Chapter 13: Departure
Chapter 13 begins
I drove down a small road from the exit of the national highway for about 20 minutes and saw a small village. YN province is mostly inhabited by ethnic minorities, and the villages are not as many brick houses as in the north. At first glance, the village is basically full of stilted buildings. YN province is mountainous, and most of these stilted buildings are built on the foot of the mountain. The whole village was silent.
They stopped at the entrance of the village and cautiously stepped out. Chen Yan was still sitting in the back seat of the car, and Ouyang Zhi would not let her get out of the car until she was sure that she was safe. Neither will the other 4 people. They're men, and it's not about machismo, but they're men after all. The woman who is still the boss again.
Ouyang Zhi nodded at Guan Jie, and Guan Jie took Ouyang Fu and Qin Qin and walked along the village gate towards the inside. Stilted houses are not as sturdy as cement houses, and simple villagers rarely lock their houses. This should be worthy of government publicity and praise before the end of the world, but in the end times, it means that the danger is greatly increased. After inspecting the three stilted buildings in front of them, they stopped in front of the one on the left, which looked relatively large and was attached to a boulder. made a gesture, Guan Jie took the lead in stepping forward, and Ouyang Fu and Qin Qin were vigilant left and right. Pushing open the door, a rotting stench came to my nose. In the hall lay a corpse with only white bones left.
The three of them walked in cautiously, the house was not big, and several rooms were clear at a glance. There were corpses in the living room, but there were no zombies. The first 3 buildings have no corpses and no zombies. This is not normal. They quit and decided to move on.
An hour later, they were back in the car.
"There were a total of 12 stilted buildings inside, and seven bodies were found in four of them, and there were no zombies or animals. The village is quiet, that's not right. Qin Qin said.
"How long will it take to get to the next village?" Ouyang Zhi asked Lang Lang.
Lang Lang looked at the GPS in his hand, satellites and communications could not be used after the apocalypse. This GPS was downloaded and stored by them in advance. It contains a military map of the entire area of China.
"The nearest one is 20 kilometers away, and it's estimated to be an hour's journey." It's not that the performance of the car is not good, it's that the plants have changed after the apocalypse, and the previous roads have been covered with vegetation. The street signs are also invisible. And also counting what might happen on the road. An hour is still better.
"It's going to get dark. We can't go any further. Ouyang Zhi decided to settle down in this village.
They parked the car in front of the second house so that they could get on the bus as quickly as possible. While the night was still dry, they simply set traps around the house, so that if something approached, they could know in advance. When you enter the room, seal all the doors and windows, and leave a door. They all gathered in the living room. The first time in the end of the day to stay outside, no matter how good their skills are, there is no harm in being careful. And the village is really weird.
After eating and drinking, it was already dark. The insects that could be heard everywhere in the mountains before the end of the day are no longer heard. There were no stars or moon in sight, and the sky was shrouded in a thick layer of fog. Chen Yan curled up on the sofa, and the other five people were scattered around, sitting or leaning. But none of them wronged themselves. Wear clean clothes and warm sheets. Chen Yan also took out a simple heater. Anyway, she is not short of supplies. After 9 months of preparation, the materials in her space are to feed everyone in the "Doomsday City", which can last for 3 years. This is also due to the fact that the level of her space is too low when she is reborn.
Her space is infinite, not measured in square size, but her personal abilities also affect the use of space. If the amount of materials collected each time exceeds a certain amount, she will collapse and even fall into a coma, and later as her physique increases, her ability to collect also improves, but it is not an infinite flow.
After a tiring day, everyone is resting. But no one let their guard down. In the wee hours of the morning, the bell of the house's rope rang. Coming, Ouyang Zhi and the others quickly cheered up, glanced at each other, and slowly got up, not sure what the other party was, they both had guns in their hands.
Chen Yan was not as quick as theirs. She only reacted when they got up, she just put her things away and sat quietly on the couch.
Maybe the bell scared the other person. After waiting for a while, I didn't hear anything. Ouyang Fu approached the door and looked out through the crack in the door that had been specially left. It was pitch black and there was nothing. "It's time to go."
It's early in the morning, and they've pretty much rested since they entered the house. Then they divided into two vigils. The next day, it was Qin Qin's turn to drive, so Qin Qin lay down and rested.
The night was unharmed. Maybe the other party was also scared. After dawn, they simply had breakfast, put the supplies available in the village into the space, got into the car and left.
As they drove away, the house they had been living in slowly became surrounded by vines, closed and finally collapsed......
Not long after hitting the road the next day, they began to run into zombies in twos and threes. They didn't use guns either, and when they saw the zombies, they quickly got out of the car to solve them and dug out the crystal nucleus. The end is only the fifth day, and the zombies have not yet evolved. The current zombies don't even have a level one, and their crystal nuclei are also gray, only the size of a grain of rice. In the future, the size and shape of the crystal nucleus will vary as the level increases. Correspondingly, the energy in the crystal nucleus is also different.
The current nucleus doesn't do much to improve their abilities, but it's better than nothing, and besides, quantity can affect quality. And the improvement of the ability also depends largely on one's own cultivation, the more you use it, the more you use it, the more you use it, the level will naturally increase. But now they are all in the first stage. So every time you get off the bus, you will be in a group of 2 people, and you will not change to the next group until you run out of energy.
After the fourth day, they finally arrived at XGLL, a famous tourist attraction before the end of the day. Before the end of the day, the total population of XGLL City was about 190,000, and in addition to the main ethnic group, there were more than a dozen ethnic groups such as Han, Naxi, Yi, and Bai, making it one of the largest and least densely populated cities in YN Province. Don't think that the population of this city is so much, when the end of the world breaks out, it is the New Year's Eve, as a key tourist city in China, how many people are waiting for the arrival of the New Year. There are no less than 20,000 tourists alone. According to the 70% zombieization ratio, plus those who were bitten after the apocalypse, there are at least 160,000 zombies here.
Chen Yan put the car into the space and followed them cautiously inside. Driving around the city, no matter how quiet the sound of the engine is, it will still attract the attention of the hearing zombies. If you are surrounded by hundreds of thousands of zombies, it will be nine deaths. Besides, after a few days of great escape, the roads in the city are blocked, and driving is not as fast as walking.