Chapter 19 : Dark Side Of Human Nature
Brian stood outside the motel, waiting for Osborne to return to the RV in the corner. At this time, he seemed to remember something and asked the blond girl Kelly next to him with some doubts: "Why is there no gas in the cars here? did you take it away?"
"Yes." Kelly leaned against the wall lazily, as if she had remembered something bad; her expression looked very helpless.
"We just got here yesterday. We originally wanted to fill up some gas, but I don't know who the bastard was. He drained all the gas from the gas station, so we had to search the entire hotel yesterday to find all the cars. The keys were used to extract the oil from these cars, but there was not much gasoline inside."
At this point, Kelly looked at Brian and Sarah very happily and continued, "Thankfully, you are here, but we may have to risk it today to go to the town to get gasoline."
"Damn, you think we are couriers?" Looking at Kelly's happy look, Brian rolled his eyes and complained in his heart.
Osborne returned RV to the door of the convenience store and asked the three children next to him to go into the convenience store and load supplies into the car. I don't know why, even though all the gasoline at the gas station was drained, the food at the convenience store was not empty.
In this way, the three children were carrying supplies in the convenience store, while Osborne walked to Brian's car with a gasoline can and a hose to pump out the gasoline.
After working for nearly an hour, the four of them packed up all their belongings, and Osborne drove the RV back onto the highway.
Brian sat in the passenger seat and kept exchanging all the information with Osborne since the outbreak of the plague. During this period, he also learned why the other party was so wary of his and Sarah's two children.
Osborne and Kelly lived in Round Rock. Because the place where they lived was very remote and rarely visited by people, when the plague broke out, they did not flee immediately like other families but took the opportunity. Go to the nearest supermarket and get a lot of food.
They sealed the windows, closed the door tightly, and quietly waited for rescue to arrive. However, almost a week passed, and water, electricity, and the Internet all disappeared during this period, and they did not see any rescue.
One day, several children knocked on the door of their house, hoping to get some food. Looking at these poor children in front of him, the kind-hearted Osborne softened his heart, so he let the children in and gave them some food. They provide food and accommodation.
But kind hearts are always exploited. That night, these children secretly opened the locked door and let in a dozen men and women armed with weapons.
Osborne and Kelly, who were sleeping in the room, never imagined that their obsession would lead to such a result, and they were just stunned and convinced.
Seeing these guys devouring his food, Osborne felt extremely angry inside, and the things these people said in their exchanges made him instantly feel horrified.
They don't know each other. They are just three families who accidentally hid together because they were fleeing. In the beginning, they could still live in harmony.
But as time goes by, food becomes more and more scarce, and the conflicts between them become more and more serious. They dare not go to places with infected people to get food, and nearby safe places have long been robbed. Just when they thought they were about to fight among themselves due to hunger, someone came up with a terrible method.
Let the young children knock on nearby houses that may be inhabited, and try their best to get them to stay for at least one night. At night, they can open the door and take advantage of the people in the house and get a lot of food.
Such a safe and feasible method has won the approval of everyone. Before coming to Osborne, they had used this method to knock on the doors of at least a dozen houses. As for the people who came to the house in the end, they would be beaten by them. They were brutally killed and then thrown outside and abandoned.
Osborne never thought that in just a few days, these people in front of him would completely transform into a group of demons. Although he was resentful in his heart, he still suppressed the anger in his heart and did not try to provoke these people. Instead, found a way to break free from his restraints, took his daughter Kelly, and quietly slipped out of the house while these people were enjoying themselves.
Because these people all had firearms in their hands, Osborne did look at the house after escaping from it. He found something to seal the door and then set the entire house on fire, watching helplessly. Watch these demons wail in agony as they are burned by the fire.
After that, he took his daughter and left Round Rock, planning to go to Dallas. But because the car ran out of gas, they all came to the service area and finally met Brian and Sarah.
