After resting for two days, the Shen family set off again, heading towards S City.
Now, two of the five people have awakened their powers, and the remaining three are already proficient in using weapons.
The probability of survival is greatly increased.
The rest of the road to S City was sparsely populated, and no mutant beasts were encountered along the way. It was extremely smooth.
Just as we were about to arrive in S City, there were more and more people.
And they are all in groups, some live in tents, and some live in the open air.
Shen Qing noticed something was wrong and parked the car on the side of the road.
"We'd better walk this way and inquire about the situation in S City. I always feel that something is wrong."
Now that Zhao Xi knew that she had awakened her powers, she no longer had to hide it.
In front of Zhao Xi, he put the car into the space.
Anyway, now Zhao Xi only knows her abilities, but doesn't know how many supplies she has stored.
Zhao Xi was still shocked when he saw the car in front of him disappear instantly.
She could guess that Shen Qing's superpower was related to space, but she was still shocked when she saw it with her own eyes.
This is called superpower, her little spark of fire... well, let's not mention it.
Most of the people on both sides of the road were lying down to save energy, so even if someone walked by in front of them, they didn't bother to take a second look.
"Strange... I didn't see any villages or buildings nearby... Why are they gathering here?" The doubt raised by Shen Zhian is also the same doubt that Shen Qing is now wondering.
City S is right in front of us, why are they stationed here?
Judging from the traces of life here, it doesn’t look like a temporary resting place.
However, this doubt was quickly answered.
After walking less than a kilometer, they were blocked by a three-person-high grid wall.
"What's this?"
Shen Qing was sure that she didn't have this thing when she left City S.
The grid walls extend towards both sides, with no edges visible.
"It's like... to separate the inside from the outside." Zhao Xi said as he stretched out his hand.
"Be careful." Shen Qing opened her hand.
"Don't move. There's electricity up there!"
Zhao Xi was startled. He took a closer look and saw that high-voltage wires were wrapped around the grid wall.
If she had just touched it, she would have been instantly burnt to death by the electricity.
"Now I understand why so many people gathered here." Shen Qing whispered.
The other people also understood.
It must be that they couldn't enter S city for some reason, so they gathered outside to look for opportunities.
"Let's find the entrance first."
Several people walked sideways along the direction of the grid wall, and found the entrance after nearly a thousand meters.
A high wall was built at the entrance.
There were at least dozens of guards visible on and off the walls.
They held their guns and scanned the surrounding people with their eyes like hawks.
There is a desk at the entrance, and someone is registering something.
"You guys wait for me here, I'll go ask about the situation first."
Shen Qing walked forward quickly, but was locked by several guns before he even got close.
"I'm just here to ask about the situation! No harm done!" Shen Qing quickly raised his hands to prove that he didn't hold any weapons.
The guard still pointed his gun at her and showed no intention of letting up.
Shen Qing walked to the desk bravely.
The man pushed up his glasses and glanced at Shen Qing up and down.
"Want to go in?"
Shen Qing nodded and asked, "What's the situation now? Why is there an extra wall?"
The man did not explain and continued to ask: "Do you have a household registration in S city?"
Shen Qing shook his head. Their family's household registration was in Guo Yuan Village.
"Do you have a house in S city?"
"There have been."
The man sneered, "I'm tired of hearing this sentence. So it means no?"
Shen Qing nodded again.
"I am neither from S city nor own real estate. I do not meet the conditions for release."
Shen Qing frowned.
In her previous life, she had been active in S City and had no idea that there were any hard conditions for entering S City.
Before she could leave, the gun-wielding bodyguard behind the man had already raised his gun and warned her.
Shen Qing could only leave first.
At this moment, the man called her in a low voice.
He lowered his voice and said: "It's not that I can't let you in... Although you don't have a house or a household registration, you have a good-looking skin. If you are willing to give me and these brothers some benefits... we can turn a blind eye. Let me let you in with just one eye."
Shen Qing's face instantly turned pale.
She clenched her fists, tried hard to suppress the anger in her heart, glared at the man fiercely, turned and left.
Hearing the wanton mocking behind her, Shen Qing was furious.
"Sister, what's going on? What did that man say to you?" Shen Zhian asked carefully when he saw her expression was not good.
Shen Qing took a deep breath and said: "Those who do not have S city household registration and real estate will not be released."
"Why? This road doesn't belong to him! Why are we blocked out?" Shen Zhian was unconvinced.
At this time, there was also a quarrel at the entrance.
"Why? We finally made it to City S, why aren't we allowed in?" A man shouted at the top of his lungs.
"This is a road built by an organization, why do you stop people?"
"Let us in! Otherwise we will never give up!"
The man looking at the city gate looked disdainful and just waved, and bullets flew from all directions.
