Chapter 90 The thing they saw was truly…
"This, this..." Song Jianguo glanced at it twice, then immediately looked away, not daring to look any longer.
Thinking of something, he looked at his daughter sitting in the front seat and found that Song Rushuang was staring "focused" at the map on her phone, muttering the route to Zhang Han, seemingly unaware of what was happening on the road next to her. He couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief.
The vehicle drove out of the school gate, turned a corner, and happened to be going in the opposite direction from the man on the road.
The other person was left behind the car. The two turned around and saw through the rear window that the man was kneeling on all fours, licking the blood from the corner of his mouth in a strange and exaggerated manner. He then slowly looked up at the school gate next to him. Suddenly, they were shocked.
Xu Mingyu and the others are still on campus, and there are a lot of students gathered there. What if this person breaks in...?
No, can what they saw really still be called a "person"?
The two men were filled with dread, but mindful of Zhang Han and Song Rushuang in the front seats, they refrained from exclaiming. Even now, they were still afraid of leaving a shadow in their daughter's heart.
Zhang Feng looked at Fu Qing, concealing the anxiety in his voice: "That person..."
Fu Qing understood what he meant: "It's okay, the school security guards will handle it."
Her calm demeanor was almost frightening.
Song Jianguo and Zhang Feng racked their brains but couldn't figure it out.
Is this the normal reaction a person should have when seeing such a bloody scene?
...And what kind of security guard could be responsible for handling this?
After the SUV carrying the five people turned the corner, a small door on the east side of the gate opened. Two students peeked out and, seeing that no one was around, they approached the man lying on the ground with peace of mind.
The two skillfully killed the zombie, placed it in a body bag they had prepared beforehand, and carried it back to the school. They avoided crowded routes and entered an underground space.
This place is located in a remote area, far away from the underground cabins and storage rooms. Although the underground buildings in Fangzhou are connected by passages, few people usually come here.
Only students and teachers whose wristbands contained the campus map knew that an incinerator and a morgue had been built in this area. The former was specifically used for incinerating corpses and was not used in conjunction with the garbage incinerators near the farmland, allowing for more professional segmented burning to prevent corpses from exploding.
The number of corpses near Fangzhou in the future will only increase, whether they are dead humans or killed zombies. These corpses will decompose quickly if left outdoors. In order to prevent the spread of disease and to protect the environment near the school, a volunteer team has been formed to regularly go out and clean up the zombies and corpses near the school and bring them back to the incinerator for burning.
In addition, there are student patrol teams, exploration teams responsible for going out to collect supplies, teams that take turns on duty at the guard posts near the walls and the south and east gates, teams responsible for taking care of crops and animals, and so on.
Each student has their own assigned task, and through the function of the wristband, the team can arrange shifts and take turns, which is very orderly.
If someone has been working in a physically demanding job such as moving corpses off-campus for too long, they can apply to switch to an easier on-campus patrol team after a while.
Once parents have adapted to the post-apocalyptic environment, they can also step in to share some of the work, making the students' tasks easier.
The two members of the corpse-moving team handed the zombie remains to their classmates who were waiting in full gear at the crematorium. The classmates were responsible for performing simple treatments on the bodies before cremation. The high temperature of over 900 degrees Celsius during cremation could completely inactivate the virus, and the ashes could even be used to improve the soil or as building materials.
This is somewhat hellish, but in the apocalypse, it's a rational use of resources. Mix the ashes with kitchen waste, seal it, and let it ferment. After two months, it can be used as fertilizer.
The students working in the morgue are all carefully selected individuals with strong mental fortitude, but this position is still rotated daily, and the same person will not be assigned to the same position again within a month.
After the handover was completed, the two members of the body-moving team left without anyone noticing anything amiss.
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Meanwhile, Sun Wei, who was trapped on the road, calmly took out a switchblade from the storage compartment next to the driver's seat and hid it in her sleeve.
She is now very fortunate—when the previous multi-vehicle collision occurred, the truck was stopped in traffic waiting at a red light, so the three people in the truck were not seriously injured when it was rear-ended.
Liao Ya Hui and Sun Miao were quite frightened.
The two of them sat in the back seat of Sun Wei's car the whole way, watching her live stream. Although they felt it wasn't safe, they saw that Sun Wei mostly just listened to the conversations and occasionally chimed in, her attention still focused on the road, so they let her be. They were even a little curious, seeing their daughter "working" for the first time.
