Chapter 129 Seizing the Flour Mill
"Yes, but then the zombie outbreak was too fast. Although it was under control, we didn't have time to take them away," Lin Yimu replied, "But we haven't been to some smaller private flour mills. We can go there and have a look."
"Then let's go directly to the Sixth Factory. It's large in scale and there must be more people left there," Li Zhuang said, and called out the name, "Young Master?"
"Okay." Lu Weiyi knew that this meant asking for his opinion.
The group turned a corner and headed towards the city.
There are dozens of flour mills that can be named in Qingyuan City, but in terms of scale, flour mills one to six are the largest ones that everyone knows. Just one factory occupies more than 10,000 square meters. Getting flour from just one of them is a considerable amount, so naturally there are quite a few people who are eyeing it.
Before the group got close to Factory 6, they saw a row of cars parked in front of them from a distance, most of which were freight trucks.
The road in front collapsed and became a dead end. Their cars parked on the side formed a semicircle, blocking the road and preventing zombies from recruiting from the rear. As long as they dealt with the zombies inside, they could transport the supplies with peace of mind.
"Someone arrived first," Lin Yimu looked through the telescope, "it seems they are quite a lot of people." There were eight trucks alone. Those who dare to catch turtles in a jar usually have the advantage in numbers and ability.
"That's not the main entrance. It collapsed and blocked the way. That's the side wall, which just collapsed. After they cleared out the zombies outside, they probably have to clean up the collapsed area to make it easier for vehicles to enter and transport supplies. It's estimated that there are 70 to 80 people," Ning Yuan climbed onto the top of the truck, observed and asked, "Are we still going?"
"Such a large factory, even if it collapsed, there must be a lot of flour after cleaning it out, enough for us to eat for a long time." Wu Yue didn't want to give up the meat he had got, but when he saw the seventy or eighty people, it was obvious that the other party was determined to get it. Then he thought about the dozen or so people at his side, and he was speechless for a moment.
"Let them attract the zombies, we'll jump over the wall from the other side, cover Lu as he collects the supplies, and then leave quietly, how about that?" Antonio became excited when he talked about the trick.
“That’s a good idea.”
"Can"
"agree"
No one objected, and the leader Lin Yimu turned directly onto another road at the fork in the road to avoid being noticed and causing conflict.
There is a difference between secretly intercepting and openly intercepting in terms of the consequences of retaliation afterwards.
"The wall collapsed 300 meters ahead. We'll go in from there, walk along the factory building to the opposite side, and leave from the corner of the next street. Lin Yimu, Chen Zhong, Shen Xing, Wu Yue, Li Dongsheng, and Gu Qingyue will stay behind. Two people in each car will go to the other side to meet them, and the rest will follow."
It was not safe to leave only three ordinary people, so Li Zhuang left a few people with superpowers whose aggressiveness was not too strong to go with them. Not only were those who followed them people with superpowers, but they also had a certain tacit understanding as they had been together for a long time.
After the arrangements were completed, Li Zhuang mentioned the seriousness of the situation again, "The place we left is too close to them. We can only seize the ten minutes before they enter. Everyone needs to act quickly, otherwise there may be endless troubles once we meet them."
When they reached the collapsed area, the three cars stopped at the same time. Li Zhuang and Antonio jumped in first, followed by the others. The six people left assigned the cars and drove away quickly without waiting for the zombies to approach.
The flour mill is said to be large, but in fact most of the factory buildings are filled with large flour machines. The first thing you see when you enter is a half-collapsed factory building, and the several-meter-high mechanical flour machines were smashed so that only their outlines can be seen.
"There should be a special warehouse for storing flour, and also a warehouse for raw materials. We just need to not miss these two places. The other factory buildings should all have large-scale machinery, and even if there are, there won't be too many. We should try to miss the employee dormitories, take the things and leave quickly, and leave the rest for them to eat." The group walked forward along the collapsed factory building, Wu Yue looked around vigilantly and whispered.
"It's so hard to be busy all the time," Xu Sa gloated.
The Sixth Factory was unlucky enough to be crossed by a torn ground. Even though the crack has now disappeared, the closed ground still forms a one-meter-high gap. The buildings on both sides have collapsed without leaving a single piece. It is conceivable that there is no space. If things are moved by manpower alone, it would be very strenuous to walk up and down the one-meter-high stairs alone.
Not to mention that they had to retrieve things from under the collapsed house. This alone was enough to delay a large group of people for a whole day. What's more, they also need to clear out the zombies around them in advance and maintain a relatively safe environment while doing this, which consumes a lot of manpower.
Everyone in the group thought of this, but it was not enough to stop them from stopping their plans. In today's world, more supplies mean a greater chance of survival. Between the death of others and one's own death, most people would choose the former without any hesitation.
"This is the raw material warehouse," Lu Weiyi suddenly spoke halfway through the journey.
The group looked at the ruins next to them. They were really ruins. The scattered reinforced concrete bricks made it impossible to tell what the original house looked like, and the things underneath were completely covered up.
