The next day.
The seven o'clock biological clock in his head woke Brian from his deep sleep. He slowly opened his eyes and was about to stretch, but found that he couldn't feel the existence of his left arm. He turned his head and found that Sarah was still on his arm, her body hugging him like an octopus.
With a helpless sigh, he used his right hand to pull out his left arm, feeling the tingling pain that arose, his expression suddenly turned into a smile.
After a few minutes, the pleasure gradually subsided, and then Brian broke away from Sarah's embrace little by little, not letting out a sigh of relief until he finally got rid of the other party's restraints.
He stood up and looked at sweet Sarah who was still sleeping. He bent down and pulled out a map of Texas from the mezzanine in the backpack on the floor. This is when he passed by a bookstore yesterday and went in especially to take it.
He looked around beside the car, and when he saw nothing serious, he walked to the factory gate lightly, opened a not-too-wide gap, and walked out of the gap leaning on its side.
As soon as he left the factory, the dazzling sunlight shone on Brian's face. He squinted his eyes slightly. After a while, he gradually got used to it. Then he walked to the back of an abandoned car and spread the map in his hand up.
I found the location of Austin on the map and my fingers kept moving up, passing through Round Rock, Temple, Waco and finally stopping in Dallas.
Looking at the itinerary along the way, Brian scratched his head and said to himself, "I don't know what problems will be encountered along the way."
Bang!
Just as Brian was carefully planning the route, a loud bang suddenly sounded not far away, followed by the sound of a rifle shot "da-da-da" and the incredible screams of humans. The sound, which could not help but frighten his heart, suddenly raised his head and looked in the direction where the sound came from.
But there were so many obstructions around that it was impossible to see what was going on there, but an ominous premonition came over Brian, and he quickly folded the map and put it away.
He quickly opened the factory door to the left and right, and shouted from inside: "Sarah, get up, let's get out of here quickly."
As soon as he finished speaking, Sarah's figure ran out from the back of the car. Seeing that Brian was okay, he was relieved and asked with some doubts: "What happened just now?"
The loud noise just woke her up, and when she saw that Brian was not around, she felt a little uneasy and hurriedly ran out to check. At this moment, she saw that the other party was safe and sound and relaxed.
Looking at Sarah approaching, Brian told her what happened just now, then opened the driver's door of the car at the gate and said solemnly, "No matter what happens there, don't worry. Get in the car and let's get out of here."
"Well!"
Hearing Brian's decision, Sarah nodded. It doesn't really matter what happened there, it doesn't matter to those who are about to leave here. She trotted a few steps to pick up the backpack from the factory building and turned back. Back in the car, she opened the co-pilot and sat in.
Woohoo-!
Seeing Sarah sitting in the passenger seat, Brian did not hesitate. He drove out of the abandoned car factory in a ruthless manner and then stepped on the accelerator, raising dust in the sky, like an arrow from the string to the other side of the road driving fast.
Brian was in the driver's seat, his eyes kept staring at the rearview mirror to observe the situation behind him, for fear that something would happen. After the car had traveled a long distance, he gradually relaxed and watched the right turn sign on the road ahead and turned the steering wheel of the car.
"Shit!"
But as soon as the car turned a corner, Brian suddenly saw a truck blocking the road intersection and several fully armed soldiers beside it, this made him feel agitated and wanted to curse.
He didn't know why the soldiers of the army suddenly appeared in this place, but when he saw that these soldiers raised their weapons without hesitation after seeing them, he knew that these soldiers did not have any kindness towards them. Recalling the gunshots and screams coming from the village just now, as well as the encounter with the soldiers when the plague broke out, he dared to conclude that these people were definitely bad guys.
Although this judgment may seem very arbitrary, Brian believes in his own intuition, and is not a person who would easily hand over the right to choose his own life and death into the hands of others.
"This… why are they here?" Sarah frowned at the soldiers who suddenly appeared in front of the party. She really didn't like these so-called soldiers, and was very puzzled as to when they got here.
