End of the World

Guo Chang was also anxious to help, so he ordered the soldiers to find some small bottles and containers to pack gasoline. Each person carried one or two bottles and followed Zeng Jincheng and his men into the ventilation duct.

"There are dead bodies infected with the plague inside. Let the three of us bring the gasoline in!" Zeng Jincheng said to Guo Chang when they arrived outside the passage to prevent multiple people from being infected.

"Okay, be careful!" Guo Chang asked the soldiers to give all the gasoline to the three men.

The three men returned to the generator room with gasoline. There were two sets of generators, one for lighting and the other for the emergency system. The emergency system would give priority to supplying important systems in the event of energy or electricity shortage. However, the two sets of motors shared a fuel pool.

As long as the generator is started, the power system will automatically adjust according to the fuel level. Of course, there is also a manual system, but none of the three people know how to operate it.

Starting the generator is not difficult to operate, but it took the three of them a while to figure it out.

After the generator set was started, the lights in the entire warehouse were illuminated, but they only lasted for a few tens of seconds before going out because the power to the lighting system was automatically cut off, leaving only the necessary emergency lighting.

"Success!" Chen Haitao looked at the only overhead chandelier in the power room that was still on.

"Yes, but it won't last long!" Zeng Jincheng saw the oil gauge warning light on the operating table.

"Well done!" Guo Chang patted the three men on the shoulders when they came out and said, "Let's go! Take us to the platoon leader!"

After the power was restored, Battalion Commander Shi Dewen ordered the Third Company to seize the warehouse gate and dispatched part of the troops to contain the zombies outside the warehouse, making it impossible for the zombies outside to support the zombies inside the warehouse.

The battle in the warehouse did not last long, but the battle outside was more intense. Fortunately, the third company carried mortars and temporarily withstood the zombies' attack.

The battle in the warehouse was over, the warehouse door was closed, and the combat platoon that was holding back the zombies received an order to withdraw and cleverly withdrew. After the entire battle, they lost more than a dozen people.

Shi Dewen was quite satisfied with the outcome of the battle as the losses were within an acceptable range.

The noise of fighting in the ground warehouse attracted the attention of some zombies in the underground warehouse. They all gathered near the door of the underground warehouse. The door was not completely closed, but the first row of troops blocked it.

Shi Dewen ordered the basement door to be opened, but it did not respond. The soldiers checked and found that there was no problem with the power supply. Some metal fragments were found near the edge of the door, which might be due to damage to the internal transmission mechanism.

"Use explosives to blow up the debris behind the door!" Shi Dewen has limited time and can't waste too long.

"boom!"

There was a loud bang at the door of the basement, echoing throughout the basement. The zombies behind the door were shattered into pieces by the shock wave, and the basement door was even deformed, as if too much explosives were used.

"Prepare for battle!" Shi Dewen ordered. Needless to say, all the zombies in the basement would be attracted over.

The space left by the basement door can only support two zombies to pass through at most. This is also Shi Dewen's confidence. Nearly two hundred people from the third company can't beat a few zombies!

"Oh my goodness, the battalion commander and his men have stirred up a hornet's nest!" Guo Chang originally wanted to take people to rescue the platoon leader, but the battle outside made the originally quiet zombies agitated, so no one dared to act rashly.

"Let's go find the platoon leader!" The zombies did not notice Guo Chang and his group. After the zombies passed by, they sneaked through the main road of the warehouse to the platoon leader.

"Platoon leader and the others are right there!" Zeng Jincheng pointed to the fire door of the passage. The zombies that were originally surrounding outside had disappeared.

"Platoon leader, are you in there?" Guo Chang knocked on the fire door but got no response.

"Platoon leader!"

Chen Guangjun looked around the ventilation duct above his head and said, "Will the platoon leader and his men leave through it?"

Guo Chang also looked up and said, "It's possible. Let's go along the ventilation duct and have a look!"

Guo Chang led his men along the ventilation duct to a ventilation duct fork. He looked at the direction of the ventilation duct. The front led to the auxiliary warehouse of warehouse No. 3, and the other side passed through three large warehouses. The platoon leader should have led his men to the auxiliary warehouse, otherwise they would have met in the large warehouse.

The layout of the sub-warehouse No. 3 is the same as that of the sub-warehouse No. 1. It is divided into several warehouses. Although they are called sub-warehouses, the area is actually not small. Each sub-warehouse is about one thousand square meters.

Guo Chang led his men to search the sub-warehouses one by one. Sure enough, they found Gong Shusen and his men in sub-warehouse No. 5, but they couldn't get out because there was a password door.

"What should we do now?" Zeng Jincheng said anxiously.

"Let's go back and find the battalion commander. He should have a way!" Guo Chang said after a moment of hesitation. He knew that the battalion commander had documents about this warehouse and must know the password to the secondary warehouse.

"Platoon leader, can the others come out from the ventilation duct again?" Chen Haitao asked.

"No, remember the fan in the ventilation duct? That's not just an exhaust fan, it's stronger than an airplane propeller!" Guo Chang shook his head. Now that the power has been partially restored, the anti-climbing or anti-submarine fan in the ventilation duct has been running.

The battle on Shi Dewen's side was nearing its end. The entrance was so small that only a limited number of zombies came out. Even the mutated zombies could not withstand the storm of bullets and were easily shot into sieves. The battle process was simpler than expected.

"Battalion Commander!" When Guo Chang arrived, the battle had ended and the third company was cleaning up the battlefield.

