Chapter 54
Chapter 54: aftershock?
The two of them stayed quietly, Qin Chi suddenly raised his head, listening attentively, frowning slightly.
Zhang Zhi was the first to discover his abnormality, “What’s wrong?”
“Have you heard any sound, rumbling, like thunder.” Qin Chi has lived in the last days for five years and is extremely sensitive to all the sounds around him. Even a slight change can’t escape his ears.
Zhang Zhi and Mu Zi also listened, but only heard the sound of wind squeezing in from the window and the sound of tires running over the ruins.
“Let me ask Lao Yuan.” Mu Zi didn’t dare to be careless, and immediately turned on the TV on the wall of the car and talked to Lao Yuan in the cab.
Earlier, Qin Chi deliberately installed lines that could connect with each other in the cab and carriage. As long as they turned on the LCD TV and tuned to a specific channel, they could see the situation in the cab in the carriage and talk to them in the cab.
After Lao Yuan received the prompt to turn on the small TV hanging in the front of the car, the faces of several people in Qin Chi suddenly appeared on the screen.
“Fuck, this thing is high-tech, it can be used without the Internet!” In these days, Lao Yuan still used the in-car video for the first time to talk.
“Don’t talk nonsense, Old Yuan, listen carefully to see if there is any abnormal movement outside the car.” Qin Chi always has an ominous premonition, and he is inexplicably irritable.
“Wait a minute, let brother listen carefully.” Old Yuan opened the car window as he said, and stretched out his head.
After a while, Old Yuan sat back to his original position with a solemn expression, “There was a rumbling noise, and it didn’t look like thunder. How to put it, it seems that something exploded.”
Qin Chi’s heartbeat suddenly missed a beat, wondering if he couldn’t wait to blow up Luo Cheng?
But Zhao Fengnian’s armed men were very calm, and they didn’t seem to be notified, and there were still many people in Luocheng who hadn’t had time to flee, so they shouldn’t blow up the city right now.
So what’s the rumbling noise?
Zhang Zhi opened the window, glanced outside, and said in a sharp tone: “The direction of the north gate is wrong!”
Qin Chi and Mu Zi rushed to the side of the car window and looked towards the north gate.
“Fuck, is that light or fire?” Mu Zi’s exclamation surprised Ba Ping, who was humming a little song to make wife cake.
Ba Ping walked to the meeting room with plastic gloves and holding the cake mold. Seeing that all three of them were looking out, he asked curiously: “What are you looking at, there are good things outside?”
Zhang Zhizhi pointed to the outside of the car, “There seems to be a fire in the direction of the north gate.”
Ba Ping looked out afterwards, and blurted out, “Fuck!”
At this moment, few people may have noticed that the northern sky seems to have been burned by fire, showing a large swath of red, and the town at the end of the horizon also has a fiery red light. Because the distance is too far, no one knows what it is.
Ba Ping wiped his sweat, “Is there a fire?” He always felt that the weather was boring. It was okay to stay in an air-conditioned car. When he came into contact with the outside air, he could simmer people alive.
There were also people in the cars ahead who couldn’t stand it. They were so hot and howled, but they had nothing to do.
The air seemed to evaporate even the last trace of water, dry and thin, and what was sucked into the nasal cavity was like a ball of charcoal wrapped in flames, irritating the mucous membrane of the nasal cavity to a faint pain.
Zhang Zhi got up, found a humidifier in the locker, plugged it in after it was full of water.
The wet and fine mist sprayed out from the nozzles, which quickly improved the dry air. Qin Chi also closed the windows tightly so as not to waste the air-conditioning brought by the air conditioner.
During the day, the sun is big, so you can use solar panels to boil water for cooking, to charge electrical appliances, etc. The energy needed to turn on the air conditioner is also converted from solar energy. If it is all on gasoline, Lao Yuan would not bear to stay away 24 hours a day. Stopped driving.
There are air conditioners and humidifiers in the car, and the environment is as good as an office before the end of the world. It is comfortable and cool, and you will not feel cold while wearing a thick cotton coat.
Compared to them, the people in other cars can’t stand it for a long time.
For safety’s sake, the carriages were closed, and the windows were closed tightly to prevent zombies from suddenly entering. In order to save gasoline, the air conditioner was not turned on, and people kept fainting from heatstroke along the way.
It’s just that the heat is okay. The air is too dry. Many people have chapped lips and nosebleeds, making them miserable.
But even so, no one dared to open the window to let the air out. After all, they would rather suffocate in the car than the zombies who don’t know when they will appear, at least they can leave a whole body.
Not only was the weather crazy hot at night, but the activities of the zombies were also a bit abnormal.
In the last military Hummer, Zhao Fengnian took off the military helmet, his sweaty hair threw out a few beads of sweat, and a few strands of black hair stuck to his forehead, creating a somewhat fragile beauty inexplicably.
Losing the shackles of the helmet, Zhao Fengnian exhaled a scorching breath, “Damn, what happened this day, it’s so hot!”
The driver looked at him worriedly, “Captain, put on your helmet, although the heat is a bit hot, but in case there are zombies…”
“What are you afraid of? Didn’t you find that the zombies are particularly quiet tonight?” Zhao Fengnian frowned, using a night vision telescope to observe the zombies in the nearby dark night.
