End of the World

The newly built sewer has nothing but a little yellow mud and does not have the unique smell that one might imagine. It will be connected to the municipal drainage network.

The five people had only two flashlights and they almost groped their way in in the dark. Perhaps after they came out of the drainage pipe at the construction site, the passage ahead became wider, and the pipe was filled with black smelly mud.

Compared to a dead body, this smell is much better, and people got used to it after a while.

After turning a few bends in the sewer pipe, I completely lost my way.

After climbing for about two hours, the five people reached a T-shaped pipe opening. To their surprise, they didn't see a single shaft exit along the way.

At this fork in the road, Dafeng exchanged positions, and Chen Guangjun took the lead to explore the way.

After a while, Chen Guangjun stopped and saw a highly decomposed corpse in front of him, half buried in black mud.

"Be careful, zombies have come in!"

Chen Guangjun turned over and found a small bullet hole on the head of the corpse. At least a survivor had passed through this pipe before the last rainy day, and the rain had long washed away all the previous traces.

Several people crawled over while pressing on the corpse. It was so disgusting.

It was not until noon that the five people finally climbed down to a vertical shaft. Chen Guangjun climbed up to explore the way, but he was unlucky as the manhole cover could only leave a crack.

Through the gap, Chen Guangjun determined that this was a road and the manhole cover was most likely crushed by an abandoned car. The only good news was that the sun was shining brightly outside and it shouldn't rain in the next few hours.

"Great news! The sun is shining outside and we can stay in the sewer for a few hours to escape the heat!" Chen Guangjun said jokingly.

"I can't stay here for even a quarter of an hour!" Dafeng thought it was a joke.

"The wellhead is blocked?" Wu Bin understood the implication.

"Yes, how can there not be traffic jam on the road!" Chen Guangjun said helplessly.

The four men rested for a while and continued to crawl down to the next vertical shaft. Crawling was more tiring than walking, and their bodies were covered with stinky mud. The smell made them lose their appetite for food, so this was another trick to save food.

Not long after crawling, Chen Guangjun, who was exploring the way, saw sunlight coming in front of him. Has he reached the sewage outlet?

After climbing out of the sewer pipe, I found that it was not a sewage outlet, but a pit that was formed in some unknown way, and the road surface was five or six meters above it.

There was water at the bottom of the pit, about half a meter deep, and the water was a little blue, obviously the pit had existed for some time.

Several people came out and washed their bodies with water to wash off the black mud. Dafeng kept splashing water and ended up pulling up a skeleton from the bottom of the water.

"I rely on!"

Several people instantly felt even more disgusted.

"This pit was formed by an explosion!" Chen Guangjun pointed to two rusty and damaged iron pipes beside the sewer pipe and said, "It should be an explosion caused by a natural gas pipeline leak!"

"The explosion was too powerful!" Wu Bin secretly clicked his tongue.

"As for a few hundred kilograms of TNT!"

"It's possible that the pipeline has been leaking for a while, and gas has filled the underground space. Someone accidentally ignited the sewer, which then caused the explosion!" Chen Guangjun analyzed, and the three nodded in agreement.

"It's a bit troublesome to go up there, just wait!"

Chen Guangjun looked around, found a gentle slope, and after several attempts he finally climbed up with difficulty.

As he went up, he turned around and gestured to the four people to keep quiet. There were many zombies wandering around nearby, and they were extremely hungry and thirsty.

Chen Guangjun picked up a brick and threw it at a car in the distance.

The "bang" sound attracted the attention of the zombies. They walked towards the car in confusion, completely puzzled by this lump of iron.

After the zombies walked some distance away, Chen Guangjun found a tow rope from the overturned car next to him. Most cars are not equipped with such a rope, so he was lucky.

"Come up carefully!" Chen Guangjun fixed one end of the tow rope and threw it down. Then he pulled out a dagger and began to hunt lone zombies.

The three of them supported each other and grabbed the tow rope to climb out of the bottom of the pit. In a blink of an eye, Chen Guangjun had killed four or five zombies.

"There are not many zombies!" Dafeng looked around, but there was not the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​corpses as he had imagined.

"I'm starting to get a little worried!"

"If the zombies walk out of the city, the outside of the city will become extremely unsafe!" Wu Bin expressed his concerns. It is very unreasonable for the zombies to stay in the city all the time.

This is equivalent to zombies turning a city into a dead place and then going out of the city to encircle and suppress the survivors outside.

Chen Guangjun wiped the dagger clean on the zombie's tattered clothes, the possible danger was eliminated, and the zombie farther away escaped.

"Dongzhou is in that direction, but I don't think there is any need to go back!" Chen Guangjun came back and said to the three people, pointing at the residential building next door.

This should be Xinhu City, which is next to Dongzhou and is 50 kilometers away from Dongzhou.

"What do you think?"

Wu Bin looked at He Yuxin and Dafeng. He himself wanted to go back to his hometown, but he had to respect everyone's opinions.

"I want to go back and get another RV!" Dafeng said. He couldn't forget the RV left in the exhibition hall and wondered if someone had already gone there and taken it away.

