Out of the three towns, it seems that you can't see the bustling city along the way.

In fact, along the G318 national highway, there are indeed no big cities along the way.

Because the route chosen by Chen Xin is from the mountainous area, there are no more developed cities in this area, and the more developed cities in Hubei Province itself are either distributed in the west of Hubei Province or concentrated along the Yangtze River.

This did not coincide with the direction that Chen Xin was heading in, so it was not unusual for him to not see the city.

The scenery along the way is still similar to the previous road, everywhere is pitch black, and as far as the eye can see, it is all snow.

Reaching out to pick up a piece of dried fruit from the workbench and throwing it into his mouth, Chen Xin was reluctant to chew it, just sipping the taste of the dried fruit, quite nostalgic.

Seriously calculated, it seems that this is really the first time Chen Xin has eaten fruit after the disaster, even if it is only dried fruit, it is already a very rare thing.

Just eating dried fruits, recalling the appearance in the city of the three towns and the dark scene along the way, Chen Xin still felt a huge difference.

In large cities, the country has already begun to rebuild after the disaster, and small and medium-sized cities in general have recovered from the disaster and are actively resuming production.

Because the state, the army, and the police are still there, everything is not as bad as expected.

But what should the situation look like in the countryside, far from the cities?

Chen Xin didn't know, and he didn't investigate, but if he inferred from what he had seen and the information he had so far, I was afraid that the farther away he was from the city, the worse the situation would be, right?

After all, the farther away from the city, the less places could be called underground bunkers before the disaster, and the vast majority of them were probably just the cellars of the farmers' homes.

Even if the state urgently built shelters in villages and towns in the three months before the disaster, although most rural residents had a place to escape the previous disaster, the time frame for the construction of those shelters was quite tight, and it is difficult to say that enough shelters were built to ensure that none of them would provide the necessary living conditions.

lack of food and clothing, shortages of health care and medicines, and inadequate supply of electricity and fresh water...... Chen Xin didn't even need to think about it to be able to count a whole bunch of possible problems.

Especially the lack of oxygen that occurred in his city before, the ventilation of the small shelter may be better, plus there are only one or two floors, maybe the depth is not enough, there will be no problems such as carbon dioxide deposition, but the same kind of shelter dug deep enough, it is difficult to have a good insulation effect.

Even if you can keep the temperature as safe as possible, if you don't have enough heating inside, it will quickly cool down and become like a huge ice cellar.

Although sheltering from the cold can already keep many people alive than directly facing low temperatures of minus 30 or 40 degrees, people will need more high-calorie food to maintain their body temperature in low temperatures, and people are more likely to get sick in low temperatures.

And what are the consequences of both...... Chen Xin, who has played the game "Frostpunk", clearly knows that once the number of hungry and sick people reaches a certain level, riots and discontent will breed.

In the game, Diao Min will die of illness and starvation to a certain level of dissatisfaction before a riot will occur and drive the manager away, but in reality, I am afraid that if someone starts to die of illness, many problems and contradictions will erupt, making things out of control.

This also made Chen Xin worry about his parents, they lived with their relatives in their hometown, which was only a county town, and their parents and relatives at home did not live in the city.

Although the people who lived together were all relatives in the family, and they had lived together for several generations before the disaster, and even the ancestral hall dedicated to the ancestors was the same, so as not to say that there was any messy thing to do, and before the disaster, Chen Xin also specially explained how they would hoard materials and build shelters, but Chen Xin's heart was still full of worry.

It's just that worrying can't make Chen Xin go faster, his current speed is already much faster than he expected, and the whole journey has already been halfway after the three towns, and the time spent has only passed five or six days since he set off.

This is already much faster than Chen Xin's estimate, according to his current speed, he is sure to arrive in Anhui Province within five days, counting the time of the return trip, just enough to rush back within a month.

Even if there is something to deal with after receiving the parents, it will be delayed for a few days at most, and there will not be much variable.

Thinking of this, Chen Xin felt a little more relieved.

Now he is the only one in the car, Chen Xin must find a way to adjust his emotions and make himself not too impatient, otherwise although the car can accelerate, it is true, but the speed is also dangerous.

This can be clearly seen from the road in front of Chen Xin's eyes, which is completely covered with snow.