Listening to the experience described by the other party, Brian also experienced for the first time how terrible the dark side of human nature is in disasters. It was a feeling that he had never experienced, even though he had read many doomsday-themed movies and novels in his previous life.
"Huh~~"
Leaning back on the driver's seat, Brian closed his eyes and took a deep breath.
I emptied my mind and wanted to stop thinking about those messy things, so I fell asleep without even realizing it.
Didi didi——
When Brian opened his eyes again, it was raining lightly outside the car. Melodious music was playing from the speakers in the car, and the atmosphere seemed particularly harmonious.
He subconsciously raised his hand and looked at the time. The pointer was already pointing in the direction of 11:00. He had been sleeping for nearly two hours.
Osborne, who was sitting in the driver's seat, saw that he was awake and said in a teasing tone, "Hey, are you awake!"
"Cough...cough..."
Brian coughed twice, sat up quickly, regained his energy, turned his head, looked inside the RV, and found Kelly and Sarah lying on the bed. Subtle voices were coming from the other end. The two were talking about something.
As if aware of Brian's gaze, Kelly suddenly looked toward him, glared at him, and said, "What are you looking at?"
Curling his lips, Brian turned around and leaned back on his seat. He looked at the situation outside the car and found that they were already driving on Interstate 35, so he asked Osborne beside him, "Where are we now?"
Osborne sighed lightly and replied with a worried look: "We have passed Waco now, and there shouldn't be much left. It seems that the epidemic is more serious than I thought. All the places we have passed so far—cities and small towns—have all fallen, and there's no telling what Dallas will look like now."
"It should be fine." After hearing this, Brian lowered his head, thought deeply for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "Dallas is very close to the central region. I think even if the epidemic is severe, the government will not sit back and watch it become an infection zone."
Raising his eyebrows, Osborne looked at the boy next to him in surprise. He didn't expect Brian to understand these things, so he didn't pay too much attention to it and just nodded in agreement.
"I'm not worried about this. There are two cities near Dallas: Fort Worth and Arlington. These three places are too close together. If the government abandons Dallas, it will inevitably follow Fort Worth and Arlington. unless the epidemic is completely out of control, no government will make such a decision."
"Then what are you worried about?" Seeing that the other party knew the stakes, Brian didn't understand what the other party was worried about.
"My worry is never about the epidemic, but about the people living there." Osborne shook his head with a wry smile, expressing his inner worries.
"The quarantine measures ordered by the government have seriously harmed the individual interests of all citizens. If you have not experienced it, you may not understand. These people will gather in crowds to demonstrate in their cities, and some criminals will also take this opportunity to operate, so I'm worried about what's going on inside now."
Hearing Osborne's concerns, Brian instantly understood what was going on. This was just like the coronavirus epidemic in his previous life. As long as there was a little bit of dissatisfaction, those whose interests were harmed would make a fuss. Yes, and for the votes in the hands of these people, some people have promised to meet their various unreasonable demands. It is simply ridiculous.
He still asked with some doubts: "Aren't they afraid that the epidemic will spread in the city when they are fooling around like this?"
After hearing this, Osborne suddenly revealed a sarcastic smile: "As long as disaster does not happen to them, how will these people know what fear is?"
"Huh? What is that?"
While talking, just as the RV passed a big bend at the intersection, the scene in the distance instantly attracted the two of them.
They saw that the spacious interstate highway ahead was crowded with long lines of traffic, with several military trucks patrolling on both sides. From time to time, helicopters passed over the traffic, circling to investigate.
A separation wall was erected at the end of the road. Soldiers with live ammunition were patrolling in the middle. Below, there were two people in protective clothing, each holding a scanner to detect the people in the vehicle parked at the front.
Once it is confirmed that there are no problems with the people in the vehicle and that there are no hidden people, they will be notified to open the isolation door and let the vehicle enter the city.
Looking at the scene in front of them, Brian and Osborne looked at each other and saw the joy in each other's eyes.
"They're here!"
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