Chapter 39: Departure
86_86324 I rolled over and found everyone asleep. I stepped out of bed, cautiously stepped over the three sleeping people on the floor, and walked out the door. Look at the watch, it's only past seven o'clock. After the incident, I got up earlier and earlier, and I don't know if this is a good thing after the cataclysm.
The southward shift of the direct point of the sun makes the days and nights longer in the northern hemisphere, and the sky is gray outside, and the sky is not yet clear. Next to the house, there is a simple sink made of cement, I don't know if it is used for laundry or daily use. I turned on the faucet and the water came out. I picked up a handful of water and looked at it in my hand, it was quite clear, and I guess the source was connected to a spring.
After washing my face with water, I immediately felt refreshed. I lit a cigarette and walked to the fishpond. When it was dawn, I saw a rudimentary awning on the other side of the fish pond, under which some folding chairs and fishing tackle were placed.
I walked towards the awning, took the folding chair and sat down. There were two or three fishing rods still stuck in the dirt in front of them, probably because the owner of the fishing had not yet returned. I picked up a fishing rod and swung it around in my hand. The fishing line scraped water marks in the pond as I moved.
I remembered that my dad was very fond of fishing, and he took me there once when I was a kid. I was so bored that I never went fishing with him to the river again. If my dad could come here with me, he would definitely choose to stay here, there are mountains and rivers and fishing, this is his dream.
I sat on the shore with my rod in my hand, and I don't know how long I was stunned. The door of the house was pushed open, and Wu Linyu walked out. He saw me, smiled and said hello to me, then stretched. Wu Linyu walked to the side of the sink, took water and washed his face, and then walked towards the awning.
"How do you get around today?" He pulled over a folding chair and asked me.
I handed him a cigarette and said, "Uncle Wang said to walk along the national highway first and see if we can find the car." ”
"Okay." He took the cigarette in his hand and spun it around, and replied.
"Where did you get here?" I asked him, "Think about it, are there any small towns in front of you, and there should be cars in those places?" ”
Wu Linyu raised his head and thought for more than ten seconds, and said, "It's fast, there is an urban area not far ahead." ”
"How far?" I asked.
"If you walk, you can get there in about a day." Wu Linyu thought about it and said.
Then I sat under the canopy with Wu Linyu in a daze and didn't speak. After sitting for more than ten minutes, we were bored, so we walked back into the house and woke them up.
"What's the matter, it's so early?" Zhou Zhihong heard my shout and shouted at me with half-open eyes.
"It's not early, the sun is out." I said, though it was cloudy outside.
"Give me three more minutes." Zhou Zhihong said, and then buried himself in his backpack.
"Three minutes, three minutes," Wu Linyu lit a cigarette and muttered, "a painless abortion." ”
After Duan Ke woke up, he no longer spoke nasally. I happily urged her to take the medicine again, and I told her that only when the medicine arrived, could she get rid of the disease.
Wu Linyu put on all the equipment and wore a steel helmet on his head, and I almost didn't recognize him. Such a handsome PLA soldier, I smiled and said, with you in the team, it is safe just to look at it.
Ten minutes later, the team of five people said goodbye to the fish pond and walked back. Wu Linyu took us to the concrete road by the fish pond, which he said could lead to the national highway in front of us, and there was no need to crowd the barbed pepper bushes anymore. Uncle Wang and Wu Linyu took the lead and walked in the front with guns in their hands. I suddenly remembered that I still had the bullet Wu Linyu gave me last night in my pocket.
So I walked up and called Uncle Wang, took out the pistol bullets in my pocket, and gave them to Uncle Wang. Uncle Wang looked at the bullet in my hand suspiciously, and then looked at Wu Linyu who was smiling, and knew what was happening.
"You're a fairy in the brain." Uncle Wang said to Wu Linyu with a smile, and then took the bullet.
I removed the rifle magazine and filled it with bullets as I walked. I counted, and there were still ten rounds left, and it seems that Wu Linyu had dropped a lot.
But this is not a problem, the magazine pouch on Wu Linyu's vest is full of magazines, maybe there are still in the backpack. There are five of us, and his gun is enough.
This cement road is very cleverly taken in a straight line in the mountains, and after two or three kilometers of travel, we will walk back to the national highway. Looking back, you can also see the winding mountain national highway built along the mountain road, and you don't know how long you can walk on it. It seems that the cement road under our feet saves us a lot of distance and time.
"I want to get in the car." Zhou Zhihong complained.
"Didn't you say that it's fun to walk with more people, and now there's another person, and it's even more fun." Duan Ke picked up his words.