In an instant, the few people who were making trouble just now were beaten into pieces.
"A bunch of poor people, trash! Times have changed. Do you still think the guns in our hands are just decorations?" The man spat on the ground.
Except for Shen Qing and his party, everyone else seemed to be used to it and had no reaction to the death of this group of people.
"That's too much!" Shen Zhian gritted his teeth.
"There is no law! How can they kill people indiscriminately!" Zhao Xi was also indignant.
Shen Qing reminded: "The world has changed a long time ago. Don't we also have human lives on our hands?"
"But we kill all bad people!" Shen Zhian argued.
"What are bad people? We are not judges. We just kill those people because they threaten our lives."
"In the current world, there is no longer any distinction between good and bad."
Shen Zhian and Zhao Xi were silent, their words choked in their throats and unable to speak.
"Okay. It's almost dawn, let's find a place to hide first."
Otherwise, you will be dried out by the high temperature before you can think of a way to enter the city.
"Don't worry, there are so many people gathered here, they must have a hiding place during the day. We will follow them to their location for a while, and then figure out a way."
"Before that, let's fill our stomachs first."
After all, once you enter the disaster den, there is no way to get food out.
A few people avoided the gathering places and found a secret corner to sit in a small circle.
Shen Qing took out five packs of compressed biscuits from the space.
They can't eat too much now, otherwise their rosy complexions will easily arouse suspicion.
Several people quickly finished the dry compressed biscuits and wiped the corners of their mouths.
The sky was getting brighter, and the people gathered outside slowly began to move in one direction.
"Let's go, let's follow."
Shen Qing and his party followed the footsteps of the large army and walked for half an hour when they saw an entrance leading underground.
As soon as I got close, I smelled an indescribable odor.
Several people behind him also covered their noses.
Seeing that the sun was about to rise, she could only bite the bullet and walk down.
It can be seen that this tunnel does not originally exist. The tunnel is just one person high and one person wide. I wonder if people in front stay there, so there are often congestions.
After walking through this passage, the front opens up.
"It turns out to be a sewage treatment plant." Shen Qing marveled.
She has been in S City for many years and has heard that there is the most deeply buried underground factory in the country - the Liuhua Sewage Treatment Plant - in the suburbs of S City.
It's just that this sewage treatment plant was closed two years ago, and I didn't expect it to be used for such a purpose.
The underground area is beyond everyone's imagination. It's no wonder that so many disaster victims on the ground disappeared after walking down.
It's just that the underground is full of winding underground corridors, making them feel like they have entered a huge maze.
"Let's find a place to rest where there is no one around."
Because the factory is 32 meters above the ground, it is not affected by high temperatures and is very cool.
After several rounds of twists and turns, they finally found a deserted corner.
"Have a good sleep during the day, and when we wake up, we will discuss how to enter S City." Shen Jie said.
Shen Qing nodded, and then took out the quilt and pillow from the space.
"You sleep inside and I'll stand guard outside."
There was no light underground, only the light refracted by the countless mirrors in the tunnels, and I could barely see my surroundings.
Shen Qing took out the pillow and leaned it against the steel water pipe, then gently closed her eyes.
This position will not let her sleep too deeply, and she can detect any movement in time.
After an unknown amount of time, Shen Qing heard the even breathing sounds of several members of the Shen family, as if they had fallen asleep.
She yawned and tried not to fall asleep.
"Zhizhi."
Shen Qing opened his eyes instantly.
It was normal for rats to exist in the dark underground environment, but after seeing mutated animals, Shen Qing was still a little worried.
Her ears perked up alertly.
"Zhizhi."
Along with the sound of mice, the sound of footsteps gradually became louder.
It was like someone discovered a mouse and there was a sound of chasing it.
Then there was the sound of punches and kicks.
"Let me go! This is the mouse I caught! This is my food..." A man's voice was weak, but not without anger.
Shen Qing poked his head out curiously and saw several people fighting in a ball under the weak light.
"Everyone who sees you has a share! Who cares about first come, first served at this time? Anyway, either I will beat you to death, or you will beat me to death!"
The beaten man held the rat he had just caught in his hand and curled up into a ball.
"My son will starve to death if he doesn't eat... Do you still have any humanity left?"
"Haha, human nature? Why don't you talk to the people guarding the city about human nature? Stop talking nonsense and hand over the mouse."
The fists fell on the man like raindrops, but he still protected the dead rat tightly.
Their noise made Shen Qing frown.
When he was hesitating whether to mind his own business, a dark shadow appeared and kicked away the people who were grabbing things with his own strength.
"What's the point of a group of people robbing one person's things!" The man's voice was full of magnetism, like an emotional anchor on a midnight radio station.
