On the highway, countless traffic flows have merged into a steel river, squeezing under the blue road signs, surging forward, trying to find a way to survive. Crazy sirens, cars rushing left and right.
, the shrill cries and curses, the remains of the bodies after the vehicle collision... all turned into a huge panic that rushed towards the face and spread quickly——
Then, the pause button was suddenly pressed.
Lin Sanjiu walked step by step through the congested and motionless traffic, and everything was silent. Only the sound of her footsteps and the continuous sound of a car horn in the distance echoed between heaven and earth.
Under the piercing car horn, the road became more and more silent.
At this time, the sharp horn sound suddenly stopped - in the distance, Hu Chang straightened up in front of another car whose color could no longer be seen, and then complained: "...it's not a good place to die.
He died on the speaker."
When these words reached her ears, Lin Sanjiu suddenly thought of the brisk pace of Lu Ze when he was walking on the back of the corpse - she felt very angry when she saw it at the time. But now, the dead person has long since changed from an unstoppable person.
The imaginary horror became something that made them so numb that they didn't even bother to raise their eyebrows.
She raised her head and glanced at the road sign under the blue sky.
After being eroded by the sand and high temperature for more than half a year, the handwriting on the road sign had been blurred to the point where it was almost impossible to see clearly. Lin Sanjiu squinted his eyes hard and stood there with his head raised for several minutes before he could barely understand it.
- She raised her head and shouted to her companions in the distance: "We are still sixty kilometers away from Yanping Port!"
"Is it still that far away?" The rabbit closest to her, dressed in gothic clothing, sighed on the roof of a deflated Volvo. "With so many special items won back, why can't there be any of them?"
We were flying."
Because of Wusu Poison, the four of them spread out for a while in the queue, each going his own way. More than a month has passed since the end of that strange game copy, and this month has gone by surprisingly well.
Calm - except for missing three meals and being hungry and thirsty.
The last time the four of them ate was two days ago.
Although the high temperature no longer poses a fatal threat to a few evolved humans, it has also created another situation that caught people off guard. Without the reserves of drinking water, the few people naturally thought of supermarkets, food factories, and convenience
Stores... and other places where food may be available. In a big city, supermarkets are everywhere. It shouldn't be difficult to find one that hasn't been looted, right?
But the reality is not so ideal.
Almost all vacuum-packed and dry food has been looted. As the primary target that everyone can think of, there is not even a bottle of water left in many supermarkets - this is still the situation in the supermarkets that have survived. More supermarkets
, together with the buildings, they collapsed in the high temperature, and piled up into ruins as high as a mountain.
No - there was no food anywhere, not even clean water, and even the city's reservoirs had dried up, leaving only mud.
Just when everyone was getting more and more anxious and disappointed, Lin Sanjiu suddenly thought of a place - if nothing else happened, this place should store a huge amount of drinking water that far exceeds that of a supermarket, and he could realize this.
I'm afraid there aren't many people.
Customs port.
As a developed port city, the annual volume of import and export goods in Shenghai City has reached an astonishing number, and imported food, as one of the special goods, needs to be kept in the customs warehouse for a period of time before each entry.
Monthly inspection.
The food that comes across the ocean costs at least one container. The relatively harsh conditions of maritime transportation also require good sealing and corrosion resistance of the food. Moreover, the area near the cargo port is sparsely populated and relatively more difficult to transport.
Safety.
Is there any more suitable place to stay than a customs warehouse?
So even though Yanping Port is a long way away, a few people walked there willingly.
Being stuck in traffic, it was natural that he couldn't walk any faster - but without a map or GPS, he could only move forward by relying on the signs on the highway. After walking silently for a while, Lin Sanjiu stopped.
Come down.
In a car in front of her, a dark brown hand opened the driver's door and blocked her way.
Lin Sanjiu looked at the shriveled fallen creature walking down expressionlessly. With a wave of his hand, a mouthpart longer than the opposite one appeared - before the fallen creature could react, its head had already been connected.
It flew far away with its tiny mouthparts.
"It's been a long time since I've seen such a rotten degenerate." She muttered to herself, "It's really bad."
After that, she stepped over the body, kicked the car door shut, and set off again.
Hu Changzai, who was not far away, looked at her back and suddenly took a few steps closer to Hai Tianqing's direction: "Hey, Hai Gan..."
Hai Tianqing consciously stayed away from him and asked, "What are you doing?"
"Do you think Xiaojiu looks a lot more handsome after cutting his hair short?"
Hai Tianqing glanced at him and replied: "I don't know, I'm a straight man."
"Well, that's right..." Hu Changzai nodded and suddenly realized something was wrong: "Eh? I'm also a straight man? Hai, Hai Gandan, what do you mean by this-"
Lin Sanjiu, who was walking at the front, pretended not to hear.
We walked like this for about two hours. It was almost noon, and the sun gradually became poisonous. The rays were so harsh that people could not open their eyes. Even though everyone had adapted to high temperatures and strengthened their physical fitness, they still felt that the air was burning.
The heat, mixed with the dust, was boiling in my lungs.
After passing several forks, the cars on the road became sparse and sparse. The sun was getting brighter and it was no time to continue walking outside; just when a few people couldn't help but want to find a car to go in and sleep.
, the road turned a corner, revealing a dark tunnel entrance ahead.
"Go into the tunnel and take a rest. It's cool inside."
Several people filed into the tunnel. The tunnel was very long. Without the street lights, it was like walking into the belly of the mountain. It was so dark that only when you looked back could you see the light at the end.
Since entering the tunnel, the traffic has become much thinner. From here, there is only the road to the seaside; and when the extreme temperature hell first came, almost no one thought of taking refuge at the seaside.
The rabbit is the smallest. For it, it takes twice as much effort to walk the same distance, and it has already been exhausted. Before taking two steps, it was the first to jump on the roof of the car and dominate the mountain.
As if shouting: "I will sleep in this car!"
Because of the Wusu poison, everyone has been sleeping alone in one car during this period - otherwise, if someone accidentally bumps into someone while sleeping, they will die unjustly.
Hai Tianqing found the largest SUV, and Hu Changzai chose another Jeep. Only Lin Sanjiu was still walking back and forth, bending down from time to time to wipe the dust on the car glass with his sleeves, and looking inside.
Although most cars are unlocked, not every car is suitable for use - the owners of many cars still leave their bodies in the car. The rotting corpses are mixed with the iron smell of dead blood, which can be inhaled as soon as the door is opened.
A somersault. Only those whose owners abandoned the car and escaped could still manage to get in and sleep.
Lin Sanjiu looked at several cars that were not suitable. She was feeling helpless when she suddenly saw a Land Cruiser with the door half open not far ahead. She immediately felt happy. The door was open, which meant that the person might have left long ago;
The car was big enough for her to sleep comfortably. She walked to the driver's seat in a few steps, opened the door, and turned to look inside.
In the car, Zhu Mei smiled at her—perhaps a smile.