Meng Feng parked the car in the snowy birch forest. The four people in the car hadn't closed their eyes for more than forty-eight hours, and couldn't hold on any longer.
In the front row, Meng Feng and Liu Yan cuddled together, covering each other with a coat.
Zhang Min was lying on the back seat, with his pillow on Cassia Ming's thigh. Cassia was leaning against the car window, all the windows were rolled up, the heater was turned on, and he fell into a drowsy sleep.
No one had the energy to be on duty anymore, and after sleeping for a full ten hours, Jueming woke up first and found a zombie outside.
It was already broad daylight, and the zombie was lying outside the car window, frozen, its eyes staring straight at the people in the car, maintaining the posture of opening the window.
Cassia stretched out a finger and moved it to the left.
The zombie opened its mouth, and its cloudy eyeballs moved to the left.
Cassia's finger moved to the right.
The zombie's eyes then moved to the right.
Cassia put her finger in the middle.
Zombies became cross eyes.
Cassia Ming's fingers were side by side, and when he was about to separate, Meng Feng also woke up.
"Dear, molesting zombies is not a good kiss." Meng Feng yawned.
Everyone in the car woke up.
Liu Yan sat up wearily, looked back at the zombie, and said, "Most of it is frozen, but its mind is still clear."
"Yeah." Zhang Min struggled to sit upright, let out a long breath, frowned and said, "With basic intelligence, what do you think their brains are thinking?"
Meng Feng shrugged and said: "Who knows, zombie heart, sea needle."
He started the car, squeezed the zombie against the tree trunk, made a funny noise, then drove on the road and left.
Liu Yan shared some food, opened a box of cold beef cans, put some chili sauce on the steamed buns steamed by Yu Ma three days ago, and started to eat breakfast.
That was the supplies that Meng Feng had brought in the car before going out on patrol, Zhang Min said, "How much food do you have?"
Liu Yan: "Four days of food reserves."
Zhang Min hurriedly said self-consciously: "I can eat less."
Meng Feng and Liu Yan glanced at Zhang Min at the same time, quite satisfied with his performance.
"I didn't intend to drive you out of the car." Liu Yan said sincerely, "But you are very sensible."
Meng Feng steered the steering wheel, whistled, and imitated Lin Musen's tone vividly: "I like people who are interesting, young man, work hard! Brother Sen will cultivate you!"
Everyone in the car laughed.
"Where are you going now? Go back and have a look?" Meng Feng parked his car at a fork in the road. Zombies crossed the border, not a single blade of grass grew, there were messy footprints everywhere, and there were a few zombies frozen in the wilderness on the road.
Liu Yan said: "It's not safe, there should be some who haven't left... Besides, the food was taken away by the convoy, what are we going to do?"
Meng Feng said: "Maybe we can find some leftovers...forget it."
He also didn't think it was safe, especially if he ran out of ammunition and food—this was really running out of ammunition and food.
Zhang Min: "Can you contact your companions in the convoy?"
Liu Yan shook his head: "There is no communicator, even if there is, it is impossible to get in touch if the distance is too far."
Zhang Min unfolded the map and said, "Well... well, let's play the brain teaser game 'Where did everyone go'..."
Meng Feng and Liu Yan said in unison: "We are not your sons! Go play with Cassia!"
Zhang Min laughed, Liu Yan said: "Go to the town to supply supplies, I have an idea."
He turned a cassette tape over and stuffed it into the old-fashioned radio in front of the car. The Beatles' Yellow Surbmarine rang, and then he drove off the side road and headed for West Road. There was a village twenty miles away that they had swept up.
Not long after they arrived at the village, they were in a mess, and they still maintained the scene they had been here before. Meng Feng changed his ak and went down to inspect again. Liu Yan said: "Look for the box in the residence."
Several crows were parked on the eaves, and mice were running around on the cold ground.
A little mouse squatted in front of the headshot zombie, picking up food from the ruins.
"Look." Liu Yan said, "Mice don't touch corpses."
Zhang Min got out of the car, put his left hand on Cassia Ming, and opened his trousers with the other hand to pee: "Indeed, crows are not interested in them either, shouldn't scavengers eat corpses? Baby, help Dad, just hold it... No need to shush, you can pee."
Liu Yan stayed in the car, shaking his head in confusion, and said, "I don't know, maybe they know that these can't be eaten? Animals have very keen intuition, and their ability to detect danger is higher than that of humans."
Zhang Min nodded slowly: "That's fine, at least our human partners won't be infected. Don't play with it baby, don't hold on to it, it's hard... Dad will catch it if he pulls his trousers! Let's go! You little pervert, huh?"
In fact, until now, the only infected species on Earth has been humans.
