The Return of Cambrian Period Volume 1 Chapter 8 9 Dec 30, 2019

When the two of them had just walked out of the supermarket, their attention was drawn by the noise outside. A group of citizens incitingly shouted and walked over here. Cheng Tianbi pulled Cong Xia, he was thinking about returning to the supermarket, but Cong Xia was pulled back by a middle-aged woman, she talked loudly into their ears.

"What are you looking for? There is nothing more that can be eaten now! We are all going to starve to death, the whole world is in chaos, the electricity is cut off, the water is also about to be cut, and the government is still not going to step forward to say anything. Come, let's go to the city hall!"

Cheng Tianbi grabbed and pulled Cong Xia back. He looked at the middle-aged woman coldly. That stare made the woman want to back off.

"You really won't go with us? The more people we have, the more powerful we are, so that at least the government will give us something to eat, or else in only two days, we can only eat grass. When we finally eat up the grass, we can only wait and starve to death."

Cheng Tianbi left without saying a word while still grabbing Cong Xia. Cong Xia took out his mobile phone and looked at it.

"The mobile phone has no signal. The network is definitely down. It's over, we have lost contact with the outside world."

Cheng Tianbi said.

"Don't worry about this, let's go to the airport as soon as possible."

"Now the main road is blocked by the cars, but the road may become clear after we are out of the city. At that time, we will find a way to get a car."

Cheng Tianbi nodded.

"Get out of the city first."

The two didn't dare to delay any longer, they were still always heading towards the entrance to the highway. However, their journey was not peaceful either. They continued to see the act of vandalizing and robbing happened. Who could imagine that at this time yesterday the city was still completely orderly and safe?

In just one day, the weeds made their way through the cracks of the tiles on the ground and grew higher than the human calves. The carefully cultivated trees grew like crazy. There were smashed windows and looted shops everywhere they went. When walking pass a street, they even saw a group of very large mice feasting on the body of a homeless man.

There were no no longer normal pedestrians on the street. The whole city was filled with the smell of decomposition and despair, it was truly a nightmare world.

The more they headed towards the direction of the entrance to the highway, the more people with luggage they encountered. It seemed that many people had the same idea like them and wanted to escape the city.

They spent two hours walking from the city center to the boundary of the city. After they got out of the main road, the number of cars that were stuck on the road became significantly less. Cheng Tianbi forced open the door of a car like a car thief on TV. He rubbed two wires to create a spark to start the engine. The two men got on the car and drove towards the direction of the highway.

This car had just a small amount of gas, and at the two gas stations that they saw along the way, there was no one in the stations, the fuel dispensers had been blocked by dozens of cars waiting to be refueled. In addition, those cars had been left behind.

There were only a handful of cars on the road. They had driven for four or five kilometers on the highway to the airport when the car was completely out of gas.

At this time, the sky was already dark. After a day on the road, Cong Xia felt unbearably exhausted. He looked at the highway that didn't have any stores or villages nearby and analyzed.

"I think we should not continue, we should stay and rest in the car, when the night falls, the visibility will be very low. The highway is surrounded by tall grass. God knows what is hidden inside, moreover, what if the temperature suddenly drops, I think we had better stay in the car and rest."

Cheng Tianbi considered it for half a minute.

"There are still about 20 kilometers from here to the airport. If we go along the highway, we can get there before dawn. The sooner we arrive at the airport, the more chance we get to leave. It's not worth wasting our time here."

"But there is no light here. Can you hear the sound coming from the grass from both sides of the highway? We don't even know what it is."

Cong Xia looked at the weeds which were taller than human in horror. What was in there couldn't be predicted at all. If they just mindlessly left like this, how far could they go? There was no way that he wouldn't feel afraid.

"If there is really something, staying in the car is going to be safe?"

Cheng Tianbi took the lead and got off the car.

"Off the car. We can walk along the roadside while stop passing cars. Occasionally, there are cars passing by, maybe they can take us to the airport."

