End of the World

"The gate to the guard tower is still open, be careful!" Wu Bin touched the wall of the outpost. He didn't see any zombies around, but he was unsure about inside the outpost.

"Let's try and see if there's any stock!" Dafeng picked up a glass bottle from somewhere and threw it at the door of the outpost. With a loud bang, the glass bottle shattered into pieces on the ground.

"Ho~ho~"

Several zombie growls were heard from the outpost, and four or five figures rushed out of the outpost. They did not find any prey and circled around the broken bottles.

Wu Bin retracted his head and gestured to the two of them.

"There are five. Is that okay?"

"Three are mine!" Dafeng patted his chest and took charge of them. He could still deal with three ordinary zombies.

"Okay, let's put on bayonets!" Dafeng has no problem, and Wu Bin has even less problem.

Seeing Wu Bin and Qiao Xinghua fixed their bayonets, Dafeng walked out fiercely, pointed at the zombies, and said arrogantly: "Brothers, where are you going!"

The zombies almost didn't react. They represented the scythe of the god of death, and there were actually some who took the initiative to provoke them. It was an insult to the zombies.

"Ho!"

The zombies roared and stretched out their sharp claws as they rushed towards Dafeng, wanting to tear to pieces this guy who didn't take them seriously.

Dafeng was not vague. He swung the rocket launcher and smashed it at the zombie's forehead. The zombie's head was not very strong, and the minor injuries were bone fractures, while the serious ones had their brains smashed out on the spot.

Wu Bin and Qiao Xinghua didn't just stand there and watch. They each blocked a zombie and accurately thrust their bayonets into the zombie's forehead.

After this mission, the three people's ability to survive in the wild has been improved. Close combat with zombies has also trained the three people's psychology and combat awareness, and the tacit understanding between them and their companions has also been improved.

Dafeng went up to finish off the last zombie that was knocked down. Wu Bin couldn't help but give Dafeng a thumbs up. Not everyone has the courage to fight one against three, especially zombies. Moreover, Dafeng used the rocket launcher as a melee weapon.

"Dafeng, I'm worried that if this continues, this rocket launcher will be useless!" Qiao Xinghua also admired Dafeng, but this melee weapon was a bit extravagant.

"It's okay, it's not deformed, it's the same as new!" Dafeng laughed. The key was that he didn't have a good melee weapon.

"...! Haven't you heard of micro-transformation?!"

"No, what is microscopic deformation?"

"You guys continue discussing, I'll go in first!" Wu Bin interrupted the two of them. It would be a good idea to leave two people to guard the door!

Wu Bin walked into the outpost. There were two armored assault vehicles in the parking space inside the outpost. It seemed that the troops stationed at the outpost had failed to retreat. They might have been suddenly attacked by zombies at that time.

The watchtower stood quietly, with no trace of the original troops. Only the dried blood on the ground and against the wall told the story silently.

There is a sign numbered 13 on the watchtower, which should be the number of the outpost.

Wu Bin entered the barracks of the outpost. The barracks was in a mess and there were several rotting corpses. They were the garrison troops of the outpost.

"Brother Bin, here is a map!" Qiao Xinghua walked into the barracks and saw a blood-stained map on the table. It was a map of the guard posts of the Third Battalion of the Shelter, with the locations of each post and the main roads marked on it.

"We are here now, about six kilometers away from the shelter!" Qiao Xinghua pointed to the number 13 on the map and roughly calculated it according to the scale of the map.

Wu Bin looked around the map and pointed at some black lines: "Are these roads?"

"It doesn't look like that!" Qiao Xinghua looked at it for a long time but still couldn't understand: "It could be...!"

"Brother Bin, there are mortars here!" Dafeng came over carrying a mortar and interrupted the two of them. He looked a little excited.

"You got a new weapon again?" Qiao Xinghua took a look at the mortar which was similar to a rocket launcher. In Dafeng's hands, it might be another close combat weapon. The zombies trembled in fear.

"What are you talking about! Mortars are so powerful!" Dafeng still can't forget the scene of using the mortar. The long-range attack was simply too cool.

"So can you use it?" Wu Bin didn't want to attack him, but the mortar was really not something they could handle.

"Then let me think about it first!" Dafeng didn't care. He took the gun mount and base and went to the open space of the outpost to tinker with them himself.

"Brother Bin, he...!" Qiao Xinghua pointed at Dafeng's back. Is he a sex changer? When did he start to like thinking?

"Forget it!" Wu Bin waved his hand: "That's good, it's a good thing to use your brain more!"

Wu Bin could see that Dafeng was really interested in mortars, and hoped that he could really realize something.

The two continued their discussion. This military map was considered simple, but they still couldn't understand it. This proved that reading maps was also a skill. Military maps were not as rough as civilian maps, and even involved things like air humidity and wind direction.

"Brother Bin, I think I know!" Dafeng said happily when he saw Wu Bin and Qiao Xinghua coming over.

"It's assembled quite well. What did you know?" Wu Bin asked. Dafeng finally got it.

"I found that the higher the elevation angle, the closer the shot is, and the lower the elevation angle, the farther it is!"

Wu Bin: “……!”

"Why? Isn't this a major discovery?"

