Chapter 60 Chapter 60 This guy is really a weirdo
Li Yi came back with two buckets in his hands, one bucket of wood and the other bucket of coal.
"I asked him indirectly about his thoughts on zombies, but his answer was so flawless that I couldn't tell anything." Li Yi put down the things in his hands and said to the two of them.
Qin Yu was fiddling with his gun. He looked up when he heard this and said, "It's okay. We'll know after we take a look."
Su Qing took out a few boxes of food. The three of them ate briefly and waited slowly.
It was midnight and the blizzard was still raging outside. Daniel had already said goodbye and gone to bed. Seeing that there was no movement in his room, Qin Yu wanted to act alone, but Su Qing and Li Yi were worried and insisted on following him. So Li Yi and Fuguier guarded Daniel's room, and Qin Yu and Su Qing acted together.
Both of them knew something about Su Qing's abilities, and they didn't treat her as a weak woman. It was the end of the world, and being strong was the key to survival. It was always good to experience more.
The three men dispersed with guns in their hands.
Walking past the rooms on the first floor, there is a large kitchen and a storage room.
Su Qing directly cheated and asked the system to point out the route to the basement.
Shining the flashlight over there, I saw a small iron door at the innermost part of the storage room, locked with a padlock.
"This...how can we open it without the key?" Su Qing frowned and looked at the lock.
Qin Yu reached into his chest pocket, then took out a thin piece of wire and walked forward to fiddle with it for a few times.
There was only a slight click and the door lock opened.
Su Qing was amazed by this operation. He gave a thumbs-up and whispered, "Captain Qin is truly a pillar of the nation! He's capable of anything!" So, special forces also teach lock picking? What application could this have? Su Qing wondered silently.
Qin Yu said nothing, took off the door lock and signaled Su Qing to step back. He turned sideways and hid, then slowly opened the iron door with one hand.
As soon as the iron door opened a crack, a foul odor gushed out with the air flow.
Qin Yu held the gun in one hand and a flashlight in the other hand, which he placed on the gun and shone inside.
There was only a faint light behind the door, and a small staircase leading down.
"Miss Su, wait here, I'll go down and take a look." Qin Yu said softly.
Su Qing knew her own abilities and nodded. The situation inside was unclear, and she could still provide support from above. She then took out a gas mask and two grenades from her backpack and handed them over, "Take them, just in case."
Seeing this, Qin Yu did not refuse. He put away the grenade, put on the gas mask, and walked slowly down.
Su Qing waited there for a few minutes, and then the bracelet vibrated.
It was a multi-person voice message sent by Qin Yu.
Qin Yu asked the two to go down. Su Qing waited for Li Yi, gave him a gas mask, and asked Fuguier to wait outside. Then the two went to the basement together.
Although he was wearing a gas mask, Su Qing could still feel a faint stench in his nostrils. The stairs were not very long and turned a corner. It took him more than thirty steps to reach the bottom.
The scene before them shocked them both.
The area below was about twenty square meters. Two light tubes were hung above the head, shining dimly. On the ground were many machines covered with tracks, with more than a dozen zombies tied to them. They had their broken and rotten mouths open and were walking continuously on the tracks.
It looks like... like exercising on a treadmill.
The zombies' arms were all chopped off, their mouths were smashed, and they kept walking slowly with hideous and distorted faces.
"This... this, this, this... this is..." Li Yi really couldn't describe what he saw before his eyes. After so many years since the apocalypse, this was the first time he had seen such a scene.
Qin Yu came over and said to the two of them with a frown, "It seems like they're using zombies to generate electricity here."
He had carefully checked the bottom and found a generator set at the innermost part, which was connected to the machines on the tracks. It looked like it was using kinetic energy to generate electricity.
Li Yi was so shocked after hearing this. Enslaving zombies to generate electricity was a rare thing after the apocalypse. "Wow, this guy is really a freak! No, he's a genius! No wonder he has electricity here, this is how he got it."
Li Yi carefully approached a zombie and observed it. The zombie in front of him gave people a feeling of exhaustion and decadence, as if it could not die. It was completely different from the zombies that were rampant outside.
"See? Even the zombies couldn't handle the 0-0-7 overtime. Look at how defeated they all are. I almost see resentment rising to the sky."
Su Qing was also quite shocked. Seeing that there was no need to stay there, she asked the two to leave. Staying with so many zombies, although they no longer had much attack power, still made her feel uncomfortable.
Several people closed the iron door, restored the lock to its original state, and returned to the room.
Fuguier walked away from them with a look of disgust. He lay on the ground with one hand on his nose, his attitude was very obvious.
Su Qing and his companions took off their gas masks, and a foul odor hit them in the face. The rotten smell of zombies permeated the air. Even if they didn't touch the zombies, the rotten smell would be easily lingering on their clothes.
There was no other way, Su Qing took out several sets of clothes and shoes from his backpack and gave them to the other two. The three of them went into the yurt separately and changed into new clothes. This made them feel a little better. Thanks to their thick clothes, if the liquid got on their exposed skin, they would have no place to take a shower in such a cold weather.
