A thousand enlightenments in one night, starting from being a menial apprentice.

Chapter 600 Plan
Guo Tian and the others had all left, and Duan Rong was living alone in Qin Yuan's large office.

The embers of the barbecue fire flickered in the darkness, and on the ground not far away lay two zombie corpses, each with half its head cut off.

The space was filled with the pungent smell of zombie brain fluid and the lingering smokiness of barbecue, so Duan Rong left the window open, and the night breeze blowing in from outside diluted the smell considerably...

Duan Rong lay on the sofa in the howling night wind, his gleaming eyes glancing at the window from time to time in the darkness. He knew that outside was a world besieged by zombies.

The snacks in this office building were enough for the seven of them to survive, but they certainly couldn't survive for long.

To complete the task of fulfilling one's obsession, one must transition to an agrarian civilization within this world. To enter an agrarian civilization, one must go to the outskirts of the city.

"The outskirts!?...How do I get to the outskirts of this city?"

Duan Rong sat up somewhat anxiously. He had been lying there thinking for an hour, but he really couldn't come up with any good ideas.

There were zombies everywhere outside, and the streets were congested. Under such circumstances, even if he used Qin Yuan's Land Rover, it would be difficult to break through the road.

And if they encounter any unexpected events on the road and the car breaks down, they'll be facing a dense horde of corpses. It's a near-certain death situation!

"Unless there's a helicopter... that flies directly to the outskirts..." Duan Rong muttered to himself, as if in a daze.

If there really is a helicopter, there's no need to worry about piloting it. In this magical realm of gods and demons, the ability to devour spirits is unrestricted. Although he has never flown a helicopter before, he can quickly acquire this skill by devouring spirits.

Duan Rong's thoughts weren't entirely unfounded. S City did have helicopters; two years before he transmigrated to the Nine Provinces world, he'd heard news that the city's People's Hospital had purchased two helicopters for emergency medical treatment, though the price was naturally exorbitant.

This news had just flashed through his mind, which led him to this idea. However, he quickly dismissed it. The CBD is in the new district, while the People's Hospital is in the old district, practically traversing half of S City's urban area.

They really did manage to reach the People's Hospital; the same distance, but if they changed direction, they would be in the suburbs.

Duan Rong stood up and walked to the French windows. The night wind whistled in through the open window cracks, blowing on his face with a strong chill.

He stood there, looking down. In the moonlight, the street was filled with swarms of dark, densely packed creatures. Looking closely, they seemed to be moving slowly, like ant colonies, each a tiny black dot wriggling along…

But Duan Rong knew that wasn't an ant swarm, it was a horde of corpses. A dense, overwhelming horde of corpses...

"How do we get out of here?!" Duan Rong frowned. He had already thought through everything he remembered about S City, but he couldn't come up with any feasible solutions.

The least reliable, yet the only reliable, option is a helicopter. At least it's a plan, just one that can't be implemented.

Once Duan Rong realized that the information in his mind could no longer lead to a feasible solution, he sat down at his desk, took out a map and a flashlight from his backpack, and also popped a piece of chewing gum into his mouth. He needed something to relieve his anxiety, and chewing would also help him think.

Unfortunately, Duan Rong doesn't smoke. During his search of the building earlier that day, he did find several boxes of good cigarettes. Guo Tian, ​​looking at the packaging, thought they were some kind of snack. At that time, Du Wan even took one out and smelled it. The charred tobacco leaves had a burnt aroma. Then Du Wan took a bite, and the result was predictable.

Duan Rong chewed gum with his cheeks moving, but his eyes were fixed intently on the map on his desk, the beam of his flashlight casting a bright circle on the map.

He studied the map carefully. Since he couldn't extract any feasible solutions from his memories of S City, he could only expand the scope of information through the map.

Although the information provided by the map was vague and not specific, and he was probably not familiar with it, he had no other choice at the moment.

Duan Rong first studied the situation around the office building, including whether there were any special places on the inner and outer rings of the CBD, and whether there was any possibility of providing solutions.

Cinemas, theaters, shopping malls...

As Duan Rong looked at the buildings, he crossed them out one by one with a pen.

More than an hour later, Duan Rong looked exhausted and leaned back, pressing his entire back into the seat. He couldn't help but exhale a breath of stale air, and a solemn look flashed in his eyes.

