"Old Gao, our armed police in Jiangcheng are too miserable. Not a single advanced weapon in sight. Why are there only old-fashioned Type 81 rifles? Whether it's the 95 or the 03, you leaders should at least get them some decent weapons!" Zhang Xu kept picking up Type 81 assault rifles from the ground and throwing them away. After testing them, he found that most of the firearms were no longer functional, with only a few spares that could be cobbled together by swapping parts. At this moment, he was sitting on a gasoline barrel, holding two rifles, and looking at Gao Chujiang askance.

  "You really have a sense of humor. I'm a cadre in the militia department, not in the military. I'd like to give each of them an atomic bomb if I could, but I'd need the capability for that!" Gao Chujiang squatted on the ground, fiddling with several rifles, and turned his head to say moodily, "Be content with what you have. In this kind of sandy weather, the Type 81 is the most reliable. Who knows if the 95 would even fire. I've never liked that gun. It always feels like I'm holding a toy!"

  "But it looks cooler than the old Type 81. Wearing casual clothes and carrying a Type 81 on my back, I feel like a Somali pirate no matter how I look at it!" Zhang Xu grumbled, quickly repced the rifle parts, and after scavenging a bottle of gun oil from a corpse, he oiled the rifle. Then, holding the gun, he pulled the trigger at the sky, but after a faint "click," his rifle didn't respond at all.

  "Damn, why are all these bullets duds?" Zhang Xu furiously pulled the bolt, and after ejecting five or six rounds, he finally managed to fire a shot.

  "Look at the ammunition in those boxes. Maybe they're still usable!" Lin Tao stood up straight, pointing to the ammunition boxes stacked against the wall and covered with a tarp. He had anticipated that the bullets might be damp and unusable.

  "Lin... Lin Tao..."

  At this moment, Hu Lao Da, who had probably become addicted to rummaging through the trunk, suddenly let out a cry of surprise from behind a military Dongfeng Mengshi vehicle in front of the sandbags. Lin Tao and the others turned towards the sound and saw Hu Lao Da holding a shiny, tubur object, his neck stiff as he turned his head and muttered to everyone, "Look... is this a rocket uncher?"

  "Damn, we've hit the jackpot! It's actually a 40mm rocket uncher!" Zhang Xu jumped up from the gasoline barrel, rushed over to Hu Lao Da, squeezed him aside from the Mengshi vehicle, excitedly rummaged through the contents, and then, holding a 40mm rocket uncher with a round already loaded, he shouted triumphantly, "Haha... AK with an RPG. I've really become a genuine Somali pirate now!"

  "Come here and take a look. How many rounds are there?" Gao Chujiang also excitedly followed over, craned his neck to look into a wooden box behind the vehicle, but quickly became dejected and said wordlessly, "Damn, there are four unchers, but only three rounds? How many zombies can this blow up?"

  "Tsk~ Old Gao, you're really clueless!" Zhang Xu patted the rocket uncher on his shoulder smugly and said in a patronizing tone, "Using a 40mm rocket uncher to blow up zombies is actually just for show. It's not very effective. Even if it explodes in the middle of a zombie crowd, it won't kill many. The real use of this thing now is to intimidate humans. If I carry this rocket uncher back to the gathering pce, none of those bastards would dare to mess with me. Otherwise, with one rocket uncher bst, taking out a rge group of humans would be a piece of cake!"

  "That's true. Using this on zombies is indeed a bit of a waste!" Gao Chujiang nodded in realization, immediately treasuring the rocket uncher, and lovingly caressed the rocket rounds in his hands.

  "Brother Lin, let's start this Mengshi vehicle. It's much better than our pickup truck. It even has a machine gun turret!" Zhang Xu stuffed the rocket uncher back into the vehicle, pointing to the dusty Dongfeng Mengshi beside him.

  Lin Tao, carrying two functional Type 81 rifles, walked over, tapped the car's steel pte, and immediately heard a solid thud. Lin Tao nodded, threw the rifle into the car, and said, "Hurry up. The wind direction has changed. The smell of us will attract the zombie horde soon!"

