◎Happy 144th day: Want to learn C language but stop◎

They walked all night. When they were tired, they took turns lying on the kayak for a while. When they were hungry, they chewed two slices of cooked mushrooms. Their life was much harder than on the boat.

The only thing that could bring them some comfort was a ray of sunshine peeking out from the horizon in the morning.

"That's great news." Jiang Muyun raised his hand to block the light and looked towards the direction of the sunrise. "There's sunshine here in Gyeonggi Province, and the temperature will drop significantly during the day."

Chu Buwen exhaled a puff of white mist. "Before the apocalypse, there was a farmland where cash crops were grown. If Dabai has explored it and found no problems, our three drivers can start working."

The visibility was too poor at night and the road conditions were too complicated. Even if they were tired, they didn't dare let Xiaobai and the others lead them for a run.

If these cars step on the wrong place and there is no time to brake, it will be a big disaster.

It’s different now.

It was already daybreak, and there were farmlands ahead, with no ruins of tall buildings. In this situation, it would be fine to let Xiaobai and the others run away for a while.

Even though most of the time people travel by walking after the end of the world, there are very few times when they feel as nervous and exhausted as they do now.

Strictly speaking, they have been in this state for more than a week.

Ever since they entered the polluted waters and had to be constantly on guard against attacks from mutant fish, they rarely had a full night's sleep.

If it weren't for the capital city right before their eyes and the cold wave that might come back at any time, people like Gao Liang, who had not suffered much before and after the apocalypse, would have collapsed long ago.

When Gao Liang heard that he could take a break, he immediately turned around and squatted on the kayak, while also stuffing a few slices of mushroom into the driver Xiaoguai's mouth to comfort him.

Xiaoguai took the mushroom away with disgust, not even wanting to look at him. He just held his head high and dug in the sand with his front paws, looking like he couldn't wait any longer.

The current condition of these three cubs is completely opposite to that of Jiang Muyun and the others.

They had been squatting on the boat for half a month, eating and sleeping every day. They were huddled in the same place, not daring to move at all, for fear that the boat would capsize if they were not careful.

I finally made it to the boat yesterday, but before I had enough fun, I had to follow these two-legged humans and take a leisurely walk on the road.

It's like starving someone for three days and then taking him out to feed him a bowl of porridge.

Just take a bite, taste the flavor, and savor what it feels like to have something in your stomach, and then continue to be hungry.

Who can stand this!

Fortunately, these three were raised by Jiang Muyun and others since they were young. They are smart and sensible, and can behave well for a while when necessary, otherwise they would have rebelled long ago.

Jiang Muyun and others dragged their tired bodies onto the raft. Before Captain Yu, the last one to board, even touched the ground, Xiaoguai in front of them howled like a wolf and rushed out.

Tutu and Xiaobai responded to the call actively, kicking their hind legs and sending dust all over the faces of several people.

Captain Yu was pulled by this force and fell down with a thud. The sound of his tailbone hitting the wooden board at the bottom of the boat was clearly audible, and Jiang Muyun felt pain just listening to it.

Just as Captain Yu was about to cry out in pain, he opened his mouth and was filled with cold wind mixed with sand and dust, and the cry of pain in his throat was forcibly blocked.

Jiang Muyun covered half of her face with a scarf, leaned against the edge of the boat, and stuffed all the maps in her hands into Chu Buwen's arms. "You watch them first, I'll clear my mind. If I fall asleep, remember to call me."

Chu Buwen responded, "Don't worry. According to the route we planned earlier, this safe zone is enough for Xiaobai and the others to run for more than half an hour."

Jiang Muyun nodded, pulled her scarf up a little, put her elbows on the edge of the boat, leaned against it and closed her eyes.

The rising sun hung quietly in the sky, watching coldly as the survivors struggled to survive.

Jiang Muyun stretched his body nonchalantly, embracing the warm sunshine in the cold wind.

In her previous life, she didn't have Xiaobai to help her carry her luggage, and she didn't even have a map. When she was on the road, she had to grope her way along carrying all her belongings on her back.

When I was exhausted after walking for more than ten hours, I would tremble in fear and find a place to sleep for two or three hours.

