Crisis on Highway 211
After eliminating the surrounding zombies and quickly extracting their Crystal Cores, everyone promptly hit the road without lingering. Fang Yuxin didn’t let Lan Re eat anymore. After Qu Qianhe set a fire, everyone swiftly continued their journey, fearing that staying any longer would attract more zombies.
Before entering the highway, they specifically went to check the nearby gas station. The station’s underground housed a large oil barrel filled with oil. Unfortunately, they had no containers to collect the oil even if they could think of a way to extract it.
Next to the gas station was a small supermarket, but it had already been raided, with everything movable taken away, leaving only rotting corpses emitting a strong stench.
With a sigh, Qu Qianhe set fire to the corpses before everyone proceeded onto the highway.
The toll booth at the entrance of the highway was already dilapidated; its transparent glass windows were shattered, and dark blood stains were still visible. Inside lay skeletons that had been gnawed on, likely of people who had panicked and thought the booth an escape, not realizing it would doom them without even leaving their bodies intact.
Fang Yuxin and the others had become numb to such sights of horror and felt nothing upon seeing more. Qu Qianhe casually fired up and incinerated the remains.
Once on the highway, the situation was somewhat different. From time to time, they saw abandoned cars, some clearly wrecked from accidents, some torn apart by zombies, and others perfectly intact but inexplicably abandoned on the road.
The disaster occurred at midnight with not many vehicles on the road, but there were still some. Most likely, these cars belonged to people who fled later.
The first day of the apocalypse saw the most people escaping. Communications were cut off, and no one knew the situation outside, so they naively thought that only Market had suffered disaster. Those with homes or relatives elsewhere hurriedly fled, mostly via the highway.
Unfortunately, they didn’t know that not only Market faced this catastrophic disaster but the entire world was struck. Even if they escaped to other places, danger was still imminent.
Moreover, once there was trouble on any section of the highway, they would be trapped, which posed even greater danger.
Seeing those messy or twisted cars allowed everyone to imagine the horrific scenes at the time, and their moods couldn’t help but turn somber.
Every now and then, skeletons gnawed to the bone could be seen inside the cars or on the road, which Qu Qianhe had to continuously incinerate. It was easy to deal with the corpses on the road, but it was tricky with the ones in cars as the flames could reach the gas tanks and cause explosions.
The highway wasn’t very wide, allowing only two cars to run side by side. The haphazard vehicles became a major obstacle. They hadn’t traveled far before they had to stop, move the cars, and then proceed.
At such times, nearby zombies were attracted and attempted to ambush.
Xu Wu, Wang Qi, and Huang Yue’s awakenings all enhanced their strength, with Xu Wu being the strongest as he was originally a Special Soldier and later became a mercenary, always following Bai Ye; his capabilities were unmatched by ordinary citizens like Wang Qi and Huang Yue. However, thanks to Fang Yuxin, Wang Qi and Huang Yue had also gained much and could be considered outstanding among other superpower users with strength enhancements.
The task of moving the cars was left to these three men. Fang Yuyang had a Wind Superpower, and both Fang Yuxin and Bai Qianqian’s Spiritual Sense could reach far distances. The two were responsible for lookout, and if any zombies approached, Fang Yuyang would immediately strike with his Wind Blade, annihilating the zombies.
The others remained on standby. If there were too many zombies, they would all take action together.
Although Bai Ye’s team and Yongcheng Team were currently distinct, their coordination was impeccable, never giving the zombies a chance to breach their defenses.
After traveling for a while, they arrived at a scene of a massive pile-up accident, which appeared not to have been disturbed since the incident. It was an incredibly severe accident, involving dozens of vehicles colliding continuously. The aftermath wasn’t just the damage to the roadside barriers but also severe congestion blocking the entire road.