The scene in the basement lingered in their minds, and the three of them lost their sleepiness. They huddled in the yurt, holding cups of hot water and chatting. Soon, the sky gradually brightened.
The wind and snow outside had subsided a lot. Qin Yu assessed that the helicopter could fly, so he packed up his things and prepared to leave.
The three of them had just discussed and decided to bring Daniel along. Su Qing's base had a system of security checks, so they were not afraid of Daniel doing anything bad. However, they still had to ask about the things in the basement first.
The three of them walked downstairs and Daniel was just coming out of the room.
"Oh, comrades, I see the wind and snow outside have died down. I wonder if we can leave here now?"
Qin Yu stepped forward and stared at Daniel with a sharp look. "Before you leave, I hope Mr. Daniel can help us solve a problem."
Daniel looked puzzled, "What's the puzzle?"
"Brother, you are a bit unkind! Why are you hiding so many zombies in the basement?" Li Yi patted Daniel on the back.
Daniel stumbled when Li Yi suddenly slapped him. He heard the zombies in the basement widen their eyes and said, "You...you saw it?"
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Several people sat around in Daniel's room, the electric heater whirring.
Daniel scratched his head and slowly explained to the others, "I was originally in a small base. Later, zombies laid siege to the base. I luckily escaped. Thinking about the apocalyptic movies I'd seen, I smeared zombie flesh on my body to avoid the zombie attacks along the way. I stopped and walked to collect supplies. Later, I came here and saw that there was no one around, so I thought I'd take a break."
"Brother, get to the point!" Li Yi patted Daniel on the shoulder. He didn't want to waste time listening to this foreigner reminiscing about the past.
"Right on," Daniel shrugged. "I found a generator set and a few pedal-operated emergency generators in the basement of this house. The generator set requires diesel, which consumes too much fuel, and I can't find any diesel at all, so I thought of connecting the pedal-operated generator in series with the larger generator."
"But the pedal-operated one has too little power. It's simply not enough to move. Furthermore, I have to pedal for more than ten hours every day to barely use it for a short while. I thought of many other ways. Then, the temperature dropped, and a small wave of zombies arrived. I immediately set my sights on the zombies."
"I walked a long way to get some materials and brought them back. I modified the generator and used the tracks to drive the power to generate electricity. The weather is getting colder and I need electricity to keep warm."
"Then I started thinking of ways to capture zombies for experiments. I didn't expect my idea to actually work. I was afraid the zombies might break free and attack me, so I cut off their arms, smashed their mouths, and tied them to the machine."
"You should have seen it later. The zombies in the basement helped me generate electricity. The energy is limited, so I can only use it for 2-3 hours a day at most. But it made my life much better. That's the situation. I didn't mean to hide it from you. It's just that ordinary people are scared when they see a zombie, let alone I have more than a dozen here. I figured since I was leaving anyway, there was no need to explain to you..."
Li Yi looked Daniel up and down with an inquiring look on his face. "Brother, you are quite talented. You actually thought of recruiting zombies to do hard labor."
"I was just trying it, but I didn't expect it to work." Daniel smiled awkwardly.
"Actually... this might be a solution. There are more and more zombies, and fewer and fewer living humans. Since there is no way to eliminate all the zombies in one fell swoop, making full use of the zombies can be considered a development direction." Su Qing said weakly.
Qin Yu glanced at Su Qing and somewhat agreed with her idea. Perhaps next time he contacted the capital, he could report this matter.
After the matter was explained clearly, Qin Yu consulted Daniel based on the principle of safety. Then, before leaving, the few of them set fire to the basement, completely eliminating the danger of zombies there.
Su Qing didn't want to delay clearing the way, so she asked Qin Yu to put her back to the previous place, and the two of them flew Daniel back to the base.
She started the seemingly endless task of snow removal again. A snowstorm added a lot of trouble to her. After cleaning for a few hours, Su Qing took out the yurt and went in to rest.
Su Fuguier followed Su Qing and used his claws to dig the snow, which was quite helpful. Now he was lazily lying by the fire and warming himself.
Su Qing sat on the chair and searched the mall.
She desperately wanted to find something that could be used right now to help clear the snow and roads. The weather was getting worse and worse, and she had to speed up.
After searching through dozens of pages, she still couldn't find what she wanted. Su Qing summoned the system to discuss.
After a combination of soft and hard tactics, the broken system finally spit out something.
A snowplow costs 500,000 gold coins.
Heh…heh…
Looking at his miserable balance, Su Qing unleashed the power of his verbal battle system!
She has figured out this system. Where there is oppression, there is gain. As long as she pushes hard enough to save people, there will always be a reward. If there is no reward, it means that her skills are not yet up to par. She just needs to keep working hard!
After two hours of brainwashing, the system finally gave her a snowplow.
Haha, this Tongzi who is hard-mouthed but soft-hearted.
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