Chapter 7: Yesterday's Girl
86_86324 was woken up by the cold the next day, and it was already raining outside the window. It was already November, but I was wearing only a thin shirt. I lifted my clothes, which I found on a hanger in the office last night and used as a quilt. Duan Ke woke up and shouted cold, and directly put on the clothes covering his body.
The owner of the dress should be a man, and the wide clothes are put on her, and it looks like her shoulders are sleeping, and her hands are also covered by the sleeves, although it doesn't fit, but it's also a little cute.
"Let's go faster, and we'll have clothes to wear when we get to the city." I said as I opened the hidden door. Duan Ke answered me, and then asked me to take two bottles of mineral water, saying that I wanted to wash my hair. She pulled the shampoo out of her backpack and excitedly walked towards the bathroom. Can't you have more useful stuff in your backpack, I complained, if I knew that she washed her hair with mineral water, I wouldn't have given it to death, it was a waste of resources.
It wasn't until Duan Ke finished washing his hair, drying his hair, and looking in the mirror for the last time that we walked out of the building. The rain outside was not heavy or small, but it was still a little cool on the body. Duan Ke pointed to the parking lot next to him and said that he wanted to go to the car to see if there was an umbrella, and ran over happily without asking me to borrow a hammer.
I said in my heart that this girl was really unreliable, and then walked across the cement slope in front of me and walked towards the toll booth.
Everything was the same as it was yesterday, and the rain diluted the rancid stench. I went up the ladder next to the toll booth to the second floor, and although there was a mist in front of me, I could see two contrasting roads: the one out of town was also blocked.
Sure enough, people on one side wanted to enter the city, and people on the other side wanted to go out of the city, but they were all interrupted at the toll booth.
However, it also made it easier for us, and the supply problem along the way was solved. Holding on to the cold metal handrails as I descended the stairs, I struggled to remember how long it would take me to get home after passing through here, and then converted it to the fastest speed I could have walked. Just when I wondered if I could reach 15 kilometers per hour, there was the sound of a car engine starting, and a few seconds later, the sound of car tires crushing stones. I didn't have time to react, and a beam of high beams hit my face again, and I immediately closed my eyes and blocked it with my hand.
When I opened my eyes again, I saw a sedan coming up the concrete slope with its high beams on, and then detouring to the road into the city, which was free of traffic congestion. I hurriedly turned around and looked in the direction of the car. The car was parked sideways next to the toll island four or five meters in front of me, and the glass of the driver's window began to change and slide down.
It was Duan Ke sitting inside. But there were extra sunglasses on her face, and I could tell her by the clothes on her body. She put her elbows across the car door, slid her sunglasses to her forehead, and said to me with a big grin, "Handsome, are you going for a ride?" ”
I looked at her smug look and didn't know what to say. I sneered back at her, and said how she got the car, this girl can follow me quietly for days, and it's really not easy. However, it is good to have a car to sit on, so I walked towards the car by crossing the "one car and one pole" at the toll booth.
"Wearing sunglasses on a rainy day, you either cry a lot or get sick." I told her as soon as I got in the car. Duan Ke ignored me at all, wearing sunglasses and shaking his head to admire his new image in the rearview mirror.
I looked inside the car, and the interior was very nice, and I knew at a glance that it was a good German car. But most importantly, it's much more comfortable to sit inside than to walk outside.
"Did you study accounting or steal cars?" I couldn't help but ask her, and continued to look inside the car while pretending not to care, "Steal the car without damage." ”
She immediately took off her sunglasses and turned her head to stare at me, not in the slightest sign of reply. After a long time, she said badly: "My sister used to get both an accounting degree certificate and a part-time job stealing cars, can you manage it?" I heard her unusual tone, so I nodded hurriedly, not daring to provoke her again. If she gets angry and stops driving later, I really can't help it, because I can't drive.
Duan Ke put his sunglasses in front of the dashboard, pulled out the key, and shook it left and right in front of me.
"The great thing about sleeping on the couch is that you can always touch something unexpected in the cracks." She laughed and said, "It just so happened that the car was parked downstairs again." ”
I pretended to be surprised and nodded at her, but I was actually quite surprised and kept giving her a thumbs up for a long time. She smiled and told me that enough was enough, and that my sister could withstand as much praise as she could, and asked me if I could drive. I shook my head awkwardly, and she made a helpless look at me, meaning you won't be able to.
"Then let's go." Duan Ke dressed up his seat belt, pulled down the handbrake, pushed the shifter, and the car drove out.
I watched her series of skillful movements, and I felt like I had failed. Looking back on my four years of college, I didn't master any extracurricular skills except skipping classes or taking classes. But I was such a person who was not proficient in anything, and I was able to survive until now just by walking non-stop, which was a miracle of transcending myself, and I began to comfort myself again.
