If you take the Yangning Expressway from Yang City to Ning City, the entire journey is only 400 kilometers and it only takes more than five hours to drive. However, now you can basically forget about getting on the expressway, as the expressway is basically full of cars and is completely jammed.
Based on the route the army took, the satellite maps Jiang Xiaotian obtained during the invasion, and the information fed back by several drones, he was able to work out the most appropriate route, but he didn't know how much of a detour it would take.
This is a long-distance migration that is expected to last from ten days to half a month.
On January 21st, the third day after departure, the weather was still very cold. In order to save fuel, the air conditioner was not turned on in the car. Lin Tantan was lying in the passenger seat wrapped in a thick down jacket, swaying slightly as the car moved forward.
Then the car body shook slightly and stopped.
Lin Tantan opened his eyes, looked at the back of the car in front of him, picked up the intercom and asked, "What's going on?"
Jiang Zhongyi replied loudly: "There is a traffic jam ahead again. It will probably take one or two hours to clear it this time."
This is common. When you are driving, the road gets blocked again. It is okay if it is just ordinary vehicles blocking the road. But if the bridge collapses, the road sinks, or the mountain collapses, it will be very difficult to deal with.
However, because drones provide feedback on images in advance, there are usually people there to deal with it long before the main group. If it is determined that it cannot be passed, the team will be asked to take a detour in advance.
Yesterday, a bridge that collapsed into the river was found to be unreliable. Several people with a background in bridge construction made calculations and determined that the bridge could not withstand so many vehicles passing through it at the same time in a short period of time. In addition, Cheng Qinan, a semi-prophet, felt that it was not a good idea to go up the bridge, so they finally took a detour.
Lin Tan looked at the time and saw that it was almost noon. He said to Jiang Zhongyi, "Let's take this as our lunch break. Rest if you need to rest, and eat if you need to eat."
"Okay." Jiang Zhongyi changed the channel and conveyed the order to the team leader. Lin Tantan asked Qian Kai, who was in the driver's seat, to turn off the engine and take a rest. He then said to the two people in the back of the car, "Hey, it's time to go out for some fresh air. Get out of the car and move around for a while."
As she spoke, she opened the door and went downstairs. After sitting for so long, her butt didn't feel like her own anymore.
People from other cars also got off the bus one after another to deal with the waste they had accumulated all morning. The men would just find a place to relieve themselves, while the women were more particular, they would find a place, surround it with cloth, and then go in one by one.
Because there were farmlands on both sides of the road today, they simply chose a place far away from the convoy and dug a hole in the ground.
Lin Tan Tan took a sip of water, held the water bottle in his left arm, screwed the lid on with his right hand, and then dragged a box down from the pickup truck behind him.
Qian Kai hurried over to help.
"No, I can do it myself." Lin Tantan dragged the box with one hand to the roadside and opened it. Inside were sausages. As she squatted down, there was a rustling in the grass, and a fat, light gray rat came out, barking loudly, as if urging her to give it food quickly.
Lin Tan Tan sighed and handed it two sausages: "You are such a big mouse now, why do you still need people to feed you three times a day? Can't you hunt for yourself?"
"Squeak, squeak, squeak!" The big gray rat took the time to call out. It was always on the road and had no time to hunt.
Then a few more mice came out with a rustling sound, some white, some golden... Lin Tantan distributed sausages to all of them, and the whole box of sausages was quickly divided up.
These guys are such big eaters. Fortunately, there were only about ten of them following the big gray rat with her, otherwise she might not be able to feed them all.
But thinking about the fact that they had helped me stand guard for the previous two nights, it was only right that I should pay them some wages.
She looked at them all, all dirty, and said to the big gray rat, "Why don't you get on my car? It will be easier for you, right?"
The big gray rat slowed down its eating speed, looked at Lin Tan with black eyes, then squeaked, and went back to the bushes with a dozen of its little brothers.
"Wait." Lin Tantan called out to it and gave it a gold crystal core.
The big gray squirrel grabbed it rudely, then turned around and crawled away.
This guy is quite cool.
Suddenly there was someone beside him. Lin Tantan looked up and saw an unexpected person, Zhou Li.
She stood up, and Zhou Li said, "So you really did raise a group of mutant rats."
"There are only a few, not a group." Lin Tan Tan said calmly. It was no secret that she raised mice.
Zhou Li asked: "Is there any secret to raising these mutant animals? I also encountered a mutant dog before, but it was very aggressive and it was impossible to communicate with it."
