CHAPTER XXVIII
The next morning, the heavy rain finally stopped.
After a night of rain, the chariot was much less bloody, and the scenery in sight was completely new. The dew on the leaves is crystal clear and slides down with the wind. The grass swayed and stretched, green and dripping.
Shi Qingshan opened the rear hatch and walked down first, and after patrolling around with a gun, he climbed onto the roof of the car to cover the other three people to wash and make it convenient.
The sky was blue, and the breeze and the rain fell softly on the cheeks of several people. Breathing in the fresh, moist air, several people looked refreshed.
The natural environment seems to be revitalized with less human interference.
After they finished washing, they simply ate something and continued to march towards Yanjing.
Unexpectedly, when I was about to turn on the No. 1 highway that went directly to the capital, the toll gate was completely blocked by abandoned cars, and the road blocked by large and small vehicles was impassable, and it stretched for two miles at the highway.
There is no way, the chariot can only press over the roof of the car one by one, not only to find the gap between the carts, but also to prevent the chariot's tracks from being stuck and damaged, so it inevitably enters the turtle mode.
Half a day was wasted at the toll gate, and after running a short distance on the highway, a large passenger plane that made a forced landing and exploded destroyed the road for a full kilometer. Coupled with the continuous appearance of car accident scenes, it turned out that the journey was expected to be a day, but the four people took turns to run for two days and two nights, making everyone very tired.
Several cities along the way were smoky and charred. Heavy rain has extinguished the fires, but the city has been burned to the ground, and the eyes are dead.
When there are still dozens of kilometers away from the outer ring of the capital, the road obviously has traces of being opened up, and it is much easier to walk. Falling jet fighters began to appear sporadically in the fields beside the road.
"How could a fighter fall? Running out of gas? Anjia leaned on the porthole and looked out of the window, asking suspiciously.
"Probably not! If you run out of oil, you won't burn so badly! Shi Qingshan shook his head again and again.
Zhang Gong thought for a while and said: "There is a military airport near here, and it is very likely that the engine of the plane failed when it took off and landed!" ”
"Then why was it okay before?" Anja became a problem baby.
"This ...... I don't know! ”
Shi Qingshan suddenly thought of a reason, and said, "Could it be that the birds are not afraid of bird repellents after being infected, and the noise of the plane taking off attracts them all, sucks them into the air intake, and breaks the engine?" ”
Zhang Gong nodded again and again: "Hmm! That's right! Most likely, this is the reason! When the fighter takes off, there are a few seconds when the air intake is unprotected! ”
"I can't imagine that it's not even safe in the sky! Do you really want to drive people to death? Anjia sighed and said abruptly.
"It is estimated that the propeller plane can still fly, and the rotorcraft helicopter has no problem blocking the iron net in the air intake!" Shi Qingshan thought and said.
Sure enough, as soon as he finished speaking, Thor made a prompt tone: "Dudu Dudu...... Fifty kilometers away, it was discovered in the air that a helicopter of the Eagle Army Aviation Regiment of our army, numbered LH99989! ”
Shi Qingshan hurriedly turned on the radio, tuned the channel, and began to call the plane.
"LH99989, I am Shi Qingshan, the major captain of the Typhoon Special Operations Team of the 31st Group Army, and I was ordered to come to reinforce the capital, please give guidance!"
"LH99989 received! Report your location and how to identify it! ”
"We're driving a black infantry fighting vehicle, at 30 kilometers of the G1 highway, and we're heading in your direction!"
"Okay, I'll be right over!"
A few minutes later, the helicopter flew over Thor, and it turned in the air, leading the chariot off the highway at the East Fourth Ring Road, and driving straight along the Songyu Path in the direction of the Third Ring Road.
There are many high-rise buildings along the road, and the hotel club is luxurious, but they have all become a world of zombies.
The four-lane highway has become a huge parking lot, and the cars in the middle two lanes are mechanically stacked on top of the cars outside, forming two steel walls that are more than one person high. There are corpses left in many cars, there are people and zombies, and what was once a means of transportation has now become an iron box for their final destination.
In the small square, a group of zombie aunts are dancing zombie dances. The bus stop sign is crowded with anticipatory office workers. and the white-collar worker with dull eyes and bloodstains on his suit holding a dead-powered mobile phone at the subway entrance.
When they are hungry, they pick up a pair of leather shoes from the ground to eat, and when they are thirsty, they go to the fountain to drink and their stomachs are round, and they stay where they are for a long time and refuse to leave to forage for food, perhaps because of their habits and obsessions that remain in their minds.
