Chapter 162: Escape from the Dead City
At the same time, several TV stations broadcast this news. The TV station in Zhoucheng had stopped broadcasting long ago. Those news stations were all from other cities, and most of the shots were aerial shots. But even at this distance, the picture was marked with many mosaics.
In the shelter surrounded by the iron mesh isolation wall, the buildings collapsed, the cars overturned, the supplies and blood were soaked together, and the bodies were everywhere.
A huge physical evolution mutant fell beside a building not far from the isolation wall. The building had been knocked down by it, and two tanks that maintained an offensive posture nearby were smashed and twisted.
The giant evolved body looked a bit strange, with uneven torsos and shoulders after being blown apart, and something bulging underneath that seemed to be wrapped in it. But because the news footage was mosaiced, it was not very clear.
The corpses around the evolved body piled up like a mountain, most of them were soldiers who were the first to bear the brunt of the rescue of the refugees in the building, but they all lost their lives.
In the end, no one could escape.
The news anchor spoke of the destruction notice in a sad voice, saying that according to the on-site analysis, the chaos should have started from the inside, and the infected broke out in several areas at the same time.
A large number of infected people appeared inside the refuge area overnight. It was obvious that there was a problem with the inspection checkpoints set up outside, and most of these infected people were in the second and third stages, with strong aggressiveness.
The originally silent night was boiling with these roars and screams of terror, and eventually attracted all the infected people nearby, including several physical mutants.
The troops had lost many teammates in order to rescue people in the city. In the absence of sufficient manpower, the infected people were slaughtered one-sidedly...
Youxi had seen such scenes many times - especially in the zombie world, those ruined cities with piles of corpses. But the scene on the TV screen still made her frown. Those were the most heroic people, but they were also ordinary people. They also had parents and families.
People died for themselves while escaping, but they died for others during rescue.
This difference between active and passive makes people feel emotional. No matter how many times, when she sees these ordinary yet extraordinary warriors die heroically, her emotions still fluctuate.
If only one day, all this could stop, these disasters, these doomsdays, these pains...
Min Min looked at the blurred scarlet screen, her face turned pale in an instant, and she was terrified.
If they hadn't been chased away by their original companions, they would have become part of those flesh and blood by now.
Min Min was afraid and relieved, but after being relieved, a huge sadness rose in her heart. Even the shelter guarded by the troops became like this. What should they do in the future, and where can they go?
Will this sudden infection and mutation never end?
Can the world return to its original state?
Min Min's mother saw her inner torment and reached out to hold her daughter's hand: "Don't think too much, some things are destined. A week ago, didn't we think the three of us were dead?"
"Yes, sister, I originally thought there were huge monsters in the city and this was the most unsafe place, but in the end, we have been staying in the hospital. Don't think too much, as long as our family is together, we will advance and retreat together!"
Min Min rubbed her brother's head and couldn't help but glance at You Xi, who was sitting on the other side of the sofa and was changing the channel remotely.
Recently, in addition to such disaster reports, the most common reports on TV are some reports on the characteristics of infections confirmed by scientific researchers after day and night research. Although You Xi had already deduced some of the content, she would watch it carefully every time.
Min Min noticed what her mother and brother didn't. You Xi seemed to have a different ability, and it was this ability that ensured the safety of the surrounding area.
She didn't seem to want others to know that she went out with her brother every day, and every time she went to the third or fourth floor to climb out the window, and never walked through the door once... You
Xi felt Min Min's grateful gaze, she turned around, and made a hissing gesture at her, just like the first time she found her climbing out the window to leave.
The people in the building had not left, and even the bodies of the infected people in the building were pushed into the operating room and burned clean, so they didn't know that the situation in the city was not as good as Min Cong said.
The reason why this area is relatively safe is that there is a partition wall outside the hospital, which can more or less block the infected people passing by at night. The second reason is that there are very few people in this hospital building. Not to mention at night, even during the day it is silent like an abandoned building. The infected people are running away from the sound and smell of people, so they naturally won't come here.
