Chapter V Toll Stations

86_86324 "In my experience, this disease can spread through the air. Duan Ke said, "You don't know? ”

I looked at her and didn't say a word. I held in the dormitory for a week, and when I came out, I saw patches of dead people, how did I know how this disease was contagious? I didn't say anything about my experience, I just nodded at her mechanically, waiting for her to continue. Duan Ke straightened his hair and leaned against the iron railing next to the highway, and sighed: "Have you walked in vain for so many days?" ”

Duan Ke curled her hair and told me about what happened before she met me.

Before the virus outbreak, Duan Ke and I were students at the same university, but two classes younger than me. On the day the school began to panic, she and her two classmates in the same dormitory chose to stay in the dormitory. Like me, it seemed like they had made the right decision, and the afternoon passed peacefully. In the evening, Duan Ke's two classmates began to have headaches, followed by constant nosebleeds and drastic fluctuations in body temperature. Finally convulsed and stopped breathing. Duan Ke also emphasized that in the end, their faces were blue and purple.

I thought back to the corpses I had seen in the past two weeks or so, and sure enough, they were exactly what she had said.

However, Duan Ke did not experience any discomfort. After the two roommates stopped breathing, Duan Ke was alone in the dormitory facing two cold corpses, this was the first time she had seen a dead person, and it was so close, so sudden. Duan Ke immediately ran out of the dormitory and entered another bedroom where the door was not closed and no one was there.

Just imagine, at night, the two people who were still talking and laughing just now became stiff corpses in a few minutes, not to mention a girl, even a big man would be scared when he encountered such a situation. When she talked about this, she quickly brought it, after all, it was a bad memory.

She didn't describe her mental activity to me, only told me that she survived on food and running water left over from several dorms until she found me.

I began to admire her a little, admired her courage, but I really didn't know what to do when I encountered such a situation in the dormitory.

"You're saying that two of your classmates were infected in the dormitory?" I asked her.

She nodded, turned her head away, and said, "Well, right next to me, I was holding their hands when they stopped breathing." Her eyes moistened, "All of my best friends from college." ”

To be honest, after listening to Duan Ke, my heart didn't fluctuate much. I've been walking on the highway for almost a week, and I've seen enough dead people that I can't say I have any sympathy, and sometimes I don't feel much better than these dead people.

At first I thought it was just a small plague, but now I'm prepared for the worst. If, as Duan can describe, the disease can be transmitted through the air, I can only accept this reality. I have only met a living person until now, and no matter how much hope I had when I walked out of school, it was almost wiped out by this apocalyptic environment.

I told Duan Ke that I was going home, because there might still be people there. I didn't believe it myself, I was just convincing myself to find a purpose for myself.

But the question that has never been figured out is, if this virus has reached the point where it can wipe out all mankind, then why can this girl in front of me and I still be able to eat and talk here?

I threw the question to Duan Ke again, and she raised her head and blinked vigorously, trying to suppress the tears that were about to flow. "After thinking about it, the only reasonable explanation I can think of is that you and I, or all the people who are still alive now, happen to have antibodies to this virus in our bodies to be immune to this virus and live until now." She said to me in all seriousness.

I immediately slapped my thigh, don't say it, it really makes sense to think like this. Before I heard what she thought, I always attributed my survival to the right decision to stay in the dormitory, but I didn't expect that I was just a little luckier.

"You're studying medicine?" I immediately asked, but it immediately occurred to me that my school was not a medical major. Duan Ke shook his head and said with a smile: "No, I studied accounting." ”

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. I don't know which situation I am in right now, but at least the story to tell is very frustrating for me.

Since "Otimit" can infect people through the air, almost all previous quarantine measures have been easily defeated. It seems that when I return home to find my parents, the hope of seeing my friends is much slimmer.

The frustration was quite short, but I'm still alive, breathing, walking, and having found a companion, and I'm very lucky. I patted Duan Ke on the shoulder, "Accountant, let's continue walking." ”

A person's heart does become much stronger after a long period of solitude. Even if someone rushes out now and says that my family and friends have left this world, I will continue to walk in the direction of my home. It has nothing to do with beliefs or anything, I just want to find a purpose and something to do in such a world.

We just stared at the road and kept walking, I was in front of her and behind her, and I didn't say a word. It seemed to me to be a boring and awkward process, but Duan Ke never complained, and walked quietly behind me.

By the time the high-speed toll station with the "Chongqing" plate appeared in front of me, it was already evening.

I saw more than 100 cars like the faucets of a long line of cars, parked in the fan-shaped area in front of the toll booth, some even rushed to the cement platform of the toll island, and many of them overturned in the drainage ditch on the side of the road. Reflecting the warm colors of the setting sun, the scene in front of me is even more shocking than the long queue of cars on the highway. This posture of wanting to rush but not daring to rush must have been set up by military police here before.

A gust of wind blew, and he immediately smelled a strong rancid smell, and Duan Ke immediately covered his mouth and nose. Even though the smell has always permeated the surroundings, the last time I asked about such a strong smell was at the entrance of the hospital. It took me all my attention to push the extremely disgusting feeling back from my mind.

Duan Ke and I climbed onto the top of a car, and when we looked ahead, we saw dozens of corpses lying horizontally in the open space between the cars, and there should be more corpses in the cars. The flying flies completely ignored our arrival and flew to a halt in the pile of corpses.

I tilted my head as best I could, covered my mouth and nose, and stepped over a dozen cars to the toll booth. The door was still open, and I bent down and slipped inside. The inside was similar to what we usually saw from the outside when we passed by, but the stacks of bills on the table were almost overwhelming the monitors. The drawer under the table was pulled open, and there was nothing inside. The light was very dim, and there was a foul rancid stench in it, and I didn't think I could find any valuable information in it, so I pushed the door open and walked out.

A few steps away, there were several uniformed corpses on the toll island, and I leaned over to see if they were police officers or something. Some of them lie face down on the ground, and some lie on their sides, all in a natural position, as if they are drunk and sleeping on the ground.

Their faces are obscured by these poses, but I'm not interested in seeing their rotting faces. I stepped out of the toll booth and over the stainless steel guardrail, and saw the last thing I wanted. A few meters away, a car is parked next to the toll booth. A corpse was lying on the tires of the car, the police hat on its head turned over for some reason, revealing a shriveled scalp and fallen hair.

His eyes, long since rotted into two hollows, could vaguely distinguish maggot-like creatures wriggling around their sockets. The muscles of the mouth are rotting, revealing closed teeth. For some reason, I was fascinated by the corpse's hollow eyes, and I looked at each other for several minutes.

Dust to dust, dust to dust, I thought of this phrase.

He is still in front of him, a few weeks ago, he was still a police officer, and he may still have some power in his hands. A virus born thousands of miles away, but he lay here forever, allowing all kinds of creatures to corrode his body and turn it to dust. This is reincarnation, I sigh, you have consumed this world, it is time for the world to consume you. People always feel their insignificance when the environment is magnified into the universe, but in fact, on the earth, it is only a speck of dust after all.

People are just so fragile