Apocalypse Road

Early the next morning, the nine people arrived at the north square of the base just after dawn.The north square is crowded with people, but those who are brave enough to go hungry have registered at the square early.

There are two types of registration, and those with special skills will moderately relax the test difficulty.Uncle Yu is a car repairman, and the skinny monkey is very good at picking locks, so the two are naturally classified as members of the special team.The rest need to pass the physical fitness test. The test content is simple but harsh. A group of 100 people will run 5000 meters without walking or resting in the middle.Half of those who participated in the test at less than 2000 meters lay down, and some fainted and some vomited later.Lin Suheng was a typical nerd, he fell on the ground after [-] meters, Lin Yufeng had old injuries to his legs and feet, and couldn't stand the long and strenuous running, so he was also defeated.

"Those who passed the test today will gather here on time at seven o'clock tomorrow morning." In the evening, Shi Bin stood on the rostrum, his face sinking like water.There was a dark crowd in the audience. More than 1000 people passed the test on the first day, and the pass rate was less than 20.00%. "From now on, you must obey the instructor's instructions unconditionally! If you go deep into the dangerous place, the base will not treat you badly, but if you act with evil intentions, get the hell out of me as soon as possible. Once you find out, you will be expelled immediately!"

The crowd in the audience was silent, Shi Bin paused slightly, and waved: "Now, disband!"

The training designed by Shi Bin lasts for a week. Since endurance and physical fitness cannot be improved overnight, in addition to the fixed four hours of physical training every day, Shi Bin focuses on reaction training.He simulated various environments that he might encounter when he went out to search for materials, such as shopping malls, underground parking lots, residential buildings, cottages, plains, hills, and almost all the environments he could think of were simulated exercises.The base does not have the conditions to equip the material team members with unified weapons. Therefore, at the beginning of the exercise, everyone has at most ordinary cold weapons in their hands, such as machetes and stainless steel long sticks. environmental purpose.

This kind of training has disappointed many people who participated in the material team, and even quit.In their original imagination, to participate in military training, the military will definitely be equipped with firearms and bullets.With powerful lethal weapons, those slow-moving zombies are actually not a threat. All they need is to shoot, clean up, return to the city, and receive food stamps to survive.But this kind of close-to-hand combat training made them realize that they need to face zombies at close range.The horror of zombies lies in the large-scale clusters and the infection caused by scratches during close combat. They all survived with great difficulty, and no one wants to go to the nightmare again.

The number of people participating in the training was slowly decreasing. By the sixth day, only half of the initial team members were left.After four hours of scrambling in the morning, the team members who were sunburned one by one in the afternoon were carried to a new place by the military card.

"Today and tomorrow are the last two days of the training camp. This is the XA base shooting training ground. Within two days, you need to be familiar with the construction, disassembly and assembly of common firearms, and learn how to shoot."

The instructor handed out the old-fashioned Type 64 pistols to the team members, and everyone couldn't hide their excitement.Firearms are extremely unfamiliar to the people of country Z. Except for the toy guns in TV dramas and shopping malls, most of them have never touched real firearms.The instructor gave an example on the podium, while the men in the audience were full of eagerness to try.

Qi Feng and Shao Han studied hard and followed the instructor's explanation step by step.Qin Siyuan's veterans seemed careless, and in an inconspicuous corner in the distance, there were a few soldiers, holding notebooks and writing hard, recording the performance and achievements of the trainers one by one.

The shooting range is far away from the F area where civilians live, and the team members are required to live in the shooting range that night.Qin Siyuan has played with guns for six or seven years, and dismisses the simple knowledge taught by the instructor.After being bored all afternoon, when he knew that the night could not be dismissed, he immediately lost his temper.

"I want to go back." Qin Siyuan stood at the exit of the shooting range, his face darkened.

The day before yesterday and yesterday, there were changes near the house they were renting, and more than a dozen people were injured.Of course they know the outcome of people bitten by zombies.Lin Yufeng knew that his family members had not entered the XA base, plus he had failed the test, and his mood had been low and it was difficult to concentrate. Qin Siyuan was worried that he would stay at home alone with that stupid nephew.

"No, the officer asked to stay at the shooting range tonight. Shooting practice will start at [-]:[-] tomorrow morning. No one is allowed to leave the team!"

