Originally, after executing Duke and the Rat King, Zhou You planned to lead the team to set off immediately and continue to Kangyue County.
But before the large force set off, one of the peon representatives came to him and said that he had a way to solve the expeditionary force's current drones and the communication problems of the ordinary operations team.
This man was the young man who first expressed his intention to join the expeditionary force when Zhou You first met the ten labor representatives.
He said: "Mr. Zhou, I see that your communication method is mainly based on walkie-talkies. I personally think this is very unreasonable. Although walkie-talkies can also communicate in real time, they are not conducive to hierarchical grading of the organizational structure. If you want to make unified decisions,
To give an order, you can only pull all the walkie-talkies into the same communication band. So every time you give an order, for example, you only want to notify Unit A, but Unit B and Unit C will also hear it."
"Even if you can use FM grouping to achieve individual communication, switching frequency bands every time will bring a lot of operational inconvenience. In addition, no matter how good the performance of the walkie-talkie is, the communication range is very limited.
Then when taking specific actions, it will severely limit the scope of action of each team."
"Anyway, walkie-talkies are definitely not a good choice. And because of the characteristics of the walkie-talkies themselves, they weigh too much. When the air force equips the walkie-talkies, its own load loss is too large. They can only use
For emergency use, it can be used as a team-level communication method."
Ma Yuan analyzed it this way.
I have to say that Zhou You also thinks his analysis is very reasonable.
In fact, there is no need for Ma Yuan to mention it. Some of the combat team members below have also reported this problem, but there is no solution for a while.
Shen Moxin and Shen Ling's father and daughter are already considering ways to miniaturize the walkie-talkies.
But this was very difficult, mainly due to the large antenna required for the walkie-talkie.
In addition, as Ma Yuan said, walkie-talkies consume much more power than mobile phones, so they often have to be equipped with large-capacity batteries, and the weight of the battery is naturally very large.
Zhou You nodded, "Indeed, then please put forward your specific plan. If it is indeed feasible, I can promise that I will give priority to the rescue of your family in the future, even if your family is not in Kangyue County, but farther away. I
We can even arrange a long-distance special operations team for you to help you pick up your family."
Ma Yuan looked delighted, "My method is very simple, make your own small communication base station! Then install this base station on those large airships, and you can naturally restore the past mobile Internet communication capabilities in a small area."
Zhou You frowned, "Ma Yuan, you said you can make your own communication base station? Are you kidding? This matter is very important."
In fact, what Ma Yuan proposed is not a new idea.
As early as when we first set out, Zhou You and Shen Moxin had discussed this topic.
Previously, the three major operators and some scientific research teams in the communications field had been thinking about this matter.
Originally, with the support of the current level of communication technology, the technical threshold for realizing a mobile base station was not high and the difficulty was not too great.
But it is a pity that before it was finally realized, large-scale power outages and nationwide network outages occurred. I don’t know how far this matter has progressed now.
However, Zhou You can be sure that he will not be able to wait for usable finished products in the short term.
But the current situation is that although the expeditionary force showed strong enough combat power this morning, the reason is that it successfully caught the rat tribe, so that the two consecutive battles only took place in a small area.
Never exceed the communication range of the walkie-talkie.
When we get to Kangyue County, if we want to expand the sweep area and continue to divide our troops, the walkie-talkie communications will indeed be stretched.
Ma Yuan nodded very confidently, "By the way, I forgot to tell Mr. Zhou about my previous job. I am a master's degree graduate from Rongcheng University of Information Engineering. I have been working in a mobile company for almost three years. I am originally a busy person.
Technical staff from Yangshi Mobile Company. This time I came to Tongming Town to debug and install communication base stations. My engineering truck is parked in Tongming Town, and it contains several brand-new 5G base stations."
"However, I do not recommend using 5G base stations as air mobile base stations. I recommend using 4G or even 3G. Of course, with the capabilities of 3G base stations, it may be difficult to support drone flight control and video transmission, so it is better to use at least 4G.
Okay. I have a layout plan saved in my laptop over there, and I know where the 4G base stations are located in the surrounding area of Tongming Town. Anyway, this is also an occupied area now, and there shouldn't be many living people left except us.
, and because the lines are almost cut, the communication capability should not be restored. So my suggestion is to simply remove the core components of these 4G base stations and then modify them into air base stations. What do you think?"
