Age of Chaos: A city in the last days
[Hehe, maybe there is another way to open the apocalypse?] 】
01
The tenth day of the coming of the end times.
The sound of helicopters rumbled all morning, and finally, the last "important people" in the city were picked up, leaving only ordinary people and a small number of soldiers who had not had time to evacuate, and remained here as abandoned people.
Some of the survivors did not give up, risking their lives to follow the helicopter route, and within a few hundred meters of walking, they were torn to pieces by the living dead and mutant dogs wandering on the side of the road, blood splattered everywhere, and severed limbs and stumps were everywhere.
People who don't have strength can't protect themselves in these last days, let alone protect those they want to protect.
My family was not at home at the moment the end came, and ten days passed, and I knew that if they were not dead, they were moved to a safe place, and I could relax, although there was nothing to worry about.
My parents are both senior researchers at the Institute of Biology, and they hardly take any vacation throughout the year, so I don't seem to have much contact with them other than the living expenses that come in on time every month. So if they were still alive, they would have been busy studying the causes and solutions of this change, and they would have been busy for 24 hours, remembering that the possibility of their only child being in the hardest-hit area was almost zero.
Growing up on my own, I had no other family to worry about, and I knew it was time to find my own way.
Luckily, the little friend who has been with me has mutated, and it is a Samoyed, which is now two meters tall when it stands up, which has exceeded my height. And not only did it not go crazy, it did not forget me, it was smarter than before, and it could understand my simple words. For the past ten days, it has helped me find food that I have been able to survive so nourishingly.
Yesterday, the city-wide radio informed the city that the nearest safe zone was in Y County, a hundred kilometers from the city, a famous historical monument in peacetime, with walls dozens of feet high that once resisted foreign invasions. Thousands of years later, it still protects our generation with its strong body.
At the beginning of the apocalypse, this is definitely the safest place, with time for people to buffer this great bad news, get used to it, and learn to adapt to the days in front of them.
I decided I was going to go to the safe zone to make a living. Human beings are social animals, and a person will live a very lonely and hard life in the last days.
Although my family had a car that my father had given me before, I had never taken a driver's license and could not drive. It's not too far from my home to the safe zone, but it's not on foot either, and I may need to figure out a way to get around the traffic.
If only the rain had been a little heavier, maybe it could carry me.
02
The next day, when I went out to look for food, I met my neighbor's little brother Lin Xu, who was a professional soldier who served in a secret army before the end of the world, and happened to go home to visit his relatives in the past few days.
I think of my parents who seem to have said that there is anything I can ask him for help, but he hasn't come back much over the years, and I don't remember it for a while.
Lin Xu is five years older than me, and our previous relationship was still very good. When I was a child, my family was too busy, and the age difference was not too much, so we used to be very close. Once, he took me to the playground to play, but I missed the last train, and when I came back, my parents severely criticized me.
When I grew up, he went to military school, and I went to general high school, and I became less and less fond of communicating with others, and we didn't have much communication between us, and finally we were so estranged.
However, the relationship since childhood is not fake.
The moment he saw me, a moment of astonishment flashed in his eyes, followed by a full of surprise. He may be wondering why my dog has gotten so big, and maybe why I'm home alone.
After a short conversation, I learned that both of his parents had unfortunately become the living dead, and he quickly recognized the harsh reality and accepted it all.
After locking them in the room, Lin Xu and I chose to find a safe area at the same time, and he had already planned it carefully. I went out today to find enough gas, and his modified Humvee is bomb-proof and very safe, but the amount of fuel is really not to be said.
After telling me about his situation, he didn't mean to ask me about my current situation, although he was curious, but when to shut up was also a science, and it was clear that he was very good at it.
After comforting the heavy rain for a while, it finally stopped going out with me. Leaving it at home, I began to act with Lin Xu.
03
The force value of the people who came out of the army was really different. After he hacked a few living dead to death with a fire axe, I was once again glad I had chosen to go with him. In just a few days after the end of the world, I was forced to see the warmth and coldness of the people in this world, and now I can give my back to someone I can trust, which is really a very happy thing.