"I won't participate, get out." Qin Siyuan overthrew a soldier with a few tricks. He learned boxing and Sanda systematically when he had the conditions. With his fists and relentless vigor, he made his way to the top gangsters in City C step by step. The ordinary soldier is really not him. opponent.

"Stop, don't move! Otherwise, I'll shoot!" Seeing that the situation was wrong, another soldier immediately raised his rifle and pointed it at Qin Siyuan.Qi Feng and Song Bo hurried forward to stop them, Yu Qingying smiled and apologized to the soldiers, and at least moved the barrel of the gun away from Qin Siyuan's forehead.There was a smarter person next to him, and immediately ran to report to the superior.

There was a lot of commotion in their room, which alarmed many people.The team members with wives and children complained about not being able to go home at night, and the crowd watching chattered, and a dozen soldiers seemed to be unable to hold back the scene.

"What is this for!" Shi Bin walked quickly from the office. He was checking the team members' training records, and some soldiers reported trouble.

"I want to go back to Area F." Qin Siyuan was no less imposing than Shi Bin, throwing off the soldiers who suppressed him, and stood facing Shi Bin.

"You must stay at the shooting range tonight. I said on the first day that you must obey the instructor's instructions unconditionally."

"I'm not going to shoot tomorrow."

Shi Bin frowned slightly. Men are born with a special enthusiasm for firearms, especially now that it is a special period. These team members will soon face the situation of going deep into the occupied area and directly facing zombies. Being able to learn how to shoot firearms is tantamount to adding a layer of insurance to their own safety. .He didn't expect that someone would voluntarily give up shooting training.

"What's your name?"

"Qin Siyuan."

Qin Siyuan?Shi Bin pondered. He had an impression of the names of the few players who performed well. Qin Siyuan was one of them, and his performance in emergency response and grappling was quite good.

Scanning the few people standing next to Qin Siyuan, they were obviously in the same group.His adjutant immediately whispered the names of several people in his ear.

They are all his memorable names.

"Aren't any of you participating? Why?"

Qi Feng hesitated a little. He and Shao Han were not as familiar with firearms as Qin Siyuan and the others. They could learn from the regular army and practice shooting. He actually didn't want to give up this opportunity.

"How can I go back to Area F?" Shao Han asked suddenly, Qin Siyuan's personality was similar to his, unless he was really in a hurry, he usually showed no signs of emotion or anger.

"If you have the strength to prove that you don't need to participate in shooting training, you can go back tonight." Shi Bin said playfully. Ordinary citizens of Country Z are unable to touch firearms. If they can't meet the conditions, they can't continue to make trouble, and the onlookers have nothing to say. If they meet the conditions... then the background of these people may not be simple, whether to let them join the material team That's up for debate.

"Give me the gun." Qin Siyuan spread his hands.

Shi Bin winked, and the adjutant took out a Type 92 pistol and put it in Qin Siyuan's palm.

The temporary residence of the shooting range is a simple tent set up in the open space, with lights every 50 meters.In order to save power and not attract the attention of the zombies, the lights were turned to the dimmest, and the viewing distance was only five meters at most.

"If you hit the eighth ring, you are considered qualified." Shi Bin pointed to a few targets not far from the wall.

After the words fell, the gun rang out, hit the heart, and the audience was in an uproar. Shi Bin's brows furrowed even tighter. Qin Siyuan didn't even need to aim. It was purely based on feeling. This is not something that people who start touching guns after the end of the world can do.

"The soldiers keep their word, Wang Yun, prepare a car to take them back to Area F. Anyone else want to take the test?"

The crowd of onlookers walked out of more than 50 trial hands one after another, some hit and some failed.

"Write down the ones that passed, and arrange some smart ones to watch them. There is also tomorrow's shooting practice, record it in detail, and pick out all the abnormal ones for me."

Shi Bin looked at the people who passed the test and boarded the military card back to Area F, his eyes flickered coldly.

After training for a day and making trouble in the middle of the night, the team members became sleepy and dispersed after a while.Qin Siyuan was the only one who returned to Area F, and the rest remained on the shooting range, cherishing this hard-won opportunity to practice.

