Corrupted Nation

Three kilometers after leaving the church, the ship also left the low-lying area and entered the outside of the distribution center. Looking at the roads and buildings, you can tell that this is an upward terrain, and the water has become very shallow. Although the rubber boat can continue to move forward, it can no longer forcibly float the zombies. For safety's sake, the three decided to get off the boat and search as they went.

The three people got off the rubber boat, and the ice water instantly soaked their shoes, and the discomfort returned. Lin Wu's vanguard advanced first, followed by Xue Dan's support. Xiao Wu put on the reins and dragged the rubber boat forward. Although the thing is quite heavy, there is still water after all, so it is not very strenuous.

It's a four-lane road with lots of vehicles, half of which are trucks. After Lin Wu looked around, he got on the pedal and opened the driver's door of a large truck. A bloated corpse fell down. Lin Wu got out of the way and the body fell to the ground.

Lin Wu pulled up his mask to filter out the stench, got into the cab and searched, and got a lighter soaked in water, a bag with three packs of instant noodles left, and a box of well-packaged wafer biscuits.

Lin Wu got out of the car and Xiao Wu dragged the rubber boat over. Lin Wu threw the things on the rubber boat and then stared at the trailer of an RV on the side. The main vehicle of this RV was nowhere to be found, and the trailer was stuck between the truck and the green trees, so it was not washed away by the flood. Lin Wu opened the door to no avail, so he used the crowbar behind him to dig out the car door, and a zombie followed the car door open and came out. Lin Wu skillfully pressed the zombie's head against the car door, and Xue Dan, who was assisting him from behind, stepped forward and pierced the zombie's head with a dagger.

Putting the zombies aside, Lin Wu entered the trailer compartment and searched for a while, then brought out some iron bowls and tableware. The food in the refrigerator inside was definitely unusable, and no well-packaged food was found.

Captain Lin Wu has a keen sense of smell. He can always get something out of the target when he passes by worthless cars. The three of them searched as they walked. They searched nine targets along one kilometer of road, killed fifteen zombies, and got a lot of food. What made them happiest was finding a barrel of intact gasoline.

During this period, Xuedan asked a question: "If the car is soaked in water, will water enter the fuel tank?"

"Water will not come in through the fuel inlet, but will come in through the oil pipeline." After Xiao Wu answered, he looked at a car with four wheels upturned and said: "I have received training in car repair. If I have time, maybe I can Fix a car."

Xue Dan said: "I saw a car factory when we sailed over. I think there should be a car warehouse at the distribution center. Then you can do whatever you want."

Xiao Budao: "It's not that simple. First of all, you need a workbench. If there is no machinery to lift the car, you need to dig a repair pit at the bottom. Secondly, you also need various tools for disassembling car parts, preferably electric tools. It’s probably hard to repair a car with hand tools.”

"It will be up to you then." Xue Dan looked at the deep water area on the side and said: "Lin Wu, there is a blue car over there, it seems to be a special police vehicle."

This is a car that has been mounted on the roof of a factory. The rear of the car is outside the roof, and the front of the car is inside the roof. There are two uprooted trees below, leaning against the vehicle.

Lin Wu stood up and observed for a while: "The risk factor is too high and the benefits are disproportionate. If something happens to us or we are unable to clear the route, others will face greater difficulties and dangers." Lin Wu's calculation method: four stars for danger. Supplies: Unknown. Conclusion: Don’t do it.

After Lin Wu finished speaking, he took out a piece of green nylon rope from his backpack and tied it to the left rearview mirror of the car that was overturned on the sidewalk to mark the route.

After walking through several factory areas, we officially entered the southwest distribution center. Viewed from the air, the distribution center looks like a gourd. The two bloated parts of the gourd are made up of dozens of rails, and the rails are packed with countless freight trains of all types.

This is also the most dangerous place on the route. After the zombie virus broke out, the first thing that Xicheng Industrial Zone and local staff thought of was the railway, so the zombie density was relatively high. Thanks to the erosion of the floods, the density of local zombies has been greatly reduced.

The problem is that entering the distribution center is like entering a maze. There may be zombies in the carriages, there may be zombies under the cars, there may be zombies in the joints between the carriages, and there may be zombies lying on the roofs of the cars. As you move forward, your view is severely blocked. You have no way of knowing how many zombies are around you, and you don't know whether the sound will trigger a zombie wave.

