Chapter 63 Premonition of the End of the World
The three of them did not sleep all night, especially Youqi and Youxi, who were busy with shopping and driving all night, while Tang Yatong slept for a while on the way to Ruhl.
Youxi's physical condition is different, and she feels that she is in good spirits, but Youqi is different.
She accidentally fell into the sea yesterday and caught a cold. Later, she was shocked by the things in Youxi's space and almost fainted. After that, she was busy all the time, which not only consumed her physical strength, but also consumed her brain cells in various ways.
She, Youxi and Tang Yatong simply ate some sandwiches and bottled juice, and forced herself to finish cleaning up the villa and the air-raid shelter. It was almost at the limit.
"Sister, go to sleep for a while. I'll wake you up for dinner when I get the takeaway back."
"No, didn't you just say that you had something important for me to do?"
"Yes, the important thing is for you to have a good rest and sleep peacefully." Youxi opened the travel bag - this was the bag she had reorganized in the SUV. There were two bags in total, each containing some daily necessities and clothes for her and Youqi, just for show.
She took out her spare clothes and toiletries from the bag, and asked her to take a shower in the bathroom, change into dry clothes, and have a good and relaxing sleep.
This villa is very large, with two rooms downstairs, three rooms upstairs, and an attic at the top. She specifically told Youqi to sleep in the room on the first floor.
Youqi looked at her, wanting to say something but stopping herself.
They all saw the report about the "meteor storm" on TV just now. At the same time, they also saw You Xi's expression, which was solemn and thoughtful, as if she was very vigilant about the "meteor storm" in the news.
Tang Yatong was careless and might not guess it.
But You Qi felt that she had almost guessed it. At first, You Xi wanted to take a plane back to China immediately, but later, it seemed that after seeing the news about the meteor shower in the apartment, she suddenly changed her mind and said that she would stay temporarily and must leave L City to the north.
The news said that the best observation points are in the central and southern parts, so she avoided these two places.
She asked about the air-raid shelter under the villa, and even asked how deep it was and when the ventilation equipment and water and electricity were last inspected.
The shopping list she made included things like gas masks and protective clothing, as well as equipment to resist extreme cold and low temperatures. Most of the medicines were antibiotics, anti-inflammatory drugs, and drugs for bandaging wounds.
Hiding underground, air pollution, low temperatures, inflammation of wounds... plus the meteor shower turned into a "meteor storm", and there might even be small fragments mixed in and falling to the ground.
So, what fell at nine o'clock in the evening was not a meteor, but most likely a meteorite!
You Xi read some information from You Qi's eyes. The other party probably guessed it, after all, she was so smart. But now they have come to a relatively safe place and have made preparations. It's best to guess it, but it doesn't matter if they didn't guess it.
"Aren't you going to sleep?" You Qi asked her.
"I'll pack my things." You Xi pointed secretly to the truck parked outside the villa. She had already quietly moved the perishable fresh fruits and vegetables and frozen foods into the Xingwu warehouse while refueling on the road.
She kept the other things because she was afraid that if Tang Yatong opened the back of the truck and found that there was nothing inside, it would be difficult to explain. But she had to put these things away first, as she always felt uneasy leaving them in the car.
In addition, she had to move some of the bedding, chairs, household appliances and other usable items in the villa to the underground air-raid shelter, the entrance of which was in the yard behind the villa.
She had already gone down to take a look, and the air-raid shelter was very deep and professionally built.
After entering from the first door, go down the vertical shaft stairs for about six or seven meters, pass through the second door to enter the transition space on the first underground floor, and then continue to go down from the ground through another four or five meters vertical shaft to enter the larger living space on the second underground floor.
The first vertical shaft, two doors and transition space are all wrapped with titanium alloy steel plates to prevent the shock wave of the explosion.
The second vertical shaft and living space are also wrapped with alloy steel plates.
The living space is divided into three bedrooms and one living room, which is quite large. The kitchen and bathroom are built in the living room and were separated later. The air-raid shelter originally only had water storage barrels. Later, wires were pulled to power it and tap water pipes were connected from the underground. However, for safety reasons, several water tanks and generators were also installed.
The rooms are relatively small, two of them have a set of bunk beds and simple cabinets, and one empty room can be used as a storage room. The hardware in the kitchen and bathroom is very complete, with a washing machine, shower room, flush toilet, and the kitchen is equipped with an induction cooker.
