Chapter 9: All the Way East (Part I)

Although the decision was made to move the camp, the preparations were still quite cumbersome. Announcing decisions, assigning responsibilities, assigning personnel...... The complicated preparations took Lu Yuan and the others more than half a day, busy from noon to nearly late at night.

Nothing was said all night. When the glorious morning glow pierced the clouds and shone into the camp, the hands of time rotated to the morning of August 26th.

The silence of the early morning is broken by the hustle and bustle, presenting a long-lost liveliness. Some of the rudimentary fences in front of the camp had long since been demolished to clear a sufficiently spacious clearing, and the camp was full of three hundred and fifty-eight, nay, three hundred and fifty-nine people, and the gaps and clearings of the crowd were piled up with all kinds of supplies.

"It's all counted, and nothing is missing." Wang Ling came out of the two-person-high pile of materials, sweating profusely, and reported.

Lu Yuan looked at the entrance of the camp that had been moved to an empty place, his eyes a little sad. Not only him, but almost everyone in the camp was very nervous. Although they all understand the importance of going to Zhucheng, a peaceful environment is difficult for these people who have experienced the great horror to part with from their hearts.

Forcibly stuffing a trace of reluctance into the bottom of his heart, Lu Yuan's calm voice sounded in everyone's ears: "Everyone, according to the prior arrangement, take your respective luggage and line up to go down the mountain!" ”

There was a crowd surging, and everyone silently picked up their luggage and the materials they were responsible for, and walked down the mountain one after another, like a long snake, slowly swimming down the mountain.

Whining...... Suddenly, suppressed sobs sounded from the ranks, like a spark falling into a powder keg, detonating everyone's suppressed emotions, and for a while, hundreds of people burst into tears and choked up......

Even Lu Yuan, Zhang Bao and others had red eyes in an instant, and their bodies trembled slightly!

The cataclysm came, zombies were rampant, and for the first time, they were driven out of their homes and displaced...... Now, for the second time, I have been forced to leave the place called "home...... How many more times will this experience take you?!

Luo Tianmo stood aside, tightened the black clothes on his body, and his slightly hoarse voice suppressed the whimpering voice in the long snake team: "This will be the last time!" Today's departure is so that we will never suffer such humiliation again! ”

"Ladies and gentlemen, I, Lu Yuan, don't have any big reason to say. However, I make a vow today to this heaven and earth, even if I am broken to pieces, I will never let today's tragedy repeat! Lu Yuan's eyes were red, and the green tendons under his skin bulged out hideously, like dragons.

The sadness that filled the heart made everyone not talk much, and walked slowly and silently, and after more than 20 minutes, more than 300 people all came to the foot of Xuefeng Mountain, where thirty or forty iron carts were parked.

This is a very primitive car, an animal-powered car. Three canopy-sized steel wheels, light and hard wood, create a square shed. Figuratively speaking, it's just a prisoner cart-like thing. The one pulling the cart is a horse, a puppet horse.

There are alchemists and puppeteers in the camp. These carts and puppet horses are their masterpieces. Although crude and crude, the gleaming pattern on the carriage suggests that the thing is not as unreliable as it seems.

Why not choose the product of human technology, such as big trucks?

Naturally, there are concerns and thoughts from everyone.

What route to take - this is an extremely serious question.

Safe! This is the first consideration. All thinking should revolve around this. So, after an hour or two of heated debate, and after taking into account the opinions of everyone in the camp, the vast majority of them agreed - take the railway!

Most of the railway routes are in secluded places away from the people, and even if they pass through the city, they pass through the suburbs, and there are relatively few residents. Although this means more inconvenience and longer travel time, life and safety are the most important things!

Shacheng, the capital of Nanxiang Province, has long since fallen and has been completely occupied by zombies, and Zhucheng is the only known large-scale survivor camp in Nanxiang Province. According to the route designed by Lu Yuan and others, first arrive at Tangwan from the No. 210 railway, then transfer to the No. 320 railway and go straight all the way to Hengshan, and finally cross the Xiangjiang River and go directly to Zhucheng through the No. 211 railway!

Of the sixteen routes, this one is the safest, although it is only seventh in terms of length. However, there are two places with high uncertainty on this route, one is Hengshan, and the other is Xiangjiang.

The experience of the past five months has taught everyone that underestimating mutant beasts will not end well, even zombies......

In these two places, before the cataclysm, there was a very high density of wildlife, and there were even murderous large beasts, and there were also incidents of injury and murder, which caused a lot of turmoil.

Of course, this does not mean that everyone can relax on the rest of the road. In today's world, there is no place for absolute safety.

These carriages were seven meters long, more than three meters wide, and two meters wide on the wheels, which were used to travel on railroad tracks. After blessing the alchemy and puppet secret methods, it is not only unmanned, but also extremely stable, and everyone doesn't have to worry too much.

The speed of the puppet carriage is one-tenth of the normal speed of the train, and the train can arrive in less than eight hours, so theoretically, if everyone can keep up, it will be there in more than three days......

Obviously, this is not possible! According to everyone's estimates, even if everything goes well, it is a blessing to be able to arrive within half a month, and the gods and Buddhas of Mantian opened their eyes and protected them all the way......

"Let's go!!" Lu Yuan was at the front of the convoy, and with a low roar, a fierce momentum suddenly erupted from everyone's body, enveloping this shabby convoy and converging into an indescribable powerful force, which was enough to deter the surrounding mutant beasts.

