Doomsday Traveler

Chapter 162 Life is a Journey of Passing

The person behind waved and walked north, disappearing at the fork in the road.

Lu Xian saw the man walking away in the rearview mirror, sighed, and asked, "Do you think he can walk to Liangcheng County?"

When the man was on the roof of the car just now, he deliberately slowed down to prevent the man from falling off the roof, then lowered the car window and chatted with the man.

Those words were still lingering in his mind at this moment -

"How long does it take you to walk from here to Liangcheng County?"

"How long? How could I remember? I only walked twice... well, three times, two times here, one time there. I didn't count, and besides, I kept sleeping after coming back, so even if I did, I wouldn't remember."

"How about we give you a ride a little further? How about sending you to Liangcheng County?"

"Take me there?! No need for that, I can just walk there. I don't have anything else to do anyway."

"But I'm going to be frank. Looking at your health, I don't think you'll make it to Liangcheng County. The weather these days, I don't know if you know this, can change suddenly. If it suddenly gets cold, can you handle it?"

"I actually think so too. I might not make it to Liangcheng. But it doesn't matter. Liang Xiaobin is already dead. I wouldn't find anyone to talk to if I went there. I just want to find something to do.

"As for the weather changes you mentioned, how could I not know about them? I also experienced them when I went back and forth to Liangcheng County after waking up.

"Don't worry, I can handle it. If the weather suddenly gets cold, I'll just need to go to sleep quickly and I'll be fine. I'm very resistant to cold when I'm asleep now, so I'll be fine. Even though I'm dying, don't underestimate me."

"That's it..."

"Yeah, that's it. What else can I do? What else can I do? Sigh... I don't know why I'm like this. I've only slept twice since I was little, but why do I look like an old man, with such a haggard mentality? It seems that sleeping is only good for fighting the cold, sigh..."

"Who knows? Maybe it's because the world has changed so drastically. Imagine you woke up after two naps to find the world in this mess. How could you not feel sad? It's all the world's fault."

"Haha! Yeah, that makes sense! It's all the world's fault! But... he probably felt like he was dying. He slept twice, and when he woke up, he was almost dead, and in this horrible state... Haha... Hey... It's ridiculous just thinking about it!"

"Look at the bright side, at least you're still alive."

"That's right. It depends on how you think. In this world, being alive is lucky, and dying is also lucky. I'm lucky both ways, so why should I think so much?"

As they were talking, they walked to a fork in the road. Lu Xian asked again, "Do I really not need to send you off?"

"No need."

The man on the roof said, "I've already said it, whether we can reach the destination or not is of no concern to me.

"If I can get there, I'll see what a horrible death Liang Xiaobin has become. If I can't, I'll find a place to sit down and die in the sun.

"I've been sleeping in the coffin for so long, I haven't been out in the sun for a long time."

Lu Xian then stopped the car and dropped the man off.

When the man got off the car, he said, "Your coffin is well packed. It must be very comfortable to sleep in it."

The man said, "It's not bad. I have already slept in the coffin in advance. Now that I die outside the coffin, I have no regrets."

Now that the man has left, Lu Xian recalled the conversation, but couldn't help but think of when he had just traveled to this world.

His mentality at that time was probably the same as this person's.

I was living a happy and peaceful life in a peaceful and prosperous world. I wasn't rich, but at least I had an ordinary and happy life. But when I woke up, I saw that the world was cold, the sky was vast and empty.

If I didn't adjust my mindset in various ways at that time, I was afraid I would explode with loneliness.

Thinking about how I managed to make it all the way here, I was pretty impressive. And now I even ran into Yao Wei and got a ride in her car. Was this a sign of good fortune after bad times?
However, this person's situation is actually more difficult than mine.

At least his skin still looked good, and his originally ordinary body even transformed into a new type A human, which was considered a super invincible evolution.

But this person became like this, and when he woke up, he felt like he was about to die.

——It was this person who said it was no use. Lu Xian and Yao Wei were not involved and could not tell from his words or actions.

But listening to the man's tone, Lu Xian felt that he didn't seem to be telling a lie.

Lu Xian could hear the melancholy, nostalgia, regret, entanglement and free-spiritedness in that voice.

So this person is actually more open-minded than himself, and Lu Xian admires him very much.

"do not know."

Yao Wei replied.

"Ah."

Lu Xian nodded.

If you don't know, then don't know. It doesn't matter if you can't guess. As that person said, he was just looking for something to do on the last journey of his life. Whether he could reach his destination or not was no longer important.

"I didn't even ask his name until the end..."

Lu Xian said. After he finished speaking, he couldn't help but smile. He was just a passing visitor, so why would he need to know his name? Didn't he ask for his and Yao Wei's names?
"why are you laughing?"

Yao Wei asked when she saw the smile on Lu Xian's face.

Lu Xian said: "Nothing, it just suddenly occurred to me that life is a whirlwind, why bother knowing so many people's names? In this world, knowing your name is enough for me."

"Ah."

Yao Wei agreed, and suddenly she felt her heart beating fast, just like when she was in the Xiaogang Village shelter.

