Doomsday rat

Chapter 66 Circular Fortification
"It seems that the number of survivors is more than I expected, which is a good thing... I just don't know how many will survive in the end. Let's go, we really don't have much time!"

Hong Tao had no idea about the ice storage, he was estimating a number in his mind.When the cataclysm was just known, the estimated number of survivors was very small, but after these days of exploration, the situation seems to be optimistic.

However, this estimate is too rough, it can only be a trend, and no specific figures can be obtained.And even if there are many survivors who escaped the mutation at the beginning, whether they can really survive is a big question.

For example, Liu Quan had five of them. If he hadn't discovered by accident, after eating all the food and drinking all the water, he could only go out and fight the zombies.With their abilities and weapon level, the chance of escaping alive is almost zero.

In order to prevent zombies from sneaking into the park, Hong Tao simply closed the south gate, and searched the office of the company. After confirming that no one was there, he drove to the high wall on the north side of the east gate.

Ladder, ladder again!The eastern entrance of this underground ring fortification is just outside the east wall of the park. There is a small yard there, which was used as part of the golf driving range. Later, the course was cancelled and the yard was abandoned.Turning over from the inside of the high wall of the park is obviously more trouble-free than killing it on the main road.

"Click..." It was quiet outside the explosion-proof door. Hong Tao and Sun Jianshe took the lead to climb down the ladder, and after walking around the small courtyard to confirm that there was no living thing, they took out the key and put the padlock on the chain to the door. opened.In fact, this lock is not as strong as the lock of the police station's gun warehouse, but it is better to have a key than to use an angle grinder.

"You two are not allowed to speak loudly or run around, do you understand?" Hong Tao originally wanted to leave the two little girls on the wall and wait. The outer wall of the park is more than four meters high, and no zombies can get on it. .

But seeing the shock of the two of them, I felt that it was a bit too impersonal to do so, so I'd better bring them.But you must talk about discipline in advance, don't blame yourself for being cruel if you don't listen or don't do it.

"...What's the place in here?" Yang Ling, the fat girl who wanted to run when she saw Hong Tao dropped the box, was more talkative. She wasn't satisfied when she took over a flashlight. The general situation behind the big cement door, and then decide not to enter.

"It is very likely to be our future home... Lao Liu, you should come and tell them about the current domestic and foreign situation and our discipline!" I also learned to be lazy with Sun Jianshe, so let Liu Quanyou do the ideological work.

"Come here, you two are following me, the current situation is like this..." Liu Quanyou really did not worry about such a thing, he called the two girls to the back with a serious expression, and began to tap the palm of his hand with the back of his hand again.This is his habitual action, he will do it when he is thinking and when he is talking nonsense.

"Brother Sun, I've been here many times, and the situation is familiar. It is said that there should be no one below, but special circumstances cannot be ruled out, so we can't get too close. I'll go ahead, how about you delay?"

Although the vegetable market has been closed for four or five years, the inside of the explosion-proof door has not changed, and the air is still circulating.Hong Tao took the flashlight and walked down the steps first, Liu Quanyou followed three or four meters behind with two girls, and Sun Jianshe was the last.

"Is there an elevator here?" Sun Jianshe obviously had never been here before. He used to live in a house on the North Fifth Ring Road, where his son and his daughter-in-law lived. It was replaced three years ago, when the vegetable market was closed. .

The flashlight I found in the safe of the Civil Air Defense Office was really bright. It was like a big snow-white stick in the dark underground space. It swayed from side to side and illuminated all corners.

Seeing that the place below was empty and there was no place to hide people, Hong Tao felt more relieved. He was afraid that the previous shops and counters had not been cleaned up, and they were in a mess, which would be too easy to be raided.

"There were a lot of small shops on both sides back then. It's a pity that they closed when they said they were closed. Lao Liu, do you know the reason?"

"Hey, this matter is not decided by the district. I heard that the area within the Second Ring Road will be transformed into an administrative district, and the population must be evacuated. Haven't you seen that even the municipal government has been relocated to Tongzhou District? Who cares about serving food? The market... Lao Hong, this door..."

Liu Quanyou has a deep understanding of this issue, but he didn't plan to talk about it in detail, he just responded casually.He is more concerned about the explosion-proof door. Should it be closed or open?
"Close it, lock it from the inside!" Hong Tao made a decision without thinking.

Lock the door and have the key in your hand. Even if there is a problem outside and you can't get out from here, there are still other exits.I have carefully read the blueprint, and there is indeed a passage that is connected to Metro Line [-], and it is impossible to escape from there.

If you don't lock the door, you feel that there is a way back, but it is actually more dangerous.Not to mention whether there will be zombies sneaking in, if it is discovered by others, the danger should be greater than that of zombies.

"Bang dang... brush..." As the locking device of the explosion-proof door was closed, the underground space immediately became dark, and three flashlights lit up in an instant.

"Yang Ping, turn off your flashlight... Lao Liu, don't look at people, mainly on the left and right sides and at your feet. There are me and Brother Sun in the front and back!"

Hong Tao likes to play in air-raid shelters since he was a child, and is very familiar with this kind of confined space.In fact, too much lighting will cause trouble, and there are always beams of light dangling around, making it harder to see things.

The design of this annular fortification is quite interesting. It is a circle, not a circle. It is buried by a layer of soil up to 7 meters thick, like a stadium runway, but the center of the circle is dead and there is only one vent.

Hong Tao didn't understand why he designed it this way. According to the drawing on the blueprint, the width of the annular space is nearly 8 meters, the circumference exceeds 300 meters, and the height is almost 5 meters. One of the two entrances and exits is on the east side and the other is on the north side.

After measurement, the actual data is basically consistent with the blueprint, but the original appearance cannot be seen on this blueprint.If you want to see it, you can take out another blueprint drawn in 1974, which is an archived blueprint that I risked to find in the safe of the civil air defense office.

On this diagram, the ring fortification should have five vents, two outside the park wall and three inside the park wall.There are as many as six entrances and exits, three of which have been permanently blocked, plus the existing two, there is still one less.

The place marked as a vent on the new drawing is now three meters away from Hong Tao.It looks very inconspicuous. The explosion-proof door more than two meters wide is painted with a thick layer of paint. If you don't look carefully, it is almost the same as the surrounding wall, except that there are a few centimeters of thick steel plate on the edge, hanging on it. a large lock.

"Get ready... Yang Ping, go unlock the lock!" Hong Tao handed the key to Yang Ping, and he was ready to go with his riot shield.Sun Jianshe and Liu Quan, one with a fire hook, and one with guns in both hands, are located behind Hong Tao.Another little girl, Yang Ling, was leaning far against the opposite wall, biting her fingers nervously.

"I... I'm a little scared..." Yang Ping clasped her hands together, and refused to accept the key even if she died.

"You are surrounded by zombies and you are still in the mood to fry fried dough sticks. You have good guts. Come on, just open the lock, and when you're done, go away quickly, there's nothing wrong with it. If you don't open it... hum hum hum ……You know……"

Hong Tao simply stuffed the keychain into her arms, then gave an ultimatum with a grin.In order to highlight the atmosphere, he also put the mobile phone on his chest and took a picture from the bottom to the top, making his face more sinister.

"...Sucking... It was good to eat fried dough sticks, but the uncle had to let people come out... Sucking... What's good outside... It's scary... Sucking..."

The effect should be achieved, Yang Ping's tears and sobbing poured out together, full of unwillingness and complaints.It's just that he didn't dare to hesitate in his hand, he shivered and inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it hard.

(End of this chapter)