Abnormal survival in the end times

Chapter 61: Trapped, Entering the City

Because there was only one passable lane on the highway, it was cleared specially by someone, and the vehicle that had been involved in the accident and had zombies inside was moved to the side of the road.

Therefore the driving speed is not fast.

When it was getting dark, some vehicles turned and went to the service area in Wucheng.

Of course, there is a gas station next to it, and I'm afraid most people who go there are here for this.

Bai Li didn't turn, but went straight forward past the service area.

Through the rearview mirror, she saw that Zhou Hui's car did not turn and was following closely behind her.

At this time, the little scout leaned on the car window and said, "Mom, the scammer went to the service area."

The man before clearly wanted to steal her car. Although Qiqi was young, she did not hide it and analyzed the situation in detail to her son.

It's just that they thought she was easy to bully because she was a woman with a child.

Qiqi remembered what her mother said and kept looking behind her intentionally or unintentionally along the way.

He wanted to do something. If anyone dared to bully his mother, he would not let him off easily.

Unfortunately, I was in the car all the way and never found a suitable opportunity.

Now he was not with them.

Qiqi was looking at the service area. When he was about to pass by, he vaguely felt a figure swaying on the second floor, but the light was not enough to see clearly.

At ten o'clock in the evening, under the pitch-black night sky, the long orange dragon on the highway was still moving slowly.

At this hour, no one would get off the highway unless the car was really out of gas, even if the service area they passed by seemed calm and safe.

At eleven o'clock, the car in front stopped.

At first no one got off the car. Everyone stayed in their cars and waited quietly.

But ten minutes passed, twenty minutes passed, until almost an hour, and there was still no movement.

Some people can't stay any longer.

The first person got off the bus first, then the second and the third.
At this time, Qiqi was already sleeping soundly in the back seat covered with his small quilt. Bai Li had also turned off the engine long ago, adjusted the backrest of the seat, half-lying on the seat with a blanket covering her. She closed her eyes and soon fell asleep.

Even if I drive as slowly as a snail on the road, I've been working all day, how can I not be tired?
"Xiao Jie, turn off the engine."

In the car behind, when Zhou Hui saw Bai Li's car stalled, he also suggested to Zeng Sujie to turn off the engine. After all, it was too difficult to refuel normally now. Although they had put a bucket of gas in the trunk in advance, they still tried to save as much as possible.

Although Zeng Sujie knew that her husband was right, she couldn't help but mutter, "Your classmate is really careless. He turned off the engine after waiting for such a short time. What if something happens and we don't have time to start it?"

With so many cars blocking the way ahead, how could it be too late?

But Zhou Hui didn't say it explicitly, he just said, "Maybe she guessed that it would take a long time and she couldn't leave for a while, so she simply turned off the engine and rested. You should also take a nap, you must be tired after driving all day, I'll call you if there's anything."

I am really tired, but I dare not take it lightly at this time.

Zeng Sujie thought for a moment and asked Zhou Hui, "Should I get off the car and go to the front to take a look? Someone in the car behind us got off to take a look just now."

Zhou Hui disagreed, "All the people getting off are men, you shouldn't go. Look, Bai Li hasn't gotten off the car yet, so let's just stay in the car and get enough rest. We can set off when the road ahead is clear."

Zeng Sujie thought so too, so she just listened to her husband and adjusted the seat back to go to sleep.

And in front of them, unknown to them, on the other half of the highway that was blocked horizontally by seven or eight cars, a group of zombies were roaring.

The first car owner who drove here felt his scalp tingling when he saw the countless zombies over there.

He wanted to walk away, wanted to retreat, but the cars behind him were one after another, so there was no way he could retreat!

The owner of the second car was a tall bald man. Among the cars in front, he was the first one who dared to get out of his car to check the situation.

As food approached, the group of zombies blocked by the car roared even more excitedly, and crowded forward one by one, crashing into the car, making a rattling sound.

The owner of the first car was scared to death.

"Brother, don't get so close."

He couldn't help but open the window a crack and kindly reminded the bald man.

But the bald man ignored him and jumped onto the roadside railing and looked behind the zombie group.

This sight startled him.

There were more zombies than he had expected, and he couldn't even see the end of them.

"Grass!"

The bald man cursed, jumped off the railing and returned to his car. He took an iron rod from the car, then asked his wife to switch to the driver's seat and whispered to her, "It's impossible to get through here. You wait in the car. I'll go over there to clear the traffic. When you see the traffic retreat, you retreat with it. I'll wait for you at the fork in the road over there."