Seeing that he expressed so many thoughts in one breath, very meaningfully, and obviously thought about the entire operation process before speaking, Zhou You was convinced even if he didn't believe it.
"Although what you said is very simple, if we really want to change the action plan as you said, then we will probably spend the whole day here. Are you sure your level is okay? As far as I know, the previous base station
It can only function as information transmission. To really process the mobile Internet information, a server is needed to complete the scheduling."
Ma Yuan nodded heavily, "Mr. Zhou, I don't dare to brag in front of you. But before shrinking, I was indeed the technical backbone of Fanyang City, and I chose this major out of interest and personal preference, so I
In addition to completing my job, I also spent a lot of energy on tinkering with some electronic products in my spare time.”
"I dare to issue a military order. If Mr. Zhou can assign me a small work team and find a few people who also know the knowledge of electronic product welding and integrated circuits to assist me, I can give it to you before twelve o'clock tonight at the latest.
It is not difficult to build the first base station and server. I can just use my work laptop as the server. I can modify some codes to disguise it as the regional master server in the past. The objects we serve are not too big.
More, just using the computing power of a laptop is enough. I think those electric cargo cards also have a 220-volt output function, which can keep my laptop from shutting down all the time."
"Okay, then I believe you once. Now take action!"
Zhou You has always been so straightforward and decisive in doing things.
It is not difficult to find the assistants Ma Yuan needs.
Shen Ling and Shen Moxin, the father and daughter who serve as core technical personnel, were originally in the team.
In addition, there is a cargo truck that originally functions as an engineering center, and it also has a complete technical team. Now it only needs to shift the focus of work slightly and assign people to Ma Yuan.
If the expeditionary force had to adjust its action plan at will like this before, then the Kangyue County Government would have some objections.
However, today's expeditionary force had already captured 300,000 yuan while they were still on their way, so no one could fault them.
At eight o'clock in the evening that day, the expeditionary force's convoy was still stationed in the grain station square in Tongming Town.
After a short period of renovation, this small square has been simply transformed into a small military base.
With the addition of the original team of hard workers, the total number of people in the expeditionary force has now reached nearly 9,000.
At this time, the new recruits and veterans had been dispersed and mixed, and they were once again working together.
Although after Duke was executed with a thousand cuts, many people in the hard labor team who had some mental illness have recovered a lot.
About a thousand of them have overcome their psychological shadow and fear of rats and can join the battle order. Together with the more than 3,000 combat members of the expeditionary force, they are mixed into a combat team of about 4,500 people. .
But there are still nearly 2,700 people who have not yet fully come out and have no combat effectiveness for the time being. Fortunately, these people are now considered mature workers and can be combined with the more than 1,000 logistics personnel in the expeditionary force. Together, they formed a logistics team of more than 4,000 people, making the original somewhat top-heavy expeditionary force's combat personnel and logistics personnel ratio reach a more reasonable one-to-one ratio.
At this time, more than 4,500 combat members have been dispersed and divided into two major categories. Among them, about 1,500 new and veteran mixed teams with weak combat effectiveness are on guard duty around the grain station square. defense work.
The other three thousand people were divided into more than sixty action teams, large or small, with different levels of eliteness.
Among them, there are three teams with more than 200 combatants, each with a family car, and an additional 200 logistics personnel.
The task of these three teams is to follow Ma Yuan's instructions to dismantle the existing 4G base station in Tongming Town.
Ma Yuan, his father and daughter Mo Shenxin, and accompanied by a hundred elite combatants, went to the hotel where he had stayed to find his engineering vehicle.
In addition, a small operation team with an average number of about forty people drove various small vehicles to patrol around Tongming Town to collect various available supplies, focusing especially on hardware stores and children's toy stores. Home appliance stores and mobile phone repair shops, etc.
They even found a well-hidden underground fireworks and firecrackers workshop under the guidance of locals in Tongming Town.
This workshop is quite large and is built directly in the basement of a farmer.
The man who led the team only said that this was a small factory run by his friend, but he refused to admit that the matter had anything to do with him.
It was not until later that news about the workshop reached Zhou You's ears. Zhou You praised the workshop for its ability to replenish thermal weapons and ammunition. He also praised the person who led the way and promoted him to a small boss in the military factory.
