CH 13

When the car entered the county road, Hao Jian endured a heavy vomit and threw the phone and compass aside, she then leaned back in her chair and closed her eyes to rest. Staring at something in a moving 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 and gave it to Hao Jian while paying attention to the road conditions. She was rather embarrassed, “Drink some 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 and hot air collided with each other, and the mixture 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’m afraid I’ll get lost so I didn’t dare to drive so fast. And it’s getting late, I think we need to find a place to rest for the night.”

Hao Jian let down her hair, brushed it with her hands, re-tied it, and said, “I’ll drive and you rest.”

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

“That’s better than you driving for more than four hours straight. In this situation, unless you park in the wilderness to rest, it’s 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 can wait so long, I don’t mind.”

Lian Ru Ning struggled a little bit in her heart, and finally felt that she couldn’t wait for two more days. Another day without contact contact with her family will only make her more anxious. And once she returned to Southern City, she had to find them in different places, which would even be more dangerous and difficult.

“That’s up tp you.”

Lian Ru Ning slowly parked the car on the side. Hao Jian got out of the car and exercised for a while then took a look at their 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 she 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 the cities will try their best to run to the suburbs. Not only in highways but also national highways, and even county highways, but there is no shortage of cars and people, but the current traffic flow is bit scary.

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

Hao Jian only had a vague idea, but she 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 meant 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 bid 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 were actually a cooling off period in the big cities. And after this chaos, the closer one 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 furrowed her eyebrows and glanced at Lian Ru Ning through the rearview mirror,

If the things are as I thought, it doesn’t rule our that her family has been killed or transferred, and finding them is as difficult as finding a needle in a haystack.

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

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

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 workplace.

It’s summer vacation, so her parents will either be at home or in school attending seminars, and her younger brother is in the end of the Kiogang college entrance examination. According to his character, he won’t be doing any summer work, so he should still be at home.

“Let’s head to University Town first.” Lian Ru Ning squeezed her palm.

Hao Jian raised her eyebrows, somewhat surprised, “You don’t want to head home first?”

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

“My home is in the city, and we need to traverse the city center to get there which is very dangerous. The school my dad teaches at is in University Town which is in the suburbs, so I want to go there first. If we look there and not find them, I’ll go home by myself.”

Lian Ru Ning’s fear was causing trouble to Hao Jian, so she said, “I live in a place near the center of the city.”

Lian Ru Ning muttered in her heart

How could things 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. Is it 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 get hurt. Hao Jian’s home is obviously the safest place in the countryside, but she 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.

Lian Ru Ning couldn’t be blamed for thinking this way, 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 experiencing 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 looked back and thought whether there was something wrong with what she said earlier, otherwise, why did she look like this?

“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 is stranded in the city?”

Hao Jian was stunned for a moment by Lian Ru Ning’s question. She had such a guess but didn’t tell Lian Ru Ning because she felt that even if she told her, it will only add anxiety. But it seemed she underestimated Lian Ru Ning.

“Oh? How did you arrive to that conclusion?” Hao Jian asked rhetorically without answering directly.

“If I were a person who has suffered an accident, there’s a time frame that’s best to be rescued. If I’m not, then I can basically be declared dead. After the zombie virus broke 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 supermarkets anymore and choose to hide in their homes. Can you understand what I’m saying?”

“Very intuitive.”

Lian Ru Ning breathed a sigh of relief. She realized that talking with Hao Jian was really easy and effortless, so she said, “So, the best time to escape has passed and fewer people have fled compared to the past. Now, those who are staying in the city are in their homes, or somewhere else with no escape.”

Hao Jian let out an ‘um’, and Lian Ru Ning became quiet. She had actually 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. The lights behind her also gradually dimmed, until the little starlight was also extinguished. 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 car lights. There was nothing in front of them, 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 modern era to the stone age?!

“Maybe it’s just that the power plant temporarily cut the power supply. As long as someone is there and the machine doesn’t fail, the power supply will eventually be restored.”

“Then why can’t the communication bureau recover the signal?” Lian Ru Ning 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 measures to curb the incident from continuing to ferment. At this time, it’s necessary to block civil communication signals.”

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

Through the car light, some vehicles parked crookedly on the road appeared ahead. It depends on the situation because a vehicle was driving inn the opposite direction and occupies a lane in the same direction of the city, resulting in a traffic accident. Because there is no traffic officers to handle these cars, they just pile up here, blocking the roads in both sides.

Hao Jian had to slow down 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 soft cry in fright as she looked at the figures rushing towards this side, illuminated by the car’s lights.

Hao Jian furrowed her eyebrows, while driving cautiously, 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 a body falling to the ground. Hao Jian stepped on the brakes, raised her head and saw the figure climbing up and running towards them.

“That, that’s a zombie!” Lian Ru Ning screamed. It was difficult to tell whether it was a person or a zombie in the dark with only the car lights, but after the impact, they still stood up like a lonely person, like a zombie. . .

‘Bang—!’ Lian Ru Ning screamed again, only to see a pale face against the car window, their hands pressed against the car window and yelling at her. She hid back subconsciously, but the seat belt restricted her movement. She immediately released the seat belt and moved closer to Hao Jian.

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

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

“Even the town is so thrilling.” Lian Ru Ning commented while sweating.

Hao Jian drove the car back to the road. The accident caused the blockage only on a short section of the road. After bypassing that section, they passed by the residential houses of the county, the situation here was better. Many cars were parked in front of the houses, but the road was very clean.

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

Suddenly, there were some abnormal noises in the car, like the car floor was being scratched by something. Looking at the group of zombies approaching them, Lian Ru Ning immediately asked. “What was that sound?”