After climbing out of the cave and returning to the ground, Lu Chao felt like a world away.

"I hope to find a playroom like this on my future trips."

After sorting out his emotions, Lu Chao burst into the air, took the men, and set off again on his bicycle.

This time, it's a tunnel in the mountain.

The tunnel is very long, and the further you go inside, the darker it becomes, but fortunately, the cement road is very straight, and there are no obstacles along the way, even if it is dark, Lu Chao can still ride forward very steadily, until the light in front of him is getting brighter and brighter.

Lu Chao suspects that the cement road has the function of automatic obstacle removal, which is why it is so tidy, otherwise, there should be some artificial traces.

Half a diagonal later, Lu Chao finally rode out of the tunnel and came to the other side of the mountain.

On this side of the mountain, there are still woods.

Lu Chao already knew the result, so he would not be disappointed.

After living in the woods for too long, the woods gave Lu Chao food to survive and taught Lu Chao a lot of survival experience, relatively speaking, he would be safer in the woods.

But he still wanted to get out of the woods.

I want to find a new world.

Keep riding.

Ride along the concrete road.

Far east, will there be plains?

Will there be more mountains?

Will there be a sea?

Will there be new functional buildings?

It can't be an endless forest forever, right?

Ride.

Riding does not delay the cultivation of body forging techniques.

Not only Lu Chao forged his body, but Yaya also forged his body together.

At four o'clock in the afternoon, Lu Chao stopped and went into the woods to find a suitable place to set up camp.

There were no 'hijacked' houses found, and there were no caves in the mountains that could be relied upon.

After some thought, Lu Chao decided to build a simple treehouse on the tree.

This basically avoids attacks from the ground.

I hope I don't encounter any more bears.

It is said that it is a tree house, but it is actually a basket-like thing woven with branches, and after weaving, find a suitable tree, place it between several branches, and fix it with a rope woven from the bark, and then Lu Chao tied the girl to her body with a waist stool and hid it in the basket, and covered it with a rainproof cover.

Of course, they will also build a basket for the wolf den, and then throw it into the wolf's den.

Now Lu Chao has changed from an otaku to a wilderness survival expert.

He is becoming less demanding of the camp and more and more capable of surviving in the wild.

……

Unconsciously.

Another half a month has passed.

In the past half a month, Lu Chao estimated that he had ridden east on the cement road for at least more than 1,000 kilometers.

This also means that there is already a distance of more than 1,000 kilometers between him and the place where he was 'hijacked', that is, his house.

If it weren't for the fact that the bike was about to fall apart, he would have no problem riding 2,000 kilometers in the past half a month.

Along the way, Lu Chao didn't meet anyone.

Not a single beast was encountered.

Didn't find a supermarket.

I didn't encounter the same hill as before, and I didn't find a mysterious and interesting game room where I could take advantage of it.

Nothing but endless woods.

The whole world really seems to be dead.

More than a thousand kilometers.

It's almost impossible to go back to the old home in the woods.

Because, the journey home is too long.

In the past half a month, Lu Chao's cultivation of the body forging technique while riding every day has made his physique qualitatively improved again, according to Lu Chao's estimates, it should have reached 160 points or even higher.

Cultivating the Body Forging Technique can break through the limits of ordinary human physiques.

His internal strength should have improved a lot.

The concussion punch can hit more than 80 punches in a row, I don't know if it means that his current internal strength is more than 80 points.

And Yaya's internal strength should be much higher than Lu Chao's.

Although Lu Chao's talent was only 41, when he was cultivating, Lu Chao deeply suspected that the cultivation speed was based on Yaya's talent, not his.

With the girl here, he believes that he will become stronger and stronger in time.

Half a month, more than a thousand kilometers.

More than 1,000 kilometers, almost the distance between the capital of Huaguo and the Jiangcheng of the Nine Lion Canal.

In other words, in the past half a month, if Lu Chao changes in the real world, he has almost crossed half of China.

More than 1,000 kilometers of concrete roads stretch and more than 1,000 kilometers wide and even more extensive woods.

Except for the woods on both sides of the road, this kind of thing is impossible to happen in the real world.

But there's an understandable way.

That's in computer games.

As long as some terrain maps, such as various forest trees, are ready, they can be infinitely copied in the designed map to create a super-large forest map.

Will it be a game world?

Quite possibly.

Especially after Lu Chao played the games in the game room.

In that game, there was no difference between game and reality for a long time.

If Dimensional Space were a game world, this concrete road might not have spasm at all.

The mysterious force behind it can design it as long as it wants.

