Chapter 589 Temporary Stop [Second Update]
Wu Yan stood up in a panic, "Leave now? Just wait. My wife is still alive, but she ran away when she ran away. She will definitely come back now that she is safe! Uncle Du, don't you have to wait for Auntie too?" Many of the neighbors were outdoors at the time, so they escaped relatively quickly. There were not many survivors in this area, but it was too chaotic and everyone ran away. His wife was one of them.
"She doesn't need me to wait, she will take care of herself, you don't have to worry." Du Aiguo's voice was very cold.
As soon as I heard it, I knew something was going on inside.
"Uncle Du, what's wrong? Did you and my aunt quarrel?" Liao Dong observed his expression carefully.
Du Aiguo stood up with his baggage, "No, I was just pushed by her when I was running, and I was almost buried by the collapsed wall."
Everyone was silent. Aunt Du definitely didn't mean it, but even if she didn't mean it, such a thing is still very hurtful.
Wu Yan could only stay alone.
Zhen Shuai has cheated on the live broadcast system and leads the way.
Although he chose the most convenient route, there were ruins along the way, making it difficult to walk. His feet hurt when he stepped on broken bricks. Occasionally avoid cars leaking oil to avoid the risk of explosion. The burst water pipe was exposed from the gap, forming a fountain. The water spread to all directions. The ground was muddy. If you accidentally fell, it would be like rolling in a mire.
Along the way, survivors could be seen sitting on the edge of the ruins, crying helplessly. The collapsed buildings turned into undulating mountains. They wanted to find people but had nowhere to start.
"Dad, can you still find the location of the supermarket or shopping mall?" Zhen Shuai asked as he walked.
The city that was once familiar has become unfamiliar. Dad Zhen looked around with a sad look on his face, "Oh, it's been destroyed to this extent. It's not the same as before. If the sun hadn't been in the sky, I wouldn't even be able to see the southeast, northwest and northwest." I can't tell the difference!"
Du Aiguo came over and kicked half of the billboard at his feet. "This brand looks familiar. If I remember correctly, we have Xingrong Supermarket under our feet, but now it has been replaced by this ten-storey building. The six-story building is at the bottom."
Zhen Shuai took the opportunity to remind everyone, "Under the current situation, it is impossible to rebuild the city. I am afraid that our daily necessities will have to rely on the resources buried underground for a long time. ."
Everyone's expressions were very ugly, and they looked at the wasteland at their feet thoughtfully.
"Tell me, what is that thing? Is it an alien wearing a mecha?" Liao Dong looked at the slow-moving giant in the distance, with deep fear hidden in his eyes.
The giant thing is too tall, like Optimus Prime, and looks very blurry when viewed from the ground. No one has yet discovered that it is a creature that looks almost exactly like a human being.
Zhen Shuai was afraid of scaring them, so they didn't dare to continue on their way, so they still didn't make it clear.
"Hurry up. Mom, sister, please hold on for a while." "
I'm fine, don't worry. Square dancing every night is useful. I don't feel too tired." Zhen's mother wiped her sweat and comforted her son.
Zhen Zhen, with her flushed face, smiled at her younger brother, "I'm fine, I can still hold on."
Zhen Shuai continued to lead the way.
Other unfamiliar survivors came over and asked where they planned to go. Although Liao Dong and Ma Ming both disagreed, Zhen Shuai still told them their destination. More people joined them and the line grew longer.
Liao Dong strode to Zhen Shuai with a sullen face, not hiding his dissatisfaction at all, "Zhen Shuai, didn't Uncle Du tell you? The sales department doesn't have much space. If you bring so many people there, how will you live there?" Are you responsible for finding a new place for everyone?"
Du Aiguo glanced at him expressionlessly.
Zhen Shuai kept walking and spoke rudely, "Do you think those aliens will leave after they destroy the cities on the earth? What are you dreaming about? When they attack humans, will you be able to deal with them by yourself?" Liao
Dong was speechless.
