doomsday survival

Chapter 404
Shi Jian only brought thirty mortars on this trip, three for each vehicle, and the remaining half were left in Kholmsk as defensive firepower.

Although Korsakov has a small population, its streets are very wide, and the main road has eight lanes. Moreover, because of the small number of zombies and the lack of concentration of zombies, the killing rate is not high. The feeling that thirty mortars could not effectively suppress the pace of the zombie attack.

Seeing the zombies rushing forward more and more, Shi Jian began to feel anxious, but at this time, zombies also appeared on the streets on both sides.

These zombies all came from the south, but they didn't take the main road, but went all the way north, and then attacked the Chang'an tribe from the side streets.

It was difficult for the mortars to deal with the zombies on the main road, let alone attack the zombies on the side. Shi Jian had no choice but to let people use guns to attack these zombies.

Fortunately, the number of zombies on both sides is not too many, and people can still cope with it with all their strength, but the Chang'an tribe is actually surrounded by three sides, and only the direction of retreating north has no zombies.

"Didn't you say it's only three kilometers? Why haven't you come here for so long?" Shi Jian looked anxiously at the street that Yi Hengge was in charge of.

He couldn't help being anxious, seeing that there were more and more zombies in the south, if the delay was too long, even all the troops might fall into the sand here.

When Shi Jian was anxious, the figures of Yi Hengge's team finally appeared. To Shi Jian's surprise, they were running towards this side with mortars and ammunition boxes on their backs.

"Fucking money fan!" Shi Jian cursed angrily.

Although Shi Jian was scolding Yi Hengge, he was very touched in his heart. He was able to carry weapons and ammunition under such circumstances. After all, not everyone would be able to carry other items under such circumstances.

Shi Jian yelled to Feng Chen: "You command!" After speaking, he jumped into his car and greeted Yi Hengge and the others.

The car drove up in front of Yi Hengge's team, and the car body turned sideways.

"Get in the car!" Shi Jian shouted loudly.

Without any hesitation, Yi Hengge and the others entered the car through the open door. After putting down their weapons and ammunition, they all sat on their seats and gasped for breath.

As soon as the last person got on the car, Shi Jian turned the car around and drove towards the meeting point before he could sit still.

When Shi Jian drove back, the battle was in full swing, and the zombies on the main road were less than 500 meters away from the team.

"Everyone take turns covering and getting into the car!" Shi Jian ordered loudly.

Feng Chen has been paying attention to Shi Jian's situation all the time. After hearing the order, he immediately organizes people to get into the car in groups.

As more and more people got on the bus, the attack of the zombies could not be suppressed at all.When the last person got on the bus, the nearest zombie was less than ten meters away from the convoy.

Without any hesitation, the convoy started collectively and headed north.At the same time, people stick out their guns from the car windows and shoot at the nearby zombies.

Soon, the zombies were thrown far behind the car. When the convoy drove out of Korsakov, the zombies had already been thrown more than ten kilometers away.

Back on the intercity highway, Shi Jian finally felt relieved. He found a suitable place and began to organize everyone to build a position.

The intercity highway is much narrower than Korsakov’s main road, it’s just a six-lane road with mountains and dense forests on both sides, so it can be said to be much safer.

The next battle was much easier. Thirty mortars gathered together and covered the entire road under artillery fire, giving the attacking zombies a head-on blow.

The shells were quickly exhausted, but there were still thousands of zombies. Fortunately, these numbers of zombies could be dealt with by relying on firearms. After four hours of intense fighting, Korsakov finally lost sight of him. To the shadow of the zombies.

Although no zombies appeared again, Shi Jian still cautiously chose to stay where he was, and did not re-enter the city until the next day.

Korsakov has now completely become a dead city. The convoy traveled all over the streets and alleys here, but did not hear the roar of any zombies.

Seeing that the city was safe, Shi Jian didn't stay too long, and headed directly to the naval base.

The former Maoziguo's naval base no longer has the mighty troops of the past, but instead it is in disarray.

From the messy footprints on the ground, it can be seen that this is the place where Korsakov's zombies are most dense.

Seeing this situation, Shi Jian immediately understood why the sparsely populated Korsakov had more zombies than Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk.

The reason why there are so many zombies here is because of the existence of this naval base.

In the turmoil of the last days, when people escape from zombies, the first choice is to find the army for shelter. As a result, a large number of people flooded into this military port city.

But what they didn't expect was that, except for the abjectly poor at the beginning, all people would not be able to escape that catastrophe in the end, and the army had been vaccinated collectively, and it became the most dangerous place.

Shi Jian couldn't help thinking of the scrapped arsenal in Maoziguo. It was just a battalion-level guard, but the number of zombies there was far more than a few hundred.

"The safer place turns out to be a more dangerous place. It's a joke." Shi Jian couldn't help sighing.

But all of this has become history, and Shi Jian didn't think about it anymore, and immediately devoted himself to looking for the ship.

Standing on the dock of the military port, Shi Jian felt disheartened for a while.

There are not as many warships as imagined in the harbor of the naval base, and there are even only a few sunken ships. It is impossible to imagine that there was a powerful fleet stationed here.