Then you may be awakened by some unknown noise, or you may find yourself dreaming. You are afraid that you are sleeping too deeply and cannot notice the outside noise in time, so you force yourself to open your eyes from the dream, and after opening your eyes, you continue to carry your luggage on the road.

Keep walking until you are too tired to do anything, and then repeat the process of finding a place, sleeping, and waking up.

It wasn't until the end of the new spring that she stopped to build a temporary shelter for herself to survive the terrible extreme weather that followed.

When you think about it, the time she had to waste was more like time for her body to recuperate.

Jiang Muyun can say responsibly that her current physical endurance may not be as good as her own at the same time in her previous life, causing her to feel more physically tired than before, but Jiang Muyun feels that this kind of fatigue is not unbearable.

It is commonly said that the body is tired but the mind is not, and I am used to this feeling of suffering.

She looked very relaxed at the moment, mainly because she had been on edge the whole night and now she had overused her brain and felt a headache.

Jiang Muyun cleared his mind and gave his brain a short vacation.

A few white cubs in front were running wildly and calling excitedly, and there was a whistling sound of wind passing by their ears. The sunlight and the cold wind were pulling at each other, and there was a bit of chill in the warmth, which was contradictory and harmonious.

Jiang Muyun pulled the petals of the third flower in his mind, and he hadn't decided whether to open his eyes and find a blanket to cover himself.

Even though she was a tough person who could walk for hours in the desert just a few minutes ago, it didn't stop her from not even bothering to open her eyes now.

Fortunately, Jiang Muyun failed to pull the fourth flower.

Because an unknown kind-hearted person covered her with a blanket.

Jiang Muyun was too lazy to stretch his arms. He just hunched his shoulders and tucked himself deeper into the blanket. Then he mumbled a thank you and continued to empty his mind and enjoy life.

Jiang Muyun hugged the blanket and muttered, "I'm that happy little loser who just wants to lie in the yard in the rocking chair and bask in the sun in the winter."

The little waste couldn't be happy for long, because although she was useless, she never lied.

At one o'clock in the afternoon when the sun was shining brightly, twelve hours after Jiang Muyun made her prediction, her prediction came true.

"Normally, we have two paths now."

Chu Buwen stopped the three crazy-running cubs in front of him at the edge of the city, woke up Jiang Muyun who had accidentally fallen asleep due to being too comfortable in the sun, and held up a tourist map to show everyone.

"One road is to go from the main road of a certain district in Gyeonggi City, through Gyeonggi City and directly to the capital." Chu Buwen's pen passed over the widest main roads in Gyeonggi City, and then gestured for everyone to appreciate the place that was now in front of them, which was suspected to be the urban area of ​​Gyeonggi City - the kind that was flat with only yellow sand and no houses.

"The other route is safer, bypassing Gyeonggi City and entering the capital from the outskirts. But the level of safety is limited."

As Chu Buwen spoke, he took out the city planning map again.

The land around the capital is extremely expensive, and it is impossible to have large farmlands and villages like before, so even if they choose to take a detour, there is still the risk of getting stuck in quicksand.

Jiang Muyun yawned, leaned over to look at the two roads marked by Chu Buwen, and then took out the topographic map to study it for comparison.

Jiang Muyun looked up at Chu Buwen and said, "What if it's not normal?"

Chu Buwen laughed and said, "Abnormally speaking, we should be thinking the same thing."

"I want to go to Anshan first." Chu Buwen circled an area on the topographic map.

Captain Yu suddenly realized: "You mean?"

Jiang Muyun took out a wet wipe from her bag and wiped her face: "Base."

"As long as Gyeonggi City and the capital have had a rainy season, there is a high chance that there will be a survivor base in higher places, or at least nearby." Jiang Muyun hadn't slept so soundly since she set out, and she now felt relaxed all over.

Jiang Muyun said, "If there is a base near Anshan, regardless of whether it has an official background, at least we can find living people near the base and ask them about the situation in the capital."

"If Anshan hadn't collapsed in the earthquake," Tang An added.

"The probability is low, judging by the terrain." Jiang Muyun showed her the topographic map. "Anshan is neither high nor dangerous, and its base is very stable. Unless a large rift valley is created by the earthquake, it will be difficult to collapse it."