Lin Tantan thought, if mutant animals could be raised by humans, wouldn’t humans be invincible
"There's no secret. I was just lucky and met some easy-going mice."
Easygoing personality? Zhou Li's mouth twitched. Why is this description so weird
He suddenly said, "Excuse me, do you have any prejudice against me?" He felt that Lin Tantan was very nice to others, but when he occasionally wanted to talk to her, she was always indifferent. "We met on the first day of the apocalypse, which is a rare fate. Shouldn't we be friends?"
Lin Tan Tan paused and said, "I don't have any prejudice. It's just that I'm also very busy and may not have much time to make friends."
She was thinking, "Being friends with you? Is this such an awkward conversation?"
"I'll go back first. Mr. Zhou is in charge of a team as well. He should have a lot of things to do, right?"
Due to the shortage of manpower, Zhou Li also took charge of a battalion, the Seventh Battalion. There was another battalion between it and the Fifth Battalion, but it was not the first time that Lin Tantan saw him in the Fifth Battalion.
Lin Tan Tan muttered to himself as he returned to the convoy. Mei Bosheng sat on the ground beside the car, looking exhausted. He raised his chin and asked, "Why is that guy here again?"
"Who knows?"
"It seems like he's looking for you every time he comes here. Is he trying to poach us?" He muttered to himself, wondering whether he should report this situation.
"Attention, attention, there is a flock of birds approaching from the northwest. Everyone, get in the car, close the doors and windows, draw the curtains, and keep quiet. I repeat, everyone, get in the car..."
At this time, Bai Cheng's voice came from Lin Tantan's intercom. Lin Tantan immediately looked up at the sky. Uh, northwest? Which direction is northwest
Well, there was no need to distinguish, because she had already seen a dark mass in the sky from afar.
She picked up the intercom, and before she could say anything, Jiang Zhongyi shouted anxiously: "All the teams of ys05 are here, captain, quickly arrange for everyone to get on the bus! Complete it within one minute!"
Soon, the captains of each small guard team began to quickly direct people to get on the bus.
"Those guys over there, come back quickly!"
"We are still short of a few people on the bus, we are about to close the door!"
"Stop making noise, everyone on the bus should sit down! Be quiet! Parents, cover your children's mouths!"
"Bag, bring it up!"
People were panicked for a moment, but fortunately they had rehearsed for the previous two days, so the overall efficiency was still good. It was just a pity for the person who was taking a defecation in the distance. He quickly pulled up his trousers and ran back screaming, which made Lin Tantan look very upset.
She walked quickly along the convoy, checking on everyone getting on board. For trucks, she closed the welded iron door on the back of the truck bed. For buses, she drew the curtains after everyone got on board, and quickly drew the matching curtains on the front windows and doors. For cars, those with car covers quickly sat in the car and asked people outside to help put on the covers.
However, this car cover is also a modified version. People in the car can just stretch out their hands to lift it up, and it will not affect driving in an emergency.
"Team ys0503, all personnel are on board!"
"Team ys0510, everyone get in the car!"
Seeing that almost everyone had gotten into the car and the "dark cloud" in the sky was getting closer and closer, Lin Tantan ran back to his car, closed the door, and drew the curtains, and the light in the car suddenly became dim.
She came to Jiang Xiaotian and asked, "Can you see what's going on outside?"
"Here, look." Jiang Xiaotian asked her to look at the display screen. This was the picture sent back by the drone. A black flock of birds was flying over. Soon they discovered the long convoy on the ground and flew down. Then the sound of flapping wings could be heard outside, followed by the banging sounds of bird beaks and claws hitting the car, as if countless stones were raining down on the car, making people's eardrums hurt.
Small pits soon appeared on the roof of the car, and some cracks appeared on the glass windows.
The quality of this car is still very good, which shows how powerful the weapons of these birds are. Cars of lower quality will suffer.
Through the pictures, Lin Tan Tan discovered that these unknown species of birds should all be mutant birds.
Just hope it’s not a zombie bird.
Suddenly, people's cries were heard from far behind. The birds outside the car all stopped, and then there was the sound of flapping their wings and flying away.
"Damn, who is this?" Jiang Xiaotian controlled a drone to follow the direction where the flock of birds left, and then found that the people shouting came from the army in the rear.
If they hadn't called out originally, these mutant birds would have pecked for a while and then flown away. But now that they made a sound, the flock of birds were attracted over there, and the large truck that made the sound was quickly surrounded by the flock of birds. The people in the cars in front and behind had to go to provide assistance.
