Chapter 748: Like a Coordinate
The jungle buggy drove for about half an hour. It was the first time for Baby to go out for such a long ride. He happily sat in the child safety seat, leaning against the car window and staring at the dense forest outside with wide eyes.
It was already noon, the bright sunlight shone through the thick forest, and the air was filled with the fragrance of trees.
Zhan Lian parked the car on a high ground, sat in the driver's seat, took out the map from Wu Simiao's father, and looked at it carefully.
"Wife, it seems we have arrived at the Rich Man."
"Well, the rich are at our feet."
An Ran got out of the safety seat, picked up the baby and yawned. She got up too early today. Zhao Ru came to knock on her door early in the morning. She was sleepy and wanted to take a nap.
Zhan Lian closed the map in his hand, threw it under the front window, and jumped out of the car. "I'll go light a fire and make you lunch."
An Ran didn't answer. She held the moving doll in her arms, laid down the chair, and lay down.
Behind her car, there were four other cars that also stopped and started taking out outdoor cooking utensils from the trunks of the cars and starting a fire to cook in the depths of the dense forest.
Several men were busy bringing out clean water and vegetables. Zhan Lian held a self-made compass in his hand, turning his body left and right, looking for the direction.
They have now arrived at Dafuhao, which is the core area of Yaoyang Base. Before the apocalypse, there were pharmacies in this area, but after the apocalypse, all the pharmacies in Yaoyang Base were emptied. However, there are still many pharmacies in the old city, that is, Yaoyang City, as well as some companies supplying medicinal materials. There are always places that have not been set foot by the survivors.
After eating some roasted sweet potatoes and potatoes, everyone started heading towards the old town. In fact, there was another dense forest. Anran was half lying on the passenger seat, watching the car move forward. A piece of sunlight cut into pieces by the branches passed through the front windshield and fell on the map that Zhan Lian placed under the glass.
The map has turned a little yellow. Wu Simiao had heard before that this was an old map of Yaoyang City that his father had specially framed to commemorate Yaoyang City. It was quite old and the map was quite large. In order to make it convenient to carry when traveling, Zhan Lian took out these maps of the old city from the glass frame.
When he put it on the front window of the SUV, he folded the yellowed old map several times, and there were just a few inconspicuous pencil arrows, which were spread out in the sun. Mottled golden spots of light wandered on those pencil arrows, making those arrows and the numbers next to them conspicuous.
An Ran let out a "huh", sat up straight, hugged the sleepy baby, pulled the map under the front window over, looked at the pencil-drawn cross arrow on it, and asked Zhan Lian, "What is this? It feels like a coordinate."
Zhan Lian glanced at it casually, then withdrew his gaze and continued to stare forward. He opened his mouth, wanting to say something to An Ran, but then he thought something was wrong, so he took another look at the map in An Ran's hand. This time, a spot of light happened to fall on the small arrow symbol. He stopped the car with a click and said to An Ran, "Let me take a look."
It doesn't matter if he doesn't look at it. Once he looks at it, Zhan Lian is mesmerized. He gets out of the car with the map in his hand, spreads out the yellowed map, and in the mottled sunlight, he looks at the back, ponders it carefully, then turns around and smiles at An Ran in the passenger seat:
"It is indeed a coordinate. How about going to see what it is?"
(End of this chapter)