Chapter 1564 Night Arrives
S518 provincial road.
The sunset was like blood, and the apocalyptic sky was stained with a thick layer of red.
On a dilapidated provincial road, a lone off-road vehicle was driving slowly. The rumble of the engine was in stark contrast to the dead world.
The wheels rolled over the ground, raising a cloud of dust that seemed to leave a mark on the ruins.
In the car, Zheng Shiwu's eyes were firm and calm, and he was holding the steering wheel, his fingertips slightly white.
He stared through the windshield at the endless expanse ahead. On the roadside, abandoned vehicles piled up into silent tombstones.
On this road, there were no footsteps of pedestrians, no roars of zombies, only the wind blowing into the car through the broken windows, bringing an icy chill.
Didi didi——
Didi didi——
The alarm on the watch rang, followed by a scratching sound coming from the co-pilot.
"Huh - Lao Zheng, where are we?"
He deftly took off the black cloth from his face, turned off the watch alarm, rubbed his eyes and looked around.
"Shaanxi Province, Xishi, there was a sign just now showing that the Terracotta Warriors of Qin Shihuang should be in front of us."
The black hand rubbed his face, yawned again, and said:
"It's getting late. We have to find a safe place to camp. I don't want to sleep in the car like last night. One of the tires was blown out by the zombies. If I hadn't brought three spares from the trading market, Tires, we’re done!”
"It's not safe to sleep in a car."
Zheng Shiwu said: "Let's go ahead. The museum should be safer and more confidential."
"Okay." Black Hand said with a smile:
"I haven't been to Qin Shihuang's Terracotta Warriors and Horses yet. Let's take a look before we leave tomorrow."
Zheng Shiwu glanced at him and said, "Do you think we are out for an outing?"
"no."
Black Hand quickly explained: "We don't waste time, it won't take much time to just take a look.
Besides, we haven't stopped on the road in the past two days. We drove eight or nine hours a day, and the road conditions were not good. Our buttocks almost split into two. It's very tiring."
Hearing Black Hand's muttering, Zheng Shiwu helplessly replied:
"Okay, don't talk about it. Let's take a look when we pass by tomorrow morning."
"Okay, there seems to be a Huashan Mountain nearby, right?" Black Hand looked at the electronic map and asked suddenly.
"Yes, but don't think about it. We are not here for an outing. We also want to climb Mount Huashan. Dream on!" Zheng Shiwu sounded a little impatient.
He has been driving for 5 hours continuously from 12 noon to now, and he is very tired.
Black Hand shook his head and said:
"No, I think the terrain of Huashan Mountain is very difficult and dangerous. It would be difficult for people to climb up before the apocalypse. It will definitely be difficult for zombies to climb up now. I feel there should be survivors there."
Hearing this, Zheng Shiwu thought about it and it was indeed possible, but even if there were survivors, there would not be many.
The space on Mount Huashan is limited and cannot accommodate too many people.
Moreover, they need to eat and drink, and even if they overcome difficulties and cultivate the land, the harvest will not be large.
What's more, the higher the mountain, the stronger the wind. When natural disasters strike, the threat of storms is quite terrifying.
After the two set off from the trading market, they chatted along the way and gradually became familiar with each other.
Leng Wenqi had a fight before and established a foundation of trust. As time went by, the two people's trust in each other gradually increased.
Their physical strength is better than that of ordinary people. They have been driving from sunrise to five o'clock in the evening for the past two days.
We arrived at Xishi in Shaanxi Province from Petroleum City in Henan Province in two days.
According to their speed, they should be able to reach Lan City in Gansu Province in another day.
After arriving in Lanshi, we can reach Jiayu City in two days.
From Petroleum City, we traveled two to three thousand kilometers to reach Jiayu City, and it took five days to arrive in the face of complex terrain.
Their speed is extremely fast, and ordinary people simply cannot handle such intensity.
Before the end of the world, generally speaking, driving is tiring, but sitting in a car is not tiring.
But now in the apocalypse, driving is tiring, and riding in a car is tiring.
The road has been cracked by the sun for five or six years and has never been repaired, making it bumpy and bumpy.
After sitting for a long time, my waist and butt feel numb, and it feels like I have been running.
Suddenly, Black Hand saw a sign in front of him.
"Old Zheng, the Qin Shihuang Mausoleum Museum is in front of you. Go straight and turn right. Did you see what was written on the guide sign just now?"
