Chapter 379: Escape (4500 words for a monthly pass and subscription)
The vibrations are becoming more frequent.
Squeak Squeak –
The screeching sound of sharp fingernails scraping against the walls could be heard in all directions.
Tick, tick, tick, the water melts and seeps into the ground, mixed with the sound of fingernails scraping, messy, and extraordinarily permeating. Let Mia and the others suddenly have the illusion of being surrounded by distortion.
"If you want to live, find a way to make this train move, do everything possible."
Zheng Xiu's calm expression gave people the feeling that he knew something, and he gently tapped the steel plate of the locomotive, making a dull echo that attracted the attention of the frightened crowd. "The sooner the better."
Zheng Xiu said, took the orange cat, and left here.
Yue Linglong's little daughter-in-law followed behind Zheng Xiu step by step.
"Husband, what's going on?"
"I'm not sure, if I can let my divine sense out and investigate and envelop the whole city, I will naturally be able to see it clearly, but this is afraid that it will alarm him. But if I'm not mistaken, there should be some 'something' chasing you, coming from the south. ”
Zheng Xiu walked to no one and flicked his fingers. The "little eyeballs", which had been arranged in advance a few days earlier, came to life silently, slowly protruding from the security door, through the concrete of the sewer, through the surface, and to the ground.
While operating the "little eyeballs" in the air, Zheng Xiu didn't reply, and asked carefully: "You came all the way from the south, did you find anything special?" ”
Yue Linglong's mind is messed up at the moment. When she heard Zheng Xiu say that "something was chasing them from the south", she thought that it was her own reason that put Zheng Xiu in a predicament, and she caused trouble for Zheng Xiu. The matter of "causing trouble to her husband" is enough to make Yue Linglong fall into deep self-blame.
She doesn't want to be a woman who will only lag behind, in the kingdom of God, the reason why Yue Linglong took the initiative to attack regardless of the danger was nothing more than to prove that she was not a vase, not just "Mrs. Zheng".
So when Zheng Xiu casually said this result, Yue Linglong was instantly stunned, and she didn't even have the heart to respond to the second half of the sentence.
Zheng Xiu gently took Yue Linglong into his arms, and put his ear against the other party's cold cheeks.
"It's okay, I can fix it."
"Hmm." Zheng Xiu's embrace instantly calmed Yue Linglong, and while she felt the strange vibration and chaos in the outside world, her expression changed slightly, and she said: "Husband, I'm ashamed, although Yue'er has spent half a year in this world, she has spent more time adapting. It was only after Yue'er became the spokesperson of 'Lady of the Night' that she had a clearer impression of the world. ”
Moisturizing her lips, Yue Linglong continued: "The elder of the believers said that in every corner of the world, there are believers of the Night Lady, and the 'Elder' asked me to find them, save them, and restore the glory of the Night Lady. ”
"What about the elder?"
"Dead." Yue Linglong did not say how the elder died. But Zheng Xiu didn't ask, in this world, "death" is a more common thing than "living", and it doesn't matter what the reason is.
"It's a pity." Zheng Xiu shook his head, expecting that the elder must know more about the inside story. "And then?"
"Area 12 has long since become a purgatory, rats are breeding, the plague is raging, and the sky is full of terrible aberrations. The reason why Yue'er took the believers to risk leaving the underground shelter where they had lived for more than ten years was because the corpses were about to be eaten up, and once there were no corpses, Yue'er's strength would be difficult to exert, and when the corpses were really eaten, Yue'er would even have a luxury of self-preservation. ”
Yue'er led the believers to find a route from District 12 to District 17, but the situation in District 17 was no different from District 12, and no one had survived. The huge city, as far as the eye can see, is a dead silence and desolation, it has long become a paradise of aberration and rats, Yue'er has no choice, did not stay in District 17 for too long, all the way out of District 17. ”
Halfway through speaking, Yue Linglong's face was a little more gloomy, as if she was sad, and her voice was a little weaker, and she said: "After all, believers are only flesh and blood, and there is a shortage of materials, food, and sometimes they can't even drink clean water. In that terrible environment, believers died one after another. Originally, when we left District 12, there were 372 believers who followed Yue'er, but now, there are only 101 people left. ”
"After passing through the 17th district, Yue'er was dusty and arrived at the 32nd district. To Yue'er's surprise, there were many more survivors in this area than in Area 17, and Yue'er sent followers to investigate, and soon used a messenger called 'radio' to get in touch with a shelter. They call themselves the 'Iron Hands'. When they learned that we were 'Lady of the Night', they immediately cut off the call. ”
Zheng Xiu was slightly stunned when he heard this, it seems that the believers in Fengbei are in the hearts of the survivors, and the only difference between the believers of the Lady of the Night and the madmen is that the madmen will not huddle, while the fanatics will flock to the group.
At this time, Yue Linglong smiled slightly, and her mood gradually improved because of Zheng Xiu's hug, comfort, and tolerance. "Later, they took the initiative to contact us again by radio."
