Chapter 24 Survival
After the military control, Shanquan Valley quickly got on track. Uncle Pan sat in a wheelchair and drew planning maps based on the terrain of the mountain valley, and then reclaimed farmland. Survivors who chose to work had to obey Uncle Pan's orders.
Nine hundred fairly strong children were wearing protective suits and helmets, three hundred of them used crossbows and six hundred were bows, and one hundred fairly strong old men were holding wooden shields in their hands and the other one was full of dog-legged knives.
The half-aged children were proud and proud. The old people holding dog-legged swords also had bright eyes. Successfully killing the Earthworm King, the survivors had more confidence in themselves, and in their eyes, mutant beasts and zombies became no longer terrible.
Hua Yang looked at the old and young, forming the so-called regular army, with helpless faces but had to accept reality. Now he can only use them first and then change them when he meets young and middle-aged people in the future.
Under Lu Heping's training, the nine hundred baby soldiers gradually looked like alike. The maximum lethality of the crossbow is forty meters, and the farthest effective range is eighty meters. Lu Heping taught firepower allocation based on the characteristics of the crossbow, so that the nine hundred children could understand what firepower alternation is, what firepower coverage is, and then understand what firepower support is. The training ends. At the same time, it was announced that the actual combat will be three days later.
Hua Yang also agreed to let the baby soldiers fight in practice, and the experience gained from one actual combat is more profound than ten training sessions. In order to ensure the safety of the children, Hua Yang, Hua An and Li Anjiang participated in the actual combat together.
Everyone in the entire mountain spring valley is busy. In the initial stage of working hard for food and clothing, their dreams have become out of reach, but everyone lives a real life. Just to fill their stomachs, the survivors are hugging each other and exchange their blood and sweat for tomorrow's food and clothing.
The mountain spring valley changes slightly every three days, and every five days. The weeds on the idle yellow soil were cleared out, and agricultural machinery flipped the soil on it, and seeds were sown like hopes. Thirty-six strong men, holding thick iron rods in their hands, patrolling day and night like guarding their lives, and their eyes were like copper bells. The people around them did not feel too much, but felt that they were not rigorous enough. Another thirty men spontaneously stood up to help protect the wheat fields together.
People in the mine are busy, and the artificial breeding of earthworms has been successful. After controlling the room temperature, it can catalyze the ripening of earthworm eggs, and the hatched larvae can grow in ten days. The building next to the mine has been renovated, and the newly established slaughterhouse has begun to operate. Earthworms weighing more than two meters long and dozens of kilograms of protein-containing earthworms were sent in, cut into pieces, washed, and quarantine is non-toxic before being sent to the kitchen to cook. Then it becomes a survivor's table full of thought and nutritional delicacy.
All the houses in the resort have been renovated, whether they are luxurious single rooms or ordinary six-person rooms, they have been converted into single cubicles, with only two double beds placed. The stone floor next to the hot spring has also been flattened, and houses like pigeons are being built, so that more beds will be placed in a smaller space. The unpainted wall also has a slogan: Save, live again!
A nine-meter-high concrete wall was repaired at the entrance of Shanquan Valley. The dark iron door was inlaid in the middle of the wall. It was thick and simple and even a hint of desolation. The roads entering and leaving were leveled, and the oil from the gas station was collected into Shanquan Valley. One force took shape.
Three days later, the clouds were heavy in the morning. In the parking lot of Shanquan Valley, there were three hundred children wearing protective suits, helmets and quiveres standing. Two hundred people carrying longbows and one hundred people holding crossbows. Lu Nan and Lu Zheng stood in the front of the team, looking at Hua Yang on the bus with respect with their eyes.
Hua Yang looked at the bright eyes below, and suddenly felt a little reluctant in his heart, and said loudly: "Someone once said to keep women and children away from war because they are the hope of mankind. But now I want to take you to the battlefield. Who can tell me why this is?"
