Chapter 980 - 423 Searching for Oil (Part 2)_2
Lin Wu got behind the wheel of the tanker truck and drove it close to the first aviation fuel tanker truck. Xiaoji got off the truck and connected the batteries of the two tankers with a cable, allowing the tanker truck to charge the aviation fuel tanker. After charging for a while, Xiaoji started up the first aviation fuel tanker. This vehicle’s instrumentation and controls were somewhat different from a regular tanker, and it took some time, but ultimately Xiaoji regretfully informed everyone that the first aviation fuel tanker was empty.
As the team continued to kill zombies, Xiaoji studied the operation of the aviation fuel tanker’s fuel pump.
Although all three aviation fuel tankers were empty, the squad had all the necessary conditions for fuel extraction. The only regret was that securing the area used up too many bullets.
The helicopter hoisted the small fuel tank to the specified location, and the fuel pump of the tanker connected to the underground kerosene storage tank, continuously extracting kerosene. First, they filled the tanker truck, then connected it to the small fuel tank to fill it up, and finally refueled the helicopter. After finishing the work, Xiaoji removed the vehicle battery from the fuel tanker to use a fully charged battery next time for refueling.
The 5,000-liter small fuel tank, along with its own weight, reached a total of three and a half tons, which was not very promising. The maximum payload of the helicopter was 11 tons, with an empty weight of 5 tons. Adding in fuel, missiles, and the small fuel tank, the calculated weight was close to 11 tons. The combined weight of Little Knife, Xiao Wu, Xiaoji, Lin Wu, Maya, and a little girl with their equipment was nearly one ton.
Maya temporarily left everyone behind and piloted the helicopter back to the base. The squad members secured the valve of the underground aviation kerosene and rode a regular tanker to a small building where they waited on the rooftop.
About two hours later, the helicopter arrived, and everyone squeezed onto the plane and returned to the base. During the flight, Xiaoji contacted Baldy on the phone, while Lin Wu reached out to Stone. Stone drove a tractor to Veteran Base to pick up Baldy, three others, and a batch of equipment.
At seven o’clock in the evening, a post-dinner tea meeting was convened at the railway bridge base. There were five participants from Veteran Base, all of them from the first group of Veteran Base members. Apart from Baldy, Xiaoji, and the little girl, there was also a male and a female, who were Xiao Zhuan, the mechanical expert, and Sharpshooter, respectively. Naturally, the meeting discussed the ammunition cache on the second basement level of the Veteran’s Club in central city.