Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 158 Human or Ghost

When I woke up the next day, the rain had stopped.

While Yao Wei was making a fire and cooking corn in a pot, Lu Xian went to the car and opened the box to look around, trying to find history and geography books to read.

But he didn't find it.

I didn't expect that the owner of the park could be careless at times. The books he prepared for his son were only related to science, not liberal arts.

But never mind, it doesn’t matter. In the end times, science is far more important than liberal arts.

Lu Xian closed the box and could only think so.

The humanities are actually quite important, such as geography, or subjects that contain the art of slaying dragons. In this world, they might be very helpful in rebuilding order.

But this is not the case...

After a night of heavy rain last night, the roof of the car is still wet. The box of books cannot be put back on the roof for the time being, so it can only be placed under the passenger seat.

But it's okay. When they enter the city later, Yao Wei will go to the roof of the car, and the dog will be taken along. This place happens to be empty.

After they had breakfast, they got in the car.

To be on the safe side, Lu Xian took out the resonance gene scanner and took a look. After confirming that there were no other new humans, he started the car and headed towards Gu County.

Yao Wei stood on the roof of the car with the dog in her hand and released the drone, forming ground-to-air coordination.

All the cities in Jianshan City seem to maintain the same style: simple, low and untidy, with very few tall buildings.

Lu Xian drove into the city from the north. Yao Wei stood on the roof of the car. It was a slightly downhill road, and she could see many scenic spots in the city.

In addition, the drone was still flying above their heads, so they could basically see the entire city.

In this lifeless city, from the edge of the city you can see the former bus stops, dilapidated parks and the fitness equipment that has rusted beyond recognition, all of which seem like the remnants of an era.

Many houses collapsed in the city. Even the tallest building collapsed at some unknown time. It blocked the road at the end of Lu Xian and Yao Wei's sight, completely blocking the road, as if telling Lu Xian and Yao Wei that this was a different road and they could go wherever they wanted.

There was a mouse running on the ground, and Yao Wei's eyes lit up. She wanted to draw her bow and arrow and shoot it to see if she could eat it.

But just as she had nocked the arrow, the mouse crawled in from a sewer opening, and she couldn't help but sigh.

"what happened?"

Lu Xian, who was driving in the car, heard Yao Wei sigh and asked.

Yao Wei said, "I just saw a mouse, but I didn't have time to shoot it because it burrowed into the ground."

Lu Xian glanced at the roadside outside the car. He looked over there only now, and naturally he didn't see any rats. He only saw that the sewer entrance was a big pit, and the drainage ditch well had long disappeared.

"Don't worry about it. I guess we can't eat this rat even if we catch it."

Lu Xian consoled Yao Wei, saying, "That's a sewer. Think about it, no one has cleaned it up for years. Before the people disappeared, I don't know how much garbage they left in the sewer. Has it been cleaned up yet?

"If not, I don't know how dirty it would be down there. The bacteria carried by the rats and the like, I don't think we new humans would be able to withstand it.

"And think about the fish we saw before. Aren't they all inedible? We're still in Jianshan City, and we don't know if the rats will be a problem."

"Oh……"

Yao Wei responded, but there was still some reluctance in her voice at losing the food.

It seemed that there were not many people in the city, but Lu Xian and Yao Wei remained vigilant. They did not choose to enter the city, but just went south along the road west of the city.

There is a gas station on the west side of the road where you can refill your tank.

If they can't get gas there, they'll have to go into town.

We drove all the way to the gas station in the west of the city. The name of the station was no longer traceable and the words on the roof had peeled off, making it impossible to tell what the original words were.

The two men checked the station building and found nothing. They then asked the dog to turn on the power and made sure the gas pump was working, then filled up the car with gas.

After refueling, they continued to drive south around the West Ring Road. The dog's eyes flashed twice early, making Lu Xian and Yao Wei think that there was some danger ahead, such as mice and mutant monsters like fish riders.

But when Lu Xian asked Gou Zi about this guess, Gou Zi's eyes flashed twice, indicating that it was not the case.

Even when Lu Xian asked it if there was any danger ahead, its dog eyes flashed twice, indicating that there was no danger.

Then why is it flashing?
Lu Xian and Yao Wei confirmed from the dog's eyes that there was no danger, so they decided to move forward and see what happened next.

When they reached the turning point toward West Ring Road, they discovered that the road had been broken for no apparent reason.

There was a huge gully ahead, extending from the highway into the city, so that the asphalt road was high in some places and low in others, and was far away.

Only then did the two of them understand why the mechanical dog's eyes were flashing.

"This must be the fault of the earthquake."

Lu Xian and Yao Wei got out of the car and took a look, and Lu Xian guessed so.

As usual, Yao Wei nodded and said, "Yeah." She still trusted Lu Xian's judgment very much.