His wife looked at him, then looked around, and saw that no one had gotten out of the car. She sighed and nodded, "Okay, be careful."

She knew that someone had to step forward, otherwise they would be stuck here and face a dead end.

The man walked for more than half an hour before he reached the fork in the road he had passed before. At this time, some car owners who could not see the situation ahead dared to get out of their cars and walk around.

One is to check the situation, and the other is to sit for too long and get up and move around.

As he drove along, whenever he saw someone opening their car window and asking what was happening ahead, he would reply, "There are zombies ahead, it's blocked, we have to turn back."

He didn't care whether it caused a commotion or not, he just had to turn at the fork in the road.

The bald man has a ferocious face and is over 1.8 meters tall. Through his thin sweatshirt, you can see the muscular body underneath.

The key is that when he glares at someone, it's as if he wants to eat them. You can tell at a glance that he's not someone you want to mess with.

Therefore, when he pointed the iron rod at the car closest to the fork in the road, the owner, no matter how unwilling he was, did not dare to say a word and obediently turned the steering wheel and drove off the highway.

There was a car behind that wanted to follow, but he didn't give way.

He forced the car in front to back up and then get off the highway.

In this way, one car after another, almost all the cars in front were forced off the highway, and his wife also drove his car back to his side.

The bald man got on the car and no longer maintained order here.

So the owner of the car that he had stopped and had been waiting for more than two hours quickly followed and blocked the first car that was backing up in front of him.

Then the cars behind this car quickly followed.

At three o'clock in the morning, there was a knock on Bai Li's car window.

"Wang!"

Xiaowu climbed up from the passenger seat and shouted fiercely at the person outside the window.

Zeng Sujie didn't care and continued to knock on the car window, while complaining in her heart: This person is so careless, he is still sleeping so soundly at this time!
Bai Li rubbed her eyes and sat up, looking at Zeng Sujie blankly. Zeng Sujie wanted to roll her eyes at her, but she held back, and didn't mind that she didn't open the car window as a precaution, but just pointed forward at her.

Bai Li turned her head blankly, only to find that the car in front had already driven away, and it was quite far away, and she could only see two lights at the rear of the car.

She quickly took out a tissue from the side and wiped her face, then started the car.

Having achieved her goal, Zeng Sujie turned around and went back to her car.

But he couldn't help but complain to Zhou Hui, "Your classmate is really amazing. She slept so soundly under the quilt in this situation, and didn't even wake up when the dog barked. Can she return home safely with her child like this?"

Before Zhou Hui could say anything, Zeng Sujie asked again, "By the way, do you know her husband? He's not with her, so I guess something happened to him."

The last sentence is not a question, but an affirmation.

After all, at this time, whether being infected by zombies or being bitten by zombies is normal.

But Zhou Hui shook his head and said, "It's unlikely that something happened. Her husband Jiang Minglang is a senior classmate of ours. He had very good grades back then and was admitted to a military academy. The two of them were rarely together and were apart for most of the time. It's very likely that Jiang Minglang was not at home when the accident happened a few days ago."

Zeng Sujie glanced at him and said, "You know it very well."

"It's not that I know clearly, but they are both celebrities in our school. Jiang Minglang had good grades, but in his second year of high school, his mother went to school to find his class teacher and wanted him to drop out. As for the reason, I don't remember clearly, anyway, Jiang Minglang's class teacher disagreed and even went to the dean of studies and the principal, but in the end he couldn't be expelled. His class teacher even applied for a tuition exemption for him. Later, when he took the college entrance examination, he applied for a military school that didn't require tuition.

As for Bai Li, she was in the same class as me, and after the college entrance examination, our class monitor pursued her."

"Squad leader? Didn't you say Lao Jia is your squad leader?"

Zeng Sujie knew several classmates who were on good terms with Zhou Hui.

Zhou Hui smiled and said, "Yes, that's him. That boy has had a crush on Bai Li for three years, but because her uncle is our teacher, he never dared to confess. You don't know, Bai Li's uncle loves her like his own daughter. His eyes are like radars. Any boy who talks to her more than one word will be watched by him for three days. Lao Jia secretly wrote countless love letters to Bai Li, but he didn't dare to hand any of them out. He is really afraid of Teacher Bai."

