Carrying My Sugar Daddy Through the Apocalypse – CH53

Chapter 53: The Flood is Coming, Run!

As soon as their group left, the crying people in the hall immediately followed.

With two trucks leading the way, the three cars following behind had a very smooth journey. Antonio glanced at them and asked Li Zhuang, “Aren’t we going to deal with them?”

“No need to bother if they don’t provoke us.” After all, it was the apocalypse, no need to be so ruthless. Besides, the road wasn’t theirs, they couldn’t stop others from traveling.

In this apocalypse where abilities had appeared, with cars following behind, worried that someone might use some method to attack the two trucks of supplies, Lu Weiyi drove the off-road vehicle at the rear.

A heavy rain washed the off-road vehicle as if it had been scrubbed clean. Apart from the collision marks, there wasn’t a speck of dirt, making it look much more pleasing.

Liu Rui sat in the passenger seat, looking quite happy, occasionally looking here and touching there. “You like it?”

“Mmm,” Liu Rui nodded and asked, “Loo… looks… ver… very domineering, ho… how mu… much mo… money?”

“More than three million, I guess.” The modification costs were probably even higher, but Zhuang Mingxu’s cars were mass-modified, so Lu Weiyi didn’t know the exact price.

As soon as Liu Rui heard this, he sat up straight and didn’t dare touch anything anymore, his eyes wide as he looked at Lu Weiyi. “So… so expensive.”

Lu Weiyi found him quite amusing. “How old are you?” He looked like a minor.

“Ne… next mo… month… eighteen.”

He didn’t know if it was next month or the month after.

“Minor?” As far as Lu Weiyi knew, Xu Sa was in an adult prison. There shouldn’t be any minors there no matter what. He turned his head to look at Liu Rui.

Liu Rui seemed to understand his meaning and smiled. “ID… ID card… wrote it bigger.”

He had seen IDs written smaller, but never bigger. Moreover, the sentencing standards for juvenile and adult crimes were completely different.

However, anything strange could happen in a place like prison, so Lu Weiyi didn’t ask in detail. He changed the subject to the car. “When you learn to drive, you can find a better one to drive yourself.”

“N… no need… too expen… expensive, ca… can dri… drive… is… is good.” Liu Rui’s requirements were very low. “Dri… driving… diffi… difficult?”

“Not difficult. When we get to the safe zone, I’ll get you a car. You’ll get the hang of it after a couple of tries,” Lu Weiyi said, glancing at the time, then pulled his backpack over to Liu Rui. “Give him another pill.”

“Mmm-hmm,” Liu Rui took the water and medicine and squeezed over from the passenger seat.

The number of vehicles they encountered on the road gradually increased. Many were also going to Qingyuan City, traveling in the same direction. Coupled with vehicles from various directions constantly cutting in, the speed gradually decreased.

The next major stop after Beiping Town was Dongshan County, but the morning was delayed by the rain and the roads became muddy, so they definitely wouldn’t make it tonight. The group had originally planned to push on a bit to try and reach a small town within Dongshan County’s jurisdiction, but now it looked difficult.

The further they went towards larger areas, the more crooked and overturned vehicles appeared on the road. Some had their doors open, with blood splattered all over the inside. Some cars even had zombies trapped inside, banging and trying to get out.

Initially, Li Zhuang’s truck was leading the way, occasionally needing to ram and overturn zombies to clear the path. Later, vehicles appeared in front as well, so they could only watch as zombies slammed against the sides of the cars.

The seats in the two trucks were high, so whether the zombies hit them or not didn’t matter at all. Lu Weiyi’s off-road vehicle behind was bulletproof. Even when hit, the glass didn’t break. Liu Rui sent out a small fire dragon, and they made it through safely.

Just because their vehicles were fine didn’t mean other vehicles were. Several cars had their windows smashed, and amidst screams of terror, the people inside lost their lives.

At first, some people offered help, but in the end, most chose to ignore it. In an era of the strong surviving, those who only hid and screamed, begging others for help, had to be prepared to be abandoned at any time.

Cries, pleas for help, and the zombies’ guttural groans accompanied them all the way until the group was completely blocked by unmanned vehicles on the road. Only then did some people begin to organize to kill zombies and move cars.

