Volume 4: National Craftsmanship Chapter 42 Now, I ask you questions and you answer them
At night, Yang Ao and Qi Tong took people to load food and cooking oil into the [Craftsman Soul Backpack], and everyone began to rest on the spot. A day of high-intensity marching and killing zombies made everyone exhausted and unable to dig tunnels overnight.
The next morning, everyone took out the steaming meals from the [Craftsman Soul Backpack] and started eating. The villagers watched the extraordinary people eat the seafood rice with relish. Although they didn't understand why these people could eat the steaming seafood rice without heating the food, it didn't stop the villagers from drooling with envy.
Shen Jin was explaining to Yang Ao: "When digging underground passages, you must be careful of sewage pipes and cables. Most of them are 1-2 meters underground. As long as you dig at a depth of 5 meters underground, you will not encounter pipes and cables. Also, build a round stone support column every 5 meters to prevent underground landslides. The ground here is basically compacted, so you don't have to worry about digging into sand and gravel and burying yourself. Also, you must leave exhaust vents. Find a safe place to make a few upward vents to maintain air circulation..."
Shen Jin talked for a long time, passing on all his years of experience with Voldemort to Yang Ao and Qi Tong, to prevent the two of them from bringing people to kill him underground.
"I know, I know! I've been through this underground world with you so many times, I've almost memorized all your moves!"
"Uh... okay, you have to do as I say anyway. There's no signal from the satellite phone underground. I won't be able to find you if you're buried!"
"Don't worry, we're 5 meters underground. Even if we're buried, with so many of us, we can still break out of the ground. We won't suffocate to death!"
"Hmm... That's true. Things are different now than they were before..."
When Shen Jin first acquired the "block-forming ability", he was an ordinary person, so everything he considered was based on the physique of an ordinary person. Now, with more than 100 extraordinary people, the depth of 5m underground really cannot trap them.
Just like that, Shen Jin, Yang Ao, Qi Tong and others separated and split into two groups.
Qi Tong and Yang Ao led 220 extraordinary people to travel underground, responsible for bringing back food and people from the four settlements.
Shen Jin took the remaining 225 extraordinary people and the newly joined Sun Li to the next location: Daibeihe Central Reserve Pork Warehouse. This is the second grain reserve given by Tianluodiwang, but what is stored here is frozen pork and fresh pork. There were a lot of reserves before the end of the world. It is an important part of the country's meat reserves. When there are no major disasters or incidents, the reserve pork can be used to stabilize the market price and prevent import restrictions by other countries.
If a serious disaster occurs, this batch of pork will become an important part of the central grain reserve, and both the military and civilians can use it.
The place where pork is stored is a large cold storage. According to Tianluodiwang, in addition to utilizing natural outdoor cold air, there is also a backup power supply that can automatically keep the entire cold storage in a frozen state to ensure the freshness of the pork. If there is no maintenance on this system, it can operate automatically for about a year.
The apocalypse has only happened for half a year now, so if the pork inside has not been found by others, it must still be edible.
"No matter how much food we have, we can't taste the flavor of meat... This batch of fresh meat may be the last meat in Q City. Sigh... I wonder how the pigs in D City are doing. Have they given birth? Have the pheasant eggs hatched chicks ? I have to ask Zhao Chao when I get back!"
Shen Jin still chose to march on the ground today. Even if half of the extraordinary people were missing, these 225 extraordinary people could still push forward. Their target was the cold chain pork storage warehouse in Daibeihe District, west of Ganghai District.
Everyone marched in an orderly manner and kept killing zombies. Shen Jin built a craftsman soul smelting furnace fortress on the way and refined a large wave of zombies, obtaining a large amount of [bones] and [blood]. On the way, they encountered several first-level evolved zombies, all of which were fought back by first-level extraordinary people using various superpowers and powerful craftsman soul equipment. Originally, it was difficult for first-level extraordinary people to kill first-level evolved zombies, and the casualty rate was very high. At the beginning, Meng San led a team of extraordinary people and was chased by an M1 zombie, and two people were scratched. It was because everyone's armor was not defensive enough and there were too few opportunities for counterattack. Now the whole body armor has integrated defense, and the attacks of first-level zombies are difficult to penetrate the armor defense. The extraordinary people have the means to fight back. They can rely on the armor to do some dangerous operations, thereby exchanging the durability of the armor for the lives of first-level evolved zombies!
However, along the way, the group never encountered second-level evolved zombies again. "Sure enough... we were just too unlucky to encounter two second-level evolved zombies in a row yesterday..." Shen Jin breathed a sigh of relief. That kind of zombie was extremely difficult to deal with. Even if everyone took his supernatural food and reached the level of second-level extraordinary, they might not be able to defeat it. Yesterday, the two second-level zombies were barely killed thanks to Mi Xiaoli's magical curse power.
