Chapter 78: Man-eating Tunnel
The ball stopped steadily at his feet. Xiang Yu reached into his pocket, pretending to take something, but in fact he was taking a flashlight from the space.
There was no light in the dark tunnel. Xiang Yu shone the flashlight forward and saw where her RV was parked, about twenty meters ahead.
A small black shadow shrank back the moment it came into contact with the flashlight.
Although it was only a few seconds, Xiang Yu recognized it immediately. It was a child with very white skin.
Bending down to pick up the ball on the ground, Xiang Yu walked towards the RV holding the gray water tank in one hand and the ball in the other.
Because Xiang Yu took his ball and didn't give it back to him, the child would occasionally poke his head out from behind the iron gate.
Look towards Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu installed the gray water tank and got out of the car. He shone the flashlight on the iron door on the stone wall. This was a pedestrian tunnel, which could be found in many tunnels.
It is also a safe passage.
When the little boy saw Xiang Yu walking towards him step by step, he immediately closed the door, and then there was a sound of footsteps.
Xiang Yu looked at the closed iron gate.
If she didn't have a strong mental state, she would probably have been scared by the child just now because his skin was too white.
His skin was too pale to look like that of a normal human being. It must be because he hadn’t seen the sun for a long time.
He raised his hand and pushed open the iron gate. The door creaked open and all eyes fell on Xiang Yu.
There were many people sitting in rows on the ground on both sides of the passage, and the little boy I had just seen was now nestling in a woman's arms.
He glanced at Xiang Yu secretly from the corner of his eye, "Mom..., my ball."
The woman stood up with her skinny body and walked towards Xiang Yu. "Hello, can you return my son's ball to him? Maybe he just wants to play with you."
The woman spoke weakly, and the person sitting on the ground was also looking at Xiang Yu.
The iron gate behind him closed with a sound, and soon Xiang Yu could no longer feel the scorching heat outside. The tunnel was very cool.
No wonder these people are hiding here.
The woman handed the ball over and whispered thank you. There were mostly survivors sitting in the direction of the tunnel near the gate.
As for those near the inside, they basically spread a piece of cardboard on the ground and lie on it to sleep.
Various smells mixed in the passage, it was extremely unpleasant.
"Sister, please sit here. I have another seat..." The little girl thought Xiang Yu was the same as them.
They all came in to escape the summer heat, and they moved aside to make a small space for Xiang Yu.
Xiang Yu was squatting beside the little girl. Next to her, a middle-aged man was leaning against the wall with his eyes open but lifeless.
"How long have you been here?" Xiang Yu took out a candy from his pocket and gave it to her. The little girl looked around quietly and quickly took the candy.
"We've been here for two months," the little girl glanced sideways at the man sitting next to her.
The man obviously also saw the candy that Xiang Yu had just given her, and there was gratitude in his eyes. At the back of the tunnel, several figures stood up from the ground and walked towards Xiang Yu.
The man noticed the movements of those people and anxiously shouted to Xiang Yu, "Go, leave here quickly..., run."
He shouted this sentence very softly, and almost only Xiang Yu and he could hear it.
Xiang Yu listened to the advice and whispered the location of the Y City shelter in the man's ear, then quickly got up and left the tunnel.
After getting in the car, he didn't stop and just started the car and left.
After a little thought, Xiang Yu understood the trick.
The men followed out, watched Xiang Yu's car go away, entered the passage, and one of them kicked the man.
The further they drove into the tunnel, the more Xiang Yu saw at least a dozen safety exits on the stone wall ahead.
It is estimated that these passages are full of survivors.
Fortunately, she only stayed at the entrance of the tunnel last night and did not go deeper inside.
At this moment, only the interrupted part of the tunnel was visible, and the ground was covered with some dried bloodstains, and several of the bloodstains were in a dragging state.
The place where the long bloodstains finally disappeared was the entrance of the passage.
Xiang Yu drove very quietly, and there was no sound of the accelerator, so the people inside were not alarmed.
The vehicles they robbed were also destroyed and parked on the roadside. Logically speaking, with so many people dead, there should be a bad smell from the corpses.
But Xiang Yu didn't smell anything at all, so after she parked the RV last night, she didn't notice anything wrong here at the first moment.
The headlights were fully turned on, illuminating the entire tunnel. Xiang Yu sped out of the tunnel and glanced in the rearview mirror.
Xiang Yu noticed several slender black shadows chasing after her car, and upon closer inspection they turned out to be men.
After coming out of the tunnel, she recalled the scene she had just seen. When she was about to exit the tunnel, she saw a lot of human bones on the ground.
It’s probably not that these people don’t want to go to the shelter, but that they can’t go to the shelter now.
The little girl and her father had obviously just arrived here not long ago, but the little boy and his mother must have been here for a long time.
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