Chapter 58 Escape
"You guys stay in the car first, I'll go down to look for Big Brother."
When they saw the photos and videos online yesterday, they weren't too surprised. After all, they had all had the experience of riding in a car before the apocalypse.
Although the train in front of them looked very good, the planes and high-speed trains they had taken before were not much worse than the train in front of them, and were even more luxurious.
But when they actually sat on the chairs in the carriage, everyone was inevitably surprised.
"So soft!"
"It's softer than our sofa, but it's not just soft. It feels a little different."
"Feeling supported? Right?"
"Yes, yes, that's the feeling!"
"I feel the same way. I don't know why, but I feel like I'm sinking in when I sit down, but I just feel like I'm being wrapped up and it's very comfortable."
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A group of people were sitting in the car, excitedly discussing everything about the train, and not far from them, Zheng Xinyue's family was following the large group on their way to the train station.
After joining the group yesterday, everyone in the group discussed until midnight. Not only did they design several routes, but they also discussed various response measures in advance.
In order not to miss the departure time mentioned on the Internet, and also to avoid any accidents on the road that would delay time, I got up early this morning.
But even though they got up early, they didn't go out early.
Although they were worried about being late, their own safety was more important. If they had gone through so much trouble to get here, only to have the train not show up, it would have been a wasted trip. After all, no one was sure how the trains actually operated at that time.
Fortunately, reality did not disappoint them.
Just after ten o'clock, someone saw a train flying across the sky.
After the message was sent to the group, everyone who was already prepared took action quickly. The three members of the Zheng family who were always keeping a close eye on the group messages naturally would not fall behind.
They put on the backpacks they had prepared long ago, took a last look at the house they had moved into only a few years ago, and closed the door.
There is no power outage in City B, and the elevators are still usable, allowing you to go directly to the underground garage.
The Zheng family of three came out of the elevator, walked around a few corners on the second underground floor, and arrived at the underground garage.
Perhaps because the mutation happened in the middle of the night, there were not many people in the underground garage, and naturally no one turned into a zombie.
The horizontal bars at the two entrances to the underground garage are still intact, which should have prevented some zombies from entering.
Mr. Zheng found his own parking space, put some of their luggage and things in the trunk, and then got into the car with his wife and daughter.
He opened his phone and saw that the other people in the group were already on their way downstairs. He didn't delay and drove out of the garage directly.
As they drove along the designated route, other families' cars gradually appeared in front of and behind theirs, and the people who had made the appointment gathered together.
Because they had prepared a strategy in advance, they didn't encounter many zombies when they first went out.
Even if there were three or two zombies besieging them, the off-road vehicle in front would clear the way and they would just crash through them, so it had no effect on them.
However, as more and more cars appeared on the ground, their convoy inevitably attracted the attention of the zombies.
The zombies were gradually closing in, their hideous faces seeming to be right before their eyes, but the people in the car didn't dare to make a sound. They could only speed up as much as possible, trying to leave the zombies behind.
The Zheng family's car was in the middle of the convoy. Although they didn't have to face the zombies gathering in front of them, nor did they have to experience the feeling of zombies chasing after the car, the feeling of being stuck in the middle and unable to move forward or backward was not pleasant.
Zheng Xinyue held a badminton racket with a fruit knife tied to the front end in her hand, and looked outside intently, fearing that zombies would rush towards her from both sides of the road when she passed by.
The place where this group of people lived was not far from the train station, usually only a ten-minute drive away, otherwise they would not have dared to take the risk to come this time.
Although the zombie blockade delayed us a little this time, we were still able to reach our destination in twenty minutes.
But as they could see the name of the train station, and there was a large group of zombies following behind, the few cars at the back of the convoy quickly contacted the captain of the front car.
In the SUV in the front, Zheng Cheng, who was sitting in the passenger seat, received the news.
After thinking about it, he posted a few messages in the group.
When the car passed the last intersection on the way to the train station, he took advantage of his brother Zheng Gong slowing down the car, picked up the rope under his feet, opened the car door and jumped out.
Also jumping out of the car were people from several cars following behind them.
After four or five people got out of the car, they did not stop. They split into two groups, and one group held one end of the rope and ran to both sides of the road.
A long rope dragged on the ground, gradually extending to both sides of the road as they walked, and cars ran over the rope one after another.
Zheng Cheng led his men running all the way, clearing out the zombies that surrounded them.
After the last car passed the intersection, they passed one end of the climbing rope through the handle of a roadside store.
Seeing that the rope had been tied on the other side, Zheng Cheng pulled it tight.
An orange defense line suddenly appeared on the empty road. Looking from the middle of the road, it seemed as if all the zombies were blocked outside the orange line.
But he did not dare to let his guard down. He wrapped the climbing rope in his hand around the handle at the door twice, then led his men to run across the street while pulling the rope.
The fifty-meter-long mountain rescue rope ultimately only formed a double-line barrier at the intersection.
