The Yanhu Lake Parking Lot was completely different from what Li Qiu had imagined.
At first, she had pictured cars parked all over the mountains and fields, preferably with full tanks of gas.
But in reality, the zombies crowding the Yanhu Lake Parking Lot were no fewer than those at the Yanhu Lake Grand Hotel. When the incident had first broken out, many people had rushed to the parking lot immediately, wanting to drive away from this place. Unfortunately, everyone else had thought the same thing. As a result, the Yanhu Lake Parking Lot had become another forbidden zone of death in the Yanhu Lake Scenic Area.
It was clearly a parking lot, yet the wandering zombies had packed the place so tightly that there was no room to move. Those vehicles were like the beef in a bowl of beef noodles, completely impossible to see?!
“I suddenly feel like driving the sightseeing cart all the way back to my hometown, Bailin, isn’t such a bad choice after all. What do you think?” Li Qiu stopped the vehicle, tightly gripping the steering wheel with her fingers, then gave Li Dong a forced smile.
It was not that she wanted to stop, but that a portion of the zombies had immediately surrounded them after hearing the sound of the vehicle.
Although they were clumsy, they were numerous, and they quickly formed a circle around the vehicle.
Some zombies, whether brave or simply stupid, even reached their hands into the vehicle and waved them around, seemingly wanting to check whether there were any living people inside.
Li Dong said, “Get out.”
“Fine, fine, fine.” Li Qiu rolled her eyes in resignation.
She tied a knot in the scarf around her neck and pulled it up over her face, revealing only her pair of brown eyes. This could largely block the scent of her half-human, half-zombie body.
Li Dong was the first to get out and clear the way.
As a zombie himself, and a D-rank Intelligent Type at that, his abilities were far stronger than Li Qiu had imagined.
The zombies were like a disturbed school of fish, scattering in all directions. In no time, they had opened up a broad road for the two zombies.
“How did you do that?” Li Qiu’s eyes were like clear spring water as she raised a thumb in praise.
Two words came out of Li Dong’s mouth. “Do that.”
Li Qiu finally understood. The questions he could answer were generally expressed with a single word.
Whenever he did not understand or did not want to answer, he would repeat two words from what she had said.
“Sly little thing.” Li Qiu raised an eyebrow and laughed as she commented.
After the zombie horde moved aside, Li Qiu quickly spotted several decent vehicles.
Based on the experience she had gained from reading apocalypse novels, the most important thing in the apocalypse was to keep a low profile.
Naturally, the vehicle had to be a low-key color, with black, white, or gray being the best choices.
The road conditions were terrible now, so ordinary sedans would not do. An SUV or an off-road vehicle would be best.
She did not even consider vans or RVs. They were too large and consumed too much fuel. Besides, neither she nor Li Dong consumed many living supplies, and there was no possibility of having other companions. They simply had no need for such vehicles.
Many of the cars in the parking lot had their keys left either inside the vehicles or outside them.
Their owners had probably already become members of the parking lot’s zombie army.
That actually made things easier for Li Qiu.
She quickly sat in the driver’s seat of a Baoniu and could not help thinking that this car had seemed pretty expensive before the apocalypse, over a million yuan or so. But now it was merely one of the many pieces of scrap metal in the parking lot, and she could drive it without spending a single cent. Its only drawback was that it had been exposed to the wind and rain, and even suffered the corrosive effects of yesterday’s acid rain. From the outside, it no longer stood out from the rest.
Still, expensive things had their reasons for being expensive. Not only was the interior attractive, but the driver’s seat was also exceptionally comfortable.
While Li Qiu was studying how to drive the vehicle, Li Dong remained standing outside with his back facing her.
“Stop daydreaming and get in the car already!” Li Qiu said, patting the passenger seat beside her.
The car’s fuel tank could hold eighty-three liters, and there was still more than half a tank left, enough to drive more than four hundred kilometers. She only needed to refuel once the fuel warning light came on. With the road home right before her, Li Qiu was in an exceptionally good mood.
Li Dong did not move an inch, as though he had no intention of getting into the car.
“You’re refusing to cooperate without violence, is that it?” Li Qiu rolled up her sleeves, got out of the car, and shoved Li Dong straight into the passenger seat.
Li Dong bared his teeth, but in the end he still closed his mouth and allowed Li Qiu to do as she pleased.
“Safety first, fasten your seatbelt. Alright, dear passenger, we’re ready to depart.”
Li Qiu first spread the map open in front of the steering wheel. Then she fastened her seatbelt, looked straight ahead, and stepped on the accelerator.
The car had not even driven ten meters before Li Qiu was forced to stop.
“These people have absolutely no manners, don’t you think? Just look at how they parked their cars!”
The vehicle she had chosen was already near the edge of the parking lot, but there were simply too many cars here, and the zombie outbreak had been extremely chaotic. Everyone had driven and parked randomly, blocking the roads so thoroughly that not even water could pass through.
Li Qiu shouted at Li Dong, “Get out, get out.”
Fortunately, she had eaten her fill and now possessed great strength. Moving a car was no challenge for her. But by herself, she was too slow, so she had to drag Li Dong into helping.
However, Li Dong did not possess her immense strength.
“I’ll teach you. Crawl on the ground first, then leap up and smash the car out of the way. Got it?” Li Qiu lay on the ground, diligently fulfilling her role as a teacher.
“Got it.” Li Dong was clearly a smart student.
Li Qiu had only demonstrated it once, and within a few seconds, he had successfully flipped over a small sedan.
“…” Li Qiu held her forehead.
“I told you to knock it aside, not flip it over. Can you stop having your own ideas?!”
“Okay.” Li Dong stared at the way she pushed the car aside.
This time, he controlled his strength and knocked one of the cars blocking the road onto the roadside.
“Our Li Dong is just too smart!” Li Qiu’s expression changed faster than flipping through a book, and she was so excited that she looked like a kindergarten teacher.
She finally understood why some people loved being teachers. They must really enjoy this sense of accomplishment that came from teaching someone else.
When Li Qiu was not paying attention, Li Dong’s lips moved.
Perhaps he had wanted to smile, but in the end, he only revealed an expression uglier than crying.
He was already a D-rank Intelligent Type, yet he still could not understand why he had wanted to make such an expression.
After failing to understand it and failing to make the expression, he lowered his head and did not let Li Qiu see his face.
One of them moved cars while the other rammed into them, and the commotion they created attracted nearly all the zombies in the parking lot.
Before the zombies could block the road completely, Li Qiu grabbed Li Dong, stepped on the accelerator, and finally left the place.
It was just that she had somewhat overestimated her driving skills. A person who had not touched a car in several years drove wildly about, either braking too hard or pressing the accelerator and brake pedals by mistake. One moment she nearly crashed into a tree, the next she almost drove into the lake.
Fortunately, every danger ended without incident. As she continued driving, Li Qiu gradually got the hang of it.
On the straight asphalt road, Li Qiu’s car sped past.
Not long after her car had passed by, a person emerged from the woods. No, this was not a person, but a female zombie.
She looked around blankly, seemingly attracted by the sound of the car just now. Not far behind her followed another male zombie.
The two zombies quickly headed toward the place where the sound of the car had come from.
If Li Qiu had been here, she would have recognized them.
One of these zombies was Fang Qi, who had transformed into a zombie from an ability user. The other was Su Zhihai, who had clearly escaped but had somehow still become a zombie.