Volume 1 Unheard of Stars Chapter 12 The Woman at the Gas Station
Looking at the giggling girl in front of him, Jiang Luo was silent on the surface, but he was very moved in his heart. When Diana sent him the news, the first group of people had already begun to retreat, and it was her repeated insistence that her parents agreed to let her stay and wait for Jiang Luo.
"Senior, let's be impressed! I stayed here to wait for you! β
"Well, you should have just left, and if I don't come here, you're going to wait?"
"Wow, senior, it's too hurtful for you to say this!"
"I ......"
"What are you, people risked their lives to wait for you, but you reprimanded me, woo woo woo ......" Diana deliberately made a little daughter posture, making Jiang Luo helpless, feeling that the conversation between the two was a bit like flirting between young couples.
"Ahem!"
A pretended cough broke the awkward atmosphere, and a burly bodyguard in a black suit walked up, Jiang Luo found that the bulging waist around him was definitely not an ordinary bodyguard.
"Miss, let's go. Those in the north...... It's getting closer and closer. The bodyguard said and glanced at Jiang Luo, as if he didn't want Jiang Luo to see any clues.
"Angkor, the predecessor is not an outsider, you don't have to be so careful when you speak, anyway, he will know sooner or later."
It's not an outsider, I can also see that if it's an outsider, Miss, you will risk staying and waiting for him in person? I don't know how many lifetimes of blessings this mediocre-looking kid has accumulated...... The bodyguard thought to himself and snorted coldly.
A dark black Hummer H2 has already been parked downstairs, the performance of this military car is much higher than that of ordinary Jeep off-road, and the price is naturally expensive, probably around a million.
"Get in the car and go!" After getting out of the elevator, the bodyguard looked at his phone, his expression changed greatly, and he said nervously, "They're coming!" β
"What?"
Jiang Luo was pushed into the back seat by Diana in confusion, and the Hummer ran quickly to the opposite bridge after starting.
"Big brother, can you drive slower!"
The bodyguard ignored him and concentrated on the steering wheel, which had reached 60 in ten seconds, making it feel like a roller coaster.
"Senior! Outside! β
Jiang Luo followed Diana's finger and saw a black line in the distance of the tumbling wave under the bridge, like a layer of oil, rolling closer and closer...... The familiar black liquid spread across the entire river, and in the blink of an eye, it was in front of meβmy God, it was a group of floating corpses! No, it's not floating corpses, because Jiang Luo can see those floating corpses swimming, struggling against the current towards the shore, the exposed dark red muscles and the faces full of spores, they are those monsters!
"The defense line on the north side is crumbling faster than we thought, I thought we could hold out for a day, these monsters are too powerful!" Diana said.
North? To the north of the demon capital is Congming Island, and those who were burned to death by the heavenly fire before are said to have been concentrated on Congming Island for processing, and these monsters are also from the north...... Connecting these strange clues since the end of the world, Jiang Luo has roughly guessed the facts.
"Those who were burned to death by the fire of heaven have become monsters?"
"Sounds unscientific, doesn't it, but science doesn't seem to work at the end of the world!" Diana said a little depressed.
"Are those monsters zombies?"
"No, not zombies. If it's a zombie, it's too bad, it should be infected with some kind of virus carried in the Skyfire and mutated. β
"The army is not enough to deal with them?" Jiang Luo is very strange, according to what he knows so far, this kind of man-eating monster does not spread the virus to infect more people like zombies, which can be verified from Wang Mazi, and the time when the Tianhuo occurred was at night, and the number of people who were burned to death by the Tianhuo and infected was not very large. If the two conditions are combined, the number of monsters should not be too much, and the army has directly abandoned such a core city as the magic capital, which is really incomprehensible.
"Not because of them, it's an order from above! Miss, sit down, I'm going to speed up! The bodyguard interrupted the conversation between the two, and he slammed the accelerator with his right foot, and with a bang, the Humvee, which had eight cylinders, soared directly to a hundred miles.
