Apocalyptic Paradise

Chapter 21

The two were out of danger, and the nerves that had been tense also relaxed.

After getting on the main road, a silver car passed them by.Chen Zhuxia glanced casually.

Suddenly, her eyes opened wide, revealing an expression of disbelief.Yuan Dingfang saw that there was a difference in her expression, and asked suspiciously: "What's wrong?"

"You noticed that the car just now is gone. I seem to know the people in it."

"Who?"

"It passed by in a flash, I didn't see it too clearly. It shouldn't be a friend."

Yuan Dingfang comforted her: "Maybe you are too nervous, go to sleep for a while." Chen Zhuxia shook her head, and said vaguely: "Maybe." After finishing speaking, she wrapped the blanket tightly, closed her eyes tiredly, I fell into a deep sleep.

Chen Zhuxia slept for half an hour, and came to replace Yuan Dingfang's driving, letting him also rest for a while.

Maybe it was because she didn't sleep well yesterday and was too nervous. In short, she has no energy at all now, and her face is pale and blue.

"What's wrong with you? You don't look very good." Yuan Dingfang asked with concern.

Chen Zhuxia hurriedly said: "It's okay, you are the same. We look pretty good." It may be because of the long journey for two consecutive months, coupled with the monotonous food and insufficient nutrition, she felt that her physical fitness was greatly improved. decline.

Yuan Dingfang only took a nap, and the two switched sides again.

Two days later, they left Ningxia and entered Gansu.

As soon as we entered Gansu, the number of people began to increase.

On the road, from time to time, pedestrians in ragged clothes and yellow and thin faces appeared.

"Why are there so many people here?" Sometimes there is no one in sight for hundreds of miles on the road ahead.

"Maybe they moved here with the government."

There are a few tents or simple grass sheds on the roadside from time to time.Of course, there are more refugees with pale faces and empty eyes.

They went west, and many people came from the west.Chen Zhuxia accidentally asked a refugee where she came from, and she said it was Xinjiang.After asking again, I found out that there was a major earthquake in Xinjiang not long ago, and countless houses collapsed.The wind and sand became more serious every time.The people there had almost fled long ago.

"How could this happen?" Chen Zhuxia muttered to himself after asking more than a dozen refugees from Xinjiang.

Although she had doubts in her heart, she still did not give up. If she gave up her goal, where should she go?

"Maybe, when we arrive, the disaster will be over." Yuan Dingfang comforted her.

"Probably."

Three days after entering Gansu, Chen Zhuxia became more and more depressed. That night, he developed a high fever and coughed continuously.Chen Zhuxia took out all the medicines in the space, picked a few cold medicines and took them, but they didn't work at all.I changed the medicine again, but it still didn't work.

"Dingfang, I might be infected with the plague. Put on a mask so you don't get infected." Although Yuan Dingfang didn't mind much, he obediently put on the mask.Chen Zhuxia pulled off her mask herself.

"I'll see if there is a doctor in the city to show you." Yuan Dingfang turned the car around and wanted to go into the city to ask.It was only when we got to the gate that we learned that the city gate had already been under martial law.Because the plague was spreading rapidly, the superior ordered that the city could only go out and not enter.

"Let's get out of here quickly." Chen Zhuxia said weakly.

Her eyelids were getting heavier and heavier, and she managed to say a few words before falling into a drowsy sleep.

Yuan Dingfang waited for her to fall asleep, parked the car in a relatively safe area, locked the door, and slipped off quietly.

Chen Zhuxia fell into a coma for a while, then woke up suddenly. She was inexplicably startled, and fumbled anxiously to turn on the flashlight, to illuminate that there was no one in front of her, and called several times, but still no one answered.Surprised, she forced herself to sit up.Concentrate your mind and enter the space.He took a few sips of spring water.I looked at the vegetables on the ground again, and they were almost ready to eat.Seeing that she was about to reach her goal, she got such a disease.Ugh……

If she couldn't get better, she might just stay in the space and not go out, so as not to infect Yuan Dingfang again.

Chen Zhuxia was thinking wildly in the space.They didn't even notice that not far from them, there were two people quietly observing their car.

A gloating voice said: "It seems that the woman has caught the plague, ha, that's great, this is called retribution. Who let her die at the time. Hehe..."

