control room not only controls the mobile gate blades, but also controls the gates of the drainage system.

Changsheng stayed in the control room, waiting for orders to make adjustments at any time.

"Copy that." After Changsheng heard what Lao Yi said, he quickly said to the combatants next to him:

"Open all drainage gates to the maximum."

Bang!

The combatants push the putter to the highest position.

Then the barriers to the trading market were opened to the maximum.

Crash--

After the drainage gate was opened to the maximum, the water near the wall instantly surged toward the drain outlet.

A vortex formed at the drain.

Trading bazaar.

The area where Southern Paradise is located.

"Master Hu, the water has receded." Wu Xing said excitedly to Master Hu, who was sitting cross-legged on the wooden box.

Master Hu glanced at the water below and sighed.

"I don't know how Madman and the others are doing at the base."

The room was extremely humid. Mr. Hu got off the box wearing slippers.

He walked to the cobbled steel frame bed, climbed on it, wiped his feet with a piece of cloth, and lay down on the bed.

The bed was not against the wall because the walls were covered with drops of water.

But even without leaning against the window, the bedding on the bed was still a little damp.

Master Hu was a little tired and slowly closed his eyes.

The next second, a drop of water fell from the ceiling.

It fell on his forehead.

He opened his eyes instantly and wiped the water drops from his forehead.

I want to curse!

But he still restrained himself.

The house he was in had no windows.

Although he asked people to use iron boxes and other things to block it, the wind and rain outside were too strong.

Water vapor got in through the cracks and penetrated everywhere.

This time there was no sleepiness at all.

He opened a wooden box beside the bed and took out a cigar.

The cigar was also damp, making it a bit choking to smoke.

"Cough cough cough."

Wu Xing saw Master Hu like this, so he said:

"Master Hu, why don't we talk to the people in Oil City and let us in? This house is too simple."

Master Hu coughed a few times, waved his hands and said:

"No, it's not appropriate. They probably won't agree."

"Besides, it's so windy and rainy outside that we can't get out, so don't mess around."

Master Hu sighed again. He had sighed countless times in the past few days.

He couldn't understand why it was so humid.

It was raining, so the water vapor should have condensed into rain.

The leader of a large force was staying in such a shabby place.

He felt a little sad.

South Paradise.

The huge base seemed extremely empty.

But even so, there were still more than 20 people on duty in the sentry tower on the wall.

They wanted to surround the wall.

They didn't want the zombies to enter South Paradise until the last moment.

Zhang Tianfu, the gatekeeper, did not follow Tiger Lord to the Oil City and stayed at the base.

They stayed in the sentry tower and didn't dare to go out.

As time passed, there were tens of thousands of zombies outside the wall of South Paradise, and these zombies gradually began to pile up.

Zhang Tianfu observed from the sentry tower that the zombies had begun to pile up, so he quickly picked up the intercom:

"Brother Feng San, the zombies outside the wall have begun to pile up."

Zizizizi——

The madman heard the sound of the intercom on his chest, put down the wooden board in his hand, and said to the men next to him:

"Keep going!"

Then he picked up the intercom and asked:

"How high is the stack?"

Zhang Tianfu looked down and replied: "Just at the beginning, less than two meters, there are not many zombies."

Ten thousand zombies are not many, that is relatively speaking.

At this time, there are at least hundreds of thousands of zombies.

After all, it is raining so hard now. Fortunately, there are not many people here, less than a hundred people, only dozens of people, and the popularity is low.

"Come back!" The madman said without hesitation.

"Okay, I will definitely hold on and make sure that the zombies will not rush into our base!" Zhang Tianfu said quickly.

"I said come back!" The madman emphasized again.

"Ah?" Zhang Tianfu seemed to not believe his ears.

Let himself come back?

Zhang joined South Paradise when it was founded. He was one of the first to join, except for Tiger and the other initial members.

He has been in charge of the guarding of South Paradise for five years.

During these five years, he has experienced countless hardships.

There were even several natural disasters when zombies climbed up.

But he still stopped them.

He used human lives to fill the gap and protect the city.

He never took a step back.

But now, as the third person in South Paradise, the madman asked himself to retreat!

"Zhang, we don't have many people. I wanted you to come back when the natural disaster just came, but I thought you might not want to."

"But now, there is no need to guard the wall. There are only twenty or so people on the wall. How can we guard such a large base?"

"Besides, the wind and rain are so strong that we can't even stand steadily, let alone stop the zombies."

"Find a way to come back. We just need to concentrate our strength to guard this building."

The madman said a lot, but it can be summed up in one sentence:

Give up the wall, retreat into the building, and guard the building.

Zhang held the walkie-talkie and was speechless for a long time.

The orders he received before were to defend the wall and not let a zombie enter the city.

But now.

He suddenly felt a sense of sadness.

Thinking back to the past, South Paradise was such a prosperous place.

The population was thousands, and once reached tens of thousands.

Countless survivors who wanted to come and seek refuge gathered outside the wall.

At that time, if they wanted, they could even make the population of South Paradise exceed 100,000.

However, due to food pressure, they could not feed so many people even if they came in.

And after they came in, they were also worried that riots would be caused and management pressure would be brought.

They could only refuse.

But at that time, Lao Zhang, as a small leader protecting the wall, always had a sense of pride.

Because so many people wanted to join in, but couldn't.

But later, natural disasters occurred again and again, each one more terrifying than the last.

Famine, natural disasters, zombie tides, and mobs in the doomsday

Weakened South Paradise bit by bit.

He could clearly feel the decline of the base.

The sense of sadness permeated his heart.

It made him look ten years older in an instant.

"Did you hear that? Old Zhang! Come back alive!"

