At first, the sky in the east of the wilderness was a gray-blue cloud. As time went by, the clouds gradually became brighter, and the light gradually eroded the clouds. Finally, a beam of light passed through the clouds and shone on the earth.
Its daybreak.
A loud voice rang out from a large truck parked on the side of the road: "Wake up, the sun is out, wake up quickly."
In the cab, Tianyang, who was lying on the steering wheel, heard the sound, yawned and woke up.
He opened the door of the cab, jumped to the ground and stretched his muscles.
After robbing the truck at the black mine last night, they drove in the opposite direction of the Bay Area. Tianyang had heard that Gaoshan Fort was located northwest of Qingtian Fort, so he came here with the help of the direction locator on the console.
Su Lie, Xue Yan and Xing Luo got out of the car one after another. They took out the toothbrushes purchased by Tian Yang and started cleaning.
Tianyang was the first to finish washing up. He then took a folding table and several folding chairs from the truck and set them up under a big tree.
Then Xing Luo took everyone's breakfast out of the car and placed it on the table.
Although breakfast is mostly bread, and the quality of bread in the downtown area is very average, no one complains.
Especially Xue Yan, a woman who was once a general of the fortress, not only did she not complain, but she also had a smile on her face.
Tianyang was originally worried that his father would not eat. After all, he said that he could no longer be considered a human being in some ways.
Otherwise, he wouldn't have been able to survive in the adverse world and in the grave for so long.
But he still picked up the bread, took a bite, and drank some water. He looked no different from an ordinary person, which made Tianyang breathe a sigh of relief.
After Su Lie finished a piece of bread, he leaned back in his chair, holding the cup but not drinking the water. Instead, he looked at Tian Yang and said, "Have you been to Gaoshanbao?"
Tianyang shook his head honestly.
Su Lie spread his hands and said, "Then do you know how to get there?"
Tian Yang said with some guilt: "I know it is in the northwest of the Skyfort."
Su Lie laughed: "In other words, you don't know the exact location of the fortress? Good boy, when I was young, I often made people think that I was reckless. You have perfectly inherited this fine tradition of mine."
I just occasionally...
Tian Yang muttered to himself, then looked at Xue Yan: "You should know Gaoshan Fort, right?"
"Why do you think I know that?" Xue Yan asked in surprise, "Although I have heard of that fortress, I have never been there."
"You should also know that at the beginning, our Black Star Fort regarded Sky Fort as its primary target, so we had no time to care about other fortresses."
You are a general.
Tianyang had the urge to cover his forehead. He had prepared a lot of things yesterday, but he had forgotten the location of Gaoshan Fort. He originally thought that even if he didn't know, his father or Xue Yan should know.
result... ... .
Tianyang looked at Xingluo: "What about you?"
As Tianyang's slave, Xing Luo was absolutely obedient, but she still shook her head: "I don't know either. In my memory, there is not even the name Gaoshanbao."
Su Lie didn't take it seriously: "It doesn't matter. Just know that it is northwest of Skyfort. We will find it if we keep looking for it."
"Besides, an unknown journey is more attractive, isn't it?"
Tianyang ate the remaining bread: "This is the only way now."
After breakfast, they put away the tables and chairs and continued on their journey. When the road no longer extended to the northwest, Tianyang drove off the road directly. Anyway, this truck had an off-road design, a high chassis, and high horsepower, so it would not be a problem for it to not go on the road.
Apart from the lack of shockproofing and the bumpy ride, there were no other problems.
After noon, Tianyang and Xingluo swapped roles, with Xingluo driving while he went into the car and sat opposite Su Lie.
Su Lie leaned casually in the chair, letting his body sway with the ups and downs of the road. He looked at the wilderness outside the window with a smile, as if he had walked out of the haze of yesterday.
As for whether he really came out or hid something deeper, Tianyang could not know.
Tianyang didn't intend to delve into it. There were some things that could only be experienced and healed by oneself, and outsiders could not help at all.
"When I was about your age, I traveled far away with my father. At that time, I was not yet an Ascendant, and my father was a businessman."
Su Lie casually narrated: "The status of merchants in the fortress was far from being as high as it is now. So even though my father was a businessman with a small fortune, he couldn't even get the status of an upper citizen."
"This leads to some problems. For example, it is difficult to recruit Ascendant guards when traveling for business, even if we have sufficient funds."
"Of course, there weren't many Ascendants who could provide escort work at that time."
"As we all know, the wilderness is dangerous. Evil creatures appear from time to time, especially in the mountains far away from the bay area and in the uninhabited areas far away from the fortress."
