Chapter 1283: Return to Nanlu Mountain Again
In South China Province, we also found a large number of once inhabited places, but unlike North China Province, a lot of corpses and bones can be seen in these remaining places of residence, eighty percent of the people who originally lived in these places were killed by the later energy storms, they may have died directly from the Gu worm virus, and it is more likely that they were killed by all kinds of swarming Gu things.
After all, there is a difference between the situation in South China and North China, because North China is closer to Dongkou Province, so relatively speaking, the proportion of people from North China Province who move to Dongkou Province is much higher than South China Province.
The consequence of not migrating is now before us, which is death......
These camps should include everyone including semi-infected and survivors, and I feel that only a handful of people can survive from them, because since we came to South China Province, we have not seen half a living person, and there are not even many traces of human life left in recent times.
In addition, we have also visited many of the bases set up by the Blue Bird Company in South China Province in the past, but we still have not found anything.
By now, in fact, except for the team of bounty hunters led by Lu Ming who followed me, the people of the Blue Bird Company have really become extinct.
Another reason we went to the Blue Bird locations was to see if we had any spare gasoline reserves, as our vehicles were running out of gasoline on the third day of their arrival in South China Province, when we were approaching the coast.
Fortunately, we were not far from the "ends of the earth" at this time, and I thought it necessary to reserve some gasoline for emergency use before the situation became clear, so I decided to let the large army camp on the spot first, and let a small group of elite personnel go to the stronghold mentioned by Sasa to reconnoitre, so as to further protect the safety of our large army.
After I gave the order, I ordered Moon Spirit, He Yunsong, and Amy, as well as some of the former members of the Salvation Army of White Night, and Sasha himself to investigate.
The reason why they didn't bring bounty hunters this time was because they had carried out too many tasks before and were a little tired, and on the other hand, because the bounty hunters' combat skills were more biased towards dealing with Gu things, and these former members of the Salvation Army were much more experienced in the battle between people.
Now that most of the other energies are gone, except for me, we naturally have to treat all potential enemies as ordinary opponents.
In addition, the reason for bringing Moon Spirit is also very simple, not that I need to rely on her combat power, but that I really don't feel comfortable letting her stay in our makeshift camp while I am away.
Sasha said that the specific location of the camp was in the area between the "ends of the earth" and the southern foothills, and that there was more than one, but that five or six camps were scattered along the line one after another, and that a number of mobile posts had been set up during this period.
So there are more Americans than I expected.
But we have now vaguely noticed that something is wrong, because we are now extremely close to the camp site that Sasha mentioned, but so far there has been no trace of recent human activity, which means that the Americans are either dead or have long since withdrawn.
Either way...... All indicate that these camps are probably empty now.
From a selfish point of view, I'd rather believe that these Americans were also killed by the swarm of Gu creatures brought by the energy storm, because then they would at least have gasoline left. If they had been evacuated normally, I believe that these precious supplies would never have been left behind.
Sasa's expression is also a little subtle now, and I can see that she is indeed worried, but in addition to worrying, I always feel as if she has something else on her mind, and I feel ...... It was as if she knew there was some potential danger here.
But I asked Amy to ask her, and she didn't say much, so I asked everyone around me to cheer up and keep an eye out for the wind and grass in the neighborhood.
Fortunately, while keeping my energy not decreasing, my five senses are still extremely sharp, and if the enemies are all people with ordinary physique, only I will discover their possibility first.
After about 15 minutes of walking, we arrived at the outskirts of the "End of the World" tourist area, where we had a temporary stop after returning to land for the first time.
There used to be some Gu worm virus spreaders around here, and I brought people to dismantle a lot of them at that time, but now the traces of demolition have long disappeared.
We saw a lot of rut marks on the ground nearby, and this is the closest trace of human activity we have seen since we came to South China Province.
Excluding the possibility of high winds, these prints are likely to be around for no more than a week.
I immediately had people disperse to investigate, and soon some of the Salvation Army people found a lot of supplies in some nearby houses.
However, most of these materials are mainly clothing, and they are all relatively worn clothes, or all kinds of discarded and damaged tools and machines...... It seems that those Americans are not willing to throw away these tools and clothes that cannot be used for the time being, but are piled up here, intending to reuse them in the future.
After finding any traces of human activity, we became much more cautious in our actions, and I kept Sasha at the forefront of the team and in the most conspicuous position, just to let the Americans see her at the first sight after they appeared, so as not to treat us as enemies and cause unnecessary casualties.
We stayed in the area for more than half an hour, and then we continued our way to the north, in the direction of the southern foothills.
Now we are traveling along a road in this area, which we have taken several times before to go to the southern foothills, and I am quite familiar with this place.
Most of the camps on both sides of the highway used to be hidden colonies of semi-infected people, but now they are camps for Americans.
That's right...... We were guided by Sasa and soon found these American camps on both sides of the road, and they even built some solid brick houses here.
However, as soon as we got closer, we realized that something was wrong, there were a lot of traces of fighting and clashes in these camps not far away, gun marks and knife marks were everywhere, and there were even a lot of dried blood stains on the ground.
