End of the World

Chapter 226 Transport Vehicle

There was a large traffic jam ahead on the highway, so Chen Guangjun slowed down and performed the tank-overcoming-car trick.

The engine roared and the tank drove through the congested car traffic at a low speed.

"Ho ho!"

There were still some zombies in the car that had not escaped. They were extremely excited to see the approaching tanks and waved their claws inside the car. However, the tanks passed over the roofs of their cars and the zombies were embedded in the car forever.

"Squeak!"

The pursuing vehicles stopped suddenly and could only watch as the tank ran over the last car and drove away.

"Wow! That's awesome!" Dafeng shouted, but ended up choking on a few more breaths of foul air.

"It's true that it's powerful, but I'm afraid it will cause too much wear and tear on the tracks!"

Chen Guangjun couldn't stand the stench, so he stuck his head out and took a few deep breaths.

Avoiding the survivors, the tank drove forward for more than ten kilometers and stopped at a river, hiding under the bridge.

Several people scrambled to crawl out, their faces pale, it was so smelly.

"There is water here, let's wash the inside of the car!" Dafeng said. The river is about ten meters wide and the water is very clear.

"Washing with water is useless. It's better to find disinfectant!" Chen Guangjun said after taking a few breaths.

"I hated hospitals before, and I hate them even more now!" Dafeng's face was full of bitterness when he heard this.

You don't have to go to the hospital to find disinfectant, but for the four of them, there seems to be no better place to find it than the hospital.

It was still early, so the four decided to go to the hospital first. Chen Guangjun counted the tank's weapons. The anti-aircraft machine gun was destroyed, and now there was only a tank main gun and a 7.62 mm tank gun coaxial machine gun.

There was no problem with the coaxial machine gun, as there were 125 rounds of bullets. The tank's mm smoothbore gun was almost full of shells, and the ammunition rack still had half a dozen shells.

Most of them were high-explosive fragmentation bombs or incendiary bombs, and there were only three armor-piercing bombs. Unfortunately, the automatic loader was broken and could only be loaded manually.

The four of them packed up quickly and drove the tank to the Tangshan Private Hospital they had been to.

When they were almost at the hospital, the four retreated into the tank and endured the unpleasant smell.

There was a rumbling sound in the distance, and the ground was shaking slightly. While the zombies were stunned, a tank broke through the wall. Several unlucky ones died under the steel body in an instant. The tens of tons of combat weight easily crushed them.

I have been to the hospital once, so I am familiar with the place. After such a long time, the hospital has changed a lot. There are fewer zombies, but there are quite a few corpses on the ground, indicating that there are survivors who have been here.

A fire broke out in one of the hospital buildings. It started on the fourth floor and spread upwards. Perhaps there was a fire-proof layer on the ninth floor, so the fire did not spread further.

The four remember their first visit, when the hospital was still in its most primitive state.

The tank went around to the back and the four men saw a trapped truck, with rotting corpses all around the truck. Anyone who wanted to break into the hospital would pay a heavy price, as the truck contained the victims.

"Wait a minute, let's see what's on the truck?" Wu Bin said.

The zombies around the truck had already dispersed. Wu Bin and Dafeng jumped off the tank, carefully walked around the corpses and approached the truck. They knocked on the car with the butt of their guns, and only opened the door carefully when there was no movement inside.

As soon as the carriage door opened, an even stronger stench hit them in the face, making them both vomit.

"vomit!"

The two men took a breath and looked inside, they saw two severely decomposed corpses, they seemed to be two female corpses, they must have been very desperate being trapped inside.

The body fluids that leaked out after the corpse decomposed contaminated several boxes. There were many cardboard boxes stacked in the cargo compartment all winter. There were many plastic barrels on the outermost side of the compartment, with labels saying "such and such disinfectant".

The two were very happy, as it was something that was obtained without any effort. It was something that others had paid for with their lives.

"Zombies are coming, hurry up!" Chen Guangjun shouted from outside.

The two men jumped out of the cargo compartment and closed the door.

"Brother Jun, there are a lot of things we need in the car. Can you tow it away?" Wu Bin asked.

"There is a towing cable behind the tank, but the problem is that this vehicle can't be started and its front wheels can't turn!" Chen Guangjun pointed out the key. The steering power comes from the engine. You have to be a strong man to move its front wheels.

"Forget it, let's go around and come back!" Wu Bin had no choice but to give up and climb onto the tank with Dafeng.

The tank started with a rumble, carrying the zombies around. Any zombies that got close were rolled under the tank and crushed into a pile of rotten meat. It can be imagined that the tracks must be very disgusting.

The tank moved around, causing hundreds of zombie casualties. The road was covered with black bloodstains left by the tanks. The zombies had no fear and chased the tanks desperately.

As soon as the tank stopped, the two men jumped out again, loaded barrels of disinfectant onto the tank, and took a few more boxes.

After the four of them got the things, the tank sped out of the hospital. A group of zombies followed the tank out, but ultimately failed to catch up.

The sun's afterglow faded away and night fell as expected. The four of them randomly found a secluded place to spend the night. The smell inside the tank was strong, so Chen Guangjun locked the car and went to spend the night in a building with the three of them.

Nothing happened that night until dawn the next day.

The four of them stood up one after another. Dafeng stretched and looked at the majestic steel body below, feeling a little proud.

It is estimated that it will take a whole day to clean the interior of the car and disinfect it, so the four people are not in a hurry to leave.