The crowd was dark and silent. Children's eyes flashed through their minds, but there was no answer. Why? The three simple words are the most difficult to solve.
"This is because we have no choice. In order to survive, we must fight!" Hua Yang said and waved his arms: "From now on, you are no longer children, but soldiers with their heads raised and their chests are raised. Come with me to fight this world full of viruses, defeat it, transform it, and make it our new home."
With Hua Yang's passion, all the children's eyes flashed with enthusiasm, and Hua Yang's eyes shone: "I will run in the front of charge, and I will hold it at the end when retreating. You must promise me that you will come back alive." After that, he waved his hand: "Get in the car!"
Three hundred people got into five buses, each with four observers, staring at the surroundings with wide eyes. Whenever there was a storm, they would immediately warn them.
During these days, Lu Peace organized several field trainings, and at the same time, terrain exploration and road cleaning, the mountain spring valley has been investigated within a radius of hundreds of miles. This time, we will go to a village a hundred miles away for armed investigation.
Sitting in the bus, Hua Yang closed his eyes and flashed information about the village in his head. It was a small village with a long history and beautiful scenery. It was named Tianshui Village because of the sweet well water. It is a well-known tourist attraction with a permanent population of 3,000, and an average daily number of tourists received by 5,000. At the peak, it had a reception of 200,000 tourists. It was the off-season of tourism when the virus broke out. It was conservatively estimated that there were 6,000 zombies in the small village.
Hua Yang frowned. According to the proportion of zombies evolution, there were at least sixty mutant zombies that had evolved to the first level among the six thousand zombies. Moreover, it is unknown how the situation in Tianshui Village and whether there are powerful mutant beasts.
In Lu Heping's plan, Tianshui Village must be captured. This village is too close to Shanquan Valley. If Shanquan Valley wants to develop and grow, it must clear the surrounding zombies and mutant beasts. This time, while Hua Yang trained troops and investigated, Lu Heping will formulate a follow-up combat plan based on the first-hand information found by Hua Yang.
Under the open highway network, the bus ran to the boundary of Tianshui Village in just one and a half hours. It had not been cleared yet, and there were zombies wandering around in groups of three or three. Hearing the roar of the bus engine, they immediately took staggering steps and howled towards the convoy.
Hua Yang stood up from his seat and held the walkie-talkie command: "Follow the steps of daily training and start the attack!"
"Swoosh! Swoosh! Swoosh...!" The crossbow strings kept ringing, and the zombies running over the truck were shot in their heads. The sharp feathered arrows penetrated the zombies' skull, and the snow-white brains and crystal marrow stones were exposed to the air.
Squeak! Squeak! The bus door was wide open, and ten children came out one after another, raised their crossbows to warn the surroundings. After gradually expanding the alert range to confirm safety, the remaining fifty people jumped out of the door and entered the combat state directly. The baby soldiers of the five cars gathered together, set up their formations, scattered scouts, and confirmed again that there was no danger around them, they began to collect marrow stones and then headed to Tianshui Village.
Lian was the most nervous one. As a guardian, she was used to being responsible for shoulders. After getting off the car, she rushed to the front, pulled up the black hat on her cloak, and her whole body was wrapped in black, like a warrior wearing armor, with awe-inspiring and sharp edge.
The strong Huaan had a naked chest and a bundle of sharp javelins on his back. He left the gathering place and walked in the wilderness. Huaan was like a swimming fish returning to the sea, awakening in a wild body, stretching his nose and sniffing constantly, as if he could smell danger from the air.
Hua Yang seemed lazy and took frivolous steps, staring at the raised butt under Lian'an's black cloak. His eyebrows were frowning, and one hand was blocking his nose. He said in an out of reach: "Investigate around and mark the places with zombies and mutant beasts."
Opp worked immediately, and a three-dimensional stereoscopic view of the entire area appeared in Hua Yang's mind. The white area represents safety, and the red area represents danger.
