Extreme germ phobia

Chapter 164: Checkpoint, another checkpoint!
The next day, the sky finally cleared up.

Facing the long-lost sunshine, Ou Yang stretched his limbs, allowing every corner of his body to be baptized by the sunshine and dispel the darkness and dampness accumulated throughout his body.

Zhu Yiming yawned and walked listlessly to Ou Yang's side. He wiped the tears from his eyes and unbuttoned his pants. While draining the water, he looked at the water level under the bridge: "Huo, it's receded quite a bit!"

The highway was still submerged in water, but the approach bridge was half exposed, and some surviving trees also emerged from the water, with the upper half covered with mud and sand, and the lower half still underwater.

Because the flow rate continued to decrease, the road surface where the water came out was covered with a thick layer of mud crust, and the crust had textures left by the impact of water.

"In another day or two, it should be gone." Ou Yang put his hands on his hips and drew circles with his buttocks, three circles to the left and three circles to the right, and then did it again.

"That's great!" Zhu Yiming's gaze extended into the distance, and suddenly he found a cargo box sunk underwater, with one corner stubbornly sticking out of the water.

He couldn't help feeling a little melancholy. The flood not only destroyed the camping area on the east side of the bridge, but the camp on the west side was also not spared.

"Ouyang, what do you think is in that truck?" Zhu Yiming said expectantly, estimating the distance between the cargo box and the road. "When the water recedes, we'll see if there's anything good left in the camp.

Ou Yang laughed: "I think it's okay!"

"Are you two done?" Jiang Yuwei's voice came from behind.

"Coming!" Ou Yang replied, turning around and walking back, "Don't dawdle, I have things to do today."

After a quick breakfast, the three of them immediately rushed to the luxury RV and spent the whole morning searching carefully. They found a lot of miscellaneous items, but not many of them were useful.

Including oil, salt, sauce and vinegar, there wasn't much in total.

"This is a waste of time!" Zhu Yiming said disappointedly.

Ou Yang was calm: "If I don't look for it, how can I know the result?"

"That's right. Since we can't leave anyway, we might as well just kill time." Jiang Yuwei also said.

Zhu Yiming looked at Ou Yang in surprise, then at Jiang Yuwei, who looked as if it was a matter of course. "Hey, are you two having an affair? Why are you always speaking up for Ou Yang?"

"Get lost, you can't control your mouth!"

"Get out of here, I'll lock your mouth!"

Zhu Yiming dodged and stepped back: "Oh my god, you have such good chemistry!"

Jiang Yuwei glared at Zhu Yiming fiercely: "I am the assistant... I will help whoever is right!"

She wanted to say that she would support the right side rather than her relatives, but when the words came to her lips she felt that it was inappropriate.

Even though it was just an unintentional remark, when the two companions heard it, would there be any misunderstanding about closeness or distance?
Then she felt that she was sick. She had never had such thoughts before, but in the past few days, strange thoughts popped up all the time.

Ou Yang didn't say anything, just gave him a sinister look.

"Come on, come on, I can't argue with you." Zhu Yiming took the initiative to give in. "When are we going to test drive the car?"

Ou Yang looked up at the sky and said, "I still feel like the time is too short. I can't leave anyway, so let's just air it out for a while."

Although the battery was shipped back, he was worried that the circuit was not dry, so he didn't install it in the car.

"Still hanging out to dry!" Zhu Yiming sighed in disappointment.

Time flies by while we are chatting and joking.

It was a sunny day with no clouds in the sky, but suddenly in the afternoon the weather changed and dark clouds covered the sky again.

"Unexpected events happen!" Zhu Yiming felt terrible. "Isn't it going to rain again? If there's another flood, we might not be so lucky again!"

"That shouldn't be the case, right?" Jiang Yuwei was also nervous.

Ou Yang felt a toothache and suddenly stood up and got out of the car: "No, we have to make some preparations!"

Zhu Yiming quickly followed: "What are you preparing for?"

Ou Yang shouted without turning his head: "Come on!"

Zhu and Jiang looked at each other and hurried to catch up.

Under Ou Yang's command, the two men took all the tools and rushed to the luxury bus to dismantle the bed board of the master bedroom.

Ou Yang tested the strength and weight of the bed board, and after confirming that there was no problem, he hung it on the steel frame with a rope and tied it tightly. He then fixed the bed sheet to the bed board and set up a simple tent to shelter from wind and rain!
He originally wanted to take down the car doors and other things to build a sturdier hut, but the tools he had were limited and the bed board was not that strong, so he had to make do with what he had and use sheets.

"Will this thing work? It will get soaked as soon as it is watered." Zhu Yiming said worriedly.

Ou Yang scratched his cheek and said, "That's easy. There's still a lot of butter. Let's brush it!"

"Ah?" Zhu Yiming and Jiang Yuwei were confused. What kind of weird idea was this?

