Chapter 149 149 "It Just Comes Out and Disappears Like That."

Chapter 149 149· "It just comes out and disappears."

November 30, 2024, 10:53 in the morning - there are less than fourteen hours left before the earth in the East Kingdom begins to shake.

Sitting in the front seat of the slightly bumpy bus, Chi Yan held her pants tightly, turned her head and looked out the window with some uneasiness and anxiety.

However, the frost on the outside of the window repeatedly melted and condensed, and no one wiped it. Therefore, Chi Yan could only see the blurry color patches of the outside scenery after it was 'filtered', and it was still mainly white.

This window now serves as a pair of goggles. After all, if there is a rapidly receding "snow scene" in front of you, it is easy to cause glare.

In the past, most of the street trees that were responsible for greening the roads had fallen over and froze to death within a month, making the already lack of greenery in autumn seem even more lonely.

The car was equally lonely, with everyone sitting in their own cramped seats, and the aisles were piled with luggage, with almost no space left.

"If we continue like this, we are always worried that there will be problems. We have only set out to get here now. On a normal day, even if it is a bus, after so many hours, we should be halfway through the migration distance."

The father beside Chi Yan looked at his mobile phone at this time and said with the same worry.

My father has some presbyopia, so the font on his mobile phone is adjusted to be very large. Chi Yan can easily see the content on the mobile phone.

There is a map on the screen. It has been four and a half hours since Chi Yan and others took the bus from the shelter. However, according to the information displayed on the map, the bus is still not far away from the shelter. No matter how far away we are, the straight-line distance is still less than a hundred kilometers.

It can be called a turtle speed.

This is indeed the case. The migration this time was completely different from the migration before the ice disaster. At that time, it seemed extremely smooth, with rows of vehicles speeding down the road. But in this frost-filled environment, Here, vehicles must drive slowly.

However, it is already a good situation to be able to keep driving along the way.

The actual situation is that during these four and a half hours, the bus has been stopping and going. Every time it stops, Chi Yan can see the taillights of the migration bus in front of her.

Even when the bus stopped once, a group of Easterners got on the bus, otherwise it wouldn't have been so cramped that there was almost no space in the bus.

After getting on the bus and asking, Chi Yan and others learned that the bus they were originally traveling on broke down on the road and could not be repaired in a short period of time. They had to abandon the bus and distribute everyone on the bus to other relocation vehicles.

Dongguo has rehearsed as much as possible and sent soldiers to clear and open roads. However, after all, the environment has been changing until the end of the final hailstorm. After the end, there is too little time left for everyone to do anything. to rehearse everything and avoid all problems.

During the previous class, the teachers had already said that the speed of the second migration would be far different from the first, but now looking at the facts, the original estimate was still somewhat optimistic.

And the most worrying thing is that the initial road is still the road that Dongguo has prepared the most. The further you go, the less Dongguo has prepared in advance.

Chi Yan was worried that even this speed was the peak of this migration, which meant that she would never be able to reach the next city where she could take refuge in two days.

"call--"

Chi Yan's body began to lean forward due to inertia, which meant that the vehicle began to slow down again.

When the car stopped, Chi Yan stuck her head out of the aisle. Sure enough, the bus in front was overtaken by hers again, and the other bus had stopped completely and turned on its taillights. She didn't know if something appeared in front of her. Unanticipated problems.

The silent and cramped environment was really depressing. Chi Yan saw her in the front seat scratching the gap in the window with a screwdriver, and then used all her strength to open a gap in the frozen window. Fresh air came into the car through the gap, relaxing the atmosphere a little.

"Everyone can have lunch." After pressing the earphones next to his ears and listening for a while, the driver of the bus turned to everyone on the bus and said:

"If you have motion sickness or feel uncomfortable and want to move around, you can get off the car now. We won't be setting off again in the next few minutes. If you want to open the window, you can also take my manuscript and go outside to shovel it, but please note You must get permission from the passengers around you to open the window..."

Naturally, it is impossible to relocate at this time like before the ice disaster. Canteens should be set up in every service area to provide everyone with hot meals.