But the garbage, flying plastic bags, and no longer flashing signal lights mark that this once-bustling metropolis has become a dead city.
After seeing the armored car parked at the intersection of the Third Ring Road in the distance, the helicopter said goodbye and flew away.
As the Thor chariot slowly drove along the labyrinthine barricade to the underside of the viaduct, it was blocked by a four-wheeled fire suppression robot, and a dozen soldiers with loaded guns and sharp eyes surrounded the chariot.
A stubble-covered ensign platoon leader walked over and knocked on the body, and Shi Qingshan stuck his head out of the cockpit.
Seeing his collar badge, the second lieutenant immediately saluted: "Please show your ID and open the car door for inspection!" ”
Shi Qingshan returned the salute, asked Zhang Gong to open the rear hatch, took out his military ID card and handed it over.
The second lieutenant looked down at the documents, then walked to the back door to look at the occupants of the car, and took the face recognition device handed over by the soldier next to him and took a picture of Shi Qingshan.
The "Ding Ding" screen reads "No access to it!" ”
The second lieutenant immediately respectfully returned Shi Qingshan's ID card, saluted and said, "Report to the chief, now the third ring is being disinfected and cleaned, and it is forbidden to pass, please wait patiently here!" ”
"Oh, have the zombies and giant rats in the Third Ring been cleared?" Shi Qingshan took the documents, put them back in his pocket and asked.
"Nope! It's almost within the second ring, but it's not good for the third ring! Even after the evacuation of the capital, the population is 22 million, and the more you go out, the more zombies there are! We don't have enough people, so we can only simply clean up the streets. ”
"That's pretty good, too! I heard that there are more than one million permanent residents in the second ring road alone! Shi Qingshan sighed.
"yes!" The second lieutenant nodded. "Where is the chief from?"
Shi Qingshan said: "I'm from Liancheng!" Where are you from? How many people in the army are here to maintain order? ”
"We are from Jingbei, and after receiving the order, we have been arming the second ring road, and we have just moved here, and we don't know much about the specific situation!"
Shi Qingshan nodded and asked, "How long do we have to wait before we can get in?" ”
"I guess it's about tomorrow afternoon, you can wait here, maybe the ban will be lifted at any time!"
Shi Qingshan thought for a while, retracted and asked Zhang Gong: "If you are not allowed to enter the Third Ring Road today, where is your home?" Let's go to your house first! ”
Zhang Gongdao: "My family lives in Happy Hutong, just inside the Third Ring Road, if you don't let us in, we'll wait here!" ”
"It's good!"
Shi Qingshan stretched out his head, and just when he was trying to find a place to get the chariot off, there was a sound of "squeak" tires rubbing against the ground in the distance, and eight or nine off-road vehicles drove quickly from within the third ring road.
The cars were in front of the line in the blink of an eye. On a modified car with a high chassis at the front, a young fat man with big sunglasses "wooed" and sounded two short sirens, waving his hand to give way to the firepower robot blocking the westbound intersection.
The second lieutenant officer looked displeased, but still instructed the soldier to maneuver the robot upside down, leaving a gap for a car to enter the ring fortifications.
The screeching roar from the exhaust pipes of the off-road vehicles of different shapes scrambled to drive in, and then whizzed away along the bottom of the viaduct through another exit.
Shi Qingshan's brows were furrowed from the exhaust fumes of the engine, and he watched the vehicles stay away, and asked the officer, "Who is so arrogant?" Isn't it forbidden to pass within the Third Ring Road?
The second lieutenant officer smiled bitterly: "Who knows what these uncles come from, anyway, it's not easy to mess with, no one dares to care about this trip in one day!" ”
"Where are they going?" Shi Qingshan took out a pack of cigarettes and threw one for him.
The second lieutenant caught the cigarette with both hands, took out a lighter from his pocket and lit it for Shi Qingshan first, then for himself, took a puff and said, "Capital Library!" There's solar power there, and it's all about playing with computers! ”
"Capital Library?"
Wang Hongwen suddenly said in the headset: "Shi team, the database server of Shoutu is very NB!" Let's export some digital information to enrich Thor's database! ”
"Good! Is the Capital Library far from here? We want to check it out! Shi Qingshan asked the second lieutenant.
"It's not far, it's only a few minutes away!" The lieutenant said, pointing in the direction the car was leaving.
Shi Qingshan nodded, saluted him goodbye, and drove the chariot towards the library.