The System Sent Me an Object [End of the World]

Chapter 13

When the car entered the county road, Hao Jian endured a strong vomit and threw the phone and compass aside, then leaned back in his chair and closed his eyes to rest. Staring at something in the car for a long time will bring discomfort, she can bear without vomiting, she is strong enough.

Lian Ru Ning took out a bottle of water to Hao Jian while paying attention to the road conditions. She was rather embarrassed: “You have a sip of water, don’t vomit later.”

Hao Jian responded but didn’t move. When she opened her eyes, the sky was already as dark as thick ink, and a black shadow flashed past the car window.

She rolled down the car window, and the hot air suddenly poured in. The cold air and the hot air collided with each other, and the hula-la wind blew her face numb. There was a small voice in the car radio, and Lian Ru Ning turned off the air conditioner when she saw her movements, and said: “The radio station said that the highway is seriously congested and the road traffic is basically paralyzed.”

“Is there any problem here?”

“I avoided several blocked sections, but I am afraid I will get lost, so I dare not drive so fast. And it’s getting late, I think we need to find a place to rest for a night.”

Hao Jian let go of his hair, then stroked it, re-tied it, and said, “I drive, and you rest.”

“You only slept for three hours, be careful of driving fatigue!”

“That’s better than if you drive for more than four hours in a row. In this situation, unless you park to rest in the wilderness, it is not safe anywhere. Moreover, if the county road is also paralyzed, you will inevitably have to go to the village road. An hour’s drive may take two days. If you wait so long, I don’t care.”

Lian Ru Ning struggled a little bit in her heart, and finally felt that she couldn’t wait for two more days. One day after losing contact with her family, she becomes more anxious. And when she returned to Southern City, she had to find people in different places, which would be even more difficult and dangerous.

“That’s up to you.”

Lian Ru Ning stopped slowly by the side, Hao Jian got out of the car and exercised for a while, then took a look at the surroundings. There are several cars driving on a straight road in the same direction, and this is not surprising. It is strange that there are also very few cars in the opposite direction.

“When are there fewer cars on the opposite side?” Hao Jian asked as he drove.

Lian Ru Ning turned around when she heard the words, and found that there were very few cars as expected. Under normal circumstances, people in cities will try their best to run to the suburbs, not only highways, national highways, provincial highways, and even county highways, but there is no shortage of cars and people, but the current traffic flow is a bit scary.

She thought about it, and said: “I didn’t pay much attention to it. The traffic flow was slowly decreasing. There were also cars driving in the opposite direction and robbing the lane here. I always drove on the right, so when did it decrease? It’s not clear anymore. What’s wrong with this?”

Hao Jian only had a vague idea, but he couldn’t figure it out. After driving for half an hour, she looked at the sign and drove the car into the county road closer to Nanfang City. And she suddenly caught the flash of thought: the outward flow of traffic has decreased. Does it mean that the chaotic period has gradually come to an end?

Seven days have passed since the zombie outbreak level three. From the panic at the beginning to the escape from the city, seven days were enough to bring the incident from the climax to the end. Especially in big cities that are well-informed, they get the news first, and then they reach the counties and townships.

So the chaotic period that Hao Jian experienced in the counties and cities was actually a cooling off period in the big cities. And after this chaos, the closer you get to Southern City, the risk factor will increase exponentially. At the same time, the problem facing the survivors is how to avoid the zombies and find a safe place to transfer.

Thinking of this, she twisted her eyebrows and glanced at Lian Ru Ning through the rearview mirror: If things are as I thought, it does not rule out that her family members have been killed or transferred. Finding them is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

“Where to go, do you have a specific goal?” Hao Jian asked, adding, “It’s not a big goal like’Southern City’, it’s better to be specific to the location.”

Lian Ru Ning has several locations in her heart, namely her home, the school where her parents work, and the school where her younger sister studies.

Her father is a professor at Nanhai University and works in University Town, and her mother is a professor at South City University in the South Campus. Although her sister is a student of Nanhai University, the campus is near her mother’s campus.

It is summer vacation, so most of her parents will hold seminars at home or go to school, and the younger brother will not go to summer job at home and the school where his parents work because of his personality after finishing the college entrance examination. between.

As for her younger sister, Lian Ru Meng, she was a little uncertain. After all, although Lian Ru Meng is twins, her temperament is quite different. She is definitely not the kind of person who likes to stay at home. In these days when they had never contacted, she might be doing summer work, she might go out to sketch, and she might even travel far away.

“Go to University Town first.” Lian Ru Ning squeezed her palm and decided to say.

Hao Jian raised his eyebrows, somewhat surprised: “Don’t go home first?”

In such a situation, most people think about staying home, so the probability of her family being at home is very high.

“My home is in the city, and it used to traverse the city center, which was very dangerous. The school my dad teaches in is in the university town, and the university town is in the suburbs, so I want to go there first. If you look for it there Without them, I will go home by myself.”

For Lian Runing’s fear of causing trouble to herself, Hao Jian’s mouth moved: “I live in a place near the center of the city.”

Lian Ru Ning muttered in her heart: Where could it be so smooth?

At the beginning, Hao Jian said that she worked in Southern City, and she had something to come back, so she didn’t doubt it. It’s just a coincidence that now she lives in the city center too!

