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It was the darkest time before dawn, Zheng Guanqi was driving the car, Fang Luxian was sitting in the passenger seat, and Lu Ze took Chen Xin to check Wu Zhuo's injuries.

For fear of attracting living corpses, the headlights on the front of the car were not turned on, and the car drove slowly all the way.In the rear compartment, Lu Zekai turned on a dome light on the roof. Under the dim light, the wound on Wu Zhuo's body looked particularly shocking.

Because the flesh and blood had stuck to the clothes, Lu Ze could only cut his T-shirt into strips with scissors, and wipe it bit by bit with a cotton cloth dipped in alcohol.

As far as the naked eye can see, no part of the skin on his body is intact, the strangle marks on his wrists are almost visible to the bone, and the chest is full of knife wounds, some of which have scabbed over, and some have only a thin layer of condensed on the surface. Thin blood shell.Lu Ze checked the wounds one by one, found no signs of festering and blackening, then applied medicine and bandaged them, and asked Chen Xin to help him turn over.

As soon as Chen Xin's gaze landed on Wu Zhuo's back, his eyes immediately turned red: "Bastard——"

It was a field of criss-cross welts, and the edge of the wound near the waist had begun to swell and turn white, and it was obvious that it had been soaked in water.And none of the wounds on the entire back had begun to heal, and the edges were red and turned, which looked frightening.

Lu Ze glanced at Chen Xin with a warning. Chen Xin pursed his lips and stopped talking, and his handling movements were a little lighter.

Fang Luxian in the front row heard this sound, turned his head nervously, and half pushed open the window on the partition: "What's wrong?"

Lu Ze quickly dimmed the lights, and half-jokingly said: "It's nothing, you can watch the way for the chess watcher, the viewing conditions here are not good. Besides, there is a girl from every family, pay attention to the influence, this is Wu Zhuo. He didn't wake up, but when he woke up, he found that his whole body was seen by you, will he find a girlfriend in the future?"

Fang Luxian rolled his eyes: "I don't care."

After speaking, he slammed the window shut.

"Captain..." Chen Xin's trembling voice drew Lu Ze's attention back.

"Why—" He stopped in the middle of the sentence.

Under the dim light, Chen Xin supported Wu Zhuo's shoulder. There was a shallow wound on the back of his neck near the ear. It was not deep, as if he was bitten by something, and he wouldn't notice it unless he looked carefully.However the edges have started to blacken.

Of course Lu Ze knew what this meant. He clenched his fist with his right hand by his side, and finally let it go. He said in a hoarse voice, "Don't tell Lu Lian for now."

Chen Xin's eyes were red, he nodded silently, carefully rolled up the edge of the bandage, helped Wu Zhuo to turn around, and let him rest his head on his lap.

Lu Ze leaned back against the opposite carriage wall, half of his face was hidden in the dark, and he couldn't see the expression on his face clearly.

In the front row of the car, Zheng Guanqi drove very carefully. Highway 1 is not the best route to the α Satellite City. In addition to the mountain itself, the S-shaped road around the mountain does not have a satellite map to rely on, so it can only rely on the previous topographic map.

Estimated to drive forward about 30 kilometers, the body suddenly jerked.

Fang Luxian, the co-pilot, was a little drowsy at first, but now he knocked his head on the window glass on one side, and woke up with a jolt: "What's going on?"

Zheng Guanqi himself was also taken aback, and said in a somewhat dumb voice: "But, maybe I ran over a rock, I'll go down and have a look."

Just as Fang Lujian nodded, his eyes glanced out of the car window inadvertently: after turning the curve on her side, she was just leaning against the mountain wall, and in the dense shadows, something seemed to startle from the woods. They all started shaking.

The next moment, a group of flying birds flew high from the woods, and gradually disappeared into the depths of the sky under the dark sky like splashed ink.

"Wait a minute—" Fang Luxian grabbed Zheng Guanqi, who had just opened the car door and turned around in confusion: "Sister Xiaolu?"

Fang Luxian had an intuition that something was wrong, and he didn't bother to explain so much at the moment. He rolled down the window and looked out, turned his head and turned on the headlights, and pointed to the temporary parking belt at a curve 50 meters away: "Drive Get there, quick!"

Zheng Guanqi could hear the nervousness in her tone, without asking any further questions, he closed the car door and stepped on the gas pedal.

Lu Ze and the others at the back also noticed the abnormality of the car. He just opened the partition and poked his head out when Zheng Guanqi kicked the gas pedal and almost couldn't stand still. He frowned and asked, "What's wrong?"

Before he could finish his sentence, the entire car body bumped abnormally and tilted to one side.

"Watching chess—" Fang Lulian yelled, and grabbed the handle of the car door on his side.

The road ahead seemed to have split open suddenly, and a crack half a meter wide spread from the ground out of thin air, like a giant beast showing its fangs.

Zheng Guanqi stepped on the gas pedal, turned the steering wheel sharply to the left, and the armored car made a semicircle on the spot. The rear tires rubbed against the ground and let out a sharp hissing sound. Inertia threw the front of the car into the parking strip.

