Chapter 23 Little girl, take me with you
But when I looked around outside the building, although the surroundings were in a mess, the surveillance cameras were still there on the streets and near some buildings that had not collapsed.
At this time, the city's surveillance system had not yet collapsed, making it inconvenient to dispose of the body.
Wait until there is a chance in the future, and put it in the space first. Anyway, it can be kept fresh and isolated inside, and the pollution will not leak out.
"Sister Lan, you said earlier that your dream showed that the wind would start to blow again soon, and it would get stronger and stronger?"
Driving on the road again, Xiao Li hugged Qiao Lan's thick waist and asked worriedly.
"right."
Qiao Lan looked at the watch and said, "About forty minutes."
When the wind blows again, it will be bigger and stronger than last night, so you have to hide in a safe place before the wind blows.
"Then, can you..."
Xiao Li hesitated a little.
She was thinking about her roommates and classmates at school.
Xiao Li couldn't get in touch with his roommate, and the class group was buzzing with news that two classmates who stayed in the dormitory had lost contact and their lives were unknown.
At this time, several people drove to a street not far from C University. Xiao Li really wanted to go and see what was going on, but she didn't know how to drive a motorcycle. Should she ask Qiao Lan to take her there?
There are collapsed buildings everywhere, the road conditions are bad, and it is dangerous. This is causing trouble for Qiao Lan.
She was too embarrassed to speak.
Qiao Lan saw through her thoughts.
"Want to go back to school and take a look?"
"Well...but..."
"Go if you want to. There's still plenty of time." Qiao Lan turned around and asked Xiao Tang, "Is there anyone you're thinking of? Let's go watch it together."
Xiao Tang said no.
After he came to City C, he was only close to Qiao Lan and had no other acquaintances.
So the three of them changed direction and quickly drove to the outside of C University.
The wide green lawns and bushes along the street have now been completely changed.
The streets were littered with uprooted trees, broken bricks and stones from nearby buildings, and some horrifically grisly corpses that had been swept in from nowhere.
Xiao Li and Xiao Tang had seen some corpses on the streets along the way, but they were still not used to it and their faces were always pale.
To be honest, no one can adapt to this after living in normal society for a long time.
Xiao Li vomited several times.
Fortunately, Xiao Tang was a soldier and is tough, otherwise he wouldn't be able to drive a car.
Qiao Lan took advantage of the two hours when the wind stopped to take them out to the street, one to collect supplies, and the other to let them experience the cruelty of the end of the world earlier.
It will only get more cruel in the future.
Early exposure means early adaptation.
"The guardhouse at the gate is gone!"
Passing by the school gate, Xiao Li exclaimed.
The black and gold iron fence gate of C University disappeared, and no one knew where it was blown away by the wind.
The security booth next to the gate collapsed, leaving only the broken foundation, and no one knew where the bricks and stones had flown away.
"Security is over there."
Xiao Tang saw a security guard in a gray uniform wedged in the gap between a pile of bricks and stones not far away.
Only the upper body can be seen, and the lower head is probably crushed under the pile of rocks. It is dead.
Xiao Li burst into tears.
I didn't recognize the corpses I had seen before, but I saw this security guard at the gate every time I entered and exited the school. He was a very honest young man. If he saw some girls couldn't lift their suitcases over the threshold, he would help them carry them over.
Unexpectedly, he died on duty last night.
Qiao Lan didn't say anything.
She had suffered this kind of psychological shock in her previous life. Comfort was useless and she could only adapt slowly on her own.
Gradually, I became as hard as iron so that I could survive.
She increased the speed of the car, drove quickly along the street in front of the school gate, and arrived at the community where Xiao Li rented a house.
Several buildings in the community are in a terrible state.
There were not many surviving residents, and they were wandering around while the wind was down. Looking around, there were probably only about a hundred people left.
There were hundreds of households, at least thousands of people, living in these collapsed old buildings.
That's all there is now.
The casualty rate is so high when living in old buildings.
In the messy courtyard of the community, some people sat on the ground in a daze, some were crying and wailing, some were desperately making phone calls, shouting at the top of their lungs to contact relatives and friends, to find the authorities, and to seek emergency medical services. Some people also gathered in groups of three or five to search for survivors in the rubble of the building.
"There's one over here, come quickly!"
"...dead."
From time to time, people buried in bricks and stones were discovered, but they were followed by a sigh.
After parking the car, Xiao Tang got out and ran to the nearest group of people to help them pull the person out of the bricks and rocks.
Even if it was a dead person, they would quickly dig it out and place the body on the open space nearby.
There were already quite a few corpses lying around, none of them were fit to look at, all bloody and mangled, and quite scary.
No one knows at this time that more people will die in the future, and digging up corpses will be basically useless. By then, we won’t even be able to save the living.
"Lily!"
Xiao Li burst into tears.
She found her roommate among the corpses.
A pretty young girl who works as a receptionist at a nearby postgraduate entrance exam tutoring institution. While working, she is also privately studying for her associate degree to bachelor's degree. She is very hardworking.
But in the face of a catastrophe, everything in the past became a bubble.
Xiao Li and his roommate don’t have a very close relationship. They are both busy and don’t see each other often. They are just roommates.
But she found it hard to accept that a living person she knew turned into a mutilated corpse overnight.
"Sister Qiao Lan, that's Lily! Lily..."
Xiao Li cried so hard that he was out of breath.
There were also people around crying for their deceased relatives and friends, and screams were heard one after another.
Qiao Lan hugged Xiao Li and patted her on the back.
"Less than thirty minutes left."
Xiao Li's crying stopped, and he looked at Lily's body reluctantly. In the end, he turned around rationally and said, "Time is running out, let's go."
The dead are gone, we can only face reality and do what we should do.
"I have a friend at the Meteorological Bureau who says the wind will get stronger and stronger in half an hour. You should hurry and seek shelter. It's not safe here. The nearby Yishun Residential Complex, C University's New Media Building, and the Anmei Company office building... these buildings are probably sturdier, so you should go there quickly."
Before leaving the community, Qiao Lan told the surviving residents about the place in his memory that withstood the ten-day storm.
They are all nearby. If we set off immediately, these people can all get there.
She doesn't want to be a savior, but she will help others to the best of her ability. It's okay if she can save as many people as possible.
Xiao Li and Xiao Tang helped shout loudly several times, trying to make sure everyone could hear it.
"Bah! Friends from the Meteorological Bureau? The Meteorological Bureau is a bunch of bastards! Why didn't they predict such strong winds? They only reported force 12, but I thought it was force 120! Can you still believe the nonsense the Meteorological Bureau says?"
"Safe? Hahaha! My wife and child are gone, how can I be safe? Just blow me to death!"
Some people listened to the warning and started cursing instead.
He glared at Qiao Lan and the other two.
However, someone heard it and chased Qiao Lan to ask if the wind was really going to blow again and whether those buildings were really safe and would not collapse.
"I don't know. I just heard it from others. You decide for yourselves."
Qiao Lan got into the car, stepped on the ignition, and prepared to leave.
"Little girl, take me with you, take me with you, I'm injured and can't go anywhere else!"
The motorcycle was suddenly grabbed by someone.
"And me, I can't walk either..."
"Help……"
Qiao Lan and Xiao Tang were each riding a motorcycle and were surrounded.
Some people were pulling from the back, some were blocking the front, and some were sitting directly in the empty back seat of Xiao Tang's car.
Xiao Li sat in the back seat of Qiao Lan's car. A middle-aged woman squeezed in and wanted to sit behind Xiao Li. The three of them squeezed into one car.
"Girls, please help me. Auntie will definitely reward you handsomely in the future."
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