The sandstorm raged for more than two hours, and everyone who hid in the car to take shelter from the wind almost collapsed en masse.

When the wind outside the car weakened and the sand and dust thinned, the loess was almost buried to the neck. It's no exaggeration to say that container trucks and ambulances have escaped by virtue of their high bodies, but Cool Red Bird and Wind Viper are so lucky.

These two sports cars dedicated to Hurricane have a low body and a short chassis, and everyone is so good that they are still in the upper hand. After this sandstorm, the viper and red bird were basically left with the roof still exposed.

Hong Xiangcai got into the ambulance as early as the beginning of the sandstorm, and the people in the hospital and the manor were experienced, using container trucks as shelters, and several ambulances surrounded behind the trucks, which could be retreated and defended, and basically did not suffer.

Zheng Nannan's side is not so optimistic.

The four men hid in the viper, and only realized that something was wrong when they found the sand buried in the car door.

In order to avoid being suffocated in the car by the loess, Zheng Nannan could only smash the car window in pain, and at the stall where the situation was rapidly changing, he took three Xiaomi to escape from the viper and hide in the heavy truck fortress.

When the wind and sand completely stopped, dozens of people returned to the world, scolding and scolding to clean the battlefield and check the vehicles.

Zheng Nannan found Shaman, who was deeply grateful to him, and when he saw him alive, he was excited to cry, hugged Zheng Nannan tightly, and didn't say a word for a long time.

"Calm down, calm down." Zheng Nannan still had a lot of questions in his heart, so he hurriedly dragged her off his body, and while the people in the hospital and the manor were busy with their own work, he took Shaman to the side.

"How did you get it back? Oh my God, I couldn't see anything when you pushed me up, I thought you were behind me, but the people from the manor took me into the car and realized that you didn't come with me......"

"Let's not mention this for now, anyway, it's a life." Zheng Nannan interrupted Shaman's chatter, looked at Hong Coriander, and saw that no one noticed his side, then waved Tang Garlic over, bowed his head and said, "I see two people." ”

"Where?" The two women asked in unison.

Zheng Nannan recalled the scene at that time, and wanted to take the two girls over to check, but when he looked around, he found that the previous loess mounds had now changed, some were completely eroded by the wind, and some were even a few meters high, and the terrain had completely changed, so it was impossible to find any clues.

So, Zheng Nannan could only rely on his vague memory to repeat what he saw in the sandstorm to Shaman and Tang Garlic.

Tang Garlic and Shaman looked at each other, stunned by what they heard.

"You mean, someone helped you in the end? Sent you back to the convoy? Tang Garlic's beautiful eyes widened, it was really unbelievable, if she didn't know something about Zheng Nannan, she wouldn't have believed it.

Zheng Nannan nodded and added, "But the people who helped me are not the two I saw in the sand." ”

The two girls were even more dumbfounded and speechless.

"And I know the people who helped me." Zheng Nannan's tone was firm, and he explained to Tang Garlic: "Do you remember the woman who came to talk to me by the car before we left Raw Meat Town?" ”

"She?" Tang Garlic nodded, of course she remembered this woman, she was still fighting-for-tat at that time.

Later, the joint convoy set off, and the woman also led people to follow all the way, although she fell far behind, but was discovered by the people in Yu Xiuzhu's car early in the morning.

Before the sandstorm, Hong Xiangcai also asked Zheng Nannan about this stubble.

"It's her, I won't admit it." Zheng Nannan was very embarrassed, if it weren't for this high-breasted girl, he would have been buried by this time.

Tang Garlic felt that it was unlikely, but what the boss said was conclusive, and she couldn't refute it, but looking around, a radius of several hundred meters, there was nothing else but their convoy, even if the woman really saved the boss in the center of the sandstorm whirlpool, what about after that?

"Gone." Zheng Nannan spread his hands and said helplessly: "If you don't believe it, forget it." ”

"What do the other two mean? Passing by? Sharman asked.

Zheng Nannan recalled the situation at that time, frowned, and said: "I can't guarantee these two, but just because I saw the figure at that time, I turned back, including the first few minutes of the sandstorm, I could see it clearly, one tall and one short, standing far away." ”

"This is really ......" Tang Garlic smacked his lips, and couldn't find the right words to describe it, and said with a wry smile: "In broad daylight, what you said was a little crazy." ”

"Forget it, there are a lot of headaches right now, just listen to this matter, don't talk about it. Also, keep a snack on the onions and green peppers. I don't know how to do it, I always feel that something is not quite right. ”

……

When the convoy set off again, the sun had stopped overhead, and despite the unbearable heat, the convoy gritted their teeth and set off.

The national highway has come to an end, and the next road depends on experience and luck.

The boundary of Shengrou Town belongs to the former northwest region, which has many mountains and few trees, and has been seriously desertified in recent years, and it is desolate and dry soil as far as the eye can see.

According to the hospital's pioneer car, the convoy will next make its way to the former dead city, finding its way through the abandoned city. Although it may take some time, it is better than the Loess Plateau, once there is a sandstorm, there is not even a leeward place, not to mention the possibility of encountering quicksand areas.

"Boss, do you think there will be walking corpses in the ruined city?" Shu Onion blinked his peach blossom eyes and asked a little childishly: "Since I followed Sister Hong, I have basically never seen each other again, everyone says that the walking corpse has been completely extinct, but I don't think it's necessarily." ”

"I think there will be." Zheng Nannan said in his heart, you ask me, I will ask who to go, in the first three years of the walking corpse, he was still a little child, and he was lucky at that time, and he met a group of people with his mother, although he was accompanied by danger all the way, but under the protection of that group of people, he almost did not suffer any crime.

