Chapter 129 River Pit
Chapter 129 River Pit
"When you passed through the county town, did you meet anyone in the shelter over there?"
"We have been out of touch with the county shelter for almost 24 hours."
“I don’t know what happened there.”
The voice in the channel sounded anxious and a little nervous.
Obviously, he must have someone he cares about who is still in the county shelter.
"Didn't you go and see for yourself?"
Su Wu asked.
"It's too hot outside now and we don't have the tools to go out."
"But if there is still no news after a while."
"We also plan to organize a few people to walk over and take a look."
The voice on the other end said honestly.
"Then you don't have to go?"
"The radiation intensity in the entire county is now dozens of times higher than outside."
"No matter what kind of protective clothing you wear, you will die within a few minutes."
Su Wu did not hide anything and spoke frankly.
"What about the people in the shelter?"
"Any news about them?"
The male voice that was talking to Su Wu had an obvious tremor in its tone.
It was as if he had anticipated something, but didn't have the courage to admit it.
"Have."
"All dead."
"I scanned it with the vehicle-mounted radar, and all the equipment in the shelter over there has stopped functioning."
Without considering the other party's complicated feelings, Su Wu used the simplest and most direct words to reveal the news that the other party wanted to know or did not want to hear.
This time.
The male voice on the wireless channel did not respond for a long time.
I could just vaguely hear someone sobbing softly on the other end.
After a while.
A middle-aged female voice with a slightly hoarse voice asked with sobs.
"When they left."
"Is it painful?"
"It should be fine."
"The radiation over there is too high, and the shallow shelters can't stop it at all."
"After the disaster breaks out, everyone will fall into a deep coma within a few minutes at most."
"It won't hurt."
Su Wu considered it for a moment and spoke with careful words.
And this time, he got no reply.
After nearly half a minute, the original male voice sounded again.
"Sorry, she just got a little excited."
"Her son went to the county shelter with the convoy just yesterday."
"They said they wanted to change some medicine to suppress her illness."
"I didn't expect this to happen—"
At this point, the man's voice also choked with sobs.
Not only did the mother lose her child, he also lost a loved one in this accident.
"That's it."
"Do you have any cell phones that can be turned on?"
"I'll send a drone to deliver a copy of the video I just shot in the city to you."
"Don't even think about going to the city again. The radiation there is too high. You will die if you go there."
Su Wu felt a little compassion.
After thinking about it, I decided to give them a copy of the in-car video and the underground shelter information scanned by the radar.
Then, for some unknown reason, he subconsciously emphasized the existing danger once again.
Keep them from being stupid and impulsive.
"Of course."
"Mrs. Yang's cell phone is the latest model her son bought for her—"
At this point, the male voice seemed to realize that he had said the wrong thing again.
He quickly swallowed the rest.
He just kept expressing his gratitude to Su Wu.
"Thank you so much."
"Bring us such important news."
"Just don't blame me for bringing you bad news."
Su Wu sighed. He didn't like close contact with this kind of life and death.
It's just too heavy and uncomfortable.
Left the area of Suzuka Prefecture.
The base vehicle slightly adjusted its direction, chose the road heading northwest, and continued moving forward.
This road can bypass the mountains to the north of Jianghe City.
Although it will increase the total journey a bit.
But the road along the way will be much easier to travel, and you can actually reach your destination faster.
And after advancing about fifty or sixty kilometers.
Su Wu discovered.
The temperature here seems to be starting to drop significantly.
Sometimes it can even fall below the 80-degree floor line.
Return to non-extremely hot conditions of over 70 degrees.
"It seems that the temperature difference will be very large on a global scale."
There are such obvious changes in just a distance of one or two hundred kilometers.
If we look at it on a global scale, the gap will only be bigger.
Su Wu even doubted it.
Maybe at this moment, in some corner of the planet, there are still some areas on the surface where people can live normally.
After all, according to the information he has received so far.
Surface radiation only occurs on some continents and in some limited areas.
The only truly global disaster is high temperature.
“We still know too little.”
Su Wu sighed.
At this time, he especially wanted to have a reconnaissance satellite.
It can let him see what the current situation on this planet is like.
On the morning of July 8.
Su Wu wakes up from his sleep.
He discovered that the base vehicle, which he had authorized to drive automatically, had stopped moving at some point.
In front of the base vehicle.
It is a cross-river bridge that has been twisted and broken in the middle by violence.
The way forward is blocked.
“We can only go under the bridge.”
Su Wu sent out a reconnaissance drone, which hovered near the bridge for a while.
It was discovered that the damage to the bridge was more serious than it appeared from a distance.
It was impossible to get through.
And below the bridge.
The river, which was originally several kilometers wide, has now completely dried up.
Only a riverbed made of mud and sand was left.
Su Wu maneuvered the base vehicle to change direction and drove along the river upstream for dozens of kilometers.
Near the third collapsed cross-river bridge that was discovered.
Finally we found a slope suitable for entering the river.
As soon as he entered the river, Su Wu could feel the car body sinking noticeably.
Obviously, the geology of this riverbed is much softer than that of the land.
It is unable to stably bear the base vehicle's weight of up to two to three hundred tons.
But now that we are here, we can't turn back easily.
Su Wu turned the power of the vehicle-mounted radar to maximum.
Carefully based on the data obtained from radar mapping, we specially selected relatively solid places as fulcrums.
And that's it.
After walking a few hundred meters.
The first carriage of the base vehicle inevitably sank into a sunken hole.
Accompanied by a violent shaking.
A large amount of mud and sand directly buried most of the panoramic glass in front of the cockpit.
Only a gap less than a few centimeters wide was left at the top, through which the sky outside could still be seen.
"It's a bit unlucky."
Su Wu checked the condition of the car with some headache.
The damage was found to be minor.
The chassis of the car has been buried nearly 6 meters deep in gravel at its deepest part.
(End of this chapter)