Meng Feng went out for ten minutes, and finally brought a large box of food.
Non-staple food, canned food, dry food, all kinds of fake packaged fresh food in small grocery stores.
"Darling, come eat the preservatives dear." Meng Feng threw a pack of chicken feet to Cassia Ming.
"Ah, this is good." Jue Ming said.
Liu Yan smiled and said, "I hid some things when we came last time."
"You thought about it then?" Zhang Min said.
Liu Yan shrugged and said, "No, I just think that if one day I fall out with Lin Musen, at least there are more ways to escape, and I can last a few more days in the snow."
"Tan Ding Emperor, you can play sharp turns now." Meng Feng confronted Ming Ming seriously.
Caesar thought for a while, and said, "Go...here." He gestured on the map as he spoke.
"It's the open sea." Liu Yan said, "How did you survive? Forget it, let me do it..."
Cassia: "I just turned the wrong page... um, I found it, where is it?"
Meng Feng took a look: "Yes, go north along the road, I hope everything goes well."
"Our oil can still run 900 kilometers." Liu Yan said: "It's better to find them before running out, or at least find some gasoline."
After two hours:
Zhang Min put one hand on Caesar's shoulder, humming along with the music on the old-fashioned tape recorder, flickering.
"That's right." Liu Yan suddenly thought of the actress who took drugs, and said, "Zhang Min, your idol came a few days ago."
Zhang Min said: "What?"
Liu Yan told about Tang Yixiao once, Meng Feng and Zhang Min were dumbfounded at the same time.
Meng Feng said: "She is also my idol!"
Liu Yan looked at Meng Feng with contempt and indifference, and said:
"Oh."
Zhang Min said: "Why didn't you find her autograph for me? My God! If I had known earlier, I wouldn't have gone on patrol!"
Meng Feng said sadly and angrily: "Me too! Liu Yan! Why don't you ask her to sign it!"
Liu Yan had a helpless and bored expression on his face.
"Yes." Liu Yan said.
Zhang Min: "How is she? Is she the same in real life as in the movie?"
Jue Ming asked blankly, "What are you talking about?"
Meng Feng said excitedly: "Liu Yan, you are not kind! Both brothers like her, so you just let her go?!"
Liu Yan: "..."
Meng Feng: "How tall is she? Is it the same as the one uploaded on the Internet?"
Zhang Min: "What did Lin Musen do to her? Did she talk about her divorce?"
Liu Yan finally couldn't bear it anymore: "She was taken away by Lin Musen, and now she should be chased by a large group of zombies, why don't we save her?"
Meng Feng immediately said: "Forget it, it's too dangerous to drag her family with her. Brother Sen will protect her well."
Zhang Min: "Well, it's not worth it. I just want an autograph, and I can't risk my life. Meng Feng is right, Brother Sen will protect her."
Liu Yan: "..."
Cassia: "???"
Liu Yan: "She is your idol! The idol is being chased by zombies, but she doesn't care?! Are there any fans like this?!"
Meng Feng: "Hey—you don't understand this kind of mood—"
Zhang Min: "That's right, when I was a soldier, all the brothers in the company liked her..."
Liu Yan really wanted to pick up the ak and give each of them a hit.
In the next full hour, Meng Feng and Zhang Min began to have a long conversation about the actress, from her famous works to her award-winning masterpiece at the Berlin Film Festival, and even the gossip about her debut filming. I didn't let it go, the conversation was in full swing, and it was a joy.
Finally they stopped in the middle of the road in front of a wrecked armored vehicle.
The conversation between Meng Feng and Zhang Min about the actress came to an abrupt end.
A huge footprint sank deep into the middle of the road, crushing the front half of the simple armored vehicle into a discus.
Guns were scattered all over the ground, and there were many trampled zombies around. The two wheels at the rear of the armored personnel carrier tilted forward, while the smaller half of the body remained intact. Liu Yan got out of the car and inspected the body of the car and the wreckage of the armored car, and said, "Lin Musen ran in this car."
"There is more than one giant of that kind." Zhang Min speculated, "Lin Musen is really unlucky."
Liu Yan opened a cover under the car body, took a look, and said mockingly, "Not only is he unlucky, but he's also stupid. He doesn't know how to use this car at all... Look here."
There is an iron box under the car body, and there are two circular openings on the box.
Meng Feng said: "The entire front of the car and the engine were crushed, but it didn't explode."
Liu Yan said: "Because I specially designed the spare fuel tank under the car body, once the zombies chased it, the people on the car body could unscrew the cap of the fuel tank, and the gasoline would be poured on the ground. Gasoline, finally... light a fire, and the zombies on the road can be easily dealt with."