The third point, and the most important point, is that she has been consciously cleaning up the infected people around her.
Although Youxi's original intention was to stock up, she did fill up 70% to 80% of the 512 cubic meters of space she vacated...
Now the supplies in her Xingwu warehouse, from home appliances and electric cars to underwear, pants, shoes and socks, food, drink, daily necessities, medical protective gear... are all available, enough for her to open a medium-to-large all-purpose supermarket.
If she hadn't considered that after this mission, the star coins would be enough to upgrade the Star House again, and the Star House warehouse would be upgraded as well, she would have had a headache about where to put the supplies she left behind in the simulation apartment.
She wasn't too short of supplies for the time being, and these supplies weren't all taken for herself. She already had a vague plan in her mind, but whether it could be implemented depended on the actual situation.
**
They continued to live in the building for several days. One day later, the water that had been maintained for nearly half a month was finally contaminated and could no longer be used.
Two days later, the electricity was also cut off.
The network that had been intermittent was also cut off, and the network channel for checking the news from the outside world was completely cut off. After that, the intermittent phone signal was also completely terminated.
You Xi knew that it was time to leave. She also had to find a safe retirement home for You Zhengqing, and she certainly couldn't stay in a city where only infected people were wandering around.
The afternoon before she left, she called Min Min's family of three and the few other people in the building to go to the tenth floor for dinner.
She prepared a gas stove hot pot, a beef clear soup pot, a heavy-flavored duck pot, and took out various vegetables she had found from the supermarket.
Tripe, marbled fat, hand-cut lamb, luncheon meat, duck blood, yellow throat...
konjac knots, enoki mushrooms, cabbage, potatoes, yam...
chopped green onions, garlic, celery, and various spicy seasonings.
Others didn't know that Youxi had been going to the supermarket to stock up on supplies, but every ward in this building had a refrigerator and a simple induction cooker, making it convenient for family members to make nutritious meals. So every ward with people in it had a stocked refrigerator, and everyone had enough food and drink on a daily basis, but the variety was not that complete.
When everyone saw her take out these dishes, they envied her for her rich storage. In addition, there was a power outage yesterday, and if these dishes were not taken out and eaten, they would soon go bad, so they did not suspect anything.
Among these people, one was a medical staff member who had voluntarily stayed behind. His name was Fang Lei, and he was a doctor. One was a nurse who was released from isolation, named Zhao Yu.
The other two were a young couple. The wife had been hospitalized for a circumcision, and the husband accompanied her in a general ward. Later, someone in the same ward was infected with the mutation, and the wife was unfortunately contaminated with blood. Afterwards, she was also isolated for observation, but fortunately she survived safely.
A total of nine people have lived together in this empty building for so long. Even if they don’t see each other very often, they have some feelings for each other.
After all, everyone will leave this shelter after tonight, and they all plan to go to the Pianshan Shelter in the southwest suburbs to check out the situation.
But no one can predict whether it is safe there.
"Actually, I'm scared..." Zhao Yucai picked up the chopsticks, and then put them down reluctantly.
Something happened near her home in the first few nights, and she has not been in contact with her parents since then. She was isolated for a few days, and finally got out, but found that there were only a few people left in the building.
Now she is alone, and she is really confused.
When she mentioned this, everyone thought of their lost contact and lost family members, and their hearts were heavy. Even in front of the delicious food, they were a little choked.
Youxi took out a Coke from the refrigerator (Xingwu Warehouse), and walked over to find that everyone at the table was in a low mood and had no appetite for food - oh, no, except her Tongzi.
The man with a handsome and pale face was eating the fruit platter in front of him slowly, gently and silently.
A piece of cut watermelon, a bite.
A cherry, a bite.
A piece of cut pineapple, a bite.
...
Bite after bite, in the time when she went to get a drink and observed a moment of silence with others, the platter had already been reduced by one third.
Youxi: ...