Cong Xia had no choice but to listen to him. Taking advantage of the sun that had not completely set behind the mountain, the two quickly walked along the straight highway. There were one or two cars passing occasionally, but refused to stop. Maybe the cars were full, maybe at this time, people were frightened, no one bothered to mind other people's businesses. In short, they had been walking until the sun was down, but no passing vehicles stopped.

The expression of Cheng Tianbi was still the same, but Cong Xia was already about to collapse. Hunger, exhaustion, disappointment, combined with the deepest fear, frightened him every step of the way. This road, of which end point couldn't be seen, also made him unable to see any hope.

Just when Cong Xia was about to lose all hope, a car finally stopped when they waved. Sitting in the car was a young couple, they looked very friendly at first sight. The couple did not have much luggage, the trunk was full with luggage that took up half of the rear seat, there was still another half of the seat, two men sitting would be very crowded, but it was far better than nothing.

Cong Xia practically thanked them thousands times. The two quickly got on the car. The space of the back seat was really small. The two people could only sit on top of one another. Cong Xia's legs were tightly attached to the thighs of Cheng Tianbi. Through the pants, he could feel the thriving muscles of the thighs. Cong Xia was very envious of Cheng Tianbi's body. Thinking of the biceps muscles he touched today, his heart was somewhat itchy. The couple were very kind and enthusiastic. They took the initiative and asked.

"Where do you want to go?"

"We want to go to the airport."

The young man was surprised.

"Why do you want to go to the airport? All planes have stopped flying, the traffic was paralyzed now. Doesn't matter if you have a lot or little money, you still can't fly."

Cong Xia had to say.

"I have relatives over there. I want to find them."

"Oh, when you find them, you should quickly leave. We intend to go to Chongqing, it's where my wife's family is. We can't stay here any longer, I don't know if it will be better there or not."

His wife sighed.

"I am afraid that every place has changed."

He grabbed his wife's hand.

"Doesn't matter, even if it really is the end of the world, let's go back to die with our family."

The couple were very affectionate and this made Cong Xia very envious. He thought about the fact that he had lived for 26 years without even ever holding a girl's hand. It was kind of sad that he was still a virgin when the end of the world was already here. He couldn't help but feel sad. How could he be so unlucky?

The only thing he knew since he was young was studying. When boys of the same age started to take interested in girls, he was still immersing himself in studying. Because he had no other specialties, so good results were the only way he could do to achieve a sense of accomplishment. This also made him not get along with girls since his early age, up until he was in college, when talking to girls, he would only know to look at the tips of their shoes.

After he started working, he was in contact with even fewer people and he became even more of a homebody. Every day, he spent all of his spare time on the virtual world, others introduced him to girls, but no one succeeded. He thought that he could find a girlfriend who would talk to him about the same topic sooner or later, he did not even expect that this wish had become such a luxury. Right now, it didn't have to be a woman, if he could have someone to accompany him, he would feel very satisfied.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but take a look at Cheng Tianbi. The perfect side of Cheng Tianbi's face was flickering in the dim light. When Cong Xia saw that, somehow he couldn't avert his eyes. He felt like Cheng Tianbi was like a powerful hero in the comics. His expressionless face and the fact that he didn't like to talk were actually quite unique. If the last person who would accompany him was such a perfect person like Cheng Tianbi, he would probably feel enough. Being able to sense Cong Xia's gaze, Cheng Tianbi slowly turned his face and looked at him coldly.

For some reasons, Cong Xia felt like his cheeks suddenly became a little hot, he giggled.

"Mr. Soldier, are you still hungry? Do you want to eat something?"

Cheng Tianbi shook his head. The wife turned her face around.

"Even if you are hungry, don't eat. If you can save it, then keep it. We don't even know what will happen the next day."

Cong Xia said.

"Did you prepare the food well? Have you ever considered that what if the car was out of gas?"

