Text Chapter 18, The Road to Despair
With a "clang", Ding Xiu's body fell heavily to the ground.
As soon as he crashed into this room, he didn't care about the pain in his body at the moment, and shouted to Chen Jianing outside the door, "Come in." ”
Chen Jianing rushed in three steps and two steps, Ding Xiu hurriedly closed the door and locked the iron buckle erected by the door. In this way, the door is locked from the inside.
The faces of the two of them were full of joy in a desperate situation, just now fortunately, the iron buckle door was not stuck on the door, otherwise Ding Xiu would never have crashed into this door at once.
Ding Xiu sat down against the door, his chest rising and falling. When he came to his senses, he saw that the room was still not the final exit, and that there was a huge iron gate opposite him.
"Behind the iron gate is the exit." Ding Xiu gasped, a helpless smile on his face, "It's a pity that we can only go here." ”
"Not necessarily." Chen Jianing walked to the side of the iron gate and shone a flashlight on a nearby place.
The corridor separated by the wall from the two of them was already crowded with zombies, who crowded in front of the door like a tidal wave, and kept squeezing the iron door under the subsequent thrust.
The iron buckle behind the door began to slowly deform in a long sound of "woo~", and Ding Xiu hurriedly put his body on the door when he saw this.
"It's over." A voice of despair sounded in the bottom of my heart.
He knew that he was subconsciously acting just to do useless work, because the force squeezing on the door could deform the iron buckle, which was not something that a single person's strength could withstand.
What else could he do if he didn't do that? Waiting to die? He will not choose to die, even if the door is squeezed open, he will continue to fight.
Even if he is unarmed, as long as he hasn't fallen yet, he won't let those zombies hurt Chen Jianing.
"Ding Xiu, I can open this iron gate!" Chen Jianing suddenly shouted at him.
"What?" Ding Xiu couldn't believe his ears, this iron gate obviously weighed several tons, and Chen Jianing actually said that he could open it.
"It's here, but you have to start the power system inside." Chen Jianing took out a watch from her backpack and pressed it on the side to turn the dial upside down.
"How long does the door last?" She asked again.
"A few minutes at most." Ding Xiu already felt that the door frame seemed to be a little loose.
"Got it." Chen Jianing nodded, not squinting, and fiddling with her fingers on the watch quickly.
She pulled the stand from the bottom of the watch and held it on the ground, and a small hole appeared in the middle of the watch's dial.
After a few seconds, a beam of light from the hole was cast on the opposite wall, and there immediately appeared a picture that could only be found on a computer screen.
A thin wire was pulled out of the dial, and after it was connected to the switch on the wall, Chen Jianing sat cross-legged on the ground, and pressed her fingers on a button next to the stand.
A red light popped up at the bottom of the watch, and there was an extra keyboard in front of her.
The keyboard was just a projection of red light on the ground, but when Chen Jianing's fingers tapped on the projection of these keys, the picture on the opposite wall also changed.
Ding Xiu looked at everything in front of him dumbfounded, and the girl's movements just now were like magicians doing tricks.
"What is this...... Wristwatch? ”
"I invented a miniature portable computer that can be disguised as a watch when not in use." Chen Jianing didn't raise his head, his fingers continued to dance in the red light, "Fortunately, it was hidden in the bag, otherwise it would have been searched by those bad people before." ”
"It's amazing." After sighing, Ding Xiu didn't continue to speak, he was afraid of disturbing Chen Jianing.
The door frame loosened again, and Chen Jianing's fingers on the virtual keyboard moved faster.
……
It's only a hundred seconds, but it feels like a long time has passed. Just when the door that Ding Xiu was holding against made a "clang" sound, the switch next to the iron gate also lit up.
The door frame was already crumbling in the squeezing, and Ding Xiu's body was straight against the door. The muscles on his body bulged and had entered a state of congestion.
The pressure on the door was shared by him, but it wasn't enough.
Fortunately, the iron gate has been opened.
The gate slowly rose, and a cold wind blew in with grains of sand.
"Ding Xiu, we can go." Chen Jianing shouted at the people at the door.
"You go, I can't go." Ding Xiu's expression was quite struggling to speak, and the green tendons on his forehead bulged, "As soon as I move, this door will collapse." ”
Seeing Chen Jianing standing still, Ding Xiu yelled at her, "Let's go." ”
"I'm the one who has caused you." The girl's nose was sore, tears were hanging on her long eyelashes, her teeth biting her lip lightly, and her body trembled slightly from sobbing. "If you don't leave, I won't leave, let's die here together."
Chen Jianing's hand touched the necklace around her neck, and her fingers gently swirled the lower part of it.
There is a small device in the necklace, which is a device that automatically locates and alarms, and is also one of her inventions.
Chen Jianing knew that after she activated this device, her family members in Brilliant City would receive a message that she was in distress.
Of course, it will be too late to save themselves when the family arrives, but at least the cause of their death will be clear to them, and they will not be used by people with intentions to make a fuss secretly.
