Chapter 272: Old Bridge
Zhou Jitang and Zheng Jieming carefully returned to the meadow, climbed onto the side of the road, and finally appeared in the sight of Wei Zilong and others.
"Oops!! It's back!! Wei Zilong heard the rustle of the bushes, and several people stood up expectantly and worriedly.
What they were looking forward to was that someone would finally come up, no matter who came up or how many people came up, all in all, they would be able to get the news below.
Naturally, they were worried that only Zheng Jieming came up and conveyed some bad news to them.
However, this time, the God of Fate didn't seem to have wiped out their group, and they saw that Zhou Jitang was also following behind Zheng Jieming intact!!
"Are you alright!?" Wei Zilong immediately rushed forward to answer, he had no clothes on his upper body, and as soon as he rushed into the rain, he immediately felt cold and shivering.
The others were soaking wet, and their condition was not much better, and they were all soup chickens.
"It's fine." Zhou Jitang waved his hand worriedly, his mind had been thinking at this time, who was in the little white house under the mountain?
In the Doomsday Government* Mansion, Yu Zekai also has a group of subordinates in black clothes, but it seems that they are just for the sake of uniform dress, and they also have a bit of a functional distinction with the armed personnel, and from Xue Yongti before, everyone also learned that there is indeed a group of Yu Zekai's subordinates, who have been scattered all over the northern metropolis.
But Zhou Jitang was a little puzzled, how could Yu Zekai, a businessman, have so much energy? What can he do? Is there actually someone behind him who supports this businessman to do something?
What made him feel even more wrong was that even if these people were Yu Zekai's subordinates, they were distributed in this kind of mountainous area, how did they know about each other's situation? You can't just send out someone every once in a while to report to Yu Zekai, right?
Zhou Jitang thought in his heart, and felt more and more that the whole thing seemed a little suspicious. He wants to make suggestions, and wants to understand Yu Zekai in more detail, if the zombie crisis is related to him, and now everyone is still joining his so-called doomsday government, isn't it for the tiger? ?
This intuition made Zhou Jitang feel more and more chilled in his heart, he saw that Xie Wuzi seemed to be fine at the moment, and even wanted to climb back down the mountain directly to investigate the little white house just now. However, Zheng Jieming's words interrupted his untimely train of thought at this time.
"Alright, go back quickly. Ming Qi, where can this road go all the way forward? In addition to the bridge that was flooded just now, is there any way back, are you thinking about it carefully?? Zheng Jieming focused on the most critical issue, right now, although the rain has weakened compared to just now, it is always not a matter to stay outside, and he must find a way to go back and treat the wounds for Xie Wuzi and others.
"I don't remember clearly, I remember the past, I walked this way, I didn't go so far, there was a road sign that said, I crossed the river from a higher old bridge, it used to be the urban area of the West District, there is no such landslide." Ming Qi said suspiciously.
"Then it looks like we're on the wrong track." Zheng Jieming jumped on the roof of the car and looked ahead of the road, "This road didn't look like it went west in the past, but it looked like a road that could lead to the outside of the city." If you keep walking, you'll probably only get farther away from the city. ”
"I wondered, if we missed a fork in the road when we came? If it's raining heavily, will it block any fork in the road? Zheng Jieming proposed a possible idea.
"Anyway, let's go back and have a look, shall we?" Luo Xue said.
"Zhou Jitang? Are you alright? Wei Zilong saw that Zhou Jitang had been in a state of distraction, walked up to him, patted him lightly on the back, and asked him in a low voice.
"Huh? Yes, it's fine. Zhou Jitang was still distracted, he was thinking about how to uncover Yu Zekai's possible mask.
"Don't worry about it, Xie Wuzi didn't say anything, he is in okay state now, he should be fine." Wei Zilong thought that he was blaming himself for taking the wrong path, and comforted him in a low voice.
"Oh, okay, that's good." Zhou Jitang nodded.
"You can get a car, we just searched these corpses, but we didn't find the car keys, there is a construction car in front, it is a pickup truck with a box, we want to get the sheep back together." Wei Zilong said, meaning to remind Zhou Jitang that only you can wire and start the vehicle here, and let him follow and drive the car in the distance.
"Okay, I got it." Zhou Jitang said, running towards the car in the distance with Wei Zilong, and at the same time they also picked up the protective equipment such as shovels and helmets scattered by the workers on the ground.
As for the six sheep, when Zheng Jieming went down the mountain to find Zhou Jitang just now, they got some roadside grass to feed them, and soon, Zhou Jitang and Wei Zilong also drove the yellow engineering car, and the rear cabin area of the engineering car was actually smaller than the van, and everyone stuffed the sheep into the car.