"The food is enough. It's fine to eat less until we reach Chongqing. Gas is our biggest problem. We do have a fuel tank in the trunk, but we have only that. We can only find a way when it's out of gas. Right, we can't make a turn to take you to the airport, we have to save gas, we can only take you to the airport's entrance, the rest of the journey you have to go by yourself."

"No problem, you guys have done us a big... Watch out!"

Cong Xia screamed, he was extremely terrified. The four people widened their eyes and looked at a black shadow jumped out in front of them. Then Cheng Tianbi shouted.

"Don't steer the car..."

But it was already too late, the young husband had no experience in dealing with emergencies. The speed was as high as 130 on the highway, in order to avoid the unknown thing in front, his body had already made the first response before his brain could give out an order. He ferociously steered the steering wheel. The small car, which was carrying a lot of luggage and four people, like a fragile toy, uncontrollably rolled over on the ground and slid out of control several meters away, only stopped until it hit the guardrail on the other side.

The huge impact caused Cong Xia to lose conscious. Before he passed out, he only felt that Cheng Tianbi was holding him tightly.

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Cong Xia opened his eyes. His whole body hurt as if he had been beaten up. Even lifting his fingers seemed to require great willpower. His body couldn't move, as if he was restrained by something. A groan in pain slipped out from his throat. In the next second, there was a warm thing cover his mouth.

"Shush."

A very low-pitched voice was resonating around his ear. Cong Xia tried to open his eyes and saw a pair of deep and bright eyes in the dark. It was a pair of eyes that could make people unable to forget, narrow, long and beautiful. He recognized these eyes, they belonged to Cheng Tianbi.

The memory of the car accident happened before his unconsciousness instantly returned to his mind. Although his body was very painful, he could still think. It seemed that he was not dead yet. He tried to opened his eyes and asked why Cheng Tianbi was covering his mouth, but he soon discovered the unusual of the surrounding environment.

He could hear... Chewing sound. That's right, biting, tearing and chewing. Tearing the flesh, biting the bones and swallowing the blood, although he never truly heard the sound of meat being swallowed, but he would not mistake the sound of animals eating.

Cong Xia's whole body was shivering and he slowly turned his head. Under the moonlight, the deformed car door was squashed and flew out. Two or three meters away from them, several tall, strong, four-legged animals were tearing the bodies of the kind, young couple.

Cong Xia's eyes were tingling. He closed his eyes, feeling devastated. Cheng Tianbi covered his mouth tightly, for he feared that he would make a sound. The two men hid in the innermost part of the car, the deformed seats covered their bodies. Perhaps the huge monsters found that they were not easy to be dragged out, that was why they could live until the present. However, those monsters must know that they were inside, the animals' sense of smell was too sensitive, how could they give up these two fresh pieces of meat?

If they didn't find a way to save themselves, sooner or later, they would be consumed until nothing was left by the animals. Cong Xia asked Cheng Tianbi with his eyes, what should they do?

The sweat on Cheng Tianbi's chin dropped on his face, and he could feel his tension through his cold sweat. In the quiet night, the two were forced to carefully and clearly listen to the terrifying sound of the bodies of their own kin being torn and swallowed, while thinking that their turn would be next. This was a tremendous psychological pressure that ordinary people could not bear.

They didn't know how long it took, but the sound of chewing had stopped. Cong Xia's eyes widened as he was watching a monster slowly turned its head around. Its green eyes looked at them distantly. Cong Xia recognized what it was. The monster, with a fierce face and a muscular body, was a Rottweiler. This dog was already scary in peacetime, but when they grew huge with bodies of more than two meters, anyone who saw them would vividly understand what hell was.

There was only one thought in Cong Xia's mind, he wished that he had died in the car accident.

[Note: Rottweiller is a dog breed originated from Germany. The weight can range from 50 - 60 kg for males and 35 - 48 kg for females. The height for males is 61 - 69 cm while the height for females is 56 - 63 cm source: wikipedia]

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