Chapter 2: Memories of the Last Days
"July 18, 7 p.m."
The first memory that comes out of the subconscious mind is a time.
This is the beginning of dreams.
Every evening at 7 o'clock, Changqing University has the habit of broadcasting news on the campus radio, which is not only to announce the arrival of the night, but also to remind students to care about national affairs.
At the beginning of the dream, Xu Wanhu finished eating the takeaway from the cafeteria as usual with satisfaction, and then greeted the students who came to the store to buy cigarettes, alcohol and snacks. When he heard the news anchor announcing the time on the campus radio, he was holding cigarettes for two students, and they were asking for red generals, and this affordable cigarette was the most common thing for students to buy.
As soon as the host's time announcement on the radio fell, Xu Wanhu took two packs of cigarettes in his hand and didn't hand them out.
A junior in front of him suddenly pounced on his companion and tore it, and the victim's heart-rending cries for help echoed in Xu Wanhu's memory. At the same time, many screams rang out from near and far throughout the school.
Xu Wanhu in the dream realized that the situation was wrong, isn't this a typical zombie apocalyptic scenario?
At that time, he did not hesitate to pick up the car keys, run out, start the car before the zombies finished eating his companions, and escaped from the school in a hurry.
Soon after, the news of the catastrophe was broadcast on the car radio, which at first said that it was a terrorist attack, allowing citizens to hide at home to avoid accidental injury, and soon it became an otherworldly creature that swept the world, asking citizens to evacuate as soon as possible.
It seems that the outbreak of the four catastrophes was too fast, and before the officials had time to cover up, they had to activate the highest level of emergency response. But the dream realm after that was chaotic again, and Xu Wanhu couldn't remember it.
In addition, Xu Wanhu's clearest and most terrifying memory is the experience before waking up.
Finally, in what looked like a refuge camp, a group of zombies and monsters stormed the camp, and Xu Wanhu and his companions fought and fled, but were eventually swallowed by the zombie tide. At the last moment of the brain eaten by the zombies in the dream, Xu Wanhu woke up from the bed, and then there was a scene of running barefoot and screaming in the middle of the night.
After lying on the bed for half an hour with a chill, Xu Wanhu finally calmed down. If it is a normal dream, the more time passes, the more you recall the dream, the more blurred it will become. As he replayed the dream over and over again in his mind, the details became clearer and clearer, and he felt as if he had actually experienced them. This dream is not ordinary.
At some point, he has read too much apocalyptic science fiction, and he thinks that this dream is not a kind of foreshadowing of the future? Or more directly, the things in the dream have actually happened, and he is really dead, but he is reborn after death in the ten hours before the catastrophe, so that he can have the opportunity to reopen like the protagonists of those apocalyptic novels.
On the other hand, if everything is true, you can get ahead of the apocalypse by preparing early, such as stocking up on supplies and driving out of the city, so that you will not be unprepared and have difficulties on the way to escape. On the other hand, even if these are all imagined by themselves, they can also be used as entertainment spices in the off-season of summer vacation. And wouldn't it be better without this cataclysm that destroyed human civilization?
In this way, Xu Wanhu began his doomsday escape plan.
The first part of the escape was to inform the parents who were far away in Haizhou City, Jiangnan Province, to prepare for their lives.
The catastrophe in the dream first started in the most densely populated city, as the provincial capital of Lucheng, the city with more than 2 million people living in the built-up area will definitely not be able to stay for long. Moreover, the terrain in North China is dominated by plains and small hills, which is completely unfavorable for defense in the last days, not to mention monsters with stronger combat effectiveness, and the zombie tide alone can easily crush humans. However, Haizhou is mountainous and the local terrain is intricate, which is very advantageous for dealing with zombie tides and monsters.
The township where Xujia Village is located is in the northern suburbs of Haizhou City, there are mountains on three sides of the north, east and west, although it faces each other across the river from the urban area, but the two bridges that cross the river are on the other side of the mountains on the east and west sides of the town, and the middle is connected by a narrow cliff road, which is very suitable for defense.
The area of the mountain behind the village is dozens of times larger than the small plain below, and it is rich in products, the terrain is dangerous, and there is also a large reservoir, once the mountain cannot be defended, it is completely possible to retreat to the mountain. The combat effectiveness of ordinary zombies in the early stage is relatively low, and if you are well prepared, it will be no problem for your family to carry the first wave.
How do you explain the end of the world to your parents? This is a problem.
Tell them they're going to break out in a zombie boom? Or did demons come to the world? There is no operational feasibility of this setting, and Xu Wanhu vetoed this kind of plan with a slap.
If you really want to say that, Mom and Dad don't think that they are living too hard outside alone, and homesickness leads to brain problems. According to his father's character, maybe he got up overnight and went to the train station to buy a ticket, now the high-speed rail is so fast, he can rush to Changqing University before the zombie outbreak, and the father and son can also go to the cafeteria to eat a hot summer vacation stay-at-home package a few minutes before the zombie outbreak, and then wait together in the school to be swallowed by the zombie tide.
