The Scavengers

After 6pm on June 19

Xiao Mo, who was riding on the motorcycle, was concerned about the safety of his family, and the sky was dark, so he didn't notice the change in the color of the rain for a while.

Only the child behind him stared at the black rain curtain through the hood, with his mouth tightly shut and his expression serious.

The motorcycle whizzed by in the rain, and after a while, except for the parts that were closely attached to each other, the bodies of one big and one small were drenched by rain.

When the two passed by Zhougang Station, they saw an ambulance overturned on the side of the road.

In Zhougang Village, there are many survivors after the last virus outbreak. A few living people were talking on the side of the road. When they saw him, they immediately waved and shouted at him, as if they wanted to ask him about his situation.

Xiao Mo didn't stop the car, and didn't even slow down a little bit, just like that, he drove through Zhougang Village at a gallop, and rushed out of the quarantine area.

At 18:45, the black rain became dense and the sky completely darkened.

Xiao Mo turned on the headlights, instantly illuminating the city roads like the end of the world.

Before leaving the quarantine area, he had already imagined how bad the situation in the urban area would be, but he never expected it to be this bad.

Like a city devastated by war, it was dead silent.

There are car accident scenes everywhere, smoke is everywhere, and there are unconscious people, cats and dogs lying on the ground, dead or injured, everywhere.

Broken neon lights, street lights that were turned on on time, and signal lights that were still running made the whole miserable scene even more unbearable to look at.

The city center, which is normally congested during rush hour, is struggling even more.

If there is no two-wheeled vehicle, people can only walk forward on the road full of various vehicles and obstacles.

Those countless comatose people lying on the road like corpses have added great difficulties to the journey. Not only have they become obstacles, but they have also caused a great shock to the spirit of the travelers.

No one can walk safely in a cemetery like a slaughterhouse, even if they know that more than [-]% of these unconscious people are living people.

At least [-]% of the dead people... Xiao Mo didn't dare to look at the unconscious people who fell under the wheels.

The words "I am an accomplice" could not stop echoing in his mind, if he had been able to face up to the system's prompt...but it would be too late to think about anything now, unless he had the ability to start everything over again.

A sense of guilt and self-loathing enveloped the man heavily.

When a person knows that he once had a chance to save this disaster, but he let it go indifferently, how can he not collapse?

Black blood is flowing on the ground, people are not only dying under the out-of-control vehicles, the coma happened too suddenly, maybe things that are usually harmless can become murder weapons when you are in a coma and out of control.

For example, a bone may pierce your throat, a ball of rice may block your windpipe, a tub of bath water may drown you, and a hair iron in a barber shop may burn you.

A gas explosion in one of the shops on both sides of the main road sent shards of glass doors flying across the road.

The automatic iron gate of Municipal No. [-] Middle School was bent inward by several vehicles.

The head of a truck was buried in a roadside cafe.

And just outside a building under construction in the direction they were going, many construction workers were lying or leaning on the bamboo scaffolding surrounding the building, and a few people even hung upside down on the outer wall of the scaffolding.

This is the ground, I don't know what's going on underground.

Although there are automatic control devices to prevent unmanned operation, who can guarantee that those subways that are close to each other can all have time to brake in an emergency?

Seeing such a situation, Xiao Mo felt even more frightened and anxious.

hurry up!Hurry up!

But the road was difficult, and the sight was blocked by the dense rain, so he couldn't get up fast even if he wanted to.

Just ahead, an oil tanker fell to the ground, and it seemed that explosions and fires had occurred around it, and charred bodies and bodies fell in disorder on the road, blocking the entire way.

Xiao Mo slammed on the brakes, avoided this road, and turned to another one-way street.If you want to take this one-way street to get to his brother-in-law's house, you can only go in the opposite direction, but who is worried about this at this time?

On the one hand, Xiao Mo was resenting the sudden heavy rain, but on the other hand, he couldn't help but thank it.

Without this timely rain, the city would not be full of smoke, but fire everywhere.

Although this rain cannot extinguish all the fires, it can at least restrain the spread of the fire.

The city's No. [-] Hospital came out of the one-way street. The inpatient building and the laboratory building of the hospital were covered by plastic sheets, and the dense raindrops beat on the plastic sheeting, making a drum-like sound.

The light can still be seen inside the hospital, and there are faint figures passing by.

Xiao Mo was stunned for a moment when he saw a large number of black water spots winding down on the plastic sheet, but the motorcycle had already left the range of the No. [-] Hospital, so he didn't look back.

"There are living people!" Wang Cheng shouted excitedly as he stood by the floor-to-ceiling windows in the hall and looked out.

Qian Yunkai, who was checking on the unconscious person, heard Wang Cheng shout, and the two ran out of the gate of the inpatient building together.

But at this time Xiao Mo had already turned on another road.

Disappointed, the two looked at each other, and had to go back to the lobby of the inpatient building before being drenched by the rain.

The other survivors who were still awake in the inpatient building gathered in the hall while searching for food. Wang Cheng and other first batch of infected policemen who were still alive tried to stop these people from running out of the hospital.

But when the first awakened person appeared who ignored the threat of Wang Cheng and others and ran out of the hospital, all the awakened people became more courageous, and people ran out of the hospital building one after another.

It is also impossible for Wang Cheng and others to really do anything to these ordinary people, and they can only watch them leave when dissuasion is ineffective.

Gradually, there were fewer and fewer awakened people in the hall.

"Clouds open?"