It was extremely difficult to clean the interior of the vehicle as it was too narrow and contained a lot of equipment. Chen Guangjun had to dismantle them, clean them, and then reassemble them.

The process was simply maddening, but they did inadvertently discover a fault with the automatic loader. It turned out that a reset torsion bar under the bolt was deformed. To repair it, a bunch of mechanisms of the gun mount had to be dismantled, and the four of them didn't have that ability. Who knows if there are other faults?

The car was filled with the smell of disinfectant. After opening all the hatches and airing them out for a day, the smell finally dissipated a little.

The four continued to drive north, with an average speed of 20 to 30 kilometers, traveling almost 200 kilometers a day, which was faster than most vehicles. However, the problem was obvious: the tank's fuel consumption was alarmingly high.

After a day of driving, Chen Guangjun suggested finding a flatbed trailer to carry the tank. This oil-guzzling tank can only take 300 to 400 liters of fuel at a time, and with the auxiliary fuel tank, its driving range is no more than 600 kilometers.

What is important is that long-term driving causes great wear and tear on the tracks, which is a major test for the equipment.

A transport vehicle, such as an excavator transport vehicle, is quite suitable, but you can't find one just by looking for it. There are many ordinary flatbed trucks, and getting on and off is a problem.

"This car won't work. The frame is too thin and can't bear the weight of the tank!" Chen Guangjun looked at several flatbed trucks and shook his head. Look at their skinny arms and legs, they are lightweight products.

"This one will definitely work!" Dafeng pointed to a 9.6-meter-long single-bridge flatbed truck.

"It's enough to pull you!" Wu Bin was speechless. What could the same version as the express truck do?

"Of course, I can pull at least ten!" Dafeng said as a matter of course.

"Dafeng, prying open the fuel tank, that's your expertise!" Chen Guangjun handed over the oil pipe.

Dafeng could only take the pipe silently, and then pry open the truck's fuel tank with a few clicks. He was quite professional.

I probed the tank and found the oil level was at the bottom. What the hell! The car must have been idling until the tank was empty.

Dafeng didn't believe it and broke into a few more cars, with the same result.

"I suggest you look at the ones that were hit harder!" said Wu Bin.

Dafeng followed his advice and pried open a car whose front end was severely deformed, and found that it really had half a tank of gas.

Even after draining seven or eight vehicles, the tank's fuel tank was still bottomless and the fuel gauge didn't rise much. At this rate, it would take most of the day to fill it up.

"Look at what you have accomplished. Let's take the highway!" Chen Guangjun couldn't find a suitable vehicle, and seeing Dafeng looking doubtful about his life, he spoke up.

After a few steps on the gas, the tank headed for the highway. Dafeng listened to the roar of the engine, which was no longer pleasant because the tank of oil he had pried open was empty again.

"There are many long-distance trucks on the highway, and their fuel tanks are enlarged and lengthened. If we are lucky, two or three trucks should be able to fill up their tanks!" Chen Guangjun seemed to be comforting Dafeng.

In the past, the fleet refueled almost always on the highway, and the RV is a long-range version, with a fuel tank capacity that is twice as large as that of a tank. However, Zhao Bofeng has always been in charge of fuel, and Wu Bin rarely worries about it. No wonder Zhao Bofeng has always wanted to find a fuel truck.

For a tank, any flat land can be used for highway, the engine roars, the guardrails are crushed, and the tank rushes onto the road.

When the zombies attacked, the tanks did not dodge or evade, but even deliberately rammed them, leaving bloody tracks on the road.

The four of them were extremely lucky. Not long after they set out, a tanker truck appeared in front of them, carrying diesel.

Chen Guangjun got off the car to check. The car was loaded with more than two-thirds of diesel, which was shining with a blue-green light under the light.

Dafeng was happy because he didn't have to pump gas from each car one by one. He could just fill the tank until it overflowed.

Chen Guangjun saw a suitable flatbed truck on the roof. On the opposite lane, there was a multi-wheel trailer. Its length was the same as that of an ordinary trailer, but it had more wheels and was much smaller in size. It was obviously a special transport vehicle.

The trailer has as many as forty-eight wheels, twenty-four on each side. One advantage of having more wheels is that it disperses the weight of the cargo. It is estimated that it can pull hundreds of tons of things. As long as it is long enough, it will be more than enough to bear the weight of two tanks.

The trailer was empty, but the front of the towing vehicle was severely deformed and could not be used.

The four of them rushed to the opposite lane and killed the zombies wandering nearby. Chen Guangjun removed the front of the car and pulled it aside with a tank. Since he couldn't find a good front of the car for the time being, he could only use the towing front of the oil truck.

After connecting the power supply of the tank and starting the ignition of the trailer, the vehicle started, but it was found that the handbrake on the front of the vehicle did not work properly. It was released but not completely.

Wu Bin asked Dafeng to find a hammer and hit the brake hub hard, and it finally vibrated and loosened.

When the trailer was connected, a fatal problem was discovered, that is, the air source pipeline connectors on the trailer and the front of the car did not match, they were completely two different models.

If these air pipes are not connected, the trailer will have no brakes and will rely solely on the front of the vehicle for braking, which may cause a tailspin at high speeds. However, the trailer has many wheels, so it is difficult to do a tailspin.

"There's nothing we can do. Just drive carefully and it should be fine at a low speed!" was all Chen Guangjun could say.