Thinking of this, Xu Wanhu also deliberately searched for the high-speed rail ticket to Haizhou today, if he can escape back to his hometown by high-speed rail in time, wouldn't it be okay?
After he opened the APP of Tie Daren to search, he found that because there were more people traveling to Jiangnan Province in the summer, the tickets for the earlier part of the day had been sold out, and the only bus with tickets arrived at eight o'clock in the evening. If you take this train, if the cataclysm breaks out on time at seven o'clock, and you will be stuffed in the train carriage at that time, you will not be able to directly open a full banquet for zombies.
At about six o'clock, the high-speed rail to the provincial capital of Jiangnan, although you can avoid welcoming the zombie tide in the stuffy jar, but you can't carry any self-defense tools on the high-speed rail, and the high-speed rail station is in the center of the provincial city. In such a strange city, not only is there no self-defense, but there is not even a person to turn to, and it is not a dead word.
It's better to stock up on some food in the car yourself, and then load the car into an armored car and drive home by yourself.
Returning to the question of reminding his family, after careful consideration, Xu Wanhu decided to make up a half-truth and half-truth.
It just so happened that the recent nuclear leakage incident in a neighboring country in the east has intensified, and Xu Wanhu plans to take the opportunity to make the leakage more serious, so that his parents can give full play to the combat effectiveness of SARS and rush to buy some food and daily necessities.
A few years ago, there was a similar panic buying incident at the time of the tsunami nuclear leak in a neighboring country, and there is historical experience here, and then it seems that it is not a problem at all.
As for the family's self-defense weapons, this is more difficult to do, and no matter how serious the nuclear leakage is, there is no need to buy any weapons to defend themselves for the time being.
Fortunately, the village of my hometown is a village with clan as a bond, which is more cohesive and combative than urban residents. And there are also farm tools such as hoes at home, and the ancient people's uprisings can also be used as weapons, and now it should also be an effective means to hoe zombies.
If you encounter a large zombie tide and monster attack, you can still escape to the back mountain of the village.
Even if the reminder from your parents doesn't work, it's good to call home to report your temporary peace. Once the catastrophe breaks out, the communication will be cut off at a faster time than people imagine, not as in some blockbuster movies, where there will be a doomsday-level catastrophe, and the electricity and communications will not be affected at all, which is really not too fake. A phone call with home on the last day will establish hope and thoughts for both parties no matter what.
After calculating the plan, it was already more than 3 o'clock in the morning, and Xu Wanhu dialed his father's mobile phone.
"Hey...... Wan Hu, ......" came from the phone with a sleepy voice from my father.
"Old man Xu, who is so late?" There is also the voice of the old mother next to it.
"It's a ...... of 10,000 households"
"Why are you still calling so late, are you homesick? Is there something going on? Mom asked.
Originally, Xu Wanhu was worried that he would be scolded first, but he didn't expect that his parents were most concerned about whether their son was in trouble, which was really pitiful for parents all over the world.
"Dad, Mom, I'm fine, I have something urgent to tell you." Xu Wanhu then told his parents the prepared rhetoric, bluffing the two of them into a daze.
Thanks to the popularity of 4G smart phones in the past two years, my father also began to use smart phones to brush up on apps like "XX headlines" to see the news, and the leakage of a nuclear power plant in a neighboring country is also a recent blockbuster headline.
After telling the family to stock up on those things, Xu Wanhu began to prepare his plan to flee south.
Recalling the last dream before his inauguration, Xu Wanhu vaguely remembered that there were some people in the dream who gained superpowers and were able to fight against zombies and even those monsters with murderous combat. As for how to get superpowers, his memory is blank again, and even whether he himself has obtained superpowers is a question mark.
Therefore, now he can only make regular preparations first, and whether he can obtain superpowers on the way to escape depends on fate.
Mobility is the first element of escape in the apocalypse, running through zombies on two legs, don't even think about it, the Wuling Hongguang bought last year can play an important role. Wuling Hongguang is known as the domestic god car, sales in the forefront of the world, large space, high chassis, enough power, is a good helper for small merchants and hawkers to travel at home to transport goods. After Xu Wanhu saved tens of thousands of yuan in the first year, he went to the 4S store in the south of the city and brought the car back. It was also by relying on this car that he attracted the attention of the teachers of the college and wanted to recommend him as an "entrepreneurial star".
In addition to mobility, it is the reserve of daily necessities, and food and drinking water are the primary materials in the reserve. This is not a problem for Xu Wanhu, if he eats the food stored in the convenience store alone, it will be no problem to eat it for two or three years, and the drinking water and drinks together are enough for three months. Considering the limited space in the car, he chose some foods with small space, high calories and shelf-stable storage, such as compressed biscuits and energy bars, which are popular during the exam season, as well as dried meat. As for puffed food, which takes up space, as well as ice cream and the like, you can only give up.
Time was pressing, Xu Wanhu said he would do it, and the second step of the doomsday escape plan began to start.