Chapter 24: It's a Universal Law that the Main Character Mus
Chapter 24: It's a Universal Law that the Main Character Mus: Resurrection
Chapter 24: It's a Universal Law that the Main Character Must Die? (1)
Lin Sanjiu could feel something pressing unfortably against the back of her head. Half a day had already passed. She felt exhausted and did not feel like moving, so she just flipped sideway hazily. At that very moment, she suddenly heard a line from a song, “You are my little, little apple”[1]. It broke the tranquility of the night and sounded rather irritating.
[Whose ringtone is so loud? That’s too disturbing. I can even hear it from the 38th floor.]
Lin Sanjiu suppressed her sleepiness and opened her eyes. She saw a row of orange round circular grab handles. [That’s right, I am not in that 38th floor penthouse—this is the New World…]
She sat upright and saw the rows of seats which were filled with cardboard cartons of supplies. On the side of the wall beside her, there was still a green sign stating, “Priority Seat for elderly, disabled, pregnant, and injured”. The rare starlight from outside the windows illuminated the rim of the sign dimly.
At the top of the exit doors, there was a piece of route map of something similar to that. But the only thing she could discern was the numerical “3”.
Suddenly, there were a few quick knocks on the door of their public bus. The volume of the “Little Apple” song grew louder and was followed by Voley’s voice, “Hey, it’s already ten, you should all wake up. Let’s go!”
Lin Sanjiu rubbed her eyes as memories of the current reality flooded her mind.
That’s right. This afternoon, they had agreed to bring Voley along their journey. They even went into his car, eating, drinking, and chatting for a long time. Even though Voley looked like a timid guy, they only found out that he was quite an attentive person after interacting with him. To conserve their energy for the night, all of them went to rest quickly. Voley, being the only person with a mobile phone, had volunteered to set an alarm so that they could set off at ten pm. Lin Sanjiu jumped up and walked over the driver’s seat. She pressed a button, and the door of the public bus opened, showing Voley who was still cladded in that oversized western suit.
Lin Sanjiu eyed him a little moodily, “You should switch that alarm off quickly. What will we do if it attracts the duoluozhongs here? And the volume of that thing is way too loud!”
Voley responded with an “Oh. Oh.” and quickly switched his phone off. Once that “Little Apple” song faded, Lin Sanjiu felt that the world became much more peaceful. Voley smiled and asked, “Where is Miss Marcie? What about Xiao Lu, are they awake?”
“They’re at the back…” Lin Sanjiu replied.
Meanwhile, Marcie yawned and walked over. She rinsed her mouth with mineral water and sat down in the driver’s seat sleepily. Luther nodded his head at Voley acknowledging his presence and rubbed his eyes as he headed back to the truck. From the back, he also looked listless.
Everyone looks so tired. Lin Sanjiu thought as she could not help yawning again.
On the contrary, Voley seemed to be in high spirits. He went back and forth checking all the engines. Once he saw that there were no problems, he waved his arms enthusiastically, “That’s great. We set off now!”
After she washed up and sat in the truck for a while, her drowsiness slowly abated. She was finally fully awake. She looked at the map in her hands searching for the road towards the industrial park in Xijiao and was the first one to start up her vehicle.
Xijiao was one of the famous industrial parks in the city; there were all sorts of factories and processing plants there. The factories there usually had their own dormitories and canteens—basically, they were pretty much small self-contained ecospheres. Once they reached there, finding backup electrical generators, supplies and shelter shouldn’t be a problem.