Chapter 12 (I) Sightseeing Bus
"! Someone shoots! Tang Shuxing grabbed the pistol, and Ah Yue was also stunned, but he didn't slow down or accelerate, just continued to drive forward at the previous speed as if he didn't know, but his back was instantly soaked with sweat.
Gu Huaiyi in the rear compartment immediately raised his hand to signal the old couple to lie down, Ji Kefeng immediately squatted at the door, and he went to the rear window to stare at the rear.
Tang Shuxing leaned back in his seat and kept staring in the rearview mirror, and saw that the front windshields of the second and third trucks had been pierced by bullets - the drivers inside were all dead.
"Who did that!?" Tang Shuxing stared ahead, there was a wasteland around the road, and there was only a low hillside a little farther away, but only one sniper could only kill the driver of the first car, and the drivers of the two trucks behind should have been killed by the sniper on the side, "There is a sniper in front of us, and there should be one on the left and right sides, but it is estimated that it has been withdrawn, why kill those drivers?" What's in the car? ”
Ah Yue shook his head and kept staring ahead, sweat dripping down his forehead: "I don't know, I just know that we can only continue to drive forward now, if we stop and be discovered by those assassins, we can only eat guns, this place has no other cover except for the RV." ”
"Stop!" Tang Shuxing suddenly shouted.
Ah Yue didn't stop, but slowed down a little and asked, "Are you crazy?" ”
"I want to pee!" Tang Shuxing said in a deep voice, "I'll just go down to pee, they won't shoot, right?" ”
Ah Yue had to stop the car, but still told him: "The sniper also knows that there should be a toilet in the car!" ”
"Try your luck!" Tang Shuxing said, took the old man's sunglasses, yawned, stretched his waist and left the car, and then trotted to the side of the road, peeing while looking sideways at the location of the three trucks.
At this time, Tang Shuxing was only a few dozen meters away from the truck, and when he was slowly urinating, he saw a crimson sports car passing by the truck, and then braked urgently. The man driving the car put up reverse gear and went back into reverse gear, staring at the driver's body in the cab of the van.
Good chance, now you can pretend to have found something in the past to check. Tang Shuxing deliberately pretended to probe his brain and walked in the direction of the truck, but before he could take five steps, the first truck suddenly exploded, and the flames of the explosion immediately engulfed the red sports car next to him, and then the second and third trucks also exploded in a series of explosions.
The hood of the sports car was blown open, and the front tires also flew in the direction of Tang Shuxing.
"I'll go!" Tang Shuxing knew that it would be useless to go forward to check at this time, so he had to quickly run back to the RV. Wait for him to get in the car. Ah Yue immediately stepped on the accelerator. Left the area of the incident.
"How could it explode!? Who's Eyeing Green Cross!? Tang Shuxing muttered to himself. They stared at the low hill ahead, fearing that a bullet would come from there, but fortunately, they waited until they turned back to the road. Nothing happened.
Soon after, fire trucks, ambulances, and police cars whizzed past their cars, and at the same time, Yanke's voice came from the computer: "Everyone, big news......
Before Yang Ke could continue, Tang Shuxing turned his head sideways and said, "Is there an explosion somewhere?" ”
"Yes, and ......," Yanke's voice paused, "I intercepted information from 911 surveillance centers across the United States and found more than one explosion. It's five, no, six, now it's seven, and it's counting! ”
Tang Shuxing glanced at Ah Yue. Said to Yanke: "It's the Green Cross truck." ”
"Are the vans I received in the email?" Yanke looked extremely surprised.
"Yes, it's them, and just now, the driver was shot in the head by a sniper in front of our eyes, and then there was another explosion, all without warning." Tang Shuxing was also sweating profusely.
"I'd suggest you get out of this area at full speed and head towards Philadelphia." Yanke thought for a long time and said, "I've given you the best route and sent it to your handheld GPS, according to this route, you should be able to reach Philadelphia in three and a half days, without further ado, you'd better take turns driving." ”
"Can you help me get in touch with Ami? I'm a little worried. Ji Kefeng stepped forward and said in a low voice.
