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Chapter 19 Reasons

Brian stood outside the motel, waiting for Osborne to pour out the RV in the corner. At this time, he seemed to remember something, and asked Kelly, a blonde girl next to him, "Why are there no gasoline in the cars here? Did you take it away?"

"Yes." Kelly leaned lazily against the wall, as if recalling something bad, and her expression seemed very helpless.

"We just arrived here yesterday. We originally wanted to add some fuel, but I don't know which bastard it was, so we took away all the oil in the gas station, so yesterday we could only search the entire hotel to find all the car keys and extract the oil from the cars, but there was not much gasoline in it..."

Speaking of this, Kelly looked at Brian and Sarah with great gratitude and continued, "Luckily you are here, otherwise we might have to risk going to the town to get gasoline today."

"...Damn, do you think of us as courier delivery?" Looking at Kelly's happy look, Brian rolled his eyes and complained in his heart.

Osborne poured the RV to the door of the convenience store and called the three children next to him to enter the convenience store to move supplies into the car. For some reason, although all the gasoline in the gas station was evacuated, the food in the convenience store was not moved either.

In this way, the three children carried supplies in the convenience store, while Osborne walked to Bryan's car with a gasoline barrel and leather tube and pulled out the gasoline.

After nearly an hour of busy work, four people prepared everything, Osborne drove the RV and drove it back onto the highway.

Brian sat in the co-pilot and kept communicating with Osborne all the information since the outbreak of the plague. During this period, he also knew what the other party would be so alert to his two children, Sarah.

Osborne and Kelly live in Roundrock. Because their place of residence is very remote and rarely comes, they did not flee immediately when the plague broke out like other families, but instead took the opportunity to get a large amount of food in the nearest supermarket.

They sealed the windows, closed the doors tightly, and waited quietly for the rescue to arrive, but soon a week passed, and the water, electricity and the network disappeared during this period, and they saw no trace of rescue.

Until one day, a few children knocked on their door, hoping to get some food. Looking at the poor children in front of them, the kind Osborne softened his heart, so he put the children in and provided them with food and accommodation.

But kind hearts are always used. That night, these children secretly opened the locked door and put in a dozen men and women holding weapons.

Osborne and Kelly, who were sleeping in the room, would never have thought that their kindness would result in such a result, and they were subdued in a daze.

Seeing these guys who were eating their own food voraciously, Osborn felt extremely angry, and what he said from the words and conversations of these people made him feel instantly creepy.

In fact, they didn't know each other, they were just three families who were hiding together by chance because of escape. At the beginning, they could still live in harmony.

But as time goes by, food becomes increasingly scarce, and the conflict between them becomes increasingly serious. They dare not go to places where infected people exist to obtain food, and the nearby safe places have long been plundered. Just when they thought hunger was about to fight intra-fight, someone proposed a terrible method.

Let young children knock on houses nearby where people may live, try their best to keep them for at least one night, and open the door at night, so that they can easily subdue and get a lot of food while the people in the house are sleeping.

Such a safe and feasible method has been approved by everyone. Before coming to Osborne, they had already used this method to knock on the doors of at least a dozen houses. As for the original owner of the house, they would be brutally killed by them and then thrown outside and abandoned.

Osborne never thought that disaster was only a few days before, and the people in front of him completely transformed into a group of demons. Although he was angry, he still suppressed the anger in his heart. Instead of trying to anger these monsters, he tried to break free from the constraints on himself and took his daughter Kelly, taking advantage of the time these people were enjoying the opportunity to sneak out of the house.

Because these people were all holding guns, after escaping from the house, Osborne did not return to the house. He found something to block the door. Then a fire lit the entire house, watching the demons wailing in pain during the burning of the fire.

After that, he took his daughter away from Round Rock and planned to go to Dallas. Then, because the car was out of gas, everyone came to the service area and finally met Brian and Sarah.

Listening to the experience described by the other party, Brian also realized the first time how terrible the dark side of human nature is in disaster. It was a feeling that he had never experienced even after watching many doomsday movies and novels in the previous life.

"Huh~~"

With his body leaning back in the driver's seat, Brian closed his eyes and took a deep breath.

I emptied my mind and wanted to stop thinking about the messy things, and I fell asleep without realizing it.

Didi--

When Brian opened his eyes again, it was already drizzling outside the car at some point, and melodious music was played in the audio in the car, and the atmosphere seemed particularly harmonious.

He subconsciously raised his hand and looked at the time. The pointer had pointed to 11:00, and he had actually slept for nearly two hours.

Osborne in the driver's seat saw him awake and said in a joking tone: "Yeah, wake up!"

"Cough...Cough..."

Brian coughed twice, quickly sat up, regained his energy, turned his head and looked into the RV, and found that Kelly and Sarah were lying on the bed, and a subtle voice came from the other end. I wonder what the two of them were talking about.

As if he noticed Brian's gaze, Kelly suddenly looked at him, glared at him and said, "What are you looking at?"

With a slight curl, Brian turned around and leaned back in his seat, observing the situation outside the car, and found that they were already driving on InterContinental Highway 35, so he asked Osborne beside him, "Where are we now?"

Osborn sighed lightly and replied with a worried look: "Now that Waco has passed, there should be not many roads left. It seems that the epidemic is even worse than I thought. All the cities and towns we have passed by have fallen so far, and I don't know what Dallas will look like now."

"It should be nothing." After hearing this, Brian lowered his head and thought for a while, and said with some uncertainty: "Dallas is already very close to the central region. I think even if the epidemic is severe, the government will never sit there and watch it become an infection area."

With a brow raised, Osborn looked at the boy beside him in surprise. He didn't expect that the other party would understand these things, but he didn't care too much, 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 to each other. If the government gives up Dallas, it will inevitably give up together with Fort Worth and Arlington. Unless the epidemic has completely lost control, the government will never make such a decision."

"Then what are you worried about?" Seeing that the other party knew the pros and cons, Brian was a little confused about what the other party was worried about.

"I'm worried that it's never the epidemic, but the people who live in it." Osborne shook his head with a wry smile, and expressed his hidden worries.

"The isolation measures ordered by the government have seriously damaged the individual interests of all citizens. You may not understand that these people will gather in the city to marches and demonstrations, and some criminals will take this opportunity to move, so I am worried about what is going on now."

When he heard Osborne's concern, Brian also instantly understood what was going on. It was the same as the COVID-19 epidemic in his previous life. As long as there was a little dissatisfaction, these people whose interests were damaged would make a fuss. For the votes in these people, some people went back to promise to meet their unreasonable demands, which was ridiculous.

But he asked with some confusion: "Are they not afraid that the epidemic will spread in the city when they are making trouble like this?"

After hearing this, Osborne suddenly showed a sarcastic smile on his lips: "As long as the disaster does not really come to them, how can these people know what fear is?"

"Hmm? What is that?"

While talking, just as the RV drove through a big bend at the intersection, the scene in the distance instantly attracted the two of them.
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