This man finally admitted with great embarrassment that he actually had a small stake in this underground workshop.
"But I am not a major shareholder! I used to be a law-abiding and good citizen. Please don't misunderstand me!"
During the sweeps of many teams, various material reserves gathered from Tongming Town to the Grain Station Square, and were turned into various military supplies in the temporary production lines built on trucks.
In the previous battle, the expeditionary force's armament consumption was still very large, especially long-range ammunition and gasoline, which were used a lot.
However, after half a day of supplies, the expeditionary force is now back to full strength, full personnel, full ammunition, and full reserves.
In addition, in addition to collecting supplies, the expedition team members also found about a thousand trapped people in Tongming Town who have persisted until now.
Although the entire Tongming Town has long since fallen, as long as the sample base is large enough, there will always be some people who can create so-called miracles.
The way these people hide to survive and their experiences are beyond the imagination of Zhou You.
It is true that the Eight Immortals crossed the sea and each showed their magical powers.
Of course, these people's mental state was somewhat abnormal when they were first rescued.
Fortunately, there are no evil people like Duke. Most of these people can return to the group only after a period of physical and psychological treatment.
After these new members joined, the number of members of the expeditionary force exceeded 10,000.
But the biggest gain for Zhou You and others today was not from these people. It was that after working for most of the day, Ma Yuan finally completed the transformation of the first 4G base station.
Now, it's time to test.
"The notebook server has been debugged."
"The base station has been debugged and the signal tester has read the signal."
After Ma Yuan muttered habitually for a moment, he said to the people next to him: "Okay, Mr. Zhou, you can turn on your mobile phones and try it out."
Zhou You and others nodded and each took out their mobile phones.
Previously, due to the interruption of communication, the mobile phone lost its call function and became a pure query tool using the offline version of the "Guide".
In order to save power, most of the time, most people just turn on airplane mode on their mobile phones and turn off all network functions.
Now, the three Zhouyou people are turning off airplane mode one after another.
About ten seconds later, Ma Yuan pointed to the three terminal codes that popped up on the laptop and said: "It has been identified. Now you can try calling each other. As for surfing the Internet, forget it. My server does not have those software functions.
.Most of those apps from the past can no longer function now.”
At this time, a programmer next to him interjected: "If I am sure that I can connect, I can write a simplified version of the QQ applet later and embed the functions of private chatting with friends and voice calling conference rooms. Other
There is no need for fancy functions. As for many of the previous ones including maps, drone flight control programs, etc., we can change them to LAN versions and use our own base station."
Shen Ling also said: "We can get another desktop computer with slightly better performance and connect it later to serve as a server for the LAN version of "Guide"."
Zhou You nodded, "It would be great if we could succeed, but the most important thing now is to make a call and give it a try first."
As he spoke, Zhou You watched the signal on his cell phone jump to full, then he carried his cell phone to the corner next to him and tentatively dialed Shen Ling's number.
In extremely nervous mood, everyone waited for two seconds.
"You are my little apple, I can never love you too much..."
Shen Ling's cell phone rang, and she connected.
Zhou You shouted into the microphone: "Can you hear me?"
"Okay, okay!"
Shen Ling's voice rang on Zhou You's cell phone again.
"Okay! Success!"
Ma Yuan was the first to cheer.
Zhou You also smiled and walked back to the crowd from the side corner.
He patted Ma Yuan on the shoulder with emotion, "Thank you for your hard work. I really didn't expect to be able to call again so soon."
The mood for traveling around at this time is perfect.
Although the expeditionary force did not carry many children's phone watches when they set out, a material collection unit previously found a lot of mobile phones in stock when they raided the business halls of three major operators in Tongming Town and a private small and medium-sized communications city. As with children's phone watches, there are also plenty of SIM cards.
Now hundreds of children's phone watches have been brought back.
Now that we are sure that communication is possible, we can naturally make additional raids on the store and get back all the remaining thousands of mobile phones.
The expeditionary force's regional information combat capabilities will return to the level before the nationwide network was cut off.
Zhou You asked again: "Ma Yuan, if you use an airship to lift this base station to a height of about two to three hundred meters in the air, how big will the signal coverage be?"
Ma Yuan thought for a while, and then did a simulation calculation on the signal attenuation with distance on the computer, and said: "It can have a radius of about five kilometers."
