Chapter 26: The Long Night
By the time I emerged from the subway, it was already sunset, and the setting sun had stained the abandoned city as red as blood.
Chen Wu squinted his eyes uncomfortably, Lan had already left, or rather, returned to the system to continue to sleep, waiting for his next summoning. When facing her, there is always a feeling of red-facedness, or this is a common problem of virgins, especially when she says a lot of explicit things so boldly. The hard-pressed military cadet who had never been in love well suddenly missed her a little, although she had only been gone for a long time.
"She's such a beautiful woman, and it looks like my Rachel is going to be abandoned by her future husband?" Gary seemed to see through something, and suddenly teased, since last night, he always said that he wanted to marry his eldest daughter Rachel to Chen Wu as his wife, and he wanted to be Chen Wu's father.
Chen Wu rolled his eyes helplessly, this annoying middle-aged strange uncle is not as calm as in the movie.
Rick pinched his waist and said, "Don't you still have a little daughter?" Carl who left it to me is okay, and we will be in-laws when the time comes. ”
Gary said, "That's something to think about. ”
Chen Wu was annoyed, these two damn guys actually lowered their own generation alive! However, this is just a joke, and no one would turn their faces and get angry for something like this. In this apocalyptic world where all systems are paralyzed, a little cold joke is a rare toner, and it is not bad to make this already desolate world a little more insignificant color.
As a few people walked in the bloody sunset, Rick asked, "You're heading to Boston tomorrow, aren't you?" Don't stay any longer? ”
"No, arrive early, rest assured." Gary said, touching his forehead, as if he was already a little mentally prepared.
"Where are you going? Do you want to go through South Carolina or go straight through North Carolina, or do you want to find a boat up from the port? Rick asked.
"Yes, don't you say I forgot that there is a port on the southeast coast of Georgia. There's a zombie crisis here, and maybe a lot of people have taken a boat to hide at sea, but maybe there are still ships that haven't been sailed away, so we can sail north to Boston by sea! Gary's eyes lit up.
"Where do we refuel from? And do you have sailing experience? What if you run out of fuel at sea and get lost? Are you trapped at sea? Chen Wu asked, although taking the sea route is the safest, it is also the most difficult, after all, there are not so many people with sailing experience, not even Gary, an elite investigator.
Gary scolded and said, "Damn, then we'll have to go by land." I went from Texas to Georgia, almost lost half my life, and now I'm going to cross South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Washington D.C., Maryland, Delaware, New Jersey...... I don't know, with our luck enough! ”
Chen Wudao: "I still have to find a way to contact the military!" Don't you have a network to connect with the military? We can look for a notebook that has no power and has not run out. ”
"It's not easy, if you don't charge it for a month, most of the notebooks won't turn on, and this is valuables, most of the people will carry them with them when they flee, and I have found a lot of notebooks that have been damaged or out of power on the way." Gary said.
He has a USB flash drive in his hand, which is equivalent to a wireless network device, and as long as he plugs in the computer, he can establish contact with the military via satellite, of course, provided that they have to find the computer.
It was too far to get from Atlanta to Boston, and it was a lot of luck that he could run from Texas to Georgia.
Gary took out a very strong USB flash drive wrapped in cotton cloth from his jacket pocket, and said with a wry smile: "Where can I find electricity now?" I'm afraid the power plant has been taken over by those things...... Human technology is constantly advancing, but when technology collapses, they will realize how fragile they really are. ”
When they reached the railroad tracks outside Atlanta, they heard Darryl yell, "Damn it, where's our car!" ”
Chen, Gary, and Rick walked behind to talk, and only then did they come to their senses to find that the pickup truck they had parked here was gone, apparently driven away by someone.
Just now, Chen Wu was still thinking that if there was no zombie disaster, it would be a very good thing to drive from Texas to Boston, Massachusetts like this, and it would be a very enjoyable trip, but now it is not, it is a hell trip! Massachusetts may not be known to most Chinese, but when it comes to a school, most people understand, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Massachusetts is also known as Massachusetts.
"It's getting dark, we have to rush back right away!" Chen Wu glanced at the sunset that was about to set, but he could run to the highway from here and then find a car, but which road had been blocked alive by the long queue of abandoned vehicles, even if he found a car that could be used, what was the use?
