6. Escape outing
The world is vast, where do you go next?
Su He thought about it, and first asked Du Yunfei: "Can't you continue to walk along the railway line?" ”
"Okay."
Du Yunfei attached a proviso: "But first of all, we must make sure that no more trains will come." Secondly, the railway has a wide view, and those monsters can easily spot us. Also, I don't need to remind you, you should also remember that there are no platforms around here, and you can't see the city. ”
Su He admitted that he had a point, so he sighed and turned his head to look at the surrounding mountains.
It's all black and swarthy, and there's not a shred of light.
He asked Du Yunfei again: "In the long run, where do you want to go?" ”
"First find a place where there are people, and then take the transportation back to H City."
"Same as I thought."
Su He nodded, and then observed the surrounding situation left and right.
"We are less than an hour's drive from stop B, which stops halfway through. If I'm not mistaken, this section of the railway line runs roughly north-south, slightly west. So, we're flanked by east and west. ”
As he spoke, he adjusted his position, looked at the time on his phone, and then looked at the moon overhead, and decisively pointed out a direction.
"City H should be in that direction. Climbing over that hill is the sunny side of the mountain. It should not be difficult to find local residents in the mountainous areas of the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, and it is better to walk closer to station B than to walk to station B. ”
"Let's go."
Although Du Yunfei didn't say much, he walked ahead.
The two men climbed over the concrete guardrail, found a hillside that looked fairly gentle, and began to climb upward. The mountains here seem to have just rained, and the soil is soft and sticky, and each step takes twice as much as the body of flat land.
Du Yunfei thought that his body was good, but to his surprise, Su He, who seemed to be weak, did not lose to him at all, no matter how difficult he climbed, he was always unambiguous.
The two men fought with each other like this, and climbed about halfway up the mountain, and finally stopped to rest for a while.
"Look over there."
Su He pointed to the railway line in the distance.
As Du Yunfei had just predicted, the train they were on stopped at the bend of the railway about a kilometer away. The reason why I can see clearly is because of the moonlight, and secondly, because there is light in the train.
The third carriage caught fire, and the golden-red flames spread against the windows. The lights in the last carriage flickered.
It was clear that the chaos had spread throughout the train. Screams and cries could be heard in the dead air.
Su He wasn't stupid enough to think that he could turn the tide, he just watched this qiē with concern.
"I don't know, what the hell is going on......"
Du Yunfei, who was standing beside him, remembered something.
"I've heard rumors these days that after the eruption, the hemorrhagic fever that is circulating in South Asia has mutated, become more contagious, and the symptoms are very dangerous."
"Hemorrhagic fever? Isn't it possible that we're infected?! Su He's eyes widened, looking nervous.
Du Yunfei was calmer than him: "Anyway, it's already like this, there's no need to scare yourself." ”
"Can you only accept your fate?" Su He sighed and frowned again: "Then do we want to continue to go out?" What if we spread the virus? ”
"It's unlikely."
Du Yunfei motioned for Su He to get up, and the two of them continued to march towards the mountain.
"Recently, the investigation of hemorrhagic fever in China has been very strict, and there are temperature detectors at the boarding gate of the railway station. I also noticed during the first aid just now, and several of the injured did not have symptoms of hemorrhagic fever. What's more, those people attacked the passengers in the box next to us, and the victim soon developed the same symptoms...... At the very least, it means that the course of the disease is short. If we were also infected, we would have had a seizure long ago. ”
"The more I listen to it, the more it looks like a zombie movie."
Su He reluctantly accepted Du Yunfei's point of view, and continued to climb up.
The slopes of the hill began to steepen, and the slopes were full of secondary forests of fir trees the thickness of bowls. In Su He's eyes, this is a good sign - these artificially planted cedar trees indicate that there must be human habitation nearby.
The train in the accident was out of sight, and the two men struggled to move forward with the help of the glimmer of the flashlight.
