Chapter 56 Greater Khingan Mountains - 11 The three returned...

The three returned to the RV, which was now a mess, as the RV had been bobbing up and down the slope and things on the shelves had fallen off.

Moreover, the temperature was low, so when Lu Yi carried Tang Bufan away, Kai Ge turned off the heater in the car to save fuel.

"My bed~" Anderson walked directly to the iron-framed bed and sat down, looking quite satisfied as he touched the mattress with his hand. It was a mattress that Tang Bufan had specially changed for him last night.

Tang Bufan removed the bearskin from his head, took a comfortable breath, and noticed that some frost had formed in the carriage, and the air was foggy, like a freezer.

"Teacher, don't get down yet. Let Kai raise the temperature a little higher." Lu Yi didn't immediately untie the ropes binding Tang Bufan and let him down.

"I don't feel cold," Tang Bufan said from his back. "I'm wrapped in two layers of animal hides."

Lu Yi was still somewhat hesitant.

"My legs are numb too." Tang Bufan remained in one position, lying on Lu Yi's body. Lu Yi's back was very broad after transforming into a beast, forcing him to spread his legs wide.

Lu Yi thought it might be affecting Tang Bufan's blood circulation, so he bent down to untie the ropes binding him.

Tang Bufan fell off his back, and the animal hides slipped off. Lu Yi immediately turned around and grabbed the heavy animal hides, trying to use ropes to wrap the wolf and bear skins back around Tang Bufan.

"They're too heavy." Tang Bufan was almost unable to stand under the weight of the two heavy animal hides. "Just wrapping them in wolf skin will be enough."

Lu Yi felt the temperature inside the carriage rise a bit, so he rolled up the large, heavy bearskin and threw it into the corner.

"Why are you putting so much useless stuff in your car?" Anderson looked at the messy interior and picked up the rose music box. "These things should be thrown away to reduce the weight of the RV."

"This was a gift from my teacher." Lu Yi was reluctant to throw it away.

Anderson rolled his eyes: "Is living more important or being in a relationship?"

Lu Yi and Tang Bufan exchanged a glance, both feeling a little strange, but appearing shy.

They probably... aren't dating.

Thinking back to how the three of them had been dragged along the ice by the RV, which had made them quite anxious, Tang Bufan suddenly realized that Anderson's words made sense. So he looked down at the clutter scattered on the ground and decided to throw away some things that were not very useful.

He walked to the iron bunk bed, squatted down, and pulled out the heavy weapons case, which contained many guns that were short of bullets; they were all heavy weapons.

Anderson sat beside him, looking down as he tidied up.

"Stop picking and choosing, just throw it all away." Anderson looked at Tang Bufan with disdain, who was reluctant to part with anything.

"We should keep a few, right?" The past five years of living in the apocalypse had given Tang Bufan a hoarding habit, and he always felt that he would need many of these things in the future.

Anderson looked at his trembling hands: "With hands like yours, you think you can fire a gun? You're not even as good as an old man."

"..." Tang Bufan fell silent, feeling that his words were hurtful.

But it was the truth. Tang Bufan had no choice but to keep only his usual sniper rifle, a small pistol, and the long curved knife that Lu Yi had used a few times.

"Let me help you." Lu Yi walked over and helped Tang Bufan throw away the weapons he didn't want.

Anderson looked at him again: "You threw away all the frozen meat in the fridge too. Isn't there meat everywhere outside?"

Anderson pointed to the animal carcasses stuck to the ground outside, but Lu Yi said quite seriously, "Teacher's teeth aren't good, so the meat in the refrigerator is easier to chew."

Anderson looked at the thin Tang Bufan squatting there with his silver-gray eyes and thought he was a real nuisance.

“Then just leave him his portion,” Anderson said without further ado. “I’ll eat the meat from outside with you.”

Lu Yi thought it was a good idea, so he went to prepare the meat in the refrigerator.

Anderson looked around the RV, which was full of stuff, and found nothing about it pleasing to the eye.

"The shelves are dismantled and thrown away, things are packed in boxes and piled up in the corner, even summer clothes and blankets are thrown away. You won't even live to see summer, you can throw away camping chairs, barbecue grills and such... how come you even have a board game?" Anderson was speechless, utterly exasperated: "You two are actually just out for fun, aren't you?"

"I thought it could be a pastime..." Tang Bufan said awkwardly. He had picked up the Ludo game in the small supermarket and originally wanted to play it with Lu Yi.

"Throw it!" Anderson said irritably. "The lighter the RV, the easier our journey will be from here on out."

Tang Bufan watched with a broken heart as he watched him throw away the things he had hoarded, when suddenly he saw him pick up a children's backpack from the ground...

Tang Bufan's expression changed, and he immediately strode over and snatched the schoolbag into his arms.

"We can't throw this away!"

Seeing Tang Bufan's strong reaction, Anderson couldn't help but feel puzzled, then his gaze deepened slightly: "You have a child?"

"...No, this is my student." Tang Bufan's eyes darted around as he explained, clutching his schoolbag, "I'm an elementary school teacher."

Anderson stared at him with a slightly sharp look: "How did your student's backpack end up here?"

Tang Bufan was a fugitive who had escaped from the underground city. He left the city in prison clothes, so how could he be carrying a student's backpack?

Tang Bufan looked flustered and didn't know how to explain it reasonably.

