Chapter 241: Modified vehicle

At 16 pm, the team arrived in Basto.

Black Cat is quite familiar with the terrain and customs of this area, and suggested: "Za Lin, if I remember correctly, there are many car repair shops, parking lots, hardware shops and gas stations nearby. We should search and maybe we can find several available cars."

"Good idea." Lin Zaishan said to everyone: "You should be warned on the spot first, I will go to investigate and search."

He used his speed ability and patrolled the town of Barsto in less than 30 minutes and returned to the team.

Everyone asked, "Have you found anything?"

"The town has no survivors, only a few low-level zombies, and will not pose a threat to us. The town's infrastructure is well preserved, many vehicles and buildings are still usable."

Black Cat said: "Can this town be a settlement?"

Lin Zaishan shook his head, "There are jungles all over the place, the terrain is complex and difficult to defend; the buildings are generally low and lack the ability to defend against advanced mutant beasts and dangerous enemies; in addition, it is too close to Luocheng, so it is easy to be discovered and attacked by corpses."

"Since that's the case, we will try our best to plunder and utilize all the resources here, and don't waste a single nail."

Lin Zaishan said: "I just had an idea that we can use the car repair facilities here to modify several vehicles that are more adaptable to the apocalyptic environment."

"Good idea! How to modify it?"

"Everyone gathers around, I'll explain the plan for car modification." Lin Zaishan spent 10 minutes explaining in detail and confirming that everyone had already understood. "Okay, let's give you an hour to collect vehicles, tools, accessories, weapons, ammunition and food everywhere."

Black Cat said: "There is a military base not far from this, and there should be weapons and ammunition inside."

"I have noticed this military base just now. It has obviously been looted more than once." Lin Zaishan said, "However, I believe that military bases generally have some facilities such as secret arsenals, and scavengers and thugs may not be able to find and open them easily. I will try my luck later. Well, here is the shopping time. No one except me, please do not act alone. Meet at this car repair center on time at 18 o'clock and stay here tonight."

"clear!"

Everyone collaborated according to the group and reported the progress from time to time.

"I found a useful RV."

“The tires found.”

"The steel plate was found."

"The transmission chain was found."

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Lin Zaishan and Caroline came to the military base, walked through the gate that was overturned before, and came to the main office building. In order to help, Caroline found the base structure diagram and carefully checked it, and carefully read various scattered documents and archives.

"Zhalin, I haven't found the information about the secret arsenal you mentioned."

Lin Zaishan smiled and said, "Don't worry. As long as there is, we will definitely find it." He left the office building, touched the trees outside with his hands, and obtained a lot of useful information.

Seeing him laughing at a tree, Caroline asked curiously: "Have this beautiful palm tree expressed your love to you?"

"This is a palm tree that has existed before the end of the world." Lin Zaishan said: "It is very knowledgeable. It tells me that vehicles carrying weapons and ammunition are often parked in front of Warehouse No. 3."

"Then what are we waiting for?"

The two came to Warehouse No. 3. This is a giant building with a length, width and height of 120 meters*60 meters*10 meters. It should be able to store a lot of goods. The doors of the warehouse are all open, with obvious signs of violent destruction.

When you enter the warehouse, you will see green canvas all over the ground, boxes of various sizes, several lifting and unloading trucks, and two lattice huts, while the rest is empty.

"It doesn't look like there is a secret arsenal of weapons here." Caroline said disappointedly.

"You can't just look at the surface when looking at the problem." Lin Zaishan walked into a lattice hut and knocked it a few times. Suddenly, a large crack broke in a corner of the warehouse, revealing an underground passage.

The two walked a distance along the underground passage and stopped in front of a thick metal door. "If I guess correctly, behind this door should be the secret arsenal we are looking for." Lin Zaishan smiled and said to Caroline: "Beauty, why don't you pray that we can find some good things?"

"Sorry, Mr. Zhalin, I can help you find weapons, but I can't pray for them."

"I understand." Lin Zaishan used his supernatural power to break open the metal door, and a strong breath of smoke came to his face. "It's certain that this secret warehouse has never been opened since the end of the world."

After the smoke and dust were gone, Lin Zaishan took the lead in entering the secret warehouse, found the power switch, and turned on the lighting. This is a small warehouse with an area of ​​only 300 square meters, with more than a dozen large safes erected against the wall in the warehouse.

"Okay, it's another happy lottery draw time." Prying the safe is one of Lin Zaishan's biggest hobbies in the end of the world. In the past, he has always been unlucky, so he rarely gets any decent equipment from the safe; but now he is different from the past, and he has become lucky.