However, not a single corpse was seen, could it be that the victorious side cleaned up the battlefield?
So here's the problem...... On both sides of the fight, one of the people must be Americans, so ...... Who is on the other side?
Of all the possibilities I can think of now, only voodoo remains. However, even if it is a voodoo, I feel that it is a little unlikely, because as far as I know, the attacks of these voodoo members mainly rely on Gu magic, even if the battle takes place before the energy disappears, it should leave traces of the use of Gu magic, but in fact, I don't see it at all.
Sasha kept her brow furrowed and looked very heavy, but I didn't let my guard down on her because of this, on the contrary, I told Amy to keep an eye on her every move.
We then continued north along the road to search all the remaining four American camps, but found no trace of half of the Americans, and there were no bodies.
But well...... There are a lot of gains in materials.
It can be seen that the victors still took a lot of supplies away, but I don't know whether they thought that the load capacity was not allowed or the time was pressing, in short, there were still a lot of leftover materials left.
We even found the most valuable crop seeds in these supplies, and after confirming that the seeds were still usable after the white night, we finally had hope for the next step of survival.
However, the ointment is that there is no gasoline to be seen, and Sasha even takes us to the place where they used to store gasoline, but there is nothing here.
It's also normal, assuming that those who took the supplies with them plan to leave, this gasoline is naturally the top priority.
"Will they flee to the Nanlu Mountain?" He Yunsong said: "After all, the terrain in the Nanlu Mountain is complicated, and if they can't defeat each other, it is possible to hide in the mountain." ”
However, when I asked Amy to relay the idea to Sasha, she shook her head in the negative, and she told us something new...... Sasa said that they actually had a dockyard nearby, where all the boats they had been on before, and that if she wanted to make sure that there were still any survivors of her companions, she could go to the dockyard first, and if even that place was destroyed, it would prove that their men must be unlucky.
Sasha's words make sense, if it were me, if there was a boat, I would definitely give priority to leaving by boat, rather than choosing to enter the deep mountains and old forests.
The dock was located on a nearby coastal strip, and upon arrival I realized that it had been converted from the same dock that had been occupied by the loiterers.
You must know that I have had a conflict with Zhao Tian in this dockyard, and I have seen him kill his teammates with my own eyes.
After being remodeled by the Americans, the dockyard had expanded by more than four or five times in size, so much so that I didn't recognize it at first.
From afar, I saw a lot of wrecks scattered on the coast, and it seemed that the Americans were really unlucky......
However, the ships didn't look like they had been smashed by heavy weapons, but more like they had been destroyed by some large Gu objects, as we didn't see any crater scorched earth.
Most of the types of ships are ocean-going freighters, and there are no warships that I thought would appear......
I asked Sasha to count the number of damaged ships here as fast as he could, and found that about three-quarters of the ships were destroyed here, but the remaining quarter was missing.
In this way, it seems that some Americans still managed to escape by boat.
In addition to the traces of damage from the large-sized Gu objects, the dock here naturally has bullet marks, but the number is much less than the previous American camps.
I asked Sasha where her friends were most likely to go, but Sasha couldn't come up with why, and finally Moon Ling reminded me that the Americans might have already arrived on our Taoyuan Island.
We then began to try to find some of the remaining wrecked ships that could be used, but nothing was found, but all that was left behind was completely destroyed and unusable......
In this way, our original plan was delayed in an instant, because without the ship, it is naturally impossible to return to Taoyuan Island in the first place, and we must first find a new ship by ourselves, or rely on the existing materials to build a new ship, but neither of these points is easy at present.
We discussed it for a while, and found that it was more likely to find a new ship, after all, the Blue Bird Company had hidden a lot of supplies near the southern foothills, and perhaps some of these ships survived?
In the end, we had no choice but to decide to find a temporary camp nearby for the time being, and it was impossible to locate near the dockyard, nor near the original American camp, because if their enemies came to patrol again, we would not have run into the muzzle of the gun.
After some discussion, we finally decided to sneak directly into the forest on the periphery of the Nanlu Mountain to hide, so that we could not only hide our own whereabouts well, but also monitor the interior of the Nanlu Mountain at the same time.
What's more, if there is any place in the vicinity where the remaining supplies of the Blue Bird Company can be hidden, it is only possible in the interior of the South Foot Mountain.
So our convoy went straight along the road between Nanlu Mountain and the "end of the world" to the outer ring of Nanlu Mountain, near a half-built tourist attraction.
It's not much different from when I left before, at least there haven't been any serious battles here.
We carved out a clearing in the middle of a dense forest and hid all the vehicles in it.
The supplies were placed in another dry cave complex, very close to our resting place.
Nothing special happened for the first two days, we just did a carpet search near the southern foothills, and then we all returned after nightfall.
But in the middle of the night on the third day, there was a situation, when we were all sleeping, but I heard Zhou Qiqi, who was on duty at night, wake me up, saying that Chenxi rushed into the depths of the southern foothills alone, and he refused to come back.
I frowned, I knew that this southern foothill mountain was originally the "ancestral land" of the Niki people, could it be ...... What did Dawn find important?