End of the World

Nothing happened that night. The next morning, I killed more than twenty zombies near the car before the sun rose. They had been exposed to the cold wind outside the car for half the night, which was unfair to them.

As feared, except for vehicles with fuel tank heating, other vehicles were difficult to start and the fuel line was affected to some extent.

Another problem is that the battery of a car with oil heating running low. The RV has its own additional power supply, so the impact is not significant. However, the infantry fighting vehicle has obvious difficulty in starting the engine.

Zhao Bofeng and Wang Zhong had no choice but to use a rough method to heat the fuel tank pipes, directly lighting a fire under the fuel tank, which made everyone else jump.

Everything should be fine, right?

Looking at the road covered with five centimeters of snow, Zhao Bofeng installed anti-skid chains on the two lead vehicles. He made them himself with iron chains, which were just enough for Manca and infantry fighting vehicles.

The bucket in front of the MAN truck's front is a bit low, so it is definitely used to shovel snow on the road. It was not designed for use on snow.

Zhao Bofeng needs to think carefully about how to modify it and add a hydraulic rod to adjust the height. All cars are the same.

"Captain, if we continue heading north under this situation, it will be very detrimental to our driving!" Zhao Bofeng and Wu Bin said, the situation was more difficult than expected.

No one had experience driving north in winter, but Zhao Bofeng had been fortunate enough to follow a car twice, but that was completely different from this time. The snow was heavier than it is now, but the road was still clear.

Now he has ignored the snow on the road. The snow is not heavy, but it has become thick after a few days. Now there is no snowplow from the road administration, so the snow will only get thicker.

"Is there any way?" Wu Bin could guess something, mainly because the oil lines of most cars had frozen after dawn.

The convoy is loaded with Type 0 diesel, which is very troublesome in snowy days. If a group of zombies suddenly rush out, it will be too late to escape.

"I miscalculated everything. Normal roads are hard to navigate, let alone snowy roads!"

"It's okay. There's still a chance to make amends now!" Wu Bin looked back at the car which was still warming by the fire.

Going north is probably not possible. It is even more dangerous to venture forward. Add the weather factor and if you get trapped in the snow, there will be no hope of rescue.

To be on the safe side, maybe we should stop and wait until the winter.

Everyone was called together and Wu Bin briefly described the current situation. Everyone was a little solemn, as the difficulties were far more than just that.

After unanimous agreement, they temporarily gave up the idea of ​​entering Nguyen Province and looked for a place to stay there until the weather warmed up.

This is a highway. If we need shelter, the construction sheds on the roadside are the best. These sheds are huge and contain cast concrete bridge bodies.

Wherever a bridge needs to be built, there must be a shed like this nearby. It is far away from residential areas and is a good place to stay.

According to the map before the end of the world, the construction site for widening the highway is ten kilometers ahead, and that is the convoy's target.

After the convoy had heated up the fire, it set off again, which took three times as long to prepare as usual.

Because the road was slippery due to the snow, the car was difficult to brake, so we moved at a snail's pace and it took us more than half an hour to reach our destination.

There is an overpass under construction not far away. The main structure is almost half completed, and the other half should still be in the casting workshop.

The shed and caravan are not far from each other, but there is no road to get there. This is when the excavator comes into play.

The oil circuit of the excavator was also frozen, so it took a long time to prepare. Fortunately, the hydraulic oil did not freeze and was still able to flow. Before the official excavation, the excavator had to do a set of warm-up exercises.

There are some zombies nearby, and everyone is surprised to find that the zombies seem to be affected by the weather and their movements become slow.

Coupled with the natural speed bumps in the snow, their running behavior looked a little ridiculous, and they were originally stumbling, stumbling and falling.

This situation seems to be beneficial to humans. Although cold weather has many effects on the human body, it seems to be more detrimental to zombies. They are almost frozen into popsicles outdoors.

"Whoa!"

Several arrows flew out and all hit the zombie's forehead. Such a zombie was a living target for He Yuxin.

"Everyone try it too!" He Yuxin handed over the wooden bow.

"I come!"

Meng Zihan wanted to prove herself, so she readily took the wooden bow and He Yuxin explained some techniques to her.

The mass of a bow and arrow is greater than that of a bullet, so it is more affected by gravity and wind speed, and the arc of projection is larger.

Meng Zihan nodded and tried it according to He Yuxin's instructions. As a result, one arrow missed, but the other arrow hit the zombie. It was only knocked down by the passive energy and quickly got up again.

"Phew! This is really difficult!" Meng Zihan handed back the wooden bow. It is really not something that ordinary people can control. The string of the wooden bow requires a lot of strength to pull, and an unsteady hand will greatly affect the accuracy.

More importantly, there was no assistance and she had to rely entirely on her eyesight and calculations. Meng Zihan admitted that she was not as good as He Yuxin in this respect.

"Just practice more!" Seeing this, He Yuxin encouraged.

"I haven't seen you practice, how can you shoot so well?" Meng Zihan said.

He Yuxin didn't know how to respond to this, and she couldn't explain it clearly. It seemed like she had always known how to do it. The feeling was very strange.