"Let's squeeze a little sheep, so I can take them away." Ming Qi said, closing the rear hatch.
The group then got into the car again, because the slope here is high, the water on the road is not very deep, during the period of parking, the driving performance of the vehicle was not greatly affected, and both cars started smoothly.
Xie Wuzi's legs were curled up, and his wounds were mixed with mud and water, which looked very distressing.
The group drove back, and this time, when everyone was driving, they tried to restrain the previous nervousness and concentrate on checking the situation on the side of the road.
And this time, on the way back, they finally found the fork in the road before!!
The sign had been toppled by the rainstorm and sand and gravel, and a large tree had fallen impartially at the intersection of the fork in the road, so that everyone who had been in a hurry before completely ignored the entrance.
And the fork in the road itself is not spacious, with narrow two lanes and lush trees on both sides, it is impossible to see that there is a road here at a glance.
"This is it!!" Ming Qi got out of the car, stood on the fallen tree, carefully looked at the direction of the fork in the road, and together with Zhou Jitang and Zheng Jieming, he turned over the dumped sign, checked it, and finally shouted affirmatively.
"Okay, then we'll just remove this tree!" Zheng Jieming said, looked up at the top of his head, moved the two cars out of the road again, in case of another landslide, and then, four men and a woman pushed the trees aside with difficulty, leaving a width that could allow a car to pass.
"Alright, get in the car!"
The two cars were one in front of the other, this time with Zheng Jieming and Ming Qi sitting in the lead car leading the way, and the others turned to sit in the back car.
This road doesn't look like the right path, the further you go, the denser the forest becomes, and it looks like you're going to the depths of the forest, but Ming Qi is very sure of it this time.
"That's right! This is the way! It's the old way! Walking out, you're sure to be able to get to the Ponte Vecchio! Ming Qi said.
After continuing to walk forward for a while, the wooded area suddenly opened up, and the dim vision suddenly became brighter, and they walked out of this dense forest, showing Zheng Jieming and Ming Qi in front of them, it was a path! And the front of this road shows an old bridge that looks a little older and narrower, but the bridge deck is higher!!
"I don't know when this bridge was built, it was built shortly after the founding of Zhongzhou? Or before the founding of the People's Republic of China? However, the design was too narrow, and a new bridge was built next to it, which was very underutilized, but it was higher in height. Ming Qi said beside him.
Zheng Jieming noticed that the gap between the bridge deck and the water surface is not large, and if the rain continues, it is likely that the bridge will also be submerged.
If you drive up, you won't collapse the bridge, will you?! Such a terrifying thought suddenly flashed in Zheng Jieming's mind.
"What is this bridge made of? Wood or concrete? Zheng Jieming didn't walk this way, worried that the structure of the bridge would be affected by the flood, so he turned his head and asked Ming Qi.
"What? I don't know? Are you worried about the safety of this bridge? It's okay, there have been a few heavy rainstorms in the past, all of which were flooded by the new bridge, and everyone walked from the old bridge instead! Ming Qi said with certainty.
Zheng Jieming nodded and slowly drove the car towards the old bridge.
He walked on the bridge, looking left and right at the flood on both sides, the northern city has always been short of water, this river has always been very narrow and thin, even when everyone came before, this small river channel can be regarded as a ditch at most, shallow and narrow.
And now, the water has risen tenfold, I am afraid that it is more, and the yellow water goes downward, and some strange debris floats on the surface of the water, which will soon be turned down by the water, and after a while, these debris will re-emerge not far downstream.
The waves are so turbulent that everyone feels as if they are crossing not a small river, but more like an abbreviated Yellow River.
"As long as there are no problems with the reservoirs upstream, there are generally no problems, right?" Ming Qi said.
Zheng Jieming's car finally had no danger, crossed the bridge, he only felt that this short distance of 100 meters, let him feel like he was crossing the ghost door closed, when he was driving, the car pressed a stone and trembled, his heart trembled, for fear that the bridge would collapse suddenly.
Frightened.
Zhou Jitang's engineering truck followed, and this car also drove cautiously, but it also crossed the old bridge deck safely.
Everyone stopped and looked back at the old bridge and the raging flood beneath it.
At the head of the old bridge stands a stone turtle, carrying a town object.
Luo Xue didn't get out of the car, and thanked the town from a distance.
The two cars continued to start, and soon entered the city, and then drove steadily in the direction of the amusement park.