Some birds were shot down, some people were pecked by birds, and suddenly, a girl was grabbed out of the car by a strong big bird and flew into the sky, but she fell to the ground because her clothes were torn.
The people watching the screen were silent. Being at such a high altitude, it was definitely dangerous.
Lin Tan Tan suddenly said, "Not good. If we keep fighting like this, the smell of blood will get stronger and stronger!"
Mutated birds are not scary, zombie birds are scary, but what is even scarier is the swarm of zombies.
As they were talking, the situation over there became even more chaotic. Vehicles in front and behind were worried about being affected by the flock of birds, so they hurriedly tried to drive away. But as soon as the cars moved, they were immediately surrounded by the flock of birds, and some people even ran out of the cars.
Jiang Xiaotian cursed: "Did these people's brains get eaten by birds?"
Lin Tantan frowned and suddenly said, "Give me a gun."
"What do you want to do? It's too far away, the gun can't possibly reach it."
Lin Tan Tan pulled out a gun from his waist and asked Qian Kai who was sitting in the driver's seat to move aside. She went to the driver's seat, lowered the window, and stretched out her hand holding the gun.
She wanted to shoot the biggest bird that could catch a person, but she found that the bird was flying very fast, up and down. How could she shoot it
Lin Tantan's brows were tightly knitted together, but the gold-based supernatural power continued to accumulate in the bullets, and then he waited for the right moment and fired a shot.
The bullet carrying gold energy dragged a pale golden light, as if tearing a hole in the air, and instantly reached a height of a thousand meters above where an ordinary pistol could not reach.
With a whoosh, golden light passed under the claws of the big bird and tore apart several mutant birds farther away.
"Oh!" It was almost there, Lin Tan Tan felt very sorry.
"Cry!" The big mutant bird seemed to sense a strong danger. It turned its head, immediately locked onto Lin Tantan and flew towards him.
Come on, come on, I can kill you if I get closer.
Lin Tantan was thinking about it, but at this moment, whoosh, something seemed to pass by and hit the big mutant bird. The head of the big mutant bird suddenly exploded and the whole body fell down.
Lin Tan Tan was stunned, turned around and saw a huge and wild car with four wheels. It was obvious that it had a strong climbing ability, but the car was hollow on all sides, with only some racks and a machine gun. It drove over. Ye Xiao was standing on the car, maintaining a shooting posture. He fired a few shots and shot down a few of the most ferocious birds.
Looking at the effect, it is obvious that it also has the added power of wind.
Lin Tantan's eyes lit up.
Ye Xiao took the time to look at her and said, "Hurry up and sit down. Push up the window."
Lin Tan Tan: "Ye Xiao, do you want to go bird hunting? I'll help you!"
Before Ye Xiao could say anything, she opened the car door, and a belt came out, pulling herself into Ye Xiao's car.
"…" There was no way to stop her, so Ye Xiao had to let her sit still, "Be careful."
"Hey, just shoot yours, don't worry about me." Lin Tan Tan felt a little envious when he saw him killing one or several people at a time. It was cool to have accurate shooting skills.
She didn't waste bullets. Some mutant birds discovered the moving car and the people in it, flew over, and entered the attack range of her supernatural powers. She then swung out golden thorns and golden blades, one at a time, and several at a time. Well, it was also very accurate.
In addition to their car, some highly maneuverable vehicles were also driven out from other convoys to help fight the zombie birds through bullet strafing or long-range attacks by psychics.
Among them, Zhou Li's attack had the best effect. He sent out a bolt of lightning, which flashed a blue-purple light in the air, and then hit a bird, and then hit a second one, or split the lightning into two or three, just like weaving a net in the air. All the birds caught in the "net" fell down with screams. The power was indeed great, and the "special effects" were indeed amazing.
In contrast, Zhao Yidan, who is also a lightning-type mutant, came out to support, but she could only focus on one bird with one lightning strike, and the color and thickness of the lightning strike were incomparable to Zhou Li's.
Lin Tantan couldn't help but take a few more glances at Zhou Li's ability, muttering in a low voice: "It's really amazing."
Ye Xiao heard her murmur and looked up at Zhou Li in the distance.
Then he stopped shooting, and happened to enter the range of his supernatural power. He raised his hand, and three hurricanes appeared in the sky for no reason where the flock of birds was densest, tearing the flock of birds apart and sweeping them into the hurricane.
