Chapter 8 Bridges
86_86324 car on the highway all the way, the car is indeed the greatest invention of mankind, more than ten kilometers of road, I may have to walk a day, but the car wheel only needs to roll for ten minutes. As soon as the song in the car was played, a bridge appeared in the field of vision, and it seemed to be quite large. Arriving at the middle of the bridge, Duan Ke stopped the car.
"Why stop?" I asked her.
"Don't you want to go down and see the river?" Duan Ke said excitedly, and got out of the car alone without waiting for my answer.
I thought to myself that I just saw a dog eating people, and you still have the leisure to look at the river view, and the girl is really a changeable animal. But when I heard her screaming excitedly outside, I got out of the car with me. The rain was drifting, and the river breeze was cold on the face. I stepped over the iron railing parallel to the road and walked to Duan Ke's side. Although I have walked many bridges along the way and stopped to take a closer look, the picture in front of me still attracted me.
The river is very wide, the water is very fast, rushing towards us, and the bridge under our feet crosses the river with great momentum. In the distance, a protruding part of the land separates the river into two parts, each flowing in different directions, creating a "Y" shaped river surface. The surface of the river is shrouded in a layer of mist, and when you look at it, it has a bit of the flavor of Chinese landscape painting.
I lit the cigarette I hadn't finished and leaned on the guardrail to smoke. I realized that the guardrail was wet, and I hurriedly slapped the water on my sleeve, thinking that if I had nowhere to live in the future, it would be a good choice to move to live on the bridge. A series of movements were seen by Duan Ke, which made her laugh.
I realized that it was a fool to lie on the water-filled guardrail, so I changed the subject and asked her awkwardly, "Is it pretty?" ”
"Beautiful." Duan Ke said with a smile.
"I was thinking that if we went into the city and there was no one in there, we could move to the bridge," I said, puffing out my cigarette and looking at the river, "Look, it's picturesque, the air is fresh, and there's a river down there. ”
"Is the air fresh, do you sniff it carefully?" Duan Ke immediately refuted me.
I sniffed and remembered that the other lane on the bridge was also jammed with traffic. I mistakenly thought that the reason for the fresh air was the reason why the river breeze was blowing against us, but if I consciously sniffed it, I could still smell the familiar smell.
"It's not a big deal, we can wait until they're rotten enough to disappear." I replied, pointing with my thumb to the long queue of cars stuck behind me, "Or, a fire burns out and it's clean here." ”
Duan Ke playfully rolled his eyes, made a thinking look, and then said to me: "Well, but I didn't say that I wanted to live with you, I have no opinion if you want to come, let's talk about it later." ”
After saying that, Duan Ke turned around and walked to the car, turned his head and smiled at me, not knowing what was hidden in her eyes. I suddenly had a feeling of being rejected for my confession, and I just subconsciously said "we", and this girl really knows how to drill words. It's strange to say, I've known Duan Ke for less than twenty-four hours, and I unconsciously included her in the scope of "us", I don't know if it's driven by human instinct or if I've been lonely for too long.
I was still standing alone on the bridge, and when I looked back at the other lane of the bridge that was full of traffic, I thought it would be a spectacular image if I looked down from the sky. The cigarette in my hand quickly burned out, I took out my phone and took several photos of the river, and walked back to the car.
After saying goodbye to the bridge, we didn't drive far to a highway service station. Duan Ke said that he came just in time, the fuel tank was about to run out of gas, so he drove the car to the gas station inside, found the gas station of No. 97 oil, and got out of the car alone to play with the gas gun.
"No electricity, can't be added." Duan Ke said dejectedly.
I got out of the car and looked around, and the gas gun at the gas station fell to the ground, and there were many black stains on the ground, which should have been dripping on the ground. An off-road vehicle was parked in front of us, the owner of the car suddenly left for some reason, and the trunk was wide open. In the trunk of the SUV were a dozen plastic Coke bottles, filled with black liquid, and several empty bottles were scattered on the floor, next to which the gas gun was lying. The ones in the trunk are certainly not Cokes because they are too full.
"I bet the Coke bottle is full of oil." I said to Duan Ke and walked towards the off-road vehicle.
I picked up one of the bottles and unscrewed it, put it in front of my nose and sniffed it, and sure enough, the smell of gasoline came to my nose. I handed it to Duan Ke and sniffed it, she hurriedly fanned off the smell with her hand, and frowned: "Coke bottled gasoline?" I've heard it's dangerous. ”
"Maybe it's to run a longer distance," I said, looking at the empty seats in the SUV, I took out a few bottles of gasoline and handed them to Duan Ke, "Thank God we have more." ”
Ten minutes later, the car's fuel tank was almost filled with Coke bottles, and there were several bottles left. I wanted to bring this gasoline in case I needed it, but Duan Ke insisted on refusing, saying that although she couldn't say that there was any danger, it was danger.
Forget it, how can you not listen to the driver's words. When I walked out of the gas station, I saw a dozen cars parked in the parking lot of the service station, and a large convenience store not far away. I was happy that the highway service station was really a good thing and solved almost all our problems.
The rain suddenly became heavier, so I pulled out the jacket I had taken from the toll management building, propped it on my head, and ran straight to the convenience store. Of course, I didn't forget to take the hammer from my backpack.
In about ten minutes, I calmly knocked on the glass door of the convenience store, then bought enough food and water, put it in the trunk of the car, and suddenly felt like I was going on a road trip.
After driving out of the service station, the number of cars parked on the side of the road began to increase. I also saw a lot of military and public security vehicles. I really wanted to ask Duan Ke to stop the car and take a look inside, but at the same time, there were more cement buildings on both sides of the road, obviously to the edge of the city, thinking that the goal of ten days was about to be achieved, and I didn't want to delay anywhere.
I pulled out my phone, but there was still no signal. I turned it off and put it in my backpack, and my phone had an electronic map of my neighborhood, which was no longer GPS locatable, but maybe it would still be useful.
"Hey, what's that?" Duan Ke slowed down the speed of the car with a foot of the brake, and at the same time his head poked forward. I looked in her direction and saw a square-shaped building across the road in front of me, and after a few seconds of naked eye imaging, I could see that it was another toll booth.
Compared to the previous one, the scale in front of me is much smaller. I recognize it, it's the only way I take every ride home, it's a toll checkpoint from the city's main road down the highway. Duan Ke drove the car closer. It's the same scene as before, but this time there are two long lines of cars blocking us on the other side.
The reason why there are two long queues is because the two roads on the other side of the toll booth are occupied by all kinds of cars, and they are crowded towards the toll booth. It can be seen that this small toll booth was not able to stabilize the panicked people, and was directly broken, otherwise there would be no long convoy on the highway.
"I'll take a look, you wait for me." I say to Duan Ke.
I got out of the car and ran to the toll booth in the rain to see if there was any free road to drive. Jumped over the railing, over several corpses lying outside the booth, and onto the top of a car. Looking out ahead, I exclaimed, both were jammed with traffic, but there were more than I had ever seen before, and they stretched into the fog in the distance that I couldn't see. And in the dense fog, high-rise buildings also showed their heads and rushed out of the fog. Even though I've seen similar things out of school, I was blown away by the number of cars in front of me that made my eyes glaze over.
It was probably close to noon, and the sky was still overcast. I stood on the roof of the car for several minutes, my mind blank and let the rain fall on my clothes. As far as the eye can see, there are occasionally a few corpses dotted in the gaps between cars or on the hoods, and only the raindrops falling from the sky bring a touch of movement to the world.
I cursed in a low voice, and sure enough, I came to an empty city again