Regardless of what they thought, Ou Yang actually covered the bed sheet with a layer of butter.

Jiang Yuwei couldn't help but tease, "I don't know if it's waterproof, but the fragrance is quite strong!"

"It's quite thick, it even attracted flies!" Zhu Yiming waved his hand to drive away a blind fly, his eyes full of despair.

"It's okay. There won't be any flies when it rains." Ou Yang insisted, gritting his teeth. "If the flood comes again, we won't have to climb the steel frame anymore. We can just sit in the tent and wait for the flood to pass."

He had already begun to imagine sitting in the tent and watching the surging torrent rushing thousands of miles.

There is certainly a danger, but the possibility of flooding the steel frame is very small.

Building the steel frame cabin was just the first step. Next, the three people stored some food and water in the tent, enough for the three people to eat and drink for a week.

There wasn't that much food originally, but Lao Mi was already dead, so the food given to them naturally couldn't be wasted.

Moreover, Ouyang specially left some canned food that was easy to preserve, and asked everyone to take one with them. If they got separated, at least they wouldn't have to worry about food.

After the project was officially completed, Ou Yang looked up at the bed board on the steel frame and the flies flying up and down the stage, smacking his lips and muttering to himself: It's a disaster!

"Ah, it's indeed a bit shabby... What do you two think?"

"Or, let's reinforce it again!" Zhu Yiming still felt that the butter sheets were unreliable.

In ancient times, there were oil-paper umbrellas, oilcloth and so on, but they were all made of tung oil, okay?
"Okay, let's try removing a few doors tomorrow." Ou Yang sighed. "Jiang Yuwei, what do you think?"

She has been having a sour face since just now, as if someone owed her eight million.

Jiang Yuwei pointed at the steel frame and asked, "With three people sharing one tent, how are we going to solve the sanitation problem?"

Ou Yang was suddenly speechless. He had never thought about this question!
Excretion problems are difficult to talk about, but everyone must face them.

There is a toilet in the RV, and you can hide in the grass in the wild, but what should you do on the steel frame?
If there is only one man and one woman, sharing the joys and sorrows, they can develop some unusual feelings. In addition, there is no third person watching, so it is natural for them to be shameless.

But two men and one woman, it's really hard to be bold! Zhu Yiming laughed and joked: "It's okay, it's okay, we both close our eyes and promise not to peek."

Jiang Yuwei was both embarrassed and angry: "Go to hell!"

Ou Yang scratched his head in pain: "If it doesn't work, then just block it. The conditions are simple, so we have to overcome it!"

Jiang Yuwei became even more angry. Just as she was about to speak, Ou Yang quickly explained, "I'm saying that the flood is not certain yet. We're doing this as a precaution. If the water doesn't rise, it won't be useful. But when the water rises, we'll be dead. There's no need to worry so much, right?"

"You two did this on purpose, didn't you?" Jiang Yuwei put one hand on her waist and pointed randomly with the other, posing as a standard teapot.

Ou Yang teased her deliberately, squinting his eyes and curling his lips: "Just you? Who cares?"

Jiang Yuwei immediately went berserk: "I'll beat you to death, you shameless bastard—"

Ou Yang laughed loudly and ran away. Jiang Yuwei chased after him, leaving Zhu Yiming disheveled in the wind: There is nothing for me to do now, right?
No matter what we say or do, it's getting late and there's not enough raw materials, so there's no way to make any changes. We can only wait until tomorrow.

However, after dark, the night wind blew harder and harder, and the air was as stuffy as a sauna. Ou Yang's expression became more and more serious: "Is it really going to rain?"

Thinking of the thrill of that day, Zhu Yiming was still frightened: "How about we get on the steel frame now?"

"No need, let's wait until the water rises." Ou Yang said, "We must leave someone on duty at night!"

"Okay!" Zhu and Jiang said in unison.

Around eight or nine o'clock in the evening, the rain finally started to fall, but it was not heavy.

The trio slept in anxiety until dawn. The rain gradually stopped and the water level stopped rising. Everyone breathed a sigh of relief at the same time.

Ou Yang finally agreed to install the batteries. A few people quickly installed all the batteries in place. Then the engine was successfully ignited, a puff of black smoke came out of the exhaust pipe, and the engine ran smoothly.

The three of them high-fived to celebrate, let the engine run for a while, and then turned it off after making sure everything was normal.

There was nothing wrong with the car, the only question now was whether to turn around and go back to Snow Bear or to keep going forward.

With such a severe flood, Ou Yang really wanted to know whether Snow Bear had been affected and whether the roads in both the front and rear directions had been destroyed by the flood.

But he only had a civilian version of the traffic map, which did not mark any contour lines, so he could not see the terrain along the way, let alone determine where the flood came from.

After discussing for a while, they finally decided to move on.

