Chapter 9: The Way Home

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There are two things in the world that are the most frustrating. One is that the last thing you want to happen happens, and the second is the worst thing you can think of, which just happens to be confirmed by reality. Seeing the scene in front of me, I remembered this sentence again.

I don't know how long I stood on the roof of the car, and I didn't react until I felt the cold of the rain in my chest.

As soon as he turned around, he saw Duan Ke preparing to open the door and get out of the car. I made a no-come gesture with both hands and trotted all the way back to the car.

"The front is blocked, and the motorcycle can't pass." I lay in the passenger seat and shook my head and said to him, "I still have to get out of the car and go." ”

Duan Ke didn't seem too surprised, pulled down the handbrake, and asked me indifferently: "Do you know the way?" ”

"It should work." I replied to her as I remembered the last time I was here.

"Don't you stop and then go? You see your clothes are all wet. She said.

"I'll leave right away." I roughly calculated how long it would take to walk from here to home.

Duan Ke nodded and stopped answering. She turned the car keys and the car immediately turned off.

"It's about four hours to walk, which means we're going now, and we'll get there after dark." I got up and picked up my backpack in the back seat and added to her.

"It doesn't matter." Duan Ke replied, and put the sunglasses in front of the dashboard into his pocket.

The rain was still falling outside, and the gray sky overhead told us that this rain would not end anytime soon. Duan Ke and I opened the trunk and sorted out the things we had just gotten from the gas station, and took what we thought was the most valuable.

"You don't even have an umbrella?" Duan Ke shook off a pack of sanitary napkins in the back box and complained to me.

I looked at her sideways, and said that I have to be careful and thoughtful to remember to bring you a pack of sanitary napkins in the supermarket, and he still doesn't appreciate it, you don't need me to use it as an insole.

Thinking of this, the expression on my face must have changed, Duan Ke must have seen my thoughts, took back the bag of sanitary napkins, and said shyly with drooping eyes: "I have a lot of this stuff in my bag, don't help me get it next time." ”

The rapid transformation of the two different attitudes in her made me cry and laugh. I didn't bother to say anything more, so I covered the back box hard, and said to her with a smile: "Although I didn't have an umbrella, you can try to cover this on your head, it is so absorbent, I guess it is better than an umbrella." ”

Two seconds later, the pack of sanitary napkins hit me on the head with a force.

You never know what almost all cars in the city will look like without a specific situation. Although I had seen it once more than ten minutes ago, I still exclaimed with Duan Ke when I stepped on the roof again. The space on the road is so narrow that it is filled with all kinds of cars, and there are even many motorcycles and bicycles on the side of the road. We had to walk on the car, Duan Ke in front of me and behind, stepping over the hood of one car after another. The rain kept moistening the man-made materials under my feet, and I almost fell several times. In addition, there are various cars in the jam, with different heights, which makes the whole walking process very slow.

Occasionally, some decomposing corpses can be seen in the windshield beneath their feet. Some leaned back in their seats with their mouths wide open, their faces rotting out of shape, and their eyeless eyes watched us step in front of them. There is also a head lying on the steering wheel, in addition to the hands that the muscles are rotten and the bones are exposed, and the shriveled scalp exposed by the hair falling out, I look at it at a glance, and I think it is a driver who is tired of driving and lying on the steering wheel and is napping.

From the beginning of the incident to the present, I have witnessed the whole process of human beings from birth to death to gradual decay, and after overcoming my psychological fears, it is also a very vivid biology lesson. As for the ubiquitous rancid smell, Duan Ke and I have long been accustomed to it, but fortunately, the rain has diluted the smell a little this afternoon, and there are no more annoying flies. However, every time you see a new dead person, the decay will worsen, which makes people feel disgusted. At first, I was scared to deal with these corpses, but when I looked at them, I realized that they were just lying there, and they were not as threatening as a pack of wild dogs.

Just like Duan Ke's appearance, at first she would be startled by the sudden appearance of these things in front, and then she would just bury her head in walking because she was tired.

"It's time to rest, just here." I said to Duan Ke, who was walking in front, that the rain was increasing, and if I continued like this, I would probably catch a cold.

"Come here." I continued to say to her, "It's time to find a place to hide from the rain." "I jumped off the roof of the car, walked sideways to the driver's door of a sedan, and gently pulled the door handle, but it was unlocked. With a burst of joy, I leaned my face in and sniffed carefully, but there was no smell coming out, indicating that there were no corpses or anything dirty inside. There was about a mirror between the cars, and I tried to pull the door a little wider, but immediately there was a muffled noise, and the door next to me was knocked out of a concave surface. However, this does not belong to the category of heartache, so I squeezed into the car with Duan Ke one after the other.

