The car maneuvered through an area teeming with zombies without incident, and soon they would be back on the highway to Tibet.
Wen Le tried to stay alert and listened intently to the sounds ahead.
“Do you hear that?” Mo Yan, who was driving, frowned and asked the others.
“What sound?” Han Ya put away his gun and strained his ears.
“There are people ahead,” Wen Le confirmed after listening for a while.
As the car was about to turn onto the highway, the other passengers in the car could faintly hear the chaotic noise. Everyone sat up straight and waited in formation. Although they didn’t know what was happening ahead, now who isn’t quietly fleeing for their lives? Making such a loud noise definitely means something bad.
Sure enough, as soon as they turned onto the highway, they saw many cars stuck at the exit of M City.
Mo Yan parked the car close to the roadside, even though they could have moved a few more meters forward on the outer lane. In case the cars behind them blocked the way, they could directly turn around and crash through the iron railing under the highway from the side of the road. If they were caught in between, then they would be really in trouble.
“Excuse me, sir, what’s happening ahead?” Han Ya got off the car and stopped a man who was cursing and walking towards them.
The man looked to be in his forties, dressed in a neatly tailored suit, and even his escape plan was well taken care of. It’s not difficult to see that he must have had a high value before the apocalypse.
The man was already very angry and had nowhere to vent, and now that he was stopped by someone, he was even more irritated. As he raised his head, preparing to vent his anger, he suddenly met a smiling face.
Before the apocalypse, he was a prominent figure and had seen all kinds of people. Therefore, he was not easily fooled by the young man’s smiling face. The man looked friendly, but the subtle hint of hostility in his eyes made him shiver and suppress his anger.
“You must have just arrived, right? Somehow, there’s a dark cloud heading in our direction, and those cowards ahead have blocked the road tightly. Even if people want to pass from behind, they won’t give way. When I came back, some people had already taken out their weapons.”
Han Ya thanked the man and got on the car, relaying the message to the others.
Wen Le reached into his bag and took out two telescopes from his space. He handed one to Xiao Wen and held the other one while standing up through the sunroof.
After looking through the telescope for a while, they finally found the dark cloud that the man had mentioned. It was a thick black cloud at the junction of the land and the sky, stretching far into the distance.
Wen Le sat back in the car and handed the telescope to Yin Chengyang, who looked curious.
Han Ya noticed that Wen Le’s face was not looking good and looked at Xiao Wen, who had also put away his telescope.
“How is it?”
Wen Le bit his lip and looked out the window, feeling somewhat uneasy and doubtful.
This doesn’t make sense! The time frame doesn’t match his memory! He had experienced sudden weather changes before, but that couldn’t have been just the first few days of the apocalypse! Though he couldn’t recall the exact time, the zombies’ movements had already started to become flexible back then, but now they are still in the rigid state.
Could it be…
A light bulb suddenly lit up in his mind, but he immediately regretted it and closed his eyes.
Last time, they had rushed out of City A in a hurry when the apocalypse broke out, but they went in a different direction from now. At first, they headed northwest and then turned north. This time, however, they went southwest.
Grasping his hair tightly, Wen Le tried to recall carefully. It was indeed from the southwest that the weather changed last time, spreading all the way to the northeast direction. By that time, they had already run a considerable distance, so they encountered the weather change much later than they did now.
“The cloud is floating from the southwest direction. It shouldn’t be just cold air,” Zhou Quan thought for a moment and said.
“Yeah, it’s warmer in the south than here. It won’t get colder, right?” Yin Chengyang agreed.
However, Xiao Wen shook his head. The cloud looked too strange, and it definitely wasn’t as simple as they thought.
Just as everyone hesitated and didn’t know what was coming, Wen Le suddenly grabbed Huang Tao’s arm.
“Are there any mountains around here?”
Huang Tao was taken aback by the question, but seeing Wen Le’s anxious expression, he became nervous as well and couldn’t help but say, “Let me think, let me think.”
The others also focused on Huang Tao, watching him closely.
“To the north of here, there is a branch of the Yunyi Mountain Range,” Han Ya said, pointing to a map he had taken out at some point and showing it to Wen Le.
“Into the mountains! Quickly!” Wen Le pointed to the spot on the map and said to Mo Yan.
Mo Yan didn’t hesitate. He looked in the rearview mirror, and in the blink of an eye, the car behind them had blocked their retreat. He turned the steering wheel hard to the right and stepped on the accelerator.
“Boom!” The car broke through the guardrail and hurtled down the highway, shocking the others who were watching.
Wen Le, who hadn’t had time to sit properly, nearly flew out of his seat.
“What did you think of?” After the car started racing, Xiao Wen turned his head and asked Wen Le.
Wen Le frowned and looked at his watch, ignoring Xiao Wen’s question.
When he had looked through the telescope earlier, the clouds weren’t moving very fast. But according to the map, it would take them at least six hours to get into the mountains, and the worst-case scenario would be that they arrived at the Yunyi Mountain Range at the same time as the clouds.
After calculating the time, Wen Le finally breathed a sigh of relief.
If things were like last time, there would be strong winds under the clouds at the beginning, and it would only become truly stormy after half an hour.
Even in the worst-case scenario, they had half an hour to get into the mountains.
Feeling relieved, Wen Le looked up and met Xiao Wen’s worried gaze. He then remembered his earlier question.
“After the clouds arrive, there will be a blizzard for over a month. If we’re stuck on the road, we won’t be able to survive on just the car,” Wen Le said. Although he had his space, Huang Tao and the others were with him, and he hadn’t figured out their characters yet. Even with his space, surviving for over a month with just one car would be very difficult.
“Why don’t we go back to M City? There are buildings in the city, after all,” Zhou Quan didn’t understand. If there was really a blizzard, wouldn’t it be better to stay in the city than in the deep forests and mountains?
Wen Le shook his head. They still hadn’t adapted to the apocalypse, where the city was the most dangerous place.
“In addition to the question of whether the buildings in the city can withstand a month-long blizzard, there are also zombies and people.” Wen Le had to emphasize the last word.
In the apocalypse, people were the most frightening.
“With the current situation, food in the city will only decrease, not increase. Moreover, there are many places with a high density of zombies, and people cannot obtain food from there. And it’s impossible to have heating and electricity now. If there is a long-lasting blizzard, there is almost nothing in the city to keep warm. Under the pressure of survival, people’s hearts are too terrifying.” Han Ya spoke in a low voice in the passenger seat.
Everyone in the car fell silent.
Thanks for the update! ^^)❤
Thanks for the chapter!