"You did a good job. Where is your platoon leader?" Shi Dewen could not see Gong Shusen around.

"Report, Platoon Leader and his men are trapped in the No. 5 auxiliary warehouse of the No. 3 warehouse, and we don't have the password!" Guo Chang reported.

"He has good awareness and knows how to change the scene!" Shi Dewen knows Gong Shusen and he will not sit still and wait for death, but this change of scene seems to have encountered another trouble.

"Take me there!" Shi Dewen arranged the third company so that he could have a good look at the underground warehouse.

"Yes!"

"It seems that the Longshan Shelter has really reached its end!" Shi Dewen sighed as he looked at the empty warehouse. If their shelter couldn't survive this time, the situation would be similar.

The others did not answer, but just led the way silently.

Shi Dewen took out the documents about the warehouse, found the relevant password, and had someone open the No. 5 auxiliary warehouse door.

After the door opened, Gong Shusen led the remaining soldiers from the first and second squads out.

"battalion commander!"

"You are all great!" Shi Dewen stepped forward and patted the surviving soldiers from the first and second squads.

"I'll go back and ask for your collective second-class merit!"

"Thank you, Battalion Commander!" The soldiers cheered. This was an affirmation of them.

"What's going on here?" After the soldiers finished cheering, Shi Dewen touched the piles of wooden boxes in the auxiliary warehouse.

"Battalion Commander, they are all artillery shells!"

"Oh?"

Gong Shusen waved his hand and ordered someone to open one of the boxes, inside which lay two shells.

"105 light grenade!" Shi Dewen turned and looked at Gong Shusen.

"It's a pity that our shelter doesn't have 105 light howitzers. All our artillery is equipped with 155 heavy artillery!"

Shi Dewen closed the box, looked at the neatly arranged ammunition boxes in the warehouse, and asked, "How many shells are there here?"

"We have made a rough calculation. According to the standard ammunition base of the artillery in the shelter, based on a standard artillery regiment, each gun has about eight ammunition bases!" Gong Shusen reported.

"So many!" Shi Dewen was surprised. Eight ammunition bases were equivalent to thousands of shells for each gun. This was just one of the sub-warehouses. If the other sub-warehouses were like this, the fall of Longshan Shelter would be intriguing.

"I'm also wondering, there are two 105 light howitzer regiments stationed in Longshan. Since they have such a large amount of ammunition, why did they lose it?"

"You are right, this is an important situation!" Shi Dewen was not sure whether the shelter was aware of what was happening. All signs indicated that there must be other reasons for the fall of Longshan.

"He Wenyu, take your men to check other warehouses and report any abnormalities immediately!" Shi Dewen handed the document in his hand to the company commander of the third company.

"Yes!" He Wenyu accepted the order.

He Wenyu led some soldiers from the third company to open the sub-warehouses of the No. 155 basement one by one, and found that the No. sub-warehouse was also full of artillery shells, but most of them were mortar shells, and some were howitzer shells.

When auxiliary warehouse No. 1 was opened, a foul odor spread out and soon filled the entire passage.

"What stinks so bad!" Even though Shi Dewen and Gong Shusen had smelled many unpleasant odors of corpses, they couldn't stand it this time.

"Report to the battalion commander, dead... dead body, there is a dead person in the No. 1 auxiliary warehouse!" He Wenyu ran back to report.

"It's just a dead body, why are you panicking?" Shi Dewen said with some dissatisfaction. He had seen quite a few dead bodies so far.

"Battalion Commander, you...you'd better go over and take a look. This corpse looks a little different!" He Wenyu hesitated. Not only was the corpse stinking, but the death was also horrific. The person must have suffered tremendous pain before dying.

"Let's go!" The smell was unbearable, but Shi Dewen still wanted to go and take a look.

Gong Shusen and others also followed with their noses pinched. When they stepped into the No. 1 auxiliary warehouse, they were almost suffocated. This was not just the smell of a rotting corpse.

"Battalion Commander, the dead body is over there!" He Wenyu led the way. The second time he came in, he was almost foaming at the mouth because of the stench.

There were more than twenty corpses lying in a mess between two piles of wooden boxes. The corpses were already highly decomposed, and a fishy yellow liquid oozed out of the rotting corpses, soaking the wooden boxes on both sides.

"Ahem... Battalion Commander, the corpse is... ahem... very horrible!" He Wenyu spoke out while trying to hold back the stench.

"Yes!" Shi Dewen nodded. He had to admit that the corpse looked hideous and the recognizable facial features were extremely distorted. He quickly motioned for everyone to go out and talk.

Only after arriving at Warehouse No. 3 did everyone gasp for breath. It was even more uncomfortable there than holding their breath in the water.

"Tell me what you think!" Shi Dewen took a deep breath and glanced at the auxiliary warehouse passage.

Everyone looked at each other first, and Gong Shusen said, "Captain, let's not talk about anything else. It's strange that these people died in there. There are no zombies in there, and I also noticed that there are some compressed dry food in the No. 1 auxiliary warehouse. They can definitely hold on until we get here!"

"As expected of a reconnaissance platoon leader, I noticed this, too." Shi Dewen agreed with Gong Shusen and said, "Not to mention whether they can survive, the degree of decay of the bodies doesn't match the time. Longshan Shelter has only been occupied for over a week, but where are the bodies? The bodies look like they've been decaying for two months. This is a warehouse, not the wilderness!"