Zhou You nodded with satisfaction, "What about the remote interconnection function with the second base station? Assuming that the suspended height of both base stations is more than 300 meters, how far can it span?"
Ma Yuan continued to calculate, "That would be amazing. It can reach a maximum distance of about thirty kilometers. But there are also other problems. If you want to maintain call quality at this extreme distance, it is best to have the antennas of the two base stations facing each other as much as possible. Quasi-radiate focused beams and communicate with each other on a one-to-one basis. However, this will affect the ability of the two base stations to communicate with other basic terminals. Therefore, it is best to prepare two more base stations near the two base stations for one-to-many use. base stations. Therefore, if you want to communicate across regions, you must either prepare at least four base stations to perform their respective duties, or it is best to prepare a base station at least every fifteen kilometers to connect signals in series."
Zhou You: "Okay, I understand. Okay, take action immediately. After bringing back all the mobile phones outside, go to Kangyue County immediately. Ma Yuan, you don't have to rush to change to the next one. Organize your base station transformation ideas and plans today." Come out, we will arrange for people to send the plan back to Lelai County. There are also some technical personnel in Lelai County, and they can start the transformation immediately."
Ma Yuan: "Understood!"
Around nine o'clock in the evening, a team of nineteen vehicles set off again.
Zhou You himself transferred to the engineering vehicle in charge of Shen Ling and his daughter.
The off-road vehicle he is most accustomed to riding in has been handed over to his cousin-in-law, who will return to Zhou's home with a team of twenty people.
Among these twenty people, there are seven peons and trapped people rescued today.
These people are all from Lelai County, and they just happened to go home now.
There are about a thousand more people who are also Lelai people, but these people will have to continue their operations with the expeditionary force.
The main reason is that the mental state of these seven people is really bad, so it is best to send them back to settle down.
At about 10:30 at night, the expeditionary force successfully arrived in Kangyue County.
Today, most people in Kangyue County and the county town live in county-level national granaries.
Unlike Lelai County, although Kangyue County has a better industrial foundation and more developed industrial parks with more companies, they have not been able to successfully limit the intensity and scale of rats' movements.
Since we have not been able to clean up the rats, there will naturally be no safer and more stable environment.
Now, with the arrival of the first doubling breeding cycle of rats, the rats in Kangyue County will surely double or triple in number on the spot, just like rats in other parts of the world.
Although the rat tribe in Dujia Village has been wiped out, the basic number of rats in Kangyue County still exceeds one million, and the situation of other rats has not changed at all.
In short, due to various reasons, Kangyue County Government cannot, like Lelai County, try to build a new county seat next to the industrial park.
They placed the residential settlements in the national granary, which has the largest amount of food stored in the county.
This is also a correct decision, which can be said to be both offensive and defensive.
Prevention means gathering as many people as possible together to effectively resist the impact of the rat tide.
Attacking means controlling more food, which naturally limits the reproduction of rats in a certain sense.
Although this was the right decision, it still gave up a lot of resources and land in the county.
Due to the ineffective control of rats, groups of rats can still be seen running around in groups in Kangyue County at this time.
Although humans occupy the granary, they are still found in residents’ homes, grocery stores, and supermarkets...
In short, as long as people have lived in a place, there will be more or less food reserves.
These are cheaper now than mice.
Moreover, these mice seem to have no fear of human vehicles at all. Even if they see a car coming, they will still rush on the street in groups carrying food.
The entire city looked extremely desolate and desolate, with a lingering aura of desolation.
As the convoy entered the city, eighty of the three hundred single-person airships, which carried children's phones and watches that were barely functioning, had all taken off and were observing the situation on the ground at low altitude.
Whether it's a convoy on the ground or a patrol in the air, trapped people can be seen from time to time.
But Zhou You did not rush to order a rescue operation.
The main reason is that the Kangyue County Government's sweeping rescue work was so poor that the trapped people were still very fragmented and scattered. With the more than 4,000 people in the expeditionary force currently barely capable of fighting, even if they were all released, it would be a bit difficult.
It is a drop in the bucket and it is really difficult to take care of everyone.
So Zhou You calmed himself down and decided not to care about anything, settling down the team first.