At this moment, these service areas have been buried in a large amount of hail. For the sake of time and convenience, everyone’s food has been dry food for the past two days. There is a small amount of hot water on the bus, but it is for emergency use. Bubble noodles are not allowed.

"Mom, let me go down and shovel our window."

Although Chi Yan did not suffer from motion sickness, the current environment really made her a little uncomfortable. After hearing the driver's words, she immediately took out a box of biscuits and a bottle of water from her side and said to her family around her.

At this time, the outside temperature had returned to the normal level of late November, and the temperature had reached above zero. With the clothes of everyone in the car, it would be okay to stay outside for an hour or two.

There were quite a few people on the bus who had the same idea as Chi Yan. After twisting and turning, half of the people on the bus decided to get down for some air.

This is actually Chi Yan's first time to come into contact with the outside world of the Ice Disaster. While chewing the biscuits, Chi Yan squatted down and picked up a hail fragment on the ground and looked at it carefully.

It was tens of millions of these 'little' things that smashed Blue Star to pieces, smashing both sides of the road in front of us until they were lifeless. From now on, everyone's home can only exist in memory.

Use hail fragments to rub the surface on both sides of the road, wiping away the scattered snow and debris, revealing the underground ice layer. You can also see some dead plants and insects that still remain alive.

What made Chi Yan even more uncomfortable was that she saw a bird's nest that had solidified into ice. Under the big bird that had been smashed and bruised, the mutilated body of the little bird was in pieces. They were clinging to each other like this before they died. .

Chi Yan angrily threw the hail fragment into the distance, as if she wanted to take the place of the animals that had become extinct during this month and vent their injustice and resentment.

She wanted to get some air, but ended up getting a little stuck. Chi Yan quickly finished her lunch, opened the window next to her, and returned to the car.

After sitting there for a few minutes, she felt something was wrong - she stayed there for too long.

You can eat lunch directly in the car and breathe in the fresh air. A few minutes is enough. Moreover, you can now open the windows. However, it has been parked here for nearly 20 minutes and the driver has not set off yet. omen.

This waste of time should not happen in the second migration moment when seconds are at stake.

After thinking about it, because she was sitting in the front row, the distance between Chi Yan and the driver was very short. Chi Yan reached out and pulled the driver, and asked in a low voice:

"Uncle, I would like to ask if something happened up front? How long should we stay here?"

When the driver turned his head, the sorrow between his eyebrows already revealed that Chi Yan's guess was correct. Then he thought about it and finally did not hide it. He nodded and said:

"It seems that due to the melting of the ice, the road ahead has just collapsed unexpectedly, making it impossible to pass, splitting our convoy into two halves. Now the army is seizing the time to repair it."

"That's it." Although she was prepared, when she actually heard the answer, Chi Yan's heart skipped a beat, but she just nodded and said, "Can't we change the way?"

"This section of road is the only one that can pass. Without an icebreaker, it is unrealistic to open other roads, and we don't have that time at all."

However, the father next to him became a little happy and angry when he heard this. After hearing the conversation, he said anxiously:

"Ah? How long will it take... We were already slower than planned. Now, we won't be caught up by the earthquake, right?"

"No, our target evacuation city is also working hard to prepare for our arrival. They have more time to prepare than us, so the evacuation route may be smoother in the later stages than ours now, and it will definitely be better by then. Get up."

The driver comforted him after hearing this.

"I hope so."

Chi Yan's father also knew that there was no point in complaining now and would only cause trouble to others, so he could only respond in this way.

What he didn't say was that, according to the current situation, the team would be overtaken by the earthquake before the later stages.

He really didn't want the earthquake disaster evacuation knowledge he learned to be put into practice so early.

As time passed, the vehicle never moved forward, and the rest of the people in the vehicle gradually realized that something was wrong.

After being asked, the driver also announced the current situation to everyone.

Because everyone knows very well that without Dongguo, everyone would have died a month ago. The teams at the front must be doing their best to solve this problem now, so no one in the car complained about the incompetence of the country or the team at the front. .

This made Chi Yan feel a little relieved.