The madman didn't hear Zhang Tianfu's answer for a long time, and said with some worry:

"Talent is the most important! I hope you can understand."

The madman knew him very well, and also knew his feelings for this city.

"Okay, I know." Zhang Tianfu's voice was hoarse.

"Yeah."

Zhang Tianfu took a few minutes to accept this decision.

He slowly exhaled a turbid breath.

He turned his head and said to a subordinate behind him:

"Bring the rope."

The subordinate handed the rope over.

Zhang Tianfu tied the thick rope around his waist, "Tie it up, we'll go pick up other people and go back to the city."

The two subordinates nodded, and tied the rope around their waists like Zhang Tianfu.

The ropes were tied one meter apart from each other, so that they would not be blown off the wall by the wind.

"Okay, are you ready? Let's go out." Zhang Tianfu was carrying a backpack and a gun on his shoulder.

"Okay, captain." The two said in unison.

The three of them were carrying bags filled with the food they brought.

This sentry tower was cylindrical in shape, small in area, hollow, and had narrow spiral stairs going up and down.

It was about ten meters higher than the wall.

It could lead to the wall and the ground inside the city.

The three of them walked down the spiral stairs holding the rope.

A few minutes later, they walked to the ground inside the city.

"Everyone, get ready, get down from the watchtower and come to the ground inside the city. I'll pick you up." Lao Zhang picked up the intercom to contact the guards in other watchtowers.

A few minutes later.

Through the door, you can feel how big the storm is outside the door.

The rain kept hitting the door and made a loud noise.

Zhang Tianfu looked at the closed door, gritted his teeth, and moved the iron rod behind the door.

Bang!

The wind and rain blew in and hit the door against the wall.

Zhang Tianfu bent down and lowered his center of gravity.

Facing the wind and rain, he let the rain hit his head.

Pain!

It was as uncomfortable as if someone was holding a small stone and throwing it at his head.

When the rain speed reached a certain speed, it was almost the same as hail hitting the head.

Lao Zhang gritted his teeth and endured the pain.

He roared to the two people behind him: "Walk close to the wall."

After that, he took the lead and walked in front.

He walked close to the wall, facing the wind and rain, and took the first step with great difficulty.

The second step.

Every step was extremely difficult.

Because the wind was very strong and kept blowing inside.

Click!

He pulled the door handle and pushed hard.

Finally he reached the door.

He just took the first step out of the door and was about to walk along the wall.

The next second.

The wind from the left blew towards him, snap!

It knocked him to the ground.

The men behind him were pulled by ropes, and the ropes were immediately tightened.

Under the sentry tower, there were long concrete walls on both sides.

The wind was very strong, and it was fast and chaotic. After hitting the wall, the wind would not disappear completely, but would go to both sides.

So after he walked out of the door, he was slapped to the ground by the wind on both sides.

"Captain!!!" The two men behind him shouted worriedly.

He was about to rush out.

"Don't come over, lie on the ground, crawl!" Zhang Tianfu roared.

Although it was a bit painful when his head hit the ground, he found that lying down seemed to be much better, and he didn't have to bear such a strong wind.

Hearing this, the two men quickly lay down and crawled out of the door in a crawling posture.

"It seems that the pressure is much less!"

The wind and rain were so loud that if they didn't shout, they couldn't hear each other even though they were only one meter apart.

In this way, they crawled slowly to the next sentry tower.

It must be said that crawling is much faster than walking.

When walking, you have to go against the wind, take one step forward and two steps back.

If you are not careful, you may be carried away by the wind, blown to the side, and hit some objects.

The human body is made of flesh and blood. If you hit it a few more times, it will break if it hits a key part.

It took them more than ten minutes to climb to another sentry tower.

After climbing outside the door, he knocked on the door hard.

Dongdongdong!

The door opened.

"Where are the people?"

"On the ground!"

"Captain, why are you lying on the ground? I'll help you up."

"Don't help me! You're lying down too!"

"Why? There's water on the ground!"

"Just lie down if I tell you to!"

"Oh! Wow! Lying down is quite comfortable. I feel the pressure is reduced."

"Tie the rope on your body to the back of Chengfeng."

After saying that, he crawled forward, and Chengfeng, the last one, connected the rope to the two people in this sentry tower.

The two had already tied their waists with ropes, and tied Chengfeng's rope.

They could actually climb back to the middle building directly.

But the wind was too strong.

If they were not tied to each other, they would be easily blown down by the wind and hit the wall all the way.

They were walking along the wall now, and at least the wall helped them block most of the wind.

Later, from the wall to the open space in the middle of the building, the wind would be stronger.

So the more people there are, the heavier the weight, and the safer it is.

Very slowly.

It took a full hour and a half to connect all the people in the sentry tower.

"Captain, the zombies are piled up to five or six meters." The man who came down from the last sentry tower shouted.

"Okay. You take the last one. Everyone, don't let go of the rope and don't stand up!" Zhang Tianfu glanced at the people behind him.

He seemed to be worried that the others behind him couldn't hear what he said.

"Meow Lao Er, pass on what I said."

"Yes!"

A few minutes later.

Zhang Tianfu pulled the rope, indicating that everyone could set off at the same time.

Everyone lined up with ropes tied around their waists.

Facing the wind and rain, they climbed towards the open space leading to the central building.

Just crawled out from under the wall.

Suddenly.

Ding Ding Dang Dang!

A tin can rubbed the ground and hit the back of one of the team.

Hiss!

He endured the pain and gritted his teeth to persist.

Bang Bang Bang!

In the wind and rain, some branches were blown off and hit them.

There were more broken stones.

They protected their heads, used their elbows to force, and squirmed little by little.

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