Chapter 187: Astronomical Past

The old vehicle was not fast in the first place, but after the load of the No. 2 car was towed, the load increased, and the speed became even slower, and the two cars were like two green snails crawling on the road covered with low plants, which once made Shu Yungui feel that he could drive faster than it when he got out of the car and walked.

Harvey was still distressed about his ointment and food, and reminded Shu Yungui for the hundredth time: "You said that you will find me new supplies!"

Shu Yungui also responded to his hundredth yawn, put his hands in his pockets, leaned on the back seat and said sleepily: "Yes, yes, yes, I said it, but isn't it that you haven't entered the city yet?"

He glanced out the window at the same scene, yawned again, and said, "At this rate, can we enter the city before dark?"

Yawning is contagious, Billy snorted one, rubbed his sore eyes and complained, "My feet are numb when I step on the accelerator!"

Vincent also typed one, looked out the window and then at the map, and said, "Soon, Gobain and Fast are close to each other, and there are still fifteen kilometers to go."

Harvey endured it for a long time, but in the end he couldn't hold back, and he yawned a lot in front of Shu Yungui, and said, "Hurry up, Lao Tzu is so hungry that his chest is close to his back, hurry into the city to find a safe place to stop, and let Raymond go and fight a few beasts to eat."

Billy nodded, shifting the throttle as Harvey had requested, and the overwhelmed engine of Car No. 1 let out a dangerous soft clatter as the speed gradually climbed.

Just when the iconic car tower of Fast City appeared in front of everyone's eyes, the No. 2 car, which had been dragged all the way, was picked out first, and with a loud sound of a flat tire, the whole car completely overturned into the ditch.

"It's really a disaster."

Raymond, the musketeer, climbed out of the toppled car No. 2 and sighed in front of Harvey's black face: "It's not a good sign, maybe we shouldn't have driven this car out of town."

"Don't talk nonsense, it's just that the rubber tires are aging, and the friction is too great and the tire is bursting."

Qi Yan, the driver of the No. 2 car, checked all four tires, shook his head at Harvey and said, "No, one has exploded, the remaining three also have cracks, and there is only one spare tire, and the remaining three tires will explode if they can't last a few kilometers."

Harvey took a sip and asked Billy very unpleasantly, "Who inspected the vehicle before leaving the city?!"

Billy said he didn't know, and Harvey was so angry that his hair stood on end, but he couldn't find all four tires to change in the middle of nowhere, so he could only stare at the No. 2 car that had fallen into the drain.

"I can only abandon the car first, and wait until I enter Fast City to see if I can find a suitable tire, and then come out to change it if I can change it, if I can't find it, the car will be scrapped."

Fortunately, the drainage ditch on the side of the road was not deep, so everyone helped to unload the supplies in the body and replace them with the No. 1 car, but in this way, the load of the No. 1 car reached the limit, and the front seat could only seat up to five more people, and any more could have a flat tire.

This meant that there were two people who had to walk into the city, which was a bit dangerous, and no one wanted to be the "lucky one" who was left behind.

Harvey is the boss, naturally there is no reason for the boss to walk and take the car, Vincent is the guide, he must also follow Harvey, Billy needless to say, as a subordinate who has followed Harvey for several years, Harvey will definitely not throw him down.

"In this case, Kony and I will walk into the city, you go first, find a safe place on the straight road and wait for us."

In the eyes of the other members, this is a fairly reasonable way to distribute, after all, this improvised team is not very united, and Shu Yungui and Kony seem to be out of place with the others.

But Harvey objected: "No, I said you two can't be together, in case you run away, where can I find you?"

Shu Yungui rolled his eyes, he didn't have the idea of running away with Kony, but Harvey guarded the two of them like a thief.

"Then what do you say? Why don't I go on a hike with you?"

Staying next to Shu Yungui naturally didn't have to worry about his life, but Harvey didn't worry about his cart of supplies, afraid that a few people in the car would run away with his supplies, so he hesitated for a while before reluctantly said, "Kony gets in the car, Qi Yan drives, and Billy goes down."

Billy:???

Harvey pressed Billy's shoulder hard, and whispered to him earnestly: "You must take care of Shu Yungui, don't let him run, whether we can successfully reach the Claronin Alchemy Field depends on him."

Burdened, Billy nodded firmly, shook Harvey's hand and said, "Don't worry, boss! Guaranteed to complete the mission!"

In this way, with this glorious and arduous task, Billy was left to walk into the city with Shu Yungui, while the others disappeared with all their supplies.

Billy happened to move his stiff leg by stepping on the accelerator, and while following Shu Yungui forward, he took out the wooden cigarette case from his pocket, shook it at Shu Yungui, and asked him, "Come to wake up?" The tobacco I grow is a must-have in the city!"

Shu Yungui shook his head and said with a smile, "Is there anyone else in the outer city who grows tobacco besides you?"

Except for Billy, who works in the Colosseum in exchange for food, how can other civilians in the outer city be willing to use the precious arable land to grow tobacco, Billy's tobacco is not good because he really has any talent for planting, but he is the only one in the outer city who grows tobacco.