There are only simple tables and chairs in the living room. To Youxi, it is like an enlarged version of a basement RV.
She was anxious to fill it with some household items.
In the end, she only filled a little more than one-third of the fuel space. She wanted to go to the gas station in town to get more gasoline when she picked up the takeout.
There were too many things to do, and she certainly couldn't sleep.
But she hoped that Tang Yatong and Youqi would rest together, so that it would be more convenient for her to do things.
"Sister, you and Sister Yatong should have a good sleep first, so that when it's night time, you can come to keep watch and I can rest in peace." She gestured to Tang Yatong who was smoking by the back door, and then silently mouthed the word "space".
Youqi understood and said she would take care of it.
Ten minutes later, Tang Yatong was stuffed into the bathroom by Youqi who had just taken a shower and changed her clothes. Youxi also took a shower in the bathroom upstairs and changed into a clean and convenient black sportswear set.
With Youqi watching over Tang Yatong, she could do what she had planned before with peace of mind.
She found her mobile phone and opened the phone book she found in the villa, which recorded the names, addresses and phone numbers of all the stores in the town. She began to dial the numbers to continue ordering meals.
H's ice cream shop: 50 extra-large cans, 100 regular cans, 200 small cans, except for a few particularly sour flavors, the other flavors can be randomly matched.
Candy and chocolate shop: three boxes.
Cookie shop: three boxes.
...
The stores she ordered all have ready stock and can be picked up directly, so there is no need to pay a deposit. She asked them to match the boxes and load them into the car when she goes there.
In addition to the food for the three of them, she will also keep some to take back to her native world as a souvenir.
Half an hour later, Tang Yatong and Youqi went to bed in the guest room on the first floor. Youxi began to search the villa for everything that could be brought to the air-raid shelter. She had space and it only took a second to move it. For
two hours, she was busy packing in the air-raid shelter.
The bunk beds were covered with clean bedding, and there were more clothes and blankets in the closet.
The open kitchen area had many more appliances, stoves, and kitchenware, the living room had a TV, sofa, reclining chair, and family photos, and the bathroom had various daily necessities. Finally, she turned on the generator, tried all the appliances, and left the air-raid shelter with satisfaction after confirming that everything was working properly.
She knew that once Tang Yatong entered the air-raid shelter for refuge, she would find something strange inside, but by then the end of the world would begin, and the three of them would have to live together for a long time, so it would be impossible to hide it, and there was no need to hide it.
You Xi checked the time and prepared to drive the truck to the town to pick up the ordered meals, but when she passed through the living room to the front yard, she was suddenly stopped.
"Wait--" Tang Yatong came out of the room, closed the door carefully, zipped up her coat, and then tied up her shoulder-length hair as she walked, "I'll go to the town with you."
Youxi: ...
**
During the half-hour drive from the villa to the town, Tang Yatong kept frowning and didn't say a word.
Youxi drove the car, watching her nose and heart, and she didn't say anything unless she spoke.
Tang Yatong wanted to talk to her alone, but seeing her quiet look, she didn't know where to start for a while, until the two drove to the town, she took the receipt that Youqi had paid for the deposit before, and went to pick up the goods from each restaurant.
Coffee shops, pizza shops, burger shops...
Looking at the boxes of packaged hot food in each store, Tang Yatong was stunned.
When Youqi passed by here before to order food, she always got off the car and paid for it alone. She never thought that she would order so much!
No need to think about it, this must be Youqi's idea.
Candy and chocolate shop, cookie shop, ice cream shop...
Tang Yatong's patience finally broke.
"You bought so much ice cream. Where are you going to put it? It will melt in two or three hours and can't be kept for half a day. How can you waste money like this? And those burgers and pizzas, why did you buy so much at once? There are only three of us. Can you finish them before they go bad? What are you going to do with the rest? Throw them away? You
want to stock up. Aren't those from yesterday enough? You are wasting your sister's money like this. Do you think the money came from the wind? Do you know that when we first came to the United States to study, we were so poor in the winter that we couldn't even afford to turn on the air conditioner. It was too cold and we could only use the air conditioning in fast food restaurants. We didn't even dare to go into a coffee shop because... The cheapest coffee in a cafe is several times more expensive than a Coke in a fast food restaurant...
It has been so difficult for her to come this far. She treats you well without asking for anything in return because she loves you. In her heart, you, her sister, are the most important, more important than her job and money. But you can just waste her money and play with her like this?
