Shadows of JiangXi

[Jansen]

After her arrival at the checkpoint she had to go through countless medical tests and checks, most of them, if not even all were rather painful. Swallowing the anti-radiation medicine wasnt a joy either. But once they were done with her tests she was allowed to eat and drink something. Food and water that wasnt dangerous. It felt good to be safe for a while, even the hand stopped to hurt.

Marcia had to move on at the next morning, some of the others already were on their way to the coast, so she had to hurry. Being the last one arriving there was the last thing she would have wanted. Around Midday she found a simple car near something that could have been a farm before, now the house was empty, no traces of life left.

The car stood inside of something that could have been a barn before, so it was still in a very good condition. After 3 tries the engines launched for the first time since the attack. The whole building was filled with smoke, so she left it, while still heavily coughing from the particles in the air. She drove into southern direction again, along a small road that led her through a few empty villages until it completely disappeared. She was driving through the plains, southwards.

There were a lot of animals living in those plains, most of them, where as it seemed some kind of horses that once served the humans, but now lived on as wild beings. Also animals that could be described as a mix of a tiger and a wolf, but the car was too fast for them to become dangerous in any way. The radiation meter showed low levels, they were still a lot higher then before the attacks, but nowhere near the levels in the city or the forest.

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