Liu Yan walked around to the car and said, "It's a pity that the fuel gun didn't come in handy."
Zhang Min poked his head out of the car and looked out. Meng Feng was standing beside the crushed front of the car, with one of Tang Yixiao's high-heeled shoes thrown on the ground.
Meng Feng: "..."
Zhang Min: "..."
Liu Yan: "You can pick it up as a souvenir, it should be worth more than autographs. There is only one shoe, how do you divide it? Do you want to stop looking for it?"
Meng Feng consciously changed the topic: "Where's Lin Musen? He ran away again? What a fate."
Zhang Min looked at it for a while, then controlled the accelerator and brake with one foot to back up the car, and pushed the front of the jeep against the wreckage of the armored vehicle.
Meng Feng lifted the iron cover and found two bloody feet, but he couldn't recognize theirs.
They unloaded the gas tank from the car, strapped it to the back of the Jeep's spare tire, and drove away.
November 22, 2012.
Today is the fifth day since the shelter was destroyed by zombies. I lost my diary, and temporarily borrowed Cassia's Korean products to record. The illustrations were drawn by him.
One month's food, 2,000 kilometers of gasoline, a spare tire, and three and a half people, we set foot on the road north.
There was no news from the retreating partners, and I began to miss them a little. (A bunch of stick figures holding hands)
This year's winter came earlier and colder than in previous years. This is a real world of ice and snow. The world is barren and there is no human trace. Those villages and buildings are all covered with a thick layer of snow. Reminds me of the last ice age before humans appeared.
In the white snow, occasionally one or two small sparrows will appear foraging, and Cassia will feed them with biscuit crumbs when getting off the car to rest.
We saw a road sign with an arrow on it, which should be the government's evacuation direction. After a brief discussion, everyone (except Cassia) unanimously decided to go towards the arrow pointing north.
These days, when we were driving on National Highway 108, the life detector did not respond, only the zombies were frozen in the wilderness like ice sculptures. There was no radio signal, and the street signs were covered with a thick layer of ice.
In this world, besides us, are there survivors? The white snow field, the endless national road, everywhere is as quiet as death, Meng Feng listened to the tapes of The Beatles hundreds of times, and in the end it really stuck to the magnetic strip.
Fifteen consecutive days passed, and we entered Xi'an. The whole city was covered in frost, and East Chang'an Avenue was looted. Luckily there was still food to be found in the city, we changed to a bigger car and found enough resources in convenience stores, chemical stores and hardware stores, pharmacies, Wal-Mart and Carrefour warehouses.
The arrow on the street sign can no longer be found, and it is estimated that the end is occupied Xi'an.
Meng Feng suggested that we live in the city for a while, but in the end this proposal was rejected by himself. Because there are tens of thousands of zombies in the sewer, they are actually keeping out the cold underground.
In Lintong County, the Mausoleum of the First Qin Emperor was frozen for thousands of miles.
This is not right.
It's not like winter in the north, what the hell is going on? This weather is really abnormal.
I even suspect that everyone on the earth is dead, the sky is empty, the earth, the plains... only the four of us are driving around in circles between the sky and the earth.
We left Lintong and continued north.
On December 7, I finally saw a plane across the sky.
"Airplane!" Meng Feng roared.
Braking on the brakes suddenly, Meng Feng stepped onto the roof of the car quickly, waving his arms crossed, and shouted loudly: "Hey!"
Meng Feng took off his jacket and waved wildly towards the sky, Liu Yan loaded the signal flare and fired a shot into the sky, the green light flew into the air, then drew an arc and landed on the snowy ground.
(A sketch of an airplane) On December 8, we waited for a day at the place where the airplane appeared. Meng Feng stepped on the snow with the words SOS, and a fire was lit in the middle.
There have been no further signs of search and rescue.
Is it a reconnaissance plane? bomber? A transport plane carrying paratroopers or supplies
In any case, as long as there are still people alive, there is always hope for everything.
The wind and snow are getting stronger, and it seems that there is another cold current going south. There is no weather forecast, and life-saving is the most important thing.
We walked along the southern foot of Liupan Mountain to the wind, and at the same time saw an arrow on a frozen street sign.
When we were about to drive over to check carefully, the car was trapped by the wind and snow. The wind was so strong that the sign was blown away, so we had to abandon the car and walk.
Zhang Min recovered very quickly and was able to walk on crutches. Meng Feng marked the parking place of the car and led us to the high ground to find a cave sheltered from the wind.
On December 21, another wave of southward cold snapped, and the weather turned fine. We came out of the cave, packed our equipment, and continued to drive north. The food can still last for nearly two months, and if you save some food, you can last until the spring returns to the earth. But for some reason, I feel that spring may never come.
That was just a hunch.
