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Chapter 24 The Living Dead Are All Over the Winter House

"Mr. Mayor, there is good news from the lighthouse. The coal mine discovered by the reconnaissance team can establish an outpost dispatch team, which can transport 800 coal resources per day."

"Mr. Mayor, we have discovered where the Winter House is! If we can contact the Winter House, we can get help there!"

The liaison officer of the lighthouse personally handed over the reconnaissance team's findings today, but Li Jianghao was a little worried. If he didn't send a reconnaissance team to find the Winter House, the citizens would be confused.

In this world of ice and snow, there is nothing more exciting than discovering that there is another city surviving.However, the fall of Winter House is a foregone conclusion. Discovering the decline of this city will directly lower the hope value of the citizens, and they will be forced to activate order or the Code of Faith to restore hope.

In the plot, the so-called London gang incident will also be triggered.Some people will think that the doomsday talk is a scam, and the winter home with more adequate resources can't survive in this snow, so what's the point of them staying here.

It is better to return to London directly, where various industrial facilities are complete, and the city foundation far exceeds the energy tower camp.The thoughts of these London gangs will gradually go to extremes. If measures are not taken to stop them halfway, if they are stopped when the London gangs try to leave, people will be killed or injured.

It is even more impossible to let them leave. In the increasingly cold environment, these people can't survive for two days.This problem will also be the most serious problem that Li Jianghao will face after becoming mayor.

As long as you deal with the plot of the London Gang triggered by Winter House, bring back all the survivors in the wild in the process, and prepare a large number of medical facilities in advance, you can wait for a steady stream of refugees to flood into the city, and easily reach 650 More than the population, waiting for customs clearance.

"Send outposts and set up an outpost in the coal mine as soon as possible. In addition, let the scouting team enter the Winter House to contact. If there is any accident, send a message back as soon as possible."

Li Jianghao issued an order, and he must take the initiative to trigger this plot in advance.Now all the locations on the map have been explored, to unlock new locations will have to wait until after exploring Winter House.In order to discover Tesla City as soon as possible and get a free steam core, that's all he can do.

After the order was issued, the hope value of the people increased by 5%. Adding in the increase in the hope value of the newcomers who joined the camp in the past few days with enough food and clothing, the hope value of New London has reached 70%.

Unfortunately, these hopes will be gone when the news of Winter Home comes back.

As for the dissatisfaction value, Li Jianghao was a little confused. The dissatisfaction value has been fluctuating by 1-2% in the past few days, which seems to be affected by something.But Li Jianghao couldn't find the problem.

It stands to reason that after the new residents settle down, their negative emotions will also decrease, at least the dissatisfaction value will drop to the original 5%.But now it has stabilized at 10% and started to change, which is not a good sign.

The hidden dangers of his own energy tower must be resolved as soon as possible, and these problems cannot be the fuse of the thunderstorm collapse.

At this moment, the reconnaissance team at the coal mine exploration point kept the stored coal and left without dismantling the original coal mining machine, heading towards the winter home.

The worker as the captain is named Arnold, ever since he found the sign leading to the Winter House in the coal mine, he has been extremely excited.He sent a message back to the lighthouse and waited for the mayor's order.

His nephew Barry was chosen to work as a worker at the Winter Home. As the only two remaining members of their family, Arnold wanted to see his nephew and confirm his safety.Although the Beacon's attempts to contact the Winter Home in recent days have been fruitless, the mayor "had to" send a reconnaissance team to the Winter Home to find out.

These uneasiness made Arnold feel uneasy until today.They found that there was a record in the coal mine that there was the last batch of coal resources transported to the Winter Home three days ago, and there had never been any raids by looters like Eber.

Arnold felt that his nephew must still be alive and waiting for him at the Winter Home.

"Barry, you must be alive." Arnold prayed in a low voice, and after receiving the order from the lighthouse to explore the Winter House, he led the team to move towards the Winter House.

Five people put on the cloth on their backs, stepped on the sled, connected to each other with a rope, and galloped across the snow field.After a long time, the building of the Winter House in front has been looming.

But what puzzled people was that they didn't see any steam smoke generated by the opening of the energy tower, as if there was a dead city in front of them.

The team members still haven't seen the whole picture of the city's buildings clearly. If they wait closer, they will find that the towering buildings are full of ruins and wreckage. What kind of horror is presented to them by the people who are still standing in it? The sight is gone.

"It's really strange, didn't Winter House activate the energy tower?"

"Will something happen?"

Arnold was a little displeased when he heard the whispers of the team members, and said:
"Winter House is the largest energy tower camp. What can happen? During the day, the energy tower can be turned off to save coal resources. I heard this from the engineers."

"Captain, you are right. We are thinking too much. After we arrive at the Winter Home and establish contact, we can exchange resources with each other. Captain, your nephew must still be alive."

The team members hurriedly said that they were unwilling to touch Arnold's bad luck at this time.They didn't really want to see Winter House in decline, and the population died in large numbers, they were just expressing their doubts.

"Hey, Captain, there seems to be a figure in front of us. Did the lighthouse of the Winter House spot us and send someone out to meet us?"

The sharp-eyed team members pointed forward, and in the wind and snow, a shambling figure was walking towards them from a distance.

"Speed ​​up, guys!" Arnold yelled, untied the body hanging on his body, and rushed towards the figure quickly after there was no restriction.

Seeing this, the other team members could only keep up.

"Run, run, get out of here"

Arnold rushed to the front, he could already hear the staggering figure muttering something, but he couldn't hear clearly because of the wind and snow.

"Get out of here quickly, the city is full of devils!"

Seeing someone coming towards him, the man yelled excitedly, and his whole body fell forward due to loss of strength.

Arnold, who arrived in front of him at this moment, noticed why this man was staggering all the way forward. It turned out that there was a shocking bite wound on his exposed leg, and the bleeding stopped quickly due to the ice and snow.

But also because the temperature was too low, this leg was about to lose its function. Even if this unlucky guy could survive, he would have to amputate his leg.

(End of this chapter)