"Don't calculate, just save my province, this box is not enough for me to hold a round trip."

Billy swallowed clouds and exhaled fog beside Shu Yungui, and occasionally the smoke drifted over, which would make Shu Yungui feel that Cheng Sikong was by his side in a trance.

Unconsciously, it's been a while since I came to the Ninth Star, and I didn't feel it in the Hope Star Field before, but now that I've left my familiar friends, I found that people are really social animals, and a person will feel uncomfortable in all kinds of ways when he arrives in a new environment.

I don't know if Sister Jing and their research on malignant regression agents have progressed, and to what extent the human malignant transformation in the Hope Star Field has developed.

Although 77 billion light years away, Shu Yungui's heart is still with them, and he still can't help but worry about the safety of his partners.

"What do you think? I didn't speak."

Billy was bored, kicked the pebbles on the ground and asked him, "You used to live in the wilderness?" In which city? Why did you suddenly think of going into the outer city?"

Shu Yungui's identity as a homeless person was forged, and the more he talked, the easier it was to reveal his stuff, he changed his words and asked rhetorically, "Then what about you, how did you think of following Harvey?"

Billy is a simple-minded stupid big man, and he was quickly distracted by Shu Yungui.

"Hey, the world has become like this, why don't you do it? Who knows when the orcs will break through the walls, I don't want to remember this life when I die, only the memories of farming and baking beans."

He took a cigarette in his mouth, crossed his arms behind his head, and raised his eyebrows at Shu Yungui and said, "Actually, I still have the impression of a wild place, my parents were the first civilians to enter the outer city, I was seven or eight years old at the time, and I escaped all the way from the southernmost coastal city and entered the city before the outer city was closed."

"I remember that the wilderness was very prosperous at that time, full of high-rise buildings and cars, and when the Public Security Bureau notified everyone to evacuate the city, many people didn't believe that the orcs were really going to occupy the city, and thought it was a farce, and refused to give up their homes to go to the outer city, so they missed the opportunity to enter the outer city and became outcasts."

He patted his chest, his heart palpitated, and he was afraid: "If it weren't for my father, who was working at the Astronomical Institute at the time, and knew the inside information in advance, I'm afraid I would have to become a homeless person now."

"Astronomical Institute?"

Shu Yungui, who had been emptying his brain, suddenly lit up his eyes, and hurriedly asked, "What is the astronomical institute for?"

Billy laughed and said, "Young man hasn't seen it, has he? Also, astronomy is probably dead out on the ninth star."

He regretted that "the Astronomical Institute is the institution used by the Ninth Star to observe the universe, and I grew up there when I was a child, and there are very advanced astronomical telescopes and satellite systems there, which can receive signals from tens of billions of light-years away, and I tell you, maybe there are really aliens in this world!"

It's really hard to find nowhere to step on the iron shoes, and it takes no effort to get it!

Shu Yungui asked excitedly, "Do you remember the specific address of the Astronomical Institute?"

Billy scratched his chin and took the last puff of his cigarette, recalling, "It must have been on the southern coast, it must have been in a mountain, and every time I entered the city from the astronomical institute, it was a few hours of driving."

Mountain ......

Shu Yun returned to the map of the Ninth Star that he saw from Harvey's hand, the Ninth Star is a planet without too many mountains, this planet seems to be very young, and it is difficult to produce mountains and ravines due to not violent geological activities, so from high latitudes to low latitudes, the average altitude is about the same.

It's just that the location given by Billy is still too abstract, in the mountains along the southern coast, this is a huge range, Shu Yungui pondered that he would have to let Billy compare the map and then make the location of the astronomical institute more accurate.

"You don't think you're going to go to the Astronomical Institute, do you?"

Billy looked at him with his arms crossed, shrugged his shoulders, and said, "I don't know what you want to do, but I advise you not to waste your efforts."

He sighed, looked at the horizon, and said quietly, "When the orcs invaded the city, the astronomical institute was already trampled by them."

He made an explosive gesture and demonstrated to Shu Yungui with emotion: "That's it, 'With a snap, the largest astronomical telescope exploded into countless pieces, and the old director died tragically at the feet of the orcs in order to protect the telescope.'"

Shu Yungui looked at him with wide eyes, and said with difficulty, "Flattened?"

"yes, it's flat."

Billy affirmed, "When my dad and they evacuated the astronomical institute, I heard him tell my mom that it was because the astronomical institute had been sending signals to the alien realm that the alien monster had located the location of the ninth star, so the astronomical institute was the most dangerous place, so I should not study astronomy in my life."

He laughed and said, "But he thinks too much, there is no school in the outer city, where can he go to study astronomy?"

Billy complained to himself, but Shu Yungui grasped the point.

The alien monster located the location of the ninth star?

Could this alien monster mean a mutant?

A chill ran down his back, and a wave of horror rose in his heart.

Could it be that the malignant on the ninth star is from an alien domain?!