"You decide. I'll listen to you!" He Yuxin was thoughtful. She felt that Wu Bin wanted to go back, and she could accompany him.

"If we want to go back to Dongzhou, we have to make some preparations. Do you know what my last mission is in the shelter?" Chen Guangjun realized that the three of them might really want to visit again, so he had to give them a heads-up.

"We went to Longshan to look for nuclear weapons. I think it should be something like nuclear shells!" Chen Guangjun said. He had seen radioactive signs in the underground weapons warehouse and learned from the battalion commander at the time that it was not a large weapon.

While fighting zombies underground, he was unfortunately separated from his troops. The troops blew up the passage. Chen Guangjun guessed that the troops should have succeeded and the shelter was in danger. He didn't know whether it would be used.

"If a nuclear bomb is used in the shelter, there will be radiation contamination around it!"

"I remember when the plague broke out, we had to be extremely careful!"

Wu Bin thought that his family was probably gone, so there was no need to risk going back at this time. He had to think about his companions.

"Let's find a car and go directly north to find Qiao Xinghua!" Wu Bin finally gave up the idea. He couldn't be so selfish.

Dafeng breathed a sigh of relief. After hearing what Chen Guangjun said, he had given up. He didn't know why Wu Bin wanted to go back, but maybe he would know later.

After deciding on the next direction, the four of them tried to find a way to leave Xinhu City.

Whenever Chen Guangjun encountered a bus on the road, he would get on and search, because there would be a medical kit on the bus that four people needed. Fortunately, no one frequented the bus, and the four people received six small first aid kits.

As they walked towards the outside of the city, the number of zombies increased, slowly confirming Wu Bin's worries. The zombies had left the city, which was not good news for the four people who were about to embark on their journey.

Along the current road, the four found many traces left by survivors. The car in the middle of the road was violently knocked away. Judging from the traces on the road, a large convoy was driving out of the city.

Judging from the degree of decomposition of the corpse left on the ground, it was no less than two months ago.

The survivors who escaped killed a lot of zombies, which still provided a lot of convenience for the four people even after two months.

The four of them stopped at a roadside shop and walked into the shop to buy some food.

One of the most important rules in the apocalypse is to not miss any opportunity to replenish food.

The store was extremely messy. Some people had already visited it. There were many packaged foods scattered on the shelves. The previous group of people left in a hurry.

"Take it as you like, Dafeng, come with me to inspect the building!" Chen Guangjun said to the two of them and patted Dafeng on the shoulder.

As the two walked deeper, Wu Bin and He Yuxin began to pick food on the shelves.

"They're basically expired, so we have no choice!" He Yuxin said, picking up a bag of biscuits. They were her favorite flavors.

"Is your stomach upset okay?" Wu Bin brought a few packets of instant noodles, most of which were broken. It's not a big deal that the instant noodles are expired. I ate a lot of expired food when I was a child, even expired moon cakes. Children are greedy!

He Yuxin smiled, pinched the biscuit bag, and reminded: "The bag will make noise, so we should take less!"

"Yeah, it would be nice to have a car!" Wu Bin shook the crumbly instant noodles in his hand and put it in his backpack, acting as a traitor during the sneak attack.

As soon as they finished talking about the car, they heard a crisp car sound outside. The two were surprised, put down the food, hid to the side of the shelf deep inside, and secretly observed the outside.

A light van with a blue license plate stopped outside the store. Four or five men got out of the car, and three of them stayed outside to kill the zombies attracted by the sound of the car.

The two men entered the store. They were still very cautious. One of them had a pistol in his hand. They were not sure whether there were zombies inside.

His companion wanted to go deeper but was stopped by him. He found some footprints on the ground, which did not look like those of zombies. His companion understood and called the companion outside the door, and another person came in with a shotgun.

Wu Bin, who was hiding in the dark, felt his breath tighten. These guys were really observant and those who were careless were all killed.

When He Yuxin saw the two men with guns, the safety of the rifle in her hand was opened, and she loaded the bullet as soon as they came.

"Whoever's inside, come out immediately!"

The man with the pistol shouted.

Several people stared nervously into the depths of the store.

Suddenly, there was a sound of breaking window outside the door, and a corpse fell from the upstairs at the door, scaring the five people.

They looked at each other and slowly left the store. One of them checked the body, which was a zombie with a large wound on its head. They all looked upstairs and saw that a window on the second floor was broken.

"go!"

The five people may have been afraid of fighting with people who did not show up in the store, so they got in the car and drove away immediately.

The sound of the car faded away, and Wu Bin and He Yuxin appeared. They went out of the door and took a look at the corpse on the ground. Was it scared away so easily?

Chen Guangjun and Dafeng came out of the store. Dafeng was holding two boxes, his face full of joy.

"Divide up and let's leave here!" Chen Guangjun said.

"What is Dafeng holding?" He Yuxin turned her head and asked.

"Hey, we found canned luncheon meat and canned fish in there!"

Dafeng put the box down.

The four of them divided up two boxes of canned food, which added a lot of weight to their load. The canned food was very valuable, and the four were reluctant to throw it away.

The four of them followed the road and quickly left the city. Compared with the city, there were unconsciously more zombies in the suburbs.