"I don't know!" He Yuxin shook her head.

Meng Zihan opened her mouth. He Yuxin didn't lie to her. It was really frustrating to compare yourself with others. If she could be half as good as He Yuxin, she would not be bad either.

Although He Yuxin started from a high point, Meng Zihan believed that hard work could make up for lack of talent, and one day she would be able to do the same.

The excavator was warmed up and started, easily tearing open the highway guardrail. After several operations, Wang Zhong gradually became familiar with the excavator, so the progress was much faster.

Soon a gap was dug out, and vehicles could go down to the compacted dirt road. There were a lot of construction machinery on this section of the road.

There are everything such as cranes, compactors, forklifts, pump trucks, and mixer trucks. It is a complete engineering team. There are also two excavators not far away.

In the shed there is a section of a completed bridge structure which has not yet been removed from the mould. Under the structure are two multi-wheeled monsters which, at first glance, appear to number over a hundred.

They are special transport vehicles that carry the bridge out of the shed and to a designated area, where it is installed by several cranes or by a special bridge-building vehicle.

They are of no use now. The convoy cannot use them to build a bridge. To get them out, the shed workshop should be able to accommodate all the vehicles.

The operation of a multi-wheeled transport vehicle like that seems to be controlled by a specific computer program. After all, it is difficult for human power to control so many wheels at the same time, and each pair of wheels has independent steering.

Only Lan Yuxuan can take action. Others can at best enable it to start but cannot control its actions.

Next to the shed are several workshops and dormitories, which is quite good. We will quickly clean out the zombies and move in tonight.

Lan Yuxuan was still very helpful. She tapped on the keyboard at the computer on the operating table. After half an hour, she had a general understanding of the control principle.

Even though it was impossible to achieve precise control, it was still possible to move them out of the shed. Wang Zhong had already led people to clear the space outside.

Of course, it was so fast because of the help of the forklift at the construction site.

A year later, the transport truck started again and slowly delivered the completed bridge. Others standing by were shocked.

It is truly the fruit of human wisdom, but unfortunately it has been damaged and degraded. No one present here understands the manufacturing process, and it will only get worse in the future.

The vehicles lined up one by one to enter the shed workshop, which was more than enough to accommodate more than a dozen vehicles. The only drawback was that there was no gate.

As night fell, the sound of machinery stopped and everyone gathered around the fire in front of the shed workshop. There was no heating and everyone was from the south and seemed not to be used to the snowy weather.

The sun sets again and everyone gets up. There is nothing to do at night and everyone sleeps soundly. It would be great if it were like this every day.

Since we have decided to spend the winter here, we need to start building some fortifications. There are a lot of construction machinery on the site, so it doesn't seem too difficult.

Chen Guangjun brought a few people to clean up the workers' dormitory. There was not enough time yesterday, so they killed a few zombies, but there are still some inside.

No one knew how Chen Haitao climbed up there. He was on guard on the roof of the shed and had a pretty good view.

Wu Bin and Qiao Xinghua walked around and found that the place was quite good, with few zombies and no food. It was great.

The caravan has some food reserves, but it’s not known whether they can survive the winter, so they must find a way to get some food during this period.

Wu Bin planned to dig a deep trench around the area, similar to an anti-tank trench, but deeper and larger, and then build an earth and wood wall that could withstand a normal number of zombies.

You can tell from listening to it that the workload is huge, and even with the help of machines, there is still too little labor.

Qiao Xinghua felt dizzy after hearing this. Is this really a temporary residence? Just turn it into a base camp.

So every day, except for two people who took turns driving the Sabretooth Tiger to patrol the area, almost everyone else participated in the engineering project.

The rumbling work of the excavator attracted zombies in the first two days, but fewer zombies came later. There is no large residential area here, just some individual households.

The excavator dug the soil as required, but the maximum depth was only two and a half meters, so Wu Bin asked it to dig wider.

The excavated soil was used on-site to make molds and press them into bricks to build city walls. The bricks were definitely not strong, so water was poured on them every time a section was built, and the soil became hard when the water froze.

The earthen city wall is three meters high and one meter wide, which is a bit narrow and needs to be widened later.

About five days later, the excavator had completed the digging, forming a trench more than three meters wide that could effectively block the zombies.

The city wall is halfway completed, and Wang Zhong is going to drive an excavator to widen the completed earth wall.

It was verified that the city wall frozen with water was extremely strong. Dafeng melted snow and watered the wall every day until he slipped and fell on the ice once, and then he quit working with a curse.

Zhao Bofeng called a halt to the construction of the city wall. He wanted people to modify the vehicles, mainly to heat the fuel tanks.

Zhao Bofeng’s modification suggestion is to circulate hot water, not connect to the car power supply, and use an additional generator or battery to provide power.

It sounds simple. Just re-drain the water pipes, add a water pump, and drain the water from the pipes when not in use, otherwise it will freeze.

Just add water when heating, it is a bit troublesome, but its advantage is that it can be operated in the car and there is no problem working overnight.

Secondly, the buckets of each vehicle need to be redesigned. Adding hydraulic rods is not realistic, so Zhao Bofeng plans to install two adjusting bolts.