Seeing that Chen Jia was determined to stay and accompany him to his death, Ding Xiu was also a little moved while being sad.
The iron clasp on the door flew out with a crisp sound, and the door finally collapsed.
Ding Xiu was like an off-string arrow, "flying" towards Chen Jianing. The hordes of corpses behind them poured into the room like a tidal wave, and more zombies were stuck in the doorway, scrambling to pounce on them with their teeth and claws.
The accident just now happened too quickly, and although she knew that the door would collapse, the girl was determined to die, so she didn't make any preparations to escape at all.
She was standing, overwhelmed by the sudden influx of corpses.
Ding Xiu rushed to Chen Jianing's side, carried her on his shoulder, and his figure had already come to the iron gate in a few steps.
The outside world is the night in the desert, with a full moon like a lamp overhead, but not a stretch of sand dunes.
Ding Xiu's eyes appeared like a city, but when he raised his eyes, his vision was full of ruined walls.
Ding Xiu didn't know where it was, but the sound of the footsteps chasing behind him made him dare not stop. He carried Chen Jianing and continued to run forward until he came to a broken bridge.
The broken bridge looks like an overpass, but most of the middle section has decayed and broken. Ding Xiu was chased to the broken point, and there was no way to escape left and right, so he could only choose to jump forward.
"Hold on to me." Ding Xiu said in a deep voice, jumping down from the break in the bridge before the zombies behind him pounced.
The zombies chasing behind him couldn't stop their feet, and they fell down a lot between pushing and squeezing, and the corpses finally stopped chasing, some zombies returned to the gate, and some continued to stay outside.
Ding Xiu didn't jump directly to the bottom, he made a trick, grabbed the bridge deck with one hand when he jumped down, and swung his body into the mezzanine under the bridge deck.
The zombies on the bridge thought that he and Chen Jianing had fallen, and some of the zombies who were squeezed down were looking for them at the bottom of the bridge, completely unaware of where they had gone.
The space in the mezzanine is very large, but the height is not high, and Ding Xiu and Chen Jianing need to sit down and shrink in it.
Ding Xiu pointed to the top of his head, then to the bottom of the bridge, and made a silent gesture towards Chen Jianing.
Chen Jianing understood what he meant, and the two of them hid in the mezzanine without making any sound. There was only the sound of the wind whirring, and the movement of the air also carried away the heat left by the sun during the day.
The desert night was very cold, and feeling Chen Jianing's body trembling, Ding Xiu wrapped his arms around her shoulders and hugged her.
After a while, Chen Jianing's hands also wrapped around Ding Xiu's waist, resting his head on his chest and gradually falling asleep.
The girl was so tired that she had spent the whole day on the way to escape for her life, with sandstorms, tornadoes, and even corpses in the institute coming one after another, and her body and mind were already exhausted.
In order to prevent her from getting cold, Ding Xiu hugged her to sleep, and used his body to block the cold wind at night for her.
At dawn, when the sun shone on Ding Xiu's face, he woke up.
The girl lying next to her was still asleep, looking like a quiet and well-behaved kitten, and even after dawn the temperature began to rise, she was still curled up, her eyelashes trembling slightly.
The early morning sun poured into the mezzanine of the overpass and spread over the surrounding land. The ruined city I saw last night was now bathed in gold.
The bottom of the bridge is full of boulders that fell after the bridge deck cracked, the nearby road surface is full of yellow sand mounds, the roadside telephone poles are buried, and the shells of scrapped cars can be seen next to them.
It's a city, or it's a city.
There are many tall buildings in the field of vision, but each building is riddled with holes and dilapidation. Leaking steel bars abounded, and from a distance, even the walls themselves seemed to be stained with rust.
Some buildings have collapsed in half, while others have not collapsed and are on top of others.
Ding Xiu's world was originally only the camp in the desert, and the picture in front of him produced something called shock in his heart.
There were a few living creatures moving under the bridge, all of them were zombies that had fallen last night. Ding Xiu lay on the edge of the mezzanine and began to think about the direction of the next way out.
It didn't take long for Chen Jianing to wake up, because the sun was shining on his body and he began to heat up.
The first time the girl woke up, she saw Ding Xiu, which made her very relieved.
"Ding Xiu." Chen Jianing greeted him.
"Hey, are you awake and feeling a little refreshed?"
"Much better." For the care from Ding Xiu, the girl was very useful, and she showed a sweet smile, which was regarded as a greeting from the early morning.
"This is a city!" After sobering up, Chen Jianing also noticed the situation nearby, but unlike Ding Xiu, she only showed a slightly surprised look.
"Dead City." After a short observation, the girl defined it.
"There are still living creatures here." Ding Xiu reminded her with a smile.
"Zombies! How do they get under the bridge? Chen Jianing looked in the direction pointed by Ding Xiu and saw a few wandering figures below.
"Oh, I remember." She patted her head, as if she had just remembered what had happened last night, "We were chased here by them, right?" ”
Ding Xiu nodded.
"What are we going to do? I mean, how do we get out of here? Chen Jianing asked.