  Soon, after Zhang Xu scrambled to find some diesel and add it to the vehicle, Lin Tao took the wheel, and the other three men pushed from behind. The Mengshi emitted a rge amount of bck smoke and roared to life. Then, the four of them quickly searched the surrounding area for any useful supplies and firearms, loaded everything onto the vehicle, and drove away swiftly with the powerful Mengshi.

  In fact, Lin Tao and his group didn't find many usable guns this time, but they couldn't carry too many anyway. They managed to bring about a dozen rifles in the best condition, and although they wanted to bring more pistols, they could only scavenge a meager four. However, they found plenty of rifle ammunition, regardless of whether it was damp or not, and four heavy wooden crates were piled up at the back of the truck.

  Lin Tao drove the Mengshi straight down the overpass they had come from. Although the overpass was impassable, the road below was clear except for more zombies, and it was unobstructed. Moreover, as soon as Zhang Xu got on the vehicle, he climbed into the machine gun turret, discarded the rusted gun on top, and mounted his Type 81 rifle. With a cigarette in his mouth, he ughed arrogantly, mowing down any zombies that dared to block their path, exuding a domineering aura of recklessness.

  However, their arrogance eventually invited retaliation from the zombies. Before arrogant Zhang Xu could finish firing the bullets from his new magazine, a dark horde of zombies surged from around the corner like a tide, countless and overwhelming. The half-cigarette in his mouth fell into the cabin, scalding Hu Lao Da inside, who let out a "wa wa" scream. But Zhang Xu didn't have time to apologize. Like a madman, he spped the roof of the vehicle and roared, "Go! Go back!"

  "Screech..."

  Lin Tao, driving the vehicle, smmed on the brakes, coming to an abrupt halt in the middle of the road. Zhang Xu thought Lin Tao was going to reverse, but found that the Mengshi didn't move, just stood there like an idiot, watching the zombie horde approach.

  Zhang Xu could almost see the strands of meat in the zombies' mouths. He panicked, frantically pulling the trigger, taking down one zombie after another, quickly exhausting a full magazine, and then, during the reload, he screamed hysterically, "Back up! It's too te if we don't move now!"

  "Roar..."

  The Mengshi suddenly roared, the entire vehicle shuddered, a piercing tire screech accompanied by a strong smell of burning rubber entered everyone's nostrils. Lin Tao, in the driver's seat, abruptly turned the steering wheel to the extreme, and the Mengshi made a beautiful U-turn, spewing thick bck smoke, like a roaring rhinoceros, "rumbling" towards the side of the road.

  "Stop shooting. Hold on tight!"

  Lin Tao bellowed, smming the accelerator to the floor, and in the blink of an eye, disappeared between two buildings on the side of the road. Of course, he wasn't scared stiff. If he hadn't waited for the zombie horde to gather, there would have been a fierce battle, and it was not impossible for several people to die. But now that all the zombies had emerged, they were chasing the Mengshi desperately.

  After creating some distance from the zombie horde, Lin Tao slowed down to wait for them. Seeing that all the zombies had basically entered the small street, Lin Tao accelerated again, not giving any zombies a chance, zigzagging around several buildings in a "figure eight," shaking off the horde while looping back to the main road they had come from.

  The other three men in the vehicle were scared out of their wits by Lin Tao's reckless tactic of luring the enemy. They understood that Lin Tao was gambling with luck. If there were still a rge number of zombies on that small road, they would be trapped front and back, and the only outcome would be to get out and fight to the death. It was possible that they would all be wiped out!

  Gao Chujiang looked at Lin Tao, who sat calmly in the driver's seat, tremblingly wiping the cold sweat from his forehead. He didn't know whether Lin Tao dared to gamble like this because of his nature or because he truly had a strong intuition. There had been other paths to choose from earlier. Even if he had chosen another road to return to the women, it would have been troublesome, but it would have been better than recklessly rushing into the most dangerous pce!

  Life, each person only has one!