Behind those densely packed bullet comments are viewers expressing their love for Sun Wei.
Halfway through watching, Sun Miao even secretly used his phone to search for the account @DormitoryBattle, clumsily reading the viewers' comments, and then showing them to Liao Ya Hui.
That was the first time the two of them had ever learned what their daughter was doing online.
She doesn't seem to be just someone who locks herself in her room and "doesn't do her job," as they had previously imagined.
She and her friends brought joy to many people and indeed conveyed some values.
Although they couldn't understand why anyone would like to watch these things, Sun Wei had indeed conveyed her voice to countless people, a number that was beyond their wildest imagination.
Tens of millions of fans, millions of views per episode, and the enthusiastic comments from fans... all of this challenged Liao Ya Hui and Sun Miao's traditional thinking.
The car accident happened at that moment, suddenly waking them up.
After the two regained their senses, they were about to get out of the car to check the situation, but Sun Wei stopped them: "It's quite noisy in the back, so let's not go and join in the fun."
In the past, given Liao Ya-hui's strong personality, she definitely wouldn't have listened to such advice, but this time, her movement to open the car door was strangely slow.
The two held their breath and, sure enough, heard several loud shouts and curses coming from the end of the traffic, and they seemed to be getting even louder.
It looks like a fight has broken out.
"We have to go and see what's going on. We don't even know who's responsible right now," Liao Ya Hui said after a moment's hesitation.
Sun Wei was a little surprised, then thought for a moment and said, "Then you guys stay in the car and call the police. I'll go check it out. I'll be right back."
After saying that, he opened the car door and got out.
Sun Miao held the phone to his ear for a moment, then put it down with a furrowed brow: "I can't get through to the police."
Before the words were even finished, there was another loud bang, and the entire truck moved forward half a meter. The two people in the truck slammed their heads against the back of the front seats. Sun Miao was dizzy from the impact, and Liao Ya Hui slid forward off the seat.
Screams erupted all around. The car on the right was almost pressed against the truck without any gap. Through the car window, Liao Ya Hui saw in horror that the driver of the car was squeezing his thick waist out of the narrow gap between the two vehicles with a ferocious expression.
He seemed to be struggling to escape something, veins bulging on one hand as he desperately reached upwards, finally managing to grab onto their car window. His fingernails were torn from the force of his grip, yet he seemed to have lost all feeling of pain, still desperately digging into the window frame with his bloodied hand, using the leverage to free himself.
"Help, help me..."
He was shouting something incoherently.
"There's someone in my car... in my car..."
The pressure caused his eyeballs to bulge out, his bloodshot eyes filled with tears, and his lips turned bluish-purple. As this face drew closer inch by inch, Liao Ya Hui finally couldn't help but scream.
But the next second, another car suddenly sped over from the side intersection.
The two men were trapped in the car, only managing to protect their heads and necks in their haste. They watched as the jeep, without slowing down, crashed into the edge of the traffic, its front end completely crushed, the hood flying off and billowing thick smoke. One car crashed into another, the chain reaction causing all the vehicles to swerve to the left, until the shockwave reached a nearby sedan—
Liao Ya-hui instinctively closed her eyes, her mind exploding.
The man who climbed out of the driver's seat had his spine broken by the collision. The light in his eyes quickly dimmed. His lower body was still stuck in the car, but his upper body was bent backward. His hands slid down limply, and he remained motionless.
"How could this happen..." Liao Ya Hui gagged, and felt like crying again. As the person closest to the scene, she was the most shocked. "Why did he climb out?"
Sun Miao held his wife tightly, reaching over her shoulder, when he suddenly saw the man's corpse move.
It was as if a giant beast, unseen beneath the surface of the sea, stretched out its long tentacles, wrapped around his body, and dragged him downwards. The man's body slammed against the car wall with each movement.
Bang, bang, bang.
Sun Miao: "He seemed to have said something like there was someone in his car..."
Someone? Who could it be that would frighten a strong man so much that he wouldn't even dare to stay in the car?
Sun Miao dared not think about it anymore.
This is clearly a scene from a horror movie.
Sitting in the moving car, they were afraid of getting carsick, so they rarely looked at their phones. They only checked Sun Wei's account when they were stuck in traffic earlier, so they didn't know what was happening outside.