"No problem, but you'd better make a long story short, now all kinds of communications in the United States have been under surveillance, their system is constantly filtering and screening sensitive words in various forms of calls, once you catch the location, you will be miserable, you know, now Mexico has almost determined that the flight incident was planned by the four of you, although you have not yet been identified, but it is only a matter of time." After Yanke finished calmly, he asked again, "Are you sure you still want to communicate?" ”
"Forget it......" Ji Kefeng returned to his previous position, leaning there without saying a word.
Gu Huaiyi stepped forward, pretending to be checking the computer, and whispered to Tang Shuxing: "Second sentence, I think you should persuade you, this little man, to return to China, and you shouldn't act with us anymore, his mental state is not suitable in all aspects." ”
"I understand, but I have to respect his own choice." Tang Shuxing looked ahead and replied in a low voice, Gu Huaiyi nodded and left.
Tang Shuxing couldn't be clearer in his heart, Ji Kefeng belongs to the kind of person with a very small heart, but he is not close to the real bad guys, he is just immature from a certain point of view, but it is more because of the instigation and stimulation of Gu Huaiyi's side beating......
For the next four days, they did everything except refueling and going to the toilet, most of the time they even urinated in bottles or basins, and what they saw along the way was more horrible than they had imagined. There are constant references in the news that the stock market has plummeted and securities trading has been forced to cancel because of massive bank runs and government agencies have been forced to make decisions to temporarily close banks.
However, these resolutions caused a large number of people to disagree in some areas, and many people began to protest in the streets, and the number of criminals who came out to rob and loot at night increased several times, but Tang Shuxing and others were able to get all the way unhindered - because the police were dispatched to maintain local order, arrest those who blatantly committed crimes on the streets, and the routes that Yangke chose for them were almost always out of the way.
In the early hours of the fourth day, the RV was parked in an apple orchard outside Philadelphia, and unlike other places, it was eerily quiet, with no police cars honking, no flashing lights, and no noise and looting by mob offenders. It's like a paradise.
Tang Shuxing got out of the car, and after observing it around, when he was searching for directions with GPS, the car started again, Tang Shuxing turned around and looked at Ah Yue who was sitting in the driver's seat, and wondered: "What are you going to do?" ”
"My mission...... Well, it's kind of done. Ah Yue leaned on the steering wheel and said expressionlessly.
"So?" Tang Shuxing looked at her, "You're leaving?" ”
"Almost." Ah Yue smiled, "Because I have other things to do." ”
"Where are you going!?" Ji Kefeng immediately stepped forward and asked.
"Hmm-" Ah Yue thought for a long time. Nodding. "I went to Camden City. There was one thing I had to do. ”
"Let's ......" Tang Shuxing was just about to say "We're going to Camden City too", Gu Huaiyi immediately stabbed him from behind with his fingers, and he immediately changed his words, "Can't we act together?" ”
"No, you can't. I'm sorry, I wish you all the best and if you can go back to Chiang Rai and come to my bar, I'm in for a treat. Ah Yue laughed again after speaking, then started the car and turned around and re-drove the road, and soon disappeared into the distance.
"Now it's okay, the guide is gone." Tang Shuxing looked at the GPS, but fortunately, he still kept in touch with Yangke's communication. When he turned on the computer and was about to ask Yangke, Yangke spoke first, "Ah Yue told me before she left that she has other things to do, but I will still provide you with all the necessary support." The most important thing you should do right now is to find a safe place to rest and charge all the spare batteries on your computer and GPS, otherwise we'll be out of touch after an hour and a half. ”
"Understood." Tang Shuxing handed over the computer backpack to Gu Huaiyi, looked at the house opposite the apple orchard and said, "Let's go there and find a place to recharge, hide, and rest for a while." ”
Ten minutes later, the three of them hid in the family's garage, recharged their batteries and ate and rested, working in half-hour shifts until 4 a.m. again, following Yank's instructions they had to cross the Schuylkill River to the opposite sightseeing bus company, where they could find a single-decker sightseeing bus.
"You're going to let us take a few wanted criminals and take the bus!?" Tang Shu was puzzled.
