Chapter 446 Give everyone a hope
The interior space of the Hummer is not small, but it is still not suitable for use as a place for rest, not to mention that it must accommodate more than one person.
Kmart, who was not old, was relatively thin and could rest comfortably by occupating the back seat alone. Claire could barely lie down to rest on the front row alone.
It would be difficult to divide the place with Louis, but Louis didn't expect to be able to rest in the car at all. It doesn't matter if he couldn't sit on the roof all night.
What's more, there was a hotel next to their temporary camp at this time. The intact hotel had walls and roofs, which could cover the wind and sand. It was a ready-made resting place. The people in the convoy did not choose to rest in the hotel because these modified cars had better protective functions to avoid sudden attacks when resting.
"Are you going to rest?"
Claire, who had been walking around the camp for several times, saw that everyone had found a place to lie down and rest. He did not continue to check the situation of everyone, but wandered around in the uninhabited hotel, as if he was looking for something.
What she didn't expect was that she met Louis as soon as she entered the hotel.
Louis said she chose Hummer before, but she didn't refuse. She thought Louis had already gone into the car, but she didn't expect to run to the hotel like herself.
"You're not sleepy yet, you haven't had a rest." Louis sat on the ground casually against the wall, holding a stone in his hand and kept playing with it: "What are you looking for?"
"Simply see if there is anything useful." Claire actually wanted to find out if there was any cigarette. Not only was the inventory in her hand already smoked, but everyone in the fleet had no inventory. Before meeting Louis again, she just threw away the last empty cigarette box.
Louis recalled these details through memories and knew what Claire was looking for.
Unfortunately, until the end of this plot, Claire did not find even half a cigarette. However, when Carlos chose to use his life to blow up a road for Claire and others, he found half a cigarette and enjoyed his last bite before his death.
"No need to look for it, everything that can be used has been plundered." Louis looked at Claire and found that she always frowned and looked worried. From the moment he saw this woman, he had never seen a smile on this person's face.
Although Claire heard Louis' words, she did not stop her movements. She still searched through the cabinets for a while. When she saw that all the cabinets and drawers were empty, she angrily fell on the cabinet door and vented her displeasure.
Looking at Claire like this, Louis understood that Claire wasn't really addicted to smoking. She was just too stressed and had to find something to relieve mental stress.
Smoking, looking for cigarettes, or throwing things is all because of this reason, otherwise she may collapse at any time.
“The team is not in good condition?”
Claire pinched his waist and turned around, and took a look at Louis who had known him for more than a day.
From the first sight of this man, Claire felt that this man was full of suspicion.
There is nothing doubt about Louis' performance in the past half day. It seems that he is a survivor with special luck and has never suffered any hardship in this terrifying end of the world.
But he is now in a difficult situation. Can't this situation make this guy feel nervous? He doesn't feel any pressure in his heart?
"Aren't you worried about the trouble you're about to face?"
Perhaps it was because of the accumulation of mental stress that Claire, who had never talked about these things with anyone, finally said what he said in his heart when facing Louis, a relatively unfamiliar new partner.
"No food, no water, there are people-eating monsters everywhere, and it's hard for us to find a safe place to sleep." The situation is as bad as Claire said. In fact, her team is no longer able to hold on. There is not much gasoline or food left. It can even be said that these two important resources have bottomed out and will be consumed soon.
"To be honest, I'm not worried." Louis looked at him with a little excited, but he still tried his best to control himself and did not dare to shout out the truth, for fear that others would hear Claire, who felt that she was indeed pitiful: "Because it's useless to worry, it's better to find a way to solve those problems."
"Let me figure out a way? I can't think of anything." After telling the truth, although the problem was not solved, the mental stress was indeed relieved. Claire sighed: "Maybe I should tell them the truth and let them decide what to do next."
"I don't think this is a good idea." Louis felt that Claire's approach would only cause the entire team to be in chaos.
In this case, the most troublesome thing is the appearance of different sounds.
