End of the World

Chapter 129: Landmines on the Road

This service area had been frequented by many people, so naturally there weren't many supplies left. Chen Guangjun led his men to carefully check all the buildings in the service area to ensure safety.

He Yuxin took the girls into the service area store to see if they could find any bargains. The glass of the store door was all shattered into pieces, and the shelves were overturned to the ground, which showed how rude the people there were before.

There were a lot of packaged foods scattered on the ground, but many of them were trampled on, which showed how barbaric the first two groups of people were.

In other buildings in the service area, Chen Guangjun found a corpse hung up by a man. It turned out that the man was tortured to death. The same was true in the other two rooms. There was also a corpse of a middle-aged woman on one of the beds. Judging from her tragic death, she had been defiled by beasts before her death.

Several people sighed and closed the door silently. Although there were no zombies, they were still uneasy in their hearts. The methods used by the other survivors were too despicable.

"What's wrong?" Wu Bin asked when he saw that the people who came back looked unhappy.

"There is a dead person in the room over there, don't go there!" Chen Guangjun replied, not wanting others to go in and experience the experience.

Wu Bin rarely saw Chen Guangjun like this, and the others had the same expression.

"If it's safe, let's go to the gas station. We need to get some oil!" Wu Bin nodded and pointed to the gas station.

Chen Guangjun called a few people and went to the gas station together. Two gas pumps at the gas station were knocked down by a car, revealing the underground pipe openings. It might be that someone wanted to get some oil before, but obviously failed.

Since the previous people had not succeeded, there must be oil in the underground oil tank of the gas station. Chen Guangjun asked someone to bring a generator. The generator had been placed in the storage box behind the RV. It was something he had done at the gas station before.

Dafeng just stuffed it in two days ago, and now he has to take it out again. Dafeng kept complaining that this thing is too heavy.

After bringing in the generator, Chen Guangjun prepared to connect the gas station to the power supply, while the others went to look for oil drums. There were still a few empty oil drums at the gas station, but the previous people didn't want them, so they were still there.

Chen Guangjun connected the power supply and started the generator. He tried the gas pump and it responded, but it could not pump oil. There might be air in the pipeline, so he just needed to empty it.

After waiting for a few minutes, the fuel gun finally sprayed out a few bubbles of fuel, and then the diesel was pumped up. Wu Bin immediately asked someone to drive over and fill up the fuel tanks of all the cars.

Although he had refueled, Wu Bin regretted that he did not have a gas truck and there were not many opportunities to refuel on the road, so he could only try to find a container to fill the oil.

"Good news!" Zhao Bofeng found Wu Bin with a happy face.

“I found a Scania in the lane opposite the service area!”

"Scania?" Wu Bin was a little confused. What the hell is that?

"It's an imported tractor, which is recognized as the king of the road!" Zhao Bofeng explained that Scania is not cheap, with a starting price of one million. Moreover, this car is unlikely to break down under normal use. Of course, if it breaks down, few people will repair it because they can't find the spare parts.

"I'll let Brother Jun take you there!" Wu Bin understood what Zhao Bofeng meant. He had heard of Scania before. It was an imported car, so it shouldn't be bad.

As soon as Zhao Bofeng left, He Yuxin came over again.

"Brother Bin, the RV's clean water tank is running out of water!" He Yuxin took a look when she drained the sewage tank just now.

"Excuse me, where is the clean water source now?"

"I don't care, you think of a solution quickly!" He Yuxin threw the matter to Wu Bin.

Wu Bin smiled bitterly. It was difficult to get water now. The water source in the service area had been cut off long ago. There was a water tower, but the water in it had turned green and deteriorated, and it was too dirty to use for car washing.

Zhao Bofeng and his men repaired the Scania. Of course, it could only stay there for the time being. They would have to tear down a section of isolation belt tomorrow before they could drive over. The trailer of the Scania was loaded with some kind of fiber material, which might be industrial raw materials. It was useless to Wu Bin and his team. They would find a suitable body after unloading the trailer.

Everyone sleeps in the car at night. There are rooms in the service area, but if anything unexpected happens, we won’t be able to react at all. We can respond in the car at any time or run away.

In the morning, Zhao Bofeng brought people to bring the Scania over. With previous experience, they saved some time this time. From now on, this Scania will belong to the repair team, and the previous Sinotruk 9.6-meter truck will be no longer needed.

With the addition of a new vehicle to the fleet, it is foreseeable that the fleet will need more fuel every day, and there is an even more urgent need to find a tanker truck.

The convoy left the service area and continued north. The situation on the highway was shocking. Corpses could be seen lying on the road from time to time. There were fewer zombies, and a burnt truck appeared in front.

Chen Guangjun got off the car to check. It had been burned not long ago, and two charred bodies could be clearly seen in the cab. There was no obvious damage to the front of the car, and it was not known whether the vehicle caught fire spontaneously or was caused by arson.

At noon, the convoy reached the 500-kilometer section of the Shenyang-Shanghai Expressway. The road ahead was completely blocked, with hundreds of cars piled up on the lane ahead and the same on the opposite lane.

"Captain, we can't go forward. We have to turn around and go down!" The reconnaissance vehicle in front reported to Wu Bin.

