Chapter 40: The City
86_86324 Uncle Wang walked to the Chang'an car, checked around the car a few times, and then waved his hand and motioned for us to go over.
Zhou Zhihong said that he needed to rest for a while, and told us to go first. So the three of us trotted to the Chang'an car. When I approached the Chang'an car, I saw a corpse sitting next to the front wheel of the car, and the driver's door was wide open.
Uncle Wang squatted down and used his hand to fan away the flies flying next to the corpse. Our arrival also alarmed the insects that were eating the corpse, and all kinds of small insects were crawling towards the bottom of the Chang'an car in a panic.
I looked inside the car, it was empty, there were no people and no bodies. Presumably this unfortunate driver, who died outside the car at the onset of illness.
"I think if you move him out, this car should work." Uncle Wang looked at the corpse and said.
"Well, the car keys are still in there." Wu Linyu looked into the car and said.
"Okay, let's get started." Uncle Wang said to Wu Linyu, "I raise my hand, you move your feet." ”
Uncle Wang didn't ask me for help, probably because he knew that I was taboo about these things, and he really thanked him in his heart.
Wu Linyu did not shirk, according to Uncle Wang's words, lifted the corpse's feet and dragged it out. I saw the expression on Wu Linyu's face, distorted by the stench emanating from the corpse.
"Why carry it away, just drive away." Duan Ke looked at the corpse that was carried away by Uncle Wang and Wu Linyu and said.
"As soon as this car is driven, won't the wheels on the back crush it?" I replied, "They left you a car here, and you didn't leave a whole corpse?" ”
"Besides, even if he didn't leave the car for us, he still has basic respect for the deceased." I continued.
Duan Ke looked at me and said, "Then why don't you go and help?" ”
I thought for a moment and said, "Respect is respect, but I don't like to smell it." ”
Uncle Wang and Wu Linyu carried the body to the side of the road, and then walked back.
"Alright, we have a car." Wu Linyu patted the dust off his hands and said excitedly.
Uncle Wang patted the dust off the driver's seat and tilted his body into the driver's seat. He turned the car keys, and the sound of the engine starting rang in his ears again.
"Okay, the car is good, and the gas is enough." Uncle Wang looked at the dashboard and said, "Get in the car." ”
Zhou Zhihong followed with a big bag at this time, he looked at the Chang'an car that started in surprise, and said, "Is there really a car to sit on?" ”
"Well," I replied by pulling the door in the back seat, "it looks like you're having a hard time sleeping again tonight." ”
"It's okay," Zhou Zhihong said excitedly, and then took off his backpack, "I'm already very tired." ”
The passenger seat was occupied by Wu Linyu, and Zhou Zhihong had to sit in the last row and squeeze together with a few backpacks. Hearing the sound of the back door closing, Uncle Wang skillfully pulled down the handbrake and drove out of the Chang'an car.
"Uncle Wang, shall I have a meeting?" Duan Ke asked.
Uncle Wang glanced at Duan Ke from the rearview mirror and replied, "Okay, but the road conditions are not good now, and when the road conditions are better, I'll let you." ”
"Okay, thank you, Uncle Wang." Duan Ke replied in a sweet voice.
I leaned over and pressed Wu Linyu's shoulder and asked him, "How far is the place you said from here?" ”
"It's not far, I said it takes a day to walk, and if you drive, it's only a matter of a few dozen minutes." He replied.
"Where?" Uncle Wang turned his head and asked Wu Linyu.
"I don't know the name, but it looks like a pretty big downtown area anyway." Wu Linyu said.
"You'll know when you arrive." Uncle Wang looked up at the street sign that appeared above his head and said.
Wu Linyu's hands were not idle, he lowered his head and pressed it on the car CD next to the dashboard. Maybe he turned on the radio function, and the sound quality in the car was not very good, and the electromagnetic sound immediately sounded. This piercing sound alarmed everyone in the car, and Wu Linyu immediately hurriedly pressed it a few times before turning off the radio.
"Strange," Wu Linyu said, "I remember watching a movie before, the protagonist in the end of the world turned on the radio, and he could receive the news of survival, and then there was an announcer telling you where you can go and where to take refuge, why is there no more to me?" ”
"That's a foreign country." I say.