The car drove past the law enforcement booth of the highway traffic police, and I glanced at it, and it was empty, and there were several law enforcement vehicles parked next to the pavilion. After driving out of the law enforcement booth for some distance, I suddenly remembered the cars I saw at the toll booth yesterday evening, and I forgot to take a look, maybe there would be something interesting inside. Forget it, let's take a look again when we have a chance, anyway, the last thing that is missing now is time.
The view of the highway outside the window quickly missed my eyes, and occasionally I saw some cars parked in the emergency area, and some randomly crossed the side of the road or in the middle of the road. Through the windows of these cars, you can also see the dead people inside. But luckily we sat in the car and couldn't smell much rancid smell anymore.
Probably due to the rain and the lack of vehicles, the window is moistened by the rain, and there is a patch of greenery in the haze. The plants that can be seen are free of the white spots formed by the accumulation of ash in the past. Bursts of refreshing green are missed in front of you, which makes people feel happy. I sat down in my seat and watched the movie-like rapid switching in front of me, and it turned out that the highway was well maintained, which was also a visual treat.
The wipers rhythmically push away the rain in front of you, making a small grinding sound. I suddenly had the feeling that what had happened in the past ten days was like a dream, and it was so unreal. I'm now ending this nightmare, on my way home.
Suddenly, Duan Ke burst into a foul mouth, and then the speed of the car slowed down. I came back to my senses and looked forward, and there were several dogs around a van with wide doors open a dozen meters away. I sat up straight, and the dogs had apparently spotted us too, barking at us.
Only then did I find out the reason for Duan Kebang's foul language, it turned out that they were not surrounding the car, but a corpse next to the car.
I remembered that the other day when I was on the highway, I met a dog. The dog should have come out of the car, revealing the squeamishness of a pet dog. When I saw it, it was sniffing around with its nose against the ground. I saw that it was cute, and I wanted to take a closer look at it, but it didn't give me face at all, kept its distance from me, and didn't yell at me, maybe it didn't have the strength. I didn't have much interest in it either, so I left it with something to eat and left.
Obviously, the group of dogs in front of us is much wilder, and they are still barking at us. The rain caused their fur to stick to their bodies, revealing their emaciated bodies. Duan Ke pressed the horn for a long time, and several of them were scared away, and the remaining two were screaming there.
I watched their jaws open and close quickly, and if I were walking outside now, the dogs would not hesitate to pounce on me. It must be that after the death of the owners of these dogs, their fixed food was cut off, and after a certain period of time when the big dog ate the puppy, they turned their attention to the human corpses that lay on the ground and did not move, and at the same time the wild ones were eaten.
I was still analyzing, Duan Ke bit his lip, stepped on the accelerator and drove the car out. Seeing this, the two dogs turned around and ran, grabbed their tails and followed the dogs in front of them, and ran up the hillside by the road. The car drove away quickly, and I didn't want to see the gnawed corpse, so I turned my head away. Soon, a dog barking sounded again behind the car. I looked at them in the rearview mirror and sighed, "The wolf nature of the dog has been called out, but fortunately they are just dogs." ”
"I used to like dogs." Duan Ke answered.
"Everybody was forced," I replied, "and I used to like to walk." ”
Duan Ke no longer answered, and drove intently. The atmosphere in the car was a little stiff by the one just now, and I turned on the music player in the car, and music was always the best way to break the silence. A few seconds later, a melody I hadn't heard before sounded in the car, and the English words "thegirlfromyesterday" were slowly pushed out on the small screen, the first time in more than ten days that I had heard a song outside my phone.
I remembered my phone, so I pulled it out of my backpack and connected it to the USB port in the car. The screen lit up again, and I smiled and handed the phone to Duan Kekan. She glanced at her and said that the mobile phone that can't make calls and can't access the Internet can do anything other than take a selfie, I didn't bother to talk to her, so I tinkered with the phone alone.
The melody of the song playing in the car was quite nice, but I couldn't understand a word of the lyrics, so I hummed to the tune randomly. Duan Ke laughed when she heard it, and when I asked her what she was singing, she smiled and shook her head and didn't tell me. I, a person who never wants to suffer from culture, no longer asks, lights a cigarette and continues to play with my phone.
The smoke immediately drifted through the closed car, choking on myself and I couldn't stand it. Duan Ke frowned and glanced at me, then opened all the windows in the car, and the cold wind and rain poured in instantly.
The sudden cold wind and rain hit my face, and I was so cold that I shrank my neck. I yelled at her to close the window, but Duan Ke tuckled his neck into the ill-fitting garment, held the steering wheel and giggled, completely ignoring my request. I opened my phone's camera app and took several pictures of her smiling face and her hair fluttering in the wind, and I didn't know why I had the idea.
The wind brought by the speed was blowing loudly in my ears, and I craned my neck to her ear, held up my mobile phone and said to her loudly: "If you don't turn it off, I'll spread it on the Internet!" ”
After extinguishing the cigarette butt, Duan Ke closed the car window. Before the song was finished, the singer was singing a phrase affectionately repeatedly, and I finally understood it, it was a girl from yesterday