The truck was zigzagging up the winding mountain road. The driver stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and almost threw the people out of the car several times when turning. If it were normal, someone would have started to curse, but now everyone kept silent, just thinking about going faster and faster.
"Do you think it could be that kind of beetle..." asked Ding Hongsheng who was standing next to him.
Cai Tao muttered quietly, "That shouldn't be the case. How can it happen so quickly? I guess it's just that many rental places or resettlement places have had zombie incidents."
When the truck was halfway through the journey, people started running down the mountain. They must have been the first to evacuate the central city when the alarm sounded. After running here, they slowed down and shouted to the people in the truck, "Don't go back. The alarm has been sounded. Everyone must evacuate."
The people in the car also asked: "What happened?"
"There are a lot of beetles under the central city. The huge metal pillars are falling one after another. Now every emergency passage is open. There are soldiers everywhere shouting, asking everyone to evacuate the city as quickly as possible."
More and more people were on the road, running towards the foot of the mountain. The truck could no longer move forward, so it simply stopped.
"Or just follow these people down the mountain. We have to evacuate anyway, so don't go up." The driver jumped out of the car.
An engineer said, "Drive quickly, my family is still in the city, I want to go back and see them."
"The car can't be driven, and what are you going to do back there? Maybe by the time you get back, your family will have already fled the city."
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While they were still talking, Feng Chen and Hei Shi had already jumped out of the car, pushed aside those who were running downstairs, rushed directly up the hillside, and then climbed up by grabbing the vines and bushes that grew across the hillside.
Ding Hongsheng and Cai Tao also reached the foot of the hill and followed him without hesitation.
The road was filled with people, and other trucks were forced to stop. The engineers could stay where they were, but the Sentinel trainees knew their responsibility and had to return to Central City.
"What should we do? How can we get up there?" A sentry who was staggering due to the crowd asked in a sweat.
The sentry nearby looked around and spotted Feng Chen and the other two on the hillside. He pointed there and said, "Let's go! Let's climb up the mountain too!"
More and more Sentinel trainees chose this route to avoid the downward flow of people and return to the central city in the shortest time possible.
Feng Chen climbed to the top of the mountain in less than ten minutes. Right in front of him was the central city. This huge steel city was still brightly lit and still stood firmly in the wilderness. However, the iron bridges for traffic in three directions had been extended and connected to the checkpoints on the opposite mountain wall. Even the second floor, which had never been opened, had an iron bridge extended. A huge crowd of people rushed from the iron bridge to the checkpoint on the opposite mountain like ants.
"Hurry up, faster, run, everyone run!" This is the east city gate. Soldiers are standing at both ends of the upper and lower passage bridges, shouting at the top of their lungs with loudspeakers in their hands.
Although they didn't know what had happened in the city, Ding Hongsheng and Cai Tao slowly breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the city was still there.
"Brother Feng, it doesn't look like anything serious happened." Cai Tao was a little confused. "Is it a zombie outbreak? But I didn't hear any gunshots."