Chapter 28 Car Dealership and Gas Station
At noon the next day, when the sun was at its hottest, You Xi left two electric batons with his father, explained the situation to Chen Ya, and then drove the old van at home to the iron gate on the east side of the community.
The iron gate on the east side was tall and solid, so it was not processed. To drive out, you only need to unlock the door lock and the iron chain.
There are gaps in the iron gate fence, and occasionally you can see zombies wandering outside passing by, so residents of the community rarely come here.
Because there is no breath of living people, and there are very few shops on both sides of the road leading out of here, there are not many wandering zombies.
A male zombie with half of its belly missing was lying on the iron gate fence. The weather was hot and the zombie was in a very bad state of decay. Youxi got off the van, holding a metal pipe with a sharp knife tied to it. She smelled a strong stench before she got close.
She let out a long breath and poked the zombie's eyes.
This was her first time killing a zombie. The zombies previously locked in the express room were cleaned up by Brother Long and his team.
A few days ago, because the weather was too hot and the express room was stuffy, the zombies had already given off a strong stench.
At that time, Brother Long and his team had come all the way from outside and had killed many zombies, so they naturally didn't want to leave such a hidden danger in the community.
Finally, Gao Yun was persuaded to unlock the door of the express room, release the zombies, and let them clean up one by one. Then, they carried them to the open space at the edge of the small park and burned them together with the garbage that had been piled up recently.
At first, the residents whose families were infected and turned into zombies wanted to make trouble, saying that they had no right to kill their family members.
Later, Long Ge got angry and directly took off the scarf wrapped around the zombie's head and pushed it towards the former family member, saying that he could not kill it as long as the other party was willing to take it home.
As a result, the young man who was full of anger a few seconds ago and said that he had no right to kill my father, screamed and fell to the ground after seeing the unrecognizable and ferocious face. He was so scared that he peed his pants on the spot. He crawled backwards and shouted for help, asking Gao Yun and others to stop the zombies.
In the end, Long Ge stabbed the zombie's eyes with a knife and killed it on the spot.
He told Gao Yun that no matter what the monster is called now, whether it is the kind of zombie in the movie, it will be useless to attack anywhere.
Even if the head is chopped off, the teeth can still bite people. Only by directly destroying the brain can real harm be caused.
And the eyes are the easiest part of the brain to attack.
The sharp knife poked into the zombie's eyes, which was like poking into a pile of rotten dead things. It felt very disgusting.
But Youxi wanted to adapt herself as soon as possible. Although she had a handy weapon, she didn't know how long she would stay in this mission world. The [air hair dryer] would run out one day, and she didn't want to adapt herself when she was helpless.
The howling zombie suddenly stopped moving. Youxi pulled back the sharp knife, and the zombie slid down the iron fence.
She extended the tip of the knife out of the fence, wiped it on the zombie's relatively clean back clothes, and then let Chen Ya help her open the door. Chen Ya would wait until she went out before locking the door.
Because the phone was not working, she gave him a walkie-talkie and said she would let him know when she was back in range of the community, and then she told him roughly the time she would be back.
"Don't worry, I will always carry the walkie-talkie with me, and your parents can rest assured that anyone who wants to go upstairs has to think about passing by me. And the third and fifth floors are only one floor apart, so if there is something, we can get to know by just shouting."
Her destination was a few car dealerships under the east elevated road. She stayed at home for the past few days. On the one hand, she cooked a lot of cooked food, and on the other hand, she used the radio to search and listen to the radio every day.
The radio was naturally prepared in the native world. She didn't know how to adjust the longwave and shortwave stations on the mobile phone, so she simply bought a radio in the native world as a backup.
Fortunately, no matter which world, the wavelength and channel are the same.
Since the night when the cell phone and the Internet were disconnected, the radio, which was originally quiet, gradually became more and more full of various messages and notifications.
The infection spread very quickly. Even though the roads were closed and isolated the day after the mutation began, it still failed to stop the mutation from spreading from the inside of each city. Now all parts of the country have fallen, especially the densely populated cities, which are completely disaster-stricken areas.
The city S where they are located is a third-tier city with a small population, and the disaster situation is not as terrible as that of first-tier cities.
Some cities happen to have large troops nearby. Although there are many cases of infection in the troops, because once bitten, the mutation speed is very fast, it is easier to clean up and investigate, so it quickly stabilized, and many people were saved when evacuating the city.
However, it is impossible to take everyone with you in a hasty evacuation, and many people are still trapped in the city with many zombies.
Of course, there are also many situations like the community of Youxi, because the gate is strong and someone has organized to clean up the zombies, although they are trapped, they are not in danger of life for the time being.
After the troops evacuated the city with some people, they immediately looked for a suitable area to set up a temporary shelter.
The shelter should be large and sparsely populated, so that it can be cleaned up quickly without too many casualties. It cannot be too far away from the city to facilitate the troops and people to search for supplies and continue rescue after they stabilize.