As the hurricane moved, the mutant birds that were swept away were also moved away. As soon as Ye Xiao withdrew his hand, the hurricane stopped, and countless birds fell down with a crackling sound.
Lin Tan Tan: “…”
"Great, great! Applause!" Lin Tantan clapped her hands. Of course, she clapped with one hand and her arm, which made a puffing sound against her down jacket. She slapped Ye Xiao on the arm: "Your superpower has become stronger again!"
This is definitely at the level of Level 2, maybe even Level 3? The definition of the level of supernatural power is actually quite vague. Three hundred years later, there will be instruments to accurately detect it, but there are no instruments now, so Lin Tantan is not good at it.
But Ye Xiao is definitely ahead of everyone else.
Ye Xiao smiled and rubbed her head. He didn't think that there was anything to be proud of about having stronger superpowers, but if every progress could make her excited and happy... Ye Xiao felt that he should work harder.
He glanced in Zhou Li's direction and found that he was also looking at this side, so he nodded slightly to him.
The mutant birds were not stupid. They discovered that there was such a powerful superpower here that could just restrain their own superpowers. When they saw that several leaders in the flock were dead, they decided not to fight anymore and flew away one after another.
If this is a group of brainless zombie birds that only know how to eat, you absolutely cannot do this. You will not be able to leave until you hit the last one.
The flock of birds left, leaving behind a field of mutant bird corpses. Some people would pick up the corpses to see if there were any crystal cores, while others would try to eat the bird meat. After all, there were still many people who lacked food, especially the more than 200,000 survivors who were with the army.
There were quite a few injured people. When they came to talk to Lin about treatment, she picked out the three who were bleeding the most and quickly stopped their bleeding, and ignored the others.
As for the dead, there were two of them. Both the human body and the bird body were buried, and the bloodstains were dealt with.
While people were busy, Lin Tan Tan was riding in Ye Xiao's car back, but was stopped halfway through the drive.
"Captain Ye, can we follow you?" A young man ran over to stop the car. He looked very tired, but his eyes were very bright. "Do you still remember me? Jiangxi Town Convenience Center, you and your people saved my family. I am also a superpower. I am willing to follow any arrangement as long as my family can follow your convoy."
Ye Xiao asked: "Isn't it good to follow the army?"
The young man smiled bitterly, "They, they don't care about us at all. We just drive behind them. We have to worry about the car behind us cutting in on the road. We have to worry about the driver of the car in front of us suddenly stopping without any warning. When we are eating, we have to worry about someone snatching our food. Sometimes we have to be careful about people next to us getting into a fight for no reason and getting hurt. When we rest at night, we have to be alert to being robbed."
His expression was a little ugly. He looked at Lin Tantan and spoke in a cryptic way. "Stealing and robbing are still okay. Captain Ye, you don't know. The night before yesterday was fine, but something happened last night. Even several women were dragged out and didn't come back all morning."
Ye Xiao's face changed slightly, and she subconsciously glanced at Lin Tantan. Lin Tantan had an innocent expression on her face and blinked. Why was she looking at her
Seeing that she didn't understand, Ye Xiao looked away: "No one cares?"
The young man said bitterly: "Those soldiers are so busy guarding against zombies that they basically don't care about anything else. Everyone else only cares about themselves. Even if they hear any noise, they won't do anything. There are quite a lot of them. If you provoke one of them, you provoke the whole group. As long as the noise is small and doesn't attract the attention of the soldiers, no one dares to expose them. For example, I have two cousins and a whole family. If I provoke them, what if they do something when I'm not paying attention..."
Ye Xiao frowned. He had guessed that the situation would not be good due to the lack of management, but he didn't expect it to be so bad.
Lin Tan Tan finally reacted to what they were talking about. She also frowned. She knew that there would be many dark sides in the end times, but she had basically never encountered them. The only time was when Cai Chengliang harmed Mei Baisheng. She felt a little uncomfortable when she suddenly heard about such a thing.
Ye Xiao said to the young man, "You go back first. I will talk to Major General Xing later."
The young man was a little disappointed that he was not allowed to come to this convoy, but he didn't say anything else and turned back.
The car continued on the road, and Lin Tan Tan asked, "What do you plan to say to Major General Xing? I don't think he wants to deal with this kind of thing at all, otherwise how could he not have discovered it? Are all his men dead?"
If we catch a few typical examples and execute a few people, the trend can be suppressed immediately.
