Chapter 70: 72 The Expanding Earth
After being attacked by the armored monster, the team moving forward suddenly became much faster. Some cars in the civilian team that were seriously overloaded or damaged by being hit by the monster were suddenly left behind.
Cui Lie drove an off-road vehicle in front to lead the way. Rong Xianxian and his team of six cars overtook one car after another and unknowingly arrived at the middle of the civilian convoy.
Occasionally, you can see monsters rushing towards you from the jungles on both sides of the road at lightning speed. The people rushing on their way have no intention of fighting them and keep speeding up, leaving the monsters behind.
The car that was parallel to Rong Xianxian's convoy was a box truck. The truck compartment was not very sturdy, and the door was suddenly knocked open by a monster. The monster's sharp claws grabbed the unlucky guy who was close to the door.
"Ah" the unlucky guy closed his eyes and yelled.
Didn't feel any pain
What's going on?
He slowly opened his eyes and saw the monster floating in front of the window of the luxurious and cool RV opposite.
There was a ball of light floating above the hideous monster. The monster fell to the ground with a plop. A white and tender little hand stretched out from the car window, quickly grabbed the ball of light and then retracted.
In just a moment, like a flash of lightning, the RV on the opposite side accelerated and overtook them.
Hearing the desperate screams and panicked cries for help coming from the convoy behind, the unlucky guy who had managed to save his life tried his best to squeeze into the carriage.
Not many people saw the scene just now, but Rong Xianxian saw the whole process clearly through the rearview mirror. The Phoenix Umbrella in Xuanxuan's hand turned into a spear more than three meters long, and nailed the monster that was about to commit a crime on the tip of the spear. She brought it over, took away the treasure that was brushed out, and took back the spear, and the monster fell to the ground.
Xiao Luo's move just now did resolve a problem, but Xuanxuan's move was unnecessary.
So many people are in danger and it’s impossible to save them all. If I expose myself, it will be more trouble than gain.
It seems I have to talk to them during the break later.
Rong Xianxian continued driving while thinking.
The newly opened safe route is not a straight line, but a route planned based on the distribution of detected monsters and taking into account terrain factors.
The wild environment changed greatly after the great changes in heaven and earth. Not only did the distribution of vegetation, terrain, and landforms make all previous maps useless, but even the distance between the two cities had changed dramatically.
Binyang is the county-level city closest to Chongzhou and has garrisons. The Binyang Security Zone was established after the end of the world.
It turns out that the distance from Chongzhou to Binyang is only about a hundred kilometers, or just an hour's drive.
Even though there is no highway to take now, and we need to bypass areas with dense monster populations, areas with high mountains and dense forests, and areas where rivers are diverted, the convoy has been running from early morning to afternoon. Except for having breakfast on the armored monster's territory, it wasted some time and was a bit slow on the road. Then it was besieged by monsters. Since the siege, the convoy has been fleeing for its life, but even so, it still hasn't seen the shadow of the Binyang safe zone.
Did I take the wrong road?
The driver's seat in Rong Xianxian's car is an air-suspension seat, which is very comfortable. However, she has been driving in the same posture until now, and her neck feels stiff.
Rong Xianxian secretly wondered how long the convoy ahead would continue to run wildly.
Regardless of the size of the vehicles in the convoy ahead, most of them are all-purpose all-terrain vehicles.
The characteristics of the military are that they are strong and have high defense capabilities, but their driving comfort is not as good as her car.
The mercenaries cleared the way in front, protected the flanks, and blocked the road in the back.
In the middle are the regular army soldiers led by Wen Qingming, who are responsible for protecting the mission targets and are the second line of defense.
The six domineering military vehicles protected in the center have bodies made of high-strength bulletproof armor. They are more than ten meters long and nearly three meters high. Heavy machine guns are mounted on the roof. The control panel originally installed in the cab can control the steering, loading and firing of the machine guns, but because the communication signal problem has not been resolved, this panel has become a decoration.
"Grandpa, you look so tired. If you continue like this, your body won't be able to take it. Let them stop and rest!" In one of the six cars, a beautiful girl in a white dress was supporting a white-haired old man with concern, and deliberately shouted loudly towards the driver's cab in front.
The old man closed his eyes and waved his hand gently, signaling her to stop talking.
The pretty girl pouted unhappily and looked towards the cab in front with dissatisfaction.
Wen Qingming frowned as he looked at the hand-drawn map in his hand.
There was a place marked with three big red words "Iron Armored Monster", which were just added.
The surveyor who was responsible for drawing the map was attacked by the monster and there was a section of the place in the middle that was not drawn on the map. After thinking about it and estimating the approximate distance, he wrote "unknown" on the drawing and marked it in orange. The monsters attacked intensively along that section and it was quite dangerous.
He took out the map he had drawn when he came here before and found that in just a few days, the distribution of monsters and the growth of vegetation had changed significantly.
Wen Qingming looked worriedly at the camping site marked on the map he had drawn earlier. They were about to reach their destination, but he wondered if this place was still safe.
This journey took nearly twice as long as the original one.
Apart from the fact that the speed is a little slower than when we came, what else has changed?
The convoy stopped on an open grassland. The surrounding area was flat and covered with low bushes. About 500 meters to the east, there was a gentle stream flowing.
"Chief of Staff, according to the data obtained from the surveying scroll, this section of the journey is 53 kilometers longer than the previous one, an expansion of one-fifth." The surveyor in charge of detecting the distance between the two places in the terrain of the surveying battalion reported to Wen Qingming.
"So, the speed of expansion is accelerating." Wen Qingming asked with a grim expression.
"Yes." The surveyor's face was heavy.
Wen Qingming stood there for a moment, then came to his senses and looked at the tired-looking surveyor. He nodded and patted him on the shoulder.
"You've worked hard. Go take a rest. Dinner will be served soon."
Previously, in the new district of Beijing, geological experts had proposed the inference that the earth's surface area was expanding through field detection.
Not only are roads destroyed, rivers diverted, and surface vegetation changed, the landform is also changing. These changes are like other plates being inlaid and inserted into the surface, and the speed of this inlay and insertion is accelerating.
The speed of surface area expansion was negligible before, and the distance between the two places did not increase significantly, so this inference is just an inference and is controversial.
And now, the change in the distance between the two places in just a few days has made Wen Qing clearly believe in the theory of earth expansion.
If this is the case, they will be short of the fuel, weapons and ammunition, rations and other supplies they carry.
Wen Qingming had a terrible headache.
(End of this chapter)
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