Everyone planned to break back from the periphery of the city little by little. After clearing each area, they set up a cordon and called on the people still in the city to actively save themselves. The infected zombies are not difficult to deal with. The key is to pay attention to the Type A infected people around.
This type of infected person is the first source of infection. The cause is unknown and is still under investigation. Obviously, the long incubation period always catches people around them off guard.
Some people have also classified some suspected symptoms of Type A infected people, such as mental depression, poor appetite, slow reaction, and the most obvious convulsion phenomenon, and black lines appear near the blood vessels of the neck that will spread.
Among all the information, the most critical thing for Youxi is the temporary shelters that have been set up in various places.
There are currently two temporary shelters that are relatively close to S City, one is about an hour's drive away, and the other is about three hours' drive away. Of course, this was before the end of the world. With the current road conditions, the latter shelter is conservatively estimated to take about a day.
Between the two, she chose the latter.
She repeatedly studied the route yesterday and finally confirmed that it was feasible.
Originally, she didn't plan to leave so soon, but Gao Yun's choice yesterday and the water outage made her change her mind.
I don't know if the consecutive searches of two households gave Gao Yun and her group inspiration. After they left her house empty-handed yesterday, they began to organize people to search all the ownerless houses in the community. Some of the owners of these houses have been trapped outside since the beginning of the end of the world and have not returned, while others have been infected and their entire families have been wiped out.
Originally, due to various considerations, they did not search every house, but now a switch seemed to have been turned on. They took turns knocking on the doors of each house, and broke into the houses as long as no one was home. After a search, they found a lot of food and drinks, and finally alleviated the material crisis.
After the water outage, Youxi estimates that the electricity will soon be cut off. When resources are scarce, the community will be even more chaotic, and people who are still hiding in various corners of the city will soon be forced to go out to find drinking water resources.
At that time, people will not only have to fight zombies, but also their own kind.
Compared with the unpredictable human heart, Youxi would rather face the zombies directly.
The three-hour drive to the shelter is located in a wetland park in the suburbs, close to the national highway. The park covers an area of more than 200 hectares and is located on a swamp. There are only two cross-lake roads and two bridges connecting it to the outside world, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack.
As long as the interior is cleaned up and guardrails are set up on the passages and bridges, it will become an independent and safe area.
The tourist attraction buildings in the wetland park only account for half of the total area, and the rest are all ecological wetlands, like a series of small islands, connected by various small bridges.
Even if there is a problem inside, the connecting bridges between the islands can be disconnected in the first time to ensure the maximum survival rate, and then rescue and clean up again, and there will be no annihilation.
The zombie outbreak in several nearby cities was around 5 pm, and the wetland park closed at 4:30 pm. Under normal circumstances, tourists would go to the gate before 4 pm.
Therefore, Youxi estimated that the situation in the wetland park was not bad, so the troops set up a shelter there in such a short time.
You can take the national highway to the shelter. The You family's van can be driven, but it is not very sturdy, so she went out today mainly to find a car, and if possible, get some gasoline.
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The You family community is closer to the east elevated road. She tried to drive on the main roads with fewer people. There were many damaged vehicles on the road, but it was not to the point of traffic jam.
Most of the zombies were lying on the ground motionless. Only when they heard a sound would they slowly get up and walk towards the sound.
The zombies in this world seem to like sunlight very much. During the day, they will choose to lie on the ground in the sun and move slower than at night. This is why she came out at noon.
Because of the remote location, there were almost no living people along the way. There were scattered garbage and incomplete corpses on both sides of the road. When the car passed by, some corpses with broken hands and feet would twist strangely because their brains were not damaged, while some were completely dead.
Some of the shops and houses on the roadside had their doors closed, while others were broken and open, looking like black holes in the sunlight.
Such a depressing and devastated scene would make you feel infinite sadness if you looked at it for a while.
Youxi couldn't help but feel lucky again in her heart that this was not her native world, but just a world of apocalyptic missions. As long as she completed the mission, she could return to her own peaceful and warm world.
When she was close to the elevated road, she saw a car speeding away from a distance, bringing up several flying plastic bags.
She parked the car at the intersection under the elevated road. The car dealerships were on her left and right. She got out of the car and climbed onto the top of the van to check. There were two car dealerships on the left and four on the right, lined up in a row.
The structures of the car dealerships were similar. The store faced the elevated road, there was a parking lot in the front, a showroom in the middle, and another parking lot for new cars in the back. The repair area and car wash area were also here.
She recalled the brand names of the cars in this world and planned to go to the left.
Youxi jumped out of the van, took out the [Air Hair Dryer], unlocked the fingerprint, and aimed it at a zombie that was staggering towards her.
After seeing the laser calibration point appear on the zombie's face, she pressed the button. Almost at the same time, a big hole silently exploded on the zombie's face, and it fell to the ground with a thud.
The head was like a watermelon being pounded by a hammer, and the juice and residue flowed all over the floor.
Youxi: ...
No wonder the Star House system did not recommend her to use the [air hair dryer] indoors before. This is not an air bomb, it is clearly a small air bomb!