I don’t know how you happened to save her last night, but don’t you think it’s absurd and ridiculous to say that you died once and were reborn... "
Tang Yatong kept talking as soon as she started, as if she had opened a box of chatterboxes, or as if she was venting after being suppressed for a long time. You Xi hummed and hummed while carefully counting the quantity of food supplies and loading them.
When the last box of food was loaded, she closed the door of the truck, locked it, and then stayed against the door for two or three seconds.
In these two or three seconds, she moved all the ice cream boxes in the truck that were easy to melt into the warehouse, and took out a few 200L diesel barrels and put them into the carriage to prepare for the next stop.
You Xi turned around and looked at Tang Yatong: "It's so outrageous and ridiculous, but you came along too?"
Tang Yatong laughed, she knew she would say this: "I came along not because I trust you, but because she is my best friend. We have known each other for more than ten years, and if she wants to go crazy with you, I can't just abandon her. But you have to understand, you can be crazy, but there is a limit, if you want to do something to hurt You Qi, I will make you regret it!"
Tang Yatong had a stern expression, but You Xi smiled at her: "Okay, then you have to follow us closely, and we must be together all the time no matter where we go."
Tang Yatong folded her arms and frowned as she looked at her, without saying a word.
"Get in the car, next stop."
"..."
Youxi found a self-service gas station near the highway at the edge of the town and continued her old operation, moving gasoline quickly to the fuel space under the cover of refueling the truck.
This should be the last time to stock up on oil before the first wave of meteorites. She held the oil bucket and slightly loosened the speed of moving the oil. She only saw the numbers on the dial jumping rapidly.
Tang Yatong was still in a very irritable mood. Since last night, the company has called her countless times. First, they asked about the inexplicable cancellation of yesterday's filming. This morning, they called again, asking her when she would come to the company. Another artist she was responsible for had a problem and asked her to go back to solve it.
She subconsciously took out a cigarette from her pocket and looked for a lighter to light it.
As a result, just as she found the lighter, Youxi took away the cigarette between her lips.
"Sister Yatong, gas station."
"..." She looked at the other party with unpredictable eyes. It was all this girl's fault. She had become stupid.
After Youxi reminded her, she stuffed the cigarette back between Tang Yatong's lips. The latter felt inexplicably unhappy. She was thinking about saying something else when she suddenly felt that the sky beside her suddenly became brighter.
It was three or four o'clock in the afternoon. Because the area was at a high latitude and it was early spring, the sun set early, and it began to get dark at about four or five o'clock. Because the sun was setting in the west, the light that suddenly crossed the sky seemed particularly dazzling.
At the same time, almost everyone on the streets of the entire town of Ruhr stopped and turned their heads to look to the south of the town.
A dazzling white light slanted down from the sky, bringing with it a blazing flame, as if it had set the sky on fire as well. It fell toward the end of the horizon, and the moment it fell, the white light suddenly exploded, emitting a light infinitely brighter than before. At
this moment, everyone subconsciously raised their hands to cover their closed eyes. Many people who were originally in the building were attracted by the bright sky outside. They put down what they were doing, walked onto the balcony and the street, and looked at the sky to the south with the same stunned expression.
After about seven or eight seconds, a muffled sound was suddenly heard from a very far distance, like a thunderous roar, or like something had exploded.
Tang Yatong stared at the end of the horizon in a daze, and the cigarette fell from her open lips: "What... is that?"
Youxi's face changed and he stopped refueling immediately. Fortunately, she had not had time to move the diesel barrel out of the car just now. Now she could close the fuel tank of the truck and leave immediately.
She tightened the fuel tank mouth, closed the lid, put her hand against the truck compartment, put all the things inside into the Star House warehouse, then took a few quick steps, pulled Tang Yatong, turned around and walked towards the driver's seat.
"What was that just now?" It was not until the two of them got on the truck that Tang Yatong reacted and asked Youxi again.
People in peacetime rarely see even shooting stars, let alone such a meteorite.
Youxi didn't know how big the meteorite was, but judging from the explosion and the sound, the meteorite was as powerful as a shell fired by a fighter plane. There was no chance that people and buildings nearby would survive.
Fortunately, the meteorite's landing point was very far away from here, but it was less than four o'clock in the afternoon. How could the meteorite come so soon?
This was also the first time that Youxi witnessed a meteorite fall. Her hands holding the steering wheel trembled slightly.