Then the two men simultaneously decided that carrying the car across was still a bit unsafe, so they had to turn back. If the west side wasn't working, they could try the east side.

As for the further west, there was a small hill. Although the cracked ground failed to tear the hill apart, it caused a lot of soil and rocks to fall from the hill, blocking half of the road and the pit.

If you want to go further west, you have to go around that small hill, which would be even more troublesome.

Lu Xian asked Gouzi to control the drone to fly higher to see if the East Outer Ring Road was okay. After confirming that it was passable, he got in the car and turned around.

I went all the way back to the starting point and walked east. When I reached the easternmost intersection, I saw a row of collapsed houses on the side of the road.

Seeing that the house had collapsed, Lu Xian and Yao Wei had no intention of going to check it out, but unexpectedly the dog suddenly became angry and shone its eyes on the ruins of a house.

The ruins were slightly raised, as if supported by something unknown. The dog could only see the surface but not the inside.

Lu Xian couldn't give orders to the dog in the car, so Yao Wei asked on the roof: "Is there something?"

The dog's eyes are bright.

Lu Xian stopped the car.

Yao Wei asked again: "Is there any danger?"

The dog's eyes are bright again.

So Lu Xian shifted gears again, stepped on the accelerator, and continued on his way.

Who would watch something dangerous?
However, at this moment, Yao Wei suddenly noticed some movement where the dog was looking. Afraid that she would not be able to draw her bow and arrow in time, she drew her gun and fired a shot at the place where the movement was.

Then there was a "squeak" sound, and a mouse jumped out from the crack in the ground of the ruins. Yao Wei noticed it, shot it down with a shot, and turned it upside down.

Yao Wei's shooting skills are still as accurate as ever.

Lu Xian had no intention of picking up the mouse that was shot dead. Instead, he stepped on the accelerator to the bottom and continued to accelerate.

But at this moment, a "dong dong dong" sound came from under the ruins behind him, as if someone was knocking on extremely heavy wood.

However, the force of the knocking was a little weak and the sound was very faint. If he was not a new human, he would not be able to hear it.

Yao Wei also noticed the sound, and immediately stood back, pointing her gun at that place.

"Help! Is there anyone outside? Is someone shooting? Help!"

She and Lu Xian heard faint cries for help from under the rubble at the same time, accompanied by increasingly rapid and impatient "bang bang bang" sounds, but the car still had no intention of stopping.

After all, the dog indicated there was danger, so how could they stop?

"boom!"

"Wow--"

Suddenly, a sound came from the ruins behind.

Yao Wei looked from the roof of the car, and Lu Xian also glanced back through the rearview mirror in the car, only to see that the bricks and stones on the ruins suddenly fell off with a "crash", revealing half of a solid wooden object underneath.

It was nothing else but a coffin!
The coffin looked to be of extremely high quality, made of thick and solid material. It was crushed by the collapsed house without any damage.

"boom--"

"boom--"

"boom--"

The muffled sound continued, and the coffin lid was actually moved away little by little. It turned out that the muffled sound was the sound of the coffin lid rubbing against the coffin.

Lu Xian had already driven the car a long way away, but he still did not let down his guard. He glanced in the rearview mirror and saw that the coffin lid was almost open. Suddenly, an extremely skinny man grabbed the coffin mouth and crawled out of the coffin.

The man really looked like a ghost. After he crawled out of the coffin, Lu Xian and Yao Wei saw his upper body. A lot of skin on his face and body was gone, revealing the muscles underneath.

The two eyes were also deeply sunken, like two huge eye holes.

The body was so skinny that the muscles were almost invisible. It was just skin and bones, with occasional exposed bones.

After the man climbed out of the coffin with his upper body, he gasped for several breaths. He turned around and saw Yao Wei pointing a gun at him in the distance, and suddenly raised his hands.

The hands were also skin and bones, with muscles exposed in some places and bones exposed in others, which looked a bit scary.

But such a terrifying image suddenly looked like it was frightened, and raised its hands high as if surrendering to the gun, which looked a little funny.

Lu Xian and Yao Wei still didn't stop and quickly moved away.

The dog said it was in danger. Who knows if this thing has this face or if it is pretending?
Think about what happened just now. This thing could clearly open the coffin by itself, but it kept shouting for help. Isn't this just a lie?
So no matter whether it is scary or funny, just run.

So Lu Xian shifted the gear lever into fifth gear, stepped on the accelerator again and again, accelerated the car, and drove away quickly, so that the coffin and the strange man quickly disappeared from sight.

Only when he reached the end of the East Outer Ring Road did Lu Xian brake to slow down so that he could turn safely.

After turning the corner, he saw that there was nothing strange following him, so he drove as quickly as possible to the road heading south, turned again, and headed south.

(End of this chapter)