Chapter 5 What about people
Facing the rows of coffins, the fear in Shalin's heart grew stronger and stronger, and he didn't have time to think and organize his memories, so he could only crawl out of the grave first, and follow the traces of ruts on the grass and head in the direction of the city.
And as the stiff body becomes more and more flexible, the feeling of hunger and thirst also increases.
He fumbled in his pocket, and the keys to the house were still there, but the phone couldn't be turned on, probably out of power.
Shalin can't contact the outside world, so he can only temporarily drag his tired body forward step by step, and he must force himself to persevere, because he believes that as long as he can reach the place where people live, he will definitely be saved!
"Cheer up, maybe nothing happened?"
Self-comforting dragged his pace, sarin roughly displacing the outside gas.
It's just that what he didn't know was that in the few days he had been sleeping in his coffin, the city of Kappa had already undergone earth-shaking changes.
Rewind in time to the day after the explosion of the nuclear power plant.
In the crowded central square, Emma and Keck's group of friends stayed together, waiting for the next step from the rescue announcement.
Some people have already left Kappa on the first bus, and everyone is anxiously waiting, because the network signal has been cut off since last night, and it is not known when workers will go to repair it.
Edward parked the RV on the side of the road, anxiously looking for Emma.
In the noisy square, the shouts became difficult to convey.
"Daddy, I'm here!"
Edward quickly turned to look around, and finally saw Emma who was almost drowned in the crowd.
He squeezed into the crowd, grabbed Emma's wrist and ran towards the RV.
"Come with me, we'll leave Kappa City right away!"
"Dad, what the hell is going on?"
"Come with me first!"
Edward forcefully pulled Emma away, and Emma could only hurriedly say hello to Keck and the others, and follow Edward back to the RV.
Once both of them had boarded the car, Edward quickly locked the door back into the driver's seat, started the locomotive without hesitation, and rushed out of the chaotic and crowded city.
"Dad, where are we going, didn't the radio say to let all the citizens wait in the central square?"
Emma looked out the window uneasily, but Edward stepped on the accelerator, and the strong inertia caused Emma's body to fall backwards instantly.
Outside the bulletproof glass window, she saw the truck pulling people in brown hazmat suits, moving away from the RV.
"Last night I got the latest news that Kappa has been forced to quarantine, and everyone will be locked up in a few designated quarantine areas, but fortunately I spent a lot of money to get a pass to leave. ”
"Don't worry, I will never let you and your mother have an accident!"
Edward explained loudly to Emma, and Emma's face was full of shock and confusion when she heard Edward's words.
Obviously, she was still having dinner with her friends yesterday, why is she leaving now?
Emma didn't switch for a while, perhaps because it all happened so suddenly that she didn't realize the seriousness of the problem at all.
"Dad, what are you talking about, why are they locking us up?"
"It's hard to put into words, but everything will be fine. ”
Qiusha hugged Emma and kissed her messy long chestnut hair with tears, and a strong feeling of discomfort and peeling came, and Emma suddenly remembered something.
"Dad, I still have a lot of friends left over there in the square, we can take them with us!"
"It's too late!"
"Daddy!"
"Damn, I'm not a savior!"
After hearing Emma's request, Edward suddenly roared excitedly, slapped the steering wheel frantically, his face turned red, and turned his head and shouted:
"Do you know how much money I spent to get a pass for the three of them!"
When Edward finished yelling, the carriage instantly fell into an atmosphere full of tension, and Emma was completely frightened by Edward's excited expression, she had never even heard Edward talk to her loudly before.
"I'm sorry, Emma, I'm so excited......"
Edward realized his gaffe and took a deep breath, trying to calm himself down.
"Don't worry about your friends, they'll be well accommodated, but now we're all about ourselves. ”
"We'll get on a plane out of Kappa tonight!"
Hearing Edward say this, Emma was completely dumbfounded.
She turned on her phone, the signal grid in the upper right corner was still at the lowest point, and then clicked on the pp chat, and the crimson exclamation mark in the chat software that represented the failure to send the message, and the worry in her heart increased a little......
......
The dawn light rose in the east, and after several hours of walking along the ruts, Sarin finally saw scattered residential buildings.
This is a residential neighborhood on the outskirts of Kappa City, where the gray sky has just been lit up, and the cool west wind blows quickly through the empty streets, and the whole neighborhood is silent in a deathly silence.
"Haven't anybody gotten up yet?"
"Why isn't there anyone on the street?"
Sarin walked through the two main streets in confusion, still not seeing a single living figure, and his stomach rumbling again.
He had to rummage into a supermarket first and check what was going on when he had his fill.
There was a thin layer of ash on the supermarket checkout counter, and it seemed that the operator had been gone for a while.
However, the food and water on the shelves are sufficient, and the goods are all neatly placed, indicating that the residents of the community did not rush to buy a large number when they left, and they were leaving the development in a relatively orderly situation.
But the reason for leaving, Shalin is still unclear.
"What the hell is going on in Kappa?"
He walked over to the shelf, unscrewed a bottle of water, and gulped it down.
With a parched throat moisturized, sarin continued to tear open more food pouches to refuel his body.
Accompanied by the act of eating, occasional squamous scabs fell off Shalin's body, and the unbearable pain and itching came again, but he could not stop the repetitive mechanical movements controlled by the muscles.
The bags were scattered all over the place, and after the brain glycogen was replenished, Salin's brain became clearer and clearer.
"We don't know what's going on yet, so it's imperative to charge our phones and figure out why I'm in a coffin and why I'm gone. ”
"If only I could get a car, I could get back to the city as soon as possible......"
Drinking the most expensive milk in the store, Sarin walked to the window to find out if there was a suitable means of transportation on the street.
Although there were a few cars parked on the side of the road, he didn't dare to do anything to these private cars on the street, the street cameras were all on, and the punishment for crime in Capa was very severe, and a city like the kind of criminal's paradise in the northern hemisphere would never appear here.
After dismissing the idea of stealing the car, Salin climbed through the window again, and although his stomach no longer screamed, he still felt that his body was still as heavy as lead.
In this case, he would most like to find a mobile phone repair shop.
If you can charge your phone, you may be able to solve the trouble.
There's nothing a smartphone can't solve.
If there is, then buy another one.