"They need food."
"So, I exchanged information on Area 32 with them with two bottles of water and three cans."
"The survivors of the Iron Hand Gang told me that the most powerful gang in Area 32 is the 'Fire Rat Gang' based in the subway station, and the 'Iron Hand Gang' told us that there is a 'train' in the Fire Rat Gang's camp that is still running, because they know that we are in a hurry to leave Area 32."
Zheng Xiu understood the cause and effect.
Yue Linglong concisely explained the experience that she didn't have time to explain clearly when she hugged each other and fell asleep last night.
At this time, the "little eyeball" manipulated by Zheng Xiu had already reached the ground.
Zheng Xiu tilted his head slightly, groaned slightly, and smiled: "Hehe, this is a coincidence." ”
"Oh?" Yue Linglong looked puzzled.
"The Fire Rat Gang and the Iron Hand Gang have just finished fighting, and there is a feud. So at first, the Iron Hand Gang told you that there was a train that could run hidden in the Fire Rat Gang, and it was most likely fake. ”
Yue Linglong was surprised, and then shook her head: "I see, do you borrow a knife to kill someone?" ”
She curled her pink fist in annoyance, knocked her head, banged, and blamed herself: "Yue'er thought that we had no grievances with the Iron Hand Gang, and they wouldn't lie to us for the sake of materials, but I didn't expect to be tricked." ”
"It doesn't matter, eat a trench and grow wise, human beings are such complex creatures. Not everyone is credible, and not everyone is untrustworthy. The fire rats usually can't even believe their own people, and the fact that this train can still run, even they don't know inside, how can it be known by the Iron Hand Gang? However, this is also an unintentional willow and willow shady, and there is indeed a car hidden here, which saves a lot of trouble on the road. ”
At the same time as he said this, in the depths of Zheng Xiu's dark eyes, the black streamer washed down like a waterfall.
"Husband, what do you see?"
She knows her husband Junyue Linglong, and she knows that her husband has all kinds of unknown means after becoming a god. Now that the husband is at a loss and has no focus, it is impossible for the husband to be in a trance at this moment, so he has seen something else.
Zheng Xiu was silent and didn't answer, just lightly tapped his fingertips on Yue Linglong's eyebrows.
Suddenly, the scene in front of Yue Linglong's eyes changed, and she found that she had seen another field of vision. It's like floating in the sky, overlooking the earth.
What surprised her was not the sudden change in her field of vision, but the "picture" in her field of vision.
Under the dark red viscous and thick dust clouds, above the ruins of this barren and dilapidated city, a group of "demons" roared through the sky like a rolling black cloud.
Frozen highways, crumbling skyscrapers, pavements littered with the wreckage of rusty cars, and strangely shaped and deformed creatures are rushing and howling and screaming on the ruins that should have belonged to humanity.
Looking down from the heights, the heavens and the earth are full of hideous-looking monsters, trampling the earth like a tide, and their wild running and flapping movements are transmitted to the ground, becoming a mess of vibrations and sounds.
"Monsters...... Lose your marbles? Are they crazy hungry? Are they looking for food? It's not right......" In an instant, Yue Linglong looked down on the earth through the vision shared by Zheng Xiu, and saw everything clearly, her thoughts were spinning, and all kinds of thoughts appeared, but soon, these unthinking thoughts were instantly rejected by her, and a terrible thought was finally frozen in her mind: "They are running for their lives!" ”
At this moment, Yue Linglong's palms were full of cold sweat, and a feeling of being terrified came to her heart.
Combined with what Zheng Xiu said before, the reason why the aberrant creatures fled for their lives was about to come out.
It's the "stuff" they attract from the south that makes the aberrant creatures run for their lives in a frenzy!
What is it?
Yue Linglong couldn't figure it out, she didn't encounter anything particularly terrifying along the way.
At this moment, a demon crashed into the eyeball in a panic, and the vision of the two of them went dark, and the chaos outside was extinguished.
He was already aware of the movement outside, and Zheng Xiu had no intention of putting another eyeball to investigate outside.
Back at the camp, Zheng Xiu found that every carriage was powered on and lit up.
"Turned!"
Yue Linglong said in surprise.
Many of the carriages are in disrepair, and the wires have long since deteriorated. In some places, sparks were sparkling, and in others, the lights flickered on and off. But in any case, you can turn around. The re-lit lights fill the camp in a celebratory atmosphere, as if singing the praises of the human civilization that has long since passed away under the apocalyptic civilization.
Jimmy and Jim were messily placed with many oil-stained screwdrivers, wrenches and other tools, and Jimmy lay on the railroad tracks, burrowing under the carriage and banging sound.
Where to get stuck, knock hard twice, and it's done.
Jim was flipping through a crumpled book, the cover of which translated as "The Train Maintenance Manual". They are obviously not professional train maintenance workers, and at the moment they are also rushing ducks to the shelves and repairing them.
