"Actually, I am a time traveler." Zhang Heng stopped the motorcycle and turned to look at Lu Yu anxiously.
Lu Yu narrowed his eyes, "Are you a time traveler? Then are you here to help Optimus Prime return to Cybertron? Or to help Qin Shihuang restore the Qin Empire?"
Zhang Heng's expression froze and he felt a little stuffy in his heart.
"Well, in your day and age, can't the claims of time-travelers be believed? Well, whether you believe it or not, please remember what I say next."
Lu Yu crossed his arms and acted as if he was listening.
Zhang Heng sighed helplessly: "A disaster is about to break out. You can think of it as a zombie crisis. Next, you need to prepare a large amount of food with a long shelf life and clean water. It is best to last until the end of this year.
Of course, you can't do it in a short time. Time is not enough. The more you collect, the better. "
Zhang Heng paused, "The second is to prepare a lot of aspirin, the more the better. Finally, before the end of next year, that is, before December 21, 2022, try not to travel far away, because..."
"Do you think I will believe it?" Lu Yu stared at the man in front of him with a half-smile, his tone even more playful.
"It's still December 21st, will the world end?"
Zhang Heng was interrupted by Lu Yu, but there was no look of dissatisfaction on his face. On the contrary, there was a hint of anxiety on his eyebrows.
"Believe it or not, I can't interfere too much with you due to the butterfly effect."
Zhang Heng took off the black leather glove on his left hand, and instantly, the smile on Lu Yu's face froze.
Because the hand under Zhang Heng's glove was not a normal human hand, but a mechanical palm glowing with a faint blue light.
"I don't have much time, so this is all I can tell you. I hope you can survive. After all, you are a very important person to me."
While speaking, Zhang Heng rolled up his left sleeve, revealing the entire mechanical arm glowing with blue light. With a "swipe" sound, a foot-long black blade popped out of the forearm and was embedded in the mechanical palm.
Zhang Heng shook the remaining blade in his hand, and after seeming to confirm that it was accurately in place, he turned and walked towards the dark alley.
"I'll give you the motorcycle, make good use of it!" Zhang Heng waved to Lu Yu with his back. The blue light on his left arm burst out instantly, as dazzling as the sun. At the same time, the sound of the machine and the hum of the rotor came from his arm. issue.
Zhang Heng's entire body moved fiercely in the air in conjunction with the movements of his left hand, and a dark crack appeared in front of him out of thin air.
Zhang Heng turned back panting, as if the series of actions just now drained all his strength, and a sunny smile bloomed on his handsome face, "I hope we will meet again, human Lu Yu..."
As soon as he finished speaking, a rift in the darkness swallowed up Zhang Heng, leaving Lu Yu stunned under the streetlight.
"Um, just disappeared like that?" Lu Yu looked at the alley that was turning dark again before him, lost in thought, "It seems that we can rule out the possibility that he is a madman."
The black motorcycle parked under the streetlight also proved that what just happened was not his hallucination.
Lu Yu looked at the motorcycle in front of him, Ducati's Scrambler 1000, the same motorcycle owned by Teacher Tang, and it seemed to have been modified.
The tires have been replaced with off-road tires with better road grip, and the fuel tank seems to have been modified and expanded. The entire body is matte black, looking like a dormant beast, ready to go.
"What a headache. City N is a city that bans motorcycles. If you ride home, you will definitely be detained by the traffic police..."
Lu Yu scratched his head.
"Since you said it was given to me as a gift, I can't let him down..."
In this way, as a good law-abiding citizen, Lu Yu decided to push his motorcycle home.
As an adopted child, Lu Yu was lucky. Both his adoptive father and mother were scientists.
But don't get me wrong, they are not the kind of great scientists who can win the Nobel Prize. According to their father's description, the two of them are just employees who "do odd jobs" for the great scientists.
Therefore, Father Lu and Mother Lu had plenty of time to accompany Lu Yu as he grew up. At the same time, the fact that Lu Yu was adopted was not concealed. But regarding the details of the adoption, Lu's father never mentioned it to Lu Yu. Lu Yu was very thoughtful and never asked about it.
The days passed happily day by day, until one day two years ago, something happened.
That day, Lu Yu came home from get off work as usual. He knocked on the door and found that no one opened the door.
Just when he was surprised that his mother had not sent any overtime message today, he received a call from his father.
"Xiaoyu, is your mother home?" Father Lu's anxious voice came from the phone.
"No, there's no one at home. Do you have to work overtime today?"
Lu Yu opened the door and entered the house, only to find that the house was in a mess, with all kinds of debris thrown all over the floor.
"It seems like there was a thief at home..."
There was silence on the other end of the phone. "You stay at home and get yourself something to eat. I'll go find your mother."
Then, Father Lu hung up the phone.
That day, Lu Yu simply tidied up the house, cooked a bowl of instant noodles and was about to eat it when his father called again.
But this time it was not his father who spoke, but a stranger.
"Hey, your name is Xiaoyu, right?"
"Yes, where is my dad? Who are you?"
"Your dad was in a car accident. Come to the first hospital quickly. He was seriously injured and is being rescued..."
Lu Yu's entire head went blank for an instant, and the chopsticks in his hand fell to the ground.
"I'll come right away!"
Lu Yu quickly rushed to the hospital after hanging up the phone. He had poor empathy, but that didn't mean he had no emotions and could live as rationally as a machine.