Lu Weiyi had been controlling Little Green Branch to walk through a row of collapsed houses, so he was naturally mistaken. However, apart from the upper layer which was the roof, the lower layer was all filled with neatly stored and arranged wheat, corn, and grains. If Lu Weiyi directly controlled Little Green Branch to empty the things underneath, then the things above would fall, and the noise would definitely attract the attention of outsiders. They came here secretly.
"What's wrong?" Xu Sa asked when she saw that Lu Weiyi was not packing his things as quickly as usual.
Lu Weiyi told them about his concerns, and everyone fell silent.
There were no more than ten of them in total. Even if they were all psychics, they would not be able to gain the upper hand against the enemy force of seventy or eighty people. Not to mention that the force that could send out seventy or eighty people would not be a small one. They still would not be able to defeat the enemy when they returned to the base.
"Just let it go like this?" This house alone must be around 700 to 800 square meters. If it is so tall, how much raw materials would be needed? Wu Yue was really unwilling to do so.
"Can we directly store all these roofs into the space?" Li Zhuang asked.
"They've all been taken away, it's a bit obvious, isn't it?" Everything else is fine, but here there's nothing but bare bricks and soil...Xu Sa felt like it was a bit of a provocation.
"It's obvious. No one said who owns it. Whatever we get is ours," Xiong Jie showed off his prison bandit attitude. "Besides, if we run fast and don't let anyone see us, they won't have any evidence to say it's us."
This made sense. Lu Weiyi stopped hesitating and quickly manipulated the small green branch to put it into the space. Even if he tried to be careful, it would still make some noise. He was far away from the other party, and they had to clear the zombies and the road, so they should not be able to hear it.
A bare piece of ground was sandwiched between the collapsed houses on both sides. There were some wheat, corn, black beans and other things that had fallen from broken bags on the ground. Anyone who took a look could tell that they had been collected by someone.
Indeed... it's too obvious.
"Zombies are coming. Liu Rui protects Lu Weiyi and continues to move forward. The others cover and kill the zombies. We go out from the tree on the left. Everyone try to be as quiet as possible. I will go and buy some time for them." Li Zhuang said, and he took the lead to go in the direction where the team entered.
"Let's go," Liu Rui looked at the zombies that appeared in the yard, some of which were coming towards them, and some of which were going towards the place where the other party was about to appear, and said to Lu Weiyi.
There was no need to hesitate at this point, and Lu Weiyi and Liu Rui continued to explore quickly.
After they had taken a few steps, a "bang bang" sound came from the direction where Li Zhuang left. Several people looked in that direction and saw that there seemed to be something huge under the four-story collapsed ruins not far from the main gate. It hit the ruins again and again, and with the vibration, bricks and stones fell everywhere again.
Lu Weiyi had a bad feeling, "Hurry up," he said, jogging forward.
The others stopped the zombies from approaching and sped up the process.
The processed flour is located at the very end of the factory. After being washed by heavy rain, the flour that was broken into pieces turned gray and black and stuck to the stones, and the rain water on the ground flowed through, leaving a white trail.
Lu Weiyi took everything into the space at once. When he turned around, he heard Wu Yue gasping in surprise, "Fuck, is that a dog?"
He turned his head and saw that the place where the noise had been made had been knocked open. The black and yellow dogs were shaking the dirt on their bodies. The black one was obviously larger, more than a meter tall, like a cow, and the yellow one was slightly smaller, but not much smaller.
They looked in the direction of the few people, swooping down as if they were about to attack. The group didn't know whether they should move at this time, but with the zombies approaching, they had no choice.
As soon as Liu Rui's fire dragon came out, it killed several zombies. At the same time, the black dog on the opposite side made a "hululu" sound from its mouth and was about to attack. At this moment, Li Zhuang, who had disappeared at some point, appeared behind the two dogs.
He threw a ball of earth at the black dog. When the black dog turned around and grabbed the ball of earth, he ran away quickly while throwing earth thorns at the black dog again, definitely attracting its hatred.
The mutant animals were obviously different from the previous animals. Even if the yellow dog in front of him didn't move, Lu Weiyi wouldn't treat him as an ordinary dog. Seeing that the others were just alert and didn't move, Lu Weiyi took the lead in using his mental power to control a machete and threw it out, saying, "Waiting to die?"
As soon as the words came out, the yellow dog on the opposite side dodged the machete with a jump, and at the same time squatted down and tilted its head towards them. If it weren't for its big body, this action would still be quite cute.
The others did not hesitate any more. Antonio controlled two daggers and flew towards the yellow dog. A fire dragon appeared in Liu Rui's hand. With the two highest-level people taking action, they would definitely force out each other's superpowers. Lu Weiyi observed carefully.
It was discovered that no matter what the two men did with their abilities, even if they had already hurt the yellow dog, the yellow dog would still just maintain its dodging posture, except that it would occasionally bare its teeth at them as if to intimidate them.
"It has no special abilities, so attack at close range," Lu Weiyi said, "quick battle and quick decision."
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