"Let's see what good things are in cabinet No. 1." Lin Zaishan doesn't need any tools to pry the safe, just activate the superpowers.

With a "clang", the safe No. 1 automatically bounced open, revealing two rows of storage compartments on the upper and lower sides. Below are 30 pistols with unique shapes, and above are 30 energy panels.

Lin Zaishan picked up a pistol and fired it

It is now that the gun is not filled with bullets, but a special firing device. He picked up a battery plate and inserted it into the pistol, then pulled the trigger, and a flash of electric light was shot out from the muzzle. "It turned out to be a firing-electric gun. This kind of gun should be very effective in dealing with humans and mutant beasts at a medium and close range. The gun body also has an adjustment device, which can control the output electric light intensity. As long as you don't hit the eye at a small intensity, it will not cause life danger. A good weapon!"

He then opened the safe No. 2, which contained 5 large-caliber sniper rifles and dozens of corresponding special magazines. Lin Zaishan picked up a large sniper and looked up and down. "This gun can easily penetrate light armored vehicles and individual mechas. With just one bullet, it can knock people into two pieces."

Caroline said: "So cruel! If possible, please try not to use this weapon."

"Among all kinds of deaths in the end times, shooting one is already very kind, at least it is much better than being swallowed in one bite."

"Zhaolin, if I unfortunately fall into the hands of a bad guy or a monster, I would rather let you kill me."

"Don't say stupid things. With me here, you will never fall into the hands of bad guys or monsters." Lin Zaishan grabbed Caroline's hand and instilled a life energy into her. "The most effective way to maintain your own safety in this cruel end of the world is to improve your combat effectiveness and survival. There is no contradiction between not killing people and preventing being killed. Learning combat skills does not necessarily mean that you have to kill people, but you can also defend yourself."

"I promise you that Zhalin will learn combat skills from now on. I don't want to be a burden to you, and I will instill precious life energy into me every day."

"Caroline, let alone our long-term care of each other, you are a talent with important strategic value. You have the blessings and blessing powers that countless individuals and forces envy, and you can make others lucky and other bonuses through prayer. You are more important than a team alone. So, please don't belittle yourself for your own value in the future."

"Really? Am I really important? Am I very important to you?"

“Absolutely.”

Caroline looked happy and said, "Zhaolin, I want to tell you that you are more important. You have given me and many survivors the opportunity, hope and courage to survive. If you hadn't met you, the life of those of us would be dark and despair, and we could not even keep the minimum dignity of being a human being. You are the angel sent by God to the mortal world to save us."

Lin Zaishan sighed, "I don't even have wings, so how can I look like an angel? In fact, I am just a rescuer with a strong life. My greatest ideal in a long time is to save all kinds of beauties and win their likes and respects. Occasionally, I find an opportunity to spend the moon, go up and down, and get a little cheaper, and enjoy a romantic fun. In essence, I am just a dick with no power, colorless heart, no courage."

Caroline smiled and said, "You talk about yourself like a playboy, but in fact you are nothing more than to cover your sacred light with the colors of the world. This happens to be a strategy that even the angels of the ordinary may adopt."

"Your deification of me once brought me a life-threatening disaster. John and the wise Fridge specially arranged for the end-of-day saints to ambush and assassinate me, almost killing me."

"Is this true? I will definitely pay attention to it in the future. Zhalin, do you need me to do to compensate you?" Caroline leaned close to Lin Zishan and said softly, "I am willing to give up all laws for you."

Lin Zaishan said calmly: "The biggest compensation you have to do with me is to make yourself stronger as soon as possible, so that you can not only defend yourself well, but also help me save more people."

"I see!"

Lin Zaishan continued to open other safes and found some individual mechas, shields, melee weapons, etc. with high technical skills. He took the time to issue a notice to Mira and others, asking them to come and move weapons and equipment.

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At 18 o'clock, everyone returned home with a full load and gathered in the car repair shop. Everyone looked at the rich harvest and were all happy.

"Dear everyone: I have explained how to modify the vehicle. Let's fight tonight, and strive to transform more than 5 cars with different functions but strong apocalyptic survivability and combat effectiveness in 2 days, at the latest to the day after tomorrow. Then we can rush to cross the US mainland and seek development opportunities in the east."

"Okay!" Everyone didn't bother to have dinner and started the modification work improvised.

Lin Zaishan personally took the trick. He had strong supernatural powers, skillful hands, and quick movements. He was one to ten, and often completed his work in unexpected ways and efficiency.