His mother disappeared, and his father suddenly encountered a car accident. The successive changes made him feel fear. The feeling of the absence of a safe haven and the fear of being alone gradually crept into his heart.
Outside the hospital's emergency room, Lu Yu was waiting anxiously.
The person who called him was an enthusiastic uncle with a beard. The uncle told him that Lu's father was hit by a speeding truck when he was crossing a traffic light, and he fell unconscious on the spot.
"The light was red at the time, and the big truck didn't slow down at all. It hit the guy with a bang, and drove away without even stepping on the brake."
"Young man, has your father offended someone who cannot be offended?"
Lu Yu shook his head dully, his eyes still staring at the door of the emergency room without saying a word.
Later, Lu Yu only remembered that the doctor from the emergency room shook his head helplessly and said "Sorry" to him.
Lu Yu couldn't remember how he spent the subsequent funeral. The huge sadness numbed his nerves, and he took care of his father's funeral like a machine.
His mother still didn't come home. Lu Yu went to the police station to report his father's car accident and his mother's disappearance, but there was no clue at all.
Lu Yu could only wait, hoping that one day when he would come home, his mother would prepare meals as before and welcome him home with a warm smile.
Lu Yu's family lives in Lanyue Garden Community in Y District, N City. Due to the death of Lu's father, the disappearance of Lu's mother, and the fact that Lu Yu has been single for 27 years and has no girlfriend, Lu Yu is now the only one living in the 120-square-meter house.
Lu Yu parked his motorcycle in the parking shed downstairs, thinking about it.
"If what the guy named Zhang Heng said today is true, then the first step should be to prepare a lot of food and water."
Lu's father and Lu's mother are usually frugal people, and they still have a certain amount of cash in their bank accounts. Lu Yu works in a design company with a high salary, which not only meets daily expenses, but also saves a small amount of money.
So money is not an issue for the time being when it comes to buying food and water.
Just do what you say. Lu Yu has a strong execution ability. Once he decides on something, he will immediately start doing it.
In the blink of an eye, Lu Yu bought a large amount of bottled water and rice from the small supermarket downstairs, and generously hired several supermarket employees to help him move upstairs.
The supermarket staff looked at the strange customer in front of them and didn't say much. If someone is willing to buy, can the businessman still make money? Lu Yu didn't explain anything, just silently helped carry it.
After a period of busy work, the bottled water and rice stocks in the supermarket have been emptied. There is not much inventory in such small supermarkets.
Lu Yu bought salt, chocolate, compressed biscuits and instant noodles of various flavors, thinking that it would not be a problem to eat these foods for two years.
Zhang Heng told him that the food reserves should last until the end of the year, but Lu Yu is a person who likes to prepare for the worst.
If something unexpected happens, this food can support him to stay at home for a while.
After buying food and water, it was already 10 o'clock in the evening. Lu Yu did not rest, but ran towards the pharmacy across the road.
"Aspirin, you want a lot more?" Lu Yu frowned.
If Zhang Heng asked him to prepare food and water, he would understand. After all, whether it is in movies or novels, once a zombie crisis breaks out in the world, food and water are the top priority.
But what does aspirin do? Could it be fed to zombies?
Lu Yu shook his head, as if trying to drive away the speculation in his mind.
"Now that you've decided to do it, don't think about anything, just do it."
Lu Yu thought and walked into the drugstore.
"Is there any aspirin?" Lu Yu looked around and found that there was only one aunt huddled behind the counter playing with her mobile phone.
"Yes." The aunt put down her phone, took out a box from the bottom of the medicine cabinet and handed it to Lu Yu. "for you."
"I want them all as much as you have in your store."
"Young man, if you take the medicine as a jelly bean, will it kill you?"
The aunt looked at Lu Yu with a shocked face, as if the young man in front of her was a monkey that escaped from the circus.
"You're just selling me, it's not illegal for me to buy aspirin, right?"
Lu Yu glanced at his aunt coldly, without any intention of explaining.
"Okay, okay, but I would like to advise you, this is medicine, don't chew it like jelly beans."
Carrying two large plastic bags of aspirin, Lu Yu returned to his home.
The rice and water he bought from the supermarket were piled in his study and bedroom, making the originally empty room seem a little crowded now.
Lu Yu thought for a moment, then turned on the faucet in the bathroom, and used the basin and bucket at home to catch the water.
The food purchased from the supermarket is enough for him to last for two years, but the mineral water consumption can only last half a year.
It is only the beginning of May. If the tap water supply is stopped or becomes undrinkable for any reason, he will not survive until December.
Therefore, Lu Yu decided to try his best to get more water while the water supply was still normal to prepare for future needs.
"Water, electricity, gas," Lu Yu thought as he received the water. These things are essential for normal life, but once zombies break out, such civilian supplies are likely to be interrupted.
"Electricity is nothing. You don't need it when you don't need it. Water can also be stored in advance. Don't worry about it for now. If the gas is interrupted, you won't be able to cook cooked food. We have to solve it..."
Lu Yu frowned, want to buy a liquefied gas tank? Nowadays, N city basically uses piped gas, so it is obviously unrealistic to buy gas tanks in a short time.
So use an alcohol stove instead? Then you need to prepare a large amount of alcohol fuel in advance. Alcohol fuel is sold in a large supermarket two streets away. It's too late tonight. Let's get up early tomorrow to buy it...
Just as Lu Yu was thinking about what more necessary supplies he should buy, a scream came from next door...