Zheng Cheng didn't know how effective this rope would be or how long it could hold back the zombies. Seeing that the zombies were about to surround them, he didn't delay and ran quickly to the train station with the others.
The vehicles that had passed by earlier had already arrived at the entrance of the train station waiting hall.
The scattered zombies saw them and pounced on them like sharks smelling blood.
More than a dozen cars were parked at the door, but no one in the cars dared to get out when they saw the zombies rushing towards them. However, they remembered the instructions in the group last night, and no matter how scared they were, they did not scream.
But even if they didn't make any sound, the noise they made when they arrived was enough to attract the zombies.
Zheng Gong glanced at the messages in the group. Except for a few other groups of people who were still on the way, almost everyone was screaming and asking what to do, but no one had the courage to get off the bus.
Everything was going well in the group yesterday, but when the critical moment came, so many people were of no use at all.
Thinking of the older brothers who had just jumped out of the car to cover them and had not returned yet, Zheng Gong knew that they could not just wait like this.
It's already very dangerous and hard for big brother and the others to cover their retreat. Do we have to wait until they come back to deal with these zombies?
Others can wait, but he can't always hide behind his elder brother.
Waiting doesn't necessarily mean a good opportunity, the situation will only get worse. If you can't handle these things now, when the zombies behind catch up, you will be really helpless.
Especially his brother's off-road vehicle was leading the way in front. The entire front of the car was covered with zombie flesh and blood. If left alone, it would definitely be the first target to attract zombies.
Zheng Gong looked at his parents sitting in the back seat of the SUV and his sister-in-law holding his little nephew, then looked at the car behind him that was motionless. He took out his mobile phone, sent a message in the group, and got out of the car with an iron rod.
"Dad, I'll go down and take care of those things. You drive up front and take my mom and sister-in-law into the hall when you get a chance."
After saying that, without waiting for his family to react, he rushed towards the zombies that surrounded him.
The scattered zombies were not a big deal. He attacked according to the zombies' weaknesses published on the government website, and basically killed them with one blow. Even when facing ferocious zombies, it felt like chopping melons and vegetables.
Perhaps it was because his movements were too smooth, making killing zombies seem not so difficult, or perhaps it was because of what he said in the group chat that people gradually came out of the car behind with weapons.
There weren't many zombies at the entrance of the waiting hall to begin with, and as more and more people joined the zombie-killing camp, this number of zombies became nothing.
After a while, the entrance of the waiting hall was covered with blood, and all the zombies that surrounded it fell down.
But before everyone had time to be happy about killing all the zombies, they saw five people running towards them quickly from the corner of the intersection they had just passed.
When Zheng Gong saw his elder brother running in front of the crowd, he felt relieved a little, but when he saw his elder brother making gestures to him from a distance, he immediately became nervous again.
He didn't have time to think about it. He followed his eldest brother's instructions, went back to the car, opened the door, and ran to the waiting room with the rest of the family.
When the others saw his actions, they came to their senses, picked up their packed luggage from the car and rushed into the waiting room.
The glass door of the waiting hall was broken, and the entrance was blocked by a wooden low cabinet and the seats in the waiting hall. It was quiet inside and there seemed to be no danger.
But Zheng Gong did not dare to be careless. He moved the wooden cabinet at the edge away, went in to check the situation first, and only let his family in after making sure it was safe.
Someone with quick feet saw that the entrance had already been opened and followed them in. Someone with slow feet, seeing that the other side was already crowded, used their free hands to move the chair blocking the door a little further, opening another entrance.
When Zheng Cheng and his group ran to the door, all the objects blocking the door had been moved all over the place, and almost everyone was blocking the door waiting to go in.
Zheng Cheng did not go to the door like everyone else. He first returned to the car, took out the remaining luggage and belongings from the trunk, and then ran to the door of the waiting hall.
On the other side of the waiting hall, Zheng Gong, who had entered the waiting hall earlier, had already brought his family to the platform and saw with his own eyes the train that he had seen in the video online before.
He was not as amazed as others. He kept his elder brother's instructions in mind, took out the magic crystal he had prepared long ago from his trouser pocket, bought the tickets, and got on the bus with his family before he breathed a sigh of relief.
Those who had bought tickets and were waiting in the car wanted to chat with new people when they saw them get on the bus, but when they saw Zheng Gong's stern face and the dirt and blood all over his body, the idea of chatting faded away.
Zheng Gong was not in the mood to chat, as he was still worried about his elder brother.
After settling his parents, sister-in-law and nephew, he couldn't stay in the car anymore.
"You guys stay in the car first, I'll go down to look for Big Brother."
【Author’s words】
Here is today's update.
I've been hesitating about something lately, so I wanted to ask for everyone's opinions.
Do you prefer every other day with 3000+ words per update? Or daily with 2000+ words?
Okay, I know everyone likes to update 10,000+ words a day [covering face and running away]
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