When the car drove into the county road, Hao Jian threw the mobile phone and compass aside with strong nausea, and then leaned back in the seat and closed his eyes to rest. Staring at something for a long time in the car can cause discomfort, and she is strong enough to endure it without vomiting.
Lian Runing took out a bottle of water and gave it to Hao Jian while paying attention to the road conditions.
Hao Jian responded but didn't move. When she opened her eyes, the sky was already as black as thick ink, and the black shadows outside the car window flashed by.
She rolled down the car window, and the hot air rushed in immediately, the cold air and the hot air collided with each other, and the hula-la wind made her face numb. A small voice came from the car radio, and Lian Runing turned off the air conditioner when she saw her actions, and added, "The radio said that the expressway is severely blocked, and road traffic is basically paralyzed."
"Is there any problem here?"
"I avoided several blocked roads, but I'm afraid I'll get lost at this rate, so I don't dare to drive so fast. And it's getting late, I think, we need to find a place to rest for the night."
Hao Jian let go of his hair, then stroked it, tied it up again, and said, "I'll drive, you rest."
"You only slept for three hours, be careful driving with fatigue!"
"That's better than driving for more than four hours in a row. In this situation, unless you stop and rest in the wild mountains, it's not safe to go anywhere. And if the county road is paralyzed, you will inevitably have to take the country road. An hour's drive can take two days. I don't mind if you can wait that long."
Lian Runing struggled a little in her heart, and finally felt that she couldn't wait for two more days. One day after she lost contact with her family, she felt more anxious. Moreover, when she returned to Nanfang City, she had to go to different places to find people, which would be more difficult and dangerous.
"Then listen to you."
Lian Runing stopped slowly by the side, Hao Jian got out of the car and exercised for a while, then took another look at the surroundings. It's not surprising that there are several cars on the straight road in the same direction, but there are also very few cars in the opposite direction.
"When are there fewer cars on the other side?" Hao Jian asked while driving.
When Lian Runing heard the words, she turned her head to look and found that there were really few cars. Under normal circumstances, people in the city will try their best to run to the suburbs, not only highways, national highways, provincial highways, but also county highways. Cars and people are indispensable, but the current traffic flow is a bit scary.
She recalled for a moment and said, "I didn't pay much attention, and the traffic flow gradually decreased. There were also cars driving in the opposite direction and grabbing the lane here, and I always drove on the right, so when did the traffic decrease? Yes, it's not very clear. What's wrong?"
Hao Jian only had a vague idea, but he couldn't figure it out. After driving for half an hour, she looked at the sign and drove the car into the county road in the direction closer to Nanfang City. And she suddenly caught the flashing thought: the traffic flow has decreased, does it mean that the chaotic period is gradually coming to an end
Seven days have passed since the zombie outbreak level 3. From the panic at the beginning to the escape from the city, seven days are enough for the event to go from the climax to the end. Especially in well-informed big cities, they were the first to get the news, and then it was conveyed to the county and township.
Therefore, the chaotic period that Hao Jian experienced in the county and city was actually a cooling-off period in the big city. And after this kind of chaos, the closer you get to Southern City, the risk factor will increase exponentially. At the same time, the problem for the surviving people is how to avoid the zombies and find a safe place to transfer.
Thinking of this, she twisted her eyebrows and glanced at Lian Runing through the rearview mirror: If things are as I thought, it does not rule out that her family members have been killed or transferred, and finding them is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.
"Where are you going, do you have a specific goal?" Hao Jian asked, and added, "It's not a big goal like 'Southern City', it's better to narrow it down to the location."
Lian Runing has several locations in her heart, namely her home, the school where her parents work, and the school where her younger sister attends.
Her father is a professor at Nanhai University and works in the university town, and her mother is a professor at Nanhai University in the South Campus. Although her sister is a student at Nanhai University, the campus is near her mother's.
It's summer now, so most of her parents will hold seminars at home or at school, and her younger brother, Lian Ruji, has just finished the college entrance examination, and according to his personality, he will not do summer jobs, so the scope is still at home and the school where his parents work. between.
As for her younger sister Lian Rumeng, she was a little unsure. After all, although Lian Rumeng and her were twins, they had very different temperaments. She was by no means the kind of person who was keen to stay at home. In the days when they have not been in contact, she may be doing a summer job, or she may go out to sketch, and she may even travel far away.
"Go to the university town first." Lian Runing squeezed her palm and decided.
Hao Jian raised his eyebrows, a little surprised: "Why don't you go home first?"
When most people encounter such a situation, all they think about is to go home and stay, so the probability of her family being at home is very high.
"My home is in a part of the city, and it used to be very dangerous to traverse the city center. The school where my dad teaches is in a college town, and the college town is in the suburbs, so I want to go there first. Without them, I'll go home by myself."
Hao Jian moved the corner of his mouth when Lian Runing was so afraid of bothering him: "I live in a part of the city center."
Lian Ru Ning murmured in her heart: How can there be such a good way
At the beginning, Hao Jian said that she was working in Nanfang City, and she had something to come back for, so she didn't doubt it. It's just a coincidence that she lives in the city center now!