"Where's the warship? Where's the ship?" Shi Jian kept asking himself.

Obviously, those warships are not sunk in the harbor. The biggest possibility is that the soldiers found more and more zombies, so they sailed to the sea to seek refuge.

Maybe they are working as happy zombies on a deserted island now, maybe after they mutated, they sank to the bottom of the sea together with the ship and went to visit the Crystal Palace.

"Boss Shi, what about that? Why don't we let Wei Qiang and the others build a boat?" Feng Chen asked in a low voice.

Shi Jian shook his head slightly, and said, "Fan, search all the houses here, I don't believe I can't even find a boat."

Feng Chen ordered people to call the boats in the base, and soon reports from various locations came over.

In Shi Jian's opinion, the shipyard most likely to have a ship, like the military port, was empty. It is estimated that even the ship to be repaired was driven away by the soldiers.

This result made Shi Jian a little dumbfounded. If these warships had not been driven away, there would definitely be more zombies here, and there would have been danger yesterday.

However, the number of zombies was reduced, and the result was that there were no boats, which also made Shi Jian's mission for this trip in vain.

"My God, why is it so difficult to find a boat!" Shi Jian wished he could look up to the sky and sigh twice.

But before he could let out a long sigh, Meizi ran over and said to Shi Jian, "Mr. Shi, we found a place that seems to be an arsenal. Would you like to go and have a look?"

Shi Jian came to the arsenal with the idea of ​​treating a dead horse as a living horse doctor.

The arsenal is divided into several warehouses, many of which are already empty, and the weapons in them have long been taken away.

However, there are also some naval weapons that have been left over, all of which are naval weapons such as torpedoes and naval gun shells.

Shi Jian glanced at several warehouses, and finally came to a warehouse door. Unlike other warehouse doors that had been pried open, the door here was still tightly closed.

After the others pried open the door, Shi Jian immediately became happy when he saw the items inside.

"It's really hard to find anywhere. It's easy to get here. If I knew it was here, why would I go to the dock!" Shi Jian said excitedly.

It turned out that this is a life-saving equipment warehouse, which is full of sea life-saving equipment, of which life jackets account for the majority, but there are also life-saving airboats in it, which is why it has not been pried open.

There are also a lot of lifeboats, more than 100, all of which are self-inflating and equipped with a small electric motor.

Whether it is the lifeboat or the motor, it is well sealed, and the dust on the packaging is wiped off, just like new.

This discovery made Shi Jian overjoyed. As long as one of these lifeboats can be used, then he can be guaranteed to cross the sea smoothly.

"Good things, it seems that this trip is really not in vain, these things alone are worth our trip." Shi Jian said fondly, stroking the lifeboat.

"Boss Shi, can this thing work? Doesn't it look like a boat?" Meizi asked incredulously.

"It hasn't been inflated yet, it will be ready when it is. Come on, let's go and try!" Shi Jian picked up a lifeboat and walked out.

After leaving the warehouse, Shi Jian first looked at the usage demonstration diagram printed on the package. After understanding the usage method, he removed the outer packaging of the lifeboat, and then pulled the lifeboat's mooring rope hard, only to hear a "Peng" sound. There was a sound, and the lifeboat immediately swelled up.

The whole process was very fast. It took only 15 seconds for this seemingly inconspicuous lifeboat to be fully inflated and stretched out, becoming a dinghy for six people.

All the onlookers were dumbfounded. This lifeboat is like a magic trick, which is really incredible.

Not to mention them, even Shi Jian was taken aback. He didn't expect the lifeboat to deploy so quickly, and he was almost bumped by accident.

"Boss Shi, why did you change all of a sudden?" Someone asked immediately.

Shi Jian can answer this question. In fact, there are two compressed air bottles inside the lifeboat. When the mooring rope is pulled, the compressed air bottles will be opened, and the high-pressure gas inside will quickly inflate the boat.

While explaining the principle, Shi Jian hung the motor on the motor bracket, and the assembly was completed.

This motor is an electric motor and needs to be powered by a twelve-volt battery.Fengkuang has already overcome the difficulty of the battery, and now every car has a battery. Shi Jian directly asked someone to take a battery from the car and connect it to the motor.

After the motor was connected to the power supply, Shi Jian turned on the switch, and saw the motor running rapidly, and the blades of the propeller could not be seen clearly.

"Go, try it in the sea!" Shi Jian said enthusiastically.

After the lifeboat was inflated, although the weight did not change, the volume increased a lot, which was very inconvenient to transport, and Shi Jian regretted inflating it in advance.

However, Shi Jian didn't plan to change to another one, regardless of whether it is economical or not, if this one is intact, wouldn't it be troublesome again.

Fortunately, it was not far from the pier, and it didn't take much for four or four people to carry the lifeboat, and they arrived at the pier soon.

Along the way, people who met them asked questions one after another, and some eloquent people told them about the magic of the lifeboat, which surprised them and followed behind, ready to see it for a while.

Seeing more and more people, Shi Jian laughed to himself: "The Chinese people's habit of watching live entertainment has a long history, and it hasn't changed even in the end of the world."