Jiang Luo, who was not wearing a seat belt, was upside down in the back seat, feeling that he was walking against the wind, and the subsequent scene made him shut up when he sat up and was about to complain.
The speeding Humvee rushed to the end of the bridge like a bullet, and the side of the bridge was already crawling with black monsters, they blocked the way out like a pack of hungry wolves, and the Hummer's choice was very rough and simple, that is, to crash away!
The humanoid monsters that tried to pounce on the high-speed target were knocked away like bowling balls, and the Humvee's windows were covered in their black blood and debris, and after an unknown number of monsters had been bumped, they finally broke through a path and sped towards the wide highway to the west.
The high-speed rush also meant that the fuel was running out at a high speed, and the trio had to stop at a gas station to refuel their cars.
The highway rest area listened to a few cars crookedly, some even covered in dust. And there are still black marks in the clearing, and I don't know if they are oil stains or what. The only supermarket was as if it had been robbed, leaving only empty shelves and floors full of plastic bags and garbage.
Silence, no people, no life.
"Gas stations at high-speed rest points like this were abandoned a few days before the military control, so I just hope there is still oil storage!" The bodyguard said and picked up the oil gun.
Yes, the end of the world began a week ago, and since the arrival of that blood moon, the order of human society has begun to break! Jiang Luo thought to himself, but in fact, he was also going out for the first time since the end of the world, but what he saw along the way was all the same as in the doomsday movie, all the facilities of civilization have become waste.
"Bad luck." The bodyguard threw the fuel gun on the ground, opened the trunk of the Humvee, took out a large water bag and a wrench, smashed the fuel tank with a bang, and then filled the fuel tank with the absorbent bag and filled it into the car's fuel tank.
Just as the bodyguards kept filling the Humvee tank with gas, Diana, who had been rummaging in the work hall of the gas station, suddenly ran out.
"There's someone in there! I just heard a voice! Diana pointed to the gloomy corner of the hall.
Hearing the sound, the bodyguard threw the oil directly, reached into his pocket with one hand, and quickly walked to the hall to check the situation.
In the dark corner of the hall was a large closed iron door, and a faint sound of chains was heard.
When the three of them opened the iron door, they were greeted by a strong stench, like a sour dead mouse. I saw a man with a disheveled head move in the dark corner, and then stretched out a trembling, bloody hand, trying to grasp something. Jiang Luo turned on the mobile phone light to see that the woman with tucked hair was already too thin to look human, a layer of wrinkled skin covered with protruding blood vessels and bones, her hair was messily glued together, naked and covered with scars, the vertebrae on her back supported her movements like some kind of arthropod, and there was a thumb-sized chain around her neck, which tied her like a dog.
"Save ...... Save me....."
Although the voice was very weak, the three of them heard it.
She raised her head slightly, it was a thin face like a skeleton, but she could still make a trace of delicateness.
"This... Woman? Jiang Luo frowned, as if he had a premonition that something bad was wrong.
The bodyguard squatted in front of the woman, probed, and then said: "Her hamstrings have been broken, and the scars on her body are all man-made." β
Although this kind of thing is commonplace in apocalyptic descriptions, Jiang Luo still feels shocked, angry, and scared when it really happens in front of his eyes.
"Angkor, can we save her!" Although Diana sympathized with the woman, she was also afraid of her, and did not even dare to look at her, for she could not imagine what had happened to her.
The bodyguard shook his head, "She's seriously overdrawn and hopeless, and besides, it's impossible for us to carry such a burden." Even if she arrives in the army, no one will stop to save her. β
She seemed to hear the conversation between the three of them, and her originally hopeful eyes suddenly dimmed, and the corners of her mouth twitched in despair.
"Help... I... Die..."
Jiang Luo and Diana, who had returned to the car, were silent until the gunshot rang out.
