"I... why are they all coming towards me..." Zhang Tao was a bit dumbfounded. It wasn't as forceful as Linna had said. In fact, the tone was very calm and the voice was quite soft. It's just that the content was a bit harsh, every word struck deep into his heart, and it was not pleasant to hear, every word was heart-wrenching!

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Hong Tao went back and started to prepare for tomorrow's dangerous mission. First, he went out with Jiao San to get gasoline and drain the fuel from each car. Then they went to the No. 56 courtyard to search for car keys from house to house. There was a family in this courtyard who owned a tough off-road vehicle, and Hong Tao wanted to find the keys and claim it for himself.

Why did he have to get this car? Wasn't his own Forester good enough? Well, if it was used for commuting, the Forester was better from any angle. It had high comfort, low fuel consumption, good handling, and a beautiful appearance. It was also an automatic transmission, so his feet wouldn't get tired in traffic.

The comfort of an off-road vehicle was average, with high fuel consumption and an average appearance. When encountering heavy traffic with a manual transmission, his feet would get more tired than playing football. But a car, fundamentally speaking, is a means of transportation, and as a tool, it naturally has its own specialization.

Take an angle grinder, for example. It can cut wood with a large-toothed saw blade, but it's not as good as a professional electric saw. Cars are the same. The Forester, as an urban SUV, pursues aesthetics, comfort, handling, and economy. On the other hand, tough off-road vehicles are mainly for non-paved roads, focusing on structural strength, off-road performance, and body rigidity.

From the current perspective, this non-load-bearing body with a large beam structure is definitely much stronger than the load-bearing body with a can-like structure. It can withstand bumps and collisions without deformation and can withstand more impact.

On the way to Liu Quanyou's unit, they inevitably encountered a group of zombies. The sturdier the car, the better. Comfort or discomfort was nothing compared to one's life. If there were no heavy-duty trucks near their home, Hong Tao would definitely drive one and run over ten or eight zombies without slowing down.

After finding a car, filling it with gas, and checking its condition, Hong Tao and Jiao San started to discuss the route. Chu Qiu sat in the corridor guarding a pile of long boots and leather jackets that they had scavenged, struggling to modify the leather armor with a chisel. Whether it could withstand zombie bites or not, having a layer of protection was better than nothing.

"Master Hong, my wife can't sit still either. She insisted on coming over to see if there's anything she can help with. She can't do anything else, but she can still tidy up the kitchen..." Liu Quanyou climbed up the ladder on the wall and came over, followed by Zhou Jinlan.

"That's great... How about this, let the younger sister be in charge of the kitchen work full-time from now on, and also manage the warehouse. Free up Chu Qiu and let her join me in the front line!" Faced with Liu Quanyou's blatant nepotism, Hong Tao not only didn't reject it, but also welcomed it sincerely. It wasn't an act, it was genuine. Chu Qiu could cook, but she didn't like the job. She usually ate work meals at the office, and only cooked meat when her sister came home on weekends.

They had already tasted Zhou Jinlan's cooking at noon, and no one said it was bad. Even if Liu Quanyou didn't speak up, the kitchen and warehouse work would have to be handed over to her.

"Comrade Jiao, hello... Miss Chu, hello... Comrade Zhang, hello..." Seeing that Hong Tao readily agreed to his wife's new job, Liu Quanyou finally felt relieved.

The kitchen work didn't sound very glamorous, but the benefits were substantial. Whether in normal times or during the apocalypse, people still needed to eat, not to mention the management of the warehouse. These were all good positions.

"Why does it sound so awkward, like the titles in old movies. I'm younger than you, so it's better to just call me Jiao San, it sounds more pleasant!" Jiao San didn't have a good impression of this director, or rather, they were not on the same wavelength. They didn't deliberately make friends before, and they still wouldn't now. There was nothing to talk about.

"Just call me Chu Qiu..." Chu Qiu also wasn't used to this old-fashioned way of addressing, and joined in the opposition.

"Oh, Chu Meizi, what are you doing?" Seeing that her husband had encountered a little resistance, Zhou Jinlan immediately came to the rescue, smiling as she walked towards Chu Qiu.