"Calm down." Yanke explained, "Philadelphia is a relatively stable place in the United States right now, the sightseeing bus is still running, and most Americans don't think of Asians as terrorists, you find a supermarket or clothing store along the way, change your outfit, get a camera or something, get on the sightseeing bus and take pictures all the way, believe me, Independence Hall must be on the way to the Philadelphia sightseeing bus." ”
"Let the sightseeing bus take us directly?" Tang Shuxing looked at Gu Huaiyi, "It's quite risky, but it's a good idea." ”
Gu Huaiyi nodded: "There is no way, let's pretend to be a tourist, it's much better than rushing directly into the downtown area of Philadelphia with a gun." ”
"Master Ji, what do you think?" Tang Shuxing looked at Ji Kefeng, although he knew that he had to agree if he didn't agree, but if he didn't ask for his opinion on this matter, the ghost knew if he would block his careful eyes again.
Ji Kefeng nodded and looked at his clothes: "Should we change our clothes and dress ourselves up like tourists?" ”
"Of course." Tang Shuxing looked around, and then according to Yangke's instructions, he went into the nearest supermarket and changed his outfit, and then walked slowly on the street, blatantly waved a taxi, and drove along the avenue to Grace Ferry ** Road, and after crossing the bridge, he went directly to the sightseeing bus company.
At eight o'clock in the morning, the three of them arrived at the scheduled place smoothly, bought a breakfast around, watched the sightseeing buses drive out one by one, stopped, and beckoned tourists to get on the bus.
Although this is not the real urban area of Philadelphia, but the appearance of the surrounding area surprised Tang Shuxing and Ji Kefeng, two people who came to the United States for the first time, and did not expect that the suburbs of Philadelphia are just like this, similar to the urban-rural junction of China, with large wastelands standing on both sides of the train tracks in the distance, and you can see uninhabited and crowded homeless houses everywhere.
At this time, many people are already sitting in their offices to start their day's work, but there are still a few people standing on the side of the street, drinking coffee and eating breakfast, reading the day's newspaper - the "mob attack" on the border between the United States and Mexico still occupies the front page of the newspaper.
Because there are no photos of the scene, all of them are screenshots uploaded to the online video, although blurry, but there are still several of them that can be seen flying and clinging to the wall.
"Oh my God, what the hell is this?" Standing in line at the station, the middle-aged man holding the newspaper looked at the newspaper and said to himself, and after looking back at Tang Shuxing who was lined up behind him, he immediately greeted with a smile, "Koreans? Japanese? ”
Tang Shuxing smiled at the man: "There is another country in Asia called China. ”
"I'm sorry." The man pointed to the newspaper and said, "If there were no borders, no different religions, no different peoples in this world, maybe this wouldn't have happened, right?" ”
Tang Shuxing shook his head and said that he didn't understand, at this time the door of the bus opened, tourists began to get on the bus, and the driver of the car also wore a microphone on his head, he had to work part-time as a tour guide in addition to driving, and laughed at himself that he could only earn a salary of one and a half people, which is the essence of modern HR management.
"Welcome to Philadelphia, yes, as you can see, it's a very beautiful city......" When the driver was talking, a homeless man dragged a broken car across the road, the bus braked urgently, the homeless man slowly turned his head and raised his middle finger to the driver, the driver coughed and said, "Of course, both young and old here, are also very kind, for example, the one in front of the car, in fact, he wanted to make a victorious 'V' gesture, but because of the injury of his index finger, he could only barely raise his middle finger to express his respect." ”
The driver's humor made the whole car laugh, Tang Shuxing also shook his head with a smile and looked out the window, but after a few seconds, he became nervous again, because he still didn't know what Yaojin, Shaman Power and Green Cross were going to do in the United States.
The car began to drive along the fixed route, and the driver was also promoting some of the local hotels, and also began to give a brief introduction to the National Independence Historical Park, the Liberty Bell, Independence Hall, Rittenhouse Square, and so on.
"Although Philadelphia does not have the glamorous scenery of the West, nor the bustling metropolis and urban forest of New York, it is a symbol of the American spirit, true freedom!" After a long time on the bus, the driver finally looked sideways and said, "Everyone, on everyone's left side is the famous Liberty Bell, of course, the one hanging on it is just a replica, the real one in the exhibition hall below, you can ...... it"
Before the driver could finish speaking, there was an explosion in the building where the Liberty Bell was located, and the explosion exploded from the bottom to the top, instantly enveloping the entire building in red flames, and the replica of the Liberty Bell on top also fell in the explosion, shattering into pieces in front of everyone's eyes.
"You can ...... Get out of the car and take pictures. The driver looked at the broken clock and finally finished the rest of the sentence.