Zeng Sujie seized on her curiosity and asked, "Why does her uncle love her so much?"

"It is said that Bai Li's father was also a soldier. He was often not at home when she was young. Although she lived with her grandparents, she was actually raised by Teacher Bai. So think about it, a niece you raise yourself is just like a daughter, isn't it?"

Zeng Sujie was surprised again, "Where's her mother?"

"I heard that she divorced her father when she was one year old."

That's quite pitiful.

"Did her father remarry?"

I don’t know about Zhou Hui.

Zeng Sujie then turned the question back to Lao Jia, "Did Lao Jia talk to Bai Li after the college entrance examination?"

The guy is an enthusiastic person, graduated from a prestigious university, and now works as the general manager of a listed company, where he is doing quite well.

Of course, he was good-looking, handsome, delicate, and had a pretty face. He had been divorced twice, had two sons, and was discussing marriage with his third girlfriend before the virus broke out.

"What the hell, even though Old Jia looks like a decent guy, he is far inferior to Jiang Minglang. Bai Li never liked him at all. I think Bai Li never attended class reunions after graduation. It's probably because the reunions were organized by this grandson, so she didn't want to go."

Zhou Hui’s guess was wrong on this point. No matter who organized it, she would not go.

Three or four in the morning is the time when one is most sleepy. Even though Zeng Sujie had slept for more than two hours before that, it was a light sleep and she woke up every ten or twenty minutes.

But when it comes to gossip about other people, she immediately perks up.

Especially when she heard that Bai Li was a military dependent, she naturally had fewer opinions about her and wanted to follow her husband's advice and go back to her hometown with Bai Li.

It’s a pity that we don’t know how she and her husband fell in love, otherwise it would be more refreshing.

Bai Li in front had no idea that her old classmates behind were talking about her and Jiang Minglang.

Just after getting off the highway, there was some commotion with the cars in front of us, because compared to a simple one-lane highway, the road below became much more complicated.

Especially in some places there is a traffic jam and it is impossible to drive through.

The roads that can be driven through do not match the direction you want to go, especially some roads that obviously require going around the city.

They all came from the city and knew it was not easy to leave the city, especially a city they were not familiar with.

So no one wanted to go in.

The car stopped for a while and the sound of cursing gradually increased.

Bai Li half-pressed the car window and turned to look at the city, which was just as dark as Su City, without a single light.

This is Wucheng. She saw the sign on the roadside just now. She had been here before. When she returned to her hometown a few years ago, she and Jiang Minglang went to the countryside of Wucheng to visit Zhang Shaoda’s grandmother.

"Mom, let's go through it. I know the way."

Qiqi woke up at some point, wrapped in a small blanket, and climbed out of the back seat. He raised his little finger to point the way to Bai Li, "Turn left here, and turn right at the intersection over there."

He didn't even look at the map, and just gave Bai Li instructions. At the end, he added, "Dad drove past here before. I remember."

Bai Li was embarrassed, she had no impression at all.

But she knew that what her son said was definitely right. The little guy's sense of direction really inherited from his father.

Bai Li turned the steering wheel, went around the vehicle in front, and turned left into the city.

Zhou Hui, who was behind her, saw that she was about to leave, so he turned around and asked Zeng Sujie, "Should we go with Bai Li?"

To be honest, if we stay here we can only wait until dawn to find a solution, and there is no guarantee that we can get through.

So even though he was asking his wife, he actually wanted to leave with Bai Li.

Whatever the reason, it's naturally better to be with old classmates.

After being married for many years, Zeng Sujie naturally understood what he meant.

She didn't object and followed Bai Li into the city.

The dark streets were filled with cars with smashed front ends and zombies with no heads or pierced heads. The headlights flashed by, making people feel terrified.

"Mom, there are zombies ahead."

When passing the third intersection, I noticed a swaying figure in front of me from a distance.

Not only in front, but also on the paths on both sides there were sounds of anxious footsteps.

Bai Li stopped the car, and Qiqi skillfully opened a small toy that was heavy, glowing and singing. Bai Li took it, opened the door and got out, raised her hand and threw the humming toy in her hand towards the open space in front of the left.

Then he turned around, quickly got into the car and slammed the door.

The series of movements were smooth, fast and steady, which stunned Zeng Sujie, who was standing behind her and anxiously discussing countermeasures with Zhou Hui.

(End of this chapter)