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City in Danger Chapter 87 Urgency

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    Lin Chuan believed that he could find those who dug the tunnels just by walking along the sewers. This judgment came from his deeper and deeper understanding of underground pipes.  He didn't know much about these underground pipes in the city before, thinking that they were all the same cement pipes. But after they started walking in the city, they often used these pipes to bypass areas occupied by monsters, and they gradually became familiar with these pipes.  Got some understanding.  The main drainage pipes are the widest, and they are often at the lowest location. Some drainage pipes are even directly the original underground river.  The biggest problem with drainage pipes is that most of them are filled with water, and the air is filled with harmful gases such as methane, which makes them very dangerous for people who enter them. ? Next is the cable tunnel. They found that some cable tunnels are very wide, enough for two people to walk upright and side by side, while others are only big enough for one person to bend down and walk inside. But in general, cable tunnels are also good shelters and passages.  But cable tunnels also have problems with water accumulation, and they are often interrupted and turned into rows of plastic pipes running underground, making it almost impossible to use cable tunnels to travel across the city.  Then there are the pipes for telecommunications and cable television. Generally speaking, these pipes are relatively small, only enough for a person to walk in them while squatting.  But generally speaking, such pipes are relatively dry. The disadvantage is that they are usually buried shallowly and are not coherent, and often become drain pipes.  The most common ones are sewers, which are almost all over the city and are connected to each other through countless intricate passages, like a maze.  The problem of sewers is also water accumulation. Although no one uses them to discharge domestic sewage, a large amount of rainwater still flows away from them. After losing the maintenance of the city's drainage department, many areas are muddy and even completely flooded by sewage.  The sewer is very close to the ground, so the safety is very low, but fortunately there are exits in many places, making it easy to enter and exit.  For Lin Chuan and the others, the most used sewers are sewers. When animals have not fully mutated, such pipes are very dangerous. Many rats thrive in these pipes.  But after more than a month, Jianghai could no longer see any unmutated mammals, and those mutated rats had already become monsters more than two meters long. These pipes were now too narrow for them.  These pipelines have become the most important passages for people to survive in the city, and one of the most important tasks assigned by Lin Chuan to the reconnaissance team is to mark all the underground pipelines that can be used near the base and inform all those who need to go out about them.  They roughly observed the direction of the sewer on the ground and then climbed in. This area has not yet been conducted detailed reconnaissance, and most of the reconnaissance team's energy is still focused on the area around the base.  Lin Chuan and Tank both wore long rubber water boots. This kind of thing is one of the necessary equipment for the reconnaissance team. It can effectively prevent the team members from being infected by viruses due to soaking in sewage for a long time. However, so far they have only found  Two sets, which was one of the reasons why they were the only two to conduct reconnaissance in unfamiliar areas.  "That's not right." Tank said to Lin Chuan in a low voice.  They had been walking underground for more than an hour and had gone through all the sewers near the warehouse, but no new holes were found. Tank risked several times to push open the manhole cover above his head to observe their position, but found nothing.  Any suspicious channels.  "Maybe they started from those houses." Lin Chuan guessed.  Then they probably passed from a deeper place, which made Lin Chuan's respect for them even stronger.  During that failed tunnel excavation operation, Lin Chuan deeply realized the difficulty of digging a tunnel underground. It was only a fifteen-meter-long tunnel. Not only did they completely lose their sense of direction, but they also knew nothing about the surrounding situation.  Being able to dig a tunnel from a place of more than two hundred meters, and having the exit just under the rice stack instead of in the middle of the monster, places very high demands on the digger's positioning technology.  Lin Chuan¡¯s desire to see them became even stronger.  But they had no more time, so they could only follow the original path back to the wellhead where they came in.  ¡°We must find them.¡± Lin Chuan said to Tank.  He had a feeling that finding these people would increase their chances of survival many, many times.  The sun has begun to set, and the tank leads the way quickly through the streets and alleys. Lin Chuan has been thinking about the mysterious group of tunnel diggers in his mind, and did not notice that the tank suddenly stopped on the side of the road.  "What's wrong?" he asked.  "A new footprint." Tank replied worriedly.  "I'm the best!" He cursed subconsciously.  "It won't be later than this morning at the latest." This place is very close to the open space where the base is located.Just two streets away you can see the National Security Bureau building.  Lin Chuan lowered his head and saw that it was a semicircular paw print two meters wide, and it created a huge gap in the green belt on the roadside.  "What could it be?" Lin Chuan was also worried. No monsters had approached their door in the past few nights, but this did not mean that they were safe.  Lin Chuan's mind flashed back to the giant bull he had seen before. In front of its horns, could the supposedly fifteen-ton gate really protect them?  "It should be a giant dog." Tank replied.  "It shouldn't be able to open our door, but I still hope it's just passing by." The two continued to walk forward, and soon saw the material team moving things into the base.  "How was the harvest today?" Lin Chuan asked.  "I found a lot of food. I shouldn't have to worry about food this month." Lu Guangping replied.  "Where are the casualties?" Lin Chuan continued to ask.  "Only two people were injured, and they were not serious." Zeng Yu replied cheerfully.  "Brother Lin, would you like to have a big meal tonight?" he asked.  Lin Chuan shook his head.  "If you want to eat and drink, at least wait until we capture the warehouse." Zeng Yu lowered his head. Many people also felt a little dissatisfied, but they did not directly express their opposition.  Lin Chuan was a little helpless.  They have indeed harvested a lot in the past few days, and nearly a quarter of the space in the base has been occupied, but this does not mean that they can always guarantee such harvests.  To put it bluntly, the harvest in the past few days was not found by themselves, but people like Li Weilin and Zhou Tao who had been active in this area had already discovered it. They just did not take possession of them for their own reasons.  It is foreseeable that after clearing out all the locations known to Zhou Tao, they are likely to face the dilemma of being unable to find food sources for a long time.  There will be a rainy winter at most in one month. At that time, going out to find food will become an extremely dangerous thing again, and what they find now is far from enough for them to use this winter.  "Let's have a meeting after dinner." He said to all the committee members after getting into the base.  "We should stop looking for food and focus on finding materials needed to make equipment." Lin Chuan said.  This suggestion stunned the committee members.  "Why?" Lu Guangping asked.  "This food is far from enough for us to survive the winter!" "It is precisely because of this that we must focus on collecting materials." Lin Chuan replied.  He estimates that the existing food will last until the end of the month, which is when he expects the rainy season to return.  Almost all the places where food can be found that Zhou Tao knows about near the base have been cleared by them. In Lin Chuan's view, the remaining places are either too far away or have too many monsters. The time, manpower and risks involved  All very worthwhile.  If they continue to spend time collecting these scattered foods, because they are out of their reconnaissance range, both the combat team and the material team must invest more manpower and consume more time on the road.  But they may not be able to collect enough food for everyone to survive the winter before the rainy season. This means that such an operation may seem to yield gains every day, but it has no practical significance for the survival of the base.  Lin Chuan believed that their only way to survive was to attack the warehouse area. Even if they could only occupy one warehouse, the harvest there would be enough for them.  In order to achieve this goal, they must create weapons that can destroy the monsters entrenched in the warehouse as soon as possible, and contact Li Weilin's team to join in this action.  "According to the current progress, when can the giant crossbow be made? When can the beast trap be made?" He asked Wang Qinian.  "It will take at least a month." Wang Qinian replied awkwardly.  "We can only explore a little bit, which takes time." "But what we lack is time." Lin Chuan said.  "So more manpower must be invested." He also expressed another concern.  There are not many large monsters in the area around the base, or even a few, but as their scope of activities continues to expand, will they attract monsters from a wider range?  He told them about the footprints he saw with Tank when he came back, and everyone's expressions darkened.  It has been sunny weather for four consecutive days, which makes most people selectively forget about the horror of monsters, but the danger will come back at any time.  Lin Chuan felt that everyone was resentful, maybe they thought he was tooIt's obvious, but as the leader of the team, he can't just say nice things, he must also point out the dangers.  ¡°We have to open that gate tomorrow so that even if the gate fails, we still have a buffer,¡± he continued.  "Is there any technical problem?" "That's not the case, it's just that the welding and cutting machines are always busy. To break open the door, we have to stop what we are doing for at least a whole day." Wang Qinian replied.  "That's worth it," Lin Chuan said.  "Look for food for another day tomorrow, and then focus all your energy on equipment. Do you have any questions?" "If in the end we are unable to create weapons that can kill large monsters, what will we do?" Li Mingfeng asked.  "There is not enough food, and there is no hope of capturing the warehouse. Have you ever thought about such an outcome?" "We can't let that happen. To survive, we must get the things in the warehouse." Lin Chuan replied.  "There is no other way." If the people who dug the tunnel can be found, the operation may become relatively simple, but Lin Chuan plans to tell everyone after finding them to prevent them from relaxing again.  The atmosphere became silent again, and the relaxed and happy atmosphere during dinner was completely gone.  "Let's vote." Jiang Ming said.  "A monster is coming!" the guard at the door suddenly shouted, and at the same time staggered away from the door.  With this scream, the gate made a loud noise under the violent impact.  "The fighting team assembles!" Li Mingfeng shouted loudly and stood up from the fire.  The fighting group stood at the front with spears, while the others stood behind them in despair.  The gate kept making loud noises, and many people closed their eyes for fear of hearing the sound of it being torn apart.  "Is the Molotov cocktail ready?" Lin Chuan asked Wang Qinian loudly.  "Not yet" Wang Qinian replied with a pale face.  "Where's the oil? Is there any gasoline in the base?" "Yes!" Soon someone came over with some gasoline.  Lin Chuan suppressed his fear and walked to the door and poured gasoline on the outside of the cave. A huge fang hit the gap and got stuck. The monster began to struggle. Lin Chuan was stunned for a moment, grabbed the gasoline barrel and poured it into the door.  into that huge mouth.  "Bring me some fire!" he shouted.  Li Mingfeng grabbed a burning log from the fire and threw it on the fang, and the fire immediately started.  Lin Chuan took a few steps back and watched the monster struggling wildly. The terrifying roar almost deafened their ears. The gate was like a sail in the storm, as if it would be shattered at any time.  Suddenly, it retreated from the gap with a bang, and the flame disappeared immediately.  The temperature of the gate was very high, but Tank still ventured out to see the situation.  "That bastard ran away." He came back soon to tell everyone what he saw.  "But I saw a lot of monsters through the firelight on it, and it was not the only one that was attracted." "We must start cutting that door immediately." Li Mingfeng said.  "What about my other suggestions?" Lin Chuan asked.  The committee members looked at each other and finally nodded silently.
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