"So most of the time, the caravan risked their lives to earn enviable profits. During that journey, we were attacked by evil creatures. Fortunately, we were not far from a fortress, and fortunately, the fortress received our distress signal in time."
"Otherwise, you and I wouldn't be able to sit here and chat right now."
Su Lie smiled and said, "It was at that time that I aspired to become an ascender. Of course, I was lucky enough. At the Starlight Festival that year, I awakened and successfully obtained the status of a superior citizen."
"Later, I climbed up the ladder bit by bit through my merits, and was finally able to establish a family as my father wished. Unfortunately, this family did not last long, and it fell into decline because of me."
Su Lie was thoughtful: "I don't know what happened to my father later, although the commander secretly arranged for him to leave the Sky Fort..."
"If I could see him again..."
Suddenly, Su Lie exclaimed, sat up straight, and pointed out the window: "Look!"
Tianyang looked out and saw thick red smoke rising from the distant wilderness outside the window.
Su Lie shouted, "This is the caravan's signal for help! If this type of signal for help has not changed in the past ten years."
Caravan!
Tianyang was touched. If it was a caravan, they should know where Gaoshan Fort was.
He immediately shouted to the cab: "Xingluo, look in the direction of the red smoke!"
"Yes, sir."
The truck turned a corner and moved towards the direction of the red smoke with a cloud of dust.
As the smoke grew larger and larger, Tianyang saw a group of evil foxes and candle wolves.
Attacking a convoy.
The convoy was not large, with only seven or eight magnetic vehicles, mainly trucks loaded with cargo, and only three escort vehicles.
These vehicles formed a circle in the wilderness, and the guards of the convoy relied on this circle to deal with the evil spirits.
Among the guards, there was actually a three-dimensional weapon, but it looked like an old model. The mechanical arm held a machine gun. The firepower was fierce, but it seemed clumsy and it was difficult to hit those nimble small monsters. It could only cause trouble for slightly larger monsters like Zhulang.
Behind that group of evil gods, Tianyang also saw a giant!
Nearly five meters tall, in human form, his entire body covered in armor-like biological armor, with a single eye behind the visor that completely covered his face. He held a unique broadsword in both hands, and did not participate in the battle, but looked like a commander.
Tian Yang exclaimed softly: "It's actually a humanoid species!"
He remembered that he had consulted Lao Xu about the information of the evil creatures. From Lao Xu he learned that there were four types of evil species: beast-like species, winged species, humanoid species and forbidden species.
As for the super-powerful monster that attacked the fortress, it actually also belonged to the beast-like species, and only the beast-like species could evolve to such a huge size.
And Lao Xu said that the humanoid races among the gods and demons are natural commanders, and a group of gods and demons commanded by humanoid races can exert even greater power.
At this moment, the group of evil spirits attacking the convoy were like this.
The smaller foxes did not rush forward to act as cannon fodder. Under the command of the Cyclops, they followed the Candle Wolf but lagged slightly behind it.
As they ran, the circle of light around their necks would float up from time to time, and then they would open their mouths and spit out gray-white fireballs.
The fireballs hit the car bodies. Although the power was not strong enough to penetrate the car bodies, it still caused the outer shells of the magnetic energy vehicles to dent and crack.
The Candle Wolves acted as the vanguard. They fearlessly rushed towards the chariot formation and used their huge claws burning with flames to easily tear apart human bodies and even vehicle bodies.
Under the command of the Cyclops, these gods and evils did not attack in a monotonous and rigid direction. They would often run around the chariot formation after a round of attack, and then attack the weak points of the chariot formation.
This caused the convoy's guards to run around and put out fires everywhere, and their physical energy and ammunition were being rapidly consumed every moment.
There were also children in the convoy, two children, a boy and a girl. The boy looked to be eight or nine years old, and the girl was a little older, but only about eleven or twelve years old.
The little boy had never encountered this kind of array staff before, and he burst into tears.
The girl hugged him and tried to comfort him from time to time, but she was also very scared and her face turned pale.
Suddenly, the little girl felt a chill on her head, as if a cold wind was blowing. She looked up and saw that the sky above had become gloomy.
From the sky, goose feather-like snowflakes actually floated down.
At this time, the evil creatures completed a round of attacks and started running again, trying to change positions. Suddenly, ice spears rose from the ground without warning and picked up the candle wolves and foxes.
The stomachs of these creatures were hung on the ice spears. They were not dead yet, but they could not break free and could only move their limbs in vain.
When the Cyclops saw this, he immediately swung his broadsword and was about to join the battle, but at this moment, he suddenly felt a sharp pain in his back, and then a translucent sword tip pierced his chest.
At the tip of the sword, there were still tiny particles of light like moonlight constantly falling.