After climbing up the mountain for about another twenty minutes, Su He, who was walking behind, suddenly muttered: "Why are you a little ......hungry?"
Du Yunfei had no food in his pocket. After thinking about it again, it was now at most one or two o'clock in the morning, and no matter how hungry he was, he would not be able to starve to death, so he ignored him.
Su He muttered to himself for a while, but also shut up.
Du Yunfei continued to walk forward for more than a dozen steps, and suddenly realized that the silence behind him was a little excessive, he quickly turned around, and there was no one behind him.
"Teacher Su?!"
No one answered.
"Suhe!" He raised his voice a little more.
“…… Here, here! ”
At this moment, Su He's voice finally came out of the bushes on the side.
Du Yunfei calmed down, walked over to check, and saw Su He standing on the edge of a small tree more than one person high, pulling a branch with one hand, chewing something in his mouth.
"What are you doing?"
"I'm hungry." Su replied as a matter of course, and at the same time stretched out his hand towards Du Yunfei, "Do you want to taste it?" ”
Only then did Du Yunfei see three or four blue-red ovoid fruits lying in his palm, which looked very cute.
"What is this?"
"It's called goat's milk and son, but it's better to call it half-hanchun. His scientific name is Hu Qizi. ”
Su He explained, and put his palm in front of Du Yunfei again.
Du Yunfei picked up one. I saw that the surface of the fruit was covered with white spots. He hesitated, but put it in his mouth and bit it gently.
Sour and astringent!
Du Yunfei hurriedly spit out the fruit and rinsed his mouth with the water in the thermos cup.
Su He couldn't help laughing while picking up another red one for him: "What are you doing with that immature one?" Eat this. ”
Du Yunfei was sure that he was playing a prank, and he would not be fooled again.
Su He was not reluctant, he ate handfuls of ripe red fruits from the tree, and showed a delicious expression while eating.
Du Yunfei suppressed his Pavlov reflex and looked at him with a frown: "How do you know that this thing can be eaten." ”
Su He sighed twice: "You must have forgotten about Jì, I am engaged in botany." One of the basic skills of plant geography is field practice, and I don't even know the lowest matching wild fruit, hmph, do you still want to graduate? ”
“…… Haven't you ever eaten bad? ”
"Guess what."
Su He smiled slyly and put a red fruit to his lips.
After finishing the beard, the two of them continued on the road. Along the way, they found a spring with traces of artificial repair, where they replenished their drinking water.
Su Yiyi picked some raspberries on the way, picked a few handfuls of Yingshan red, and barely stopped in his mouth, so that Du Yunfei couldn't help but ask him if he was fleeing or going out for an outing.
"I'm sorry, but the ...... occupational disease"
Su He chewed on Yingshan Hong, looking innocent.
After passing the spring, I climbed up for half an hour, and finally saw the top of the mountain. They first found a clear view of the hill and looked north at the bottom of the mountain.
Of course, the train was still parked in its original position, but the fire in the carriage had been extinguished, and only a dead silence remained.
Su He asked Du Yunfei: "What will happen if the five or six hundred people on the train all become what we see?" ”
Du Yunfei moved his lips, but did not answer.
Su He continued to himself again: "According to the development in zombie movies, they will spread around. And then take over the whole world, and we simply can't run away. ”
Only then did Du Yunfei speak: "I'm worried that other places are already worse than here."
After seeing the situation on the north side of the mountain, they turned to the south side of the mountain, and as far as the eye could see, there were endless woods on the slopes of the mountain, but where it should have been a mountain, it was pitch black, and there was not even a street lamp.
"How so? Not even a natural village? Su He was obviously very disappointed, "This is not scientific, there are obviously traces of artificial repair in that spring just now." ”
"Maybe the village has been abandoned." Du Yunfei hypothetical, "It is now common for young people to go out to work, old people slowly pass away, and villages that die of natural causes. ”
"Maybe." Su He reluctantly accepted this statement.