The organizers were a group walking at the very front, probably from the same place, all with families. They knocked on each car window, demanding that at least one person from each car either kill zombies or move cars, otherwise they would have to hand over a portion of their supplies, or they would be driven out of the group by everyone.

Traveling in this stop-and-go manner, as night approached, the group was once again stuck near the Beidong Bridge.

After moving cars all afternoon, crossing this bridge meant they were about a hundred kilometers away from their planned rest stop. The desolate wilderness had few zombies, and the group had relaxed their vigilance somewhat.

When the rumbling sound came, no one realized what it was.

“Run—!” The two trucks happened to be on the bridge, closer to the back. Li Zhuang, who had just gotten out of the car to be a porter again, roared and grabbed Gu Qingji beside him, signaling him to hurry.

“Brother, get out of the car!” Gu Qingji was pulled back a few steps and shouted at Gu Qingyue in the driver’s seat.

At the same time, in the middle truck, Antonio had also moved to the driver’s side, pulling Dean out of the car.

“Earthquake—!”

“Another earthquake, run quickly—!”

A chaotic scene erupted around them. Everyone uniformly got out of their cars and ran off the bridge towards the nearest ground. Within seconds, the source of the tremor surged towards them—a flash flood from upstream.

The earthquake had already damaged the river dams, and a heavy rain finally caused them to fail. A terrifying flood roared in, directly collapsing two bridge piers, and the entire bridge surface instantly collapsed.

Lu Weiyi’s car hadn’t even reached the bridge. At this moment, he simply got out and retreated a few steps. Liu Rui immediately carried Xu Sa down and stayed close to Lu Weiyi. Li Zhuang and Lin Yimu got out of their car and rushed over. At the moment the ground beneath their feet collapsed, they were each pulled by Lu Weiyi and Liu Rui, using the last falling slab of stone to leap onto the bridge surface.

In the face of life and death, human nature was exposed completely and vividly.

Someone abandoned his wife at the last moment to escape, someone desperately threw their children onto the bridge surface. Antonio, carrying Dean, was just one step behind Li Zhuang and Lin Yimu. One step was the distance of life and death. Lin Yimu stepped onto the last slab of stone and jumped up, but he didn’t have that opportunity.

“Quick!” The always carefree Li Zhuang shouted at the approaching group, while extending both hands. The speed of several falling stone bridge pieces noticeably slowed down.

Earth-type ability!

Before anyone could realize there was hope, the ground beneath their feet began to collapse again.

His ability was too weak.

But those few seconds were enough.

“Hold on!” Antonio yelled, grabbing Dean beside him and forcefully throwing him towards the others.

Liu Rui quickly moved the exhausted Li Zhuang aside, and he and Lin Yimu each grabbed an arm and pulled Dean up by his clothes.

The collapse of the bridge didn’t change Dean’s expression, but at this moment, his eyes were wide with fury as he screamed, “David—!”

The falling David gave Dean a gentle smile and said, “Baby, I love you.”

“No…” Dean struggled to go with Antonio but was promptly knocked unconscious by Lin Yimu.

The Gu Qingyue brothers, who fell after Antonio, also stopped struggling. At the last moment, Gu Qingji turned sideways and tightly hugged Gu Qingyue, prepared to fall.

The moment the little green branch on his wrist was flung out, Lu Weiyi had only one thought: to save people.

An extremely thin little green branch shot out from Lu Weiyi’s wrist, quickly wrapped around Antonio, bound the Gu Qingyue brothers, and then securely tied up several people near the opposite side who had fallen…

Then, it reached into the water and pulled the two large trucks of supplies that were sinking straight down into his space!

Lu Weiyi couldn’t tell if it was his own feeling of regret that influenced the little green branch, or if it had its own independent thought. Before he could think, he was pulled forward by the weight of several people.

Lin Yimu was the first to react. He quickly opened the car door next to him to wedge himself in and hugged Lu Weiyi’s waist. Immediately after, Liu Rui pulled on both of them from behind. Li Zhuang tried to help but staggered and couldn’t stand up, roaring at the stunned onlookers behind them, “Help!”

The closest few people were jolted awake and hurriedly ran over. Lu Weiyi, being pulled by several people, temporarily balanced the weight and controlled the little green branch to retract.

The green branch was too thin, so thin that it was almost invisible if you didn’t look closely. The people nearby could see a faint trace, while those further away only thought Lu Weiyi was directly pulling the people up.

