Chi Xia silently began to observe Xu Fan and Zhuo Fang.
The atmosphere among the men was very strange. Liu Daniu, needless to say, didn't even dare to look at Chunli and the others after what happened. But Wang Dalong, Wang Erlong, and Lin Yi also became taciturn, which was quite puzzling.
Of all the people, Qin Zhao was the most normal, still looking lazy and carefree, occasionally glancing at Chi Xia with a roguish smile, or asking Jerry for a piece of meat to tease Little Grey.
Not only did Chi Xia notice the men's unusual silence, but Ran Zhu did too.
The little girl was shy and only occasionally glanced at them with a puzzled look.
Zhang Xin, however, went directly to Xu Fan and Zhuo Fang and asked, "Did you two have a fight yesterday?"
Upon hearing this, Xu Fan and Zhuo Fang both stiffened, lowered their heads, and remained silent.
Seeing their expressions, Zhang Xin realized she had said the wrong thing and immediately said, "I was just asking casually, don't mind it."
Lin Yi glanced at Zhuo Fang, then at Xu Fan, and looked up at Chi Xia, saying, "It's alright, it'll be fine in a few days."
After saying that, he turned to Xu Fan and Zhuo Fang and said, "Am I right?"
Xu Fan and Zhuo Fang were silent for a moment, then finally nodded: "Mm."
Since things had been made clear, Chi Xia and the others stopped asking questions. After finishing their meal and packing up, they continued on their way.
Their original plan was to have dinner, then cross the river via the bridge, and arrive near F City before nightfall.
But when they arrived at the riverbank and saw the bridge that had completely broken down, with only a few broken pillars standing in the middle of the river, they were all dumbfounded.
The river wind was strong, blowing up everyone's clothes and messing up their hair.
Lin Yi smoothed her hair and looked at Han Junche, saying, "Boss, what do we do?"
Han Junche didn't speak; he simply gazed quietly at the remains of the bridge in the middle of the river in the distance.
Chi Xia asked, "Are there any other routes?"
"Yes, but it's very far," Qin Zhao replied. "If we don't go this way, we can either go east all the way to the estuary, where the river branches and most boats can pass through. Or we can go west to the confluence of several rivers. But both directions are very far."
Although they weren't in a hurry, they were constantly on the road, so gasoline consumption was inevitable.
Everyone looked at Han Junche, waiting for him to make a decision.
Han Junche did not answer, but pointed to the broken pillars in the middle of the river and said: "Look at the gaps on those pillars, don't they look like they were eaten by some huge creature?"
As soon as he said that, everyone looked at the pillar.
After looking at it for a while, Wang Dalong slapped his thigh and said, "Damn, it really is! Look at the serrations on it, it looks like they were bitten off by a blood-spraying maw."
His words were echoed by everyone, and Wang Erlong shuddered: "If you could bite into those reinforced concrete teeth, they wouldn't be steel teeth, they'd be diamond teeth!"
"There are mutated creatures in this section of the river, or at least there used to be."
Han Junche looked at everyone and said, "Moreover, they are huge and have an amazing bite force. Now that the bridge is destroyed, if we change our route, it will take us more than a month, and we don't know what the situation is like over there. So my suggestion is that we split up and go around to see if there is another way to cross the river, or a boat that can take us across the river."
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