Yu Qingying knew how to use a gun, but she was not as proficient as her father and Qin Siyuan. Shao Han had experience with crossbows and made the fastest progress. Only Qi Feng and Song Bo practiced until the afternoon, and seven out of ten shots were empty targets.Most of the other team members were at this level, and the instructors and soldiers maintaining order shook their heads secretly.

The day's shooting practice ended with sighs and excitement. At dinner time, the team members were sent back to Area F by military cards.Before disbanding, Shi Bin announced the task collection and formation rules of the material team.

The tasks of the material team are issued by the military, which are divided into two types: inside the city and outside the city.The task in the city is mainly to enter X city or the cities and counties near the XA base to search for various supplies.Due to the high density of zombies in the city and the great danger, the material team is divided into military and civilian teams. Members who have obtained name cards through material team training can apply freely.The military has a high safety factor but less rewards. All recovered materials must be turned over to the government, and the government will issue rationed food coupons as rewards.The civilian materials team can keep one-tenth of the materials recovered by themselves, and the government will reward food stamps separately, but the military will only ration a small amount of firearms and bullets.The material team outside the city mainly enters the countryside with a low density of zombies to find supplies, and leads the construction team to clean up the land surrounded by zombies.

The folk materials team is established by the members themselves, with at least 15 people in a group, and there is no upper limit on the number of people.Less than 15 people are not allowed to go out, and those who do not have a name card are not allowed to join the material team in the city.Because the material team outside the city is less dangerous, under the protection of the material team members, those who have not passed the training can also apply to join the construction team, enclosing land in exchange for food stamps to feed their hungers, and maximize the role of the people in the base.

After the task was released, the XA base rejoiced.Many survivors who came early had already used up the food stamps they had exchanged for. They were not strong enough to pass the assessment and went to the city to find supplies. They only lived on cold water, bark and weeds every day.The task of building enclosures outside the city finally gave them a place to play, and the government registration office was overcrowded and crowded.

After being abused for a week, Qi Feng and others were paralyzed, and it took a day to go back to the self-built house and lie down.Fortunately, they went to the city to exchange a lot of food stamps, and they didn't need to pay for food stamps for lunch this week when they joined the material team training, so the use of food stamps was much slower.Uncle Yu and Shouhou also came back on the same day, their training volume was much lighter than that of Qi Feng and the others. Seeing them as soft as a pile of mud, Shouhou took the opportunity to jump up and down and laughed to his heart's content.

Knowing how to form a material team, Qin Siyuan started to build a material team.He believes that he can't stand the various rules and regulations of the military team, and the civilian team has less than 15 people and cannot leave the city, so it is imperative to expand the team.Fortunately, in the simulated training, there were some candidates who cooperated well. Together, we prepared several teams for mixed registration.

The pistol skills Qin Siyuan showed at the shooting range were well-known in the material training team, so there is no suspense for him to be the captain.Since Lin Yufeng's uncle and nephew failed the test, Qin Siyuan chose the task of enclosing the land outside the city, and the others had no objection. After all, there are always two or three poor physical fitness in every team. Choosing a challenge level for the task is tantamount to courting death.

There are not a few people who have the same idea as them, and very few choose missions in the city.The material team outside the city also received weapons issued by the government when they received the task. The weapons are similar to a mixture of long knives and ancient spears. They are about one meter long, with sharp heads on both sides and gun points. The middle is hollow and ordinary people can swing them. They are all XA The base factory worked overtime to rush out.As for the guns, as the government said, they were only rationed in small quantities. Each material team outside the city only issued guns for [-]% of the population, and a gun had six rounds of ammunition. If you want extra ammunition, you can only exchange it with food stamps.What is even more speechless is that a gun needs to pay [-] food stamps as a deposit. If the gun is lost or damaged and cannot be returned when you return to the city, the [-] food stamps can only say goodbye to you.The people cursed again and again, and the government also had misery. Even if the XA base’s external propaganda was stopped, the survivors who heard the news were still coming in an endless stream. Although the number of people had slowed down, the number of zombies brought was not less than Where to go? Seeing that ammunition stocks are plummeting every day, and the army is still unable to go to the arsenal, Qiu Jianguo is so worried that every day feels like a year, and he is restless.

The construction team members are very simple. Just shouting at the registration office can hula-la-la-lah surround a large circle of people.On the third day, Qin Siyuan's newly formed No. 37 material team led more than 80 construction team members and marched to the outskirts of the XA base.

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