At 12 noon, everyone came to the Daibeihe cold fresh pork storage warehouse. This is a large warehouse next to the dock, which is specially used to receive pork shipped from abroad. In fact, a lot of pork in China is imported . Why? The pork produced by themselves is not enough, so they like this...
Relying on its convenient sea transportation, Q City has built this large warehouse to store fresh cold pork, which is not only supplied to the people of the city, but also distributed to all parts of H Province.
"There's a railway here, apparently for the convenience of transportation. Sigh... I'm an old Q City resident, but I didn't even know there was a cold pork warehouse here!"
Shen Jin's first reaction after the end of the world was to move all the supplies from the largest port in Q City. There was a lot of meat there, of all kinds. This terminal, which specialized in transporting cold-chain food, was not well-known, mainly because it was not used by civilians. After the cold-chain food arrived, it was stored in the cold storage for a period of time and then shipped away by train. It had nothing to do with the people of Q City itself.
Shang Qian looked at the huge, heavily guarded warehouse area in front of her, "There are people in here!"
"Could it be that the surrounding villagers have occupied it? This time I promise not to waste time talking to them. I will just take control and move the meat away! Liu Jin, feel how many extraordinary people are there!"
"Yes, Boss!"
Liu Jin took a step forward and released a light yellow aura of supernatural power. Everyone felt that the activity of their supernatural powers was suppressed instantly. They were unable to resist. Only Shen Jin, Shang Qian, Lu Daizhen and Mi Xiaoli, who were at a higher level than Liu Jin, could resist this suppression of supernatural powers. People at the same level were completely unable to do so.
After a moment, the six gold abilities were put away, and his face was serious, "Boss, I feel that the energy fluctuations inside are very strong, and there are a lot of extraordinary people, no less than 20 people, and there are even... second-level extraordinary people!"
"My goodness, there is such a powerful force hiding here! They have 1/10 of our military strength, isn't it too scary?"
Sun Li pondered for a moment and asked Tong Zhen beside him: "Boss, are you showing off?"
Tong Zhen said calmly: "Be more confident, remove the question mark, the boss is just showing off!"
Li Zhe: "This is not cool enough, I'm going to rush up and pretend to be a master!"
A gleam flashed in Meng San's eyes. "I think the peak of my pretense was when Mr. Shang took me through space and shouted lines behind Xirong yesterday... Live by the knife, die by the knife! Hahaha! Xirong and that fat guy were both scared silly. If they had reacted slower, I would have cut them into pieces!"
Everybody looked relaxed, no one took the 20-odd extraordinary people seriously. They were the No. 1 Home Extraordinary Brigade who had managed to withstand the siege of 4,000 evolved zombies and second-order zombies without a single death!
Shen Jin looked at the warehouse in front of him, which was obviously heavily guarded. There were countless steel spikes and thorny steel coils wrapped around the walls. If a zombie wanted to climb over the wall, it would definitely have several holes pierced through its body. "Ah! It's a pity that it's too short. It's only 6 meters high, right? The stronger M-shaped zombies can jump over. You can just be on guard against the stupid L-shaped and T-shaped zombies. The height of the wall is justice! Build a 50-meter-high wall and no zombies can stop it!"
"Tong Zhen, knock on the door!"
"Okay, Brother Jin!"
Tong Zhen controlled his earth element to drill out from underground, walked to the door of the closed warehouse, and shouted, "Dong Dong Dong!"
The two stone arms of the earth element were extremely powerful, knocking on the big iron door loudly. "Who!?" a man at the door shouted.
This gate is obviously made of thick metal material. It looks extremely solid, but it also makes it impossible for people inside to observe the situation outside at the first sight from behind the door. They need to climb to a higher observation tower to see the situation outside clearly.
Shen Jin shouted loudly: "We are government officials, open the door and let us in!"
The people inside answered without even thinking: "Impossible, you are not from the government!"
"Hmm?" Shen Jin was a little surprised, but he still explained patiently: "Strictly speaking, we are part of the dragnet!"
At this time, the gatekeeper inside had climbed up to the observation tower and appeared above the thick gate. He was wearing a green military coat... Seeing more than 200 people outside who were neatly equipped, he felt a strong aura coming towards him. This equipment was very unusual!
These people’s fighting power is amazing!
This is a strong team!
Three exclamations popped out of the head of the young man in the military coat guarding the door. He knew that this situation was no longer something he could handle, but he still asked with gritted teeth: "Are you really from the Dragnet? Do you have any evidence?"
He didn't even know that the voice of this sentence was lowered by three degrees, which was completely different from the loud voice at that time.