Without saying a word, Rick began to run in the direction of the camp with his backpack on his back, and then the others followed.
"Ding-dong! Post a quest to rush back to the camp to rescue your companions, and reward 100 points for one person who survives. "It was at this time that the system released the task.
"They will be in danger...... Chen Wu thought silently, but he didn't say it, but quickened his pace, no need to say it, everyone ran fast, knowing the danger of spending the night outside the camp, and they were also worried about the safety of those in the camp.
Of course, Chen Wu is also selfish, if he tells everyone, it is to expose his secret, if he falls into the hands of someone with a heart, he will be reduced to an ATM, maybe he will be forced to kill zombies all day long, and then squeeze his points, in this last days, there are many robbers.
The system will not issue a mission for no reason, since the task is to save their companions, and one person can get 100GP if they survive, it means that they will be in danger, or attacked by robbers, or attacked by zombies, but no matter what, it is not good for them.
There are not many useful things in the arsenal in my mind, although they are all relatively sophisticated weapons, but these weapons can be found.
"Guys, hurry up, we can't spend the night outside, or we're going to run into a lot of danger," Gary said. Zombies prefer to be active at night rather than during the day, as the night is quieter and allows their hearing to be used to the fullest. ”
T-boy is fatter and runs the hardest, but he still gritted his teeth to keep up, and after running for a long time, he was a little tired, and everyone's pace slowed down a lot.
The sky was almost completely dark, and Chen Wu squinted at the sky, it was gloomy, and there was not a trace of moonlight and starlight. Such a haze also shrouded his heart, but he still remained silent, without saying a word, silently following the team and jogging forward.
They mainly carried too many guns, and everyone had a load, especially Chen Wu, but he was used to this kind of weight-bearing cross-country training, and the guns and bullets in his backpack totaled at least fifty or sixty pounds, but he was still able to maintain such abundant physical strength after running for more than an hour.
Occasionally, if you encounter scattered zombies, you will be shot directly by the crossbow man Daryl with a bow and crossbow, this is a silent weapon, and insurance, will not attract more zombies, if you use a knife and axe to cut, it will be a waste of physical strength, because the human skull is very hard, you need to break the zombie's skull to get its life, zombies are also human, so your knife to pierce his skull requires a lot of strength, and the axe to split its skull also requires a lot of strength, which is a burden for everyone who is running with a load, Only Daryl's crossbow is the best tool.
It was bound to be a long night, and it would take more than three hours to drive from camp to Atlanta, let alone run back, at least twice or three times as long.
Rick's stamina was also a little exhausted, and instead of trotting, he moved forward slowly.
"If you can't do it, just throw away some useless firearms, how can a gun weigh three or five kilograms." Chen Wu said, taking out a handful of M16 from Rick's backpack and throwing it away, but the magazine was left.
Gary also helped to choose a firearm in his companions' backpacks to throw away, M16 is the first choice, this gun has a high failure rate, it will get stuck if it gets a little dust, and when fighting the Vietnam War, the U.S. military would even rather use the AK47 of the Vietnamese monkeys than the M16 anymore.
This is also the result of the damn system in the United States, which made this gun popularized in large numbers in that era.
Gary said: "Throw away the M16, which is more likely to cause failure, this gun has a high failure rate, and it is not easy to repair, the most troublesome!" Just leave the bullets behind, the bullets of the M4A1 are common to the M16. ”
Now everyone is getting rich, so chicken rib guns like M16 are directly abandoned by them to reduce the weight of their backpacks.
After a short rest, two sips of water, and some bread and chocolate, everyone set out on their way back to the camp, still trotting back.
Chen Wu squinted and took out a handkerchief and wiped the sweat on his forehead, this is still something left by Lan, and it even has a scent of her on it.
"It's destined to be a long night, I hope they can last a little longer......" Chen Wu thought silently, strapped the backpack on his back tightly, and followed with a Type 56 rifle in his hand.
The Type 56 assault rifle is produced in China, known as the "Chinese AK", and is an AK series made in imitation of the Soviet AK47, which is extremely practical, and I don't know how strong it is than the flashy M16.
Chen Wu ran while rubbing the body of the gun with his fingers, this is the method that the instructor told him, stroke his gun like a lover at all times, so that it will save your life at a critical moment.