There had been troublemakers in the west of the city before, but they were not as bad as this one. However, he often robbed other people's things and bullied the weak. After being discovered, he was immediately driven out of the west of the city. After that, everyone else behaved themselves.
"I have to give some advice. Otherwise, if things continue like this, something bad might happen."
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After returning to the Fifth Battalion, Ye Xiao put Lin Tantan down and went to the front again. Not long after, the people leading the way finally cleared the road and the convoy was on the road again.
After stopping and starting for an entire afternoon, they advanced another twenty kilometers. At around four o'clock, the convoy stopped, reorganized on the spot, and prepared to spend the night.
People began to prepare dinner. Those who had the conditions collected firewood and started cooking, while those who didn't had to eat dry food.
Unlike ordinary people, the guards ate from the public. They could directly get food from the carts of supplies in the team, and hired people to help cook. At this time, the cooks took bags of rice and drinking water from the carts, set up big pots, adjusted the ratio of rice to water, and started cooking.
Some people will peel some sweet potatoes and put them into the big pot, and then cook them into a pot of sweet potato rice. Some people will put carrots in, and some people will not add anything. As for the vegetables, they basically just stir-fry some cabbage or potatoes and stew a big pot of bone soup.
These are all very simple and convenient dishes.
Lin Tantan moved a stool and sat beside them, watching people busy cooking, helping out from time to time. She smelled the aroma of the food and felt eager to join in, as she was hungry.
"When can I eat?" she asked an old lady.
"It's almost done, the rice will be ready soon." The auntie seemed to keep saying this over and over again.
Lin Tan Tan sighed and prepared to take a walk. Just smelling the smell was too depressing.
Then they met Zhou Li again. It was also a coincidence that all the convoys were parked together, and the Seventh Brigade was right opposite the Fifth Brigade.
"Ms. Lin." Zhou Li seemed to be looking for her, and came over to ask about what happened at noon: "Were you and Captain Ye both injected with superpowers when you fired?"
There was nothing to hide, so she answered directly: "Yes."
"Can I ask you how you did this?"
Since she was asked this, could she say no
But she could have figured this out by herself, right? Ye Xiao never asked her... Oh, right, when did Ye Xiao start to understand how to inject superpowers into bullets, and the effect was surprisingly good.
Lin Tantan was a little distracted, and Zhou Li couldn't help but ask again.
"Ah?" Looking at Zhou Li's sincere look, Lin Tantan thought that this man was quite awesome, but in the end he was killed by his own brother, which was too tragic. If he was stronger, maybe Zhou Yan would not be in trouble. Thinking of this, she began to speak in detail.
In the distance, Mei Bosheng pulled Jiang Xiaotian aside and whispered, "This is the nth time this guy has come to talk to me again. He must be trying to poach us, right?"
Jiang Xiaotian munched on his biscuits and said, "It's normal, right? Who doesn't want to dig up Tan Tan? It's just that you're worried about our captain, so you don't dare to show it obviously. But you don't have to stare at him every day. Tan Tan has the freedom to make friends."
"It would be fine if he really wanted to make friends with Tan Tan, but this Zhou is so cunning. You see, he hardly showed up in the west of the city. Now that the boss and Lao Bai are busy, he took advantage of the situation and swooped in."
Jiang Xiaotian stopped chewing the biscuit and thought for a moment: "It seems so!"
"Is that so? Look at his methods, they are so dishonest. Humph, he has bad intentions!"
"What bad intentions?"
A voice interrupted, and Mei Bosheng was startled. Seeing that it was his boss, he quickly grabbed him and said, "Boss, you are here. Look, that guy is here to talk to you again. You are so kind to ask him to be the team leader, but he just wants to steal your people!"
The author has something to say: Zhou Li released a special effect of 50 cents, lightning and thunder.
Tan Tan: Well, it’s really amazing.
Upon hearing this, Ye Xiao used his hurricane trick, and the special effects... The special effects weren't very good, but I was buying one and getting two for free!
Tan Tan: Applause! It turns out that my male god is really strong!
Not long after, Ye Xiao discovered that the guy with his own 50-cent special effects was trying to poach his customers. No, he was poaching them secretly.
Ye Xiao: I'm so stupid. I only knew to transfer my own people away, but I didn't expect there would be threats from outside. Well, it seems that I have to develop a cool special effect.
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Two updates combined into one. Yesterday's update is also posted here. Tomorrow's update should be in the afternoon~~