Meng San answered first: "We are from Home No. 1, the only official settlement in Q City recognized by the Dragnet, and... we are the only organization that can move freely in Q City. Quickly open the gate and let your manager come out to greet us!"
The soldier guarding the gate was obviously overwhelmed by Meng San's momentum. He paused and said, "Okay, wait a minute. We won't open the door until we find out your origins..."
After saying that, he ran inside. Li Zhe looked at the people waiting and said, "He asked us to wait, so we just wait? This wall...what can it protect us from? Let's just go in...Brother Jin?"
"Walk!"
Everyone lightly wiped the [Traveler's Belt], and the [Jet Pack] appeared in their hands. They put it on in a few seconds, and then "whoosh--"
Everyone flew up lightly, then landed inside the warehouse, then put their jetpacks back into their belts in one go, as if nothing had happened.
The young man in the military coat just went inside to find a few people in charge, and then he found out... Shen Jin and his 200-plus people had already come in and surrounded the entire warehouse!
Shen Jin and a few others were walking around the warehouse with great interest. "Shang Qian, take a look. Does this look like the logistics center we visited last time? Such a large cold storage, and it's full of pork?"
"In theory, yes. Q City is the hub for the transportation of imported pork. It not only stores the central reserve pork needed by Q City, but also some pork shipped to surrounding inland cities. If nothing unexpected happens... we'll be rich again!"
"Well, the trap never failed me! With this batch of meat, the standard of our extraordinary team's daily meals will be raised to a higher level!"
While the two were chatting, 28 people in green military coats and 20 superiors in suits came out from the huge cold storage. They frowned at the more than 200 people who had entered the base.
The aura of the superior is very mysterious, but you can just feel it. Shen Jin immediately knew that the protagonists here were these 20 men in suits, not the 28 powerful men in green military coats, even though Shen Jin felt the presence of a second-level transcendent among them .
In addition to these protagonists, people kept coming out of the dormitories around the warehouse, a total of 500 people! They actually surrounded Shen Jin and his team again. Each of them held a crossbow with a sight in his hand, reflecting the cold light in the sun, making everyone dare not underestimate the lethality of this cold weapon. Even the extraordinary people did not dare to resist this standard equipment with their bodies. This mechanical kinetic energy crossbow had a very large impact force in an instant, and could easily smash the skulls of hippos, adult elephants, buffaloes and other animals with one arrow.
At this time, a capable woman in suits stepped forward and said sternly, "Are you from Home No. 1? Under the command of the Dragnet? How do you prove it? Answer honestly!"
Shen Jin felt uncomfortable with the condescending attitude of these three questions. It made him feel like he was back to an uncomfortable experience in college. Once, a laptop was lost in the classroom. Although he had done nothing wrong, he was taken to a small room by the security guards and interrogated about his movements that day and whether he had stolen anything. It was full of oppression and insults, but he endured it at that time because he was an orphan with no one to rely on...
And today, being pointed at by 500 archers and questioned by a woman, this feeling came over him again. Shen Jin twisted his neck and saw the 225 extraordinary subordinates behind him and smiled.
"Li Zhe!"
Shen Jin gave him a look. As a former roommate, Li Zhe actually knew Shen Jin better than anyone else. The Infernal Affairs incident that the two of them had planned before had greatly improved their tacit understanding. Now that Yang Ao was not around, Li Zhe would be Shen Jin's number one thug!
Li Zhe didn't say anything, stretched out three tentacles in his hands and directly rolled the woman over!
The woman was obviously just an ordinary person, "Ah!"
With a cry of surprise, she was pulled back by Li Zhe and thrown to the people behind her. Two superhumans held her down and controlled her. It all happened so fast. The opponents never expected that Shen Jin, a handsome guy who looked gentle and refined, would actually let people attack him as soon as he came up. Liu Jin stared at a muscular man in sunglasses in the opposite lineup. He was the only second-level superhuman in the entire base. The man in sunglasses seemed a little surprised. He originally wanted to attack, but Li Zhe's speed was too fast, so fast... When he reacted, it was too late to stop him, so he retracted his outstretched hand. Li Zhe's ability is "strange shape", which is evaluated as a B-level ability by the system. He has the physical fitness of a power-type ability user, and his body parts can also change into various soft shapes. The medium attack distance and super flexibility make the combat effectiveness of this ability comparable to some powerful A-level abilities!
500 crossbowmen instantly aimed at the heads of more than 200 people. As long as their commander gave the order, they could kill these invaders instantly.
But Shen Jin felt nothing, as if these crossbowmen did not exist. He looked at the embarrassed woman behind him, no longer bossing around, and said to the 19 well-dressed superiors with a smile: "Now, I ask, you answer!"