He turned to Zhen's father, half-smiling but not smiling, "Brother Zhen, according to seniority, your Zhen is handsome enough to call me "uncle". Listen to what he said!" "Haha." Zhen's father said lightly, "My
son We don't force you to stay with us."
Liao Dong's face turned blue and white.
Xie Lan pulled him, "I think you're confused! I can't hold my daughter anymore, come and hold her." Ma Ming smoothed things over with a smile, "We have been neighbors for many years, and we are not too big as a family.
It’s normal to have some stumbling, but don’t take it too seriously. I guess we are not the only ones who like the sales department, so we still need to unite and communicate with the outside world. Dongzi, I remember that your wife has always been the head of your family. You have no place to speak here."
Along the way, he had already seen that Zhen Shuai had a plan, and it was not as simple as it seemed. There may be a lot of people who can rely on him in the future, but he is not willing to offend him.
Liao Dong got off the road and said, "I don't mean anything else. Aren't you worried about all of us?" He didn't think as much as Ma Ming, but he understood a truth. If a person thinks he is wrong, he may Yes, but if two or three people think he is wrong, then he may not be doing it right. Du Aiguo didn't speak just now, but he looked at himself with disapproval, which showed that he thought he was wrong. So what if you take a step back? Apart from the bad looks, there is nothing to lose.
Liao Dong showed a smile to Zhen Shuai, "Zhen Shuai, I am a rough guy, and you are a college student. Your mind works faster than mine, and you think about problems more thoughtfully than us. Don't argue with a rough guy like me." Zhen Shuai smiled
. , "It doesn't matter. Save your energy and concentrate on your journey."
When they arrived at the sales department, a group of people collapsed on the ground from exhaustion. It was quiet inside, and it didn't seem like anyone else was there. But Zhen Shuai still checked inside and out.
Others looked at him still looking relaxed, with no sweat stains on his face, and were very envious of his physical strength. After all, he is young!
"Safe." Zhen Shuai nodded to Zhen's father.
Zhen's mother patted the ground beside her and said, "Son, sit down and rest for a while."
Zhen Shuai sat on the floor, took out a bottle of water from his backpack, drank most of it himself, and fed Ling'er the remaining half.
Ling'er held her head high, put her mouth into the mouth of the bottle, and drank slowly. It was obviously very experienced in drinking water like this, and not a drop was spilled on the ground.
This harmonious scene gave everyone a little peace of mind, and everyone unconsciously watched it drink up the water.
Zhen Ma raised her wrist, and her watch showed that it was already past one o'clock. No wonder she felt a little hungry. She took out some food and gave some to Zhen's father, Zhen Shuai and Zhen Zhen each.
"Mom, there is no need to save. When we are full, we will go out to rescue people and collect supplies. We must gather as many resources as possible before the aliens take the next step, including human resources and other supplies." Zhen Shuai looked at everyone. Sweep it.
Everyone heard that this was also meant for them. Some had expressions of approval on their faces, while others lowered their heads as if to escape.
Zhen Shuai didn't care. We are all adults and can take responsibility for ourselves.
He walked aside, turned his back to the others, and sent a message to Shen Xingdu with his smart watch. He quickly received a reply and learned that everything was fine with him, and his eyes felt relieved. I'm afraid the two won't be able to see each other in a short period of time, but fortunately they have smart watches to keep in touch.
"Old Zhen, I will join you in a moment." Du Aiguo said to Zhen's father.
Father Zhen happily agreed, "Okay."
Ma Ming and Liao Dong looked at each other, Ma Ming nodded to Liao Dong, and Liao Dong also nodded to him.
The two wives exchanged glances and reached a tacit understanding.
After everyone had eaten, Zhen Shuai stood up first.
Zhen's father discussed with him whether to let Zhen's mother and Zhen Zhen stay and rest.
Ma Ming and Liao Dong heard this, looked at their wife and children, and wanted to leave them here to rest. It's hot and dangerous outside, and you'll suffer if you go out.
