Chapter 196: Retrograde (I)
For the first time, this large city of tens of millions of people was so quiet and dead at night...... Reduced to purgatory on earth.
It has been more than six hours since the zombie outbreak, and Zhang Yichi and his team estimate that more than half of the population will be infected in these six hours alone.
The surviving humans either hid or fled to sparsely populated areas, and the rate of infection decreased dramatically over time.
Therefore, at night, it is rare to see zombies chasing and biting people, but the corpses and blood stains everywhere still make the whole city full of life, silently showing how dangerous it is.
There are a lot of stalled vehicles on the road, but fortunately, the unpredictable Spirit Pupil has been open, and you can plan in advance to avoid those impassable places and detour to a smooth route.
After the zombies along the way found them, they couldn't pose any threat because they couldn't catch up with the car at all.
They are caught in a state of security that is eerily balanced.
"It's too detouring." Mo Tu listened to Zhao Yu's guidance and couldn't help but complain.
"So I usually take the subway, and today I borrowed a friend's car because I was in a hurry. Fortunately, I borrowed a car, otherwise I wouldn't have been able to escape from so many people in the subway......" Zhao Yu thought about the other life line he almost chose, and couldn't help but be frightened.
"Don't always have the idea of 'if only I were like this' and 'I'm glad not to be like this', there is never a choice in life, and it seems that there is a fictional world, in order to make you feel better. It doesn't make sense for you to regret or feel lucky about your decision, because everything was predestined in the first place. "Unpredictable.
These words were said to Zhao Yu, but Zhang Yichi was a little touched.
"You mean we're going to die here, something we've been paying attention to for a long time?" Han Che asked, it seemed that he was also paying attention to the unpredictable words.
"Hey!" Mo Ji smiled and glanced at the three people in the back row from the built-in rearview mirror, "If that's the case, it's very metaphysical, and you don't believe it." ”
Zheng Jiang was seriously physically exhausted, and now he was dozing off in the car.
Zhang Yichi and Han Che were quite interested in the topic that suddenly arose from the unpredictable, and chatted enthusiastically.
"Unpredictable, do you think that all things have a cause or an effect?" Han Che asked.
"I don't think so, everything is already predestined. If it is destined, it cannot be measured by time, because there is no concept of time at all. "Cause is effect and effect is also cause, they are the same, and the same is equivalent to nothing." ”
Zhang Yichi is very puzzled why he has such thoughts: "Can you see through the future?" Otherwise, how did this idea come about? ”
"Maybe it's the influence of my family when I was a child. You also know that the old man in my family is a funeral, and I have seen a lot of life and death since I was a child, so I had such an idea. Hey, I didn't say I was right, isn't it a rush to talk here, anyway, you just have to listen to it. Mo Tu laughed casually, completely unimpressed.
"Coincidentally, I used to work in a psychiatric hospital, and some patients had some similar weird thoughts — ah, I didn't mean you were mentally ill, but I just remembered it." Han Che talked, but almost misunderstood because he didn't express it well.
"Old Han, old Han, scold me in a different way, I remember it." Mo Xue snorted.
Zhang Yichi lit a cigarette and handed it to Mo Yi's mouth: "You don't need to go to the back seat to rest for a while, I'll open it." ”
Mo Ji took a puff of cigarette: "No, in fact, I'm not very tired today." The only thing I'm tired of is climbing that building, more than 30 floors, oh my God, I almost threw up. ”
"Me too, I almost didn't stick to it, mainly because I knew that there were zombies chasing after me, and my legs couldn't control it and became weak......" Zhao Yu agreed.
Mo Xue freed up his hand and flicked the cigarette ash out of the car window and said: "We are different, you are a normal girl, but you made me embarrassed by saying this." ”
Zhang Yichi and Han Che looked at each other and smiled.
"it!" While talking and laughing, his face changed, and he hurriedly stepped on the brake and pulled the handbrake.
Zhao Yu was fine because he was wearing a seat belt, and Zhang Yichi, Han Che, and Zheng Jiang in the back row went directly to the front. Especially Zheng Jiang, who had fallen asleep in a daze, crashed into the passenger seat without any preparation.
"it!"
"it!"
The sound of "sleeping" in the car came and went.
Zhang Yichi stabilized his body and said, "What's the situation?" ”
"There's someone up ahead." Mo Tu pulled the car to a steady stop, loosened his seat belt, and got out of the car.
Zhang Yichi sat on the edge and got out of the car, conjuring a crossbow machine with a light car in his hand, ready to protect the unpredictable at any time.
"What's the situation, brother?" Mo Tu walked to the front of the car and greeted a few people standing in the middle of the road.
"There are still living people coming out of the city, and there are still people saved inside!" The men, who seemed to be strong and resolute, said excitedly.
Zhang Yichi inspected the surroundings and walked over after finding that there were no zombies around.
"Hello, a few of us used to be soldiers together, and now we have partnered to open a barbecue restaurant on the other side of Chunshui Road." One of the four men reached out to Moji.
"It turned out to be a retired veteran." Mo Ji shook his hand.
"What's the situation?" Zhang Yichi rushed over.
Han Che and Zheng Jiang, who were shaken off in the car, also got out of the car.
"These are veterans who have a barbecue restaurant here. We escaped from the city and were going to find a remote place to hide. "Unpredictable introduced each other.
Zhang Yichi felt that there was something wrong with these people, why should normal people be blocked in the middle of the road for no reason. While sighing at the unpredictability, he prepared a crossbow machine to deal with changes at any time.
"Hello, it's great to see people in the city still escaping." Several veterans said.
"There are still a lot of people in the city, and they should be fleeing one after another. By the way, why are you blocking the intersection, it's too dangerous just now, if you don't stop the car and hit you directly. Mo Ji asked a question that several people on their side were concerned about.
"There are a lot of people on our side who have suddenly turned into monsters like zombies in the movie, and we have spent a long time trying to subdue them, but the police call can't get through, and the online news doesn't show anything. Then we wondered if everything around us had become like this, and we thought about finding someone to ask about the situation, and then we met you. One veteran spoke of their experience in a less sassy way.
Zhang Yichi and the others roughly understood.
Mo Tu praised: "I can subdue so many zombies, what a skill." ”
"What's going on in the city now, please tell us about it." Veterans get straight to the point and ask them what they most desperately want to know.