They arrived on the national highway outside the Big Camphor Tree Base.
Along the way, they saw two teams in vehicles passing by them.
Looking at those teams, they should also know the people with them. They were a bit surprised. The Big Camphor Tree Base seed crowded, but what they didn’t know was that these people, strictly speaking, were not part of the Big Camphor Tree Base. They were rely cooperative personnel.
Soon.
They were about to drive from the national highway to the hillside road.
But less than 20 ters into the hillside road, there was a barricade ahead, which was currently open. The barricade was very rudintary.
On both sides of the hillside road were several large concrete pipes filled with sandy soil, and in the gaps between the concrete pipes, there was an iron gate set up.
At night, you only needed to push one side of the concrete pipe and insert it into the other side of the road to form a barricade.
During the day, you only needed to pull the iron gate out from one side of the concrete pipe.
Additionally, in so wider places on the national highway, wooden barricades were constructed.
But these wooden barricades were unevenly distributed; so places were steep without them, while lower places had them.
Moreover, these barricades varied in height; so were taller, so shorter, but most were only about one and a half ters high.
The most important thing is that these wooden barricades were simply placed in a dug pit and stomped into place upright.
In so places, even abandoned vehicles were used as barricades.
They were sparse and looked like they wouldn’t offer much protection.
Just by looking at these barricades, they felt that a single person could easily climb over.
Dongfeng and others in the car felt a jolt in their hearts upon seeing these wooden barricades, feeling that the Big Camphor Tree Base wasn’t as good as its reputation.
Just this defense was even worse than the walls they had back at Poyang Lake.
At least those walls were made of bricks, and the height was a ter taller than these.
Disappointed, very disappointed.
After seeing these incredibly rudintary barricades, Dongfeng no longer held any hope for the Big Camphor Tree Base.
"Uncle Wan, it seems this Big Camphor Tree Base is not as good as we thought. Just look at these barricades; they’re really too simple. I suspect that once a major Zombie Tide breaks out, these barricades will collapse imdiately." Dongfeng said with a bitter smile to Uncle Wan.
Uncle Wan did not speak, but the light in his eyes dimd significantly. He sighed, the whole person as if he had lost his spirit.
They felt despair, disappointnt, sadness.
After going through so many hardships, they finally had hope, coming from such a long distance, and it seed like they were about to reach the end.
But seeing these barricades gave them a heavy blow.
The greater the hope, the greater the disappointnt.
They felt overwhelmingly disappointed, like wilted eggplants, listless and dispirited.
In their hearts, they labeled the Big Camphor Tree Base as not safe enough.
The most important part of a base is safety.
If a base isn’t safe, then there’s nothing more to discuss.
Once a Zombie Tide appears, the base will be finished.
Old Dong and Liu Youguang, originally a bit cheerful in the front pickup, also sank into gloom after seeing such rudintary barricades.
Others in the car began to discuss fervently after seeing that simple wall.
"Looks like we ca for nothing. Sigh, we originally thought this Big Camphor Tree Base was strong, but these barricades are indescribable."
"Sigh, what should we do next?"
Soone else said, "Maybe it’s because of previous heavy rain and floods, and these are just temporary barricades they built?"
But his words were imdiately opposed by another person: "But it shouldn’t be this simple, you say they have guns, why are these barricades built so rudintary? Can’t figure it out, really can’t understand."
Old Dong rubbed his brow.
But what they didn’t know was that these barricades were not ordered to be constructed by Li Yu. They were proactively built by cooperative personnel and extra staff in their spare ti.
Ever since a Zombie Tide during heavy rain, when Li Yu ordered those external extra staff in, several extra staff teams began to choose to station in residential houses near the Big Camphor Tree Base.
After several instances, more and more extra staff chose to station near the Big Camphor Tree Base.
Later, during a series of natural disasters lasting several months, Li Yu let cooperative personnel and extra staff take shelter in greenhouses, experiencing high temperatures, extre cold, volcanoes, acid rain, Zombie Tides, heavy rain, and floods...
Their sense of belonging to the Big Camphor Tree Base grew stronger and stronger, although the base didn’t directly provide them with food, at least without its shelter, surviving would have been incredibly difficult.
So, whether extra or cooperative personnel, many began to choose to station near the Big Camphor Tree Base.
Just coincidentally, during the previous natural disasters, many trees died, and they voluntarily used so of these trees to construct barricades in flat and wide areas.
After all, they were not living within the walls of the Big Camphor Tree Base but in outside residential houses, and there would still be so Zombies appearing at night.
Most of these barricades were set up near the national highway, with fewer elsewhere, not fully enclosed, so their effectiveness was limited, and so Zombies would still enter at night.
But these barricades set on flat roads could already offer them so blocking effect, which was sufficient for them.
However, Dongfeng and the others thought that entering the hillside road and crossing that simple barricade ant they had entered the Big Camphor Tree Base.
It was now exactly twelve thirty.
The cooperative personnel and extra staff involved in building the Third Outer City were having lunch at the construction site.
Those who did not participate in construction opted to search and transport construction materials in exchange for food and points and were busy outside searching and transporting.
So, in the residential houses along the hillside road, only a few people were seen.
After being soaked by rain and floods, the surface of these residential houses peeled off, even exposing the steel bars and bricks inside.
Once the temperature rose, so ferns started rooting and sprouting in the gaps.
In the eyes of Dongfeng and Uncle Wan, seeing these barricades and their initial disappointnt, they assud they were already at the Big Camphor Tree Base.
Seeing the sparse population within, unable to spot many people, coupled with these dilapidated buildings added a filter that made everything more unsatisfactory.
Is this it?
Uncle Wan sighed repeatedly and shook his head, confounded as to why the Big Camphor Tree Base which Sha Wenji had previously praised so highly, was in such a dilapidated state?
Did the base suffer badly from the rain and flood, wondered Uncle Wan? Thinking in this way made it seem a bit more reasonable.
"Looks like they were also greatly affected by the flood and rain," remarked Dongfeng with emotion.
Uncle Wan nodded in agreent, deeply convinced.
.......
OS:
There were still people before twelve.
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