Chapter 18: Encounter Again
Ren Wei and the others, who had run a distance, breathed a sigh of relief when they saw that the explosion did not spread to their side.
"It's not going to go on like this, we have to find a way to get there. Otherwise, if we run into those monsters again, we won't even have a chance to escape. Ren Wei said while running with Binbao in his arms.
"Where can I get a ride in this situation?" Fura looked sad.
"It is estimated that hitchhiking will not work, everyone is too busy to take care of themselves, not to mention finding a car that can take the four of us together at the same time, then the chance is even smaller." Kusa rejects Fura's idea.
"What then?" Fura is a bit of a six-god.
"Is there a motorcycle shop nearby? Or a 4S shop? Or a car rental shop? Ren Wei remembered that he was looking for a motorcycle with Mr. and Mrs. Smith in Hurricane Town, and asked.
"This ......," Kusa recalled, but unfortunately he didn't remember much.
"Honey, we've fixed cars around here." Fura on the side suddenly shouted. "Do you remember? At that time, it was still a newly opened shop, and our neighbor Dino introduced us to it, and it was said that it was a car club, and because the store opened as a reward, we were given a set of couple cushions after repairing the car. β
"I remember when you say that! But if you are a car repair company, you may not have a car 100%! Kusa perked up at first, then hesitated.
"Anyway, I haven't thought of any other places to go now, since the shop you said is nearby, it's better to try your luck there, you can continue to think about other destinations on the way, if you think of something better, let's change the route, it's better than wasting time and physical strength like a headless fly now." Ren Wei saw that Kusa was still hesitating, for fear of delaying the opportunity to escape, so he directly made a decision for the next place for the four of them.
"Good! As you said, I'll lead the way, and we'll go this way. After hearing this, Kusa felt that Ren Wei's arrangement was good, and immediately complied with it.
Led by Kusa, the group came to the "fast" car repair shop.
Facing the roller shutter of the car repair shop, Ren Wei first handed Binbao into Furla's arms, then took out a gun and smashed the door lock, and finally worked together with Kusa to open the gap between the door and about half a person high, and the four of them got into the car shop in turn.
After entering the house, Ren Wei found the electric switch next to the door and pushed it up. The moment the lights came on, the room resounded with the cheers of Fra and Binbao. Kusa was also happy. When Ren Wei looked back, he knew the reason why the Kusa family behaved like this - there were two cars in the middle of the house.
Kusa, who excitedly pulled open the door on the side of the cab of one of the sedans and glanced at the situation in the cab, couldn't help but smile, and then ran to the other car and looked through the window.
"Hey! Come over here! There are keys on this car. Cusa beckoned to the others. Kusa then sat down in the cab and started the car.
In a few moments, the three of them were already seated in the car, but at this time Kusa could not start the car, and after two more attempts, Kusa slammed the steering wheel with both hands and cursed loudly.
"The car is broken, no wonder the keys are left in the car and no one cares." Kusa said with chagrin.
"Let's go, go and see if there is a locker at the front desk." Drawing on previous experience, Ren Wei proposed.
"Okay." Kusa, who didn't have any ideas for the time being, followed Ren Wei's advice, and then said to Fula and Binbao in the car: "You two are waiting for us in the car, don't go anywhere." β
Fura replied, "Don't worry, I know, you can go." Binbao also nodded obediently to indicate that he heard it.
Ren Wei and Kusa got out of the car and went straight to the front desk to start rummaging.
After smashing open a few drawers and finding nothing related to the car keys, Ren Wei and Kusa gradually became irritable.
"When I watched a movie, I took the lid under the steering wheel apart, pulled out two wires, touched each other and started the car. Will you? Let's give it a try? "Ren Wei was a little sick and rushed to the doctor.
"If you expect me to start the car like this, I'm afraid you're going to be disappointed, if I knew this, I wouldn't have to come and look for the key just now." Kusa replied in a rather unkind tone. "And it's better to spend time pondering that kind of unplanned thing than to look around, and I think it's more likely to find transportation that way."
"Let's go, we've been delayed for a while, we need to hurry." Ren Wei took a deep breath, he didn't know what Kusa said, but in a hurry, he lost his basic judgment ability. "Calm down! Calm down! Ren Wei kept admonishing himself, while trying to calm the impetuousness in his heart.
Just as the two were about to leave, the roar of an engine came to their ears. Ren Wei and Kusa glanced at each other, and from the same surprised look in each other's eyes, they were sure that they were not auditory hallucinations.
The two of them rushed in the direction of the sound, and came to a door in the southeast corner of the room, but at this time, the sound of the engine could not be heard again.
Ren Wei and Kusa both exerted their strength at the same time and kicked the door in front of them open. When they came to the house, Ren Wei and Kusa saw the situation in the room clearly, and they couldn't react for a whileβthe roar of the engine did come from this room, but what they saw in front of them was not the means of transportation they expected.
Strictly speaking, this thing is actually a "car", but it is more rudimentary: it has no hood, windshield, roof cover, doors, trunk. To put it bluntly, this is a frame for an off-road vehicle.
At this point, the "car" is fixed one foot above the ground, and the wheels are slowly idling.
"What is this going on?" Kusa couldn't help but speak.
"I don't know." Ren Wei said, walked to the other side of the room, bypassed the suspended "car", Ren Wei saw three consoles. The console's screen displays a lot of parameters, including temperature, fuel consumption, and more. The main screen shows the scene of the car traveling on the mountain, the secondary screen on the left is constantly running down with a lot of data, and on the right is a smaller touch screen and several buttons with various commands.
