The night was getting dark, and Li Yu and the others still stayed under the abandoned building, interrogating Gao Ru.
The third uncle said to Gao Ru: "You just mentioned that there are almost five thousand people. Does everyone have a gun?"
Gao Ru quickly shook his head and said: "Of course not, and I don't think there should be five thousand people. I just speculate that at least half of these people are affiliated with various forces, and they have some slave."
The third uncle nodded slightly and said no more.
Li Yu then asked: "You just said that in the Western Alliance headquarters, there are still Zhou family and Liu family. How strong are these two families?"
Gao Ru looked embarrassed and said hesitantly: "I really don't know about this. It should be about the same as the Qian family, and there are about a few hundred people. In short, in the Western Alliance headquarters, the Gan family is the most powerful in terms of strength and status. Undisputed number one.”
Li Yu said to him again: "Tell me exactly what happened between you and Gan Xiong."
Gao Ru's fingers hurt and he begged, "Can you please let me put my hands in front of me? It's really uncomfortable to hold them behind like this."
"no."
Gao Ru: "."
Seeing that the cannon behind him was about to move again, he quickly said: "At first, I just told him about the situation at Chengzizhoutou. In addition, because Gan Gaojie disappeared some time ago, Gan Shang thought it was Xiao Jun. Damn it, I told Gan Xiong all this."
As he spoke, he looked up at Ju Tianrui and Xiao Jun on the right, thoughts flashed in his eyes, and continued: "But we really can't find any trace of Captain Ju and the others, so now Gan Xiong doesn't say anything about looking for them anymore. matter.
Then I heard about the situation at Chengzizhoutou, so I was very angry, so I planned to have all of us move back after we came back this time.
So this time I came back, it was supposed to be a big move.”
Hearing this, Li Yu glanced at his third uncle and had some thoughts in his mind.
"You go on."
Night falls and the cold wind blows.
Everyone present tightened their clothes, and Gao Ru continued to tell Li Yu and others what he knew one by one.
Half an hour later.
Gao Ru roughly told him everything he knew, and Cannon tied him up again and took him into the simple house.
Li Yu stood up, pointed at Gao Ru's men, and said to Li Tie: "You and Dapao will interrogate them separately to see if Gao Ru lied just now."
"Okay." Li Tie nodded and walked towards those people.
The wind is so cold that it makes your face hurt, and the temperature has dropped again today.
When Li Yu was interrogating Gao Ru just now, he realized one thing. As of now, neither Gan Shang nor Gan Xiong of the Western Alliance knows the existence of these people.
What's more, it takes more than ten hours to drive from the Western Alliance to the Da Zhangshu Base.
If you want to go to the Western Conference, the mountains are high and the roads are long and rugged. In addition, the temperature is getting colder now, so accidents are easy to happen on the road.
Furthermore, the Western Alliance is very powerful. Although the Da Zhangshu Base has heavy weapons that the Western Alliance does not have, the population gap is there after all.
If you want to attack the Western Alliance, you will have to mobilize most of the strength of the Da Zhangshu Base. Once deployed, the base will be very empty.
Moreover, if we try to strangle the Western Conference now, we will also face very large resistance.
Since Gan Xiong of the Western Alliance and the others still don't know the existence of the Da Zhangshu base, and the distance is very far.
There seems to be no need to go over now.
It was difficult for Ganxiong and the others to find it, even the base of the big camphor tree.
Spending time, energy and manpower, taking risks to find trouble, there is little strategic significance in attacking.
Li Yu thought for a while, then found his third uncle, hesitated and said to him: "Third Uncle, I think you can go back with us tomorrow. The weather is getting colder day by day, and you are taking risks when you go out. bigger.
Moreover, Gan Xiong's side is still very strong. Even if they were investigated in the past, it would not be necessary. If they were to be eliminated now, it would be very difficult. We can't get any favors. "
The third uncle glanced at Li Yu and said, "I actually thought the same thing just now. All the information we wanted was obtained from Hai Chao and Gao Ru. It seems that Gan Xiong has no intention of digging into Gan Xiong. As for Gao Jie, we can indeed return to the base temporarily."
