Chapter 3 The Road to Survival

Zhang Zhentian led his refugee team to move westward and out of the city. Now the city is full of ruins, with countless bodies lying on the ground or hanging from the windows of damaged buildings. They picked up all available resources along the way. Occasionally, several figures will appear from behind the dilapidated building. They also silently joined the transferred team.

The sky is getting dark. It seems impossible to leave this abandoned city today. Let's go to the square in front and have a rest!" Zhang Zhentian said loudly, "Sleep well tonight!" We will try to leave the city tomorrow. With his voice, the group of fleeing people moved slowly towards the abandoned square open space in front of them.

At night, some middle-aged men found some bed legs, door panels and other things from the collapsed buildings around them, and lit a bonfire for the crowd to warm up. All people, men and women, old and young, hugged each other and leaned together to warm up in front of the bonfire. Due to the shock of the past few days and the hard march during the day, most people have now fallen asleep peacefully.

Zhang Zhentian, Jiang Dongfang and Zhao Gangyi gathered together and whispered far away from the fire. Dongfang, Gangyi, do you two think something is wrong? Zhang Zhentian asked with a worried face. Yes! Almost a day has passed since this disaster. Why haven't our rescuers ever appeared? Zhao Gangyi said without worry, "As usual, at least we should be able to see the rescue plane or find the airdrop food." Jiang Dongfang bit his lip. He thought for a long time and said hesitantly, "Two brothers, I said don't be afraid of you two. I have been a soldier, and I feel that our direction is not like going to a populated area. Have you found that there is no smoke or traces left by other humans in front of us? And the surroundings are also surprisingly quiet. We can't see any lights around us now.

After listening to this, the other two nodded carelessly. But we have to leave the city. Zhang Zhentian said, "This is right. If we stay here, there is no hope of survival at all.

"Yes! I don't know the scope of this disaster. Zhao Gangyi said sadly, "It won't be that the whole Shandong Peninsula has been affected, right?"

"It is also possible!" Zhang Zhentian nodded and answered affirmatively, "The intensity of this storm is likely to bring a devastating blow to the whole peninsula."

"Hmm! I hope my worries are superfluous." Jiang Dongfang also said resolutely in the end, "Whether there is rescue or not, we will definitely walk out of the city and live tenaciously!"

"Yes!" The three people's hands were clenched tightly.

At midnight, Zhang Zhentian woke up from his sleep, and the bonfire on the ground had gradually gone out. He stood up, leaned, and then rubbed his hands against each other a few times. It's so cold." He trembling and muttered. Then he looked around, and the other bonfires were about to go out. Let's find something else to make a fire. Thinking so, he quietly left the camp.

After half an hour, Zhang Zhentian picked up a pile of table legs and window frames from the collapsed building. He threw these things into several bonfires in the crowd, and then rekindled the bonfire. If there is fire, the body will be much warmer. As he thought, he walked to the place where he slept. At this time, he suddenly found something shining in the grass in the distance. Is it a wolf? He suddenly felt nervous. However, he is not a timid person. He pulled out a burning wooden stick from the bonfire and quietly walked towards the fluorescence.

"Wow!" He swayed the wooden stick in his hand and hit the fluorescent place. No wolves? Obviously, no animal was scared away by his behavior or jumped out of the grass. He stopped and looked into the grass with the help of the fire on the wooden stick. Oh, it turned out to be a white bone lying here quietly. There is a jade pendant hanging on the neck of the white bone, which emits fluorescence.

Zhang Zhentian reached out and gently took off the jade pendant from the white bone's neck, held it in his hand, and looked at it carefully. This is a finely crafted object. However, strangely, it came to Zhang Zhentian's hand, but there was no fluorescence. Zhang Zhentian put it back on the white bone curiously, and the fluorescence re-evased.

"Are you looking for the owner?" Zhang Zhentian picked it up again, and he looked at the pendant carefully. There should be nothing wrong. However, there seemed to be a voice pulling him in his heart, "Yes, you are my new master. Put me on quickly."

"Strange little thing." Zhang Zhentian muttered while wearing it on his neck. Then he yawned and walked to the bonfire.

The next morning, a buzzing sound similar to a helicopter engine sounded behind the nearby ruins. Xiumin, wake up! Listen to me." Qiao Yunting woke up her sleeping husband beside her, "It seems to be the sound of a plane." Fang Xiumin listened in a daze for a while, and his eyes suddenly lit up, "Airplane!" He shouted in surprise. With his shouting, more people woke up. They stood up and ran excitedly in the direction of the sound.

"We are here!" Someone in the crowd shouted while running, "Come on!"

"Get up, everyone! The plane is coming." Some people are busy waking up people who are still asleep.

"Ah...no..." A heartbreaking scream came from the front of the team, and the crowd running behind suddenly froze there.

A man who rushed to the front screamed and was bitten into the sky by a huge flying insect. And other insects also flew in the direction of the crowd. These are some flying insects that are about one meter tall, with wings on their backs and slender bodies. Their bodies are accompanied by scales with metallic luster. Their heads are small, shaped like hemispheres, with a pair of compound eyes and tentacles on them. The tentacles stand in front like a pair of steel whips, but it can rotate flexibly, as if it were a pair of radar transmitting antennas. Its mouth is a huge slender beak tube. The front end is extremely sharp and can pierce the human body with one blow. It has 3 pairs of hands and feet on its body, which can directly hold smaller prey into the sky.