“It’s an orc child.” Lu Yi spoke up at this moment: “The original owners of this RV were a couple from the Northern Federation. The wife was unable to have children, so they adopted the teacher and then adopted an orc child, but that child died three years ago.”

This explanation makes sense. Tang Bufan calmed himself down and immediately followed Lu Yi's words, saying, "Yes, I teach that child to read and write. He is my student."

Anderson looked at the two suspiciously, narrowed his eyes, and then continued throwing things.

He even dismantled the rusty iron bed frame and threw it out. While he was throwing things away, Tang Bufan picked up useful items from the ground with a box.

Lu Yi was grilling meat on an induction cooker in the kitchen. Looking at the empty carriage, he felt a little melancholy. So many memories that belonged to him and Tang Bufan had been thrown away.

"Alright." Anderson tossed the wrench in his hand with satisfaction: "The RV is much lighter now."

“I think we can keep one of the chairs,” Tang Bufan said, trying to retrieve the camping chair from the snowdrift. “Look, there are three of us now, but we only have two folding chairs. The camping chair is made of canvas and isn’t heavy.”

Anderson thought for a moment and realized that a chair was missing, so he nodded to Tang Bufan in agreement.

Tang Bufan immediately and happily retrieved the camping chair from outside.

Lu Yi had just finished cooking, so the three of them sat around the tiny folding table and ate meat.

"Are we out of food?" Tang Bufan asked Lu Yi, looking at the diced meat in front of him.

Lu Yi hesitated for a moment before telling Tang Bufan that the plant cultivation box had been frozen shut, causing all the vegetables inside to rot.

Tang Bufan frowned as he listened, annoyed with himself: "It's all my fault, I didn't check the incubator through the skylight."

“The ice is very thick, and it’s all covered in snow outside. You can’t handle it, teacher.” Lu Yi comforted Tang Bufan, “But we still have a handful of lettuce seeds. We can replant them after we leave this snowy area.”

Tang Bufan nodded and began to eat the diced meat with his trembling hands, holding the fork.

The three rested in the car for two hours before going out again. Tang Bufan then learned that Anderson had helped him wrap himself in animal skin when he went to sleep that morning, and his goodwill towards him immediately increased.

“You’re such a good person!” he said to Anderson, clinging to Lu Yi’s back.

Anderson was incredibly annoyed and sneered, "Do you think I want this? I'd rather you died sooner."

Tang Bufan had pretty much figured out his personality, so he wasn't angry. Instead, he smiled and said, "I won't die. I will definitely reach the East District Underground City alive!"

Anderson raised an eyebrow, wondering where this sickly man got his optimism and confidence from.

The three stepped into the snowdrift again. Tang Bufan huddled inside the animal skin and this time wore light screen glasses, so he could see the radar scanning images around him.

"Hello, little friend?" Tang Bufan tried to call out.

"Hello, brother~" Sure enough, a childish voice answered him.

Tang Bufan already understood that it was Anderson's AI, so he asked it gently, "What's your name, little friend?"

"My name is Anthony!"

"Anthony is such a good boy, thank you for helping us down the mountain!"

Anthony seemed a little embarrassed, then asked Tang Bufan in a pure voice, "Brother, do you want to see a movie?"

It heard everything they said this morning.

"No need, Anderson won't let me see it."

“I’ll ask your dad for you,” Anthony said, and then went to ask Anderson for help.

Its cry of "Dad" made Tang Bufan's heart skip a beat, reminding him of Anderson's child who died before birth...

He suddenly felt a pang of sadness for that wicked and neurotic orc.

Anderson couldn't resist his son's pleading and finally agreed to let Tang Bufan watch a movie. However, Tang Bufan had only said it in the morning and was more concerned about the situation on the way down the mountain, so he tactfully told the cute AI that he would watch it in the evening.

Lu Yi and Anderson each pulled out the nails from the frozen ground and continued to help stabilize the RV as it descended the mountain while holding onto the chains. Anderson then drastically threw a bunch of heavy objects out of the vehicle, which made their descent much easier. Not only did Kai Ge reduce the inertia of the RV, but Anderson and Lu Yi also found it noticeably easier to pull it down.

The RV began its steady descent down the mountain until it encountered a massive pile of corpses blocking its path.

When the cold wave suddenly arrived, a stampede occurred. Frost rushed in from behind at a visible speed, and the animals ran forward in panic. One animal was trampled and fell, becoming an obstacle. As it stopped other animals, it was also trampled, thus forming a huge mountain of corpses.

Tang Bufan looked at the scanned image through the light screen glasses. The animals were so crowded that they were indistinguishable from one another. Their facial features and limbs were twisted beyond recognition. They seemed to have merged into one, like a hybrid monster.

Fortunately, Kai connected with Anthony and obtained radar scan images of the surrounding terrain. He then calculated the route and carefully turned around on the hillside.

The hillside here is fairly wide, but the tires still slip when there are steep dirt mounds. However, with Lu Yi and Anderson pulling the car, they managed to turn it around smoothly.

It has to be said that Anderson's addition was a great help to them. Without him, Tang Bufan and Lu Yi would probably still be on that cliff, worrying about how to prevent the RV from slipping and losing speed on the way down the mountain.

Kai led the three of them around a large bend, and the curve of the hillside gradually became flat. The thick wheels rolled over the frozen soil and slowly slid down the last slope. They finally reached the bottom of the mountain smoothly.