blood plague

Chapter 127 Tracking
The pickup truck is going along the road, going in the opposite direction of A yesterday.

Thomas stood in the cargo compartment and swallowed.

Walking forward from the few corpses just now, you can see the corpses of infected people without interruption along the way.At first Thomas was just a little surprised, then shocked, and finally too shocked to speak.

Is this the result of the three of them yesterday?
It was so scary.

Thomas also participated in the battle of the Love and Family team to clean up the new stronghold. With four or five guns, he faced three or four infected people. The infected people were very resistant and had to shoot a few rounds.

And the number of corpses of infected people who died on the ground has exceeded, no, it has reached several times the total number eliminated by the Love and Family team.

Soon, the pickup truck came to some charred corpses. This is where Iger threw his cocktail yesterday. After the pickup truck drove forward for a while, the corpses were finally gone, and they had already chased them to the end.

Iger stopped the pickup truck, he stretched out his fingers and rubbed his dry lips back and forth, thinking about the current possibilities in his mind.

The normal moving speed of an infected person is about 1 kilometers per hour.Although the trotting state of the infected is faster, it obviously has certain restrictions, so in the absence of prey, they should only move slowly.

昨天是下午14：15收工的，现在时间是9:37 ，大约是19个小时，那么感染者一共可以走10公里左右。

Then, the group of infected people should be within the big circle with a radius of 10 kilometers centered on the position where it ended yesterday afternoon.

After thinking about what might be the situation, Iger said to Joanna: "Joanna, keep driving, pay attention to the mileage meter, and stop after 10 kilometers."

After hearing Iger's words, Joanna glanced at the mileage meter, and then muttered there: "Now it is 195267, after adding 10, it is..., it is..., it is..."

"195277." Iger said quickly.

In fact, adding a whole 10 does not need to read so much at all, you only need to read the last ten digits, but to Joanna, this is an astronomical calculation.

"OK!" After Joanna heard Iger's report, she put the car back into gear and drove forward quickly.

Soon, the milestone of the pickup truck has reached 195277, and the group of infected people is still missing.

"Joanna, go back to the place where you got off the car at the beginning." Iger said to Joanna, and he began to calculate quickly.

The temporary camp Iger chose was about 18 kilometers away from the group of infected people. They did not see the group of infected people along the way, that is to say, the group of infected people was not in the two directions of the front and rear of the road.

Returning to the place where I got off the car just now, Iger jumped out of the car and walked to the corpse of the infected person, and began to carefully study the bloody footprints next to the corpse. Unfortunately, these footprints were all forward.

In other words, even if the infected group turns around, it will be after this point.

Iger raised his head and asked the three of them: "Think about it together, if the infected person turns around, in which direction will they move?"

Iger felt that it was useless to ask him, and the only way now is to use this as the center of the circle and search in a spiral circle.

At this time, Thomas said to Iger: "Brother, I know where they went."

Iger looked up at Thomas, only to see Thomas stretch out his hand and pointed to one side of the road, then said, "I think they are going in that direction."

Thomas seemed to point at random, and Iger naturally couldn't be naive enough to write a letter at will. He asked Thomas, "Why?"

Thomas said confidently, "Intuition."

After hearing Thomas' explanation, Iger's face turned in an instant.It is better to rely on your own thinking than to rely on the so-called intuition of others.

Iger was obsessed with a reversal series of games, in which besides the extremely brain-burning logic, the more important thing was the conversion of thinking.

When thinking goes into a dead end, it is better to think upside down.

Instead of thinking about where the infected are going, think about why they are there.

Thinking about it this way, Iger suddenly had an idea, and he followed this inspiration to quickly deduce and decompose the problem.

First, why do infected people migrate; second, why do infected people migrate along roads; and third, if infected people leave roads, then why.

After decomposing the problem, Iger seems to have found a clue.

If the infected person is not regarded as a zombie, but an animal similar to an insect, such as a group of ants.Then the purpose of the migration of the infected can be calculated relatively easily, foraging.

Why infected people migrate along the road, Iger thinks not to think too much about metaphysics, but should consider the most intuitive situation, because the hardened road is more convenient for humans to walk than the dirt road next to it.

In the first two questions, Iger felt that his logic should be tenable, so the third inference is relatively simple.

Since the infected group gave up walking on the more comfortable road, they must have discovered something.

Thinking of this, Iger raised his head and said to the three of them: "I have a bad feeling, the infected group seems to have found something, so they deviated from the road. It is very likely that there are survivors hidden nearby, but they were discovered by the infected gone."

With this inference, everyone continued to drive along the road in the direction of the infected group with the mentality of giving it a try.

Not far ahead, Iger suddenly stopped the pickup truck, and he stopped the pickup truck in front of a house on the side of the road.

After Fran fell into a coma due to the blood plague yesterday, Iger found a nearby place for him to rest, which was this house.

Iger remembered that when they came to the house yesterday, there were signs of the house being raided, and there were still two bodies of suspected infected people left in the house, that is to say, some survivors came here after the outbreak of the blood plague .

After Iger opened the car door, he got out of the car and walked to the house to observe and think.

Survivors generally search for materials in order from near to far from the base, and the search for materials is divided into walking and driving.

If the survivors who looted the house came by car, their whereabouts will not be tracked, so this factor will not be considered for now.

If the survivors searched for supplies on foot, Iger would be very familiar with it.After all, he and Joanna had been human donkeys many times, and those few times almost exhausted him to death.

When searching for supplies on foot, the distance from the stronghold must not be too far.

If it is too far away from the base, you can’t take it with you if you have too much, and it’s not worthwhile if you don’t have enough. It’s better to learn love and family teams, like locusts, to eat wherever you go, which can save a lot of walking distance.

After thinking about this, Iger returned to the pickup truck, and he said to Joanna: "With this as the center of the circle, let's find a nearby building within 5 kilometers."

No, maybe 5 kilometers is not needed. Based on the patience of the American people, maybe a radius of 3 kilometers is enough.

In such a sparsely populated area, it is not so easy to find buildings that can accommodate people. From this aspect, their workload will not be too great.

Joanna was driving a pickup truck around here. With sharp eyes, she saw the exposed building through a gap in a small forest in the distance.

The pickup truck drove towards the grove, and after going around the grove, I saw several houses behind the grove, the straight-line distance was less than 1 kilometer.It's just because it's too hidden, everyone ran back and forth on the road yesterday but couldn't find a house here.

Unfortunately, they came a step late.

These houses obviously showed signs of being reinforced, however, all the wooden boards used for reinforcement were washed to pieces.

The four quickly got out of the car, Iger and Joanna leaned over with guns in hand, Phoebe and Thomas followed behind with land reclamation knives and murder axes, and moved forward cautiously.

All the rooms were very messy. In the end, everyone found four wreckages that had been eaten to the point where only a few scattered skeletons remained.

Needless to say, everyone has guessed the general situation of the tragedy that happened here.

Last night, a group of infected people surrounded this place. Amidst the screams of screamers, the infected people launched a surprise attack. The survivors were stimulated by the blood plague in their sleep and died without any resistance.

This is why Iger requires night watchmen to be arranged at the outpost overnight. Any negligence may lead to the complete destruction of a team.

(End of this chapter)