A Journey Through the Worlds of Film and Television.

Chapter 849: Winning over and conquering

At night, in a temporary military camp, Lu Cheng received a fairly hearty meal, a can of luncheon meat and a bottle of drinking water, and found a place to eat.

While Lu Cheng was eating, a soldier came over and sat next to him. Lu Cheng took a look at the other person's armband and knew that he was a professional sergeant.

In the U.S. military, the first enlisted soldier is Private E1, and above that there are Private Second Class E2 and Private First Class E3.

After becoming a private first class, if certain conditions are met, one can be promoted to corporal E4 among ordinary sergeants, or professional sergeant E4.

The corporal is more of a leader and can lead a team of 2 to 5 people. The professional sergeant is more of a technical specialist. This professional sergeant also has a red cross armband on his arm, so he is obviously a medic.

Some people call the Soviet Union's charging political commissars, the American army's deadly medics, and China's all-round cooks the three most powerful arms in the world.

During World War II, an American medic saved 75 wounded soldiers from the hellish battlefield of Hacksaw Ridge with his bare hands, creating a myth that was also made into a movie.

Of course, the medical soldier in front of him was obviously here to test Lu Cheng. He first greeted him, handed him a piece of chocolate, and then talked about some medical issues.

Naturally, Lu Cheng answered questions fluently in this regard, showing extraordinary professional medical qualities, and soon completely convinced the medical soldier.

Soon, the medical soldier came to the lieutenant and whispered a few words: "Sir, this Chinese man is indeed a doctor, and his medical skills are very high, much better than mine."

"Since there is no problem with his identity, arrange a place for him to live."

On the other side, Lu Cheng, who had finished his meal, was also observing the situation of everyone in the camp, especially the ordinary residents living here. From their physical health, faces, and eyes, he could tell whether these soldiers were bullying ordinary residents.

After looking around, I saw that there were men, women, young and old here, and no one looked hungry. There was no fear or hatred in their eyes when they looked at the soldiers, so they must be getting along well.

Afterwards, a soldier arranged for Lu Cheng to live in a collective tent, which had five or six other adult men like him.

Lu Cheng took out a pack of cigarettes from his bag, chatted with the men, asked some questions, and learned more about the situation.

There are a total of 28 soldiers here, 20 of whom belong to an Army infantry company originally stationed here, and the other 8 soldiers escaped from Fort Benning in two helicopters after the chaos broke out.

As for those ordinary citizens, they later fled to nearby areas and joined this camp.

The highest officer in the camp is Lieutenant William, who is responsible for managing everything in the camp.

In the more than one month since the chaos broke out, Lieutenant William had been trying to contact his superiors, trying to find his organization and affiliation, but unfortunately all the messages he sent fell on deaf ears.

Afterwards, Lieutenant William had to organize his men to go out and search for supplies and clear out the zombies around them.

The camp is equipped with sufficient guns and ammunition, and even has two tanks and two helicopters. In addition, there are professionally trained soldiers, so there is no problem in facing a small group of zombies.

Every time they went out, the camp would send out a group of more than ten soldiers, plus a dozen ordinary adults, to form a search team. The soldiers were responsible for fighting, and the ordinary people were responsible for carrying supplies. Everyone cooperated with each other, and it was considered a tacit understanding.

Moreover, since there are sufficient supplies to keep everyone well fed and clothed, there is no problem of uneven distribution, and the entire camp has been operating smoothly.

From the information we have learned, Lieutenant William is a good person and has certain management skills. This also further strengthened Lu Cheng's determination to subdue and absorb these people.

The next morning, the camp became busy. The soldiers carried out their daily physical training, the women began to prepare food, and the men were busy checking the surrounding barbed wire and cleaning up the zombies that wandered over last night and were shot by the guards on duty.

During breakfast, Lu Cheng chatted with others and had a good understanding of the entire camp. After that, he did not hesitate and went directly to Lieutenant William.

"Lieutenant William, can we talk?"

"Of course. I wonder what Dr. Lu wants to talk to me about?"

"Second Lieutenant, have you considered the future of the camp? Do you have a long-term plan for the future?"

William was silent for a moment. "I don't know how far into the future Mr. Lu is talking about. I'm just a second lieutenant with only more than 20 soldiers under my command. All we can do is to do our best to protect the people here to survive. Perhaps the government will develop a vaccine to deal with this virus, and the army will clean up those zombies..."

"Are you planning to put your hopes on others? I can tell you clearly that you can't count on the government or the military. I've been to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta before and learned about the research on the virus there.

Atlanta once gathered the best biological experts and virology doctors in the United States, hoping to study the damn virus. But in the end, only one person was left in the entire CDC, desperately waiting for death.

You have a helicopter, so you should have gone to Atlanta to investigate, right? I'm sure you know what's going on there. Hundreds of thousands of zombies are all over the city, and they're spreading out in all directions.

There are many cities in Georgia with a population of hundreds of thousands, and the zombies in those cities may wander here in the future. Lieutenant William thinks, how many zombies can you stop?

Moreover, when all the food we have found is eaten and the food outside starts to spoil, how can Lieutenant William ensure the survival of these people? "

"Mr. Lu, you seem to be more than just a doctor."

"Of course, doctor is just one of my identities. I also have another identity, the leader of the Spark City Shelter, a person who wants to lead more people to survive in this apocalypse."

"So, Mr. Lu is confident that he can do better than us? Are you confident that you can eliminate the zombies you mentioned?"

Lu Cheng casually took out a first-generation vaccine from his pocket: "This is a vaccine, and it is also the latest research result of our Spark City. It can allow those who have been bitten by zombies and have not transformed to survive and not become zombies."

Upon hearing this, Lieutenant William took a closer look at the vaccine in Lu Cheng's hand and said, "Mr. Lu, I'm not a virus expert, and I'm not sure whether the vaccine in your hand is real or fake. After all, I can't risk finding someone to be bitten by a zombie to try your vaccine."

"Of course, I don't recommend you do this and waste a precious vaccine. Perhaps you can send someone to go with me to see our Spark City. It's less than a hundred kilometers away from your shelter, and it won't take more than half an hour to fly there by helicopter."

"That's a good idea. I'll discuss it with my people first."

In fact, Lu Cheng learned yesterday that these soldiers have been looking for other shelters and survivors, wanting to survive with more people.

Even if nothing else, as long as they knew there was a shelter bigger than theirs, they would definitely go and take a look.