"Dafeng, have you ever played with a slingshot?" Qiao Xinghua asked speechlessly.

"I've played it before, so what?" Dafeng was depressed. This was what he got through actual operation, so why did the two of them react like this?

"Don't you think so?"

"Same? It's a mortar!"

"Nonsense, if the slingshot shoots stones into the sky, won't it hit your head?"

"Okay, Dafeng, take your time to study it. Let's go up and take a look!" Wu Bin spoke and pulled Qiao Xinghua away.

"Brother Bin, is this guy Dafeng trying to make fun of us?" Qiao Xinghua was pulled aside and said to Wu Bin

"It's not a diversion. Dafeng should have some ideas. Maybe he can really grasp the law between angle and distance!"

"I hope so!" Qiao Xinghua still didn't believe it, mainly because Dafeng was a careless guy who gave people a feeling of being unreliable.

Wu Bin and Qiao Xinghua climbed up the watchtower, and their view suddenly became clear.

“This tower is a bit shaky!”

Although the two people were not afraid of heights, the shaking tower still made them a little scared.

"This is a telescope and a night vision goggles! Good stuff!" Wu Bin discovered the observation equipment on the small table.

Wu Bin used a telescope to look in the direction of the shelter. He could vaguely see the high walls of the shelter. He felt very upset for a moment. He was finally going to be home, but he didn't know what was going on at home. He hoped that they would not be told that they had been killed in the battle.

Thinking of He Yuxin, Wu Bin felt a little apologetic and wondered how she was doing.

"That's home!" Qiao Xinghua looked towards the shelter. He missed Meng Zihan very much. Fortunately, he came back alive. He had no danger on the road, but he would not be so lucky every time.

"Xinghua, I think we should go back as refugees!"

Qiao Xinghua was stunned, then nodded, understanding what Wu Bin meant. If he went back as a soldier, he would definitely be sent back to the army.

"Brother Bin, do you want to leave the shelter?" Although he guessed Wu Bin's thoughts, Qiao Xinghua still asked.

"You already guessed it, why do you still need to ask? I don't want to make her worry anymore, and I don't want to be treated as a meaningless pawn anymore!"

This is what really bothers Wu Bin. Ordering them to cover the retreat may be difficult to accept, but choosing to conceal and deceive is truly heartbreaking. There is no need for him to work for the shelter anymore. In the eyes of the shelter's top management, he can be abandoned at any time, but to those who care about him, he is the whole world.

"Yes, instead of selling your worthless life for others, it is better to give it to the one you love the most. At least you can die without regrets!" Qiao Xinghua felt the same way. He was willing to give everything for Meng Zihan.

"But we can't go back today!" Wu Bin looked at the sky. Although it was afternoon, it would be difficult to reach the shelter by walking alone.

"It was that guy Dafeng who drove the car into the pit!" Qiao Xinghua looked back at the truck that was still in the pit.

"It's okay. There are two armored vehicles below. If you find the key, you can tow the vehicles out!"

The two chatted for a while and then came down from the watchtower. They couldn't reach the shelter today, but they had to get the car out first.

"Brother Bin, what do you want to do?" Dafeng asked when he saw the two men coming down and getting on an armored vehicle each.

"Let's go and tow the truck you drove into the pit!" Wu Bin replied.

"Why? Isn't there an armored vehicle here?" Dafeng was puzzled.

"Don't worry about it!"

The key to the armored vehicle was in the car, and the two men started the vehicle, but this car was different from a civilian one, and the field of vision was very narrow. With the abilities of the two men, they could only get the car moving barely.

The two armored vehicles went around behind the truck and should be able to tow the truck up using the winch in front.

Wu Bin and Qiao Xinghua got out of the car and killed several zombies that surrounded them, then dragged out a steel cable from the winch at the front of the car and fixed the cable to the rear beam of the truck.

The empty truck was not heavy, and the winches of the two armored vehicles could still pull it out. However, the truck was stuck too deep, so it did not move much. Instead, the wheels of the two armored vehicles, which were locked with the handbrakes, slowly slid forward.

The bottom of the truck seemed to be sucked by the bottom of the pit, making it difficult to pull it out. It seemed as if thousands of ghosts were pulling at the body of the truck, preventing Wu Bin and his companions from towing the car away easily.

In fact, the truck is affected by its own gravity and friction, and there is no suction. Dragging the truck will generate two forces, gravity and traction. The dragging process causes the soil in the pit to fluctuate. There is a term called vibratory fluctuation. This phenomenon is widely used in engineering, such as the vibratory hammer when driving steel sheet piles.

This fluctuation will accelerate the liquefaction of the soil in the wheel pit, reduce the upward force, and cause the downward sinking force to be greater than the upward buoyancy, which is also related to the density of the mud.

The armored vehicle winch took great pains to slowly pull the truck back onto solid ground.

At this time, the chassis of the truck had been soaked in the corpse solution for some time, and had long been soaked in the stench, emitting a disgusting smell that would not dissipate for a while. It would definitely not be tracked by zombie dogs or the like when driving on the road. The entire car did not have a trace of human smell, only the smell of death.

However, the three of them did not encounter any zombie dogs along the way, perhaps because there were not many zombie dogs.