"Well, I saw it." Zheng Shiwu replied calmly.
Soon, they arrived outside the gate of Qin Shi Huang's Mausoleum Museum.
In the setting sun, they saw the mountains rising in the distance behind the museum, with two stone pillars standing on both sides.
The natural disasters in the past few years do not seem to have much impact on the museum, and it still stands there firmly.
In the distance stands a tall statue of Qin Shihuang.
"So domineering!" Black Hand looked at the statue and exclaimed.
Zheng Shiwu looked around and drove the car to an open fare collection station on the side.
There are a lot of their valuable things in this car, so the car cannot be lost.
Even though it was getting dark now, it was generally unlikely that any survivors would come out at night.
But to be on the safe side, they tried to hide the car.
Zheng Shiwu pulled out the key, then picked up a backpack, opened the trunk and rummaged through it to find food, water, ultraviolet lamps and other things.
"Black Hand, contact Oil City right now and tell them we have arrived in Xishi."
"Okay."
Black Hand moved the radio from the back seat to the front and contacted Oil City.
After Zheng Shiwu took out all the things he would need tonight, he put on the night vision goggles in case of emergency.
"Yes, we have arrived in Xishi."
"No trouble for the time being, now we are looking for a shelter."
Two minutes later, Zheng Shiwu was carrying a package, and there was another package on the ground next to him.
Black Hand ended the contact with Oil City and got out of the car.
Bang!
Close the door.
"I packed it for you, your sleeping bag and other things are inside." Zheng Shiwu pointed to the package on the ground and said.
"Thank you." Black Hand nodded.
Then the two walked around the car to check whether the doors were closed. Although the window glass was not bulletproof, there was a layer of wire mesh outside, and a layer of welded steel frame outside the wire mesh.
It was obviously impossible to smash the glass to get into the car.
Unless you use a cutting machine to cut the steel bars, you can go in.
However, in the middle of the night, the noise of using a cutting machine is huge, which can easily attract the zombies around.
After checking that there is no problem, the two of them walked out of the ticket office with their packages on their backs and an automatic rifle on their chests.
Zheng Shiwu looked around and pointed to the two places on the left and right sides of the top of the museum gate that looked like sentry boxes and said, "I think it's good for us to go there tonight."
"You can also see the situation in the ticket collection hall from there, and it looks quite solid there."
"Let's go and see." Black Hand did not comment.
Since the appearance of the wall-climbing zombies, he doesn't like to stay in high places at night. Only places like the basement can give him a sense of security.
Some weeds grew in the gaps between the bricks on the ground.
The iron bars of the ticket gate had long been rotten, and the two climbed over.
The ground was full of dust, and all kinds of garbage were flying all over the sky with the wind.
The northwest is already windy and dusty, and now it's getting dark, it gives people a feeling of depression.
"Go up this way." Zheng Shiwu looked around and found a door in the buildings on both sides of the gate.
He waited until the black hand came over before pushing the door open.
Squeak!
The iron door made a sharp and piercing sound.
As the door was pushed open, there was a row of seats inside, which should be a place for ticket inspectors to rest.
The space inside was long and narrow, and the setting sun outside the glass window shone in, and the ground was full of dust.
A row of footprints was left where the two people walked.
Going forward, there were steps, and it was a little dark inside.
Click!
Zheng Shiwu turned on the flashlight and shone it on it, but there was no movement.
Going up.
Tap tap tap -
The sound of their footsteps echoed throughout the corridor.
They remained vigilant, looking at the surrounding situation one after another.
After going up two floors in a row, the front suddenly became bright.
A broken glass door appeared in front of them.
Zheng Shiwu opened the glass door, and in front of him was a corridor similar to the ancient city wall corridor.
There are two buildings in the corridor that look like ancient watchtowers.
Zheng Shiwu pushed open the glass door and walked over.
He walked under the watchtower and pushed the door, and the door of the watchtower was opened by him.
The area inside is only ten square meters, with a large table, several screens on the wall behind the table, three armchairs, a camp bed, and an iron cabinet behind the table.
The entire watchtower has only one very small window, which is also closed at this time.
"This should have been a monitoring room before. I think it's good. What do you think?" Zheng Shiwu asked the black hand behind him.
Black hand did not answer him immediately, but stood at the door and repeatedly tested the iron door.