"Even if it collapses or there are no survivors, we can always take the theme park route instead." Chu Buwen pointed to the large amusement park sign on the tourist map and said, "It's hard to find such a large area with only low buildings near the capital. The theme park is located in the suburbs of Beijing. After passing through the park, follow Park Avenue to avoid the subway and enter the city."

This is the least dangerous route they can find so far.

"Let's go and take a look." Chu Buwen patted Dabai in his arms and signaled Dabai to go ahead and explore the way.

During the time when Jiang Muyun was asleep, they had been taken by the three drivers of the family across a flat road and then walked through a dangerous area.

The place where they are currently standing is at the very edge of the city.

Perhaps if they walked a few hundred or a thousand meters further, they would step on the ruins of a building.

The capital and surrounding areas are windy and sandy, and this was the case before the end of the world.

At the end of the world, the capital was much more seriously affected by wind and sand than the southern part of the city.

At least the sand layer of Nanshi could not bury the ruins of Nanshi so tightly. It is even impossible to judge from the ups and downs of the sand dunes where there are piles of building ruins dozens of meters high under the sand layer.

At this time, they could feel free to let Xiaobai and the others drag the kayak away.

It is said that you should walk fast on sand and slow on water. Anyway, nowhere is safe. Instead of relying on their two legs to slowly drag themselves on the road, it is better to let Xiaobai and the others run all the way.

Just like Jiang Muyun said before, as long as Xiaobai and the others are fast enough, they may be able to escape by relying on their speed when encountering a small area of ​​quicksand.

At the very least, you'd sink slower in a boat than with your legs in the sand.

Captain Yu's comment was, "You're making predictions like this before we even hit the quicksand. Aren't you really afraid your predictions will come true again?"

Jiang Muyun said frankly: "I'm not afraid."

This not only confused Captain Yu, but also the other people.

Jiang Muyun motioned for them to look back.

Although the movement was not big, the yellow sand behind them did show signs of moving in a certain direction.

Captain Yu looked in the direction of the flowing yellow sand.

Less than a hundred meters behind them, at the place they had just passed by a few seconds ago, there was a depression that was not obvious objectively, but as deep as a black hole in the eyes of the company commander.

"Look, it's already come true." Jiang Muyun said confidently, "This is called metaphysical cowpox. First choose a non-dangerous place to let it come true, and then it won't come true again."

Jiang Muyun comforted Captain Yu, "Don't worry. We're just in an ordinary residential area with walk-up apartments. It's not deep. The sand will sink in a while and fill up the hole underneath. We can get out."

Xiaobai and the others are really fast.

Before the end of the world, Jiang Muyun heard from somewhere that medium-sized dogs like Huskies can run at a maximum speed of 60 kilometers per hour, but their endurance is not good enough to maintain such a speed for a long time.

But the mutants in their family are obviously not within the normal range.

Maybe Xiaobai and the others couldn't maintain a speed of 60km/h while dragging the kayak for a long time, but according to the data Xiaoguai measured again, the speed was still 30-40km/h.

The most important thing is that they can maintain this speed. At least more than an hour has passed. Jiang Muyun and others have seen Anshan's shadow, and they have no intention of slowing down.

Jiang Muyun found it hard to be happy as he watched Anshan, half of his waist buried in the sand, getting closer and closer to them, but Xiaobai and the others didn't show any signs of abnormality.

No one.

There was not a single survivor.

From that half-finished resort, to the outskirts of Gyeonggi Province, and now to the foot of Ansan.

They didn't encounter a single survivor.

The closer Jiang Muyun got to Anshan, the more uneasy he felt.

She originally planned to stop a few kilometers outside Anshan, observe the situation in Anshan, and then decide whether to stay there to wait for survivors or move closer to the possible base in Anshan.

This place is near the capital after all, and the possibility of a ruthless private base of those in power appearing here is very low.

If they are lucky, they might even stumble upon China's real official base.

But no matter which scenario it is, it does not include the fact that there are absolutely no survivors near Anshan.

There are not many mountains near the capital, and at most only two or three are needed to build a base.

But how many permanent residents are there in the capital?

Even if a group of people left after the temperature dropped, the capital's permanent population should not be less than 10 million.

Did tens of millions of people die in the earthquake?

How is that possible?

The situation in Nanshi at that time was much more terrifying than an earthquake, but even so, tens of thousands of survivors were left in Nanshi.