Looking at the heavy rain outside, Qian Yunkai pushed the frame. He no longer needs glasses. He was not used to wearing glasses before except during the autopsy, but now...he is no longer short-sighted, but he puts on the glasses. The original myopia lens was replaced with a photochromic flat lens.

"Do you think anyone else is awake outside except the survivors who survived the first infection?"

Wang Cheng was also not sure, "Based on the fact that we made so many calls just now but no one answered, I am afraid that there are not many people in China who are awake now."

He called all his classmates, colleagues, friends, relatives, and everyone he knew. These people lived almost all over the country, but no one answered his call just now.

"It's not just us in Huaxia." Qian Yunkai took off his glasses, took out a flannel cloth and wiped them gently, "I just called my classmates abroad and some medical magazines, but no one answered."

"You mean this virus outbreak is worldwide?" Wang Cheng was dumbfounded.

"Probably."

"The end... is it really coming?" Wang Cheng didn't believe that he would say these words.

"Anyway, let's go out and have a look."

"Wait! The color of the rainwater is wrong." Wang Cheng, who ran out just now, has already noticed that the color of the rainwater is abnormal.

"That's why we have to go out and see. And if there is a problem with the rain, we can't escape."

Yeah, it's too late, they've already been drenched by rain.Wang Cheng stared at Qian Yunkai's wet hair sadly, but after staying in the hospital for a few days, his vigilance dropped so much, it shouldn't be!

At 19:30, Xiao Mo was still on his way in the heavy rain with his head covered.

The child behind him suddenly tugged at the hem of his clothes.

Xiao Mo slowed down and turned around.

Children raise their fingers to their left.

Xiao Mo wiped the rainwater off the face of the helmet, and looked along the child's fingers. He thought that the child was afraid of seeing such a tragic scene of doomsday, and wanted to turn around to comfort him, but he didn't expect to turn his head and see...

"Shua!" The man squeezed the brakes tightly and stopped the motorcycle.

Just on the left side of their progress, a viaduct for high-speed trains traverses the entire Zhongshan City.But now, a big opening was broken on the viaduct, a long train rushed out of the track, and one-third of the car body fell under the bridge.

Under the bridge are residential houses, and the specially preserved ancient buildings were crushed to pieces by the high-speed train rushing out of the track.

Just now he was wondering if the subway would rear-end, but he saw this high-speed train that was obviously too fast to brake, collided with the vehicle in front and rushed out of the viaduct.

Obviously, self-control equipment is not a panacea.Some automatic control devices need to be manually set before they can work. How many instruments and tools were set to automatic control before everyone fell into a coma?

Thinking of the passengers on the train, and the residents of those crushed old houses...

Xiao Mo's hands were trembling unconsciously.

Sudden!The man turned his head abruptly, started the motorcycle vigorously and rushed forward.

The child quickly hugged his waist.

Turn left, turn right, pause, drive slowly, drive fast... Xiao Mo put all his energy on driving the motorcycle, and never distracted himself from looking at the surrounding scene.

Xue Lihong looked at these miserable scenes indifferently. In fact, what he wanted Xiao Mo to see was not the train rushing off the track and falling off the viaduct, but the UFO that had just flashed across the sky.

Xiao Mo's sister-in-law's restaurant is called "Kangfu Hotel". It is located in Tongtian Street, an old residential area in the center of the city. The transportation is very convenient. You can take the subway in 2 minutes, and the nearby bus station is even better.

Convenient transportation and the location in the center of the city, the original advantages, have now turned into disadvantages that make Xiao Mo anxious.

Because the time period when the coma occurred was the rush hour, the pedestrians and vehicles on the road were so dense that it was terrifying.It was not until 20:15, it took twice as long as usual, that Xiao Mo took the child to the Tongtian Street subway entrance.

Tongtian Street is an old residential area, and the road was originally narrow. Now, with the addition of pedestrians and all kinds of crooked vehicles, even motorcycles cannot pass through it.

Standing at the junction of Tongtian Street and Zhongshan South Road, you can clearly see a high-powered, high-end Mustang sedan rushing out of a crooked path of flesh and blood among the crowd.

The owner of the car seemed to have stepped on the accelerator while unconscious, and the car rushed out for nearly 300 meters before hitting the wall and stopping.The front of the car has been flattened, and nine times out of ten the owner of the car has lost his life.And where this car passed by, life was harvested and felled like straw.

In addition to this wild horse, there were many other vehicles involved in the accident. Tongtian Street really became a "Tongtian" street at this time, but the tragic image of this street looked more like leading to hell than to heaven.

Black rainwater mixed with blood flowed into the sewer.

Gutter covers and sewer ditches were stuffed with all sorts of rubbish, with what appeared to be human flesh and visceral condensation mixed in with the rubbish.

Xiao Mo took off his helmet, "vomit!" Covering his mouth with one hand, his expression twisted in pain.

The child also took off his helmet. He seemed more interested in the rainwater falling from the sky than the dead people everywhere, and even raised his head and opened his mouth to take a few sips.

pollute?die?Xue Lihong didn't care at all, if he could really die, he would thank God.

The injured people don't know the pain, the children who fell down lie on the ground and don't know how to live or die, the people with arms and legs missing can be seen everywhere, and the people who have their stomachs leaking out and their bodies are broken in two can all be seen.

The street lights are too bright, illuminating everything too clearly.

Xiao Mo didn't know, he was already in tears.If kowtowing can save the lives of these people, he must kneel and kowtow step by step!Let him do anything!

There was no way to move on, so the two could only get out of the car.