Probably because he felt her gaze, he turned his head to look at her, and there was a little more ripple in the cold pupils under his long eyelashes, as if asking her "what's wrong?"
You Xi: ...
Forget it, she can understand that You Zhengqing's body is in the late stage of terminal illness, relatively weak, and usually has to eat small meals frequently.
Look, it's three o'clock in the afternoon, just in time for his meal...
She put the drink on the table, and her eyes swept over the depressed man again: "Why don't you eat?"
"I'm sorry, Xiaoxi..." Min Min, who was sitting next to her, gently held her hand, "Actually, no one is hungry, and we are more worried about the situation in the shelter..."
Youxi sighed softly, "I know that everyone is desperate and confused about the future. We don't know what the world will be like in the future, and whether we will die in our sleep one day...
In fact, I am also afraid, but I don't want to keep too many negative emotions in my heart, which will make people collapse from the heart.
Living and dying, neither state is scary. Life and death are the laws of the universe. We can't interfere or predict them.
Therefore, we must cherish every day of our lives, trample those negative emotions under our feet, and try to find ways to relax ourselves. My way is these delicious foods. Have a good rest after this meal, and talk about tomorrow's things tomorrow."
"You're right. There won't be such delicious hot pot when we get to the shelter. I heard that all they distribute there are rations for the troops!"
Min Cong was young after all, and his thoughts came and went quickly. He was the first to pick up the chopsticks and get everyone excited again.
**
The next day, nine people set off in a military truck.
This car was found by Youxi during an outing. It overturned on the road and the body was a little damaged, but after she checked it, she found that it could still be driven, so she drove it back to the hospital and parked it outside the inpatient building.
Their destination was the Pianshan Shelter, and it was safe there until the signal was cut off.
They knew that the road to the southwest of the city was blocked, so they planned to go directly out of the city from the southeast and bypass the city via the suburban road.
There are large fields on both sides of this road in the suburbs. The infected cannot hide here during the day, so they are unlikely to wander here at night unless they are attracted by human voices and lights.
They had a smooth journey. The car was driven by "You Zhengqing". You Xi was a little worried at first, after all, the system driving sounded unreliable. Unexpectedly
, he got familiar with the car within a few minutes of getting in the car, and drove fast and steady - no, it was fast and fierce.
They encountered several traffic jams in the city, but without exception, he drove the military truck directly to break through them. If he couldn't break through them, he would run over them from the sidewalks, flower beds and other places.
The other people in the car behind were all pale from the jolting. Even Youxi felt carsick. Tongzi, on the other hand, had a blank expression on his face and was calm as water.
Youxi: ...
Fortunately, we encountered normal traffic jams along the way, not the kind of traffic jams that Minmin and the others had encountered before, so we were not really stuck.
After leaving the city, the roads were relatively smooth. They drove fast all the way and finally arrived at the Pianshan Refuge around noon.
But to their surprise, at the entrance and exit of the Pianshan Refuge, a line of fully equipped military trucks were pouring out, and occasionally an armored vehicle equipped with weapons would be seen. Judging from the pattern of the convoy, it didn't seem like they were on a mission, but rather... migrating.
Youxi put on a mask and got off the car to inquire about the situation. As soon as she approached the other party's convoy, she was stopped by several military personnel.
The other party asked her to keep a certain distance from them and answered her questions vigilantly.
Youxi then realized that they happened to catch up with the transfer of the refuge area.
Although the situation in Pianshan is better than that in the East City Refuge, the management personnel are still worried about the destruction of the East City, so they have been in contact with their superiors. Finally, they received an order to move to a military base half a day away yesterday.
Half of the buildings there are underground, and the walls of the ground buildings are stronger and safer.
The entire refuge area completed the packing and preparation of all personnel during the day yesterday. After spending a quiet night, they started this morning. Because there are many people and supplies in the entire refuge area, there is still a quarter of the convoy left.
