The level of chaos in the center of the county was beyond Hao Jian's imagination, and the place where the gasoline smelled like a car accident happened ten times in a row.
Several traffic policemen on the provincial road are still leading the way dutifully, but they obviously know that other places are so chaotic that they can't get more people to help. It's just that they diligently diverted the crowd and traffic, but it still didn't help.
The road leading to the city has been blocked by a car accident. Many cars are blocked on the road. There is no path to walk or retreat. They simply abandon the car and run away. Some were really reluctant to carry their own cars, so they crowded the traffic police and shouted, "Hurry up and call a tow truck!"
"At present, there are car accidents all over the place, and it may take a while to get here..." The traffic police explained, but even the emergency lanes were blocked, and it was very difficult for tow trucks to come in.
"Let's go." Hao Jian called.
Lian Runing recovered and followed Hao Jian.
The sun was shining brightly, and the sunscreen clothes and hats were worn by Lian Ruling, but Hao Jian was exposed to the scorching sun, and her lips were a little dry. She took out the water in her backpack and gave it to Hao Jian: "Have a drink, I don't know how long it will take."
Now they have to ask about the situation in Nanfang City first, and then find a way to find a car. And if you want to know the situation in Nanfang City, the best way is to find a government department. The county government has now been occupied by panicked people.
Hao Jian and Lian Runing had been there, but they didn't wait there when they found this situation, but left decisively. Just as they were leaving, a terrified cry broke out inside, but it was the infected zombies who appeared and bit them. When a group of people fled in a panic, they caused another stampede, causing countless casualties.
"It's like this in an 18th-tier mountain village. The situation in Nanfang City is probably not much better." Hao Jian gave Lian Runing a vaccination.
"I know." Lian Runing said stubbornly, "Even if they turn into zombies, I have to see them."
Hao Jian didn't say anything, took a sip of water. Lian Ruling took out the bread they had picked up again. Naturally, one piece of bread was not enough to satisfy one's hunger, but it was still better than having nothing to eat.
When they passed a car parked on the side of the road, a figure suddenly jumped out of the back seat inside, knocking the doors and windows "banging". Lian Runing looked through the car window and found that it was just a seven- or eight-year-old zombie. If its movements were not too ferocious, Lian Runing would have thought it was a normal trapped child.
Unconsciously, Lian Runing grabbed Hao Jian's clothes, Hao Jian looked back at her and said, "Afraid?"
Lian Runing shook her head, and Hao Jian stretched out her hand again: "Grab me, don't get lost."
"I'm not a child." Lian Runing thought secretly.
Suddenly, there was a faint sign of the car's window being rolled down. Lian Runing subconsciously grabbed Hao Jian's hand and stared at the window.
The hands of practicing Ru Ning are not as smooth as imagined, because they often exercise and participate in mountaineering and other activities, and there are some calluses on their hands. Hao Jian tightened his head, and turned his head to find that the little zombie's body may have unconsciously pressed the button to roll the car window, and the car window was lowered enough for it to reach out.
"This car can still be driven." Hao Jian raised his eyebrows.
Lian Runing was nervous and excited: "Aren't you going to rob the zombie's car?"
"It's not called grabbing, it's called picking up!" Hao Jian was speechless.
"What are you going to do?" Lian Runing didn't bother with her about grabbing or picking it up anymore. If they had a car, they wouldn't have to walk.
"It might be a little risky," Hao Jian said.
Lian Ruling is not afraid: "You say."
"You open the door from the back and I'll deal with it."
This is indeed a bit risky. If Hao Jian doesn't respond in time, it will be dangerous. Hao Jian saw her hesitation, and clenched the crowbar: "You just need to open a little slit so that it can't come out completely."
This proposal was acceptable to Lian Ruling, she took a deep breath and pulled the door from behind. Hao Jian was also attentive, waiting for Lian Ru Ning to open the car door...
"Click." The door moved slightly, and the little zombies inside suddenly collided, almost pushing the door completely open. Lian Ru Ning quickly and hard pressed, and only let the half body of the little zombie come out: "Yeah-"
With a muffled "dong", Hao Jian's crowbar knocked on its head and hit the door frame. This blow was not enough to destroy its brain, so Hao Jian knocked hard again until its brain burst.
Lian Runing made sure that the little zombie couldn't move anymore, so she let go of her hand and spit out another breath of turbid air. Seeing the coagulated dark blood and brain pulp on the car, she felt nauseated in her stomach and vomited while holding on to the car door.
Hao Jian pushed the little zombie out of the car, checked the inside of the car again, and found that there was nothing unusual. She found a spare tire in the trunk of the car, and everything else was taken away. Get in the driver's seat: "You can still drive to the gas station, let's go!"
Lian Ru Ning had come to her senses, climbed into the passenger seat and closed the door, then grabbed the handle tightly, for fear that there would be zombies outside to open the door.
Hao Jian started the car, Lian Runing looked at the afterimages of the trees by the roadside, and asked, "Aren't you afraid?"
"... I'm afraid." Hao Jian replied.
Lian Runing turned her head to look at her: "But you are too calm."
Hao Jian smiled: "Because I have no one to care about."
Lian Runing felt a little sour from her smile. She seemed to say something she shouldn't have said: "I'm sorry, that's not what I meant."
