Chapter 439 Acid Rain. Return to City C
Squad leader Fu sent people to search the mountain overnight. For safety reasons, he only sent out two teams, each with only five people and two guns. One team was led by Guo Changning and the other by Feng Liang.
At about 2 a.m., Guo Changning's team found the robbers' lair. The robbers didn't resist at all and just ran away. No matter who they are, they are naturally afraid of soldiers.
As a result, these people were unlucky. They first encountered Chu An and Gu Ye who were hiding nearby. Then they changed direction and encountered Feng Liang again. In the end, they were all caught.
There were seven robbers in total. The leader was in his forties and was a former bridge architect. He cooperated with everything after being detained for two hours.
The materials for building a floating bridge are relatively complete. If there are not enough wooden boards, we can cut down trees on site. However, there are not many small rivet parts.
Chu An took some out of the space and asked Gu Ye to give them to Guo Changning privately. The source was picked up from the mountain. Coincidentally, the robbers also said that some materials were picked up from the mountain, which did not make squad leader Fu overly suspicious.
Three days later, the pontoon bridge was completed.
With Chu An threatening the commander with a gun, the escort was automatically abandoned and the two groups parted ways.
The troops and refugees left first, and Chu was arranged to leave last. This was a trivial matter for them and was also conducive to action.
When they were far away, Chu An took out his Grand Cherokee and new clothes and hats, and changed his clothes. When he drove to catch up, he saw the refugees first, who hurriedly lowered their heads and hurried on their way, but still could not catch up with the troops in front.
When their car caught up with squad leader Fu, they were about 4 kilometers away from the foot of the mountain, and the two sides were only half an hour apart. It seemed that the commander had realized something and did not want to wait for these refugees any longer.
The car window film was opaque, and the people outside just stopped to be on guard and did not notice that it was Chu An and the others.
The car sped past, Chu An looked back and saw squad leader Fu looking back. She didn't think he was looking for refugees, but probably for her, but it was a pity that they were not traveling together.
On the way back, Gu Ye drove and they drove around for another day before finally arriving at the western suburbs of City C before dark.
As the weather gradually warmed up, the green plants around grew exponentially, and more and more people came out to look for food. At this time, there were more than a dozen people dressed as farmers digging wild vegetables in the suburbs, but due to the influence of acid rain, the results were not obvious, and many people's baskets only had a few sparse grains.
When the people digging vegetables saw the car approaching, they all stopped what they were doing and craned their necks to look.
A few brave ones stood up and walked towards the direction where the car was coming.
Beep, beep.
Gu Ye did not slow down, as slowing down would have given them a chance, so he could only honk the horn wildly.
Most people stopped when they heard the horn, but an old man with a holey fisherman's hat continued to walk towards the car. Gu Ye could only turn and drive past him at high speed, scaring the old man to sit on the ground and curse.
"Are these all people from the base?" asked Lao Chu.
"Not necessarily." Chu An said.
When she and Gu Ye left, there were still many people in the city who could not gather enough food and could not enter the base. Of course, there were also some people who looked down on the base.
Gu Ye drove into the city and asked, "Should we go back to Xiangshan Villa or to the base first?"
It is very close to Xiangshan Villa.
"Let's go to the villa." Chu An said.
Yin Tianlin and Zhuona are in the base, so the risk factor should be lower. Let's see how Li Qing is doing first.
Half an hour later, the Grand Cherokee stopped in front of a pile of rubble. There may have been a few more aftershocks here, and the ground was uneven, so even the Grand Cherokee couldn't drive, but it only took half an hour to walk from here to the villa area.
Chu An took advantage of the fact that there was no one around and took the Grand Cherokee back to the space, and the three of them walked. Just when they were halfway there, a figure appeared on the opposite side.
Chu An recognized him immediately as the man who was taking care of the children next door.
The man did not recognize them, so he stopped in a hurry and dodged to the side.
"If he can survive, Brother Qing must be fine." Gu Ye also recognized his neighbor and comforted him.
"Yeah." Chu An responded. This man was no ordinary man, so it was not surprising that he could survive.
Chu An led the two of them and quickly walked past the man next door. When they passed by, he seemed to recognize Chu An and Gu Ye, his lips moved, but he said nothing.
Chu An continued to walk up, and the further he went, the more uneasy he felt. If Li Qing was still here, he would probably have sent someone to guard this location.
As expected, when they returned to the villa, it was empty. Gu Ye searched the basement again, but found nothing. However, Chu An found a plastic bag under a stone outside the wall of his house. It was bulging and seemed to contain a lot of things.
"Go home first." Chu An said.
Gu Ye opened the door of his villa, and the dust inside was choking. Fortunately, there were not many items in the living room, and they were not scattered all over the floor. Only the sofa was moved and the dining table fell over.
The three of them only cleaned out the sofa and coffee table in the living room for their rest.
Chu An took out fried chicken, pizza and Coke from the space. While eating, he checked the things in the plastic bag. There was a cloth map, a letter and a few keys. The keys were obviously from the villa next door.
She put the key aside and opened the map first. The location of Qing City was circled in black charcoal gray, and a route connecting City C to Qing City was highlighted.
"Brother Qing went to Qing City!" This was Gu Ye's first reaction.
After finishing a piece of fried chicken, Lao Chu opened the Coke bottle cap with a "sizzle" sound and leaned over to take a look. "Qingzi finally listened to your arrangement. There shouldn't be any big problems. Let's take a look at the letter first."
Chu An also hoped so, but they seemed to leave in a hurry, which was unreasonable.
I opened the letter and found only one page with not many words on it. It was obviously Li Qing's notes, which were better than those crawled by a spider.
"Xiao An, when you see this letter, Gangzi and I will have already gone to Qing City. After thinking it over, I think Gu Ye's suggestion is good and it should be what you want.
Don't worry about us, we have a lot of people and plenty of food. If you want to come to Qing City, you can follow the route I drew, maybe we can meet again.
The secret code on the road is still the one we agreed on before. I'll leave you messages along the way.
Xiao An, Brother Qing knows that you are very capable and will definitely live well in the apocalypse, but you still have to be careful about everything. There may be some disasters and people in this fucked up world.
Hahaha...If you don’t want to settle down in Qing City, I hope you can come and see your brother Qing when you have time.
I won’t say any more. Brother Qing is waiting for you in Qing City. He will always be waiting for you.”
Chu An closed the letter, feeling heavy in his heart. Qing City was a long way away, and this farewell might be forever.
"Xiao An, is the direction we should go to find Brother Mou Ci also Qing City?" Gu Ye pondered as he looked at the map.
Yes, Chu An’s sadness instantly decreased a lot.
She put the map and letter into the space, and put the key back to the original villa. The three of them finished their meal quickly, and the sky outside was getting dark.
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