Since the entire Bear State has become an epidemic area, no matter whether it is brown bears, snow bears or any other bears, they must have been in chaos long ago. If they encounter a flood again, the situation will definitely be more serious. At this time, instead of trying to stay away from it, they actively go into the epidemic area. Are they crazy?
Looking at it from another angle, the checkpoints set up by the guards were destroyed by the flood, so the road ahead must be smooth. If we step on the accelerator, maybe we can rush out of the epidemic area in one breath?

It’s exciting just thinking about it, right?
At noon on the fourth day after crossing the bridge, the water level finally receded below the road, and more wreckage of temporary buildings appeared on both sides of the highway.

There must be a lot of good things hidden underwater, but the time to leave is ripe and no one wants to wait any longer.

Ou Yang started the off-road RV and stepped on the accelerator. The body of the car separated from the steel frame with a harsh friction sound.

There were several glaring scratches on the paint on one side of the car body, and the decklid with the primer worn off had a fresh metallic luster.

As they were about to depart, dust and smoke rose in the direction of Snow Bear. Zhu Yiming climbed onto the roof of the car and immediately jumped off: "A car is coming!"

"Never mind him." Ou Yang slammed the car door shut. "Let's go!"

The engine roared, and the off-road RV left the bridge and continued to move forward along the muddy and sandy road. Although it encountered several road damages along the way, the situation was not serious and it stumbled around them all.

After all, it is an off-road four-wheel drive chassis.

We also encountered a situation where trees blocked the road once, but they were not big trees. The car has two winches in the front and rear, one for hanging fallen trees and the other for hanging big trees, and they can be pulled apart without much effort.

Not long after, the road conditions improved significantly. After walking a distance, even the traces of water disappeared.

It felt like it was only a few miles away.

Zhu Yiming complained: "What's going on? If the guards set up checkpoints somewhere else, wouldn't there be so much trouble?"

"That's right, which bastard chose such a crappy place?" Ou Yang agreed.

Even Jiang Yuwei joined the condemnation.

Looking back on what happened in the past few days... forget it, it's too painful to look back on, so I'd better not look back.

"Hey, if we can drive out of the epidemic area directly, we can just find an airport, buy tickets and fly back. What do you think?" Zhu Yiming was bored and chattered happily.

Ou Yang glanced at him and said, "Don't even think about it. There's definitely no direct flight to the East. The most you can do is fly within the United States."

"Then let's go straight to the new coat!"

"Flying is prohibited in the epidemic area, and it's hard to say whether you can fly near the epidemic area." Jiang Yuwei said in a lost tone.

Ou Yang said quietly, "Jiang Yuwei still has some hope. We've both passed the machine gun security check. Once we check the security records, we'll know. It would be strange if Lao Mi let us on the plane!"

"Could you two stop being such a dampener?" Zhu Yiming sighed helplessly. "Isn't it just that I don't know if I can fly back? You won't even let me think about it?"

Ou Yang and Jiang Yuwei were silent, and Zhu Yiming was also in a low mood, but he quickly got rid of the negative emotions and continued to imagine the beautiful situation after leaving the epidemic area.

Suddenly, a sharp turn sign appeared ahead. Ouyang braked to slow down, turned the V-shaped curve, and a tunnel came into view.

Outside the tunnel entrance, there were several fully armed American soldiers standing; there was a machine gun position on each side of the tunnel entrance, a yellow and black railing blocking the road, and two majestic armored vehicles parked behind the railing!

Witnessing this scene, the three of them were stunned for half a second.

If the tunnel is replaced by a bridge, and a long line of cars with no end in sight is added to the road, wouldn't this be a replica of what happened a few days ago?
Zhu Yiming rubbed his eyes: "Am I hallucinating?"

Jiang Yuwei's heartbeat quickened. "Ou Yang, what should we do?"

Ou Yang slowed down as the other party requested: "You two, stop talking. I'll handle it."

The off-road RV stopped in front of the checkpoint, and the American sergeant came up to the vehicle with a tester and said, "Everyone get out!"

Maybe it was a psychological effect, but Ou Yang thought the sergeant looked very familiar: "We are all immune!"

"Get out of the car!" The sergeant remained unmoved and asked the three men to blow into the car one by one.

After the routine inspection was completed, the sergeant called the American soldiers who were responsible for registering information.

Ou Yang also felt that the person looked familiar, but he couldn't be sure of the other person's identity.

He had always thought that the camp and camping area behind the outpost were destroyed by the flood, and that everyone was buried in the torrent. But now it seems that the guard team received the news in advance and withdrew in time.

But why don't you say something? You just left and left so many people in the camping area behind. What the hell is that?

The police have no obligation to protect civilians, and neither do the guards, right?
The more Ou Yang thought about it, the angrier he became, and it felt like there was a ball of fire burning in his chest.

(End of this chapter)