For a moment, the surroundings were so quiet that even breathing seemed to quiet down, for fear of affecting the last bit of life for the few people.

Antonio was the first to be pulled up. The moment he steadied himself, he grabbed an open car door, lay on the ground, and reached out to the Gu Qingyue brothers who were following closely behind.

“Qingji,” Gu Qingyue wanted his brother to reach out, but Gu Qingji disagreed and directly offered Gu Qingyue’s hand. Gu Qingyue struggled slightly, instantly causing the little green branch to tremble.

His trembling was only slight, but the two people below them swayed, immediately causing a series of exclamations.

Worried that something else might happen, Gu Qingji didn’t argue with him. He held Antonio’s hand with one hand and tightly hugged Gu Qingyue’s waist with the other.

Once these two were up, they immediately joined the final rescue. With the weight of three men gone, the last two came up very quickly. In a moment, all five people entangled by the little green branch were rescued.

The little green branch swiftly retracted into his wrist. The crystal-clear green leaves seemed to be covered in dust, becoming dull and lifeless. At the same time, Lu Weiyi’s body felt as if it had been hollowed out. Unprecedented fatigue made him collapse directly onto the ground.

“Brother, thanks,” one of the last two men to come up, a tall and sturdy man in his forties, thanked Lu Weiyi and then turned to look at Liu Rui beside him. “Stutterer.”

“Bro… Brother Xiong, ar… are you o… okay?”

“Thought I was going to end up here,” the man breathed a sigh of relief, feeling like he had escaped death. He touched the person he was holding in his arms, who was trembling uncontrollably. “Xi Shi, are you alright?”

The person in his arms staggered weakly, nodded, and said in a trembling voice, “I’m fine, I’m fine.”

He turned his head to look at the group and bowed. “Thank you, thank you all.”

Several people who had helped waved their hands and pointed at Lu Weiyi. “It’s all thanks to that young man.”

The man lowered his head to look at Lu Weiyi sitting on the ground, surprised. “Little brother, it’s you! Do you remember me? After the earthquake, you gave me a bag of food and lent me your car.”

Lu Weiyi glanced at him and nodded, a simple greeting.

“Big Xiong, it was this little brother who gave me a ride and a bag of food. The small truck we drove at the beginning was also this little brother’s.” The backpack of food Lu Weiyi gave him was a great help to the timid Xi Shi in the early days of the apocalypse.

Moreover, that small truck provided him and Xiong Jie with a lot of convenience for escaping. Now, being saved by Lu Weiyi again, his gratitude was beyond words.

“What a coincidence, great kindness is beyond words of thanks, little brother, my name is Xiong Jie, just say the word if you need anything.”

Lu Weiyi was so exhausted that he simply nodded and slumped to the side, feeling a bit dazed.

“Young Master, what’s wrong? Are you alright?” Lin Yimu noticed his abnormality and lowered his head to shake him. Lu Weiyi had already fallen asleep.

“His ability must be exhausted,” Li Zhuang, who was still weak and hadn’t recovered, said from the side.

“He saved our lives again,” Antonio said, hugging the unconscious Dean tighter in his arms, feeling grateful that he had decided to follow Lu Weiyi.

“How are you?” he asked Li Zhuang.

“Need rest.” Li Zhuang’s ability had appeared almost at the same time as Fang Ke’s. He had practiced a few times privately, but the effect wasn’t very strong, so he usually didn’t use it much. He had acted impulsively just now, directly exhausting his ability. The headache caused by exhausting his ability was a first for him. It was already good enough that he could barely maintain a normal expression. However, he had never liked showing his weakness to others and still had the mood to sigh, “If only I hadn’t tried so hard to find supplies before.”

“If they’re gone, we’ll find more. The important thing is that we’re all okay,” Gu Qingyue said, looking at everyone who had narrowly escaped death once again, his heart filled with emotion.

The cars parked at the bridgehead left one after another. This group rested for a while, discussed it, and decided to return to the village they had passed earlier to stay for the night.

Eleven people only had one off-road vehicle, which could fit a maximum of six people. So, they first had Lin Yimu and Xiong Jie take the Gu Qingyue brothers to go ahead and scout for a place to stay. The remaining people would take care of the sick while finding two cars on the road.