Now Shi Jian found that it was a good thing that all the warships in the harbor had left. At least there was no need to worry about the sinking ship scratching the bottom of the lifeboat, and it was safe to test the lifeboat.

The lifeboat was put into the sea water. In order to prevent accidents, Shi Jian put on a life jacket and jumped onto the boat.

After reinstalling the motor and turning on the power, Shi Jian started the motor, and the lifeboat shot forward like an arrow off the string.

Shi Jian was completely unprepared on the boat, he was shaken and fell on the boat, and almost fell into the sea, which made the people on the shore yell.

However, Shi Jian got up immediately and began to try to control the lifeboat, but he didn't have any experience in operating it, so he was in a hurry.

The lifeboat kept rushing forward on the water, but Shi Jian couldn't turn it in any direction, so he had no choice but to turn off the switch, which made the lifeboat stop.

When Shi Jian looked back, he found that the lifeboat had left the pier more than 300 meters away, but he got down in such a hurry that he even forgot to take the oars and could only let it float on the sea.

"You're so careless, I'm so happy." Shi Jian spat into the sea and muttered.

At this time, the people on the shore didn't know Shi Jian's embarrassing situation, and seeing the speed of the lifeboat, they all cheered loudly.

Shi Jian looked at the cheering crowd on the pier, waved to them, and did not tell them the embarrassing thing about forgetting his paddle.

It's useless to tell anyway, no one can bring the oars over such a long distance, unless they fill up another lifeboat.

Let's not talk about whether these people can play with this thing, even if they can, with that skill, Shi Jian feels that he has figured out how to operate it.

Although he has never eaten pork, he has always seen pigs running. Shi Jian carefully recalled the clips of manipulating the speedboat he had seen on TV before, and then searched carefully on the boat, and finally found the rudder.

After finding the rudder, Shi Jian turned on the motor again and tried to steer the lifeboat to turn.

This time, the lifeboat successfully changed its direction. Although it didn't turn as Shi Jian imagined, it was no longer going straight.

After more than half an hour in the sea, Shi Jian finally sailed the lifeboat back to the pier, threw the mooring rope ashore, and let someone tie it up.

Standing on the solid ground again, Shi Jian felt as if he was still in a boat, his body was shaking, and it was not until three to five minutes later that he stabilized.

"Yes, it seems that there should be no problem with this lifeboat, and it is completely sufficient for crossing the strait." Shi Jian said with great satisfaction.

"Then Mr. Shi, when are we going south?" Feng Chen leaned over and asked.

Shi Jian shrugged his shoulders and said, "I can't do it for now, I need to practice more, otherwise I will capsize in the sea and there will be nowhere to cry."

For the next month, unless the wind and waves at sea were too strong, Shi Jian would continue to practice using lifeboats even if it was raining.

Shi Jian was not the only one practicing, Mei Zi and Zhang Jian were also accompanying him, which was repeatedly requested by Feng Kuang and all the elders.

Ever since he learned that Shi Jian had found the lifeboat and was going to practice in Korsakov, Feng Kuang came here with the elders.

The first thing to do here is to force Shi Jian to agree to take at least two people to Hokkaido.

The reason is simple, whether it is crossing the sea or other matters after landing in Hokkaido, Shi Jian must have helpers.

If Shi Jian disagreed, Feng Kuang only said one sentence: "I will deflate all the lifeboats one by one tonight!"

Seeing this situation, Shi Jian had no choice but to agree, and began to select people who would go to Hokkaido with him.

Accompanying Shi Jian to Hokkaido, no one really said they didn't want to go, but most of them soon learned that the candidates were only selected from the leader team.

However, those who are also the leaders of the team, such as Yi Hengge and Yu Liang, who are not very prominent, were directly rejected. Immediately afterwards, Feng Chen and Wang Gang were also excluded because of seasickness, and Meizi and Wang Gang were finally determined. Zhang Jian and Shi Jian accompanied Shi Jian.

Shi Jian took Meizi and Zhang Jian together and started practicing. In order to ensure the quality of the practice, he invested in two more lifeboats, one for each of the three people.

The practice during this period has fully proved the safety and reliability of the lifeboat, and it has also allowed the three of Shi Jian to continuously improve their boat handling skills.

In the end, Shi Jian even drove the lifeboat directly into the deep sea, then turned off the power, and then rowed back with the oars.

The wind and waves in the deep sea are much stronger than here in the harbor, and the difficulty of manipulating the lifeboat has suddenly increased a lot.

However, Shi Jian did not shrink back because of this, he still practiced tirelessly.

Because Shi Jian knew that even the shortest distance of the Zongya Strait he was going to cross was 42 kilometers, and he didn't know what dangers he would encounter.

Don't look at the hardships and hardships of practicing now, but this hard work will definitely not be in vain, and will become the capital of their lives.

A month later, Shi Jian was finally able to manipulate the lifeboat proficiently. He was full of confidence in crossing the Soya Strait, so he decided to lead the team down to Cape Crillion, and from there cross the Soya Strait to Hokkaido on the other side.

(End of this chapter)