Zhen Shuai firmly opposed, "Dad, no, it's not that I don't feel sorry for my mother and my sister, but they must adapt to this wasteland world as soon as possible. Otherwise, when the world becomes more and more difficult in the future, I'm worried that only the two of us can protect them." You can't live with them. Besides, can you feel safe leaving them here alone?"
Zhen's father had to admit that his son's words made sense. In peacetime, a girl might be in danger if she went out alone, let alone in today's troubled times. It was his fault.
"Then you should stay with us."
Zhen's mother and Zhen Zhen were sitting still, so they had to stand up.
Zhen Shuai pretended not to notice their reluctance and walked out first.
The sun is the hottest at one or two o'clock. The top of my head was very hot within a few seconds after I came out. The same goes for my exposed arms. The vest soon started to sweat and stick to my body, making it very uncomfortable. Zhen's mother couldn't help but sigh.
Zhen Shuai walked to a pile of rubble, found four steel bars of different lengths, knocked off the remaining cement blocks with rocks, and then smashed one end of them to create an arc greater than 90 degrees. In this way, they become a simple version of "hoes", making it easier to pull around in the ruins. He distributed tools among his family members.
With the tools, the expressions on Zhen Ma and Zhen Zhen's faces became more relaxed.
Others followed suit, and if they couldn't find steel bars, they used branches or templates instead. After a while, Ma Ming was the first to gain something.
"We are lucky. This should be a snack shop." He dug out two bags of dried beans and threw one of them to Xiaodouzi, the daughter of Liao Dong and Xie Lan, who was sitting beside him. She was not yet six years old, and she sat there obediently, neither crying nor fussing, which made people feel distressed.
Xie Lan felt warm and said hurriedly: "Xiaodouzi, thank you Uncle Ma quickly." Xiaodouzi
gave Ma Ming a toothy smile and tilted his head, "Thank you, Uncle Ma!"
Liao Dong patted Ma Ming's shoulder hard, and everything was done. That's right.
Soon, others had their harvests one after another, with joyful smiles on their faces and their hands moving faster.
At this moment, a shrill scream sounded from the other direction.
"Ah——"
Everyone was frightened.
Chapter 590 The purpose of the giant [first update]
The audience in the live broadcast room was caught off guard, and their hearts almost jumped out of their throats.
The camera panned several times in response to the situation, focusing on a female survivor opposite the ruins who was also pulling. She was young, in her early twenties, slumped on the ground, looking at a limp arm stretched out from the ruins in horror, tears streaming down her face uncontrollably.
"Yes, there is someone..."
Zhen Shuai quickly ran over and felt for his pulse first.
"It's already dead."
"It might be a fake death. It's better to dig it out first." Du Aiguo's voice sounded behind Zhen Shuai. He saw Zhen Shuai's movements, but he didn't quite believe that Zhen Shuai could really tell whether the other party was alive by feeling his pulse.
Zhen Shuai nodded, and the two of them started moving the heavy objects away from the man.
Ma Ming and the others also came over and started to help without saying anything.
The man was soon dug out, his face was bruised and swollen, his chest did not rise at all, and he was indeed breathless.
Xie Lan held her daughter tightly in her arms, pressed her head to prevent her from looking, took a few steps back, and said tremblingly: "There must be... other dead people in here." Watching it for the first time The shock to her was too great when she reached the corpse. If you keep digging, more bodies will turn up.
The female survivor got up from the ground, ran away crying, and screamed as she ran, as if there was a ghost chasing her.
Zhen Ma, Zhen Zhen and He Ye all thought of quitting.
"Are we still digging?" He Ye asked softly.
Ma Ming felt sorry for his daughter-in-law and asked for other people's opinions, "We have no shortage of food for the time being. Why don't we let everyone wait for a day and dig again tomorrow?" Zhen's father saw that everyone was a little scared and looked at Zhen Shuai
.
Zhen Shuai doesn't have to be this evil person, "it's okay." When they really can't survive anymore, they will try to find a way to survive without him urging them.