The accident happened in an instant, and Lu Ze could only subconsciously grab the handrails on both sides of the door. He was dizzy and only had time to see Chen Xin, who was in the back seat, was thrown and almost fell off the seat. Protect Wu Zhuo.

After the car came to a complete stop, Lu Ze took a breath, touched the place where his forehead touched the roof of the car: "What's wrong?"

Zheng Guanqi's face was still in shock, and he grasped the steering wheel and looked at Lu Ze belatedly: "Okay, it seems to be an earthquake."

Lu Ze frowned. Just as he was about to speak, there was another slight vibration from the bottom of the car. The aftershock came and went quickly, and stopped in a few seconds.

"Chen Xin, you stay in the car to take care of Wu Zhuo, Guanqi and Lulian will come down with me to see what's going on."

When he opened the door of the rear compartment of the car, the eastern sky outside had already faintly glowed with a dark blue color—it was almost dawn.

When they got out of the car, they saw a hideous crack lying two or three meters away from the rear tires. If Zheng Guanqi hadn't stepped on the gas pedal to the bottom, the two rear tires would probably be bitten by the edge of the crack, even if they didn't fall off. , It is inevitable to get stuck there and find a way to push the cart.

A little further away, you can vaguely see their current position near the mountainside. When Highway 1 was first built, the main purpose was to connect the old city with Lucheng, which is famous for its mountain scenery.In order to allow residents to enjoy more fun during the journey, no tunnels have been dug on this road. Although a lot of labor costs have been spent, all roads are built on winding mountains.

Different viewing platforms have been set up in different sections of the highway, where you can watch the sunrise and sunset, the artificial terraced fields at the foot of the mountain, and even in rainy and foggy weather, cloud and fog platforms are also set up in different sections of the road, not only including small parking lots for Travelers rest, but also an excellent place to watch the fog.

There was nothing wrong with the original intention of this design, but for Lu Ze and his current situation, it is tantamount to trapping them here——

As far as the eye could see, their original downward path was impassable—the earthquake caused the mountain to crack and collapse, and an S-shaped bend below them had been completely blocked by falling rocks from the mountain, not to mention the continuous mountains in front of them. .

Zheng Guanqi walked to Lu Ze's side, looked dumbfounded at the broken road in front of him: "This... we can't make it through?"

Lu Ze glanced back at him and patted him on the shoulder: "It was not bad just now, the reaction was quick. If it weren't for that direction, we would probably be at the foot of the mountain now."

Zheng Guanqi smiled foolishly.

"Captain, the way down the mountain is impossible, unless we abandon the car, I don't know how the road conditions are on the other side of the mountain." Fang Luxian's voice was a little worried.

Lu Ze was silent for a few seconds, and said, "I don't know if there are any aftershocks, our position... Anyway, let's wait for dawn."

"Then Wu Zhuo..." Fang Lu shifted his gaze to the back of the car.

Lu Ze was silent for a longer time this time, he didn't look back, his eyes fell on the mountains not far away, and he didn't speak.

Chapter 6 Around 4:5 a.m., the sky was already bright. I don’t know if it was caused by the earthquake. The sky was clear before, and gray clouds covered the eastern sky. Only a few rays of sunlight occasionally leaked through the gaps in the clouds.The wind in the mountains became colder, and the temperature seemed to drop by [-] or [-] degrees suddenly.

Wu Zhuo had always had a low-grade fever. Half an hour ago, his temperature suddenly rose. His forehead was covered with fine sweat, his cheeks were abnormally flushed, and his lips were chapped.

Fang Lujian built a simple bed for him in the car with several people's marching blankets and backpacks. The man knelt beside him and carefully moistened his mouth with a tissue with water from the water bottle.

Lu Ze watched her movements, and for some reason suddenly remembered what Ghost said - "He can only carry it by himself".

It's hard to imagine that it's only been 3 days since they entered the old city, and not only did they not find any clues about the team members who performed the mission before, but they broke one of them in, and Chen Xin was still injured.As for the Army Institute of Biology, there was no sign of it at all.

"Captain." Chen Xin jumped out of the carriage and walked to him: "Go and have a rest, you haven't closed your eyes for 24 hours since last night, after all, you have to wait for Wu Zhuo to wake up before considering the next move." .”

Lu Ze's eyes were gloomy: "How is the wound on your arm?"

Chen Xin lowered his eyes and looked at his left arm: "I checked it just now, and there shouldn't be any major problems."

Lu Ze nodded, but did not speak.

"We...we still have to go back to the old city, right? After all, the mission..." Chen Xin looked at his face and said hesitantly.

"The situation in the old city... is far more complicated than we imagined. In the urban area, besides Ghost, I also saw another group of living survivors. I didn't tell you in detail before. According to those survivors, this In an urban area, the remaining people constituted three forces. To save Wu Zhuo yesterday, we had intervened in these three forces, and as for the result..." Lu Ze shook his head.

"That Ghost...would he know something about the biological research institute?"

Lu Ze turned his gaze to the forest not far away, and remembered Ghost's half-smile face yesterday evening——

"I just don't want us to be on opposite sides the next time we meet."

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