He inspected all the buildings in the CBD, but still couldn't come up with any feasible solutions.

There are several subway entrances in the CBD area, which is a commercial center, so you can imagine how large the flow of people is.

However, the subway during rush hour is practically hell. Therefore, Duan Rong didn't even stop at the subway entrance and simply crossed it off.

At this moment, Duan Rong leaned wearily against his seat, glancing at the subway entrance again. Suddenly, his expression froze, as if he had thought of something.

"The subway won't work! ...What about the railway?"

Upon thinking of this, Duan Rong suddenly sat up straight.

Because in that split second, a plan had already automatically formed in his mind.

The railway line clearly leads to the suburbs, and more importantly, it operates independently, without intersecting with other urban transportation lines.

Moreover, both sides of the railway are fenced off with iron wire mesh to prevent people and livestock from entering.

In other words, zombies can't get in either. Moreover, many of the residential areas on both sides of the railway line are family housing for railway employees, and the population density is not high compared to other bustling areas in S City.

If they can find a way to get onto the railway line, they can then walk along the railway line to the suburbs.

Of course, you'll encounter zombies on the road, but they won't be as densely packed as in a zombie siege.

Duan Rong thought about it more and more and felt that the plan was reliable. He immediately sat down to examine it and found the railway line on the map. Then he found the location in the CBD that was closest to the railway line.

Judging from the map, if they rush out of the CBD from the southeast, they are not too far from the railway line.

Of course, this is not too far in a relative sense. After all, this is a CBD where land is extremely valuable, and the railway line cannot be too close to here.

But this distance still gave Duan Rong hope.

No solution can be complete from the outset; it usually requires deduction and refinement.

The same applies to the option of walking from the railway line to the suburbs.

Duan Rong immediately focused on the problems in the plan.

The question of how to get to the suburbs has now become how to get from here to the nearest railway line. In any case, the difficulty level has been reduced by more than a factor of 5.

Duan Rong immediately began to deduce the results, but after thinking for a while, he gave up.

Because this is no longer a strategic issue, but a tactical one, we need to look at the specific road conditions to conduct a detailed analysis; just looking at a map is useless.

"I wonder if a Land Rover could make it that far?"

Duan Rong's mind was filled with doubt. If they could drive the Land Rover directly to the vicinity of the railway line, then they would be saved. Whether they could actually make it depended on the actual road conditions.

Duan Rong stood up wearily, put away the map and flashlight, walked slowly to the large sofa, and lay down heavily.

After such intense thinking, countless brain cells must have died. As soon as he lay down, he fell fast asleep.

He slept soundly until dawn. When Duan Rong woke up, he felt something in his mouth and realized he hadn't spat out the chewing gum from last night. He got up, spat the gum residue into the trash can, then slung his backpack over his shoulder, grabbed his entrenching tool, and went outside. As soon as he stepped outside, he found Guo Tian and the others already sitting in the nearby office area.

Unlike Duan Rong, who racked his brains for most of the night before finally falling asleep, they woke up early as well.

"You're up." Seeing Duan Rong's tired face, Guo Tian knew he hadn't slept much, so he asked, "Have you come up with a plan?"

Duan Rong said, "I already have an idea."

As he spoke, he sat down and took out a loaf of toast and ketchup from behind his back.

I ate toast with ketchup and milk.

When Du Wan and the others saw Duan Rong's way of eating, their eyes lit up. They also had toast and ketchup, but they never thought that these two things would be eaten together.

Du Wan imitated Duan Rong, spreading ketchup on a piece of toast, picked it up, and took a bite. His eyes lit up, and he said, "Delicious! This stuff is much better than osmanthus cake."

Everyone followed suit and praised it highly.

Duan Rong glanced at them and smiled slightly. He decided to have Lao Gan Ma chili sauce with him tomorrow.

After eating something, Duan Rong stood up, looked at them, and said, "Pack your things, we're going to the rooftop together!"

"Rooftop?!" Everyone looked at Duan Rong with puzzled expressions, as they had no idea what a rooftop was.

"It's the rooftop," Duan Rong had to say, offering a different explanation.

While cleaning up the leftover ketchup, Du Wan asked, "What are you going to the rooftop for?"

"Let's go check out the road," Duan Rong said, already getting up and walking towards the company's glass access gate.