Li Yu nodded and said:
"Well, on the other hand, according to what Gao Ru said, the Western Alliance has such a large population and food is a huge problem. Even though they still have some food in stock, after all, the population base is there and it is consumed very quickly.
According to what Gao Ru just said, the situation in the Western Conference, they should be more worried about the population load issue now. Perhaps, without us taking action, there are so many of them, and they will collapse sooner or later. "
This is inferred from Li Yu's experience before his rebirth. Bases with a population of more than 10,000 people often face heavy food pressure. Uncertainty in the weather leads to the inability to produce food stably. With the certainty that people need food every day, the formation of a huge conflict.
There are only two ways to solve this problem.
One is to capture other forces to obtain food. This method will lose manpower, but it is effective and can only satisfy the immediate thirst.
The other is to expand planting, but the speed is too slow and the cycle is too long; but the advantage is that it is sustainable.
However, weather changes have made planting less reliable.
Li Yu knew that in this apocalypse, there were more than just zombies.
In Li Yu's heart, he is still full of doubts about the cause of the current outbreak of the apocalypse.
Although now, according to Ma Di, the zombie outbreak is caused by unknown virus elements carried by meteorites.
However, the weather disaster that followed was such a coincidence.
It's like nature's purification, everything returns to zero.
He didn't know what the connection was behind this. Even five years after the end of the world, he still hadn't heard anyone answer it.
But what he knows is that the most important thing, both now and in the future, is the supply of food.
It is possible that natural disasters will become normal in the future and weather instability will lead to reduced grain production and poor harvests, or even no harvests.
Therefore, for the current Da Zhangshu Base, the most important thing is to build plantations that will not be affected by the weather.
Whether it is the current underground plantation, the planting point in the cave, or the outdoor greenhouse, we must continue to transform it.
In fact, the base is already very rich in military supplies. Not to mention other things, at the beginning, it obtained more than a thousand arsenals, submachine guns, and rifles. Later, it also obtained artillery, tanks, and even assault rifles in the southern military camp. There are 2,500 of them, plus those seized from Ping An City, Chengzizhoutou and other places, there are hundreds more.
Currently, the number of guns in Da Zhangshu Base is nearly 5,000.
The bullets are all self-produced.
However, the current number of people in the base, including the inner and outer cities, is only a few hundred.
They are far from showing the strength they should have.
With so many guns, they can't just give them to others.
Even non-staff personnel and cooperative personnel are not issued guns now.
Guns are a double-edged sword that can enhance the base's strength and influence, but if they are distributed at will, they will pose a huge threat to the security of the Da Zhangshu base.
To expand your power, you must expand your numbers.
However, expanding the number of people requires sufficient food as support.
For example, a team of 100 people has enough food stored for three years.
But if it expands to a team of 1,000 people, the food will only be enough for less than four months.
Now that all the food in the city has been looted, it is impossible to find so much food in a short time.
When a person is hungry, he can do anything.
Crowds are not a good thing.
Only with more people and more food and a stable food production system can we develop in the long run.
On the other hand, it is very difficult to manage too many people.
There are too many people with mixed eyesight, and there are too many people trying to fish in troubled waters. In this apocalypse of moral decay, it is easy to overturn the situation if you are not careful.
Therefore, Li Yu always maintains a certain degree of control, and the scale expansion in the base must be stable.
Even if we expand so many people, we may not be able to show our strength.
If there is internal fighting, it will be even more troublesome.
Li Yu always remembers his core purpose: to let relatives and friends, as well as like-minded people who have gone through many tests, live well in this apocalyptic world.
This Western Alliance headquarters actually has some signs of decline.
There were originally five families, but now two have disappeared. The remaining two families, except the Gan family, must also be afraid of the Gan family, and there will definitely be fights between them.
At this time, it is better to go and look for trouble than to watch a tiger fight.
Let them consume themselves internally.
The weather is getting colder and will get even colder later.
Now is not a good time to attack.
After the third uncle knew Li Yu's thoughts, he told Lao Qin that they no longer needed to go to the Western Conference.
Li Yu looked at Cannon who was still interrogating, put on his hat, and returned to the Unimog.
Although I have acquired three RVs one after another, this one is still the most comfortable to stay in.
After all, this car has been modified the most, and it has all the living facilities inside. Although it is small, it has all the internal organs.
