Chapter 8: Has it erupted prematurely?
Li Yu had just answered the phone, still half asleep, when he heard the content of what his uncle was saying. He instantly woke up, thinking to himself: "Could it have happened early?"
The uncle, who was driving, didn't hear clearly what Li Yu had said, so he asked, "What did you say? I didn't catch that.
You should leave now. Who knows what might happen in the next day or two!"
The background noise was chaotic, with the sound of police sirens all around.
Li Yu came to his senses and said to his uncle, "Tell Xiao Lue and aunt to prepare their luggage. I'm coming over now."
"Alright! I'll hang up then." He seemed to be saying to a team member beside him: "Is the bomb disposal suit ready?"
Li Yu quickly added, "Uncle, this situation seems unusual. Be careful. If anything happens, come to my tourist park."
"Okay!" The uncle said and hung up the phone.
Li Yu quickly got up, washed his face, then woke up his younger brother and told him to go out with him.
His younger brother was sound asleep and wasn't too happy about being suddenly woken up.
Li Yu didn't care whether he was happy or not, dragged his brother up, and ran outside.
"Wait, let me put on my shoes. Where are we going in the middle of the night?" Li Hang complained.
"I'll tell you later. Go start a car. We'll each take one," Li Yu said as he waited for him to put on his shoes, then walked outside.
Halfway there, Li Yu seemed to remember something. He went down to the warehouse, used a key to get two machetes, casually wrapped them in cloth and took them along.
At the main gate, Li Yu and Li Hang each pushed open one side of the eight-meter-long gate. Initially, the family didn't understand why Li Yu wanted such a thick door.
Although it looked extremely secure, it was exceptionally difficult to open due to its heaviness.
After the two pushed open the door, Li Yu walked towards the car while saying to Li Hang, "Uncle just called and said there's a village in our county that's showing abnormal signs. The whole village has been infected with some kind of virus. They're like zombies. And in a few days, they might implement traffic control. We're going to pick up aunt and the others and bring them here."
Li Hang was stunned upon hearing this.
"Huh? What kind of virus? Is it related to the weird weather these past few days?"
"I don't know either. Let's go first, we still have a way to go."
The two set off in their cars, checking the time.
November 21st, 3:00 AM
Driving on the national highway, the sky was pitch black without a hint of light, and there were very few cars on the road.
Along the way, they could only see a few cars sporadically.
It wasn't until they were almost at the county town that cars gradually became more numerous.
Suddenly, Li Yu heard a loud roaring sound.
Looking through the car window, he saw two helicopters whooshing by.
What's going on? Even helicopters have been mobilized. There are actually helicopters in this small county town.
Li Yu was shocked. Could it really have happened early?
No, he suddenly remembered that before his rebirth, he was in M City, and because he had been staying in his rented room, he had no idea what was happening outside at that time.
In other words, it wasn't early at all, and it didn't just happen on November 25th.
Apparently, zombies had appeared long ago, he just didn't know about it.
It was only after that heavy rain on the 25th that the situation became completely uncontrollable, after all, zombies spread extremely quickly. Once bitten, transformation occurs within three minutes.
Speeding along the way.
As they were passing a supermarket, the glass door was shattered, with some fresh blood on it. On the ground, there appeared to be two corpses.
A police car was parked nearby, with some residents gathered around the supermarket discussing animatedly.
"Holy crap, what's going on? How did people die?"
"I heard two people went to rob the supermarket and smashed open the door."
"I heard it was because neighbor Wang was caught cheating, and then her husband found out."
"It moved, it moved, it's coming back to life!"
The corpse that had been lying on the ground was seen slowly writhing, then crawling up in an inhuman posture, arms hanging down, slowly raising its face.
What kind of face was that!
Covered in blood, a mess of flesh and blood. The eyeballs seemed to have been pulled out, dangling in mid-air.
The arm seemed to have been bitten, with a chunk of flesh missing, and the whole body was covered in black and white spots.
The other corpse beside it also crawled up.
The surrounding people collectively took a few steps back, the previously noisy voices suddenly falling silent.
"Disperse quickly, hurry and disperse!" Three police officers who had just arrived got out of the police car.
As soon as the words were spoken, the two zombies suddenly charged towards the crowd.
The crowd scattered like frightened birds and beasts.
But among them, an old man, probably due to his age, ran slowly and was caught up by one of the zombies.
Crack!
The zombie bit directly into the old man's neck.
Splurt, a jet of fresh blood gushed out.
The crowd, who were running ahead while looking back, saw this horrifying scene and instantly ran even faster.
The three police officers also closely pursued, but before they could check on the bitten old man, the zombies turned back and charged towards the three officers.
"What the hell is that???" Li Hang shouted loudly upon seeing this scene, his brain instantly freezing.
Li Yu had of course also seen this scene, so he rolled down the window and shouted at Li Hang across from him: "Let's go quickly, we need to pick up aunt and the others first."
Li Yu was also nervous, not knowing if this was an isolated incident or if it had already spread widely. Now they could only speed up.
He hoped aunt and the others were alright.
So he made a phone call to his aunt, but found that there was only one bar of signal.
Beep~ Beep beep beep~
The call finally connected just as it was about to time out.
Li Yu briefly explained to his aunt to pack their things, saying he would arrive soon.
Just as he was about to tell them to wait at home and not go downstairs, the call disconnected.
When he tried calling again, it didn't connect. Looking at his phone, even the last bar of signal was gone.
Li Yu's heart sank, and he immediately switched to racing mode.
Aunt's home was in an old urban area, with a kindergarten nearby. Just turn a corner and they'd be there.
Seeing that they were about to arrive, Li Yu thought to himself:
"It seems it definitely erupted early. We need to hurry, otherwise once it spreads, it'll be troublesome."
When the two arrived at the bottom of aunt's building, before they could even park, they saw aunt and Xiao Lue waiting downstairs from afar.
Beside the two were more than a dozen large and small packages.
Aunt saw Li Yu and her face lit up with joy, waving from afar: "Xiao Yu, over here, over here."
Li Yu saw that aunt and Xiao Lue were safe and sound, and breathed a sigh of relief.
He stopped the car and without a word, while moving things he said to his aunt: "Let's get in the car quickly!"
Aunt saw Li Yu's serious expression, and then saw Li Hang's dazed look, as if he had seen something unbelievable.
Just as she was about to ask what had happened, Li Yu quickly said, "Don't ask now, let's get the things in the car first. I'll tell you later."
"Xiao Hang, stop daydreaming! Hurry up!" Seeing that Li Hang had stopped the car but was still immersed in the scene from earlier, Li Yu shouted angrily.
"Oh, oh oh, okay." Li Hang seemed to come back to his senses at Li Yu's angry shout.
He quickly got out of the car and helped move the luggage. The two cars were just barely able to fit all the luggage.
"Aunt, Xiao Lue, you ride in my car." Li Yu looked at Li Hang with some concern.
He patted him: "Xiao Hang, hurry up, follow behind me later, don't get distracted."
Then, he took out a knife he had brought from the car when they left and handed it to Xiao Hang.
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