Although Qiao An'an and her group were not very familiar with the dock, they did not want to bring Grandpa Yan along.
He's already this age; if a real fight breaks out, he'll definitely be a burden.
Qiao An'an said to Grandpa Yan, "You don't need to follow us. Just tell us about the situation at the dock."
When Grandpa Yan saw that Qiao An'an and the others were unwilling to take him along, he didn't insist.
He found paper and pen and drew out the layout of the dock. In addition, he gave a detailed description of the dock and the number and situation of the other party: "There are more than a dozen of them, all of whom are armed. The leader is not tall, but he is quite strong. He kills people without blinking an eye. They all call him Boss Qi."
Compared to the layout of the dock.
Qiao An'an was more concerned about whether the dock had radio communication equipment. After Grandpa Yan finished explaining everything, she asked, "Your crude oil terminal is so big, does it have communication equipment? I don't mean telephones, I mean the kind of wireless communication equipment."
Grandpa Yan said he understood: "Of course it does. Our dock needs to use radio to communicate with ships coming and going."
Judging from what Grandpa Yan described, those people didn't attack the dock all at once, but only after a conflict with the young people among the dock survivors. Grandpa Yan and the others still had time to evacuate. If they had wireless equipment, why didn't they call for help from the capital?
Qiao An'an asked in confusion, "Didn't you try to contact the capital and ask them for help?"
Grandpa Yan chuckled and said, "To be honest, at the beginning of the apocalypse, those who were capable all drove or sailed away. There were some conflicts between the higher-ups when they left, and many facilities at the dock were damaged to varying degrees. Communication equipment was also smashed. We, the dock workers, are left behind and don't know how to repair anything."
I heard the equipment is broken.
Qiao An'an was somewhat disappointed.
She was also thinking of using the dock's facilities to contact the capital.
Chi Xiaoyu said to Qiao An'an, "It's okay, I can fix it."
Grandpa Yan looked at the girl in surprise. She was really pretty, but she looked no more than sixteen or seventeen. Girls are generally not as good as boys in science subjects, and judging from her age, she probably hadn't even finished high school. How could she repair radios?
Talking big is not the behavior of a good child.
As an elder, Grandpa Yan felt it necessary to remind the young girl: "The wireless equipment connects the entire dock. Even if an engineer came, he wouldn't dare say he could fix it in one go. Young girl, don't be so sure of yourself."
Chi Xiaoyu didn't like talking to strangers and ignored Grandpa Yan.
Qiao An'an explained, "She won first prize in the provincial physics competition when she was ten years old, and just before the apocalypse, she won third place in the national physics competition."
Grandpa Yan, still shocked, gave Chi Xiaoyu a thumbs up: "Heroes have always emerged from among the young! Each generation is stronger than the last, they might as well just leave us old-timers stranded on the beach!!!"
Previously, the title of third place in the National Physics Competition was Chi Xiaoyu's Achilles' heel.
She didn't tell anyone.
The reason her mother went crazy was because she didn't win the championship in the national competition.
Even though she repeatedly explained that she had a high fever on the day of the competition, her mother still frantically dragged her to the rooftop, yelling at her for not being a boy, for not working harder to get first place, for letting her mother be looked down upon by her father's mistress, for her mother leaving the house with nothing in order to get custody of her, and for why she was so unambitious.
Why don't you just die?!
She didn't understand why her mother still didn't love her, even though she had tried so hard.
Do you still wish for her to die?
At that moment, she even thought it would be nice to be thrown down by her mother. Later, she was rescued by firefighters, but her mother fell down.
During that time, every time she closed her eyes, she saw her mother lying in a pool of blood, still staring intently at her. She locked herself in her room and asked herself over and over again why she couldn't be a boy as her mother wished, why she couldn't work harder and get first place, and why the one who died wasn't her.
Now, upon hearing this address, she simply smiled faintly.
Those times are long gone from her now, and she no longer craves her mother's love. She has family and friends who love her even more now, although some of them are a bit silly: "It's just third place, nothing to brag about."
After learning about the dock situation from Grandpa Yan, the group set off again.
This time, however, neither Shen Zhou nor Li Jianguo drove; instead, they taught Ye Jing how to drive.
In their view, there were a dozen or so people and a dozen or so guns inside the dock.
There were only six of them. Excluding Ya Ya, who was useless, there were five of them. The other two were teenagers. Chi Xiaoyu could attack from a distance, and Ye Jing hadn't handled a gun much. When it came to actual combat, he was the one most often assigned to watch the car and Ya Ya.
Therefore, the only ones truly leading the charge were the three adults.
They didn't have many bullets.
They have no advantage in a direct confrontation.
Just in case, they decided to teach Ye Jing how to drive and planned to park the car about two kilometers away from the dock.
The walkie-talkie has a communication range of 2-5 kilometers, but they have personally tested it and found that the signal reception is not very good beyond 2 kilometers.
The two-kilometer distance facilitates communication between the two parties.
This also makes it convenient for them to safely evacuate into the truck under Chi Xiaoyu's cover should they fail.
Ye Jing's driving lessons were full of ups and downs.
It even stalled several times.
Letting a child learn to drive a truck is definitely not a wise move. At first, Qiao An'an also thought about taking Grandpa Yan with her, since he had driven trucks before. But this is the apocalypse. Even if Grandpa Yan seems harmless, she doesn't dare to leave her child with a strange old man. After all, the most vulnerable thing in the apocalypse is the human heart.
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