Chapter 16: North by Northwest
What's in North by Northwest?
Shen Cong tied the plastic rabbit with a rope to prevent it from accidentally hitting and killing. Then climb onto the roof of the King Kong, grab the binoculars, and look north-northwest.
Desolate stone blocks are layered on top of each other, and beyond that, there is nothing.
The plastic rabbit that was tied up struggled to itself, and the attraction was obviously very strong. Just what is this attraction? Why do plastic rabbits receive this attraction? Why didn't Shen Cong feel it at all?
Could it be the smell of a female rabbit?
After thinking about it for a while, Shen Cong decided to explore the north-northwest direction, put on the Optimus Prime 1.0 active battle armor, and equip it with active weapons, there are not many mutant monsters that can threaten him.
Tethered the plastic rabbit with an iron chain, and Shen Cong left the King Kong by walking his dog.
Before getting out of the car, he brought his newly made fanged javelin.
After landing on the ground, the plastic rabbit rushed to the north-northwest like a mad dog, the chain was stretched straight, if it wasn't for the strength was too small, it almost pulled Shen Cong to a stumbling block.
That's it, the running rabbit, the vigilant one.
Just like the picture in "I Am Legend", Will Smith with his dog and Shen Cong with his plastic rabbit walk in a desolate world.
Of course.
It's more like it without that chain.
The plastic rabbit dragged Shen Cong for a long time, and it was seven or eight hundred meters away, and the King Kong in the distance was about to disappear from sight. Shen Cong looked forward with a telescope, but still did not find any unusual signs, that is, the thing that attracted the plastic rabbit must be at least more than a kilometer away.
One kilometer is the limit of the patrol range set by Shen Cong for himself.
Beyond this range, his sense of security will be greatly reduced, so after being dragged by the plastic rabbit for a distance of a hundred meters and still finding no signs, Shen Cong decisively grabbed the plastic rabbit's ears and walked back when he lifted it.
He can't take any chances.
His sense of security dictated that he couldn't go too far from the Kongo.
Cuckoo!
Cuckoo!
The plastic rabbit twisted angrily, but Shen Cong was indifferent to this, his personality was like this, since it was decided, the nine cows couldn't pull it back.
Quick returns.
Bang knock!
Return to the King Kong, turn off the outer armor, and the sense of security returns to the body again. Shen Cong continued to tie up the plastic rabbit, and then ignored it, went back to the cab, and began to concentrate, using willpower to guide the King Kong to absorb the activity and repair the power system.
He planned to restore the power of the King Kong as soon as possible, and then drive to solve his doubts, and only with the King Kong as his backing could he feel safe.
……
The sun rises and the moon sets.
On July 25, with the ignition of the igniter, the engine of the King Kong, which had been silent for two weeks, let out a loud roar.
The powertrain has finally been repaired.
Rumble! Rumble! Rumble!
The newly repaired engine sounds even more dull and has a kind of restrained explosiveness.
Because the operating system has not been repaired, Shen Cong switched to the manual gear, although the automatic operation is Shen Cong's biggest transformation of the King Kong, but the manual gear is still retained. In fact, most of the functions of the King Kong have manual gears to prevent automatic gearing problems.
Remove the broken display, take out the steering wheel from under the driver's seat, and install it on the reserved hinge; Then remove the baffle under your feet to expose the accelerator, brake and clutch; Open the sunroof at the windshield position and insert the reversing mirror.
The manual setting is instantaneous.
Stepping on the accelerator and releasing the clutch, the King Kong roared and started slowly.
After the yellow sand and gravel were washed away, there were too many potholes on the ground, and it was very difficult to walk. The one-meter-and-five-diameter tires of the King Kong were knocked into the chassis by stones several times, and a part of the activity was consumed to resist. When encountering huge rocks or potholes, Shen Cong either took a detour, or chose to use a bulldozer to shovel away the rocks or fill in the potholes.
Advancing all the way, he came directly to the one-kilometer border that the plastic rabbit pulled him to that day.
Then Shen Cong brought the plastic rabbit over and put it aside.
In which direction the plastic rabbit hits, he drives the King Kong in which direction, completely using the plastic rabbit as a compass.
In this way, under the strange guidance of the plastic rabbit, the King Kong advanced three kilometers from its original address to the north-northwest.
Then start decelerating.
Shen Cong saw a broken car not far away, half-hidden among the rocks. Vaguely visible from the broken frame, this is an SUV sedan.
"Cars?"
This is the first car that Shen Cong has seen since entering the last days, except for the King Kong, and he is very curious. He saw that Wuwei County was in ruins, and that the land was covered by rocks and yellow sand, and thought that this world had been destroyed and everything on the ground was destroyed.
Only the Vajra was given life and survived the Doomsday Storm.
He plans to try his luck in the provincial city of Hefei and find diesel fuel and, by the way, maybe a survivor.
But he didn't expect to see a scrapped car here, he hadn't seen a car wreck before, and thought it had been destroyed by the doomsday storm.
Immediately stopped, changed into the Optimus Prime 1.0 active armor, got out of the car in full gear, and after making sure that there was no danger around, he cautiously leaned into the wreckage of the SUV.
It was indeed a wreckage, the part exposed on the rocks, except for the chassis and the frame of the shell, everything else was gone, and it was quite badly corroded.
"There's not enough steel on the Kongo, let's see if we can get some from here."
Shen Cong thought, took out a piece of rope, tied it to the wreckage of the SUV, and then drove the King Kong to drag the SUV out of the stone burial, and the buried part was the right half of the front of the car, and there were still some parts in it.
This made Shen Cong overjoyed, and he didn't pay attention to the plastic rabbit that was still banging his head against the iron cage at the moment, and hurriedly knocked on the wreckage of the SUV, dismantling a pile of scrap copper and rotten iron.
After making sure that the SUV had no more recycling value, he returned to the King Kong and continued to drive forward: "It would be great if I could meet a few more cars, the King Kong has been overhauled this time, and how many parts have been used in my inventory." ”
It seems to compensate Shen Cong.
Before he had driven some distance, Shen Cong saw the wreckage of the car again, this time the wreckage of a bus, half-buried in the rubble.
Shen Cong dismantled a bunch of parts and came back.
Then he continued to drive forward, and the more he drove, the more Shen Cong felt that something was wrong in his heart, and he encountered more and more car wreckage. It used to be a car that couldn't be seen, but now there are more and more cars, as if the cars in this area have been blown here by the wind.
"What's going on?"
"Is this a car recycling plant?"
When a square made of car wreckage appeared in front of him, Shen Cong couldn't calm down any longer. At least more than 50 scrapped cars fell crookedly on this flat ground, and there were scattered car wreckage in the distance. It's all rusty, like a parking lot dedicated to recycling scrapped cars.
Cuckoo!
Cuckoo!
At this time, the plastic rabbit's reaction pulled Shen Cong back from the edge of surprise, only to see that the plastic rabbit no longer hit the iron cage with his head, but stared in one direction, lowered his body and let out a dull roar, the blood on his head had already blurred his eyes, and there was only a dark electronic screen in front of him.
But it gave Shen Cong the illusion that he was staring at something in front of him.