"I don't know, but it's definitely not a good thing for us."
Hearing Brian's words, Sarah also understood that her current situation was a bit embarrassing. Since the intersection here is guarded, the other places should be the same. Even if they return to the city and hide, they will most likely be hunted down by them. When she came out, thinking of this, she asked anxiously, "So, what should we do now?"
"Sit down, squat down, let's hurry up!"
He stepped on the accelerator frequently. At this point, Brian knew they had no way out. With a low roar, he pushed the car's accelerator to the floor. With Sarah's exclamations, he raced toward the highway entrance.
On the other side, several soldiers guarding the road intersection looked at the sudden car at the end of the road, they quickly raised their rifles and looked at each other, not knowing what to do, they had just arrived here, and they did not expect that at this moment, a car would suddenly appear.
At this moment, one of the soldiers who was obviously the leader came out, took the horn placed on the supply box beside him, and shouted at the vehicle parked in front:
"The vehicle in front, we are from the National Disaster Rescue Team, please get out of the vehicle for inspection, we will escort you to..."
But before he could finish speaking, he saw the car in front suddenly accelerate and rush towards him, which shocked him and he realized that the other party seemed to know something. He raised his rifle and shouted, "Shoot!"
Pa pa pa.....
Bullets rained down on the outer shell of the car, throwing off sparks, making a "cracking" sound, and the windshield of the car was also penetrated by the dense bullets, instantly turning into a spider web.
Brian desperately lowered his body and felt the bullets whizzing in front of him, he felt both fear and excitement, his heart continued to beat violently, his breathing accelerated and the adrenaline in his body suddenly began to skyrocket.
Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to the soldiers on the opposite side, Brian suddenly slammed the steering wheel and crashed into the supply boxes stacked beside the soldiers.
pop!
The strong collision force overturned all the stacked supply boxes and flew towards the soldiers, and by the way, it helped the car to block some flying bullets.
The soldier who was shooting saw the supply box crashing into him, and involuntarily took two steps back, and the rifle in his hand stopped firing.
After hitting the supply box, Brian saw that they had never been shooting, so he quickly accelerated to avoid the military truck, smashed the barricade in front of him and the elevator railing at the road intersection, and entered the road.
"You two stay here, and the rest will get in the car and chase him!"
The leading soldier looked at the car driving away and felt extremely upset, if it wasn't for the fact that his blockade hadn't been completed, how would he allow the car to leave so easily there?
He quickly ordered two soldiers to stay here to keep watch, and the rest climbed into the truck. He quickly opened the cab door and sat down. He started the truck and chased towards the road. At the same time, he took the radio and reported to his superior about what happened just now.
"Report Captain, a car broke through the blockade from the northern part of the city and entered the highway. I am now driving on the highway to chase it, and I promise to stop it, over!"
But after the news was sent, what came over the radio was not the voice of their captain, but the stern voice of a strange man:
"Who asked you to act without authorization, return to the northern blockade point immediately and I will send someone else to drive the car. Remember, if anyone escapes from your blockade point, don't blame me!"
"Yes... yes, sir, I'll be right back!"
Hearing the voice on the other end of the radio, the soldier's complexion suddenly changed and he instantly felt an invisible sense of oppression. Cold sweat slid down his forehead. He quickly stopped the truck, turned around, and drove back to the road intersection.
At a military camp in the west of the city, the middle-aged man in the standard combat uniform handed the radio back to a captain standing beside him and said coldly, "Hurry up to the north, don't let anything go wrong."
"Yes!" The captain heard this, saluted, turned his head and left the tent quickly.
Looking at the other party's figure leaving, the middle-aged man closed his eyes and the corners of his mouth twitched slightly, gradually revealing a happy expression.
Originally, he was still worried about how to secretly let some of the survivors go, but he didn't expect that someone would send pillows when he fell asleep. It seems that even God thought they did the right thing and wanted to help the United States put an end to this disaster.