"Mr. Zhalin, if we can have a strong AI to uniformly dispatch various vehicles, our mobility and combat effectiveness will be improved by several levels." Mira suggested during the midnight break.

"You're right." Lin Zaishan thought of Master Lin many times during the modification process, but unfortunately he did not carry any copy of Master Lin. "Although we are not equipped with such powerful AI, as long as the relevant personnel train carefully, they can still exert their strong synergy and action."

"You can contact Schwaronson and borrow that command system from him in the RV."

"Fortunately, you reminded me that I also want to know the current situation of my idol." Lin Zaishan immediately sent a telegram and received a reply soon:

"I have successfully met my friends from the Knights. At present, we are still surrounded by the powerful enemy Bill. Bill's men control the Colorado Bridge, and if you want to move east from there, you will have to face them. They are all a group of vicious people who have lost their humanity, and they are all better than those of John Castle.

And, please be careful. Your friend Schwaronson."

"Bison Bill?" Lin Zaishan frowned and asked Billy next to him: "Have you heard of this person?"

"I haven't seen it, but I've heard of it." Billy replied: "Pluto once had a business with Bill, which was a population transaction. More than 500 strong slaves were transferred to the coast near Houston by Bill's people, and then Pluto brought them to the super warship to serve."

"Did you see Bison Bill himself?"

"No. The one who transported the slaves was just one of Bill's subordinates, and even Pluto himself had never seen Bill. According to legend, Bill was a strong and bloodthirsty thug, and his cruelty was even more cruel than Pluto, John and others. He often launched attacks on other survivor settlements and mobile groups, and once he encountered resistance, he would adopt an inhumane massacre strategy to intimidate his opponents. He once used crosses to fill the bodies of prisoners between two cities in Texas, which was called the Road to Hell. He treated his subordinates very much.

It is harsh and anyone who dares to question his authority will be executed or disabled by him in the name of duel. Legend has it that he is not only strong, intelligent, but also has superb swordsmanship, and has various supernatural abilities such as speed, air-catching, electric shock, etc. It is a powerful enemy that no master of the end of the world wants to encounter. His power is spread across Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado and Texas, controlling 1 port, 1 airport, 2 farms, 3 mines and 1 castle. Legend has it that his castle is his nest, but no one knows where it is."

"It sounds like a vicious and difficult guy. I hope Schwaronson can get out of him smoothly."

"It seems that we can't count on Schwaronson to help in the short term. What's going on?"

"Let's put it aside for now. The basis of this vehicle modification is still based on personnel operations."

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After working overtime for two days and two nights, the third day after arriving in Basto, the modification of the five cars was completed as scheduled:

The first one is a lightweight reconnaissance off-road vehicle that can release drones, is equipped with night vision equipment, has a shooting platform that can rotate 360 ​​degrees on the roof, is loaded with a heavy machine gun, and the body of the vehicle is equipped with protective steel plates to resist attacks of light weapons.

The second one is a high-power bulldozer equipped with cutting and soil shoveling devices on the front of the car. Its main function is to clean trees and various roadblocks. It can be used as a traction and excavation device when necessary. In addition to the driving position, a special platform is also specially set up on the bulldozer. A modified mecha can stand firmly on the platform and play a variety of combat effects.

The third one is a RV that imitates Schwaronson's design, with a small kitchen, bedroom, toilet and command room. In addition to installing steel plates, there are shooting holes and heavy machine gun platforms in some key areas, which can be said to be a mobile fire fortress.

The fourth is an armored bus. There are shooting holes and shooting platforms on both sides of the roof and body of the vehicle, and protective steel plates and protective nets are installed. 100 people can be boarded with full load.

The fifth car is an armored truck, which has a metal cargo box that can store a large amount of cargo. The body of the car has also been reinforced and has a heavy machine gun platform.

These five modified vehicles have different functions, assist each other and strengthen each other, forming a powerful combat power that cannot be underestimated.

In order to enhance the cooperation between people and vehicles, Lin Zaishan did not rush to travel, but ordered a day of adaptive training in Barstow. In addition to these 5 cars, the team also had two death mechas. How to coordinate the cooperation between the vehicle and the mecha is also an important issue in front of everyone.

Due to the use of crystal energy batteries, the Death Mecha has gained unprecedented endurance (of course, this requires the team to often hunt mutant beasts to obtain a continuous supply of crystals); and the modified vehicles can only use fuel as energy at present. Under the premise of limited fuel supply, the value of each drop of fuel must be squeezed more fully.
To be continued...