If this is the case, Lu Chao's exploration and persistence will be meaningless.

But what can he do now but persevere?

On the way forward, seeing endless woods, and then endless forests, Lu Chao would feel desperate many times. But he tried his best not to think about these despairs, and he always convinced himself that there must be a different and beautiful world ahead of the concrete road.

He may only need another day, another 100 kilometers, another 10 kilometers, a few hundred meters...... You can reach that beautiful destination.

And just like that, he persevered day after day, until today.

Until today, after more than a thousand kilometers of long-distance riding, the bicycle he stepped on finally completely struck.

The metal servant and the main shaft are broken, and there is no way to repair it.

Night has fallen.

Lu Chao skillfully made a treehouse camp.

Leaning in the simple basket-style tree house, with the sleeping girl in his arms, Lu Chao began to think again.

The bike is gone, tomorrow, will it continue?

If you don't continue, is there anything else?

Lu Chao was very suspicious that once he stopped, his whole person would be surrounded by despair and sadness, and this extreme despair and sadness would probably break his remaining will and put him in a situation from which he could never recover.

But what's the point of sticking with it?

To prove that you are not abandoned by this world?

There is no doubt that he has been abandoned by Ellie.

She even abandoned him permanently with death.

He was also abandoned by the real world he once was.

Now it has even been abandoned by the Dimension Supermarket.

The only one who didn't abandon him was the girl in his arms.

He has not fallen now, and the meaning and only belief in holding on is Yaya.

……

A night of hard thinking.

Lu Chao got up late the next morning.

When I woke up in the morning, I lifted the lid of the simple tree house and saw snowflakes falling slowly through the cracks in the branches.

It's beautiful, so beautiful that you can feel a touch of sadness.

The leaves are not yet covered with snow.

It shows that this Chang only fell in the morning.

It's snowing again.

This is the second time since he was 'hijacked' into this dimensional space.

It's almost the depths of winter, the coldest time of the season.

This seems to mean that his ride on the concrete road is coming to an end for the time being.

Once snow falls on the concrete road, you will not be able to continue riding.

By the way, Lu Chao suddenly remembered that he had also been abandoned by his bicycle.

Even if there was no snow, he couldn't continue riding.

Well, how bad can things continue to be?

After coming down from the tree house and eating a simple breakfast, Lu Chao still habitually came to the cement roadside.

He didn't know where he could go.

There is no snow on the concrete road yet.

Do you want to take advantage of the fact that the concrete road is still walkable, and walk a few kilometers further east?

Maybe...... How many kilometers away is the beautiful world he wants?

If he gave up, he would have to wait until the snow melted before he could set off again.

It's the depths of winter, and who knows how long it will take?

If the snow is thick, it probably won't melt all winter.

Then ...... Let's go a little longer.

The last part of the way.

Then, when the snow had fallen, he went into the woods again to set up a relatively stable camp, and settled Yaya and Yan.

Wait quietly for this to finish, and then wait for the snow to melt.

Wait for next spring.

With sporadic snowflakes, Lu Chao hit the road again.

This time it's on foot.

The snowflakes slowly spread a thin layer on the road and then slowly thickened.

Lu Chao's footprints appeared behind him one by one, from shallow to deep.

I wonder if there will be some new changes in the woods when next spring comes?

Did he continue eastward? Or go back to that home more than a thousand kilometers away?

Yaya's wedge dog didn't know if it was still waiting there.

Waiting for her to hug and kiss.

Going back, does it make sense?

Moving on, does it make sense?

Is the meaning of one's life to return home, or to explore the wider world?

That home, since she was gone, is no longer a home.

Her home, even in the city, is no different from being in the wilderness.

After she left, the loneliness in his heart was just as deep as it was in the city and in the wilderness.

His grief, like this concrete road, will never have spasms.

If she is there, home is there, and when she leaves, there is no way back in his life.

The beautiful world ahead of him was just a phantom, but he knew very well what he was looking forward to.

In that phantom, there was him, her, and Yaya.

What he is looking forward to is not a beautiful world, just a beautiful figure.

A figure that a girl will happily throw forward with her arms open when she sees it, a figure who can hold a girl with him, and then move forward happily.

He knew very well in his heart that that figure would never appear again.

Yaya had even forgotten about the figure.

If the human heart is barren, life is full of wilderness.

And now, Yaya is his home.

He never left home.

Because, he has always held his home in his arms.

Even if the snowflakes in the sky freeze the whole world, his embrace is always warm.

This is his responsibility as a father.

It is also the whole meaning of his life.