Anyway, I have climbed to the top of the mountain, so naturally there is no reason to go down the mountain casually. The two of them walked south along the ridge to see if they had made any special discoveries.
However, after walking for about twenty minutes, it suddenly began to rain in the sky, and it became heavier and heavier.
There was no rain gear in the luggage rescued by the two people, and the rain-soaked soil was extremely muddy and slippery. Although Su He picked two large leaves on the side of the road to keep out the rain, the two of them quickly got drenched.
Fortunately, there was no endless road, and after walking a hundred and eighty meters in the rain, a building appeared in front of me.
When they got closer, they realized that it was actually an abandoned and ruined temple. The incense burner in the front yard was overgrown with weeds. The main hall had completely collapsed, and the broken bricks and tiles had fallen to the ground. There are barely a few good tiles in the ear room on the west side, but there is a rotten broken wooden coffin parked in it, which is terrifying to watch.
There was no other choice now, and the two unanimously decided to stay and hide from the rain.
There was a place in the southwest corner of the transept that was still dry and sheltered from the wind, so they kicked the debris off the floor, swept the dust off the floor, and sat down on the floor.
Du Yunfei opened his luggage and checked the damage to the items. Su He took out his mobile phone from his pocket, but was annoyed to find that there was still no signal.
"Tsk......" he asked Du Yunfei, "Do you have a signal?" ”
"Nope." Du Yunfei paused, and asked one more rare question: "Want to find someone?" ”
"I have a cousin who is afraid that something will happen to him. What about you? ”
"It's all abroad." Du Yunfei shook his head, and asked indifferently, "Is there any cigarette or chewing gum?" ”
"It's all there, but look for it."
Su He smoked, but he couldn't remember if he had taken it with him off the train. So he rummaged through a few pockets on his body, searched for it in the rescued box, and then put a metal cigarette case and a plastic cans of chewing gum in front of Du Yunfei.
Du Yunfei was silent for a moment, and changed to a more direct statement.
"I want foil."
"Oh my God!" Su He looked at him with an exaggerated expression, "Aren't you a doctor?" ”
The green tendons on Du Yunfei's forehead jumped suddenly: "...... I'm going to make a fire out of aluminum foil. ”
"Oh, I said it earlier."
Su He nodded, took out his pocket for a long time, and took out a chocolate hazelnut ball. He stuffed the chocolate into his mouth and handed the aluminum foil to Du Yunfei.
"Whoa!"
Du Yunfei looked at him in disbelief: "You eat sugar? ”
"I have low blood sugar." Su Li looked at him straightforwardly, "Ask so much, do you still have a fire?" ”
Du Yunfei was speechless. He took the foil, took a No. 5 battery from his razor, and got to work.
Su He was sipping a chocolate ball in his mouth, and his hands were not idle. He turned and walked away, crackling, and in a moment he came back with a pile of dry wood.
At this time, Du Yunfei had successfully ignited a pile of toilet paper with aluminum foil, just in time to put the fire on the wood. The fire melted and soon brought warmth and light.
Du Yunfei asked Su He: "Where did the wood come from?" ”
Su He didn't speak, and stretched out his hand and pointed at Du Yunfei's back. Du Yunfei looked back and saw that the rotten wooden coffin had been broken off by him, revealing the dark red liner inside.
"Can you do this?"
"Why can't this be done?" Su He spread his hands, "Just this bit of wood is not enough for us to bake until dawn." ”
So saying, he sat down by the fire again, took off his coat and put it behind his head, and yawned against the wall several times.
Du Yunfei took the initiative to say: "You rest for a while, I'll look at the fire." Wait for the rain to stop before leaving. ”
"I won't take advantage of you, just an hour. Tell me to change shifts an hour later. ”
Having said this, Su He suddenly took out a lighter from his pocket, lit a cigarette, and then found a more comfortable position and squinted his eyes.
“…… You scoundrel. ”
Du Yunfei's voice came dimly from across the fire.