She wanted to calm down quickly, so she found something else to do, such as placing her laptop on the operating table in front of her so that the back of the computer could get sunlight.

For example, she would look at the "World Atlas 1" to confirm the road ahead, or pick up the Chinese textbook. For some reason, the classical Chinese texts that she couldn't understand and found very boring before now seemed very interesting.

What Lu Xian said just now was just like what was in this book, so weird...

As she looked at it, she couldn't help but think in her heart.

As I thought about it, I suddenly felt that I should respond. It seemed that if I didn't respond to Lu Xian's words, it would be like I had made a mistake and I would regret it later.

"Me too……"

She thought for a moment and said, then added, "And my mother's name."

Lu Xian didn't expect Yao Wei to respond, and was a little surprised for a moment.

He glanced to the side while driving. Yao Wei seemed to have just said something casually and was concentrating on reading the high school Chinese textbook in her hand.

The page that was opened contained an ancient text with very difficult content. He had difficulty reading it, and he didn't know if the woman could understand it.

However, Lu Xian was also very happy to hear Yao Wei's response. He didn't try to expose Yao Wei's shyness, but just asked casually: "I haven't asked yet, what's your mother's name?"

"Ye Wenxin."

Yao Wei replied.

Lu Xian said: "She must be very powerful, right?"

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded and said, "She knows a lot, just like you. My mother also taught me how to read."

When Lu Xian heard what Yao Wei said, he immediately felt that Yao Wei's mother was not simple.

The world is regressing from civilization to barbarism, and there are actually not many people who can read.

When he was in Fengcheng County before, he saw a flag flying high with the words "Fengcheng welcomes you" written on it. Lu Xian thought it was written by someone in Fengcheng County.

But later on, when I thought about it carefully, the white cloth fluttering in the wind was so tattered and old that I didn't know when it had been passed down. It was probably just used by people today as a signboard to show off their power.

It is still unclear whether people in Fengcheng County can recognize the words above.

Among the others, only Luo Ping and the new humans who died in Mengxin City were known to be literate by Lu Xian.

Chai Xin, the daughter of the former eldest son of Tongzhou County, cannot even read. It goes without saying that the other people in Tongzhou County are illiterate.

She can read and teach others, and according to Yao Wei, she knows as much as she does. Yao Wei's mother must be extraordinary.

Is there any other secret behind her death?
"Where's your dad?"

Lu Xian asked again.

Yao Wei shook her head: "I don't know, I've only seen my mother since I was a child."

"Ah."

Lu Xian heard that Yao Wei's voice gradually became a little low. He stopped asking and said, "When you are ready, tell me what happened?"

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded and agreed.

As if in response to Yao Wei's mood, the originally warm weather suddenly turned cold. A strong wind suddenly came, blowing the scorching sun in the sky behind the dark clouds, and even causing the car to shake slightly.

For a moment, Lu Xian felt that the steering wheel was a little floating. Such a heavy car still had such a reaction, which shows how strong the wind was.

The weeds outside the car were blown down by the strong wind, and crackled against the car body, as if they had turned into whips.

Lu Xian wrapped his collar and felt that the temperature had dropped below zero in an instant. He didn't know how high it had reached.

He stopped the car and said, "Let's be steady and wait until the weather gets better before we go."

"Ah."

Yao Wei agreed and carried the dog to the back seat.

The dog was very self-aware and opened the switch cover behind him without Yao Wei giving any instructions. Yao Wei turned on the air conditioner and the car quickly warmed up.

Lu Xian turned off the car and looked at the sky outside the windshield.

At this time, the sky was covered with dark clouds, making the bright day gloomy.

Such weather and such wind made Lu Xian always feel that there would be a heavy snowfall, but he waited for a long time, but the snow did not fall at all, only the cold wind was howling, disturbing his mind.

"I wonder what happened to that person?"

He thought of the man heading north alone and said, "In this weather, he should be asleep again, right?"

What the man said was true. Finding a place to lie down on the ground and close your eyes to sleep was indeed the best way to deal with it. Speaking of which, it seemed that the old tree was also lying on the ground, and it had been lying there until now.

Or maybe hibernation is really one of the special abilities of Type D new humans.

In comparison, the old tree can disguise itself and become invisible, but this person doesn't seem to be able to do that, which is a little bit worse.

The old tree, the fish rider, and the previous person, all received strains and green water, which all had variables. Lu Xian was not sure which variables caused the current similarities and differences between these three people, but now he could judge that the similarities and differences between them were at least related to the strains and green water.

"Ah."

Yao Wei nodded casually, seemingly not very interested in Lu Xian's question.

"Want to see a movie?"

She asked Lu Xian. Compared to the person who had already left, this matter still interested her more.

Lu Xian said: "Okay, now we can only wait for the weather to clear up, why not watch a movie for a while."

So Yao Wei opened her laptop, put it in front of her, and selected a movie to play. Lu Xian brought the bed sheet and covered them both with it.

The wind made the car sway, and an action movie was playing in the car. The two covered themselves with sheets and watched it with great pleasure.

(End of this chapter)