Everyone immediately stood up and followed Duan Rong.

After Duan Rong swiped his fingerprint on the time clock, the access control opened on its own, and the group walked out and turned into the stairwell.

Jiang Hanyan still walked at the front with her Longquan sword in hand, but the other six people each had a weapon to kill zombies, so there was no need to assign anyone to cover the rear.

They had already swept through the stairwell yesterday, so it was basically clean.

The office building has 28 floors. Yesterday, they only looted snacks from about ten floors, and their backpacks were already bulging. Therefore, they hadn't cleared the stairs above the 18th floor. However, they did encounter a few scattered zombies along the way, all of which were easily decapitated by Jiang Hanyan.

The group climbed the steps almost without stopping and soon arrived at the rooftop.

The office building is much taller than the residential buildings, and this office building has 28 floors, so you can enjoy a panoramic view from the top.

Standing on this rooftop, looking around, the view is immediately expansive, with towering buildings stretching as far as the eye can see.

Guo Tian and his companions had never seen such a bustling city before. Although there were countless zombies, the magnificent and prosperous scene still gave them a dreamlike sense of unreality.

Duan Rong was already lying prone at the edge, taking out a pair of binoculars from behind his back, and began to examine the road conditions in the southeast of the CBD. He wanted to assess the likelihood of driving the Land Rover out of the CBD based on the actual road conditions.

The binoculars in his hand were something he had found by chance yesterday while rummaging through snacks, and he had put them away without thinking.

Duan Rong carefully examined each detail, going over every point in his mind.

Then he put down the binoculars, took out an A4 sheet of paper, and started drawing there.

He drew a route map from the southeast of the CBD, and marked many of the nodes.

A node is a point of blockage.

Several cars collided, and some overturned, completely blocking the intersection.

Even a Land Rover would have a hard time getting through such an intersection.

Unless they could ram all those cars that were blocking the way, even if it was a Land Rover, Duan Rong felt that this was almost suicidal. Not to mention the possibility of explosions, if they couldn't ram them and ended up wrecking the cars, they would be overwhelmed by the horde of zombies.

Duan Rong put down his pen, his brows furrowed.

Guo Tian noticed Duan Rong's serious expression and asked, "What's wrong? Is the plan not going well?"

Duan Rong nodded and said, "I've encountered a problem."

He immediately stood up, looked up and gazed southeast, where he saw a dense mass of zombies, a dark, continuous swarm.

A desolate wasteland, a sea of ​​corpses!
Duan Rong couldn't help but sigh. Although they had decided on the plan to walk along the railway line to the suburbs, reducing the difficulty of the hellish problem to how to get from the CBD to the railway line, they hadn't expected that this simplified problem would still be hellish.

After seeing the actual road conditions, Duan Rong had to admit that it would be extremely difficult for them to get out of this CBD.

In a metropolis with millions of residents, a zombie horde broke out during the morning rush hour, and they were trapped in the very heart of hell, right in the middle of the CBD.

Just as Duan Rong was looking worried, he suddenly saw the high-voltage power lines that were running past the building not far away, gleaming black in the sunlight.

The zombie horde broke out, causing a city-wide power outage, and the high-voltage power lines were no longer a danger.

More importantly, that high-voltage power line was heading southeast.

You can't walk on the ground! Because of the zombie horde, the city is congested everywhere, and there's no way to move.

They can't even walk in the sky! Because the helicopter is too far away from them.

However, it was possible to walk in the air between heaven and earth. The zombies' bodies were stiff, and they couldn't climb over the iron frames of the high-voltage power lines.

They could walk along the high-voltage power lines all the way to the railway line, and then from the railway line to the outskirts of the country.

Duan Rong was astonished to discover that the mature solution had already been implemented.

All seven of them were skilled in martial arts, and they were capable of scaling the high-voltage power lines section by section.

The building near the high-voltage line was not far away. As long as they drove their Land Rover over there, they could climb over the high-voltage line from that building.

The plan had been sorted out in Duan Rong's mind. Next, he had to do another very important thing: explain his plan to Guo Tian and the others.

This is also very important. As the saying goes, those who are united in purpose will prevail. If Guo Tian and his men cannot understand this plan, they will inevitably have many distracting thoughts and even develop suspicions during the journey, which will reduce the overall combat effectiveness of the team.

(End of this chapter)