Chapter 37: Into the City
Since there have always been survivors fleeing from all directions, it can be said that most of the roads around the Heungseong Gathering Area have been simply cleared.
But as we get farther away from the gathering place, the road conditions start to get complicated again. This is also fortunate because Li Mo has a huge strength gene, otherwise if he doesn't encounter those congested roads, just moving the car and driving the road is enough for him.
However, before leaving, Li Mo had carefully consulted the electronic map, coupled with the experience before rebirth, the route he chose was still time-saving and labor-saving. So except for the occasional few zombies blocking the road, there was no trouble, and everything went smoothly.
It's just that when the trip reached the seventh day, an unexpected accident forced him to choose a new route.
Originally, according to Li Mo's meaning, he took a section of the mountain road of Qingxi Mountain to bypass City B at the foot of the mountain. It is conceivable that due to the heavy rain, the route he chose was blocked by a landslide. Even with his great strength, it is impossible to dredge it in a short period of time.
So after a short period of trade-off, Li Mo directly turned into a fork in the road and decided to pass through the urban-rural junction of City B.
The warrior drove all the way to City B, and around the end of the evening, he reached the corner of the city.
It's been more than a month since the end of the world, and in just one month, the city has not only been occupied by zombies and all kinds of beasts. Similarly, the plants have undergone some kind of change.
Although there are very few mutant plants like the one Li Mo found, I don't know why, the growth rate of plants is extremely accelerated.
Therefore, in just one month, you can already see many towering giant trees, which have begun to fill the city. Even in the process of growing, the expanding rhizomes of some giant trees will squeeze through the underground buildings and swallow up the territory.
Li Mo knew that in about a few months, most of the cities of the former human beings would be reduced to pieces of ruined jungles.
And now in front of him, City B has actually begun to show its state of jungle, and you can see trees and vegetation growing rapidly everywhere.
The warrior drove slowly into the suburbs on the edge of the city, and the sight was full of devastated and empty buildings, almost as quiet as a dead city. At a time like this, it should be said that there are very few survivors left in the city.
Of course, it is not excluded those who are trapped for some reason. Or the kind of person who has a small living space and is easily reluctant to leave.
Li Mo carefully observed the surroundings, trying to find a safe place to sleep. After tonight, tomorrow morning I will walk through the city in one breath and continue to return to my established route.
Nowadays, most of the zombies in the city have gathered into a huge group of corpses. So as long as he wasn't too unlucky to bump into his head, this small unexpected journey shouldn't be a trouble for Li Mo.
And this area is also very calm from the current point of view, so it is thought that the corpses have moved elsewhere. Li Mo drove the car and soon saw a three-story convenience hotel.
He quickly pulled the car downstairs, and the sound of the engine soon attracted the roar of the zombies trapped in the house. However, Li Mo didn't care about this, and didn't pay attention to it, but looked up at the window above his head.
It's close to the gate, and after parking your car, it's right in front of the open doorway. And Li Mo took a fancy to the room on the second or third floor above the car, and he was going to pick a random room to spend the night. Even if you encounter any accidents, you can run away by jumping down the window.
After turning off the car, he took Xiao Jiangsheng out of the car. Behind him is a mountaineering treasure, which is naturally filled with necessary supplies such as food and clean water. And these are the only stocks he has at present.
This time when he went north, Li Mo did not stuff the warrior car with supplies. After all, the road is too far away, and it is impossible to predict whether this car can be carried to Y City.
Therefore, he only brought rations for about ten days, and every few days, he would choose some small towns and towns that passed by to replenish them. In fact, for the survivors, the remnants of the materials before the outbreak of the apocalypse are extremely rich, and the key is whether they can get it.
One big and one small, after entering the hotel, they didn't encounter zombies. It seems that those who are not trapped have long since lost their minds.
Finding the stairs, the two went straight upstairs. And in the end, Li Mo also chose the room on the third floor. The reason is simple, in order to save trouble, there are no zombies inside.
This kind of hotel door lock is easy for Li Mo to open, a card is enough, and there is no need to break the door violently. However, when I opened the door, the smell inside was not good due to the lack of air circulation for a long time.
After the smell was gone, I went into the house and saw that the bedspread on the bed had become moldy.
But Li Mo has long been accustomed to this, before he is reborn, even if he guards the rotting corpse, he can eat and sleep soundly, and this kind of small meaning in front of him is naturally not a problem.
So he quickly ripped off the moldy bedspread and threw it down the hallway. I looked at the mattress again, and finally simply flipped it over.
"Hehe, it's much cleaner this way." He smiled at Xiao Jiangsheng beside him, and threw his mountaineering bag on the ground.
I saw him take out two packets of instant noodles from his bag, but when he saw the electric kettle on the table, he suddenly took out a palm-sized plastic bottle from his bag. It's just that the liquid in the bottle is a faint red.
With this strange bottle of liquid, Li Mo went directly into the bathroom. When I turned on the faucet, I saw that the earth-colored tap water was left, which showed that the water had not been cut off here.
However, the dirty water was only due to the fact that it had not been let go for a long time, and it didn't take long for it to become clean and translucent.
After a while, when he saw that the faucet began to flow clean water, Li Mo also found something casually and plugged the plug in the pool. But now he doesn't dare touch the tap water because he's not sure if it's contaminated.
Due to the complexity of the tap water system, not every place will be contaminated. And the liquid in Li Mo's hand is actually a medicine to identify the cadaver virus, and it also has some disinfection effects.
Of course, that kind of disinfection is completely useless against the necrogenization virus. Even when Li Mo was reborn, the humans in that time and space did not find a solution to the corpse virus, not even a single vaccine was developed. Although corpse transformation may seem simple, it is much more mysterious than evolution for humans.
As for this elixir, it was naturally derived from Li Mo's experience before he was reborn. Since he established the research laboratory, although he has not interfered too much in research, as long as he is in the name of the research laboratory, it is very simple to ask for some materials, and it will not arouse suspicion.
Therefore, before going north this time, several things that were ahead of the times were prepared in advance. The original gel and the current potion are all in line.
At this time, seeing that the pool was filled with water, after Li Mo turned off the faucet, he dropped two or three drops of the potion into the water, and carefully observed the changes in the potion.
But luckily, the reddish potion didn't have the kind of reaction he didn't want to see, just a rapid diffusion and dilution. This proves that the tap water here is not polluted.
So Li Mo returned to the house with a smile, he was in a very good mood, and smiled at Xiao Jiangsheng: "We don't have to chew dry today, we can eat hot noodle soup." ”
Although he also brought clean water with him, Li Mo was absolutely reluctant to use clean water to cook noodles and eat them. Therefore, in the previous days, he and Xiao Jiangsheng were mostly chewing to satisfy their hunger. But today with clean running water, it's different, at least you can have a hot meal.
Xiao Jiangsheng was also very happy about this, and couldn't help but give him a bright smile.
Li Mo looked at the sky again, the days in October had begun to get shorter, and although it was not yet seven o'clock, it was basically dark outside.
He first closed the curtains, then picked up the electric kettle and instant noodles, and took Xiao Jiangsheng into the bathroom together. And it wasn't until the bathroom door was closed tightly that the overhead light was turned on.
Once it was night, even if there was electricity, Li Mo would not turn on the lights outside. He didn't want to be the "focus" of this dead city at night.
But a fully enclosed bathroom is different, once the door is closed, there is no need to worry about the light leaking. Even the afterglow leaking through the crack in the door was enough to be completely hidden by the curtains of the room.