She hadn't felt this way for a long time.
This kind of doomsday is completely different from zombies and parasites. Strong physical attacks can defeat the strong. No matter how many schemes you have or how strong your physical fitness is, you will be vulnerable to absolute power.
There is no other way except to avoid it.
She tightened her fingers and turned back with a serious expression: "That's a meteorite. Sister Yatong, fasten your seat belts, we're going back to find my sister now."
Without her having to say it a second time, Tang Yatong quickly fastened her seat belt and reached out to hold the handle above the car window.
Youxi stepped on the accelerator, turned the steering wheel hard, and sped towards the villa.
**
In the speeding truck, Youxi called Youqi again but to no avail, and put the phone back into her pocket in annoyance. Although she knew that the meteorite just now was far away from here, she still felt uneasy.
Youxi: System, has the time of the end of the world come earlier?
[It can be understood as a precursor to a disaster]
Youxi did not continue to ask. If it was a precursor, it would not be a large-scale and wide-ranging meteorite rain.
However, judging from the location where the meteorite just landed, it was further north than she expected, and it was definitely beyond the central part of Country M.
It seems that the information in the previous TV announcement that "the central and southern regions are the best observation points" cannot be used as the range standard for the meteorite to fall.
I don't know - Youxi's thoughts were interrupted by the force of someone squeezing her arm.
"There!" Tang Yatong held her arm with one hand and pointed to the sky in front of the road with the other hand.
The road runs east-west. They drove from the town back to the villa, all the way from east to west. There were tall trees on both sides, blocking part of the sky. In addition, the setting sun in the west was originally more dazzling, so Youxi did not notice the abnormality at the first time.
The meteorite was burning, with a reddish blinding white light. It suddenly exploded at high altitude, blowing out three fragments that flew obliquely in three different directions.
One of them was dragging a trail of burning black smoke, rapidly enlarging in her field of vision.
Before Youxi's brain could react, her body had already moved.
The road where their car was located was a slightly narrow two-lane forest road. Outside the lane was a downward slope, and both sides of the slope were planted with trees, so the car couldn't drive in. The truck was too big, and it couldn't even turn around.
It couldn't retreat because the reversing speed was slower, not to mention that she didn't know where the meteorite would fall and how big the explosion shock wave would be.
So - Youxi stepped heavily on the accelerator and increased the speed to the maximum. She had to rush past before the meteorite fell!
Tang Yatong understood her intention instantly. Rationally, she knew that this was a better method. But emotionally, they knew that the meteorite was coming here, but they were rushing towards it. Such visual stimulation was not something that ordinary people could bear!
Tang Yatong grabbed the armrest with one hand and held You Xi's arm with the other hand. She leaned back against the back of the chair and felt herself rushing towards a ball of fire. She closed her eyes subconsciously.
You Xi had already stepped on the accelerator to the limit. She stared at the meteorite without blinking. The car drove at a very fast speed and rushed past it with her and Tang Yatong before the meteorite landed.
The meteorite was not big. It almost brushed the body of the truck and landed with a bang. The rearview mirror was filled with fire and a huge explosion. The road surface was instantly blasted with countless gravel, which hit the truck body like hail.
At the same time, explosions were heard in the woods on both sides of the road. It was the sound of two other fragments falling to the ground.
In fact, from the time Tang Yatong discovered the meteorite in mid-air, to the meteorite exploding, one of the fragments came towards them, and then to Youxi suddenly accelerating and rushing through the dangerous area, the whole process took only four or five seconds.
Four or five seconds is only the moment for a normal person to breathe, but for Tang Yatong, every second was infinitely magnified, and everything in front of her seemed to become a slow motion.
She survived the disaster, and then she found that she was frightened and broke out in a cold sweat.
She turned her head and looked at the girl driving the car in astonishment. She was still looking straight ahead, driving attentively, and speeding along while maintaining a safe speed.
Somehow, Tang Yatong felt as if there was a popping sound on her face.
"Sister Yatong." You Xi suddenly spoke.
"What?" Tang Yatong's voice softened for some reason.
"You pinched me and it hurts a little."
"..." Tang Yatong realized that her hand was still tightly pinching the other person's arm. She tried to let go, but her fingers were stiff and unresponsive. It took a while for her to move away from You Xi's arm.
She had many questions in her mind, but she couldn't say a word.
At this time, her cell phone rang, she took it out and saw: "It's Youqi calling."
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