Coming out of the weapon shop, both girls got their favorite weapons, and everyone also replenished a lot of equipment and ammunition.

Ding Xiu and Gu Beimo bought a new map and started planning their route again, preparing to choose a remote direction to detour towards Brilliant City, avoiding large and medium-sized towns as much as possible along the way.

"Our first stop after leaving Tianque City is the Fuqiu Basin." Gu Beimo pointed to a mark on the map and said, "I specifically inquired, the Fuqiu Basin was part of the Fufeng Mountain Range with Tianque City before, but in the nuclear war that year, it was not as lucky as Tianque City, because at least ten or more nuclear bombs exploded there. ”

"More than ten?!" Gu Beimo's words surprised the other three companions.

"Yes!" Gu Beimo nodded, "However, the mountains around the Fuqiu Basin have blocked the impact of the nuclear explosion layer by layer, and the secret base in the mountains here has been preserved, and there is now Tianque City." ”

"Do we have to pass through the Fuqiu Basin?" When Shen You heard the words of the nuclear bomb explosion, he couldn't help but feel a little nervous.

"If we don't go to the Fuqiu Basin, we can only continue to pass through the city and town, so the risk will be much greater." Gu Beimo explained: "We have to avoid crowded areas along the way, and there is only such a sparsely populated mouth around Tianque City that can go out. ”

"Lao Gu is right." Ding Xiu took over, "The next journey is bound to be more difficult, everyone must be mentally prepared." ”

"Will there be any nuclear radiation left in the basin?" Shen You looked at Gu Beimo and asked.

"Probably not." Gu Beimo thought for a while and said his judgment, "Although there has been a violent nuclear explosion, the nuclear elements in the nuclear explosion are basically fissioned into light elements, and the decay period of these light elements is very short, and after they become stable elements after self-decay, they are no longer radioactive. ”

"Could there be mutated creatures?" When Ding Xiu was in the desert, in addition to facing fierce sand people, various mutated creatures were also one of the factors that threatened his life.

"There will definitely be mutant creatures." Gu Beimo nodded.

"Then we'll have to be careful." Ding Xiu admonished.

Two off-road pickup trucks, laden with supplies, slowly descended the hill along the road out of the city.

When leaving Tianque City, Chen Ting's words appeared in Ding Xiu's ears again.

"Just remember my words, the War Paint affair and its power are only your help if others don't know about it. If its secrets are revealed, it will kill you. ”

"Old Meng's wife's words, does it really mean that the war paint is related to my life experience?" Ding Xiu couldn't help but figure it out in his heart.

He conceived many possibilities, but in the end he rejected them all.

"What's wrong with you, Ding Xiu?" Song Xijun saw that although Ding Xiu was looking ahead, the expression on his face was constantly changing.

"Huh?!" Ding Xiu came back to his senses, shook his head and said, "It's nothing? ”

"Tell me about it." Song Xijun smiled at him, reached out and shook the back of his hand on the steering wheel, "You must have something on your mind." ”

"I just thought of my parents out of the blue." Ding Xiu smiled back, but the smile was a little reluctant, "I've never seen them, and I don't know if they are still alive in this world." If they were still alive, what would they be like now? ”

"You're curious about your background?" Song Xijun asked.

"Of course." Ding Xiu nodded, "I never thought about my background before, but now...... Maybe I've grown up. ”

"Your background must be very simple." Song Xijun looked at him and said.

"Why?" Ding Xiu was a little curious.

"I don't know, but that's what my gut tells me." Song Xijun said, and smiled again: "Ding Xiu, do you believe my words?" ”

"Believe." Ding Xiu's expression seemed to be no longer entangled, and his brows were furrowed, "Because I feel this way myself." ”

In another car, Shen You was fiddling with her concealed self-defense pistol.

"Lao Gu, do you think it's better for me to hang the gun under my ribs, or to hang it on my waist?"

"Whatever you want." Gu Beimo said.

"Give me some advice, which one is more stylish?" Shen You tugged at his arm.

"Ouch, I'm driving, Grandma." Gu Beimo saw that the front of the car was crooked, and hurriedly straightened the direction: "I think you are more stylish when you are still commanding Di Bee." The gun is mainly used for close self-defense, and with us, I don't think it matters if you put it in your bag or not. ”

"Hmph, you'll underestimate me." Shen You pouted, a little unconvinced.

"Haha, why do I underestimate you." Gu Beimo smiled: "If you think about it like this, if you need to use a firearm in battle, what does it mean?" ”

"What does it mean?" Shen You asked.

"It means that I, Ding Xiu and Xijun are already in a bad situation." Gu Beimo glanced at her and said his suggestion: "Your advantage lies in your special ability, that is, the ability to control insects and other creatures and communicate with them. When your opponent doesn't know what you're capable of, that's your move. ”

"It's a pity that none of them are gone." Shen You was a little depressed.

