Act XXXIII
The heavy truck itself was full of horsepower, and it didn't take much effort for it to protrude from the burned jeep and throw off those monsters as it accelerated.
Speeding across the field, although temporarily away from the threat of monsters, Lawson was even more puzzled.
"Wow-"
Douglas shouted, as if to release the pressure in his heart.
"Isn't it bad that we just run away. ”
Lawson asked, glancing in the rearview mirror out of the corner of his eye, and could see that no one had escaped from the smoke for the time being.
"It's okay, as long as we send this to our destination, our mission is complete, like the situation just now, stay where you are and wait for death, I said you don't want to die, Stella?"
Douglas patted Rosen on the shoulder, in a tone of course.
"Ugh. ”
Rosen didn't know how to answer, he didn't know what the hell this world was, and he didn't know how long he would have to stay here, but Rosen knew that he had to go back to the world and what he needed to do.
"Damn it, Sandstorm!"
Douglas cursed, causing Lawson to look at the map projected inside the car.
The map is sketchy, but it can be seen that in the direction they are heading, there is a large storm group moving.
"Sandstorms in the wilderness can kill people. ”
Douglas hurriedly shifted the steering wheel to the side, trying to get into a nearby ruin to avoid the storm.
Then Rosen saw the horrific scene ahead.
Even after experiencing those grand scenes on the continent of Atlas, what he saw in front of him still shocked Rosen's heart.
It was a storm that covered the entire sky, black clouds stretched to the sky, and down like a hanging curtain, obscuring the earth, the storm clouds contained lightning and thunder, each lightning bolt was enough to tear a building, even if it was several kilometers away, Lawson could feel the huge energy carried in the sandstorm, such a sandstorm, enough to destroy an entire city.
Douglas stepped on the gas pedal as he targeted a ruin between the heavy trucks and the storm, a remnant of a town from the past, but barely sheltered from the wind and sand due to years of weathering.
As the heavy truck drove into the ruins, Douglas expertly pressed a series of buttons on the control panel, and a machine beep was heard, and the steel curtain rose from the truck's windows, and the entire body began to lower, and all the exposed mechanical structures were quickly obscured, turning into a real steel fortress.
Looking at the outside world through an infrared monitor, Rosen saw the storm take on a different color, and it took only a few minutes to reach the ruins and then engulf the heavy truck.
It was as if it was a meteorite rain instead of a sandstorm outside, and Lawson could feel the continuous sound of crashing through the steel plates, which was unreassuring, but Douglas was unmoved, and he took advantage of the dim lights in the car to take out a few bags of emergency dry food and water from the locker under the seat, and threw some to Lawson.
"Wait, this sandstorm will last for at least three days, but looking at the way it is now, they are also very lucky. ”
His tone was light-hearted, and he didn't seem to care about the life or death of his former teammates.
"Actually, I have an idea, we might as well take the contents of this car and go to the Osma League. ”
Douglas leaned over and whispered.
"The Osma League?"
Of course, Rosen didn't know what it was, but judging from the current situation, it was a different force from what they were working for.
"Yes, you see, we are like this now, and even if we succeed in delivering the weapons, it is only a matter of proportion, and the higher authorities will ask why we only have two people left, and maybe we will have to go to a military court for arbitration. ”
Douglas persuaded.
"But the Osma Empire will reward those of us who brought weapons to it, and maybe even get an official position, and I have a few friends who are doing well in the Osma Empire, much better than the Alliance. ”
Hearing this, Rosen already had a guess.
This Douglas may have had the idea of defecting for a long time, and even originally prepared certain means, but it was not used due to an accident, and now he just wants to use money to persuade Rosen, hoping to defect with him.
Of course, Rosen himself has no position, he now feels that he should achieve some kind of purpose in this world, but he has not yet figured out what it is, so he can only cross the river by feeling the stones, and take one step at a time.
But before Lawson could reply, he heard a loud bang, as if something heavy had hit the truck, shaking the space for a while.
Bang –
Immediately followed by the sound of something collapsing, Lawson immediately rushed to a burst of weightlessness, and the whole truck fell downward, the impact was accompanied by a strong feeling of vertigo, and it took a while for Lawson to wake up and hurriedly look at Douglas on the side.
But Douglas had no response.
The young man was pierced in the chest by a steel pipe from the outside world, which seemed to have been brought by a sandstorm, and went straight through the steel plate, killing Douglas.
Lawson quickly confirmed that he had no signs of injury on his body.
The wind outside could no longer be heard, and the whole space was dead silent.
Rosen looked through the steel pipe that had killed Douglas and saw that it was a dimly lit world, without sound, like the end of the netherworld.
Rechecking the footage of the monitors, Lawson found that there appeared to be some kind of underground structure outside, which he was quite familiar with when he was on Earth, and it was an underground mall.
In other words, the ruins collapsed under the influence of a sandstorm, and finally the heavy truck fell into the underground mall?
Rosen looked at the dead Douglas, thought for a moment, and decided to confirm the external situation first.
He found the flashlight and pistol, put down the shielded steel plate according to the operation instructions, and after checking that there were no toxic and harmful gases on the outside, he opened the car door and inhaled the slightly decaying air into his nose, which made Rosen frown slightly.
This is indeed a huge and empty underground mall, and the hollow overhead is buried by yellow sand, and the sand is slowly flowing down, which is the only sound in the space.
The flashlight lit up the surroundings, a scene that Rosen was somewhat familiar with, the supermarket shelves were messy, apparently robbed, and he could even imagine what kind of crimes had taken place here at the dawn of the end times.
But dust to dust, dust to dust, and everything is long gone.
Lawson was still thinking about what to do next when he heard an alarm from the cargo hold of the heavy truck, accompanied by the sound of gas release, and the door of the cargo hold was opened.