Gao Yuan and his companions had been blocked outside for a rather long time, but even on the outskirts of Dushanbe, one could already discern the terrifying cloud of dread that loomed over the city.
Gao Yuan saw a person pushing a two-wheeled cart full of daily necessities, followed by a middle-aged woman holding the hand of one child and cradling another in her arms, with an old man walking behind the man with the cart. Clearly, it was a family trying to flee the city.
Dushanbe was one of the rare cities that hadn't been infected by the virus, but Dushanbe was not an isolated island cut off from the world; at least before the global communications were severed, the people here were aware of what had happened.
The city was consequently ringed by soldiers, a blockade which was utterly necessary and definitely expected.