There is no reason why there should be fewer survivors in the capital than in South City.

Where did all those people go?

The group stopped in confusion not far from Anshan.

Out of caution, even though Captain Yu said there was no sign of human activity at the foot of Anshan, Jiang Muyun still decided to let Dabai go to Anshan first to investigate the situation.

What if the survivors are all on the mountain?

What if the plants on the mountain blocked the view, so Captain Yu didn't notice the movement?

However, after everyone waited there for more than half an hour, what they got was a dirty piece of rag brought back by Dabai.

"Is there no one here?" Jiang Muyun stretched out his hand.

Dabai jumped lightly onto Jiang Muyun's palm, put the piece of cloth in its mouth into Jiang Muyun's hand, and then shook its head.

To be honest, Jiang Muyun didn't feel too surprised.

Although the temperature is low now, it is far from the point where humans cannot go out.

If there were still survivors on Anshan, there would be no reason why they hadn't seen anyone for so long.

Jiang Muyun held the piece of cloth that Dabai brought back and looked at it over and over again.

This piece of cloth was only slightly larger than Jiang Muyun's palm, and it looked both old and new.

It is old because it is tattered and dirty, and it looks like it has been used for a long time.

The new place is here too.

Its weariness is not caused by wind and sun, but by human use.

It’s likely that someone used it not too long ago.

The piece of cloth that Dabai brought back is evidence that there were survivors living around Anshan not long ago.

"This is so strange." Jiang Muyun handed the rag to the others, unconsciously stroking the topographic map she had used all the way. "Where did all the survivors on Anshan go?"

What made them leave here?

"Let's go to Anshan first to check the situation?" Chu Buwen asked.

"Go." Jiang Muyun said decisively: "No matter what happened, we have to go and take a look to get a clue."

At least judging from Dabai's reaction, Anshan is relatively safe now.

It should be said that it is too safe.

Jiang Muyun and his group walked around the place where An Shanlu was exposed on the sand.

There are many man-made caves throughout Anshan, and most of the cave entrances are wooden doors that cannot completely fit into the caves.

Those with better conditions can even lock the door, but most people just tie it with some rope or cloth.

Through some wooden doors that were not closed tightly, Jiang Muyun could clearly see some tables, chairs and benches lying in a mess on the ground in the cave. It was obvious that their owners left here in a hurry.

They could not find any trace of survivors on Anshan, and even the traces of the survivors' departure were completely wiped out by the yellow sand.

Where have all the people gone?

It's four o'clock in the afternoon and the sun is not about to set.

Even if Jiang Muyun did not plan to enter the capital city at night, they could not just stay in Anshan.

"Let's go to the park." Jiang Muyun took out a map and waved his hand to call down the compass, a creature flapping its wings in the sky.

The group set off again, and no one spoke for a long time.

"Here." Tang An suddenly pointed at the map in Jiang Muyun's hand and said.

Jiang Muyun raised the stack of maps in his hand and, following the direction of Tang An's finger, flipped out the tourist map at the bottom. "What's wrong?"

Tang An said: "According to our previous plan, if there is no one in Anshan, we will enter the capital city from Park Avenue."

Jiang Muyun nodded.

Tang An looked away, looking at An Shan who was getting closer and closer, and whispered, "What if we don't encounter any survivors in the city..."

"Then let's go to University Town." Jiang Muyun interrupted Tang An. "University Town also has a lot of high-tech equipment. Maybe people are reluctant to transfer all those hundreds of billions of dollars worth of equipment to University Town. If University Town is empty, then we can go to the next city."

Tang An was stunned: "The next city?"

Jiang Muyun said, "Yes, let's go to the next city and see if there is a base. We can buy some supplies from a base and then go back home to continue our lives."

Jiang Muyun spread his hands and said, "Aside from Captain Yu, has anyone else here gone bankrupt from this trip? Probably not. The worst that can happen is that we've all made a wasted trip. Let's just think of it as Captain Yu treating us to a trip."

Captain Yu wanted to speak C language but stopped.

"Besides, there won't be no one."

Jiang Muyun said with a relaxed expression: "The people on Anshan just evacuated, they didn't disappear out of thin air. This is a good thing."

In today's world, who has the ability and credibility to organize a large number of survivors to evacuate hastily around the capital?