Upon hearing the woman's words, everyone quickly suppressed their excitement.

Chen Guodong looked at the security team members below with satisfaction and said, "Here is a roster. When your name is called, come up and sign it."

"Li Qiang, Zhang Kai, Zuo Wenna, Sun Haijun..." As each name was read out...

Excited security team members lined up, holding their skill books. In no time, everyone used the skill books in front of Chen Guodong and Lin Kang, and each of them released a fireball.

After watching everyone use it, Lin Kang instructed his men to call over the security team from the second district.

Chen Guodong, Lin Kang, and others were busy until evening before they finished distributing all the security team's skills.

Looking at the remaining skill books of Chen Guodong, Chen Guo asked, "Second Uncle, what are these remaining skills for? Are any of them for my people?"

Chen Guodong said with a smile, "The remaining skills are for our staff, Professor Gu and his students who have been busy with planting, Dr. Yang Jie and the others who are busy at the hospital, and the workers who are responsible for maintaining the solar panels."

"Alright, alright, I know," Chen Wei said angrily.

Inside the base vehicle, the group had just finished dinner. The girls were helping Zheng Shuang plan their departure route for tomorrow.

A knocking sound rang out at the door. Tang Yan opened the door and looked at Chen Wei, who looked uncomfortable, and said, "Skill books are very rare, but don't worry, it will be your turn in a few days."

Chen Wei followed his group of underlings, looking dejected, as they recounted everything that had just happened at the stadium.

"That woman is terrifying. I knocked on the door," she said without saying anything else, and sent me back.

A girl said to Chen Wei, "We'll all get our turn eventually anyway, so what's a few more days? What's the harm in waiting a few more days?"

Chen Wei put his arm around the girl's slender waist and said, "Alright, alright, we'll wait a few days. By the way, has the compensation for those brothers who died in battle been sent?"

The girl said with a sad expression, "They've all been sent, but Brother Changshan's youngest daughter is only 13 years old this year. I think it's better to arrange for her to stay with me."

Chen Wei gritted his teeth and cursed, "This damn world! When the skills are finally released, give them to the families of our dead brothers first."

Early in the morning, Yuan Chuyi got out of bed, clutching her back, and said fiercely to Tang Yan, "It really proves the old saying: there are no fields that can't be plowed properly, only oxen that have been worked to death."

Tang Yan chuckled and said, "You're already this tired after only two thousand skills. I don't think you can do it either."

Upon hearing this, Yuan Chuyi immediately felt that his dignity had been greatly insulted. He immediately mounted his horse and presented Tang Yan with another five hundred skill books.

After finishing, Tang Yan pulled Yuan Chuyi and said, "Get up quickly! After dinner, you and Shuang will go to find her family."

Inside a speeding base vehicle, Yuan Chuyi awkwardly looked at Zheng Shuang, whose face was flushed, and asked, "Who are the people at home?"

Zheng Shuang was still thinking about Tang Yan's instructions before she left, and she subconsciously said, "Five hundred books at a time, not one less."

She realized her mistake as soon as the words left her mouth, and at that moment she wished she could disappear into a crack in the ground.

Yuan Chuyi looked at Zheng Shuang with a strange gaze, but in her heart she recalled the way Tang Yan had whispered to Zheng Shuang before leaving.

"Damn it, they really treat me like a breeding pig! I'm going to abstain from sex starting today!" he vowed silently.

After the awkward moment, Zheng Shuang said softly, "My mother lives alone. My father passed away when I was very young, and my mother raised me all by herself."

Seeing Zheng Shuang's downcast expression, Yuan Chuyi didn't know what to say. He made conversation by saying, "Wow, that was fast. We'll be leaving Haicheng soon."

Unlike their usual noisy outings together, the four of them were unusually quiet inside the base vehicle.

The two drove in silence along the national highway until a sudden screech of brakes shattered the tranquility inside the car.

Zheng Shuang looked at a woman holding a baby in her arms ahead and said, "I'll go down and take a look."

Yuan Chuyi squinted at the woman blocking the middle of the road.

He said to Zheng Shuang, "No need, let's just rush over there."

Then, he floored the accelerator, and the base vehicle sped off.

When she was only 1 meter away from the woman, the woman's expression changed drastically. Just as she was about to collide with her, the woman leaped away and narrowly avoided the collision.

Outside the car, the woman cursed at the speeding car, and then a dozen burly men emerged from both sides of the road, each carrying a weapon.

Zheng Shuang also realized that the woman was no ordinary person, and then she asked, "Brother Yuan, do you think that woman was trying to hunt us?"

Yuan Chuyi countered with a question: What do you think? Although the woman's clothes looked tattered, they were all cotton-padded, and the child she was holding was clearly wrapped in summer fabric.

This alone proves that the child isn't hers. If it's not hers, then there's definitely something wrong with her holding the child and blocking our way.

In the apocalypse, the best way to survive is to avoid getting involved in unnecessary trouble and refrain from being a pushover.

Before the vehicle had traveled more than a few kilometers, a roadblock covered with iron bars appeared ahead.

The vehicle continued driving without slowing down at all, but just as it was about to crash into the roadblock ahead...

The roadblocks had disappeared.

Watching the car disappear into the distance, a scruffy-bearded young man crawled out of the snowdrift and cursed, "Damn it, looks like this plan is pretty tricky."

Another woman, who had just emerged from behind the tree, said, "Let's see if the people in front can stop them."

Inside the car, Zheng Shuang angrily said, "It seems there really is a trap at every turn outside."

He then asked Yuan Chuyi, who was driving the vehicle, "Brother Yuan, are you saying that the original official forces are now completely useless?"

Yuan Chuyi thought for a moment and said, "The government certainly has power, but it only exists in megacities like Shanghai and Beijing."

Perhaps Harbin also has some official influence. After all, it's a provincial capital in the north, and there are troops stationed there.

In a small, fifth-tier city like ours, we can't even find a few decent guns, let alone any official support.

Yuan Chuyi looked at the distance ahead and sighed, saying, "It seems that it will be quite difficult for us to reach Shangzhi County smoothly this time."

Zheng Shuang looked at Yuan Chuyi with confusion and asked, "Why do you say that?"

Yuan Chuyi pointed ahead.

Zheng Shuang looked in the direction Yuan Chu pointed and saw a deep pit in the middle of the road a hundred meters ahead.

Zheng Shuang knew this was done intentionally, and she said angrily, "I'll get out of the car to deal with it later, you can stay in the car!"

Yuan Chu pursed his lips and drawled, "Okay..."

Zheng Shuang stomped her foot at Yuan Chuyi's expression and said, "Hmph, give me five minutes to finish this!"

The vehicle slowly came to a stop at the edge of the deep pit. The two men looked through the windshield at the dozen or so people standing and chatting on the other side of the pit.

Yuan Chuyi watched Zheng Shuang open the car door and get out. He silently rolled down the car window, lit a cigarette, and prepared to watch the show.