Chapter 10: A Bad Cold
This sleep was not as comfortable as expected, his cough became more and more frequent and violent, even if he was covered with a thick "quilt", he would not stop chilling.
"Oh no, I must have a cold."
Wang Xi raised his hand and tried his forehead, he had a fever, and he was suddenly scared, after all, this cold is not serious, but if it is serious, it will still kill him.
He didn't get up in a hurry, just pressed the "quilt" tighter, and remembered that when he was a child, his mother told him not to lift the quilt no matter how hot it was, as long as he covered his sweat, he wanted to try it, after all, there was no other way now.
As his body flickered hot and cold for a while, Wang Xi fell asleep again in a daze......
When he woke up again, Wang Xi didn't feel that his body had improved, but his whole body was soft.
"No, I have to think of a way, or I'll burn out my brain, and even become a walking corpse will be a "stupid" walking corpse."
Wang Xi first climbed to the door of the cargo box and looked at the sky through the gap, it was daytime, the fog had dispersed, and the rain had stopped, but the sky was still covered by thick dark clouds.
Without further ado, and without knowing when it would get dark, Wang Xi must hurry up and venture into a village or a town, and only by finding medicine can he recover his health.
After these two battles with the walking corpses, he himself has a little confidence in dealing with the walking corpses, and he is no longer as scared as before, because he doesn't know how many walking corpses he will encounter on the way home, and if he doesn't dare to face it sometimes, he probably won't be able to get home alive.
"Bang bang...".
Wang Xi patted his face a few times with his hand to sober himself up, and then jumped out of the cargo box with a short knife and a backpack on his back.
He had paid attention to these vehicles when he was collecting food and drink, and some of the car keys were still there, but he didn't know if they could still start .......
He tried to start several various models, but they couldn't start because the battery was out of power, Wang Xi already felt that the idea of driving away would not work, but at this time, Wang Xi inadvertently caught a glimpse of a string of car keys that fell on the ground, and he walked over and bent down to pick it up.
"Let's try again".
Wang Xi began to look for the corresponding car according to the car mark on the key, and finally, the key opened the locked door of a Great Wall SUV, Wang Xi sat in the driver's seat, inserted the key into the keyhole, and started according to the driving school.
Although the first attempt failed to start, what made Wang Xi happy was that the car was not completely unresponsive, and the noise of the start was very clear, which also meant that the battery still had electricity, and he continued to try to start it a few times.
βYESοΌβ
The car finally started, and Wang Xi sat in the driver's seat and bounced excitedly a few times.
The car was started, and another problem was also placed in front of him, that is, the Great Wall was in the middle of this pile of cars, and if he wanted to get out, he had to move the few cars blocked behind, Wang Xi had to let the Great Wall car continue to start, and dragged his weak body down one by one to push the cars blocked behind him to the side, so that his car could be reversed.
After tossing for a long time, he finally cleared a channel that could reverse the car, Wang Xi wanted to try to reverse the car first, but suddenly remembered that there was still a problem to be solved, or it would be in vain this day, that is, the fuel problem.
First turn off the Great Wall car, then find a very long and dry branch, open the fuel tank cap, poke into the mouth of the fuel tank, and then pull out the branch to see the wet part, it is not very long, which also means that the car has not much fuel.
Wang Xi had already expected this result, and he directly began to search other vehicles again, found a plastic hose, and a standard large oil drum, and then pumped oil from car to car.
Wang Xi also observed why these cars were blocked here, and he couldn't say the specific reason, but judging from the more serious large trucks that hit the front and the vehicles that basically had rear-end traces behind them, maybe the weather caused a series of car accidents, and there were some blood stains left on some vehicles and the walking corpses that roamed before, obviously, there was an outbreak of infection here, or these car owners would not be in a hurry and didn't even take the car keys, and the doors didn't have time to close, and because of this, Most of the vehicles here have a little bit of gasoline in the fuel tank, and Wang Xi learned to pry open the fuel tank cap with a crowbar he found in the movie, insert the hose into the fuel tank, and then suck it with his mouth to pump out the gasoline inside.
To be on the safe side, Wang Xi first filled up the fuel tank of the Great Wall car and then pumped a barrel of gasoline before stopping.
Starting the car from scratch, Wang Xi was generally familiar with the partner, clutch, brakes, etc., and then sat down and prepared to reverse the car .......
As expected, after several stalls and collisions, Wang Xi reversed the car and "moved forward" in the opposite direction.
From the speed of no more than forty miles at the beginning, to seventy or eighty miles later, as he became more and more "skilled" in driving skills, the excitement seemed to have reduced his cold symptoms a lot, but that being said, his top priority now is to find the right medicine as soon as possible, otherwise he is really blind to the life of a car family now.
After several screenings along the way, Wang Xi chose a toll booth where the roadblock had been destroyed and drove off the highway, perhaps because the roadblock was destroyed, there was no abandonment of the car to block the road, but there were a few sparse and messy vehicles of all kinds on the road, and the walking corpses had not been seen much.
Because the sky was slowly darkening at this time, and some of the buildings that could be seen in front of him were seriously damaged, Wang Xi couldn't judge the scale of the city for a while, he could only stare closely at the situation on the road, after all, the kind of walking corpses in Shuzhong City that poured like a tide, there may also be ..... here.