The group returned to the sales department.
The number of people in the sales department has obviously increased. There are now sixty or seventy people, which is very crowded. Children who don’t know how to feel sad are running around people, screaming from time to time, which is a headache; there are also two boys about ten years old playing a mobile phone stand-alone game with their heads next to each other, and the sound effects of explosions on the mobile phone are endless. Yu Er, I have to say that he is really big-hearted. The entire sales department was noisy, more lively than the wet market.
The audience in the live broadcast room was convinced by them and said whatever they wanted.
Du Aiguo and the others were a little unhappy, but this place did not belong to them and anyone could come. They only communicated with their eyes for a few seconds and found a seat in the corner to sit down. They were not in the mood to chat and were each thinking about their own concerns.
[Aren’t the anchors going to do something? ]
[It feels like these people haven't realized that the end of the world has come. ]
[Yes, after living in peaceful times for a long time, they have lost their sense of crisis. 】
【Actually, I can't blame them. If it were me, I wouldn't be able to change my mind for a while. You are living well, but the end of the world suddenly comes, with no preparation at all. Who can accept it? ]
[It is estimated that many people are still confused. They have no idea that aliens have arrived on the earth, and they think it is an ordinary earthquake! ]
[Look at the couple in pajamas, talking and laughing with the people around them, obviously they haven't figured out the situation yet. ]
[Those people should have escaped from the hotel, just look at the slippers on their feet. ]
[Did you fall asleep in the hotel? ]
Zhen Shuai simply looked at their barrages, feeling a little helpless, [Indeed, the survivors in this world are the ones with the least sense of crisis that the anchor has ever encountered. 】 He also thought about why this happened, it should be related to the fact that the giant did not stay longer. Everyone thought that those "giants" were just passing through the city and the attack was over. But those giants didn't leave the earth, so things are definitely not simple.
"Dad! Dad! Come here quickly!" A boy of 17 or 18 years old was lying by the window, holding up his mobile phone and not knowing what he was taking pictures of, and stamping his feet anxiously.
A middle-aged man walked over slowly and said impatiently: "Why are you shouting so loudly?" "
Dad, look at what those things are?" The boy nervously handed him the phone.
"What?" The middle-aged man took the phone and didn't know what he saw. His expression suddenly changed, "Fuck!"
His loud voice alarmed the others, who crowded towards the window.
The people who couldn't squeeze through asked uneasily: "What's wrong? What's going on? Did you see aliens?"
The boy said loudly: "The ones attacking us are not aliens! No, they are aliens! They are giants. ! They look exactly like us, only hundreds or thousands of times bigger than us!"
"What!"
Everyone took out their mobile phones, turned on the camera function, pointed at the giant thing in the distance, then zoomed in on the camera, and then changed one after another. Face. Although the image quality is still very blurry, you can still see the outlines of those giant things. They are really giants! The telephone poles at my feet look like toothpicks in comparison!
If they were attacked by weird aliens like those in science fiction movies, they would be able to accept it faster, but they were attacked by giants that looked similar to them, which gave them the illusion that they were being preyed upon by their own kind, which only made them feel creepy. Everyone could no longer maintain calm. You expressed your opinions one by one, and the room became noisy. Even the children felt this weird atmosphere and consciously became quiet. They looked at the adults in fear and did not dare to make a sound.
Ma Ming took a look and came back with a bitter taste in his mouth, "It's a giant. Such a huge giant, it's hard to kill even with cannonballs, right?" Zhen Zhen hugged Zhen's mother tightly, shaking uncontrollably
. .
"Are they really aliens? Could they be the product of genetic experiments on Earth?"
Liao Dong interrupted her with a wave of his hand, "That's not important at all! What's important is, what should we do next? What if we are discovered by them? , they can trample us to death with one kick!"
Zhen Zhen thought that humans usually step on ants and leave them carelessly, without caring about the life or death of the ants. But now, they have become the same existence as ants. The color drained from her face and she looked helplessly at her parents and younger brother.
