Chapter 2 Are You a Traverser?
"Actually, I'm a time-traveler." Zhang Heng stopped the motorcycle and turned his head to look at Lu Yu worriedly.
Lu Yu narrowed his eyes, "Are you a traverser?" So you're here to help Optimus Prime return to Cybertron? Or help Qin Shi Huang recreate the Great Qin Empire? ”
Zhang Heng's expression was stunned, and he felt that his heart was a little stuffy.
"Well, in your time, can't the words of the time-traveler be believed, well, believe it or not, please remember what I said next."
Lu Yu folded his arms and put on a posture of listening to me.
Zhang Heng sighed helplessly: "A catastrophe is about to break out, you can understand it as a zombie crisis, and then you have to prepare a lot of food with a long shelf life and clean water, preferably to last until the end of this year."
Of course, you can't do it in a short time, and the more time you have, the better. ”
Zhang Heng paused, "The second is to prepare a large amount of aspirin, the more the better, and the last is, before the end of next year, that is, before December 21, 2022, try not to go far away, because ......"
"Do you think I'll believe it?" Lu Yu stared at the man in front of him with a smile, and the banter in his tone became a little stronger.
"December 21st, the end of the world?".
Zhang Heng was interrupted by Lu Yu, but there was not the slightest look of dissatisfaction on his face, on the contrary, there was a hint of anxiety floating on his eyebrows.
"Believe it or not, I can't interfere with you much because of the butterfly effect."
Zhang Heng took off the black leather gloves on his left hand, and in an instant, the smile on Lu Yu's face froze.
Because the hand under Zhang Heng's gloves is not a normal human hand, but a mechanical palm with a faint blue light.
"I don't have much time, that's all I can explain to you, I hope you can live, after all, you are quite an important person."
As he spoke, Zhang Heng rolled up his left sleeve, revealing the entire mechanical arm glowing with blue light, and with a "brush" sound, a one-foot black remnant blade popped out of the small arm and was embedded in the palm of the mechanical hand.
Zhang Heng shook the remnant blade in his hand, and after seemingly confirming that it was in place, he turned and walked towards the dark alley.
"The motorcycle will be given to you, make good use of it!" Zhang Heng waved his hand with his back to Lu Yu, and the blue light on his left arm burst out instantly, dazzling like the scorching sun, and at the same time, the sound of the bounce and the buzz of the rotor running came from the arm.
Zhang Heng's entire body slashed in the air with the movement of his left hand, and a dark crack appeared in front of him out of thin air.
Zhang Heng panted and turned his head, as if the series of actions just now had drained all his strength, and a sunny smile bloomed on his slightly handsome face, "I hope we will meet again, human Lu Yu ......"
As soon as the words fell, the dark crack engulfed Zhang Heng, leaving Lu Yu alone stunned under the street lamp.
"Uh, just gone?" Lu Yu looked at the alley in front of him that was getting dark again, and fell into deep thought, "It seems that the possibility that he is a madman can be ruled out." ”
The black motorcycle parked under the street lamp also proves that what just happened is not his hallucination.
Lu Yu looked at the motorcycle in front of him, Ducati's Scrambler 1000, and Mr. Tang's same motorcycle, and it seemed to have been transformed.
The tires have been replaced with off-road tires for better grip, the fuel tank seems to have been revamped and expanded, and the entire body has a matte black finish, looking like a dormant beast, ready to go.
"It's a headache, N City is a city where motorcycles are prohibited, and if you ride home, you will definitely be detained by the traffic police......"
Lu Yu scratched his head.
"Since it was said to be sent to me, then I can't live up to people's hearts......"
In this way, as a good law-abiding citizen, Lu Yu decided to push the motorcycle home.
Lu Yu is lucky as an adopted child, Lu Yu's adoptive parents and adoptive mothers are both scientists.
But don't get me wrong, they are not the kind of big scientists who can win the Nobel Prize, and according to their father's description, the two of them are just employees who "do chores" for big scientists.
Therefore, Lu's father and Lu's mother have enough time to accompany Lu Yu to grow up. At the same time, the fact that Lu Yu was adopted was not concealed. But about the details of the adoption, Lu's father never mentioned it to Lu Yu, and Lu Yu was delicate and never asked.
Life just went by happily day by day, until one day two years ago, something changed.
On the same day, Lu Yu came home from work as usual, knocked on the door and found that no one opened the door.
Just when he wondered that his mother didn't send a message of overtime today, he received a call from his father.
"Xiao Yu, is your mother home?" Lu's father's anxious voice came from the phone.
"No, there's no one at home, do you have to work overtime today?"
Lu Yu opened the door and entered the house, only to find that the house was in a mess, and all kinds of miscellaneous items were thrown all over the ground.
"It seems that the house has been robbed......
There was silence on the other end of the phone, "You stay at home, get something to eat first, and I'll go find your mother." ”
Then, Lu's father hung up the phone.
That day, Lu Yu simply cleaned up the house, cooked a bowl of instant noodles and was about to eat it, when his father called again.
But this time it was not my father who spoke, but a stranger.
"Hey, your name is Xiao Yu, right?"
"Well, what about my dad? Who are you? ”
"Your dad was in a car accident, you should hurry up and come to the first hospital, he is seriously injured and is being rescued......"
Lu Yu's entire head went blank in an instant, and the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground.
"I'll be right here!"
Lu Yu hung up the phone and rushed to the hospital quickly, he has poor empathy, but it doesn't mean that he has no emotions and can live as rational as a machine.
