After the task was completed, Zhou Zhiyuan and the members of each team returned to the temporary command post in the county, after a day and a night of preparation, everyone needed to take a good rest, and handed over the battle recorded by the body camera during the mission to Xu Changshan, Zhou Zhiyuan and his party also returned to the off-road RV to rest, and Xu Changshan ordered someone to sort out the results of each group of the operation and handed it over to the Xishan Army.

In the early morning of the next day, the main leadership of the expeditionary force gathered in tent 1 of the temporary command camp to discuss the destination of the next mission.

Xu Changshan said to everyone: "As soon as the decoy shells of the Xishan Army were produced, they rushed to kill the enemy, leaving only a few people who said that they could meet any of our army's needs or... You know, I thought about it, we really don't have any other requirements, so I just didn't mention refilling the fuel and ammunition to the maximum capacity, and now let's talk about which direction we're going next."

Zhou Zhiyuan asked, "What direction can we choose now?"

Xu Changshan pointed to the map and said: "We now have three directions to choose, the first is from here directly to the north all the way through the wild mountains and forests to the municipality directly under the central government, along the way will pass through a camp also established by ethnic minorities and a large army, the second is along the northwest mountain range all the way to the high-altitude area, in the middle you can slip along the territory of other countries to learn about their situation, the third is to go back to the southern province along the coastline all the way to Shangjing, This is arguably the safest and arguably the most dangerous route"

Zhou Zhiyuan thought for a while and said: "I personally think that our focus is still on living corpses and mutated animals, the southwest border is originally a place where the terrain and climate are very treacherous, I don't know what has happened to the already ferocious animals and insects there since the disaster, drones and surveillance satellites can only see a piece of green, I suggest we go to the border to check it out to see if there is anything that has not been discovered."

Zhou Zhiyuan's idea was agreed by most people, because the number of cities along the coast is too large and too dense, and the risk cannot be estimated at all, although the supply resources along the road may be relatively easy to obtain, or in times of crisis, it may be possible to get the assistance of a larger surviving legion, but in this era, it may be safer to deal with living corpses or mutated creatures than to deal with people.

Xu Changshan nodded and said: "Actually, I don't like to deal with people very much, and I can't be sure how many people in the survivor corps are real soldiers in various places now, there are many wolves who are wearing military uniforms and doing inhuman things, and the strength of our expeditionary force is less than one company, which is easy to make people greedy, although we are not worried that they can cause us any harm, but it will waste our time and make us upset."

Lao Liu, the leader of the first squad, said: "When we were mercenaries before, we heard a lot of things about black eating black and white eating black, and I also think that always dealing with people goes against the original intention of the establishment of our expeditionary force."

Seeing that most of the members expressed their reluctance to walk in the place where there were many people before, Xu Changshan ordered the entire expeditionary force to prepare to set off for the mountainous area in the southwest, along the national border all the way to the northwest to the high-altitude area known as the roof of the world, and after returning the route of the expeditionary force to the command center of the Blue Wolf Army, everyone also packed up their equipment and facilities, and the convoy began to move in the direction of departure.

Before departure, the technical soldiers of the command group integrated the map data given by the Xishan Army into the database in the battle information system, and the convoy avoided the camp of the large army corps according to the above information, and drove all the way to the direction of the border, and followed the national highway to the west, this highway can go all the way to the southwesternmost city in the territory, and at the end of it is a small border city of the neighboring country.

The convoy stopped before getting off the highway, because this area was not included in the UAV patrol route of the Blue Wolf Army, so no one knew what had changed in the past year or so, so it stopped and let the medium-sized fixed-wing UAV carried by the convoy catapult and take off, and went to the county-level city and the cities connected to the neighboring countries to explore the situation, as well as the surrounding rural towns and other places that may be inhabited.

In an armoured van used as a command post, the core figures of the expeditionary force watched together a drone controlled by special operators with footage.

Zhou Zhiyuan said in surprise: "I didn't expect this place to be occupied by living people, it's the first time in more than a year that I've seen a city where there are no living corpses and all living people, I don't know if it's our own people who control this place."

Xu Changshan said happily: "I dare to guarantee that our own people must be controlling this territory, when we used to conduct field training in this area, we knew that the people here are strong, and the neighboring countries are more simple and honest, and the population here is originally half of the military and civilian, and if something big happens, it will be calmed down relatively quickly."

After finishing speaking, Xu Changshan asked the soldier who controlled the drone to reduce the height of the plane a little, and activated the radio monitoring system to receive all the communication signals within a radius of several kilometers.

Xu Changshan said with a sigh: "I didn't expect that now our border can be said to have long been undivided, our military and civilians and their soldiers and civilians join hands to defend the city and the passages everywhere, not only exchanging materials and equipment collected by each other, but also planting crops and raising livestock together, regardless of race and national borders when the fear of survival can only run this kind of city so well."

Zhou Zhiyuan agreed: "Yes, unity has always been the best way to encounter the problem of survival, the military and civilians on the border can live in such an orderly manner at such a time and environment, the leaders here should win the hearts of the people, just by looking at the old people on the road sweeping the floor, you can know that the people in power here are quite humane, in this era, there are few forces to adopt the old people who have no ability to work"

Lao Liu proposed: "Should we contact them to understand the distribution of survivors and dangerous areas in the border area, they should also send people to find a way to contact other cities, from the route they have walked, we can know which places between the mountains and forests are safer and which places have no one explored more dangerous, otherwise the mountains and forests in this border area are so extensive, it depends on our manpower to explore when it will be completed."

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