She was quite worried that someone would jump out and yell at someone.

It's just that a lower and more depressed mood than before spread among everyone, even mixed with suppressed sobs.

This is inevitable.

"Don't panic, everyone. Don't panic. The top officials of the country are already aware of the situation on our section of the road and are already dispatching support. I believe the problem will be solved soon!"

The driver has been trying to calm everyone's emotions, but with little success. After all, the facts are before our eyes.

How long does it take for support to get here, and how long does it take to solve the problem? These are answers that haven’t happened yet and are unknown.

Chi Yan stuck her head out of the window and looked at the front of the motorcade with worry in her eyes.

She even heard a few explosions just now, and there was still white smoke in the sky that had not yet dissipated. Perhaps the troops in front had begun to try to use explosives to solve the problem.

However, the team showing no signs of moving forward shows that this does not seem to be a good enough solution.

At this time, a small black spot seemed to appear in the distant sky in the inland direction.

At this time, the camera of the mobile phone is much easier to use than the eyes. After squinting and finding that she could not see clearly, Chi Yan opened her mobile phone and kept zooming in on the screen, and found that it was an airplane.

The reinforcements the driver just mentioned are coming?

But Chi Yan looked at the small plane on the screen, which could only carry four or five people at most, and wondered what kind of support it could bring.

The other party did seem to be here to solve the problem, because the plane gradually slowed down, circled, and finally landed completely in front.

The impact point is the location where the explosion just occurred.

The obstruction of debris and vehicles in front made it difficult for Chi Yan to see what was happening at that location, but half a minute later, the convoy slowly retreated a distance. When she wanted to put away her phone, Chi Yan's eyes suddenly opened. Staring wide, full of disbelief.

Ahead...why is there suddenly a tower crane?

Chi Yan zoomed in and out of the phone screen in disbelief, and then watched with her own naked eyes... A tower crane really appeared in front of the motorcade!

You can see the fuzzy tip of the tower crane with your naked eyes!

And as soon as it appeared, the work started within a few seconds! But where did it come from? Chi Yan was very sure that when she set out from the shelter, there would be no such thing following her!

When I just observed it myself, there was absolutely no such thing!

While Chi Yan was thinking about life, she looked at the new crane that appeared on the screen of her mobile phone and was dumbfounded again.

Again?

But this time she was more certain that what just happened was not her fault. After silently switching the camera mode to the video mode, Chi Yan rubbed her eyebrows and tried to understand the scene in front of her.

Was this support brought by the small plane just now?

But I read it right. Even a small plane cannot fit a tower crane and a crane...

I always feel like I'm possessed by an evil spirit...Forget it, we're already in the era of natural disasters, so being possessed by an evil spirit isn't such a big deal anymore.

After recording the two machines working for a few minutes, Chi Yan raised her eyebrows again - because these two large machines had now disappeared from sight!

Then Chi Yan saw the small plane taking off from that position again, flying in other directions without looking back, as if there were other things to be busy with.

As it left, the convoy, which had been at a stalemate for nearly an hour, suddenly started moving forward again.

"Okay, okay, the problem is solved, we can continue to set off. Don't worry, we will be able to join the main force soon!" After the driver got the news from the headset, he happily shared it with everyone and immediately sat back He got into the driver's seat and started to start the bus.

The engine began to hum.

Chi Yan pulled the progress bar of the video recording on her phone and watched it repeatedly.

When the bus she was on approached the location where the crane had previously appeared, she poked her head out and found the section of road where there was a suspected problem.

In fact, it was quite easy to find. After all, it seemed a bit out of place with the surrounding environment - neat, smooth, frost-free milky white road, and on both sides of the road, there were traces of the tracks of two heavy machinery, proving what Chi Yan had seen and recorded. , nor is it false.

This is not ‘natural’, but ‘artificial’.

But Chi Yan has never seen cement with this texture.

Not sure if it was because of the refraction of sunlight, Chi Yan still felt that this section of road was emitting a faint light.

The bus continued to drive, and Chi Yan looked back and stared at that section of the road until it completely disappeared from sight.

She didn't understand, but she was celebratory.