Until we saw the 30-meter-high radio signal tower on the top of the snow-covered mountain.
"Liu Yan! Look here!" Meng Feng said.
He shoveled away the snow, and there were traces of a fire under the iron tower. Liu Yan frowned, and knelt down to push the ice and snow away with his hands. They searched the surrounding snow almost all over, and found a wet cigarette butt, a half-burned pine branch, and a piece of rope.
"Paratrooper rope." Zhang Min said, "Where did the paratroopers come from?"
They stood on the top of the mountain and looked down. On the other side of the clouds and the mountain, a dark red light at dusk was shining.
"This is a signal tower for radio broadcasting." Liu Yan said, "Cassia! Take out the radio!"
Cassia wore a thick woolen cap and covered his ears with earplugs. Standing under the signal tower, he pulled out the long antenna to face the top of the tower, and turned the knob to the far left and then to the right.
Always quiet.
"Climb up to have a look?" Meng Feng said, "Point the antenna a little closer, I think it will touch the sharp point of the tower..."
"I can't stand you, Meng Feng." Liu Yan said helplessly, "Is it a waste of your time to read the manual before using something?"
Meng Feng: "My dad often does this. When he takes a walk, the antenna needs to..."
Liu Yan: "You and your father's thinking here is wrong. We are already standing under the signal tower. If it has no signal, it has no signal! It has nothing to do with where you point! Even if you hang the cassia on this On the spire of the signal tower, he can't receive any signal!"
Meng Feng was furious: "Your grandma is not much better, Liu Yan! When I went to your house before, your grandma didn't even know how to use the remote control, so she just took pictures of the TV! Can you change the channel when you take pictures of the TV?! Show me the pictures Look?"
Liu Yan: "Enough!"
Zhang Min collapsed on the side of the road laughing, Jue Ming didn't hear what they were saying at all, he was still immersed in his alien signal, holding the radio and following behind Liu Yan.
Meng Feng went back and drove the car over, and said, "Where are you going now?"
Liu Yan: "I don't know, ask your dad about the radio, go kiss me."
Meng Feng drove and said: "Then... search along the foot of the mountain, hey, baby, look, there are two snowmen there?"
Liu Yan didn't look, Meng Feng patted his face and said, "Turn your head and look there."
There are two piles of snow in the field.
Zhang Min said: "It's natural."
Meng Feng: "Well, what kind of physics principle is this? Baby, explain."
The car stopped, Jue Ming looked around curiously, then got out of the car and walked staggeringly. There seemed to be something covered under the snow. Jueming pushed aside the snow above, felt a long, hard thing, and pulled it out.
Pull out a carrot.
Cassia: "?"
Meng Feng was dumbfounded.
Three seconds later, Liu Yan realized something, rushed into the car, held Meng Feng's hand and pressed on the horn, several times the horn sounded far away in the snow.
Meng Feng dug out the whistle from the glove box and blew it vigorously.
Behind the foot of the mountain, a child stepped on the snow.
"Team...Captain!" The little fat man shouted when he saw Cassia Ming. "Captain Jueming!"
Meng Feng took a deep breath and took Liu Yan's hand to get out of the car. The little fat man yelled "Ah-", as if he had seen a ghost, he turned and ran away.
"Wait!" Liu Yan shouted, "Where are you going! Stop!"
The little fat man fell down in the snow and ran wildly without a trace. They got in the car and chased after them with snowflakes all over the sky. They circled the bottom of the root-like mountains across the snow. A sprawling farm at the foot of the mountain.
The little fat man ran out with a group of people, everyone shouted loudly, Liu Yan stopped the car and rushed forward, shouting and hugging the survivors.
On December 22, 2012, we finally found our lost partners. They left arrows and words on their way out of the shelter—it turned out to be Hu Jue's idea.
Then Wen Qige led everyone to go northward around Xi'an, and entered the southern part of Ningxia. At the junction of the two provinces, they saw a tall signal tower, facing east along the leeward foot of the mountain like us, and turning to the north.
There is a road here, and at the end of the road is a farm with the words "Nongjiale" on the signboard.
Hu Jue led his brothers capable of fighting to sweep away the ten zombies inside and buried them on the west side of the farm.
It's not too big here, but it's much better than our last home.
It is surrounded by mountains and rivers, and the river to the east has been completely frozen. It is said that there are man-made hot springs, but due to insufficient energy, it has frozen.
Farmhouse resorts in the suburbs... like a paradise.
During the days when we were away, the seventy-nine people were led by Hu Jue, and Wen Qiege, as the captain, took the responsibility of protecting everyone. When Hu Jue handed back my diary, Chao Mengfeng said In a word.
"Great, our boss is finally back."