Of the one-quarter of the convoy, two-thirds were ordinary people. Those who had cars drove themselves, and those who did not were arranged to sit in military trucks. The convoy was equipped with two armed armored vehicles for protection.
The other side knew that they were coming to the refugee area, and immediately arranged for them to go to the medical room at the entrance for examination. If there were no problems after the examination, they could be arranged to join their convoy, otherwise they were not allowed to follow them.
"Can it be confirmed in such a short time?" You Xi was surprised.
"Yeah." Probably because they had not passed the inspection, the other party did not say much, just let everyone get off the car, and then sent them directly to the infirmary with a few other people for a blood test.
Here, you don't even need to take off your clothes to check if there are any injuries on your body. You just need to show your ID and compare the other person's face to see if it is yours. After that, everyone draws a little blood and then sits and waits for the results. Ten minutes later, the result of You Xi, the first person to be inspected, came out
.
The other party called her over and handed her a security card with her photo, name and ID number printed on it.
"Is it passed? Is the result accurate?"
"Yes." The card issuer glanced at her delicate and tender face and nodded at her, "Don't worry, this is a new instrument developed by our scientific research team. The blood test results can be out in ten minutes. The time is short and the accuracy is as high as 99.99%."
Speaking of this, the other party's expression involuntarily relaxed a little, and he gestured outside.
A large silver-gray armored RV was parked at the warehouse door diagonally opposite the infirmary, and several troops were quickly filling the compartment with various supplies.
"See that car? The people sitting in it are the scientific researchers from our Pianshan Base. Many of them are experts and doctors in virus genes. They developed that instrument, and now they are trying to study serum vaccines... Our Pianshan Base is completely different from the one in the east of the city, because the manager is very smart. You have found the right organization here!"
After a while, the test results of the nine of them came out, and all of them passed.
The troops who brought them here returned their backpacks to them, saying that they had all been disinfected. As for the military trucks they drove here, they were directly requisitioned because they were obviously not their property.
And they will be arranged to go to the military trucks of the troops and get on the car directly to move with the team.
The whole process was neat and tidy, even You Xi couldn't help but admire the other party's professionalism.
When the group was assigned to a military truck at the back with their backpacks, they passed by the silver-gray armored RV.
No one else noticed, except You Xi and the man walking next to her, who turned around and looked at each other.
They... heard a very faint roar coming from the inside of the silver-gray armored RV.
**
The manned military trucks are larger than the light military trucks they drove over. Each compartment at the back has a canvas awning, and there are two rows of seats facing each other, which can accommodate a total of twenty people.
When they passed by, nearly half of the people were already inside.
Before Youxi climbed up, she heard a familiar voice coming from above, with great surprise: "Xiaoxi! Minmin! How could it be you! You are still alive!"
This voice...
Youxi looked up and it was indeed Wu You.
When they escaped from L City to Hua Country together, he would be the first to cry and scream in fear every time he encountered something, but it was also him who had a miraculous luck and could survive every disaster.
In addition to Wu You, Xiaonan and another classmate were also in the car. Youxi and her group got on the car quickly. Xiaonan pulled her and Minmin and cried excitedly.
They had a friendship of fleeing together, and it was hard to describe the feeling of meeting each other again after the disaster.
Soon, the military truck set off with the convoy.
Most of the people in the military truck were classmates and their families. They complained to each other and comforted each other. At the same time, they were full of hope for the military base shelter they would go to in the future.
An hour later, the convoy passed through a small town. The bloodstains on the road and the corpses on the street corners made everyone silent.
This is a tourist town. They have all been here before, but now it has become a town of death. In the dark buildings on both sides of the road, there are countless dormant infected people hiding in them.
But fortunately, the driver also knew to leave as soon as possible, and they passed the town quickly.
However, seven or eight minutes later, Wu You looked at the sky outside the car with a look of doubt on his face: "How strange, how come the sun suddenly disappeared? The weather forecast clearly said that it would be sunny all day!"
As if in response to him, a thunderbolt passed through the sky with a deafening sound.
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