Chapter 26 Part Five Accompanying the Unspeakable Things Chapter 25

They arrived on the outskirts of the oil zone (the desolate thin end of the middle of nowhere).At this time, the third and most powerful falling dust began. The warning had been issued before, and Dr. Duvaly's then-and-out broadcast receiver had the news.The falling dust is relatively slight in Port Magellan, but there are waves of dense dust waves in the west, as if they are falling right here. By the time Dr. Duvaly made the announcement, the threat was looming and ominous.The car was speeding on the highway between two equally flat grounds, and Liz watched clouds emerge from a gray-blue sky from the rear window, the color like burning slate.

We had to get under cover again.She heard Turk say. ☆ Looking southwest, Turk could make out the silvery-black silhouette of the Aranco rig.Maybe they all went away.Several towers in the distance seem to be a little crooked, but this may be an illusion.Turk guessed there were still guards there, guarded by machines and armed men. Fortunately they didn't have to go in that direction.A business district has formed around the Petroleum Zone, full of shops opened by singles for singles: strip clubs, bars, pornographic stores, etc., which means that you can find more serious commercial zones and workers not far in the past residence.As the two cars raced against the dark clouds turning over from the east, this commercial district also appeared: a winding road with gates not locked with chains; a shopping center (grocery store, media retail store, complex); Lots of solid concrete buildings with one- and two-bedroom apartments stacked like boxes.

Turk was in the first car with Liz and Dr. Duvaly when he looked back to see the second car pull into the mall parking lot.Duvaly turned the car around and stopped them in front of the grocery store. Buy some supplies.Diane explained. We don't have time, Duvale said grimly, we have to find cover. Like that house up front?I suggest you break in, or get in by any means necessary.We will follow as soon as we find food. Duvaly clearly didn't like the idea.But there was some truth to that, Turk thought, in the face of the fact that they were running low on what they needed, and this dust storm might leave them alone for a while.Then move faster.Duval said unhappily.

☆ Whoever designed the workers' dormitory did nothing to hide the project's lunatic asylum.From the outside, the building looked like weathered concrete, cracked sidewalks and an empty parking lot.The parking lot is connected to a tennis court, surrounded by a chain-link fence with a sloppy and loose net.Turk approached a hollowed-out steel door, painted industrial yellow and apparently having been kicked by the boots of a hundred drunken oilmen over the years.The door was still locked, but the lock was not secure, and a few times with a tire pick it came loose.When Turk broke open the door, Duvali seemed restless, looking back at the approaching dust storm.The sky has gradually dimmed, and the surrounding sunlight has also become more and more dim.

The door opened, and Turk stepped into the darkness of the room, followed by Duvale, and finally Lise. evil!God, it stinks!Lise said. The evacuation must have been hasty, with the doors of many rooms opening onto corridors.The rooms are more like cells than homes, with small, tall windows and tiny bathrooms.The food in the room was left to rot, and the toilet seemed to have not been flushed for hundreds of years.They searched for the most suitable accommodation on the first floor, and finally selected three, one was two adjacent rooms, and the other was the one across the corridor.The people who lived in these rooms before have taken away the most perishable food.Liz reached out to open a window, but Duval said: No, dust will come in.We have to live with the stink.

There is no electricity here, and it gets dark quickly.As Turk and Duvaly unloaded their things from the car, the afternoon had turned to a dim twilight, and the dust was beginning to fall like snowflakes.Duvali said: Where are they? I'm going to rush them.Turk volunteered. Without them knowing where to find us. ☆ Diane and Su Lian.Mrs. Moeruribuka accompanied Isaac in the car while they looked for groceries.The store was almost cleared, but they found a few boxes of soup cans in a storage room at the back of the store, not particularly appetizing, but if this dust storm will keep them indoors for a long or short time , these may be the necessities of life.They loaded boxes into the car when it was getting dark.One more box, said Diane at last, looking at the approaching dust cloud, and then we should be inside.

A skylight above the grocery aisle casts a pale light on the empty shelves.A previous microshock had knocked down some shelves.Diane and Su Lian each lifted the last cardboard box and walked towards the door, their feet creaking on the glass and garbage. No sooner had he reached the sidewalk than Isaac screamed.Diane dropped the cardboard box immediately, and cans of some kind of cream littered the sidewalk.She yanked open the passenger side door and poked her head back.help me! The boy's cries were interrupted by gasps as he struggled to breathe.Diane couldn't help thinking that just making that noise was painful, a child's lungs couldn't handle making such a horrible sound.He rolled and kicked, and she grabbed both his wrists to hold him down, but it took more force than expected.Mrs. Rebuka was already up front, frantically inserting the key card into the engine slot.He started barking all of a sudden and I couldn't get him to quiet down!

The important thing now is to get into a sheltered room.Start the car.Diane said. I tried it!Can't move! At this moment, the dust storm was already on their heads.It was no longer just some dust fragments, but a turbid front, blowing from the desert with astonishing speed and force.Before Diane could say another word, the cloud of falling dust broke up and engulfed them all at once, almost suffocating them. It's really suffocating.She opened her mouth to retch, and even Isaac, taking a deep breath of dusty air, fell silent.All light was dimmed, and the air became impenetrably black and dense.Diane exhaled a mouthful of foul breath and finally shouted: We must bring him indoors!

Did Mrs. Rebuka hear that?Did Su Lian hear that?Apparently hearing it, Sulian, who seemed barely visible, helped Diane lift the boy from the car into the grocery store.Mrs. Rebuka followed, one hand on Diane's back. It's not much better to go into the store.A large amount of dust poured in through the broken skylight.They managed to keep Isaac between them, holding him up on his own while they groped their way to the storage room.They found the storage room and locked themselves in it.In the pitch black, you have to wait for the dust to settle before you can breathe properly.They realized that the situation was worse than expected.Diane thought: After all these years, is this where I will be buried?