Fortunately, the zombie was still some distance away from her, so Youxi didn't get sprayed with blood. If this star tool is used at close range, I really don't know whether it will explode the zombie or herself...
Youxi complained to the system: "No wonder this thing only costs 8 star coins... Don't you have a normal offensive weapon?"
[It is recommended that the host continue to stay and complete other tasks after completing the world mission, so as to obtain more star coins and unlock other star tools in the mall. ]
This is a way to make her work overtime!
Youxi snorted and laughed: "Okay, I'll think about it."
She got back into the van and drove into the car dealership along the auxiliary road.
The parking lot was better than the situation outside. There were not many cars in the parking spaces, only about a quarter of them were occupied. It is estimated that some cars have been driven away by people who escaped from the car dealership.
There were several obvious bloodstains on the driveway, as well as fragments of body tissue, which gave off an extremely unpleasant stench under the scorching sun.
Youxi put on a mask and a hat, and got out of the car carrying a metal pipe.
Several zombies lying on the open ground staggered and roared towards her. Because the distance was far, she directly blew two of them with an [air hair dryer]. The third one that had already rushed to the vicinity used a sharp knife tied to the metal pipe to accurately pierce its eyes.
She did not rush into the exhibition hall, but walked along the glass outer wall of the exhibition hall, cleaned up a zombie in the maintenance area at the back again, and then entered the exhibition hall.
The exhibition hall displays off-road vehicles, a domestic brand in the mission world, which is famous for its durability and collision resistance. There are two models, large and small, both of which are two-box cars. The rear seats can be laid flat, and when laid flat, they are connected to the trunk, which can hold more things.
Half of the exhibition hall is the exhibition area, and the other half is the office lounge, VIP reception room, tea room, toilet, etc.
The midday sun shines through the floor-to-ceiling glass of the exhibition area. The milky white floor tiles are covered with a thin layer of dust because no one has taken care of them for several days. There is a pool of blood on the ground near the office area. The window glass of the office near the corridor is broken, and a chair with broken legs fell on the ground.
She carefully went forward to check and made sure there were no zombies or people in the office. She also checked several rooms behind the corridor one by one, and they were all empty.
The car dealership was not a place with a lot of traffic, and it was Friday after work, so there were even fewer customers looking at cars. The zombies she had just killed outside were all wearing the same color suits, and they looked like sales staff of the car dealership.
Looking at this situation, when the zombie infection broke out, some people became zombies, and some hid in the office, but in the end they had to escape and save themselves because of the lack of water. It is unknown whether they escaped successfully in the end.
Youxi successfully found a few car keys in the office, and according to the labels on them, she chose a black jeep with dirt-resistant and one-way glass film. Because she wanted to test drive the car, there was half a tank of gas in it.
She went to the back of the exhibition hall and looked around, and found a lot of car repair tools, parts, spare tires and engine oil. She first destroyed the monitoring device and then put them into the Star House warehouse.
She also found three empty diesel barrels for other things, emptied them and put them in the Xingwu warehouse. Finally, she found five 50L portable gasoline barrels in a small room in the repair department. They should be kept by the car dealership as spares. It was a pleasant surprise.
She filled up the jeep with gas and drove out directly from the back of the exhibition hall. Finally, she stopped next to the van. She searched the van, took out all her personal belongings and put them in the space, and then left the car keys on the steering wheel.
In case someone happened to pass by and escape, they could just drive away.
After that, she opened the navigation app on her mobile phone and checked the map that had been downloaded before the network was disconnected. From her current location, there was a small gas station about 800 meters south along the bottom of the viaduct.
If she wanted to go back to the community, she could take this road to get home, so she decided to stop by to see the situation and get some oil if everything went well.
The 180 cubic meters of the Xingwu warehouse was actually very large. As long as she could tolerate the things being crammed together in a mess, of course she still wanted to leave room for the car. According to the length, width and height of the car, she only needed to leave 18 cubic meters of space to put it.
She could also fill the car with things and then put them in, so that the space utilization rate would be higher.
Probably because there was no sunlight under the elevated road, and the location itself was remote, there were almost no zombies to be seen along the way, but there were quite a few cars leaning on the road.
Some of the car doors were open, revealing half of the body. They were humans who failed to escape in time and had been bitten beyond human form. Even if a car passed by, it would only twitch twice and could not climb out at all.
Youxi drove along the winding road, and when he was about to reach the gas station, he saw a pickup truck parked at the entrance. Three men and one woman got out of the car and were using various sticks, bayonets and other weapons to clean up the zombies that came from the entrance and nearby areas.
Those people moved quickly, especially the young woman who did not hide in the car because of fear, but assisted from the side.
Youxi turned off the engine, took the metal pipe in his hand, got out of the car, locked the door, and climbed onto the roof of the car to check the situation inside the gas station.
The gas station is not big, with a total of eight gas ports on both sides of the double row. There is a very small supermarket at the back, which is estimated to be no more than 15 square meters. There is a restroom on the left wall.
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