The straight-line width of the distribution center is only one kilometer, but it takes at least three kilometers to walk out of this distribution center.

Lin Wu hit the carriage with a crowbar. It was a passenger carriage converted into a freight carriage. After a burst of noise, two zombies emerged from the carriage. A zombie also crawled out from the bottom of the track car on the left. Three against three, Xiao Wu put down the rubber boat and stepped forward, holding a golf club and working with his companions to beat the three zombies to death.

Lin Wu climbed onto the roof of the car and saw a large number of zombies basking in the sun on the roof, but the density was low. As the leader of the team, Lin Wu not only had to clear the way for the team, but also had to consider the work of clearing the way for the big team.

Xue Dan asked from below: “Can we bypass this entire railway track?”

Lin Wu stood on his toes and couldn't see both ends, and replied: "The overall detour will require at least many more kilometers." I really don't know how far the detour will be. After all, the distribution center is outdoors. To get around, you have to pass through many warehouses. The density of indoor zombies is currently very high. However, as time goes by, indoor zombies will slowly spread everywhere.

Building a bridge from the roof is a good idea, but there is a lack of bridge materials, and some carriages are of different heights and the distance between trains is different.

"keep going."

There is a problem with this advance, and the problem lies with the rubber boat. The rubber boat towed in the water makes little movement, but there are a lot of small stones laid beside the rails, and the rubber boat will make a very harsh sound when it slides over them. Therefore, the team ushered in the first wave of corpses.

The first wave of zombies consisted of more than 20 zombies. They came from a sliding door freight train. Zombies jumped out of the open door one after another, and ran toward Lin Wu and the others while stepping on pebbles. Lin Wu immediately ordered to use the gun. He retreated, Xiao Wu and Xue Dan stepped forward, and the three of them formed a triangle position. Xiao Wu and Xue Dan handed each other their backs, and Lin Wu was responsible for close-range follow-up shots on the left and right sides and guarding against sneak attacks from the roof and bottom of the car.

It wasn't a big problem, but no matter how rich he was, he couldn't afford to go through such trouble. In one round, he fired more than thirty bullets. For now, bullets are non-renewable materials. Bullets should be reserved for survivors, not zombies.

The first way is to abandon the rubber boat. This not only means abandoning some survival supplies, but also abandoning the food obtained along the way. Carrying a backpack does not hinder the player's movement in the game, but in Houtian City, the backpack has a great impact on combat effectiveness and mobility.

Even if you can transfer all your supplies to a backpack, you still have to consider capacity and weight. The most important thing is that the brigade has an 80-kilogram generator. This is an important material that must not be abandoned. If the small team cannot transport supplies through rubber boats, what will the big team do with so many supplies?

How many more runs? Lin Wu proposed the idea of ​​breaking it into parts, and both Xiao Wu and Xue Dan thought it was feasible. So the three of them packed up most of the supplies together and hid the rubber boat and the remaining supplies in the push-pull car. Without the burden of the rubber boat, the three of them climbed onto the roof of the car and walked in a straight line instead of going in circles.

Lin Wu's identity as Spider-Man shines brightly again. Every time, he goes up first, and then drags others up. It's tiring, and the physical exertion is not small, but the progress is fast. Along the way, they also found a large amount of supplies, including many daily necessities, ranging from paper towels and toothpicks to boards, as well as pots and pans, porcelain, tea, etc. Excluding those that cannot be used after soaking in water, the rest can be used.

The luckiest thing was that they found two carriages of instant noodles. The two carriages were full of instant noodles, all wrapped in cardboard boxes. The carton had been soaked, but the sealed instant noodles inside were not damaged at all. The three of them were so excited that they ate dry noodles on the spot.

After finishing, Lin Wu dragged over a zombie body, then closed the carriage door and stretched out the zombie's arms to scare possible survivors. On the other side, Xiao Wu guest-starred as a clerk, recording the material points at the distribution center. Mark the carriage style, color, number and location accordingly.

Xiaowu basically figured out the situation at the distribution center. There is a regular pattern of trains stopping on the tracks from east to west. The trains to the east are waiting to be unloaded. Their goal is to go to the logistics distribution center ten kilometers to the north. After the materials are unloaded at the logistics distribution center, they are then transported by trucks into the city.