"Weiwei, we have to go and call Weiwei back," Liao Yahui said, her voice trembling. "We can't let her see this."
The man's body was so twisted and horrifying.
The driver's side door was opened at that moment, and Sun Wei quickly jumped into the car. Without saying a word, she locked the door, picked up the phone that had fallen under the passenger seat, said a few words to the audience, and then replied to Song Rushuang's message.
"Don't go out to check the situation. Just stay in the car and wait for the police and ambulance to arrive." Liao Ya Hui felt a little relieved when she saw her daughter, but she hadn't completely recovered yet.
She felt that after dealing with today's incident, she should see a psychologist.
Sun Wei suddenly turned her head and said anxiously, "I can't get through to the police or the ambulance—Dad, Mom, something's happened."
Their hearts skipped a beat, not understanding: "Something happened? How did something happen?"
"There were people biting like madmen behind us. The people being bitten were screaming terribly, and there were more than just one or two biters," Sun Wei said quickly. "I didn't dare get close. I looked from a distance and saw that one of the bitten people lay on the ground for a while, and then he actually got up and started biting the people around him who were trying to save him. The scene was like a zombie apocalypse in a movie..."
She bit her lip and said cautiously, "I just saw someone get bitten on the neck, and a huge jet of blood spurted out... It doesn't look like they're still alive."
Liao Ya Hui covered her mouth, while Sun Miao felt like she was about to have a heart attack.
However, when the two thought of the man who had just died so horribly, they couldn't immediately refute him.
"Is it a movie shoot...?" Liao Ya-hui still wanted to struggle, but she didn't dare to look out the window at all.
It's as if if you don't watch it, the so-called apocalypse won't exist.
Only those who are in hell know that it is almost impossible to instantly change one's mind and accept everything; it is human instinct to deceive oneself.
Sun Wei shook her head, extinguishing the last glimmer of hope in her mother's heart: "I just chatted with the people around me for a bit, and they said that the trending topics are exploding right now, with people going crazy and biting each other all over the world. Let's not even talk about zombies, let's hope it's some unknown infectious disease outbreak."
The car was silent. Sun Miao trembled as she reached for her phone, wanting to confirm what Sun Wei had said, but Liao Ya Hui suddenly jumped up as if she had been startled by something.
"There's a hand!!"
Out of the corner of her eye, she saw a bloody hand slowly emerging from under the car.
The man with the broken spine woke up again and reached out his hand once more, but because his body was stuck, he could only repeat the reaching motion like a rusty robot.
Liao Ya Hui's heart was pounding in her throat: the man's eyes were empty, all the previous pain and struggle had disappeared from his face, and he no longer looked alive!
Could it be... that zombies really exist in the world?!
The two men stared at the man through the car window in shock. Suddenly, they felt a poke in their bodies. Turning around, they saw Sun Wei handing each of them a switchblade and a pair of thick gloves.
She lied without batting an eye, saying, "The knife is for unpacking boxes and cutting fruit, and the gloves are for moving goods later. You can wear them for self-defense."
"The zombie viruses in movies and TV shows are all transmitted through saliva and blood. Wearing gloves will make you safer if you get bitten."
While the two were still in a daze, unable to accept reality, their daughter had already found weapons and protective gear for self-defense among the things around her.
Liao Yahui and Sun Miao accepted it in a daze.
The next second, Sun Wei opened the driver's side window, flipped over, and somehow ended up on the roof. She was incredibly flexible, and despite the window not being wide enough for a zombie to get in, she easily squeezed through using her agility.
"I don't dare get out of the car. I'll go up and check the situation." Sun Wei said, having already landed, and slowly stood up on the roof of the car.
Looking out, the long line of cars stretched for hundreds of meters, a cacophony of voices and horns, making it impossible to get off the original route.
We can only go to the side.
With fewer cars on the side, if we could get into the driver's seat and move the car a bit, we could clear a small path that would allow trucks to pass.
But that would require clearing out the nearby zombies first.
On the sidewalk not far away, another woman who was running away was pounced on by a zombie, and her screams gradually faded away.
Sun Wei was extremely anxious and wanted to jump off the car to help, but she hesitated because of the two people in the car below her. Suddenly, she stopped in her tracks.
At the edge of the horizon, a jet-black SUV sped closer.
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