Chapter 75 Moving Forward
The car has been very active since it entered the highway. The zombies and vehicles at the toll booth blocked most of the cars, so the highway is relatively clean and the road is wide. Even if they encounter other car accident scenes on the way, they will not be blocked from passing.
There are no cars on the road, so they don’t have to worry about the speed limit or lane change on the highway. The speed is neither fast nor slow, and it is very leisurely.
However, the two of them still have some regrets about finally leaving the city where they have lived for many years.
"Will we come back in the future?" Xi Qing asked while driving.
Yun Shuhuai was sitting in the passenger seat, applying a hot water bag to her right hand. Her hand was still numb, and she planned to go back to the space for treatment after going to bed at night. After hearing what Xi Qing said, she replied, "Why, you can't bear to leave?"
"That's not the case. After all, apart from my hometown, this city is the place I'm most familiar with. I didn't expect that I would have to leave now. Now thinking about these past few months, it was just like a dream. First, the apocalypse came suddenly, and I was almost trapped to death in the library. Then, after meeting you, I followed you to kill zombies crazily, and I didn't have to worry about food and drink. This change was so great that I even suspected that all this was my fantasy. In fact, the real me is still waiting to die in the library--"
Xi Qing said, and suddenly screamed. It turned out that Yun Shuhuai pinched her leg. "Do you still think it's a dream?"
"No, no. Hiss, you hit me really hard."
"If it wasn't hard, how could I have woken you up?"
Yun Shuhuai put down the hot water bottle, leaned against the window, picked up the camera and took a picture of the distant scenery.
Since the end of the world, all kinds of human activities have almost stopped, and the sky has become clearer without the haze. In the city at night recently, you can see the stars in the sky. It
would be even better if there were no zombies.
Xi Qing suddenly said: "Shuhuai, I remember that your home is in T city, don't you feel reluctant to leave like this?"
"Home? I have no home since my parents passed away. All my family is left is pot-baked pork." As she said this, she let the cat out, held the cat in her arms, rubbed it, and continued, "Without family, that home can only be called a house. But I have my parents' photos and relics with me. With them, wherever I go is home."
When Xi Qing heard Yun Shuhuai say this, she also thought of the opera troupe. When Yun Shuhuai found her, she was still carrying her bag, and her mobile phone contained many photos and videos of her and her master, brothers and sisters in the opera troupe. Afterwards, she asked Yun Shuhuai to keep her mobile phone for her, but she has not come out since she gave it to Yun Shuhuai, because she was particularly afraid of seeing those familiar faces from the past, afraid that they would also become terrible zombies...
Fear rose from the depths of her heart, and Xi Qing shook her head violently.
Yun Shuhuai noticed her abnormality and said, "Aqing, if you want to live well in the end times, don't think about the past. This will only increase your psychological pressure. If you are distracted during the battle, you will die." She glanced at Xi Qing who was frowning and continued, "But I don't mean for you to abandon everything in the past. Since you want to live, then think more about the future. Immersing yourself in the past in the present world will not help you at all."
Xi Qing took a deep breath, "I understand."
Yun Shuhuai saw that she still looked a little negative, so he turned on the car music. Rhythmic and cheerful music sounded, which reduced a lot of loneliness while driving. She took out a bunch of snacks to liven up the atmosphere. The two of them ate and chatted, mainly discussing future events.
Yun Shuhuai also took out a selfie stick and stuck it out of the car window to take a few photos of the two of them, recording their joyful high-speed driving in the end times.
Although there are no cars on the highway, it is not absolutely safe. From time to time, they will encounter a few zombies.
Sometimes Yun Shuhuai will control Hunter No. 3 to lead the sheep, and when passing them, he will directly dig out their crystal cores. Sometimes he will step on the accelerator to directly knock the zombies away or get rid of them.
According to the route planned by Yun Shuhuai, the two will pass through at least a dozen cities of all sizes in the remaining months. They plan to collect supplies and kill as they go, until they reach the H city base.
Along the way, whenever they encounter a factory or gas station, the two will get off the car and sweep it.
Xi Qing truly realized Yun Shuhuai's ability to stock up. She put everything into the space, no matter if it was useful or not, as long as it was intact or she was interested, she would collect it without any consideration. Of course, she didn't collect everything, Yun Shuhuai would leave some at her discretion.
Yun Shuhuai didn't collect much food. The farm in her space was already fully operational, and the tens of thousands of recipes in the kitchen were basically lit up, and there were all kinds of dishes you wanted to eat.
In the past two months, they have eaten different meals every day.
If you want to eat snacks, just pick up a few and let the kitchen analyze them. It's easy to replicate them, but there are no packaging bags, but it's also a different flavor to eat with a bowl.
Considering that the longer the time after the apocalypse, the more packaged foods will expire, Yun Shuhuai sometimes collects snacks of other flavors and puts them in the kitchen for analysis.
Of course, the most important things are gasoline, medicines, vehicles, equipment and other things. When they arrive in a city, they will first go to sweep gas stations, hospitals, car dealerships and shopping malls, and then slowly replenish some other necessary things.
The two have high-level abilities, so they can collect supplies smoothly, and even if they encounter zombies, they can easily deal with them.
Of course, they will meet other survivors on the way to collect supplies. Yun Shuhuai and her friends basically don’t collect food, so they rarely conflict with them.
At this time, the survivors they met were like frightened birds, and they were more afraid of them than zombies, especially those who could keep their clothes clean and well-equipped in the end times. They looked hard to deal with.
So in most cases, both sides would go their separate ways and not interfere with each other, but there would be some people who were not afraid of death and came to trouble them, sometimes they targeted their cars, and sometimes they coveted their beauty.
Yun Shuhuai's cars were basically high-performance, large, luxurious off-road vehicles or heavy-duty RVs with steel and iron frames. They couldn't help showing off their wealth when they were out, so it was reasonable for them to be targeted by others.
But those people were basically taught a lesson by them. Yun Shuhuai would let some of them go if they knew the current situation, but for some who were really too much, don't blame her for being ruthless.
A few months passed, and after experiencing winter and spring, it was now early summer, and the two of them changed into light clothes.
They have now arrived in the province where H City is located. If they go directly to the base, they can drive there in one day.
If it weren't for the fact that there are very few vehicles on the roads now, and there is no manual maintenance, many roads have begun to be covered by plants or collapsed or blocked, and the road conditions are terrible, it can actually be driven there in less than half a day.
But Yun Shuhuai is not in a hurry to go. They still have to pass through a few more cities and collect more things before they are ready to go for a full year. However, the closer they get to the base, the more people they meet who go out to collect supplies.