Further west on the rail line are loaded trains, ranging from large machinery, automobiles to plates. They are materials produced by the city the day after tomorrow and are ready to be transported to other cities or ports. It is also subdivided into two categories, one is large-order materials transported from the warehouse in the distribution center, and the other is less-than-truckload freight transported from the logistics distribution center ten kilometers to the south.

Continuing to the west are passing trucks. Some trains will unload some supplies and load some supplies to continue moving forward. Some trains are simply passing by and temporarily wait on the distribution subway track according to the dispatch. And five passenger trains appeared on one track here. It seems that when the zombies broke out, the railway dispatched the passenger trains to temporarily stop at the distribution center.

All five passenger trains stopped on the middle track, which was also the area with the highest concentration of zombies in the distribution center. The flood did not wipe out the main force of zombies. After the flood receded, the zombies began to leave the train and move around. Both sides of the train were filled with zombies.

After understanding the situation, Lin Wu decisively ordered a detour. No matter how difficult the detour was, he could not fight with these zombies. It is visually estimated that the number of zombies around the five passenger trains can exceed a thousand at least.

Continuing to the west is the container freight train, which is simply a flat car. It drives to a special container freight station, where the containers are loaded and unloaded by cranes, and all the containers are locked. Considering that the passenger train was right next door, the three of them did not dare to step forward to check the situation, and instead quickly passed through the death zone.

The trains on the last eight tracks are unremarkable. They are either locomotives waiting for repairs and maintenance, or empty trains preparing to go to the freight warehouse.

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Starting at 7:30 in the morning, the three of them did not pass through the distribution center until around 2:30 in the afternoon. Their destination, the railway bridge, was two kilometers away to the side. When they reach the single track leading to the railroad bridge, they discover an artifact: a human-powered railcar. It is also called a rail car, an unpowered locomotive, a hand-cranked car, etc.

This is a rickshaw with four positions and weighs around 50kg. The three of them got on the rickshaw and each shook the handle in front of them. At first, they were not very efficient due to coordination problems. After many attempts, the three found the rhythm, and the rickshaw started running on the rails, reaching a speed of 25 kilometers per hour.

It is not an exaggeration to say that this thing is an artifact. Not to mention its transportation and transportation functions, the most important thing is that in the second half of the 20th century, electric rail cars have basically completely replaced human-powered rail cars. In many countries, they can only be seen in museums.

As for why there is such a functioning human-powered rail car in the distribution center? The reason is unknown, but after having this thing, the three people quickly reached the railway bridge. The two-kilometer journey took the three of them only five or six minutes.

After inspecting the twelve-car train at the shelter, everyone realized why there was an ancient internal combustion engine train parked here.

The train is named Hope, and it is a regrettable and useless train.

The Hope has historical significance. It conducted prisoner exchanges during the war and transported supplies and wounded to the front line. But the Hope is not very historically significant because there were too many outstanding objects in the war. However, the conductor of the Nozomi at the time was later the president of the country to which Houten City belonged. However, the president had a bad reputation and was arrested and imprisoned after leaving office. But when a foreigner who had just been promoted to king visited Houtian City, he immediately went to the Hope because he was once transported back to the rear from the front line as a seriously injured person by the Hope.

All this has led to the embarrassing status of the Hope. Let’s go to the museum. It is related to the scandal of the president. After all, the president’s success in the election was due to his heroic performance on the Hope. It's even more inappropriate to throw it into the trash. So the Hope was eventually abandoned on a railway bridge that was closed to traffic, and the outer shell was painted every few years, out of sight, out of mind. All the facilities inside the train have been removed, not even a screw is left. The train was not affected by the floods, and the glass was still there, but it was a bulky half-pushed window.

Xiao Wu went to find firewood, Xue Dan opened instant noodles, and Lin Wu used the satellite phone to contact Shana to explain the situation here. Shana was very satisfied with the result and said they would go there tomorrow. When the time comes, Lin Wu will go to the outside of the distribution center to meet them.

This meal of instant noodles is the best meal I have had in the past few days, better than the shelter in the Galaxy Building. The three of them also felt a sense of happiness and couldn't help but raise their hands and fist bump.

Before setting off this morning, all three of them felt that the trip was extremely difficult. In fact, it is indeed dangerous and difficult, but the situation is better than everyone thinks. And the biggest result was of course the two carriages of instant noodles they accidentally discovered.