Yang Tianlong also came back. He checked the place again and found no zombies.
The weather is very cold. Looking at the thermometer, the outdoor temperature has dropped to minus one degree. Since the sun has set, the temperature has dropped rapidly.
It will probably get even colder at night.
Li Yu returned to the car, ate something briefly, and rested on the sofa.
The night is slightly cooler.
The cold wind blew through, picking up the sand and dust on the ground, and slapped against the steel wall, making a crackling sound.
There is a little moisture in the air.
Li Yu was woken up by Li Gang at four o'clock in the morning.
Li Yu knew it was raining when he heard some ticking sounds coming from outside the car.
Putting on his jacket, Li Yu opened the car door.
A blast of cold, damp air blew in.
He looked around, it was pitch black, only the light of the car lights illuminated his vision.
The drizzle was falling in the night, and the rain strands intertwined into a blurry scene, making it difficult to see clearly the surrounding environment. There was no light in the sky and it looked particularly dark.
All around, the construction site was filled with abandoned construction materials, with large and small wooden boards, bricks, cement bags, etc. scattered on the ground.
Some dilapidated buildings are vaguely visible, and most of the paint on the walls has peeled off, exposing rusty steel bars.
Li Yu's breathing was particularly clear in this quiet darkness, as if it was the only sound. The sound of loose stones rustling under his feet echoed across the empty construction site.
He felt a cold wind blowing in and wet his jacket. The jacket was waterproof and the rain did not soak into his skin.
This abandoned construction site is filled with desolation and silence, giving people a sense of nameless fear.
"What time is it?" Li Yu asked Li Gang beside him.
Li Gang said: "Ten past four."
As soon as Li Gang finished speaking, a roar came from outside the construction site.
Hoho——
The roars of zombies pierced the silent night sky, adding a sense of terror.
Li Yu turned off the car lights, and then said to Li Gang: "You should rest first, and I will go to the door to see. Who is on duty now?"
Li Gang thought for a moment and then said: "According to the duty schedule, it's Xiao Jun from Wangcheng. Brother, let me go over and have a look. I can't sleep anyway."
Li Yu did not refuse.
The two of them walked towards the door with flashlights on.
soon.
They arrived at the gate and saw Wang Cheng and Xiao Jun in the small room of the duty room.
It's raining, and it's cold outside, so it's normal not to come out.
Xiao Jun and the others saw the light of the flashlight from afar. It was not until Li Yu and the others got closer that they realized it was Li Yu.
Li Yu came over and asked Xiao Jun and the others, "How are you doing? Is there anything unusual?"
Xiao Jun took a stick, picked up the corpse of a mouse, and said: "There is no problem outside the door. Just an hour ago, we found a mouse that had no mutation and was killed by us."
Li Yu looked at the mouse, nodded slightly and said, "Well, bury this mouse. It's better not to eat the animals outside. Although there is no mutation, I don't know if these mice will eat the corpses of zombies." .”
Xiao Jun said quickly: "That's for sure, we have dry food and we won't eat this rat."
"Well, I'll give you some meat when we get back to the base." Li Yu said.
According to this action, Xiao Jun and the others can increase their points again. Although they still have not reached the number required to enter the outer city, they are almost there.
Moreover, at the assessment level, Li Yu and Sanshu had no big problems with Xiao Jun and Ju Tianrui.
Now the only difference is the point contribution value, which requires them to do some tasks to reach the standard.
Li Yu briefly explained to the two of them, asking them not to relax their vigilance. If there is any situation, they should contact everyone through the walkie-talkie first.
Then left.
This light rain was a bit unexpected.
Cold rainy nights are the most torturous.
Especially them, who will return to Da Zhangshu Base at dawn.
There is no condition to return in the rain.
Maybe they will have to stay here until the rain stops before going back.
The sky was gray.
Light rain is still falling from the sky.
When Li Gang and Li Yu were on their way back, Li Gang said, "Brother, it's raining. We probably won't be able to leave at dawn."
Li Yu looked at the pale moon behind the thin dark clouds and said, "Not necessarily, it's just light rain. Maybe it will stop raining after dawn."
"I hope so." Li Gang scratched his head and said.
(End of chapter)