The road in front of me was originally supposed to be built on the mountain, and the road was carved out of the mountain, with a mountain wall on one side and a valley on the other.

But now that the snow has covered the entire road, there is no trace of the road ahead, and the snow has turned the entire hillside into a single unit, making it impossible to see where the original road is.

"The snow is so thick!" Chen Xin looked at the snow in front of him, his brows furrowed, and he was thinking about how he should cross this section of the road.

The road was covered with snow, and it was impossible to follow the original path, unless Chen Xin could clear the snow from the road.

But Chen Xin has the effort and energy to clear the snow, so he might as well find a way to take a different path or upgrade his car so that it can drive on this kind of slope-like snow.

Although the tracked chassis is designed to have enough grip to keep the vehicle from sliding down the valley even on such a sloping slope, it is a bit too risky to drive that way, and if you are not careful, you will be planted directly into the valley below.

Chen Xin hesitated for a moment, and let the two reconnaissance drones fly, intending to scan the entire surrounding terrain to see if there could be a gentle place for him to pass through.

Although it is surrounded by mountains, the mountains are not steep or steep, and there are relatively flat places in the valley that can be passed.

It's just that compared to taking the original road, the obvious distance from the valley is more winding.

But now there is only this one option in front of Chen Xin, unless he wants to spend more time and go to the other side of the highway.

Although the route of the highway is straighter and the road is less undulating, building a highway in such a place where there are mountains everywhere will inevitably be full of bridges and tunnels.

It's okay to talk about the tunnel, but it's okay to talk about the bridge......

Recalling the collapsed bridge he had seen along the way, Chen Xin directly let himself give up this plan.

After all, no matter how good the infrastructure strength of the Yan Kingdom is, the infrastructure madness will not be able to build a highway bridge that can withstand the impact of meteorites without collapsing.

Soon, the drone sent the scanned results back to the map on the console, which was displayed in the form of color blocks.

Looking at the yellow and red area on the hillside, Chen Xin could only focus on the relatively gentle green area in the valley, and while controlling the drone to continue scanning forward, he also restarted the car and continued to move forward along the green block mark.

Scanning while walking like this is not dangerous, but it also makes Chen Xin's speed unable to improve, he can only slowly squirm forward, and the speed of the car has dropped to 10 km/h, which is comparable to turtle speed.

"It's really hard to walk! Fortunately, this valley used to be a river, and this is a ditch, otherwise there might not even be a road. Chen Xin shook his head, compared the terrain scanned by the drone with the map stack, and looked at the original river in the valley marked on the map, and couldn't help but sigh.

Just now, I felt that my speed was not slow, but I immediately encountered a situation where I had to slow down, and Chen Xin couldn't cry or laugh.

Fortunately, he was in a good state of mind, and he didn't become impatient because of such a situation, and he had to force a quick pass, but he was able to accept the current speed.

The speed of driving in this kind of wilderness is not fast in itself, after all, it is not like driving on the road like before the disaster, the road is flat and straight, and there are no potholes and mud on the hardened road, as long as you don't overspeed, you can step on the accelerator and rush forward.

When there are no roads in the wilderness, you must first plan a direction and route for yourself, and secondly, you must deal with complex road conditions in various environments.

Problems such as stagnant water and mud are the best to solve, and now in this post-apocalyptic environment, a series of obstacles such as sand, trees, and rivers on the road have become snowy roads, and relatively speaking, the road conditions have indeed become single, but they are not easier to walk.

If you have to draw an analogy, driving in such an area completely covered with snow is actually the same as driving in the desert, except that the snow may be a little stronger than the desert, and the wheels or tracks will not sink into it so easily.

The snow itself is also in danger of softening and collapsing, and even cavities under the snow.

This is also the reason why Chen Xin did not start the operating system to drive autonomously, but held the steering wheel by himself.

After all, people's judgment and reaction ability are stronger than this rigid operating system.

However, this also made Chen Xin a little annoyed, he forgot to ask them for more resources when he was in Three Towns before, and simply upgraded the operating system on the car to artificial intelligence.

That way, you'll be able to make it much easier, right? Chen Xin couldn't help but wander for a moment.

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