Although this iron door has been used for five or six years, the lock is still useful.
He carefully checked the welding position of the iron door, and even hit it twice with his body to test its sturdiness.
"Okay, but I think we should push the iron cabinet over and put it behind the iron door." Black hand said after checking.
"Okay."
"As for this small window, there shouldn't be such a small zombie." Black Hand walked to the only window in the whole room and said after opening it.
The small window is square, with a length and width of only a dozen centimeters, and zombies should not be able to get in.
Crash!
Zheng Shiwu directly lifted the big table, pushed it to the small window, and used the tabletop to hold the window.
"Isn't this okay?"
"Well, open it first to get some fresh air, and then close it after dark. It's too stuffy in here." As he said, Black Hand opened the door.
As soon as they came in, a strong musty and stuffy smell rushed into their noses, making them feel a little uncomfortable.
Time passed by minute by minute, and through this small window they could just see their vehicles parked at the ticket office.
The sky gradually darkened.
At 6:45, Black Hand closed the iron door and pushed the iron cabinet behind it.
Zheng Shiwu also closed the window here, and the black wooden table also stared at it.
A bed, or a camp bed, two people
In the end, Zheng Shiwu humbly gave way to Hei Shou, and the two of them ate food and drank water in the dim light.
An hour later, Zheng Shiwu put a moisture-proof mat on the ground and then covered it with a blanket.
Finally, I got into my sleeping bag to rest.
The weather in the northwest is a bit cold at night.
Getting sick and having a fever can be troublesome, so they must stay in good combat condition.
South Paradise.
As night fell, a large group of zombies came from afar.
Some of these zombies were very obvious mutant zombies. There were more than a dozen high-jumping zombies bouncing in the zombie group, and in front of them was a group of agile zombies, running very fast and rushing to the front.
Among the zombies, one or two small and thin zombies occasionally flashed.
This type of zombie is a wall-climbing zombie, and it is also the zombie that poses the greatest threat to humans in the end times.
Even high walls cannot stop their offensive pace. At present, there is only one way to restrain them: ultraviolet light.
After these zombies rushed under the wall of South Paradise, they immediately began to gnaw on the bloody corpses on the ground.
Kacha--
The sharp teeth bit the bones and tore the flesh.
The more than 100 corpses on the ground were quickly eaten up by this group of hungry zombies, like locusts passing through.
Zombies have a very developed sense of smell and can keenly smell the scent of people.
The more people there are, the more popular they are, and the easier it is for zombies to find them.
After eating these corpses, these zombies raised their heads and roared at the wall.
Several high-jumping zombies jumped up after charging.
Baji!
They hit the hard wall and fell down.
Even though they have amazing jumping ability, they still can't cross the 20-meter-high wall.
Only the least conspicuous wall-climbing zombies rushed to the bottom of the wall and climbed up.
These wall-climbing zombies have slender limbs and thin bodies, and they climb the wall as if they were walking on flat ground.
In the night, they quickly climbed up the wall and ran accurately towards the building in the center.
The building where Tiger Lord used to live, in the basement.
This basement is very spacious, covering hundreds of square meters.
Madman smiled and said to Dongfeng:
"Don't worry, this basement is very safe. I have done indoor planting here before. If it weren't for the thunderstorm disaster that caused a flood and flooded this place, my underground planting might have been successful."
Dongfeng sat on the chair and looked through the map in his hand.
"Well, Madman, I have no objection to your suggestion to send people to South Paradise during the day, but it's useless to say whether I agree or not. It depends on the willingness of the superiors."
Madman pulled a stool and sat down.
Creak, creak, click!
Perhaps because the stool was damp, it collapsed immediately after sitting down.
Madman didn't feel embarrassed. He patted his butt and stood up and said:
"We don't need so many people. Even if there are wall-climbing zombies, we are not afraid. We can just hide in the basement like we are now."
Boom, boom, boom!
At this moment, there was a crash outside the basement.
"The wall-climbing zombies are coming in." Dongfeng stood up from the chair.
"Don't worry, there are two doors. The wall-climbing zombies can't even get in through the first door. Don't worry." The madman waved his hand and said.
Dongfeng looked at Liu Youguang and signaled him to keep an eye on the high-power ultraviolet lamp at the door. If this door cannot be defended, turn on the ultraviolet lamp immediately to resist the wall-climbing zombies rushing in.
(Seeking monthly tickets)
