ebonymovies Chapter 136 The Truck at the Village Entrance
Chapter 136 The Truck at the Village Entrance
Xu Wenchu led the convoy on and off for another hour or so.
However, because the speed was not fast, Xu Wenchu only led the convoy for 5 kilometers in more than an hour.
After traveling for more than an hour, Xu Wenchu also led the convoy to stop and rest.
[Attention everyone! We will rest here for five hours. After five hours, the convoy will head to a village where you can collect winter and warm clothing supplies! If possible, please make some minor modifications to your vehicles, such as adding chains to the tires to prevent slipping...]
Xu Wenchu's voice also came through the loudspeaker.
The temperature was too low, and it was snowing heavily. Many people in the convoy were in low spirits. Xu Wenchu wanted to give them a boost!
The convoy stopped to rest. Although it was bitterly cold outside, the survivors couldn't stay in their cars with the air conditioning on forever! After all, everyone had a limited amount of fuel, and they couldn't afford to waste it like that!
Despite the freezing weather, several extraordinary individuals in the convoy cleared away the thick layer of snow from the ground after getting out of their vehicles.
Wang Hu, this big guy, has been wearing a green short-sleeved shirt ever since he got out of the car. The heavy snow fell on his rock-like muscles and quickly melted into water, soaking his T-shirt.
Zhao Hai even felt that with Wang Hu's physique, even without advancing to Sequence 2, the cold of this snowy day wouldn't be able to harm him!
But this guy didn't care at all, as if he hadn't noticed anything, and carried a few cut tree trunks to where Xu Wenzhu and the others were.
With Wang Hu's strength, finding a job with food and lodging would be no problem at all before the apocalypse!
But nobody cares about it now!
Wang Hu grabbed a tree trunk and shoved it hard into the ground, driving the roots more than a meter deep, thus creating a sturdy foundation pile.
Wang Hu, on the other hand, acted as if he hadn't exerted any effort at all.
Xu Wenchu originally only wanted Wang Hu to bring some wood to start a fire so that the others could warm themselves up, but unexpectedly, Wang Hu built a simple wooden shed.
Xu Wenchu then found some thin branches and started a fire in the simple shed.
As for the other ordinary survivors, they are not sequence extraordinary, and they would not go to such great lengths to build such a simple house.
Furthermore, the convoy was only resting here for five hours, so there was absolutely no need to build such a simple house.
However, although the ordinary survivors did not have simple wooden sheds, they took out tents from their vehicles and set up several tents together in a circle.
Then they lit a fire in this circle!
Although there were no chains on Zhao Hai's car, the original owner of the Audi had put a thick bundle of nylon rope in the trunk.
Then, he took out a roll of wire from the toolbox in the trunk.
He cut the nylon rope into sections and tightly wound them into the tire treads, then secured them to the rims with steel wire. The rough rope surface pressed deep serrations into the snow, creating surprisingly good traction. He also cut open a spare large burlap sack and taped it to the front grille—this both prevented snow and wind from entering the engine compartment and left a ventilation gap.
After making some simple modifications to the wheels of his car, Zhao Hai returned to the makeshift wooden shed.
The other vehicles in the series that are considered extraordinary have also undergone some modifications.
However, most of the ordinary survivors in the convoy did not modify their own vehicles, not because they did not want to, but because they did not have the materials.
Five hours passed quickly.
When Zhao Hai woke up, he found that the fire had gone out.
Moreover, Zhao Hai also discovered that after one night, more than 30% of the ordinary survivors in the convoy had fallen ill.
The entire team is also facing a crisis; if it is not handled properly, the entire team may be paralyzed.
So many people have fallen ill in less than eight hours since they arrived in this snowy world.
When Xu Wenchu discovered this situation, a hint of anxiety appeared on his face.
"Guys, the convoy is in serious trouble right now!"
"I know that you might not care much about ordinary life and death except for your own family, but... if all the ordinary people in the convoy die, it will be very difficult for us to survive!"
"If this continues, I'm afraid quite a few people in our convoy will die! When you go to collect supplies, try to collect as much medicine and cold-weather gear as possible. As for food and water, our convoy doesn't lack them right now, so there's no rush!" Xu Wenchu said with some concern.
"Okay! We understand, Mr. Xu!" Su Wanyue agreed.
The others nodded in agreement, showing no objection whatsoever.
"Alright! Let's set off now!"
The Star Train convoy was now nearly eight kilometers away from the village.
But even though it was only eight kilometers away, a place that should have taken at most half an hour to reach, Xu Wenchu and his Star Train convoy took more than an hour to arrive at the village.
The entire village was eerily quiet, save for the howling wind swirling snowflakes through the dilapidated eaves. Most of the houses had their doors and windows wide open, like silent mouths uttering cries. At the village entrance, a few strips of cloth, frozen solid, hung from the old locust tree, swaying slightly in the greyish sky; it was impossible to tell if they were tattered prayer flags or something else entirely.
After the group got out of the car, Zhao Hai, beaming with excitement, exclaimed, "Hehe! Xu the fortune teller, we've struck it rich! If we could get our hands on this truck, think of all the supplies it could carry!"
As soon as Zhao Hai got out of the car, he saw a small truck in a house at the entrance of the village.
"Hey! That's true!" Xu Wenchu nodded with a smile when he saw the truck. Just as Zhao Hai said, if they could get their hands on this truck, it could definitely carry a lot of supplies, and they would be able to store more supplies in the future!
"Tiger, if this car doesn't have a key, can you and Uncle Wang drive it?" Xu Wenchu then asked Wang Hu.
Before the apocalypse, Wang Changjin was a car mechanic. The keys to those cars contained chips, making it very difficult to start a car without a key.
However, for trucks that cost less than 100,000 yuan, the chips in their keys are not that advanced.