I don’t know if it’s affected by the high temperature weather, those zombies are particularly unconscious, even if the car tires run over the stones and make movement, or someone who can’t control their mouths screams, they can’t attract their attention.
Like humans who are abysmal due to the high temperature, the zombies that are usually active stand or sit, almost standing still, as if they have lost their mobility.
If it were not for this hot day, Zhao Fengnian would still be happy, looking forward to whether these zombies plan to stop chasing humans, and their conscience discovers that they are ready to self-criminal. But at the moment, he was on the contrary feeling very heavy, always feeling that there are still big things that have not come out, and even more earth-shattering events will happen later.
Hopefully, he just guessed it.
At three or four in the morning, the convoy finally crossed the urban area and came to a temporary checkpoint before the intersection of Nanmen Expressway.
All people who come from the urban area must be tested for the virus here, and then they can be released. This is the same as the checkpoint at the east gate and north gate, which is equivalent to Luocheng’s last defensive checkpoint. As long as it passes, it seems to mean bidding farewell to Luocheng’s terrible disaster.
There were survivors sent from other routes at the checkpoint, and everyone anxiously awaited testing, trying to escape from the **** on earth as soon as possible from Luocheng.
The detection takes time and the identification information is checked one by one, so the speed is very slow. Many people can’t help but want to break through the barrier, but they are scared back by the armed men on the highway intersection.
The muzzle of the black hole was aimed at them, who would dare to push hard, didn’t he look for death? They all survived all the hardships, how could they die in vain at the last moment?
Zhang Zhi and his party came late and could only be at the end of the line. Zhao Fengnian and other armed men also got out of the car to take a rest, and later returned to pick up others.
Zhang Zhi took a pack of good cigarettes and walked over to Yuan Yuan to talk to Zhao Fengnian.
Zhao Fengnian was staring at the north gate in a daze. He looked a little dignified, and he seemed to have discovered the abnormality of the north gate.
Unfortunately, the network communication has not been fully restored. He could not get in touch with his teammates at the North Gate in time. No matter how worried he was, he could not get the exact information about the North Gate.
“Hey, Lao Zhao, what are you doing so frowning? Come on, smoke a cigarette.” Lao Yuan handed over the cigarette. Zhao Fengnian didn’t refuse, and took it in his mouth.
“Sorry, it’s okay for you guys. When you get out of the highway, you will escape to death. Those of us have to continue our struggle, and we may die in the next second.” Zhao Fengnian dangling his cigarette, his eyes still did not leave the north. Door direction.
Zhang Zhi asked: “Has the external support troops not arrived yet?”
“It’s early, big boss, otherwise you think that with Luocheng’s manpower, you can control the zombies?” Zhao Fengnian said that his nose suddenly became sore, he rubbed the tip of his nose, held back the wetness of his eyes, and said again “At first, I didn’t understand the situation and sacrificed a lot of people. However, the second batch of support troops will soon enter the city. It is estimated that there is no problem with stabilizing the situation.”
Lao Yuan patted Zhao Fengnian on the shoulder, knowing that he was sorry for his sacrificed teammate.
“Don’t other cities know about Luocheng now?” Zhang Zhi remembered that only when the zombies suddenly appeared and attacked people at first, someone uploaded a video of the zombies, but they all seemed to be cleaned up afterwards. In other words, it was very likely. Except for Luocheng, other cities have no idea about zombies.
Why do you want to do this and tell the truth as soon as possible. Isn’t it the wisest choice for the whole people to fight against zombies?
Zhao Fengnian shook his head, also puzzled by the matter, “How do I know the thoughts above? But speaking of it, Luocheng’s situation is much better than Kaicheng’s.”
Old Yuan asked, “What, Kaicheng?”
“Kaesong…probably has become a dead city, maybe tens of thousands of people have escaped, and the troops that went in to support were also wiped out.”
Zhao Fengnian’s words seemed like thunder on the ground, which shocked both Zhang Zhi and Lao Yuan.
Kaesong became a dead city, even the army was destroyed?
How can this be?
Seeing the two men in disbelief, Zhao Fengnian gave a wry smile. When he learned about Kaicheng, why didn’t he feel that his back was cold?
The reason Luo Cheng’s support came so late was because most of the troops had been put into Kaesong. As the hardest-hit area in Kaesong, even if a lot of manpower and material resources were invested, it was no match for the outcome of the destruction of the city, which shows how grim the situation is.
Zhang Zhi didn’t understand. If Kaesong had been supported from the beginning, why did he fall to such a tragic end?
According to the spread of Luocheng zombie virus, even if there are tens of thousands of zombies, under the crush of modern high-tech weapons, will even the army be wiped out? Even if the zombie virus in Kaicheng may change and cause the entire city to be infected, the most direct method is to block the city and then use missiles to destroy the town and all zombies, it will not cause serious damage to the army.
What happened to Kaesong?
The atmosphere was a little dignified. Old Yuan Zheng was planning to say something, but suddenly there was a slight rumbling sound again, and the ground was shaking slightly, as if a small earthquake was breaking out.
Not only him, Zhang Zhi and Zhao Fengnian also bowed their heads at the same time, trying to figure out what just happened.
“Aftershocks?” Zhao Fengnian was not sure.
After the previous major earthquake, aftershocks continued, but it seems a bit different from the current situation. This kind of vibration is not like a strong impact from deep in the ground that causes the ground to shake, but the surface is oppressed, giving out a vibration like a galloping horse.