When Hao Jian wanted to reply, the voice of the system jumped out: "Killing zombies, experience +5, points +10. The host Hao Jian currently has 23 experience, 39 points, and reaches the opening level condition [experience 20], please choose whether to upgrade or not. ."
"You're too late."
"The host is currently at level 0 and has reached the conditions for opening level 1. Please choose whether to upgrade."
Hao Jian knew that if she didn't choose, the system's voice would continue to ring, so she chose "Yes".
The host agrees to the upgrade, and is getting information on opening level 1...
Get success!
update successed!
The host is currently at level 1, has the permission to open the mall, and is limited to 3 servings of food per day.
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Hao Jian felt that the existence of this system was a bit subtle, just like its own positioning of the "Doomsday Survival System", which undoubtedly provided the host with the convenience of survival. It's just that this form seems to her as if someone put on VR glasses for her, and she is upgrading in the game world.
She has no way of knowing what is going on with this system, and as an unnecessary means, she can only observe carefully to see if she can access its secrets in the future.
Lian Runing took out her mobile phone and checked that there was still no signal. Hao Jian's thoughts were taken back from the system, and she turned on the car radio. After debugging for a while, she finally heard a faint voice mixed in the rustling.
"There is still a signal?!" Lian Runing was overjoyed, waiting for Hao Jian to adjust the frequency so that the sound could be played more clearly.
"Please, citizens, go home and close the doors and windows, and don't go out easily..." There was only such a vague sentence on the radio, and it was played repeatedly.
Lian Ru Ning tried to adjust the frequency again: "There was a serious accident on Shanghang Avenue, the road is blocked, please detour..."
"Violence-|chaos broke out in Shanghang County Hospital, please don't go there..."
"Municipal West Road is currently blocked, all citizens please detour..."
Hao Jian listened to the broadcast, the car turned left and drove into a small road, the wheels rolled up billowing smoke.
Lian Runing gave up: "It's all local radio."
"The coverage of the FM radio transmitter is only 50 kilometers."
"Why can't the phone receive the signal?"
"I remember people saying that mobile phones are digital signals, which are not the same as FM broadcast channels. Usually when something serious like this happens, the mobile phone signal can be cut off and blocked, and the only way to rely on communication is radio. "
When Lian Runing heard this, she pulled out a radio walkie-talkie from her backpack and met Hao Jian's confused eyes, she said, "This is the public radio walkie-talkie that our professor distributed in order to prevent us from being unable to communicate without a signal in the wild. One for two people, because I am in charge of it, so it is always in my backpack." Then he pulled out two more.
"Just in case, let's all bring one and tune the channel to 1." Lian Rurong put one on the steering wheel.
"Are you ready for us to act separately?" Hao Jian asked with a smile.
"We can't always stick together." Lian Runing said rationally.
Hao Jian smiled and didn't say a word. The car quickly drove from the small road to another provincial road. There were very few cars on this provincial road, and most of them were motorcycles or modified three-wheeled cars. On one side of the provincial road were dilapidated, low-rise houses, and on the other were fields.
After a while, a gas station appeared in their field of vision. There are no staff at the gas station, but a few cars are refueling on their own. Hao Jian lowered the speed of the car to pay attention to the surrounding situation, and planned to wait for the cars to leave before driving over to refuel.
"The situation is not right." Lian Runing noticed that someone was running towards the gas station at a strange speed.
Hao Jian parked the car on the side of the road and used the trees and bushes in front of him as cover: "Pay attention to the situation behind you."
The two of them divided their labor and cooperated to pay attention to the movement around, and Lian Ru Ning had already determined that the zombie was rushing towards the gas station, because it had attacked a person on a motorcycle waiting for refueling.
The rest of the gas station saw this and drove away one after another. And their swarming action resulted in another car accident - a car in the back slammed into the car in front, and the car in front hit the pillar directly.
"Ah—" Screams and panic came one after another, and the gas station was thrown into chaos.
Seeing that there were not many cars left at the gas station, Hao Jian suddenly said, "Go ahead."
Lian Runing subconsciously grabbed the handrail on the door, while Hao Jian started the car and slammed into the zombie that had attacked one person.
With a "bang", the zombie rolled directly from the front of the car to the back. It just got up again without feeling the pain. Hao Jian reversed the car and stuck it between the car and the gas dispenser. Then he grabbed the crowbar and got out of the car, hitting it on the head again and again.
Lian Runing stabilized her body from the impact. She didn't wear a seat belt. The impact of Hao Jian's back-and-forth collision with the zombies almost made her hit her head. She looked back, but saw a zombie lying on the back of the car, and not far away, a zombie with a neck less than half, and half of its body covered in blood, swayed up again.
"Behind!" Lian Runing called out.
When the zombie rushed towards Hao Jian, Hao Jian heard Lian Runing's reminder, determined the position of the zombie through the car glass, and then turned around and waved.
The crowbar fell on the body of the zombie, but it only knocked it slightly crooked, and when it recovered, it grabbed it more fiercely. Hao Jian stepped back suddenly, his back hit the rear of the car, and he kicked it in a hurry, but it took the opportunity to grab Hao Jian's trousers.