Zhou Zhihong cleared his throat and interjected: "The plot you said must be in a zombie movie, I have seen a lot." But what we are encountering now is completely different, I estimate that in the whole of China now, only three-digit people are still alive, and those who can run radio stations are almost all dead. ”
"Three digits?" I did the math in my head, "It's too little." ”
"Otherwise, if you calculate for yourself, how many people you have only met now, maybe it will be even less than that." Zhou Zhihong said.
"I also don't think there are many people alive." Wu Linyu said that he then turned on the radio again and got the same result as the last time.
"Brother Bing, don't toss, why don't you open the music player and listen to some children's songs." Zhou Zhihong slept on the backpack and said to Wu Linyu.
"Okay, I'll show you." Wu Linyu pressed it in that area again, and after a while, music sounded in the car. It's an old-fashioned Cantonese song, I've heard it before, and the song title is "Thousands of Rivers, Thousands of Mountains, Always Love".
The pleasant melody makes my mood feel good, but in fact, my mood itself is not bad. Duan Ke slept on my shoulder, half-open eyes, enjoying the scenery that flashed quickly outside the car window.
I turned my head to look at Zhou Zhihong, who was lying on a camouflage bag, his eyes closed, and his right hand dancing to the rhythm of the song. Looking at his intoxicated expression, I couldn't help but laugh. Uncle Wang, who has always been stuffy, even hummed along with the melody of the song.
"Gathering and dispersing is also destined, don't complain about the sky and don't complain about fate, but ask for mountains and rivers to testify." I imitated the tone of Cantonese and sang along with the song.
Duan Ke heard me singing, raised his head with a smile on his face, and told me to continue. But that's all I'm going to say.
"I said, it's good to have a car to sit in." Zhou Zhihong muttered to himself, and he could hear his satisfied tone.
I am not afraid that the wind will blow away the love, and thousands of rivers and mountains are always love.
Gradually, the road under the car became wider and smoother, and the buildings on the side of the road became more and more dense. It seems that the place where the urban area is located is not as far as Wu Linyu said, and the Chang'an car has only been driving for about forty minutes, and it feels like it is almost there. Looking out the window, the terrain difference outside is getting bigger and bigger, and various peaks and mountains appear outside the window, which is very spectacular.
The dense vegetation that grows in these uninhabited places is like a green skin covering the surface. The peaks reveal grayish-white rocky parts, as if they have been stripped of their green skin. The clouds and mist left after the rain are still floating among these peaks, faintly, like a fairyland.
A few days of rain have added some water to the surrounding streams. From time to time, streams appear in the mountains, large and small, and the flowing water separates the green clothes on the surface. Although I can't hear the sound of the mountain stream, I can't see the white flowing water, which is estimated to be better than the quality of mineral water.
Seeing that the road was getting better, Uncle Wang stopped the car, turned his head and said to Duan Ke: "It's okay now, you can drive." ”
"Good!" Duan Ke heard that he could drive, and immediately replied.
"Then I'll go." Duan Ke said to me, and then opened the car door.
"Well, drive slowly." I nodded to her.
After changing places, Uncle Wang sat next to me. Duan Ke adjusted the position of the seat and drove the car out.
"Girl, are you really good?" Wu Linyu grabbed the handle on the passenger seat and asked with some disbelieving.
"Okay, I got my driver's license when I was a freshman." Duan Ke replied.
"And how old are you now?"
"It's almost my third year."
"Oh, that's fine." Wu Linyu said, and then let go of the handle with his right hand.
Uncle Wang sat next to me, closing his eyes and recuperating. Maybe he took a car that could be driven, so he was more relieved. Zhou Zhihong leaned on the back of my seat and asked me, "Brother Li, do you know how to drive?" ”
"No, it won't." I replied awkwardly.
"Me too, I originally wanted to learn to drive after the college entrance examination, but now the driving schools are closed." Zhou Zhihong said with some regret.
I turned to look at him and said, "It's okay, I'll ask your sister-in-law to teach you, and there's an old driver sitting next to me." ”
"Okay, when does that start?"
"It's still early, let's talk about it when you have time, don't you have a lot of time now, not to mention learning to drive, it's enough to learn to fly."
Duan Ke drove a Chang'an car, driving on the national highway neither fast nor slow. The cement pier next to the national highway has become an iron guardrail, a bit of a highway. We learned that the city that Wu Linyu was talking about was called Lichuan.
Half an hour later, the car turned a bend in the mountain, and we saw a city in front of us in the middle of the mountains