Chapter 44 The Seven Who Blocked the Bridge



Southwest corner of Fusen Country Park.

Looking at the damaged truck window, Huang Zhao said through the mental connection:

"It must have been done by those survivors who left the city yesterday."

How naive! How can anyone these days think they can start a car by simply strung together a couple of wires, like a movie protagonist?

Although Huang Zhao was a little annoyed that his truck had been vandalized, he wasn't too worried, as long as the heavy truck was still there.

Modern vehicles are equipped with onboard computers and electronic anti-theft systems. The car key or remote control contains an anti-theft unlocking chip. Without this, the car will not start no matter how you plug it in.

Modern car thieves are high-tech professionals; they need to use computer programs to crack the vehicle's onboard computer board in order to steal the car. Huang Zhao doesn't believe these survivors know how to do that.

Take out your iPhone 24, use the navigation app, and start it!

The total distance is about 11 kilometers and the journey is expected to take 22 minutes. It is all on main roads, and you will need to cross a bridge about 100 meters long, a commercial and residential area, and some scattered functional buildings to get there.

With a driver in the car, Huang Zhao played a single-player game on his phone while waiting to collect the supplies upon arrival at the logistics park.

"Once we successfully retrieve the supplies, the construction of Dawn City can proceed on a fast track."

'It's already the fourth day, there shouldn't be any danger on the road, and the journey should be smooth.'

Watching Qin Yi skillfully start the engine, turn around, and drive towards Gate 1 of the park, it was clear that Huang Zhao's mediocre skills were far superior.

The park was quiet, without a single person in sight or any zombies wandering around. After passing through the electronic gate that had been knocked aside, we arrived at the main road.

At this point, a few scattered zombies appeared on the road, wandering out from the university town across the street.

Upon hearing the roar of the truck, the zombies on the road immediately rushed towards it.

“It’s like this everywhere outside, ignore it, let’s go straight to the logistics park.”

He spoke to Qin Yi, who had not yet left since the outbreak of the apocalypse.

The heavy truck turned right and headed west, directly crushing or killing any zombies blocking its way.

Ignoring the zombies roaming the road, continue unimpeded for about two kilometers until you reach the bridge that you must cross on your journey.

As Huang Zhao was leisurely scrolling through her phone, Qin Yi's voice echoed in her mind:

"The bridge about 300 meters ahead is blocked by piles of cars. We may have to get out of the car to clear them before we can pass."

"Continue driving forward until you stop by the bridge, let me sense it."

......

On the straight road, as Qin Yi spotted the cars blocking the way, the two men guarding the bridge also noticed the heavy truck approaching.

"Dalin, you stay here and keep watch. I'm going to tell Brother Mao we've got a big fish!"

"Okay, sure."

After saying that, the short, stout man with a lip piercing turned and ran toward the trailer of a medium-sized truck parked not far behind him.

At this moment, the "Brother Mao" they were talking about and four other people were resting inside.

The tall, thin man, called Dalin, remained where he was, muttering to himself:

"Damn it, I let that guy go and take credit again."

On the other side of the bridge, Qin Yi maneuvered the heavy truck to a stop at the bridgehead.

The mental perception area covered about 100 meters ahead on the other side of the bridge. Even after being transferred to Chen Run's mind and halved, the mental perception range was still 160 meters away, allowing him to clearly perceive everything happening on the other side.

I sensed that behind the cars piled up in the middle of the road blocking the way, a tall, thin young man was furtively looking toward the heavy truck.

The mental perception continued to spread forward, and not far away, in the cargo compartment of a medium-sized truck, five men were getting up and getting off.

Outside the carriage stood a chubby man with a lip piercing, saying:

"Brother Mao, a big truck is coming, there must be a lot of supplies in the cargo box!"

"Finally, a big fish has arrived! The two groups we stopped yesterday didn't have much to eat, only a few cases of bottled water."

"Well done, Dalin. I'll give you more supplies when we get back."

"Um...Brother Mao..."

My name is Xiao Pan..."

"Damn it, you're such a big guy and you're called Xiao Pan, and the other one, tall and skinny, is called Da Lin. How am I supposed to remember those names?!"

He reached out and pushed aside the fat man standing outside the door, cursing under his breath.

The sound clearly reached Huang Zhao's mind, and upon seeing this, Huang Zhao already knew what had happened.

If you want to travel from Linjiang City to outside the city, you have to cross this bridge on any road within a 10-kilometer radius.

This indicates that someone deliberately set up obstacles on the only possible route to block outgoing vehicles and survivors.

"It's only the fourth day of the apocalypse, and someone is already so audacious."

I wonder what these people will do after they're stopped—will they just loot supplies or kill and rob?

'This apocalypse is about to descend into complete chaos...'

Three days have passed, and there has been no official intervention. Many survivors have either begun to save themselves or have banded together for mutual support.

Some rioters, who believed the situation had degenerated into an unofficial state, began to revel, gradually revealing the evil in human nature to the public.

In his previous life, Chen Run also hid in Haoyuan for nearly a month, during which time he did not hear of any official rescue efforts.

Therefore, it is unclear what exactly happened in the early stages that caused the Dragon Kingdom, whose overall strength before the apocalypse was truly the strongest on Earth, to fail to organize a rescue operation for survivors in the first place.

With a sigh in his heart, Huang Zhao refocused his attention on the seven people opposite him.

The man everyone was talking about, known as "Brother Mao," had long, flowing, and fluffy blond hair that reached his shoulders, and at that moment, he had a cigarette that hadn't completely burned out in his mouth.

After jumping off the train, he walked ahead with a swaying gait and a swaggering air, thinking he looked very cool, leading the five people behind him toward the bridge where cars were piled up and blocking the road.

Besides these seven people, there were more than a dozen zombie corpses piled up on the ground a dozen meters away from the cargo. They had all died after being hit on the head with blunt objects, and there were no other living people present.

The crystals were still at the back of the zombie's head and hadn't been dug out, which clearly showed that these people didn't know the secret that the crystals at the back of the zombie's head could be absorbed.

This means that everyone in this group is either a level one superhuman or an ordinary person.

After carefully observing the wound on the zombie's head through mental perception, it was determined that it was likely caused by a flesh-type ability user, but it was unknown whether other types could be involved.

After observing the weapons in the hands of the seven men, they found that they were all carrying machetes or solid iron bars that were more than a meter long, and no other weapons.

At this point, all seven people had already crouched behind the piled-up cars and were hiding, seemingly waiting for the heavy truck to be blocked from moving forward before they rushed forward.

"Seven young men, unarmed, and of rank not exceeding Level One."

There's no threat, let's keep going.

After relaying the observed information to Qin Yi, the truck continued driving forward.

Thinking to myself:

'If it's just about looting supplies, then beat them all up first.'

If you want people dead, then take their lives!

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