"If this person doesn't get enough sleep, he can't do anything." Zhou Zhihong rubbed his eyes and said with a yawn.
"I can't fall asleep very early like you, I got used to doing problems at night in my junior year of high school, and I couldn't sleep at all when I was early." Zhou Zhihong said again.
"There's a car here, would you like to take it?" Duan Ke pointed to a truck that happened to appear on the side of the road and asked him.
The truck crashed into a cement pier at a bend in the national highway, and it may have been a timely hit on the brakes to prevent it from rushing out of the national highway. There were two dead people sitting in the driver's and passenger seats of the truck, presumably dead for a long time. I hadn't seen a corpse in a while, and I was a little curious. I looked inside with my eyes wide open, but found both bodies with their heads hung and their faces in sight.
Zhou Zhihong was very curious to go around to the front of the truck, and when he looked up, he saw the corpse in the driver's seat, so he had to hold the shoulder strap of the backpack and walk away.
The foul rancid stench was urging me to get out of here.
"It's not that you can't sleep, it's that you're thinking too much about yourself." I fanned the smell and said to Zhou Zhihong, "In the university dormitory, I also want to go to bed early, but my roommates won't give you the environment to go to bed early." ”
"However, now that there is an environment around you, you don't think about anything when you sleep, and you can fall asleep in a while." Then I said, "Why don't you try it tonight?" ”
Wu Linyu turned his head and said to us, "You are all wrong. ”
"If you're tired, you'll be able to sleep at night anyway." "When I first transferred from college to the military, like you, I couldn't sleep at night," he said. ”
"But it's the army there, who cares if you can sleep or not, anyway, you have to get up at half past five every day, and for the first three months, you have to train every day, and you're so tired that you want to go home as a deserter. When we returned to the barracks at night, everyone fell asleep, and who had time to say that they couldn't sleep at night. ”
"So you mean I'm not exercising hard enough?" Zhou Zhihong asked him.
"Yes, your problem is that you don't do much work, but think too much." I say.
"Brother Bing, what kind of exercise do you think, the intensity is very high, and you can fall asleep at night after doing it." Zhou Zhihong ignored my words and asked Wu Linyu.
"Run with weights." Wu Linyu said with a smile.
Zhou Zhihong lowered his head and thought for a while, and said to Wu Linyu: "In this case, Brother Bing, you bring your bag to my back, I can't get tired of running with weights, and it should be no problem to walk with weights." ”
"Really?" Wu Linyu asked.
"Well, you take it off, carry me this, I'll be light." Zhou Zhihong insisted.
"Okay, I'll do good deeds and help those in need." Wu Linyu said with a smile, and then took off the camouflage backpack.
Then they walked to the side of the road, put their bags on the cement pads, and swapped them on their backs. Wu Linyu's military camouflage bag didn't know what to contain, and as soon as he carried it on Zhou Zhihong's body, he owed him a body to maintain his balance.
"How?" Wu Linyu picked up Zhou Zhihong's travel bag and asked him with concern.
"It's fine." Zhou Zhihong said with a sigh of relief, and then walked out a few steps with his body in tow.
"If it doesn't work, let's change it back." Wu Linyu said with a travel bag on his back.
Zhou Zhihong bent over and took the lead in the front, and said without looking back: "It's okay, in order to have a good night's sleep tonight, I can persevere." ”
Uncle Wang looked at Zhou Zhihong in front of him, shook his head and laughed.
Thick clouds overhead, surrounded by cold winds. December days are always hard to look up to. But the four of us, but we were not depressed by the surrounding environment, we were walking behind Zhou Zhihong, watching this guy burn with inexplicable persistence in his heart.
I don't know if Zhou Zhihong was full of energy or really wanted to tire himself down, so he really carried the camouflage backpack and walked nearly two kilometers. Seeing that he had stopped, we quickened our pace and followed. He leaned over the cement pier and shifted the weight of his backpack to it. Zhou Zhihong was sweating profusely and was panting.
He took off his glasses, wiped the hot mist off the lenses, and said to us with a smile, "I'm so tired that I want to sleep now." ”
"Do you want to keep carrying it?" Wu Linyu shook the travel bag on his back and asked him very easily.
"Well, you wait for me to rest for a while, and I can still go." Zhou Zhihong put back his glasses and said.
So we also sat on the cement pier, took off our backpacks and prepared to rest.
"There's another car ahead." Duan Ke pointed to the right and said.
"I saw it," I replied as I looked at the Chang'an car parked on the side of the road, "I guess there are dead people in there." ”
Uncle Wang didn't join our conversation and walked directly to the car