The children were all in a state of fighting. On the asphalt road leading to Tianshui Village, there were buses coming from north to south. The sky was dark and dark, and the cold wind suddenly blew the yellow dust on the car. On the asphalt road in the four lanes, four dead cars were quietly parked for many days and covered with dust. Near the front end of the exit, a bus overturned in the middle of the road. The bus that was once alone was burning to a point of burning only an empty shell.
Lian drove his calf and rushed over the bus. Hua An followed closely. Seeing that there was no danger on the radar, Hua Yang jumped onto the bus. He saw the zombies shaking and wandering among the dragons. His eyes were red and rushed towards Lian and Hua An. The road that was just quiet just now was hustle and bustle. Zombies roared out from the quiet dragons, just like ants and maggots crawling on the corpse after the animal died.
Lian's body was hidden in the black cloak. A flash of light was flashing around him. Twelve black dazzling stones came out of nowhere, rotating around his body, and immediately roared with the sound of wind, smashing towards the zombies rushing towards him. Bang! Bang! Bang...! With twelve consecutive blasts, there were twelve headless zombies in the car dragon. A flash of light was flashing around Lian's body, and there were twelve black dazzling stones rotating around his body, with tricky trajectories and ready to go!
Hua'an's muscles were tight, and he reached out to pull out two javelins from his back. His biceps expanded and deformed, and he suddenly exerted force. The two javelins roared and flew out like two heavy missiles. After smashing the heads of the two zombies, he nailed them to the thick carriage of a container truck.
Three hundred baby soldiers rely on vehicles to set up their formations. According to the training of these days, they have set their bows and archers to face zombies at close range. The contact between sensory and smell and even touch is much more three-dimensional than in fantasy. Adrenaline secretion, their hearts are nervous and panic, and their accurate heads are not as high as those trained on weekdays.
"Calm down! Calm down! Be sure to be calm." Hua Yang stood on the bus and shouted: "Huaan and Liana are both on the front line, and the zombies can't rush over. Don't be nervous, don't be afraid, just like the usual training."
If Huaan and Liana were on the front line like two mountains, Huaan also drew a line on the ground with a javelin. This line became a line of life and death, and no zombie could cross the line half a step.
Nervousness is something that can be contagious, and relaxation can also be contagious. In an extremely safe situation, the heart that should have jumped out of the throat and slowly put it back into the belly. The baby soldiers became more and more calm and relaxed. The arrows sounded, and the shooting became more and more accurate, and the zombies that emerged became live targets. After the baby soldiers shot smoothly, their accurate heads began to soar, first as the usual training, and later they surpassed the usual training accuracy.
Hua Yang looked at the children's tender little faces, his eyebrows were filled with confidence from the heart, and there was a relaxed smile at the corner of his mouth. The actual combat effect has been achieved, and the intensity needs to be gradually increased in the future. Next, we will investigate Tianshui Village.
The congested car dragon is half a kilometer long, and it takes two hours to slaughter nearly a thousand zombies, and then spend an hour carefully checking each car. The moment the children push open the car door, they can see fragmented survivors, and the moment the door is closed, the young soul learns to grow. The child is still the same child, but this hour is obviously different from the previous hour, more mature and restrained, and it is sad to be sensible.
After confirming that there was no danger, Hua Yang asked Lu Nan to clean up the battlefield and counted the damage to the war. Lian An and Hua An guarded the front line. The baby soldier won the first battle, only one child was scratched by the bowstring, and the other twisted his arm too hard. The zombies in the first battle did not cause any damage to the baby soldier.
It was noon after looking at the watch. Hua Yang asked Hua An to prepare lunch. In a short while, the strong smell of food was floating over the temporary camp. Thirty scouts sprinkled out to guard the surroundings. The children gathered together to eat, their faces were red and their morale gradually became high. They even shouted to enter the Tianshui Village and eliminate all the zombies. The victory of the first battle not only gave them confidence, but also made them arrogant.
Chapter completed!