In fact, this frame is a car that the club is going to modify. Among the three devices, the middle device is responsible for controlling the frame, recording the status of the car through the sensor installed on the frame, and then importing the recorded data and pre-stored scene parameters into the computer on the left. The computer on the left has been preset with a program, and after the data is received, it will automatically calculate and get the result, and then feed the result back to the device in the middle; The device in the middle builds an intuitive dynamic image based on the returned results and renders it on its screen. This makes it easy for engineers to identify areas that need to be improved and improve them. After improvement, repeat the same process. It wasn't until the results met their expectations and was assessed as safe that the club's people set out to build the parts, assemble the car and start a test drive.
Ren Wei naturally didn't know anything about this, he only knew that the thing in front of him had four wheels, and it had already started, if he could travel on his behalf, it would buy them some time, so he looked at the control panel on the console, wanting to see if there was a way to control this "car".
Kusa was surprised to see Ren Wei's movements and asked, "Could it be that you have the idea of fighting this?" Not kidding, right? β
"Always try! After all, if it can be used, it will be much faster than our two legs! Just give me ten minutes! Ren Wei said that because he felt that the operation on the console was not complicated, he thought it was worth a try.
Seeing that Ren Wei was so persistent, Kusa didn't say anything anymore, raised his hand to look at the time on the watch, and waited quietly beside him.
Ren Wei looked at the right panel, the buttons on the top were written "up", "down", "zoom in", "zoom out", "lock", "lift" and other words, first pressed the button marked with the word "lift" on the right panel, and the screen on the top displayed: Warning: The operation is in progress, and the lock cannot be unlocked.
Ren Wei thought about it, ran to the console on the left, the data on the full screen was dazzling, Ren Wei ignored those, and pressed the "esc", "ctrl+c", "alt+f4" and other termination keys or combinations he knew on the keyboard, but none of them worked. There was no way, Ren Wei had to shoot randomly on the keyboard, hoping to close the program by chance, but unfortunately he couldn't do it.
In desperation, Ren Wei directly unplugged the power of the device on the left, and the screen on the left went black instantly.
Ren Wei walked back to the right quickly, pressed the "Release" button on the right panel again, and the screen displayed: Do you confirm the unlock?
Ren Wei did not hesitate to press the "OK" option.
With a "boom", the entire frame fell from the fixed pillar to the ground, and then the body moved forward, suddenly accelerated halfway, and slammed into the gate in front of it, making a loud noise again.
Ren Wei and Kusa were taken aback, and at the same time glad that the front of the car was not facing their direction when it fell. I saw that the frame of the car continued to accelerate after the collision, and the tires rubbed violently against the ground, producing a harsh sound and the smell of rubber.
Ren Wei saw that the gate was being opened by the roof of the car little by little, and hurriedly rushed to the side of the car, only then did he notice that the front of the car was not deformed, but Ren Wei was not concerned about this, he quickly glanced at the console in the car, and then his face was happy - there was a control panel on the right side of the steering wheel, and one of the switches on it was written "manual driving automatic driving".
Ren Wei immediately leaned in, changed the state to manual driving, and the car like a wild horse quickly became docile.
At this time, Fura ran into the room with Binbao through the small door and asked in a shocking voice, "What happened?" "I guess I was shocked by the voice just now.
Ren Wei didn't bother to reply, but jumped into the car and manipulated it - reversing, playing left and right, starting in first gear, and after a simple test was no problem, Ren Wei shouted to the Kusa family: "It's okay!" Come on! β
Fura first looked at Kusa, and when she saw Kusa nodding, she approached with Binbao and got into the "car", which was not even a half-finished product.
After everyone was in place, Ren Wei slowly reversed the car, retreated to the position of the fixed column, and then hung up the gear, stepped on the accelerator to the end, and the frame rushed to the gate like an arrow off the string, directly knocking the gate and flying out, Ren Wei and his party galloped on the street again.
"Mr. Ren, where are you going?" Kusa saw that Ren Wei was obviously not driving on the road out of the town, and asked hurriedly.
"We can't go directly to the east, judging by my experience of escaping from Hurricane Town and the situation just now, the virus may spread faster than the speed of the monster attack, and on the way to Deszin City, there may have been many people who fled first who have begun to mutate, and they have returned to Grimm Town in search of food, so we will encounter monsters head-on. That said, the road out of town is the most dangerous right now, and the more people rush there, the more monsters there will be. If we want to avoid monsters as much as possible, we have to go to places where there are fewer people. I think we can find a route to the edge of the town and then take the mountain road, once we get away from the crowds, we are safest, and I think we can all survive as long as there are no infected people among us. Ren Wei explained.
"That sounds like the safest way to do it, just do what you say." Cussa said.
After the unification decision, Ren Wei stopped talking and concentrated on driving. Kusa, on the other hand, offers some route options from time to time in the co-driver's seat.
Just as they were about to turn right at an intersection, they saw a scarred Humvee driving towards them, so fast that it almost instantly passed their car.
Ren Wei's eyes lit up when he saw this car, and he shouted excitedly: "Avril! Horton! β
At the same time as Ren Wei shouted, I saw a neat flick of the Humvee's tail and drifted to the back of Ren Wei's car. At this time, Ren Wei reacted and stepped on the brakes. And the Humvee had stopped next to him by this time.
Ren Wei turned his head sideways and saw three familiar faces.