Another person continued calmly: "Our superiors have said that we must save this woman's life. I advise you not to act recklessly."

The person quickly said respectfully: "I am a person who distinguishes between public and private, so of course I won't mess around."

"That's good."

"What should we do now?"

"Keep staring at the car."

"You said that man didn't sneak away, did he?"

"do not know."

……

Chen Zhuxia stayed in the space for a long time, worried that Yuan Dingfang would come out again, waited for a while but he still didn't come back.

At this moment, Chen Zhuxia couldn't help thinking about the worst: "Could it be that he left himself and ran away."

"No, he won't." Soon, she quickly denied this idea.

Time flies by.It was dark and cold in the car, and the dry and cold night wind was blowing the glass of the car non-stop with gravel, and the sound of the wind whimpering, like the cry of a human being, was disturbing to hear.Chen Zhuxia had no choice but to hide in the space again.Until midnight, Yuan Dingfang still didn't come back.

There were no stars and no moon in the sky, and it was so dark that she couldn't see her fingers. Now she was sick and couldn't move, so she had to wait.

After finally staying up until dawn, Chen Zhuxia drank water, forced himself to eat something, gritted his teeth and got out of the car.

She put on her mask and walked towards the crowded place with difficulty.

Refugees coming from all directions gathered together, cursing and clamoring hoarsely: "We don't have the plague, why don't we let us in!"

"That is, these people patronize themselves and never care about the life and death of our common people."

"They used to be like this when there was king law, but now they are lawless, what can we expect from them..."

……

The crowd boiled restlessly like a boiling pot, rushing towards the city gate non-stop.The gatekeeper held his gun expressionlessly, and said in a cold voice, "Don't move around, I'll shoot when you pass the cordon."

The muzzle of the black hole immediately acted as a deterrent, and many people obediently pinned it down.Although the expression on his face was still furious, his body did not dare to step forward.

"Don't squeeze, I heard that someone climbed the wall and got caught last night."

"I heard that she is a soldier. It seems that her girlfriend is sick and wants to go to the city to buy medicine and ask a doctor."

"It's not the plague that his girlfriend got."

"Probably."

……

Chen Zhuxia's brain exploded with a buzzing sound.Could he be Yuan Dingfang who hadn't returned all night?
Chen Zhuxia staggered forward a few steps, forced a smile and said to the two people who were discussing: "You two, can you see what that person looks like and what kind of clothes he is wearing?"

Those two people seemed to be taken aback, and were about to open their mouths to speak, but one of them pointed at Chen Zhuxia's face and said, "Oh my god, do you think her symptoms look like the plague?" People all escaped with a bang.

Chen Zhuxia stopped talking, she walked towards the soldiers guarding the gate lightly.

The gatekeeper still had the same expression just now: "That comrade, don't go any further."

"Hello, I'm here to find my friend." Standing outside the security line, Chen Zhuxia described Yuan Dingfang's appearance and height.

The gatekeeper's gaze flickered a few times, and he stared at Chen Zhuxia for a while, as if confirming something.

"Can you ask me? We won't go into the city." Seeing that he was silent, Chen Zhuxia repeated again.

The gatekeeper raised his eyebrows, and said lightly, "Wait a minute, I'll ask for you." As he spoke, he picked up the pistol on his waist and conveyed Chen Zhuxia's words.

The two of them communicated for a while before they heard the gatekeeper say, "This man was arrested by our patrol team."

"Why?" Although Chen Zhuxia had already guessed the result in his heart, he still felt uncomfortable when he heard this sentence.

"He ignored the warning and tried to climb over the wall and cross the city last night—there may be other things, but I don't know the details." No matter how you ask, he just doesn't open his mouth.

……

"May I see him?"

"Let me ask again for you."

……

"You can go in now." He pointed to a person and told him to take Chen Zhuxia in.

A siren sounded suddenly in Chen Zhuxia's heart: this man's attitude was incomprehensible, he treated himself differently from other refugees, as if he had received some instructions earlier.Could it be... A bad premonition welled up in her heart.She stopped and looked back at the gatekeeper, who returned to his previous appearance, ignoring her gaze.No flaws could be seen from his face.

Forget it, let’s take one step at a time.Even if she knew that there was a trap ahead, she still had to jump into it.Because Yuan Ding Fang is in the hands of the other party, and he is still sick.

(End of this chapter)