Seeing Zheng Xiu and Yue Linglong coming, Jim, who looked down at the manual, looked up blankly, straightened his helmet, and said, "Boss!" We ......"
Zheng Xiu waved his hand, interrupted Jim's words, and asked, "Leave in two hours." ”
Ha?
Jim outside and Jimmy underneath the car had a big question mark on their heads at the same time.
They weren't sure if the train could go, so the boss decided the time to leave in two hours?
This...... What if you can't go?
Soon Mia heard the movement and walked towards Shirley without Shirley. Zheng Xiu gave instructions in an orderly manner, and Yue Linglong was also listening quietly.
"Yue'er, what other supplies do you have over there?"
"Husband, the believers of the Lady of the Night have a lot of supplies, and they still have a lot of canned food, water, fuel, cotton, filters, bullets, parts, etc."
"Aberrant creatures also have an instinct to survive, and even if you run into them on the road, as long as you don't take the initiative to provoke them, they should not have time to attack you." Zheng Xiu waved his hand: "You take the believers, go back and move the supplies, the more the better, the sooner the better!" ”
At the end, Zheng Xiu's eyes stared at Yue Linglong's eyes: "Once you encounter an invincible danger, don't forget to ......"
Zheng Xiu pointed to the position of his chest. Yue Linglong understood that what her husband was talking about was an "emergency escape route".
She nodded, and led the group of believers away neatly.
"Inform everyone in the Orange Cat Club that if you want to survive, you can move the rest of the supplies onto the train, and we will start the train in 2 hours and evacuate District 32."
When Mia heard this, a moment of confusion about the future filled her head.
Although she had a premonition about this, when Zheng Xiu decided without warning to leave Area 32 in two hours, still in a way that she had never encountered before, Mia was stunned for half a minute. She shook her head vigorously: "Yes!" Boss! ”
Jim gritted his teeth, although he didn't know what was going on, Zheng Xiu's method of freezing everything outside the mall like "gods descending to earth" completely captured the hearts of the two brothers. Jim thought to himself that even such a powerful humanoid was trying to escape from Area 32, and combined with the chaos outside the concrete, something unimaginable must have happened outside.
Jim also got under the car, used the hand-cranked generator to light the flashlight, and looked at the maintenance manual, line by line, to check the pre-operation inspection process, and quickly made the final maintenance preparations before the train started.
Those who can be born and raised in the apocalyptic civilization and live until now dare not say that they are experts in a certain aspect, but at the very least, they can do a little bit of everything, they can shoot guns, they can stealth, they can repair radios, they can open bottle caps with their bare hands, and in short, they will not be proficient in anything. As for driving a train, the principle is pretty much the same, just roll the switch up and drive forward against the manual.
Yue Linglong took away half of the believers, and the remaining more than fifty believers, under Yue Linglong's orders, also obeyed Zheng Xiu's command. Moving supplies, emptying camps, and proceeding in an orderly manner.
Mia carefully carried Shirley into one of the carriages of the train, and after covering it with a dirty blanket, Mia wiped the sweat from her forehead and walked off the train, and said to Zheng Xiu: "There are a few women who don't want to go, they would rather stay in the camp. Boss, what to do? ”
Zheng Xiu said calmly: "Then stay, life and death are fateful." ”
Mia was stunned when she heard this, but she still nodded and didn't say anything more.
There were also a few young men from the Orange Cat Club, willing to follow, and they were carrying large and small barrels to the side of the train.
Now Zheng Xiu doesn't care whether it's gasoline or diesel or what, as long as it can be burned. He instructed a few strong men to pour fuel into the tank.
The movement from behind the walls flickered and fell, and waves of distortion ran through the ground and the ground. From time to time, there was a creepy sound from behind the walls.
About an hour later, Yue Linglong came back one after another with the believers, there were many people and great strength, they carried a lot of supplies, and stuffed them into the back carriage in one go, and forced the door shut, and the handle outside the door was welded with iron rods to prevent the materials from being shaken out in the bumps.
"Oops!" The Gigi brothers, who had finally completed the test, got out of the car in disgrace, and the two of them shoved the wrench hammer into the crotch of their pants, at which point Jim patted his head and turned pale: "Oh no! The front of the track is jammed with barricades, and if it is two hours as the boss says, we don't have time to clean it up! It will take at least three hours to clear those barricades! ”
Zheng Xiu let everyone squeeze into the carriage, waved his hand calmly, and let the Jiji brothers, who had read the maintenance manual and temporarily learned how to drive a train, get on the train.
He was alone, in the horrified eyes of everyone, sitting cross-legged, one person and one cat sitting on the front of the car, enjoying the most beautiful scenery alone.
Zheng Xiu smiled: "It's okay, the barricades will be emptied." ”
"Drive."
Jim gritted his teeth, closed the switch, and pushed the lever.
Woowoo woo –
The abandoned subway train emitted a piercing roar, wheels that hadn't turned for hundreds of years...... Like a lost civilization, it began to turn again.