The city is surprisingly quiet, and Wang Xi drives his car through the city's chaotic roads at low speed, using the illumination of the headlights, Wang Xi carefully searches for the signboards of pharmacies and clinics.......
Because a large part of the buildings in the city have traces of fire, and all the signboards of the shops on the first floor are either missing, or they are so dilapidated that they can't see what they are selling, Wang Xi can only continue to look patiently, but on the other hand, as he spends more time in the city, the more Wang Xi feels that something is wrong with the city, although it is not that there is not a single walking corpse, but according to the scope of his detour, the city is not small, and this walking corpse may not be a little exaggerated.
"Bang !!"
It was another walking corpse attracted by the sound of the car engine, this walking corpse rushed out of the alley on the side of the road, and directly hit the body of the car on Wang Xi's side, because of the smooth appearance of the vehicle, the walking corpse fell directly to the ground after the impact, and then got up in the back of the car, ready to continue to catch up, but Wang Xi stopped the car at this time, hung up the reverse gear, and directly rolled the walking corpse that had just stood up to the bottom of the car, and after several repeated crushing, Wang Xi continued to drive forward.
Wang Xi had used this method to solve several waves of walking corpses, either alone or double, attracted by the sound of the engine, and after a few experiences, he gradually became comfortable dealing with this kind of harassment that did not pose a big threat.
"The hearts of the people... Medicine... Wow, pharmacies, it's pharmacies! βγ
On the edge of a main road, Wang Xi carefully identified a broken signboard and finally found a pharmacy.
He parked the car upside down in front of the pharmacy, but did not turn off the headlights after the engine was turned off, because he also needed this light to be aware of possible threats around him at all times, and to use the light of the tail lights to allow him to clearly observe the roller shutter door.
"I'm dizzy, it's really locked."
Coming vigilantly from the car to the door of the pharmacy, he gently lifted the roller shutter door of the pharmacy.
I went back to the car and got the crowbar I had used earlier, and slowly inserted the crowbar into the bottom of the roller shutter, near the lock.
He knew that this pry, the roller shutter door would definitely make a loud noise, and he didn't know how many walking corpses it would attract, so whether he pried open the roller shutter door in a short period of time, he had to hurry back to the car, and then decide whether to apply oil on the soles of his feet or have the opportunity to enter the pharmacy to get his "life-saving medicine" depending on the next situation.
Wang Xi held the end of the crowbar with both hands, got ready, and used his strength to eat milk at the beginning, and pried up the roller shutter door fiercely.
"Bang bang bang ......".
As he began to exert his strength, the sound of the rolling shutter door became more and more harsh in this quiet environment, but this rolling shutter door was not so easy to pry open, Wang Xi did not dare to hold it up, and after trying several times, no matter how far he pryed, he quickly returned to the car after throwing down the crowbar.
The first thing to do is to lock the door and keep your eyes on where the lights outside the car can shine.
For a second... Two seconds... Ten seconds....
On the street directly opposite the front of the car, two walking corpses appeared out of nowhere, and before they appeared, they quickly rushed in the direction of Wang Xi.
Wang Xi didn't think much about it, started the engine, stepped on the accelerator violently, and crashed into the two walking corpses in front of him.
But just as it was starting, an unknown number of walking corpses hit both sides of the car.
"I rub it, I want to scare people to death!".
Wang Xi didn't care how many walking corpses came on both sides, and first solved the two walking corpses in front of him.
"Bang bang!"
"Click... Click...".
Wang Xi hit the two walking corpses in front of the car head-on, the two walking corpses were knocked out a few meters because of the strong impact force, and before they could straighten up and smash their bodies on the ground, the car driven by Wang Xi had already pressed over them, and the sound of bones shattering came from the bottom of the car.
With a little lighting from the taillights, Wang Xi roughly knew from the rearview mirrors on both sides that there were still four or five walking corpses approaching the rear of the car.
Without any hesitation, he hung up the reverse gear, and began to solve the chasing corpses again.
One or two advances and retreats failed to easily handle these walking corpses, and Wang Xi tossed up on this road for a while, backward for a while, and a turn for a while.......
After some effort, the last few walking corpses were crushed and turned out of human shape, and Wang Xi parked the car back to the door of the pharmacy as it was.
After confirming that there were no more walking corpses approaching, Wang Xi turned off the engine and got out of the car, and returned to the door of the pharmacy with the cat.
This time he shifted the crowbar to the other side of the lock, took a deep breath, and continued to pry it up again with all his might.
"Smack!"
With a crisp sound of metal breaking, Wang Xi finally pried open the roller shutter door, but he did not rush into the pharmacy, but ran back into the car again, and waited for a while in the same posture as last time.
This time, apart from a few howls of walking corpses from afar and near, not a single walking corpse was seen.
Wang Xi still started the car, but this time he turned the car around and let the headlights shine on the pharmacy, so that Wang Xi could clearly find the medicine he needed.
Entering the pharmacy, Wang Xi checked the scattered boxes of medicines on the basically empty shelves, although there were not many medicines left, but cold medicine and cough syrup were easily found, and other anti-inflammatory drugs and disinfectants were really not available here, and with a box of band-aids, Wang Xi returned to the car.