Chapter 251 Strange Route

In fact, the straight-line distance between City A and City G is not very far, but because of the coming of the end of the world, many roads are full of dangers, or the terrain and topography have been directly changed, so they can only take a detour.

Qiao Yu looked at the route map Ling Shu had given her and smacked her lips. "Looking at this route and the speed of travel, it will probably take a week to reach City A."

"A week?" Cheng Sinian leaned back in his chair, frowning slightly. "Why does it take so long?"

"To be on the safe side, the route goes around almost all the mountains." Qiao Yu handed the route map to Cheng Sinian and motioned him to look at it himself.

Cheng Sinian took the route map, glanced at it briefly, and set it aside, his brows furrowed even tighter. "But if we're delayed on the road for too long, won't the risk factor increase as well?"

"No way." Qiao Yu curled his lips, "You can't have your cake and eat it too."

"Choose the lesser of two evils."

Cheng Sinian didn't say anything after hearing this. He just glanced at the route map again, and his brows furrowed sharply again. "But why do we have to enter City A from here?"

Cheng Sinian pointed at the road area on the route map where the convoy entered City A and tapped the table twice with his fingers.

Qiao Yu looked at the spot where Cheng Sinian's finger was and touched his chin. "Actually, I was wondering about this just now."

"Logically speaking, if we can enter City A directly from the north, why would we go around here?"

The markings here were indeed strange. The route map showed that the mountain road the convoy finally bypassed was in the north of City A. In other words, after bypassing the mountain, they could have directly entered City A from the national highway in the north.

However, judging from the route marked on the map, the convoy needs to walk more than ten kilometers from the north to the south before entering City A.

In his previous life, Qiao Yu had never heard of any dangerous things happening in the northern part of City A. Could it be that things have changed in this life?

At this moment, Hua Yue, who had been quietly listening to their discussion, spoke softly, "Didn't they say that things in northern A City have been a bit turbulent lately, with many people disappearing there? Why, Captain Qiao, don't you know?"

Qiao Yu heard this and looked puzzled. "Missing?"

"Yes." Hua Yue nodded. Seeing that Qiao Yu and the others all looked confused, she explained, "I heard about it from others when I was out on a mission two days ago. I don't know the specifics, but I just heard that many people disappeared there, and their whereabouts are still unknown."

"Who are the missing people? Are there any characteristics?" Qiao Yu frowned.

Hua Yue thought about it and shook her head, "I don't know. But it is said that it is common among both aliens and ordinary people."

Qiao Yu's brows furrowed even tighter. "How long has this happened?"

"It seems... it only appeared a couple of days ago." Hua Yue thought about it carefully and suddenly blinked. "Yes, I don't think I had heard much about it before, but it suddenly spread throughout the base in the past two days."

"They say that since half a month ago, people have been disappearing in the northern part of City A. But no one who has gone there has returned."

Qiao Yu seemed to be thinking about something after hearing this.

She always felt that something was wrong with this matter.

People started disappearing half a month ago, so why did the news suddenly spread in the past two days?

Although news after the apocalypse is indeed delayed, it shouldn't be so that we won't hear anything at all, right?

Moreover, this news did not spread earlier or later, but suddenly spread when they were preparing to leave for City A. It always seemed a bit too coincidental.

"Qingchuan, do you know about this?" Qiao Yu stretched his neck and asked Yu Qingchuan who was driving in front.

Yu Qingchuan tilted his head slightly and said, "I have heard about it. It's being spread all over the military district, but I don't know much about it."

Qiao Yu was silent for a moment, then turned to look at Jiang Zhan, "Zhan, what do you think of this news?"

Jiang Zhan lowered his eyelashes and thought for a moment, "It's doubtful."

Cheng Sinian raised an eyebrow. "You mean, this so-called 'missing' news is fake?"

"I'm not completely sure yet." Qiao Yu shook his head slightly, "But don't you think it's a coincidence? News that we've never heard of before has suddenly become so popular in just two days."

"When something is out of the ordinary, there must be something fishy going on."

After hearing this, Cheng Sinian was silent for a while, then suddenly said, "If... this news is really false..."

"So whoever spread this rumor specifically wanted us to avoid the northern part of City A? Why?"

Everyone looked at each other in surprise when they heard this.

Yeah, why?

What is this person's purpose?

Did he not want them to go to the north of City A? Or was there some trap waiting for them in the south of City A?

There was silence in the car for a while, and Cheng Sinian spoke again: "Should I inform Chu Yi about this matter?"

"No." Jiang Zhan directly rejected it.

"I really can't say." Qiao Yu nodded in agreement. "The situation is unclear right now, and we're not completely sure. And didn't you just hear Qingchuan say that this news has spread throughout the military district? What if someone with ulterior motives is infiltrating the team?"

Cheng Sinian pursed his lips and said, "Of course I know, but what if something goes wrong?"

The convoy on this trip is full of heavyweight researchers. If anything goes wrong, it will be a huge loss to the entire G city and even the entire research community.

And his teacher, Kang Cong, was also in the team.

He absolutely couldn't let anything happen to the teacher again.

Qiao Yu saw what Cheng Sinian was thinking, sighed, and said softly, "I know you are worried about Professor Kang, but don't worry, things may not be as complicated as we think."

"Everything we're talking about now is just speculation. What if something really went wrong in the northern part of City A?"

"Yeah." Luo Zhenzhen also whispered softly, "If it really doesn't work, wait until we're almost there. I'll find a time and go out with you to explore."

Cheng Sinian looked at Luo Zhenzhen's concerned eyes, was silent for a while, and finally nodded gently, "Yeah."

Seeing this, Qiao Yu felt slightly relieved, but the look in his eyes remained gloomy.

Although she had been advising Cheng Sinian to think positively, to be honest, she did not think their analysis was wrong.

Qiao Yu now has a very bad feeling.

What's worse is that her premonitions have always been quite accurate.

In his mind, Qiao Yu kept connecting all the recent events in the base and around them, trying to find the connection or clues between them.

But no matter how she thought about it, she seemed to be in a fog.

It always seems to be a little off.

But what is missing?

A link? A goal? Or... a key figure...