She didn't suspect that Hao Jian had ulterior motives, but she was worried that Hao Jian would be implicated. Hao Jian's house is obviously the safest place in the countryside, but she follows her back to the most dangerous place...
"Is her confession sincere?" Lian Runing thought to herself again.
She can't blame her for thinking about it, because Hao Jian's behavior is so weird that people can't even forget it. After more than 20 hours of life and death, she had to guess where Hao Jian had seen her, and thus began to have a crush on her.
Hao Jian found that Lian Runing looked at her with a somewhat ambiguous look. She recalled whether there was something wrong with what she said just now, otherwise why would she look like this
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"You said that the traffic flow from the city has decreased now, does that mean that all those who can escape have already escaped, and those who cannot escape have also stayed in the city?"
Lian Runing's sudden question made Hao Jian stunned for a moment. She had such a guess just now but didn't tell Lian Runing because she felt that even if she knew about it, it would only add anxiety. But she seems to be underestimating her a bit.
"Oh? Why do you guess so?" Hao Jian asked instead without answering directly.
"I feel like a person who has suffered an accident has the best time for rescue. Once the time is over, the person can basically be declared dead. After the outbreak of the zombie virus, there is also the best time to escape. Like The supermarket will be robbed. When everything in the supermarket has been looted, no one will go to the supermarket anymore, but choose to hide at home. Do you understand when I say this?"
"It's intuitive."
Lian Runing breathed a sigh of relief. She found that communicating with Hao Jian was really worry-free and effortless, so she added: "So, the best time to escape has passed, so fewer people are escaping. And now they are still staying in the city. Either the home is there or there is no escape."
Hao Jian let out an "um", and Lian Runing became quiet. She actually had a guess, but she didn't say it directly.
The street lights on both sides of the county road in front suddenly dimmed, Lian Ru Ning turned around, and the lights behind him gradually dimmed, until the little starlight was annihilated. She mentioned it in her mind, and hurriedly stared into the depths of the darkness, as if to see what was going on inside.
Hao Jian turned on the lights, and there was nothing wrong with the front, but there was no one car on the quiet county road. This kind of situation seems a little scary to anyone, Lian Runing asked, "Isn't even the power supply bureau unable to support it?"
If there is no electricity, then they have to return from the era of electricity to the era of lighting by fire? !
"Maybe it's just a temporary shutdown of the power plant. As long as people are there and the machines don't fail, there will always be a time to restore power."
"Then why can't the communication part restore the signal?" Lian Runing raised the phone.
"I am not surprised in this regard. It is necessary to know that once a serious incident breaks out, relevant departments will take effective measures to curb the continuation of the incident. At this time, it is necessary to block civil communication signals."
Lian Runing put down her phone, a trace of disappointment.
Through the lighting of the headlights, there are some vehicles parked on the road ahead, and depending on the situation, a traffic accident occurred because a vehicle was driving in the opposite direction and occupied the lane in the direction of the city. There is no traffic department to deal with these cars, they just pile up here, blocking the road in both directions.
Hao Jian had to reduce the speed of the car. After looking around, she turned the steering wheel and drove the car to the field. At the end of the ridge are towering buildings, which seem to have reached the center of the town.
"Ah—" Lian Runing let out a soft cry when she looked at the figures rushing towards her in the light of the headlights.
Hao Jian frowned, and while driving carefully, he turned the wheel to avoid these figures. It's just that they go hand in hand, one or two desperately rushing over.
"Bang—" There was a violent impact, and there was a sound of flesh falling to the ground. Hao Jian stepped on the brakes, looked up and saw the figure climbed up and ran towards them.
"That, that's a zombie!" Lian Ru Ning said, in the dark night, it is difficult to judge whether it is a human or a zombie by relying on the headlights, but after being hit, it still stands up like a normal person, except for the zombies, there is nothing else. .
With another sound of "Bang—" Lian Runing screamed out this time, only to see a blue-white face sticking to the window, with both hands clasping the window and calling at her. She ducked back subconsciously, but the seat belt restricted her movement, so she released the seat belt and moved closer to Hao Jian.
She leaned into Hao Jian's arms, Hao Jian took a deep breath while holding the gear lever in his right hand, shifted gears with difficulty, slammed on the accelerator, and knocked the zombie in front of her into the air again, and drove forward. .
The zombie grabbed the door handle and suddenly opened a gap when the car started. Lian Runing was even more terrified, clutching the door handle tightly and not dare to let go, until the zombie was thrown away by the car and left far behind, and she rested against the back of the chair with lingering fears.
"Even the town is so thrilling." Lian Runing sweated.
Hao Jian drove the car back to the road. The accident caused the blockage to be only a short section of the road. After bypassing the road and passing by the road in front of the county and town's houses, the situation was better than the other side. Many cars are parked in front of the house, but the road is very clean.
But when they saw zombies wandering on the road, they didn't dare to relax their vigilance.
Suddenly there were some abnormal noises in the car, like something scratching the site of the car. Looking at the group of zombies that were approaching them, Lian Runing hurriedly asked, "What's the sound?"