And then he stayed in that place, and he was completely insulated from the walking corpse.

"Even if there is, there is no threat." Tang Garlic looked like a big sister, and said while driving: "Nowadays, there is a lack of everything, that is, there is no shortage of antibody vaccines." Besides, most of the walking corpses used to be in urban areas, and the desertification has been serious in recent years, and the number of living people has shrunk so much, and there is no one to bite the walking corpses. ”

"It's true, the living are much more dangerous than the walking corpse these days." Li Qingjiao echoed.

Zheng Nannan just smiled and didn't say anything, Li Qingjiao was only half right.

Not now, even in those years when the walking dead were infested, the most dangerous were the living.

At noon, the shadow of the sandstorm passed completely, and the heavens and the earth were once again steaming into furnaces.

The convoy arrived at a barren mountain, found a shaded place to rest in a flat area, and hurried on the road again.

Outside the car window, it's the same as it was a few hours ago, except for the scorching loess, except for the occasional faint glimpse of the outline of the city in the far distance.

The topic of the walking corpse just now brought back some memories of Zheng Nannan, and he remembered that he had a similar journey many years ago.

The difference is that at that time, although the walking corpses were everywhere, their journeys were mostly full of laughter. Those young men and women planted many seeds in the young Zheng Nannan's heart at that moment.

Zheng Nannan has seen them fleeing for their lives in embarrassment, and he has also seen them fight to the death, whether they are men or women, they can cry, laugh, have fun, dare to fight, dare to kill, and dare to be open-minded.

The most impressive thing is not the desperate fight, but the unbridled laughter of those people in many cool nights, and the wine that never stops.

"Boss, what are you thinking?"

Shu Onion's voice pulled Zheng Nannan back from his memories and thoughts.

"It's nothing, I remember something from my childhood."

Zheng Nannan smiled, suddenly a little melancholy, took out a cigarette from his pocket, imitated the appearance of the rebellious young man, took a deep breath, and spit out a cloudy smoke.

……

Half an hour after Zheng Nannan's team left, the desert off-road team was late.

Laili changed her clothes, her delicate body was tightly wrapped in a fat jacket, the off-road vehicle was covered with dust, and the people in the car were all gray-faced.

"It's not lost, it's in this direction." Laili checked the traces left by Zheng Nannan's convoy, put her hand on the pergola and looked into the distance, and said, "Rest for ten minutes and go." ”

The kobold man followed behind Laili with a crossbow on his back, and when he heard this, he couldn't help but ask, "If we follow any longer, I'm afraid we won't have time to compete." ”

"Road races happen every year, and it's the first time that Deep Blue Hospital and Hoarse Manor have acted together." Riley wore goggles and a smile on her pale face: "At the moment, I'm more interested in their destination. ”

"I don't care, I just follow you, wherever I go." The dog-headed man paused, lowered his voice and said, "But what about those alliance riders?" We started to say that they came with the alliance to participate in the competition, and now they say that they will not participate, I'm afraid it will be difficult to do. ”

"If you don't want to go, let me go back, if you have an opinion......" Laili turned around and patted the kobold man on the shoulder, and smiled: "I'm sure you'll handle it." ”

……

Forbidden area, a laboratory.

Meng Chang was busy all night, his eyes were swollen and bloodshot. The only thing to be happy about is that the current project has finally entered the final stage, and the collection and research of the new hive has been completed, and the rest can be left to the experimental assistants.

Alas, it would be nice if there were more hives with a 0 risk factor but immeasurable scientific value.

This is the sixth hive project that Meng Chang has participated in, and the only one that does not have dead people. The project lasted four months, and a large number of unknown plant extracts were collected, which could be used for biological research and perhaps provide initial guidance on the origin of the hive.

Unfortunately, his superiors rejected his request to go deep into the hollow at the bottom of the hive. Beehives are rare, and safe and dangerous beehives are even more valuable, and if they can enter the hole, Meng Chang is confident that he can dig into more diverse possibilities.

Pity...... This can only be imagined, the head office has sent a field team to block the hive, and as before, the hive will belong to the company from now on, and they, the researchers, will not have permission to enter.

Bored, Meng Chang picked up a folder on the table and flipped through it, and saw the name of the bag seal, happy. It should be the assistant who was careless and confused the documents. This clip belongs to another scientist with higher level of authority than himself.

Meng Chang picked up the phone and was about to dial the extension line to call the assistant to pick it up, but he pressed the extension number and hung up the phone again.

"Anyway, you sent it, and when the time comes, I'll say I didn't pay attention to it, and I dismantled it by mistake." Meng Chang smiled and hurriedly locked the door, then used the blade to gently remove the glue under the sealing bag, and carefully poured out the documents.

"What the hell ......" Meng Chang looked left and right, the more he looked, the more strange it became, this document was not a research report at all, most of them were photos taken from high altitudes, most of them were black and white, blurry. It wasn't until the end that I found a few pieces of paper with words written on them, and the first mark of the text was printed with a red RCA chapter, which read [Northwest Crack in Xiacheng District].

Meng Chang swallowed his saliva, sat back in the chair with his legs bent, stared at it for a long time, and muttered: "Crack...... Just kidding...... Downtown ...... Northwest ......"