"It seems that you are the real car thief, and I haven't even seen how you broke the door lock." Duan Ke said to me while taking off his wet coat, and kept making a "tsk" mouth shape after speaking. I took off my backpack, looked at her in the back seat in the rearview mirror, and replied solemnly, "Each other." ”

Actually, I don't know what lockpicking skills are, it's a little bit better. I tried to pull the door of each car nearby, and the first car was hit. Forget it, I said in my heart, the car thief is the car thief, as long as I want, all the cars on this road can be mine.

Duan Ke tilted his head and squeezed the water from his hair, ignoring me anymore, and I didn't know if this girl really believed my words. Sure enough, the rain outside was getting heavier and heavier, and the sound of raindrops hitting the roof of the car was heard. Only then did I realize that the co-pilot's glass was not tightly closed, and it didn't take long for the raindrops to wet part of the co-pilot's cushion.

Duan Ke wiped the glass behind me, made a very uncomfortable sound, and then asked me, "How can we go if this rain doesn't stop?" ”

"Wait, there's always a way." I replied, tucking my backpack under the windshield, "It's like this in Chongqing, and the sun won't necessarily come out later." ”

Duan Ke didn't answer again. I stretched, wrapped up my half-wet clothes, and closed my eyes to recuperate. The rain outside continued to crackle, but this natural sound was the easiest to induce people to sleep, and just when I was almost about to fall asleep, Duan Ke's voice came from behind: "Why don't we go." ”

Before I could fully recover my senses, she continued: "I have seen what you want to see, and it is still like this." We don't go into the city, but we can live for a long time. I mean, I don't think we need to go, I don't think we can see the living, and if we go like this, we'll only see more corpses, smell more stench, and you know the number of people in the city. ”

I opened my eyes, turned my head to look at her, and said in my heart that this girl has been following me for so long, is it going to be backwater now? Duan Ke didn't avoid my gaze, sat up straight, and said to me again: "Think about it even worse, if you go back and can't see the result you want, what will you do?" A rhetorical expression hung on her face, and I really didn't know what to say. I looked away from her eyes and looked at the unclosed window of the passenger seat, where the rain was dripping down.

"And where do you think we're going?" I asked her.

"I don't know." Duan Ke replied that she definitely hadn't thought about it, she just didn't want to walk anymore.

"Anyway, I think it's a waste of effort to go to the city." She added.

"I haven't seen what I want." I said, I looked up at a bus outside the window, and I could see that the dead passengers in the bus were looking out the window like me.

"If you want to stay here, I'm definitely not going to drag you away. You see, there's a bus right next to it, and if you clean up the stuff, it's going to be a great place to stay, and maybe you'll meet other nice people here. You've been with me for so many days, and you've seen it, and it's only because I have a belief in my heart that I do this, even if I understand that I will experience this feeling of broken faith, it is better than staying here and doing nothing. I added, "It's not the city that I want to see, it's the city that I want to go back to." ”

After saying that, I turned my head to look at Duan Ke again, wanting to see how she was moved by my wonderful words and added her appreciation. Unfortunately, she laughed out loud and said to me, "I'm just mentioning it casually, look at your earnestness." But seeing how determined you are, Miss Ben decided to see what you look like when your faith is broken. ”

Bragging, I said in my heart, the expression on my face just now was obviously that I didn't want to hurry, I was scared to stay here alone, and now I pretended to be tougher after my strong refusal.

Of course, I can't expose her, if I think about it like this, this girl is quite good at talking, after all, we have only known each other for a short time, and it is her business to leave or stay, there is no emotional bond at all, if she really wants to stay here, I don't know if I will continue to walk.

Opening the car door, I reached out and took a look at the rain outside, which was much lighter than before. After taking the backpack under the windshield, I made a gesture of immediate departure for Duan Ke, and squeezed out of the car as he entered.

To make a long story short, after getting out of the car sheltering from the rain, it didn't take long for the sidewalk to appear next to the street, which was much easier than stepping through the car pile before. Despite the appearance of sidewalks, by the time there were tall buildings on the side of the road, the jammed cars began to thin out, and we entered the city, it was already three hours later.

The rain had stopped, and the stronger rancid smell in the air overshadowed the freshness of the rain