The convoy turned around and got off the highway through a gap on the side of the highway, then drove along a winding road onto the national highway.

The convoy traveled north for two days, shuttling back and forth between national and provincial highways along the way. It would be impossible to move forward on the highway without a special tow truck. Sometimes the situation on the highway was worse than that on the national highway. For example, before, the car was blocked and driven back shortly.

The national highway is a little bit smoother than the expressway, and just for this little bit of smoothness, the convoy has to be harassed by zombies all the time. The vehicles in the convoy have basically been modified, and it is difficult for them to cause harm to the convoy members unless there are large groups of zombies.

The people in the convoy gradually adapted to the outside world, but the lifeless environment outside the window caused psychological depression to the people in the car. They didn't know how long their life on wheels would end.

The roads were congested and the convoy had to travel between various roads most of the time, so it only advanced 80 kilometers in two days, and this was when the roads were in good condition.

Today's sun is about to set, and the team needs to find a campsite to end today's journey. Today is even more difficult than the previous two days. The average distance in the previous two days was 40 kilometers, but today's journey was only a little over 20 kilometers.

According to the instructions on the map, there is a town called Pingqiao ahead. Pingqiao Town has a highway entrance and exit. Wu Bin decided to spend the night on the highway.

Chen Guangjun's No. 101 armored vehicle was exploring the way one kilometer ahead of the convoy, ensuring that the convoy could pass safely.

Armored vehicle No. 101 stopped at the fork in Pingqiao Town. The road into the town was blocked by abandoned vehicles.

"Captain, the road into the town is blocked, please give instructions!" Chen Guangjun notified Wu Bin behind him via radio.

"Got it. Are there any other passable roads?" Wu Bin's reply came over the radio.

"there is none left!"

"Okay, stay where you are, we'll be there!"

A few minutes later, a rumbling sound was heard from behind the armored vehicle, and the convoy caught up.

This was a Y-shaped intersection, and the roads on both sides were also full of cars. Wu Bin led his men out of the car and saw an overgrown open space between the two roads.

"Can I get through here?"

"I don't know, it should have been a vegetable field before, but we can try!" Qiao Xinghua on the side looked at it and said, it hasn't rained in the past few days, the ground is dry, there is no need to worry about the car getting stuck.

Chen Guangjun also turned his head to take a look and said, "How about I take someone to check it out first!"

"Okay, hurry up!" Wu Bin also had to be more careful. It would be troublesome if the car got stuck, so he had to make sure the soil was hard enough.

"Brother Bin, I feel something is strange, as if someone is trying to lure us into a trap!" He Yuxin, who was standing beside him, stared at the roadside for a long time, feeling something was wrong.

"Luring someone into a trap?" Wu Bin glanced at both sides and it was indeed what he meant. Was it a coincidence that they blocked it at the same time?

Here, Chen Guangjun called Chen Haitao to enter the open space together. When they got closer, they could see traces of wheels on the soil, indicating that a car had passed by.

Chen Guangjun took a few steps forward and saw a big hole in the open space. It was strange. How could there be a hole in the open space for no reason?

Chen Guangjun couldn't help but squat down and found some unusual metal pieces in the pit.

"This is?"

The metal fragments showed signs of burning and melting. Chen Guangjun's pupils shrank involuntarily as he thought of something terrible.

Chen Guangjun stood up and took a look at the overturned vehicle not far away. It seemed to have broken in from outside. There were metal fragments under the car, the same as the one in Chen Guangjun's hand.

"Haitao, stop, don't move!" Chen Guangjun shouted.

"What's wrong?" Chen Haitao paused. Although he was confused, he still stopped.

"Slowly follow the mark back!" Chen Guangjun said with a cold sweat.

"Okay, be careful!" Chen Haitao also noticed something wrong.

After Chen Haitao returned safely, Chen Guangjun slowly squatted down, as if looking for something.

"What's wrong?" Wu Bin and a few others came over and asked when they saw Chen Haitao coming out.

"I don't know, there's something unusual about this open space!" Chen Haitao replied. He was also a little confused.

Chen Guangjun found something and started digging. After a while, a round metal object appeared in front of him. It was a landmine.

Chen Guangjun carefully dug up the soil on both sides of the mine and then slowly picked it up. This mine had no other trigger device and was empty underneath.

After picking up the mine, Chen Guangjun strode out with confidence.

"Mine!"

Everyone was shocked when they saw the round metal object in Chen Guangjun's hand. Fortunately, they did not rush in recklessly, otherwise no one knew how he died.

"That's right, this is an anti-tank mine!" Chen Guangjun gently put the mine down.

"Is it still usable?" Wu Bin asked after taking a look at the mine.

"The southwestern provinces have been clearing landmines from the war, what do you think? And some unlucky people have already checked it out!"

Chen Guangjun squatted down and pulled out the mine detonator.

“It’s all right now!”

"That means this open space is a minefield!" Wu Bin looked at the open space.

"Yes, and I think they are all anti-tank mines!" Chen Guangjun nodded.

"Why? Brother Jun, are you so sure?" Dafeng was very confused.

Wu Bin smiled and said, "Isn't it obvious? Both sides are blocked, and the middle is deliberately left empty. Someone doesn't want other survivors to pass through!"