——That’s our little star.
Apart from the endless monsters and the occasional trouble of running out of gas, the days of wandering were no different from traveling for Xu Shiqing and his group of five.
The modified trucks had to be guarded day and night. While navigating the city, a few unpleasant little things could slip through the cracks of the truck and give you a surprise. The mountain roads were even more dramatic, with all sorts of clutter visible. Gaozhou, wearing a mask of pain, frantically cleared the mess from the passenger seat with his powers, like a relentless bulldozer. Lin Dandan, on the other hand, sensed nearby dangers, eliminating any that could be removed and carefully avoiding any that couldn't.
Xu Shiqingtan is a ruthless reservoir in the box, while Gu Yi is a hot water supplier, and occasionally partners with Zhou Zhou to clean up some not-so-smart little troubles.
They traveled south from the Central Plains, passing through grasslands and deserts, and saw the thundering Yellow River roaring forward, just as it had been many years before. They then arrived at a water village and hastily learned to swim—all while being hunted by some not-so-attractive animals.
"Why is the house... like this?" Xu Shiqing looked at the black tiles piled up at an angle with curiosity. He could sense the mystery contained in it, about the climate here.
Gao Zhou casually touched the child's hair and said as if nothing had happened: "It rains a lot here, and this slope is good for drainage."
"Wow!" Xu Shiqing exclaimed. In the world he lived in, he had only seen high-rise buildings and had never had the chance to see such old houses. His educational experience was not normal.
Behind the water town are steep mountains. The endless hills are daunting, and green trees are everywhere in sight - this is terrifying. It is difficult for them to distinguish the disguised monsters from real plants.
Passing through the tunnels between the mountains, they arrived at the city covered in dust and realized that this was near the southern end and the sea was not far away.
But this long migration to the south has not yet reached the time to return. After a difficult struggle, Lin Dandan and Gao Zhou, like Gu Yi and Zhou Zhou, finally realized the reality that their hometown had fallen and their relatives and friends had been completely changed.
Leave? Or stay?
Xu Shiqing speculated, but the answer was obvious. This was the seventh year of the apocalypse, and they were friends for life and death, so how could they possibly abandon each other? Furthermore, Gu Yi and Zhou Zhou had already chosen them, and Lin Dandan and Gao Zhou wouldn't be any slower in their decision.
Sure enough, they were together again, and closer than before.
Gu Yi burned his way through the fire as he always did, the fire snake twisting gracefully, exposing all shadows, and stopping in front of a quiet mountain village. Xu Shiqing froze the small, eager flames, preventing them from spreading and trapping himself instead.
At night, Gaozhou studied the paper map by firelight, occasionally looking up at the stars in the sky to identify the direction.
Lin Dandan was using precious paper and pen to teach Jiulouyu in the team. The child, who was born as an experimental subject, listened to the difficult physics and mathematics with a bitter face, but he was quite smart.
"It's time to eat!" Zhou Zhou tasted the soup and confirmed that it was just right. He turned around and called out loudly, "Kid! Sister Dandan! Stop learning! Let's eat!"
Xu Shiqing secretly looked at Lin Dandan's attitude. The woman smiled and touched his head. The boy's eyes lit up, and he immediately ran like a wild horse, taking two steps at a time, and rushed to Zhou Zhou, who had prepared rice and soup.
"Be careful, it's hot. Hey, don't walk so fast, or the soup will spill!"
Seeing the two youngest people chasing after them, finding a spot with their rice in hand, their heads huddled together, their chopsticks moving rapidly, Gu Yi, the cook and team leader, slowly lowered his rolled-up sleeves and nodded to the slowly approaching Lin Dandan and Gao Zhou, making room for them.
"It's amazing that you can still make these things when seasoning is scarce." Lin Dandan said as she ladled the soup, "But things will get much better from now on. Our next destination is where humans live. If we're lucky, we can even get some more supplies."
The current situation is that they are not in a hurry to go north. The journey south has made them realize that this is a huge catastrophe that has never happened in the history of this nation. The young country has collapsed because of this, but the most terrifying thing is the ideological regression, chaos and backwardness.
They want to visit various places and do some field research to gain a more practical, concrete and profound understanding of the current situation in China.
The situation is not optimistic.
"Yeah." Gu Yi looked at the two heartless heads over there, turned back and said to Gao Zhou: "Pay attention to collecting books, take away the important ones, remember what you can remember, and hide the ones you can't remember or take away on the spot."
Books are extremely important in troubled times, and attention to them determines the continuation of civilization.
Gaozhou nodded, this is a cliché.
"By the way..." Lin Dandan sipped her soup and mumbled, "Find some clothes for the child. Try to patch up as many as possible."
"Life in this world is hard enough." She filled her bowl with rice from her empty soup bowl and said calmly, "Children are our future. Let's save as many as we can."
Because of his background as an experimental subject, Xu Shiqing's ideas are different from those of ordinary people. Fortunately, he does not seem to be affected too much by this world and his mind is as pure as a child.
This is exactly the most difficult point they found after careful analysis.
Xu Shiqing's talent is clear, and it is almost certain that he will be a member of the strong team in the future.
If such people have improper thoughts and go astray, they will be a disaster to ordinary people.
The previous moral system had been destroyed, so that in educating Xu Shiqing, Gu Yi and others had to set an example and teach by words and deeds, instilling those past, beautiful moral concepts that were very different from reality into the other party's mind.
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