His mother was gone, his father was suddenly in a car accident, and a series of accidents made him feel fear, the feeling of not being in a safe harbor, the fear of being alone and helpless, creeping up in his heart little by little.
Outside the door of the hospital's emergency room, Lu Yu waited anxiously.
The caller was an enthusiastic uncle with a long beard, who told him that Lu's father was hit by a speeding truck while crossing a traffic light, and he was unconscious on the spot.
"It was a red light, and the big truck didn't slow down at all, and it hit the old guy with a bang, and he drove away and escaped when he was done, without even stepping on the foot brakes."
"Young man, your dad can't be someone who can't be offended, right?"
Lu Yumu shook his head, his eyes were still staring at the door of the rescue room, and he didn't say a word.
Later, Lu Yu only remembered that the doctor from the emergency room shook his head helplessly and said "festival condolences".
The subsequent funeral, Lu Yu couldn't remember how he spent it, the huge sadness numbed his nerves, and he was like a machine, handling his father's funeral.
The mother still did not come home, Lu Yu went to the police station to report the case, the father's car accident and the mother's disappearance, but there was no clue.
Lu Yu could only wait, looking forward to going home one day, and his mother would be able to cook the meal as before and welcome him home with a warm smile.
Lu Yu's family lives in the Blue Moon Garden Community in District Y of N City. The death of Lu's father, the disappearance of Lu's mother, plus Lu Yu has been single for 27 years and has no girlfriend, and the 120-square-meter house is now only inhabited by Lu Yu.
Lu Yu parked his motorcycle in the parking shed downstairs, thinking in his heart.
"If what the guy named Zhang Heng said today is true, then the first step should be to prepare a lot of food and water."
Lu's father and mother are usually thrifty people, and there is a certain amount of cash in the bank account, Lu Yu works in a design company, and the salary is not high, and he has saved a small amount of money while meeting his daily expenses.
So when it comes to buying food and water, money is not a problem for the time being.
Just do it, Lu Yu's execution is very strong, and once he determines something, he will immediately start to do it.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Yu bought a large amount of bottled water and rice from the small supermarket downstairs, and generously hired several supermarket employees to help him move upstairs.
The supermarket staff looked at the strange customer in front of him and didn't say much, people are willing to buy, can they still make money to do business? Lu Yu didn't explain anything, just silently helped carry it together.
After a long period of hard work, the supermarket's stocks of bottled water and rice have been emptied, and this kind of small supermarket has not much stock.
Lu Yu bought salt, chocolate, compressed biscuits, and instant noodles of various flavors, thinking that it should not be a problem to eat these foods for two years.
Zhang Heng told him that the food reserves should best last until the end of the year, but Lu Yu was a person who liked to prepare for the worst.
If something happens at that time, the food can support him to stay at home for a longer period of time.
After buying food and water, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening. Lu Yu did not rest, but ran towards the pharmacy across the road.
"Aspirin, and a lot of it?" Lu Yu frowned.
If Zhang Heng asked him to prepare food and water, he could understand. After all, whether it is a film or television work or a novel story, once the zombie crisis breaks out in the world, food and water are the top priorities.
But what is this aspirin good for? Is it possible to feed it to zombies?
Lu Yu shook his head, as if he wanted to drive away the speculation in his mind.
"Now that you've decided to do it, don't think about anything, just do it."
Lu Yu thought and walked into the pharmacy.
"Is there an aspirin?" Lu Yu looked around and found that there was only one aunt huddled behind the counter playing with her mobile phone.
"Yes." The aunt put down her mobile phone, took out a box from the bottom of the medicine cabinet and handed it to Lu Yu. "Here you go."
"How much you have in the store, I want them all."
"Young man, you take medicine as jelly beans, this will kill people?"
The aunt looked at Lu Yu with a shocked expression, as if the young man in front of her was a monkey who had sneaked out of the circus.
"Sell me, it's not illegal for me to buy aspirin, right?"
Lu Yu glanced at the aunt coldly, without the slightest intention to explain.
"Okay, good, but my aunt advises you, this is medicine, you can't chew it as jelly beans."
Carrying two large plastic bags of aspirin, Lu Yu returned to his home.
The rice and water he bought from the supermarket were piled up in his study and bedroom, and the empty room was a little crowded at this time.
Lu Yu thought about it, turned on the faucet in the bathroom again, and used the basin and bucket at home to pick up the water.
The food he bought from the supermarket was enough for him to eat for two years, but the amount of mineral water could only last for half a year.
It's only early May, and if the tap water is out of service or undrinkable for some reason, he won't be able to survive December.
Therefore, Lu Yu decided to try to take advantage of the normal water supply as much as possible to connect more water for future needs.
"Water, electricity, gas" Lu Yu thought while receiving water, these things are indispensable for normal life, but once the zombies break out, this kind of civilian supply is likely to be interrupted.
"Electricity is nothing, you don't need it, you don't need it, water can be stored in advance, don't worry about it for the time being, if the gas is interrupted, you can't cook food, you have to solve the ......"
Lu Yu frowned, do you want to buy liquefied gas canisters? Nowadays, N City basically uses piped gas, and it is obviously unrealistic to buy gas tanks in a short time.
So replace it with an alcohol stove? Then you need to prepare a lot of alcohol fuel in advance, alcohol fuel is sold in the big supermarket two blocks away, it's too late tonight, get up early tomorrow and buy it......
Just as Lu Yu was thinking about what necessary supplies he needed to buy, a scream came from next door......