Feeling the majestic aura in the sky, Luo Tian's face changed suddenly, and his black eyes flashed with excitement. Even if he was promoted to the yellow level, under the shroud of this momentum, Luo Tian already had a feeling of insignificance in the face of the towering Mount Tai.

In an instant, infinite confidence poured out from the bottom of his heart, which made Luo Tian feel uplifted.

Before arriving at Railway No. 210, the convoy had to cross the Xuefeng Mountain from the Shaoyuan County area, which took about half an hour. Everyone knows in their hearts that the intelligent zombie that exists in Shaoyuan County will never let the convoy pass by.

Luo Tian was assigned to the rear of the convoy, responsible for breaking the rear, and if a zombie catches up, he can resist for a while. There were a total of fifty people with Luo Tian, and Yao Tingting's ten-person team happened to be among them.

After yesterday's noon incident, Luo Tian found that the latter was deliberately avoiding himself, so obvious that even the people around him could clearly perceive it. Naturally, Luo Tian was not less teased by those boring guys.

Although it was a little embarrassing, Luo Tian didn't care, just don't rack your brains to think about the topic, just be happy.

However, if the person concerned is not the case, others will not think so. It's a rare pastime for these boring guys, well, I mean caring for their peers......

In less than ten minutes, someone came over and patted Luo Tian on the shoulder, and he turned his head to see that it was a member of Yao Tingting's team, named Li Sheng. The latter squeezed his eyebrows at him and said with a smile: "Brother Luo is really a good means, in less than two days, he made our captain fascinated, and the younger brother admires and admires!" However, the captain's mood doesn't seem to be very good, go over and comfort her! Without waiting for Luo Tian to answer, Li Sheng pushed Luo Tian violently, pushed Luo Tian staggered, and fell towards Yao Tingting.

Because he didn't feel malice, Luo Tian didn't have any defense, he was pushed so vigorously that he almost fell headlong, and when he stood firm, he was embarrassed to find that he was only two palms away from Yao Tingting, and the latter's slightly reddened white cheeks, slightly pursed pink lips, and trembling eyelashes were clearly under his eyes......

The corners of his mouth twitched, and Luo Tian felt for the first time that good eyesight was not necessarily a good thing.

originally thought of using an excuse to trouble Li Sheng and escape from such an embarrassing atmosphere by the way, but Luo Tian was speechless to find that the group of bastards had already hid far away, creating a "good environment" for the two of them. However, the corner of the sharp eyes that glanced over from time to time had already revealed their excitement.

Luo Tian turned his gaze and found that Yao Tingting's gaze was also looking at him, but he quietly turned his face the moment he turned his head, his eyelids drooped, and the flush on his cheeks unconsciously brightened a little.

"Hehe, that, that bastard Li Sheng is really not like a word, and he doesn't look at what the situation is, so he jokes nonsense......" Luo Tian was uncomfortable by this strange silence, racked his brains, and finally squeezed out such a dry sentence.

Silent......

Five seconds, ten seconds, twenty seconds...... There was no reply for half a minute, and Luo Tian felt that the muscles on his face were stiff.

Ahaha~~~ After a few dry laughs, Luo Tian stepped on small broken steps and walked towards the group of bastards who were watching the excitement without discipline, thinking that maybe he should spend some energy and move his hands and feet.

"Ahem!" A light cough as thin as a mosquito and fly sounded behind him, nipping Luo Tian's intentions in the bud.

The figure stopped, and then ...... Resolutely pretend not to hear, and speed up!

"Hey!" Sensing someone's thoughts, the clear and pleasant voice suddenly raised several degrees, making someone have a wry smile on their face, and they turned around stiffly as if they had been enchanted, and the whole person exuded an unnatural aura.

"Why do you make you so uncomfortable staying with me?" Yao Tingting's words may have wanted to express his dissatisfaction, but it turned out to be more like coquettishness. When she realized the problem, her whole face was as red as a ripe apple, and even her neck was glowing with a faint red light.

This familiar tone made Luo Tian's soul tremble violently, and an incomparably blurred figure poured out of his heart, filling his mind, occupying all his thoughts, making his expression instantly heavy and serious.

"Y-Are you angry...... I'm sorry......" Luo Tian's sudden steel-like cold and solemn aura startled Yao Tingting, his face turned white, and he apologized with a stiff expression.

Luo Tian reacted and shook his head slightly: "I'm sorry, I just suddenly remembered something and scared you." ”

After such a small episode, the awkward atmosphere between the two dissipated and began to chat. However, Yao Tingting felt that the distance between the person in front of him and himself became extremely distant in an instant, too far away to reach......

In the casual conversation between the two without a word, seventeen minutes passed quietly, and there was still a third of the way to pass through Shaoyuan County and arrive at Railway No. 210.

Shout~~~~

A yellowish light suddenly rose into the air, with a low whistling, dragging a long tail, circling and flying at a low altitude of 100 meters.

Everyone's heartstrings suddenly tensed!

This is a signal of an encounter!

Carefully observing the information displayed by this signal flare, the expressions of the people in the middle and rear sections of the convoy became solemn.

In front of the convoy, encounter a large number of enemies!

A minute later, Luo Tian got more precise information.

Tens of thousands of zombies blocked the way to the 210 railway, blocking the way to the 210 railway!