She didn’t suspect that Hao Jian had ulterior motives, but she was worried that Hao Jian would be hurt. Hao Jian’s home is obviously the safest place in the countryside, but he ran back to the most dangerous place with her…

“Could it be that her confession was sincere?” Lian Ru Ning thought secretly in her heart again.

I can’t blame her for thinking about this, because Hao Jian’s behavior is so weird that people can’t forget it even if they want to forget it. And after more than 20 hours of life and death together, she also had to guess whether Hao Jian had met her somewhere, and thus began to have a crush on her.

Hao Jian found that Lian Ru-ning’s eyes looked a little ambiguous. She recalled whether there was something wrong with what she said earlier, otherwise why did she look like this?

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“You said that the flow of traffic from the city has decreased. Does it mean that all those who can escape have already escaped, and those who can’t escape have also stayed in the city?”

Hao Jian was stunned for a moment by Lian Runing’s question. She just had such a guess but didn’t tell Lian Ruing that she felt that even if she knew it, it would only add anxiety. But she seems to be underestimated.

“Oh? Why do you guess like that?” Hao Jian asked rhetorically without answering directly.

“I feel like a person who has suffered an accident. It has the best time for rescue. Once the time has passed, then this person can basically be declared dead. After the zombie virus breaks out, there is also the best time to escape. Supermarkets will be robbed by others. When the things in the supermarket are completely plundered, no one will go to the supermarket anymore and choose to hide in their homes. Do you understand when I say that?”

“Very intuitive.”

Lian Runing breathed a sigh of relief. She realized that communicating with Hao Jian was really worry-free and effortless, so she said: “So, the best time to escape has passed, and fewer people have fled in the past. Now they are still staying in the city. Inside, either the home is there or there is no way to escape.”

Hao Jian let out an “um”, and Lian Ru Ning became quiet. She actually had some guesses, but she didn’t say it directly.

The street lights on both sides of the county road in front of her suddenly dimmed, and Lian Ru Ning turned her head back, and the lights behind her also gradually dimmed, until the little starlight was also annihilated. She mentioned it in her heart and quickly stared into the darkness, as if she wanted to see something inside.

Hao Jian turned on the lighting, and there was nothing wrong with the front, but the county road was quietly empty, not even a car. No one seemed to be a little embarrassed in this situation. Lian Ru Ning asked, “Is it impossible for even the power supply bureau to support it?”

Without electricity, they have to go back from the electricity age to the age of lighting by fire? !

“Maybe it’s just that the power plant temporarily stopped power supply. As long as someone is there and the machine does not fail, there will always be a time when the power supply will be restored.”

“Then why can’t the communication part recover the signal?” Lian Runing raised the phone.

“I’m not surprised in this respect. You must know that once a serious incident breaks out, the relevant departments will take effective measures to curb the incident from continuing to ferment. At this time, it is necessary to block civil communication signals.”

Lian Ru Ning put down the phone, a trace of disappointment.

Through the lighting of the car lights, some vehicles parked crookedly on the road appeared on the road ahead. It depends on the situation because a vehicle was driving in the opposite direction and occupied the lane in the direction of the city, causing a traffic accident. There is no traffic department to handle these cars, they just pile up here, blocking the roads in both directions.

Hao Jian had to reduce the speed of the car. After looking around, she turned the steering wheel and drove the car to the side of the field. At the end of the ridge are towering buildings, as if they have reached the center of the town.

“Ah—” Lian Ru Ning let out a whisper in fright as she looked at the figures rushing towards this side illuminated by the car lights.

Hao Jian twisted his eyebrows, while driving cautiously, while avoiding these figures with a reverse disk. It’s just that they follow each other like a shadow, one or two desperately rushing over.

“Bang—” There was a violent impact, and there was the sound of the body falling to the ground. Hao Jian stepped on the brakes, raised his head and saw the figure climbing up and running towards them.

“That, that’s a zombie!” Lian Ru Ningdao, it is difficult to judge whether it is a human or a zombie by car lights in the dark night, but after the impact, they still stand up like a lonely person, except for the zombie. .

With another “bang—”, Lian Ru Ning screamed out this time, only to see a pale face against the car window, her hands squeezing the car window and yelling at her. She hid back subconsciously, but the seat belt restricted her movement, she directly released the seat belt and moved closer to Hao Jian.

She leaned into Hao Jian’s arms. Hao Jian took a deep breath with the gear lever in her right hand, changed gears with difficulty, slammed on the accelerator, once again hit the zombie in front of him, and drove forward. .

The zombie pulled the door handle, and suddenly opened a slit when the car was moving. Lian Ru Ning was even more frightened, clutching the doorknob tightly and daring not to let it go, until the zombie was thrown away by the car and left far behind, she rested on the back of the chair with lingering fears.

“Even the town is so thrilling.” Lian Ru Ning sweated.

Hao Jian drove the car back to the road, and the accident caused the blockage to be only a short section of the road. After bypassing that section, when passing the road in front of the residential houses of the county, the situation was better than there. Many cars are parked in front of the house, but the road is very clean.

But when they saw zombies wandering on the road, they didn’t dare to relax their guard.

Suddenly, there were some abnormal noises in the car, as if the ground of the car was scratched by something. Looking at the group of zombies approaching them, Lian Ru Ning asked hurriedly: “What sound?”