Even if action is taken, it can only be done under extreme circumstances, or only when a crowd of more than a hundred people gathers.
However, I changed my mind once while traveling around.
He asked Luo Xun, Yin Yan and other 20 elite drone operators to go to an old residential complex, and also asked the convoy to stop for a while.
The reason was that when an airship flew over the roof of the community, it found a group of people living in an iron cage on the roof.
A man and a group of young women.
When the airship passed by, the group of naked women were tying the man to an iron cage, and then took a utility knife to remove the man's hands and feet like a saw.
By the time Luo Xun and others' drone aerial troops arrived, all the man's limbs had been removed, and he was dying due to excessive blood loss.
Looking at the drone troops in the sky, the woman leading the team was very nervous at first and seemed extremely nervous.
Especially when she saw the male soldiers in the elite troops, she almost frantically raised the iron tweezers in her hand and threw them out like a javelin.
She throws the iron tweezers with great force and with high accuracy.
Fortunately, the elite soldier she chose as her enemy was Jiang Chao. His reaction speed was faster than that of ordinary people. Seeing that he had no time to raise the height of the drone, he simply fired a shot himself. The iron beads fired from the high-pressure gas tank machine gun hit the opponent.
The javelin-style iron tweezers thrown up caused it to change its direction and it was considered that it escaped disaster.
Later, Luo Xun quickly asked the male warriors to follow their principles and raise the altitude, while he took Yin Yan and two other members of the Five Golden Flowers to lower the altitude.
When no man came close, the woman's mood gradually stabilized.
After a conversation, Luo Xun, Yin Yan and others looked at the body of the man on the ground that had turned into a human pig. They really couldn't feel any sympathy at all.
Although this guy didn't cause as much harm as Duke, and he didn't take refuge in the rats, when it came to harming his own people, the nature of his methods was so bad that he really couldn't make more concessions than Duke.
He is very cunning. When humans shrank, he relied on his relatively high-security iron cage house and his certain hands-on ability to make useful equipment for himself, and he began to plan.
A very vicious plan.
Then this guy deceived innocent people under the guise of saving people.
All the men were killed, and all the women who were too old and did not suit his taste were also killed. The relatively young and beautiful ones were put under house arrest under his threat and became his playthings.
He did not regard this shrinking apocalypse as the end of the world at all, but instead regarded it as a prosperous age to satisfy his own desires.
He let out the evil side of his human nature wantonly, immersed himself in taking advantage of the end of the world, and ran wildly on the road to satisfy his perverted desires that could never be satisfied in reality, never to return.
After being ravaged by him for many days, the woman who threw the javelin finally awakened as an over-limit person. With the support of her companions, she overcame the sequelae of over-limit while the man was out looking for food.
When he tried to ravage himself again, he got angry and restrained him.
Next, of course, is the bloody dismemberment revenge.
Luo Xun spent a lot of time convincing these women that the troops outside were different from this man and were from Lelai County. The righteous troops who had been publicly endorsed by the Lelai County government would never let this happen again.
thing.
After a delay of almost twenty minutes, the woman was willing to be taken by Luo Xun using a drone to take a look at the motorcade.
The woman saw the soldiers of the expeditionary force who were fully armed and in high spirits, and she also saw the workers who were busy in the manual production line in each truck. This was a completely different atmosphere, and she saw the brilliance of order.
She finally believed that she and others were really saved this time and had found the organization.
She cried loudly, but she couldn't express the grievances she had suffered these days.
After knowing this, Zhou You and Deng Tao looked at each other.
Zhou You sighed: "The social order here is already showing signs of collapse. What happened to this perverted man... I don't think it is an exception here. We probably only saw a drop in the bucket."
Deng Tao hummed, "Yes, you know the leopard from its spots. This is probably what the end of the world will really look like. To be honest, it's lucky that we have you in Lelai County. Otherwise, if the substation was taken down by rats, our situation might not be better."
Where to go."
Zhou You shook his head, "It's not my fault alone. Forget it, keep going to the national granary. But I want to emphasize that we will not accept orders from Kangyue County Government, but act completely independently. Brother Tao, you
Do you have any opinions?"
Deng Tao thought for a moment and nodded, "Okay. I have no objection."
At this time, the local administrator of Kangyue County Government was already looking forward to it and arranged people to wait in advance in the small square outside the granary.