Dad Zhen's mind was in a mess and he sighed.
"We can only find a place to hide, otherwise what else can we do? Maybe... they will leave when they get what they want." Du Aiguo looked solemn, "Even if they look the same as us, they are still
aliens. I used to I have watched several science fiction movies with my children, what if they want us?"
Everyone shuddered, and a strong sense of crisis came to their hearts.
Xie Lan gritted his teeth and said, "It's no longer safe on the ground. It's better to hide underground."
He Ye retorted, "Hide underground? They can easily bury us alive with just a stamp of their feet!" "
Let's run away and go somewhere else. City! Maybe, only our city was attacked, and other places were fine." Liao Dong didn't believe what he said, and his voice became lower and lower.
Zhen Shuai remained silent, attracting the attention of others. I saw him frowning and looking out the window motionless, as if in a daze.
Ma Ming said: "Zhen Shuai, what are you thinking about? If you have any ideas, let's talk about it together."
Zhen Shuai was actually watching the scene in the live broadcast room. He saw several giants putting something into the river, and then the water level of the river dropped at a speed visible to the naked eye. He couldn't help but wonder, could these aliens come for the water resources on earth?
The people crowded near the window also noticed this situation and exclaimed again and again.
"They seem to be pumping water from the river!"
Most people were confused.
Some people breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Just pump it, as long as it doesn't kill us."
Others agreed, "Yes! The water in the river has long been polluted and is of no use. Just take it away."
Next to him, an old man with glasses and a scholarly temperament hesitated to speak.
A few dazzling purple lights swept over from a very far away place and flashed past. A group of people by the window subconsciously hid aside.
"What the hell?"
Zhen Shuai's eyes were also stabbed. He rubbed his eyes and took a closer look. Several other giants were scanning back and forth on the ground with flashlight-like things in their hands. Purple light beams were emitted from the "flashlights" , occasionally the light beam would turn golden, and there was no pattern for the time being, but it made his heart beat fast, and he intuitively thought that it was not a good thing.
"Zhen Shuai?" Ma Ming shouted again when he saw Zhen Shuai stunned.
"Shuai Shuai, what's wrong with you?" Zhen's mother worriedly held his wrist.
"Mom, I'm fine." Zhen Shuai comforted her, "Let's go out now to find enough food and water, make sure we have a good rest today, and leave here at dawn tomorrow." He couldn't wait any longer, he I want to meet with Governor Shen Xing.
This decision was so sudden that everyone was stunned.
The world has become like this, but he can't do anything. Dad Zhen's heart is full of guilt for his wife and children, and he scratches his hair irritably, "Where can we go if we leave here?" Du Aiguo and others looked at each other, and they had no idea at all.
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Zhen Shuai said firmly: "Go to Shanhai City."
"Why Shanhai City?" Zhen's mother asked.
Zhen Shuai was very worried about Shen Xingdu, "In this situation, no matter where we are, the chances of survival are almost the same. But I have a friend in Shanhai City, he is a firefighter, and his colleagues are also very strong. With them, We have a better chance of survival."
Zhen's mother was full of worry, "But how do we get there? Walk there? There's no way to drive now." Zhen Shuai nodded, "Yes, walk over. He will definitely come to me, if everything goes well , we will meet halfway."
Zhen's father, Zhen's mother and Zhen Zhen saw his determination. You looked at me, I looked at you, and they couldn't help but guess that that friend must be a very important person to him. Unknowingly, Zhen Shuai has become their backbone. Although they don't agree with the journey, they still agree.
Zhen Shuai looked around at the others and said, "If you are willing, you can come with us." "You just said it's the same everywhere. In that case, why go all the way to Shanhai City?" Liao Dong was reluctant, mainly because It's because he has a daughter who carries a heavier burden than others. If he really traveled so far and suffered more than others, he might as well stay in Yunhai City. As he spoke, he observed the expressions of others, hoping that everyone, including the Zhen family, would stay.