"Ah...don't..." Qiao Yunting screamed and was caught by a flying insect. She kicked her leg desperately in mid-air. The flying insect hugged her body. As she struggled fiercely, her shoes fell down, but the blood also fell from her body to the ground. After a while, she lost the ability to struggle and fainted.

"Put her down!" Fang Xiumin chased madly in the direction of the flying insects, "Oh...ah!" With his scream, he stood still. A huge beak pierced his body. A particularly huge flying insect was attached to his body, which pulled back its beak tube and then enjoyed its deliciousness. In a short time, a skinned corpse appeared in front of everyone.

"Run, everyone! Hide it!" Zhang Zhentian nervously directed everyone to evacuate.

"Go to the building!" It was Jiang Dongfang's voice, "Don't stand outside and don't run around!" Hurry up and hide in the buildings and ruins! They are so big that they can't get in!" The crowd fled to the ruins everywhere under the command of the two of them. However, people who move slowly are taken away by flying insects or directly turned into mummies.

About an hour later, the buzz outside finally disappeared. On the empty ground of the square, 20 or 30 mummified corpses were killed. The surviving person poked his head out in horror and observed the situation outside. Fly away!" Jiang Dongfang was the first to jump out of the ruins. He walked to a corpse and gently touched it with his foot. The place where the body was touched easily turned into powder. It's so clean!" Behind him, Zhao Gangyi said lightly.

"What should we do? What is that?" The crowd slowly came out of their hidden bunkers. Their faces are still earthy and white. Don't panic, everyone!" Zhao Gangyi said calmly, "According to my observation, it looks like a mutant mosquito."

"Is there such a big mosquito here now? What should we do? What should we do?" There were women shouting hysterically in the crowd.

"Go! Let's keep going!" Zhang Zhentian roared without hesitation, "We must get out of here!" Otherwise, their end today may be our tomorrow. He pointed to the mummified corpse on the ground and said excitedly, "Let's pack up and set off immediately. Be careful not to disperse on the road and get as close to the building as possible to avoid being attacked by these giant mosquitoes!" After saying that, he picked up the package he picked up on the road and was the first to stride forward.

The big guy looked at his firm back, and his belief in living became stronger. In the end, it finally defeated fear. The fleeing crowd followed Zhang Zhentian and continued to march west.

On the way, they encountered several attacks by giant mosquitoes. However, the roar of the giant mosquito, which is like an aircraft engine, can be heard dozens of meters away. Under the command of Zhang Zhentian and Jiang Dongfang, everyone chose to hide in the nearest building. Therefore, at the end of the day, the giant mosquitoes did not cause any actual damage to them.

"Yinyin, look! The vines of these plants. Zhou Mengya pointed to the plants growing by the ruins in surprise.

"What's the matter?" After listening to Zhou Mengya's shouting, Kong Xiaoyin also looked down nervously, "Huh? It's so strange. Didn't the tutor say that these things were extinct hundreds of millions of years ago? It looks really similar."

"Yes! Have you seen anything similar around our city before? Zhou Mengya looked at Kong Xiaoyin.

"I haven't seen it." Kong Xiaoyin shook his head, "These are all in the books. However, there are their fossils in the specimen room of our school.

"What's wrong? Two beauties! Can't walk? Do you need to hire a driver?" Tan Le carried his bag from behind and staggered up. He still looks cynical. Anyway, he is alone in Qingdao and is a poor and proletive taxi driver. As long as he is alive, he will lose nothing in this catastrophe.

"Have you seen our boss?" Zhou Mengya asked him. After a lot of getting along with her, she knew that although Tan Le looked careless all day long, she was actually not bad and still warm-hearted.

"Oh! In front. Why are you looking for him? Tan Le said it doesn't matter.

"Hmm. Then go over quickly and ask him to come over." Zhou Mengya directly ordered that she felt that there was no need to be polite to people like Tan Le.

"All right! Help me look at things." Tan Le dropped his bag and ran to the front of the team.

After about ten minutes, Zhang Zhentian followed Tan Le from the front of the team. He looked at Zhou Mengya and Kong Xiaoyin, and then said, "Two beautiful women, I heard that you two are looking for me?"

"Yes!" Zhou Mengya pointed to the plants on the ground and said, "Look at this..."

"Oh?" Zhang Zhentian squatted down and looked carefully at the plant vines on the ground. He said in surprise, "This is very much like a sheep-tooth fern, this thing..." He looked up at the two of them, "This thing seems to have been lost tens of millions of years ago, right?"

"Yes. "Head." Kong Xiaoyin nodded and said, "The two of us also think this thing is like a fern plant."

Zhang Zhentian patted the soil on his hand and stood up, "Giant mosquitoes, extinct plants, good boy!" He looked around and looked at the two of them again. He said half jokingly and half seriously, "It seems that we have time traveled now, haha!"

"Hehe! I can't see that you also like to read online novels. Zhou Mengya and Kong Xiaoyin said in one voice.