"Let's take a look along the road, and recruit some more." Gu Beimo said: "You don't need to limit yourself to Di Bee, other creatures can be considered." If you think about it, different bugs will have different effects, and you need to slowly develop their functions in actual combat. ”

"It's the same as Sister Xijun asking Ding Xiu to learn combat skills?" Shen You thought about it and asked again.

"Yes, it's the same thing." Gu Beimo continued: "Because of the characteristics of your body, the energy of the crystal nucleus cannot strengthen your physique, so you can't follow the same path as us. But when God closes the door for you, he also opens the window, and the truth is the same. ”

"You seem to have a point." Shen You thoughtfully, "So I want to develop in the field I am good at." ”

"That's right, just choose the direction with a high ceiling." Seeing that she wanted to understand this truth, Gu Beimo was quite pleased.

The Fuqiu Basin is located in the northeast of the Fufeng Mountains, with a low depression in the middle of the basin and surrounded by mountains. If viewed from the sky, it looks like a large bowl in the mountains, filled with green.

The trauma of the bomb explosion has long since been healed by the miraculous power of nature, and the basin is now lush and full of life.

There is only one road that winds through the mountains from Tianque City to the Fuqiu Basin, and this road is called the Adverse Wind Road.

When Meng Jie led his troops to occupy a secret base in the mountains, he built a city here, and many infrastructure equipment and materials needed to be transported from the rear. At that time, the surrounding areas were either barren and wild, or the places with infrastructure facilities also suffered varying degrees of damage due to the war, so in the early days of the construction of Tianque City, the local conditions were extremely difficult.

The Windward Road was a road carved out by the soldiers in the mountains at that time.

The road was so difficult that it got its name Adverse Wind, and the older people in Tianque City were impressed by it.

The headwind road winds like a long snake in the mountains, it is more than 20 kilometers long, and the altitude rises sharply from tens of meters to more than 1,000 meters. There are thousands of cliffs beside the road, the empty valley is deep, there are a total of 216 large and small bends on the road, and most of them are 180-degree sharp bends.

"I'm a!" The car had only come to this highway after only a few dozen miles out of the city, and Gu Beimo looked at the winding mountain road like a jade belt, and his scalp was a little numb. "Is this really the way to the basin? How I feel like it's going to heaven. ”

"Oh my God!" In the back car, Ding Xiu was also stunned, he walked out of the desert, how could he have seen such a spectacle.

But the car has already arrived, and everyone has to bite the bullet no matter what they say.

Gu Beimo's car was at the head, he controlled the speed of the car, and carefully let the car drive in the mountains.

Shen You turned his head sideways and looked at the cliff outside the car window, at first it was a little fresh, but then he was dizzy, and he didn't look out the window again.

"What's wrong with you?" Gu Beimo saw that her face was a little wrong.

"Will our car suddenly turn over while driving?" Shen You asked.

"You just don't pull my arm while I'm driving." After Gu Beimo knew her concerns, he quipped: "Don't look at who the driver is, I-Gu Beimo, but an old driver." ”

"Okay, old driver, please drive well." Shen You didn't raise the bar anymore, she suddenly wondered in her heart, whether Song Xijun, who was sitting in Ding Xiu's car, was also afraid of heights.

Of course, Song Xijun is not afraid of heights, she has been looking out of the car window, and her eyes linger among the mountains and mountains.

It's different from her hometown in the west, and it has a different atmosphere.

There are white clouds on the top of the mountain, and the occasional bird sweeps through the clouds. The car spiraled up the mountain road, and the humidity in the air seemed to increase.

This situation belongs to the climate that is unique to the basin. Because of the closed terrain, the mountains at the edge of the basin have abundant precipitation, pleasant temperatures, and rare frost and snow.

"I wish my father could see this kind of scenery too." Song Xijun muttered unconsciously.

Ding Xiu turned his head sideways and saw that the girl was slightly distracted when she looked out of the car.

He knew that Song Xijun had never let go of her concern for her father, although the girl usually didn't say it, her mind was delicate like hair, and she usually inadvertently revealed her true feelings.

Ding Xiu suddenly envied Song Xijun, because although her father was in prison, at least she still had relatives to miss in her heart.

Thinking of himself, Ding Xiu sighed silently in his heart, becoming more and more curious about his life experience.

"Let's camp here today." The two cars spent several hours climbing to the top of the hill on the outskirts of the basin, and Gu Beimo stopped the car and discussed with Ding Xiu.

"Aren't you leaving?" Ding Xiu looked at the sky and saw that there was still some time before the sun went down.

"It's not safe to go into the basin when it's dark." Gu Beimo said: "We don't know the situation inside yet, it's best to leave early tomorrow morning, so that even if the situation in the basin is not right, we will have time to react and not have to act in the dark." ”

"Okay, you're still thoughtful." Ding Xiu nodded.