In comparison, giving everyone a goal, even if the goal is not so correct, as long as everyone has a direction to work hard, even if it fails in the end, it will be better than letting the team fall into chaos early.
In the original plot, the team meets Alice before it is about to collapse, and the heroine Alice brings a message: There seems to be a safe area that is not infected by the virus. After asking everyone for their opinions, Claire decided to lead the team toward Alaska.
Everyone has a clear goal, even if they don’t know whether the so-called safe zone in Alaska really exists, and whether they can accept them, now, survivors, but everyone is willing to move towards the goal, even if they give their lives for it.
"Instead of doing this, you might as well set a few goals, even if this goal seems difficult to achieve."
"What kind of goal?" Claire's mood stabilized a lot. After hearing Louis' words, she felt that it might be much better to discuss with others than to have a headache alone.
"For example, find a suitable place and build a safe zone so that everyone can live relatively stable there." Louis did not say anything about Alaska. He felt that the safe zone might not necessarily be found ready-made, and he could find a way to build one by himself.
What's more, the Alaska safe zone itself is a trap. If Claire's fleet built a safe zone by itself, I wonder if it was considered to have completed some kind of hidden task?
"What is absolutely safe in this kind of thing now?" Claire felt that Louis thought things were too simple, which might be related to the fact that this person had not suffered before?
"There will always be a safe place? Even if the land is not safe enough, you can consider finding a large enough ship to go to sea, just keep a safe distance from the coast."
Claire was stunned. She had never thought of this method. As for whether the big ship was easy to find? Now that the whole world is suffering from the end of the world, there are big ships in the port.
"Your method...maybe it really works."
"Whether it is feasible or not, you can work towards this goal."
"How did you think of this method?" Claire walked in front of Louis, and the distance between the two quickly narrowed. Even when Claire was excited, both of them stood at both ends of the house. This distance seemed to represent the unfamiliar relationship between the two.
Now that the relationship is getting closer, Claire just pulled something as a backrest and sat down on the ground next to Louis, just to facilitate chatting, so he did not sit side by side against the wall.
"Maybe because I have served on an aircraft carrier." Once an aircraft carrier goes to sea, it is like a closed small world isolated from the world, accommodating thousands of people to live at sea.
There are only about 30 people in Claire's team. As long as they find a large enough ship and store all kinds of supplies, they can live on the sea all year round.
"So that's how it is." Claire felt that Louis gave a good solution, but there were also problems that were difficult to solve.
The ship needs to be maintained regularly, and it is not up to the question of how to find enough supplies is the most troublesome thing for her right now. They can’t even find the supplies to maintain these small convoys of dozens of people. How can they find supplies that can fill a large ship?
"Go to the big city..." Looking at Claire who was in deep thought, Louis gave his own advice: "Only big cities have enough supplies."
"Big cities mean huge risks." The population of North America is mainly concentrated in several big cities, and areas outside those big cities are showing a wide and sparsely populated area. As long as you don't take the initiative to drill into those densely populated areas, you don't have to worry too much about being besieged by a large number of zombies.
This is also the reason why this small fleet of people can survive until now. Claire and the others have been looking for various supplies in small towns, but now they can no longer find survival resources in small towns.
"But it's also hope." Louis pointed outside: "What those people need is hope, even if it's slim."
Claire did not raise any objections. She admitted that Louis was right. Everyone needs a hope and a goal now. Regardless of whether it can be achieved or not, it can at least give everyone a direction to work hard.
"I will discuss your plan with everyone tomorrow." She did not immediately say that she would act according to the plan proposed by Louis, and she needed to listen to the opinions of others in the team.
No matter what, she no longer felt confused and knew what she should do next.
The mental stress was relieved a lot and the mood improved. Claire finally showed his first smile since seeing Louis: "Thank you."
"Just thank you?" Louis spread his hands: "I thought there would be a better reward!"
Claire smiled even brighter, and Louis thought she would immediately complain about herself. What Louis did not expect was that Claire suddenly came to Louis: "Are you sure you want some special rewards? I hope you won't regret it!"
Chapter completed!