A line of tears flowed from Diana's eyes, and she whimpered and said, "Jiang Luo, you say, is the end really coming?" Do people really get that scary......"
Diana rarely called her by her first name, and every time she did, it meant she was vulnerable, the last time she cried to herself when she was out of love and drunk.......
"I don't know, after all, this is just an individual example, the person who has become too big in his heart, whether it is the end of the day or not, he will sin, and most people are still good......"
Jiang Luo was silent for a while, and then said, "We are not saviors, and we can't save anyone." We can take care of ourselves, and in a world like this, I just want to protect myself and the people around me. β
"Are the people around me, including me?"
"Of course, you're one of my best friends."
"Thank you, Jiang Luo."
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After an afternoon of high-speed driving, the Hummer finally drove out of the magic city, due to the interruption of the power system, the highway was completely dark after nightfall, so the bodyguard decided to drive off the highway and stop on the side of the road for a night's rest, but surprisingly, there was light in a house along the street in the suburbs.
"Boom! Boom! Boom! Anyone? β
The bodyguard knocked on the only bright door, and after a while, a chubby middle-aged man limped over, his face was full of beard, and he looked out through the crack in the security door with some restraint.
"You guys, what's the matter?"
"Hello! We came from the city, passing by here, and saw that you have a bright ......" Jiang Luo said and secretly glanced indoors, only to see an ancient kerosene lamp lit in the dim room.
"The people around you have already withdrawn, why are you still here?" The bodyguard sensed something was wrong.
"Who are you? Why bother me! The middle-aged man was so excited that he was ready to close the door.
"Wait, uncle, we have no ill intentions! I just want to spend the night with you! Diana quickly explained that she didn't want to curl up in the car and sleep all night.
The middle-aged man didn't speak, just stared at Diana, and then heard a "bang", he directly opened the security door, "Come in!" β
"Uncle, why are you staying here alone? Isn't it said that there are monsters outside, how dangerous it is to stay here! Diana tried to tactfully get information.
The middle-aged man's eyelids jumped after hearing the word "monster", and then he said a little unhappily, "What monster, I haven't seen any monsters here, it's not a rumor, who knows......"
"Aren't all the people here evacuated? Even the water and electricity are gone......"
"You think I don't want to go, I'm waiting for my wife! She hasn't come back in Suzhou yet! There seems to be something big going on in Suzhou, but it's good that she's fine......" The uncle muttered, suddenly thought of something, and pointed to a doorway on the left-hand side, "That room will be for you to rest, let's leave at dawn." A day ago, there were still many people who drove through here with their families, saying that they were evacuated with the troops, so you should be able to catch up with the ......."
"Thank you, uncle, you are such a good person, I wish you to meet your wife soon." Diana said.
"Okay, I'm going to sleep, I'll just have a light, don't move around at night, otherwise I won't care if you bump into me!" With that, he picked up the kerosene lamp and left.
"This guy is weird, but he should be a good guy." Diana turned her head to look at Jiang Luo and the bodyguard, and smiled proudly, "See, it's still my charm." β
"You're not afraid of this uncle's schemes!" Jiang Luo said quietly.
"Don't be afraid, isn't it you, even if you can't, Angkor is very powerful and can protect the two of us. There are three of us together, and we're still afraid of this uncle! β
"Miss, I think it's better for us to be careful, I always feel that something is wrong with him."
"No matter, go to bed first, I'm sleepy!"
In that room, a dusty bed and a few chairs were simply placed, and it looked like a utility room, not like a guest room. Of course, Diana, as the only girl, slept on the bed, while Jiang Luo and the bodyguard Angkor rested on the chairs. After a tiring day's travel, Jiang Luo and Diana were too tired, and after locking the door, the two soon fell into a deep sleep, while the bodyguard Angkor closed his eyes and recuperated while still on his guard......
In the room, where none of them could see, the middle-aged man was muttering frantically to a humanoid creature whose hands and feet had been locked.
"Baby, don't be afraid, it's time to eat......"