"...Hong Brother came up with a good idea, saying that wearing this thing can be safer. We all have one, and this one is for Director Liu." Chu Qiu didn't like cooking, let alone needlework, but she couldn't just not do it. They couldn't rely on Hong Tao alone.

"Hey, come on, give it to me! It's so troublesome with a chisel. This kind of leather isn't too thick, it'll be much faster to sew it with a big needle and a thimble. I remember I have a big needle in my room, wait for me, I'll go find it!"

These complaints sounded like heavenly music to Zhou Jinlan's ears. Just now, she had already discussed with her husband that she must perform well and take on any tasks that she was good at. As long as she encountered work that she was good at, she would take it. She was not only good at cooking home-cooked meals, but also decent at sewing and mending. Her skills were much better than Chu Qiu's.

"...Well..." Chu Qiu was certainly willing to let go, but whether she could let go or not still depended on Hong Tao.

"Alright, then let's trouble the younger sister... It's better to have Linna and Zhang Tao come over too, everyone can work together and see if we can each make a set of leather armor." Since Zhou Jinlan was good at this kind of work, Hong Tao didn't stop her, but he couldn't let her do all the work. As team members, they should all lend a hand, whether they were skilled or not. Working together made it easier to get to know each other and was conducive to building relationships.

"Okay, okay, I'll go call them, I'll go call them!" Seeing that his wife had opened the situation first, Liu Quanyou was a bit at a loss and actually wanted to rush to do the errands.

"Hey hey hey, Old Liu, we still have more important things to discuss. Let them do these trivial matters!" Hong Tao stopped Liu Quanyou from speaking, it seemed that this person was not professional enough, he panicked at the slightest difficulty.

"Alright, alright..." With this interruption, Liu Quanyou immediately realized that he seemed too enthusiastic, so he quickly took out cigarettes and handed them to Jiao San and Hong Tao, using them to cover up his embarrassment."Liu, take a look, is this the location of the office building?" Hong Tao lit a cigarette, pointing at the map on his phone and started to discuss the matter at hand.

"Um... The East Gate of the Earth Temple... No.54 Middle School... Yes! It's right here. In fact, our office, the tax bureau, and the police station all share the same building. The west entrance is for the tax bureau, the north entrance is for the police station, and we are on the south side."

Liu Quanyou took out his glasses from his jacket pocket and put them on. He leaned in to zoom in and out on the phone, and after identifying the landmark buildings, he confirmed the specific location and even explained the internal situation of the building in detail.

"Police station... Do they have guns in there?" Jiao San suddenly interjected, his eyes fixed on Liu Quanyou.

"They... they should... I guess..." Upon hearing this, Liu Quanyou's hand holding the cigarette trembled involuntarily. He didn't even bother to brush off the ash that fell on his leg, and his gaze shifted to Hong Tao.

"Liu, can we consider the current situation as an extraordinary period? In extraordinary times, extraordinary measures are needed. We can't let our comrades go against the zombies bare-handed, can we?"

Hong Tao understood what Liu Quanyou was worried about. He was afraid that it would be difficult to explain if the government or the military came in the future. After all, breaking into law enforcement departments and seizing guns is not a minor crime. In wartime, you could be executed on the spot, with no place to argue your case.

"That's true... but I really don't know if they have guns..." Liu Quanyou was in a dilemma. He had no authority to define what constituted an extraordinary period, so he could only follow the leader's decision. The current leader was the tall man in front of him. If he said it was, then it was. Both he and his wife were in this together, it wouldn't be easy to back out now.

"We'll deal with the gun issue when we get there. How many people are on duty in the office?" Hong Tao didn't continue to press the question. It was useless to ask, the police station wouldn't report to the office whether they had guns or not. The priority was to get the blueprint. If there was a chance, they would go to the police station, but if not, they wouldn't insist.

To be honest, Hong Tao wasn't interested in police handguns. They were too weak and too difficult to use. For someone who had never handled a gun, hitting a moving target within eight rings, roughly the size of a human head, at about ten meters was basically a matter of luck, with an accuracy rate close to zero.