If nothing else, it will take about two hours to get to the safe zone from here, so Lin Xu only plans to find a barrel of oil, which I think should be enough. My task is to find enough food. The safe zone has just been established, and the facilities and order are not perfect, and I don't plan to get any privileges from my parents' relationship, and I don't want to live on Lin Xu like a girl when there is no danger, so it is quite important to find something to eat. Without food, even if you go into the safe zone, it's no different from looking for death.
There is only one supermarket near the villa where we live, and since there are not many residents, there is not much traffic here, and there is no danger except for a few salesmen turned into the living dead.
There were also two cars parked in front of the supermarket, and there was no one. After draining the gasoline of the two cars, Lin Xu drove the Hummer to the back door, and we headed for the supermarket.
I had a steel pipe I found at home in my hand, and although it was of little use, it was still possible to protect myself when there were not many living dead. Lin Xu is still the same fire axe, after cutting so many living dead people is already a little dull, I think of the Tang knife left by my grandfather at home, just right for Lin Xu, anyway, I can't use it, just give it to him when I go back, and thank him for helping me.
There is a person with a high force value who is indeed a lot more settled around me, but seeing that the things on the shelves are almost swept away, I still sigh helplessly. It seems that in the ten days after the end of the world, although the government called for not to go out and wait at home for rescue, no one agreed.
Smart people will choose to go out to find a solution to the crisis, and stupid people will wait at home to die.
It took a lot of effort to pry open the warehouse, but luckily the contents were still intact. I packed a lot of easy-to-eat fast foods like compressed biscuits and instant noodles and mineral water, as well as a few calorie-replenishing foods like chocolate and candy, and Lin took a lot more than me.
People with big heads have an advantage in moving things, and I can't help but think sullenly.
04
"Ladies and gentlemen, due to the influence of the magnetic field, this is the last time to release a unified national message, please stay at home, prepare enough supplies, and wait for rescue. Those who have the ability to rush to the safety zone as much as possible, and the location of the safety zone in each place is reported below, and the safety zone in City B is located..."
When there was a knock on the door, I just turned off the radio and packed my things, and I knew it would be too late to leave.
After the end of the world, the regime declined, the military power was dominant, the supplies in the security zone were tight, the soldiers suffered huge losses, and they had to go out to find materials to support the people in the safety zone.
After strapping up everything we could use and putting it in the trunk, the food was hidden under the seats, and the heavy rain lay in the back seat, Lin Xu and I finally hit the road.
After careful consideration, we decided to go all the way north from the provincial highway to Y County. There are too many high-speed vehicles that can clog the road, so provincial roads are a good option.
Along the way, it still didn't go as smoothly as expected.
Urban population density is generally higher than in rural areas, so most safe zones are built in less populated areas such as suburbs, where there are relatively few living dead due to the small number of people, making it easier to clean up.
After the end came, probably most people heard the news and set out on the road out of the city.
And there will inevitably be bumps and bumps along the way, such as accidentally being scratched or something, people's first thought is definitely not to tell others to save their lives, not for the safety of the vast majority of people. Therefore, when the virus strikes, the closest person around must be the first victim, and the next unlucky person is naturally the person closest to the living dead.
Seeing the rear-end collision of several cars in front of me, causing the road to be blocked, and the people in the cars were quickly being chewed by the wandering living dead, I thought there must have been a tragedy here.
Lin Xu also saw all this, but he didn't move, and I didn't do anything. These things are already very common after the end of the world, and they are commonplace, and sooner or later they have to get used to all this, and maybe they are used to it now.
The wheels spun around to avoid the crash, and like most people, we began to move on, a hundred kilometers, a journey that would take only an hour and a half in peacetime, and Lin Xu and I walked for a whole day.
From dawn to dark, from the sea of cars to the few, when I saw the black city wall, I seemed to have lost the joy of this mood, and my heart was lonely.
Because it was dark, the inspection area at the gate was closed, and we had to sleep outside the city. Lin Xu went down to smoke, and let off steam, after all, the security at this time was not as good as before.
I lay in the saddle, curled up, staring at the building in front of me.
I don't know if this is the end or the beginning again.